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feat(cake_selective_state_update): promote the headdim-64 / dstate-128 single-token decode row (Nemotron-H, granite-4.0-h) - #6040
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds row-owner and TMA-based CUDA kernels for selective state updates, updates generated program records and kernel interfaces, and routes eligible HD64 single-token workloads to new program variants. Tests cover route selection, output correctness, padded slots, graph replay, and fallback cases. ChangesSelective State Update Execution
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Caller->>_plan_stp_hd64: Submit eligible single-token HD64 inputs
_plan_stp_hd64->>MODULES: Select a program and build its bindings
MODULES-->>_plan_stp_hd64: Return program configuration
_plan_stp_hd64-->>Caller: Return selected route
Caller->>CakeKernel: Launch selected kernel
CakeKernel-->>Caller: Write output and updated state
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This adds faster decode paths for headdim-64 Mamba layers. One edge case remains: unusually offset input views could reach a misaligned GPU load on the new row-owner path. The fix is a small eligibility check that sends those inputs to the existing fallback. The change is otherwise mergeable. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The optimized path removes slot-table validation from an already supported route. Strided tensor views can lose their intended slot mapping, risking updates to unintended decode-state entries. Exposure is opt-in and in-process; remote exploitability is not established. Retained concerns
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1361-1363: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueFix the non-paired branches, which return program names that are not registered.
_plan_stp_batchreturns"stp_persistent"or"stp_direct"whenpairedis false.PROGRAMSand_SHIPPED_STPregister neither name. If the planner returned one of these plans,_generated_programwould raiseKeyErroratPROGRAMS[program].try_cake_selective_state_updatecatches onlyMissingJITCacheErrorandValueError, so the call would crash instead of falling back to FlashInfer. Today the only caller passespaired=True, so this path is latent. Do one of two things: remove thepairedparameter, or make the planner returnNonefor the non-paired case.Also applies to: 1370-1372
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Review comments at @flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py:
- Around line 1484-1507: Update the validation in _plan_stp_hd64 to reject B or
C base pointers not aligned to 16 bytes and batch strides not aligned to 8
elements, matching the alignment checks in _plan_stp_batch before selecting the
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Review comments at @flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py:
- Around line 1361-1363: Update _plan_stp_batch so it cannot produce
unregistered program names when paired is false: remove the paired parameter if
this planner only supports paired calls, or return None for the non-paired case.
Preserve the existing registered program selection for paired calls.
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Apply the paired-route alignment checks to the row-owner route.
When _plan_stp_hd64 selects a row-owner kernel, it accepts dense B/C rows without checking base-pointer or batch-stride alignment. Both kernels load B and C through uint4*, so a misaligned pointer or later batch can reach a misaligned vector load and fault on the device. Mirror the checks from _plan_stp_batch:
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Update the validation in _plan_stp_hd64 to reject B or C base pointers not
aligned to 16 bytes and batch strides not aligned to 8 elements, matching the
alignment checks in _plan_stp_batch before selecting the row-owner kernel.
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…8 single-token decode row (Nemotron-H, granite-4.0-h) on the raw SGLang ABI Cake export of exports/selective_state_update at Cake revision ad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae (CAKE-935). New programs: stp_paired_rows / stp_paired_rows_mb4 (two adjacent 64-row heads form one 128-row program head streamed through row-major 32-row TMA stages; B/C coefficients resident in registers; direct grid; HEADS_PER_CTA 1/2/4 and the launch-bounds residency follow the work per architecture) and stp_hd64_rows_bf16 / stp_hd64_rows_fp32 (latency-first row-owner tiles; one source per state dtype instantiated per plan through the PREFETCH_ROWS and DIM_TILES defines, so the trip loop has a constant bound and the first trip's loads are never sunk below the per-head scalar chain). The programs read the engine's BF16 dt/D/dt_bias broadcasts, int32 slot tables with pad_slot_id rows and the fused xBC projection views in place. The five shipped BF16 STP programs are byte-identical; stp_fp32_identity moves to the features seed's address-based slot tables and batch strides. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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NCCL works but leaves bandwidth and stability on the table on this fabric (see numbers below). **What.** - Routes: world size 1 is an identity path; 2 uses all-pairs CUDA P2P copy engines (`cudaMemcpy2DAsync` writes land directly in the peer's final layout, no pack/unpack); 4/8 prefer an all-RDMA route (per-rank mlx5 RC QP, interleaved-UMR MKeys, GPUDirect RDMA) and fall back to all-P2P with a `RuntimeWarning`; an eight-rank 4+4 NUMA hybrid (same-NUMA P2P, cross-NUMA mlx5) is available via `FLASHINFER_ULYSSES_PCIE_ROUTE`. - Transforms: `scatter_heads` / `gather_heads` interleave the head axis; `exchange_chunks` takes `[1, 1, world_size, chunk]` to the same shape (`all_to_all_single` over a payload a preceding pack already laid out destination-major) and interleaves nothing. 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The design note has the table. - The element type is per-call (`dtype=` on the collectives), decoupled from the communicator: the transport moves opaque bytes, so FP8/INT8 payloads ride a BF16-sized communicator within the same byte budget. The constructor's capacity is therefore `max_bytes`, replacing main's element-count `max_elems`: the other communication workspaces in `flashinfer.comm` are sized in bytes as well (`buffer_size_in_bytes`, `workspace_size`), and an element count has no single meaning once the element type varies per call. #4924 already targets `max_bytes`. The staging-buffer API from #5027 (`UlyssesWorkspace(max_elems=...)`, `create_workspace(max_elems=...)`) keeps its element count, since those buffers hold one dtype. - Docs: design note (`docs/design_docs/ulysses_pcie.md`), `docs/api/comm.rst`, env-var reference; fi_trace templates for all three transforms (`scatter_heads` / `gather_heads` gain `trace=` decorators). - Housekeeping: six `flashinfer.comm` re-exports of JIT module helpers with no users in the repository (`gen_trtllm_comm_module`, `gen_vllm_comm_module`, `gen_pcie_ipc_comm_module`, `get_pcie_ipc_comm_module`, `gen_ulysses_a2a_module`, `get_ulysses_a2a_module`) are dropped; the helpers stay importable from their own modules and from `flashinfer.jit`. **Changes since the approved revision (a481f1d).** The branch was rebased onto main (#5027 workspace API, #5263 generated NVLink kernels) and the following landed on top, in this order: 1. `fix(comm): finish the max_bytes rename in the head-chunk tests, benchmark and export example` -- four `max_elems=` constructor calls that arrived with #5027 / #5263 (`_destination_passing_body`, `_head_chunk_body`, `bench_ulysses_head_chunk.py`, `examples/pytorch/ulysses_a2a_export/interface.py`) raised `TypeError` on any 2+ GPU host. 2. `format: format code style by pre-commit` -- the two hooks CI flagged. 3. `test(comm): share the Ulysses test helpers and gloo fixture` -- one FileStore `gloo_pg` fixture in `tests/comm/conftest.py`, `full_mesh` / `forbid_ipc_and_jit` / rendezvous helpers in `tests/test_helpers/ulysses.py`. 4. `fix(comm): check the group's CUDA all-to-all support before arming NVLink` -- the check ran only for `backend="nccl"`, after the NVLink IPC exports were armed. 5. `fix(comm): reject cross-rank FLASHINFER_ULYSSES_PCIE_NICS disagreement` -- the NIC override is now compared across ranks like the route and GID overrides. 6. `feat(comm): warn at garbage collection when a Ulysses communicator was not closed` -- `ResourceWarning` from `__del__` for an armed communicator; no teardown from the finalizer. 7. `fix(comm): refuse workspaces and the head-chunk primitives on the multi-rank PCIe backend` -- see Lifecycle above. 8. `fix(comm): publish the abort when the RDMA routes reject an operand natively` -- the RDMA routes' per-call operand checks run inside the native abort envelope, so a rank whose operand native rejects releases its peers instead of leaving them in the opening barrier (the only native change: the checks moved into `ValidateExchangeOperands`, protocol and wire format untouched); the caller's stream is bound only after a call passes validation; the Python-side envelope is unchanged and documented. 9. `refactor(comm): route Ulysses output validation through the shared helpers` -- `_output_geometry` is the single source of the output shape; the overlap test reuses `_storage_ranges_overlap`. 10. `docs(comm): update Ulysses PCIe prose for auto selection, the failure envelope and follow-ups`. 11. Rebased onto main 28ae778 (2026-09-24). The only conflict was `flashinfer/trace/templates/comm.py`, where #4929 and this PR both append templates at the end of the file; both blocks are kept, in main's order, and no other file changed in the rebase. 12. Merged main `7bcf91831` (2026-09-29): three additive conflicts (`flashinfer/aot.py`, `flashinfer/comm/__init__.py`, `tests/trace/template_registry.py`), both sides kept. Followed by `Find Conda rdma-core build inputs for PCIe Ulysses JIT` (72c958a): `gen_ulysses_pcie_module` adds `<sys.prefix>/include` and `-L<sys.prefix>/lib` when `infiniband/mlx5dv.h` / `libmlx5.so` live there (the CI Conda environment), and `missing_ulysses_pcie_dependencies()` now also probes for the `infiniband/verbs.h` / `infiniband/mlx5dv.h` headers (one host-mock test added; design note updated). 13. Merged main `7aa42e2dc` (2026-10-04). 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Two modify/delete conflicts: #5953 removed `examples/pytorch/ulysses_a2a_export/` and moved its fixture to `tests/comm/cake_ulysses_a2a_fixture.py`, so the deletion is taken and the `max_bytes` rename from item 1 is re-applied to the moved fixture in `fix(comm): finish the max_bytes rename in the moved cake Ulysses fixture` (57ed509); `docs/api/comm.rst` and `flashinfer/aot.py` merged automatically. No file under `flashinfer/comm/ulysses*`, `flashinfer/jit/comm.py`, `csrc/ulysses*`, `include/flashinfer/comm/ulysses_pcie.cuh` or `tests/comm/test_ulysses*` changed on main between the two bases. 15. Rebased onto main `9c6797eda` (2026-10-05) at the maintainers' convenience for a linear history: the 28 non-merge commits above replay in order and the five merge commits (1f82831, 25bb39c, f7ce2ba, 5e8919a and their resolutions) are gone; `8668d921` is the new head. The replay re-resolved the same conflicts (`flashinfer/comm/__init__.py`, `flashinfer/aot.py`, `tests/trace/example.py`, `tests/trace/template_registry.py`, `scripts/task_test_multi_gpu_comm_kernels.sh`, the removed example files), and the result differs from the merged head `57ed5097` in exactly one place: `flashinfer/comm/__init__.py` no longer re-exports `gen_pcie_ipc_comm_module` / `get_pcie_ipc_comm_module`, which the merge in item 12 had brought back by accident; this is the drop described under Housekeeping, and the repository has no caller of either name through `flashinfer.comm`. 16. Rebased onto main `67c190f7d` (2026-10-06); `0f60c090` is the new head, still 28 linear commits. One conflict: the expected-output list in `tests/trace/example.py`'s docstring, where #6035 appended the `moe_layer_cudnn_frost_*` entries at the spot this PR appends the `ulysses_*` entries; both lists are kept, in main's order. `CLAUDE.md`, `flashinfer/aot.py` and `tests/trace/template_registry.py` merged automatically. No file under `flashinfer/comm/ulysses*`, `flashinfer/jit/comm.py`, `csrc/ulysses*`, `include/flashinfer/comm/ulysses_pcie.cuh` or `tests/comm/test_ulysses*` changed on main between the two bases. 17. Rebased onto main `87ef73934` (2026-10-14); `e7c7bbd50` is the new head, 29 linear commits. One conflict: the tail of `tests/trace/example.py`, where #5304 appended its `top_k_varlen` example calls at the spot this PR appends the single-rank Ulysses block; both are kept, in main's order (the docstring's expected-output list merged automatically this time). `CLAUDE.md`, `docs/api/comm.rst`, `flashinfer/aot.py`, `flashinfer/comm/__init__.py`, `scripts/task_test_multi_gpu_comm_kernels.sh` and `tests/trace/template_registry.py` merged automatically. #6332 (`flashinfer/comm/qkv_norm_rope_exchange_overlap.py` and `benchmarks/comm/bench_qkv_norm_rope_exchange_overlap.py`) arrived on main with three `UlyssesCommunicator(..., max_elems=...)` calls, so the 29th commit, `fix(comm): finish the max_bytes rename in the QKV norm/RoPE exchange overlap`, passes `max_bytes` (the same bf16 element counts times `torch.bfloat16.itemsize`) exactly as item 14 did for the moved fixture; nothing else on main constructs a communicator with the old keyword. No file under `flashinfer/comm/ulysses*`, `flashinfer/jit/comm.py`, `csrc/ulysses*`, `include/flashinfer/comm/ulysses_pcie.cuh`, `tests/comm/test_ulysses*` or `flashinfer/trace/templates/comm.py` changed on main between the two bases. 18. Rebased onto main `3637083a3` (2026-10-15); `f0ff368c1` is the new head, still 29 linear commits, no conflicts: #5701 extends `TORCHRUN_TEST_FILES` in `scripts/task_test_multi_gpu_comm_kernels.sh` next to the `SPAWN_MANAGED_TEST_FILES` line this PR extends, and both land. The base now includes #6509, the fix for the `tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_torch_staging.py` failure that was the only failing lane in this PR's 2026-10-15 CI run (unrelated to this PR, which touches no `moe_ep` file). No file under `flashinfer/comm/ulysses*`, `flashinfer/jit/comm.py`, `csrc/ulysses*`, `include/flashinfer/comm/ulysses_pcie.cuh`, `tests/comm/test_ulysses*` or `flashinfer/trace/templates/comm.py` changed on main between the two bases. **Performance** (8x RTX PRO 5000, dual-NUMA 4+4, PCIe Gen5 x16, one 400G mlx5 per GPU; `benchmarks/comm/bench_ulysses_pcie.py`, seq 37888 / heads 56 / head_dim 128 / bf16; median of host-clock loops, max-reduced across ranks, vs the `all_to_all_single`+permute reference; PCIe-side sd ≤ 8%, mostly < 1%, while the NCCL reference jitters up to 50-104% at eight ranks): | world | route (auto's pick in bold) | scatter | gather | qkv layer | per-rank remote BW | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2 | **all-P2P** | 2.02x | 2.00x | 2.01x | 50.5 GB/s | | 4 | **all-RDMA** | 1.97x | 1.97x | 1.97x | 42.3 GB/s | | 8 | **all-RDMA** | 1.49x | 1.43x | 1.48x | 42.6 GB/s | | 8 | 4+4 hybrid | — | — | 1.27x | 36.4 GB/s | | 8 | all-P2P (correctness fallback) | 0.81x | 0.43x | 0.30x | 8.8 GB/s | The transport moves opaque bytes, so the element type should change how long a call takes but not how fast the link runs. Same node, ws8 all-RDMA, seq 37888 / 56 heads / head_dim 128, only the dtype varies: | dtype | bytes/elem | scatter ms | qkv layer ms | remote BW (scatter) | |---|---|---|---|---| | bf16 | 2 | 1.389 | 5.583 | 42.8 GB/s | | fp8_e4m3fn | 1 | 0.695 | 2.871 | 42.7 GB/s | | int8 | 1 | 0.696 | 2.870 | 42.7 GB/s | Halving the element size halves the time (1.389 -> 0.695 ms) and leaves bandwidth put; the two 1-byte types are within noise of each other. ws2 P2P saturates ~95% of the effective Gen5 x16 link; the RDMA route reaches ~85% of the 400G NIC. Re-measured at this head on the same node (ws8 all-RDMA, same shapes, 5 trials x 200 iterations, other tenants idle) to confirm the round changed nothing on the hot path: scatter 1.427 ms at 41.6 GB/s remote bandwidth (table above: 1.389 ms / 42.8 GB/s), gather 1.554 ms at 38.2 GB/s, both with trial-to-trial sd below 2%; the q/k/v layer loop read 6.93 ms with sd 9.2%, which is inside its own noise band on a shared node and is not re-plotted here. The `rnr_nak_retry_err` counters on all eight NICs did not move during the run. **Limitations.** Experimental; single host; world sizes 1/2/4/8 (the copy scheduler's `rank ^ step` order needs powers of two); the RDMA routes require batch 1 and refuse CUDA-graph capture, and bound the head-axis transforms at head-row pitch `H*D*elem <= 65535` B (`exchange_chunks` registers no MKey and is not bounded); the JIT module links libibverbs/libmlx5 even when topology picks all-P2P, so it is JIT-only and deliberately absent from AOT; a transport failure is fail-stop as described above, and an all-P2P failure leaves the process to be terminated by the launcher. Validated on one topology (4+4 NUMA, one mlx5 per GPU); no work-request-level mlx5 unit tests yet — the RDMA data path is covered end to end. No CI lane exercises the PCIe wire path (the CI images carry no rdma-core and the GPU lanes are single-GPU); the host-mock and single-rank halves of the suite run there, the multi-rank half runs on the reference node. Planned follow-ups, prepared on a branch and deliberately kept out of this PR to leave the approved protocol untouched: publish the abort from Python on every route (the all-P2P route already imports every peer's signal buffer), so a Python-side rejection on a rank that broke the SPMD contract releases the peers too; publish a geometry word with the opening epoch so ranks that call with different shapes at the same position break the group instead of writing a misdescribed layout; post the RDMA receive before the opening barrier (closes the window in which a peer's write can arrive before the receive is posted; no RNR retries were counted during this round's benchmark, so this is hygiene rather than a measured stall); build the all-P2P route without rdma-core; `out=None` with lazy registration; per-output `capacity_bytes`. ## 🔍 Related Issues N/A ## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist ### ✅ Pre-commit Checks - [x] I have installed `pre-commit` by running `pip install pre-commit` (or used your preferred method). - [x] 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. ## 🧪 Tests - [x] Tests have been added or updated as needed. - [x] All tests are passing (`unittest`, etc.). Ran on the 8-GPU reference node (8x RTX PRO 5000, dual-NUMA 4+4, one mlx5 per GPU, rdma-core 63, CUDA 13.4, torch 2.13) with all eight GPUs at `ef9a91a22`, the head before the rebase (2026-09-20): `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 132 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed / 0 skipped (244 passed / 22 skipped in one run), `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed. The 22 skips are the forced-NVLink family on this NVLink-less machine; every PCIe case ran (p2p, all-RDMA and 4+4 hybrid routes at world sizes 2/4/8, the chunk exchange, the landing-buffer producer path, the p2p fail-stop pair, and the two-rank RDMA case in which rank 0's native dtype rejection publishes the abort, rank 1 leaves the barrier with "peer 0 aborted the exchange", and both ranks close). Correctness is bit-exact against the `all_gather`-based reference for fp16/bf16/fp32 and byte-exact for int8/uint8/fp8 across all three routes, including non-power-of-two head dims on the UMR path, CUDA-graph capture+replay of a q/k/v/out layer on the P2P route, and `backend="auto"` with the experimental opt-in selecting PCIe on this node. Re-run after the rebase at the pushed head `4fec510aa` (2026-09-24) on the same node, which was shared with another tenant on GPUs 0-3, so the suite ran on GPUs 4-7 (`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=4,5,6,7`): `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 122 passed / 32 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed. The skips are the forced-NVLink family plus the world-size-8 cases (all-RDMA and the 4+4 hybrid at eight ranks), which need eight visible GPUs; every world-size 2/4 case ran (p2p and all-RDMA routes, the chunk exchange, the landing-buffer producer path, the fail-stop pairs). The eight-rank paths stand on the run above: no file under `flashinfer/comm/ulysses*`, `csrc/ulysses*` or `tests/comm/test_ulysses*` changed on main between the two bases, and the rebase touched only the trace template file. Re-run after the 2026-10-04 merge at `25bb39c4` on the same node, first on GPUs 4-7 while GPUs 0-3 were held by another tenant (`tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 123 passed / 32 skipped), then on all eight GPUs once they freed up: `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 133 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed; `pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD` is green, `scripts/check_pr_document.py` reports no findings and `scripts/check_pr_api_diff.py` only the `max_bytes` advisory. The 22 skips are the forced-NVLink family; every PCIe case ran, including the eight-rank all-RDMA and 4+4 hybrid routes. The head `f7ce2baf` on top merges main `4b6d64be` (#6040, `cake_selective_state_update` only) and touches no Ulysses file. Re-run after the 2026-10-05 merge at the pushed head `57ed5097` on the same node with all eight GPUs: `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 133 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed, and `tests/comm/test_cake_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_head_chunk.py` 16 passed / 4 skipped (the generated NVLink portfolio skips on this SM120 node; the moved fixture was additionally exercised by constructing its communicator with `max_bytes` in a one-rank process). The skips are the forced-NVLink family. `pre-commit run --from-ref <main> --to-ref HEAD` is green. Re-run at the rebased head `8668d921` on the same node with all eight GPUs: `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 133 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed, `tests/comm/test_cake_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_head_chunk.py` 16 passed / 4 skipped, and the pcie_ipc module tests that import the JIT helpers from `flashinfer.comm.pcie_ipc_ar` still pass; `pre-commit run --from-ref <main> --to-ref HEAD` is green. Re-run at the rebased head `0f60c090` on the same node (all eight GPUs for the communicator suite, GPUs 0-3 for the rest while another tenant held GPU 6): `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 133 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed, `tests/comm/test_cake_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_head_chunk.py` 15 passed / 5 skipped, pcie_ipc module tests pass; `pre-commit run --from-ref <main> --to-ref HEAD` is green. On a single-GPU host the same files give 186 passed / 90 skipped (host-mock and single-rank halves), `pre-commit run --all-files` is green, `scripts/check_pr_document.py` reports no findings, and `scripts/check_pr_api_diff.py` reports only the `max_elems` -> `max_bytes` constructor advisory explained above. Re-run at the rebased head `f0ff368c1` (2026-10-15) on the same node with all eight GPUs, from a fresh checkout in a new directory (torch 2.14.1+cu130, nvcc 13.0, cold JIT cache): `tests/comm/test_ulysses_communicator.py` 133 passed / 22 skipped / 0 failed, `tests/comm/test_ulysses_topology.py` 112 passed, `tests/trace/test_ulysses_trace.py` + `tests/trace/test_template_registry.py` 10 passed, `tests/comm/test_cake_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_a2a.py` + `tests/comm/test_ulysses_head_chunk.py` 16 passed / 4 skipped, and the six `tests/comm/test_pcie_ipc_*.py` files that import `flashinfer.comm.pcie_ipc_ar` 73 passed / 12 skipped / 1 xfailed. The 22 skips are the forced-NVLink family; every PCIe case ran, including the eight-rank all-RDMA and 4+4 hybrid routes. On the single-GPU host the four core files give 187 passed / 90 skipped / 0 failed, `pre-commit run --all-files` is green, `scripts/check_pr_document.py` reports no findings and `scripts/check_pr_api_diff.py` only the `max_bytes` advisory. `git range-diff` against the previous head `313ac10b8` shows the 29 commits replay with context-only changes. ## Reviewer Notes - The riskiest pieces are the epoch-barrier protocol (`include/flashinfer/comm/ulysses_pcie.cuh`) and the mlx5 transport (`csrc/ulysses_pcie_transport.cuh`): QP bring-up, interleaved-MKey geometry (pitch ≤ 65535), completion accounting with per-exchange immediate tags, and the abort/quiesce teardown ledger. - `_validate`'s byte-budget capacity math after the per-call dtype change (`flashinfer/comm/ulysses.py`) is worth a close read; the rescale rationale is in the commit message of the dtype commit. - The failure envelope is route-dependent on purpose, and the design note's "Failure envelope" table is the contract to review against. Python-side rejections are rank-uniform under the SPMD contract, so the RDMA routes keep the communicator usable (the multi-rank tests rely on refusing capture and a batch > 1 operand recoverably); the all-P2P route poisons teardown because its barrier has no abort protocol at all. Native failures on the RDMA routes publish the abort (now including the per-call operand checks) and `close()` completes. Publishing the abort from Python on every route is the first follow-up above. - Things that are correct but will draw a question: (1) full-group CUDA IPC is required even on the RDMA routes, because the barrier signals are always IPC-mapped -- RDMA removes the P2P *data* requirement, not the P2P requirement; (2) `batch == 1` on the RDMA routes comes from mode 0's flat `rank * payload` remote offset, not from the NIC; (3) `input_ready` is deliberately reused between `RunHybridBarrier` and `EnqueueCopies` so the side streams inherit the post-barrier state; (4) the copy-engine writes are ordered against the closing barrier's release store through the `copy_done` event join, i.e. through `cudaMemcpyAsync` completion semantics; (5) the per-call `dtype` is really per-`allocate_output`: the registered buffer pins it and native re-checks every call against it. - Placement: the backend uses the experimental machinery (warn-once, gated `auto`, no AOT) but lives in `flashinfer/comm/` with tests in `tests/comm/`, because it extends the stable `UlyssesCommunicator` class and the routing shares its decision layer; there is no precedent for an `@experimental_backend` in core. If the maintainers prefer the Experimental Track layout, the code splits at the `_pcie_*` seam (the methods touch only `rank`, `world_size`, `device`, `dtype`, `max_bytes`, `backend`, `transport`, `decision`, `_state` and the `_gather` / `_require_open` / `_validate` / `_output_geometry` helpers) and we will move it. --------- Co-authored-by: Alex Yang <aleyang@nvidia.com>
Summary
Promote the headdim-64 / dstate-128 single-token
selective_state_updatedecode row (Nemotron-H, granite-4.0-h; BF16 and FP32 state) to the Cake backend, on the raw SGLang decode ABI (BF16dt/D/dt_biasbroadcasts, int32 slot tables, padded fused-projection views,pad_slot_idrows) as well as the canonical ABI.Generated by the Cake export adapter
exports/selective_state_updateat Cake revisionad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae(protocol lock producerad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae, target revision6dec771b1fb7980dad595fb59a9d490294592081); Cake MR https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1202.csrc/cake_selective_state_update/{cuda,host}/:cake_selective_state_update_stp_paired_rows/..._stp_paired_rows_mb4(two adjacent 64-row heads form one 128-row program head streamed through row-major 32-row TMA stages; B/C coefficients resident in registers; direct grid; the_mb4source is the four-CTA launch-bounds schedule B200 selects between 6 and 16 program heads per SM),..._stp_hd64_rows_bf16,..._stp_hd64_rows_fp32(row-owner tiles for under-saturated grids, odd head pairings and FP32 state; one source per state dtype, instantiated per plan through thePREFETCH_ROWS/DIM_TILESdefines).flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py:plan_routeadmits the 3-D(64, 128)call (_plan_stp_hd64),_plan_stp_batch(paired=…)with_paired_rows_program/_paired_heads_per_cta,hd64_rows_plan→(dim_tiles, prefetch_rows)→rows_defines(dt, idx, prefetch_rows, dim_tiles),pad_slot_idforwarded, raw-address slot tables and runtime batch strides for the padded projection views.tests/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.py: raw decode layout vs the FlashInfer kernel, pad rows (zero-state output, untouched pool), CUDA-graph capture, non-dense-row / odd-pairing fallbacks, define selection, plan rules.Speedup summary
Baseline =
selective_state_update(backend="flashinfer", algorithm="auto")on identical inputs; incumbent = previous Cake backend (no hd64 row:backend="cake"fell back to the FlashInfer kernel, ratio 1.00 by construction, shipped 128×128 rows unchanged and byte-identical). CUPTI kernel time (loom.bench, cold L2), 5 interleaved rounds × 40 iterations. Ratio = baseline / Cake (> 1 = Cake faster).B200: 42/42 representative rows >= 1.00 vs FI; below: []
GB300: 42/42 representative rows >= 1.00 vs FI; below: []
Floor distance (
floorarm =torch.add(src, 0, out=dst)over the state bytes, same run): every b64+ row is within 2-6 % of the floor; the b1/b2 rows sit at floor x1.3-1.7 (one dependent slot-table round trip plus the per-head scalar chain that the memcpy-like floor does not pay; the FI stock kernel sits in the same latency class). max cake/floor B200 1.458 (nemh_tp2_H64_G4_bflo_raw_b1); max cake/floor GB300 1.681 (band_tp2_H64_G4_bflo_raw_b2).Canonical-ABI rows (FP32 coefficients, int64 tables) and the band points are in the Cake MR table. granite rows with
nheads / ngroups∈ {48, 128} have no FlashInfer baseline (the stock kernel'sdispatchRatiorejects the ratio); Cake serves them.Verification
Cake revision
ad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae(branchaveryh/cake-935-ssu-hd64-decode); protocol lock producer = the same revision; FlashInfer target revision6dec771b1fb7980dad595fb59a9d490294592081.nvl72d401-T18, sglang:26.07, step14e75379143a7a7d3fc78406)nsc-svg-slurm-1-gpu-108, sglang:26.07, stepd4e97114544c960e48bd0379)tools/export-generated-programs run(64 shapes per arch, Source/Export ratio, slop audit)pytest tests/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.pyon the exported worktreetest_cake_mamba_sp_routes.py -k ssu)ops/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.py -k hd64)compute-sanitizer --tool synccheckand--tool memcheckover the hd64 correctness rows (--rounds 0)Logs stay on the clusters (export run logs and
results/gate/*under the session workspace); the local manifest records host, path, size and SHA-256 of the pulled summaries. compute-sanitizer ran on GB300 (sglang:26.07 provides no sanitizer on the B200 image route; the kernels are architecture-neutral sources).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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References
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