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This achieved about 10x less MoE time per decode step than FlashInfer main for dsv4.1-flash workload.

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1 fix(moe_ep/sm107): phase-interleave FC12 scheduler keeps cluster-uniform state (EP deadlock) Stops two CTAs of one cluster from disagreeing on fc1_exhausted. Without it, the shared-expert overlap with the phase-interleave schedule hung 3 of 3 vLLM boots during adaptive-verification profiling. always (phase-interleave schedule)
2 perf(moe_ep/sm107): an SM budget launches the MegaMoE as a uniform cluster grid max_sm_count now builds a workspace instead of raising, so a side-stream shared-expert MLP can run next to the megakernel. only when max_sm_count is set
5 feat(quantization): nvfp4_quantize_cute_dsl can write into caller-provided buffers (out=) Adds an out= argument; the quantizer itself is unchanged. caller opt-in
7 perf(moe_ep/sm107): bind the per-call NVFP4 epilogue scalars as launch arguments Binds fc1/fc2 alpha and the fc1 norm constant as launch arguments, removing 3 device copies per layer. always (NVFP4)
8 perf(moe_ep/sm107): fold the caller's padding mask into the one-launch route staging Adds MoEEpTensors.route_padding_mask, so callers drop their own masking kernel. only when the caller sets the field

14 files, +726 / -56, on main 2895577.

The steps are cumulative from main (top) to this series plus the companion vLLM change (bottom). Rows marked
[vLLM] belong to the companion vLLM change and are shown because the steps were measured together. Columns are
tokens per rank @ workspace capacity.

step 1260 @ 3072 (µs) 2046 @ 2048 (µs) 2304 @ 3072 (µs) 4608 @ 6144 (µs) MoE per step (ms) output vs previous step
main (start) 1892.8 2782.5 3098.0 5992.8 94.40 –
#1 scheduler fix + #2 SM-budget launch (+ [vLLM] SM107 enablement) +0.2 -0.2 +1.0 +0.1 -0.001 bit-identical
#7 bound epilogue scalars -6.7 -7.0 -8.7 -4.2 -0.274 bit-identical
#8 padding-mask fold (+ [vLLM] hand-off), no padding rows -0.2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6 -0.007 bit-identical
this series + vLLM change (end) 232.5 257.2 265.8 438.4 9.82

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  • New Features

    • Added faster staging for supported SM107 MoE routes and NVFP4 inputs, with fallback handling for unsupported inputs.
    • Added an optimized BF16 inference reduction path that masks invalid routes without first clearing their combine slots.
    • NVFP4 quantization can now write into caller-provided output buffers.
    • Per-call scalar tensors can be passed directly to supported launches.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability of SM107 work scheduling to prevent CTAs from disagreeing about which work phase is active.
    • Preserved route validation for inputs that use fallback staging.

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The SM107 NVFP4 path adds route staging, workspace-backed quantization, per-call scalar bindings, and masked BF16 top-k reduction. The change also updates FC1 scheduler claim handling and documents the staging and scalar-binding behavior.

Changes: SM107 MegaMoE NVFP4 flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Route staging and validation
flashinfer/moe_ep/backends/mega/kernel/sm107/route_stage.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/backends/mega/kernel/sm107/validation.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/backends/mega/kernel/sm107/nvfp4_nvfp4_bf16_cutedsl/backend.py, CLAUDE.md
The backend stages routes into workspace buffers when inputs meet the staging requirements. Unsupported inputs use the existing validation path. Route checks can be disabled for one-launch staging with FLASHINFER_SM107_MEGA_CHECK_ROUTES=0.
NVFP4 quantization and workspace staging
flashinfer/quantization/kernels/nvfp4_quantize.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/backends/mega/kernel/sm107/nvfp4_nvfp4_bf16_cutedsl/staging.py
The CuTe-DSL quantizer accepts validated caller-provided output buffers. SM107 input staging uses direct workspace outputs when layouts permit, otherwise tries CuTe-DSL quantization and falls back to Torch quantization. It skips route copies when routes are already staged.
Per-call scalar bindings
flashinfer/moe_ep/backends/mega/kernel/sm107/nvfp4_nvfp4_bf16_cutedsl/backend.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/shim/block_scaled.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/shim/{autotune,correctness}.py, docs/design_docs/moe_ep_sm107_qualification.md
Eligible contiguous FP32 scalar tensors are bound as launch arguments. Other values use workspace tensors, and omitted scalars reset to one. Autotuning and sampled correctness use the selected scalar tensors.
Masked BF16 top-k reduction
flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/shim/fast_reduce.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/shim/block_scaled.py, docs/design_docs/moe_ep_sm107_qualification.md
For supported NVFP4 inference configurations, the shim replaces separate BF16 reduction with a Triton reduction that masks invalid expert IDs. It skips clearing invalid-route slots and zeros requested rows beyond the staged count.

FC1 scheduler claim handling

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FC1 scheduler claim handling
flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/src/sources/kernel_src/schedulers/fc12_scheduler.py, flashinfer/moe_ep/kernel_src/sm107/next_cutedsl_megamoe/VENDOR.md
After a failed watermark peek, the scheduler waits for the resolved claim target without setting FC1 exhaustion from the peek. The vendoring record describes the local change and its pending upstream status.

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  participant MegaMoEBackend
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  participant Workspace
  MegaMoEBackend->>StageRoutingPlane: pass route IDs, weights, and workspace
  StageRoutingPlane->>StageRoutes: stage routes when inputs are supported
  StageRoutes->>Workspace: write IDs, weights, and capacity tail
  StageRoutingPlane-->>MegaMoEBackend: return staging result
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- Around line 68-70: Update stage_routes so masked padding rows receive zero
output weights before staging: store zero whenever a row is not live, while
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pad = tl.load(pad_ptr + rows, mask=live, other=0) != 0
routed = live & ~pad
ids = tl.where(routed[:, None], ids, -1)

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Zero weights for masked padding rows before staging.

stage_routes writes -1 IDs for padding rows but leaves their output weight slots unchanged. When apply_topk_at_fc1 is false, the SM107 reduction reads those slots as scores. Invalid IDs zero the activation value, but the reduction still computes v * s or tl.fma(v, s, acc). A stale NaN or infinite score can therefore contaminate the output.

Capacity-tail slots are not consumed because reduction stops at the staged token count. With the current m_live, this change zeros both padding rows and the capacity tail:

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-        tl.store(w_out_ptr + offs, w, mask=m_cap & m_live)
+        tl.store(w_out_ptr + offs, tl.where(m_live, w, 0.0), mask=m_cap)
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enable_pdl: bool | None = None,
# Appended last so existing positional construction keeps working.
nvfp4_4over6: Optional[NVFP44Over6Config] = _UNSET,
out: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]] = None,

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The empty-input return ignores out.

When m == 0 or k == 0, the function returns fresh tensors before _nvfp4_outputs runs. As a result, out is never validated on that path, and the returned tensors are not views of the caller's buffers. This contradicts the documented out contract. On the empty path, validate out and return views of it.

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Update the empty-input path for the function accepting out so it validates the
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…orm state (EP deadlock)

The vendored PhaseInterleavedFc12Scheduler set fc1_exhausted in
_wait_for_fc1_prologue_claims from a CTA-local peek of the global FC1
work-ID counter. Every CTA of a cluster runs the claim state machine itself
and reads the leader's broadcast work ID against its own stream choice, so
that state may only change on cluster-uniform inputs.

The runtime FC1 stream can be shorter than the static FC1 watermark: DP
dummy batches, adaptive-verification start-up profiling, or clusters that
start late because a side-stream kernel holds SMs. Then two CTAs of one
cluster can disagree on fc1_exhausted, map the next ID to different
phases, and deadlock the EP group. One rank ends up 2 CTAs short of its
tail grid sync while its peers wait in the NVLink drain barrier.

The peek now only shortens the CTA's wait. FC1 exhaustion is learned from
a claimed ID, like any other stream end, at the cost of at most one extra
terminal FC1 claim per cluster. VENDOR.md records this as a FlashInfer-owned
difference from the pinned 1667b47a export.

Why: DSv4.1 serving runs phase-interleave at every capacity (every tuned
NVFP4 EP4 knob-cache entry and the built-in heuristic select it) with the
shared-expert MLP overlapped on a side stream. The workaround, the grouped
schedule, is 1.20-1.47x slower per MoE layer at capacities 256-3072.

Measured (EP4, VR200, DSv4.1 NVFP4 MoE layer):
- without the fix, a vLLM boot hung during adaptive-verification
  profiling in a target-model layer (capacity 3072, 2280 tokens/rank); an
  EP4 kernel reproduction of that load (all padding but one route per
  rank, side-stream MLP, 148 SMs) hung after 4 and 9 graph replays;
- with it, 0 hangs in 21.9 M EP4 stress launches (capacities 128-4096,
  identical, skewed and zero-route ranks, forced late clusters), and 3 of
  3 vLLM boots with adaptive-verification profiling passed;
- per-layer time fixed/unfixed is 0.999-1.001 at 1024-3072 tokens/rank.

Gate: none. Active whenever schedule_policy is phase_interleave, for
every quant kind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…uster grid

Sm107BlockScaledMoeConfig rejects max_sm_count together with a
fallback_cluster_shape_mn, because mixed-CGA occupancy is resolved from
the hardware probe. Every tuned and heuristic NVFP4 EP4 knob set names
fallback (2, 1), so any SM budget failed when the workspace was built.
make_workspace_config now drops the fallback cluster, giving a uniform
cluster launch, whenever a budget is set. The budget itself is passed
through unchanged (an int, as before). The helper is shared by the SM107
backends, so an MXFP8 workspace with a budget is launched uniformly too
instead of raising.

Why: a persistent megakernel on all SMs leaves nothing for a concurrent
side-stream workload. vLLM runs the DSv4 shared-expert MLP on a side stream
next to the MegaMoE; capping the megakernel lets both run at once.

Measured (VR200, DSv4.1 NVFP4 checkpoint):
- one MoE layer at EP4 with the shared-expert MLP on a side stream
  (CUDA-graph replay, cold L2; budget points from one sweep run, serial
  points from a 3-rep run):
  - 1536 tokens/rank (capacity 2048): 263 us with 180 SMs vs 273 us with
    all SMs, and 304 us with the shared expert run serially;
  - 3072 tokens/rank (capacity 4096): 343 us with 148 SMs vs 365 us with
    all SMs, and 380 us serially;
- per step (EP4 layer times, cold, summed over 21 layers x 2046 + 19
  layers x 1260 tokens/rank; a later build of the original flashinfer-ai#6499 series,
  which also had the staging and reduce commits now covered by flashinfer-ai#6398 and
  flashinfer-ai#6447): 9.87 ms at 196 SMs, 9.93 ms at 180, 10.28 ms at 148;
- serving (4 GPUs, concurrency 1024) at 196 vs 180 SMs: +1.0 % TPS/GPU
  and +0.7 % interactivity on the same node.
That later build also added the shared-expert output inside a deferred
top-k reduce, which this series does not have (bit-identical to a
separate add and within about 1 us per layer of it at 1260 and 2046
tokens/rank).

Gate: only when max_sm_count is set. The default None is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…vided buffers (out=)

Adds out=(fp4_out, sf_out) to nvfp4_quantize_cute_dsl, so callers can
quantize straight into preallocated buffers such as a symmetric-memory
workspace. With out=None the function allocates exactly as before. Given
buffers are checked against the dtype, contiguity, device and size the
selected kernel path writes; the returned tensors are views of them. The
empty-input early return honours out= the same way.

Why: a caller that stages into a workspace otherwise quantizes into
temporaries and copies both planes. In the original flashinfer-ai#6499 series the SM107
MegaMoE NVFP4 staging used it to remove 2 DtoD copies (about 3 us) per MoE
layer (VR200, EP4, 2304 tokens/rank). That staging is now covered by the
fused staging of flashinfer-ai#6398, so this commit adds only the API. The quantizer
kernels themselves are unchanged.

Gate: none; an additive keyword.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…h arguments

The per-call NVFP4 epilogue scalars (fc1_alpha, fc2_alpha, fc1_norm_const)
were copied into the workspace tensors on every call, which is 3 DtoD
launches per MoE layer. Contiguous fp32 [E_local] tensors on the workspace
device are now bound directly as launch arguments. Other values are still
copied, and an omitted scalar still resets the workspace tensor to ones; the
launch then uses the workspace tensor, so a pooled workspace never reuses a
stale value.

The bound pointers are part of the launch key (ahead of the stream), so a
different binding re-binds the launch arguments on the host, without a
recompile. Callers must keep the tensors alive while launches or captured
graphs use them; the qualification guide states this.

The offline autotuner and the sampled correctness oracle now read the
bound tensors too. Otherwise they would time and check against unit
scalars: the existing nvfp4 in-situ kernel-vs-reference test case fails
with rel error 2.38 without this.

Measured (VR200, EP4, 2304 tokens/rank, kineto): 3 copies removed, about
4 us per MoE layer in the graph; bound and copied scalars bit-identical
(max abs diff 0.0 at capacity:rows 128:6 to 3072:2520, non-unit
per-expert scalars).
Per MoE layer at EP4 on the original flashinfer-ai#6499 series (which also had the
staging and reduce commits now covered by flashinfer-ai#6398 and flashinfer-ai#6447), previous
commit -> this commit (one DSv4.1 MoE layer with checkpoint weights and
uniform random top-6 routes, shared-expert MLP overlapped under a 196-SM
budget, CUDA-graph replay with cold L2, p50 of the slowest of the 4
ranks, median of 2 runs):
237.9 -> 231.1 us at 1260 tokens/rank (capacity 3072), 268.2 -> 261.2 us
at 2046 (capacity 2048), -8.7 us at 2304 (capacity 3072) and -4.2 us at
4608 (capacity 6144); outputs bit-identical on all 4 ranks.
Both arms also added the shared-expert output inside a deferred top-k
reduce, which this series does not have (bit-identical to a separate
add and within 4.5 us per layer of it at these sizes).

Gate: none.

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@flashinfer-bot run tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_config.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_contracts.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_kernel_vs_reference.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_weights.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_kernel_boundaries.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_routing_graph.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_runtime_options.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_torch_staging.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_tuning.py tests/moe_ep/test_mega_workspace_knobs.py tests/moe_ep/test_moe_ep_sm107_block_scaled_mega_multirank.py tests/utils/test_fp4_quantize.py

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/bot run tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_config.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_contracts.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_kernel_vs_reference.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_block_scaled_weights.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_kernel_boundaries.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_routing_graph.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_runtime_options.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_torch_staging.py tests/moe_ep/test_sm107_tuning.py tests/moe_ep/test_mega_workspace_knobs.py tests/moe_ep/test_moe_ep_sm107_block_scaled_mega_multirank.py tests/utils/test_fp4_quantize.py

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GitLab MR !2262 has been created, and the CI pipeline #75086941 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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## 📌 Description

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This achieved about 10x less MoE time per decode step than FlashInfer
main for dsv4.1-flash workload.

## Commits

| # | commit | what it does | gate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix(moe_ep/sm107): phase-interleave FC12 scheduler keeps
cluster-uniform state (EP deadlock) | Stops two CTAs of one cluster from
disagreeing on `fc1_exhausted`. Without it, the shared-expert overlap
with the phase-interleave schedule hung 3 of 3 vLLM boots during
adaptive-verification profiling. | always (phase-interleave schedule) |
| 2 | perf(moe_ep/sm107): an SM budget launches the MegaMoE as a uniform
cluster grid | `max_sm_count` now builds a workspace instead of raising,
so a side-stream shared-expert MLP can run next to the megakernel. |
only when `max_sm_count` is set |
| 5 | feat(quantization): nvfp4_quantize_cute_dsl can write into
caller-provided buffers (out=) | Adds an `out=` argument; the quantizer
itself is unchanged. | caller opt-in |
| 7 | perf(moe_ep/sm107): bind the per-call NVFP4 epilogue scalars as
launch arguments | Binds fc1/fc2 alpha and the fc1 norm constant as
launch arguments, removing 3 device copies per layer. | always (NVFP4) |
| 8 | perf(moe_ep/sm107): fold the caller's padding mask into the
one-launch route staging | Adds `MoEEpTensors.route_padding_mask`, so
callers drop their own masking kernel. | only when the caller sets the
field |

14 files, +726 / -56, on `main` 2895577.

The steps are cumulative from `main` (top) to this series plus the
companion vLLM change (bottom). Rows marked
*[vLLM]* belong to the companion vLLM change and are shown because the
steps were measured together. Columns are
tokens per rank @ workspace capacity.

| step | 1260 @ 3072 (µs) | 2046 @ 2048 (µs) | 2304 @ 3072 (µs) | 4608 @
6144 (µs) | MoE per step (ms) | output vs previous step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `main` (start) | 1892.8 | 2782.5 | 3098.0 | 5992.8 | 94.40 | – |
| #1 scheduler fix + #2 SM-budget launch (+ *[vLLM]* SM107 enablement) |
+0.2 | -0.2 | +1.0 | +0.1 | -0.001 | bit-identical |
| #7 bound epilogue scalars | -6.7 | -7.0 | -8.7 | -4.2 | -0.274 |
bit-identical |
| #8 padding-mask fold (+ *[vLLM]* hand-off), no padding rows | -0.2 |
-0.2 | 0.0 | -0.6 | -0.007 | bit-identical |
| **this series + vLLM change (end)** | **232.5** | **257.2** |
**265.8** | **438.4** | **9.82** | |

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added faster staging for supported SM107 MoE routes and NVFP4 inputs,
with fallback handling for unsupported inputs.
* Added an optimized BF16 inference reduction path that masks invalid
routes without first clearing their combine slots.
* NVFP4 quantization can now write into caller-provided output buffers.
* Per-call scalar tensors can be passed directly to supported launches.

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* Improved reliability of SM107 work scheduling to prevent CTAs from
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