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  • New Features

    • Added configurable tile scheduling for supported attention workloads, including natural, LPT, and L2-aware LPT strategies.
    • Improved causal-attention scheduling by selecting L2-aware grouping when beneficial.
    • Added support for grouped-query attention and variable key/value sequence lengths across execution paths.
    • Extended scheduler support across supported SM100 and SM120 execution paths.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified reduction and quantization swizzle documentation.

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Added LPT and LPT-L2 scheduling for SM100 and SM120 SDPA prefill kernels. Added shared tile decoders, causal policy selection, flattened launch grids, and grouped-query and KV sequence metadata propagation.

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SDPA LPT scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scheduler decoding and dispatch contracts
python/cudnn/frost/tile_dsl/scheduler.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/_common_sm100.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/config_sm100.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/config_sm120.py
Added linear and L2-aware tile decoders. Dispatch now handles scheduler policies and grouped-query metadata.
Causal scheduler policy selection
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py
Causal compilation selects LPT or LPT-L2 using the 50 MiB working-set threshold.
SM120 launch and decode scheduling
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_f16_sm120.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py
SM120 kernels accept scheduler policies, use flattened grids for non-natural policies, and decode flattened tile indices.
SM100 kernel decode metadata propagation
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_*_sm100.py
SM100 kernel paths pass qh_per_kh and seqlen_kv through warp-group calls and tile decoding.
Documentation cleanup
python/cudnn/frost/tile_dsl/pointwise.py, test/python/sdpa/mxfp8_quant.py
Removed obsolete implementation references from documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ed84

The PR adds LPT_L2 scheduling paths, but invalid grouped-query ratios are not rejected before head division and unsupported SM120 scheduler values can silently fall back to LPT. This creates a bounded correctness risk for invalid configurations; the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SDPACompilation
  participant PrefillKernel
  participant SchedulerDecoder
  SDPACompilation->>PrefillKernel: pass selected sched_policy
  PrefillKernel->>SchedulerDecoder: decode flattened tile index
  SchedulerDecoder-->>PrefillKernel: return tile, head, and batch coordinates
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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py (1)

1809-1812: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject unsupported SM120 scheduler values.

Line 1810 removes the API validation for sched_policy. The SM120 kernel decodes every non-natural policy other than SCHED_LPT_L2 as LPT. A value such as 99 therefore changes scheduling silently. Validate sched_policy against SCHED_NATURAL, SCHED_LPT, and SCHED_LPT_L2 before compilation.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1809 - 1812, Restore
validation of sched_policy in the SM120 SDPA API before compilation, allowing
only SCHED_NATURAL, SCHED_LPT, and SCHED_LPT_L2; reject all other values instead
of letting them be decoded as LPT. Add this check alongside the existing cga
validation in the relevant constructor or setup path.
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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/_common_sm100.py (1)

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Remove the shadowed local decoder definitions.

Lines 13-14 import the shared decoder functions. Local functions at python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/_common_sm100.py lines 18-83 redefine the same names and shadow these imports. Remove the local copies so SM100 uses python/cudnn/frost/tile_dsl/scheduler.py as the single implementation.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/_common_sm100.py` around lines 10 - 15, Remove
the local definitions of decode_linear_tile_lpt and decode_linear_tile_lpt_l2
from the SM100 common kernel module, preserving the imports from the scheduler
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_f16_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1460-1466: Reformat the flattened-grid expressions in the grid
tuples using Black with a 160-character line length, without changing behavior:
update python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_f16_sm120.py lines 1460-1466 and
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py lines 1503-1509. Apply
formatting only to the matching grid expressions.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 1809-1812: Restore validation of sched_policy in the SM120 SDPA
API before compilation, allowing only SCHED_NATURAL, SCHED_LPT, and
SCHED_LPT_L2; reject all other values instead of letting them be decoded as LPT.
Add this check alongside the existing cga validation in the relevant constructor
or setup path.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/_common_sm100.py`:
- Around line 10-15: Remove the local definitions of decode_linear_tile_lpt and
decode_linear_tile_lpt_l2 from the SM100 common kernel module, preserving the
imports from the scheduler module so all callers use the shared implementations.
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# working set fits this budget -- that is the condition under which the
# block-cyclic grouping can actually keep that K/V resident; otherwise plain
# reverse-row LPT.
_SCHED_L2_BUDGET_BYTES = 50 * 1024 * 1024

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Should this value vary across different arches (e.g., SM100, SM120) and GPUs (e.g., for RTX PRO 5000/6000, RTX 5080/5090) ?

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In `@python/cudnn/frost/tile_dsl/scheduler.py`:
- Around line 29-31: Update lpt_l2_tile_coords to validate that heads_per_kv is
positive and divides q_h evenly before performing the n_kh integer division;
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def lpt_l2_tile_coords(linear, q_h, batch, q_tiles, heads_per_kv, seqlen_kv, kv_bytes_per_row, l2_bytes):
n_kh = q_h // heads_per_kv
num_groups = n_kh * batch

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Validate the grouped-query ratio before integer division.

The SM100 call path passes qh_per_kh directly into lpt_l2_tile_coords and later uses it for head division. Enforce heads_per_kv > 0 and q_h % heads_per_kv == 0 before the helper runs.

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In `@python/cudnn/frost/tile_dsl/scheduler.py` around lines 29 - 31, Update
lpt_l2_tile_coords to validate that heads_per_kv is positive and divides q_h
evenly before performing the n_kh integer division; reject invalid ratios before
any grouped-query calculations proceed.

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