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perf(cake_dense_projection_gemm): cache the router entry points' calls by their own tensors - #8539
The flashinfer.experimental.dense_projection_gemm family has BF16-input dense and batched projection GEMMs and an FP32 router GEMM (256 experts, BF16x3 emulation). deterministic=True (the default) calls dense_projection_det_gemm. deterministic=False runs this package's split-K and stream-K programs. Both packages ship on sm_100a, sm_103a and sm_107a.
This PR changes only the host path of the eager deterministic=False router entry points router_forward, router_dgrad and router_wgrad. Each entry point keeps its prepared launch in a cache keyed by the call's own tensors, so a repeated call does not plan again. Programs, plans, split counts and outputs (bitwise) do not change.
Summary. Ranges over the 9 shapes. Ratio = baseline us / new us; above 1.000 means this PR is faster. Run 2 gives the tables below. Run 1 is an earlier run of the same harness on another node, without the cuBLASLt BF16x9 arm. Control = a run with this PR in both arms on the run 1 node, which gives the timer noise.
GPU
mode
op
previous/new, run 2
previous/new, run 1
control
det/new
SOTA/new, T 64
SOTA/new, T 256
SOTA/new, T 1024
GB300
eager
fwd
1.000-1.066
1.003-1.073
0.993-1.013
1.191-1.296
0.453-0.534
0.767-0.873
1.198-1.355
GB300
eager
dgrad
0.986-1.021
0.986-1.000
0.986-1.000
1.041-1.299
0.696-0.707
1.007-1.410
1.235-1.340
GB300
eager
wgrad
1.066-1.309
1.065-1.275
0.990-1.005
1.276-1.835
0.310-0.412
0.635-0.758
1.223-1.285
GB300
eager
bwd
1.100-1.195
1.067-1.175
0.992-1.046
1.416-1.618
0.332-0.373
0.555-0.769
1.235-1.318
GB300
eager
2fwd+bwd
1.088-1.136
1.085-1.136
0.962-1.010
1.357-1.448
0.386-0.402
0.518-0.727
1.012-1.082
GB300
graph
fwd
0.997-1.008
1.000-1.008
0.997-1.008
0.994-1.003
0.454-0.547
0.793-0.897
1.255-1.384
GB300
graph
dgrad
1.000-1.015
1.000-1.016
1.000-1.016
1.000-1.031
0.735-0.740
1.067-1.468
1.286-1.366
GB300
graph
wgrad
0.985-1.000
0.979-0.997
0.985-1.003
0.988-1.401
0.330-0.522
0.676-0.820
1.264-1.313
GB300
graph
bwd
0.996-1.003
0.994-1.002
0.993-1.003
0.997-1.228
0.499-0.625
0.861-1.073
1.286-1.339
GB300
graph
2fwd+bwd
0.995-1.001
0.993-1.003
0.994-1.003
0.996-1.054
0.457-0.555
0.817-0.967
1.311-1.445
GB200
eager
fwd
0.997-1.006
1.003-1.067
0.991-1.056
1.180-1.306
0.460-0.526
0.781-0.888
1.246-1.397
GB200
eager
dgrad
0.986-1.007
0.986-1.007
0.993-1.007
1.020-1.188
0.701-0.713
1.000-1.408
1.252-1.326
GB200
eager
wgrad
1.031-1.314
1.064-1.310
0.967-1.104
1.273-1.916
0.311-0.435
0.633-0.785
1.214-1.237
GB200
eager
bwd
1.032-1.171
1.074-1.172
0.964-1.027
1.353-1.647
0.342-0.385
0.588-0.831
1.241-1.275
GB200
eager
2fwd+bwd
1.101-1.170
1.066-1.137
0.967-1.041
1.375-1.516
0.385-0.414
0.546-0.759
1.029-1.178
GB200
graph
fwd
0.997-1.007
0.993-1.006
0.991-1.015
0.993-1.006
0.459-0.525
0.794-0.898
1.285-1.433
GB200
graph
dgrad
0.986-1.015
0.986-1.008
0.993-1.014
1.000-1.030
0.721-0.732
1.058-1.452
1.286-1.383
GB200
graph
wgrad
0.980-1.000
0.980-1.000
0.977-1.000
0.980-1.416
0.333-0.528
0.667-0.823
1.268-1.292
GB200
graph
bwd
0.990-1.004
0.995-1.003
0.997-1.005
0.998-1.224
0.501-0.626
0.852-1.072
1.299-1.329
GB200
graph
2fwd+bwd
0.998-1.004
0.995-1.003
0.996-1.003
0.996-1.056
0.463-0.547
0.819-0.961
1.324-1.436
Previous Cake, eager: bwd and 2fwd+bwd are above the control range in every cell, on both GPUs and in both runs. For the other ops, the cells above the control range are (run 2 / run 1, of 9): fwd 1 / 3 on GB300 and 0 / 2 on GB200; dgrad 2 / 0 on GB300 and 0 / 0 on GB200; wgrad 9 / 9 on GB300 and 3 / 5 on GB200. 2 dgrad cells are below it (next item); the rest are within it.
dgrad, eager: the two cells below the control range are GB200 4096 T 256 in run 1: 14.20 us previous against 14.35 us new (0.990 unrounded), control 14.30 against 14.35 us; a repeat on that node gives 14.25 against 14.35 us (0.993) and run 2 gives 14.30 against 14.40 us (0.993); and GB200 5120 T 64 in run 2: 13.95 us previous against 14.10 us new (0.989 unrounded), control 13.90 against 14.00 us. Each difference is at most 0.15 us, against a 0.1 us timer step.
Previous Cake, CUDA graph: the graph rows replay prepared launches, which this PR does not change. 86 of 90 run 2 cells are within the control range; the other 4 differ by at most 0.40 us. The lowest cell, GB200 wgrad 4096 T 64, has unrounded medians 19.40 against 19.80 us, and 19.40 against 19.80 us in the control.
Host time per eager call (back-to-back calls on the run 1 nodes, GB300 and GB200), previous -> new: fwd 33.5-35.7 -> 29.6-31.1 us, dgrad 17.3-18.0 -> 15.9-16.7 us, wgrad 28.7-37.9 -> 24.3-31.8 us, 2fwd+bwd 125.9-133.1 -> 108.6-115.8 us. R200 (sm_107a, 212 SMs) runs the same host code but was not timed with CUPTI. Its host time per call is fwd 12.5-13.2 -> 10.8-11.7 us and wgrad 13.2-14.0 -> 10.8-11.6 us.
SOTA, T 64 (6 cells per op): eager: every op SOTA faster. graph: every op SOTA faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS FP32, cuBLASLt FP32 and torch.mm FP32, alone or as a per-GEMM sequence of them.
SOTA, T 256 (6 cells per op): eager: fwd SOTA faster; dgrad 5 this PR faster, 1 within the control range; wgrad SOTA faster; bwd SOTA faster; 2fwd+bwd SOTA faster. graph: fwd SOTA faster; dgrad this PR faster; wgrad SOTA faster; bwd 4 this PR faster, 2 SOTA faster; 2fwd+bwd SOTA faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS FP32, cuBLASLt FP32 and torch.mm FP32, alone or as a per-GEMM sequence of them.
SOTA, T 1024 (6 cells per op): eager: fwd this PR faster; dgrad this PR faster; wgrad this PR faster; bwd this PR faster; 2fwd+bwd 5 this PR faster, 1 within the control range. graph: every op this PR faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS BF16x9 and cuBLASLt BF16x9; the per-GEMM sequences at this T use cuBLASLt BF16x9 for every GEMM.
cuBLASLt BF16x9: run 2 adds the cuBLASLt sweep in CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F_EMULATED_16BFX9 (the benchmark's cublaslt_bf16x9). It is the fastest call, alone or in a per-GEMM sequence, in 50 of 180 cells, all at T 1024. It lowers T 1024 eager 2fwd+bwd SOTA/new to 1.012-1.178 (run 1 without it: 1.095-1.218). The smallest margins are GB300 4096 (150.1 us cuBLASLt BF16x9 against 148.3 us, 1.012) and GB200 4096 (153.6 us cuBLASLt BF16x9 against 149.2 us, 1.029).
Row: one GPU, shape, op and mode; 45 rows per GPU and mode (9 shapes x 5 ops).
Shapes: FP32 router [T, H] x [256, H]^T, H = 4096, 5120 and 6144, T = 64, 256 and 1024 tokens; FP32 outputs.
Modes: eager = a call sequence of the entry points (det Cake, previous, new) or of the library calls. CUDA graph = the prepared launches (det Cake, previous, new) or the library calls, captured once and replayed; the entry points are not captured.
Latency: median us of the CUPTI GPU interval of the op, from the first kernel begin to the last kernel end. L2 is cold before every iteration.
Runs: a run has 15 paired groups x 20 timed steps per arm, in rotated arm order, on the 4 GPUs of 1 node. Each GPU uses one process layout (one long-lived process, or a new process per shape) and one cuBLAS version (13.8.0 or 13.1.1). A Cake cell is the median of the 4 per-GPU medians.
Baselines: det Cake = deterministic=True. Previous Cake = deterministic=False at FlashInfer main 18d8a03. SOTA = per row the fastest of cuBLAS FP32 (cublasSgemm), cuBLASLt FP32 (top-8 heuristic algorithms), torch.mm FP32 (TF32 off), cuBLAS BF16x9 FP32 emulation (cublasSgemm), cuBLASLt BF16x9 (top-8 heuristic algorithms), and the per-GEMM fastest sequence (each GEMM uses the call that CUDA-event timing picks). A call counts only when every GEMM it runs meets the router accuracy budget against FP64 (relative Frobenius error at most 2e-6, and the same top-8 experts per token in fwd); every call met it on every row. A library cell is the median of the 2 GPUs with the faster cuBLAS version (13.8.0 or 13.1.1). The table names the call.
Ratio: baseline us / new us of the cells shown. A value above 1.000 means this PR is faster.
Setup: NVIDIA GB300, sm_103a, 152 SMs, driver 580.159.03, 1400 W; NVIDIA GB200, sm_100a, 152 SMs, driver 580.126.20, 1200 W; CUDA 13.4 (driver API), nvcc 13.4.92, PyTorch 2.14.1+cu130. No clock or power throttle reason was set during the runs.
Cached routing decisions refresh when routing tables or applicable routes change. Calls that cannot use a cached launch continue through the existing path.
Cached launches support CUDA graph replay and reuse across calls on the same stream.
Documentation
Clarified how cached launches handle caller views, stream context, and routing updates.
…s by their own tensors
With deterministic=False, router_forward, router_dgrad and router_wgrad
now keep one more convenience cache, keyed by the entry point's own
tensors, the operation, the split count, the PDL flag, the raw stream
and the device. Each entry holds the cached launch that the entry
point's own path takes for the key (the same _K2_SPLITK_CACHE or
_K2_ATOMIC_CACHE entry, planned under the same key), and the router
table memo and the ROUTES value it was routed under. A call goes from
its key to the bound launch: it builds no transposed operand, takes no
route and builds no second key. A router table change or a ROUTES
change routes the key again. A plain-dict router table, tensors that are
not on one CUDA device, or a launch that is not bound for the entry
point's own views take the entry point's own path.
The K2 launches now pass the call's views to the FFI calls as torch
tensors, enter the arena's stream context (made once per arena) and call
torch.sum with a positional dimension. The programs, plans, split
counts, numeric results and prepared launches do not change.
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- Around line 3338-3343: Update the cache-key construction in _plan_k2_entry and
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reusing the old partition.
Walkthrough
The K2 convenience path now retains stream contexts for atomic and deterministic launches. Router forward, input-gradient, and weight-gradient entry points cache launch selection and bindings. Tests cover cache behavior, route changes, GPU results, and CUDA-graph replay.
The three router entry points cache launch selection and bindings. The cache responds to router-table and route changes, and is cleared with other convenience caches.
Cache and launch validation tests/experimental/test_cake_dense_projection_gemm.py
CPU and GPU tests cover cache reuse, keys, route changes, fallback, arena references, numerical results, streams, and CUDA-graph replay.
sequenceDiagram
participant Router as router_forward / router_dgrad / router_wgrad
participant Entry as _k2_entry
participant Planner as _plan_k2_entry
participant Binding as Atomic or deterministic K2 binding
Router->>Entry: Submit router call and entry-point views
Entry->>Planner: Resolve cached or refreshed launch
Planner-->>Entry: Return launch binding or fallback
Entry->>Binding: Launch with entry-point views
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flashinfer-ai/flashinfer 8069 — The PR adds caching to deterministic=False router entry points, but does not implement every requested GEMM and gradient feature.
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer 6596 — The PR changes launch behavior in the CAKE dense projection GEMM gradient family’s router.
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer 7233 — The PR adds a prepared-launch cache to the package’s router entry points, addressing repeated launch-path work.
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The GPU entry-cache tests call each router entry point with the same P, Q, and out objects on every repeated call. A regression that keeps the first call's operand or output pointer would still pass these tests.
Add a case that repeats a call with the same cache key, using new tensors. Keep the same device, stream, operation, split count, PDL flag, shape, stride, storage offset, and 16-byte alignment. Compare the second output with a freshly computed reference.
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Use the current verdict when a cached atomic K2 plan is reused.
When a router verdict changes between two atomic partitions, a call without splits can still launch the plan cached for the old partition. _plan_k2_entry returns the cached _K2_ATOMIC_CACHE entry. Its key has no verdict term, and only _verdicts_changed changes the verdict generation. The router entry cache is rebuilt after the change, but it reads this same atomic entry.
The launch keeps the old split partition. It does not change the shape or cause a failed launch. The README in this change states that a verdict change "is seen at the next call."
Include the verdict generation in the _K2_ATOMIC_CACHE key. Apply this in both _plan_k2_entry and _launch_cached_atomic_k2, so a changed verdict plans a new atomic entry.
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flashinfer.experimental.dense_projection_gemmfamily has BF16-input dense and batched projection GEMMs and an FP32 router GEMM (256 experts, BF16x3 emulation).deterministic=True(the default) callsdense_projection_det_gemm.deterministic=Falseruns this package's split-K and stream-K programs. Both packages ship onsm_100a,sm_103aandsm_107a.This PR changes only the host path of the eager
deterministic=Falserouter entry pointsrouter_forward,router_dgradandrouter_wgrad. Each entry point keeps its prepared launch in a cache keyed by the call's own tensors, so a repeated call does not plan again. Programs, plans, split counts and outputs (bitwise) do not change.Summary. Ranges over the 9 shapes. Ratio = baseline us / new us; above 1.000 means this PR is faster. Run 2 gives the tables below. Run 1 is an earlier run of the same harness on another node, without the cuBLASLt BF16x9 arm. Control = a run with this PR in both arms on the run 1 node, which gives the timer noise.
Previous Cake, eager: bwd and 2fwd+bwd are above the control range in every cell, on both GPUs and in both runs. For the other ops, the cells above the control range are (run 2 / run 1, of 9): fwd 1 / 3 on GB300 and 0 / 2 on GB200; dgrad 2 / 0 on GB300 and 0 / 0 on GB200; wgrad 9 / 9 on GB300 and 3 / 5 on GB200. 2 dgrad cells are below it (next item); the rest are within it.
dgrad, eager: the two cells below the control range are GB200 4096 T 256 in run 1: 14.20 us previous against 14.35 us new (0.990 unrounded), control 14.30 against 14.35 us; a repeat on that node gives 14.25 against 14.35 us (0.993) and run 2 gives 14.30 against 14.40 us (0.993); and GB200 5120 T 64 in run 2: 13.95 us previous against 14.10 us new (0.989 unrounded), control 13.90 against 14.00 us. Each difference is at most 0.15 us, against a 0.1 us timer step.
Previous Cake, CUDA graph: the graph rows replay prepared launches, which this PR does not change. 86 of 90 run 2 cells are within the control range; the other 4 differ by at most 0.40 us. The lowest cell, GB200 wgrad 4096 T 64, has unrounded medians 19.40 against 19.80 us, and 19.40 against 19.80 us in the control.
Host time per eager call (back-to-back calls on the run 1 nodes, GB300 and GB200), previous -> new: fwd 33.5-35.7 -> 29.6-31.1 us, dgrad 17.3-18.0 -> 15.9-16.7 us, wgrad 28.7-37.9 -> 24.3-31.8 us, 2fwd+bwd 125.9-133.1 -> 108.6-115.8 us. R200 (
sm_107a, 212 SMs) runs the same host code but was not timed with CUPTI. Its host time per call is fwd 12.5-13.2 -> 10.8-11.7 us and wgrad 13.2-14.0 -> 10.8-11.6 us.SOTA, T 64 (6 cells per op): eager: every op SOTA faster. graph: every op SOTA faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS FP32, cuBLASLt FP32 and torch.mm FP32, alone or as a per-GEMM sequence of them.
SOTA, T 256 (6 cells per op): eager: fwd SOTA faster; dgrad 5 this PR faster, 1 within the control range; wgrad SOTA faster; bwd SOTA faster; 2fwd+bwd SOTA faster. graph: fwd SOTA faster; dgrad this PR faster; wgrad SOTA faster; bwd 4 this PR faster, 2 SOTA faster; 2fwd+bwd SOTA faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS FP32, cuBLASLt FP32 and torch.mm FP32, alone or as a per-GEMM sequence of them.
SOTA, T 1024 (6 cells per op): eager: fwd this PR faster; dgrad this PR faster; wgrad this PR faster; bwd this PR faster; 2fwd+bwd 5 this PR faster, 1 within the control range. graph: every op this PR faster. Fastest calls: cuBLAS BF16x9 and cuBLASLt BF16x9; the per-GEMM sequences at this T use cuBLASLt BF16x9 for every GEMM.
cuBLASLt BF16x9: run 2 adds the cuBLASLt sweep in
CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F_EMULATED_16BFX9(the benchmark'scublaslt_bf16x9). It is the fastest call, alone or in a per-GEMM sequence, in 50 of 180 cells, all at T 1024. It lowers T 1024 eager 2fwd+bwd SOTA/new to 1.012-1.178 (run 1 without it: 1.095-1.218). The smallest margins are GB300 4096 (150.1 us cuBLASLt BF16x9 against 148.3 us, 1.012) and GB200 4096 (153.6 us cuBLASLt BF16x9 against 149.2 us, 1.029).Row: one GPU, shape, op and mode; 45 rows per GPU and mode (9 shapes x 5 ops).
Shapes: FP32 router
[T, H] x [256, H]^T, H = 4096, 5120 and 6144, T = 64, 256 and 1024 tokens; FP32 outputs.Ops: fwd =
router_forward. dgrad =router_dgrad(input gradient). wgrad =router_wgrad(weight gradient). bwd = dgrad + wgrad. 2fwd+bwd = checkpointed step (2 x fwd + bwd).Modes: eager = a call sequence of the entry points (det Cake, previous, new) or of the library calls. CUDA graph = the prepared launches (det Cake, previous, new) or the library calls, captured once and replayed; the entry points are not captured.
Latency: median us of the CUPTI GPU interval of the op, from the first kernel begin to the last kernel end. L2 is cold before every iteration.
Runs: a run has 15 paired groups x 20 timed steps per arm, in rotated arm order, on the 4 GPUs of 1 node. Each GPU uses one process layout (one long-lived process, or a new process per shape) and one cuBLAS version (13.8.0 or 13.1.1). A Cake cell is the median of the 4 per-GPU medians.
Baselines: det Cake =
deterministic=True. Previous Cake =deterministic=Falseat FlashInfer main 18d8a03. SOTA = per row the fastest of cuBLAS FP32 (cublasSgemm), cuBLASLt FP32 (top-8 heuristic algorithms),torch.mmFP32 (TF32 off), cuBLAS BF16x9 FP32 emulation (cublasSgemm), cuBLASLt BF16x9 (top-8 heuristic algorithms), and the per-GEMM fastest sequence (each GEMM uses the call that CUDA-event timing picks). A call counts only when every GEMM it runs meets the router accuracy budget against FP64 (relative Frobenius error at most 2e-6, and the same top-8 experts per token in fwd); every call met it on every row. A library cell is the median of the 2 GPUs with the faster cuBLAS version (13.8.0 or 13.1.1). The table names the call.Ratio: baseline us / new us of the cells shown. A value above 1.000 means this PR is faster.
Setup: NVIDIA GB300,
sm_103a, 152 SMs, driver 580.159.03, 1400 W; NVIDIA GB200,sm_100a, 152 SMs, driver 580.126.20, 1200 W; CUDA 13.4 (driver API), nvcc 13.4.92, PyTorch 2.14.1+cu130. No clock or power throttle reason was set during the runs.Eager (entry points), run 2
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