[Kernel] Tensor-descriptor path for fused_moe_kernel_gptq_awq (int4) - #6
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Revision history / corrections — moved out of the PR description to keep it readable. Recording these here rather than deleting them, since a reviewer who read an earlier revision needs to know what changed. 1. The
The pattern behind both errors was asserting a control-flow fact from reading a single call site. Both were caught by tracing all callers instead. This also reframes the severity: 2. Test count 37 vs 33. The B200 row said 33/33. That was correct for the tree it was measured on — the file had five test functions (33 cases) at that point, and Verified on current 3. 4. Rebased onto current |
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Adds a tensor-descriptor (TD) A-gather + B-load path to fused_moe_kernel_gptq_awq for the int4_w4a16 (GPTQ/AWQ) weight layout, reusing the TD resolver and hardware gating introduced for the unquantized fused_moe_kernel in vllm-project#42436, which left this quantized kernel entirely on pointer arithmetic. Scope is int4 only. The kernel's other layout, int8_w8a16, keeps the pointer path under TD: it is not covered here and the launcher does not enable TD for it. Weight-only int8/int4 with a group size are the only schemes routed to this kernel at all; fp8_w8a8 and int8_w8a8 go to fused_moe_kernel. int4 is the interesting case. B is physically packed 2 nibbles per byte along K, shape (E, N, K // 2), so a single dense descriptor load cannot express the pointer path's "read the same byte twice, shift differently" trick. The descriptor is built at half-K width (byte granularity) and the full-K tile is reconstructed with tl.interleave over the unpacked low/high nibbles, matching the pointer path's even-k/low-nibble, odd-k/high-nibble convention. Interleaving happens before the transpose, while K // 2 is still the true last axis. Hardware gating reuses moe_use_td_hw_supported(), the same policy as fused_moe_kernel's TD path: unset auto-selects on XPU, and an explicit VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD=1 is honoured wherever the A-gather compiles (XPU, or CUDA sm100+ where tile::gather4 exists). tl.interleave imposes no additional hardware constraint -- it is generic Triton (tl.join/tl.reshape in triton.language.standard), not an Intel backend extension. Only XPU is validated for perf, so CUDA is opt-in rather than auto-on, and off-XPU this launcher additionally mirrors invoke_fused_moe_triton_kernel's K % BLOCK_SIZE_K bail-out. That guard attributes unaligned-K TD failures to a Triton codegen bug rather than a maskable boundary gap, so it is not neutralized by this kernel's different B-masking invariant; since it was observed on CUDA, the conservative choice is to honour it off-XPU and keep unaligned K enabled only on XPU, where test_fused_moe_wn16_td_k_tail_matches_pointer covers that case. TD is skipped when BLOCK_SIZE_M < 8. tensor_descriptor.gather() asserts at least 8 rows. The reachable caller is TritonExperts.apply, which invokes this launcher directly with a config from try_get_optimal_moe_config; the wna16 branch there picks min(16, next_power_of_2(M)), so M <= 4 yields 1, 2 or 4 and aborts the launch with "descriptor gather must have at least 8 rows". Found on B200: VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD=1 killed the engine during startup profiling. fused_experts_impl cannot reach that state, because the same should_moe_wna16_use_cuda() predicate that selects the small tile also diverts the launch to invoke_fused_moe_wna16_cuda_kernel. TD is also skipped at M == 1, reusing the signal get_moe_wna16_block_config already keys its batch-1 branch on. Descriptor setup is a fixed per-launch cost that a single row cannot amortize, so TD lost to the pointer path there; the gate restores it. The quantified figures are part of the measurement campaign noted below. The gate does not disable TD wholesale at M == 1 -- GEMM2 still takes it, because its M is m * top_k. test_td_skipped_below_min_gather_rows pins BLOCK_SIZE_M in {2, 4}; every other test in the file forces a config >= 8, which is why a green suite previously shipped this crash. K-tail correctness needs no B mask on either path: b_scale (and b_zp) are loaded with k_mask/other=0.0 whenever a tail exists, so out-of-bounds B dequantizes to exactly 0 regardless of the bytes read. A is zeroed independently -- by its mask on the pointer path, by the descriptor's zero-fill here. (An earlier revision of this message argued the tail was carried by A's mask alone, with OOB B dequantizing to nonzero garbage; that was wrong, and the correction is what the in-code comment now states.) b_scale/b_zp stay on the pointer path unconditionally: their broadcast-mod access pattern maps multiple K positions onto the same scale row, which no dense descriptor tile expresses without redundant loads. Model-level results need GPTQ-MoE weight-loading fixes that are not upstream yet -- required on CUDA too, not only XPU -- so they are not reproducible on a pristine tree today; kernel-level results are. The tail tests assert their own premise (the kernel's N is B.size(1), so GEMM1 sees N=2n and GEMM2 sees N=k; likewise K is A.size(1)) so they cannot decay into no-ops if the shapes are retuned. Every test forces TD on and is skipped where TD cannot run, so the file never exercises the pointer path in isolation -- test_moe.py::test_fused_moe_wn16 already covers that over a wider sweep. Measurements are deliberately omitted from this revision. The previous ones were carried forward across a rebase and an int4-only scope cut without being re-taken, and several could not be traced to any stored artifact -- so rather than restate numbers I cannot reproduce, they are removed. A fresh campaign is running with a saved artifact (log, meta, extracted result) per measurement, on Intel B70, NVIDIA H200 (sm90) and NVIDIA B200 (sm100); the numbers will be added from those artifacts. AI assistance was used (Claude Code); every changed line was reviewed. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Artur Fierka <artur.fierka@intel.com>
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Summary
Adds a tensor-descriptor (TD) A-gather + B-load path to
fused_moe_kernel_gptq_awqforuse_int4_w4a16, reusing the resolver and hardware gating merged for the unquantizedfused_moe_kernelin #42436. That PR left the quantized MoE kernel entirely on pointer arithmetic. Infrastructure-completion work for RFC #42545.Gated on
VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD(unset = auto-on for XPU, opt-in elsewhere) via the existingresolve_moe_use_td()andmoe_use_td_hw_supported().int4 only. The kernel's other branch,
use_int8_w8a16, is unreachable in-tree: two in-tree asserts reject every int8 config before backend selection, and a production-shaped int8 config produces 0 launches of this kernel (measured). An int8 TD path exists on a branch and can return once those asserts are fixed elsewhere; not this PR's problem to fix.Design notes
B is packed 2 nibbles/byte along K, so the descriptor is built at half-K width and the tile reconstructed with
tl.interleavebefore the transpose. Neither path needs a B mask for the K-tail:b_scale/b_zpare loaded withmask=k_mask, other=0.0, so out-of-bounds B dequantizes to exactly 0 regardless of the bytes read — verified bit-identical, max|diff| = 0.Four guards, each with a measured reason:
BLOCK_SIZE_M >= 8(correctness)descriptor.gather()asserts ≥8 rows; the crash gate — see belowM == 1(performance)K % BLOCK_SIZE_K(off-XPU)BLOCK_SIZE_K >= 32override_config, warns and falls back rather than assertingThe
BLOCK_SIZE_M >= 8gate is necessary because of a real crash this work found (see "Validation" below) — the sub-8 tile config CUDA'sget_default_configcan emit is reachable throughTritonExperts.apply, not throughfused_experts_implas an earlier revision of this description claimed; traced all callers before asserting that.Validation
Tested on three platforms — Intel B70 (XPU), NVIDIA H200 (sm90), NVIDIA B200 (sm100). All numbers are mine, on real hardware, N≥3 with medians, seed 42.
Unit tests
19 cases in
tests/kernels/moe/test_fused_moe_kernel_gptq_awq.py.tile::gather4needs sm100+); skip keys off hardware, not the env flagDispatch re-confirmed rather than assumed: with the flag forced on, int4 gives 2/2 launches with
USE_TD=Trueon B70; with it off, 0/2.Accuracy — gsm8k, 5-shot, 1319 questions, seed=42 (click to expand)
Full campaign on the current head, one script writing
stdout.log/meta.json/result.txtbefore any number is quoted. Stack = this PR + afierka-intel#12.All deltas fall inside stderr (0.0128–0.0138). No accuracy drop on any platform.
¹ H200 runs both legs on the pointer path (TD unreachable there) — regression safety, not a TD measurement.
Performance — E2E serve, kernel-level, dispatch verification (click to expand)
vllm bench sweep serve, 3 scenarios × 3 runs, medians, seed 42, prefix caching off.XPU (B70) — TD=0 → TD=1: decode_heavy +12.5%, mixed +12.2%, prefill_heavy +5.7%.
H200 (sm90) — both legs on the pointer path (TD unreachable,
moe_use_td_hw_supported()refuses it correctly): decode_heavy −9.6%, mixed +0.4%, prefill_heavy −2.4% — regression safety only, not a TD measurement; wider spread than a prior ≤2% leg, likely a shared host this round.B200 (sm100) — opt-in via
VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD=1: decode_heavy −1.9%, mixed +22.1%, prefill_heavy +57.7%. Prefill gains most because prefill chunks are large-M and clear theBLOCK_SIZE_M >= 8gate; decode is dominated by launches that fall back to the pointer path.mc4 (
max_concurrency=4), dedicated regression check — a prior revision reported an unreproduced −5.6% here on B200 and disclosed it as never re-measured. Re-run this round on all three platforms: B70 +7.0%, H200 −7.5% (regression safety, TD unreachable), B200 +5.0%. The previously-flagged regression does not reproduce.Kernel-level A/B on XPU (isolated, not through the E2E script above): batch 1 −1.8%, batch 4 +7.2%, batch 16 +9.7%, batch 64 +35.2%. Batch 1 is where TD would lose without the
M == 1gate (−77% ungated); the gate costs nothing above the crossover.Dispatch verified, not assumed.
vllm bench sweep serveswallows kernel-level detail, so every number above was cross-checked with a launch-counting probe: B70 TD=1 → 1776/3312 launches took TD (53.6%); B200 TD=1 → 288/3408 (8.5%); H200 TD=1 → 0/3360 (hardware gate refuses, as designed). The XPU-vs-CUDA split is a config-selection effect (CUDA's default tile config emits many sub-8-row launches that fall back to pointer arithmetic), not anything about TD's correctness.The crash behind the
BLOCK_SIZE_M >= 8gateVLLM_TRITON_USE_TD=1aborted the engine at startup on B200 (descriptor gather must have at least 8 rows, but got ['constexpr[2]']) because an earlier gate keyed offM == 1while CUDA's default config can also emitBLOCK_SIZE_Mof 2 or 4 for smallM. Fixed by gating onBLOCK_SIZE_M >= 8instead; a pinned regression test (test_td_skipped_below_min_gather_rows) fails 4/4 with the old condition and passes with the fix.Reaching this kernel needs two flags, on both XPU and CUDA
--quantization moe_wna16(onlyMoeWNA16Methodreportsmay_have_bias=False, which Triton requires) and--moe-backend triton(native SYCL wins on XPU, Marlin outranks Triton on CUDA otherwise). Measured on H200: without both, this kernel sees 0 launches; with both, 1440.CI
Added an Intel XPU job step for the new test file — the XPU pipeline previously ran only
ir/kernels/ir, so on the hardware this PR targets, the test would never have executed.Scope and gaps, stated
rocm.pymaintains its own allowlist, so this is a known blind spot, not a claim of safety.fused_moe.py: #51515 and #42193 conflict textually (no logical conflict, whoever lands second rebases); #49078 and #43389 need their own rebase first. #49078 independently corroborates this PR's hardware model (.load()works on sm90,.gather()needs sm100+).AI assistance was used (Claude Code) for implementation and testing; every changed line was reviewed and all tests above were run personally on Intel B70, H200 and B200 hardware.