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Rewritten. This PR originally proposed raising the nvidia-cutlass-dsl
floor in requirements.txt to 4.7. That was wrong — see the comment below;
the low floor is deliberate. The branch name is a leftover from that first
attempt. The change here is entirely different.

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tests/prims_ts/conftest.py calls require_cutlass_dsl_experimental() at module
scope. Prims-TS imports cutlass.experimental.primitives and
cutlass.experimental.task_scheduling, which exist only in CUTLASS DSL 4.7+, so on
any environment resolved against our own declared floor (nvidia-cutlass-dsl>=4.6.2a0)
that call raises during collection:

ERROR tests/prims_ts - RuntimeError: Prims-TS requires the CUTLASS DSL wheel.
Install the pinned release-branch wheel before using Prims-TS kernels.

It is a collection error, not a test failure, so it takes out the entire
directory rather than the tests that actually need the wheel.

Raising the floor is not the fix. FlashInfer's lower bound is aligned with
vLLM's and SGLang's on purpose: CuTe DSL is a diamond dependency, and pinning up
would make FlashInfer unsatisfiable in those stacks. Features that need 4.7 are
meant to be gated at runtime and light up when the environment provides them —
which is already the house pattern:

  • flashinfer/attention/cute_dsl/sm120_fmha.py_MIN_CUTLASS_DSL_VERSION = Version("4.7.0"), checked at call time
  • flashinfer/kda.py — needs >=4.7; below that backend="auto" falls back to Cake, and only an explicit backend='cute-dsl' raises
  • flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/context.py — guards a 4.8 feature the same way

Prims-TS was the outlier. This makes it degrade like the rest.

The blanket require was also over-broad — 20 of the 21 test modules here import
fine without the wheel
. Only test_batched_gemm_captured_schedule_tasks.py pulls
in batched_gemm_kernel at module scope. Two of the modules it blocked,
test_moe_bf16_support.py and test_moe_fp8_block_support.py, call
monkeypatch.setattr(support, "is_prims_ts_available", ...) — they exist precisely
to exercise the unavailable path, and could never run.

Why mark collected items instead of skipping at module level

A module-level pytest.skip(..., allow_module_level=True) collects nothing, so a
run scoped to this directory exits with pytest's "no tests collected" code 5
trading one red for another. Marking collected items keeps them collected, so the run
reports skips and exits 0. I verified both behaviours directly rather than
assuming:

Mechanism Report Exit
pytest.skip(allow_module_level=True) in conftest 1 skipped 5
collect_ignore only no tests ran 5
collect_ignore + skip marker via pytest_collection_modifyitems (this PR) 3 skipped 0

As a side effect this makes pytest_report_header's unavailable branch reachable for
the first time — it could never fire before, because the require above it raised first.
That dead branch is also the evidence that graceful degradation was the original intent.

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This changes test collection behaviour, so the test is the CI run: on a DSL 4.7
lane tests/prims_ts must run exactly as before (this path is a no-op there), and on
a lane below 4.7 it must report skips instead of a collection error.

The collection mechanism itself was validated standalone — collect_ignore drops the
un-importable module, every other module collects, all items report as skipped, exit 0.

Reviewer Notes

Scope I deliberately did not take. When the wheel is missing this skips the whole
directory, including the ~8 modules that are pure Python and would pass anyway
(test_moe_api_signature.py, test_moe_config_packaging.py,
test_moe_tensor_adapter_validation.py, the two *_support.py ones, …). Narrowing the
skip to just the modules that reach the kernels would recover that coverage, but it
means classifying each module by whether it touches batched_gemm_* at runtime —
test_moe_compile_cache.py and test_moe_nvfp4_support.py do, and the
test_batched_gemm_ filename prefix alone does not catch them. I kept the behaviour
change minimal and symmetric (directory errors today → directory skips) rather than
guessing at a classification I cannot verify without a 4.6.x box. Happy to follow up
if you'd rather have the finer split.

On coverage. This does mean a lane below 4.7 reports green with Prims-TS untested,
where today it reports red. That is the intended contract for a version-gated feature,
but it only holds if at least one lane actually carries DSL ≥ 4.7 — otherwise #4361
ships with no coverage anywhere and nothing says so. Worth confirming that's true of
the Blackwell lanes. scripts/setup_test_env.sh already supports a
CUTLASS_DSL_VERSION override that does a clean uninstall first, which looks like the
intended lever.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Prims-TS test handling when the experimental runtime is unavailable.
    • Test collection now correctly skips affected tests across nested directories instead of failing during collection.
    • Clear guidance is provided when collection cannot proceed.
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    • Added regression coverage to verify Prims-TS tests collect successfully in environments with limited experimental runtime support.

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Running the full suite deliberately rather than a scoped path list: this changes a dependency floor, so the interesting signal is whether the job-time pip install --no-deps sync in scripts/setup_test_env.sh leaves nvidia-cutlass-dsl-libs-* behind at 4.6.2 (Reviewer Note 1). A scoped run would also retarget every GPU lane, including ones with no stake in this change.

A .txt-only diff matches the CI skip patterns, so nothing would have run here without this comment.

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Closing this — the premise is wrong, and I should have checked the policy before opening it.

The requirements.txt floor at >=4.6.2a0 is deliberate, not an oversight from #4526. FlashInfer's lower bound is aligned with vLLM's and SGLang's lower bound on purpose: CuTe DSL is a diamond dependency, and as long as kernels living directly in those projects pin an older DSL, neither they nor we can raise the floor without making FlashInfer unsatisfiable in their stacks. Features that need 4.7 are meant to be enabled by runtime version guards when a user's environment happens to provide it — not by forcing every consumer up.

That is already the house pattern, and Prims-TS is the outlier rather than the rule:

  • flashinfer/attention/cute_dsl/sm120_fmha.py_MIN_CUTLASS_DSL_VERSION = Version("4.7.0"), checked at call time
  • flashinfer/kda.py — needs >=4.7; below that backend="auto" falls back to Cake, and only an explicit backend='cute-dsl' raises
  • flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/context.py — guards a 4.8 feature the same way

So raising the floor is the wrong fix for #5213. The right one is to make tests/prims_ts degrade like everything else, which is what the conftest's own author evidently intended: it already computes HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME and carries a pytest_report_header branch for the unavailable case that is unreachable today, because require_cutlass_dsl_experimental() on line 29 raises first.

Worth noting how over-broad that blanket require is — 20 of the 21 test modules under tests/prims_ts/ import cleanly without the DSL. Only test_batched_gemm_captured_schedule_tasks.py pulls in batched_gemm_kernel at module scope. Two of the blocked modules, test_moe_bf16_support.py and test_moe_fp8_block_support.py, monkeypatch.setattr(support, "is_prims_ts_available", ...) — they exist precisely to exercise the unavailable path, and the require stops them from running at all.

Replacement PR to follow. Apologies for the noise.

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…< 4.7

Prims-TS imports `cutlass.experimental.primitives` and
`cutlass.experimental.task_scheduling`, which exist only in CUTLASS DSL 4.7+.
`tests/prims_ts/conftest.py` called `require_cutlass_dsl_experimental()` at
module scope, so on an environment resolved against our declared floor
(`nvidia-cutlass-dsl>=4.6.2a0`) it raised during collection:

    ERROR tests/prims_ts - RuntimeError: Prims-TS requires the CUTLASS DSL
    wheel. Install the pinned release-branch wheel before using Prims-TS
    kernels.

That is a collection error, so it takes out the whole directory.

Raising the floor is not the fix. FlashInfer's lower bound is aligned with
vLLM's and SGLang's on purpose -- CuTe DSL is a diamond dependency, and pinning
up would make FlashInfer unsatisfiable in those stacks. 4.7-only features are
meant to be gated at runtime and enabled when the environment provides them,
which is what `sm120_fmha.py` and `kda.py` already do. Prims-TS was the outlier.

The blanket require was also over-broad: 20 of the 21 test modules here import
without the wheel, including `test_moe_bf16_support.py` and
`test_moe_fp8_block_support.py`, which monkeypatch `is_prims_ts_available` and
exist precisely to exercise the unavailable path.

Skip collected items rather than skipping at module level: a module-level skip
collects nothing, so a run scoped to this directory would exit with pytest's
"no tests collected" code 5, trading one red for another. Verified that the
mechanism here reports skips and exits 0.

This also makes `pytest_report_header`'s unavailable branch reachable for the
first time -- it could never fire, because the require above it raised first.

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The Prims-TS collection filter now covers nested directories. Documentation preserves the ignored batched GEMM module contract. A regression test simulates missing CUTLASS DSL modules and verifies successful collection.

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Prims-TS test handling

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Runtime gate and collection skip
tests/prims_ts/conftest.py
The conftest documents the required collect_ignore entry and applies skip filtering to items anywhere under tests/prims_ts/, including nested directories.
DSL 4.6 collection regression
tests/test_prims_ts_import_isolation.py
A meta-path stub simulates an empty cutlass.experimental package. A subprocess collection test verifies that tests/prims_ts exits successfully and reports collect_ignore guidance when collection fails.

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@aleozlx aleozlx changed the title fix: restore the nvidia-cutlass-dsl floor to 4.7 to match pyproject.toml fix(tests): skip tests/prims_ts instead of erroring when CUTLASS DSL < 4.7 Sep 14, 2026
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Force-pushed a completely different change; the description above is rewritten to match. Summary of the course correction, since the earlier comment is now the only trace of the first attempt:

The original patch raised the nvidia-cutlass-dsl floor in requirements.txt from >=4.6.2a0 to >=4.7.0a0 on the theory that it had drifted from pyproject.toml by accident. It had not — the low floor is deliberate policy, aligned with vLLM's and SGLang's lower bound, and raising it would make FlashInfer unsatisfiable in those stacks. The fix now goes the other way: make tests/prims_ts degrade gracefully below 4.7, matching what sm120_fmha.py and kda.py already do.

The branch name (fix/cutlass-dsl-floor-parity) is a leftover from the first attempt and no longer describes the change. Squash-merge takes the PR title, so it won't reach main — flagging it so nobody reads the branch name as the intent.

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from pathlib import Path

import pytest

from flashinfer.prims_ts.cutlass_dsl import (
ensure_cutlass_dsl_experimental,
get_cutlass_dsl_bootstrap_error,
require_cutlass_dsl_experimental,
)

require_cutlass_dsl_experimental()
# Prims-TS needs ``cutlass.experimental.primitives`` and
# ``cutlass.experimental.task_scheduling``, which exist only in CUTLASS DSL 4.7+.
# FlashInfer's declared floor is deliberately lower so it stays co-installable
# with vLLM and SGLang, so an environment that cannot provide them is supported
# and must degrade rather than fail -- the same contract the other 4.7-gated
# features honor (``flashinfer/attention/cute_dsl/sm120_fmha.py``,
# ``flashinfer/kda.py``). ``ensure_...`` records the import failure for
# ``pytest_report_header`` instead of raising.
HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME = ensure_cutlass_dsl_experimental()

# Every module here except this one imports without the wheel; this one reaches
# the vendored kernels at import time, so it cannot be collected at all and has
# to be dropped before collection rather than skipped during it.
if not HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME:
collect_ignore = ["test_batched_gemm_captured_schedule_tasks.py"]

def _has_module(name: str) -> bool:
try:
return importlib.util.find_spec(name) is not None
except ModuleNotFoundError:
return False

def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
"""Skip this directory when the installed DSL cannot provide Prims-TS.

HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME = all(
_has_module(name)
for name in (
"cutlass",
"cutlass.cute",
"cutlass.experimental.primitives",
"cutlass.experimental.task_scheduling",
Marking collected items rather than skipping at module level is deliberate:
a module-level skip collects nothing, and a run scoped to this directory
would then exit with pytest's "no tests collected" code 5 -- trading a red
for a red. Marked items are collected first, so the run reports skips and
exits 0.
"""

del config
if HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME:
return

here = Path(__file__).parent
skip_prims_ts = pytest.mark.skip(
reason=(
"Prims-TS needs cutlass.experimental from CUTLASS DSL 4.7+; the "
f"installed wheel cannot provide it: {get_cutlass_dsl_bootstrap_error()!r}"
)
)
)
for item in items:
if Path(str(item.path)).parent == here:
item.add_marker(skip_prims_ts)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude every Prims-TS test module with module-level DSL imports

When HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME is false, pytest_collection_modifyitems cannot mark items before module imports run. For example, tests/prims_ts/test_batched_gemm_bf16_fc1.py imports flashinfer.prims_ts.batched_gemm.batched_gemm_config, which imports cutlass.experimental.primitives at module scope. This can raise during collection before the skip marker applies. Exclude every affected test module before collection, or defer its DSL-only imports. Keep DSL-independent modules collected so pytest tests/prims_ts still has skipped items and does not exit with code 5.

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In `@tests/prims_ts/conftest.py` around lines 19 - 68, Update the Prims-TS pytest
setup around collect_ignore and pytest_collection_modifyitems so that, when
HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME is false, every test module with module-level CUTLASS DSL
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CI verdict: ✅ auto-run ok
Review category: bot (rule fired: none — test-only change, no library code, no public API)
Blocking checks: none
Release blocker: no
Early stop: no

Security

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S1 injection/supply-chain no
S2 template overwritten no
S3 template obligations met all five checklist items ticked; the Tests section states the verification contract and reports the mechanism comparison
S4 agent-directing text no

Packaging

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C1.1 dependency bump no no dependency declaration is touched — the requirements.txt floor raise described in the body was withdrawn and is not in this diff
C1.2 public API changes no single file under tests/; nothing under flashinfer/
C1.3 AOT/trace registration no aot.py untouched; no module generators

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C2.1 perf claim backed n-a no performance claim

Implementation

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C3.1 experimental declared no
C3.2 durable areas touched no no kernel, JIT or shared library code in the diff
C3.3 tests match change yes the change is test-collection behaviour, and it is inert on every CI lane — ci/cuda-versions.json pins the image to CUTLASS DSL ==4.7.0, so HAS_PRIMS_TS_RUNTIME is true and tests/prims_ts collects and runs exactly as before
C3.4 release-blocker candidate no fixes #5213, filed against v0.7.0rc2, but the diff is test-only — no shipped library code changes, so the library-side requirement is not met

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C4.1 declaration obligations n-a C3.1 = no
C4.2 machine-readable test scope n-a C3.1 = no
C4.3 isolated from common areas n-a C3.1 = no

Notes for the maintainer

  • The open question in the Reviewer Notes resolves in the affirmative. ci/cuda-versions.json carries a dependency_policy block for nvidia-cutlass-dsl with three distinct specifiers — provider_build_specifier: ">=4.6.2a0", cuda_extra_specifier: ">=4.7.0a0", ci_image_specifier: "==4.7.0". The image pin applies to every lane, not only the Blackwell ones, so no lane loses Prims-TS coverage to this change. That block is also direct evidence for the premise: the low base floor is a recorded policy decision, not drift.
  • The residual exposure is the pin moving, and nothing would announce it. If ci_image_specifier is ever lowered below 4.7, tests/prims_ts turns from red to silently green everywhere. One assertion closes it — a check that fails when no lane can provide the runtime — and it is worth adding here rather than after the fact, because this PR is precisely what makes that failure mode quiet.
  • Blast radius is narrower than "below our floor" suggests: pip install flashinfer-python[cu12] / [cu13] already resolves >=4.7.0a0, so the documented CUDA install path never takes the degraded branch. It is reached by a bare base install or by an environment where another resolver constrains the DSL downward — which is the co-installability case the change is written for.

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Re-running CI: every GPU lane on 64633da4 was cancelled at 16:18, which left Test Results Summary at failure and the PR unmergeable. The cancellation looks like concurrency-group supersession from the force-push and the bot comment landing together, not a real failure — but the effect is that this PR currently has no GPU coverage at all, which matters more than usual here: the whole change is about what tests/prims_ts does at collection time.

What a good run must show: tests/prims_ts skipped, not errored, on any lane whose image is below CUTLASS DSL 4.7, and unchanged behaviour on any lane at 4.7+.

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except ModuleNotFoundError:
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def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):

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The mechanism itself is right and the exit-code-5 rationale in this docstring is the part to keep exactly as-is — module-level
skips trading "red for red" on directory-scoped runs is a trap most people would have walked into. The gap is only that the
collect_ignore list is a load-bearing claim with no enforcement: the next test module added with an eager DSL import silently
resurrects #5213. Suggest adding the simulation as a CI-runnable meta-check — stub plugin (~15 lines) + pytest tests/prims_ts
--collect-only, assert exit 0:

# dsl46_stub.py — load with `pytest -p dsl46_stub` to emulate CUTLASS DSL 4.6
import importlib.abc, importlib.machinery, sys

class _EmptyLoader(importlib.abc.Loader): 
    def create_module(self, spec): return None
    def exec_module(self, module): module.__path__ = []

class _Stub(importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder):
    def find_spec(self, fullname, path=None, target=None):
        if fullname == "cutlass.experimental":
            return importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec(fullname, _EmptyLoader(), is_package=True)
        return None

sys.meta_path.insert(0, _Stub())

(A naive blocker that fails cutlass.experimental outright doesn't work as a simulator — on the 4.7 wheel, import cutlass itself
eagerly chains into experimental.primitives, so the stub has to satisfy the parent while leaving the submodules missing.)

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Done in 9b5a3c81 — took your simulator approach essentially as written.

test_prims_ts_directory_still_collects_without_cutlass_experimental writes the stub to a tmp dir, runs pytest tests/prims_ts --collect-only -p dsl46_stub, and asserts exit 0. It lives in tests/test_prims_ts_import_isolation.py rather than under tests/prims_ts/ so it still runs on lanes where that directory is skipped.

Your parenthetical was the load-bearing part and I verified it rather than trusting it: with a package whose __init__ does from .experimental import primitives (emulating 4.7's eager chain), the stub yields ImportError: cannot import name 'primitives' from 'cutlass.experimental' while cutlass.experimental itself still resolves with __path__=[]. ensure_cutlass_dsl_experimental catches that via its except BaseException, so it lands in the unavailable path — which is the state we want to simulate. A finder that failed cutlass.experimental outright would have broken import cutlass itself and simulated the wrong thing, exactly as you said.

Also worth recording why exit 0 is the right assertion: a missed module raises during collection (exit 2), and a module-level skip collects nothing and exits 5 — so the check catches both the regression and the tempting wrong fix.

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This matches only direct children of tests/prims_ts/; a future subdirectory of tests would escape the skip marker. here in Path(str(item.path)).parents covers descendants too.

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Fixed in 9b5a3c81 — now here in Path(str(item.path)).parents, with a comment saying why, so a future subdirectory of tests/prims_ts/ can't escape the marker.

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… 4.6

Review follow-up on two real gaps (thanks @bkryu, and CodeRabbit raised the
first independently).

1. `collect_ignore` was a load-bearing claim with nothing enforcing it. A test
   module that imports the vendored kernels at module scope cannot be marked
   during collection, only dropped before it -- so adding one without listing it
   silently reintroduces flashinfer-ai#5213 (`ERROR tests/prims_ts`) on every pre-4.7 lane.
   Adds a meta-check that runs `pytest tests/prims_ts --collect-only` under a
   stub emulating CUTLASS DSL 4.6 and asserts exit 0.

   Exit 0 is a stricter assertion than it looks: a missed module raises during
   collection (exit 2), and a module-level skip -- the obvious alternative fix --
   collects nothing and exits 5.

   The stub resolves `cutlass.experimental` as an empty package while leaving
   `.primitives` / `.task_scheduling` missing. A finder that fails
   `cutlass.experimental` outright does not simulate 4.6: on the 4.7 wheel it
   breaks `import cutlass` itself, which is a different failure. Verified the
   stub blocks 4.7's eager chain with an ImportError, which
   `ensure_cutlass_dsl_experimental` catches via `except BaseException`.

2. The skip marker matched only direct children of `tests/prims_ts/`, so a future
   subdirectory would escape it. Now uses `here in Path(...).parents`.

The test lives in tests/test_prims_ts_import_isolation.py rather than under
tests/prims_ts/, so it still runs on lanes where that directory is skipped.

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