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perf(cake_sparse_mla): round-4 DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake programs for SM100/SM103 (stacked on #5630) - #5644

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Developed by the CAKE team, the kernels in this PR outperform the relevant SOTA baselines at the time of merge on the vast majority of performance benchmark shapes, matching them otherwise.

Summary

Round-4 performance of the backend="cake" DeepSeek-V4 sparse-MLA decode path of trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4
(SM100a / SM103a), regenerated from the same producer pipeline as #5630 (this PR is stacked on #5630; host and tests unchanged):

  • BF16/FP8 H8/H16 decode programs (16 rows): the FP8 body issues its K gathers back-to-back after hoisting the page-offset loads and
    runs an 8-slot K ring; both bodies get a deeper K/V alias ring so a 3-tile item's second tile no longer waits for the first PV.
    GB300 FP8 rows 1.40x -> 1.70x (geomean), B200 1.52x -> 1.73x; 3-tile BF16 rows -0.2..-0.5 us (GB300 decode-000062 1.50x -> 1.64x).
  • BF16/H128 persistent prefill programs (128+ query-token rows and the K-reuse rows): FA4-style lazy softmax rescale (a row keeps its
    running max until the true max grows by more than 2^8; the deferred factor is applied then). prefill-style-000088: GB300 1.34x -> 1.47x,
    B200 1.22x -> 1.37x; 000092 1.35x -> 1.41x / 1.22x -> 1.33x.
  • BF16 one-tile SWA decode programs (18 rows): the sparse-index load is issued before the Q TMA (statement order only; bit-identical
    output): -0.1..-0.26 us per row.
  • Every other program is a byte-identical regeneration (renamed for the new producer revision).

Validation

Export r13 (regenerated programs as published here; host and tests at #5630's 76d586ff6), same-session paired CUPTI (active-union median,
cold L2) against the default trtllm-gen path at the same revision:

GB300 (sm_103a) B200 (sm_100a)
94 canonical + 40 hardening shapes correct (BF16 atol=rtol=1e-2, FP8 0.1; padded / separate-table / offset axes) 134/134 134/134
94 canonical rows faster than the default path 94/94, geomean 1.343x, min 1.130x (#5630: 1.300x, min 1.098x) 94/94, geomean 1.319x, min 1.048x (#5630: 1.280x, min 1.027x)
40 hardening rows faster than the default path 40/40, geomean 1.353x, min 1.085x (#5630: 1.330x, min 1.071x) 40/40, geomean 1.310x, min 1.069x (#5630: 1.307x, min 1.065x)
compute-sanitizer synccheck + memcheck on the changed kernels 0 errors 0 errors
tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4*.py (GPU, fresh clone of this commit) 296 passed 296 passed

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  • Performance Improvements
    • Updated attention processing to handle more key/value data stages per pipeline, potentially improving throughput.
    • Sparse-index lookups now occur earlier in the loading process, helping streamline attention data preparation.
  • Numerical Improvements
    • Refined softmax accumulation to avoid unnecessary correction for small score changes while preserving correction for larger changes.

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The PR refreshes generated CAKE DSV4 kernel symbols, host bindings, dispatch families, and JIT registration metadata for SM 100a and SM 103a. It also adds launchers, removes obsolete launchers, and updates several CUDA pipeline implementations.

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Generated kernels and launch bindings
csrc/cake_dsv4/sm_100a/*, csrc/cake_dsv4/sm_103a/*
Kernel symbols, host-shim namespaces, launch targets, error messages, and exported bindings are updated. Several kernels also change sparse-index ordering, softmax correction, shared-memory sizing, or KV pipeline stages.
New and removed direct-source launchers
csrc/cake_dsv4/sm_103a/*_binding.cu
New TVM-FFI launchers add validation, TMA descriptor construction, shared-memory setup, clustered launches, and error handling. Obsolete launcher files are removed.
Family dispatch and registration metadata
csrc/cake_dsv4/*family*, flashinfer/jit/cake_dsv4.py
Family identifiers, variant identities, generated source references, route dependencies, and split-reduction signatures are refreshed. Split routes now expose num_split and partial_O where specified.架

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csrc/cake_dsv4/sm_100a/cake_dsv4_fb74100a1f12bce95455_kernel.cu (1)

1943-1943: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add explicit num_steps coverage for the V-stage ring.

The v_cur and v_tail offsets match the loader's four-stage tile order. The hardening tests do not explicitly exercise num_steps = 1 or 2. Add cases with exact sparse lengths for num_steps = 1, 2, and an odd value greater than 2 so regressions in the single-tile and two-tile paths do not go undetected.

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Add hardening-test cases that exercise the V-stage ring with exact sparse
lengths for num_steps equal to 1, 2, and an odd value greater than 2, covering
the single-tile and two-tile paths alongside the odd-step path. Ensure the cases
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Keep the 8.0 lazy-rescale threshold and add a boundary test.

When grow <= 8.0f, the kernel retains row_max_val and sets acc_scale to 1.0f. The score exponent gap is therefore bounded by 8, or approximately 2^8. The score sum and row_sum_val remain FP32. The correction stage skips output rescaling only when this same no-correction flag is set. The threshold is internally consistent.

Add a regression test for scaled gaps just below, at, and above 8.0f.

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Keep the `grow <= 8.0f` threshold and its existing `acc_scale` and `new_max`
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- Line 1943: Add hardening-test cases that exercise the V-stage ring with exact
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asm volatile(
"st.global.v8.b32 [%0], {%1, %2, %3, %4, %5, %6, %7, %8};"
:: "l"((void*)(&((__nv_bfloat16*)(O + gmem_base))[0])), "r"(_pk_u0), "r"(_pk_u1), "r"(_pk_u2), "r"(_pk_u3), "r"(_pk_u4), "r"(_pk_u5), "r"(_pk_u6), "r"(_pk_u7) : "memory");

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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# How is the O/out tensor created or accepted for Cake DSv4 launches?
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printf '%s\n' '--- Python output validation and launch binding ---'
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fd -i cake_dsv4.py -t f -x sh -c 'printf "%s\n" "--- $1 ---"; sed -n "1100,1200p" "$1"; sed -n "730,775p" "$1"' sh {}

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Reject misaligned O pointers before the 32-byte store.

run_cake_dsv4 accepts caller-provided contiguous out tensors. A contiguous view can be 16-byte aligned without being 32-byte aligned. Since gmem_base advances in 32-byte increments, st.global.v8.b32 can receive a non-naturally aligned address and trigger a CUDA misaligned-address fault.

Add the check to the binding for kernel_cake_dsv4_863f8d2ab684eadae010, not to the shared Python wrapper used by other kernel variants.

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   CheckContiguous(arg_O, "O");
+  TVM_FFI_CHECK(reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(arg_O.data_ptr()) % 32 == 0, ValueError)
+      << "O must be 32-byte aligned";
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In the binding for kernel_cake_dsv4_863f8d2ab684eadae010, validate that the
caller-provided O pointer is 32-byte aligned before launching the kernel,
rejecting misaligned pointers with a ValueError. Keep this check specific to
this binding rather than adding it to the shared Python wrapper.

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[FAILED] Pipeline #70233636 — 24/25 executed test jobs passed

Compared with nightly #70047153.

Unit Tests

GPU CUDA 12.9 CUDA 13.0 CUDA 13.4 Notes
B200 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ❔ Unknown Unknown: script failed before producing a JUnit report (1 job; CUDA 13.4)
GB200 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ✅ Pass —
GB300 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ✅ Pass —
H100 ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ✅ Pass —
RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell ✅ Pass ✅ Pass ✅ Pass —
VR200 — — ✅ Pass —

✅ 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 CUDA 13.4 Notes
B300 (multi-GPU) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass — —
GB200 (multi-node) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass — —
GB300 (multi-node) ✅ Pass ✅ Pass — —
Failure details

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  • Unknown: script failed before producing a JUnit report — B200 / CUDA 13.4

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/bot run tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4.py tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4_hardening.py

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GitLab MR !1763 has been updated with latest changes, and the CI pipeline #70314164 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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@flashinfer-bot run tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4.py tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4_hardening.py

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…0/SM103 (exact numerics; stacked on #5644) (#5686)

## Summary

Round-5 performance of the `backend="cake"` DeepSeek-V4 sparse-MLA
decode path of `trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4`
(SM100a / SM103a), regenerated from the same producer pipeline as #5644,
plus one host-side binding line. Every regenerated program computes
bit-identical output to its #5644 predecessor: this round only re-times
data movement and epilogues, with no change to the arithmetic.

- **BF16 H8/H16 decode programs (16 rows):** eight warps issue the K
gathers (both arches); the FP8 H8/H16 programs do the same on SM100a.
- **BF16/H128 persistent prefill programs (SM103a):** the O epilogue
loads the next tile's TMEM accumulator ahead of the store (−1.5..−4.3
%).
- **BF16/H64 split-K decode programs (9 rows):** owner-CTA form with
hoisted partial select, zero-fill and 256-bit stores: −1.7..−2.9 us per
  row (GB300 class geomean 1.25x -> **1.51x**, B200 1.18x -> **1.45x**).
- **FP8/H128 persistent prefill programs:** TMA-store O epilogue
(−0.5..−0.6 us on the 9-tile rows, −7.3 % on prefill-style-000093).
- **BF16/H32 retained-KV decode programs (4 rows):** the softmax
publishes P before the row-sum exchange (separate stats barrier),
−0.3..−1.2 %.
- Every other program is a byte-identical regeneration (renamed for the
new producer revision).
- **Host (`flashinfer/mla/cake_dsv4.py`, first commit of this branch):**
the FP8 persistent bodies now store O through a TMA descriptor
(`tmap_o`); `_TMA_SOURCE_ALIASES` binds it to the same `[tokens, heads,
512]` output rows the plain `O` argument sees. Without it every
FP8 launch on those routes raised "argument 'tmap_o' (tma_buffer) has no
host value" (28 failures in the hardening tests on the
regenerated programs alone). `test_registered_arg_plans_use_known_names`
now also requires every TMA descriptor to alias a tensor the
host actually places in its value table, so a vocabulary-only match
cannot pass again.

## Validation

Exports of the regenerated programs as published here (B200: export r15
against #5644's `6d479bea1`; GB300: export r16 against this branch's
host-fix commit `fd2131236`), same-session paired CUPTI (active-union
median, cold L2) against the default trtllm-gen path at the same
revision:

| | GB300 (sm_103a) | B200 (sm_100a) |
|---|---|---|
| 94 canonical + 40 hardening shapes correct (BF16 atol=rtol=1e-2, FP8
0.1; padded / separate-table / offset axes) | 134/134 correct; 133/134
export gates (row 085: baseline-arm order sensitivity, see doc §
Round-over-round) | 134/134 |
| **94 canonical rows faster than the default path** | 94/94 > 1,
geomean **1.370x**, min 1.129x (#5644: 1.343x, min 1.130x) | 94/94,
geomean **1.356x**, min 1.103x (#5644: 1.319x, min 1.048x) |
| 40 hardening rows faster than the default path | 40/40 > 1, geomean
**1.385x**, min 1.096x (#5644: 1.353x, min 1.085x) | 40/40 > 1, geomean
**1.333x**, min 1.045x (#5644: 1.310x, min 1.069x) |
| output bit-identical to the #5644 programs on every changed row | yes
| yes |
| compute-sanitizer synccheck + memcheck on the changed kernels | 0
errors | 0 errors |
| `tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4*.py` (GPU, fresh clone of this commit) | 296
passed, 0 failed | 296 passed, 0 failed |

## Baselines and their source PRs

- **trtllm-gen default path** =
`trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4(...)` without `backend="cake"` (the
TRTLLM-GEN DSv4 sparse-MLA
kernels plus the framework launches it needs for equal semantics:
padded-Q masking, separate-table merge, workspace/counter handling).
Origin PRs: #3269 (9c76c99, 2026-05-21); SM120 kernels #3395
(f954694, 2026-06-15); DSv4.1 unification #5197 (eb5f05b,
2026-09-18).
- **Cake backend under test** = `backend="cake"` from #4573 (13db2cf,
2026-09-16), hardened by #5591 (8589d49), round 2 #5610
(4b8167e), round 3 #5630 (ebe0efb), round 4 #5644 (6d479be),
regenerated again by this PR.
- **Test oracle** = the PyTorch reference of
`tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4.py` / `test_cake_dsv4_hardening.py`.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added output tensor-map support for selected CAKE DSV4 attention
paths, enabling outputs to be staged and transferred through optimized
tensor operations.
* Updated selected kernels to process larger output groups and adjust
work distribution for supported GPU architectures.
* Refreshed kernel-family registration and dispatch across supported
architectures.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved handling of invalid key/value indices and synchronization of
output statistics and transfers.

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Co-authored-by: Yingyi Huang <averyh@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
yyihuang added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
…0/SM103 (exact numerics; stacked on #5686) (#5700)

## Summary

Round-6 performance of the `backend="cake"` DeepSeek-V4 sparse-MLA
decode path of `trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4`
(SM100a / SM103a), regenerated from the same producer pipeline as #5686.
No host change. Every regenerated program computes
bit-identical output to its #5686 predecessor: this round only re-times
data movement, store widths, pipeline depths and the kernel ABI,
with no change to the arithmetic.

- **BF16/H128 split-K programs, classes E / F / B / C (18 rows):**
reducer family — 256-bit partial stores, batched partial loads, and a
leaner 5-split reducer on SM103a; class E additionally gets a per-arch
owner (SM100a: 4-stage K ring; SM103a: new 8-slot K/PV ring body).
E rows −2.7..−3.7 us (GB300) / −2.3..−2.5 us (B200); F rows −0.4..−0.5
us; B S=3 rows −0.65..−0.70 us.
- **FP8/H64 single-CTA SWA programs, class K1 (11 rows):** 256-bit O
stores in the lane-per-row epilogue, −0.06..−0.27 us.
- **BF16 one-tile SWA programs, classes A / D / G (17 rows) + the H32
retained-KV and H8/H16 guards decode programs (SM103a):**
tensor maps passed by value (`__grid_constant__`) instead of through a
pointer, −0.26..−1.03 us per row (−4.6..−9.0 % on A/D/G).
- **FP8/H64 wide one-partition programs, class K4 (2 rows):** third 32
KiB K stage, −0.06..−0.16 us.
- **FP8/H128 persistent programs, classes K2 / L (33 rows, SM103a):**
epilogue TMEM load-ahead of 4, −0.6..−3.3 % on the H128 rows.
- **BF16/H128 striped prefill programs, class M (7 rows):** V rows
issued ahead (LDS order only), −1.5..−4.7 % (B200), −0.3..−1.6 %
(GB300).
- **BF16 H8/H16 decode programs, class H (8 rows, SM100a):** the
never-read padded gather rows of the last item are skipped, −0.45..−1.02
us
  on the padded rows.
- Every other program is a byte-identical regeneration (renamed for the
new producer revision).

## Validation

Exports of the regenerated programs as published here (B200: export r16;
GB300: export r17, both from Cake tree `939659882ba` against a
fresh clone of #5686's `10c80d75b`), same-session paired CUPTI
(active-union median, cold L2) against the default trtllm-gen path at
the same
revision:

| | GB300 (sm_103a) | B200 (sm_100a) |
|---|---|---|
| 94 canonical + 40 hardening shapes correct (BF16 atol=rtol=1e-2, FP8
0.1; padded / separate-table / offset axes) | 134/134 correct; 134/134
export gates | 134/134 correct; 134/134 export gates (decode-000002 and
hardening-000036 in a second measurement round, see doc § Gate table) |
| **94 canonical rows faster than the default path** | 94/94 > 1,
geomean **1.411x**, min 1.116x (#5686: 1.370x, min 1.129x) | 94/94 > 1,
geomean **1.352x**, min 1.075x (#5686: 1.356x, min 1.103x) |
| 40 hardening rows faster than the default path | 40/40 > 1, geomean
**1.390x**, min 1.092x (#5686: 1.385x, min 1.096x) | 40/40 > 1, geomean
**1.354x**, min 1.085x (#5686: 1.333x, min 1.045x) |
| output bit-identical to the #5686 programs on every changed row | yes
(92 changed rows) | yes (48 changed rows) |
| compute-sanitizer synccheck + memcheck on the changed kernels | 0
errors | 0 errors |
| `tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4*.py` (GPU, fresh clone of this commit) | 296
passed, 0 failed | 296 passed, 0 failed |

## Baselines and their source PRs

- **trtllm-gen default path** =
`trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4(...)` without `backend="cake"` (the
TRTLLM-GEN DSv4 sparse-MLA
kernels plus the framework launches it needs for equal semantics:
padded-Q masking, separate-table merge, workspace/counter handling).
Origin PRs: #3269 (9c76c99, 2026-05-21); SM120 kernels #3395
(f954694, 2026-06-15); DSv4.1 unification #5197 (eb5f05b,
2026-09-18).
- **Cake backend under test** = `backend="cake"` from #4573 (13db2cf,
2026-09-16), hardened by #5591 (8589d49), round 2 #5610
(4b8167e), round 3 #5630 (ebe0efb), round 4 #5644 (6d479be), round
5 #5686 (10c80d7), regenerated again by this PR.
- **Test oracle** = the PyTorch reference of
`tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4.py` / `test_cake_dsv4_hardening.py`.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added optimized attention-kernel variants for newer NVIDIA GPU
architectures, including improved handling of split outputs and KV data.
* Removed the need for callers to provide a separate tensor-map
workspace for several kernel variants.
* **Performance Improvements**
* Optimized data loading, pipelining, and output conversion across
multiple GPU variants.
  * Added a specialized path for combining three partial outputs.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved bounds handling for gathered KV rows, including out-of-range
indices.

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Co-authored-by: Yingyi Huang <averyh@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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