[Perf] Integrate FlashInfer KDA kernels - #55364
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WalkthroughKimi K3 KDA now supports FlashInfer decode and prefill backends. The change adds backend selection, dtype-aware recurrent-state handling, FlashInfer wrappers, metadata fields, forward-path dispatch, and expanded correctness tests. ChangesKDA FlashInfer integration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to FlashInfer KDA adds prefill metadata fields, but a metadata invariant for those fields is not currently exercised. This is a bounded validation gap that could allow a metadata regression to escape detection. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EngineArgs
participant KDA
participant KDAMetadata
participant FlashInfer
participant KDAState
EngineArgs->>KDA: configure decode and prefill backends
KDA->>KDAMetadata: build FlashInfer sequence metadata
KDAMetadata-->>KDA: return query locations and sequence order
KDA->>FlashInfer: execute KDA decode or prefill
FlashInfer-->>KDA: return output and recurrent state
KDA->>KDAState: store recurrent state
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Q: what's the difference between the FlashInfer decode kernel and the fused KDA decode kernel in vLLM (also contributed by NVIDIA)? Is it BF16 state support? I feel comparing against Triton is misleading. |
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@gau-nernst Yes I checked that the native KDA fused decode kernel does not support bf16. The kernels integrated in this PR is from CAKE. There is a tracking issue in flashinfer flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#4254 More optimizations are ongoing and will be available in following flashinfer releases. |
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Thank you for the context, I will do a more thorough review later. Can you add microbenchmark results for vLLM fused KDA decode vs FlashInfer using FP32 state as well? Thank you! |
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@gau-nernst To clarify, the fused decode kernel is not from CAKE but a separate kernel from flashinfer. The prefill kernel is from CAKE. Here are the benchmark results: TLDR:
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Decode T=1
Decode T=5 (dspark)
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929-929: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover the float32 recurrent state in the FlashInfer decode test.
kda_state_dtypeusestorch.float32whenmamba_ssm_cache_dtypeisauto. The explicitly configuredkda_decode_backend="flashinfer"path supports both float32 and bfloat16 states, but this test forces FlashInfer to bfloat16. A float32-only kernel regression can therefore pass the backend correctness suite. Parameterizestate_dtypeover both types and skip the native backend for bfloat16.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/models/kimi_k3/test_kda.py`:
- Line 929: Update the FlashInfer decode test around state_dtype to parameterize
coverage for both torch.float32 and torch.bfloat16 recurrent states, while
preserving the existing dtype selection behavior. Skip the native decode backend
when the parameterized state dtype is bfloat16, and keep the FlashInfer path
enabled for both types.
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Some questions, non-blocking, just curious
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| not current_platform.is_cuda() | ||
| or not has_flashinfer_fused_kda_decode() | ||
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checking for CUDA platform is unnecessary since this is NVIDIA-private code
| compute_capability in ((10, 0), (10, 3)) | ||
| and cuda_version >= minimum_cuda |
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iirc there should be something like current_platform.is_device_capability_family for this (unless you want to guard exactly for sm100 and sm103)
For CUDA version, I wonder if it's necessary. vLLM CUDA 12 should be 12.9 now? And I don't know if our K3 code ever works on CUDA 12 (I recalled there were some issues, I just told people to use CUDA 13)
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Let'e keep it as 100 and 103 for now given there will be new arch under 100 family.
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| and dtype == torch.bfloat16 | |||
| and input_dtype == torch.bfloat16 | |||
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FlashKDA should support BF16 iirc. You can double check
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thanks! it does support. I have fixed the requirement and update the microbenchmark to include that.
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Unlike the prefill wrappers, this _flashinfer_fused_kda_decode only forward the arguments as is without extra logic. I think we can inline it?
| if m.flashinfer_prefill_query_start_loc is None: | ||
| flashinfer_query_start_loc = non_spec_query_start_loc.to( | ||
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| m.flashinfer_prefill_query_start_loc = ( | ||
| flashinfer_query_start_loc | ||
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| if q_ns.shape[1] > initial_state.shape[0]: | ||
| m.flashinfer_prefill_seq_order = torch.argsort( | ||
| flashinfer_query_start_loc.diff(), descending=True | ||
| ).to(torch.int32) |
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If the metadata code works correctly, and it should, this code block shouldn't be necessary? perhaps assert m.flashinfer_prefill_query_start_loc is not None is better (loud failure, we really don't want this to be computed at if it's missing)
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sounds good I have moved the logic to metadata preparation now.
| recurrent_state[non_spec_state_indices_tensor] = last_recurrent_state | ||
| recurrent_state[non_spec_state_indices_tensor] = ( | ||
| last_recurrent_state.to(recurrent_state.dtype) | ||
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PyTorch scatter should do dtype casting by itself? not sure if it will be fused, but at least explicitly dtype casting looks unnecessary.
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I believe it is required for source and dest to be the same dtype. This is only for the Triton backend which the output recurrent state is always fp32.
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Interesting... I know that FlashKDA internally downcasts state dtype to BF16, and correctness seems fine, so maybe we can fuse dtype conversion with state gather/scatter as well (with a mini Triton kernel) -> we can use FlashInfer BF16 prefill even when vLLM stores state as FP32. Just a future idea, non-blocking.
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| def test_flashinfer_kda_prefill_correctness(): |
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Is it possible to unify KDA prefill test with FlashKDA? so the inputs creation and test harness is the same.
FlashKDA currently also has a test for instability test_flashkda_near_collinear_keys_remain_finite. Can you add FlashInfer prefill to that test as well?
| run_flashinfer_decode() | ||
| conv_actual.copy_(conv_seed) | ||
| state_actual.copy_(state_seed) | ||
| graph = torch.cuda.CUDAGraph() | ||
| with torch.cuda.graph(graph): | ||
| actual = run_flashinfer_decode() | ||
| conv_actual.copy_(conv_seed) | ||
| state_actual.copy_(state_seed) | ||
| graph.replay() | ||
| torch.accelerator.synchronize() |
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Why does FlashInfer decode correctness test run under CUDA graph? Is it necessary? I think whatever you choose, just make sure it's consistent between the native kernel and the flashinfer one within the same test
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In `@tests/models/kimi_k3/test_kda.py`:
- Around line 1314-1329: Strengthen the state validation in the test around
_run_kda_prefill_backend so it verifies the returned final_state against the
reference implementation’s state, rather than only checking finiteness. Ensure
the comparison detects whether FlashInfer updates the supplied initial_state,
using a non-zero initial state if needed while preserving the existing output
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Yes only bf16 is supported now.
I believe the flashinfer kernel does not support the DS layout yet. So we should keep the native kernel.
I think you are right. I let agent tried optimizing the Triton kernel and there seems to be speedup. I will take a more detailed look and follow up with this. |
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LGTM
I let agent tried optimizing the Triton kernel and there seems to be speedup. I will take a more detailed look and follow up with this.
I'm just curious from kernel perf perspective. If FlashInfer decode is still faster, we can keep the code as is
| q=q.contiguous(), | ||
| k=k.contiguous(), | ||
| v=v.contiguous(), | ||
| g=raw_g.contiguous(), | ||
| beta=raw_beta.contiguous(), | ||
| A_log=A_log.contiguous(), | ||
| dt_bias=dt_bias.contiguous(), | ||
| scale=q.shape[-1] ** -0.5, | ||
| initial_state=initial_state.contiguous(), | ||
| output_final_state=False, | ||
| use_qk_l2norm_in_kernel=True, | ||
| use_gate_in_kernel=True, | ||
| lower_bound=lower_bound, | ||
| cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens.contiguous(), |
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Q: Does FlashInfer prefill require all inputs to be fully contiguous? I know FlashKDA requires it, so it was needed. Asking in case FlashInfer prefill doesn't have this restriction but your agent mistakenly copied it over.
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Do you know if the input tensors are contiguous from upstream? If they are then we don't need to worry.
We can later analyze the nsys profile to see if there requires any optimization. for now let's go with the safe approach.
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vLLM should use fully contiguous tensors here because the codepath was optimized for FlashKDA, which requires it. Yea we can keep it like that for now.
Ideally all prefill backends should support row-strided tensors, at least for QKV, so that we can simplify some code.
| recurrent_state[non_spec_state_indices_tensor] = last_recurrent_state | ||
| recurrent_state[non_spec_state_indices_tensor] = ( | ||
| last_recurrent_state.to(recurrent_state.dtype) | ||
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Interesting... I know that FlashKDA internally downcasts state dtype to BF16, and correctness seems fine, so maybe we can fuse dtype conversion with state gather/scatter as well (with a mini Triton kernel) -> we can use FlashInfer BF16 prefill even when vLLM stores state as FP32. Just a future idea, non-blocking.
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This is referring to the recurrent decode kernel which supports speculative decoding, which I haven't included the flashinfer one in this PR due to some issues and the perf is not great yet anyway. We can tried to optimize the Triton kernel if there is room in the short term. Long term hopefully the flashinfer perf will improve. |
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the precommit failure seems from main. I will wait for it to clear in main and rebase and restart CI. |
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Add opt-in FlashInfer recurrent prefill and fused decode support for Kimi-K3 KDA, including BF16 state handling, backend capability checks, graph replay support, and focused tests. Signed-off-by: wzhao18 <wzhao18.sz@gmail.com>
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| parser.add_argument( | ||
| "--kda-prefill-backend", | ||
| dest="kda_prefill_backend", | ||
| choices=["auto", "triton", "flashkda"], | ||
| choices=["auto", "triton", "flashkda", "flashinfer"], | ||
| default=None, | ||
| help="Select KDA prefill backend.", | ||
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| parser.add_argument( | ||
| "--kda-decode-backend", | ||
| dest="kda_decode_backend", | ||
| choices=["auto", "native", "flashinfer", "triton"], | ||
| default=None, | ||
| help="Select KDA decode backend.", | ||
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Not the fault of this PR, but why are these explicitly and exclusively defined in EngineArgs via additional_config?
Wouldn't it make more sense for these (and gdn_prefill_backend) to live in KernelConfig? That is where moe_backend & linear_backend live
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Thanks for noticing this. guess we would need to clean this up in a following PR.
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- Around line 52-53: Update _assert_matches_shared_gdn so the checks for
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the new FlashInfer-field checks reachable.
_assert_matches_shared_gdn iterates fields(GDNAttentionMetadata), but both fields added at Line 52 and Line 53 are declared only on KimiK3KDAMetadata. The loop never visits them, so the test still passes if either field is populated. Assert both attributes directly, or iterate the concrete metadata fields.
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In `@tests/models/kimi_k3/test_kda_metadata.py` around lines 52 - 53, Update
_assert_matches_shared_gdn so the checks for flashinfer_prefill_query_start_loc
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Purpose
This PR adds the following:
Microbenchmark: FlashInfer fused BF16 vs. Triton BF16 fallback
The prefill kernel is currently slower than flashKDA. The better version will be included in the next release of flashinfer.
E2E 8k1k performance with flashinfer KDA decode:
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