From 3f62c8693b2ce99e0daae9d7d87f6a35d113da5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Hotz <geohot@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 14:43:02 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] order copies

---
 tinygrad/engine/schedule.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
index f0c47f0e41..6c58c025d2 100644
--- a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
+++ b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import sys, atexit, pickle
+import sys, atexit, pickle, heapq
+from typing import cast, Any
 from collections import defaultdict, deque
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from tinygrad.ops import UOp, Variable, Ops, GroupOp, PatternMatcher, UPat, graph_rewrite, graph_rewrite_map, track_rewrites, buffers
@@ -462,17 +463,31 @@ def create_schedule_with_vars(big_sink:UOp) -> tuple[list[ScheduleItem], dict[Va
       children.setdefault(s, []).append(u)
       in_degree[u] += 1
 
-  queue = deque(k for k,v in in_degree.items() if v == 0)
+  CPU_DEVICE = {"CPU", "LLVM", "PYTHON", "NPY"}
+  queue:list[tuple[tuple[str, ...], int, UOp]] = []
+  ii = 0
+  def push(u:UOp):
+    nonlocal ii
+    assert u.op is Ops.ASSIGN
+    devices = tuple(dedup([cast(str, x.device).split(":")[0] for x in u.src[1].src]))
+    priority = 0
+    if devices[0] in CPU_DEVICE: priority = 10    # copy out
+    if devices[-1] in CPU_DEVICE: priority = -10  # copy in
+    heapq.heappush(cast(Any, queue), (priority, ii, u))
+    ii += 1
+  for k,v in in_degree.items():
+    if v == 0: push(k)
+
   schedule: list[ScheduleItem] = []
   var_vals: dict[Variable, int] = {}
   while queue:
-    u = queue.popleft()
+    _,_,u = heapq.heappop(queue)
     # TODO: move this to create_kernels
     k = fix_kernel_ast(u.src[1], var_vals)
     schedule.append(ScheduleItem(k.arg.ast, tuple(s.buf_uop.buffer for s in k.src), k.arg.metadata))
     for x in children.get(u, []):
       in_degree[x] -= 1
-      if in_degree[x] == 0: queue.append(x)
+      if in_degree[x] == 0: push(x)
 
   # confirm everything was scheduled correctly
   if len(schedule) != (kc:=len(in_degree)): raise RuntimeError(f"cycle detected in graph, created {kc} kernels but only scheduled {len(schedule)}")