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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSM100/103 tactic selection now uses estimated CTA counts, wave counts, and per-CTA traffic. The SM100 no-autotune path ranks valid tactics instead of choosing the first one. SM100 kernel compilation now uses optimization level 2. ChangesSM100/103 tactic selection
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The no-autotune SM100/SM103 GEMM path now selects tactics by estimated cost, but one two-CTA tactic is counted as a single CTA. Some shapes may therefore choose a slower default tactic, reducing the intended performance improvement. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@flashinfer/gemm/gemm_bf16_fp4_cute_dsl.py`:
- Around line 652-653: Update the CTA count calculation in
_select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic to derive ctas_per_tile from
cluster_shape_mn by multiplying its two dimensions as integers, replacing the
tile_n-based condition while preserving the existing ceiling-based m and n tile
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| ctas_per_tile = 2 if tile_n == 256 else 1 | ||
| return -(-n // tile_n) * ctas_per_tile * -(-m // tile_m) |
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Count CTAs from cluster_shape_mn.
The (128, ..., (2, 1)) tactic launches a two-CTA cluster, but this code counts it as one CTA because tile_n != 256. This underestimates waves in _select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic and can select a slower tactic. Use int(cluster_shape_mn[0]) * int(cluster_shape_mn[1]) for ctas_per_tile.
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In `@flashinfer/gemm/gemm_bf16_fp4_cute_dsl.py` around lines 652 - 653, Update the
CTA count calculation in _select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic to derive
ctas_per_tile from cluster_shape_mn by multiplying its two dimensions as
integers, replacing the tile_n-based condition while preserving the existing
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Reviewed with an independent before/after measurement on a B200 (148 SMs, CUPTI median kernel time, no autotune, n=k=4096), comparing main (O3 + valid[0]) against this head (5af0b757):
| m | before | after | speedup |
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| 1 | 0.0283 ms | 0.0265 ms | 1.07x |
| 32 | 0.0290 | 0.0272 | 1.07x |
| 128 | 0.0914 | 0.0274 | 3.3x |
| 512 | 0.2988 | 0.0308 | 9.7x |
| 2048 | 1.1695 | 0.0886 | 13.2x |
No shape slower; the m<=32 gain is the O2 restore, the rest is the selector. These exceed the description's table because they include both changes (the description isolates change 2 at O2) — direction and magnitude are consistent. Clocks were unlocked, both runs back-to-back.
No correctness issues found — any valid tactic is numerically correct and the existing untuned-path and every-tactic tests cover that. Three non-blocking notes inline: the selector's per-call host cost (~17 us measured), the absence of a behavioral test pinning what this PR fixes, and a counterpoint to the earlier CTA-count bot comment (I believe the current tile_n == 256 rule is right). One nit not worth a thread: the commit message says "Re reset o-level to 3" while the diff sets --opt-level 2 — the PR title is correct, but the commit is what bisect shows.
The write-up (ncu root-cause, rejected alternatives, per-tactic ground truth, honest GB300 caveat) is the standard I'd point other perf PRs at. (AI-assisted review per docs/code_review_guidance.md.)
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| waves * (tile_n + 4 * tile_m), | ||
| bool(tactic[2]), | ||
| _SM100_BF16_FP4_TACTICS.index(tactic), |
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[non-blocking] This adds ~17 us of host time to every no-autotune call. rank() runs _SM100_BF16_FP4_TACTICS.index(tactic) — an O(30) scan of nested tuples — inside a min() over the 30 tactics, so roughly 900 tuple comparisons per call; I measured 17.1–18.2 us regardless of shape, versus O(1) for the valid[0] it replaces. For an m=1 decode whose kernel is ~26 us on B200 that is a real addition to the launch path when the caller is not CUDA-graphed — and the untuned path is exactly the one such callers hit.
Two cheap fixes, either is enough: memoize the result per (m, n, sm_count) (valid is itself a pure function of shape, so an lru_cache on a small helper is safe), or precompute a {tactic: index} dict so the tie-break is O(1). get_device_sm_count is already cached, so that part is fine.
Measurement — B200, PR head 5af0b75
python - <<"PY"
import time
import flashinfer.gemm.gemm_bf16_fp4_cute_dsl as mod
T = list(mod._SM100_BF16_FP4_TACTICS)
for m, n in ((1, 4096), (128, 6656), (2048, 19968)):
t0 = time.perf_counter(); N = 200
for _ in range(N):
mod._select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic(T, m, n, 148)
print(f"m={m:4d} n={n:5d}: {(time.perf_counter()-t0)/N*1e6:6.1f} us/call")
PYObserved:
m= 1 n= 4096: 17.1 us/call
m= 128 n= 6656: 17.7 us/call
m=2048 n=19968: 18.2 us/call
| m, k = map(int, a.shape) | ||
| if valid: | ||
| tactic = valid[0] | ||
| tactic = _select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic( |
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[non-blocking] Nothing in tests/ pins the behavior this PR exists to fix. The selector is a pure, deterministic function, but the "18/18 shapes verified by intercepting _launch_cute_dsl_sm100" check lives only in your ad-hoc script; the existing tests (test_backend_matches_handwritten_dequant_matmul with auto_tuning=False, test_cute_dsl_every_tactic_matches_reference) assert numerics only, which any valid tactic passes. #4686 regressed precisely because nothing asserted the opt-level or the untuned tactic.
A ~20-line unit test would close that class for good: expected picks for a few (m, n, sm_count) (e.g. (1,4096) -> (128,8,256),(1,1),False; (128,4096) -> (128,32,...); (2048,4096) -> (128,128,...)), tile growing monotonically with m, ties resolving to raster_along_m=False, and an assertion that the dense path's compile options carry --opt-level 2.
grep -n '_select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic\|opt-level' tests/gemm/test_mm_bf16_fp4.py || echo "no test references the selector or the opt-level"| tile; every other shape is one. | ||
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| (tile_n, tile_m, _), _, _ = tactic | ||
| ctas_per_tile = 2 if tile_n == 256 else 1 |
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[counterpoint to the CTA-count bot comment above — I think this line is correct as written.] use_2cta_instrs = mma_tiler_mnk[0] == 256 (lines 724 / 890) shows the 256-wide tile is the cooperative two-CTA tile, so it costs 2 CTAs per tile; a (128, ..., (2, 1)) tactic is a cluster of two independent 128-tiles at one CTA each, so its per-tile cost is 1 and the total CTA count is unchanged. Multiplying by cluster_shape_mn would double-count those 10 tactics.
Empirically it also would not matter: re-ranking with cluster-based counting changes 0 of 18 selections on the description's shape grid (both rules pick cluster (1,1) everywhere). A one-sentence note in the docstring on why cluster shape is deliberately not used would pre-empt the question for the next reader.
Check — CPU only, PR head 5af0b75
python - <<"PY"
import flashinfer.gemm.gemm_bf16_fp4_cute_dsl as mod
T = mod._SM100_BF16_FP4_TACTICS
def ctas_cluster(t, m, n):
(tn, tm, _), (cx, cy), _ = t
return -(-n // tn) * (cx * cy) * -(-m // tm)
def pick(count, m, n, sm=148):
return min(T, key=lambda t: (-(-count(t, m, n) // sm) * (t[0][0] + 4 * t[0][1]), bool(t[2]), T.index(t)))
shapes = [(m, n) for m in (1, 8, 32, 128, 512, 2048) for n in (4096, 6656, 19968)]
diff = sum(pick(mod._sm100_bf16_fp4_tactic_ctas, m, n) != pick(ctas_cluster, m, n) for m, n in shapes)
print(f"selections that change with cluster-based counting: {diff}/{len(shapes)}")
PYObserved:
selections that change with cluster-based counting: 0/18
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📌 Description
Two fixes to the SM100/SM103 CuTe-DSL dense W4A16 (
mm_bf16_fp4) path. Both affect only the no-autotune path; autotuned callers are untouched by change 2 and lose ~2.7% from change 1 (see below).1. Restore
--opt-level 2(regression from #4686)#4686 dropped this path's explicit
--opt-level 2and let the CuTe DSL default (3) apply. On B300 that is a 1.5-1.8x regression on the shapes the perf CI runs:Measured per tactic, O3 is ~2-3% faster on 26 of the 30 tactics and 1.44-1.81x slower on exactly 4 — cluster
(1,1)+raster_along_m=True+ a narrow N tile, the same 4 at m=1 and m=256. The no-autotune path always selects((128, 8, 256), (1, 1), True), the worst cell in that space, which is why #4686's autotuned benchmarks reported a real ~1.03x win while CI regressed. Reverting the level costs autotuned callers that ~2.7% and buys back 1.8x for everyone who does not autotune.Not register pressure:
ncushows 128 registers/thread and zero local-memory traffic under both levels with an identical launch config; issued warps/scheduler drops 0.67 -> 0.39 at unchanged occupancy. The kernel goes latency-bound, so there is no register budget to retune. Worth reporting the cliff itself to the CuTe DSL team separately.The 15 -> 30 raster-direction tactic expansion from #4686 is kept — it is inert on the no-autotune path and only widens the autotuner's search.
2. Shape-aware no-autotune default tactic
forward()'stactic == -1path tookvalid_tactics[0], which is always the smallest row tile (route_tile=8) regardless ofm, becauseget_valid_tactics()filters on legality only. Each CTA streams all of K for its tile, so weights are re-read once per row tile —ceil(m/8)of them. That is harmless at m <= 8 (one tile) and degrades linearly above it: measured 2.1-5.1x off the best tactic at m=128, 6.1-9.1x at m=512, 8.7-10.2x at m=2048. Every caller that does not autotune pays this, including the perf CI suite._select_sm100_bf16_fp4_default_tactic()now ranks bywaves x per-CTA bytes(tile_nFP4 weights at 1/2 byte,tile_mBF16 activations at 2; K is common to all tactics and cancels). The two terms oppose each other, so the optimum is an interior tile that widens withm. Ties go toraster_along_m=False, which also keeps the default clear of the level-3 cliff above.Rejected on measurement, so they are not retried: ranking on wave count alone picks a 3-wave tactic over a faster 4-wave one at m=2048, n=k=4096 (it ignores per-CTA cost), and breaking ties toward the 2-CTA cluster helps m=512 but is worse overall (geomean 1.12 vs 1.07).
⏱️ Performance
End-to-end through
mm_bf16_fp4, no--autotune, B200 (148 SMs), CUPTI,--num_iters 30 --dry_run_iters 5. Speedup of change 2 over the previous default, at--opt-level 2:Geomean 2.64x, max 9.27x, no shape slower than before. Against per-tactic ground truth (30 tactics x 18 shapes) the heuristic lands 1.069 geomean from the per-shape optimum, worst 1.336x, versus 2.823 / 10.223 for the rule it replaces. It is a heuristic to stop the untuned path being catastrophic, not a replacement for autotuning.
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_launch_cute_dsl_sm100); all outputs finite.flashinfer_benchmark.py --refcheck(fp32 reference).ruff checkandruff formatclean.