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perf(cake_dsa_indexer_det): ticket scheduling on sm_107a, no fill kernel in eager entry - #8691
flashinfer.dsa_indexer.dsa_indexer_det_topk is the Cake deterministic DSA indexer top-k scan. It ships in the package flashinfer.experimental.cake_dsa_indexer_det. It uses BF16 queries and keys, and FP32 head weights and scores. It returns the top-k key ids for each query. The ids and scores do not depend on partition or chunking. Ties go to the larger id. Cake ships one variant of this kernel. This PR changes how the scan schedules work on sm_107a, and it removes a fill kernel from the eager entry. On sm_107a, the scan programs gave each CTA a fixed set of work units. If another CUDA stream keeps a kernel resident on even one SM, some CTAs of the scan cannot run until a slot frees. Their work units then run as a second wave, and the call becomes about 1.3x to 1.8x slower. This is issue #7548.
On sm_107a, every scan program except the l6 program now draws its work units from a ticket word. The sm_100a and sm_103a programs already do this. Each CTA that runs takes the next work unit, so the work units spread over the CTAs that run. This removes the second wave.
The ticket word is a kernel argument owned by the runner. The runner zeroes it once when it prepares. Each call leaves it at zero again, so no call pays for a reset.
The l6 program on sm_107a keeps its fixed schedule, because tickets made it slower.
On sm_100a and sm_103a, program choice and schedule do not change. The kernels get one extra, unused parameter.
Each call through the eager entry with no causal query offsets used to launch a small fill kernel before the scan. It now uses one cached placeholder tensor per device, which is never read. The call therefore launches only the scan's kernels.
Most of the eager-entry speedup comes from this host-path change and from host time that the measured span no longer contains. It does not come from faster kernels. In prepared calls, kernel time is unchanged within run-to-run noise.
GPU
prepared calls (64 ratios: 32 shapes x sampling on/off) min / median / max
eager entry (8 shapes) min / median / max
GB300 (sm_103a)
0.986x / 1.004x / 1.046x
1.047x / 1.123x / 2.098x
GB200 (sm_100a)
0.982x / 1.005x / 1.055x
1.043x / 1.136x / 2.134x
sm_107a (212 SMs)
0.988x / 1.000x / 1.043x
1.017x / 1.058x / 1.464x
Side stream, sm_107a (212 SMs), 12 rows: 1.000x to 1.843x, median 1.442x. The I8 rows are 1.000x and 1.001x because their program is the l6 program, which keeps the fixed schedule.
The baseline is the previous Cake version on FlashInfer main: main eeed657f on GB300 and GB200, and the #8355 build on sm_107a, whose sm_107a dispatch plans equal main's on every row. Speedup is main time divided by this PR time. Output bits match main on every row of every table.
Prepared calls (32 rows, sampling on and off)
These ratios are unchanged within run-to-run noise. On GB300 and GB200 the shortest rows ran late in long-lived benchmark processes, which adds host time to both sides: rows A1-A3 read 0.13-0.15 ms here and 0.060-0.068 ms in fresh processes, where this PR and main are equal (for example GB300 A1 59.8 us prepared, 60.1 us eager). Each ratio compares both sides in the same process.
GB300 (NVIDIA GB300, sm_103a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. 4 processes per row.
GB200 (NVIDIA GB200, sm_100a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. 4 processes per row; rows P1sink, S4 retaken once with pooled processes (12).
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657, measured against ca6b214 (#8355), whose sm_107a programs and host plans are identical to it; same method, 12 pooled processes per row.
Eager entry (dsa_indexer_det_topk with a caller-owned workspace)
These gains come mostly from the removed fill kernel and the host time that the measured span no longer contains. They do not come from faster kernels.
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657, measured against ca6b214 (#8355; identical sm_107a programs and host plans); ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR.
row
shape
T (queries)
Tkv (keys)
segments
top-k
main ms
this PR ms
speedup
processes
S1
single causal document N = 8192
8192
8192
1
2048
0.2616
0.2410
1.085x
12
S2
single causal document N = 16384
16384
16384
1
2048
0.7014
0.6805
1.031x
12
C1
CP tail 4096 x 65536
4096
65536
1
2048
0.9765
0.9545
1.023x
12
Z2cp
8 x 32k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
16384
270336
16
2048
1.2236
1.2031
1.017x
12
Z3cp
packed 4k-64k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
10624
175296
16
2048
1.0747
1.0528
1.021x
12
A1
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
22018
1
2048
0.0672
0.0459
1.464x
12
A2
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
30466
1
2048
0.0713
0.0497
1.435x
12
A3
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
41986
1
2048
0.0746
0.0525
1.421x
12
GB300 (NVIDIA GB300, sm_103a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; same method.
row
shape
T (queries)
Tkv (keys)
segments
top-k
main ms
this PR ms
speedup
processes
S1
single causal document N = 8192
8192
8192
1
2048
0.4714
0.3995
1.180x
4
S2
single causal document N = 16384
16384
16384
1
2048
1.2393
1.1627
1.066x
4
C1
CP tail 4096 x 65536
4096
65536
1
2048
1.6414
1.5646
1.049x
4
Z2cp
8 x 32k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
16384
270336
16
2048
1.8518
1.7686
1.047x
4
Z3cp
packed 4k-64k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
10624
175296
16
2048
1.3580
1.2810
1.060x
4
A1
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
22018
1
2048
0.1260
0.0606
2.079x
4
A2
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
30466
1
2048
0.1343
0.0640
2.098x
4
A3
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
41986
1
2048
0.1379
0.0686
2.010x
4
GB200 (NVIDIA GB200, sm_100a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; same method.
row
shape
T (queries)
Tkv (keys)
segments
top-k
main ms
this PR ms
speedup
processes
S1
single causal document N = 8192
8192
8192
1
2048
0.5050
0.4190
1.205x
4
S2
single causal document N = 16384
16384
16384
1
2048
1.2593
1.1824
1.065x
4
C1
CP tail 4096 x 65536
4096
65536
1
2048
1.8001
1.6901
1.065x
4
Z2cp
8 x 32k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
16384
270336
16
2048
2.0036
1.9204
1.043x
4
Z3cp
packed 4k-64k documents, CP16 zigzag rank 0
10624
175296
16
2048
1.3965
1.3082
1.067x
4
A1
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
22018
1
2048
0.1317
0.0622
2.117x
4
A2
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
30466
1
2048
0.1400
0.0656
2.134x
4
A3
split tail: 4 queries in one segment
4
41986
1
2048
0.1398
0.0677
2.065x
4
Side stream (another stream holds 1 or 32 SMs during the call)
This table shows issue #7548. The I8 rows use the l6 program, which keeps the fixed schedule.
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline as above; a prepared call with a caller-owned workspace while a spinning kernel on a second stream holds the stated SMs; main and this PR under the same hold; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. Row C1 at the final head; the other rows at the same scan programs.
…ork units from the ticket word
The ticket architectures now include sm_107a. A record's new static_scan_kinds field names the physical scan kinds
whose programs keep the static unit enumeration there (sm_107a: l6 and pair_l6); the backend gives their runners no
ticket tail, so they issue no memset at prepare or run. Every other sm_107a scan program draws its units from the
ticket word, so a call no longer waits a whole second wave when another stream holds an SM. The LSF test keys the
longest-first copies on lsf_programs (sm_107a ships none) and only asks that a copy sits on a ticket architecture. A runner makes its
ticket-tail view on first use, so a static call (no memset) adds no tensor view to the launch path.
…irst device operation
prepare now decides whether a call's runner gets a ticket tail, and whether
the call takes the static fast path, before it issues its first device
operation (the placeholder offsets tensor), from a per-architecture set of
static scan kinds that is computed once per process. An eager call of a
static program therefore no longer holds the stream for host arithmetic
between that operation and the scan launch. Results are unchanged.
Regenerated sm_107a scan programs for the ticket word: every sm_107a scan
program but l6 and the CTA-pair l6 draws its work units from the ticket
word. Every sm_100a and sm_103a entry and the sm_107a l6 programs are
unchanged.
…an binding
With a caller-owned workspace_buffer the runner zeroed the ticket tail with a
separate fill before every run, so on an eager call the GPU sat idle for the
host time between that fill and the scan launch. The scan binding now takes
the tail as a new last argument before the grid, zero_region (argument plan
slot kind "zero", ABI dsa_indexer_v3), and zeroes it with cudaMemsetAsync on
the launch stream right before the scan launch, in the same host call. A
backend-owned workspace (zeroed once at prepare) and a static call pass an
empty view, so nothing is zeroed for them. Results are unchanged.
A call that zeroes no ticket tail (a static call, or a backend-owned
workspace) made a new empty view of the workspace for the scan's
zero_region on every prepare, and the launch converted it, which is host
time on every eager call. Such a call now passes one empty tvm_ffi.Tensor
per device, made on first use.
…ock of their own
Every scan program takes a new argument, TicketWord, right before zero_region
(ABI dsa_indexer_v4). A program whose registry record lists the architecture
in ticket_arg_arches (the sm_107a programs that draw tickets) draws its work
units from that 16-byte block instead of the workspace's ticket tail.
A prepared runner of such a program gets a block of its own, zeroed once at
prepare. Nothing else writes it and every completed scan leaves it 0, so a
caller-owned workspace no longer costs a memset per run. After a run that
raised while launching, the next run launches the scan through a binding call
whose zero_region is the block's 8-byte word. The eager entry draws from the
first bytes of the workspace's tail and zeroes that word (8 bytes) in the scan
binding. Static calls, static scan kinds and the programs that still draw from
the tail (sm_100a and sm_103a, unchanged) get one zeroed placeholder per
device, which they never read. Results are unchanged.
…r call
A call without q_causal_offsets passed a new one-element zero tensor as the
scan's q_offsets placeholder, so every eager call launched a fill kernel
before its scan. No program reads that tensor (has_offsets = 0). Each device
now has one placeholder, allocated without a device operation on first use
and never written; one first needed during a CUDA graph capture belongs to
that capture and is not kept.
A scan launch that neither shares its tail nor draws from a ticket block of
its own (every static call) now takes the device's empty zero_region and
TicketWord placeholder from one per-device dict, and the TicketWord lookup is
made only for calls on the ticket path. Results are unchanged.
The DSA indexer scan ABI now includes TicketWord and zero_region. The backend selects ticket storage by scan policy, and updated kernels use ticket-based work assignment. Scan bindings clear the selected region before launch. Tests cover static scans, ticket-word recovery, caller-owned workspaces, eager calls, and graph capture.
Changes: DSA indexer ticket scheduling
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Summary
Ticket policy and runner setup flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/cake_policy.py, flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/cake_jit.py, flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/cake_backend.py
The policy adds static_scan_kinds and per-program TicketWord architecture metadata. The backend selects a workspace tail, a separate ticket block, or placeholders, and prepares recovery for failed launches.
Scan binding and kernel scheduling flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/csrc/cake_dsa_indexer_det_topk/*, flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/build.json
Scan bindings accept and validate TicketWord and zero_region, then clear the zero region on the launch stream. Kernels that implement ticket scheduling replace grid-stride assignment with ticket-based work distribution and synchronization. Generated library hashes and selected shared-memory sizes are updated.
Runner entry points and validation flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det/README.md, tests/experimental/test_cake_dsa_indexer.py
The eager entry uses a one-shot runner. Tests cover policy validation, static and ticket-word paths, restoration, workspace ownership, streams, and graph capture. The README describes per-launch tail clearing.
sequenceDiagram
participant Runner as DSAIndexerDetRunner
participant Binding as Scan binding
participant Kernel as CUDA scan kernel
Runner->>Binding: Pass TicketWord and zero_region
Binding->>Binding: Clear non-empty zero_region on launch stream
Binding->>Kernel: Launch scan with TicketWord
Kernel->>Kernel: Assign work units with tickets
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Prepared runners require synchronization when preparation and execution use different streams; otherwise results can be incorrect. Document this bounded requirement. Same-stream and eager calls are unaffected.
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LGTM, one nit: the ticket_word is _ticket_placeholder(device_index) guard in cake_backend.py is always false, since .view() returns a new tensor. Compare data_ptr instead if you want it to catch anything.
Assert that the scan is the first launch in the eager test.
_expected_ops counts the entries of runner.launches, and the test compares the profiled device activities against that count. A launch of any role added before the scan in runner.launches therefore passes the test unchanged. The scan is the first launch for both eager geometries, so the test can assert its position directly.
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prepare_dsa_indexer_det_topk to state that the ticket block zeroing is queued on
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Document the stream-ordering requirement for prepared runners.
prepare_dsa_indexer_det_topk zeroes the ticket block with torch.zeros on the stream current at prepare time. DSAIndexerDetRunner.run() launches the scan on the stream current at run time, and no event or wait orders the two. The docstrings state only that a call runs on torch's current stream. A caller that prepares on one stream and runs on another without synchronizing can let the scan draw from a word that still holds stale bytes. The first run can then skip the work units below the drawn start. The one-shot eager path is not affected, because it zeroes its word on the launch stream.
The docstrings should state the requirement.
Suggested docstring update for DSAIndexerDetRunner
new runner when a shape, dtype, stride or tensor binding changes; values
- may change freely.+ may change freely. Prepare and call on the same stream, or order the two+ streams: the ticket block is zeroed on the stream current at prepare time,+ and a call on another stream is not ordered after that zero.
Suggested docstring update for prepare_dsa_indexer_det_topk
- of the runner's own instead, zeroed once, here, on either workspace. ``indices`` / ``scores`` may+ of the runner's own instead, zeroed once, here, on either workspace. That zero+ is queued on the stream current at this call, so a run on another stream needs+ the caller to order the two streams. ``indices`` / ``scores`` may
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Vendor the DSA kernel packages into miles_ext_kernels/cake/_vendor/ with
tools/vendor_cake.py, byte for byte, and record them under ops.dsa of
VENDORED.json:
- cake_dsa_train: FlashInfer's DSA training kernels for 64 local query
heads (the fast variant: dKV and dk_rope accumulate in FP32 with
red.global).
- cake_dsa_indexer_det: FlashInfer's lightning-indexer scores and
deterministic exact top-k.
- cake_dsa_sparse_det: the DSA det version, the generated sparse
attention forward / backward and lightning-indexer logits / backward
kernels of radixark/miles#3599 (86 sources and registry.json; no
floating-point atomics, key-side gradients reduced from FP32 partials
in a fixed 4-way tree). The tool writes the TVM-FFI host surface in
place of the upstream torch-extension one and a build.json generated
from the registry, so these kernels build with nvcc and load with
tvm-ffi through the same loader as the FlashInfer packages; SM107a
compiles the SM103a records.
Both FlashInfer packages come from c5db8d3, the commit these kernels
were validated at: cake_dsa_train is byte for byte the same at 7a13d7ba,
and cake_dsa_indexer_det differs there only by a later performance
change (flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#8691).
Commands (run from the repository root, with a FlashInfer checkout at
../flashinfer and a miles checkout at ../miles):
python tools/vendor_cake.py fi --checkout ../flashinfer \
--commit c5db8d3ccd3fa3842812280f7f208718dc0b8610 --op dsa \
--package flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_train \
--package flashinfer/experimental/cake_dsa_indexer_det
python tools/vendor_cake.py miles-pr --checkout ../miles \
--pr 3599 --commit a1b763c82360afeb00c551aeb7ea93b30870e5bf \
--op dsa --name cake_dsa_sparse_det \
--path miles/kernels/attention/dsa/cake \
--include csrc --include registry.json \
--exclude csrc/cake_host_shim.h --arch-from sm_107a=sm_103a
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flashinfer.dsa_indexer.dsa_indexer_det_topkis the Cake deterministic DSA indexer top-k scan. It ships in the packageflashinfer.experimental.cake_dsa_indexer_det. It uses BF16 queries and keys, and FP32 head weights and scores. It returns the top-k key ids for each query. The ids and scores do not depend on partition or chunking. Ties go to the larger id. Cake ships one variant of this kernel. This PR changes how the scan schedules work on sm_107a, and it removes a fill kernel from the eager entry. On sm_107a, the scan programs gave each CTA a fixed set of work units. If another CUDA stream keeps a kernel resident on even one SM, some CTAs of the scan cannot run until a slot frees. Their work units then run as a second wave, and the call becomes about 1.3x to 1.8x slower. This is issue #7548.Side stream, sm_107a (212 SMs), 12 rows: 1.000x to 1.843x, median 1.442x. The I8 rows are 1.000x and 1.001x because their program is the l6 program, which keeps the fixed schedule.
The baseline is the previous Cake version on FlashInfer main: main
eeed657fon GB300 and GB200, and the #8355 build on sm_107a, whose sm_107a dispatch plans equal main's on every row. Speedup is main time divided by this PR time. Output bits match main on every row of every table.Prepared calls (32 rows, sampling on and off)
These ratios are unchanged within run-to-run noise. On GB300 and GB200 the shortest rows ran late in long-lived benchmark processes, which adds host time to both sides: rows A1-A3 read 0.13-0.15 ms here and 0.060-0.068 ms in fresh processes, where this PR and main are equal (for example GB300 A1 59.8 us prepared, 60.1 us eager). Each ratio compares both sides in the same process.
GB300 (NVIDIA GB300, sm_103a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. 4 processes per row.
GB200 (NVIDIA GB200, sm_100a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. 4 processes per row; rows P1sink, S4 retaken once with pooled processes (12).
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657, measured against ca6b214 (#8355), whose sm_107a programs and host plans are identical to it; same method, 12 pooled processes per row.
Eager entry (
dsa_indexer_det_topkwith a caller-owned workspace)These gains come mostly from the removed fill kernel and the host time that the measured span no longer contains. They do not come from faster kernels.
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657, measured against ca6b214 (#8355; identical sm_107a programs and host plans); ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR.
GB300 (NVIDIA GB300, sm_103a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; same method.
GB200 (NVIDIA GB200, sm_100a, 152 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline FlashInfer main eeed657; same method.
Side stream (another stream holds 1 or 32 SMs during the call)
This table shows issue #7548. The I8 rows use the l6 program, which keeps the fixed schedule.
sm_107a (212 SMs, CUDA 13.4); baseline as above; a prepared call with a caller-owned workspace while a spinning kernel on a second stream holds the stated SMs; main and this PR under the same hold; ms = median over processes (both arm orders) of the CUPTI GPU time of one synchronized call; speedup = main / this PR. Row C1 at the final head; the other rows at the same scan programs.
Cake ships no other variant of this kernel in FlashInfer, and this variant ships on sm_100a (B200/GB200), sm_103a (GB300) and sm_107a.