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Copy the normalized prefill window and retained input history into independent state slots, with fixed request capacity and 64-bit pool offsets. Include replay and high-slot correctness tests. Runtime qualification is pending. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
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Caller->>ple.export_checkpoint: binding, offsets, slots
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In `@b12x/sequence/ple/_preparation.py`:
- Around line 197-202: Wrap the self.programs[5] launch in the preparation path
with torch.cuda.device(self.layout.caps.device), ensuring the direct Triton
invocation runs on the binding’s planned CUDA device. Match the device-context
pattern used by the other PLE launch paths and leave the launch arguments
unchanged.
- Around line 187-203: Update export_checkpoint and the captured export path to
validate checkpoint slots before _export_checkpoint_kernel stores them: require
each enabled slot to be within max_state_slots, unique, and disjoint from live
binding.state_slot_ids and other enabled destinations. Perform this validation
on-device within the captured graph so it remains correct when offsets or slots
change during CUDA graph replay, and reject invalid inputs before any
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| self.programs[5][(self.query.max_seqs, triton.cdiv(self.channels * self.state_capacity, 256), 1)]( | ||
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Launch checkpoint export on the planned CUDA device. A valid binding can reach self.programs[5] with another CUDA device active. Triton selects the active CUDA device for this direct launch, so it can reject pointers on self.layout.caps.device. Wrap the launch in with torch.cuda.device(self.layout.caps.device):, matching the other PLE launch paths.
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In `@b12x/sequence/ple/_preparation.py` around lines 197 - 202, Wrap the
self.programs[5] launch in the preparation path with
torch.cuda.device(self.layout.caps.device), ensuring the direct Triton
invocation runs on the binding’s planned CUDA device. Match the device-context
pattern used by the other PLE launch paths and leave the launch arguments
unchanged.
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Check destination bounds and ownership against live state and other enabled exports in the prepared kernel on every graph replay. Skip unsafe writes without allocation or host readback, and guard the launch with the binding's CUDA device. Keep the pool bound out of compiled specialization keys. Cover eager and captured export with changing metadata, padded pool strides, and large offsets. On GB10, the PLE and pool-key suites pass 38 tests; two cases requiring two GPUs are skipped. Compile identity checks pass 13 tests, and checkpoint memcheck reports zero errors. Serving performance is not remeasured for this correction. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
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Add prepared PLE convolution checkpoint export so Qwen can retain an internal prefix-cache boundary without another full-model prefill pass. Recorded serving measurements with B12X
e9653dc1and the companion vLLM integration show 9.1% higher cold 8K prefill throughput with coalescing alone on four DGX Sparks. Combined with Qwen HC token sharding, the measured cold 8K/64K/128K gains are 33.4%/25.3%/20.7%. These measurements predate the destination validation and CUDA device guard; serving performance for the corrected path has not been remeasured. Enabling the serving feature remains opt-in.Purpose
sequence.ple.export_checkpoint(binding, offsets=..., slots=...)exports one interior prefill convolution window per request afterrun_mixed. This supplies the PLE state needed by Qwen's recurrent prefill coalescing; GDN recurrent export already exists.The API validates metadata shape, dtype, device and contiguity. The prepared kernel checks destination bounds, uniqueness among enabled exports, and separation from every live binding state slot on each invocation and CUDA graph replay. Unsafe destinations are skipped before copying; every member of a duplicate export group is skipped. Independent valid exports still run. Export launches on the binding's planned CUDA device and must finish before the binding's scratch is reused. Existing PLE entry points and state layout remain compatible; preparation includes the additional copy kernel.
Companion serving integration: vLLM #779. Merge this API before enabling
VLLM_QWEN3_8_PREFILL_COALESCE=1there. HC sharding is an independent vLLM feature.Validation
Status: implemented; GPU correctness and memory safety qualified on NVIDIA GB10 with the prepared production PLE implementation.
38 passed, 2 skipped. The two skipped cases require two CUDA GPUs on one host to verify export with another device active and restoration of the caller's device. The available GB10 host has one GPU.
Coverage includes mixed prefill/decode order, exact exported history, short offsets requiring input history, inactive destinations, speculative-tail clearing, and destination offsets beyond
2^31elements. The ownership regression exercises eager export and one captured graph across out-of-range and 64-bit slot IDs, duplicate destinations, collisions with live prefill/decode/empty rows, disabled rows, changing offsets and live counts, and changing live state-slot IDs. Dense and padded state pools are checked in full for unintended writes. Replay allocates no memory and uses the prepared kernels with compilation disabled.Compute Sanitizer memcheck with
--error-exitcode 99ontests/sequence/test_ple.py -k internal_checkpoint: 4 passed, 2 skipped, 0 errors. The same two-GPU cases are skipped.The PLE cases and capacity-change control in
tests/preparation/test_compile_keys_ignore_pool_geometry.py: 13 passed. Twelve selection-key cases are skipped because PLE is a fixed contract. The pool bound remains a runtime scalar and does not specialize the compiled export kernel.The companion integration passes cold/warm prefix reuse: two fresh 8192-token prompts have zero cold cache hits, reuse 6768 tokens on warm requests, and produce identical eight-token continuations. The combined candidate also passes arithmetic, tool use, concurrent replay and a 6598-token vision prompt with nonzero image residuals. Two fixed 8192-token prose/code corpora pass the numerical gates: strong-margin top-1 agreement 99.878%/99.976%, mean NLL increases 0.000689/0.000229 nats. This is bounded numerical and functional coverage, not a general model-quality evaluation.
Serving impact
Two repetitions per arm; arithmetic mean tokens/s. All arms use the same image, full resident PLE, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4, TP4, MTP3, BF16 KV, 28 GiB KV per rank, max batch 8192 and max sequences 16. Every prefill sample has zero cached tokens.
The combined candidate averages 70.91/252.51 tokens/s at C1/C8 with short context, and 64.51/204.07 at 8K, versus 70.25/252.02 and 62.46/183.21 with both flags off. All combined means meet the declared 3% decode regression gate. Coalescing alone averages 242.91 tokens/s at short-context C8, 3.61% below baseline, and fails that gate on its own.
Decode uses continuous 256-token requests over 20-second windows. C8 reaches eight active requests but averages about 7.4–7.9 during turnover, with underfilled/capacity-limited samples. Short windows and varying MTP acceptance limit conclusions about decode differences. The companion PR contains the full arm comparison and raw baseline/combined samples.
Source identity and related work
The serving measurements use B12X commit
e9653dc1eae2b7b19357c51a420bd597fe3012ed, treeaed60ccc03821db784c875b8ea124acf7e0055f1. Those measurements do not include the export destination validation and CUDA device guard; their serving performance has not been remeasured. The corrected export path has the GPU correctness and memory-safety coverage recorded above. The PR contains only the six PLE implementation, contract and test files.The measured vLLM commit is
b0cf3b82341433caa2b350b1b71fc98b11c8ed92. All four ranks used image IDsha256:e2140e8359fb185a5f06e26dbc18d5f4f9ba4b3adb694fd39c1ec9948ecbb027.Open-PR checks found no duplicate PLE internal-window export. #338 exports KDA recurrent checkpoints for GLM; this change exports PLE convolution history for Qwen. RoCEnante preparation changes are outside this diff.
AI assistance was used for implementation, testing and PR preparation. This draft awaits human review before it is ready to merge.
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sequence.ple.export_checkpoint(binding, offsets=..., slots=...)to export internal PLE convolution checkpoints afterrun_mixed. This enables recurrent prefill coalescing without another full-model prefill pass.The API validates plan preparation and metadata shape, dtype, device, and contiguity. The kernel copies the requested prefill window and input history, clears speculative tails, and skips invalid or inactive rows. Runtime offsets, 64-bit pool-scaled addressing, and per-replay destination validation support CUDA graph replay and high pool offsets. Unsafe destinations, including out-of-range, duplicate, or live-state slots, are skipped without allocation or host readback.
Existing PLE entry points and state layout remain compatible. The feature remains opt-in.
Validation covered 38 PLE and pool-key tests, 13 compile-identity tests, and zero memcheck errors on GB10. Reported vLLM results show 9.1% improvement at 8K with coalescing alone, and 33.4%, 25.3%, and 20.7% improvement at 8K, 64K, and 128K with HC sharding plus coalescing.