[tomerdav]

What?

The contracts the CPU proxy is built on, as a new nixl_device_proxy library
under src/utils/device/proxy, and the GPU-readable memory it publishes into,
as a device-ops service. Nothing constructs these yet. The registry and the
runtime that use them are the next two PRs.

• proxy_protocol.h: the wire contract between device code and the host worker.
• proxy_config.{h,cpp}: parsing of the device_proxy and proxy_* backend
  parameters into nixl::proxyConfig.
• proxy_transport.h: nixl::proxyTransport, the interface a backend
  implements to sit behind the proxy; README.md in the same directory holds its
  contract.
• src/utils/device/host_published_mem.{h,cpp} (in libdevice_utils):
  nixl::hostPublishedDeviceMem, memory the CPU publishes 64-bit words into and
  the GPU reads, allocated by deviceOps::allocHostPublishedMem. The CUDA device
  ops back it with GDRCopy when available (device_ops_cuda_gdrcopy.{h,cpp}).
• proxy_control_buffer.{h,cpp}: nixl::proxyControlBuffer, the doorbell words
  (shutdown state, one consumer index per ring) laid out over that memory.

  proxy_protocol.h: installed header, the one layout both sides compile against
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  GPU kernels  ---work ring, 64 B records--->  [proxy worker: later PR]
  GPU kernels  <--completion slot------------  [proxy worker: later PR]
  GPU kernels  <--control words--------------  proxyControlBuffer over hostPublishedDeviceMem
                                               (GDRCopy device memory or mapped host memory)
  [proxy worker] --submit, checkCompletion--->  proxyTransport  -->  [UCX engine: later PR]
  proxyConfig  <--  device_proxy, proxy_* backend params

Why?

Where a transport has no device-callable submission path, the GPU writes a
fixed-layout record into a ring and a host thread turns it into an ordinary
backend transfer. The layout, the configuration surface, the backend boundary,
and the doorbell memory are the parts of that design that must stay stable, so
they are reviewed first and on their own.

How?

Protocol

• Plain C++ with no CUDA includes and no std::atomic members. Device code reaches
  the fields through cuda::atomic_ref, host code through __atomic builtins.
• Frozen except additively. New data goes in reserved or a new opcode. Every
  shared struct carries a size assert; a firing assert is an ABI break.
• A command (nixlProxyCommand) is 64 bytes with op_idx first, because that word
  publishes it as ready. Zero means empty. It carries no channel: the ring it is
  written into implies one. nixlProxyRingDesc is the per-ring view the device
  sees.
• operand means the source offset for a PUT and the value for an atomic add.
  Readers go through sourceOffset(), atomicValue() and peerIndex() rather
  than the raw fields; the accessors change no layout.
• Nothing backend-specific enters the ring. A record names memory views by token
  and offset; backend handles are resolved on the host after dequeue.
• The protocol types keep their global nixlProxy* names: this header is the
  installed contract compiled into device code. The host-side library lives in
  namespace nixl.

Configuration

• Parsing is strict. An unknown proxy_* key, a zero count, a ring depth that is
  not a power of two, or proxy_* tuning without device_proxy=true is an error,
  and the log names the offending key and value.
• device_proxy=true together with the shared progress thread is rejected: the
  proxy's own threads own the backend workers.
• The output config is written only on success.
• The config exposes the topology generically (ringCount() = channels x peers,
  effectiveThreadCount()); how a backend maps rings to its own resources is up
  to the backend.
• proxy_max_peers defaults small on purpose. Each peer costs one ring per channel.

Backend interface

• nixl::proxyTransport is an abstract class with six required operations
  (init, submit, checkCompletion, progress, quiesce, shutdown) and one
  optional one (resolveDirectPtrs, which defaults to "no direct access").
• It is internal: not installed, not part of nixlBackendEngine, not an ABI. A
  plugin implements it as a class nested in its engine, so it reaches the engine's
  state through the engine's own access rights. There is no adapter object holding
  the engine and no new friend.
• The runtime takes ownership of the transport at creation and destroys it after
  its worker threads have joined.
• The header keeps a short comment on each operation. The full contract a second
  transport needs is in src/utils/device/proxy/README.md:
  • Calls for the rings of one channel come from one thread at a time; different
    channels may be served concurrently.
  • At most ring_depth requests are outstanding per ring.
  • submit never returns a transient error. A transport that cannot post now
    returns in-progress and posts from progress.
  • Requests are polled in submission order.
  • Only quiesce promises that the transport no longer touches the memory.
  • submit, checkCompletion and progress take no lock and do no atomic
    read-modify-write shared across channels.
• A submission carries the resolved nixlMetaDesc of each side. A request is a
  single opaque token; checkCompletion, progress and quiesce take the channel
  and peer that select its ring.

Published memory and the control buffer

• hostPublishedDeviceMem lives in the device ops, not in the proxy:
  deviceOps::allocHostPublishedMem(size, out) hands out the memory only once it
  owns it, zeroed; destroying it releases it.
• Backing is chosen at runtime. A device ops implementation may offer device
  memory the CPU writes directly; the CUDA one does so through GDRCopy, so GPU
  polling stays in local memory. Any failure falls back to zeroed mapped host
  memory the GPU reads over PCIe. backingKind() reports which.
• GDRCopy is loaded with dlopen, libgdrapi.so.2 first and then libgdrapi.so
  (as NVSHMEM does), so there is no build or link dependency on it. A missing
  driver is detected once per process; a per-allocation pin or map failure warns
  and falls back. Each allocation opens its own GDRCopy handle, because libgdrapi
  does not lock a handle's pin and map bookkeeping.
• publish(offset, value) writes one aligned 8-byte word with release ordering
  (a release store on mapped host memory, a fence before the GDRCopy copy) and
  rejects anything outside the range.
• proxyControlBuffer is the typed view on top: shutdownSlot() is slot zero and
  ringSlot(i) is 1 + i. publishShutdown and publishConsumerIdx are its only
  writers.

Build

• Built with or without CUDA: it depends only on nixl_common and the device
  operations interface from utils: add a device memory allocator with owning handles #2196 (merged). The proxy host test suites (test: cover the CPU proxy runtime and GPU path [CPU Proxy part 4] #2283)
  therefore build and run on machines without CUDA.
• proxy_protocol.h is installed as <device/proxy/proxy_protocol.h>.

Testing

• The device-ops tests travel with the device-ops code: hostPublishedMem (6 host
  tests over a fake device ops: zeroing, word publication, backend preference and
  fallback, failure and release) and hostPublishedMemGpu (1 GPU test, which
  records the backing it got). Every proxy host test is in the tests PR, test: cover the CPU proxy runtime and GPU path [CPU Proxy part 4] #2283.
  Configuration parsing has no unit test; the UCX PR covers the parameters end to
  end.
• Checked at this PR's head, on main at 1683cf3b: fresh debug -Dwerror=true
  build and the full host unit binary, 173/173 (main's 166 plus the 7 above), and
  the CI clang-format check. The proxy library and its host tests also build and
  pass without CUDA (checked at utils: add the device proxy runtime and its worker threads [CPU Proxy part 3] #2223's head).
• GDRCopy on adv-dev-503 (H100 NVL, gdrdrv loaded): hostPublishedMemGpu reports
  backing=device, and LD_DEBUG shows libgdrapi.so.2 loaded. Hosts without
  gdrdrv fall back to mapped host memory and pass the same tests.

Commits

• dce53e72 utils: define the CPU proxy wire protocol
• 539985ed utils: parse the device proxy backend parameters
• f2e6b864 utils: define the interface a backend implements for the device proxy
• 58b021f4 utils: add the device proxy control buffer
• e2c7570e utils: apply the proxy protocol review fixes
• a2d41d79 utils: release-order publication of proxy control words
• 9cade8d2 utils: move host-published memory into the device ops
• 6c9f443c utils: back host-published memory with GDRCopy when available

Based on main, which now has nixl::deviceOps from #2196.

Changes in this revision

• Review fixes to the protocol: the ring element is nixlProxyCommand, with no
  channel_id or flags (the reserved tail keeps it 64 bytes), and the per-ring
  view is nixlProxyRingDesc. Submissions carry nixlMetaDesc directly, and
  checkCompletion takes the ring's channel and peer instead of a context word.
• Control words are published with release ordering.
• hostPublishedDeviceMem moves out of the proxy into the device ops
  (deviceOps::allocHostPublishedMem), with its tests. The proxy no longer needs
  GDRCopy headers or a build dependency.
• The CUDA device ops back it with GDRCopy, loaded at run time.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added optional device proxy support for submitting and tracking device operations across channels and peers.
  • Added host-published memory allocation for values written by the CPU and read by the GPU, with mapped-memory fallback when device-backed allocation is unavailable.
  • Added configurable proxy settings, including channel count, thread count, peer limits, and ring depth.
• Documentation
  • Documented proxy operation, completion, and memory-visibility behavior.

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[hbadihi]

@tomerdav Reviewed e65a7bd please see comments

[foraxe]

Hi @tomerdav
Would it make sense for this MemoryView / device-operation abstraction to also be reusable by native device backends such as GPUNetIO?

For GPUNetIO we would not need the CPU proxy itself, since the GPU can submit RDMA operations directly. But it seems useful if both paths could consume the same prepared MemoryView + {index, offset, size} representation:

• proxy path: MemoryView -> registry resolve -> host backend submit
• GPUNetIO path: MemoryView -> device-side GPUNetIO lowering -> WQE

This could avoid introducing another GPUNetIO-specific prepared descriptor / transfer-plan representation.

Is that kind of reuse intended in the Device API design, or is this MemoryView representation expected to remain proxy-specific?

[tomerdav]

Hi @tomerdav Would it make sense for this MemoryView / device-operation abstraction to also be reusable by native device backends such as GPUNetIO?

For GPUNetIO we would not need the CPU proxy itself, since the GPU can submit RDMA operations directly. But it seems useful if both paths could consume the same prepared MemoryView + {index, offset, size} representation:

• proxy path: MemoryView -> registry resolve -> host backend submit
• GPUNetIO path: MemoryView -> device-side GPUNetIO lowering -> WQE

This could avoid introducing another GPUNetIO-specific prepared descriptor / transfer-plan representation.

Is that kind of reuse intended in the Device API design, or is this MemoryView representation expected to remain proxy-specific?

Hi @foraxe, As I understand the MemoryView, this abstraction is meant for device-initiated operations, whereas IIUC the GPUNetIO path is intended for the regular prepXfer/postXfer flow, initiated from the Host.

What is your intention for the GPUNetIO backend? Do you want to add it as a possible Device API backend? Or to add it over proxy support? Or just share common infrastructure?

[foraxe]

Hi @tomerdav , thanks for reply.
Yes — my intention is the first one: add GPUNetIO as a possible native Device API backend.

I think we can keep the existing GPUNetIO prepXfer/postXfer path unchanged as the default host-initiated path. The additional opt-in path would be:

prepMemView() → common nixlPut(view, index, offset, ...) Device API → GPUNetIO device-side lowering → WQE

So this would not go through the CPU proxy. The part I hoped to share is the common Device API / MemoryView contract, while GPUNetIO would still have its own backend-specific prepared metadata and direct GPU→NIC implementation.

I put together a bounded prototype for exactly this direction in #2234: currently PUT + THREAD + completion only, mainly to validate the interface and ownership model.

Would this fit the intended Device API architecture?

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — Clang Format Check · commit e18c9cfe

TL;DR: The clang-format lint gate failed because line 117 of src/utils/device/proxy/proxy_control_buffer.cpp is 102 characters, exceeding the repo's ColumnLimit: 100; run clang-format-19 -i on the file (or apply the two-line split the tool already printed) and push.

Full analysis

Summary: The clang-format job in the "Clang Format Check" workflow exited 1 after clang-format-diff-19 reported one formatting violation in a file newly added by this PR.

Root cause: A genuine style violation, not an infra or tooling problem. .clang-format sets ColumnLimit: 100 (line 40) and ContinuationIndentWidth: 4. The declaration at proxy_control_buffer.cpp:117:

    const uintptr_t allocation_addr = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(mapping->allocation.devicePointer());

is 102 columns wide, so clang-format-19 wants it broken after the =. The job's second step pipes git diff -U0 HEAD^1 HEAD through clang-format-diff-19, which emits a non-empty diff and returns exit code 1 — that is the ##[error]Process completed with exit code 1. at 14:14:11. Only this single hunk was flagged; the other nine modified C/C++ files are clean. Note the neighbouring line 119 already uses exactly the wrapping style clang-format is asking for, so this looks like one line that was hand-edited after the file was last formatted.

Implicated commit: e18c9cf — Tomer Davidor, "utils: add the device proxy control buffer" (the only commit touching this file; it is also the PR head commit [REDACTED:Hex High Entropy String])

File: src/utils/device/proxy/proxy_control_buffer.cpp:117

Suggested fix: Apply the exact change clang-format printed:

    const uintptr_t allocation_addr =
        reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(mapping->allocation.devicePointer());

Then re-push. To catch this locally before pushing, run the same command the CI uses on the changed files:

git diff -U0 HEAD^1 HEAD -- <changed files> | clang-format-diff-19 -p1 -style=file -i

or simply clang-format-19 -i src/utils/device/proxy/proxy_control_buffer.cpp. Installing the repo's pre-commit hook (if configured) would gate this automatically. Note that clang-format version matters here — CI pins clang-format-19 (19.1.1), and a different major version may wrap differently, so use 19 locally.

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/ok to test e18c9cf

[brminich]

/build

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-non-gpu · commit e18c9cfe

TL;DR: The aarch64 Build variant failed at meson setup because the taskflow subproject is a [wrap-git] and git clone https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git on that agent got an auth prompt instead of anonymous access (could not read Username for 'https://github.com'); switch subprojects/taskflow.wrap to a tarball [wrap-file] (or pre-install taskflow in the arm image) so configure doesn't depend on git-over-HTTPS.

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Summary: Stage 417 ("Build", the aarch64 non-GPU variant) failed after 7s during meson setup nixl_build — ERROR: Subproject taskflow is buildable: NO / Git command failed: git clone --depth 1 --branch v3.10.0 https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git.

Root cause: Environmental/dependency-fetch failure, not a code defect in PR #2225. On the aarch64 agent the git clone of the taskflow wrap failed immediately:

Cloning into 'taskflow'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
fatal: expected flush after ref listing

git got an interactive-credential/401-style response (and a malformed ref listing, typical of a proxy or blocked egress) rather than anonymous access, so meson aborted at meson.build:233. Note that meson's own tarball downloads on the same agent worked (Downloading liburing source from https://github.com/axboe/liburing/... succeeded), so plain HTTPS fetch works there while git clone to github does not. The x86_64 variant (stage 399) resolved the same dependency fine — Cloning into 'taskflow'... took ~10s and Dependency taskflow from subproject subprojects/taskflow found: YES 3.10.0 — which is why 5 of 6 variants passed and only the arm one failed. The root fragility is that taskflow is the only dependency fetched via git clone at configure time; every other subproject (liburing, tomlplusplus, abseil) uses a downloadable archive.

Implicated commit: 76275cf — "Use tagged Taskflow git wrap for NIXL builds (#2121)", bzsuni (introduced the [wrap-git] taskflow dependency). The build-breaking commit under test (e18c9cf / PR #2225) is not implicated.

File: subprojects/taskflow.wrap:1-4 (consumed at meson.build:233)

Suggested fix:

1. Preferred — make taskflow fetch match the other subprojects by using an archive instead of git, e.g.:

   [wrap-file]
   directory = taskflow-3.10.0
   source_url = https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/archive/refs/tags/v3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_filename = taskflow-3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_hash = <sha256 of the tarball>
   patch_directory = taskflow
   [provide]
   taskflow = taskflow_dep
   

   This removes the git clone dependency that the aarch64 container cannot satisfy and also makes the dependency hash-pinned.
2. Or pre-install taskflow headers into the aarch64 CI image (/opt/nixl) so dependency('taskflow') is found via pkg-config/cmake and the fallback is never exercised — matching how abseil/etcd are already provided.
3. Infra side: have the arm CI image share the same git egress/proxy configuration as the x86 image (git config --global url.*.insteadOf to an internal mirror, plus GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 so this fails loudly and fast rather than prompting for a username).
4. Re-running the build will likely pass if the arm agent's git egress is transient, but the wrap should still be converted — this will recur otherwise.

Related: PR #2121 (introduced the git wrap); no existing issue tracks this failure signature.

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🤖 CI Triage Agent — nixl-ci-build-container-pr · commit 64669c34

TL;DR: The aarch64 Build image stage failed in meson setup because the Taskflow subproject's git wrap clone from GitHub was refused anonymously (fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com'), aborting the NIXL build; convert subprojects/taskflow.wrap to a hash-pinned tarball wrap (like liburing.wrap) or pre-fetch subprojects in the image with retries.

Full analysis

Summary: nixl-ci-build-container-pr #761, parallel "Build image" stage (node 125, aarch64 variant) failed at Dockerfile STEP 67/73 — meson setup exited 1 while resolving the taskflow dependency.

Root cause: Evidence from the stage log at 2026-09-23T14:42:22:

Run-time dependency taskflow found: NO  (tried pkg-config and cmake)
Looking for a fallback subproject for the dependency taskflow
Cloning into 'taskflow'...
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
fatal: expected flush after ref listing
ERROR: Subproject taskflow is buildable: NO
meson.build:233:16: ERROR: Git command failed: ['/usr/bin/git', '-c', 'advice.detachedHead=false', 'clone', '--depth', '1', '--branch', 'v3.10.0', 'https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow.git', 'taskflow']

GitHub answered the anonymous git clone with a credential challenge (401-style), and with no tty/credential helper git aborted. This is a fetch/auth failure of the Taskflow git wrap, not a code defect from PR #2225 — the same image build successfully cloned gtest-parallel (STEP 44) and downloaded the liburing wrap tarball seconds earlier, and the other three parallel Build image stages in this same build passed, so the failure is transient and specific to the wrap-git code path. taskflow is required unconditionally at meson.build:233, so any hiccup on that clone fails the whole container build. There is no timing gap or hang: the build was continuously active up to the error and then exited.

Implicated commit: 76275cf — bzsuni, "Use tagged Taskflow git wrap for NIXL builds (#2121)" (introduced the [wrap-git] form). The triggering commit 64669c3 (PR #2225) is not implicated.

File: subprojects/taskflow.wrap:1-4 (consumed at meson.build:233)

Suggested fix:

1. Replace the git wrap with a hash-pinned archive wrap so the fetch uses plain HTTPS (no git auth path) and has a mirror fallback, mirroring subprojects/liburing.wrap:

   [wrap-file]
   directory = taskflow-3.10.0
   source_url = https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow/archive/refs/tags/v3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_filename = taskflow-3.10.0.tar.gz
   source_hash = <sha256 of the tarball>
   source_fallback_url = <internal mirror / wrapdb URL>
   patch_directory = taskflow
   [provide]
   taskflow = taskflow_dep
   

2. Defensively, in the container build set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 and run meson subprojects download in a retry loop (3 attempts with backoff) before meson setup, or vendor/cache the subprojects into the base image so PR builds don't depend on live GitHub reachability.
3. Short term: re-run build Removed the macros in nixl_agent. #761 — the other three variants passed, so a retry should succeed.

Related: PR #2121 (introduced the Taskflow git wrap); triggering PR #2225 (unrelated to the failure).

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[tomerdav]

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[hbadihi]

@tomerdav Please see my comments. I didn't review 58b021f yet as it would require pretty big change with Ovidiu's comment regarding dlopen usage related to gdrcopy

[ovidiusm]

/build

[rakhmets]

Please use lowerCamelCase for class/struct members.

[tomerdav]

Will do in a follow-up PR after #2327, which rewrites this file.

[tomerdav]

Done in a35897db (#2465).

[rakhmets]

Are we sure that statuses are better here than exceptions?

[tomerdav]

Proposal: setup and teardown throw, with RAII constructors: parseProxyConfig(), proxyControlBuffer::create() returning a unique_ptr, and view preparation. The data path (worker loop, transport submit and poll, the deviceOps calls the proxy threads make while draining) keeps noexcept statuses, since it runs on proxy threads where an exception has nowhere to go. If that works for you, I'll do it in one follow-up PR after #2327, together with your proxy_control_buffer.h and proxy_memview_manager.cpp:56 comments.

[rakhmets]

Can we just return unique_ptr?

[tomerdav]

Part of the statuses-vs-exceptions change, see #2225 (comment).

[rakhmets]

namespace nixl?

[tomerdav]

Will do in a follow-up PR after #2327, which rewrites this file.

[tomerdav]

Done in 48ac129e (#2465).

[rakhmets]

Can we replace init/shutdown by ctor/dtor?

[tomerdav]

Done in #2327: proxyTransport takes its config in its constructor and has no init()/shutdown().

[rakhmets]

It’s more convenient when the test code is in the same namespace as the code being tested. I understand that at the moment, the namespaces are little disorganized in our gtests. But at least recently added test/gtest/configuration.cpp, test/gtest/blocking_queue_test.cpp do the same.

[tomerdav]

Will do in a follow-up PR after #2327, which rewrites this file.

[tomerdav]

Done in e2bf36ff (#2465).

[rakhmets]

PLease use lowerCamelCase for class members.

[tomerdav]

Will do in a follow-up PR after #2327, which rewrites this file.

[tomerdav]

Done in e2bf36ff (#2465).

[rakhmets]

methods are usually placed before members.

[tomerdav]

Will do in a follow-up PR after #2327, which rewrites this file.

[tomerdav]

Done in e2bf36ff (#2465).