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Paged FA2 currently computes and stores independent V offsets even when K and V have identical strides. That extra address-generation work regresses common equal-stride paged decode and prefill workloads.

This change:

  • checks the relevant K/V strides once during host dispatch and selects a compile-time SAME_KV_STRIDES specialization;
  • reuses the K offsets for V in the equal-stride specialization;
  • preserves independent V offsets for unequal-stride layouts, including asymmetric NVFP4; and
  • adds focused coverage to the existing tensor-core decode, batch prefill, and JIT generator suites.

The stride comparison is host-side dispatch work. It does not add a per-element branch to the GPU kernel.

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https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6634592

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  • JIT specialization test: 1 passed.
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Llama-4 Scout fa2_tc 0.334 ms ≤ 0.3675 ms
Llama-3.1 70B fa2_tc 0.336 ms ≤ 0.3675 ms
GPT-OSS fa2 1.355 ms ≤ 1.446 ms

All matrix cases returned zero with reference checking enabled and no mismatch diagnostics. CUPTI was unavailable, so benchmark timing used CUDA events. Unsupported control backends were skipped.

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The extra compile-time specialization increases generated build artifacts. Qualification measured approximately +26.9% aggregate object bytes and +33.2% shared-library bytes, with unchanged generated source/module counts. This is the main tradeoff for recovering the equal-stride runtime performance.

POD and batch-POD callers retain the conservative independent-stride default unless they explicitly select the new specialization.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for paged key/value caches with independent memory layouts and strides.
    • Added automatic routing between matching- and independent-stride execution paths.
    • Added lazy loading and optional prewarming of stride-specific variants before CUDA graph capture.
    • Extended support across batch prefill, decode, cascade, shared-prefix, POD, and block-sparse workflows.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved correctness for bfloat16 paged prefill and tensor-core decoding, including grouped query attention.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for routing, reuse, CUDA graphs, compilation, and reference-output correctness.

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Paged KV-cache execution now supports equal and independent K/V strides. CUDA kernels, JIT modules, runtime wrappers, and POD paths route each stride layout to the matching implementation. Regression tests cover routing, caching, CUDA graphs, and compilation guards.

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Paged KV stride routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
CUDA stride specialization
include/flashinfer/attention/prefill.cuh, csrc/batch_prefill*, csrc/batch_pod.cu, csrc/pod.cu
Paged prefill and POD execution support shared and independent K/V strides. Shared-stride kernels reuse K offsets. Independent-stride paths use separate V offsets.
JIT stride-mode module generation
flashinfer/jit/attention/modules.py, flashinfer/aot.py, flashinfer/attention/_core.py, csrc/batch_prefill_customize_config.jinja
JIT generation supports runtime, equal-stride, independent-stride, and paged-only modules with validated source sets and URI suffixes.
Lazy routing and prewarming
flashinfer/prefill.py, flashinfer/decode.py, flashinfer/cascade.py, csrc/batch_prefill_paged_jit_binding.cu
FA2 wrappers route unequal strides to an independent module. Prefill, decode, shared-prefix, and cascade wrappers expose stride-variant prewarming.
Regression coverage
tests/attention/*, tests/jit/*, tests/trace/*, tests/test_helpers/paged_kv.py
Tests cover kernel correctness, JIT generation, lazy loading, CUDA graphs, torch.compile guards, wrapper delegation, and POD execution.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Wrapper
  participant paged_run
  participant LazyIndependentModule
  participant PagedKernel
  Wrapper->>paged_run: Execute with K/V cache tensors
  paged_run->>paged_run: Compare K/V strides
  paged_run->>LazyIndependentModule: Load independent variant when strides differ
  LazyIndependentModule->>PagedKernel: Launch independent-stride kernel
  PagedKernel->>Wrapper: Return attention output
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Local A/B on the build-size tradeoff

I reproduced the artifact cost locally: took prefill.cuh + batch_prefill_paged_kernel_inst.jinja from main and from this PR's head, rendered the paged kernel TUs from the same config (bf16 q/kv/o, head_dim_qk = head_dim_vo = 128, no sliding window / soft cap, DefaultAttention) and compiled both with the JIT's flags (-O3 -DNDEBUG -use_fast_math -std=c++17 --expt-relaxed-constexpr -static-global-template-stub=false), CUDA 13.2, sm_90a. Object bytes over all four mask modes:

main this PR delta
4 paged kernel TUs 3,130,640 5,579,424 +78.2%
+ the 4 unchanged ragged TUs 5,742,992 8,191,776 +42.6%
nvcc wall time, 4 paged TUs 64 s 85 s +33%

The relative increase was similar in my four-architecture build (2,788,992 → 5,006,696 B, +79.5%), suggesting that the cost compounds across the release wheels' multi-architecture fatbins (currently 6–7 architecture targets depending on CUDA/platform). Linking and wheel compression may change the final ratio. This is consistent with the +26.9% / +33.2% in the reviewer notes—the growth is concentrated in the paged TUs (~+78%), while the aggregate figures are diluted by unchanged TUs.

Two observations from cuobjdump -res-usage on the same build (MaskMode::kNone, CTA_TILE_Q=16):

  • The SAME_KV_STRIDES=false specialization has the same register and spill usage as main at every inspected NUM_MMA_KV, so I found no resource-usage regression for the conservative path in this build.
  • The true specialization's register/spill benefit is config-dependent: NUM_MMA_KV=1 goes 163 → 128 registers and NUM_MMA_KV=8 goes 456 → 288 spill bytes/thread, while NUM_MMA_KV=2 goes 178 → 182 registers and NUM_MMA_KV=4 remains at 255 registers / 104 spill bytes. It still removes V-offset address-generation work in every configuration, so these resource figures alone do not establish the runtime benefit. This is sm_90a, not the sm_103a on which the bugs were filed, and I did not run the benchmark—the PR's B300 measurements remain the relevant performance evidence.

Since the specialization duplication applies to every paged TU that ships in the wheel—and was ~78% for the configuration measured here—could you run an A/B build of flashinfer-jit-cache and post the resulting wheel-size delta? Object bytes don't translate cleanly to the shipped artifact, and the published v0.6.9 wheels are already large (cu128 1314 MiB, cu129 1898 MiB, cu130 2033 MiB, x86_64), so the linked-and-packaged number is the one worth deciding on.

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Updated the implementation to ship equal-K/V-stride FA2 primaries in the default cache and lazily load a separate paged-only module for unequal strides. The complete cu130 x86_64 wheel is now 1.20% smaller than the PR base, replacing the previous 15.10% increase; the B300 correctness and performance acceptance checks passed.

The tradeoff is first-use latency: a cold unequal-stride configuration took 18.35–21.15 seconds to JIT compile/load in testing. Prewarm during initialization (and before CUDA-graph capture) to keep this out of request latency; subsequent calls reuse the module. Unequal layouts require JIT when no compatible cached artifact is available, and fail clearly with JIT disabled. The optional precompiled supplement is deferred.

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Compared with nightly #67144516 (different CI configuration).

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GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 CUDA 13.4 Notes
B200 ❔ Unknown ❔ Unknown New: tests.attention.test_attention_sink (1336 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
New: tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics (3 failures; CUDA 13.0)
Old: tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics (122 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
… and 2 more
GB200 ❔ Unknown ❔ Unknown New: tests.attention.test_attention_sink (1336 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
New: tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics (3 failures; CUDA 13.0)
New: tests.mamba.test_cake_ssd_combined (1 failure; CUDA 12.9)
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GB300 ❔ Unknown ❔ Unknown New: tests.attention.test_attention_sink (1336 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
New: tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics (7 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
Old: tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics (143 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
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H100 ❔ Unknown ⚠️ Infra New: tests.attention.test_attention_sink (1336 failures; CUDA 12.9)
PR-related: tests.attention.test_shared_prefix_kernels (1 failure; CUDA 12.9)
Infrastructure: test infrastructure interrupted the job (3 jobs; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ❌ New ❌ New New: tests.attention.test_attention_sink (1336 failures; CUDA 12.9, CUDA 13.0)
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    • RuntimeError: Paged-KV-stride prewarm requires a standard FA2 plan, got backend='fa3'.

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  • tests.attention.test_attention_sink — 6680 failures on B200 / CUDA 12.9, B200 / CUDA 13.0, GB200 / CUDA 12.9, GB200 / CUDA 13.0, GB300 / CUDA 12.9, GB300 / CUDA 13.0, H100 / CUDA 12.9, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell / CUDA 12.9, RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell / CUDA 13.0
    • TypeError: get_customize_batch_prefill_module() got an unexpected keyword argument 'paged_kv_stride_mode'
  • tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics — 13 failures on B200 / CUDA 13.0, GB200 / CUDA 13.0, GB300 / CUDA 12.9, GB300 / CUDA 13.0
    • AssertionError: [MxFP4xMxFP8] forced tactic was not dispatched — autotuner did not log a cache hit; check '_moe_profile_shapes' against the actual MoEInputs layout. assert ('fla…
  • tests.mamba.test_cake_ssd_combined — 1 failure on GB200 / CUDA 12.9
    • AssertionError: Tensor-likes are not close! Mismatched elements: 2 / 2097152 (0.0%) Greatest absolute difference: 0.046875 at index (0, 80, 81, 44) (up to 0.01 allowed) Greatest…

Pre-existing failures

  • tests.moe.test_trtllm_gen_moe_autotune_tactics — 387 failures on B200 / CUDA 12.9, B200 / CUDA 13.0, GB200 / CUDA 12.9, GB200 / CUDA 13.0, GB300 / CUDA 12.9, GB300 / CUDA 13.0
    • AssertionError: the forced regression tactic was not dispatched through the autotuner cache assert ('flashinfer::trtllm_fp4_block_scale_moe', 'MoERunner') in set() + where set()…
  • tests.gdn.test_cute_dsl_kernel_cache — 6 failures on B200 / CUDA 12.9, B200 / CUDA 13.0, GB200 / CUDA 12.9, GB200 / CUDA 13.0, GB300 / CUDA 12.9, GB300 / CUDA 13.0
    • AssertionError: expected one exported artifact, got [] assert 0 == 1 + where 0 = len([])
  • tests.mamba.test_cake_ssd_combined — 3 failures on B200 / CUDA 12.9, B200 / CUDA 13.0, GB200 / CUDA 12.9
    • AssertionError: Tensor-likes are not close! Mismatched elements: 1 / 2097152 (0.0%) Greatest absolute difference: 0.01953125 at index (0, 112, 85, 60) (up to 0.01 allowed) Great…

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I arrived at the same root cause independently in #5071 and am closing that in favour of this PR — your approach keeps the unequal-stride capability that #3684 shipped in 0.6.18, and the module split answers the JIT-cache concern you raised earlier. Three things from my side that may be worth folding in.

1. persistent.cuh has the same defect and is not covered here.

#3684 doubled the offset array in two places. This PR fixes prefill.cuh; include/flashinfer/attention/persistent.cuh still carries it on main:

269:  thr_local_kv_offset_k[NUM_MMA_KV * KTraits::KV_THR_LAYOUT_COL / 2 / KTraits::NUM_WARPS_Q];
271:  thr_local_kv_offset_v[NUM_MMA_KV * KTraits::KV_THR_LAYOUT_COL / 2 / KTraits::NUM_WARPS_Q];

plus a second prefetch_offest pass at :326/:329 to fill it. So BatchAttention keeps the register cost. Entirely reasonable as scope — just flagging it so it is a decision rather than an oversight.

If you do extend to it, there is a trap. csrc/batch_attention.cu:90-101 reads K and V strides from two independent tensors (k_cache, v_cache) into params.k_stride_* / params.v_stride_* and never compares them — there is no ICHECK on that path at all. So the host-side stride comparison this PR does in batch_prefill.cu has no equivalent there and would need to be added first; otherwise a SAME_KV_STRIDES=true decision silently addresses V through the K offsets. I hit exactly this: my first revision gated persistent.cuh without adding the host check, and it was a silent-wrong-output bug until I dropped that half.

2. Offer: B300 perf numbers. This PR has correctness coverage but no before/after. I measured on B300 (SM103, CUDA 13.0) using NVBug 6634590's own repro command — BatchDecodeWithPagedKVCacheWrapper --backends fa2_tc --page_size 16 --batch_size 64 --s_qo 1 --s_kv 8192 --num_qo_heads 64 --num_kv_heads 8 --head_dim_qk 128 --head_dim_vo 128 --q_dtype bfloat16 --kv_dtype bfloat16 --num_iters 100:

build median
8f9ad200^ (pre-regression) 0.801 / 0.804 ms
8f9ad200 (first bad) 0.859 ms
main 0.860 / 0.860 ms
with the register fix 0.787 / 0.797 / 0.803 ms

i.e. the bisect is confirmed and the fix returns main to the pre-#3684 baseline. Since our kernel-side edits are equivalent, these should carry over — happy to re-run on your head if that is more useful than quoting mine.

3. NVBug 6634592 (prefill) is unmeasured by both PRs. Both are marked as fixing 6634590 and 6634592, but the only numbers either of us has are for fa2_tc decode. head_dim 64/64 takes the same path, so a single prefill row from 6634592's own repro command would close that out. qsang-nv raised the same point on #5071.

Note the board is not urgent: both NVBugs' first-bad commit 8f9ad200 shipped in v0.6.18, so this is not a new regression for 0.7.0.

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CI verdict: ✅ auto-run ok
Review category: live (rules fired: C1.2 net-new public interface; C3.2 durable change to a dispatch/build convention)
Blocking checks: S3 (partial), C2.1 (no)
Release blocker: 🚨 candidate — restores a perf regression introduced by #3684 (first-bad 8f9ad200) that shipped in v0.6.18; NVBug 6634590 / 6634592 (C3.4)
Early stop: no

Security

Q Answer Evidence
S1 injection/supply-chain no
S2 template overwritten no
S3 template obligations ❗ partial "All tests are passing" unchecked — accurate: pipeline #67320202 is 6/19
S4 agent-directing text no

Packaging

Q Answer Evidence
C1.1 dependency bump no no supply-bucket or submodule changes
C1.2 public API changes yes — net-new interface prewarm_paged_kv_stride_variant(self, variant: str = "independent") -> None, @flashinfer_api, added to four public wrappers: BatchPrefillWithPagedKVCacheWrapper (prefill.py:2848), BatchDecodeWithPagedKVCacheWrapper (decode.py:2049), MultiLevelCascadeAttentionWrapper (cascade.py:520), BatchPrefillWithSharedPrefixPagedKVCacheWrapper (cascade.py:1021). gen_batch_prefill_module() keeps its signature; the new modes are private _gen_* entry points
C1.3 AOT/trace registration ❗ gap deliberate: aot.py ships only the equal-stride primary (_gen_batch_prefill_primary_module); the independent-stride paged module is JIT-only, so prebuilt-cache users on unequal K/V strides get MissingJITCacheError — a capability #3684 shipped in 0.6.18. Reviewer decision, not an oversight

Presentation

Q Answer Evidence
C2.1 perf claim backed ❗ no acceptance matrix reports post-change medians against thresholds (B300/SM103) — no baseline for this head; the before/after in the thread was measured on an equivalent branch, not this one

Implementation

Q Answer Evidence
C3.1 experimental declared no
C3.2 durable areas touched yes — durable SAME_KV_STRIDES template parameter on BatchPrefillWithPagedKVCacheDevice (include/flashinfer/attention/prefill.cuh:3799) plus a new module-surface / URI-suffix convention in flashinfer/jit/attention/modules.py
C3.3 tests match change yes new tests/jit/test_batch_prefill_lazy_loader.py (309 lines) and tests/jit/test_attention_utils.py stride-mode cases, plus stride variants in 4 attention suites — all in default lanes
C3.4 release-blocker candidate 🚨 yes fixes a regression in a shipped release (v0.6.18); library and test sides both change

Experimental track

Q Answer Evidence
C4.1 declaration obligations n-a C3.1 = no
C4.2 machine-readable test scope n-a C3.1 = no
C4.3 isolated from common areas n-a C3.1 = no

Notes for the maintainer

  • The 6680 tests.attention.test_attention_sink failures the pipeline filed under "New relative to nightly (attribution uncertain)" are attributable to this PR: flashinfer/attention/_core.py now adds paged_kv_stride_mode and module_surface to the customize jit kwargs, but get_customize_batch_prefill_module (flashinfer/prefill.py:179) was not extended to accept them — matching the reported TypeError. The bot's attribution is path-touch based and that test path is untouched, so the label understates it.
  • The one job the bot did label PR-relatedtest_shared_prefix_kernels on H100 — is this PR's own new test meeting its own guard: prewarm raises on backend='fa3', which is what the shared-prefix wrapper selects on SM90.
  • Both linked NVBugs are claimed fixed, but every number posted so far is fa2_tc decode; 6634592 (prefill) is still unmeasured by either this PR or the closed perf(attention): stop doubling the paged K/V offset registers when K/V strides match #5071.

Generated by flashinfer-pr-screen · rubric: docs/code_review_guidance.md · not a code review · AI screening can make mistakes — a maintainer's judgment supersedes this report.

Pass stride mode and module surface through the cached custom prefill adapter. Add coverage for legacy defaults and explicit specialization, and pin the FA2 shared-prefix router test to its intended backend.
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/bot run tests/attention/test_attention_sink.py tests/attention/test_shared_prefix_kernels.py tests/jit/test_attention_utils.py tests/jit/test_batch_prefill_lazy_loader.py

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GitLab MR !1342 has been updated with latest changes, and the CI pipeline #67445777 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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[CANCELING] Pipeline #67445777: canceled

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/bot run tests/attention/test_attention_sink.py tests/attention/test_shared_prefix_kernels.py tests/jit/test_attention_utils.py tests/jit/test_batch_prefill_lazy_loader.py

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GitLab MR !1342 has been updated with latest changes, and the CI pipeline #67459974 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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Performance measurements show that performance has recovered to pre-regression numbers:

Case Backend Before (ms) After (ms)
Llama-4-Scout decode fa2_tc 0.411974 0.334672
Llama-3.1-70B decode fa2_tc 0.413104 0.335893
GPT-OSS prefill fa2 1.445904 1.359776

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[SUCCESS] Pipeline #67459974: 18/19 executed test jobs passed

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aleozlx merged commit db0cdc2 into main Sep 14, 2026
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## 📌 Description

Paged FA2 currently computes and stores independent V offsets even when
K and V have identical strides. That extra address-generation work
regresses common equal-stride paged decode and prefill workloads.

This change:

- checks the relevant K/V strides once during host dispatch and selects
a compile-time `SAME_KV_STRIDES` specialization;
- reuses the K offsets for V in the equal-stride specialization;
- preserves independent V offsets for unequal-stride layouts, including
asymmetric NVFP4; and
- adds focused coverage to the existing tensor-core decode, batch
prefill, and JIT generator suites.

The stride comparison is host-side dispatch work. It does not add a
per-element branch to the GPU kernel.

## 🔍 Related Issues

https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6634590

https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6634592

## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist

Thank you for contributing to FlashInfer! Before we review your pull
request, please make sure the following items are complete.

### ✅ Pre-commit Checks

- [x] I have installed `pre-commit` by running `pip install pre-commit`
(or used your preferred method).
- [x] I have installed the hooks with `pre-commit install`.
- [x] I have run the hooks manually with `pre-commit run --all-files`
and fixed any reported issues.

> If you are unsure about how to set up `pre-commit`, see [the
pre-commit documentation](https://pre-commit.com/).

## 🧪 Tests

- [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed.
- [ ] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Full repository CI is
pending; the focused validation below passed.

Focused validation on B300/SM103:

- JIT specialization test: 1 passed.
- Equal-stride tensor-core decode and paged prefill correctness tests: 2
passed.
- Reference-checked acceptance matrix:

| Workload | Target backend | Median | Gate |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Llama-4 Scout | `fa2_tc` | 0.334 ms | ≤ 0.3675 ms |
| Llama-3.1 70B | `fa2_tc` | 0.336 ms | ≤ 0.3675 ms |
| GPT-OSS | `fa2` | 1.355 ms | ≤ 1.446 ms |

All matrix cases returned zero with reference checking enabled and no
mismatch diagnostics. CUPTI was unavailable, so benchmark timing used
CUDA events. Unsupported control backends were skipped.

## Reviewer Notes

The extra compile-time specialization increases generated build
artifacts. Qualification measured approximately +26.9% aggregate object
bytes and +33.2% shared-library bytes, with unchanged generated
source/module counts. This is the main tradeoff for recovering the
equal-stride runtime performance.

POD and batch-POD callers retain the conservative independent-stride
default unless they explicitly select the new specialization.

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->
## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Added support for paged key/value caches with independent memory
layouts and strides.
- Added automatic routing between matching- and independent-stride
execution paths.
- Added lazy loading and optional prewarming of stride-specific variants
before CUDA graph capture.
- Extended support across batch prefill, decode, cascade, shared-prefix,
POD, and block-sparse workflows.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved correctness for bfloat16 paged prefill and tensor-core
decoding, including grouped query attention.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage for routing, reuse, CUDA graphs, compilation, and
reference-output correctness.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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## 📌 Description

Paged FA2 currently computes and stores independent V offsets even when
K and V have identical strides. That extra address-generation work
regresses common equal-stride paged decode and prefill workloads.

This change:

- checks the relevant K/V strides once during host dispatch and selects
a compile-time `SAME_KV_STRIDES` specialization;
- reuses the K offsets for V in the equal-stride specialization;
- preserves independent V offsets for unequal-stride layouts, including
asymmetric NVFP4; and
- adds focused coverage to the existing tensor-core decode, batch
prefill, and JIT generator suites.

The stride comparison is host-side dispatch work. It does not add a
per-element branch to the GPU kernel.

## 🔍 Related Issues

https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6634590

https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6634592

## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist

Thank you for contributing to FlashInfer! Before we review your pull
request, please make sure the following items are complete.

### ✅ Pre-commit Checks

- [x] I have installed `pre-commit` by running `pip install pre-commit`
(or used your preferred method).
- [x] I have installed the hooks with `pre-commit install`.
- [x] I have run the hooks manually with `pre-commit run --all-files`
and fixed any reported issues.

> If you are unsure about how to set up `pre-commit`, see [the
pre-commit documentation](https://pre-commit.com/).

## 🧪 Tests

- [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed.
- [ ] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Full repository CI is
pending; the focused validation below passed.

Focused validation on B300/SM103:

- JIT specialization test: 1 passed.
- Equal-stride tensor-core decode and paged prefill correctness tests: 2
passed.
- Reference-checked acceptance matrix:

| Workload | Target backend | Median | Gate |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Llama-4 Scout | `fa2_tc` | 0.334 ms | ≤ 0.3675 ms |
| Llama-3.1 70B | `fa2_tc` | 0.336 ms | ≤ 0.3675 ms |
| GPT-OSS | `fa2` | 1.355 ms | ≤ 1.446 ms |

All matrix cases returned zero with reference checking enabled and no
mismatch diagnostics. CUPTI was unavailable, so benchmark timing used
CUDA events. Unsupported control backends were skipped.

## Reviewer Notes

The extra compile-time specialization increases generated build
artifacts. Qualification measured approximately +26.9% aggregate object
bytes and +33.2% shared-library bytes, with unchanged generated
source/module counts. This is the main tradeoff for recovering the
equal-stride runtime performance.

POD and batch-POD callers retain the conservative independent-stride
default unless they explicitly select the new specialization.


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->
## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Added support for paged key/value caches with independent memory
layouts and strides.
- Added automatic routing between matching- and independent-stride
execution paths.
- Added lazy loading and optional prewarming of stride-specific variants
before CUDA graph capture.
- Extended support across batch prefill, decode, cascade, shared-prefix,
POD, and block-sparse workflows.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved correctness for bfloat16 paged prefill and tensor-core
decoding, including grouped query attention.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage for routing, reuse, CUDA graphs, compilation, and
reference-output correctness.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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