perf(prims-ts): Optimize&refine PrimsTS block sparse attention - #5002
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The KV256 softmax published its four K32 probability fragments from a fully unrolled body, replicated for both softmax instances: eight copies of the exponentiation body in the kernel. Nsight Compute showed the softmax warps spending a large share of their stall samples on instruction fetch, and any added math made that worse: emulating exp2 on the FMA pipe inside the unrolled body slowed the kernel by 30 to 45 percent. Stream the fragments from one rolled runtime loop inside a single SmemP work item so the body exists once per softmax instance, then evaluate one quarter of each fragment's score pairs as a degree-3 exp2 polynomial on the FMA pipe. The polynomial matches the emulation used by the dense Blackwell FMHA and keeps the relative error below the BF16 rounding of the P operand; it moves the MUFU load from roughly equal to the tensor-pipe time down to about three quarters of it. Emulating more pairs grows the body and regresses again, so one quarter is the measured optimum. The rolled loop reloads fragments without per-fragment mask logic, which requires the max pass to write masked scores back to TMEM. Block-sparse already did; dense KV256 now does the same for masked tiles, so both profiles share the single rolled implementation. On the MMA side, streamed KV256 aliases each P instance with the S columns of the next QK of the same instance, and the MMA warp waited for the PV to complete before issuing that QK. Both MMAs are issued by the same thread, and the tensor core interlocks an MMA's TMEM A-operand read against a later MMA's accumulator write to the same columns, so the wait only drained the tensor pipe and delayed the next scores. It is removed. Measured on B200 (Q64/KV256, MHA H=40, S=10800, density ~18%): the QK-wait removal alone is 0.9904x (paired ABBA, 95% CI [0.9884, 0.9918]); with the rolled loop, proxy routes are 0.9444x of the PR head (95% CI [0.9378, 0.9519]) and exact routes go 630 -> 581 us; dense decode at 1024 query rows and KV 10800 is about 19% faster (308 -> 249 us in interleaved pairs). Results are unchanged.
Proxy plans were pinned to the direct static grid because the persistent scheduler used to lose on this profile once a row had more than a few routes. With the shorter softmax chain the crossover moved: on B200 at S=10800, H=40 MHA, density ~18% the persistent scheduler is now 0.9423x of static for proxy routes (paired ABBA, 95% CI [0.9371, 0.9474]) and about 7% faster for exact routes, while 4096x16 and 10800x8 gain 7% and 2048x8 keeps the static grid through the existing wave threshold. Route proxy plans through the same launch-mode selection as exact plans and update the policy test accordingly.
Three independent latency cuts around the KV256 tile boundary, each measured on B200 with the paired ABBA driver (Q64/KV256 proxy, MHA H=40, S=10800, density ~18%): - Output epilogue: the correction epilogue stored four 16-byte vectors per lane while adjacent lanes own adjacent output rows, so every 32-byte L2 sector was written twice as two half-sector stores. Merge and pack 16 columns at a time and store them with one 256-bit store when the output base is 32-byte aligned; misaligned outputs keep two 16-byte stores of the same registers, split-KV partial output keeps its 8-column path. Output is bitwise identical; global store sectors 6,912,000 -> 3,456,000, store instructions 216,320 -> 108,160; 0.9877x [0.9848, 0.9910]. - Row header: static (non-persistent) block-sparse tiles know their row before any task starts, so the row route offset and count are loaded once in the kernel prologue instead of inside each decode task's domain setup and passed to the decode task through the task runtime kwargs; persistent tiles keep loading the header per tile. 0.9868x [0.9844, 0.9891]. - Q release: the MMA warp released the Q stage only after the two tail PV waves, but Q is consumed by QK alone and the last QK is issued when the loop ends. Releasing right after the loop lets a persistent CTA load the next tile's Q while the final softmax and PV waves of the current tile are still running. 0.9866x [0.9848, 0.9882] under the persistent scheduler; the static grid is unchanged.
…the tail The KV256 register hand-off gave the softmax groups 176 registers and the correction group 104; the rolled fragment loop needs less in softmax while the correction group carries the persistent tile bookkeeping and the tail merge, and the old split left it short. An even 152/152 split measured fastest across the sweep 176/104 .. 128/200 for both proxy and exact routes under the persistent scheduler (about 0.965x) and is neutral on the static grid. The two budgets are module constants; the dense decode tests that pinned the old split are updated. The tail merge exchanged one spatial half through a 35,840-byte buffer aliased onto the shared K/V ring: the static grid overlaid the whole ring, and the persistent scheduler rotated the buffer through the stage the finished tile drained last, guarded by a one-slot reuse credit that let the next tile load only two K tiles before the tail finished. The merge already consumed one D32 fragment at a time, so exchange one padded fragment through a dedicated 11,264-byte buffer instead, with one extra correction barrier per fragment. The ring is free for the next tile throughout the tail, and the reuse credit, rotating stage selection, and ring alias group are removed. CTA shared memory grows to about 227 KB. The two changes are kept together: the dedicated exchange measured 1.0099x alone because the correction group was short on registers, and 0.9877x (paired ABBA, 95% CI [0.9852, 0.9915], B200, proxy S=10800/H=40, persistent) on top of the rebalancing.
… the shared dense/sparse cadence Cleanup after the KV256 performance work; generated code is unchanged (block-sparse proxy/exact and dense KV256 timings and results match, and the final SASS of the Q64/KV256 and Q128/KV128 block-sparse kernels and of the dense Q64/KV256 decode kernel is byte-identical apart from addresses). KV256 fragment and tail paths: - Remove the unrolled per-fragment P path. Every streamed KV256 profile now produces P from the rolled loop: both max passes write masked scores back to TMEM, and the remaining consumers of the unrolled path asserted the same FP16/BF16 operand contract as the rolled loop, so no supported profile could reach them. The rolled loop is gated directly by the streamed-fragment profile property. - Drop the aliased-P handle threaded into the QK helper and the wait work item it used to call; the reason no wait is needed lives in the helper docstring. - Drop the unused route-kind flag from block-sparse scheduler selection and correct the launch-spec docstring that still described proxy routes as pinned to the direct grid. - Derive the fragment width, pairs per fragment, and fragments per KV block from the config instead of literals; the emulated-pair share is documented as the one tunable among them. - Split the KV256 tail spatial merge into direct-output and split-KV fragment-store helpers, and fold the 8- and 16-column final output stores into one width-parameterized helper with shared FP8 and 16-bit packing. - Let persistent KV256 choose its K/V pipeline depth: the three-stage requirement only served the removed rotating exchange. Two stages are correct under the persistent scheduler but slower, so the default stays at three. - Pin the streamed-fragment profile selection in a test. Dense and block-sparse shared logic: - The load task forked on the presence of route metadata, although the resolve and publish helpers already no-op for absent metadata. The route cadence is now the only cadence. - The deferred softmax anchor (keep the previous exponent reference while the new maximum rises by less than 2^8) lived in three inlined copies with two identically valued constants. One config property names the profiles that defer, one helper applies the rule, and one constant holds the bound. - The LOOP iteration count after HEAD used the same recurrence for dense KV tiles and for sparse routes; both now call the same helper.
The 16-bit Q128/KV128 two-instance TMEM-P profiles published one complete 128-column P row per KV tile: PV could not start before the whole exponentiation phase had finished, and the softmax warps carried 128 scores plus 64 packed registers through a fully unrolled row. Their per-tile cost on the SOL shape was ~2475 cycles against ~1000-cycle MUFU and tensor floors, and the warps were issue bound. Q64/KV256 already streams four K32 fragments: the max pass writes masked scores back to TMEM, a rolled loop reloads, exponentiates, packs and stores each fragment at packed column 16f of the same S region, and the MMA warp issues the matching PV k-steps as fragments land. Per lane the Q128/KV128 geometry is identical, so this change lets those profiles use the same pipeline: - the fragment geometry (32 registers, four fragments) applies to every 16-bit two-instance TMEM-P profile with a 128-row Q tile or a KV256 tile; FP8 Q128 keeps its complete-row x16/x32 store; - streamed profiles place O first and alias P on S from its first column, and run their two softmax groups unordered; - the fragment PV issue uses the M=128 instruction for KV128 (V advances one K16 slice per step) and keeps the WS 2x2 instruction for KV256; - the dense and sparse Keeps max passes select the fragment bodies on the streaming property; - both MMA task variants consume fragments through one shared helper. Generalizing the fragment bodies exposed a latent assumption in the fragment-to-origin mapping: route origins are staged per K64 atom, so a 128-token KV block spans two origins, while the code divided the KV block size by the fragment width and assigned every fragment of such a route to the first origin. Both the max pass and the proxy tail bookkeeping now derive the fragments per origin from the route atom size, and a proxy tail case with 128-token KV blocks covers the mapping. Q128/KV128 exact on the SOL shape (S10800, H40, density 0.175, ABBA 5 legs): 466 -> 431 us (-7.8%, CI -8.8..-7.3). Q128 proxy: 834 -> 583 us. Q64/KV256 SASS is byte-identical.
…parse tiles With Q128/KV128 streaming K32 fragments, every reachable block-sparse Keeps profile streams, and the dense and block-sparse streamed max passes differ only in where their masks come from. This commit removes the leftover complete-row block-sparse arm and merges the two streamed bodies. Unreachable arm: the block-sparse planner maps every Q64 Keeps plan to KV256 routes, so the complete-row block-sparse Keeps max pass and its helpers (metadata decode, per-atom masking, the structural-mask skip, the Q64 token-word remap in the softmax metadata loader, the proxy tail handling inside the complete-row P pass) had no reachable caller. They are removed together with the sparse Q64/KV128 clause of the TMEM-P overlay, and the profile validation states the invariant: block-sparse Keeps must stream. One streamed body: dense tiles applied the sequence boundary, causal and sliding-window predicates per element inside the fragment loader, while block-sparse routes folded route validity and prepared token bits into one keep word per K32 fragment and shared a vote_all fast path with a masked write-back. Both now use one body. Dense tiles describe their visible token range per fragment as the same keep word (zero for an invalid tile, a masked final wave or an invalid Q row), decide the unmasked fast path from the group-wide tile predicate, and build keep words only for masked tiles with a closed-form range mask. Geometry is named once: `softmax_score_fragment_regs` has a single streamed arm, `uses_ws_2x2_datapath` owns the KV256 WS 2x2 predicate for the QK and PV instruction choice and the PV operand contract, `softmax_fragments_per_route_atom` replaces two derivations of the fragment-to-origin mapping, `defers_softmax_anchor_updates` is scoped to Keeps, and `_resolve_keeps_tile_context` returns its tile-validity predicate instead of callers re-spelling it. The split-KV MMA task consumes PV through `_consume_staged_pv_mma`, the general decode loop domain uses `_loop_domain_after_head`, the load loop resolves its route metadata through one label table, and the dead fragment plumbing of the complete-row path (`_reduce_keeps_fragment_max`, the always-zero fragment index) is gone. The block-sparse Q64/KV256 and Q128/KV128 kernels are byte-identical. The dense Q64/KV256 decode kernel loses about 575 instructions and runs about 4% faster on the SOL decode shape (interleaved runs, 246-248 -> 236 us).
Prepared routes carry one K32 score-validity word per fragment only when the caller passes a token mask or the plan uses proxy summaries. Without them the streamed Keeps max pass derives every fragment's visible token range in the softmax warps (sequence tail, atom validity, shift-built mask), which sit on the issue-bound critical path. With them it trusts the prepared word directly. Dense block-sparse Keeps plans now always prepare the structural words. The decode config property `uses_prepared_score_keep_words` is the single owner of the rule: the resolved launch spec exposes it to the plan, which sizes its route storage from it, and the compiler passes it to the prepare kernels as an explicit `store_score_words` request independent of the caller token mask. Causal Keeps plans keep computing the range because the words do not encode per-row causal ends; Swaps profiles keep their own token-word policy; proxy and token-mask plans already carried the words. SOL shape (S10800, H40, density 0.175, ABBA 3 legs): Q64/KV256 exact 522.7 -> 506.7 us (-2.9%, CI -3.1..-2.5), Q128/KV128 exact 431 -> 426 us (-1.2%, CI -1.3..-1.0). Route records grow by four (KV128) or eight (KV256) words; the measured times include the prepare kernels.
The shared-KV load warp resolved each route's prepared record with a global load whose latency was fully exposed between the K and V TMA bursts. The PerfSim timeline of the SOL Q64/KV256 kernel showed that load, the TMA issue, and the metadata publication filling the whole route period on the load warp while the K/V ring rarely blocked it. Split route resolution into prefetch_route, which issues only the lane-distributed record load for a chosen route and returns the words as task locals, and resolve_route, which broadcasts them. The load helper threads the prefetch state from one resolution to the next of the same instance, the way the staged KV load threads its cached page IDs: HEAD loads its own record and prefetches the first LOOP route, and every LOOP resolution prefetches the next route before the K TMA burst. The split-ring load variants keep the immediate load (pipeline=False) because the pipelined form measured +0.6% on Q128. SOL Q64/KV256 exact -0.5% (paired ABBA, three legs); Q128 exact neutral. ncu shows the load warp's record-load stall gone and its remaining waits on the K/V ring acquire.
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| "use_proxy_routes": key.use_proxy_routes, | ||
| "use_causal_mask": key.mask_type == "causal", | ||
| "apply_token_mask": key.use_kv_valid_bits, | ||
| "store_score_words": config.uses_prepared_score_keep_words, |
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It means we have prepared mask words before attention kernel so kernel can just read accroding mask word to do masking with no need to resolve this on the fly.
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what does token_words_word_offset mean here ? does it mean the offset will bring misaligned offset (in terms of kv tile size) ?
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It means the offset of token mask word as mentioned above that a word with 32 bits can represent the mask of 32 tokens. Actually, for block sparse attention we have a prepare kernel can prepare kernel level informations before core attention, so we should the offsets to predict the right slots.
Streaming the Q128/KV128 P row as K32 fragments pays off for block-sparse plans, whose route loop waits on the load warp, so the earlier PV start hides load latency. The dense GQA-128 decode profile (ungrouped Keeps) is not load-bound there, and the per-fragment barrier rounds measured slower than the complete-row publication. Make streams_tmem_p_fragments the single policy for fragment streaming: 16-bit two-instance profiles with a 256-wide KV tile or a block-sparse plan. Restore the 16-bit x16-slice publication in the complete-row P path that the streaming change had reduced to the FP8 case. Dense Q128 returns to the pre-streaming timing with identical output; block-sparse Q128 SASS is byte-identical to the streamed version.
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On the BSR path, Consequently, the test cannot compare the same block set through both frontends or validate the intended KV128 atom-to-fragment mapping end to end. |
The KV256 split-KV partial store packs eight 16-bit values per 16-byte store but advanced its column offset by the final output element width, which is one byte for FP8 output. Adjacent stores would then overlap within a partial row. Use the two-byte partial width, matching the row base computed in the same function and the reduction side. KV256 currently admits only 16-bit output, so no reachable configuration changes: the FP16/BF16 split-KV cases pass and their SASS is unchanged.
The shared proxy_tail pattern selected block 3 for the 128-token KV block case, which has only three blocks. The BSR frontend rejects that index when device assertions are enabled and the bitmask frontend masks it, so the case covered only block 1 and never the ragged tail block. Three-block rows now select the last block instead.
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## 📌 Description Adds PrimTS QToken-KvBlock-Sparse-Attention. Each query independently selects logical K/V blocks. One prepared API supports packed prefill and fixed-group decode without expanding block IDs into token indices. ### Interface Public APIs are exported from `flashinfer.decode`. The [prefill/decode example](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/prims-ts-examples/blob/main/q_token_kv_block_sparse_attention.py) uses the optional group-size suggestion with a caller-cached SM count. | Input | Layout / meaning | | --- | --- | | Packed Q | `[total_q, Hq, D]`; `qo_indptr` defines request-safe groups | | Fixed Q | `[B, num_query_groups, G, Hq, D]`; no query offsets | | K and V | HND views `[num_pages, Hkv, page_size, D]` | | `block_table` | Dense Int32 `[num_requests, max_storage_pages]`; no CSR | | `indexer_block_ids` | Logical selected-block IDs `[total_q, block_topk]` | | `token_to_request`, `query_positions` | Per-query request ID and causal position | Allocate one byte buffer with `get_q_token_kv_block_sparse_workspace_size`. Call `QTokenKvBlockSparsePagedTSWrapper.plan` outside graph capture, warm `run` once, then capture prepared runs. The plan's `batch_size` is the route count; `seq_len_q` is the maximum group size G. `run(q, (k, v), block_table, indexer_block_ids, token_to_request, query_positions, ...)` accepts live scales and a caller-owned output. Inputs remain separate from workspace. Metadata outputs and attention/split-KV scratch occupy disjoint workspace regions. Retain the wrapper, inputs and workspace for graph lifetime. The eager convenience API is `q_token_kv_block_sparse_attention_with_paged_kv_cache`. Callers choose G1/G2/G4/G5 with `G * (Hq/Hkv) <= 64`. `suggest_q_token_kv_block_sparse_group_size` optionally selects a smaller group to expose more CTAs. Partial groups and variable request lengths do not require SQ divisibility. The indexer supplies a distinct causal prefix of `min(block_topk, (position+1)//kv_block_size)` completed-block IDs; metadata adds the causal partial block. Q1 does not compact holes inside that prefix. Currently supported: `kv_block_size=4`, causal non-windowed D256, BF16 Q/K/V/output or FP8-E4M3 Q/K/V with BF16/FP16 output. `page_size` is physical storage-page size; `max_seq_len_kv` bounds one request, not aggregate cache capacity. Source supports SM100/SM103; runtime qualification here is on GB300/SM103. The general CUTLASS DSL dependency/provider minimum remains `>=4.6.2a0`. Upstream's CUDA-extra minimum `>=4.7.0a0` and CI image pin `==4.7.0` are unchanged; the general dependency floor is not a claim of PrimTS runtime qualification on 4.6.2. ### Implementation Q1 directly maps selections in CUDA C++. Grouped routes CUB-sort at most `G*(block_topk+1)` candidates, then unique-reduce membership bits. There is no full-context bitmap. Physical locators and four-byte-packed membership words are separate; the final word's unused bytes are zeroed. Membership and causal masks preserve each query's selections. Production sparse attention uses KV128. Packed prefill is nonsplit; fixed decode uses occupancy-based split-KV. PDL acquire/release is uniform across threads and respects barrier, SMEM and TMEM lifetime. The rebase preserves main's static dense `BatchDecodePagedTSWrapper.plan/run` interface and row-strided `block_tables`. Encoded subpages support sparse block size four within larger physical cache pages. The generic CSR-facing wrapper rejects `backend="prims-ts"`; use the native dense PrimTS interface. ## 🔍 Related Issues Preserves the upstream PrimTS static-plan/dense-table work in #4829. Naming follows the related block-sparse interface in #5002. ## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist ### ✅ Pre-commit Checks - [x] I have installed `pre-commit` by running `pip install pre-commit` (or used your preferred method). - [ ] 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. Changed-file hooks pass. [Pipeline 67122954](#4996 (comment)) reported sparse-test architecture-eligibility failures and unrelated failures. The test-only eligibility fix below is validated locally; a hosted CI rerun is still required. This is not a full-project CI pass. ## 🧪 Tests - [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed. - [ ] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Test-only follow-up `5720483a` gives sparse FMHA/workspace cases an exact SM100/SM103 guard; CPU contracts and metadata-only CUDA tests remain enabled. Fresh GB300/SM103 validation passes 141 sparse tests and 232 decode/backend tests, with 96 existing skips. Reported-capability probes for 9.0/12.0/10.7 retain 101 passes and skip the 40 attention-dependent cases; these probes run on SM103 and are not numerical qualification on those other GPUs. No kernel, dispatch policy or tolerance changes, and no Rubin numerical fix is claimed. Review follow-up `3438e258` adds complete prepared-run documentation, validates encoded trace extents and restricts the FP8/BF16 reduction exception to structurally valid sparse routes. Fresh affected-suite validation passes on GB300/SM103 with CUTLASS DSL 4.7.1. Loader/resolver edits only clarify comments; the TMA schedule is unchanged. These are not full-project CI or SM100-runtime qualification claims. - Metadata/wrapper: 141 passed. - Decode/backend: 232 passed, 96 existing hardware/profile skips. - Shared block-sparse: 229 passed, one skip. - Trace schemas: 972 passed, including new rejection tests for incompatible encoded storage extents. - Prior qualification also includes 96 dense passes in a local SM103 opt-in probe without changing production architecture guards. - Eight focused cases pass both memcheck and initcheck with zero device-memory errors, including inert and poisoned page-table padding. Memcheck retains the previously documented CUDA-Python API-probe reporting workaround; all device-memory checks remain enabled. - Prior example qualification covers packed/fixed, request-boundary, reference and poisoned graph-replay checks; the recorded vLLM ownership/reference gate passes 119/119. Coverage includes Q1/Q2/Q4/Q5, partial groups, variable lengths, causal tails, BF16/FP8, storage-page mapping, split-KV, workspace ownership and PDL. ## Standalone performance Timing qualification caveat: the preserved tables below used a uniform-byte L2 scrub, which Blackwell may compress. They are historical results, not signoff for non-compressible cold-L2 eviction. The [two published benchmark suites](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/flashinfer-prims-ts-validation/blob/main/docs/sparse_attention.md) now use separately seeded random bytes and record a distinct timing protocol; corrected-protocol GPU timing must be rerun. The recorded numerical checks and separately collected warmed Nsight stage results are unaffected by this timing caveat. Real recorded top-k routes; CUDA graphs; 20 warmups and 300 balanced samples. Each sample starts with a same-stream 258.5 MiB L2 eviction before the complete graph, not between its constituent kernels. PrimTS includes metadata, attention and reduction; Triton includes index expansion, sparse attention and reduction. TP2: Hq/Hkv=12/1, D256, 128K logical model bound. All 62 cases pass: Q5 2/2, automatic-G matrix 54/54 and G4 prefill controls 6/6. The comparator is current-main vLLM `a841edb6` on `c55e15a4`, whose Triton kernels are faster than the earlier PR53896-based comparator. Speedup is `Triton / PrimTS`. | TP2 workload | Cases | BF16 speedup | FP8 speedup | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Packed prefill, automatic G5 | BS1, 8K–32K | 2.542–2.715x | 2.242–2.461x | | Decode SQ1, G1 | BS8, 8K–32K | 0.959–0.990x | 0.951–0.982x | | Decode SQ1, G1 | BS64/256, 8K–32K | 1.147–1.220x | 1.182–1.233x | | Decode SQ4, G4 | BS8, 8K–32K | 0.835–0.875x | 0.859–0.905x | | Decode SQ4, G4 | BS64/256, 8K–32K | 1.570–2.059x | 1.278–4.436x | | Q5/MTP4 grouped-route proxy | BF16 16/32 groups, 8K | 1.274–1.438x | — | Prefill complete times span 544.12–2511.94 µs PrimTS versus 1477.24–6384.75 µs Triton for BF16, and 539.34–2487.74 versus 1327.45–5578.20 µs for FP8. G5 reduces latency by 5.12–7.45% versus matched G4. Q5 takes 34.85/40.88 µs at 16/32 groups versus Triton's 44.39/58.78 µs. The Q5 proxy shares one request/cache across route groups; it is not a disjoint-cache production BS16/32 measurement. Low-route decode remains slower: BS8/SQ1 by 1.1–5.2%, BS8/SQ4 by 10.5–19.8%, and BS1 as listed below. Other BS64/256 rows are faster. These are not new rebase regressions. | BS1 configuration, 8K/16K/32K | PrimTS complete | Triton complete | PrimTS regression | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | BF16 SQ1/MTP0, G1 | 19.79–20.34 µs | 14.42–15.89 µs | 24.7–41.1% | | FP8 SQ1/MTP0, G1 | 20.58–20.68 µs | 14.29–14.98 µs | 37.8–44.8% | | BF16 SQ4/MTP3, automatic G1 | 22.30–22.48 µs | 16.48–17.14 µs | 30.6–35.3% | | FP8 SQ4/MTP3, automatic G1 | 21.12–22.04 µs | 16.28–16.39 µs | 28.9–35.1% | For BS1/SQ4, automatic G1 keeps four independent routes, avoiding grouped sort/union and exposing more CTAs. No shape-specific policy was added for these outliers. All 62 same-node old-head controls pass. Versus `96d9f727`, automatic-G latency changes by −0.04% geometrically, with a largest increase of 3.03%; Q5 changes by at most +0.09%, and G4 controls by at most +0.55%. No tile/split configuration changed. Raw samples, component timings and source/trace fingerprints are retained in `qsa_bench/rebase_main_20260909/`. ### Framework validation The [vLLM integration guide](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/vllm/blob/7e8090112e8ea2c53da0bed5a4faf1102abfdb97/vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/Q_TOKEN_KV_BLOCK_SPARSE_TS.md) describes packed prefill, fixed decode and shared workspace ownership. The recorded model-validation results and limits are summarized below; this review follow-up does not rerun model accuracy or performance. TP2 FP8/MTP3 accuracy uses the fixed temperature-0.6, seed-42, xhigh sampler and 131072-token output budget. LongBench is the existing untruncated 48-question cohort, not the full benchmark. | Task | Triton | PrimTS | | --- | --- | --- | | GSM8K | 1290/1319 (97.80%) | 1286/1319 (97.50%) | | GPQA-Diamond, two reps | 365/396 (92.17%) | 361/396 (91.16%) | | LongBench v2 cohort | 32/48 (66.67%) | 33/48 (68.75%) | All 3,526 requests complete without request errors. GPQA has one capped Triton answer and two capped PrimTS answers; both PrimTS caps have no final choice. All caps are incorrect, so strict scores are unchanged. PrimTS is 1.01 percentage points lower on GPQA; both backends also change nine choices between repetitions. The unfinished-answer caveat remains, and these stochastic scores do not prove numerical equivalence. All eight paired pure-stage Nsight comparisons pass the both-rank work audit. These are warmed CUDA-graph node traces, separate from cold-L2 standalone results. Prefill measures the fourth request after three warmups; decode includes MTP3 draft work and uses 64 resident requests (256 target query tokens). Resident BS256 exceeds this TP2 hybrid-cache capacity and is not claimed. | Pure stage, 8K/16K | KV | Sparse speedup | All-layer speedup | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Prefill, BS1 | BF16 | 2.172–2.473x | 1.083–1.088x | | Prefill, BS1 | FP8 | 1.915–2.211x | 1.067x | | Decode MTP3, BS64 | BF16 | 1.565–1.657x | 1.020–1.022x | | Decode MTP3, BS64 | FP8 | 1.178–1.284x | 1.014x | Prefill sparse and all-layer absolute savings agree within 0.29 ms. The pinned image needs main's BF16 MoE activation-padding fix for prefill; both backends use the same local backport. This is an image compatibility fix, not a sparse-attention change. Remaining low-route standalone regressions and SM100 runtime qualification stay explicit. ## 🔬 Experimental Track <!-- Only for PRs submitted under the experimental policy (CONTRIBUTING.md → "Experimental APIs and Backends"). Leave this section untouched for normal PRs. --> - [ ] This PR is **experimental**: it adds or changes code under `flashinfer/experimental/` and/or an `@flashinfer_experimental_api`. Tracking issue: # - [ ] The tracking issue names an owner, the reason for the experimental path, and a graduation plan with a target release. - [ ] Core changes are limited to a thin entry point (signature, shared validation, feature-gate check, backend selection, handoff). - [ ] Tests live in `tests/experimental/` and were validated on the intended hardware; a runnable example is included. - [ ] Nothing is registered in `flashinfer/aot.py`, and no experimental backend is reachable from `backend="auto"` without `FLASHINFER_ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTO_BACKENDS=1`. 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AI assistance was used. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added QToken-KV block-sparse attention with packed and fixed-query support. * Added prepared batch decode planning and execution APIs. * Added four-token pages, separate semantic and storage page sizes, encoded page locators, and query-to-KV head ratios up to 128. * Expanded trace coverage for new decode configurations. * **Documentation** * Documented sparse-attention APIs, planning workflows, metadata requirements, and supported configurations. * **Breaking Changes** * The legacy paged-KV wrapper no longer supports the `prims-ts` backend or explicit causal-mode overrides. * PrimTS decode now uses dense block tables instead of CSR page metadata. * Storage-overlap checks are no longer performed; callers must keep buffers disjoint. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: PerkzZheng <67892460+PerkzZheng@users.noreply.github.com>
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## 📌 Description Adds PrimTS QToken-KvBlock-Sparse-Attention. Each query independently selects logical K/V blocks. One prepared API supports packed prefill and fixed-group decode without expanding block IDs into token indices. ### Interface Public APIs are exported from `flashinfer.decode`. The [prefill/decode example](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/prims-ts-examples/blob/main/q_token_kv_block_sparse_attention.py) uses the optional group-size suggestion with a caller-cached SM count. | Input | Layout / meaning | | --- | --- | | Packed Q | `[total_q, Hq, D]`; `qo_indptr` defines request-safe groups | | Fixed Q | `[B, num_query_groups, G, Hq, D]`; no query offsets | | K and V | HND views `[num_pages, Hkv, page_size, D]` | | `block_table` | Dense Int32 `[num_requests, max_storage_pages]`; no CSR | | `indexer_block_ids` | Logical selected-block IDs `[total_q, block_topk]` | | `token_to_request`, `query_positions` | Per-query request ID and causal position | Allocate one byte buffer with `get_q_token_kv_block_sparse_workspace_size`. Call `QTokenKvBlockSparsePagedTSWrapper.plan` outside graph capture, warm `run` once, then capture prepared runs. The plan's `batch_size` is the route count; `seq_len_q` is the maximum group size G. `run(q, (k, v), block_table, indexer_block_ids, token_to_request, query_positions, ...)` accepts live scales and a caller-owned output. Inputs remain separate from workspace. Metadata outputs and attention/split-KV scratch occupy disjoint workspace regions. Retain the wrapper, inputs and workspace for graph lifetime. The eager convenience API is `q_token_kv_block_sparse_attention_with_paged_kv_cache`. Callers choose G1/G2/G4/G5 with `G * (Hq/Hkv) <= 64`. `suggest_q_token_kv_block_sparse_group_size` optionally selects a smaller group to expose more CTAs. Partial groups and variable request lengths do not require SQ divisibility. The indexer supplies a distinct causal prefix of `min(block_topk, (position+1)//kv_block_size)` completed-block IDs; metadata adds the causal partial block. Q1 does not compact holes inside that prefix. Currently supported: `kv_block_size=4`, causal non-windowed D256, BF16 Q/K/V/output or FP8-E4M3 Q/K/V with BF16/FP16 output. `page_size` is physical storage-page size; `max_seq_len_kv` bounds one request, not aggregate cache capacity. Source supports SM100/SM103; runtime qualification here is on GB300/SM103. The general CUTLASS DSL dependency/provider minimum remains `>=4.6.2a0`. Upstream's CUDA-extra minimum `>=4.7.0a0` and CI image pin `==4.7.0` are unchanged; the general dependency floor is not a claim of PrimTS runtime qualification on 4.6.2. ### Implementation Q1 directly maps selections in CUDA C++. Grouped routes CUB-sort at most `G*(block_topk+1)` candidates, then unique-reduce membership bits. There is no full-context bitmap. Physical locators and four-byte-packed membership words are separate; the final word's unused bytes are zeroed. Membership and causal masks preserve each query's selections. Production sparse attention uses KV128. Packed prefill is nonsplit; fixed decode uses occupancy-based split-KV. PDL acquire/release is uniform across threads and respects barrier, SMEM and TMEM lifetime. The rebase preserves main's static dense `BatchDecodePagedTSWrapper.plan/run` interface and row-strided `block_tables`. Encoded subpages support sparse block size four within larger physical cache pages. The generic CSR-facing wrapper rejects `backend="prims-ts"`; use the native dense PrimTS interface. ## 🔍 Related Issues Preserves the upstream PrimTS static-plan/dense-table work in flashinfer-ai#4829. Naming follows the related block-sparse interface in flashinfer-ai#5002. ## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist ### ✅ Pre-commit Checks - [x] I have installed `pre-commit` by running `pip install pre-commit` (or used your preferred method). - [ ] 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. Changed-file hooks pass. [Pipeline 67122954](flashinfer-ai#4996 (comment)) reported sparse-test architecture-eligibility failures and unrelated failures. The test-only eligibility fix below is validated locally; a hosted CI rerun is still required. This is not a full-project CI pass. ## 🧪 Tests - [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed. - [ ] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Test-only follow-up `5720483a` gives sparse FMHA/workspace cases an exact SM100/SM103 guard; CPU contracts and metadata-only CUDA tests remain enabled. Fresh GB300/SM103 validation passes 141 sparse tests and 232 decode/backend tests, with 96 existing skips. Reported-capability probes for 9.0/12.0/10.7 retain 101 passes and skip the 40 attention-dependent cases; these probes run on SM103 and are not numerical qualification on those other GPUs. No kernel, dispatch policy or tolerance changes, and no Rubin numerical fix is claimed. Review follow-up `3438e258` adds complete prepared-run documentation, validates encoded trace extents and restricts the FP8/BF16 reduction exception to structurally valid sparse routes. Fresh affected-suite validation passes on GB300/SM103 with CUTLASS DSL 4.7.1. Loader/resolver edits only clarify comments; the TMA schedule is unchanged. These are not full-project CI or SM100-runtime qualification claims. - Metadata/wrapper: 141 passed. - Decode/backend: 232 passed, 96 existing hardware/profile skips. - Shared block-sparse: 229 passed, one skip. - Trace schemas: 972 passed, including new rejection tests for incompatible encoded storage extents. - Prior qualification also includes 96 dense passes in a local SM103 opt-in probe without changing production architecture guards. - Eight focused cases pass both memcheck and initcheck with zero device-memory errors, including inert and poisoned page-table padding. Memcheck retains the previously documented CUDA-Python API-probe reporting workaround; all device-memory checks remain enabled. - Prior example qualification covers packed/fixed, request-boundary, reference and poisoned graph-replay checks; the recorded vLLM ownership/reference gate passes 119/119. Coverage includes Q1/Q2/Q4/Q5, partial groups, variable lengths, causal tails, BF16/FP8, storage-page mapping, split-KV, workspace ownership and PDL. ## Standalone performance Timing qualification caveat: the preserved tables below used a uniform-byte L2 scrub, which Blackwell may compress. They are historical results, not signoff for non-compressible cold-L2 eviction. The [two published benchmark suites](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/flashinfer-prims-ts-validation/blob/main/docs/sparse_attention.md) now use separately seeded random bytes and record a distinct timing protocol; corrected-protocol GPU timing must be rerun. The recorded numerical checks and separately collected warmed Nsight stage results are unaffected by this timing caveat. Real recorded top-k routes; CUDA graphs; 20 warmups and 300 balanced samples. Each sample starts with a same-stream 258.5 MiB L2 eviction before the complete graph, not between its constituent kernels. PrimTS includes metadata, attention and reduction; Triton includes index expansion, sparse attention and reduction. TP2: Hq/Hkv=12/1, D256, 128K logical model bound. All 62 cases pass: Q5 2/2, automatic-G matrix 54/54 and G4 prefill controls 6/6. The comparator is current-main vLLM `a841edb6` on `c55e15a4`, whose Triton kernels are faster than the earlier PR53896-based comparator. Speedup is `Triton / PrimTS`. | TP2 workload | Cases | BF16 speedup | FP8 speedup | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Packed prefill, automatic G5 | BS1, 8K–32K | 2.542–2.715x | 2.242–2.461x | | Decode SQ1, G1 | BS8, 8K–32K | 0.959–0.990x | 0.951–0.982x | | Decode SQ1, G1 | BS64/256, 8K–32K | 1.147–1.220x | 1.182–1.233x | | Decode SQ4, G4 | BS8, 8K–32K | 0.835–0.875x | 0.859–0.905x | | Decode SQ4, G4 | BS64/256, 8K–32K | 1.570–2.059x | 1.278–4.436x | | Q5/MTP4 grouped-route proxy | BF16 16/32 groups, 8K | 1.274–1.438x | — | Prefill complete times span 544.12–2511.94 µs PrimTS versus 1477.24–6384.75 µs Triton for BF16, and 539.34–2487.74 versus 1327.45–5578.20 µs for FP8. G5 reduces latency by 5.12–7.45% versus matched G4. Q5 takes 34.85/40.88 µs at 16/32 groups versus Triton's 44.39/58.78 µs. The Q5 proxy shares one request/cache across route groups; it is not a disjoint-cache production BS16/32 measurement. Low-route decode remains slower: BS8/SQ1 by 1.1–5.2%, BS8/SQ4 by 10.5–19.8%, and BS1 as listed below. Other BS64/256 rows are faster. These are not new rebase regressions. | BS1 configuration, 8K/16K/32K | PrimTS complete | Triton complete | PrimTS regression | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | BF16 SQ1/MTP0, G1 | 19.79–20.34 µs | 14.42–15.89 µs | 24.7–41.1% | | FP8 SQ1/MTP0, G1 | 20.58–20.68 µs | 14.29–14.98 µs | 37.8–44.8% | | BF16 SQ4/MTP3, automatic G1 | 22.30–22.48 µs | 16.48–17.14 µs | 30.6–35.3% | | FP8 SQ4/MTP3, automatic G1 | 21.12–22.04 µs | 16.28–16.39 µs | 28.9–35.1% | For BS1/SQ4, automatic G1 keeps four independent routes, avoiding grouped sort/union and exposing more CTAs. No shape-specific policy was added for these outliers. All 62 same-node old-head controls pass. Versus `96d9f727`, automatic-G latency changes by −0.04% geometrically, with a largest increase of 3.03%; Q5 changes by at most +0.09%, and G4 controls by at most +0.55%. No tile/split configuration changed. Raw samples, component timings and source/trace fingerprints are retained in `qsa_bench/rebase_main_20260909/`. ### Framework validation The [vLLM integration guide](https://github.com/PerkzZheng/vllm/blob/7e8090112e8ea2c53da0bed5a4faf1102abfdb97/vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/Q_TOKEN_KV_BLOCK_SPARSE_TS.md) describes packed prefill, fixed decode and shared workspace ownership. The recorded model-validation results and limits are summarized below; this review follow-up does not rerun model accuracy or performance. TP2 FP8/MTP3 accuracy uses the fixed temperature-0.6, seed-42, xhigh sampler and 131072-token output budget. LongBench is the existing untruncated 48-question cohort, not the full benchmark. | Task | Triton | PrimTS | | --- | --- | --- | | GSM8K | 1290/1319 (97.80%) | 1286/1319 (97.50%) | | GPQA-Diamond, two reps | 365/396 (92.17%) | 361/396 (91.16%) | | LongBench v2 cohort | 32/48 (66.67%) | 33/48 (68.75%) | All 3,526 requests complete without request errors. GPQA has one capped Triton answer and two capped PrimTS answers; both PrimTS caps have no final choice. All caps are incorrect, so strict scores are unchanged. PrimTS is 1.01 percentage points lower on GPQA; both backends also change nine choices between repetitions. The unfinished-answer caveat remains, and these stochastic scores do not prove numerical equivalence. All eight paired pure-stage Nsight comparisons pass the both-rank work audit. These are warmed CUDA-graph node traces, separate from cold-L2 standalone results. Prefill measures the fourth request after three warmups; decode includes MTP3 draft work and uses 64 resident requests (256 target query tokens). Resident BS256 exceeds this TP2 hybrid-cache capacity and is not claimed. | Pure stage, 8K/16K | KV | Sparse speedup | All-layer speedup | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Prefill, BS1 | BF16 | 2.172–2.473x | 1.083–1.088x | | Prefill, BS1 | FP8 | 1.915–2.211x | 1.067x | | Decode MTP3, BS64 | BF16 | 1.565–1.657x | 1.020–1.022x | | Decode MTP3, BS64 | FP8 | 1.178–1.284x | 1.014x | Prefill sparse and all-layer absolute savings agree within 0.29 ms. The pinned image needs main's BF16 MoE activation-padding fix for prefill; both backends use the same local backport. This is an image compatibility fix, not a sparse-attention change. Remaining low-route standalone regressions and SM100 runtime qualification stay explicit. ## 🔬 Experimental Track <!-- Only for PRs submitted under the experimental policy (CONTRIBUTING.md → "Experimental APIs and Backends"). Leave this section untouched for normal PRs. --> - [ ] This PR is **experimental**: it adds or changes code under `flashinfer/experimental/` and/or an `@flashinfer_experimental_api`. Tracking issue: # - [ ] The tracking issue names an owner, the reason for the experimental path, and a graduation plan with a target release. - [ ] Core changes are limited to a thin entry point (signature, shared validation, feature-gate check, backend selection, handoff). - [ ] Tests live in `tests/experimental/` and were validated on the intended hardware; a runnable example is included. - [ ] Nothing is registered in `flashinfer/aot.py`, and no experimental backend is reachable from `backend="auto"` without `FLASHINFER_ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTO_BACKENDS=1`. (Calling an `@flashinfer_experimental_api` or naming a backend explicitly is itself the opt-in and needs no environment variable.) - [ ] **Test scope declared below.** The experimental CI lane runs exactly these targets, so keep them as narrow as the change allows. <!-- Required for experimental PRs. Replace the commented lines below with your targets. Do not delete the fence or change its `experimental-tests` tag — the experimental-track watcher reads it verbatim to decide which targets to ask CI for. --> ```experimental-tests # One target per line: a directory or a file. (A pytest ::selector is not # supported -- the sharding runner cannot consume one.) Must be under # tests/experimental/ and must exist. Delete these comment lines and add yours, e.g. # # tests/experimental/test_my_backend.py # tests/experimental/my_backend/ # # Declaring the whole tree (tests/experimental/) is allowed but means every # experimental PR pays for every other feature's tests, in every matrix cell. ``` ## Reviewer Notes Please focus on dense-table/workspace ownership, sort/union membership semantics, causal masking, packed/fixed query layouts and PDL resource lifetime. SM100 runtime qualification, unfinished GPQA answers and low-route latency remain follow-ups. AI assistance was used. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added QToken-KV block-sparse attention with packed and fixed-query support. * Added prepared batch decode planning and execution APIs. * Added four-token pages, separate semantic and storage page sizes, encoded page locators, and query-to-KV head ratios up to 128. * Expanded trace coverage for new decode configurations. * **Documentation** * Documented sparse-attention APIs, planning workflows, metadata requirements, and supported configurations. * **Breaking Changes** * The legacy paged-KV wrapper no longer supports the `prims-ts` backend or explicit causal-mode overrides. * PrimTS decode now uses dense block tables instead of CSR page metadata. * Storage-overlap checks are no longer performed; callers must keep buffers disjoint. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: PerkzZheng <67892460+PerkzZheng@users.noreply.github.com>
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…ention (#5144) <!-- .github/pull_request_template.md --> ## 📌 Description Make both paged PrimTS block-sparse entry points, `BlockSparsePagedTSWrapper.run()` and the one-shot `block_sparse_attention_with_paged_kv_cache()`, consume a fixed 2D `block_tables` tensor with an explicit row stride instead of CSR page indices (`paged_kv_indptr` / `paged_kv_indices`). This matches the PrimTS decode contract from #4829, so callers that already hold page tables (TensorRT-LLM's paged KV cache manager, for example) can pass a zero-copy view instead of converting on the host. The reusable wrapper reads the table directly during `run()`; the one-shot API validates the live prefix of every page-table row on the device before planning. Like the dense PrimTS wrappers, `run()` accepts `validate=False` to treat every argument as a trusted binding and skip the explicit structural, plan-geometry, and alias checks. The PrimTS block-sparse trace templates are rewritten as literal schemas in two factories, one per K/V storage form, instead of deriving the paged and wrapper templates from another template by deleting or rewriting entries. Template names, dispatchers, and the axis, input, constraint, and tag sets are unchanged apart from the page-table and `validate` inputs; the six block-sparse goldens are regenerated and a test now pins every golden to its template. Follow-up to #4872 and #5002; the contiguous entry points are untouched. ## 🔍 Related Issues Follow-up to #4829 (PrimTS decode page-table contract), #4872 and #5002 (PrimTS block-sparse attention). ## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist Thank you for contributing to FlashInfer! 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(Calling an `@flashinfer_experimental_api` or naming a backend explicitly is itself the opt-in and needs no environment variable.) - [ ] **Test scope declared below.** The experimental CI lane runs exactly these targets, so keep them as narrow as the change allows. <!-- Required for experimental PRs. Replace the commented lines below with your targets. Do not delete the fence or change its `experimental-tests` tag — the experimental-track watcher reads it verbatim to decide which targets to ask CI for. --> ```experimental-tests # One target per line: a directory or a file. (A pytest ::selector is not # supported -- the sharding runner cannot consume one.) Must be under # tests/experimental/ and must exist. 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TensorRT-LLM already consumes this form through its vendored PrimTS copy. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Changed** - Paged block-sparse attention now uses fixed 2D `block_tables` with optional row padding for KV-cache page addressing, replacing the previous indirection arrays. - Run methods support optional structural and aliasing validation, including a faster trusted-input path when disabled. - One-shot APIs now accept sequence lengths positionally. - **Bug Fixes** - Validation now checks page capacity, tensor structure, device compatibility, aliasing, and physical page IDs with clearer errors. - **Tests** - Expanded coverage for block-table validation, tracing schemas, and paged block-sparse correctness. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: yuhangh <58161490+heyuhhh@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Performance work on the PrimTS block-sparse decode attention kernel (
flashinfer/attention/prims_ts) that follows #4872. The changes target the exact block-sparse path first (Q64/KV256 and Q128/KV128 Keeps profiles) and also carry over to the proxy-compensated routes and to the dense KV256 decode profile that shares the same kernel. Eleven commits; each performance commit was measured with paired ABBA runs on B200 against the commit before it.What changed
5d8d79a2). The per-fragment P path was fully unrolled and made the kernel instruction-cache bound. One rolled loop over the four K32 fragments, with the FMA exp2 emulation limited to 4 of 16 pairs, shrinks the code and keeps MUFU and FMA balanced. Also drops the redundant same-instance PV completion wait before QK (tcgen05 orders the A-operand read before the accumulator write). Dense KV256 shares the masked write-back path.f5b4a6f1). Proxy plans no longer force the static grid, so the CLC persistent scheduler is selected for large shapes as it is for exact plans.b1c737f7). Full-sector output stores in the epilogue, static-grid row-header prefetch in the CTA prologue, and releasing the Q stage before the tail PV MMAs.02f83c00). Softmax/correction register split 152/152 and a dedicated 11 KB SMEM exchange for the tail merge instead of a rotating credit on the K/V ring.58107d1b). Codegen-neutral (SASS byte-identical); removes an unreachable unrolled path and several duplicated helpers.c7b42e41). The 16-bit two-instance Q128 profile now uses the same fragment streaming as KV256 (TMEM layout O-first with P aliased at S column 0, per-fragment barriers, PV k-slices per fragment). Includes a fix for fragment-to-origin mapping with 128-token KV blocks and a proxy test for that layout.37f351cc). Deletes the unreachable sparse Q64/KV128 complete-row arm and unifies the dense and sparse fragment max pass; dense tiles derive one 32-bit keep word per fragment instead of per-element boundary compares.c2557b69). Exact plans with a dense mask type now prepare the per-fragment keep words too, so the streamed max pass can trust them.aea0b1e8). PerfSim warp timelines showed the load warp saturated per route by TMA issue plus a fully exposed global load of the next route record. The shared-KV load cadence now issues that load one resolution ahead, threading the prefetch state like the cached page IDs; the split-ring load variants keep the immediate load.ee119fe4). Streaming the Q128 P row only pays off where the route loop waits on the K/V loads; the dense GQA-128 decode profile measured slower with it.streams_tmem_p_fragmentsis now the single policy (16-bit two-instance profiles with a KV256 tile or a block-sparse plan), and the 16-bit x16-slice publication of the complete-row path is restored. Dense Q128 is back at main's timing with identical output.679bf00f,f2f7cf52). The KV256 split-KV partial store advances its column offset by the two-byte partial width instead of the final output width. No reachable configuration changes today since KV256 admits only 16-bit output, and the FP16/BF16 split-KV SASS is unchanged. Theproxy_bk128_keepstest case now selects only in-range KV blocks and keeps the ragged tail block in its set.Correctness
tests/attention/test_attention_ts_block_sparse.py: 228 passed (one pre-existing failure,test_runtime_routes_cuda_graph_replays_routes_and_token_mask, deselected; it fails on main as well).tests/attention/test_attention_ts_decode.py: 212 passed (rebased on main with feat(prims-ts): support decode GQA ratios up to 128 #4915).Performance
Paired ABBA on one B200 (5 runs per leg, 3 legs, min of graph-replay time per call), block-sparse decode attention, S=10800, H=40, D=128, bf16, block 64, exact mask density 0.175 ("hot" pattern), automatic scheduler selection. Baseline is upstream
mainat 1989b50.Dense decode (same kernel,
prims_ts_batch_decode_with_kv_cache, sq=1024, kv=10800, page 128, bf16; four interleaved main/branch runs, min per call):The block-sparse SASS is byte-identical across the two codegen-neutral refactor commits and across the dense-Q128 gating commit.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes