arm_memory_fit memory tiers (part 2 of 2): Spark as the one-tier inhabitant, GH200 two-tier frontier

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 (#13331, which carries the catalog memory components and the vLLM split-law standing) merged as c82e497. Main is merged in, so this diff is only the arm_memory_fit migration. checkpoint_tier_split takes the engine's VllmWeightOffloadSplitStanding. A split is priced only from an established law. An unread reading carries its obligations through, and a relayout backend refuses.

What this is

A model PR, and a replacement migration of gunbc.spark.arm_memory_fit from one memory pool per host to memory tiers. It is the first build step of the GH200 lane (node adhoc-e2818997-28d). The plan, the tier shape, and the consumer census were reviewed by the parent (valiant-crab-775) and coordinated with cool-carp-342's engine capacity vector before any code was written.

The Spark is the one-tier inhabitant. Every Spark figure, refusal, and verdict is what it was before; the only change is that the verdicts now carry the tier.

The model

1. Tier identity lives in the catalog, not in gunbc.spark (extdeps.systems.types).

• The catalog rows carried each memory's facts but gave no way to name "this memory of this system".
• SystemMemoryComponent = the system's catalog name + MemoryFacts + GpuMemoryAddressability (GpuAndCpuShareOnePool | GpuAddressesDirectly | GpuAddressesAcrossCoherentLink { per_direction }).
• It is derived per row shape:
  • integrated_system_memory_components gives the GB10 one pool.
  • coherent_superchip_memory_components gives the GH200's HBM and its LPDDR5X behind NVLink-C2C.
• No figure is added. A new system shape adds a projection; no generic enum of memories grows an arm.
• Addressability is the placement role. The fit model reads it rather than minting a second name for it (DESIGN §3):
  • The device-allocator envelope governs ShareOnePool and Directly.
  • Coherent-link memory is walled by its pool alone.

2. The split law is an engine fact (extdeps.vllm.weight_offload, cited at 8d09804c8).

• vLLM's offloaders move whole parameters of decoder layers (make_layers → wrap_modules).
• UVA keeps no device copy.
• Prefetch keeps prefetch_step device copies of each distinct offloaded parameter (PrefetchOffloader.post_init → StaticBufferPool(slot_capacity=prefetch_step)).
• The row states the condition the UVA law depends on: the MoE backend must not re-lay-out weights after loading. That is a launch read-back obligation, not an assumption.

3. The fit model (gunbc.spark.arm_memory_fit).

• ArmMemoryFitSubject.tiers: List<ArmTierSupply { tier, pool, deductions }> replaces pool + deductions.
• Every mint takes host_memory and joins tiers against it by identity. A missing memory is refused; so is a memory the host does not have.
• ArmRankDemand and ArmComponentReceipt carry tier. The roster law is exactly one complete record per (rank, tier).
• ComponentBoundNotPlaced { placement }: a term that lives in another tier contributes nothing here, and says why. It is not a zero standing for a missing bound. A readback of nonzero bytes against it falsifies the placement.
• Folds:
  • per-(rank, tier) refusal scan against that tier's supply;
  • per-tier conservation;
  • per-tier obligations;
  • the worst corner across (rank, tier, phase).
• The pigeonhole aggregate prices a rank's supply summed over all tiers, because the checkpoint may be split.
• ArmMemoryFitProved.tier / ArmMemoryFitRefused.tiers.
• checkpoint_tier_split consumes the engine's split law.
• On a one-tier subject, obligation and refusal text is unchanged; the tier is named only when a host has more than one.

Consumers (every importer of gunbc.spark.arm_memory_fit)

Kind	Modules
Production, edited (pattern fields only)	native_experiment_apply, serving_arm_launch, serving_promotion
Production, edited (rank row names the GB10 tier)	arm_memory_experiment_observed
Production, untouched (import symbols unaffected)	native_serving_realization, native_serving_apply
Witnesses, edited	test.claim.spark.{arm_memory_fit, native_experiment_apply, serving_arm_launch, serving_promotion}_witness
Witnesses, untouched (compile and run unchanged)	arm_memory_fit_envelope, arm_memory_plan_cache_fold, execution_cell, fp4_checkpoint_extension, group_b_serving_capacity, kv_roster_group_vocabulary, native_serving_realization, vllm_allocation_plan_observe, native_serving_roce_transport

Real path (DESIGN §3, pairing obligation): the existing Spark launch route, arm_memory_fit_subject_for_launch → arm_memory_fit_verdict → arm_memory_launch_gate, with the one-tier subject built from gb10_host_memory(). It is executed by test.claim.spark.serving_arm_launch_witness and group_b_serving_capacity_witness. Deleting that integration makes those controls fail.

Declared frontier (DESIGN §3c):

• The two-tier GH200 subject and checkpoint_tier_split have no executing production consumer in this PR. No launch route exists for a host with a coherent-link tier, and the topology roster is Spark-named.
• Trigger: the first GH200 launch. That launch also brings the offload engine-argument rows and the MoE-backend / expert-residency read-back.
• Until then, test.claim.spark.arm_memory_tier_witness exercises the tier law at its interface with supplied values. It covers:
  • all experts on the link tier proves, with the worst corner on the GPU-local tier;
  • too few offloaded layers refuses, naming only the GPU-local tier;
  • the engine envelope does not wall the link tier;
  • a missing or foreign tier is refused at the mint;
  • the split law prices prefetch copies and UVA none;
  • an oversized offload choice is refused;
  • NotPlaced readback falsifies on nonzero bytes.

Not in this PR (no consumer until a GH200 launch exists)

• offload engine-arg rows
• the backend / residency read-back
• the SM90 runtime image row
• the GH200 capacity floor

cool-carp-342's EngineCapacityVector will import the catalog identity for KvPool.tier.

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Re review 76263 (hand-written equality over MemoryKind / GpuMemoryAddressability): fixed. These declarations live in part 1 (#13331).

• memory_kind_same and gpu_memory_addressability_same are deleted.
• system_memory_component_same now uses the derived structural == on both coproducts. The repo already does this for MemoryKind in product.superchip_assembly_qualification.
• Adding an arm needs no table edit.
• The red test.claim.system_memory_component_witness w_same_system_and_link_arm_with_a_different_rate_does_not_alias still passes. That shows the derived equality distinguishes the coherent link's per-direction rate on the payload arm, so whole-fact identity is kept.
• Merged into this branch.

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Re review 76482: fixed in 15a62c3.

• arm_memory_fit_subject, arm_memory_fit_subject_with_rank_demands and arm_memory_fit_subject_with_receipts now take host: ArmHostClass, which is the host's catalog row (ArmHostIntegratedSystem or ArmHostCoherentSuperchip).
• Each mint derives the host's memory list itself, through arm_host_memory (the row's own projection). A caller can no longer drop a tier by passing a shorter list, so the tier join has an independent referent.
• Spark callers pass gb10_host_class() (the DGX Spark row), so they are unchanged in effect.
• test.claim.spark.arm_memory_tier_witness w_a_subject_that_leaves_out_a_memory_the_host_has_is_refused now covers exactly the scenario in the review: a GH200 host given only its device tier is refused.

Review 76494 approved this head.

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Re review 76670 and the side-chat REQUEST_CHANGES at 15a62c3: rebuilt by construction in b805045. The validator-based d590403 is superseded.

• Placement is a typed sum, not a validated arm. ArmRankDemand is per rank again. Each component is an ArmComponentPlacement { held: ArmTierShare, also: List<ArmTierShare> }, and every ArmTierShare is a typed { tier: SystemMemoryComponent, bound }. Per-tier rows (ArmRowView) are derived by the folds. A tier with no share holds none of that component; row_bound answers Absent and the folds skip it.
• Deleted: ComponentBoundNotPlaced, bound_is_not_placed, not_placed_refusal, tier_naming_refusal and the prose string_contains on tier names. Three states are now unwritable:
  • a component absent from every tier;
  • a deduction marked absent;
  • a bound whose tier lives only in prose.
• Still refused at the mint, by typed identity join:
  • a share in a memory the host does not have;
  • two shares of one component in one memory;
  • a tier pool above its catalog capacity.
• Receipts land on the (rank, tier, component) share, and a receipt for a tier with no share is refused.
• Spark callers wrap each bound in placed_in(gb10_memory_tier(), ...), so their figures and verdicts are unchanged.
• test.claim.spark.arm_memory_tier_witness:
  • honest-placement positive control;
  • a ROUTE claim: KV placed on the link tier raises the GPU-local tier's worst-corner headroom by exactly its 40 GiB;
  • reds for a foreign memory, a doubled memory, and swapped pools.
  • The reds for the now-unwritable states were removed, not kept as permanently-green decorations (§4b).
• Claims: all 264 claims of the 14 modules that import arm_memory_fit pass on a remote claim_batch run.

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Re the side-chat REQUEST_CHANGES at b805045: fixed in 9ecc6df.

• The split is sealed and paired. checkpoint_tier_split returns ArmCheckpointTierSplit sole_constructor { placement: ArmComponentPlacement }, with no loose bounds.
  • The GPU-local residency is the held share on device_tier.
  • The coherent-link residency is the single also share on host_tier.
  • Callers take the placement whole (checkpoint_residency: split.placement), so no call path re-pairs a bound with the other tier.
• Tier roles are checked before any bytes are paired. split_tier_roles_refusal refuses unless:
  • device_tier is GpuAddressesDirectly;
  • host_tier is GpuAddressesAcrossCoherentLink;
  • both are memories of one system, which also makes them distinct.
• test.claim.spark.arm_memory_tier_witness:
  • w_a_small_offload_refuses_on_the_gpu_local_tier is the ruling's counterexample: UVA, 5 layers offloaded, about 272 GiB of checkpoint left GPU-local. The honest placement refuses, naming only the GPU-local tier.
  • w_the_split_pairs_device_bytes_with_the_gpu_local_tier checks the route: held share on the GPU-local tier, one further share on the link tier.
  • w_a_split_given_swapped_tiers_refuses is the red for tiers handed to the split in reverse.
• Claims: all 267 claims of the 14 modules that import arm_memory_fit pass on a remote claim_batch run, and the parse sweep is clean.

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Enqueued on the side-chat approval of 9ecc6df. Head 910c97c differs from it only by merges of main: the PR's own diff against its merge base is byte-identical at both heads (same patch-ids, 10 files, +1530/-371). — sent from valiant-crab-775

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Dequeued: this PR ADDS import v2.std.optional, a module #13388 removed. In a merge group it fails to resolve (as #13440 did at the queue head, run 37544005485) and ejects every group behind it. Fix: merge main, repoint with tools.source_reference_repoint (v2.std.optional -> std.optional), re-green, and re-enqueue.

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