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WalkthroughAdded a cuDNN VisualGen attention backend with unquantized, FP8, and MXFP8 support. Added configuration validation, backend registration, documentation, dependency wiring, integration tests, numerical tests, quantization layout tests, and graph-cache tests. ChangescuDNN VisualGen attention
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds cuDNN attention support, but the current documentation omits a required FP8 value setting and the integration tests retain conditions that can make unsupported-host skips unreliable or leave MXFP8 cross-attention coverage inconsistent. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded issues. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant VisualGen
participant CuDNNAttention
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VisualGen->>CuDNNAttention: submit Q, K, and V
CuDNNAttention->>GraphCache: retrieve or build SDPA graph
CuDNNAttention->>CUDA: execute graph on current stream
CUDA-->>CuDNNAttention: return output and optional LSE
CuDNNAttention-->>VisualGen: return attention result
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571-580: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse the same argument style in
forwardandforward_with_lse.
forwardmarksattention_maskandkey_padding_maskas keyword-only with*.forward_with_lseaccepts them positionally. Callers that switch between the two methods get different call rules for the same arguments. Makeforward_with_lsekeyword-only as well, or drop*fromforward.Also applies to: 598-606
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251-270: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe cuDNN recipe table has no single owner. Both files encode which cuDNN recipes exist, so they can drift. Today they already differ: args.py rejects
qk_dtype='bf16'forbackend='CUDNN', while_resolve_recipemapsbf16tono_quant.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/cudnn.py#L251-L270: import the shared recipe table fromtensorrt_llm.visual_gen.argsand keep only the mapping from a validated recipe tuple to the cuDNN node name; drop the unreachablebf16branch or document it as a direct-construction convenience.tensorrt_llm/visual_gen/args.py#L136-L140: promoteCUDNN_RECIPESto a module-levelfrozensetconstant so the backend can import it instead of restating it.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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424-443: 🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 TrivialConsider bounding the compiled-graph cache.
_graph_cachenever evicts, and the key includes the batch size, both sequence lengths, all three stride tuples, and the softmax scale. Diffusion pipelines that change the resolution, the batch size, or the number of conditioning tokens produce a new key for each variant, and each entry holds a compiled cuDNN graph. Consider an LRU bound plus a debug log of the cache size, so that graph memory growth stays observable.
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In `@docs/source/models/visual-generation.md`:
- Around line 139-142: Update the MXFP8 description in
AttentionConfig.quant_attention_config to state that head_dim must be divisible
by 32, in addition to the existing head_dim <= 128 and Blackwell GPU
requirements.
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/cudnn.py`:
- Around line 222-223: Update CuDNNAttention’s class-level state so
_cudnn_handle is keyed by device index rather than shared process-wide, and add
a threading lock protecting handle creation/access in _get_handle. Use the same
lock in _get_or_build_graph to guard the _graph_cache lookup and insertion,
preventing concurrent duplicate graph builds while preserving per-device
caching.
- Around line 497-499: Update the tensor casting logic near out_dtype so q, k,
and v are each converted independently to out_dtype, rather than guarding all
three conversions with only q.dtype. Preserve the existing out_dtype selection
and ensure all tensors match the declared graph data type before cuDNN
execution.
- Around line 462-483: Update _validate_inputs to reject tensors whose Q/K head
dimension differs from the configured self.head_dim used to compute self.scale.
Add this validation alongside the existing Q/K head_dim checks, while preserving
the current shape and quantized head-dimension validation behavior.
In `@tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_attention_integration.py`:
- Around line 656-657: Update test_fast_cross_attention_wan_shapes so quantized
CUDNN FP8/MXFP8 cases use a 4e-2 tolerance, while retaining 2e-2 for quantized
cases on other backends and preserving existing non-quantized tolerances.
- Around line 178-184: Update the attention backend setup around
_cudnn_available and torch.cuda.get_device_capability() to check
torch.cuda.is_available() before querying device capability, skipping the
CUTEDSL/CUDNN test when CUDA is unavailable while preserving the existing cuDNN
frontend validation and supported-GPU architecture checks.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/cudnn.py`:
- Around line 571-580: Align the argument conventions of forward and
forward_with_lse by making attention_mask and key_padding_mask keyword-only in
forward_with_lse, matching forward’s existing * separator; preserve the
remaining parameters and behavior.
- Around line 251-270: Make tensorrt_llm/visual_gen/args.py lines 136-140 the
single source of truth by promoting CUDNN_RECIPES to a module-level frozenset.
In tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/cudnn.py lines 251-270,
import that shared table and keep _resolve_recipe limited to mapping validated
recipe tuples to cuDNN node names; remove the unreachable bf16 branch unless
direct construction explicitly requires it.
- Around line 424-443: Bound cls._graph_cache with a capacity-limited LRU policy
so inserting a new graph evicts the least recently used entry, while cache hits
refresh recency; preserve the existing key and graph-building behavior in
_get_or_build_graph and add a debug log exposing the current cache size.
- Line 60: Complete the annotations in _row_major_stride and __init__: return
list[int] from _row_major_stride and None from __init__. Replace the unused
typing imports Dict, Optional, and Tuple with built-in generics and | syntax
where applicable, while preserving the existing behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_attention_cudnn.py`
around lines 51 - 64: The same missing-annotation remediation applies to the new
helper and test functions.
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Two things worth fixing before this lands:
Workspace re-allocated on every forward call
_execute_graph calls torch.empty(bundle.workspace_size, ...) on every invocation (cudnn.py:455). The workspace size is fixed and known at graph-compilation time (bundle.workspace_size). In a diffusion denoising loop with 20–50 steps and dozens of attention layers per step, this is hundreds of CUDA allocator round-trips per inference call. The fix is a lazy workspace attribute on _CuDNNGraphBundle (allocated on first use, then reused), or a per-device workspace stored alongside the compiled graph.
Unquantized CUDNN integration tests gated behind Blackwell incorrectly
_require_attention_backend in test_attention_integration.py groups "CUDNN" with "CUTEDSL" for the sm100/sm103 GPU check (line 180). The Blackwell requirement only applies to the FP8 and MXFP8 recipes; unquantized cuDNN SDPA runs on any GPU with cuDNN installed. As a result, ("CUDNN", None) in test_self_attention_equivalence and test_fast_cross_attention_wan_shapes is always skipped on non-B200 CI tiers. test_attention_cudnn.py already handles this correctly in _require_cudnn — the integration test should do the same (skip Blackwell check unless quant_attention_config is non-None, or pass the recipe through to _require_attention_backend).
| ) -> None: | ||
| handle = cls._get_handle() | ||
| cudnn.set_stream(handle=handle, stream=torch.cuda.current_stream(device).cuda_stream) | ||
| workspace = torch.empty(bundle.workspace_size, dtype=torch.uint8, device=device) |
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This allocates a fresh CUDA tensor on every forward call. The workspace size is fixed for a compiled graph (it never changes after graph.build()), so reallocating it each step is pure overhead in the denoising loop. Consider adding a lazy _workspace: Optional[torch.Tensor] field to _CuDNNGraphBundle and allocating it once on first use:
if bundle._workspace is None:
bundle._workspace = torch.empty(
bundle.workspace_size, dtype=torch.uint8, device=device
)
workspace = bundle._workspaceThis removes a CUDA allocator round-trip per layer per step.
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Hi @karljang !
Thanks for the review.
I'll address the "Hopper test hidden behind" issue. For the workspace reallocation, I'd like to gently push back a little: The per-forward workspace allocation is intentional as a temporary solution, as some "workspace reuse" was identified as the cause of some LTX-2-related bugs internally.
I’m working on #17449 in parallel, which will fully refactor how attention_metadata is used. The plan is for it to carry shared workspaces across all layers for TRTLLM, cuDNN, and FlashInfer. Adding cuDNN-specific workspace ownership here would duplicate that upcoming mechanism, so I’d prefer to keep the temporary allocation in this PR and address workspace reuse comprehensively in #17449.
| if attn_backend == "CUTEDSL": | ||
| if attn_backend == "CUDNN" and not _cudnn_available: | ||
| pytest.fail("cuDNN Python frontend is required for CUDNN attention test") | ||
| if attn_backend in ("CUTEDSL", "CUDNN"): |
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The Blackwell check on this branch applies to CUTEDSL and any quantized CUDNN recipe, but unquantized cuDNN SDPA (quant_attention_config=None) runs on any GPU where the cuDNN Python frontend is installed. The ('CUDNN', None) parametrize case in test_self_attention_equivalence and test_fast_cross_attention_wan_shapes will always be skipped on non-B200 CI tiers.
test_attention_cudnn.py already handles this correctly in _require_cudnn: it only requires sm100+ for non-no_quant recipes. The integration helper should do the same — either accept the quant_attention_config argument and gate the Blackwell skip on quant_attention_config is not None, or split the check:
if attn_backend == "CUDNN" and quant_attention_config is not None:
# FP8 / MXFP8 require Blackwell
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- Around line 241-244: Update the version checks in the cuDNN attention backend
initialization to use strict less-than comparisons, so cuDNN versions 90100 and
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_attention_integration.py`:
- Around line 179-182: Update the CuDNNAttention compatibility checks in the
affected test helper to pass the CUDA device explicitly as the first argument
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- Line 142: Update the FP8/MXFP8 cuDNN documentation to explicitly state that
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| descale: ``[1, 1, 1, 1]`` float32 device tensor with ``x ~= x_q * descale``. | ||
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I'm concerned about the performance of TRT-LLM’s native quantization ops, such as quantize_e4m3_per_tensor , mxfp8_quantize, since they were used primarily for LLM workloads (e.g., decoding). Could you take a look at the achieved memory bandwidth of these quantization kernels in some AIGV workloads?
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A did a rough study of the performance. Per-tensor FP8 quantization is at parity against torch native ones (IIUC TE doesn't provide its own FP8 quantizer?)
For MXFP8, torch.ops.trtllm.mxfp8_quantize is on par against TE at small seqLens, while at large seqLen the achieved BW is around 70% of TE's achieved BW.
I understand the results are not ideal, but the e2e regression caused by TRTLLM-quantize shouldn't be that bad, as that 30% input-quant slow down isn't would manifest too much at long seqLen where Fmha kernel consumes >95% wall time.
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