perf(glm5next): L2 weight prefetch for SM120 decode (+7% C1 steps/s) - #576
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGLM5Next gains configurable SM120 L2 weight prefetching. The change adds a CuTe kernel, budgeted segment plans, decoder-layer scheduling across windows A/B/C, optional attention and reduction hooks, and side-stream synchronization. ChangesGLM-5.3 L2 prefetch
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change enables asynchronous weight prefetching by default for GLM5Next and can improve decode throughput, but affected deployments using PIECEWISE CUDA graphs may encounter capture failures or inference unavailability, and the override can activate the optimization on unsupported GPUs. These bounded runtime risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Glm5NextModel
participant Glm5NextDecoderLayer
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Glm5NextModel->>Glm5NextDecoderLayer: run forward
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AttentionHook->>L2Prefetcher: issue window A
ReductionPath->>L2Prefetcher: issue pre-reduce prefetch
Glm5NextDecoderLayer->>L2Prefetcher: issue windows B and C
Glm5NextModel->>L2Prefetcher: join_all()
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Defaults updated to the measured-best windows (A 20 / B 35 / C 20 MB, no next-layer head in window A): the 26+8 MB window-A variant measured 89.9 vs 91.1 steps/s at C1 (in_proj unchanged at ~17 µs, KDA core +2 µs from fill contention). A smoke run of these exact PR files on the serving image is in progress; numbers to follow. |
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At decode batch sizes the dense projections of GLM-5.3-Flash are memory-bandwidth-bound streams of weights from device memory (GDDR7 on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell): in_proj_qkvgfab is 51.5 MB per GPU at TP4 and its cuBLAS kernel runs 29.5 us at M=8 = 1.75 TB/s, the card's bandwidth; with the weights resident in L2 the same kernel runs 11 us. Meanwhile the all-reduces, mHC, routing chain and small kernels leave device memory idle for roughly half of every layer. This change issues cp.async.bulk.prefetch.L2 with an evict_last cache policy (CuTe DSL kernel, inline PTX) for the upcoming dense weights on a side stream inside those idle windows, sized so the fills finish before the routed-expert stream starts. Windows per decoder layer: A inside attention after the first projection (this layer's o_proj), B after the attention output (router weight + the next layer's first projection), C after the MoE all-reduce (the remainder). Budgets 20/35/20 MB (36 MB for the MLA window) so no fill overlaps the expert stream; the side stream is rejoined once at the end of the model forward (valid in FULL captures and eager runs). Inside breakable (PIECEWISE) captures the wrapper ends the segment at eager ops, so prefetch is skipped there. Numerics are untouched (cache hints only). The shared KDA/MLA layers only gain an optional _l2_prefetch_hook callback after their first projection; all planning lives in the GLM-5.3 model. Enabled by default on SM120, VLLM_GLM53_L2_PREFETCH=0 disables. Measured on 4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q (TP4, DFlash2 K7 draft, llm_decode_bench ctx0, greedy), this exact code vs the same image without it: C1 verifier steps/s 85.06 -> 89.68 (+5.4%), Sieve coding-peak median 433 -> 449. Overlay build with identical windows: C1 85.06 -> 91.06 (+7.1%), Sieve 462; C1 trace per call: in_proj 29.9 -> 17.1 us, o_proj 11.6 -> 5.5, MLA q_b 11.7 -> 8.3. LAVD max C30/R30 29 exact / 1 near / 0 fail; Estonia max C30/R30 28/30. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Terminology fix: this card is GDDR7, not HBM; the text now says device memory. The physics claim is unchanged, so here are the numbers behind it. Roofline at decode, M=8, TP4, per GPU. in_proj_qkvgfab is 6288x4096 bf16 = 51.5 MB of weights per call against 64 KB of activations and 412 MFLOP, about 8 FLOP/byte; the SM120 bf16 ridge is well above 100 FLOP/byte, so the kernel is memory-bandwidth-bound by a wide margin. Measured. Serving trace (torch profiler), the cuBLAS kernel nvjet_sm120_tst_mma_128x8x64 splitK: 29.0 to 29.9 us per call without prefetch = 51.5 MB / 29.5 us = 1.75 TB/s, i.e. the card's GDDR7 bandwidth (1,792 GB/s spec). Same kernel with the weights L2-resident: 11.0 us standalone (GPU 0 harness, graph-replayed), 17.1 us in serving (partial residency). o_proj: 11.6 -> 5.5 us; MLA q_b: 11.7 -> 8.3 us. A/B on identical code. The build this was tuned on was benchmarked twice: once with a gating bug that left the prefetch off (trace shows zero prefetch launches) and once with it on: 85.06 -> 91.06 verifier steps/s at C1, Sieve coding-peak median 433 -> 462. This PR's files as-is on the serving image (no other overlays): C1 85.06 -> 89.68 steps/s (+5.4%), C4 within the run-to-run band, Sieve median 433 -> 449. LAVD max C30/R30 29 exact / 1 near / 0 fail. L2 on this GPU: torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0).L2_cache_size = 134,217,728 bytes; per-layer evict_last working set stays at 20 + 35 + 20 MB. |
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In `@vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/l2_prefetch.py`:
- Line 68: Update the override parsing around ENABLED so unsupported devices
cannot enable L2 prefetching: retain the disabled result for "0" and reject or
ignore enable requests when CUDA is unavailable. Ensure the GLM5Next forward
path does not reach L2Prefetcher.get or join_all on unsupported devices.
In `@vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/model.py`:
- Line 950: Update the pipeline-rank return flow around _l2pf.join_all() so the
L2 prefetch side stream is joined before any non-final rank returns
IntermediateTensors. Ensure every pipeline rank, including non-final ranks
during FULL CUDA graph capture, executes the join while preserving the existing
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Keep the feature disabled on unsupported devices.
Line 68 sets ENABLED=True for any override other than "0". The GLM5Next forward unconditionally calls join_all(), which calls L2Prefetcher.get(None) and then torch.cuda.current_device() without a CUDA check. Treat the variable as a disable-only override, or reject enable requests on unsupported devices.
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In `@vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/l2_prefetch.py` at line 68, Update the override
parsing around ENABLED so unsupported devices cannot enable L2 prefetching:
retain the disabled result for "0" and reject or ignore enable requests when
CUDA is unavailable. Ensure the GLM5Next forward path does not reach
L2Prefetcher.get or join_all on unsupported devices.
- ENABLED is a disable-only override: never on without CUDA. - join_all() is a no-op when nothing was issued and joins every device's side stream. - Join the prefetch side stream before the pipeline-parallel early return so a capture never ends with a forked stream on a non-last PP rank. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed both review findings in the follow-up commit: the env override can no longer enable the feature without CUDA (and join_all is a no-op when nothing was issued), and the side-stream join now happens right after the layer loop, before the pipeline-parallel early return, so a capture never ends with a forked stream on any PP rank. |
Windows B and C now start right before the attention-output and MoE all-reduces (optional _l2_prefetch_pre_reduce_hook on RowParallelLinear and the MoE runner, installed by the GLM-5.3 model), which adds the reduction time to each idle window; budgets become B 50 / C 15 MB. The in-forward issue points remain as the fallback when no hook target exists. C1 trace vs the post-reduce windows: MoE kernel 79 -> 71 us/layer (fills no longer spill into the expert stream), mHC finalize 7.8 -> 4.8 us; thermally matched A/B/A at C1: 89.0 / 88.3 / 89.4 verifier steps/s (+1%), Sieve coding-peak median 462 -> 477 (max 504). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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from __future__ import annotationsmakes these quotes unnecessary. Remove them to resolve Ruff UP037.Also applies to: 330-330
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- Around line 221-222: Update the docstrings for segments_of in
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without changing behavior: wrap the module documentation,
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device-index expression, and __all__ entries in
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L2 weight prefetch for GLM-5.3-Flash decode on SM120 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 128 MB L2).
At decode batch sizes the dense projections are pure device-memory (GDDR7) streams (in_proj_qkvgfab is 50 MB per GPU at TP4: 28.8 µs at M=8), while the all-reduces, mHC, routing chain and small kernels leave device memory idle for roughly half of every layer. A CuTe DSL kernel (inline PTX
cp.async.bulk.prefetch.L2.global.L2::cache_hintwith acreatepolicy ... evict_lastpolicy) prefetches the upcoming dense weights on a side stream inside those idle windows, budgeted so the fills finish before the routed-expert stream starts. cuBLAS then reads the weights from L2. Numerics are untouched: cache hints only.Windows per decoder layer:
Budgets 26/35/20 MB (36 MB for the MLA window). The side stream is rejoined once at the end of the model forward (valid in FULL captures and eager runs); inside breakable/PIECEWISE captures the wrapper ends segments at eager ops, so prefetch is skipped there. The shared KDA/MLA layers only gain an optional
_l2_prefetch_hookcallback after their first projection; all planning lives in the GLM-5.3 model. Enabled by default on SM120;VLLM_GLM53_L2_PREFETCH=0disables. Dense-MLP layers (first 3) are never prefetched (no idle window before their 75 MB MLP).Proof (4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, TP4, DFlash2 K7 draft, llm_decode_bench ctx0 greedy, same container otherwise)
C4 to C12 stay within the run-to-run band (C4 +0.9%, C8 −3.4%, C12 −0.8% steps/s). Sieve coding peak median 433 → 462 tok/s (max 484 → 495); with the pre-all-reduce windows of the follow-up commit: 478 median / 511 max.
C1 torch-profiler trace, per call: in_proj 29.9 → 17.1 µs, o_proj 11.6 → 5.5, MLA q_b 11.7 → 8.3, small projections −30%; fill contention costs +3 µs on the mHC finalize and +2 µs on the KDA core per layer. The prefetch kernel itself runs 3× per layer for ~20 µs on the side stream.
Standalone (GPU 0, L2-hot vs memory-cold cuBLAS at M=8): in_proj 28.8 → 11.0 µs, o_proj 12.2 → 5.2, MLA q_a 10.5 → 5.9; a layer-shaped graph (100 MB expert stream, idle window, projection) recovers 20.9 µs per KDA layer, and 50 MB of evict_last lines survive a 150 MB normal-policy stream. The CuTe kernel in this PR reproduces the same effect (−22.5 µs per iteration in that harness).
Semantic gates on the prefetch build: Estonia max C30/R30 28/30, LAVD max C30/R30 29 exact / 1 near / 0 fail.
Lessons baked in: fills that overlap the expert stream cost more than they save (MoE kernel +20 µs/layer), and joining the side stream per layer puts the fill time on the critical path; hence the windowed budgets and the single join per forward.
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