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Refactor Sparse MLA SM120 - #4802

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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 perf(mla): optimize SM120 sparse MLA with swapped MMA operands #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 feat(mla): support native NoPE sparse MLA on SM120 #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 [bug fix] Issue 3700 sparse mla sm121 hang #4732 SM121 prefill-hang fix.
  • Also: row-strided indices (unblocks [Bugfix][SM120] DSv4: pass contiguous C128A decode topk indices on SM120 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.

lucifer1004 and others added 3 commits August 27, 2026 17:40
Under EP + speculative decoding a rank can receive zero tokens; the
SparseMLAPagedAttentionRunner rejects max_num_tokens == 0, so the decode
entry raised ValueError. Return the normalized out/lse buffers (or a fresh
flat empty lse) before runner construction, preserving caller-supplied
buffer identity.

Also make the 3D->2D indices reshape explicit about the last dim.

Supersedes flashinfer-ai#4461.

Co-authored-by: XingSong <sunwenhan@xfusion.com>
Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
…ry API

On a decode-form dispatch miss, name the actual mismatch (topk not
instantiated for this head count, heads not instantiated for this topk,
both, page_block_size != 64, d_qk family mismatch) and list the available
values, instead of a flat parameter dump. Add
supported_sparse_mla_sm120_configs() so callers can query the instantiated
(num_heads, topk) grid without reading private tables; the query API shares
the dispatch frozensets by reference so the two cannot drift.

Carried from flashinfer-ai#4551.

Co-authored-by: Sam Mausberg <samuelmausberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
The decode kernels addressed index rows as base + t_idx * TOPK with the
compile-time width, so callers had to materialize a packed copy of any
view into a wider persistent buffer (vLLM's CUDA-graph-stable C128A topk
buffer is narrowed per step, and its row stride is the buffer width).
Take the row stride from the tensor at the binding and pass it through to
the kernels for both decode variants and the DSv4 secondary cache. The
last dim must stay contiguous.

The binding previously claimed to capture the stride but never did; the
comment now matches the code. Both decode bindings also gain the missing
int32 dtype check.

Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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The SM120 sparse MLA implementation adds GLM53_NOPE and DOTS3_SWA support, planner-selected decode and prefill variants, calibrated chunks-per-block selection, padded cache-row handling, new CUDA kernels, public configuration queries, benchmarks, and expanded tests.

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SM120 sparse MLA expansion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Planning, calibration, and public API
flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_plan.py, flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py, flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py, flashinfer/mla/_core.py, flashinfer/mla/__init__.py
Adds model-aware planning, calibrated cpb and crossover selection, model validation, empty-input handling, public configuration queries, and prefill overrides.
Model traits and prefill kernel infrastructure
include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/model/*, include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/common/*, include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/arch/*, include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/prefill_common.cuh, include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/prefill_mg_kernel.cuh, include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/prefill_swapab_kernel.cuh
Adds model-specific traits, tile layouts, scale handling, sliding-window behavior, and the swapAB prefill kernel.
Decode kernel generalization and launch wiring
include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_*, csrc/sparse_mla_sm120*.cu
Adds model-specific decode configurations, row-stride propagation, sliding-window limits, and GLM53_NOPE and DOTS3_SWA dispatch instantiations.
Validation, benchmarks, and compatibility updates
tests/attention/test_sparse_mla_sm120_*, tests/autotuner/test_autotuner_core.py, benchmarks/bench_sparse_mla_sm120.py, docs/api/attention.rst, CLAUDE.md
Adds planner and cpb tests, updates benchmark scale-format coverage, documents public APIs, and updates calibration-cache documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to bc607

This change broadens sparse-MLA dispatch and adds a persistent runner, but the current head may produce incorrect GLM53_NOPE prefill results by using reserved rope padding even when no rope dimension exists. Shared default LSE storage, lazy initialization, and secondary-cache argument handling also leave bounded integration risks. Merge should wait for the prefill correctness issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: aleozlx, anerudhan, aneureka

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  participant Caller
  participant SparseMLAPlanner
  participant CpbModel
  participant PrefillOrDecodeLauncher
  Caller->>SparseMLAPlanner: request model-aware dispatch
  SparseMLAPlanner->>CpbModel: resolve cpb and crossover
  CpbModel-->>SparseMLAPlanner: selected variant and cpb
  SparseMLAPlanner->>PrefillOrDecodeLauncher: launch selected kernel
  PrefillOrDecodeLauncher-->>Caller: return output and LSE
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csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu (1)

138-138: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Two copies of the bytes-per-token ABI table now exist.

csrc/sparse_mla_sm120.cu lines 88-101 define bytes_per_token(ModelType) for all five model types. This file hardcodes the same numbers twice: 584/1160 at line 138 and BPT_DSV3_2 = 656 at line 218. A future model or a width change must update both places, and a mismatch produces wrong page geometry rather than a compile error.

Move the mapping into a shared header next to ModelType and call it from both translation units.

Also applies to: 218-219

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In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu` at line 138, Move the complete
bytes-per-token mapping, including the DSV3_2 value, into a shared header
alongside ModelType; expose a single reusable bytes-per-token helper and replace
the local mappings at the bytes_per_token calculation and BPT_DSV3_2 definition
so both translation units use it.
include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/arch/stmatrix_sm120.cuh (1)

42-55: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a static_assert that BYTES is a whole number of 128-byte load steps.

load_b iterates BYTES / 128 times, and each iteration moves 4 bytes per lane, that is 128 bytes per warp. The loop therefore covers the whole tile only when BYTES % 128 == 0. With HEADS_PER_WARP == 8 this requires N_CAND % 16 == 0. The current instantiations use the BI values 32 and 64, so the condition holds. HEADS_PER_WARP already has a guard; N_CAND does not. An N_CAND of 8 or 24 would truncate the division and silently skip the tail of the tile.

🛡️ Proposed one-line guard
   static constexpr int BYTES = HEADS_PER_WARP * N_CAND;
   static_assert(HEADS_PER_WARP == 8, "load_b's 16 * gid + 4 * tid addressing assumes 8 heads");
+  static_assert(BYTES % 128 == 0,
+                "load_b moves 128 B per iteration; a partial step would drop the tile tail");
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In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/arch/stmatrix_sm120.cuh` around
lines 42 - 55, Add a compile-time assertion in StMatrixTransB8Tile, alongside
the existing HEADS_PER_WARP guard, requiring BYTES to be divisible by 128 so
load_b cannot truncate the tile; preserve the current load_b iteration logic.
include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv3_2_kernel.cuh (1)

26-33: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the file-level KV layout comment for GLM53_NOPE.

The layout block documents [528 : 656) BF16 rope as the only interpretation of the 656-byte token row. This kernel now also serves GLM53_NOPE, where that range is reserved padding and must not be read as rope data, per KVCacheTraits<ModelType::GLM53_NOPE> in include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/model/kv_cache_traits.cuh. The kernel body is correct, and the inline comment at lines 259-260 is accurate. Extend the header block so the layout note matches every model this kernel is instantiated for.

📝 Proposed comment update
 //   [512   : 528)  4 × FP32 scale (one per 128-elem tile)
 //   [528   : 656)  BF16 rope, 64 elements × 2B
+// GLM53_NOPE reuses the same 656 B row but has D_ROPE = 0: [528 : 656) is
+// reserved padding and is never gathered or read as rope data.
 // DSv3.2 stores power-of-2 FP32 scales; GLM_NSA stores arbitrary FP32 scales.
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In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv3_2_kernel.cuh`
around lines 26 - 33, Update the file-level KV layout comment near the per-token
layout to document that the [528 : 656) region is BF16 rope for standard models
but reserved padding for GLM53_NOPE, matching
KVCacheTraits<ModelType::GLM53_NOPE>. Leave the kernel implementation and
existing inline comment unchanged.
flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py (1)

1048-1055: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Pass model_type into the split-count and validation helpers.

sparse_mla_sm120_decode_dsv3_2 receives model_type, but line 1055 calls _decode_dsv4_num_splits(indices.shape[-1]) with the default model_type=_MODEL_TYPE_DSV4, and lines 1048-1049 call _check_last_dim without a model type. Both are correct today because every V32-family model uses d_v=512 and chunk width 64. The docstring of _decode_dsv4_num_splits states that a wrong width silently drops the candidate tail, so the implicit default is fragile if a future V32-family model changes either constant.

♻️ Proposed refactor to make the helpers model-aware
-    _check_last_dim(output, "output")
-    _check_last_dim(mid_out, "mid_out")
+    _check_last_dim(output, "output", int(model_type))
+    _check_last_dim(mid_out, "mid_out", int(model_type))
     if q.shape[0] == 0:
         # Empty request: a kernel launch would hit a grid.x=0 CUDA error.
         return output
 
     module = _get_sparse_mla_sm120_decode_module()
-    num_splits = _decode_dsv4_num_splits(indices.shape[-1])
+    num_splits = _decode_dsv4_num_splits(indices.shape[-1], 0, int(model_type))
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In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py` around lines 1048 - 1055, Update
sparse_mla_sm120_decode_dsv3_2 to pass its model_type argument to both
_check_last_dim calls for output and mid_out, and to _decode_dsv4_num_splits
when computing num_splits, rather than relying on the DSV4 default.
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Add the two capacity asserts that smem_layout.cuh now carries.

DecodeDsv4Smem lends sm.reduce() to quantize_q_to_smem as amax scratch at Line 422. That use needs HPB * KV::NUM_SCALES floats. SMEM_REDUCE provides 2 * Cfg::N_WARPS * HPB floats. For DOTS3_SWA both are 128 floats, so the margin is zero: any future tile with fewer math warps or more quant tiles silently writes past OFF_REDUCE into sm.w_head_sc().

SmemLayout and SmemLayoutMG in common/smem_layout.cuh added exactly this guard (Lines 74-77 and 134-136). Mirror it here. Also add the TOTAL <= 101376 assert that both sibling layouts carry, so an oversize tile fails at compile time instead of at cudaFuncSetAttribute.

🛡️ Proposed asserts
   static constexpr size_t OFF_W_FP8 = OFF_W_HEAD_SC + SMEM_W_HEAD_SC;
+  static constexpr size_t TOTAL = OFF_W_FP8 + Cfg::KV_BUF_COUNT * SMEM_W_FP8_BUF;
+
+  // reduce() doubles as quantize_q_to_smem's per-(head, quant-tile) amax
+  // scratch; see SmemLayout::SMEM_REDUCE_AMAX.
+  static_assert(SMEM_REDUCE >= HPB * KV::NUM_SCALES * sizeof(float),
+                "reduce() doubles as quantize_q_to_smem's amax scratch; this tile is too narrow");
+  static_assert(TOTAL <= 101376, "decode smem exceeds the 99KB per-block limit");
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In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv4_kernel.cuh` around
lines 92 - 127, Add capacity static assertions to DecodeDsv4Smem: verify
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Inline comments:
In `@benchmarks/bench_sparse_mla_sm120.py`:
- Around line 521-522: Replace the Unicode multiplication signs in the DSv3.2
prefill comments with ASCII “x” or “by”, preserving the existing meaning and
comment content.

In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_decode_dsv4.cu`:
- Around line 84-87: Add the same sm_count <= 0 validation used by the sibling
launcher before the heuristic calculation in the launcher containing
chunks_per_block and cudaDeviceGetAttribute. Return the existing safe
fallback/error path before sm_count is used as the divisor in the active-based
heuristic, keeping the two launcher guards consistent.

In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu`:
- Around line 63-91: Update the KV layout validation around the row_bytes helper
and dsv4 launch path to reject any layout where stride_kv_row exceeds
bytes_per_token, for both HND and NHD forms, before dsv4 execution. Do not allow
padded main or extra KV cache rows unless the dsv4 launcher and kernel are
changed to receive and use the row stride.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py`:
- Around line 376-378: Update both decode timing branches in calibrate to call
_time_call_fresh_indices instead of _time_call, ensuring each repetition
generates fresh KV indices while preserving the existing timing and select_cpb
calibration flow.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_plan.py`:
- Around line 94-100: Update the CPB calibration-family mapping used by
_resolve_cpb so _MODEL_TYPE_GLM_NSA resolves to the valid "dsv3_2" family, while
preserving _MODEL_TYPE_TO_FAMILY for per-model crossover keys. Keep the existing
mappings for other model types unchanged.

In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/prefill_common.cuh`:
- Around line 25-29: Add the missing final BSD-3-Clause disclaimer line after
the existing truncated comment in the header license block, matching the
complete notice used by sibling headers. Preserve the rest of the preamble and
`#pragma` once unchanged.

In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/prefill_swapab_kernel.cuh`:
- Line 137: The prefill kernels must not access or compute RoPE when KV::D_ROPE
is zero. In prefill_swapab_kernel.cuh:137-137, guard the q-side prefetch and its
corresponding compute_qk_rope_swapab call; in prefill_mg_kernel.cuh:165-165,
guard preload_q_rope_regs, prefetch_kv_rope, compute_qk_rope, and the additional
MG RoPE calls at lines 869, 882, 1017, and 1160 with if constexpr (KV::D_ROPE >
0), preserving non-RoPE paths for GLM53_NOPE.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu`:
- Line 138: Move the complete bytes-per-token mapping, including the DSV3_2
value, into a shared header alongside ModelType; expose a single reusable
bytes-per-token helper and replace the local mappings at the bytes_per_token
calculation and BPT_DSV3_2 definition so both translation units use it.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1048-1055: Update sparse_mla_sm120_decode_dsv3_2 to pass its
model_type argument to both _check_last_dim calls for output and mid_out, and to
_decode_dsv4_num_splits when computing num_splits, rather than relying on the
DSV4 default.

In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/arch/stmatrix_sm120.cuh`:
- Around line 42-55: Add a compile-time assertion in StMatrixTransB8Tile,
alongside the existing HEADS_PER_WARP guard, requiring BYTES to be divisible by
128 so load_b cannot truncate the tile; preserve the current load_b iteration
logic.

In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv3_2_kernel.cuh`:
- Around line 26-33: Update the file-level KV layout comment near the per-token
layout to document that the [528 : 656) region is BF16 rope for standard models
but reserved padding for GLM53_NOPE, matching
KVCacheTraits<ModelType::GLM53_NOPE>. Leave the kernel implementation and
existing inline comment unchanged.

In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv4_kernel.cuh`:
- Around line 92-127: Add capacity static assertions to DecodeDsv4Smem: verify
SMEM_REDUCE has room for HPB * KV::NUM_SCALES float scratch values and enforce
the shared-memory total is at most 101376 bytes, matching SmemLayout and
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flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py (1)

500-506: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Silence the two ruff findings in this loop.

Ruff reports RUF005 on line 500 and RUF059 for the unused h_b and n unpack targets on line 504. The lstsq rows use only waves and splits.

🧹 Proposed lint fix
-    sat = list(range(4)) + [5]
+    sat = [*range(4), 5]
     a_rows, b_rows = [], []
     for i in sat:
         num_tokens, num_heads, topk, cpb = measurements[i]
-        h_b, n, splits, waves = shape_terms(num_tokens, num_heads, topk, cpb)
+        _, _, splits, waves = shape_terms(num_tokens, num_heads, topk, cpb)
         a_rows.append((waves, splits))
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In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py` around lines 500 - 506, Update the
loop over sat to avoid RUF005 by using an appropriate unpacking or concatenation
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tests/attention/test_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb_model.py (1)

462-465: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the clean_cpb_state fixture in this test.

This test sets FLASHINFER_AUTOTUNE_DIR and then calls cpb_mod.save_constants(device, "dsv4", _C) with the real _device_key. It does not request clean_cpb_state, so cpb_mod._constants keeps the synthetic _C entry for the real device after the test ends. Later tests in the same session that expect the uncalibrated fallback (for example _resolve_cpb(...) == -1) can then observe the injected constants.

Add the fixture so the process-level cpb state is cleared before and after this test.

♻️ Proposed change
 `@requires_sm12x`
-def test_model_path_dual_cache_wiring(monkeypatch, tmp_path) -> None:
+def test_model_path_dual_cache_wiring(clean_cpb_state, monkeypatch, tmp_path) -> None:

Also applies to: 504-505

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In `@tests/attention/test_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb_model.py` around lines 462 - 465,
Update test_model_path_dual_cache_wiring to accept and use the clean_cpb_state
fixture, ensuring process-level CPB constants are cleared before and after the
test while preserving its existing assertions and setup.
csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu (1)

138-138: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move bytes_per_token(ModelType) to a shared header and use it in both translation units. The current helper is local to csrc/sparse_mla_sm120.cu; this binding duplicates its values at lines 138 and 229. If the values diverge, parse_paged_kv_layout can validate caches against the wrong row width.

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In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu` at line 138, Move the
bytes_per_token(ModelType) helper from sparse_mla_sm120.cu into a shared header,
then replace the duplicated ternary values in the binding’s
parse_paged_kv_layout paths with that helper. Ensure both translation units use
the same ModelType-to-row-width mapping.
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Inline comments:
In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu`:
- Around line 67-88: Update parse_paged_kv_layout to derive the returned row
advance from the selected token-axis stride rather than kv.size(-1) *
elem_bytes, and require the last dimension to be contiguous. For 3D layouts use
the token-axis stride directly; for 4D layouts select the HND or NHD token axis
explicitly and return its stride while preserving the existing layout
validation.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py`:
- Around line 789-793: Validate that each JSON payload is a dictionary before
calling mapping methods, and validate that its "devices" value is also a
dictionary before using setdefault or related operations. Apply these checks in
the load path around payload, and in save_constants and save_crossover for
existing persisted data; treat invalid shapes as absent according to the
existing error-handling contract.
- Around line 765-775: Update _device_key to resolve the effective device index
before cache lookup, then key _device_key_cache by that integer index rather
than the torch.device object; update the cache annotation accordingly while
preserving device-name key construction.
- Around line 788-808: Update _maybe_load_disk to parse all constants and
crossover values into local dictionaries first, including constructing each
CpbConstants successfully, and only replace _constants and _crossover and
advance _cache_mtime/_constants_version after the entire payload validates. On
any parsing error, leave all existing module-level state and version unchanged
so dependent caches remain consistent.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_plan.py`:
- Around line 419-456: Update both calibration try/except blocks in the
surrounding planning flow to catch RuntimeError alongside CalibrationError and
torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError, ensuring decode kernel-launch failures trigger the
existing warning, failure marking, and documented fallback behavior for both CPB
and crossover calibration.

In `@tests/attention/test_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb_model.py`:
- Around line 44-47: Update the requires_sm12x skip condition to short-circuit
when CUDA is unavailable before calling is_sm12x_supported, using
torch.cuda.is_available() and preserving the existing SM12x capability check for
available devices.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@csrc/sparse_mla_sm120_jit_binding.cu`:
- Line 138: Move the bytes_per_token(ModelType) helper from sparse_mla_sm120.cu
into a shared header, then replace the duplicated ternary values in the
binding’s parse_paged_kv_layout paths with that helper. Ensure both translation
units use the same ModelType-to-row-width mapping.

In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py`:
- Around line 500-506: Update the loop over sat to avoid RUF005 by using an
appropriate unpacking or concatenation form, and replace the unused h_b and n
targets from shape_terms with explicitly ignored unpack targets while preserving
the existing a_rows and b_rows calculations.

In `@tests/attention/test_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb_model.py`:
- Around line 462-465: Update test_model_path_dual_cache_wiring to accept and
use the clean_cpb_state fixture, ensuring process-level CPB constants are
cleared before and after the test while preserving its existing assertions and
setup.
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include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv4_kernel.cuh (1)

265-272: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the math warps cover the whole V chunk.

NT_PER_WARP_XV uses floored integer division. The XV writeback at line 751 covers Cfg::N_WARPS * NT_PER_WARP_XV * 8 V dimensions, so a future tile configuration where V_CHUNK / 8 is not a multiple of Cfg::N_WARPS silently drops V dimensions instead of failing to compile. The same hazard already has a guard for ENTRIES_PER_WARP.

♻️ Proposed guard
   constexpr int NT_PER_WARP_XV = V_CHUNK / 8 / Cfg::N_WARPS;   // 1
+  static_assert(V_CHUNK % (8 * Cfg::N_WARPS) == 0,
+                "math warps must cover the whole V chunk; otherwise NT_PER_WARP_XV floors and "
+                "drops V dimensions");
   constexpr int XV_KSTEPS = Cfg::BI / 32;                      // 2
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In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv4_kernel.cuh` around
lines 265 - 272, Add a compile-time assertion near NT_PER_WARP_XV in the decode
kernel configuration to require V_CHUNK / 8 to be evenly divisible by
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Inline comments:
In `@flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1122-1124: Update the indices documentation for the DOTS3_SWA path
in the helper handling d_qk == 1088 to include its 513-entry candidate list and
32-wide split calculation, alongside the existing valid topk values, so callers
allocate correctly sized scratch buffers.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@include/flashinfer/attention/sparse_mla_sm120/decode_dsv4_kernel.cuh`:
- Around line 265-272: Add a compile-time assertion near NT_PER_WARP_XV in the
decode kernel configuration to require V_CHUNK / 8 to be evenly divisible by
Cfg::N_WARPS, ensuring math warps cover the entire V chunk and preventing
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…tical model

The per-shape AutoTuner sweep profiled decode-dsv4/dsv3_2 with synthetic
indices drawn from a 256-slot pool, so the profiled working set was
L2-resident; on some GPUs the tuned chunks_per_block was measurably slower
than the C++ heuristic for HBM-resident serving workloads.

Replace the sweep with a closed-form model over five hardware constants
(gather/bandwidth term with tail waves, fixed per-block overhead, per-split
merge term, single-SM latency-bound rate) in the new
flashinfer/mla/_sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.py. Constants are calibrated once per
(device, family) during the existing autotune() tuning-mode lifecycle by
timing six fixed shapes against a ~2 GiB KV pool with full-pool uniform
indices (HBM-faithful working set), and persisted to
$FLASHINFER_AUTOTUNE_DIR/sparse_mla_sm120_cpb.json (schema_version 1,
keyed by device index:name, merged per family; dsv3_2 and GLM-NSA share
the "dsv3_2" entry). Steady-state calls load constants mtime-gated from
disk and evaluate select_cpb() per call (O(N), no per-shape caching);
corrupt or mismatched caches count as absent. Without constants, and on
calibration failure (warned once, then suppressed in-process), decode
falls back to the C++ heuristic via cpb_override=-1; an explicit
chunks_per_block still goes straight to the kernel.

The (c0, beta) least squares uses the saturated-regime points M1..M4 plus
M6 (T=32, topk=512), which shares M4's split count at half its waves;
without M6 the fixed-T=64/H=128 (waves, s) feature rows are proportional
and the c0/beta split is rank-deficient. If the fitted beta still comes
out negative (merge cost below measurement noise), it is clamped to 0 and
c0 is refit (NNLS active-set step); the implausible-constants guard still
rejects non-positive inv_bw/inv_rsm/c0.

select_cpb additionally applies an L2-footprint guard rail: each token's
candidate set is re-read once per 16-wide head tile, and the re-reads hit
L2 only while the concurrent streaming footprint min(G, S) * cpb * W fits
in L2. Beyond it, per-chunk cost degrades ~45% (measured with ncu at the
N=50 dual-cache shape: L2 hit 87% -> 70%, DRAM re-reads 2x compulsory),
which no closed-form term captures, so such cpb values are excluded from
selection (falling back to the unconstrained argmin if nothing fits). The
L2 size rides along in CpbConstants from device properties (not measured);
caches written before this field existed fail to load and are recalibrated.
The C++ heuristic's blind spot is noted but unchanged: its
CEIL_WAVES_MAX=3 cap excludes the winning cpb=19 config at the N=50 shape
(s=3 -> 9 waves).

This also removes the upstream-main autotune integration for these
kernels (TunableRunner subclasses, tuning configs, bucket maps, tensor
initializers, hot caches, disk caches), so the upstream test
test_sparse_mla_tuning_config_initializer_indices in
tests/autotuner/test_autotuner_core.py is removed with it.

Signed-off-by: Zihua Wu <13583761+lucifer1004@users.noreply.github.com>
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[FAILED] Pipeline #65919137 — 15/17 executed test jobs passed

Compared with nightly #65814627 (different CI configuration).

Unit Tests

GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 Other Notes
B200 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
GB200 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
GB300 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
H100 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ❔ Unknown ✅ Pass Not compared: tests.attention.test_xqa (41120 failures; CUDA 12.9)
Not compared: tests.attention.test_rope (30254 failures; CUDA 12.9)
Not compared: tests.attention.test_sliding_window (10496 failures; CUDA 12.9)
… and 44 more
VR200 CU134 ❔ Unknown Not compared: tests.attention.test_attention_ts_context (78 failures)
Not compared: tests.attention.test_dcp_spec_fp8 (12 failures)
Not compared: tests.attention.test_cute_dsl_fmha_backend (2 failures)
… and 1 more

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

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

GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 Other Notes
B300 (multi-GPU) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
GB200 (multi-node) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
GB300 (multi-node) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass
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Data point: NH=16 (TP4) production serving on SM120, PCIe — the envelope works

Thanks for the refactor — the runtime-topk design removing the enumerated dispatch arms is exactly what we needed. Sharing a production validation at a head count none of the prior #4850 reporters covered (TP1 → H=64, TP2 → H=32; we run TP4 → H=16 per rank).

Setup: 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server (SM120, cc 12.0), PCIe only, no NVLink. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, TP=4 + EP, --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --block-size 256 --max-model-len 524288 (also validated at 1048576), DSpark k=3, vLLM main (0.28.1rc1.dev349+gee0a4c46a, post-#54566).

Since this PR isn't merged, we ran stock flashinfer-python 0.6.18 with a local backport of the same envelope onto the current dispatcher (dual-cache CM arms at topk=512, extra_page_block_size ∈ {64, 2}, num_heads=16). Two notes that may be useful:

  1. We instantiated ComputeMode::FP8 arms at <DSV4, FP8, 16, 512, 64, {64|2}, 1> — consistent with the stock single-cache dispatcher in this file, which already uses FP8 for its 512 arms (verified in the 0.6.18 module symbols). fix(sm120): support DeepSeek V4 Vision dual-cache prefill #4850's dual arms used BF16 at H=32/64; both compile and run at 512 in the respective reports, in case that informs the sizing rule you land on.
  2. The first real image prefill is the only trigger — warmup with no image never widens the window, so topk stays 128 and serving looks healthy until the first multimodal request. Worth a regression test covering a vision-widened prefill at each head count.

Validated in production: 96-conc text 180s and 32-conc with 30% image traffic 120s (both at --max-model-len 131072) — zero Unsupported sparse-MLA / zero errors; 1M-context serving validated separately incl. 60K-token+image prefills (~21 s). DSpark k=3 mean accepted length ≈ 2.87 tok/step (62% acceptance); TPOT p50 110 ms at conc 32. Image-size matrix from 100×80 (upscale path) to 12 MP (token-capped) including 25:1 aspect-crop paths all pass; 128 GiB SimpleCPUOffloadConnector stable.

Looking forward to this landing so we can drop the local patch — happy to run this branch's csrc through the same production workload as an independent check if useful.

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@flashinfer-bot run

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/bot run tests/attention

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GitLab MR !1353 has been updated with latest changes, and the CI pipeline #66089068 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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Tested against my own config based on the previous PR:

   Test                                                 Baseline      Candidate                Difference
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   Controlled 256-token prompt, median decode         47.1 tok/s     48.2 tok/s                     +2.3%
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   Natural high-reasoning workload, median decode    31.88 tok/s    31.34 tok/s                     -1.7%
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   Fresh 131K prompt TTFT                               71.880 s       69.611 s                     -3.2%
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   Fresh 131K prompt decode                           42.7 tok/s     53.9 tok/s                    +26.2%
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   MTP acceptance, 20 trials                               78.4%          76.2%    -2.2 percentage points
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   Warm vision regression suite                      8/8, 4.15 s    8/8, 4.07 s     Effectively unchanged
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────  ─────────────  ─────────────  ────────────────────────
   Tool-calling suite                                        7/7            7/7             No regression

### MTP acceptance by position

Baseline, 20 trials:

  • Overall: 78.4% (1790/2283)
  • Position 0: 87.6%
  • Position 1: 76.1%
  • Position 2: 71.5%

Candidate, 20 trials:

  • Overall: 76.2% (1769/2322)
  • Position 0: 87.9%
  • Position 1: 73.1%
  • Position 2: 67.6%

Testing Configuration

Hardware

  • 2x ASUS Ascent GX10
  • NVIDIA GB10 GPU on each node
  • 128 GB unified memory per node (approximately 121 GiB visible to Linux)
  • 20-core ARM CPU per node
  • ConnectX-7 200 Gb/s RoCEv2 interconnect
  • Tensor parallel across both nodes
  • Concurrency: one sequence
  • Architecture: aarch64
  • Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-1029-nvidia
  • NVIDIA driver: 580.173.02

Software

Component Version
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
vLLM 0.28.1rc1.dev317+g1356635d8
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
vLLM commit 1356635d837c4ef002ec98c1a0296e7ff60be3c1
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
PyTorch 2.13.0+cu130
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
CUDA 13.0
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
NCCL 2.29.7
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
FlashInfer package 0.6.18
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
Baseline FlashInfer commit 26fabfe
───────────────────────────── ──────────────────────────────────────────
Candidate FlashInfer commit 453aa7c

Model

  • Model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
  • Pinned revision: e46e16bf6035c6f317eb2ac7458eb0362926d402
  • Architecture: DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
  • Weight quantization: FP8, E4M3, dynamic activations
  • Weight block size: [128, 128]
  • KV cache: FP8
  • Maximum context: 1,048,576
  • Maximum sequences: 1
  • Vision limit: 8 images per prompt
  • Video disabled
  • MTP: 3 speculative tokens
  • MTP sampling: probabilistic
  • Adaptive verification: disabled

Relevant vLLM launch arguments

vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
--revision e46e16bf6035c6f317eb2ac7458eb0362926d402
--served-model-name deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp
--tensor-parallel-size 2
--pipeline-parallel-size 1
--enable-expert-parallel
--distributed-executor-backend mp
--nnodes 2
--kv-cache-dtype fp8
--block-size 256
--max-model-len 1048576
--max-num-seqs 1
--max-num-batched-tokens 8192
--long-prefill-token-threshold 1024
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.80
--max-cudagraph-capture-size 4
--enable-prefix-caching
--enable-chunked-prefill
--async-scheduling
--speculative-config '{
"method": "dspark",
"model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp",
"revision": "e46e16bf6035c6f317eb2ac7458eb0362926d402",
"num_speculative_tokens": 3,
"draft_sample_method": "probabilistic",
"enable_adaptive_verification": false
}'
--tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4
--limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image":8,"video":0}'
--no-enable-flashinfer-autotune

Relevant environment

TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST=12.1a
FLASHINFER_CUDA_ARCH_LIST=12.1a
VLLM_USE_BREAKABLE_CUDAGRAPH=1
VLLM_PREFIX_CACHE_RETENTION_INTERVAL=4096
PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True

NCCL_IB_DISABLE=0
NCCL_NET=IB
NCCL_IB_GID_INDEX=3
NCCL_IB_ROCE_VERSION_NUM=2
NCCL_CROSS_NIC=1
NCCL_IB_MERGE_NICS=1
NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE=0
NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0

The candidate was explicitly calibrated on both nodes for DeepSeek V4 with 64 local heads per TP rank and top-k 128. The generated calibration caches were isolated from the baseline caches.

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Thanks for landing this. Reporting a follow-up from the same SM120 envelope, in case
it is useful to whoever touched this code most recently.

With a build carrying the runtime topk_extra dispatch (803c466), DSV4 Vision on
2x RTX PRO 6000 (SM120, TP=2, PHB) now starts cleanly and serves images
correctly
— a synthetic PNG is described accurately and usage reports
multimodal_tokens. So the dispatch side looks right.

What still fails is a long text-only prompt (~13.6k tokens) on the same
vision checkpoint: generation starts and then both TP workers abort with
CUDA error: an illegal memory access was encountered.

The part that made me think it belongs here rather than in an integration issue:
it reproduces identically on two independent implementations of the dual-cache
path — the 803c466 runtime-dispatch build, and a locally patched 0.6.18 using the
topk == 512 template arm from #4850. Same request, same abort, both workers.

Full environment, config and traces: #4973

The text-only DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint runs for days on the same box with
the same TP/KV/spec-decode settings without faults, so it looks specific to the
vision variant's wider prefill SWA index (128 + 384 = 512).

Happy to re-run with compute-sanitizer or CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1 if that helps.

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Thanks for landing this. Reporting a follow-up from the same SM120 envelope, in case it is useful to whoever touched this code most recently.

With a build carrying the runtime topk_extra dispatch (803c466), DSV4 Vision on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (SM120, TP=2, PHB) now starts cleanly and serves images correctly — a synthetic PNG is described accurately and usage reports multimodal_tokens. So the dispatch side looks right.

What still fails is a long text-only prompt (~13.6k tokens) on the same vision checkpoint: generation starts and then both TP workers abort with CUDA error: an illegal memory access was encountered.

The part that made me think it belongs here rather than in an integration issue: it reproduces identically on two independent implementations of the dual-cache path — the 803c466 runtime-dispatch build, and a locally patched 0.6.18 using the topk == 512 template arm from #4850. Same request, same abort, both workers.

Full environment, config and traces: #4973

The text-only DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint runs for days on the same box with the same TP/KV/spec-decode settings without faults, so it looks specific to the vision variant's wider prefill SWA index (128 + 384 = 512).

Happy to re-run with compute-sanitizer or CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1 if that helps.

Hey! Have you tried vllm-project/vllm#54110 + vllm-project/vllm#54631 on the current main vLLM? I haven’t had the time yet to identify which of my changes would explicitly fix your problems, but I don’t see the same issues with long text prompts as you, but I did before

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@JaviAFKzX It seems you are not using this PR (or FlashInfer main since it has been merged now)?

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@JaviAFKzX It seems you are not using this PR (or FlashInfer main since it has been merged now)?

You are right, and thanks for catching it — we were not on your PR.

The image we tested pins FlashInfer at 803c466, which is a diverged branch, not
main. Checking now:

  • 803c466 vs main: diverged, main is 236 commits ahead
  • if (topk != 128) return false; in sparse_mla_sm120_prefill.cu:
    still present on 803c466, gone on main

So everything we reported was measured against a tree that still had the original
limitation. That also explains a result we could not account for: after backporting
vllm#54110 on top of that old FlashInfer, the illegal access disappeared but we got
torch_call_dispatcher("aten::new_empty") API call failed instead, and then on a
later run it worked but at 8.3 tok/s (vs ~190 tok/s for the text-only checkpoint on
the same box) and we could not reproduce the difference deterministically. We were
patching around something main had already solved differently.

We will rebuild against FlashInfer main and re-test, and report back with numbers.

One thing from our side that may still be worth a look regardless, since it is
independent of which FlashInfer we use: top_k_per_row_decode in sampler.cu
branches on kSortingAlgorithmThreshold = 12288. Below that it uses insertion sort
with no allocation; above it, it calls torch::stable::empty (four sites). Our
failing row was ~13.6k tokens, i.e. just above the threshold — which is why short
prompts were always fine. If vllm#54110's fallback is meant to cover long rows on
<128 KiB-smem devices, that allocating branch is the one it will land on.

Environment for reference: 2x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (SM120, 99 KiB opt-in smem per
block), TP=2, PHB, driver 595.84, torch 2.13.0, CUDA 13.3.

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