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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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Summary

Promote the headdim-64 / dstate-128 single-token selective_state_update decode row (Nemotron-H, granite-4.0-h; BF16 and FP32 state) to the Cake backend, on the raw SGLang decode ABI (BF16 dt/D/dt_bias broadcasts, int32 slot tables, padded fused-projection views, pad_slot_id rows) as well as the canonical ABI.

Generated by the Cake export adapter exports/selective_state_update at Cake revision ad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae (protocol lock producer ad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae, target revision 6dec771b1fb7980dad595fb59a9d490294592081); Cake MR https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/averyh/r94494673bb0150eeffa896f7/-/merge_requests/1202.

  • New programs under 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 _mb4 source 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 the PREFETCH_ROWS / DIM_TILES defines).
  • The five shipped BF16 128×128 STP programs stay byte-identical; every previously served row keeps its program and defines.
  • Loader flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py: plan_route admits 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_id forwarded, raw-address slot tables and runtime batch strides for the padded projection views.
  • Tests 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).

shape (raw SGLang ABI) B200 FlashInfer baseline µs B200 Cake µs B200 baseline/CAKE speedup GB300 FlashInfer baseline µs GB300 Cake µs GB300 baseline/CAKE speedup
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b1 BF16 5.02 3.81 1.319 4.58 4.22 1.083
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b2 BF16 7.65 4.99 1.532 7.60 5.15 1.475
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b4 BF16 7.14 6.45 1.107 7.20 6.66 1.082
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b8 BF16 10.02 9.46 1.059 10.18 9.28 1.097
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b16 BF16 17.02 14.42 1.181 15.87 15.01 1.058
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b32 BF16 27.94 25.34 1.102 27.10 25.31 1.071
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b64 BF16 48.67 44.96 1.083 46.13 44.00 1.048
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b128 BF16 91.68 86.81 1.056 85.70 84.16 1.018
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b256 BF16 176.49 166.85 1.058 165.60 161.12 1.028
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b1 FP32 4.93 4.29 1.149 5.30 4.99 1.061
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b8 FP32 14.61 14.05 1.040 15.47 14.08 1.099
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b64 FP32 86.25 83.53 1.033 84.53 83.54 1.012
Nemotron-H TP1 H128 G8 b256 FP32 325.37 317.48 1.025 315.15 313.71 1.005
Nemotron-H TP2 H64 G4 b1 BF16 3.63 3.36 1.081 4.22 4.16 1.015
Nemotron-H TP2 H64 G4 b64 BF16 27.58 25.29 1.090 26.46 25.17 1.052
Nemotron-H TP2 H64 G4 b256 BF16 92.32 86.88 1.063 85.18 84.10 1.013
Nemotron-H TP4 H32 G2 b1 BF16 3.33 3.06 1.089 3.84 3.74 1.026
Nemotron-H TP4 H32 G2 b64 BF16 16.74 14.34 1.167 15.65 14.88 1.052
Nemotron-H TP4 H32 G2 b256 BF16 48.94 45.01 1.087 45.97 44.03 1.044
granite-small H128 G1 b1 BF16 4.96 3.87 1.281 4.61 4.19 1.099
granite-small H128 G1 b8 BF16 FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 9.60 — FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 9.33 —
granite-small H128 G1 b64 BF16 FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 45.05 — FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 43.97 —
granite-small H128 G1 b256 BF16 FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 167.18 — FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 160.96 —
granite-tiny H48 G1 b1 BF16 3.58 3.23 1.109 4.32 4.03 1.071
granite-tiny H48 G1 b64 BF16 FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 21.28 — FI n/a (dispatchRatio) 21.23 —

B200: 42/42 representative rows >= 1.00 vs FI; below: []
GB300: 42/42 representative rows >= 1.00 vs FI; below: []

Floor distance (floor arm = 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's dispatchRatio rejects the ratio); Cake serves them.

Verification

Cake revision ad10c97638e7ab0f643f4d1b09208c54ae111bae (branch averyh/cake-935-ssu-hd64-decode); protocol lock producer = the same revision; FlashInfer target revision 6dec771b1fb7980dad595fb59a9d490294592081.

check GB300 (JHB nvl72d401-T18, sglang:26.07, step 14e75379143a7a7d3fc78406) B200 (NSC nsc-svg-slurm-1-gpu-108, sglang:26.07, step d4e97114544c960e48bd0379)
tools/export-generated-programs run (64 shapes per arch, Source/Export ratio, slop audit) RUN_EXIT=0, 64/64 shapes RUN_EXIT=0, 64/64 shapes
pytest tests/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.py on the exported worktree 58 passed (rc 0) 58 passed (rc 0)
sglang adapter route tests (CPU, test_cake_mamba_sp_routes.py -k ssu) 11 passed (rc 0) 11 passed (rc 0)
sglang adapter kernel tests (GPU, ops/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.py -k hd64) 9 passed (rc 0) 9 passed (rc 0)
compute-sanitizer --tool synccheck and --tool memcheck over the hd64 correctness rows (--rounds 0) synccheck rc 0, memcheck rc 0, 4 runs, 0 errors not run on this arch (GB300 covers it)

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).

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  • New Features
    • Added optimized execution paths for eligible single-token workloads with head dimension 64, including paired-head and row-based processing.
    • Expanded support for different state precisions, index widths, and batch layouts, including padded state slots.
    • Added CUDA graph coverage for the new execution paths.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of padded state slots so outputs can be computed without updating padded state.

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The 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.

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Selective State Update Execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register variants and update kernel interfaces
flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py, csrc/cake_selective_state_update/cake_selective_state_update_{4570410fcf7e2771ab30,89c874c1541f71e37533,ae6bcb235d195b6ef079,da654c98ebe8c52ad280,f79b459e051a3762d2f5}_{binding,kernel}.cu
Program records and generated kernel identifiers are updated. One kernel interface now accepts index addresses and per-batch strides, with compile-time selectors for index and coefficient types.
Add row-owner kernel paths
csrc/cake_selective_state_update/cake_selective_state_update_{b065d399492897c1b957,f75fba6195c641c8ea09}_{binding,kernel}.cu
The row-owner kernels update state and compute output using selected coefficient and index types. Their launchers validate arguments and pass kernel parameters, including index addresses and batch strides.
Add TMA pipeline kernel paths
csrc/cake_selective_state_update/cake_selective_state_update_{8ab15b919ac98b5e1735,c7e08dcbb58896052ee9}_{binding,kernel}.cu
The kernels stage state loads and stores through TMA and shared-memory pipelines. Their launchers encode state tensor descriptors and configure kernel launches.
Route HD64 inputs and validate execution
flashinfer/jit/mamba/cake_selective_state_update.py, tests/mamba/test_cake_selective_state_update.py
The planner selects programs for eligible HD64 single-token inputs and binds runtime strides. Tests cover program selection, decode outputs, padded slots, graph replay, and unsupported-layout fallbacks.

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  participant Caller
  participant _plan_stp_hd64
  participant MODULES
  participant CakeKernel
  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
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c3984

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.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c3984

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

  • Medium · security · inferred: The existing FP32 identity route now passes index tables as raw addresses without index strides or the former contiguous-CUDA/same-device enforcement. Its planner does not reject strided index views. Such views cannot retain their logical slot sequence through this ABI, creating a risk of selecting and mutating unintended state-pool entries instead of rejecting the layout before launch. The new HD64 planners retain index-contiguity checks, so this regression is specifically evidenced in the previously served identity route.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The established exposure is an opt-in, in-process caller supplying tensors to a GPU state-update operation. An unintended slot mapping can affect other entries in the supplied pool and their outputs; invalid addresses can affect the worker's CUDA execution. Tenant multiplexing, remote control of slot tables and deployment-wide exposure are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The newly weakened path is caller-supplied strided index view to FP32 identity planning to address-only launch, with lost logical index spacing and possible unintended state selection. The base binding rejected non-contiguous tables before launch. This is an inferred state-ownership regression, not a verified remote exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Layout and dtype controls remain substantial: the new HD64 row planner requires contiguous index tables and dense tensor rows, while retained TensorView arguments receive CUDA and same-device checks. Those checks do not validate the provenance or device of arguments converted to scalar addresses.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Test source covers reference output/state comparison, padded-row pool preservation and CUDA-graph capture. This is bounded counterevidence for normal supported execution, not evidence of successful test execution or isolation under concurrent ownership, interruption or asynchronous failure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Preserve slot-table stride and device validation before erasing tensor metadata, or retain typed index bindings. Separately document caller obligations for in-bounds slot ownership, overlapping updates and recovery after asynchronous failure; these obligations should not be represented as guarantees provided by padding or fallback.
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Fix the non-paired branches, which return program names that are not registered.

_plan_stp_batch returns "stp_persistent" or "stp_direct" when paired is false. PROGRAMS and _SHIPPED_STP register neither name. If the planner returned one of these plans, _generated_program would raise KeyError at PROGRAMS[program]. try_cake_selective_state_update catches only MissingJITCacheError and ValueError, so the call would crash instead of falling back to FlashInfer. Today the only caller passes paired=True, so this path is latent. Do one of two things: remove the paired parameter, or make the planner return None for the non-paired case.

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Update _plan_stp_batch so it cannot produce unregistered program names when
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- Around line 1361-1363: Update _plan_stp_batch so it cannot produce
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Comment on lines +1484 to +1507
if (
x_batch is None
or b_batch is None
or c_batch is None
or out_batch is None
or output.dtype != torch.bfloat16
or dt.shape != x_shape
or dt_stride[2] != 0
or A.shape != (nheads, 64, 128)
or a_stride[1:] != (0, 0)
or D.shape != (nheads, 64)
or d_stride[1] != 0
or dt_bias.shape != (nheads, 64)
or bias_stride[1] != 0
or source.shape != (batch_size,)
or destination.shape != (batch_size,)
or source.dtype != destination.dtype
or not (
state.is_contiguous()
and source.is_contiguous()
and destination.is_contiguous()
)
):
return None

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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
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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.

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## 📌 Description

Adds `UlyssesCommunicator(backend="pcie")`: an experimental single-node
all-to-all transport for PCIe-connected GPU groups without NVLink (e.g.
8x RTX PRO 5000), targeting Ulysses sequence parallelism in video/image
diffusion serving. Being experimental, it is reachable from
`backend="auto"` only where NVLink is unavailable and
`FLASHINFER_ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTO_BACKENDS=1` is set identically on
every rank; naming it explicitly never needs that variable. Either way
it warns once.

**Why.** The existing NVLink backend lets SM threads store into
peer-visible staging buffers; across a PCIe host bridge that degenerates
into small transactions (measured 5-13x slower than copy engines during
bring-up, see `docs/design_docs/ulysses_pcie.md`). 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. On the RDMA routes it
configures no MKey, which is what frees it from the 16-bit `bytes_count`
that caps the head-axis transforms at 65535 B per peer.
- Synchronization: full-group epoch barriers in device memory
(release/acquire, sticky abort half for the RDMA routes); the all-P2P
route is CUDA-graph capturable, the RDMA routes refuse capture and bound
NIC stalls with a 10 s deadline plus a group-wide abort/quiesce
protocol.
- Lifecycle: explicit `allocate_output` registration (collective, lives
until `close()`); `input_buffer()` exposes the RDMA landing buffer so
producers can write operands where the NIC reads them, removing the
largest device-to-device copy on the path (measured ~6% per call at
layer scale). The backend has no staging workspaces: `workspace=`,
`create_workspace` and the head-chunk primitives from #5027 are refused
at world size above one with a message that names `allocate_output()`.
- Failure envelope: a rejection before native code runs (bad operand,
refused capture, second stream) is decided from the call's own
arguments, so under the SPMD contract every rank rejects it -- the RDMA
routes raise the ordinary error and stay usable, the all-P2P route (no
abort protocol) poisons teardown and enters BROKEN. A failure inside the
transport is fail-stop on every route: on the RDMA routes the failing
rank publishes the sticky abort, the peers leave the barrier and
`close()` completes; on all-P2P `close()` refuses to synchronize and the
process must exit. 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). Two additive conflicts:
`scripts/task_test_multi_gpu_comm_kernels.sh` (both sides extend
`SPAWN_MANAGED_TEST_FILES`; the union is kept) and
`tests/trace/example.py` (main sorted the `flashinfer.*` imports;
`import flashinfer.comm` takes its place in that order). `CLAUDE.md`,
`docs/api/comm.rst`, `flashinfer/aot.py` and
`tests/trace/test_fi_trace_template_consistency.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.
14. Merged main `188bdd769` (2026-10-05). 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

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## 🚀 Pull Request Checklist

### ✅ Pre-commit Checks

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(or used your preferred method).
- [x] I have installed the hooks with `pre-commit install`.
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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>
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