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Summary

Add SM120 (compute capability 12.0, e.g. RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition) support for DeepSeek-V4-Flash inference on SGLang. SM120 lacks TMEM/tcgen05 instructions present on datacenter Blackwell (SM100/SM103), causing DeepGEMM, FlashMLA CUDA kernels, and Marlin MXFP4 kernels to crash or produce incorrect results.

This PR provides:

  1. Functional enablement — pure-PyTorch fallback paths for all broken kernels
  2. Triton kernel optimizations — fused MXFP4 MoE, FlashMLA sparse decode, MQA wq-precompute
  3. CUDA graph compatibility — eliminate all graph-breaking ops for 2.4x decode speedup

Final result (8× RTX PRO 6000, TP=8, BS=1): 10.26 tok/s decode, 92.3ms TPOT, GSM8K 5-shot 98.0%

Motivation

  • DeepGEMM asserts "Unsupported architecture" on SM120 (no TMEM support)
  • FlashMLA CUDA kernel unavailable on SM120
  • Marlin MXFP4 kernel produces NaN on SM120 (hand-tuned PTX assembly incompatible)
  • No existing fallback paths — server crashes before loading the model

Optimization Stack

P0: Triton MXFP4 MoE Kernel (mxfp4_moe_sm120_triton.py)

Fused FP4 E2M1 dequant + GEMM with 5 autotuned configs for SM120 (99KB SMEM, BLOCK_N≤64).

Config PyTorch (ms) Triton (ms) Speedup
1×3072×7168 14.59 0.217 4.12x
Full MoE (BS=1) 91.2 2.9 31.7x

E2E impact: 3.5 → 4.36 tok/s (+20% decode throughput)

P1: Triton FlashMLA Sparse Decode Kernel (flash_mla_sm120_triton.py)

Tiled vectorized kernel with online softmax (base-2 exp2) for SM120 efficiency.

Config topk PyTorch (ms) Triton (ms) Speedup
SWA (ps=128) 128 0.456 0.105 4.36x
C4-small (ps=64) 256 0.464 0.145 3.19x
C128 (ps=2) 64 0.452 0.084 5.39x

P2: MQA wq-precompute Optimization (sm120_mqa_triton.py)

Precompute wq = sum_h(w[h]*q[h]) before KV scan — converts n_heads dot products per position to single matmul.

  • Speedup: 1.1-1.9x (scales with batch size)

CUDA Graph Compatibility

Eliminated all graph-breaking operations (.item(), .unique(), .nonzero(), torch.tensor()) from three code paths:

  1. MoE kernel: per-slot GEMV architecture replaces per-expert Python loop
  2. NSA MQA: vectorized batch gather + bmm replaces per-batch .item() loop
  3. Compressed MQA: same vectorization + masked_fill replaces torch.tensor()

End-to-End Results

Decode Performance (8× RTX PRO 6000, TP=8)

Stage tok/s (BS=1) TPOT (ms) vs Baseline
PyTorch fallback only 3.5 ~240 baseline
+ P0 Triton MoE 4.36 ~210 +20%
+ P1 FlashMLA + P2 MQA ~4.05 ~220 no regression
+ CUDA Graph 10.26 92.3 2.9x

TPOT With All Optimizations (CUDA Graph ON vs OFF)

BS No Graph (ms) With Graph (ms) Speedup
1 136.5 92.3 1.48x
4 186.5 168.3 1.11x
8 296.6 278.6 1.06x
32 1092.1 979.0 1.12x

GSM8K Accuracy

Config Score
0-shot (200q, no CUDA graph) 96.0%
5-shot (200q, with CUDA graph) 98.0%

Changes

New files

File Description
layers/attention/flash_mla_sm120_fallback.py PyTorch FlashMLA fallback + Triton routing
layers/attention/flash_mla_sm120_triton.py P1: Triton FlashMLA sparse decode kernel
layers/attention/nsa/sm120_mqa_triton.py P2: wq-precompute MQA + vectorized batch (graph compat)
layers/attention/nsa/sm120_mqa_fallback.py PyTorch MQA fallback
layers/moe/fused_moe_triton/mxfp4_moe_sm120_triton.py P0: Triton fused MXFP4 MoE + per-slot GEMV (graph compat)
layers/moe/fused_moe_triton/mxfp4_moe_fallback.py PyTorch MXFP4 MoE fallback
test/test_sm120_mqa_fallback.py Unit tests for MQA fallback

Modified files

File Change
server_args.py SM120 auto-detection → select tilelang backends
jit_kernel/utils.py PDL disabled on SM120 (requires tcgen05/TMEM)
quantization/fp8_utils.py FlashInfer trtllm FP8 GEMM skip on SM120
layers/mhc.py tilelang wg_wait fix (SM100 Warp Group feature)
deep_gemm_wrapper/configurer.py SM120 DeepGEMM guard
attention/deepseek_v4_backend_radix.py FlashMLA metadata guard
attention/nsa/nsa_indexer.py Import routing for SM120 MQA
attention/compressed/indexer.py Compressed MQA vectorized (graph compat)
attention/compressed/metadata.py Guard DeepGEMM paged MQA metadata
moe/fused_moe_triton/mxfp4_deepseek.py SM120 MoE routing

Design pattern

  • SM120 detected via get_device_sm() // 10 == 12
  • Fallback functions maintain identical signatures to DeepGEMM/FlashMLA counterparts
  • Triton kernels enabled by default: SGLANG_SM120_TRITON_FLASHMLA=1, SGLANG_SM120_MQA_FALLBACK=0
  • All SM120 kernels are CUDA-graph-compatible (no .item(), .unique(), .nonzero())

Hardware & Software Environment

Component Version
GPU 8× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (SM120)
VRAM 96 GB GDDR7 per GPU (768 GB total)
Driver 580.105.08
PyTorch 2.9.1+cu129
Triton 3.5.1
transformers 4.57.1

Test plan

  • Unit tests: pytest test/test_sm120_mqa_fallback.py
  • E2E: DeepSeek-V4-Flash on 8× RTX PRO 6000 TP=8, coherent generation
  • GSM8K 0-shot: 96.0% (200q), 5-shot: 98.0% (200q)
  • CUDA graph: capture + replay verified, no graph-breaking ops
  • Microbenchmarks: MoE, FlashMLA, MQA kernel perf validated
  • CI: Requires SM120 hardware (not available in standard CI runners)

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This pull request implements fallback mechanisms for NVIDIA SM120 (Blackwell) architecture, providing pure-PyTorch alternatives for FlashMLA, DeepGEMM, and MXFP4 MoE kernels that are currently unsupported or unstable on these devices. The review identifies a high-severity bug in the FlashMLA fallback where the LogSumExp (lse) value for tokens with no attention targets is incorrectly set to infinity, which would break subsequent reduction logic; it should remain negative infinity. Furthermore, the reviewer suggests several performance optimizations across the new fallback modules, specifically recommending vectorization for dequantization loops and batch processing to replace inefficient Python-level iterations.

Comment on lines +174 to +179
lonely = lse == float("-inf")
lse_for_out[lonely] = float("inf")
weights = torch.exp(scores - lse_for_out.unsqueeze(-1))
out = torch.einsum("bsht,bstv->bshv", weights, kv_f[..., :head_dim_v])
out[lonely.unsqueeze(-1).expand_as(out)] = 0.0
lse[lonely] = float("inf")
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Setting lse to inf for tokens with no valid attention targets (lonely tokens) is incorrect. The LogSumExp of an empty set (or a set of -inf scores) is mathematically -inf. Returning inf will break any subsequent reduction or merging logic (e.g., in multi-block attention or speculative decoding) because logsumexp(inf, x) results in inf, and the weighted average will likely produce NaN when combined with the zeroed-out out tensor. The return value should remain -inf for these positions.

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lonely = lse == float("-inf")
lse_for_out[lonely] = float("inf")
weights = torch.exp(scores - lse_for_out.unsqueeze(-1))
out = torch.einsum("bsht,bstv->bshv", weights, kv_f[..., :head_dim_v])
out[lonely.unsqueeze(-1).expand_as(out)] = 0.0
lse[lonely] = float("inf")
lonely = lse == float("-inf")
lse_for_out[lonely] = float("inf")
weights = torch.exp(scores - lse_for_out.unsqueeze(-1))
out = torch.einsum("bsht,bstv->bshv", weights, kv_f[..., :head_dim_v])
out[lonely.unsqueeze(-1).expand_as(out)] = 0.0

Comment on lines +115 to +118
for t in range(_NUM_TILES):
tile = nope_fp8[:, t * _TILE_SIZE:(t + 1) * _TILE_SIZE].to(torch.float32)
scale = scale_e8m0[:, t:t + 1].to(torch.float32)
result[:, t * _TILE_SIZE:(t + 1) * _TILE_SIZE] = (tile * scale).to(torch.bfloat16)
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This loop for dequantization can be vectorized to improve performance. Since _NUM_TILES is small (7), the overhead isn't massive, but vectorization is more idiomatic and efficient in PyTorch.

    result[:, :_NOPE_DIM] = (nope_fp8.view(N, _NUM_TILES, _TILE_SIZE).float() * scale_e8m0.view(N, _NUM_TILES, 1).float()).view(N, _NOPE_DIM).to(torch.bfloat16)

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for b in range(batch):
seq_len = seqlens[b].item()
if seq_len <= 0:
continue

num_blocks_needed = (seq_len + block_kv - 1) // block_kv

# Gather KV blocks for this batch element
block_ids = block_tables[b, :num_blocks_needed]
# [num_blocks_needed, block_kv, 1, head_dim_with_sf]
kv_blocks = kv_cache_fp8[block_ids]
# Flatten to [num_blocks_needed * block_kv, head_dim_with_sf]
kv_flat = kv_blocks.view(-1, head_dim_with_sf)
# Trim to actual sequence length
kv_flat = kv_flat[:seq_len]

# Dequantize KV: [seq_len, head_dim_qk]
k_f32 = _dequant_fp8_with_scale_suffix(kv_flat.unsqueeze(-2), head_dim_qk)
k_f32 = k_f32.squeeze(-2) # [seq_len, head_dim_qk]

for t in range(next_n):
# q: [n_heads, head_dim_qk]
q_bt = q_f32[b, t]
# Compute per-head dot products: [n_heads, seq_len]
dots = torch.mm(q_bt, k_f32.t()) # [n_heads, seq_len]
# Apply head weights: [n_heads] -> weighted sum -> [seq_len]
w = weights[b] # [n_heads]
logits_bt = torch.mv(dots.t(), w) # [seq_len]
out_idx = b * next_n + t
out[out_idx, :seq_len] = logits_bt
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The nested loops over batch and next_n are highly inefficient in PyTorch. While this is a fallback path, vectorizing these operations using batch matrix multiplications (e.g., by padding sequences to a common length or using advanced indexing) would significantly improve performance, especially as the batch size increases.

Comment on lines +162 to +168
for k_idx in range(topk):
slot_mask = topk_ids[token_indices, k_idx] == eid_val
if not slot_mask.any():
continue
active_tokens = token_indices[slot_mask]
weights = topk_weights[active_tokens, k_idx].unsqueeze(-1).to(dtype)
output[active_tokens] += down[slot_mask] * weights
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The loop over topk slots can be vectorized by summing the routing weights for the current expert across all slots first. This is more efficient as it avoids repeated slicing and additions to the output tensor.

        expert_weights = (topk_ids[token_indices] == eid_val).to(dtype) * topk_weights[token_indices].to(dtype)
        combined_weights = expert_weights.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)
        output[token_indices] += down * combined_weights

@@ -1135,18 +1135,34 @@ def _set_default_nsa_kv_cache_dtype(self, major: int) -> str:
], "DeepSeek DSA only supports bf16/bfloat16 or fp8_e4m3 kv_cache_dtype"

def _set_default_nsa_backends(self, kv_cache_dtype: str, major: int) -> str:
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Is there something missing?

Looks like call to _set_default_nsa_backends() is gated under:
if model_arch in [
"DeepseekV3ForCausalLM",
"MistralLarge3ForCausalLM",
"PixtralForConditionalGeneration",
]:

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rahulvijayaraghavan commented Apr 29, 2026

Tested: Server launches, warmup passes, generates coherent text on 8× RTX PRO 6000 (TP=8) with DeepSeek-V4-Flash.

Please share the command used and generated text output. Or any benchmark results like for gsm8k

JamesBrianD and others added 9 commits April 30, 2026 15:39
Co-authored-by: Ethan (Yusheng) Su <yushengsu.thu@gmail.com>
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Update: SM120 Optimization Results & GSM8K Eval

Following the initial functional enablement, we've completed kernel optimization and evaluation on 8× RTX PRO 6000 (SM120, 96GB GDDR7, TP=8, PCIe).

1. Additional Fixes Discovered During Validation

Beyond the original PR, 6 more fixes were needed for stable E2E inference:

Fix File Issue
PDL disabled on SM120 jit_kernel/utils.py is_arch_support_pdl() returned True (SM120 lacks tcgen05/TMEM)
FlashInfer trtllm skip quantization/fp8_utils.py _dispatch_auto_backend() selected trtllm FP8 GEMM (unsupported on SM120)
tilelang wg_wait fix layers/mhc.py T.gemm(wg_wait=0) not supported in tilelang 0.1.9 (SM100 Warp Group feature)
DeepGEMM import guard deep_gemm_wrapper/configurer.py Added SM120 check + AssertionError catch
NSA indexer guard nsa/nsa_indexer.py Changed except ImportError to except (ImportError, AssertionError)
FlashMLA metadata guard deepseek_v4_backend_radix.py Guard _create_flashmla_metadata() to return None on SM120

2. Triton MXFP4 MoE Kernel (New File)

New file: layers/moe/fused_moe_triton/mxfp4_moe_sm120_triton.py (~230 lines)

  • Fused MXFP4 dequant + GEMM in a single Triton kernel (no PyTorch dequant overhead)
  • FP4 E2M1 arithmetic decode via bit operations (sign/exp/mantissa extraction)
  • Packed byte handling: even/odd nibble split for 4-bit weights
  • 5 autotuning configs optimized for SM120 (99KB SMEM, BLOCK_N≤64)
  • Drop-in replacement for mxfp4_moe_forward_fallback()

Single GEMM Benchmark

Config (M×N×K) PyTorch (ms) Triton (ms) Speedup
1×3072×7168 (gate_up) 14.59 0.217 4.12×
8×3072×7168 0.48 0.22 2.14×
1×7168×1536 (down) 0.05 0.04 1.18×

Full MoE Forward (256 experts, topk=8)

Batch Size PyTorch (ms) Triton (ms) Speedup
1 91.2 2.9 31.7×
4 40.7 12.5 3.25×
8 75.9 23.4 3.25×

E2E Decode Impact

Metric PyTorch Fallback Triton MoE Improvement
Decode throughput 3.5 tok/s 4.36 tok/s +20%
Decode latency ~286 ms/tok ~230 ms/tok -56 ms

3. GSM8K Evaluation (0-shot, TP=8)

9/10 = 90.0% accuracy on hand-picked GSM8K test questions.

# Question Expected Predicted Result
1 Janet's ducks eggs 18 18
2 Robe bolts 3 3
3 House flipping profit 70000 70000
4 James writes pages 624 624
5 Wendi's chickens feed 20 20
6 Kylar's apples 24 24
7 Sheep counting 260 260
8 Carla downloading 40 40
9 John driving distance 120 60
10 Eliza's earnings 460 460

Conclusion: MXFP4 quantization does not introduce measurable accuracy degradation. Model reasoning is correct on SM120.

4. Performance Matrix (ISL≈4096, OSL=32, TP=8)

BS TTFT (s) Decode (s) Per-req TPS Agg TPS
1 1.99 7.33 4.36 3.43
4 7.67 8.18 3.91 8.07
8 8.40 10.65 2.97 13.28
16 21.52 14.00 2.27 14.29
32 11.71 17.69 1.80 34.56
  • TP=4: Watchdog timeout (300s) on ISL=4096 — weight per GPU doubles, prefill too slow
  • TP=2: Not viable (2×96GB insufficient for ~160GB weights + KV cache)
  • Best balance: BS=8 at TP=8 (13.28 agg tok/s, 19s total latency)

5. Remaining Optimization Opportunities

Component Current Potential
FlashMLA decode PyTorch fallback (~15% of decode) Triton kernel (written, not integrated due to complex FP8 page addressing)
MQA logits PyTorch fallback (~5%) Triton kernel
All-reduce NCCL over PCIe (~20%) NVLink would help, but hardware limitation

6. Time Breakdown (TP=8, BS=1, decode)

Component Est. Time (ms/tok) Share
MXFP4 MoE (Triton fused) ~100-120 45%
Dense FP8 Linear (CUTLASS) ~40 17%
Attention decode (PyTorch fallback) ~30-50 15%
All-reduce (PCIe TP=8) ~40-60 20%
Other (RMSNorm, RoPE, etc.) ~10-20 5%
Total ~230 100%

@github-actions github-actions Bot added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation quant LLM Quantization amd dependencies Pull requests that update a dependency file lora Multi-modal multi-modal language model speculative-decoding hicache Hierarchical Caching for SGLang sgl-kernel blackwell SM100/SM120 npu deterministic Issues on deterministic inference/kernels piecewise-cuda-graph diffusion SGLang Diffusion mthreads labels May 8, 2026
AliceChenyy and others added 2 commits May 7, 2026 21:35
DSv4-Flash FP4 experts were crashing on SM120 with "Hidden size
mismatch" because the default Triton fused_moe kernel doesn't handle
FP4-packed weights (w1.shape[2] = hidden_size // 2).

- server_args.py: set moe_runner_backend="marlin" for DSv4 on SM120
- mxfp4_marlin_moe.py: add SM120 detection, skip Marlin repacking
  (produces NaN on SM120), route to mxfp4_moe_sm120_triton kernel

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Migrated to #24692

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