frost(sdpa): #608 follow-ups — stale THD docs; FP8 scales fold in-kernel (Rule 3, Scale_S gone below the graph); baked 2^4 P-cast bias - #619
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR moves per-tensor FP8 scales to CUDA-resident tensors for SM100, SM107, and SM120 SDPA kernels. It updates kernel scaling, launch and compilation paths, tests, MXFP8 casting, and THD launch documentation. ChangesFP8 device-scale execution
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR moves FP8 scale folding to device tensors and removes S-scale application. At the current head, scale inputs are not fully validated, some post-launch operations may run on a different stream than the kernel, and unsupported S scales are silently accepted and ignored; this can cause incorrect results, stream races, or device-pointer failures, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 2348-2365: Update _execute_fp8 to resolve current_stream before
creating cached scale and sequence-length fallback tensors. Wrap the _dummy
factories, including torch.ones and torch.zeros allocations, in
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device) so cache-miss initialization runs
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- Around line 1660-1668: The copy-back and output-scale operations in the shown
forward path must execute on current_stream to avoid racing the launched kernel.
Wrap O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() within
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), preserving the existing
o_needs_copy_back and amax_o/device_scales branching.
- Around line 498-509: The _checked_scale_view method must require each device
scale to be exactly one contiguous FP32 element located on Q’s device, rejecting
other CUDA devices and non-contiguous or incorrectly sized tensors. Update its
validation accordingly and return the validated tensor with view(1), avoiding
reshape or slicing.
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py`:
- Around line 767-770: Restrict the device_scales path in the engine
configuration so SM100 graphs are accepted only when both descale_s and scale_s
are exactly 1.0; reroute or decline other SM100 cases instead of enabling
unsupported S-scale semantics. Preserve device scales for supported
architectures and locate the change near the facts.is_fp8 assignment.
Apply the same fix in `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1586 -
1591: API acceptance must reject or reroute unsupported non-unit S-scale
requests.
Apply the same fix in `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py` around
lines 323 - 356: The test currently expects reciprocal non-unit S scales to be
exact and must reflect the required rejection or rerouting behavior.
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| def _checked_scale_view(self, t, name: str) -> torch.Tensor: | ||
| """Validate a device-resident per-tensor scale and return its | ||
| 1-element fp32 view (the ``device_scales`` execute contract).""" | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device.type != "cuda", | ||
| f"device_scales: {name} must be a CUDA tensor; got {type(t).__name__}", | ||
| ) | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1, | ||
| f"device_scales: {name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}", | ||
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Reject invalid device scale tensors.
In device_scales mode, require each scale to be exactly one contiguous FP32 element on Q's device. The current reshape(-1)[:1] can allocate for non-contiguous tensors, and a scale on another CUDA device passes validation but gives the kernel an invalid pointer. Return t.view(1) after validation.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 498 - 509, The
_checked_scale_view method must require each device scale to be exactly one
contiguous FP32 element located on Q’s device, rejecting other CUDA devices and
non-contiguous or incorrectly sized tensors. Update its validation accordingly
and return the validated tensor with view(1), avoiding reshape or slicing.
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| if o_needs_copy_back: | ||
| O_view.copy_(O) | ||
| if amax_o is not None: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) | ||
| if self.device_scales: | ||
| # Device divisor: the same div the host path does, minus the | ||
| # readback. scale_o > 0 is the caller contract (backend parity). | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) | ||
| else: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) |
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Run post-launch consumers on current_stream.
When o_needs_copy_back is true or amax_o is provided, run O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device). These operations otherwise use PyTorch's current stream and can race the kernel launched on current_stream.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1660 - 1668, The copy-back and
output-scale operations in the shown forward path must execute on current_stream
to avoid racing the launched kernel. Wrap O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_()
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| if self.device_scales: | ||
| # Rule 3: the scales stay on device — the kernel loads and folds | ||
| # dq*dk into the softmax scale, ds*dv*so into o_scale_fused, and | ||
| # ss into scale_s. scale_o > 0 is the caller contract (amax div). | ||
| dq_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_q, "descale_q") | ||
| dk_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_k, "descale_k") | ||
| dv_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_v, "descale_v") | ||
| so_t = self._checked_scale_view(scale_o, "scale_o") | ||
| ds_t = ( | ||
| self._checked_scale_view(descale_s, "descale_s") | ||
| if descale_s is not None | ||
| else self._dummy("one_f32", q_tensor.device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q_tensor.device)) | ||
| ) | ||
| ss_t = ( | ||
| self._checked_scale_view(scale_s, "scale_s") | ||
| if scale_s is not None | ||
| else self._dummy("one_f32", q_tensor.device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q_tensor.device)) | ||
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Resolve the launch stream before creating fallback tensors.
_execute_fp8() creates cached scale and sequence-length dummies before resolving current_stream. On a cache miss, their torch.ones/torch.zeros factories allocate and initialize tensors on PyTorch’s current stream. Resolve current_stream first and run these allocations inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device).
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774-781: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the six device-scale tensors to the direct template call.
SM120FusedMultiHeadAttentionForward.__call__now requires six one-element FP32 CUDA tensors afterscale_s. This call passesthd_max_sqin thedescale_q_tslot and omits the remaining arguments. The tail tests fail before the kernel launches.Proposed fix
+ unit_scale = torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev) fn( q8, k8, v8, o, @@ cutlass.Float32(scale * math.log2(math.e)), cutlass.Float32(1.0), cutlass.Float32(1.0), + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, cutlass.Int32(0),🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py`:
- Around line 8-12: Enforce the exact unit S-scale pair in the SM100 and SM107
prefill FP8 kernels: reject or route any request where descale_s or scale_s is
not exactly 1.0, without reading device values on the host. Update the
limitation documentation in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py lines 8-12 and
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py lines 24-28; replace the
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm120.py`:
- Around line 774-781: Update the direct SM120 forward call around
SM120FusedMultiHeadAttentionForward.__call__ to pass six one-element FP32 CUDA
device-scale tensors immediately after scale_s, in the order required by the
signature, before thd_max_sq and the remaining dense-path arguments. Ensure
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| warps, persistent try_cancel scheduler). Per-tensor descales are LOADED | ||
| IN-KERNEL from 1-element device tensors and folded into scale_softmax_log2 / | ||
| o_scale_fused (Rule 3 — no host readback); o_scale_fused feeds the correction | ||
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Enforce the SM100 and SM107 S-scale contract.
Ignoring descale_s and scale_s accepts a requested operation that these kernels cannot implement. A non-unit pair can change FP8 P-cast rounding and underflow. Route non-unit controls to a supporting engine, or reject them before execution without reading device values on the host.
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py#L8-L12: remove the ignored-controls contract and document the enforced limitation.python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py#L24-L28: apply the same limitation.test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py#L323-L335: replace the equality assertion for non-reciprocal controls with rejection or fallback coverage.
Based on learnings: “accept only the exact unit pair (descale_s == 1.0 and scale_s == 1.0); reciprocal values are not equivalent because they alter quantization rounding and underflow behavior.”
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py` around lines 8 - 12,
Enforce the exact unit S-scale pair in the SM100 and SM107 prefill FP8 kernels:
reject or route any request where descale_s or scale_s is not exactly 1.0,
without reading device values on the host. Update the limitation documentation
in python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py lines 8-12 and
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test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py lines 323-335 with rejection
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…ved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR NVIDIA#608 review: - The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH, host-computed)'. Since NVIDIA#606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no such comment.) - python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by NVIDIA#552/NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list — dropped; the list keeps only the live ones. Comment/docs-only — no code change.
…ack, one compile form The per-tensor FP8 execute paths (SM100/SM107 dense, SM120 dense+THD) folded descale_q*descale_k into the softmax scale and descale_[s*]v*scale_o into o_scale_fused via host .item() reads of the caller's device scale tensors — a D2H sync on every graph execute and the last big hole in the zero-host-read / CUDA-graph-capture story (AGENTS.md Rule 3). Kernel side: the per-tensor kernels now take descale_q/k/v + scale_o as UNCONDITIONAL 1-element fp32 tensor params — one compile form, no flag. Every thread loads them (same address -> L2 broadcast) and folds exactly like the old host path; the scalar args carry only attn_scale*log2(e) and 1.0. Adapter side: execute binds the caller's tensors directly (None binds a cached 1.0 — the direct-API identity), and amax_o divides by the DEVICE scale_o (the same div_ as before, minus the readback; scale_o > 0 is caller contract, matching the backend). _scalar and every .item() are gone; the AGENTS.md known-violation entry is retired. Scale_S/Descale_S are EXPUNGED from every layer below the graph: the lowering no longer resolves or forwards them (the graph still binds the op's tensors; they are simply never read), the binding drops them, the execute()/_execute_fp8 signatures lost the parameters, and the kernels never take them: - SM100/SM107 always cast P unscaled; the execute-time reciprocal check was itself a Rule 3 readback — deleted with its rationale helper. The old declines test becomes test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignored (wild non-reciprocal pair -> bitwise-identical O). - SM120's Scale_S machinery (scale_s kernel arg, log2_scale_s exp2 bias, inv_scale_s row_sum de-scale, descale_s in the output fold) is REMOVED; test_fp8_sm120_s_scales_are_actually_applied goes with it. Also repairs test_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_direct's direct-call helper (_run_template_tail) for the current kernel ABI. Those ten L1 tests had been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since PR NVIDIA#608 grew the kernel signature under them (NVIDIA#595's rewrite fixed it once; this ABI change would have re-broken it) — they were never numeric failures. With the helper repaired they pass 10/10. Tests: sync-debug-pinned device-scale execute tests on both arches (the graph execute now runs under torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2), which the old .item() path cannot survive).
…ernels The fp8-family kernels quantized the softmax result P to fp8 at unit scale. P after the online-softmax max subtraction is bounded by 2**RESCALE_THRESHOLD (4.0 for the fp8 dtypes — the lazy-rescale skip's slack), so unit-scale casting used at most 2^4 of e4m3's 448 range while flat-row entries (P ~ 1/S) sat near the format's subnormal cliff (~2^-9), losing relative precision from S ~ 512 up. Bake a constant P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE = 4.0 into each kernel (fp8 SM100/SM107/ SM120 and MXFP8 SM100 — MXFP8's block SFs cover Q/K/V, not P): P is cast as P * 2^4, so the cast peaks at 2^(4+4) = 256 < 448 — no saturation — and flat rows stay in e4m3's normal range out to S ~ 2^13. The invariant RESCALE_THRESHOLD + P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE <= log2(448) is documented at each constant. (This is NOT cuDNN's Scale_S — that knob no longer exists below the graph; the bias is an internal quantization choice.) The bias is numerically free everywhere except the improved quantization: it rides the exp2 argument (EX2 is binade-shift-exact), scaling by 2^4 commutes exactly with fp accumulation, and each kernel's structure keeps the bookkeeping exact — - SM100/SM107/MXFP8: total_sum accumulates in the same 2^4 units, so the O normalization (O_acc / total_sum) cancels the bias outright; the LSE subtracts the constant, and the sink denominator term is lifted into the same units. - SM120: row_sum is de-scaled by the EXACT 2^-4 before the finalize paths (sink mix, rcp, zero-row guards and LSE run on bit-identical true sums); the O leg's 2^4 cancels against a 2^-4 folded into o_scale_fused. Validated non-regressing across the fp8/mxfp8 fwd+bwd sweeps and both arch-specific fp8 files (the >128-head-dim tail accuracy tests pass 10/10 with margin at the tightened quantization).
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790-809: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReject unsupported
descale_s/scale_soperands before selecting the FP8 engine.
mismatch()does not gate these operands, and the SM100/SM107/SM120 kernels ignore them. Non-unit scaling factors are therefore accepted but not applied, producing incorrect FP8 output. Decline graphs that provide unsupported S scales or implement device-side S scaling.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 1612-1618: Wrap the post-kernel operations in the execute path
with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), including O_view.copy_() and
amax_o_buf.div_(so_t), matching SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8. Ensure both
operations execute on and are ordered by the launch stream.
- Around line 460-477: Update _scale_view to require t.device == device, require
exactly one element, and reject non-contiguous tensors before returning a direct
view without reshape-based copying. In SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, resolve
current_stream before calling _scale_view and create the cached scale_one dummy
within _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device); preserve the existing
behavior for valid tensors and both FP8 call sites.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py`:
- Around line 790-809: Before selecting the FP8 engine and constructing
SdpaBinding, validate any descale_s or scale_s operands and reject graphs when
they are provided with non-unit or otherwise unsupported scaling. Ensure
unsupported S scales cannot reach the SM100, SM107, or SM120 kernels unless
device-side S scaling is implemented.
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| def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor: | ||
| """A per-tensor scale as the kernel's 1-element fp32 device view. | ||
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| ``None`` binds a cached 1.0 dummy (identity fold) — the kernels take | ||
| the scale tensors unconditionally so there is exactly one compile | ||
| form and execute never reads a value back to the host (Rule 3).""" | ||
| if t is None: | ||
| return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)) | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device.type != "cuda", | ||
| f"{name} must be a CUDA tensor; got {type(t).__name__}", | ||
| ) | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1, | ||
| f"{name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}", | ||
| ) | ||
| return t.reshape(-1)[:1] | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Fix _scale_view's device, contiguity, and element-count validation.
_scale_view still has the gaps flagged in a prior review on this method (then named _checked_scale_view):
t.device.type != "cuda"only checks the tensor is on some CUDA device. It does not checkt.device == device(the caller'sdeviceparameter,q_tensor.device). A scale tensor on a different GPU passes validation and hands the kernel an invalid pointer for that device context — a crash risk, not just a silent-wrongness risk.t.numel() < 1allows tensors with more than one element through, even though the error message says "must be a 1-element fp32 tensor".reshape(-1)[:1]then silently keeps only the first element instead of erroring.reshape(-1)[:1]can allocate a new contiguous copy whentis not contiguous (and has more than one element), becausereshape()falls back tocontiguous().view()when a view is not possible. That is an unexpected allocation on the execute hot path.
Downstream, this same method is used by both SdpaFwdDslSm100._execute_fp8 and SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, so the fix applies to both call sites.
Also downstream: in SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8 (around L2281-2297), _scale_view is called (and, for None inputs, lazily allocates the cached scale_one dummy via torch.ones) BEFORE current_stream is resolved at L2296-2297. That dummy allocation and initialization therefore runs on whatever is PyTorch's current stream at first use, not on the resolved launch stream. Resolve current_stream first, then run the _dummy factory inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device).
🛡️ Proposed fix
- def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor:
+ def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device, current_stream=None) -> torch.Tensor:
"""A per-tensor scale as the kernel's 1-element fp32 device view.
``None`` binds a cached 1.0 dummy (identity fold) — the kernels take
the scale tensors unconditionally so there is exactly one compile
form and execute never reads a value back to the host (Rule 3)."""
if t is None:
- return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device))
+ with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device):
+ return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device))
self._value_error_if(
- not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device.type != "cuda",
- f"{name} must be a CUDA tensor; got {type(t).__name__}",
+ not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device != device,
+ f"{name} must be a CUDA tensor on {device}; got {getattr(t, 'device', type(t).__name__)}",
)
self._value_error_if(
- t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1,
+ t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() != 1,
f"{name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}",
)
- return t.reshape(-1)[:1]
+ try:
+ return t.view(1)
+ except RuntimeError as exc:
+ raise ValueError(f"{name} must be contiguous; got strides {tuple(t.stride())}") from excCallers pass current_stream through (it is already resolved before _execute_fp8 for SM100; SM120 needs the stream resolved before calling _scale_view).
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 460 - 477, Update _scale_view
to require t.device == device, require exactly one element, and reject
non-contiguous tensors before returning a direct view without reshape-based
copying. In SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, resolve current_stream before calling
_scale_view and create the cached scale_one dummy within
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device); preserve the existing behavior
for valid tensors and both FP8 call sites.
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| if o_needs_copy_back: | ||
| O_view.copy_(O) | ||
| if amax_o is not None: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) | ||
| # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback. | ||
| # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a | ||
| # cached 1.0 above. | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) |
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Run O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() on the launch stream.
This block is not wrapped in _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device). Both operations run on PyTorch's current stream instead, which can race the kernel launched on current_stream when the two differ (e.g., an external stream or CUDA-graph capture). The amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) call is new in this PR (device-tensor division replacing the host-scalar division).
The sibling implementation in SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8 (L2398-2404) already wraps the equivalent block in _torch_stream_context. Apply the same wrap here for consistency with Rule 5 ("every torch operation on the execute path is ordered on the LAUNCH stream").
🔒 Proposed fix
- if o_needs_copy_back:
- O_view.copy_(O)
- if amax_o is not None:
- # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback.
- # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a
- # cached 1.0 above.
- amax_o_buf.div_(so_t)
+ with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device):
+ if o_needs_copy_back:
+ O_view.copy_(O)
+ if amax_o is not None:
+ # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback.
+ # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a
+ # cached 1.0 above.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1612 - 1618, Wrap the
post-kernel operations in the execute path with
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), including O_view.copy_() and
amax_o_buf.div_(so_t), matching SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8. Ensure both
operations execute on and are ordered by the launch stream.
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…m (Rule 5) The execute paths resolved the launch stream but ran their tensor prep on torch's CURRENT stream: _to_bshd's gather copy (non-compact layouts), the cached dummies' first-use zero-fill, _reshape_sf's .contiguous(), and some O-scratch copy-backs / amax post-ops. With an explicit caller stream (the execute-time handle's), that work races the kernel launch — same class of bug as the PR NVIDIA#543 THD-upload race, and flagged by review on PR NVIDIA#608. Fix, uniformly across the five sites (SM100 dense f16 / mxfp8 / fp8, SM120 dense f16 / fp8): resolve current_stream FIRST, run the prep inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), and put the consumers (copy-backs, amax div) in the same context — matching what the THD paths and the amax resets already did. Rebased over NVIDIA#619's device scale-fold: the fp8 paths' _scale_view calls sit inside the wrap too — None binds a cached 1.0 dummy whose first-use torch.ones fill is itself a launch — and the post-kernel amax_o.div_(scale_o view) is a device op inside the consumer wrap. The PyTorch-integration path launches on torch's current stream, where the context is a no-op; only direct graph-API users with an explicit stream were exposed. Validated: SM100 (B200, 9.26) fwd dsl + fp8 + mxfp8 + stream-respect + stream-ordering + async/capture suites L0+L1: 546 passed, 0 failed. SM120 (RTX 5080, 9.24) fwd dsl + fp8 + the same stream suites L0+L1: 173 passed, 17 skipped, 0 failed.
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…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552) Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608) into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling (hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622 prescribed when it removed the legacy leg: - Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch). - MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order, matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else); the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents. - Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120 class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8 THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is unchanged under THD. - Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling. - pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q / seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not declared). - Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA, causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks. Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5 failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node, cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this backend and are green on CI's 9.26). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552) Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608) into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling (hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622 prescribed when it removed the legacy leg: - Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch). - MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order, matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else); the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents. - Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120 class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8 THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is unchanged under THD. - Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling. - pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q / seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not declared). - Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA, causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks. Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5 failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node, cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this backend and are green on CI's 9.26). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552) Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608) into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling (hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622 prescribed when it removed the legacy leg: - Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch). - MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order, matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else); the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents. - Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120 class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8 THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is unchanged under THD. - Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling. - pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q / seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not declared). - Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA, causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks. Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5 failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node, cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this backend and are green on CI's 9.26). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue #552) (#648) * frost(sdpa): THD/varlen on the FP8/MXFP8 SM100/SM107 forward engines via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue #552) Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs #606/#608) into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling (hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port #622 prescribed when it removed the legacy leg: - Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch). - MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order, matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else); the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents. - Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120 class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8 THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (#602/#619); the amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is unchanged under THD. - Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling. - pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q / seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not declared). - Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA, causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks. Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5 failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node, cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this backend and are green on CI's 9.26). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(sdpa): PR #648 review fixes — sdpa_mxfp8 cu_seq_len docstring; E741 renames in the new mxfp8 tests - sdpa_mxfp8 docstring: document cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv (prefix-sum semantics, mutual exclusion with seq_len_*, cuDNN 9.24+), matching the sdpa / sdpa_fp8 documentation. - test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py: rename the six new call sites' O locals to o_out/o_ref (Ruff E741); pre-existing sites unchanged. Not-applicable findings, verified: the dead-unit TMA-load concern is unreachable (THD compiles always carry MASK_PADDED — _mask_flags_from forces it for thd_varlen and _validate_knobs raises otherwise — so the loader's masked-bounds branch resolves the dead unit's empty KV range from the device metadata); test_fp8_thd_leg_loads is already L0 via the file's module-level pytestmark. Validated against the LATEST 9.26 backend (9.26.0.33, headers + libs): fp8/mxfp8/sm107 suites 80 passed (including both cu_seq_len tests the local 9.23 backend gates), f16 THD suite 193 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(sdpa): rebase follow-ups — #658 split-kv direct-call tests on the THD ABI; #661 d192 kernels join the shared FP8-family ABI; hoist _thd_lse_tokens_cap - test_sdpa_fwd_split_kv_sm100: the fp8/mxfp8 legs drive the kernel hosts positionally and predate the THD ABI (o_desc_words + n_thd_units, both dense-folded) — pass the same dummies the f16 leg already does. - prefill_d192_d128_{fp8,mxfp8}_sm100 (#661, dense-only): accept the same dense-folded THD ABI slots as their d128 siblings so the adapter's launch shape stays uniform across the SM100 FP8 family (the kernels never read them; CFG.THD_VARLEN=1 still fails at trace time — the engine rows and a check_support gate keep THD routed to d128/d128 only). - api_dsl: the THD LSE token-capacity rule (token-major and COMPACT head-major join the packed-Q floor; head-major with a declared stride carries its own extent) was triplicated across the SM100 executes — one documented helper (_thd_lse_tokens_cap) now owns the subtlety. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(sdpa): fix mhas fp8/mxfp8 ragged NaNs — clamp K/V TMA past the packed total; dead-row O := 0 on zero-length KV Two bugs surfaced by the frost:rel:sdpa:sm100 CI mhas fp8 ragged sweeps (gitlab job 404201758, 16 failures): 1. NaN-poisoned capacity tails: test_mhas_v2 NaN-fills the ragged capacity tail past the packed total, and the last sequence's KV envelope tile loads step into it. The padding mask kills those columns in S (NaN-safe select), but BMM2 still computes P(0) . V(NaN) = NaN. Fix: the THD setup kernel (build_thd_meta_o_kv_descs_kernel) now also emits runtime K/V TMA descriptors with GLOBAL_DIM clamped to the device-side packed total cu_k[B] — tail loads land as TMA OOB zero-fill, zero host reads. The fp8/mxfp8 mainloops read them from two extra o_desc_words slots. 2. Zero-length KV sequences (e.g. seq_len_kv=[0, 83, 77]): an empty mainloop never writes the O TMEM, and the epilogue's `o_chunk * inv_sum(=0)` cannot zero the garbage when it happens to be NaN (uninitialized TMEM on the sequence's first tile). Port the f16 dead-row contract (O := 0, LSE := -inf) into the fp8 sm100/sm107 and mxfp8 epilogues: `row_dead = total_sum <= 0` hoisted above the sink branch, and the stored O elements (plus amax_o inputs) selected to 0 explicitly. Tests: frost fp8/mxfp8 suites get NaN-poisoned capacity tails in _dense_buf (mhas parity) and new zero-length-KV THD regression tests; mhas fp8 fwd+bwd ragged L0 sweeps now 46/46 x3 runs, frost fp8/mxfp8/split-kv/sm107 suites 166/166 on cuDNN 9.26. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Mixed CGA (#617)
* initial-commit-for-mixed-cga
* enable_mixed_cga_for_all
* address-code-rabbit-comments
* Add support for E5m3 fused GEMM on Rubin (#545)
* patch glu for e5m3
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* add tests
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* refactor
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* Skip SM107 causal conv1d tests before cuDNN 9.26 (#632)
* benchmark: attention inference suite (context/generation, cudnn vs cudnn_oss) (#636)
* benchmark: attention inference suite (context/generation, cudnn vs cudnn_oss)
A standalone perf harness measuring attention as served, in two phases:
- context (TFLOPS): full prefill (s_q == s_kv) and chunked prefill
(512/1024-token chunks vs a 64k/128k cache, bottom-right causal),
charted as stacked subplots per kind.
- generation (GB/s + % of memory SOL): q_tokens = 1 + MTP for MTP 0-3
against a 128k cache, one chart subplot per MTP width.
Two backends are swept: cudnn (native engines, heur A + FALLBACK) and
cudnn_oss (same graph planned with heur_mode.OPENSOURCE and
CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1, winning plan recorded per case).
Reference backends (flashinfer / flash_mla / b12x / FA4) stay available
for ad-hoc --backend runs.
Models from official HF configs (llama3.1, qwen3.5, gpt-oss,
deepseek-v4 shared-K=V MQA d512, kimi-k3 absorbed MLA 576/512, AR video
DiT), each swept across TP 1/2/4/8 shards; charts render every shape as
a cluster whose ticks run tp1 -> tp8. Generation batches are [1, 128]
(latency anchor + bandwidth plateau; intermediate batches are a smooth
occupancy ramp) with an fp8-e4m3 KV axis where the models serve it.
Unsupported combinations occupy blank chart slots rather than dropped
ticks. results/<config>/b300/ carries a full B300 (sm_103) sweep; sm120
follows.
The training suite gains kimi_k3 and deepseek_v4 configs (unabsorbed /
training-shape attention) and tolerates flash_attn builds without
__version__.
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* attention_inference: address review — practical TP sharding, fp8 fixes, doc/tooling cleanups
- with_tp_shards now enforces what serving frameworks do: q heads must
divide evenly, kv heads divide or replicate (tp % kv == 0); anything
else raises. The 9-head video DiT accordingly runs whole-model only
(deployments use sequence/context parallelism, not head sharding).
- fp8 graph: reject sink presets instead of silently dropping the sink
logits; anchor the q=1 sliding window bottom-right like the bf16 path;
count Q/O bytes at 1B on the cudnn fp8 paths (q/k/v/o are all e4m3).
- config docs reconciled with behavior: dsv4 benchmarks the unwindowed
shared-KV core (stated, not promised-windowed), kimi context sweeps
document the intentional blank slots, kv_cache_dtypes explains the
full-fp8 realization.
- load_config no longer swallows missing dependencies from inside valid
config modules; dry runs honor --filter/--phase; run_all.sh guards cd,
validates config names, and mkdirs the log directory.
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* Avoid zero-initializing JAX outputs the kernel already writes (#631)
* jax: stop zero-filling outputs the kernel already writes
Follows #592, which established this for grouped/unfused: passing
initialized_outputs makes XLA zero-fill the buffer before every dispatch, and
that fill scales with the output, so it is the JAX path's dominant host-visible
cost. Extends it to the entry points where the same reasoning holds and, more
importantly, establishes which ones it does not hold for.
Changed:
grouped/glu d, c and the workspace are all written before use
dense/swiglu ab12 and c are written in full over their extents
grouped/wgrad workspace only; the template keeps its zeros because the
kernel writes through wgrad_ptrs and never touches it
Deliberately unchanged, having tried and reverted each: dense/amax,
dense/srelu, grouped/dglu, grouped/dsrelu, discrete_grouped/swiglu and
discrete_grouped/dswiglu. Their comments cite the bridge's leading-dim
inference rejecting trailing-unit-dim buffers on pure results, and that is
still accurate -- dropping the donation there fails the JAX jit-vs-eager tests,
and grouped/dglu returns results differing from torch by 1.125. The zeroing is
load-bearing beyond the accumulators.
Rows at or past padded_offsets[-1] are now unspecified for grouped/glu, as they
already are for the torch wrapper's empty_strided outputs. Documented in the
docstring.
B200, bf16, 8 experts, grouped/glu jax.jit, median of 3 alternating runs (us):
2048x2048x2048 50.6 -> 36.3
4096x2048x2048 49.1 -> 38.6
8192x4096x2048 122.7 -> 108.4
16384x4096x4096 413.4 -> 385.8
At the largest shape that leaves +1.8 us over the kernel, against +29 before.
Adds a partial-coverage test that dirties the allocator before dispatch: on
fresh device memory the tail reads back as zeros either way, so a test that
does not poison it passes whether or not the fill is there.
* jax: stop zero-filling grouped/unfused outputs too
Folds in #592's change, which is being closed in favour of this PR so the
whole audit lands as one piece. d, c and the workspace are all written before
use, so nothing here needed the fill.
Adds the poisoned-allocator test for unfused as well: on fresh device memory
the untouched tail reads back as zeros whether or not the fill is present, so a
test that does not dirty the allocator first passes either way.
* test: gate the new JAX tests on CuTeDSL JAX availability
Both new tests called skip_unless_sm100() without first checking
cutlass.jax.is_available(), unlike every other JAX test in the same two files.
On an SM100 machine without the CuTeDSL JAX extensions they would have failed
rather than skipped. Caught in review by CodeRabbit.
* python: add the ensure_current_context #612 imports but never defined (#638)
#612 added 'from ._device import ensure_current_context' to _pygraph.py (used
on the python-engine execute path) without adding the function to _device.py,
so 'import cudnn' fails with ImportError on any package built from develop.
Hoist the established pattern from linear_attention/cutile/kernels/common.py
(ensure_cuda_context) into _device.py using this module's driver shim: bind a
driver context to the calling thread when none is bound - a JIT engine talks
to the driver directly, which reads the calling THREAD's context stack, and an
autograd backward runs on a worker thread where cudaSetDevice has only moved
the runtime's thread-local slot. Prefer the stream's context, else retain the
runtime-current device's primary one; best-effort like the cutile original.
Fixes #634.
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* device: ask for the oversized-SMEM ceiling by ordinal when the binding cannot name it (#635)
### What
`DeviceInfo.oversized_shared_memory_per_block` gated the query on BOTH the driver
version and whether cuda-python's `CUdevice_attribute` carries
`CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK`. Those are independent
axes: the DRIVER decides whether the mode exists, the BINDING only decides how to ask.
Refusing on the second gives up the carveout on a live combination — driver 13.5 with
a cuda-python 13.3.1 binding reports 0 although the device really offers 327 KiB. On
SM 10.7 block-scale GEMM that costs 3 AB pipeline stages (8 → 5) for nothing.
### Change
Keep the driver gate, drop the binding one: name the enum member when the binding has
it, else pass its ordinal, which that binding forwards fine. Only bindings old enough
to reject a bare int (they read `attrib.value`) genuinely cannot make the query, and
those return 0 through a narrow `AttributeError` arm. A real driver failure still
raises rather than being masked.
### Test
SM 10.7, driver 13050, cuda-python 13.3.1:
- the query goes 0 → 334848, back to the ceiling the part reports
- `test_device_info` + `test_public_execute_flavors` + `test_build_device` +
`test_stream_respect` + `test_tile_select_analytic`: 46 passed / 2 skipped
- sm107 block-scale kernels (`-k "sm107 and (128x128 or mixed_cga)"`): 42 passed
### Notes
- The `ensure_current_context` fix this branch originally carried landed upstream as
#638; that commit was dropped from this PR.
- Supersedes #615, which fixed the same class of bug in `frost/device.py` before #612
moved the query into `cudnn/_device.py` — #615 can be closed.
* Add LPT_L2 scheduler (#585)
* Add LPT_L2 scheduler
* format
* fix
* rename
* test_mhas_v2: draw sink tokens in the ragged bwd suites (#630)
Backward + ragged + learnable sink was structurally untestable: the dense bwd
suite draws sink tokens but never ragged layout, and the ragged bwd suites
never drew sink tokens. This let a dSink corruption in the cuDNN backward
dot_do_o pre-kernel ship unnoticed for every ragged config with
d_v not in {64,128,256} (bf16/fp16) and all ragged fp8 configs
(TransformerEngine issue #3249; fixed in cuDNN backend).
Add the same sink-token draw the dense bwd suites use to
test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0 and test_sdpa_fp8_bwd_ragged_L0.
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* fix(sdpa): move the pre-9.26 Stats packed-BHSD check to post_validate_node (#642)
The check added in 173c431c (#304) ran in validate_sdpa_support_surface(),
which is called from pre_validate_node() — before shape inference. Samples
and users that leave the Stats output dim/stride unset (to be inferred)
were rejected with GRAPH_NOT_SUPPORTED on every cuDNN < 9.26, breaking the
cpp_samples 9.19 CI jobs on develop since 2026-08-15.
Move the check to post_validate_node(), which runs after
infer_properties_node() has filled an unset Stats with packed BHSD; the
check still rejects explicitly-set non-BHSD layouts and still surfaces
from validate()/build().
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* frost(sdpa): #608 follow-ups — stale THD docs; FP8 scales fold in-kernel (Rule 3, Scale_S gone below the graph); baked 2^4 P-cast bias (#619)
* docs(sdpa): retire the pre-envelope THD grid comments; drop the resolved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations
Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR #608 review:
- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
host-computed)'. Since #606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
such comment.)
- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
#552/#606/#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.
Comment/docs-only — no code change.
* frost(sdpa): fold the per-tensor FP8 scales in-kernel — no host readback, one compile form
The per-tensor FP8 execute paths (SM100/SM107 dense, SM120 dense+THD)
folded descale_q*descale_k into the softmax scale and descale_[s*]v*scale_o
into o_scale_fused via host .item() reads of the caller's device scale
tensors — a D2H sync on every graph execute and the last big hole in the
zero-host-read / CUDA-graph-capture story (AGENTS.md Rule 3).
Kernel side: the per-tensor kernels now take descale_q/k/v + scale_o as
UNCONDITIONAL 1-element fp32 tensor params — one compile form, no flag.
Every thread loads them (same address -> L2 broadcast) and folds exactly
like the old host path; the scalar args carry only attn_scale*log2(e) and
1.0.
Adapter side: execute binds the caller's tensors directly (None binds a
cached 1.0 — the direct-API identity), and amax_o divides by the DEVICE
scale_o (the same div_ as before, minus the readback; scale_o > 0 is
caller contract, matching the backend). _scalar and every .item() are
gone; the AGENTS.md known-violation entry is retired.
Scale_S/Descale_S are EXPUNGED from every layer below the graph: the
lowering no longer resolves or forwards them (the graph still binds the
op's tensors; they are simply never read), the binding drops them, the
execute()/_execute_fp8 signatures lost the parameters, and the kernels
never take them:
- SM100/SM107 always cast P unscaled; the execute-time reciprocal check
was itself a Rule 3 readback — deleted with its rationale helper. The
old declines test becomes test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignored (wild
non-reciprocal pair -> bitwise-identical O).
- SM120's Scale_S machinery (scale_s kernel arg, log2_scale_s exp2 bias,
inv_scale_s row_sum de-scale, descale_s in the output fold) is REMOVED;
test_fp8_sm120_s_scales_are_actually_applied goes with it.
Also repairs test_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_direct's direct-call helper
(_run_template_tail) for the current kernel ABI. Those ten L1 tests had
been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since PR #608 grew the
kernel signature under them (#595's rewrite fixed it once; this ABI
change would have re-broken it) — they were never numeric failures. With
the helper repaired they pass 10/10.
Tests: sync-debug-pinned device-scale execute tests on both arches (the
graph execute now runs under torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2), which the
old .item() path cannot survive).
* frost(sdpa): bake a 2^4 P->fp8 cast bias into the FP8/MXFP8 prefill kernels
The fp8-family kernels quantized the softmax result P to fp8 at unit
scale. P after the online-softmax max subtraction is bounded by
2**RESCALE_THRESHOLD (4.0 for the fp8 dtypes — the lazy-rescale skip's
slack), so unit-scale casting used at most 2^4 of e4m3's 448 range while
flat-row entries (P ~ 1/S) sat near the format's subnormal cliff (~2^-9),
losing relative precision from S ~ 512 up.
Bake a constant P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE = 4.0 into each kernel (fp8 SM100/SM107/
SM120 and MXFP8 SM100 — MXFP8's block SFs cover Q/K/V, not P): P is cast
as P * 2^4, so the cast peaks at 2^(4+4) = 256 < 448 — no saturation —
and flat rows stay in e4m3's normal range out to S ~ 2^13. The invariant
RESCALE_THRESHOLD + P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE <= log2(448) is documented at each
constant. (This is NOT cuDNN's Scale_S — that knob no longer exists below
the graph; the bias is an internal quantization choice.)
The bias is numerically free everywhere except the improved quantization:
it rides the exp2 argument (EX2 is binade-shift-exact), scaling by 2^4
commutes exactly with fp accumulation, and each kernel's structure keeps
the bookkeeping exact —
- SM100/SM107/MXFP8: total_sum accumulates in the same 2^4 units, so the
O normalization (O_acc / total_sum) cancels the bias outright; the LSE
subtracts the constant, and the sink denominator term is lifted into
the same units.
- SM120: row_sum is de-scaled by the EXACT 2^-4 before the finalize paths
(sink mix, rcp, zero-row guards and LSE run on bit-identical true
sums); the O leg's 2^4 cancels against a 2^-4 folded into
o_scale_fused.
Validated non-regressing across the fp8/mxfp8 fwd+bwd sweeps and both
arch-specific fp8 files (the >128-head-dim tail accuracy tests pass
10/10 with margin at the tightened quantization).
* feat(frost): add mla support for sdpa bwd (#643)
* add MLA
* fix comments
* Align FROST LA with FLA/FI conventions for state layout and fix context and IMA bug (#644)
* 1
* 2
* style: fix black formatting in cutedsl grouped GEMM python files (#649)
The scheduled clang-format/black analysis job on develop fails: three files
under python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/ are not black-formatted
(line-length 160).
While reformatting, black surfaced a latent bug in the GluCall/DgluCall
dataclasses: `sf_fp8_dtype_override: Optional[Literal["e5m3"]] = None,` has a
trailing comma, making the field default the tuple `(None,)` rather than
`None`. Dropped the comma so the default matches the annotation and the
public API defaults.
Also joined an implicitly-concatenated ValueError message that black
collapsed onto a single line.
* Benchmark scripts unification (#655)
* unify-benchmarking-scripts
* add-sweep-knobs
* add_sweep-configs
* code-rabbit
* Restructure attention benchmarks and update benchmarking artifacts (backend 9.26.0.17, frontend b21cd3f) (#657)
* benchmark(sdpa): add the Hopper (sm90) row to the peak-MMA table
_FLOPS_PER_CLOCK_PER_SM only had sm100 and sm12x entries, so H200 runs
computed no peak_mma_tflops and their charts drew no MMA-throughput max
line. H100/H200 (sm90): 989.5 dense BF16 TFLOPS with FP32 accumulate =
132 SMs x 1.83 GHz x 4096 FLOPs/clk/SM; FP8 dense is 2x. No mxfp8 entry --
Hopper has no MXFP8 datapath, and those cases already record unsupported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* benchmark: rename sdpa_benchmark_training -> attention_training; move qwen3vl_vit to the inference suite
- benchmark/sdpa_benchmark_training/ -> benchmark/attention_training/ to
match benchmark/attention_inference/ (module path is now
benchmark.attention_training.runner; in-package imports are relative and
unchanged; every textual reference across the repo updated).
- qwen3vl_vit is an inference workload (forward-only, bidirectional ViT
self-attention over patch tokens): its config moves to the inference suite
as a context-phase-only InferenceBenchmarkConfig (no generation phase and
no kv-cache axis - an encoder has no KV cache; no TP sweep - the tower is
not head-shardable in deployments). The training-suite config and its
training-schema results are removed; refreshed native inference-schema
results land with the accompanying artifact update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Update Benchmarking Artifacts - backend 9.26.0.17, frontend b21cd3f
* Update README.md
* Update README.md
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* sdpa fwd: KV split for the SM100/SM120 prefill kernels (#658)
Add an optional split over the KV sequence: with split_kv > 1 each Q tile's KV
range is cut into contiguous chunks, every chunk runs as its own persistent
tile, and the per-chunk (O, LSE) partials are reduced by
kernels/split_combine_sm100.py. At split_kv == 1 the added closures fold away
and the traced code is unchanged.
Flavors: sm100 d128 (f16/bf16, fp8, mxfp8), d192/128, d256 and d512, plus sm120
f16/bf16. The knob is gated per flavor so a flavor that does not thread it
cannot silently accept it, and the config backstop rejects THD, attention sink
and the flattened scheduler grids.
Also adds an optional cga1 cluster width (cta_mma=1) for d128 and d192/128.
cga1 has no collective MMA to halve per-CTA K/V, so d128 recovers the extra
SMEM through the existing Q/O alias and the fp8 family scales the KV stage
depth with the cluster width.
For the FP8 family the combine also reports amax_o over the recombined O: a
per-split epilogue sees only its own partial, and O is a convex combination of
those, so a max over partials over-reports the output amax.
Measured 3-5x end to end at S_q=128 over a 32K KV run on B200, with numerics
unchanged against both the unsplit kernel and an fp32 reference.
Tests: test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_split_kv_sm100.py -- 56 cases over
even and uneven splits (including empty ones), dense / causal / SWA /
bottom-right / padded masks, GQA, bf16, fp8 and mxfp8 at both cluster widths,
the recombined LSE, and amax_o.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add block-scaled grouped GEMM + SwiGLU + RHT + NVFP4 quantization fusion for Rubin (#637)
* Add block-scaled grouped GEMM + SwiGLU + RHT + NVFP4 quantization fusion for Rubin
Fused MoE grouped GEMM kernel that computes GEMM + SwiGLU, applies a
random Hadamard transform (RHT), and quantizes the result to NVFP4
(with E4M3 or E5M3 block scale factors) in a single kernel, targeting
Rubin (SM107).
Ported from internal MR 2334. The sf_fp8_dtype_override plumbing it
depended on landed separately in #545.
Co-authored-by: Ali Hassani <ahassani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Kaining Zhong <kainingz@nvidia.com>
* Add e5m3 scale-factor coverage to glu_hadamard_quant tests
The kernel plumbs sf_fp8_dtype_override through every entry point but no
test ever passed "e5m3". Mirror the #545 test pattern: reencode the
e4m3-storage input scales as UE5M3 bytes in place (values exact in both
formats, so the fp32 reference stays valid), plus compile-cache
separation and unsupported-override rejection tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add Rubin kernel
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
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Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Ali Hassani <ahassani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Kaining Zhong <kainingz@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
* test: import torch directly in wgrad Rubin quantization validation test (#660)
test_grouped_gemm_wgrad_rubin_quantization_validation pulled torch off the
API module (api_mod.torch), but wgrad/api.py never binds torch at module
scope — its annotations are strings under 'from __future__ import
annotations' and _is_supported_rubin_quantization imports torch
function-locally. All 7 parametrizations failed with AttributeError in the
oss test jobs (e.g. job 400364559).
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: fix Rubin dispatch test paths; skip glu_hadamard_quant on cutlass-dsl < 4.8 (#662)
* test: fix stale quant kernel paths in Rubin dispatch test
The Gemm fusion reorganization (#459) moved the grouped quant kernels to
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/quant/, but
test_grouped_gemm_quant_kernels_support_optional_prob still looked for
them under grouped_gemm_quant/, failing with FileNotFoundError in
oss_tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: skip glu_hadamard_quant tests on cutlass-dsl < 4.8
The glu_hadamard_quant kernel references cutlass.FloatNV8E5M3FNU
unconditionally at compile time, and that dtype only exists in
cutlass-dsl >= 4.8, so every test in the file failed with an
AttributeError on older builds (13 failures on the 4.5.1 CI lane) even
when the scale-factor dtype under test is e4m3/e8m0. Gate the module
with the same hasattr check _skip_unless_e5m3_supported already uses.
Verified on an SM100 box: cutlass-dsl 4.7.0 without the gate reproduces
the AttributeError, with the gate all 23 tests skip; 4.8.0a0 runs
17 passed / 6 skipped (the pre-existing Rubin-only e5m3 skips).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* [CuTeDSL] Add grouped SiTU-GLU activation (#645)
* Add grouped SiTU-GLU activation
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [PyTorch] Optimize K3 SiTU-GLU activation
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Fix SiTU-GLU documentation
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Optimize SiTU-GLU activation math
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Test NVFP4 SiTU-GLU paths
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Remove unreachable dSiTU-GLU branches
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Validate dense dSiTU-GLU backward
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Cast dSiTU scaling factors to FP32
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Fuse SiTU-GLU with NVFP4 Hadamard
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
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Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* Bump development version to 1.28.0 (#668)
* Apply black formatting to glu_hadamard_quant and glu python files (#669)
black 26.3.1 (the version now used by format CI) reformats 6 files under
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/. Formatting-only change, no functional
difference (black verifies AST equivalence).
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add SM100 MXFP8 SDPA support for d192/d128 (#661)
* Add SM100 FP8 SDPA support for d192/d128
* Support E5M2 and no-mask for SM100 d192 FP8 SDPA
* Isolate D192 FP8 kernel-specific helpers
* Address SM100 d192 FP8 review feedback
* Fix SM100 D192 E5M2 FP8 precision
* Align SM100 D192 FP8 with Amax_S-free ABI
* Sync D192 FP8 with current SM100 ABI
* Remove internal FenceCode use from D192 FP8
* Add SM100 MXFP8 SDPA support for d192/d128
* Optimize SM100 D192 MXFP8 softmax scheduling
Merge the masked softmax warp-group callsites to reduce generated code size while preserving static no-mask specialization. Expose probability conversion and row reduction as independent instruction chains.
* Optimize SM100 D192 MXFP8 prefill pipeline
* Sync D192 MXFP8 with current SM100 ABI
* Strengthen D192 MXFP8 test coverage
* Reintroduce FFT causal conv1d frontend bindings (#542)
* Reintroduce FFT causal conv1d frontend bindings
* Address CodeRabbit review feedback
* Skip SM107 causal conv1d Python tests before cuDNN 9.26
* test(grouped_gemm): skip the GLU sf_fp8 override test off SM100 (#671)
The test called grouped_gemm_glu_wrapper_sm100 without the SM100 guard its
siblings carry, so on pre-Blackwell GPUs it raised RuntimeError from the
wrapper's own arch check instead of exercising the ValueError it asserts.
* test(dsa): compare only the effective top-k slice (#672)
When top_k exceeds a row's sequence length, the reference pads the rest of the
row with zeros while the kernel leaves the slots at their sentinel init, so
comparing whole rows compared two different paddings and failed with inf
differences. Cap both sides at min(top_k, seq_len), which is what the
surrounding comment already described.
* Update Benchmarking Artifacts - backend 9.26.0.33, frontend 73d8feb (#665)
* Grouped GEMM: read the TMEM accumulator before releasing the overlapping stage (#654)
The SM100 dSReLU/SReLU/quant grouped-GEMM epilogues call
acc_pipeline.consumer_release() -- publishing the overlapping accumulator stage as
empty -- before issuing the TMEM->register cute.copy of a subtile that still lies
inside the overlap region, so the MMA producer waiting on that mbarrier may overwrite
accumulator columns the epilogue has not read yet.
cute.arch.fence_view_async_tmem_load() cannot cover that load: both of its candidate
lowerings order only prior operations (PTX ISA 9.3 sections 9.7.17.8.5 and
9.7.17.11.1), and the load has not been issued when the fence executes. Section
9.7.17.6.4.4 specifies tcgen05.ld -> tcgen05.wait::ld -> fence -> mbarrier.arrive for
exactly this producer/consumer pair. Eight sibling kernels in the same package already
order it that way; wgrad is the same idiom with the same pipeline object.
Moves the TMEM read above the fence/release in the three SM100 kernels. Pure statement
reorder: the release condition is unchanged, and the loop body is the same multiset of
statements before and after.
Fixes #652
Co-authored-by: Wentao Guo <wg0420@princeton.edu>
* Fix SM107 grouped GEMM quant: read TMEM accumulator before releasing the overlapping stage (#673)
Apply the same fix as #654 to the Rubin (SM107) kernel
moe_blockscaled_grouped_gemm_quant_rubin.py, which has the identical
pattern: the overlapping accumulator stage was released before the
TMEM->register copy of that stage's subtile, allowing the MMA warp to
overwrite the accumulator while the epilogue was still reading it.
Move the t2r copy ahead of the early-release block so the accumulator
is read before consumer_release.
The other Rubin kernels (glu, glu_hadamard_quant, dglu) already perform
the copy before the release, and wgrad_rubin has overlapping_accum
disabled, so only this file is affected.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Fix SiTU-GLU Hadamard API contracts (#670)
* [CuTeDSL] Fix SiTU-GLU Hadamard API contracts
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Validate empty SiTU-GLU executions
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* [CuTeDSL] Test runtime SiTU-GLU beta overrides
Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
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Signed-off-by: Harry Zhou <hhanyu@nvidia.com>
* fix: bind a CUDA context on the calling thread — the right one, and on both sides of the boundary (#626)
* fix(device): ensure the RIGHT context, not merely a context
ensure_current_context returned as soon as ANY context was current, so a
thread already bound to another GPU's context kept it. The legacy default
stream (handle 0) carries no context of its own -- it resolves against
whatever is current -- so under a foreign context the work runs on THAT
context's GPU, where the pointers are invalid: an async fault at some later
sync rather than an error at the launch. A real stream does carry its
context and a cross-context launch is rejected outright, so only the
stream-0 path is silent, and stream 0 is exactly what torch's default
stream is.
Resolve the target rather than accept the incumbent: the stream's context
when the stream names one, else the caller's device. execute() passes the
handle's ordinal, so the FE path no longer asks the runtime which GPU it is
on -- Handle.device owns that since #612 -- and cudaGetDevice() stays only
as the fallback for a caller that cannot name a device.
Cost measured on parley: 59 ns per execute in situ, 0.1% of a 79 us GDN op.
test_ensure_current_context.py covers the cold thread, the foreign-device
replacement, stream-wins-over-device, and the steady-state no-op.
* fix(execute): bind a context on the calling thread in C++ too
The same gap on the other side of the boundary. cuDNN's runtime-compiled
engines launch through the driver, which reads the CALLING thread's context
stack, and a thread that has done no CUDA work has nothing on it. Measured on
a matmul+relu+relu graph (which routes to those engines), on a thread where
cuDNN is the first CUDA call:
before: cold #0/#1/#2 ctx 0x0 -> 0x0
cuCtxGetLimit returned error invalid device context (201)
after: cold #0/#1/#2 ctx 0x0 -> 0x3f67f670 OK
Deterministic both ways, and one torch op on the thread beforehand hides it
entirely -- the CUDA runtime binds the primary context as a side effect, and
something normally does, which is why no framework has run into this. The
precompiled engines launch with <<<>>> and are unaffected for the same reason.
Placed at execute_plan_at_index, which the file already documents as the point
all execute overloads funnel through, so backend and OSS paths are both
covered once. Driver entry points are resolved through the runtime
(cudaGetDriverEntryPointByVersion), so the front end still never links
libcuda -- the approach cu_tensor_map_encode_tiled already uses and documents.
Same rung order as the Python side: a bound context is left alone, a real
stream names its own context, and the default-stream handles name none, so the
runtime's device decides there.
Review: the dynamic-loading lookup is non-throwing (get_cuda_symbol throws when
the library or symbol is missing, and this runs in a static initializer),
guarded the way the rest of the headers guard exceptions; the backend test
skips instead of failing where no engine serves the fused graph. Comments
trimmed throughout -- the rationale and the measurements live in the PR.
* build: declare the cuTile runtime as a [cutile] extra
The cuTile linear-attention engines import cuda.tile, which was not declared
anywhere -- not an extra, not requirements.txt -- so whether they run at all
depended on the environment happening to have it. That is also why
test_execute_from_a_thread_with_no_cuda_context silently covers only the FROST
half on most machines: the cuTile engines decline in check_support when the
import fails, and the test skips.
Base cuda-tile only. Its [tileiras] extra pins cuda-toolkit>=13.2,<13.4, and
that upper bound would cap the whole environment's toolkit and shut out CUDA 12
entirely -- the same reason nvidia-cutlass-dsl is not pinned to the FROST floor
here. Without it cuda.tile falls back to a system tileiras, consistent with
this package already leaving GPU wheels to the user.
Resolution checked: `.[cutedsl,cutile]` resolves in one pass and adds exactly
one package (cuda-tile 1.5.0) with nothing downgraded -- base cuda-tile
requires only typing-extensions. The python_version marker keeps the extra
resolvable on the declared 3.9 floor, which cuda-tile itself does not support.
* perf(execute): probe the context before querying the stream
The guard ran cudnnGetStream on every execute, though only the cold path needs
a stream. Probe with one cuCtxGetCurrent instead and fetch the stream only when
a context actually has to be established.
Backend graph.execute() host time on parley, rebuilding the module for each:
develop, no guard 10.805 us
this PR, probe first 10.498 us / 10.683 us (two builds)
The PR measured faster than develop both times, so the difference between
builds is noise -- run-to-run spread alone is ~0.35 us across the 15 samples,
and the guard's one cuCtxGetCurrent is ~106 ns. The unconditional version
measured 10.788 us, i.e. also within noise: cudnnGetStream from C++ is nowhere
near the ~1.5 us the Python path costs through pybind. Probing first is still
the right shape, but it was not buying back a visible regression.
* Fix bug in dglu xfilter math (#568)
* Add a dense BF16 SwiGLU MLP autograd op with fused forward and dSwiGLU backward (#609)
* Prototype: fused dense SwiGLU-MLP autograd op via cuDNN graph (fprop/bprop)
A dense bf16 SwiGLU-MLP as a cuDNN autograd op, for the GEMM owner to review. It
shows what the cuDNN graph fuses today and, with measured B200 numbers, exactly
where a dense fused GEMM+SwiGLU training op is gated.
- forward gate_gemm + up_gemm + SiLU + mul fuse into ONE cuDNN kernel; down GEMM is
separate (a 3-GEMM single graph does not compile).
- backward dSwiGLU runs as fused cuDNN pointwise kernels; a probe shows matmul(dout,Wd)
with the dSwiGLU as a matmul EPILOGUE is ~2.3x the unfused dh-GEMM + elementwise.
- weights enter the GEMMs as strided .t() views (cuDNN reads them column-major); a
materialized .t().contiguous() would add a transpose kernel costing more than the GEMM.
- each graph is autotuned (build ALL plans, time execute_plan_at_index, keep fastest);
on these Qwen3.5 shapes the heuristic top plan is already ~optimal (~1.01x).
Measured vs torch+cuBLAS at the Qwen3.5-27B MLP shape (M2048 H5120 I17408): forward-only
~1.03x, but forward+backward ~0.86x — a regression. The MLP is GEMM-bound and every GEMM
routed through cuDNN pays a per-call tax (plain cuDNN matmul is 0.90-0.96x of torch.mm
from dispatch overhead; cuDNN's own kernels ~13% off cuBLAS), which across 6-8 GEMMs
outweighs the fusion. The lever is GEMM throughput + per-GEMM dispatch, i.e. a
cuBLAS-class fused GEMM+epilogue in one launch — not more fusion.
Numerically matches torch to bf16 noise (fwd + all four gradients).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add framework-integration performance guide (avoiding host-overhead traps)
A customer- and internal-facing guide for driving cuDNN Frontend op-by-op from a
framework without leaving performance on the table to host overhead. Distilled from a
measured B200 investigation: the cuDNN backend execute is already at cuBLAS parity
(~8.4us vs ~7.6us for a 256^3 matmul); the gap in a naive integration is avoidable FE
wrapper cost (per-call set_stream, generic execute vs a pinned execute_plan_at_index,
variant-pack/object churn, materialized transposed weights). Covers the traps, the fix
for each, when to CUDA-graph, and how to benchmark (graph replay for kernels, eager for
integration overhead). Companion to the fused SwiGLU-MLP sample in this PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Address CodeRabbit review
- _handle: cache the stream per device handle, call set_stream only on change (the
guide's own recommendation; ~5us/call) — single-stream sample, noted.
- _autotune: create events/workspace and synchronize under torch.cuda.device(dev).
- autotune log: heuristic-first uses times[0] (the top heuristic pick; inf if it failed).
- rename ambiguous `I` -> `interm` (Ruff E741).
- fix the backward comment: _dswiglu runs two cuDNN pointwise kernels (dup, dgate).
- doc: graph replay reports captured-workload GPU time (kernels + in-graph launch), not a
pure kernel-only profile; reserve a profiler for per-kernel numbers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: productize the dense SwiGLU-MLP fusion into cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp
Move the fused dense bf16 SwiGLU-MLP autograd op out of the #609 sample and into
the GEMM op family as cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp, mirroring moe_grouped_matmul:
exported at cudnn.gemm.swiglu_mlp and aliased into cudnn.experimental.ops. The
sample now imports the op and keeps only the demo + the 1-kernel evidence.
out = (silu(x @ Wg^T) * (x @ Wu^T)) @ Wd^T; the forward fuses gate GEMM + up GEMM
+ SiLU + mul into one cuDNN kernel (FORT-native runtime fusion, SM100), the win.
Adds test/python/gemm/test_swiglu_mlp.py (L0, SM100-gated): forward + all four
gradients match torch to bf16 noise, and the fused forward is a single GPU launch.
Verified on SM100 (fwd/grad rel-L2 ~4e-3; 3 passed).
Also folds in the CodeRabbit follow-ups on the moved code: the autotuner now
raises a diagnostic when no plan executes instead of caching a failing index 0,
and the ambiguous single-letter dim name is dropped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* benchmark(e2e): add a per-model hybrid-LM perf-share, with a SwiGLU-MLP swap
Adds benchmark/e2e/, one folder per model (named by the model, extensible to
Kimi Linear / DeepSeek-V3), with a model-agnostic timing/profiling harness in
_perfshare.py. benchmark/e2e/Qwen3-Next/run_model.py builds flash-linear-attention's
Gated DeltaNet model and profiles a fwd+bwd step by category and backend.
--accelerate_mlp routes the SwiGLU MLP through cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp (this PR)
by monkeypatching FLA's bias-free swish GatedMLP.forward; --accelerate_attn routes
linear attention through cudnn.fla (PR #596) when installed. The MLP GEMMs are the
dominant block (~70% at real dims), so this benchmark is where the SwiGLU-MLP op's
e2e effect shows: the forward fusion wins, the fwd+bwd still pays the backward
recompute. Verified end-to-end on SM100 (MLP swap active, perf-share prints).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: fuse the SwiGLU-MLP backward dgrad + dSwiGLU into one FROST kernel
The backward previously ran the dh = dout @ Wd dgrad GEMM and the dSwiGLU
elementwise (dup = dh*silu(gate), dgate = dh*silu'(gate)*up) as a separate
matmul followed by two cuDNN pointwise kernels. Express the same math as a
cuDNN graph (matmul + swish/swish_backward/mul, two outputs, gate/up as
per-element aux inputs) and JIT it through the FROST cuTeDSL engine, so the
whole stage is ONE bare-launch kernel: no separate elementwise pass, no dh
round-trip to HBM, no per-GEMM FE wrapper tax.
FROST already had every op this needs (swish_backward + per-element aux +
multi-output), so no engine change was required. The FROST TN mainloop needs
B contiguous in K, so the natural I-contiguous down weight is bound as its
K-contiguous [I,H] view.
CUDA-graph kernel time on the Qwen3.5-27B dense MLP shape (SM100, B200):
~1.5x the recompute+pointwise backward and ~1.25x a fair torch backward with
saved pre-activations; ~2x the isolated dh-GEMM + two-pointwise stage. The
forward SwiGLU fusion already wins 1.05-1.20x, so the full training step now
flips to a cuDNN win. Correct to bf16 noise on all four gradients.
Guarded: any unsupported shape/arch falls back to the pointwise path;
CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD=0 forces the fallback. New test asserts the FROST
backward matches the pointwise path it replaces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* benchmark(e2e): the SwiGLU-MLP backward is now FROST-fused, a training-step win
Update the perf-share docs: the MLP backward no longer just pays the recompute
+ pointwise cost — it fuses the dgrad GEMM + dSwiGLU into one FROST kernel
(~1.25x vs a fair torch backward, SM100). With the 1.05-1.20x forward fusion,
the MLP is now a training-step win, not only an inference one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: address CodeRabbit review on the SwiGLU-MLP op + e2e benchmark
- Keep cudnn.gemm.ops / cudnn.experimental.ops import-lazy: the op modules import
torch, so resolve moe_grouped_matmul / swiglu_mlp via module __getattr__ (mirrors
cudnn/gemm/__init__.py) instead of eagerly. `import cudnn.gemm.ops` no longer pulls
torch; `from cudnn.gemm.ops import swiglu_mlp` and the submodule aliases still resolve.
- swiglu_mlp._autotune: raise if the graph produced zero plans, before max() over an
empty range.
- Shorten the tile-config lookup to a tuple comparison (was exactly 160 cols).
- benchmark/e2e: pick_sm100 now selects SM100-family (100 <= SM < 120) so it does not
grab an SM120 device where the fused engine is absent; the SDPA stand-in pins
SDPBackend.CUDNN_ATTENTION so the full-attention layers are actually counted as cuDNN;
drop an F541 empty f-string.
Not changed (replied on the PR): APIBase is the CuTeDSL kernel-wrapper contract, not the
gemm/ops torch-custom-op layer (sibling moe_grouped_matmul has none either); the L0 gate
with the SM100 device check matches repo convention (no test/python/gemm test uses L1+,
and there is no documented cuDNN-version floor for this op).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: address GEMM-owner review on the SwiGLU-MLP op
Four issues from @yanqinz2's review:
1. FROST backward is a net LOSS, not a win — turned OFF by default. The measured
"~1.25x vs torch" put the Wd.t().contiguous() transpose OUTSIDE the timed region.
Re-measured with the copy in: the copy (~0.37 ms, ~356 MB traffic on the
Qwen3.5-27B shape) is larger than the fused kernel's saving, so the FROST dgrad+
dSwiGLU backward is 0.83-0.91x the pointwise path. Gated behind
CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD=1 (default 0) with an honest docstring; it becomes a
win only once FROST accepts an N-major B and the transpose is dropped. Fixed the
comment that called the copy a "view".
2. dtype not enforced -> silent wrong results. Inputs were declared bf16 to cuDNN
unconditionally while the cache key and output carried the input dtype, so an
fp16/fp32 input got reinterpreted as bf16. Validate dtype + device + shapes at the
swiglu_mlp() entry point and raise.
3. Workspace/handle shared across streams -> data race. The cached workspace plus the
one-handle-per-device memo meant two concurrent streams shared one scratch buffer
and one handle (silent grad corruption under DDP comm streams / torch.cuda.stream()
/ multi-threaded backward). Key the handle and every plan/workspace cache by
(device, stream); each stream's handle binds its stream once at creation.
4. benchmark/e2e: "frost"/"cutile" were in the linear-attn CATEGORY table, so the
FROST-served MLP dgrad was miscounted as linear-attention, contaminating the
category-share headline. Removed them — FROST is a backend (already in backend()),
not an op category.
test/python/gemm/test_swiglu_mlp.py: 5 passed on SM100 (B200).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: drop the unnecessary Wd transpose in the FROST backward
FROST takes arbitrary t/n operand layouts, so the dgrad GEMM consumes the natural
[H,I] down weight directly as an N-major (I-contiguous) B — no transpose needed.
The earlier Wd.t().contiguous() copy (which made the FROST backward a net loss) was
a misdiagnosis: the original N-major-B compile failure was an aux-tensor NAMING
collision (an aux named "g" shadowed a kernel-internal variable), not the layout.
Renaming fixed it; the transpose was collateral and is now removed.
Re-measured (Qwen3.5-27B, SM100, eager): the fused dgrad+dSwiGLU stage now beats the
separate dh GEMM + two pointwise kernels ~1.15-2.64x (was 0.56x with the copy). The
full backward is ~parity with a fair torch backward (0.95-0.97x) because it is
GEMM-bound — the dWd/dWgu/dx GEMMs dominate and are shared. A full-backward win comes
from routing those GEMMs through FROST too, not from any transpose (the dg.t() wgrad
operand is already a free strided view; dense bf16 needs no fused transpose). Still
opt-in via CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD=1. test_swiglu_mlp.py: 5 passed on SM100.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: correct the FROST-backward win rationale (save-vs-recompute, not all-FROST)
The full-backward lever is not recomputing gate/up (2 GEMMs, ~25% of the backward) --
save them from the forward. Not all-FROST: host overhead is ~1% of these compute-bound
GEMMs and #612 already cut it; and not a transpose (dg.t() is a free strided view).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Save SwiGLU pre-activations in the fused forward to drop the backward recompute GEMMs
The fused forward already computes gate=x@Wg^T and up=x@Wu^T as the two GEMM
accumulators feeding SiLU*up; emit them as extra outputs of the same fused kernel
(still one kernel on SM100 -- the accumulators land in the epilogue, no copy kernel
appended, verified by a profiler launch count of 1) and read them in the backward
instead of recomputing the two gate/up GEMMs.
Measured Qwen3.5-27B MLP, SM100, real op through autograd:
- backward: 1.29-1.32x faster than the recompute path; 0.99-1.02x vs a torch
autograd MLP (parity), where recompute was 1.29-1.32x slower.
- fwd+bwd: 1.17-1.21x faster than recompute; 0.97-0.99x vs torch, where recompute
was 1.17-1.19x slower.
torch autograd already saves the pre-activations, so recomputing them was a pure
regression; this brings the op back to parity. Saving {h, gate, up} costs ~3x[M,I]
of activation memory, less than the ~4x[M,I] torch autograd keeps. The extra
epilogue stores add ~14% to the forward but remove two full GEMMs (~25% of the
backward). With the pre-activations saved the backward is GEMM-bound, so the opt-in
FROST dgrad+dSwiGLU fusion no longer moves the full backward and stays off by default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Doc: SwiGLU backward win is save-preact (parity), not the epilogue-fusion stage
The fused forward now emits the pre-activations, so the backward reads them
instead of recomputing two GEMMs -- that is the real backward win (parity with a
torch autograd MLP). The dSwiGLU-as-epilogue fusion is a ~2.3x stage win only in
isolation; the GEMM-bound full backward does not surface it. Measure the whole
step, not the stage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fuse the backward dSwiGLU into one two-output cuDNN kernel
dup and dgate now come from a single multi-output pointwise graph instead of two
single-output graphs. cuDNN's tensor-ir engine declines multi-output (it logs
"unsupported multi-output fusion"), but another engine serves the graph as one
kernel that reads dh/gate/up once instead of twice and computes sigmoid once.
Measured B200 M8192 dgrad+dSwiGLU stage: the pointwise drops 561us -> 266us (2.1x),
so the stage (nvjet GEMM + pointwise) goes 1441us -> 1146us. End to end through
autograd, the full fwd+bwd step moves from ~parity to ~0.96-0.98x a torch autograd
MLP (Qwen3.5-27B shape). All 5 L0 tests pass; the two outputs match torch to bf16
noise (rel-L2 dup 0.0, dgate 3.6e-6).
The prior docstring claimed a single graph writing both outputs was unsupported;
that was a misread of the tensor-ir engine's per-engine decline -- the graph builds
(5 plans) and runs as one kernel on cuDNN 9.26.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Default the backward to the FROST fused dgrad+dSwiGLU path
CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD now defaults to on (set =0 for the pointwise path).
On this dense bf16 shape the FROST fused kernel (dh GEMM + dup/dgate epilogue in one
cuTeDSL kernel, dh never materialised to HBM) ties the separate nvjet GEMM +
one-kernel pointwise (~1.15ms each, B200 M8192 stage) -- ~1% behind only because its
cuTeDSL GEMM trails nvjet. Making it the default keeps it exercised (verified it runs
through autograd, not silently falling back) so the GEMM gap can be closed, and the
fusion advantage grows as the workload gets pointwise-heavier (fp8 halves the GEMM
and adds quant/scale pointwise; MoE grouped GEMMs are smaller and more memory-bound).
Falls back to the pointwise path on any FROST exception, so correctness is unchanged;
5/5 L0 tests pass with it on. Handoff for follow-up: HANDOFF_2026-08-19_frost_swiglu_bwd_for_yanqin.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Docstrings: FROST backward is now the default, not opt-in (stale wording)
Update the module docstring and _frost_dswiglu docstring to match aaa8bbf6a: FROST is
the default backward stage (set =0 for pointwise), it TIES the one-kernel pointwise on
dense bf16 (~1% behind on the cuTeDSL GEMM, not a loss vs the old 2-kernel baseline),
tile autotune does not help, and the fusion advantage grows on fp8/MoE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Docstring: state the fwd+bwd win as 1.02-1.04x faster (not 0.96-0.98x)
A ratio <1 reads as slower; express it as a speedup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* gemm: pin FROST dSwiGLU to the B200 2-CTA tactic
Use the measured M128/N256/K128 cluster2x1 2CTAMMA CLC strategy for large-M fused dgrad+dSwiGLU kernels. Keep the existing 1-CTA strategy for small M and update the stale geometry-only tuning notes.
* gemm: skip unused SwiGLU MLP gradients and saved activations
Snapshot GradMode and per-input requires_grad at the public call boundary. Select an h-only forward graph when preactivations are unnecessary, save only tensors consumed by the requested input gradients, and skip unrelated backward GEMMs. Cover inference, frozen/partial gradients, cache switching, saved-tensor behavior, and checkpoint semantics.
* benchmark: add a Qwen3.8-shaped SwiGLU and GDN study
* benchmark: add a Torch SDPA baseline for Qwen3.8
* gemm: honor stream and layout contracts in SwiGLU backward
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* SDPA: drop the legacy standalone d=256 fwd/bwd stacks; port SM80 forward to the SdpaFwdDsl adapter path (#682)
* [SDPA] Remove the legacy standalone d=256 SM100 fwd/bwd stacks
- delete fmha_forward_sm100_d256.py and the 3-kernel backward family
(fmha_backward_sm100_2kernel.py, fmha_dq_d256_sm100.py, fmha_dkdv_d256_sm100.py)
- remove SdpafwdSm100D256 / SdpabwdSm100D256 + their wrappers from
sdpa/{fwd,bwd}/api.py and every lazy-export map
- experimental torch op: drop the cudnn::sdpa_{fwd,bwd}_d256 custom ops and
the pre-9.23-backend OSS routing; d=256 always takes the backend graph path
- docs (Attention.md, llms.txt, fe-oss-apis pages) and tests updated; the op
tests now skip d=256 on backends < 9.23 instead of exercising the OSS route
The graph-dispatched sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_d256 FROST engine is unaffected
and remains the OSS forward implementation for this cell. The standalone OSS
SM100 backward (never graph-reachable) goes away until sdpa/bwd grows an
SM100 ENGINE_SPECS row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] Port the SM80 forward onto the SdpaFwdDsl adapter path
SM80 now follows the SM100/SM120 lowering shape exactly: one adapter class
(SdpaFwdDslSm80 in api_dsl.py) implementing the SdpaFwdDsl contract, lowered
through lower_dsl_prefill; fwd/api.py is deleted.
- SdpaFwdDslSm80: descriptor-level check_support (flavor pick, mask/scheduler
resolution, knob mapping), no-op compile (the kernels self-cache), and an
execute that binds the caller's O/LSE/score buffers directly
- kernels gain optional out_o/out_lse/out_score_* binding; outputs a feature
path never writes (seq_len_q trim, zero-length padded batches, block-masked
rows) keep their zero-init semantics via a conditional zero-fill
- the engine path drops its per-execute copy-backs; dense GQA keeps the
adapter-side head expansion until the kernels' native dense-GQA path is
qualified (see graph_analyzer.expand_gqa_heads)
- _sm80_spec lowers via partial(lower_dsl_prefill, api_type=_SM80), declares
dense_seq_q_trim (the kernels are plumbed) and lse_optional
- lower_dsl_prefill forwards SM80 feature operands (bias/alibi/block_mask/
score stats) only to adapters declaring the keywords
- _torch_stream_context gains the NGC ExternalStream(0/1/2) silent-no-op
workaround previously present only in the deleted api.py copy
- sdpa_fwd_wrapper_sm80 keeps its public signature (dense via the adapter,
packed THD via the kernel varlen path); SdpafwdSm80 is replaced by
SdpaFwdDslSm80 (experimental API, tests updated)
- AGENTS.md Rule-3 known-violation list updated: the ragged cache-key max()
sites died with the legacy wrappers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80 adapter: accept (B, H, S, 1) graph Stats/score views
The graph API declares Stats and score outputs as (B, H, S, 1); the SM80
kernels write [B, H, SQ]. Rebind the squeezed view (zero-cost, same storage)
before output binding — caught by the A100 graph-path check (dense causal +
Stats through sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm80).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80: drop ALiBi / block_mask / score-stat support from the FROST path
Graphs requesting ALiBi, block_mask, or the score_max / score_sum_exp side
outputs now decline at the sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm80 capability row and are served
by the cuDNN backend, like the other features the FROST rows deliberately do
not carry (dropout, paged_kv, ...). The Capabilities fields themselves stay —
they are the decline gates mismatch() compares every graph against.
Removed end to end:
- capability row: alibi/block_mask/score_max/score_sum_exp flags
- lower_dsl_prefill: the operand plumbing (bias remains the one SM80 extra)
- SdpaFwdDslSm80.execute + sdpa_fwd_wrapper_sm80 + the THD path: the
corresponding keywords, allocs, unpack branches and copy-backs
- both SM80 kernels (~-520 lines): host params, compile-key flags, fake
tensors, and every const_expr-gated device block; RESCALE_THRESHOLD
collapses to its flag-off value (8.0) and the block-mask hybrid guard to
the unconditional dense form, keeping surviving traces byte-identical
Re-validated on A100 (parley): fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd all levels 105/105; the
graph-path e2e (dense+Stats x2, GQA, padded) passes; a new negative check
confirms an ALiBi graph lists no FROST entry and runs on the backend.
SM100 frontend integration re-run green (10 passed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80 backward: drop ALiBi / block_mask support from the FROST path
Same treatment as the forward row (previous commit): graphs requesting ALiBi
or block_mask decline at the sdpa_bwd_sm80 capability row and are served by
the cuDNN backend. dBias (and bias, sinks/dSink, RoPE, deterministic, THD)
remain fully served — the bprop kernel's dbias footprint is byte-unchanged.
Removed end to end (-95 kernel lines, -~60 adapter/wrapper lines):
- capability row: alibi/block_mask flags (the Capabilities fields stay — they
are the decline gates mismatch() compares every graph against)
- lower_sm80_bwd binding: the block_mask operand
- SdpabwdSm80.execute / sdpa_bwd_wrapper_sm80 / _thd_backward / the d64
fast-path gate: the corresponding keywords, slopes setup, cache-key entries
- bprop_f16_sm80.py: host params, compile-key flags, fake tensors, and every
const_expr-gated device block (alibi S-injection, block-mask P-multiply);
all pure block deletions, no collapse rewrites needed
Re-validated on A100 (parley): fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd all levels 105/105;
graph-path e2e + the alibi negative-routing check pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(sdpa/frost): add the SM80 integration suite with O layout declared
Imports the SM80 frontend-integration test (registration, probe, graph-level
fwd/bwd end-to-end) from the internal suite, with one fix: _build_fwd_graph
now declares O's dim/stride like the SM100 sibling test does.
Without the declaration, backend layout inference declares O
BHSD-contiguous while the e2e tests read their buffer through BSHD-physical
torch strides. A variant-pack entry is raw storage per the IR descriptor
(lower_dsl_prefill's _ir_view; the C++ backend only ever sees raw pointers),
so any contract-honoring engine writes the declared layout and the read
scrambles — pinning the NATIVE eng8 plan on the undeclared graph fails
identically (97.8% mismatch) on an A100. The old standalone-api.py SM80
lowering honored torch strides instead, masking the under-declaration; this
PR's adapter follows the contract. With the declaration the file passes 8/8
on A100-PCIE-40GB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* review: drop the block_on artifact and the caps not-served comments
Addresses egilliam-nv's PR-682 review:
- prefill_{f16,d256_f16}_sm80.py: remove the vestigial block_on = True and
its if-guards outright (the block_mask removal had kept them to avoid
re-indenting the traced body). This also removes the QK sites' orphaned
else branches (the fully-masked-block dead path) — the last block_mask
remnant in the mainloop.
- sdpa/{fwd,bwd}/engines.py: drop the 'ALiBi / block_mask ... deliberately
NOT served' annotations from the _sm80_spec rows — capability rows stay
comment-free like every other engine; the public wrapper/adapter
docstrings keep the user-facing unsupported-features note.
Re-validated on A100 (parley): fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd all levels + the SM80
integration suite — 113/113 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80: fix dropped O columns for d_qk < d_v envelope graphs
The V tile loads passed the shared valid_cols (= the runtime Q/K head dim)
to load_tile_2d, zero-filling V columns [D, d_v) whenever a graph declared
d_qk < d_v inside a flavor envelope (e.g. 96/128 on llama) — so O's tail
columns computed as P*0 and returned zeros where the reference has real
values. The O-store epilogue's matching column trim on d_runtime hid the
same range. Pre-existing bug (the old zeros-allocated output made it look
intentional); surfaced by review on the out-binding path.
- V loads now use valid_cols=None: V is always exactly the compile-time d_v
wide (asserted; the adapter pads it up), so no column predication applies.
- The O store now trims rows only (sq_store_bound); columns are always the
full d_v (padded-V columns compute to exact zero, so storing them is
correct in the uniform-envelope case too).
- The out_* zero-fill comment is reworded as DEFENSIVE per review: the dense
epilogue stores every in-bounds row unconditionally, so nothing relies on
zero-init; the gate stays as insurance.
The bwd kernel is unaffected (it host-pads Q/K/V rather than predicating
loads). Verified on A100: (d_qk=96, d_v=128) now matches torch on the full
width (was: cols [96,128) all-zero, ref absmax 3.06); fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd
all levels + the SM80 integration suite: 113/113.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* review: harden the SM80 adapter and reserve cudnn.sdpa for arch-agnostic wrappers
Review batch for PR-682, shaped by the target design (one adapter layer,
shared validation vocabulary, one future arch-agnostic entry point):
- SdpaFwdDslSm80.check_support gains the same dense_layout_ok stride gate as
the SM100/SM120 adapters (broadcast / overlapping / non-innermost-D
layouts decline with a typed error instead of silently normalizing wrong)
- execute() binds seq lens and sinks through the shared _checked_seq_lens /
_checked_sinks_1d validators (an int64 caller tensor now fails fast
instead of triggering a hidden cast kernel per execute)
- the wrapper's THD branch rejects causal_bottom_right without an anchor
with the same ValueError the dense check_support raises (was a kernel
AssertionError)
- comment/doc fixes: the dense padded-Q trim writes O := 0 / LSE := -inf
explicitly (never relied on zero-init); the bwd wrapper documents its
optional dsink_tensor output
cudnn.sdpa no longer re-exports the per-arch APIs: that level is reserved
for the coming arch-agnostic sdpa_{fwd,bwd}_wrapper entry points, and the
per-arch adapters/wrappers — the pinning tier — are imported from
cudnn.sdpa.fwd / cudnn.sdpa.bwd directly (tests and the sm120 doc example,
which had been referencing a never-exported name, updated).
A100 (parley): fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd all levels + SM80 integration: 113/113.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Enable CSA compressor on SM100+ GPUs (#641)
* Enable CSA compressor on SM100+ GPUs
* fix capability in test
Signed-off-by: Hongxiao Bai <hongxiaob@nvidia.com>
---------
Signed-off-by: Hongxiao Bai <hongxiaob@nvidia.com>
* Rubin perf investigate (#667)
* split-sf-barrier
* reorder-tmaldg-issuing
* refactor-mma-pipeline
* remove-unnecessary-align
* enable-acc-overlap-with-multi-mma
* optimize-smem-stage
* reserve-more-smem-for-moe
* fix_barrier_hanging_0
* fix_barrier_hanging_1
* fix-barrier_2
* fix-barrier-final
* epi-vec-optimization
* unify-epi-matmul
* unify-epilogue-code-logic
* code-rabbit-comments
* another-code-rabbit-fix
* remove-render-only-tests (#688)
* frost(sdpa): serve declared layouts natively in the SM120 backward — strided stats/io, TMA zero-fill head-dim envelope (#666)
* add native layouts support
* fix
* fix tests
* Retile Capabilities.bottom_right_padded_seq_q (#683)
Signed-off-by: Haobin Guo <haobing@nvidia.com>
* Update Benchmarking Artifacts - backend 9.26.0.33, frontend 55b2773 (#681)
* fla: compact packed QKV views for native GDN (#685)
* Add an opt-in cuDNN FLA GatedMLP shim (#686)
* fla: add an opt-in GatedMLP shim
* docs: clarify Qwen MLP benchmark provenance
* fla: document and diagnose shim activation
* docs: clarify GatedMLP shim dependencies
* [SDPA] SM80 fwd: TemplateParams kernels, plan-time compile, sym_int THD extents (#689)
* [SDPA] SM80 fwd: convert kernels to TemplateParams modules, compile at plan time
Bring the SM80 forward onto the same template architecture as SM100/SM120:
- Both kernels (prefill_f16_sm80.py, prefill_d256_f16_sm80.py) now read a
module-level FROST_TEMPLATE_PARAMS (frozen TemplateParams dataclass in
config_sm80.py) and expose an @lru_cache compile(b, h, h_kv, sq, skv, d,
...) entry point; the runtime forward() shim and __main__ smoke are gone
(-350 lines each).
- Packed THD token extents compile as cute.sym_int dynamics: one artifact
per (params, n_seqs) serves any token totals, so continuous batching no
longer mints a compile per step (issue #604 for SM80).
- has_lse is a template flag: has_lse=False builds a kernel with no LSE
buffer or epilogue stores at all instead of writing to a scratch dummy.
- Scheduler vocabulary now imports from frost.tile_dsl.constants
(SCHED_NATURAL/LPT/LPT_L2) instead of a third private copy.
- SdpaFwdDslSm80 builds TemplateParams from graph facts in compile() and
loads the specialized module via frost.template_loader (plan-time JIT,
same seam as SdpaFwdDslSm100); execute() only rebinds pointers.
- lower_dsl_prefill passes bias presence/dtype to adapters that accept it.
Validated on A100 (fe_api sm80 fwd+bwd + frontend integration, all levels)
and B200 (frontend integration, unaffected).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80: THD compile-key regression test (issue #604)
Three varlen wrapper calls with different token totals must not mint new
template specializations and must cache-hit the per-shape compile when the
logical batch count repeats. Asserts on cache-info deltas so the check is
robust inside a full-session run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* [SDPA] SM80: address CodeRabbit review on the template conversion
- THD off-flavor head dim (real bug): Q/K are host-padded to the flavor
width, but compile/runtime d stayed at the unpadded value; since the
kernel derives Q/K row strides from d_runtime, the compiled artifact's
shape check rejected every off-flavor varlen call. Pass the padded width
at both seams (the pre-template forward() contract) and add an L1
regression test (d=96 over the llama d=128 envelope).
- Drop the SM80 _dummy override that shadowed SdpaFwdDsl._dummy with an
incompatible signature; the six call sites now use the inherited
(key, device, factory) form like the sibling adapters.
- Resolve the …
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Per-tensor FP8 + MXFP8 kernels and adapter (SM100 / SM107 / SM120); the fp8 lowering; SM100 THD setup-launch comments;
python/cudnn/AGENTS.md.Summary — three commits (rebased over #585/#622/#642-era develop)
1. Docs cleanup
The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments now describe the plan-time declared-S_q envelope (not the pre-#606 host-computed grid); the resolved THD
cu_seqlensentry is dropped from AGENTS.md's "Known violations".2. FP8 scales fold in-kernel; Scale_S/Descale_S expunged below the graph
Every fp8 graph execute paid a D2H sync: the adapter
.item()-read the caller's device scale tensors to folddescale_q·descale_k/descale_[s·]v·scale_ohost-side — the last big Rule 3 violation, and why fp8 execute was not CUDA-graph-capturable.Now the kernels take
descale_q/k/v+scale_oas unconditional 1-element fp32 tensor parameters and fold them in-kernel (1-elem loads → L2 broadcast); the scalar args carry only the bases. One compile form — no flag. The adapter binds the caller's tensors as-is (Nonebinds a cached 1.0),amax_odivides by the devicescale_o, and_scalarplus every execute-path.item()are deleted; the AGENTS.md violation entry is retired.Scale_S/Descale_S no longer exist below the graph. The lowering neither resolves nor forwards them (the op's tensors stay bound in the variant pack, simply never read — no framework produces a meaningful non-reciprocal pair: vLLM and FlashInfer have no S-scale surface, and TE's pair is reciprocal by construction); the execute signatures dropped the parameters; SM100's execute-time reciprocal check (itself a Rule 3 readback) is deleted, and SM120's Scale_S kernel machinery is removed.
test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignoredpins that wild pair values change nothing, bitwise.Also repairs the
_run_template_taildirect-call helper for the current kernel ABI — the tentest_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_directL1 tests had been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since #608 grew the kernel signature under them (never numeric failures); they now pass 10/10.3. Baked 2⁴ P→fp8 cast bias (fp8 SM100/SM107/SM120 + MXFP8 SM100)
P was quantized to fp8 at unit scale, using at most 2⁴ of e4m3's 448 range (the lazy-rescale skip bounds P by
2^RESCALE_THRESHOLD= 2⁴) while flat-row entries (P ≈ 1/S) sat near the subnormal cliff (~2⁻⁹). Each kernel now bakesP_CAST_LOG2_SCALE = 4.0: P enters BMM2 peaking at 2⁸ = 256 < 448 — no saturation — and flat rows stay in normal range out to S ≈ 2¹³. The invariantRESCALE_THRESHOLD + P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE ≤ log2(448)is documented at each constant. The bias is numerically free beyond the improved quantization: it rides the exp2 argument (EX2 is binade-shift-exact), the sums stay in the same 2⁴ units so the O normalization cancels it outright (SM120 de-scalesrow_sumby the exact 2⁻⁴ pre-finalize instead), and only the LSE subtracts the constant (sink denominator lifted to match). This is an internal quantization choice, not cuDNN's Scale_S — that knob no longer exists below the graph.Validation (per tree revision; final rebased-tree runs in the PR checks)
torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2)) + fp8 fwd/bwd + mxfp8 fwd/bwd sweeps + graph-analyzer probes — green at every step (349✓ descale, 293✓ P-cast fp8, full battery re-running post-rebase).🤖 Generated with Claude Code