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An fp8 KV cache is allocated as uint8 storage and run() views it as
float8_e4m3fn, but plan() was handed the storage dtype. The FlashInfer
wrapper rejects it, so serving GLM-5.3-Flash with --kv-cache-dtype fp8 on
the FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE_SM90 backend fails during startup with
ValueError: MLA kv_data_type torch.uint8 is not supported
Pass the view dtype, matching what run() does.
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get_max_prefill_buffer_size() sizes the indexer's prefill gather workspace in tokens (max_model_len * 40 entries of 132 bytes), but this indexer's KV is pool-granular: the spec carries compress_ratio == index_kpool, and split_indexer_prefill_chunks() is fed compressed sequence lengths. deepseek_v4/attention.py already divides at the same call site for the same reason. At --max-model-len 1048576 with index_kpool 4 the workspace is requested at ~5.16 GiB per GPU during the memory profile and then locked, straight out of the KV budget. Reported by @nood-co1 in vllm-project#53906. Measured on 2x H200 NVL, TP2, fp8 KV, MTP k=3: GPU KV cache size 4,503,445 -> 4,904,494 tokens (available KV 29.44 -> 32.06 GiB). Needle retrieval on 1M-token prompts stays 4/4 at four depths and a 5.5M-token eviction cycle still round-trips through the CPU offload tier. Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kostryukov <mike@triptrack.net> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughChangesThe PR fixes two attention initialization issues. The GLM-5Next indexer now sizes its prefill workspace by pool-granular sequence length. The SM90 sparse MLA builder now translates uint8 FP8 KV cache storage to Attention backend fixes
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291-295: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a regression test for the FP8 translation branch.
The existing planning test uses
torch.bfloat16, so it does not exercisekv_cache_spec.dtype == torch.uint8. Add a test that verifies bothstate.kv_dtype == torch.float8_e4m3fnand the resultingkv_data_typepassed toplan().🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashinfer_mla_sparse_sm90.py`:
- Around line 291-295: Add a regression test for the planning path around
kv_plan_dtype that uses a uint8 KV cache specification, asserting state.kv_dtype
becomes torch.float8_e4m3fn and plan() receives the corresponding kv_data_type.
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The planning test only ran bfloat16, so the uint8 translation was untested. Parametrize it over both cache dtypes, and pull the dtype choice out of the builder constructor into `_plan_dtype` so it is reachable without the full builder setup (the surrounding tests bypass `__init__` for the same reason). Verified inside the serving image: uint8 -> float8_e4m3fn, float8_e4m3fn and bfloat16 pass through, and plan() receives kv_data_type equal to the state dtype while q_data_type stays bfloat16. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kostryukov <drakosha81@proton.me>
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I got the following IMA; posted on wrong issue but the core dump is there: |
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@cjackal On a2bc2ff this backend cannot start with an fp8 KV cache without this PR Four things would narrow it down:
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Indeed I cherry-picked this PR atop of a2bc2ff, thanks for clarification. To answer the questions:
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@cjackal Thanks. A correction to point 1: #54296 guards the Triton slot-mapping kernel, and in @lkeld's report that is the kernel that faults. Your core dump points at FlashInfer's MLA decode kernel instead, so the guard probably won't fix this one. It's still worth applying, since ~64k-token prompts on a tree without it hit the out-of-range read it fixes. The difference from our setup that stands out is EP. You and #55626 both run TP+EP with MTP and crash; we run TP2 without EP (also fp8 KV, MTP k=3) and don't. Today I'll run our 2x H200 with AI assistance was used for this comment. |
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Ran it with EP on 2x H200 NVL, no IMA. 30 min, 24 concurrent clients, 40-90k token prompts Note that with DP=1 TP2/H200 vs your TP8/H100 makes this weak evidence. If you want to rule out the build, our AI assistance was used for this comment. |
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Purpose
Fixes #55221.
Two independent fixes for GLM-5.3-Flash, both live on
mainafter #53906 landed.1.
--kv-cache-dtype fp8cannot start on the SM90 sparse MLA backend. An fp8 KVcache is allocated as
uint8storage andrun()views it asfloat8_e4m3fn, butplan()was handed the storage dtype, which the FlashInfer wrapper rejects:ValueError: MLA kv_data_type torch.uint8 is not supported. One-line dtype fix inFlashInferMLASparseSM90Builder.2. The indexer prefill workspace is sized in the wrong unit.
get_max_prefill_buffer_size()returns a token count (max_model_len * 40entries of132 bytes), but this indexer's KV is pool-granular: the spec carries
compress_ratio == index_kpool, andsplit_indexer_prefill_chunks()is fed compressedsequence lengths.
deepseek_v4/attention.pyalready divides at the same call site.At
--max-model-len 1048576withindex_kpool = 4this locks ~5.16 GiB per GPU duringthe memory profile, straight out of the KV budget. Reported by @nood-co1 in #53906.
Not a duplicate
compress_ratiofor DeepSeek; this isthe model-side
max_total_seq_lenfor GLM-5.3. Per @nood-co1 the two compose.different failure.
get_max_prefill_buffer_size,max_total_seq_lenand the SM90sparse backend; nothing else touches these call sites.
Testing
No unit test covers either path (both need a GLM-5.3 checkpoint and FlashInfer on
Hopper), so this was validated by serving. 2x H200 NVL, TP2, LibertAI NVFP4 weights,
--kv-cache-dtype fp8,--max-model-len 1048576, MTP k=3, CUDA graphs on, CPU offloadwith a 256 GiB region. Both fixes have been running in production here since 2026-08-29
and 2026-09-01 respectively.
FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE_SM90isselected and the KV pool holds 4,503,445 tokens against 2,532,577 in bf16.
4,503,445 -> 4,904,494 tokens (+8.9%). Note that run also raised
--max-num-seqs16 -> 32, so part of the freed memory went back into per-sequence buffers.
4/4 at depths 0.05/0.35/0.65/0.95; 32 concurrent 118k-token prompts, 32/32 with 0
failures and 0 preemptions; an eviction cycle of eleven 500k-token prompts against a
4.9M-token KV pool, where the return visit is served from CPU offload (61.0s cold,
3.5s on return,
external_prefix_cache_hits_total+492,800).Model evaluation
fp8 KV against bf16 on the same checkpoint: GSM8K 0.888 vs 0.880, MATH exact 0.9050 vs
0.9071 (symbolic 0.9671 vs 0.9664), MBPP 0.910 vs 0.920, IFEval prompt strict 0.880 /
instruction strict 0.925. All within noise. The workspace change moves no math: same
kernels, same inputs, only a smaller scratch allocation, and the needle battery above is
identical before and after.
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