perf(glm5next): parallelize C4 prefill pool writes - #505
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Launch one Triton program per completed four-token pool and update each request tail separately. Decode and speculative-decode requests retain the ordered writer because their rows depend on tail state. This removes serial row traversal from packed-cache prefill while preserving the B12X selector and cache layout. Validation: four parallel-prefill tests pass, including mixed decode/prefill batching and an incomplete boundary pool. The GLM pooled-indexer suite reports 17 passes and one pre-existing fixture failure because its manually constructed module omits dcp_world_size. A TP4 32k-context, 30-second prefill workload reached a 12,567 tok/s median before the independent mHC dispatch optimization. Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGLM-5.3 pooled indexer updates add parallel prefill kernels, split decode and prefill dispatch, pass request metadata from the indexer, and test cache, tail, mixed-request, and invalid-slot behavior. ChangesGLM parallel prefill pooling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The parallel prefill change separates pooled-cache writes from tail-state updates, so a retry after an interrupted update could produce inconsistent cache contents and affect later computation. The normal path is validated, but merge should wait for an explicit retry/recovery contract or owner acceptance of this bounded risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Glm5NextPooledIndexer
participant update_decode_pools
participant _decode_update_kernel
participant _prefill_pool_kernel
participant _prefill_tail_kernel
Glm5NextPooledIndexer->>update_decode_pools: pass decode count and max query length
update_decode_pools->>_decode_update_kernel: process decode requests
update_decode_pools->>_prefill_pool_kernel: form completed prefill pools
update_decode_pools->>_prefill_tail_kernel: store remaining tail state
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296-308: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSkip pooling and quantization for padded programs.
The launch pads each request to
cdiv(max_query_len, _POOL_SIZE). Whenwrite_poolis false, both pooling loops and_write_poolstill execute, including FWHT and FP8 quantization. The masked stores then discard the result. Add a scalar early return:♻️ Proposed early exit
write_pool &= main_cache_location >= 0 + if write_pool == 0: + return parent_page = main_cache_location // model_block_size🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/ops/glm_kpool.py`:
- Around line 296-308: Add a scalar early return in the kernel before the
pooling loops and _write_pool work when write_pool is false, so padded programs
skip pooling, FWHT, and FP8 quantization entirely; preserve the existing valid
write_pool path and cache-location calculations.
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Return from a parallel prefill program after its completed-pool slot resolves to an invalid main-cache location. Padded programs therefore skip parent-slot lookup, Walsh-Hadamard transforms, FP8 quantization, and masked cache stores. Valid pool programs and the ordered decode/speculative writer are unchanged. Validation: B12X_GLM53_GPU_TEST=1 /opt/venv/bin/python -B -m pytest -q --confcutdir=tests/models tests/models/test_glm5next_pooled_indexer.py -k "decode_writer_matches_parallel_prefill_writer or parallel_prefill_preserves_boundary_tail_and_state_slots or parallel_prefill_coexists_with_decode_requests or parallel_prefill_ignores_invalid_dummy_slots" passed 4 tests on physical GPU 4. uv run --no-sync ruff check and ruff format --check passed. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
Prevent Triton from specializing the parallel prefill pool and tail kernels on the number of leading decode requests or its alignment. Mixed decode and prefill batches therefore reuse one compiled kernel instead of compiling value- and alignment-specific variants during serving. A fresh-cache reproducer using request offsets 0, 1, 16, and 7 reduced the in-process cache cardinality from 1/2/2/3 variants to 1/1/1/1 for both kernels. Six focused tests passed on physical GPU 7. Balanced 4080-token graph-replay medians were 6.528/6.560 us before and 6.560/6.592 us after, within 0.5%. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
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468-473: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse Google-style sections in
update_decode_pools.The changed docstring describes a multi-argument API but omits
Args:,Returns:, andRaises:sections. Document the new metadata parameters, theNonereturn, and theValueErrorconditions.As per coding guidelines: use Google-style docstrings with
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Result
Status: implemented and correctness-qualified on SM120. The kernel-level
performance result is qualified. The TP4 serving-throughput observation is
research-only because the comparison has one baseline run, three candidate
runs, and different observed host CPU load.
Packed GLM5Next prefill launches one Triton program per completed four-token
C4 pool and one program per request to persist the final tail. Decode and
speculative-decode requests retain the ordered row writer because a row may
depend on tail state written by the preceding row. The C4 top-k selector,
packed FP8 cache layout, and B12X key-driven-attention route are unchanged.
Technical reason
The ordered writer assigns an entire request to one Triton program. A
4,080-token scheduler payload therefore serializes approximately 1,020
completed pools. Completed prefill pools are independent after the initial
partial-pool boundary: a program can read boundary values from the persistent
tail and construct one completed pool without communicating with another
program. A separate kernel writes only the four tail slots needed by a later
chunk.
Padded pool programs return before pooling, the fast Walsh-Hadamard transform,
and FP8 quantization. This preserves the rectangular launch required by Triton
while avoiding work for requests shorter than
max_query_len.Operation contract and compatibility
GLM5Next packed MLA cache contract.
num_decode_requestsretain the ordered writer.the trailing prefill requests with the parallel writer, matching vLLM
attention-metadata ordering.
tail state.
speculative-decode behavior, and public cache layouts are unchanged.
Duplicate-work check
The repository search found local pull request #496 and upstream vLLM pull
request vllm-project#53906.
ranking to a DeepGEMM path. This change retains the B12X selector and packed
cache route and only parallelizes construction of completed C4 pools.
k-pool construction interface. It does not modify the
vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/ops/glm_kpool.pywriter used by thedev/jovian-judgementbranch.The implementation therefore does not duplicate either change.
Correctness validation
Source base:
dev/jovian-judgementatda4d7be6c97434f6942292ed8abbf4b32dc44355.Source head:
334697f271be4932f87c4baa560fdfe11455e84d.Hardware: physical GPU 4,
GPU-8800cf0c-1ba5-7136-d796-2a91f9e9586e, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BlackwellWorkstation Edition.
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=4 B12X_GLM53_GPU_TEST=1 \ /opt/venv/bin/python -B -m pytest -q \ tests/models/test_glm5next_pooled_indexer.py \ -k "decode_writer_matches_parallel_prefill_writer or parallel_prefill_preserves_boundary_tail_and_state_slots or parallel_prefill_coexists_with_decode_requests or parallel_prefill_ignores_invalid_dummy_slots"Result:
4 passed, 14 deselected.The cases compare ordered and parallel cache output and cover a pool crossing
a chunk boundary, permuted recurrent-state slots, mixed decode and prefill
requests, and invalid scheduler padding slots.
Repository pre-commit hooks and
git diff --checkpass for the three changedfiles.
The runtime compile-key policy was also exercised with:
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=4 B12X_GLM53_GPU_TEST=1 \ /opt/venv/bin/python -B -m pytest -q \ tests/models/test_glm5next_pooled_indexer.py \ -k "parallel_prefill"Result:
6 passed, 14 deselected. The two additional parameterized casesassert that
request_offsetis excluded from value and alignmentspecialization for both parallel kernels.
Runtime compilation policy
The number of leading decode requests is scheduler state, not kernel geometry.
Leaving
request_offsetunder Triton's default value and alignmentspecialization creates kernels for zero/aligned offsets, the literal value
one, and other unaligned values. A fresh-cache SM120 reproducer launched mixed
batches with request offsets
0,1,16, and7:caece40c66c5c0931788ffcf10d6855de6c80e91: pool and tail cachecardinality progressed
1, 2, 2, 3;334697f271be4932f87c4baa560fdfe11455e84d: both cardinalities remained1, 1, 1, 1.A real server log independently detected first-use JIT events for both kernels
when serving moved to a mixed request shape. Excluding the offset from both
specialization policies removes that unbounded scheduler-dependent compile
key.
Balanced 4,080-token CUDA graph replay checks measured the complete pool-plus-
tail launch at
6.528and6.560 uson the base and6.560and6.592 uson the head. The
0.5%difference is within the event-timing spread; removingthe compile variants does not produce a measurable steady-state regression.
Kernel performance qualification
Two rank-0 Torch traces used the same 4,080-token packed prefill payload, model
revision
local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4@520de24eabf507659eaef7c70f14fd584527facc,B12X revision
2fcf23a0ce269be27b2e03fece73d46e90e6aeea, four RTX PRO6000 Blackwell GPUs, tensor parallel size 4, FP8 KV cache, ModelOpt mixed
quantization, B12X attention, B12X MoE, and B12X PCIe all-reduce.
The baseline image used vLLM
da4d7be6c97434f6942292ed8abbf4b32dc44355and the ordered writer. Thecandidate image used
caece40c66c5c0931788ffcf10d6855de6c80e91.Across 16 captured rank-0 model steps:
_decode_update_kernel: median37.0371 ms, range36.8823-37.3433 ms;_prefill_pool_kernelplus_prefill_tail_kernel: median0.076592 ms, range0.073727-0.078141 ms.Conclusion: completed-pool construction is no longer the serialized prefill
bottleneck for the measured 4,080-token payload.
TP4 serving observation
The serving command used the same options in both comparison images:
/opt/venv/bin/python -m vllm.entrypoints.cli.main serve \ local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 \ --served-model-name GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 \ --tensor-parallel-size 4 \ --decode-context-parallel-size 1 \ --mamba-cache-mode align \ --enable-prefix-caching \ --enable-chunked-prefill \ --dtype bfloat16 \ --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \ --quantization modelopt_mixed \ --attention-backend B12X \ --block-size 256 \ --moe-backend b12x \ --load-format instanttensor \ --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 \ --max-model-len 262144 \ --max-num-seqs 16 \ --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \ --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL"}'The client used 32,768-token standalone-prefill contexts for 30 seconds. The
ordered writer produced
11,395 tok/sin one run. The parallel writer produced12,567,13,288, and12,489 tok/s, with a median of12,567 tok/s.Observed mean host CPU utilization was
4.4%for the baseline and13.9-17.2%for the candidate runs. The median difference is+10.3%, but theunbalanced run count and host-load difference prevent a causal E2E performance
qualification.
TP4 pull-request-stack integration
Status: integration-qualified for the serving configuration below. This
qualification establishes compatibility and absence of a prefill regression;
it does not attribute total serving throughput to this pull request alone.
The tested image contained B12X #252 at
e57f9713ff634dc539269a2486045e85bb19a643, B12X #253 at3c485daaa0140bf00d0172c55e3af83e445e2de5, B12X #254 at09d783fa43e9cc1edc46a00d40aacba1b72c5825, vLLM #495 atda60b74f2a6aadbb0dcb53a97590b159fae96431, vLLM #504 at71ad9871ed6574cd559fbe123843c48013ea7c9, and this pull request at334697f271be4932f87c4baa560fdfe11455e84d. The resulting vLLM Git tree was87f4eaae790e50d8c8552f3b875a6665fa56bd42. The image ID wassha256:a08156e54e2ad796769f4e8b75d07b46035d81aa34adba3b85020fef50d2af3c.The container exposed physical GPUs 4, 5, 6, and 7 as logical CUDA devices
0, 1, 2, and 3. Its operation routing selected B12X target attention, B12X
target MoE, B12X PCIe all-reduce, B12X draft attention, and Marlin draft MoE.
The server command was:
/opt/venv/bin/python -m vllm.entrypoints.cli.main serve /model \ --served-model-name GLM-5.3-Flash \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 5001 \ --tensor-parallel-size 4 \ --pipeline-parallel-size 1 \ --decode-context-parallel-size 1 \ --mamba-cache-mode align \ --enable-prefix-caching \ --enable-chunked-prefill \ --dtype bfloat16 \ --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \ --quantization modelopt_mixed \ --attention-backend B12X \ --block-size 256 \ --moe-backend b12x \ --no-enable-flashinfer-autotune \ --load-format instanttensor \ --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \ --max-model-len 1048576 \ --max-num-seqs 32 \ --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 \ --max-cudagraph-capture-size 128 \ --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3,"draft_sample_method":"probabilistic","rejection_sample_method":"standard","moe_backend":"marlin","attention_backend":"B12X"}' \ --reasoning-parser glm45 \ --tool-call-parser glm47 \ --enable-auto-tool-choiceThe runtime environment set
VLLM_ENABLE_PCIE_ALLREDUCE=1,VLLM_PCIE_ALLREDUCE_BACKEND=b12x,VLLM_B12X_MOE_FP4_FORCE_A16=0,CUTE_DSL_ARCH=sm_120a,NCCL_IB_DISABLE=1,NCCL_P2P_LEVEL=SYS, andNCCL_PROTO=LL,LL128,Simple.The targeted model and pooled-indexer suite passed with
19 passed, 41 deselected. A 32,768-token, 30-second client-ISL/TTFT run processed 32,321prompt tokens in 2.485 seconds, or
13,005 input tok/s, while host CPUutilization averaged 4.47%. A 30-second MTP3 sweep produced
197.4,1,217.8,and
1,720.9 output tok/sat concurrency 1, 16, and 32. The correspondingverifier rates were
81.0,480.8, and683.0 steps/s.The runtime JIT monitor reported no
_prefill_pool_kernelor_prefill_tail_kernelcompilation during the prefill and decode workloads.At concurrency 32, three-token MTP presents 128 verifier rows, which is covered
by the configured graph capacity of 128. A rank-0 trace on commit
caece40c66c5c0931788ffcf10d6855de6c80e91captured four such worker stepsand contained one target full-graph replay and two draft full-graph replays per
step. Commit
334697f271be4932f87c4baa560fdfe11455e84dchanges only Tritonspecialization metadata and its policy tests; the declared image completed all
configured graph captures and served the concurrency-32 workload without a
CUDA error.
The complete source composition, Docker launch contract, artifact hashes, and
startup-reliability limitation are recorded in
vLLM issue #500.
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