Fix refcycles in DataParallel scatter and gather#4988
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I added a better fix: it turns out that setting the inner functions equal to |
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Addresses #4865
DataParallel's
scatterandgathermethods contain reference cycles; this PR removes them. I think this is the explanation.There's something up with Python 2.7 that creates reference cycles when a module is replicated, so the unit test I wrote is only for Python 3. As far as I can tell, those reference cycles are created internally by Python so I don't think there's anything we can do about that.
Test Plan
Unit test to test the multi-gpu behavior under Python 3.