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perf(cake_sparse_mla): round-6 DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake programs for SM100/SM103 (exact numerics; stacked on #5686) - #5700
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis pull request regenerates CAKE DSv4 SM100a and SM103a kernels and their JIT registrations. It changes selected tensor-map interfaces, shared-memory pipelines, sparse gathers, output stores, split-reduction paths, and generated dispatch bindings. ChangesSM100a kernel updates
SM103a kernel and registration updates
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Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This regeneration mostly retimes kernels, and the author reports correct results on both GPUs. One edge case remains in an SM100a kernel: when the final tile is only partly filled, leftover shared-memory values from earlier work could corrupt the output if those values are not finite. The fix is small, so address it or confirm it before merging. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 2 systems. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review detailsSystems and components
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- Around line 2527-2537: In the KV-stage loading path using valid_rows and
gather_groups, ensure rows omitted from a partial final tile are finite zero
before the PV MMA reads the stage, or mask those rows in the PV operation. Do
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| int load_ordinal = hs_3; | ||
| int valid_rows = 128; | ||
| if (load_ordinal >= 6) { | ||
| int _min_2 = ((active_topk_4) < (128) ? (active_topk_4) : (128)); | ||
| valid_rows = _min_2; | ||
| } | ||
| int gather_groups = (valid_rows + 3) / 4; | ||
| mbarrier_wait(kv_empty_addr + (kv_stage_1) * 8, kv_phase_1); | ||
| if (load_rank == 0) { | ||
| if (elect_sync()) { | ||
| mbarrier_arrive_expect_tx(kv_full_addr + (kv_stage_1) * 8, 32768); | ||
| mbarrier_arrive_expect_tx(kv_full_addr + (kv_stage_1) * 8, gather_groups * 1024); |
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Initialize skipped V rows before the PV MMA.
The byte count matches the issued gathers. However, when the final tile is partial, load_ordinal_1 >= 6 reduces valid_rows_1, so rows beyond the residual count are not written to the KV stage. The PV MMA still reads the full stage. The P values for these rows are zero after the -CAKE_INF mask, but stale V values containing NaN or Inf can still propagate through the multiply.
Initialize the skipped rows to finite zero before the PV MMA, or apply an equivalent row mask in the PV operation. Do not rely on zero P values to protect against stale non-finite V data.
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In the KV-stage loading path using valid_rows and gather_groups, ensure rows
omitted from a partial final tile are finite zero before the PV MMA reads the
stage, or mask those rows in the PV operation. Do not rely on zero P values to
prevent stale non-finite V values from propagating.
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…SM100/SM103 on the #5920 layout (cumulative) (#6045) ## Summary Rounds 7-17 of the DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake backend (`backend="cake"`, SM100 + SM103) as one cumulative change on the #5920 layout (per-variant bindings taking their checks from `tvm_ffi_utils.h`, shared sources under `common/`, `run_sequence`, the host's direct variant launches). Main carries round 6 (#5700) for this family; the eight per-round PRs stacked on it (#5728, #5742, #5845, #5854, #5879, #5946, #5973, #5999) and the held round 15-17 fork branches were closed in favour of this PR. Programs: whole-family regeneration of the `cake_dsv4` sources from Cake !1037's tree (the round-17 kernel tree `c7284461b47` merged into Cake main, rendered by main's codegen) for sm_103a and sm_100a through the exporter's #5920-layout path, replacing the round-6 sources. Host: the four round 11-14 host changes re-expressed on main's host (descriptor pool and `run_sequence` unchanged), plus the round tests ported onto main's collapsed tests. Numerics rule (every round): no precision-level change anywhere (same tolerances, same or higher-precision intermediates). Rounds that change output bits are called out below; every other program is bit-identical to its predecessor (NaN-poisoned bit compare on the measured cells). ### What changed per round - Round 7 ([Cake !1037](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1037), was #5728): FP8/H64 single-CTA SWA (class K1): single-pass softmax with the TMEM-alias correctness fix (Q x400 over-tolerance elements 398..64359 -> 0) and softmax warps helping the first K-tile gather, -0.7..-0.85 us per row; FP8/H64 cluster / wide one-partition: V4 gather owner, whole 128-key tile per cluster CTA with an f32 end merge over DSMEM (bits change by merge grouping), -0.13..-0.70 us; H8/H16 decode: loader warps skip the padded gather rows, up to -1.6 us. - Round 8 ([Cake !1043](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1043), was #5742): FP8/H64 wide one-partition in the whole-tile form with the no-LSE epilogue, -0.8..-0.9 us per row (bits change by merge grouping); K1 row max through `tcgen05.ld.red.max` on SM103a / full-tile fast max on SM100a, -0.45..-0.83 us; H8/H16 index-row L2 prefetch, -0.10..-0.26 us; BF16 one-tile SWA chain K stage-0 gather before the index barrier, -0.03..-0.10 us. - Round 9 ([Cake !1061](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1061), was #5845): six bit-identical levers: coalesced final-O epilogue of the fp8 H64 M64 persistent body (-7..-18 % on the six M64 rows), K4 first-tile gather split across the three warp roles (-2.5..-2.7 %), bf16 H64 guard by-value TMA descriptor ABI on sm_103a, K1 8-warp O epilogue drain, H/I SwapsAb page pair 0 from page-loader registers, class-O fp8 H64 5-slot KV ring (-12 % / -7..-9 %). - Round 10 ([Cake !1066](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1066), was #5854): bit-identical: class-O fp8 H64 split O-accumulator handshake + six-slot K ring with early Q release (-8..-10 %), bf16 H64 guard mask-flag pre-decode + transposed O store (-3.1..-4.1 %), H/I SwapsAb index-row L2 prefetch on sm_103a; the h8/h16 bindings gain the `num_query_tokens` scalar the host already passes by name. - Round 11 ([Cake !1085](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1085), was #5879): seven bit-identical levers (fp8 H64 M64 gated box-TMA K gather + per-stage O split credit; fp8 K4 last-tile key split; fp8 H128 persistent epilogue load-ahead-4 on sm_100a + deferred staging wait; bf16 H128 row-first elected multi-warp gather issue; bf16 H64 guard class-conditional gather4 issue) plus three contract-identical correctness fixes (split-FP8 P stage 1024 B-aligned at SMEM 175104 in the K4 / M64 / fp8 H128 persistent programs; guarded 16 B vector loads in the top-k index producers). **Host:** `out=None` is allocated in `run_cake_dsv4` after routing and placed at `base % 4 KiB == 0x800` on the six routes where the phase law was measured (`allocate_cake_dsv4_output`, `cake_dsv4_out_phase`, `out_shape`); caller-provided `out` and the other routes are unchanged. New `tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4_out_placement.py`. - Round 12 ([Cake !1126](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1126), was #5946): bf16 H128 row-first / prefill O epilogue `tcgen05.wait::ld` per 32-column TMEM load (-1.4..-6.0 %); bf16 H32 top-k mixed-pool split assignment (re-associates f32 partials by split geometry, strictly more precise: cells > 1 ulp vs fp32 118.8k -> ~630) and active_topk mask before the s_full wait (-3.5..-5.2 %); fp8 K4 wide quarter-tile tail + helper-correction readback pre-issue (-2.0..-4.1 %); **Host:** the fp8 H64 M64 body is two exported programs selected by the item width in `_route` (`_fp8_h64_m64_program`: `fp8_h64_prefill_source_persistent_m64` for `sparse_topk == 128`, `..._m64_multi_tile` otherwise; same ABI, same bits). - Round 13 ([Cake !1152](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1152), was #5973): bit-identical: **Host + program:** bf16 H128 row-first rows with 17-37 tokens run the new `bf16_h128_topk128x_row_first_vsplit` program (two 2-CTA clusters per token gathering only their N256 V half; grid 4 x tokens; `_BF16_ROW_FIRST_V_HALF_SPLIT_MAX_TOKENS = 37`), hardening-000025 -8.4 % GB300 / -7.8 % B200; fp8 K4 whole-tile `st.async ... complete_tx` peer O push + four-stage chunked merge (-0.70..-0.74 us); fp8 H64 M64 multi-tile next-item Q TMA after the CLC response (-0.4..-1.5 %); fp8 H128 persistent partial-o accumulation before the final `o_full` wait (-0.3..-1.1 %). - Round 14 ([Cake !1168](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1168), was #5999): bit-identical: bf16 H128 row-first (owner + vsplit) index warp issues its nine index loads before the nine `st.shared` passes (-5.0..-6.6 %); bf16 H64 guard program stores O through a TMA tensor map from per-warp staging (-0.9..-3.5 %) -- **Host:** the explicit `"O": "O"` entry in `_TMA_SOURCE_ALIASES` so the guard binding's `("tma_buffer", "O")` resolves; fp8 H128 persistent two-box pipelined epilogue drain on sm_103a. - Round 15 ([Cake !1177](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1177), held on the layout decision): bit-identical: the two-box pipelined epilogue drain becomes the default for the sm_100a fp8 H128 lane-gather variant (>= 128 work items); no host change. - Round 16 ([Cake !1182](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1182), held): bit-identical: fp8 H64 M64 multi-tile softmax -1 ballot hoisted above the `s_full` join (-0.22..-0.56 us); bf16 H64 guard O store split per V stage so the stage-0 O drain overlaps PV1 (-0.19..-0.35 us); no host change. - Round 17 ([Cake !1186](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1186), held): bit-identical: bf16 H128 row-first programs (owner + vsplit) hoist the swa / compressed V table select out of the four elected gather groups (hardening-000025 -0.593 us GB300 / -0.800 us B200, hardening-000031 -0.160 / -0.751 us); no host change. Round 18 ([Cake !1193](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1193)) shipped no program change (ledger only). ### Layout (#5920) notes - Per-arch registry schema unchanged: arch-prefixed `sources`, `arg_plan` as `_PLAN_<LABEL> [+ _SLAB] + _GRID`, `tma_workspace_bytes` only where non-zero, reducers shared through `common/` where both architectures compile the same kernel (`split_reduce`, `bf16_h64_compressed_reduce`); the split-5 reducers stay per-arch under the one key `bf16_h128_split5_reduce` (sm_103a grid `(tokens, heads / 4, 1)`, sm_100a `(tokens, heads, 1)`, as main's launch test pins). - Two new variant keys per architecture: `bf16_h128_topk128x_row_first_vsplit`, `fp8_h64_prefill_source_persistent_m64_multi_tile` (27 variants per arch). - No family bindings; two-stage routes go through `run_sequence`; the host's descriptor pool is untouched. ### Variant / file diff vs main `a12173ca0` - Per-arch registrations: 27 variants each (main had 25): new keys `bf16_h128_topk128x_row_first_vsplit` (round 13, host-routed for 17-37-token rows) and `fp8_h64_prefill_source_persistent_m64_multi_tile` (round 12). Loader `flashinfer/jit/cake_dsv4.py`: data-only edits (registrations, plan/grid constants, source lists); loader functions and `__all__` untouched. - Files: `common/` 30 (4 before), `sm_100a/` 24 (46 before), `sm_103a/` 24 (46 before); `sm_120a/` and every other family untouched. Diff vs main: 107 files, +17906 / -62404. - Fold disclosure: the exporter serves a variant from `common/` when its kernel + binding sources are byte-identical on both architectures modulo hash tokens. With the rounds 7-18 kernel tree rendered by current Cake main codegen, 15 of the 27 variants fold (bf16_h128_swa128, bf16_h128_topk128x_row_first, …_vsplit, bf16_h128_topk128x_split4_sm100, bf16_h16_h32_swa128_v44, bf16_h32_topk128x_early_v47, bf16_h64_compressed_q8_v38, bf16_h64_compressed_reduce, bf16_h64_guard_q_tma_batch_r25, bf16_h64_prefill, fp8_h64_prefill_source_persistent_m64, …_m64_multi_tile, fp8_h64_source_exact, fp8_lowhead_h64, split_reduce); 12 stay per-arch. Each architecture still compiles its own module from the shared source. - Host: the six host/test commits below the export commits port the rounds 13-17 host changes (vsplit route, descriptor-pool and `run_sequence` plumbing, output-placement test) onto the #5920 host; `cake_dsv4_host_shim.h` is unreferenced by the regenerated bindings and left in place. ## Validation Both architectures measured on the exported programs of this branch (GB300 = sm_103a commit `08d1c3c8`, whose sm_103a sources are byte-identical modulo hash tokens to this head; B200 = this head `4146373e`). Baseline = FlashInfer trtllm-gen default path of the same clone. Paired CUPTI sweeps (cold L2, active-union median), same-process; same-GPU ABBA = legs A1 B1 B2 A2 on one GPU, A = this branch, B = the round-17 fork head `dbf86c4d6` (quantum q = 0.032 us). | | GB300 (sm_103a) | B200 (sm_100a) | |---|---|---| | production export: 134 shapes timed + correct vs the Cake source programs (receipts) | 133/134 pass, source/export geomean 1.0022, trtllm-gen/export 1.4948 (94 canonical); hardening-000004 timing-only 0.9578x (correctness pass; retained first-run receipt — an independent full run on another node measured it 0.9820x pass; the same-GPU ABBA below shows the row 0.16 us *faster* than round 17 in both orders) — JHB 802461 nvl72d426-T11, 4 GPUs | 134/134 pass, source/export 1.0037 (min h004 0.9845), trtllm-gen/export 1.4404 — NSC 2138957, 4 GPUs | | **94 canonical rows faster than the default path** | 94/94 correct, every row > 1.0: geomean 1.4617, min 1.1191 (decode-000051) | 94/94 correct, every row > 1.0: geomean 1.4447, min 1.1774 (decode-000034) | | 40 hardening rows faster than the default path | 40/40 correct, every row > 1.0: geomean 1.4857, min 1.1068 (hardening-000004) | 40/40 correct, every row > 1.0: geomean 1.4396, min 1.1357 (hardening-000023) | | all 134 rows | geomean 1.4688, min 1.1068, 0 rows <= 1.0 | geomean 1.4432, min 1.1357, 0 rows <= 1.0 | | no row > 2 % slower than the round-17 programs (same-GPU ABBA vs `dbf86c4d6`) | pin rows (8): 0 slower, h004 -0.160 us / 064 -0.100 / 065 -0.070 faster both orders, rest within 1 q; hardening 00-39 (40): 0 rows beyond 1.25 q (h034 +0.040 us = +0.13 %, h037 +0.040 us = +0.07 %; h020 -0.580 us); canonical 94: 94 rows in 3 parts (`68a1e0f7` `1e1726bf` `59741678`): 134-row totals = 18 rows slower in both orders, 27 faster in both orders, geomean A/B 0.9956; **1 row above +2 %: decode-000056 +0.350 us (6.53 -> 6.88 us, +5.4 %, program fp8_h16_source_exact)**, next largest +1.7 % (decode-000074/077); largest gains decode-000078 -7.1 %, hardening-000020 -6.9 %, decode-000006/018 -6.7 %, 081 -6.6 %, prefill-style-000086 -2.7 %. Attribution of decode-000056 (Cake round 19, measured on another GB300 node): **not a codegen or ABI effect**. The non-ABI text differences compile to byte-identical SASS on sm_103a (128 regs / 0 spills in every form); A-vs-B replications flip sign between fresh processes of the same install; repeat sampling (5 alternating fresh A/B processes x 3 GPUs) gives this head 6.807 us vs round 17 6.803 us (0.1 q). The kernel (`fp8_h16_source_exact`) has two placement-dependent timing modes ~0.3 us apart that both exports reach; the round-18 cell caught the two installs in different modes. Programs unchanged | pin rows (8): `ea69b60d`: 1 slower both orders = decode-000002 +0.070 us (10.46 us, +0.67 %, 2.2 q); 6 rows timing-identical in all four legs; h031 within its band; hardening 00-39 (40): `0365c256` / `f0fee955` (B200 legs take ~45 min per 20 rows; both steps hit the 3 h step budget during leg A2): 25/40 rows with all four legs, code part <= +0.030 us (<= 1 q) on every one; the 15 rows without A2 have |A1 - B1|, |A1 - B2| <= 0.09 us (h017 -0.09 us = faster); no row > 2 % in any leg; canonical 94: 6 x 16-row parts (`d69139af` `1b42ff9f` `d2cf5268` `49f23a7d` `fedccecc` `c3874f40`, all four legs): 134-row totals = 8 rows slower in both orders (max decode-000002 +0.070 us = +0.67 %, the other seven +0.04..+0.06 us <= 2 q), 0 rows faster in both orders, 112 rows timing-identical or within 1 q, geomean A/B 1.0004; **no row above +2 %**; decode-000056 (the GB300 +5.4 % row) is 6.690 us in all four legs on B200: sm_100a already used the `grid_constant` TMA ABI in round 17, consistent with the GB300 cell being a sampling artefact (see the GB300 column) | | `tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4*.py` (GPU, fresh clone of this head) | 320 passed, 4 skipped, 0 failed (`5e70a6c9`, 1 GPU of 802461) | 319 passed, 4 skipped, 1 failed in the full run (`b13c39b1`: `test_cuda_graph_replay_matches_eager[h32-fp8-q1]` at "eager call allocated" with memory_allocated *lower* than the baseline, i.e. a GC of earlier tests' tensors during the call); the test re-run in isolation passes 12/12 params (`cb812a81`) | | Cake-side gates of the kernel tree (Cake !1037, head `f3108393953`) | 134 rows x all axes 528/528 correct; synccheck 8/8 + memcheck 7/8 rows 0 errors; CPU rule tests 705/705 | same: 528/528; synccheck 8/8 + memcheck 7/8 rows 0 errors; 705/705 | Cross-node note: the sweep medians of this run are not comparable to the round-17 PR numbers (different nodes / clock regime: on GB300 both Cake and trtllm-gen moved +5.0 % / +3.0 % geomean vs the round-17 sweep); the same-GPU ABBA row above is the valid round-over-round comparison. ## Baselines and their source PRs - trtllm-gen default path: FlashInfer main as of `a12173ca0` (this branch's base; the DSv4 trtllm-gen MLA path is unchanged since `c4cb63534`, the #5879 head: the only commit touching the MLA dispatch files since then is #5983, which adds an SM120 source to `flashinfer/jit/mla.py`; #5854, #5845, #5742, #5728, #5700 before it). - Cake round 17: fork branch `cake-772-dsv4-round17` (`dbf86c4d6`, held on the #5920 layout decision); round 16: `cake-772-dsv4-round16` (`45c0b819c`, held); round 15: `cake-772-dsv4-round15` (`1a91f12a9`, held); round 14: #5999 (`e2f7310ee`); round 13: #5973; round 12: #5946; round 11: #5879; round 10: #5854; round 9: #5845; round 8: #5742; round 7: #5728; round 6 and before: #5700 and the tracker's earlier PRs. - Round 18 (Cake !1193) changed no program: the exported programs here are the round-17 kernel tree `c7284461b47` as merged into Cake main (!1037 head `f3108393953`), rendered on the #5920 layout by the exporter (main's codegen since the round-17 base changes every generated program's text — dead-helper pruning, grid_constant tensor maps, `__shfl_sync`, launch-bounds macro — without touching the kernel schedules); the pre-export source-vs-export agreement for the sm_103a build-gap row (hardening-000031) is in the round-18 Cake doc. - Tracker: flashinfer#4254 (DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake backend; this PR supersedes the round 7-14 PRs listed above and the held round 15-17 fork branches `cake-772-dsv4-round15` `1a91f12a9`, `cake-772-dsv4-round16` `45c0b819c`, `cake-772-dsv4-round17` `dbf86c4d6`). Cake MRs: !1037 .. !1193 (Linear CAKE-772); exporter #5920-layout support: [Cake !1200](https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1200) (stacked on !1037). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * CAKE DSV4 can now allocate its output when none is provided, with route-specific output placement. * Added and refined kernel routing for selected BF16 and FP8 workloads, including support for wider sparse inputs and smaller query batches. * **Bug Fixes** * Improved tensor and launch validation across CUDA devices, including checks for tensor placement and descriptor dimensions. * Updated output handling for selected kernels to support tensor-map-based writes and revised buffering. * **Tests** * Expanded coverage for route selection, output allocation, and output placement. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Yingyi Huang <averyh@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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-6 performance of the
backend="cake"DeepSeek-V4 sparse-MLA decode path oftrtllm_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.
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.
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).on the padded rows.
Validation
Exports of the regenerated programs as published here (B200: export r16; GB300: export r17, both from Cake tree
939659882baagainst afresh clone of #5686's
10c80d75b), same-session paired CUPTI (active-union median, cold L2) against the default trtllm-gen path at the samerevision:
tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4*.py(GPU, fresh clone of this commit)Baselines and their source PRs
trtllm_batch_decode_sparse_mla_dsv4(...)withoutbackend="cake"(the TRTLLM-GEN DSv4 sparse-MLAkernels plus the framework launches it needs for equal semantics: padded-Q masking, separate-table merge, workspace/counter handling).
Origin PRs: Add DeepSeek V4 sparse MLA TRTLLM-GEN kernels #3269 (9c76c99, 2026-05-21); SM120 kernels feat(attention): add SM120 sparse MLA kernels #3395 (f954694, 2026-06-15); DSv4.1 unification refactor(sparse-mla): unify SM120 execution, calibration and DSv4.1 support #5197 (eb5f05b, 2026-09-18).
backend="cake"from feat(cake_sparse_mla): support SM100 and SM103 #4573 (13db2cf, 2026-09-16), hardened by fix(cake_sparse_mla): harden the DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake backend for #4671 (padded Q, separate SWA/compressed tables, caller-owned workspace, length offsets) and regenerate the SM100/SM103 programs #5591 (8589d49), round 2 perf(cake_sparse_mla): warp-uniform FP8/H128 TMA gathers and 32-byte epilogue stores in the DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake programs (SM100/SM103) #5610(4b8167e), round 3 perf(cake_sparse_mla): round-3 DSv4 sparse-MLA programs for SM100/SM103 (persistent-item epilogue, index ring, retained-KV decode body, SwapsAb V alias, routing) #5630 (ebe0efb), round 4 perf(cake_sparse_mla): round-4 DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake programs for SM100/SM103 (stacked on #5630) #5644 (6d479be), round 5 perf(cake_sparse_mla): round-5 DSv4 sparse-MLA Cake programs for SM100/SM103 (exact numerics; stacked on #5644) #5686 (10c80d7), regenerated again by this PR.
tests/mla/test_cake_dsv4.py/test_cake_dsv4_hardening.py.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Summary by CodeRabbit
References
The shared reference corpus for CAKE kernel development includes the following projects, documentation, and existing CAKE work:
These are corpus-level references. PR-specific implementation details, changes, and benchmark references are documented above.