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Summary

Refresh the two step-dependent DSA metadata structures in persistent storage
between speculative draft steps:

  • B12X and sparse-indexer DCP-local sequence lengths;
  • the DeepGEMM indexer scheduling table.

Keeping their storage addresses stable allows the full speculative loop to
reuse CUDA graphs without rebuilding all attention metadata. The code fails
closed when fused DCP metadata lacks the required global lengths, and the
existing GLM5Next accepted-token refresh remains intact.

Duplicate-work check

No open PR matched fused DSA draft-metadata refresh. The search result for
#472 is unrelated LoRA work and changes neither DCP sequence metadata nor the
DeepGEMM schedule.

Validation

  • Focused B12X and indexer metadata regressions passed in the qualified r21
    container, including stable-storage and successive-step updates.
  • uvx ruff check tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py tests/v1/attention/test_indexer_dcp_localize.py vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/b12x_mla_sparse.py vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/indexer.py vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py: passed after rebasing onto dev/jovian-judgement at 9c4dd0548.
  • git diff --check upstream/dev/jovian-judgement...HEAD: passed.
  • The combined r21 deployment captured the full speculator path, returned the
    expected answer (42), and sustained 61.044849 tok/s. The metadata change
    removes Python rebuild/fallback work but did not materially change the
    GPU-bound steady-state decode rate.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added fused decode-context parallel support for speculative draft decoding in sparse attention.
    • Draft-decode metadata can now refresh rank-local sequence lengths in place and update scheduling metadata without reallocating buffers.
    • Added validation for missing global sequence lengths and invalid decode metadata.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for sequence-length refresh behavior, metadata updates, buffer reuse, scheduling regeneration, and error handling.

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The PR adds in-place fused DCP sequence-length refresh support for draft decode. Sparse MLA and indexer metadata builders use global lengths to update local lengths and scheduling metadata while preserving allocated storage.

Fused DCP draft decode

Layer / File(s) Summary
DCP local-length refresh helper
vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py, tests/v1/attention/test_indexer_dcp_localize.py
Adds a Triton helper that recomputes rank-local lengths, clears unused entries, and preserves the existing buffer.
Sparse MLA metadata integration
vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/b12x_mla_sparse.py, tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py
Stores global DCP lengths, enables draft metadata updates, refreshes local lengths, and validates missing-length errors.
Indexer metadata refresh and scheduling
vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/indexer.py, tests/v1/attention/test_indexer_dcp_localize.py
Refreshes decode context lengths, applies DCP localization, regenerates DeepGEMM scheduling metadata, and validates in-place updates across successive length changes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 643c7

The PR improves speculative decoding metadata reuse, but flattened multi-token decode layouts may currently be rejected by the refresh path, causing speculative decoding to fail rather than use its fallback. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: lukealonso, voipmonitor, lucaswilkinson

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DraftDecode
  participant B12xMLASparseMetadataBuilder
  participant DeepseekV32IndexerMetadataBuilder
  participant refresh_dcp_local_seq_lens_
  participant DeepGEMMSchedulingTable
  DraftDecode->>B12xMLASparseMetadataBuilder: update draft metadata
  B12xMLASparseMetadataBuilder->>refresh_dcp_local_seq_lens_: refresh fused DCP lengths
  DraftDecode->>DeepseekV32IndexerMetadataBuilder: update draft metadata
  DeepseekV32IndexerMetadataBuilder->>refresh_dcp_local_seq_lens_: refresh indexer lengths
  DeepseekV32IndexerMetadataBuilder->>DeepGEMMSchedulingTable: regenerate scheduling metadata
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59-59: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use Google-style docstrings for the new functions.

Document parameters with Args: and the None result with Returns:.

  • vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py#L59-L59: document the helper tensor, request-count, and DCP arguments.
  • vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py#L87-L87: document the Triton pointer and scalar kernel arguments.

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In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py` at line 59, Update the new helper
docstrings in vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py at lines 59-59 and 87-87 to
use Google style: add Args entries for the helper tensor, request-count, and DCP
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Inline comments:
In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/indexer.py`:
- Around line 586-588: Restrict supports_draft_decode_metadata_update to layouts
accepted by update_draft_decode_metadata, disabling it when supports_varlen or
use_flattening selects flattened multi-token metadata unless the refresh path
expands requests and rebuilds flattened global and local lengths correctly. Add
a regression test covering flattened multi-token draft decoding.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py`:
- Line 59: Update the new helper docstrings in
vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py at lines 59-59 and 87-87 to use Google
style: add Args entries for the helper tensor, request-count, and DCP parameters
at 59-59, and the Triton pointer and scalar kernel parameters at 87-87; document
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yatesdr force-pushed the prepare/jj-draft-metadata branch 2 times, most recently from 9cca0d1 to a3dfcfe Compare September 2, 2026 13:15
cn3 integration agent and others added 2 commits September 2, 2026 12:22
Refresh B12X and sparse-indexer DCP sequence metadata in persistent storage between speculative draft steps. Rebuild the DeepGEMM schedule into stable storage so full CUDA graphs can replay without rebuilding all attention metadata.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Signed-off-by: derek <derek.yates@live.com>
Accept both scalar-per-request and native multi-draft sequence-length metadata, rebuild per-draft effective lengths in persistent storage, and preserve a rank-two view at the paged-MQA planner boundary required by the native kernel.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex

Signed-off-by: derek <derek.yates@live.com>
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yatesdr force-pushed the prepare/jj-draft-metadata branch from a3dfcfe to 8000b05 Compare September 2, 2026 16:22
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Status: active; not superseded.

The dev/jovian-judgement branch at db7a65e does not implement the in-place refresh of DCP-local sequence lengths and sparse-indexer scheduling metadata provided here. This affects fused speculative decoding with DCP greater than one; DCP1 does not use this correction.

The pull-request branch predates substantial changes to dev/jovian-judgement. Rebase it onto the target branch and repeat the fused MTP/DFlash DCP qualification before merge. The performance result in the description is evidence for the earlier qualified source boundary, not qualification of the present target head.

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R27 integration validation

The change represented by this PR is included in the qualified, source-locked
GLM-5.3-Flash runtime
voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260906-r27
(sha256:a298fe1cd207eaf97bd2ff2686716ed25b7009c09b36650eba732a4a7dc51512).
The exact vLLM composition is mirrored at
voipmonitor/vllm:integration/glm53-r27-release-20260906,
commit 63a82f8d323e8538cbe6f88ae1812a1c01577a0f.

Qualification used four stock-clock RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
GPUs, TP4, a 4,096-token scheduler budget, 16 NCCL channels, a 2 MiB NCCL
buffer, and full plus piecewise CUDA graphs:

Mode DCP 32K prefill C1 output / steps C8 output / steps
No speculation 1 14,870 tok/s 170.6 tok/s 733.8 tok/s
MTP3 1 14,468 tok/s 276.0 / 109.1 tok/s 901.0 / 371.3 tok/s
MTP3 full CKV 4 12,864 tok/s 247.0 / 97.1 tok/s 876.4 / 346.4 tok/s
DFlash2 K7 full CKV, NVFP4 KV 4 12,633 tok/s 198.0 / 81.2 tok/s 645.5 / 260.8 tok/s

FP8 no-speculation and NVFP4 DFlash2 external-cache configurations also passed
cold compute, vLLM prefix reuse, engine-driven RAM-L1 restore, full-process
filesystem-L2 restore, and block-checksum validation on all four ranks. An exact
81,576-token leading-instruction test reused 81,567 tokens when only the user
continuation changed.

This is an integration and regression gate, not an isolated attribution of the
aggregate throughput to this PR. The complete open-PR merge order and evidence
are recorded in #651.

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