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Resulting behavior

GLM-5.3 runs the low-rank KDA gate projections on a dedicated CUDA stream while the main stream computes the packed Q/K/V projection. The streams join before the gate values are consumed.

The overlap is enabled during serving and regular FULL CUDA graph capture. It is disabled during uncaptured graph-preparation forwards and throughout breakable graph capture. The intermediate gate projection records its asynchronous consumer stream so the caching allocator cannot recycle its storage while the second projection is reading it.

Technical reason

The gate and packed projections are independent and can overlap during decode. Uncontained side-stream work can, however, cross an uncaptured-warmup or breakable-capture boundary and race temporary-storage reuse. The lifecycle guard retains the decode optimization while enforcing the CUDA graph boundary.

Compatibility

VLLM_GLM53_KDA_GATE_SIDE_STREAM=0 retains sequential execution. Full-rank gates and unsupported execution contexts also retain the shared sequential implementation. Model weights and arithmetic are unchanged.

This branch preserves MadeBy561 as the author of the original side-stream implementation from #582. The lifecycle correction depends on #617.

Validation

  • Sequential and overlapped forwards produce identical tensors.
  • The side-stream forward replays from a CUDA graph with identical output.
  • Focused lifecycle tests cover breakable capture, uncaptured warmup, and regular FULL capture.
  • Repository hooks passed Ruff, formatting, MyPy, SPDX, import, configuration-default, and CUDA API checks.
  • A TP4 GLM-5.3 composition containing this source completed three consecutive combined KDA/L2 FULL CUDA graph startups in no-speculative, MTP3, and DFlash2 modes on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs.

OpenAI Codex assisted with lifecycle isolation, implementation, and validation. The submitter reviewed the resulting source and evidence.

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  • New Features

    • Improved CUDA execution for GLM-5.3 attention workloads by overlapping compatible gate calculations, potentially reducing decode latency.
    • Added the VLLM_GLM53_KDA_GATE_SIDE_STREAM environment variable to control this behavior; it is enabled by default.
    • Preserved sequential execution during CUDA graph capture and for full-rank gate configurations.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for stream-overlap eligibility, sequential-output parity, and CUDA graph compatibility across supported execution states.
    • Expanded testing for full-rank gate configurations.

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GLM-5.3 KDA now optionally runs low-rank gate projections on a per-device CUDA side stream. The implementation handles CUDA capture states and preserves sequential execution when overlap is unavailable. CUDA tests validate stream usage, output equivalence, graph replay, and full-rank gate forwarding.

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GLM-5.3 KDA gate overlap

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gate overlap implementation
vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/kda.py
The forward path optionally runs g_a_proj and g_b_proj on a cached per-device CUDA side stream while the main stream runs the primary projections. The main stream synchronizes before consuming gate states.
Gate overlap validation
tests/models/test_glm5next_kda_gate_stream.py, tests/models/test_glm5next_model.py
Tests cover breakable capture, graph warmup, regular full capture, stream usage, sequential output equivalence, CUDA graph replay with updated inputs, and full-rank gate forwarding.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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KDA gate projections can overlap on a CUDA side stream while preserving sequential fallbacks and validated CUDA graph replay behavior. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Glm5NextLinearAttention
  participant GateSideStream
  participant MainCUDAStream
  participant CUDAGraph
  Glm5NextLinearAttention->>GateSideStream: Run g_a_proj and g_b_proj
  Glm5NextLinearAttention->>MainCUDAStream: Run in_proj_qkvgfab and attention projections
  MainCUDAStream->>GateSideStream: Wait for gate projections
  GateSideStream-->>MainCUDAStream: Provide g_proj_states
  MainCUDAStream->>Glm5NextLinearAttention: Run _forward and o_proj
  CUDAGraph->>Glm5NextLinearAttention: Capture and replay forward
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Independent integration qualification

Status: qualified at the PR head embedded in
voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260903-r20 together with its
graph-lifecycle dependency, #617.

Focused tests showed identical sequential and overlapped KDA-gate tensors and
identical CUDA-graph replay output. Lifecycle coverage exercised uncaptured
warmup, breakable capture, and regular FULL capture. Three consecutive TP4
startups completed with the KDA-gate and L2-prefetch side streams enabled in
no-speculation, MTP3, and DFlash2 modes.

R20 then completed full and piecewise graph capture plus the DCP1/DCP4 C1, C8,
and 32K-prefill matrix on four stock-clock RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation
Edition GPUs. No illegal-memory fault or allocator-lifetime failure was
reproduced. The disabled configuration continues to use sequential projection
execution, and model arithmetic is unchanged.

MadeBy561 and others added 3 commits September 5, 2026 13:06
The two low-rank output-gate projections of the GLM-5.3 KDA layer
(g_a_proj then g_b_proj) depend only on the layer input but trailed the
large fused in_proj_qkvgfab GEMM on the main stream. Issue them on a
side CUDA stream forked before in_proj and joined before the gate
states are read, so they overlap the GEMM. Kernels, shapes and
reduction orders are unchanged (outputs bitwise identical); only the
fork/join edges are new, and CUDA graph capture records them as
dependencies. VLLM_GLM53_KDA_GATE_SIDE_STREAM=0 restores the
sequential forward. The optional _l2_prefetch_hook of the shared
forward is honoured.

GLM-5.3-Flash TP4 decode: 0.70 ms of gate GEMMs per verifier step
leave the main stream (greedy C1 trace).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disable the KDA gate projection side stream throughout breakable CUDA graph capture and during uncaptured graph warmups. Record the intermediate projection on its consumer stream so allocator reuse cannot race asynchronous reads. Regular FULL capture and serving retain the overlap.

The original side-stream implementation remains authored by MadeBy561. This branch depends on the generic auxiliary-stream warmup synchronization in vllm-project#617.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
The manually constructed GLM attention fixture initializes the gate layout supplied by the production constructor. The eager overlap test disables graph-setup monitoring explicitly so it exercises the post-capture serving path.

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Add the missing Returns: section.

_gate_overlap_allowed returns bool, but its docstring does not document that result. Add a Google-style Returns: section.

As per coding guidelines, Python docstrings must use Google-style Args:/Returns:/Raises: sections.

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     Regular FULL capture and serving execution retain the overlapped path.
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+    Returns:
+        bool: `True` when the gate projections can use the side CUDA stream.
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In `@vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/kda.py` at line 29, Add a Google-style Returns
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R26 packaged-integration validation: this pull request is included in voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260905-r26 (sha256:d0592ea9d73cac5aadb151a58bbb43cf7aff03829d46bb4f4ba7396aaef67c68). The exact two-layer image passed 383 focused tests with 33 unsupported-device skips. On four stock RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPUs, the packaged runtime measured 14,937 tok/s and 170.1 tok/s C1 for no speculation, 14,509 tok/s and 109.0 verifier steps/s for MTP3, and 12,783 tok/s plus 81.3 verifier steps/s for DFlash2 DCP4 full-CKV. This is full-stack compatibility and regression evidence; isolated performance claims remain those documented in this pull request. Merge order and exact source mirrors are recorded in #651.

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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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Included in dev/jovian-judgement through this PR's individual merge. The reviewed head and its contributor commits remain ancestors; the PR is merged and closed.

Source validation: replaying all 32 R35 review heads on the pinned base exactly reproduces the released Docker's vLLM tree; all 6,870 installed tracked files match. JJ additionally preserves Luke's DS4.1 work and #734. The final composition passed 247 focused checkpoint/scheduler, sampler/warmup and native GPU tests. This is combined-source evidence, not a fresh performance or full-model qualification for this individual PR.

Publication-history clarification: the individual merge linked above is in JJ's first-parent history. It replaces the receipt's archived wrapper-merge reference; GitHub's historical merge SHA may still identify that archive. See #731 for component review order and qualification limits.

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Preserve the reviewed source head f4516f7 and its contributor history.
The first parent records the ordered serving-source composition.
Whole-tree equality and installed-artifact verification are publication gates.

Review: #619
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Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
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