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Carry PR flashinfer-ai#4751 (perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse mla, use swapAB to avoid cross-warp sync) into the sm120-sparse-mla-decode-consolidated branch. Adds a warp-specialized swapAB prefill kernel for the DSV3_2/GLM family (topk=2048, num_heads 64/128, 64 heads/CTA) that swaps MMA operands to avoid cross-warp synchronization; dispatch_v32 tries swapAB before falling back to the SG/MG kernels. Reported 1.31-2.16x over the MG prefill kernel. The merge was clean: the PR's extension of the arbitrary_fp32 prefill matrix to num_heads {8,32,64,128} composes with this branch's zero-token/row-strided decode tests, and the Python dispatch rewrite in flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (decode calls module functions directly) does not overlap with the PR, which touches prefill dispatch only in C++. Co-authored-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carry PR flashinfer-ai#4751 (perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse mla, use swapAB to avoid cross-warp sync) into the sm120-sparse-mla-decode-consolidated branch. Adds a warp-specialized swapAB prefill kernel for the DSV3_2/GLM family (topk=2048, num_heads 64/128, 64 heads/CTA) that swaps MMA operands to avoid cross-warp synchronization; dispatch_v32 tries swapAB before falling back to the SG/MG kernels. Reported 1.31-2.16x over the MG prefill kernel. The merge was clean: the PR's extension of the arbitrary_fp32 prefill matrix to num_heads {8,32,64,128} composes with this branch's zero-token/row-strided decode tests, and the Python dispatch rewrite in flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (decode calls module functions directly) does not overlap with the PR, which touches prefill dispatch only in C++. Co-authored-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carry PR flashinfer-ai#4751 (perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse mla, use swapAB to avoid cross-warp sync) into the sm120-sparse-mla-decode-consolidated branch. Adds a warp-specialized swapAB prefill kernel for the DSV3_2/GLM family (topk=2048, num_heads 64/128, 64 heads/CTA) that swaps MMA operands to avoid cross-warp synchronization; dispatch_v32 tries swapAB before falling back to the SG/MG kernels. Reported 1.31-2.16x over the MG prefill kernel. The merge was clean: the PR's extension of the arbitrary_fp32 prefill matrix to num_heads {8,32,64,128} composes with this branch's zero-token/row-strided decode tests, and the Python dispatch rewrite in flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (decode calls module functions directly) does not overlap with the PR, which touches prefill dispatch only in C++. Co-authored-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carry PR flashinfer-ai#4751 (perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse mla, use swapAB to avoid cross-warp sync) into the sm120-sparse-mla-decode-consolidated branch. Adds a warp-specialized swapAB prefill kernel for the DSV3_2/GLM family (topk=2048, num_heads 64/128, 64 heads/CTA) that swaps MMA operands to avoid cross-warp synchronization; dispatch_v32 tries swapAB before falling back to the SG/MG kernels. Reported 1.31-2.16x over the MG prefill kernel. The merge was clean: the PR's extension of the arbitrary_fp32 prefill matrix to num_heads {8,32,64,128} composes with this branch's zero-token/row-strided decode tests, and the Python dispatch rewrite in flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (decode calls module functions directly) does not overlap with the PR, which touches prefill dispatch only in C++. Co-authored-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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Carry PR flashinfer-ai#4751 (perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse mla, use swapAB to avoid cross-warp sync) into the sm120-sparse-mla-decode-consolidated branch. Adds a warp-specialized swapAB prefill kernel for the DSV3_2/GLM family (topk=2048, num_heads 64/128, 64 heads/CTA) that swaps MMA operands to avoid cross-warp synchronization; dispatch_v32 tries swapAB before falling back to the SG/MG kernels. Reported 1.31-2.16x over the MG prefill kernel. The merge was clean: the PR's extension of the arbitrary_fp32 prefill matrix to num_heads {8,32,64,128} composes with this branch's zero-token/row-strided decode tests, and the Python dispatch rewrite in flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (decode calls module functions directly) does not overlap with the PR, which touches prefill dispatch only in C++. Co-authored-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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## Summary Consolidated SM120 sparse-MLA rework, decode + prefill. All numbers on RTX PRO 6000 (SM120). - **Faster decode, small T**: T=1 14.9 → **11.3µs** (−24%, graph replay, dual-cache 18K context); bitwise-identical outputs. - **Calibrated dispatch**: an analytical `chunks_per_block` model + measured decode/prefill crossover replace the per-shape autotune sweep and the hard `T ≤ 64` cutoff (up to −61% on rerouted configs; tables below). - **Continuous envelopes**: decode serves any `num_heads ∈ [1,128]` and any `topk ≥ min_topk`; prefill serves any `T ≥ 1` and any `topk % 64 == 0` width. Runtime-topk prefill drops instantiations **75 → 55**. - **swapAB prefill** carried from #4751 behind a per-call `prefill_impl` override; independently re-benched at **1.12–2.37×** over MG. - **Two new model types**: `GLM53_NOPE` (carried from #4791) and `DOTS3_SWA` (sliding-window MLA, d_qk=1088, d_v=1024, 1160 B/token footer-scale, padded-row KV support) — the latter also fixing five latent bugs along the way (rope writeback overrun at D_V==D_NOPE, flat-vs-paged addressing keyed on the wrong trait, a Python chunk-width hardcode, an undersized amax scratch at 4 math warps, a vestigial SG register array). - **Public runner**: `flashinfer.mla.SparseMLASm120Wrapper` — one persistent instance, memoized dispatch, CUDA-graph-safe (decode scratch is routing-aware and instance-owned). - Merged current main, incl. the #4732 SM121 prefill-hang fix. - Also: row-strided `indices` (unblocks vllm-project/vllm#53574's persistent-buffer narrowing) and row-strided `out_lse`; T=0 decode returns empty instead of aborting; decode bindings now validate `out_lse`/index dtypes/dim0. Carries (authorship preserved): #4461 zero-token decode (rewritten; XingSong), #4551 dispatch diagnostics + `supported_sparse_mla_sm120_configs()` (Sam Mausberg), #4751 swapAB (Lemon7-UP), #4791 GLM53_NOPE (lucamotz; extended with H=64/TP1 decode, swapAB@2176, calibration coverage). Supersedes #4683: its per-shape sweep profiles L2-resident synthetic indices, which distorts cpb when production caches are DRAM-resident (observed on 5070 Ti) — this PR removes the sweep instead (thanks Sam for the original analysis). ## Performance vs main (adc49a8) Same GPU, fixed-seed identical inputs, CUDA-graph replay GPU-only, both sides out-of-box (no tactic cache / no calibrated constants). Only surfaces present on both sides listed. | shape | main | PR | speedup | |---|---|---|---| | dsv4-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=1 | 14.80µs | 11.40µs | 1.30x | | dsv4-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=8 | 19.80µs | 16.14µs | 1.23x | | dsv4-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=16 | 36.66µs | 29.46µs | 1.24x | | dsv4-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=64 | 97.19µs | 89.79µs | 1.08x | | dsv4-h128 (topk 1024), T=1 | 14.70µs | 11.44µs | 1.29x | | dsv4-h128 (topk 1024), T=64 | 231.60µs | 219.79µs | 1.05x | | dsv3_2-h64 (topk 2048), T=1 | 14.08µs | 10.68µs | 1.32x | | dsv3_2-h64 (topk 2048), T=64 | 216.78µs | 220.23µs | 0.98x | | dsv3_2-h128 (topk 2048), T=1 | 16.57µs | 14.08µs | 1.18x | | dsv3_2-h128 (topk 2048), T=64 | 324.19µs | 323.53µs | 1.00x | | dsv4-prefill-h128 (topk 1024), T=128 | 293.82µs | 266.49µs | 1.10x | | dsv4-prefill-h128 (topk 1024), T=2048 | 4486.89µs | 3928.68µs | 1.14x | | dsv4-prefill-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=128 | 124.66µs | 124.64µs | 1.00x | | dsv4-prefill-dual-h64 (topk 128+512), T=2048 | 1559.56µs | 1559.35µs | 1.00x | Decode gains concentrate at small T (launch-bound); the two decode commits behind them: `quantize_q_to_smem` rewritten as a vectorized single pass (3 `bar.sync` → 1), and the decode-dsv4 IO gather reads each candidate's index once instead of twice. T=64 decode and dual-cache prefill are unchanged within noise. ## swapAB prefill (#4751) Re-benched on the PRO 6000 (#4751's table was measured on a PRO 5000), same grid, MG↔swapAB cross-checked at 5e-2 on identical inputs, `auto` bitwise-identical to forced swapAB: | shape | MG | swapAB | speedup | |---|---|---|---| | H=64, T=128 | 250.8µs | 159.7µs | 1.57× | | H=64, T=512 | 798.7µs | 565.6µs | 1.41× | | H=64, T=2048 | 2948.1µs | 2158.6µs | 1.37× | | H=64, T=8192 | 11673.6µs | 8607.7µs | 1.36× | | H=128, T=128 | 349.6µs | 267.9µs | 1.30× | | H=128, T=512 | 1348.2µs | 840.0µs | 1.60× | | H=128, T=2048 | 5330.9µs | 3011.6µs | 1.77× | | H=128, T=8192 | 21156.9µs | 11847.7µs | 1.79× | Wins everywhere; the H=64 large-T plateau (~1.4×, one CTA per token saturates ~1280 GB/s vs ~1860 at H=128) is a flat asymptote out to T=32768, so no dispatch range limit. KV layout and all parameters unchanged; both scale formats, sinks, and variable `topk_length` supported. `prefill_impl`: `"auto"` (default) / `"swapab"` / `"mg"`; forcing swapab at an ineligible shape raises. ## Dispatch: cpb model + crossover **cpb model** — analytical pick over gather bandwidth/latency, per-block overhead, and the exact list-scheduling makespan of the split grid, with an L2-footprint guard rail (at topk=1024+2176 dual the heuristic picks a single 50-chunk block at 2.7× L2 — ncu: L2 hit 69.7% vs 86.8%, costing 33%; the guard recovers it to 1.02×). Calibrated once per device inside `autotune()` tuning mode (6 fixed measurements over a ~2 GiB pool, timed as queued batches over rotating fresh index sets — launch latency overlaps execution, and the batch length keeps each set's reuse distance past an L2 turnover; small numpy LM fit; any failure = silent fallback to the C++ heuristic, so the new path can't be worse than status quo). Offline pick error vs exhaustive sweep (DRAM-cold protocol): **mean 1.011× / max 1.061×**; beats the heuristic by up to **1.37×** at mid shapes. A GPU accuracy-guard test fails loudly if a future kernel change breaks the model's assumptions, measured with the same protocol the calibration runs. Host cost ~8µs/call, memoized; zero per-replay under CUDA graphs. **Per-shape refinement** — the model's residual pick error concentrates at mid-T wave-quantization shapes (measured up to **1.35×**, e.g. DOTS3_SWA T=32: 78.0µs → 57.8µs). tuning-mode decode-form calls time the model pick ±6 candidates with the calibration protocol and persist the measured best as a per-shape override in the same tuning cache; `_resolve_cpb` consults overrides first, then the model. Across 12 production bucket shapes (T=16..64, three families, two-pass re-timing): **never worse than the model (12/12), closes every pocket to ≤1.03×**. Shapes never warmed (off-graph calls, arbitrary T, dual-cache) stay on the model. Capture-time calls only read the table/model and freeze — no measurement ever runs under graph capture or in serving. **Crossover** — per-config `decode_max_tokens` measured during the same tuning pass (probe T ∈ {4..64}, both paths, DRAM-faithful fresh indices; decode wins iff ≤ 0.95× prefill). Uncalibrated behavior is unchanged. Measured examples: | config | `decode_max_tokens` | Σ T∈{24,32,48,64}: old policy → calibrated | |---|---|---| | DSv3.2 H=128 topk=2048 (swapAB side) | 8 | 1271.4 → 494.0 µs (−61%) | | DSv4 H=64 topk=512 | 24 | 292.3 → 216.7 µs (−26%) | | DSv4 H=64 topk=128 | 16 | 132.3 → 96.7 µs (−27%) | | DSv4 H=8 topk=1024 | 64 (decode dominates) | no rerouting | Full per-probe data for all 71 calibrated configs: kernel-bench `crossover-v5` baseline. A public `calibrate_sparse_mla_sm120(device, heads=, topks=, families=, force=)` makes any envelope shape tunable outside tuning mode (idempotent skip-existing; `force=True` re-measures). ## Runtime envelopes (head counts and topk widths) - **Decode**: any H ∈ [1,128] — dedicated instantiations on the production grid (0.9–2.5% faster), one runtime-H instance otherwise, **40/40 bitwise-identical** between the two. Any `topk ≥ min_topk` (1; 513 for DOTS3_SWA so the window fits). The `_DECODE_*_DISPATCH` objects vLLM probes are membership predicates with exactly this meaning; `supported_sparse_mla_sm120_configs()` exposes the envelopes for init-time validation. Off-grid example: H=80 T=16 is 1.14× faster than the pad-to-128 workaround callers needed before. - **Prefill**: same topk rule across SG / MG / dual / swapAB. One deliberate residual asymmetry: **decode serves ragged widths (partial tail chunk, tested at topk=500); prefill requires whole 64-wide index tiles** — all production topk widths qualify, tail support needs predicated gathers + tail masking across the IO and math paths, and is deferred until a model needs it. This is safe at the routing layer: a ragged decode-form call has no prefill envelope and simply stays on decode (no crossover), and a ragged T>64 call fails loudly at the binding. 50-config parity vs the pinned build: worst **+0.94%**. One variant needed kernel-side help: DOTS3_SWA SG's BI=32 tiles are too short to cover the index→rope address-chain latency once the compile-time trip count disappeared (+24% `long_scoreboard` in NCU). The SG loop now stages the three per-tile index reads one tile ahead in registers, `if constexpr`-scoped to short tiles (unconditional staging taxed BI=64 SG +2.3%). Net: **374.6µs vs the pinned build's 380.7µs** at H=64/T=256, registers flat, `long_scoreboard` back to parity. ## Plan layer All dispatch policy lives in one memoized Python planner (`_sparse_mla_sm120_plan.py`): each variant declares its envelope once, `plan()` picks by envelope + crossover + `prefill_impl`. The C++ side is a policy-free launcher registry (the old `dispatch_v32` chain is deleted). Single-sourcing surfaced two latent upstream bugs, fixed here: prefill launchers never checked `page_block_size` against the compiled 64 (silent wrong-stride launch), and dual-cache decode-form DSv3.2-family calls silently ignored the secondary cache. ## Runner and CUDA graphs `SparseMLASm120Wrapper` holds buffers persistently: LSE pre-sized at construction, decode split-K scratch allocated only when the call actually routes to decode and cached for the instance's lifetime (a per-call temporary's freed block can be recycled into a later capture while an older graph replays into it). Capture contract: construct and warm up every captured shape before capture (or pass `out_lse`/scratch explicitly); replay is pure graph replay with zero Python. Both routing variants are correct for any T, so a crossover inside a padding bucket is at worst suboptimal, never wrong. GPU tests pin capture/replay for crossover dispatch and for runner-internal scratch. ## Compatibility Public Python API: unchanged except additive kwargs; `flashinfer.mla` exports purely additive; no-constants path behaves exactly as today. Deliberate behavior changes: - Per-shape tactic caches (`sparse_mla_sm120_decode_dsv{4,3_2}.json`) are ignored; the new calibration file is schema-versioned (v1), unrecognized versions treated as absent and recalibrated. - `autotune(True)` runs a one-time-per-device calibration (~2 GiB transient pool) instead of profiling each new shape; honors `skip_ops={"sparse_mla_sm120"}`; refuses to run under CUDA graph capture; cache writes serialized with a FileLock. - With calibration present, decode-form calls beyond the measured crossover route to prefill (the point of the feature). - T ≤ 64 shapes outside the old fixed grid now take the runtime decode instantiation instead of raising. - Prefill serves any `topk % 64 == 0` (≥ 513 for DOTS3_SWA); ragged widths fail at the binding. - Inline-scale (DSv3.2/GLM) KV caches must be contiguous through the paged entry (prefill flat-addresses the cache and crossover makes routing dynamic); contiguous padded-row caches remain decode-served and fail loudly only if prefill-routed. - `indices`/`out_lse` may be row-strided views (widening); the decode binding previously corrupted a strided `out_lse` silently. - C++ launcher entries gained row-stride parameters — internal to the JIT module, no stable ABI consumers. Out of scope (tracked follow-ups): H=64 swapAB bandwidth at large T; a pinned-topk fast path à la decode-H for DOTS3_SWA SG (locked clocks show ~2% there, boost clocks show nothing — not worth the instantiation axis on current evidence). ## Test plan All on RTX PRO 6000: **658 passed** across `test_sparse_mla_sm120{,_dispatch,_cpb_model}.py` and `test_autotuner_core.py`, pre-commit clean — including the 68-config small-T prefill matrix vs the reference (T ∈ {1..64} × SG/MG/swapAB/dual × sink/truncation), 27 C++⟺Python envelope-consistency probes, runtime-H/topk parity gates (bitwise where required), crossover routing + CUDA-graph capture/replay tests, runner scratch routing/lifetime tests, and the review-round regression tests (row-strided `out_lse`, cpb save/publish/FileLock, grid-completeness gating, padded-cache rejection, skip_ops/capture guards). This PR was prepared with AI assistance; all changes reviewed and tested locally by the submitter. --------- Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: XingSong <sunwenhan@xfusion.com> Co-authored-by: Sam Mausberg <samuelmausberg@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Lemon7-UP <fearless192@163.com> Co-authored-by: Luca Motz <321921718+lucamotz@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Brian K. Ryu <bryu@nvidia.com>
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📌 Description
Performance summary
Compared with the existing MG prefill kernel, the swapAB(swapped MMA operands) kernel delivers a 1.31–2.16× speedup across the tested configurations (64/128 heads and 128–8192 query tokens). It achieves up to 1.95× speedup with the
autoscale format and up to 2.16× with
arbitrary_fp32.Performance
GPU: NVidia RTX PRO5000, SM120
CUDA: 13.0
python benchmarks/bench_sparse_mla_sm120.py(2048/8192 query tokens are not included in benchmark script)Motivation
SM12x GPUs provide a limited shared-memory capacity of 99 KiB per CTA and do not provide a WGMMA-style instruction that can issue matrix multiplication directly from shared-memory operands. These constraints create significant register-pressure challenges for MLA kernels.
The MLA output dimension is 512. In a conventional FlashAttention-style kernel, warps are partitioned along the query-head dimension. Because SM12x still uses MMA instructions with an fp8
m16n8k32shape, each warp would need to hold a16 × 512output tile. With FP32 accumulators, this requires 256 accumulator registers per thread, exceeding the practical per-thread register limit and causing extensive register spilling.Existing FlashInfer sparse MLA kernels avoid this issue by partitioning warps along the KV dimension. However, this design requires:
Pto shared memory, then synchronizing and readingPback before the PV computation.The overhead is even larger in the FP8 path. The quantization scale of
Vmust first be folded into the softmax probability matrixP, after whichPis quantized again. This introduces additional cross-warp synchronization and shared-memory traffic.SwapAB design
The new kernel retains FlashAttention-style warp partitioning along the query-head dimension, but swaps the MMA operands:
Qis used as the B operand.Kis used as the A operand.Pis used as the B operand.Vis used as the A operand.With this layout, each warp independently owns eight attention heads. Softmax and the requantization of
Pare therefore entirely warp-local, eliminating all cross-warp synchronization from these stages.The MMA B operand has an eight-column output dimension, so each thread only needs 128 FP32 accumulator registers for the final 512-dimensional output. This substantially reduces register pressure and avoids the severe spilling of the conventional layout.
Kernel organization
The kernel retains double-buffered KV loading and uses a larger
TileKV = 64to better amortize and hide the softmax overhead. Given the limited shared-memory capacity,Qand its quantization scales remain resident in registers. This also reduces shared-memory bandwidth consumption.The CTA consists of:
As a result, the specialized path supports 64 heads with one CTA and 128 heads with two CTAs per query token.
For the PV GEMM:
Pis stored with the SM120 8-bit transposedstmatrix(STSM_T) instruction.Vis loaded with the SM120 8-bit transposedldmatrix(LDSM_T) instruction.Prequires only warp-local synchronization and no cross-warp synchronization.Overall, the swapAB layout removes cross-warp synchronization and shared-memory round trips from softmax and probability requantization while substantially reducing register pressure.
feature
topk_lengthbehavior.🔍 Related Issues
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✅ Pre-commit Checks
pre-commitby runningpip install pre-commit(or used your preferred method).pre-commit install.pre-commit run --all-filesand fixed any reported issues.🧪 Tests
unittest, etc.).The existing DSv3.2 prefill test already covers 64/128 heads with the
autoscale format, including multiple token counts and optional attention sinks.This PR extends the
arbitrary_fp32prefill test from[8, 32]to[8, 32, 64, 128], covering the new swapAB path for both supported scale formats. Outputs and LSE are validated against the PyTorch reference.Reviewer Notes
The main design choice is to swap the MMA operands so that each warp owns eight heads. This reduces the FP32 output accumulators from 256 to 128 registers per thread and removes cross-warp synchronization from softmax and P
requantization.
The new dispatch only affects DSv3.2/GLM prefill with
topk=2048and 64/128 heads(the kernel design can naturally support any multiple of 64 heads, but the current dispatch specializes 64 and 128 because they are the most common configurations). All other configurations continue using the existing kernels.Summary by CodeRabbit
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