dsa(indexer_backward): optimize SM100 gradient kernels - #730
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe update clarifies that kernel 1 overwrites ChangesSM100 indexer backward update
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Caller->>indexer_backward_wrapper: provide attn_score and index_score
indexer_backward_wrapper->>indexer_backward_wrapper: validate devices before mutation
indexer_backward_wrapper->>SM100_backward_kernel: launch validated backward execution
SM100_backward_kernel->>TMEM: synchronize and read back dQ, dW, and dK
SM100_backward_kernel-->>indexer_backward_wrapper: write attn_score and preserve index_score
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In `@test/python/fe_api/dsa/test_DSA_indexer_backward.py`:
- Around line 165-173: Update
test_DSA_indexer_backward_sm100_local_oob_id_is_padding to call _require_sm100()
before importing or creating the direct kernel, and apply the existing
nvidia-cutlass-dsl support/version gate used by comparable direct CuTe DSL
tests. Do not use cudnn.backend_version() as the dependency check; unsupported
CUDA or CuTe DSL environments must skip before compilation or launch.
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| def test_DSA_indexer_backward_sm100_local_oob_id_is_padding(): | ||
| """A positive out-of-range local id must not alias the next batch.""" | ||
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| from cudnn.deepseek_sparse_attention.indexer_backward.indexer_backward_sm100 import indexer_backward_sm100 | ||
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| pytest.skip("Environment not supported: cudnn[cutedsl] not installed") |
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Gate the direct CuTe DSL test before compilation.
test_DSA_indexer_backward_sm100_local_oob_id_is_padding calls indexer_backward_sm100() and kernel.gemm_only() directly, so it bypasses IndexerBackward.check_support(). Its capability check does not verify CUDA availability or the installed nvidia-cutlass-dsl version. An unsupported environment can therefore raise during factory creation or launch instead of skipping. Reuse _require_sm100() and add the applicable CuTe DSL support/version gate. cudnn.backend_version() is not a proxy for this direct CuTe DSL dependency.
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In `@test/python/fe_api/dsa/test_DSA_indexer_backward.py` around lines 165 - 173,
Update test_DSA_indexer_backward_sm100_local_oob_id_is_padding to call
_require_sm100() before importing or creating the direct kernel, and apply the
existing nvidia-cutlass-dsl support/version gate used by comparable direct CuTe
DSL tests. Do not use cudnn.backend_version() as the dependency check;
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In `@python/cudnn/deepseek_sparse_attention/indexer_backward/api.py`:
- Around line 786-790: Preserve the documented read-only contract by creating a
stream-local scratch copy of index_score before obj.execute reaches the
score-gradient path, ensuring the caller’s probabilities remain unchanged;
update the corresponding API documentation in
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Re-measurement from the #640 authors (B200, full top-k sweep)The persistent-CTA + Gather4 + staged-dK work here is a real improvement — it also passes our adversarial correctness battery (-1 padding / positive-OOB / short rows all strictly padding-equivalent). We re-ran the full A/B because the #640 baseline column didn't match what we measured when authoring #640. Summary: the Environment: B200 (driver 590.48.01), CUDA 13.3, PyTorch 2.13.0a0+8145d630e8 (NGC 26.06), nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.6.1 and 4.8.0.dev0; both implementations source-built into one process, same tensors, same stream, three-arm rotation, CUDA-event medians (300 reps, same-session, SM clock verified stable), cross-checked with nsys pure-kernel medians. Kernel-2, Sq=8192 / SK=4096 / H=64 / D=128, uniform lengths, global per-row-unique IDs, sm_scale=1.0
Geomean over the eight points: 1.46× on 4.6.1, 1.31× on 4.8.0.dev0 (vs 2.07× in the PR body). We also tried to reconstruct the discrepancy on our side, without success: CUDA-graph capture/replay (both arms capture and replay cleanly and get faster — v2-direct sheds about 60 µs of launch overhead here, so your FE CUDA Graph preservation claim checks out in our hands), pipeline-stage clamps (clamping the kv pipe to 2 stages deadlocks v2 at topk=512 rather than slowing it), full-wrapper timing (+~88µs roughly constant, inconsistent with your own full-pipeline column), cold-compile effects (pollute the mean, not the median), and block_I mismatches (rejected loudly by v2's validation). We ruled out ID distribution (with-replacement random / per-row-unique / sorted-unique all within 0.3% at topk=512, <2% across the sweep), DSL version, and output dtype — none moves v2 appreciably. Given the divergence starts exactly at v2's 3-tiles/row gear change (topk=384) while topk=128 matches us to the microsecond and topk=256 within 2%, one thing worth double-checking on your side is that the baseline binary was built from the merged #640 Three more performance-relevant observations:
Under ragged per-row lengths (monotone ramp + padding) the speedup holds essentially undiminished at topk=512 (1.34×) and narrows to ~1.06–1.10× at topk=1024/2048 on 4.8.0.dev0. The exact benchmark harness is in the next comment so you can rerun everything. |
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Benchmark harness for the numbers in the previous comment. Two-tree setup. To A/B two builds of the same package in one process, we install the PR build under a renamed package that shares the base build's pybind extension (importing two copies of the compiled module collides on pybind type registration; #730 touches no C++, so the base git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend.git fe && cd fe
# base tree: develop at the commit this PR is based on (contains merged #640 v2)
git worktree add ../fe-develop a146b44f963947d07da1617020848743524157ad
# PR tree: head of this PR at the time we benchmarked
git fetch origin pull/730/head && git worktree add ../fe-pr730 ec78f32f8478469069b97ddae359a199cad89fc7
cd ..
pip install --no-deps -t site_base fe-develop # provides `cudnn` (incl. the compiled pybind module)
pip install --no-deps -t site_pr fe-pr730
mkdir -p site_pr_renamed && cp -r site_pr/cudnn site_pr_renamed/cudnn_pr730m
grep -rl --include='*.py' cudnn site_pr_renamed/cudnn_pr730m | xargs sed -i 's/\bcudnn\b/cudnn_pr730m/g'
rm -f site_pr_renamed/cudnn_pr730m/_compiled_module*.so
sed -i 's|import_module("cudnn_pr730m._compiled_module")|import_module("cudnn._compiled_module")|' site_pr_renamed/cudnn_pr730m/__init__.pyThe script below also injects #!/usr/bin/env python3
"""A/B benchmark: PR #730 indexer-backward kernel 2 vs merged #640 sm100_v2
(vs the pre-#640 default path as a third reference arm).
What it measures
Kernel-2-only (gemm_only entry) latency for the DeepSeek sparse-attention
indexer backward at B=1, Sq=8192, Sk=4096, H=64, D=128, swept over top-k.
Fixture: bf16 q/k/w, fp32 grad signal, global per-row-unique valid int32
ids, uniform lengths, sm_scale=1.0, fp32 dK buffer on all arms (v2 dW fp32,
the two default-path arms dW bf16, their contract). The PR/old-default arms
include the caller-side dk.zero_() their gemm_only contract requires; v2
zeroes dK internally — both inside the timed region.
Timing: one CUDA-event pair per call, sync per rep, arm order rotated every
rep (ABC/BCA/CAB), 300 reps, medians reported. SM clock is sampled before
and after every block so thermally drifting runs can be rejected.
CHECK=1 adds value checks against an fp64 chunked reference (relative
error per gradient), bitwise determinism checks, and the padding
equivalence check (-1 ids vs positive out-of-range ids, nonzero grad on
padded slots must be ignored).
v2 kernel-2-only path
Upstream sm100_v2 exposes no gemm_only entry, so this harness no-ops the
shared kernel-1 launcher (`_score_grad_inplace`) inside the v2 module and
passes the precomputed grad signal in the attn_score slot — exactly what
kernel 1 would have left there; with sm_scale=1.0 the runtime fold is a
no-op. The fp64 reference check validates this path end to end.
Requirements: 1x SM100 GPU (B200 class), CUDA PyTorch, nvidia-cutlass-dsl,
the two trees on PYTHONPATH as above. Full sweep ~20-40 min (mostly DSL plan
compilation), <8 GB device memory.
Usage
PYTHONPATH=site_base:site_pr_renamed CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 BENCH_GPU_INDEX=0 \
python3 bench_indexer_bwd_ab.py
Env knobs: KLIST (default 128,256,384,512,640,1024,1536,2048), REPS (300),
MODE=uniform|full (full adds ragged-length runs at RAGGED_KLIST=512,1024,2048),
CHECK=1 (correctness at CHECK_K, default 512; set CHECK_K=1024 / 2048 to
reproduce the other precision points), OUT (JSONL path).
"""
import os, sys, json, statistics, subprocess
import torch
OUT = os.environ.get("OUT", "./indexer_bwd_ab.jsonl")
MODE = os.environ.get("MODE", "full") # uniform | full
REPS = int(os.environ.get("REPS", "300"))
CHECK = os.environ.get("CHECK", "1") == "1"
CHECK_K = int(os.environ.get("CHECK_K", "512"))
KLIST = [int(x) for x in os.environ.get("KLIST", "128,256,384,512,640,1024,1536,2048").split(",")]
RAGGED_KLIST = [int(x) for x in os.environ.get("RAGGED_KLIST", "512,1024,2048").split(",")]
GPU = os.environ.get("BENCH_GPU_INDEX", "0")
def emit(o):
with open(OUT, "a") as f: f.write(json.dumps(o) + "\n")
print(json.dumps(o), flush=True)
def sm_clock():
r = subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi", "-i", GPU, "--query-gpu=clocks.sm", "--format=csv,noheader"],
capture_output=True, text=True)
return r.stdout.strip()
import cudnn
sys.modules["cudnn_pr730m._compiled_module"] = sys.modules["cudnn._compiled_module"]
import cudnn_pr730m
import cutlass
import cudnn.deepseek_sparse_attention.indexer_backward.indexer_backward_v2_sm100 as v2mod
from cudnn.deepseek_sparse_attention.indexer_backward.indexer_backward_v2_sm100 import indexer_backward_v2_sm100 as v2_factory
from cudnn.deepseek_sparse_attention.indexer_backward.indexer_backward_sm100 import indexer_backward_sm100 as v1old_factory
from cudnn_pr730m.deepseek_sparse_attention.indexer_backward.indexer_backward_sm100 import indexer_backward_sm100 as pr_factory
# v2 kernel-2-only: disable the shared kernel-1 launcher (see module docstring).
v2mod._score_grad_inplace = lambda *a, **kw: None
S, SK, H, D = 8192, 4096, 64, 128
dev = "cuda"
emit({"meta": "start", "cutlass": cutlass.__version__, "torch": torch.__version__,
"reps": REPS, "mode": MODE, "klist": KLIST, "clock": sm_clock()})
torch.manual_seed(0)
q = torch.randn(S, H, D, device=dev, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
k = torch.randn(SK, D, device=dev, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
w = torch.randn(S, H, device=dev, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
# Ragged mode: row i sees min(ceil((i+1)/2), SK) keys (monotone causal ramp).
visible = (torch.arange(S, device=dev) // 2 + 1).clamp(max=SK)
def make_ids(topk, prod):
"""Global per-row-unique valid ids; prod=True adds the tlen ramp with -1
padding and zeroed grad on padded slots."""
torch.manual_seed(7 + topk + int(prod))
r = torch.rand(S, SK, device=dev)
if prod:
pen = (torch.arange(SK, device=dev)[None, :] >= visible[:, None]).float() * 10.0
order = (r + pen).argsort(dim=-1)[:, :topk]
tlen = visible.clamp(max=topk)
m = torch.arange(topk, device=dev)[None, :] < tlen[:, None]
ids = torch.where(m, order.to(torch.int32), torch.full_like(order, -1, dtype=torch.int32).view(S, topk))
else:
ids = r.argsort(dim=-1)[:, :topk].to(torch.int32)
g = (torch.randn(S, topk, device=dev) * 0.1).float()
g = torch.where(ids >= 0, g, torch.zeros_like(g))
return ids.contiguous(), g.contiguous()
class GemmOnlyArm:
"""PR #730 / old-default arm via the public _run.gemm_only escape hatch."""
def __init__(self, factory, topk):
self.topk = topk
self.fn = factory(batch=1, seqlen=S, seqlen_k=SK, heads=H, dim=D, topk=topk,
sm_scale=1.0, block_I=128, topk_indices_global=True).gemm_only
self.dq = torch.empty(S, H, D, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device=dev)
self.dw = torch.empty(S, H, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device=dev)
self.dk = torch.zeros(SK, D, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev)
def __call__(self, ids, g):
self.dk.zero_() # gemm_only contract: caller zeroes dK
t = self.topk
self.fn(q.view(1, S, H, D), w.view(1, S, H), k.view(1, SK, D),
self.dq.view(1, S, H, D), self.dw.view(1, S, H),
self.dk.view(1, SK, D), g.view(1, S, t), ids.view(1, S, t))
def outs(self):
return {"dq": self.dq.clone(), "dw": self.dw.clone(), "dk": self.dk.clone()}
class V2Arm:
"""sm100_v2 kernel-2-only via _run with kernel 1 no-op'd (see docstring)."""
def __init__(self, topk):
self.topk = topk
self.fn = v2_factory(batch=1, seqlen=S, seqlen_k=SK, heads=H, dim=D, topk=topk,
sm_scale=1.0, block_I=128, topk_indices_global=True,
dw_out_dtype=torch.float32)
self.dq = torch.empty(S, H, D, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device=dev)
self.dw = torch.empty(S, H, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev)
self.dk = torch.zeros(SK, D, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev) # zeroed inside _run (fp32 path)
self.index_score = torch.empty(S, topk, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev) # dummy: kernel 1 disabled
def __call__(self, ids, g):
t = self.topk
self.fn(q.view(1, S, H, D), w.view(1, S, H), k.view(1, SK, D),
self.dq.view(1, S, H, D), self.dw.view(1, S, H), self.dk.view(1, SK, D),
g.view(1, S, t), # attn_score slot <- precomputed grad signal
self.index_score.view(1, S, t), # index_score: unused (kernel 1 disabled)
ids.view(1, S, t),
g.view(1, S, t), # grad_loss: unused (kernel 1 disabled)
1.0)
def outs(self):
return {"dq": self.dq.clone(), "dw": self.dw.clone(), "dk": self.dk.clone()}
ARMS = ("v2", "pr", "v1old")
def build(topk):
return {"v2": V2Arm(topk),
"pr": GemmOnlyArm(pr_factory, topk),
"v1old": GemmOnlyArm(v1old_factory, topk)}
def bench(arms, ids, g, tag, names=ARMS):
for nm in names:
for _ in range(15): arms[nm](ids, g)
torch.cuda.synchronize()
c0 = sm_clock()
tm = {nm: [] for nm in names}
for rep in range(REPS):
seq = [names[(i + rep) % len(names)] for i in range(len(names))]
for nm in seq:
e0 = torch.cuda.Event(True); e1 = torch.cuda.Event(True)
e0.record(); arms[nm](ids, g); e1.record()
torch.cuda.synchronize()
tm[nm].append(e0.elapsed_time(e1))
res = {"pattern": tag, "clock_pre": c0, "clock_post": sm_clock()}
for nm in names:
v = sorted(tm[nm])
res[nm] = {"median_us": round(statistics.median(v) * 1000, 1),
"min_us": round(v[0] * 1000, 1), "p90_us": round(v[int(0.9 * len(v))] * 1000, 1)}
if "v2" in names and "pr" in names:
res["speedup_v2_over_pr"] = round(res["v2"]["median_us"] / res["pr"]["median_us"], 3)
emit(res)
def ref_grads(ids, g):
"""fp64 chunked reference of the gemm_only semantics (sm_scale=1)."""
topk = ids.shape[1]
dq = torch.zeros(S, H, D, dtype=torch.float64, device=dev)
dw = torch.zeros(S, H, dtype=torch.float64, device=dev)
dk = torch.zeros(SK, D, dtype=torch.float64, device=dev)
q64, k64, w64, g64 = q.double(), k.double(), w.double(), g.double()
CH = 128
for i0 in range(0, S, CH):
i1 = i0 + CH
idc = ids[i0:i1].long(); valid = idc >= 0
kg = k64[idc.clamp(min=0)]
s = torch.einsum("chd,ctd->cht", q64[i0:i1], kg)
pos = (s > 0).double()
gv = g64[i0:i1] * valid.double()
dw[i0:i1] = torch.einsum("cht,ct->ch", torch.relu(s), gv)
dq[i0:i1] = torch.einsum("ct,ch,cht,ctd->chd", gv, w64[i0:i1], pos, kg)
contrib = torch.einsum("ct,ch,cht,chd->ctd", gv, w64[i0:i1], pos, q64[i0:i1])
dk.index_add_(0, idc.clamp(min=0)[valid].flatten(), contrib[valid].reshape(-1, D))
return dq, dw, dk
def relerr(a, b):
a = a.double(); den = b.norm().item()
return ((a - b).norm().item() / den) if den else 0.0
def correctness(arms, topk):
"""Value / determinism / padding-equivalence asserts on the ragged fixture."""
ids_p, g_p = make_ids(topk, True)
refs = ref_grads(ids_p, g_p)
base = {}
for nm in ("v2", "pr"):
a = arms[nm]
a.dk.zero_(); a(ids_p, g_p); torch.cuda.synchronize(); o1 = a.outs()
a.dk.zero_(); a(ids_p, g_p); torch.cuda.synchronize(); o2 = a.outs()
base[nm] = o1
rec = {"correctness": nm, "topk": topk,
"rel_dq": relerr(o1["dq"], refs[0]), "rel_dw": relerr(o1["dw"], refs[1]),
"rel_dk": relerr(o1["dk"], refs[2]),
"det_dq_bitwise": torch.equal(o1["dq"], o2["dq"]),
"det_dw_bitwise": torch.equal(o1["dw"], o2["dw"]),
"det_dk_rel": relerr(o1["dk"].double(), o2["dk"].double()),
"finite": all(torch.isfinite(t).all().item() for t in o1.values())}
emit(rec)
assert rec["finite"], f"{nm}: non-finite gradients"
assert rec["rel_dq"] < 5e-3, f"{nm}: dq off ({rec['rel_dq']})"
assert rec["rel_dw"] < (1e-5 if nm == "v2" else 5e-3), f"{nm}: dw off ({rec['rel_dw']})"
assert rec["rel_dk"] < (1e-3 if nm == "v2" else 5e-3), f"{nm}: dk off ({rec['rel_dk']})"
assert rec["det_dq_bitwise"] and rec["det_dw_bitwise"], f"{nm}: dq/dw not run-to-run bitwise"
assert rec["det_dk_rel"] < 1e-3, f"{nm}: dk run-to-run jitter beyond atomic band"
# -1 padding vs positive-OOB padding must be equivalent, with nonzero grad
# on the invalid slots (must be ignored by the kernel).
ids_oob = ids_p.clone(); pad = ids_oob == -1
ids_oob[pad] = SK + (torch.arange(ids_oob.numel(), device=dev).view_as(ids_oob)[pad] % 9999).to(torch.int32)
g_oob = g_p.clone(); g_oob[pad] = 0.123
for nm in ("v2", "pr"):
a = arms[nm]
a.dk.zero_(); a(ids_oob, g_oob); torch.cuda.synchronize(); o = a.outs()
rec = {"oob_padding_equiv": nm, "topk": topk,
"dq_equal_bitwise": torch.equal(o["dq"], base[nm]["dq"]),
"dw_equal_bitwise": torch.equal(o["dw"], base[nm]["dw"]),
"dk_rel_vs_pad": relerr(o["dk"].double(), base[nm]["dk"].double())}
emit(rec)
assert rec["dq_equal_bitwise"] and rec["dw_equal_bitwise"], f"{nm}: OOB ids not padding-equivalent"
assert rec["dk_rel_vs_pad"] < 1e-3, f"{nm}: OOB dk not padding-equivalent"
for topk in KLIST:
arms = build(topk)
ids, g = make_ids(topk, False)
bench(arms, ids, g, f"uniform{topk}")
if MODE == "full" and topk in RAGGED_KLIST:
ids_p, g_p = make_ids(topk, True)
bench(arms, ids_p, g_p, f"ragged{topk}", names=("v2", "pr"))
if CHECK and topk == CHECK_K:
correctness(arms, topk)
del arms
torch.cuda.empty_cache()
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Summary
Ports the SM100 indexer backward gradient optimizations through indexer commit
9aaa839onto the current cuDNN Frontenddevelopbranch (4cdaef1base optimization plus the short-TopK specialization follow-up).grad_loss, q-causal-offset, and stream behaviorValidation
Run on NVIDIA B200 (SM100), CUDA 13.2, PyTorch 2.11 nightly, and nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.6.1:
1 passedgrad_lossvalues 0.5 and 1.5black --check --fast -l 160on changed Python filespython -m py_compileon changed Python filesgit diff --checkpre-commititself was unavailable in the local environment.Performance
Kernel 2 only, CUDA events, 10 warmups + 60 measured iterations on B200; BF16, B=1, Sq=8192, Sk=2048, H=64, D=128, block_I=128:
Direct A/B against merged #640
Compared the latest PR worktree (the
632003496port plus the local port of indexer9aaa839) against #640's mergedsm100_v2implementation ata6c892462. Both implementations used the same tensors and launch stream.B200 (SM100), driver 610.57.04, CUDA 13.2, PyTorch 2.11 nightly, nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.6.1; BF16, B=1, Sq=8192, Sk=4096, H=64, D=128, block_I=128, sm_scale=1.0, global per-row-unique valid Top-K IDs. CUDA-event medians from 20 warmups followed by 6 rounds x 10 calls, alternating implementation order. Kernel-2 timing uses a pre-zeroed FP32 dK accumulator; full-pipeline timing includes score-grad, dK zeroing, kernel 2, and the BF16 dK cast (output allocation excluded).
Across the eight Top-K points, this PR is 1.71-2.48x faster for kernel 2 and 1.70-2.46x faster for the full GPU pipeline; the geometric mean is 2.07x for both. All measured output tensors were finite. Because this environment differs from #640's original driver/toolchain setup, the comparison uses only paired same-run ratios, not absolute timings copied from either PR.
Acknowledgments
The kernel optimizations presented in this pull request build upon prior work by the AVO team. We gratefully acknowledge Terry Chen and Fengzhe Zhou, as well as the broader AVO team, for their foundational implementation and technical contributions, which served as an important basis for this work.
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index_score; onlyattn_scoreis overwritten.Documentation