Avoid zero-initializing JAX outputs the kernel already writes - #631
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Follows NVIDIA#592, which established this for grouped/unfused: passing initialized_outputs makes XLA zero-fill the buffer before every dispatch, and that fill scales with the output, so it is the JAX path's dominant host-visible cost. Extends it to the entry points where the same reasoning holds and, more importantly, establishes which ones it does not hold for. Changed: grouped/glu d, c and the workspace are all written before use dense/swiglu ab12 and c are written in full over their extents grouped/wgrad workspace only; the template keeps its zeros because the kernel writes through wgrad_ptrs and never touches it Deliberately unchanged, having tried and reverted each: dense/amax, dense/srelu, grouped/dglu, grouped/dsrelu, discrete_grouped/swiglu and discrete_grouped/dswiglu. Their comments cite the bridge's leading-dim inference rejecting trailing-unit-dim buffers on pure results, and that is still accurate -- dropping the donation there fails the JAX jit-vs-eager tests, and grouped/dglu returns results differing from torch by 1.125. The zeroing is load-bearing beyond the accumulators. Rows at or past padded_offsets[-1] are now unspecified for grouped/glu, as they already are for the torch wrapper's empty_strided outputs. Documented in the docstring. B200, bf16, 8 experts, grouped/glu jax.jit, median of 3 alternating runs (us): 2048x2048x2048 50.6 -> 36.3 4096x2048x2048 49.1 -> 38.6 8192x4096x2048 122.7 -> 108.4 16384x4096x4096 413.4 -> 385.8 At the largest shape that leaves +1.8 us over the kernel, against +29 before. Adds a partial-coverage test that dirties the allocator before dispatch: on fresh device memory the tail reads back as zeros either way, so a test that does not poison it passes whether or not the fill is there.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe JAX custom-call APIs stop zero-initializing buffers that kernels or descriptor helpers fully write. Grouped GLU and grouped unfused GEMM document unspecified unaddressed rows and add dirty-allocator regression tests. ChangesCustom-call initialization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR removes unnecessary output initialization and adds coverage for dirty allocator behavior, improving JAX performance while intentionally leaving tail rows unspecified. Mergeability has two bounded follow-ups: the new test may fail lint because of a named lambda, and it may fail rather than skip when CuTeDSL JAX extensions are unavailable. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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Replace the named lambda with a function.
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In `@test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_glu_jax.py` at line 240,
Replace the to_torch lambda with a named def function that preserves the
existing NumPy-to-bfloat16 CUDA conversion behavior, resolving Ruff E731 without
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Folds in NVIDIA#592's change, which is being closed in favour of this PR so the whole audit lands as one piece. d, c and the workspace are all written before use, so nothing here needed the fill. Adds the poisoned-allocator test for unfused as well: on fresh device memory the untouched tail reads back as zeros whether or not the fill is present, so a test that does not dirty the allocator first passes either way.
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In `@test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_jax.py`:
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- Around line 203-204: Update the test setup around skip_unless_sm100() so it
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Replace the assigned lambda with a function.
Ruff reports E731 for to_torch. Define to_torch with def so lint checks pass.
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In `@test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_jax.py` at line 211,
Replace the to_torch lambda assignment with a named def to_torch function,
preserving its existing conversion behavior and arguments so Ruff E731 is
resolved.
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Both new tests called skip_unless_sm100() without first checking cutlass.jax.is_available(), unlike every other JAX test in the same two files. On an SM100 machine without the CuTeDSL JAX extensions they would have failed rather than skipped. Caught in review by CodeRabbit.
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…#631) * jax: stop zero-filling outputs the kernel already writes Follows NVIDIA#592, which established this for grouped/unfused: passing initialized_outputs makes XLA zero-fill the buffer before every dispatch, and that fill scales with the output, so it is the JAX path's dominant host-visible cost. Extends it to the entry points where the same reasoning holds and, more importantly, establishes which ones it does not hold for. Changed: grouped/glu d, c and the workspace are all written before use dense/swiglu ab12 and c are written in full over their extents grouped/wgrad workspace only; the template keeps its zeros because the kernel writes through wgrad_ptrs and never touches it Deliberately unchanged, having tried and reverted each: dense/amax, dense/srelu, grouped/dglu, grouped/dsrelu, discrete_grouped/swiglu and discrete_grouped/dswiglu. Their comments cite the bridge's leading-dim inference rejecting trailing-unit-dim buffers on pure results, and that is still accurate -- dropping the donation there fails the JAX jit-vs-eager tests, and grouped/dglu returns results differing from torch by 1.125. The zeroing is load-bearing beyond the accumulators. Rows at or past padded_offsets[-1] are now unspecified for grouped/glu, as they already are for the torch wrapper's empty_strided outputs. Documented in the docstring. B200, bf16, 8 experts, grouped/glu jax.jit, median of 3 alternating runs (us): 2048x2048x2048 50.6 -> 36.3 4096x2048x2048 49.1 -> 38.6 8192x4096x2048 122.7 -> 108.4 16384x4096x4096 413.4 -> 385.8 At the largest shape that leaves +1.8 us over the kernel, against +29 before. Adds a partial-coverage test that dirties the allocator before dispatch: on fresh device memory the tail reads back as zeros either way, so a test that does not poison it passes whether or not the fill is there. * jax: stop zero-filling grouped/unfused outputs too Folds in NVIDIA#592's change, which is being closed in favour of this PR so the whole audit lands as one piece. d, c and the workspace are all written before use, so nothing here needed the fill. Adds the poisoned-allocator test for unfused as well: on fresh device memory the untouched tail reads back as zeros whether or not the fill is present, so a test that does not dirty the allocator first passes either way. * test: gate the new JAX tests on CuTeDSL JAX availability Both new tests called skip_unless_sm100() without first checking cutlass.jax.is_available(), unlike every other JAX test in the same two files. On an SM100 machine without the CuTeDSL JAX extensions they would have failed rather than skipped. Caught in review by CodeRabbit.
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FE OSS kernels or CuTeDSL (Python/JAX entry points)
Summary
Stop passing
initialized_outputsfor JAX outputs the kernel already writes, ingrouped/unfused,grouped/glu,dense/swiglu, and the workspace ofgrouped/wgrad. No kernel, output spec, or layout changes. Adds two JAX tests.Supersedes and closes #592 (@mgoldfarb-nvidia), which established this for
grouped/unfusedand is folded in here so the whole audit lands as one piece. The mechanism, measurement protocol and framing are Michael's.Why
initialized_outputsmakes XLA zero-fill the buffer before every dispatch. That fill scales with the output, so it was the dominant host-visible cost of the JAX path — and the torch wrapper never paid it, since it allocates withtorch.empty_strided.grouped/unfusedd,c, workspace — from #592grouped/glud,c, workspacedense/swigluab12,cgrouped/wgradwgrad_ptrsand never touches that bufferDeliberately unchanged — the part worth carrying forward
I tried removing it from every remaining site and reverted six:
dense/amax,dense/srelu,grouped/dglu,grouped/dsrelu,discrete_grouped/swiglu,discrete_grouped/dswiglu.Their comments cite the bridge's leading-dim inference rejecting trailing-unit-dim buffers on pure results, and that reason is still accurate — not stale documentation, which is what I had assumed. All six fail the JAX jit-vs-eager test without the donation, and
grouped/dglureturns results differing from torch by 1.125 where it matched exactly.So this is not mechanically applicable across the JAX entry points. An audit that assumes it is will silently corrupt six of them.
Related issues
Supersedes #592.
API and compatibility impact
For
grouped/unfusedandgrouped/glu, rows at or pastpadded_offsets[-1]are now unspecified rather than zero — the same behavior the torch wrapper has always had viaempty_strided. Documented in both docstrings. Rows before that offset are bit-identical to the torch path under full and partial coverage. No change to supported GPU/cuDNN/CUDA/Python versions.Performance — B200, bf16, 8 experts,
jax.jitwall time, median of 3 alternating base/head runs viabenchmark/grouped_gemm_dispatch/bench_dispatch.py. Each invocation asserts which module tree it loaded before measuring, so the two columns cannot silently be the same build:At the largest shape that is +4.2 µs over the kernel for unfused and +3.1 for glu, against +55 and +32 before. The overhead no longer grows with output size, which was the original complaint.
Testing
Two new JAX tests, one per changed grouped entry point:
fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_jax.py::test_grouped_gemm_jax_addressed_rows_survive_a_dirty_allocatorfe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_glu_jax.py::test_grouped_gemm_glu_jax_addressed_rows_survive_a_dirty_allocatorBoth run partial coverage (
padded_offsets[-1] < m) with the allocator poisoned before dispatch, and assert the addressed rows match the torch wrapper bit-for-bit. The poisoning is the point: on fresh device memory the untouched tail reads back as zeros whether or not the fill is present, so a test that does not dirty the allocator first passes either way and proves nothing.That suite is what caught the six reverts above.