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17 changes: 10 additions & 7 deletions flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -472,14 +472,17 @@ families of a phase in one launch; off by default).

The files of this package:

* `cake_kcp_jit.py` -- the `MODULES` registry of the eleven shipped programs (the
* `cake_kcp_jit.py` -- the `MODULES` registry of the fourteen shipped programs (the
fragment walks of the forward and backward state recurrences in their
`offset` and `tape` forms, the BF16x3 transfer walk (two CTAs per segment
and head, each over one 64-column half of the state), the affine
merge at `cols_per_cta` 8 and 16, and the two chunk stages of the
merge in one record per register-blocked build, and the two chunk stages of the
context-parallel route, `kcp_fwd_o` (the output from the K1 tapes) and
`kcp_dav` (`dA_qk` and the `dv1` K2 reads); selection by `always` or by
`columns` on the merge's `ncols`, grids by `kcp_segments_heads`,
`kcp_dav` (`dA_qk` and the `dv1` K2 reads); selection by `always`, by
`walk_form`, by `walk_heads` (the `WALK_HEADS_RULE` bands of the launch's
head count: the plain or the overlap-schedule full-width adjoint offset
walk), or by `merge_rule` (the `MERGE_RULE` bands of the merge
launch's 128-column chain blocks per architecture), grids by `kcp_segments_heads`,
`kcp_chains`, `kcp_tile_items` or `kcp_pairs`), the logical vocabulary of
the KCP arguments, `run_program(name, args, device_index=)`, the lowering
of the host backend's walk and merge requests to the registry's launches,
Expand All @@ -499,18 +502,18 @@ The files of this package:
tests; without the file those tests skip. The package reads no
environment variable.
* `cake_build.py` + `build.json` -- the loader shared by every Cake-exported
package (byte-identical copies) and the manifest of the eleven shipped
package (byte-identical copies) and the manifest of the fourteen shipped
programs (schema `cake-build/1`, one entry per `<library>_<arch>`);
`aot/` is never tracked (`.gitignore`).
* `csrc/cake_ffi_checks.h` -- the TVM-FFI helper header the bindings include.
* `csrc/cake_kda_det_train_<digest>_kcp_{kernel,binding}.cu` of the fifteen
* `csrc/cake_kda_det_train_<digest>_kcp_{kernel,binding}.cu` of the eighteen
context-parallel-only programs and `csrc/cake_kda_det_train_<digest>_{kernel,binding}.cu`
of the two chunk stages (`kcp_fwd_o`, `kcp_dav`), rendered like the
single-rank ones (digests in `build.json` and `build.test.json`).

## Status

The registry holds eleven shipped programs (`cake_kcp_jit.MODULES`, in
The registry holds fourteen shipped programs (`cake_kcp_jit.MODULES`, in
`build.json`) and six test-only programs (`cake_kcp_jit.TEST_MODULES`, in
`build.test.json`) for `sm_100a`, `sm_103a` and `sm_107a`.

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74 changes: 57 additions & 17 deletions flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp/cake_kcp.py
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Expand Up @@ -842,13 +842,20 @@ def __init__(
self,
programs: Any | None = None,
*,
cols_per_cta: int = 8,
cols_per_cta: int | None = None,
path: str = "fi-rendered",
) -> None:
self._programs = programs
if cols_per_cta not in (8, 16, 32) or D % cols_per_cta:
raise ValueError(f"cols_per_cta must be 8, 16 or 32, got {cols_per_cta}")
self.cols_per_cta = int(cols_per_cta)
if cols_per_cta is not None and (
cols_per_cta not in (8, 16, 32, 64) or D % cols_per_cta
):
raise ValueError(
f"cols_per_cta must be None (the registry's merge record per launch) or 8, 16, 32 or 64, got {cols_per_cta}"
)
# The K4 column block of the positional merge ABI: None = the column block of the registry record the
# launch's (ncols, n_chains, transpose_m) selects (cake_kcp_jit.merge_record), the same record the
# registry's run_program launches.
self.cols_per_cta = None if cols_per_cta is None else int(cols_per_cta)
self.path = path
self._dev: dict[tuple[Any, ...], torch.Tensor] = {}
self._checked_chains: set[int] = set()
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1367,7 +1374,12 @@ def _merge_args(
call.merge_log.append(
(str(args.get("family")), int(ch.ncols), int(ch.n_chains), cols)
) # D1 evidence: None = registry record
cols = self.cols_per_cta if cols is None else cols
if cols is None:
cols = (
self.cols_per_cta
if self.cols_per_cta is not None
else _registry_merge_cols(ch.ncols, ch.n_chains, call.device)
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

cd flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F -e 'cols_per_cta' -e '_registry_merge_cols' -e 'run_program' -e 'MERGE_RULE' -e 'class KernelBackend' -e 'def abi' -e '_FiPrograms' -e 'def _merge' -e 'def _launch' -- cake_kcp.py cake_kcp_jit.py || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '---CAKE_KCP 1330-1445---'
sed -n '1330,1445p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n

Repository: flashinfer-ai/flashinfer

Length of output: 13677

Script executed:

cd flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp 2>/dev/null || true
echo '---CAKE_KCP 1136-1215---'
sed -n '1136,1215p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n
echo '---CAKE_KCP 2356-2395---'
sed -n '2356,2395p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n
echo '---CAKE_KCP_JIT 2296-2370---'
sed -n '2296,2370p' cake_kcp_jit.py | cat -n
echo '---CAKE_KCP_JIT 1586-1610---'
sed -n '1586,1610p' cake_kcp_jit.py | cat -n

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Length of output: 11645

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cd flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp 2>/dev/null || true
echo '---launch_kcp / host_trim / cols_rule / provider---'
rg -n -F -e 'launch_kcp' -e 'host_trim' -e 'cols_rule' -e '_FiPrograms(' -- cake_kcp.py cake_kcp_jit.py || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '---CAKE_KCP 840-880---'
sed -n '840,880p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n
echo '---CAKE_KCP 2107-2135---'
sed -n '2107,2135p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n
echo '---CAKE_KCP_JIT 1125-1140---'
sed -n '1125,1140p' cake_kcp_jit.py | cat -n
echo '---CALLERS cols_per_cta= in repo tests/benchmarks---'
cd ../../.. && rg -n -F -e 'cols_per_cta=' -- tests benchmarks flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp 2>/dev/null || test "$?" -eq 1

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cd flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp 2>/dev/null || true
echo '---CAKE_KCP 135-178---'
sed -n '135,178p' cake_kcp.py | cat -n
echo '---KernelBackend( across repo---'
cd ../../.. && rg -n -F -e 'KernelBackend(' -- flashinfer tests benchmarks 2>/dev/null || test "$?" -eq 1

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Apply the explicit cols_per_cta on the registry path, or reject it.

With the default provider, KernelBackend(cols_per_cta=...) is ignored for merges. _merge_args and _run_trim leave args["cols_per_cta"] as None, so run_program selects the registry record. Forward the explicit width to the _c<cols> record path, or raise when the provider is run_program.

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Review comment at @flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_det_train_kcp/cake_kcp.py
around lines 1377 - 1381:
Ensure KernelBackend(cols_per_cta=...) is not silently ignored when the provider
is run_program: make _merge_args and _run_trim forward the explicit width to the
matching _c<cols> registry record if supported, or reject that configuration if
it is not. Preserve the existing registry selection behavior when no explicit
width is set.

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)
if ch.ncols % cols:
raise ValueError(
f"ncols {ch.ncols} is not a multiple of cols_per_cta {cols}"
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return abi, ch.n_chains * (ch.ncols // cols)


def _registry_merge_cols(ncols: int, n_chains: int, device: torch.device) -> int:
"""``cols_per_cta`` of the K4 record the registry selects for the launch on ``device``
(:func:`.cake_kcp_jit.merge_record`; a device that is not CUDA: the record every architecture's rule names)."""
from . import cake_kcp_jit # noqa: PLC0415 - H3's registry; optional at import time

arch = (
cake_kcp_jit.device_arch(device.index if device.index is not None else 0)
if device.type == "cuda"
else None
)
record = cake_kcp_jit.merge_record(ncols, n_chains, arch)
return int(cake_kcp_jit.MODULES[record]["grid_rule"]["cols_per_cta"])


def merge_cols_per_cta(ncols: int, n_chains: int, rule: str) -> int | None:
"""D1 (the column-rule decision): the K4 ``cols_per_cta`` a launch asks for explicitly, ``None`` for the
registry's choice of record (``fixed``: the shipped rule, c8 state / c16 map). ``by_chains`` keeps the 8-column
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1499,16 +1525,16 @@ def merge_cols_per_cta(ncols: int, n_chains: int, rule: str) -> int | None:


# Walk-launch geometry one_cta_per_sm / tape_one_cta_per_sm: the K1 / K2 walk kernels' occupancy capped from the host.
# Their launch footprint (192 threads, 115712 B of dynamic shared memory) admits two CTAs per SM only at the full 228 KiB
# carveout; the smallest configuration that fits one CTA admits exactly one. The runtime picks a kernel's configuration at
# launch from its function attribute (unset here) and otherwise from the device-wide preference (cudaDeviceSetCacheConfig):
# cudaFuncCachePreferL1 selects the smallest fitting shared-memory configuration, i.e. one CTA per SM. The generated
# binding compiles the launch (cudaLaunchKernelExC with the fixed dynamic shared memory) and exports no symbol for the
# kernel's registered host function (its wrapper survives only as the mangled `__device_stub__`, which the runtime does
# not accept), so the per-function attribute cannot be set from the host; the knob brackets each capped launch with the
# device-wide preference instead (PreferL1 before, PreferNone after). The preference is host-side state read at launch:
# launches already queued keep their configuration and only the bracketed launch takes PreferL1. Host side only; no
# kernel, launch-configuration or argument change.
# Their launch footprint (192 threads, 320 for the split-role fwdh offset build; 115712 B of dynamic shared memory)
# admits two CTAs per SM only at the full 228 KiB carveout; the smallest configuration that fits one CTA admits exactly
# one. The runtime picks a kernel's configuration at launch from its function attribute (unset here) and otherwise from
# the device-wide preference (cudaDeviceSetCacheConfig): cudaFuncCachePreferL1 selects the smallest fitting
# shared-memory configuration, i.e. one CTA per SM. The generated binding compiles the launch (cudaLaunchKernelExC with
# the fixed dynamic shared memory) and exports no symbol for the kernel's registered host function (its wrapper survives
# only as the mangled `__device_stub__`, which the runtime does not accept), so the per-function attribute cannot be set
# from the host; the knob brackets each capped launch with the device-wide preference instead (PreferL1 before,
# PreferNone after). The preference is host-side state read at launch: launches already queued keep their configuration
# and only the bracketed launch takes PreferL1. Host side only; no kernel, launch-configuration or argument change.
WALK_CACHE_CONFIG_CAP = 2 # cudaFuncCachePreferL1 (driver_types.h): the smallest shared-memory configuration that fits
WALK_CACHE_CONFIG_DEFAULT = (
0 # cudaFuncCachePreferNone: the runtime's own choice (today's launches)
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if rule == "fit":
if walk_form == "split":
record += "_vh64"
elif record in getattr(jit, "WALK_HEADS_RULE", {}):
# the full-width record the head-count rule names (the ABI carries the head count)
record = jit.walk_heads_record(
record, int(abi[ABI_PARAMS[program].index("num_heads")])
)
elif walk_form in ("full", "split") and walk_form != rule:
record += f"_{walk_form}"
if walk_form == "split": # two CTAs per segment and head
Expand All @@ -2385,9 +2416,18 @@ def _launch(
elif transfer_walk != TRANSFER_WALKS[0]:
record += f"_{transfer_walk}"
elif program == "affine_merge":
record += (
"_c8" if int(abi[ABI_PARAMS[program].index("ncols")]) == D else "_c16"
# the registry's record of the launch; the positional ABI carries its column block
params = ABI_PARAMS[program]
ncols = int(abi[params.index("ncols")])
cols = int(abi[params.index("cols_per_cta")])
record = jit.merge_record(
ncols, int(grid) // (ncols // cols), jit.device_arch(device_index)
)
if int(jit.MODULES[record]["grid_rule"]["cols_per_cta"]) != cols:
raise ValueError(
f"the merge ABI carries cols_per_cta {cols}; the registry's record {record} is built for "
f"{jit.MODULES[record]['grid_rule']['cols_per_cta']}"
)
values = dict(zip(ABI_PARAMS[program], abi, strict=True))
jit.run_module(
record, values, grid=(int(grid), 1, 1), device_index=device_index
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