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GLM-5.3-Flash has 64 KDA heads, so a rank holds:

Parallelism	Heads per rank
TP1 / DP attention	64
TP2	32
TP4	16
TP8	8

The current head allow-lists are:

API	Allowed heads
fused_kda_decode	8, 12, 24, 32, 48, 96
packed_fused_kda_decode (T>1)	12, 24, 32, 48, 96

The CuTe DSL kernels use the head count only as a grid extent and in layout strides. This PR therefore adds 16 and
64 to both allow-lists.

DS conv-state layout. fused_kda_decode also accepts vLLM's dimension-first (DS) conv-state layout:
[slots, 3*H*128, 3] with strides [slot, 3, 1]. vLLM's NIXL prefill/decode disaggregation requires DS for Mamba-family
state transfer (nixl/base_worker.py asserts it).

• Compile-time variant: DS is a compile-time variant of the existing CuTe DSL kernel (conv_dim_first
  constexpr, kernel-name suffix _ds).
• Conv-state access: only the conv-state addressing changes. In DS a channel's three history taps are
  contiguous, so the 4 channels x 3 taps a conv thread owns are 12 contiguous values. The thread moves them as three
  bf16x4 vectors (coalesced across the warp) and transposes in registers. The DS kernel's SASS has the same
  instruction count and load/store mix as SD (sm_103a, bf16 state: 816 instructions, no 16-bit stores).
• Alignment check: both layouts move conv state as 8-byte vectors, so fused_kda_decode now rejects conv-state
  slots that do not start 8-byte aligned, instead of faulting on a misaligned access.
• Unchanged: the SD path and its generated code. The Cake routes stay SD-only; DS skips them.
• Trace templates: the fused_kda_decode and packed_fused_kda_decode trace templates list 16 and 64 heads, and
  the committed packed golden trace is updated to match (pytest tests/trace: the KDA and template-consistency tests
  pass).

Cake fallback for head counts without routes. Cake has routes only for 8/12/24/32/48/96 heads, and its selector
raises for any other count. Without a guard, backend="auto" with a state_indices_mode on SM100/SM103 would raise
for 16 or 64 heads instead of running the CuTe DSL kernel. _select_cake_variant now returns no route when no
registered variant covers the head count.

Measured cost and effect.

One fused_kda_decode(backend="cute-dsl") call, timed with flashinfer.testing.bench_gpu_time(enable_cupti=True, cold_l2_cache=True) (100 iterations, median). Inputs follow benchmarks/bench_cake_fused_kda_decode.py (paged
conv/state slots, reversed slot order). H=32 is an already-supported reference. Every DS case was checked bit-exact
against SD on the same inputs before timing.

GB300 (NVIDIA GB300, SM 10.3); SD µs / DS µs (DS/SD), each the mean of two medians timed SD, DS, SD, DS:

state	H	1 row	8 rows	32 rows	128 rows	512 rows
fp32	16	4.5 / 4.4 (0.98)	5.8 / 5.9 (1.01)	13.9 / 13.9 (1.00)	44.0 / 44.2 (1.00)	162.7 / 162.6 (1.00)
fp32	32 (ref)	4.6 / 4.7 (1.01)	8.0 / 8.0 (1.00)	24.7 / 24.6 (1.00)	83.8 / 83.7 (1.00)	320.6 / 320.1 (1.00)
fp32	64	5.1 / 5.1 (0.99)	13.9 / 13.9 (1.00)	44.0 / 44.2 (1.00)	162.4 / 162.3 (1.00)	634.9 / 634.7 (1.00)
bf16	16	4.2 / 4.2 (1.00)	5.0 / 5.1 (1.01)	11.6 / 11.5 (0.99)	34.7 / 33.9 (0.98)	119.3 / 118.9 (1.00)
bf16	32 (ref)	4.3 / 4.4 (1.01)	7.0 / 7.1 (1.01)	19.5 / 19.4 (1.00)	62.8 / 62.6 (1.00)	232.2 / 231.7 (1.00)
bf16	64	4.6 / 4.6 (0.99)	11.7 / 11.6 (1.00)	34.8 / 34.3 (0.99)	119.3 / 118.8 (1.00)	457.6 / 455.7 (1.00)

GB200 (NVIDIA GB200, SM 10.0); SD µs / DS µs (DS/SD), each the mean of two medians timed SD, DS, SD, DS:

state	H	1 row	8 rows	32 rows	128 rows	512 rows
fp32	16	4.6 / 4.5 (0.98)	5.9 / 6.0 (1.01)	14.2 / 14.2 (1.00)	44.4 / 44.6 (1.01)	162.5 / 162.6 (1.00)
fp32	32 (ref)	4.8 / 4.8 (1.00)	8.2 / 8.2 (1.00)	25.2 / 25.0 (0.99)	84.0 / 83.9 (1.00)	319.6 / 318.9 (1.00)
fp32	64	5.2 / 5.2 (1.00)	14.4 / 14.2 (0.99)	44.5 / 44.6 (1.00)	162.5 / 162.2 (1.00)	633.5 / 632.7 (1.00)
bf16	16	4.3 / 4.3 (1.00)	5.2 / 5.2 (1.00)	12.0 / 11.9 (0.99)	35.7 / 35.0 (0.98)	122.4 / 123.1 (1.01)
bf16	32 (ref)	4.5 / 4.5 (1.01)	7.1 / 7.1 (1.00)	20.1 / 20.0 (0.99)	64.4 / 64.0 (0.99)	237.7 / 235.7 (0.99)
bf16	64	4.7 / 4.7 (1.00)	12.1 / 12.0 (0.99)	35.9 / 35.5 (0.99)	122.4 / 121.3 (0.99)	467.8 / 463.6 (0.99)

• New head counts: time scales linearly with H,
  so 16 and 64 sit on the same curve as the existing 32.
• DS cost: none measurable. 0.98–1.01 on GB300 and GB200 across all cells (fp32 and bf16
  state). SD times are unchanged by the DS work (same SASS as before this PR).

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• test_fused_kda_decode_glm_heads_and_ds_layout (new), 16/64 heads × 1–64 rows × fp32/bf16 state:

  • DS vs the reference;
  • DS == SD bit-exact for output, conv state and recurrent state.

• test_packed_fused_kda_decode: adds h16-n4-t3 and h64-n2-t2.

• test_cake_selector_falls_back_for_heads_without_routes (new): 16/64 heads on sm100a/sm103a return no Cake
  route. It fails on the code without the guard.

• Compile-ABI and cache-key tests updated for the conv_dim_first flag: SD and DS compile and cache separately.

• Full tests/kda, this branch vs main 9ecd6e3 on the same node:

  GPU	main	this PR
  VR200 (SM107)	3358 passed, 736 skipped	3374 passed, 736 skipped, 0 failed
  GB200 (SM100)	3945 passed, 149 skipped	3960 passed, 149 skipped
  GB300 (SM103)	3984 passed, 110 skipped	3999 passed, 110 skipped

  The GB200/GB300 full runs predate the compile-ABI test update and failed only that test. Rerunning
  test_fused_kda_decode.py and test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py after that update passes on
  GB200 and GB300 (375 passed each).

• After the vectorized-DS and alignment-check change (the later commits change only trace metadata and docstrings),
  test_fused_kda_decode.py,
  test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py and test_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py: 2430 passed on both VR200 and GB300
  (main: 2412 passed).
  GB200, the same three files plus test_cake_fused_kda_decode_gpu.py and test_packed_fused_kda_decode_api.py:
  2613 passed (main: 2595 passed).

• The vLLM layer tests that drive both APIs at 16/32/64 heads, SD/DS and fp32/bf16 pass on VR200 (175 passed, run
  against an earlier revision of this branch with the same API surface).

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Reviewer Notes

• Head count. The decode kernel's register and shared-memory footprint does not depend on H, so 16/64 heads add
  no occupancy risk; the multitoken tile choice depends only on sequences x heads. Validated in serving on VR200
  (GSM8K and sa-bench in the vLLM PR) and in an earlier 120-config comparison against fp64.
• Accepted strides. run_fused_kda_decode previously required stride(1) == 1, stride(2) == 3*H*128. It now also
  accepts (3, 1) (DS). Any other stride still raises.
• New validation (behavior change for SD too). Conv-state slots must start 8-byte aligned (slot stride a multiple
  of 4). Both layouts move conv state as 8-byte vectors; a misaligned slot previously faulted at launch and now
  raises ValueError. All existing tests and benchmarks use aligned pages.
• Cake. Cake routes stay SD-only and cover 8/12/24/32/48/96 heads. DS or 16/64 heads with backend="auto" fall
  back to CuTe DSL; with backend="cake" they raise the existing "does not have a route" error.
• packed_fused_kda_decode. T=1 runs the same CuTe DSL kernel, so it inherits DS; that combination has no
  dedicated test. T>1 (multitoken kernel) gains 16/64 heads only and still requires SD; the docstring says so.
• Trace golden. tests/trace/fi_trace_out/packed_fused_kda_decode_t3_h12_d128.json was updated by hand
  (constraints are copied verbatim from the template); regenerating it needs an SM10x GPU.
• Benchmark script. The timing script is not part of this PR; I can add a fused_kda_decode routine to
  flashinfer_benchmark.py if you want the numbers reproducible in-tree.
• Coverage. Full tests/kda was run before the vectorized-DS, trace-template and docstring commits. After the
  vectorized-DS change, the decode test files were rerun on VR200, GB200 and GB300; the trace tests and the dispatch
  tests were rerun locally after the last two commits (see Tests). No B200 or Hopper runs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Fused KDA decode now supports inputs with 16 or 64 heads.
  • Convolution-cache data can use either sequence-first or dimension-first layouts. Dimension-first is supported for single-token packed decoding; multi-token packed decoding requires sequence-first layout.
  • Packed KDA decode now supports 16- and 64-head inputs for both single-token and multi-token decoding, subject to the layout requirements above.

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Fused KDA decode now supports sequence-dimension and dimension-first convolution-cache layouts. Fused and packed decode accept additional head counts. Compilation and Cake dispatch account for cache layout and head eligibility.

Changes: KDA decode layout and head support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Convolution-cache layout flashinfer/kda_decode.py, flashinfer/kda_kernels/fused_kda_decode.py, tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py	Fused decode validates SD and DS convolution-cache layouts. For DS, the kernel loads and stores history through contiguous chunks. Tests compare DS results and cache updates with SD and reference results, and check alignment requirements.
Layout specialization and dispatch flashinfer/kda_kernels/fused_kda_decode.py, tests/kda/test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py, tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py	Compilation specializes on convolution-cache layout. DS requests use the CuTe DSL path. Cake selection returns no variant when no eligibility rule matches. Tests cover dispatch, compile arguments, and kernel-cache names for both layouts.
Head-count support and packed decode flashinfer/kda_decode.py, flashinfer/kda_kernels/fused_kda_decode.py, flashinfer/kda_kernels/fused_kda_decode_multitoken.py, flashinfer/trace/templates/kda.py, tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py, tests/trace/fi_trace_out/packed_fused_kda_decode_t3_h12_d128.json	Fused and packed decode and their trace templates accept additional head counts. Tests cover added packed-decode cases, and a trace constraint includes 16 heads.

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  participant decode_kernel
  fused_kda_decode->>_get_compiled_kernel: Pass conv_dim_first
  _get_compiled_kernel->>decode_kernel: Compile layout-specific kernel
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🟡 Minor · Reject overlapping convolution-cache slots. · fused_kda_decode_multitoken.py:1028-1034

flashinfer/kda_kernels/fused_kda_decode_multitoken.py:1028-1034
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Reject overlapping convolution-cache slots.

The T>1 validator accepts a view when only the inner SD strides match. A caller can therefore pass conv_state with stride(0) < (3 * hidden_size) * (num_tokens + _W - 2). Distinct conv_slot values then address overlapping storage, so the kernel's rolling-history writes can overwrite another sequence's cache and change later outputs. Add the non-overlap check for the newly reachable 16- and 64-head paths. The scalar history accesses do not require the direct T=1 path's 8-byte alignment check.

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     if (
         conv_state.ndim != 3
         or conv_state.shape[1:] != (3 * hidden_size, num_tokens + _W - 2)
+        or conv_state.stride(0) < (3 * hidden_size) * (num_tokens + _W - 2)
         or conv_state.stride(1) != 1
         or conv_state.stride(2) != 3 * hidden_size
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Update the T>1 `conv_state` validation to reject overlapping slots by requiring
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Reject misaligned T>1 conv_state views.

The T>1 validator accepts the required shape and inner strides without checking the base pointer or slot stride. A reachable packed request can therefore enter the compiled kernel with a violated alignment precondition. The conv-state access may produce incorrect data or a CUDA misaligned-address failure. Apply the same checks as the T=1 validator.

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     if (
         conv_state.ndim != 3
         or conv_state.shape[1:] != (3 * hidden_size, num_tokens + _W - 2)
         or conv_state.stride(1) != 1
         or conv_state.stride(2) != 3 * hidden_size
     ):
         raise ValueError("conv_state must use the extended paged SD cache layout")
+    if conv_state.stride(0) % 4 or conv_state.data_ptr() % 8:
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+            "conv_state slots must start 8-byte aligned (slot stride a multiple of 4)"
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The T>1 validation accepts misaligned conv_state views; update the T>1 validator
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Approving pending CI — DS is a clean compile-time variant that leaves the SD kernel's generated code unchanged, and 16/64 heads only widen grid and stride parameters; thanks for the thorough numbers.
Two non-blocking asks are inline.
I'll start a scoped CI run on the final head before merge.

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@flashinfer-bot run tests/kda/test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_packed_fused_kda_decode_api.py tests/trace/test_fi_trace_template_consistency.py

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/bot run tests/kda/test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_packed_fused_kda_decode_api.py tests/trace/test_fi_trace_template_consistency.py

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GitLab MR !2412 has been created, and the CI pipeline #76792367 is currently running. I'll report back once the pipeline job completes.

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@flashinfer-bot run tests/kda/test_cake_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode.py tests/kda/test_fused_kda_decode_dispatch.py tests/kda/test_packed_fused_kda_decode_api.py tests/trace/test_fi_trace_template_consistency.py

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@kahyunnam seems like CI pipelines are passed. Could you please take a second look and see if we are good to merge it ?