[Kernel] Fall back from persistent top-k on low-shared-memory GPUs - #54110
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Route oversubscribed cooperative launches to the existing decode top-k kernel when the device cannot provide the 128 KiB required by FilteredTopK. Cover ordinary and MTP length tensor shapes. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex Signed-off-by: Luca Motz <321921718+lucamotz@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks for the contribution, seems reasonable enough 👍
| @pytest.mark.skipif(not current_platform.is_cuda(), reason="This test requires CUDA") | ||
| @pytest.mark.parametrize("next_n", [1, 2]) | ||
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| def test_persistent_topk_falls_back_on_low_smem_device(next_n: int) -> None: |
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nit: please remove the overly specified test
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WalkthroughThe TopK launch now uses ChangesTopK fallback
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to In multi-GPU processes with differing shared-memory limits, TopK may still select the unsupported FilteredTopK path on a low-memory device and fail at runtime. Device properties should be queried or cached per CUDA device before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@csrc/libtorch_stable/topk.cu`:
- Line 139: Update the shared-memory lookup in the top-k function after
DeviceGuard so max_smem_per_block reflects the currently selected CUDA device
rather than a process-wide function-static value; alternatively cache the value
by device index. Ensure low-shared-memory devices still select the decode
fallback before launching FilteredTopK.
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| ", vec_size=", vec_size, ", ctas_per_group=", ctas_per_group, | ||
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Use device-local shared-memory properties.
If one process uses different CUDA devices, the function-static max_smem_per_block can retain the first device's value. A later low-smem device can therefore skip the decode fallback and launch FilteredTopK, which requests 128 KiB of dynamic shared memory. Query the properties after DeviceGuard, or cache them by device index.
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In `@csrc/libtorch_stable/topk.cu` at line 139, Update the shared-memory lookup in
the top-k function after DeviceGuard so max_smem_per_block reflects the
currently selected CUDA device rather than a process-wide function-static value;
alternatively cache the value by device index. Ensure low-shared-memory devices
still select the decode fallback before launching FilteredTopK.
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@LucasWilkinson how do you handle this here? I could rebase my PR, but the CI failures are entirely unrelated to my code. I don't want to create too much noise by chasing unrelated test failures here. |
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Purpose
persistent_topkcan require more cooperative CTAs than the device can keepresident for a long row. The existing dispatcher falls back to
FilteredTopKin that case, but
FilteredTopKrequires at least 128 KiB of opt-in sharedmemory. On GPUs below that limit, the dispatcher raises instead and terminates
EngineCore.
This change routes only that oversubscribed, sub-128-KiB branch to vLLM's
existing
top_k_per_row_decodeimplementation. It preserves the currentpersistent path when the cooperative launch fits and the current
FilteredTopKfallback on devices that can provide its shared-memoryrequirement.
The fallback derives
next_nfrom the existing lengths tensor:one-dimensional lengths retain ordinary decode semantics, while
two-dimensional lengths retain the per-step MTP layout.
Related upstream report (exact failure comment):
#45317 (comment)
Focused root-cause report:
jasl#21
Existing work considered
model-enablement branch and an alternative low-shared-memory implementation.
That branch forces a custom single-CTA noncooperative persistent kernel for
all sub-128-KiB devices. This PR changes only the already-failing
oversubscribed dispatcher branch, applies independently to current
main,and reuses an existing generic vLLM operation. It adds no product-name,
compute-capability, or SM-count gate.
overflow and exact rescanning inside
persistent_topk. It does not changethe low-shared-memory oversubscription branch in
topk.cu; the failure modeand implementation are separate.
Test Plan
On current upstream
main(de9250ac9e9b249133fff14e15d9248a1ebbcdb8):git diff --check origin/main...HEAD python -c 'import ast, pathlib; ast.parse(pathlib.Path("tests/kernels/test_top_k_per_row.py").read_text())' python -m pytest -q tests/kernels/test_top_k_per_row.py \ -k persistent_topk_falls_back_on_low_smem_deviceThe focused pytest was subsequently run from the exact PR-head test file in
an isolated container on each of two independent GB10 devices. The container
used the qualified vLLM build containing the patch-identical compiled
operator; no production image layer was modified.
Test Result
main.git diff --check: passed.tests/kernels/test_top_k_per_row.py: passed withPython 3.14.5.
4d3b6dd0d58156fdf5447374c85e68e14cd6bf68.GPU/build validation was performed on vLLM
487ecf187d3dfe74d2cf6119a92881dba403c219with the identical patch(SHA-256
b932ec3812541b99049ad27182172fe495054e47c2e4ae97b314e78206acf450):topk.cu, and linked the stable libtorch extension.independently on two NVIDIA GB10 GPUs (SM 12.1, 48 SMs, 101,376 bytes
opt-in shared memory):
next_n1 and 2,top_k=512,seq_len=32769,stride 3,574,656. Returned index sets matched
torch.topk.GB10 devices:
2 passed, 187 deselectedper device, coveringnext_n=1and
next_n=2. The PR-head test file SHA-256 wasfd2c8075f50e5c332f2b0f5d00430df57562fe2cc63506383c345efb16c64352.Redacted two-GB10 integration evidence
This is downstream integration evidence, not a claim that this patch alone
enables GLM-5.3.
The final qualified TP2 endpoint uses
max_model_len=491520, full concurrency2, FP8 KV cache, eager execution, Marlin MoE, and MTP5:
/healthreturned 200 and the exact served alias wasglm-5.3-flash.24K--40K crash wall and returned HTTP 200.
generated tokens, both returned HTTP 200.
stream and 31.350 tokens/s aggregate. MTP5 accepted 167 of 450 draft tokens
during that batch (37.11%).
invalid-index, collective, or fatal signature on either rank.
A separate
max_model_len=524288canary is deliberately not presented as thefinal qualified endpoint. It passed a bounded c1 request with 500,020 prompt
tokens plus 32 generated tokens, but exposed only 986,530 KV tokens (1.88x at
524,288), so it did not satisfy the full-length c2 capacity gate. The
491,520-token configuration above is the live-qualified result.
Private hostnames, container names, filesystem paths, environment files,
credentials, rollback locations, and raw logs are intentionally omitted.
Scope and caveats
487ecf187; currentmainhas passed apply/static checks but has not yet been rebuilt on GB10.[Model] add GLM-5.3-Flash support #53906.
512+0NoPE sparse-MLA kernels, the(32, 2176)dispatchspecialization, FP8 packed-KV behavior inside those kernels, and their
low-shared-memory tile selection are FlashInfer-owned and intentionally not
included here.
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human submitter reviewed the changed lines and is responsible for the
implementation and reported evidence.
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