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[Bugfix][Kimi-K3] Declare max_tp_shards on the DSpark MLA KV cache spec - #59733
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vllm-project#57652 sets max_tp_shards=1 on MLAAttention's KV cache spec, but the Kimi-K3 DSpark draft builds its own MLAAttentionSpec without it. The mismatch makes MLAAttentionSpec.merge reject the draft layers, so they no longer share a group with the target's MLA layers. The group size drops from 29 to 5 and Kimi-K3 + DSpark goes from 4 to 20 KV cache groups, adding per-step metadata/block-table work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: hyukjlee <hyukjlee@amd.com>
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Some notes on scope: why only Kimi-K3 + DSpark on ROCm regresses after #57652, and why other target + MTP/draft pairs don't. When #57652 changes grouping. Kimi-K3 + DSpark on ROCm meets that condition. The ROCm target MLA goes through the generic Pairs that are not affected (checked on
So this one-line fix covers every grouping regression from #57652 on Remaining Independent measurement. We saw the same effect on MI355X TP8, Kimi-K3 + DSpark k=7, conc 4, no KV offload, 3 seeds per arm:
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Thanks for the point fix.
cc. @varun-sundar-rabindranath @LucasWilkinson for a second eye.
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The DSpark draft was missing max_tp_shards=1, so it stopped sharing a KV group with the target. K3 went from 4 groups to 20. This one line puts them back together. MI355X TP8: 701 to 727 tok/s/GPU, TPOT 11.47 to 11.09 ms, back to the nightly before the regression. GSM8K 0.9636. CI passed. Good to land after a rebase onto main. |
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Overview
Fixes a Kimi-K3 + DSpark perf regression from #57652: the K3 DSpark draft's
MLAAttentionSpecdoes not declaremax_tp_shards, so its MLA layers stop merging with the target's and the KV cache splits from 4 to 20 groups. One-line fix: declaremax_tp_shards=1on the draft spec, matchingMLAAttention.Claims
main).kv_tp_replicas(KDA layers already pin the gcd to 1).Validation
Unit test (
tests/models/test_dspark_mla.py::test_k3_dspark_mla_kv_cache_spec_groups_with_target_mla): builds the target spec viaMLAAttention.get_kv_cache_specand the draft spec via the K3MultiHeadLatentAttention.get_kv_cache_spec, then groups 24 target + 5 draft layers with_get_kv_cache_groups_uniform_page_size.AssertionError: assert 6 == 1Run inside
vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:nightly-rocm100-ac9126e5…withpython -m pytest -q tests/models/test_dspark_mla.py -k k3_dspark_mla_kv_cache_spec.pre-commitpasses on both files.End-to-end: Kimi-K3 (MXFP4) + Kimi-K3-DSpark, MI355X ×8, TP8, exact InferenceX CI serve command (DSpark k=7 synthetic AL 3.84, fp8 KV,
SimpleCPUOffloadConnector, FULL cudagraph,--max-num-seqs 16). Client:vllm bench serve --dataset-name random --random-input-len 8192 --random-output-len 1024 --ignore-eos --max-concurrency 8 --num-prompts 80, 3 seeds per arm after a 16-prompt warmup, same host, arms run back to back.36768d1(before #57652)ac9126e(includes #57652)ac9126e+ revert #57652ac9126e+ this PRPer-seed median TPOT for this PR: 11.10 / 10.99 / 11.18 ms (vs 11.43 / 11.44 / 11.54 without it). The regression was first seen in InferenceX CI on the K3 agentic c8 cell (
kimik3 fp4 mi355x vllm TP8 mtp dram KV offload vllm-simple c8): −6.1% total throughput/GPU and −16.6% p90 interactivity between the two nightlies.Accuracy (gsm8k): same server config but with real DSpark verification (
"rejection_sample_method": "block", no synthetic acceptance length), evaluated with the InferenceX CI lm-eval setup:lm_eval --model local-chat-completions --apply_chat_template --tasks gsm8k(5-shot, CI task YAML), full 1319-question test set,temperature=0,max_tokens=16384,num_concurrent=16.ac9126e+ this PRMean DSpark acceptance length during the eval was ~3.0, confirming real verification.
Details
Root cause. #57652 added
AttentionSpec.max_tp_shardsand set it to1inMLAAttention.get_kv_cache_spec.vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/mla.py(used for the K3 target on NVIDIA and for the DSpark draft on both vendors) builds its ownMLAAttentionSpecand leaves itNone. On ROCm the K3 target usesMLAAttention(1) while the draft uses this class (None), soMLAAttentionSpec.merge's per-fieldAttentionSpecequality check rejects them._get_kv_cache_groups_uniform_page_sizethen sees buckets of 69 KDA / 24 target MLA / 5 draft MLA layers instead of 69 / 29, the group size drops from 29 to 5, and the group count goes from 4 (3 KDA + 1 MLA) to 20 (14 + 5 + 1). The server log showskv cache group sizesgrowing from 4 to 20 entries andAdd 1 padding layerstwice instead ofAdd 18 padding layers.Why 20 groups is slower.
_build_attention_metadatabuilds per KV cache group each step, and neither the ROCm K3 KDA builder nor the AITER MLA builder supportsupdate_block_tablereuse, so every extra group is a fullbuilder.build()plus its own block-table/slot-mapping work.Why
1is correct. The draft's MLA latent KV has a single head and is replicated across TP ranks, same asMLAAttention. On NVIDIA the target and draft both go fromNoneto1, so they still merge and grouping does not change.kv_tp_replicasremains 1 for K3 because its KDA (Mamba) layers contribute 1 to the gcd, so offloading behavior is unchanged.Not duplicate. No open PR sets
max_tp_shardson the K3 draft spec. #57942 (draft) adds a separate AMD DSpark MLA module, and #58207 changes the group-size heuristic. Both are broader and neither fixes this mismatch onmain. This PR is the minimal fix for the regression.Pull Request Checklist
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