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[TRTLLM-15030][fix] CuteDSL MLA decode follow-ups: bucket AutoTuner fallback, autotune + disagg tests - #17792

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[TRTLLM-15030][fix] CuteDSL MLA decode follow-ups: bucket AutoTuner fallback, autotune + disagg tests#17792
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Follow-up fixes for the CuteDSL FP8/FP16 MLA decode FMHA lib (added by #15138, TRTLLM-12807), promised as a separate PR when #15138 merged with four review threads left open. The original follow-up PR #17266 was closed unmerged; this re-lands the in-scope fixes by cherry-picking them onto current main. The out-of-scope CuteDslMlaFmhaCuteDslFmha rename is intentionally excluded (the CuteDSL prefill integration will do it).

Fixes

  1. AutoTuner -1 fallback JIT-compiles in the serving loop. When the engine skips generation warmup (guided decoding, PP, draft engines), the fallback tactic derived split_kv from the raw batch size — a variant tuning never compiled — triggering cute.compile inside the serving loop. default_tactic now rounds the batch down to its tuning bucket, so a tuned runner reuses an already-compiled kernel and an untuned runner compiles at most one variant per bucket.

  2. test_attention_mla_cute_dsl_autotune — tuning pass asserts both tuner-owned tactic elements (split_kv, is_persistent) are profiled and compiled; serving pass asserts zero new runtime cute.compile and reference-matching output. Collected by l0_b200.yml via the existing directory entry. Also the regression guard for fix 1.

  3. test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_bf16_gentp2_cute_dsl_mla_smoke — a disagg generation server runs decode-only batches, so this decode-only lib takes essentially every forward there. Minimal ctxTP1+genTP2 DeepSeek-V3-Lite bf16 cluster; asserts client output and requires the lib's kernel-compile log marker in a generation-worker log, so a silent fallback fails the test. Registered in l0_dgx_b200.yml (8-GPU B200 post_merge block, next to the peer bf16 disagg test) — the closed [TRTLLM-12807][feat] add CuteDSL FP8/FP16 MLA decode attention fmha lib #17266 branch omitted this registration, so the test would never have run in CI.

Provenance

The three fix commits are cherry-picked verbatim from #17266 (authored on top of the merged-#15138 state, before the rename); they use cute_dsl_mla, the name main kept. The test-list registration (fix 3) is the one new commit.

Test Coverage

  • test_attention_mla_cute_dsl_autotune (B200, directory-collected).
  • test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_bf16_gentp2_cute_dsl_mla_smoke[DeepSeek-V3-Lite-bf16] (B200 post_merge).

PR Checklist

  • PR title and description follow repo conventions.
  • Test cases added/updated for the change.
  • pre-commit run --files <touched> clean.

Dev Engineer Review

  • Updated MLA decode fallback tactic selection to use the last power-of-two tuning bucket. This prevents runtime JIT compilation for untuned batch sizes and reuses compiled kernels.
  • Added autotuning coverage for FP8 MLA decode in KV-cache v1 and v2 modes. The test validates persistent and split-KV tactics, kernel reuse, bucketed fallback selection, and numerical correctness.
  • Added a DeepSeek-V3-Lite BF16 disaggregated configuration with context TP1 and generation TP2. The configuration matches the CuTe DSL MLA decode TP2 requirement.
  • Registered an SM100/SM103-only, three-device smoke test in the B200 post-merge test list.
  • Restored waives.txt to its base state. No unrelated waiver changes remain.
  • No public API declarations changed.
  • Review focus: confirm fallback behavior remains correct for batch sizes below the first tuning bucket and confirm the configured cache transceiver and worker-compilation settings match the target CI environment.

QA Engineer Review

  • Added a parameterized MLA autotuning test covering KV-cache v1 and v2. It is covered by the unit-test suite, not by a test-db/ or qa/ entry.
  • Added a disaggregated DeepSeek-V3-Lite BF16 CuTe DSL MLA decode smoke test. It is covered by tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml.
  • Added the corresponding disaggregated test configuration and test mapping.
  • The B200 entry uses an 8-GPU MPI test with a 60-second timeout.
  • Verdict: sufficient.

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CuTe DSL MLA decode fallback selection now uses the last power-of-two batch bucket. Unit tests cover autotuning, tactic reuse, and batch-65 fallback. Disaggregated DeepSeek-V3-Lite BF16 TP2 smoke-test coverage was added.

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Bucketed tactic selection and autotuning validation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py, tests/unittest/_torch/attention/test_attention_mla.py
default_tactic derives split_kv and persistence from the bucketed batch size. Tests cover FP8 tuning, tactic profiling, kernel reuse, and batch-65 fallback to the batch-64 kernel.
Disaggregated TP2 smoke-test wiring
tests/integration/defs/disaggregated/..., tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml
A DeepSeek-V3-Lite BF16 context-TP1/generation-TP2 configuration is mapped to SM100/SM103 smoke coverage and an 8-GPU B200 post-merge test.

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The PR changes fallback tactic selection and adds autotune and disaggregated-generation coverage. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the non-power-of-two fallback path remains specifically untested.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/test_attention_mla.py`:
- Line 595: Add -> None return annotations to
test_attention_mla_cute_dsl_autotune and run_once in
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/test_attention_mla.py, and to
test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_bf16_gentp2_cute_dsl_mla_smoke in
tests/integration/defs/disaggregated/test_disaggregated.py.
- Line 624: Extend the attention MLA test around the existing batch-64 case to
add a focused batch-65 assertion, verifying that its fallback split_kv matches
batch 64 and that it reuses the same bucketed kernel variant through
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When the AutoTuner returns its -1 sentinel (cache miss at serving time),
the op falls back to default_tactic, which derived split_kv from the raw
runtime batch size. Tuning only ever profiles (and cute.compiles) the
split_kv derived from each power-of-2 tuning bucket, so a raw-batch
fallback almost always names a never-compiled kernel variant and
JIT-compiles it inside the serving loop.

Round the batch down to its tuning bucket (the same
last_positive_power_of_2 mapping the tuning config uses) before deriving
split_kv: a fallback on a tuned runner now reuses an already-compiled
kernel, and on an untuned runner the number of distinct fallback variants
is bounded by the bucket count instead of one per distinct batch size.
The is_persistent choice is unchanged: its threshold (64) is a power of
two, so rounding down to a power of two never crosses it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
test_attention_mla runs with the autotuner off, so the CuTe DSL MLA
decode op only ever exercises its default_tactic (-1) branch. Add a
tuning-mode test on the fp8-KV DeepSeek decode geometry that asserts:

- a tuning-mode pass profiles the op and both tactic elements the tuner
  owns (split_kv and both is_persistent candidates are compiled), and
- a subsequent serving-mode pass reuses the tuned kernels with no new
  runtime cute.compile (which would stall the serving loop), while
  matching the reference output.

The l0_b200 list already collects unittest/_torch/attention as a
directory, so the new test runs in pre-merge B200 CI without a
test-list change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
A disaggregated generation server runs decode-only batches, so the
decode-only CuTe DSL MLA lib takes essentially every forward there,
yet no disagg test covered it and the only off switch
(TLLM_FMHA_LIBS) is unset in every checked-in disagg config. Add one
smoke: DeepSeek-V3-Lite bf16 on a ctxTP1+genTP2 cluster (gen TP2
yields the 16 heads/rank the bf16 path admits at any batch size),
asserting client output and the lib's kernel-compile marker in a
generation-worker log so a silent fallback to the next FMHA lib
fails the test.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
The disagg decode-only smoke for the CuTe DSL MLA FMHA lib was added
without a test-list entry, so it never ran in pre-merge/post-merge CI.
Register it in the 8-GPU B200 post_merge block next to the peer bf16
DeepSeek disagg test; the smoke needs 3 GPUs (ctxTP1+genTP2) and gates
on SM100/SM103, both satisfied there.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
…otune test

The autotune test tuned at batch 64 and re-ran at batch 64, which never
executes the bucketed default_tactic fallback this PR changes (a
bucket-aligned batch always hits the tuned cache). Add a serving pass at
batch 65 with the AutoTuner cache cleared so choose_one returns its -1
sentinel: assert (via a default_tactic spy) that the fallback ran at
batch 65, returned batch-64's tactic, and reused a tuning-compiled kernel
variant (no new cute.compile), with numerics still checked against the
reference inside the run. Since split_kv(65) can coincidentally equal
split_kv(64) on some GPUs, a pinned-occupancy check (max_active_blocks
patched to 256, where raw batch 65 and bucket 64 disagree) makes the
bucketing regression detection hardware-independent.

Addresses the review comment at test_attention_mla.py:624.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
…fp8_nixl test

Reviewers asked to reuse an existing disagg test instead of adding a new
cluster config (addresses @Shixiaowei02's and @reasonsolo's review).
test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_fp8_nixl already runs ctxTP2+genTP2
DeepSeek-V3-Lite and is registered on l0_dgx_b200 (pre_merge), l0_dgx_b300
and l0_dgx_h100: gen TP2 yields the 16 heads/rank the CuTe DSL MLA decode
lib's bf16-KV path admits at any batch size (the fp8 block-scale
checkpoint keeps a bf16 KV cache), so on SM100/103 the lib takes
essentially every generation forward there. Add the SM100/103-gated
kernel-compile-log assertion (with INFO logging on the gen workers only)
to that test, and drop the dedicated smoke test, its cluster config, and
its l0_dgx_b200 registration.

The test carried a stale Hopper-only @skip_no_hopper gate (duplicated,
along with @skip_arm, by the consolidation in NVIDIA#16614) that silently
skipped it on its pre-existing B200/B300 registrations. Drop the Hopper
gate and dedupe @skip_arm: placement is controlled by the test lists, and
NIXL disagg runs on Blackwell in CI today (e.g. TestGLM52NVFP4's
test_nvfp4_nixl on l0_dgx_b200). This makes the B200/B300 registrations
live; this PR's B200 pre_merge CI validates the test passes there.

Net CI delta: one fewer disagg cluster spin-up in the 8-GPU B200
post_merge stage; no new configs anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
The prior change dropped the stale Hopper-only @skip_no_hopper from
test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_fp8_nixl to unblock its B200/B300
registrations, but that left the test runnable on pre-Hopper hardware.
Add @skip_pre_hopper (SM >= 90) so Hopper and Blackwell stay live while
pre-Hopper is gated out.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
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