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Port Block-Sparse-Attention's native SM120 Sage kernel (custom INT8 warp MMA for QK, native FP8 warp MMA for PV, log2-domain online softmax) and its Triton quantization kernels (per-32-token-group Q, mean-centered per-K64-tile K, per-channel V with a 16-token physical permutation for the PV MMA operand layout) into flashinfer as new standalone functions: bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd and quantize_sage_{q,kv,qkv}_sm120.

NOTE: this is a standalone function family, not wired into flashinfer.BlockSparseAttentionWrapper / _vsa_run_core. It does not compute LSE and only supports MHA (num_kv_heads == num_heads), matching upstream Block-Sparse-Attention's current capability. Wiring it into the wrapper would additionally require: LSE support in the kernel, scale_q/ scale_k/scale_v passthrough in _vsa_run_core, and reconciling this function's BHSD tensor layout with _vsa_run_core's BSHD convention -- none of that is implemented here.

Adds test coverage (accuracy vs. dense FP32 reference, ragged seqlen, empty sparse rows, block_sizes in all 3 modes, GQA/dtype/shape guards, and a position-sensitive test that exercises every branch of the V 16-token permutation to catch a permutation/PRMT mismatch that random end-to-end data would silently average away).

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  • New Features

    • Added Sage quantization for Q, K, V, or combined QKV tensors on SM120 GPUs.
    • Added 64×64 block-sparse Sage attention with INT8 and FP8 processing.
    • Supports sparse block metadata, custom softmax scaling, ragged sequences, empty query rows, reusable output buffers, BF16 outputs, and compatible grouped-query attention workloads.
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    • Improved validation errors with clear typed exceptions.
    • Prevented invalid memory access when query blocks select no KV blocks.
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    • Added comprehensive CUDA coverage for accuracy, validation, quantization, edge cases, and SM120 hardware support.

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Added SM120 Sage quantization and a 64×64 block-sparse attention forward kernel using INT8 Q/K, FP8 V, and BF16 output. Added typed validation, empty-row protection, SM120-only execution checks, and CUDA-gated tests.

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Sage SM120 attention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sage quantization contract and kernels
flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_utils/sage_quant_sm120.py
Adds Triton Q, K, and V quantization, statistics reduction, scaling, validation, optional output buffers, and public quantization APIs.
SM120 Sage forward kernel
flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/sm120_blk64/flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py
Adds INT8 QK and FP8 PV MMA execution, sparse tile processing, variable-block masking, online softmax, scaling, empty-row protection, and BF16 output storage.
Typed validation and architecture checks
flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_attn_sm120.py
Replaces assertion-based checks with typed TypeError and ValueError exceptions and restricts Sage execution to compute capability 12.0.
CUDA behavior and validation coverage
tests/attention/test_vsa_block_sparse_sm120_sage.py
Adds accuracy, metadata, ragged-tail, empty-row, output-buffer, permutation, quantization, dtype, architecture, and shape validation tests.

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  participant Caller
  participant SageQuantization
  participant BlockSparseAttnForwardSageSm120Blk64
  participant OutputTensor
  Caller->>SageQuantization: quantize BF16 Q, K, and V
  SageQuantization-->>Caller: return INT8 Q/K, FP8 V, and scales
  Caller->>BlockSparseAttnForwardSageSm120Blk64: submit quantized tensors and sparse metadata
  BlockSparseAttnForwardSageSm120Blk64->>BlockSparseAttnForwardSageSm120Blk64: execute sparse INT8 QK and FP8 PV tiles
  BlockSparseAttnForwardSageSm120Blk64->>OutputTensor: write normalized BF16 output
  OutputTensor-->>Caller: return attention output
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This adds standalone SM120 Sage sparse attention and quantization APIs. Caller-provided output tensors may still reach the kernel without confirmed device and contiguity checks, which can cause failures for invalid buffers; documentation also incorrectly advertises SM121 support.

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@hsr1234563 hsr1234563 changed the title feat(sparse): add SM120 Sage QK-INT8/PV-FP8 block-sparse attention (b… feat(sparse): add SM120 Sage QK-INT8/PV-FP8 + ALL FP8 block-sparse attention (b… Aug 23, 2026
@hsr1234563 hsr1234563 changed the title feat(sparse): add SM120 Sage QK-INT8/PV-FP8 + ALL FP8 block-sparse attention (b… feat(sparse): add SM120 Sage (QK-INT8/PV-FP8 and ALL FP8) block-sparse attention (b… Aug 23, 2026

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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_attn_sm120.py`:
- Line 318: Add a trace= template to the `@flashinfer_api` decorator on
bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd, naming the dimensions of q_int8, k_int8, v_fp8,
the scale tensors, and the returned output so fi_trace() and benchmark JSON
generation work.
- Around line 451-464: Validate caller-supplied out with the same
_require_contiguous_cuda check used for other input tensors before its dtype and
shape checks, ensuring it is contiguous and on the expected CUDA device. Keep
the existing allocation path for out is None and preserve the dtype and shape
validation.

In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_utils/sage_quant_sm120.py`:
- Around line 361-362: Update the quantization capability check near the Sage
quantization helper to accept all supported SM12x devices by reusing
is_sm12x_supported instead of requiring exactly (12, 0). In
tests/attention/test_vsa_block_sparse_sm120_sage.py lines 34-37, update the skip
reason to match the SM12x capability gate; no narrower gate is needed.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/attention/test_vsa_block_sparse_sm120_sage.py`
around lines 34 - 37: The test gate and skip reason must match the supported
device capability.

In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/sm120_blk64/flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py`:
- Around line 464-465: Guard the initial gIndices load in the block containing
n_tile_idx and the load_count loop so it executes only when num_n_tiles is
greater than zero; preserve the existing loop behavior for nonempty selections
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_sm120_sage_compile_cache = get_jit_cache("bsa_fwd_sm120_sage")


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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add a trace= argument to @flashinfer_api.

bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd takes tensor inputs and returns a tensor. The coding guidelines require: "Every public API decorated with @flashinfer_api should also carry a trace= argument so that fi_trace() works and auto-dump produces a benchmark definition JSON." Add a trace template that names the dimensions of q_int8, k_int8, v_fp8, the scale tensors, and the output.

As per coding guidelines, public APIs under flashinfer/**/*.py decorated with @flashinfer_api must carry trace=. Based on learnings, trace= applies here because the inputs and outputs are tensors.

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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_attn_sm120.py` at line 318, Add a trace=
template to the `@flashinfer_api` decorator on bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd,
naming the dimensions of q_int8, k_int8, v_fp8, the scale tensors, and the
returned output so fi_trace() and benchmark JSON generation work.

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Comment on lines +451 to +464
if out is not None:
assert out.dtype == torch.bfloat16, (
f"out.dtype ({out.dtype}) must be torch.bfloat16"
)
assert out.shape == (batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim), (
f"out.shape {tuple(out.shape)} must be "
f"(batch={batch}, num_heads={num_heads}, seqlen_q={seqlen_q}, head_dim={head_dim})"
)
if out is None:
out = torch.empty(
(batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim),
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device=q_int8.device,
)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the device and contiguity of a caller-supplied out.

Lines 451-458 check only the dtype and shape of out. Line 491 then applies out.permute(2, 3, 1, 0) and line 499 calls to_cute_tensor(..., leading_dim=1), which assumes stride == 1 on the head-dim axis. A non-contiguous out, or an out on a different CUDA device, therefore reaches the kernel without a check. Every input tensor already passes through _require_contiguous_cuda. Apply the same check to out.

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     if out is not None:
+        _require_contiguous_cuda("out", out, q_int8.device)
         assert out.dtype == torch.bfloat16, (
             f"out.dtype ({out.dtype}) must be torch.bfloat16"
         )
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if out is not None:
assert out.dtype == torch.bfloat16, (
f"out.dtype ({out.dtype}) must be torch.bfloat16"
)
assert out.shape == (batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim), (
f"out.shape {tuple(out.shape)} must be "
f"(batch={batch}, num_heads={num_heads}, seqlen_q={seqlen_q}, head_dim={head_dim})"
)
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out = torch.empty(
(batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim),
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device=q_int8.device,
)
if out is not None:
_require_contiguous_cuda("out", out, q_int8.device)
assert out.dtype == torch.bfloat16, (
f"out.dtype ({out.dtype}) must be torch.bfloat16"
)
assert out.shape == (batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim), (
f"out.shape {tuple(out.shape)} must be "
f"(batch={batch}, num_heads={num_heads}, seqlen_q={seqlen_q}, head_dim={head_dim})"
)
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(batch, num_heads, seqlen_q, head_dim),
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device=q_int8.device,
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_attn_sm120.py` around lines 451 - 464,
Validate caller-supplied out with the same _require_contiguous_cuda check used
for other input tensors before its dtype and shape checks, ensuring it is
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if torch.cuda.get_device_capability(tensor.device) != (12, 0):
raise RuntimeError("SM120 Sage quantization requires compute capability 12.0")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make SM12x capability checks consistent. The quantization helpers accept only compute capability (12, 0), while the attention path and tests allow any SM12x device. On an SM121 device, the tests can run and then fail inside quantization. Either allow the quantization helpers to support all devices admitted by the attention path, or narrow the attention and test gates to (12, 0) and update the skip reason accordingly.

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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_utils/sage_quant_sm120.py` around lines 361 -
362, Update the quantization capability check near the Sage quantization helper
to accept all supported SM12x devices by reusing is_sm12x_supported instead of
requiring exactly (12, 0). In
tests/attention/test_vsa_block_sparse_sm120_sage.py lines 34-37, update the skip
reason to match the SM12x capability gate; no narrower gate is needed.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/attention/test_vsa_block_sparse_sm120_sage.py`
around lines 34 - 37: The test gate and skip reason must match the supported
device capability.

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464-464: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the first gIndices load against num_n_tiles == 0.

Line 464 still reads gIndices[num_n_tiles - 1] without a guard. When a Q block selects zero KV blocks, this evaluates to gIndices[-1], which is one element before the slice start. For qo_tile_idx == 0, qo_head_idx == 0, and batch_idx == 0, that address is outside the q2k allocation. test_vsa_sm120_sage_empty_row sets nums[:, :, 0] = 0 and reaches this state. The preload block at lines 423-444 already guards on preload_count < num_n_tiles, so this load is the only unguarded one.

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-        n_tile_idx = gIndices[num_n_tiles - 1]
+        n_tile_idx = cutlass.Int32(0)
+        if num_n_tiles > 0:
+            n_tile_idx = gIndices[num_n_tiles - 1]
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/sm120_blk64/flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py` at line 464,
Guard the initial gIndices load in the block containing n_tile_idx so it is
skipped when num_n_tiles is zero, preventing the num_n_tiles - 1 index from
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/sm120_blk64/flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py`:
- Line 464: Guard the initial gIndices load in the block containing n_tile_idx
so it is skipped when num_n_tiles is zero, preventing the num_n_tiles - 1 index
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Out-of-bounds read for empty sparse rows

In flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py, right after the Q pipeline setup and before the main K/V loop:

n_tile_idx = gIndices[num_n_tiles - 1]
for load_count in cutlass.range(0, num_n_tiles, 1, unroll=1):
    ...

This line runs unconditionally. The two adjacent preload reads (gIndices[logical_idx] before the loop, and gIndices[preload_logical] inside it) are both guarded with if preload_count < num_n_tiles:, but this initial read is not. When num_n_tiles == 0 (an empty sparse row, which this PR explicitly supports and tests), num_n_tiles - 1 evaluates to -1 as a signed cutlass.Int32, and gIndices[-1] reads one element before the start of this work item's slice of blocksparse_indices_q2k — for the first (batch, head, q_block) this can land before the tensor's allocation entirely. Whether the loop body subsequently executes has no bearing on this — the load has already happened.

Public input validation should not rely on bare assert

bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd uses bare Python assertions for several user-facing contract checks, including Q/K/V dtypes and ranks, head_dim == 128, and the dtype/shape of out. These assertions are removed when Python runs with -O, allowing invalid inputs to reach the CuTe tensor conversion or kernel compilation/launch path. Replace these assertions with explicit exceptions: use TypeError for unsupported dtypes and ValueError for invalid ranks/shapes.

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## Summary

- add generated SM120 kernels for prequantized Sage block-sparse
attention
- add a manifest-driven JIT loader for six exported specializations
- expose the implementation through `bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd(...,
backend="cake")`
- keep output storage and TMA descriptor workspace caller-owned

## Performance

Baseline: [SM120 Sage CuTe DSL implementation at
`a14241f2`](https://github.com/flashinfer-ai/flashinfer/blob/a14241f2a82712ff58f571d6698202512e2661ef/flashinfer/cute_dsl/sparse/bsa_attn_sm120.py),
introduced in
[#4691](#4691).

All latency values are milliseconds. `Cake / Export` above 1 means the
export is faster than its production source; `Baseline / Export` above 1
means this PR is faster than the existing implementation.

The 13 `ut_*` rows are correctness-only timing sanity checks. They
exercise ragged lengths, empty rows, block-size metadata modes, custom
scale, and V permutation, but they are not part of the #4691 performance
portfolio. Their source/export parity is shown without claiming a #4691
speedup.

| Correctness shape | Cake source | Export | Cake / Export |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| `ut_aligned_full_b1_h2_s128` | 0.004992 | 0.004928 | 1.012987x |
| `ut_aligned_half_b1_h8_s512` | 0.006881 | 0.006784 | 1.014298x |
| `ut_aligned_sparse_b2_h4_s256` | 0.004097 | 0.004000 | 1.024250x |
| `ut_aligned_dense_b2_h8_s1024` | 0.019713 | 0.019616 | 1.004945x |
| `ut_custom_softmax_scale` | 0.005024 | 0.004545 | 1.105391x |
| `ut_ragged_q` | 0.004992 | 0.004704 | 1.061224x |
| `ut_ragged_k` | 0.005120 | 0.005088 | 1.006289x |
| `ut_ragged_qk` | 0.005152 | 0.005088 | 1.012579x |
| `ut_empty_first_row` | 0.006880 | 0.006912 | 0.995370x |
| `ut_block_sizes_global` | 0.005120 | 0.005184 | 0.987654x |
| `ut_block_sizes_batch` | 0.005152 | 0.005216 | 0.987730x |
| `ut_block_sizes_head` | 0.004992 | 0.005056 | 0.987342x |
| `ut_v_permutation_all_slots` | 0.004576 | 0.003744 | 1.222222x |

The eight `perf_*` rows are the performance portfolio. Seven rows below
are direct same-session measurements. The daggered eighth speedup is
derived from the historical source/#4691 ratio and the directly measured
seven-row Cake/export parity; it is not included in the direct seven-row
aggregate.

| Performance shape | Cake source | Export | Cake / Export | Baseline |
Baseline / Export |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `perf_b8_h32_s1024_density90` | 0.221186 | 0.220161 | 1.004656x |
0.254498 | 1.155963x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s2048_density50` | 0.443588 | 0.441955 | 1.003695x |
0.503460 | 1.139166x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s4096_density10` | 0.480004 | 0.479876 | 1.000267x |
0.533572 | 1.111896x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s8192_density90` | 12.062779 | 12.059294 | 1.000289x |
13.290875 | 1.102127x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s16384_density50` | 26.518901 | 26.522021 | 0.999882x |
29.144543 | 1.098881x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s32768_density10` | 21.909686 | 21.892623 | 1.000779x |
24.075335 | 1.099701x |
| `perf_b8_h32_s65536_density50` | — | — | — | — | ≈1.101420x† |
| `perf_b8_h32_s65536_density10` | 87.548967 | 87.529188 | 1.000226x |
95.276687 | 1.088513x |

† Derived as historical source/#4691 speedup `1.099883x` × directly
measured seven-row Cake/export geometric mean `1.001398x` = `1.101420x`.
The current absolute latencies remain blank because this row's 1867 MHz
SM clock was below the frozen 1900 MHz reporting gate.

- **directly measured PR speedup over the baseline: 1.113520x geometric
mean across the seven reportable performance shapes; minimum 1.088513x**
- the mixed eight-shape estimate, including the explicitly derived row,
is 1.112000x geometric mean
- Cake-source/export parity on the seven directly measured performance
rows is 1.001398x geometric mean
- the source kernel's historical eight-shape result was 1.1306x
geometric mean over the same baseline, with a minimum of 1.0999x

## Validation

- exact-lock target build and all six generated-route prebuilds pass on
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- exporter and timing-harness preflight suites pass (105 tests)
- the complete 21-shape denominator reached a terminal result: 20 pass
and one is non-reportable because of the frozen SM-clock gate
- all 13 correctness shapes pass against the production reference;
correctness was checked both before and after interleaved timing for
every reportable row
- the two prior boundary timing failures pass on exact retry at 0.9877x
source/export, above the frozen 0.97 threshold
- public-material, caller-owned output/workspace, no-allocation,
no-fallback, and no-CUDA-Graph-ownership checks pass
- all repository pre-commit hooks pass after applying the repository
formatters and refreshing the generated-file manifest digests


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added SM120 Sage block-sparse attention support for prequantized
INT8/FP8 inputs.
* Added automatic JIT loading and specialization of the required CUDA
kernels.
* Added support for configurable block layouts, scaling, sparse
patterns, and caller-provided output/workspace tensors.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive CUDA correctness coverage across aligned, ragged,
sparse, dense, and varied block-configuration cases.
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Thanks for the rebase — the private _bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd_cake + public dispatcher shape looks right. Three things on head 50f3b9b2.

1. The default backend was flipped

-    backend: str = "cake",
+    backend: str = "cute_dsl",

out and tma_descriptor_workspace also became Optional; the repo's own check flagged
the resulting signature change as potentially breaking at bsa_attn_sm120.py:530. For a
public API merged five days ago in #4951, this means a caller passing out= and
tma_descriptor_workspace= without backend= now lands in cute_dsl with the workspace
silently ignored, and contiguous_block_indices=True with uniform_block_count=False —
a ValueError on main — is silently accepted, since that check lives inside the Cake
function.

2. The cute_dsl path does not enforce the docstring both backends now share

  • softmax_scale — Cake checks type, finiteness and positivity (L473-476);
    cute_dsl only applies the None default (L724-725), though the shared docstring says
    "Positive finite" (L595). A negative value breaks an assumption the kernel documents:
    _online_softmax_fp8 reduces group_max before applying score_scale_log2e, valid
    only for a positive factor. With a negative scale the reduction yields the minimum,
    row_max comes out low by the score spread, and exp2 can exceed E4M3's 448 — wrong
    output, no error. NaN and inf propagate silently too.
  • block_sparse_num — docstring says "between zero and capacity" (L587) and Cake
    accepts zero, but _prepare_sm120_sparse_metadata asserts 1 <= block_sparse_num
    (L66), rejecting the all-empty input this PR otherwise supports. As a bare assert it
    vanishes under python -O along with the upper bound, so block_sparse_num > capacity
    then reads past the end of gIndices.
  • out — L727 checks dtype and shape only; Cake validates device and contiguity.
    Previously answered with "no"; it remains unaddressed.
  • Current device — Cake requires q_int8.device.index == torch.cuda.current_device();
    cute_dsl has no check and uses torch.cuda.current_stream() with no device argument
    (L800), so inputs on cuda:1 with cuda:0 current launch on the wrong stream.

3. Dispatch behaviour and error paths are only partially covered

test_cake_sage_block_sparse_attention.py passes backend="cake" explicitly, so that
branch is covered; the new VSA Sage tests reach cute_dsl only through the new default
(backend appears once in the file, in the pytestmark skip reason). Uncovered: an
explicit backend="cute_dsl" call so the intended backend is visible independently of the
default; the two new ValueErrors for a Cake call missing out or
tma_descriptor_workspace; the unsupported-backend branch at L641; and the default
itself — restoring "cake" would make many attention-path tests fail on the missing
Cake-only arguments rather than give a focused failure about the contract change.

Still open from the previous review

The other four files are unchanged since the pre-rebase revision. Only the first item is a
functional problem.

  • bench_vsa_sage_sm120.py:48 gates on is_sm12x_supported(), which accepts SM121, while
    the quantizer and the cute_dsl kernel require exactly (12, 0) — SM121 passes the gate
    and then fails inside quantization. The message at :49 also advertises SM121.
  • Fragile invariant (non-blocking). sage_quant_sm120.py:37 bounds the quantized
    |V_q| at 2.25; with SAGE_P_QUANT_SCALE = 256 (flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py:46) and the
    FP16 PV accumulator (:104), the worst case is 448 × 2.25 × 64 = 64512 against an FP16
    max of 65504. Today's parameters are safe, but raising the P scale or the K tile would
    overflow to inf silently, and neither file records the coupling.
  • Future-proofing. flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py:544 hardcodes V's pipeline stage as 0
    while K uses K_consumer_state.index — identical while kv_stage == 1.
  • Chinese comments at bench_vsa_sage_sm120.py:122-123; :4 cites "the PR feat(cake_sage): add SM120 block-sparse attention backend #4951
    portfolio configurations", now the other backend of this same function.
  • Development narrative in comments — "Phase-1 scope note" (sage_quant_sm120.py:20), the
    LSE paragraph in the flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py header, "a bug found in review" in a test.
  • _mask_fp8's body is identical to flash_fwd_sm120.mask — dedup opportunity, not a
    defect.

Items 1–3 are blocking; the rest are not. Which backend should the default select after
this lands?

…M120 Sage

- Switch default backend to "cake"; document why cute_dsl is the
  experimental path in docstring and parameter description
- Replace all assert statements in _prepare_sm120_sparse_metadata and
  the cute_dsl path with ValueError/TypeError; allow block_sparse_num=0
- Add input validation for softmax_scale, current-device check, and out
  tensor device/contiguity check in the cute_dsl path
- Add three new tests covering cake backend missing-out, missing-tma-
  workspace, and unknown backend error paths; pin all existing test
  calls to backend="cute_dsl"
- Translate Chinese comments to English in benchmark script; remove
  PR-number reference; fix benchmark warm-up and bench calls to pass
  backend="cute_dsl" explicitly
- Annotate SAGE_V_SCALE_MAX and SAGE_P_QUANT_SCALE with their coupling
  constraint (FP8/FP16 accumulator overflow bound)
- Add comment explaining why kv_stage is fixed at 1 on SM120
- Deduplicate mask function: import from flash_fwd_sm120 instead of
  re-defining it in flash_fwd_sm120_sage
- Tidy file-level docstring in flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py

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Most of the last round landed. Four things left on 6b65d323.

1. Conflicts with main again — #5083 edits the same docstring block

mergeable=false, behind_by=21. #5083 merged at 2026-09-11T03:08Z, four hours before
this push, and added to contiguous_block_indices: "Incorrectly setting this flag to
True can produce incorrect output without raising an error" — directly above the
backend : str line this PR rewrites. Taking this PR's side of the conflict would drop
that warning. The merged docstring then has three behaviours to cover for these flags:
trusted-without-checking under Cake, silently wrong if set incorrectly, silently ignored
under cute_dsl. #5083 also replaced the generated Cake kernel and manifest, neither of
which is present in this head.

2. The default backend is still not pinned by any test

All 13 bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd( calls in the new test file pass backend
explicitly (10 "cute_dsl", 2 "cake", 1 "unknown"), as does the Cake test. No test
call uses the default, so changing it again would not fail anything — the explicit
arguments fixed the visibility half of the previous round's item, not the pinning half.

3. The new kv_stage comment states a constraint I could not confirm

leaves insufficient resources on SM120 to open a second pipeline stage

Q 8 KB + K 8 KB + V 8 KB + O 16 KB ≈ 40 KB; kv_stage=2 doubles only K and V → ≈ 56 KB
against roughly 100 KB per SM, and it primarily costs shared memory, since tSrK / tOrV
are single fragments regardless of depth. Capacity alone does not establish insufficient
resources. Occupancy may be the real reason, but that also depends on register-limited
occupancy, which I cannot determine from the source — could the comment state the measured
constraint instead? The second half ("V's smem index is therefore always 0") is accurate
either way.

4. Newly permitted inputs and newly added validation are untested

  • block_sparse_num=0 is now accepted but never exercised;
    test_vsa_sm120_sage_empty_row goes through q2k_block_nums, i.e. the
    has_block_nums=True branch — a different source for num_n_tiles.
  • No coverage for the checks added this round: negative/NaN/inf softmax_scale, a
    wrong-device or non-contiguous out, and inputs not on the current CUDA device.

Item 1 is blocking; 2 and 4 are coverage gaps, 3 is a comment correction.

root added 4 commits September 15, 2026 07:19
…64_sage_fwd

Resolves conflict with flashinfer-ai#5083 (contiguous_block_indices warning) by
merging both backend descriptions into a single docstring that states
all three behaviours: trusted-without-checking under cake, silently
wrong if set incorrectly, silently ignored under cute_dsl.
The docstring merge for bsa_attn_sm120_blk64_sage_fwd (resolving the
conflict with upstream flashinfer-ai#5083) introduced two inconsistencies:

- The `out` parameter description picked up a "neither reads nor writes
  storage beyond it" clause that only makes sense for
  tma_descriptor_workspace (which is genuinely unused), not for `out`
  (which is where the kernel writes its result).
- The Notes section said backend="cute_dsl" "does not accept" the
  uniform_block_count/contiguous_block_indices flags, contradicting the
  Parameters section (and actual behavior, verified by a live call) that
  they are accepted but silently ignored.
The comment explaining why kv_stage is fixed at 1 claimed the kernel
"leaves insufficient resources on SM120 to open a second pipeline
stage" without evidence. A reviewer noted the shared-memory math does
not actually support that claim (K 8KB + V 8KB doubled is still well
under the ~100KB/SM budget).

Replace it with numbers measured on SM120 hardware (ncu) and
cross-checked via an offline CuTe-DSL compile (dump_to_object +
cuobjdump --dump-resource-usage), for both kv_stage=1 and kv_stage=2:

- kv_stage=1: 230 regs/thread, 41KB dynamic smem/block -- both cap
  occupancy at 2 blocks/SM.
- kv_stage=2: compiles fine (56KB/block, still far under the per-block
  opt-in max); registers stay ~unchanged (232 regs/thread, independently
  cross-checked), but smem now caps occupancy at 1 block/SM.

So kv_stage=2 is not blocked by capacity -- it is a net occupancy
regression (2 -> 1 blocks/SM) because smem becomes the binding
constraint. kv_stage=1 is the higher-occupancy choice, not "the only
value that fits".
Pin the default backend and add coverage for previously-untested inputs
and validation added in the last review round:

- test_vsa_sm120_sage_default_backend_is_cake: omitting `backend`
  entirely must still hit the cake-specific error path. Verified this
  fails if the default is changed to "cute_dsl".
- test_vsa_sm120_sage_block_sparse_num_zero_scalar: block_sparse_num=0
  without q2k_block_nums (has_block_nums=False), distinct from the
  existing empty_row test which goes through q2k_block_nums
  (has_block_nums=True).
- test_vsa_sm120_sage_softmax_scale_guard: negative/zero/NaN/inf
  softmax_scale must raise ValueError.
- test_vsa_sm120_sage_out_wrong_device_guard /
  test_vsa_sm120_sage_out_non_contiguous_guard /
  test_vsa_sm120_sage_inputs_not_on_current_device_guard: the
  device/contiguity guards added this round.

The device-mismatch tests use a CPU `out` and a mocked
torch.cuda.current_device() rather than a second physical GPU, since
the checks are plain device-index/contiguity comparisons -- this keeps
them from silently skipping on single-GPU CI. All new checks were
verified to actually fail when their corresponding source-side
validation is removed.
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All four items from the last round landed — thanks especially for measuring the kv_stage
numbers rather than just rewording. Two non-blocking follow-ups on 6d9d9fde.

1. The tma_descriptor_workspace entry re-introduces requirements #5127 removed

bsa_attn_sm120.py:632-637 opens with "Caller-owned contiguous CUDA uint8 workspace,
aligned to 128 bytes" and then says an empty tensor is sufficient because descriptors are
passed by value. The opening sentence imposes storage constraints that neither the rest of
the paragraph nor the current implementation requires: #5127 (merged 2026-09-12) dropped
the uint8, 128-byte alignment, and device/contiguity checks, leaving is not None at
L682 as the only requirement in this head. main now says just "Accepted for
compatibility and unused. An empty tensor is sufficient..." — so the merge looks to have
kept the pre-#5127 sentence and combined it with main's post-#5127 explanation. The
Required for backend="cake" / Ignored for backend="cute_dsl" parts are still accurate.

2. kv_stage: the measured data supports the occupancy claim, not the verdict

it is not a net win

The ncu numbers establish that kv_stage=2 drops the smem-derived block limit from 2 to 1
while the register-derived limit stays at 2 — that part is solid. But lower occupancy is a
possible tradeoff of a deeper pipeline rather than a disqualifier: a second stage may
improve latency hiding and per-CTA throughput enough to offset the occupancy loss. Only a
runtime comparison settles "net win".

…ge claim

- bsa_attn_sm120.py: drop the pre-flashinfer-ai#5127 uint8/128-byte-alignment wording
  from tma_descriptor_workspace, match main's post-flashinfer-ai#5127 "accepted for
  compatibility and unused" description while keeping the backend="cake"
  required / backend="cute_dsl" ignored notes.
- flash_fwd_sm120_sage.py: remove the unverified "not a net win" verdict
  on kv_stage=2; keep only the measured ncu occupancy regression
  (2 -> 1 blocks/SM) and note that whether a deeper pipeline's latency
  hiding offsets it is unmeasured without a runtime comparison.
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GitLab MR !1542 has been created, and the CI pipeline #68121454 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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[FAILED] Pipeline #68121454 — 14/25 executed test jobs passed

Compared with nightly #67943385 (different CI configuration).

Unit Tests

GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 CUDA 13.4 Notes
B200 ❔ Unknown ❔ Unknown ❔ Unknown Unknown: script failed before producing a JUnit report (3 jobs; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0, CUDA 13.4)
GB200 ⚠️ Infra ⚠️ Infra ⚠️ Infra Infrastructure: CI infrastructure failure (3 jobs; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0, CUDA 13.4)
GB300 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ❔ Unknown Not compared: tests.attention.test_block_sparse_cutile.py (660 failures; CUDA 13.4)
H100 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ✅ Pass —
RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ✅ Pass ✅ Pass 🟡 Old Old: tests.attention.test_block_sparse_cutile.py (660 failures; CUDA 13.4)
VR200 — — ❔ Unknown Not compared: tests.attention.test_cake_fmha (2 failures; CUDA 13.4)

✅ Pass · 🟡 Old failure · ❌ New failure · ⏱ Test timeout · ⚠️ Infrastructure · ❔ Unknown or unclassified · — Not run

Multi-GPU and Multi-Node Tests — 4/6 passed

GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 CUDA 13.4 Notes
B300 (multi-GPU) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass — —
GB200 (multi-node) ⚠️ Infra ⚠️ Infra — Infrastructure: CI infrastructure failure (2 jobs; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
GB300 (multi-node) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass — —
Failure details

Pre-existing failures

  • tests.attention.test_block_sparse_cutile.py — 660 failures on RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell / CUDA 13.4
    • not executed due to timeout

Could not compare

  • tests.attention.test_block_sparse_cutile.py — 660 failures on GB300 / CUDA 13.4
    • not executed due to timeout
  • tests.attention.test_cake_fmha — 2 failures on VR200 / CUDA 13.4
    • RuntimeError: Cake FMHA requires compute capability 10.0 (B200/GB200) or 10.3 (B300/GB300), got 10.7

Timeouts, infrastructure, or incomplete jobs

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