fix(cute_dsl): make the optional-dependency guard independent of cutlass - #4753
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`import flashinfer` hard-required `nvidia-cutlass-dsl`, which is an optional
dependency.
`flashinfer/gemm/kernels/__init__.py` is written as a textbook optional-import
guard:
from flashinfer.cute_dsl.utils import is_cute_dsl_available
if is_cute_dsl_available():
from .bmm_fp8_wrapper import ...
but `flashinfer/cute_dsl/utils.py` did `import cutlass` at module scope. To ask
whether cutlass was installed you first had to import a module that requires
cutlass, so when it was absent the import raised `ModuleNotFoundError` and the
guard was never reached — unreachable in the only circumstance it exists for.
`flashinfer/__init__.py` imports `.gemm` eagerly, so this ran on every import of
the package, not just for consumers using CuTe-DSL paths.
The probes' own docstrings promise graceful degradation ("fall back to a
plain-CUDA implementation", "on an older DSL the rest of the package still
works"), and they are already implemented with `importlib.util.find_spec`, which
needs no cutlass import at all. The hard import was required by other code in the
same file, not by the probes.
Move them to a new `flashinfer/cute_dsl/availability.py` that imports nothing
from cutlass at module scope; the few functions that need the DSL's own metadata
(`is_cute_dsl_arch_supported` and helpers, which read `cutlass.base_dsl.arch`)
already import it lazily inside a `try`. `flashinfer/cute_dsl/__init__.py` now
imports only that module eagerly and moves the cutlass-requiring re-exports
(`make_ptr`, `get_cutlass_dtype`, ...) behind the availability guard, so the
subpackage itself is importable without the DSL. `flashinfer/cute_dsl/utils.py`
re-exports the probes, so existing `from flashinfer.cute_dsl.utils import ...`
call sites keep working when the DSL is installed.
Call sites that run before the DSL is known present now import from
`.availability`. This also fixes the lazy backend predicates in `norm`,
`mla/_core`, `kda_kernels` and `gemm_base`, which were meant to return `False`
when the DSL is absent but would have raised `ModuleNotFoundError` instead.
Two modules had already worked around this by hand-rolling the same
`find_spec("cutlass")` check inline, one of them with a comment naming the cause
("without importing cute_dsl/utils.py, which has top-level `import cutlass`");
both now call the shared probe.
Add a regression test that imports flashinfer with cutlass hidden from the import
system, so this cannot silently return the next time an import is added to the
base path — which is exactly how it arrived.
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/availability.py`:
- Line 47: Add functools.cache to is_cute_dsl_available so the base
package-discovery probe is executed only once, matching the caching behavior of
dependent availability probes.
- Around line 162-165: Update the exception handler in
is_cute_dsl_arch_supported() to return False when importing or querying Arch
fails, so sm120a_available() with native_only=True requires confirmed sm_120a
support.
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## 📌 Description Backport of two SM107 (Rubin) fixes from #4787 to `release-v0.6.18`. Two files, +82 lines. **This is not identical to #4787**, deliberately: * The `cute_dsl/tuner.py` guard from #4787 is **omitted** — this branch already carries it via #4761. * The `isArchCompatible`/`Sm100f` change from #4787 is **omitted** — see *Deliberately excluded* below. * `#4474` was considered and **excluded** — see *Not included* below. * The `fix(moe)` commit shares #4787's title but **is not the same code** — see *Why the shared commit differs* below. ### 1. `fix(moe)` — decline the CuTe DSL NVFP4 backend on SM107 without CuTe DSL 4.8 `CuteDslNvfp4Runner._check_support()` checked only the activation type and the W4A16 per-token scale. On a public CuTe DSL 4.7.0 stack the runner therefore passed the support check, survived `build()`, and entered `MoELayer.runners` — and the failure surfaced from inside `forward()` instead of from backend selection: ``` NotImplementedError: The SM107 (Rubin) CuTe DSL gather/activation-fusion grouped GEMM requires CuTe DSL >= 4.8, which provides cutlass.utils.rubin_helpers; the installed CuTe DSL does not have it. ``` Probing the DSL at support-check time lets `MoELayer` drop the backend at build time, so `auto` routes elsewhere and callers that enumerate backends see it absent rather than failing mid-call. `tests/moe/test_unified_moe.py::test_each_backend_matches_reference` already anticipates exactly this — it skips a backend that is not in `layer.runners` — but nothing made that true for the DSL-version case. The probe is **arch-conditional on purpose**: only the SM107 kernels need `rubin_helpers`, so an older DSL remains fully usable on SM100/SM103. Gating unconditionally would drop a working backend on Blackwell. This complements the tactic-level guard already on this branch, which covers the autotuning path. A direct `forward(tactic=-1)` bypasses tactic filtering entirely, so the two guards cover different entry points and neither subsumes the other. ### 2. `test(moe)` — skip SM107 parameterizations the CuTe DSL kernels do not implement `fused_moe/cute_dsl/rubin/` holds a narrower specialisation of the Blackwell kernels: the gather kernel hardcodes SwiGLU and exposes no `activation_type`, its wrapper has no `a_per_token_scale_ptr`, and the finalize kernel has no unfused path. The `NotImplementedError`s for `use_a_per_token_scale`, `use_fused_finalize=False` and `GegluTanh` are accurate statements about kernel code that does not exist — product gaps, not defects — but they report as failures on every SM107 run (~162 occurrences per job). No dispatch-level fix is possible, and that was measured rather than assumed: the affected tests call `cute_dsl_fused_moe_nvfp4()` directly and contain zero `MoELayer` references, so there is no backend selection to influence. Tuner tactic predicates were never executed (Rubin branch hit count 0), `_check_support()` declines regressed two passing tests without fixing any, and a dispatch catch-and-fall-back fired zero times. The skip is decided **from the parameterization, before the test body runs**, so it cannot absorb a genuine regression — anything failing for a different reason still fails. The three parameters are parametrized only in this file, so no other MoE test is affected. ### Why the shared commit differs from #4787 Same title, different body. This branch has the cutlass-free `flashinfer/cute_dsl/availability.py`; `main` does not have it yet (it arrives with #4753), and there `cute_dsl/utils.py` imports `cutlass` at module scope. Here (correct for this branch): ```python from ..cute_dsl.availability import is_rubin_cute_dsl_available if not is_rubin_cute_dsl_available(): ``` On #4787 (correct for `main` until #4753 lands): ```python try: from ..cute_dsl.utils import is_rubin_cute_dsl_available rubin_dsl_available = is_rubin_cute_dsl_available() except ImportError: rubin_dsl_available = False ``` Importing `cute_dsl.utils` on this branch would reintroduce the hard `cutlass` dependency #4753 removed, so a user with no CuTe DSL would get `ModuleNotFoundError` from a *support check* rather than a graceful decline. That is why this branch must use `availability` and `main` currently cannot. Once #4753 merges, #4787 collapses to the same two lines used here. **Consequence for review:** these two PRs are not a change and its backport — they are two branch-specific responses to real divergence. A review comment on one does not automatically apply to the other, and the `Sm100f` change is reviewable only on #4787. ## 🔍 Related Issues Backport of #4787. **Deliberately excluded — `isArchCompatible` accepting `Sm100f` on SM107.** #4787 carries a change widening the `Sm100f` case in `csrc/trtllm_batched_gemm_runner.cu` and `csrc/trtllm_gemm_runner.cu` to accept `smVersion == 107`. It is omitted here for two reasons: 1. **It would be inert.** #4789 landed on this branch after rc9 and filters the manifest per module variant, with `RUBIN_CUBIN_ARCHS = ("Sm107a",)` — so the Rubin module's manifest contains no `Sm100f` entries for a widened check to match. 2. **It contradicts #4789's stated premise.** That change documents *"sm100f cubins are NOT loadable on Rubin for BMM/GEMM — unlike trtllm-gen FMHA, whose `isSMCompatible()` does accept `kSM_100f` on `kSM_107`."* #4787 reads the same asymmetry the opposite way. I have measurements that appear to contradict that premise (an A/B on SM107 hardware where widening the check took a MoE tactics suite from 158 arch-rejection errors and 2 passing tests to 0 errors and 56 passing, correctness assertions included) — but also one segfault in two patched runs, which is exactly the hazard "not loadable" would predict. That disagreement should be resolved with the author of #4789 rather than by landing opposing changes on two branches, so it is not part of this PR. **Not included — the exhaustive-checker aliasing race.** `tests/attention/test_attention_ts_decode.py::test_attention_ts_decode_keeps_alias_schedule_is_race_free` fails all four parameterizations on this branch: ``` ValueError: Exhaustive checker found 1 aliasing race(s) after exploring {89505, 93178, 121713, 134567} states: Softmax0Task writes tmemSoftmaxLocal0 vs MmaTask prod tmemS0 ``` `TmemSoftmaxLocalResource.get_tmem_requirements()` declares a TMEM allocation the kernel never uses when `keeps_stats_via_smem` is set, so the checker correctly flags an overlap with a resource that is not really touched. #4474 stops declaring it, and cherry-picking #4474 onto this branch was verified to take the four tests from failing to passing on SM107 hardware. It is **excluded** because #4474 is a feature commit — *"add PrimTS Q64/KV256 and paged GQA block-sparse attention"*, 39 files, ~17.9k insertions — so it would have made this PR 99.6% unrelated payload to close a **test-only** failure that affects no runtime behaviour. A minimal extraction is not clean either: removing only the `tmem_softmax_stats.py` guard from `main` makes all four fail again with a *different* error (`TMEM usage (576 columns) exceeds hardware capacity (512)`), because #4474 also drops alias-group wiring this branch still relies on. That leaves it as a scoping decision for the prims_ts owner rather than something to smuggle in here. The failure remains open on this branch, which is its status today. ## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist ### ✅ 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. ## 🧪 Tests - [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed. - [ ] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Validated on SM107 hardware: | Change | Evidence | |---|---| | `test(moe)` skips | Affected subset on SM107 hardware — before: **3 failed / 11 passed / 0 skipped**; after: **0 failed / 11 passed / 3 skipped**. All three outcome counts checked against baseline, so the skips are exactly the three known gaps and no passing test was lost | | `fix(moe)` decline | Lazy-import paths **executed** on SM107 hardware: `_assert_rubin_cute_dsl_available()` runs, the `cute_dsl.utils` probe resolves and returns `True`, and the guarded `.rubin` kernel import succeeds. The *declining* branch is still unexercised — it needs a public CuTe DSL < 4.8 stack | ## Reviewer Notes * One case is matched by function identity, not by parameter.** `test_geglu_tanh_accuracy` sets its activation in the test body rather than via a parameter, so it is matched with `request.node.function.__name__ == "test_geglu_tanh_accuracy"`. An earlier revision used a substring match on `"geglu_tanh"`, which also caught `test_geglu_tanh_activation_is_supported` — a pure-Python assertion about `normalize_cute_dsl_moe_activation_type` that touches no kernel and passes on SM107. That silently cost one passing test; the exact match restores it, confirmed by the pass count above. * **`fix(moe)`'s decline branch is still unexercised.** Its import paths were executed on SM107 hardware, but the container ships CuTe DSL 4.8, so the probe returns `True` and the decline never fires. Only a public CuTe DSL 4.7.0 stack exercises it. An earlier revision of this commit imported `is_rubin_cute_dsl_available` from `cute_dsl.availability`, which exists on `release-v0.6.18` but **not** on `main`; because the import is function-local, `py_compile` and `ruff` both passed and only a runtime call would have caught it. It now imports from `cute_dsl.utils`, which provides the symbol on both branches, verified by execution.
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__all__lists.Ruff RUF022 reports the availability list and the conditional utility list as unsorted. Sort each list alphabetically so the static check passes consistently.
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/__init__.py`:
- Around line 84-89: Sort both __all__ lists alphabetically: the availability
entries containing is_cute_dsl_arch_supported and the conditional utility list.
Preserve all existing exports while reordering only the list contents to satisfy
Ruff RUF022.
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Ported from flashinfer-ai#4792 (merged to release-v0.6.18). * test_bmm_fp8: on a DSL older than 4.8, _can_implement_config_sm107 raises NotImplementedError, a surrounding except Exception turns that into "config invalid", and every SM107_AUTOTUNE_CONFIGS entry is rejected -- surfacing as a problem-shape error for a backend that is simply unavailable. Skip instead. * TestCuteDslMoeW4A16 was the only GPU-executing DSL class in the MoE file without pytestmark = _requires_dsl_arch; its entry point already calls require_cute_dsl_arch(..., native_only=True). * test_deterministic_finalize_numerical_accuracy passes use_fused_finalize=False in its body, so it escaped the parameterization-keyed fixture; matched by function identity, like test_geglu_tanh_accuracy. * SiTU is skipped on SM107: the gather kernel is SwiGLU-only and silently ignores situ_beta/situ_linear_beta. The bmm_fp8 probe is imported inside the SM107 cute-dsl branch and sourced from cute_dsl.utils rather than cute_dsl.availability: the latter does not exist on main until flashinfer-ai#4753 lands, and a module-scope import of it would break collection of the whole file. utils re-exports the probe after flashinfer-ai#4753, so this is correct either way.
Summary
import flashinferhard-requirednvidia-cutlass-dsl, even though the CuTe DSL is an optional dependency and the code is written to treat it as one.flashinfer/gemm/kernels/__init__.pyis a textbook optional-import guard:But the probe it calls lived in
flashinfer/cute_dsl/utils.py, which didimport cutlassat module scope. To ask whether cutlass is installed you first had to import a module that requires cutlass — so when it was absent, thefrom ... importraisedModuleNotFoundErrorand theifwas never reached. The guard was unreachable in the only circumstance it exists for.flashinfer/__init__.pyimports.gemmeagerly andgemm_base.pyimports.kernels.utils, so this ran on every import of the package:This affects any consumer without the DSL installed, not only those using CuTe-DSL paths. It surfaced as
Failed to compile AOT modules: No module named 'cutlass'in an AOT build job.The probes' own docstrings promise the opposite of the current behaviour — "fall back to a plain-CUDA implementation", and "on an older DSL the rest of the package still works and only the SM107 CuTe DSL paths are unavailable". Neither held. They are also already implemented with
importlib.util.find_spec, which needs nocutlassimport at all: the hard import was required by other code in the same file, not by the probes.What changed
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flashinfer/cute_dsl/availability.py— imports nothing fromcutlassat module scope, and carriesis_cute_dsl_available,is_rubin_cute_dsl_available,is_cute_dsl_experimental_available,is_cute_dsl_arch_supportedandrequire_cute_dsl_archverbatim. The few that need the DSL's own metadata (cutlass.base_dsl.arch.Arch) already imported it lazily inside atry, so they moved unchanged. The guard now has no dependency on the thing it guards.flashinfer/cute_dsl/__init__.py— imports only.availabilityeagerly; the cutlass-requiring re-exports (make_ptr,get_cutlass_dtype,get_num_sm, the scale-factor layout helpers) move behind the existingif is_cute_dsl_available():guard, along with their__all__entries. The subpackage is now importable without the DSL, sofrom flashinfer.cute_dsl import is_cute_dsl_availableworks too. Those symbols were listed as "always available" but were never importable without the DSL, so nothing that worked before stops working.flashinfer/cute_dsl/utils.py— re-exports the probes, so existingfrom flashinfer.cute_dsl.utils import ...call sites keep working when the DSL is installed. No public name moved.Call sites that run before the DSL is known present now import from
.availability. Besides the eager package guards, this fixes the lazy backend predicates innorm/__init__.py,mla/_core.py,kda_kernels/andgemm/gemm_base.py, which were meant to returnFalsewhen the DSL is absent but would have raisedModuleNotFoundErrorinstead. Call sites that only run inside CuTe-DSL kernel modules are left alone — those modules require the DSL anyway.Two hand-rolled workarounds removed.
topk_varlen/topk_varlen.pyandattn_scores/attn_scores.pyhad each inlined the samefind_spec("cutlass")check, one with a comment naming the exact cause:Both now call the shared probe.
Validation
Run on an SM107 host in the CI container (CuTe DSL 4.8.0a0), overlaying the branch's Python sources onto the built install:
import flashinfer, cutlass hiddenModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cutlass'atcute_dsl/utils.py:25, viagemm/kernels/__init__.py:32is_cute_dsl_available()→Falseimport flashinfer, cutlass presentcute_dsl.utils,cute_dsl.availabilityandcute_dslavail/rubin/experimental/archallTrueon cc (10, 7)tests/topk_varlen+tests/attention/test_cute_dsl_decode.pyThe GPU test failures are pre-existing on this host and identical on both sides — this change moves no kernel code and alters no dispatch decision when the DSL is installed.
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