sdpa: enable per-tensor FP8 prefill on SM107 (Rubin) via a sibling kernel

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Summary

Enables the FROST per-tensor FP8 d128 SDPA prefill engine on SM107 (Rubin, cc10.7) via the Rubin sibling-kernel pattern from skills/cutedsl-kernel-integration (the grouped_gemm_{quant,glu,dglu} precedent): prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py is a verbatim copy of the SM100 per-tensor FP8 kernel with the Rubin geometry baked in, so future SM107 levers never touch the shipping Blackwell kernel.

Rubin deltas baked into the sibling:

• dense FP8 MMA at K=64 per instruction (idesc k_dim=1 + TILE_K_HW=64, kept in lockstep — the Rubin 2xFP8 path; K=32 idles half the MMA rate there, while k_dim=1 is silently wrong on Blackwell, which is why this cannot be a shared-file flag)
• KV ring deepened to 9 stages (GR100 SMEM; Blackwell fp8 fits 4)
• THD O-descriptor row stride taken from the O tensor (QH * d_v) — inherits the fix proposed for the SM100 file in the companion PR

Shipping-file diff is two dispatch hunks: the template loader routes per-tensor FP8 to the SM107 module when the device is cc10.7, and check_support admits cc10.7 for this path only (f16 and MXFP8 keep declining until ported). config_sm100.py is untouched — the sibling overrides its two geometry fields post-validation via dataclasses.replace.

Validation

part	result
SM100 (cc10.0)	31 passed — Blackwell module behaviorally identical, full fp8 e2e suite
SM107 (cc10.7 board)	31 passed — fp8 e2e suite end to end through the SM107 module (causal / bottom-right / SWA / padded / sink / stats, e4m3+e5m2, all output dtypes vs the fp32 dequant reference)

Requires the internal cutlass DSL wheel (sm_107a + cutlass.experimental.primitives); the module is only ever loaded on cc10.7.

Notes for reviewers

• Companion (independent) PR fixes the same THD stride line in the SM100 fp8 kernel.
• frost(sdpa): has_lse specialization for the FP8/MXFP8 SM100 flavors #574 touches the SM100 fp8 kernel (has_lse specialization); whichever lands second should refresh the sibling copy — flagged here so it isn't missed.
• Follow-up stack (board-validated): fused LDTM row-max, f16x2 MUFU softmax, and row-sum-in-MMA (cumulatively −24.9% at 65k, ahead of the cuDNN backend from 16k up), then THD enablement + d≤128 envelope + a cga=1 short-sequence config that leads the vr200 irregular ViT cases. All land in the SM107 file only.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for FP8 scaled dot-product attention on Rubin SM107 hardware.
  • Supports varied tensor layouts, masking modes, grouped-query attention, variable-length inputs, and FP8/BF16/FP16 outputs.
  • Added automatic routing to the appropriate SM107 or SM100 implementation based on hardware and configuration.

• Bug Fixes

  • Preserved existing routing behavior for configurations not supported on SM107.

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Walkthrough

This change adds a Rubin SM107 FP8 prefill SDPA kernel, routes compatible cc10.7 per-tensor FP8 workloads to it, preserves other SM100 routing, and adds device-independent routing and geometry tests.

Changes

Rubin FP8 SDPA

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rubin routing and capability validation python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fp8_sm107.py	The API DSL adds SM107 module selection for Rubin per-tensor FP8. Capability checks accept cc10.7 only for that configuration. Tests validate SM107 and unchanged SM100 routing constants.
SM107 kernel setup and memory pipeline python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py	The new kernel defines Rubin-specific FP8 MMA descriptors, TMEM layout, clustered execution, persistent TMA loading, and dense or THD output storage.
Attention computation and output epilogues python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py	The kernel implements MMA, masking, online softmax, statistics, normalization, sink handling, amax accumulation, and FP8, BF16, or FP16 output paths.
Host launch and cached compilation python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py	The launcher creates TMA descriptors and launch grids, constructs THD output descriptors, and compiles the complete runtime ABI with cached fake tensors.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8243d

The new SM107 path can allow BF16/FP16 output variants that exceed the device shared-memory limit and fail at launch; merge should wait for those variants to be rejected or guarded, despite the validated FP8 behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDPA_API_DSL
  participant CapabilityValidation
  participant KernelModuleLoader
  participant SM107_Prefill_Kernel
  SDPA_API_DSL->>CapabilityValidation: validate cc10.7 per-tensor FP8
  CapabilityValidation->>KernelModuleLoader: select Rubin SM107 module
  KernelModuleLoader->>SM107_Prefill_Kernel: load and compile kernel

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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py (1)

26-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the inherited Blackwell comments to the Rubin geometry. The module is a verbatim copy of prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py, so several comments still describe Blackwell values that Line 77 overrides (TILE_K_HW_BMM1=64, TILE_K_HW_BMM2=64, STAGES_KV=9). The stated geometry is safety-relevant here, because the header itself notes that k_dim=1 is wrong on Blackwell.

• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py#L26-L35: correct the inherited "cga2-only, STAGES_KV=4" and "FP8 MMA uses the Blackwell K=32 QMMA path" statements, or mark them explicitly as superseded by the Rubin deltas listed above.
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py#L217-L218: replace "Blackwell SM10.0 512-col TMEM cap" with the SM107 TMEM cap that TOTAL_COLS = 512 relies on.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py` around lines 26 -
35, Update the inherited geometry comments in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py:26-35 to describe the
Rubin overrides for TILE_K_HW_BMM1, TILE_K_HW_BMM2, and STAGES_KV, explicitly
marking superseded Blackwell statements where needed. At
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py:217-218, replace the
Blackwell SM10.0 TMEM-cap description with the applicable SM107 cap supporting
TOTAL_COLS = 512.

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Inline comments:
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py`:
- Around line 71-87: Add a post-override SMEM validation in the SM107
configuration path after CFG is replaced with STAGES_KV=9, rejecting BF16 and
FP16 DTYPE_O configurations before cute.compile when their allocation exceeds
the SM107 limit; preserve valid FP8 configurations.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py`:
- Around line 26-35: Update the inherited geometry comments in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py:26-35 to describe the
Rubin overrides for TILE_K_HW_BMM1, TILE_K_HW_BMM2, and STAGES_KV, explicitly
marking superseded Blackwell statements where needed. At
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py:217-218, replace the
Blackwell SM10.0 TMEM-cap description with the applicable SM107 cap supporting
TOTAL_COLS = 512.

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