[rocm] perf: drop redundant -inf prefill of decode paged MQA-logits buffer - #50008
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The paged MQA-logits decode consumer (top_k_per_row_decode) bounds its per-row scan by seq_lens and pads short rows with -1 internally, so it never reads the out-of-window columns that this fill_ initialized. Both the Gluon and FlyDSL paged kernels write every in-causal column that top-k reads, making the full-width -inf prefill redundant for the decode path and saving a rows x max_model_len HBM write each step.
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Closing: this change already landed via another PR. #44527 ("[ROCm][DSv3.2] Eliminate per-decode FillFunctor launches in sparse-MLA hot loop") removed the same |
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Summary
Removes the full-width
out_logits.fill_(float("-inf"))before the decode paged MQA-logits kernel inrocm_fp8_paged_mqa_logits(vllm/v1/attention/ops/rocm_aiter_mla_sparse.py).The decode consumer,
top_k_per_row_decode, bounds its per-row scan byseq_lens(it reads only[0, rowEnd)whererowEnd = seq_len - next_n + next_n_idx + 1) and pads short rows (rowLen <= topK) with-1internally. The paged MQA-logits kernels write every in-causal column that top-k reads:deepgemm_fp8_paged_mqa_logitswrites-infinto masked in-tile positions itself.flydsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logitswrites exactlycol <= q_limit(== the columns top-k reads).So the out-of-window
[rowEnd, max_model_len)region initialized by thisfill_is never consumed on the decode path, making the prefill redundant. Dropping it saves arows x max_model_lenfp32 HBM write every decode step.Why it's safe (decode path)
q_limit(kernel write extent) androwEnd(top-k read extent) are both derived from the same context length andnext_n, so every column top-k reads is freshly written; nothing reads the untouched tail.Scope / caveats
rocm_fp8_paged_mqa_logits).topk_indices_buffer[...] = -1init are untouched.-inf-prefill contract; this change relies on the consumer'sseq_lensbounding rather than the kernel self-initializing, so it should be validated numerically.Test plan
tests/kernels/test_top_k_per_row.pyand sparse-indexer tests.