First-class cudnn.Handle (create_handle returns an object owning {backend handle, device, stream}) - #612
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 12 reviews per rolling hour; 9 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds Python-level ChangesHandle and device integration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change introduces handle-owned stream and device selection, but the current revision still contains a syntax error that can prevent the affected module from loading, along with device-binding paths that may compile or reuse kernels for the wrong GPU. Merge should be blocked until these correctness and build issues are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant cudnn.Handle
participant cudnn._pygraph
participant Frost.build_plan
participant cudnn.frost.device
Caller->>cudnn.Handle: create handle with backend and ordinal
Caller->>cudnn._pygraph: execute graph with Handle
cudnn._pygraph->>cudnn.Handle: convert with to_backend_handle
cudnn._pygraph->>Frost.build_plan: build when required
Frost.build_plan->>cudnn.frost.device: scope selected ordinal
cudnn.frost.device-->>Frost.build_plan: provide active device facts
Frost.build_plan-->>cudnn._pygraph: return built plan
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In `@docs/handle_first_class_design.md`:
- Around line 27-40: Update the C++ boundary statement to acknowledge the
binding-name changes in python/properties.cpp, specifically the exported
_raw_destroy_handle and _raw_set_stream names, while stating that the underlying
C++ handle ABI remains unchanged. Remove the inaccurate claim that there are no
.cpp changes.
- Line 23: Remove the internal development metadata line from the first-class
Handle documentation, including the identifier and absolute working-directory
path; leave the surrounding documentation unchanged.
In `@python/cudnn/__init__.py`:
- Around line 130-135: Update destroy_handle() to clear Handle.backend_handle
only after _pybind_module._raw_destroy_handle() succeeds, preventing reuse of
the released native handle; preserve the existing stream reset and return
behavior. Update Handle.__repr__ to safely represent a Handle whose
backend_handle has been cleared.
In `@python/cudnn/_handle.py`:
- Around line 10-13: Update the Handle documentation to remove the claim that it
is a drop-in integer or supports implicit conversion through __index__. Document
that callers must explicitly invoke to_backend_handle() before passing a Handle
to raw bindings such as graph.execute, set_stream, or the C++ layer.
In `@python/cudnn/linear_attention/frost/gdn_engine.py`:
- Around line 84-90: Preserve the handle’s device ordinal through lazy kernel
compilation: update build_plan in gdn_engine.py, gdn2_engine.py, and
kda_engine.py to retain it in the compiled plan, and scope FrostLaPlan.execute
or the equivalent execution path before invoking compiled kernels. Update
gdn2_bprop_f16.py and gdn2_prefill_f16.py so compilation uses the persisted
device rather than the ambient device, with device-qualified caching where
needed. Extend test_build_device.py to build on one device, switch the ambient
device, and force first execution.
In `@python/cudnn/linear_attention/frost/kernel/gdn2_recompute_f16.py`:
- Line 2553: Update get_compiled_cache so the selected device and its
architecture are included in the lru_cache key, ensuring compile receives
device-specific num_sm values on cache misses. Add a regression test that
exercises two device scopes with identical static configuration and verifies
they do not share the compiled cache entry.
Apply the same fix in
`@python/cudnn/linear_attention/frost/kernel/gdn2_recompute_f16.py` at line 2553:
Same device-dependent compile-cache key issue.
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1558-1561: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep Python-plan compilation tied to the caller's device.
get_workspace_size_plan_at_index()lazily calls_build_plan_at(index)without passing itshandle. The build therefore usesself._handleor the default context.
execute()creates a caller context only before the first build. The compiled-plan cache is keyed only by plan index. A plan built for one device can then run with a different handle and device.Pass the supplied handle into the lazy build. Also reject device changes after compilation or key compiled plans by device identity. Apply the same invariant to
execute_plan_at_index().The PR objectives require Frost and linear-attention builds to use handle-selected device facts.
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- self._build_plan_at(index) + self._build_plan_at(index, ctx=self._build_context(handle) if handle is not None else None)Also applies to: 1759-1764
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2094-2095: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse starred tuple unpacking.
Ruff RUF005 flags tuple concatenation here.
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- args = (to_backend_handle(args[0]),) + args[1:] + args = (to_backend_handle(args[0]), *args[1:])🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/_pygraph.py`:
- Around line 1558-1561: Update get_workspace_size_plan_at_index() and
execute_plan_at_index() so lazy _build_plan_at(index) calls receive the
caller-supplied handle and use its device facts. Prevent compiled plans cached
by index from being reused across different devices, either by rejecting device
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The build_device() scope already baked every device-derived frost GEMM constant (ab_stages, grid clusters, sm_count, SMEM/L2 budgets, target SM selection) for the handle's GPU, but the cute.compile TARGET still came from the ambient CUDA device: cutedsl derives it from torch.cuda.get_device_capability() when no --gpu-arch is passed. A build for handle-GPU-A while GPU-B was current therefore baked A's constants into a B-targeted kernel. _frost_compile_options() now pins `--gpu-arch sm_<scope>` into the cute.compile() options string (rendered into the content-hashed source, so a cross-arch kernel can no longer collide in the JIT cache). The pin is honoured on nvidia-cutlass-dsl >= 4.7, where compile_and_cache / get_arch_enum consult compile_options.gpu_arch before the env arch; on older wheels the option never reaches the resolver, so a genuine cross-arch build (scope arch != live device) fails loud instead of silently mis-targeting. A same-arch build needs no pin and works on every version. frost.device gains ambient_device() (the scope-free live device) so the <4.7 guard can compare the scope arch against what cutedsl would default to. check_support gating and the linear-attention lazy-compile still read the ambient arch; documented as holes that only diverge on a <4.7 cross-arch build. Verified on SM100 (cutedsl 4.7): test_matmul bf16 sweep 677 passed / 337 skipped with the pin baked in; compiling one graph as sm_100a and sm_103a both succeed while sm_90a fails in the arch-specific NVVM backend (proving the option reaches the target); <4.7 cross-arch fail-loud unit-checked. note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The build_device() scope already baked every device-derived frost GEMM constant (ab_stages, grid clusters, sm_count, SMEM/L2 budgets, target SM selection) for the handle's GPU, but the cute.compile TARGET still came from the ambient CUDA device: cutedsl derives it from torch.cuda.get_device_capability() when no --gpu-arch is passed. A build for handle-GPU-A while GPU-B was current therefore baked A's constants into a B-targeted kernel. _frost_compile_options() now pins `--gpu-arch sm_<scope>` into the cute.compile() options string (rendered into the content-hashed source, so a cross-arch kernel can no longer collide in the JIT cache). The pin is honoured on the public nvidia-cutlass-dsl >= 4.7 (frost's CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION, where compile_and_cache / get_arch_enum consult compile_options.gpu_arch before the env arch) AND on internal RCs. The support probe reuses buffers.cutedsl_too_old so an internal RC's own 0.x numbering is judged new, not old (else a capable internal build would be wrongly disabled). On a public wheel below the floor the option is inert and cutedsl targets an arch captured at import time, which we can neither set nor reliably read; a handle-scoped build there fails loud rather than bake scope constants into a possibly-mis-targeted kernel (an unscoped build makes no cross-device promise and is unchanged). frost declines sub-floor wheels as too-old before reaching here, so the refusal is belt-and-suspenders. frost.device gains ambient_device() (the scope-free live device, the extracted body of current_device()) and build_scope_device() (the active scope ordinal or None, for the fail-loud guard). check_support gating and the linear-attention lazy-compile still read the ambient arch; documented as holes that only diverge on a sub-floor handle-scoped build. Verified on SM100 (cutedsl 4.7): test_matmul bf16 sweep 677 passed / 337 skipped with the pin baked in; compiling one graph as sm_100a and sm_103a both succeed while sm_90a fails in the arch-specific NVVM backend (proving the option reaches the target); the sub-floor fail-loud is unit-checked by forcing the support probe false (scoped build raises, unscoped passes). Also forced through flashinfer's unified GEMM fuzzer on the cudnn backend (this build shimmed into flashinfer's venv): 731 passed / 0 failed / 151 xfailed across bf16/fp8/nvfp4/mxfp4/mxfp8 mm+bmm. Addresses codex review (internal-RC support; import-time-arch fallback). note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…engines FrostGemmEngine.check_support (probe_supported) analysed the graph and picked a template but never checked the cutedsl version, so on a wheel below CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION (4.7) the GEMM engine still accepted the graph and tried to compile -- unlike the linear-attention engines, which decline a too-old wheel up front. Below the floor that either faults deep in cute or, worse, runs unpinned: surfaced live driving this build through flashinfer's GEMM fuzzer on its pinned cutedsl 4.5.2 with FROST engines on, where the frost plan (no backend knobs) then tripped flashinfer's autotuner. Gate probe_supported on buffers.cutedsl_state() / cutedsl_too_old the same way, so a sub-floor wheel declines to the backend cleanly. Internal RCs pass (cutedsl_too_old judges only the public wheel). This also makes the --gpu-arch target pin from the previous commit always available by compile time, so its sub-floor fail-loud is pure belt-and-suspenders. Verified: declines frost on flashinfer's cutedsl 4.5.2 (the fuzzer config that tripped the autotuner now passes via the backend); no-op on 4.7 where probe_supported still accepts. note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…am is unchanged cudnnSetStream is not free. For a non-null stream, cudnn::ops::SetStream (backend src/graph/src/context.cpp) issues several CUDA driver queries on EVERY call — green-context detection (cuStreamGetGreenCtx), cudaStreamGetPriority, cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange, plus a cudaEventRecord device check when the stream changes — to maintain cuDNN's internal per-priority / per-green-context stream pool. It does this even when the stream has not changed (there is no unchanged-stream early return). On Blackwell that is ~2.4us/call (measured), and a framework that calls set_stream before every execute pays it every iteration. Cache the last stream per handle in the Python layer and skip the backend call when it is unchanged, so a steady-state single-stream loop pays it once. destroy_handle forgets the entry so a reused handle address is not wrongly skipped. Assumes a handle is not driven from two streams concurrently (the normal single-stream case; a caller that does needs its own handle per stream regardless). This closes most of the per-op host-overhead gap between routing a plain GEMM through cuDNN and calling cuBLAS directly (the cudnn backend execute itself is already at cuBLAS parity). A complementary backend fix — an unchanged-stream early return in SetStream — would help all callers (including framework code that calls cudnnSetStream directly); filed separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
execute() built a caller ExecutionContext (a cudnnGetStream round-trip + an object alloc) at the top of every call, but only used it when the plan was not yet built. In steady state the plan is built, so the context was computed and thrown away on every execute — a ~2.9us tax that made execute() slower than execute_plan_at_index() for the identical plan. Move the context build inside the `not _is_built` branch, where it is the only user. No API/behavior change; the JIT-build path still gets the caller's handle/stream. On SM100, 256^3 bf16 single-plan matmul this closes the whole execute()-vs-execute_plan_at_index() gap (16.3 -> 10.5 us), matching execute_plan_at_index; test_matmul_bias_relu 34 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The backend cudnnHandle_t binds a device and carries the stream, but on the FE
side the handle was a bare int with nowhere to hang per-handle state, so that
state accreted as side tables (the _handle_to_stream dict) and per-engine device
queries (frost's current_device()).
create_handle() now returns a cudnn.Handle owning {backend_handle, device,
stream}. The naming anticipates the front end being "cudnn" and today's cuDNN
becoming "cudnn backend": this object is the handle; the wrapped cudnnHandle_t is
its backend_handle.
- The backend handle is handed to C++ EXPLICITLY -- to_backend_handle(h) at the
named handoffs (_execute*, backend_graph) and unwrap_handles(args, kwargs) at
the opaque passthroughs (get_workspace_size, cuda-graph, deserialize). A reader
can grep `backend_handle` and trace the plumbing top-to-bottom without an IDE.
An inventory confirmed every handle->C++ handoff is in _pygraph/__init__ (the
__getattr__ delegation carries no handle), so the set is closed. Handle has NO
__index__: the only path to the backend is those explicit calls, and a Handle
reaching a binding unconverted fails loudly. No C++ binding changes.
- Dunders are minimal (no int coercion; __eq__/__hash__/__bool__ at object
defaults) so the handle stays a valid dict key, stays truthy in `if handle:`,
and does not raise on wrapper.py's `== 'auto'`.
- stream lives on Handle.stream (absorbing the write-only _handle_to_stream
cache); get_stream() reads it with no cudnnGetStream round-trip, which also
removes the live query _resolve_stream did on every python-engine execute.
- device is a lazy DeviceInfo (compute_capability + packed sm_version, sm_count,
smem-optin, oversized-smem, L2, name) sourced from the frost driver
introspector and cached per ordinal -- one device-info surface for the FE.
Foreign raw-int handles (framework-created via the C API) keep working: stream
falls back to the _handle_to_stream registry keyed by int(handle), and a live
cudnnGetStream. Design + call-site inventory in docs/handle_first_class_design.md.
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…cuda-python oversized_shared_memory_per_block() passed a bare attribute ordinal (150, CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK, added in CUDA 13.4) to cuda-python's cuDeviceGetAttribute. That binding is strongly typed on the attribute -- it reads attrib.value -- so a bare int (for an enum member the installed cuda-python does not carry; 13.0.2 tops out at 148) raises "'int' object has no attribute 'value'". The query is on the tile-selection hot path (_sm_smem_budget_bytes_of), so this one call took down every frost GEMM kernel: on develop tip the frost gemm suite is 5641 failed / 163 passed, all with that single signature; the query was introduced in NVIDIA#593. Gate on the driver's CUDA version instead: the attribute arrived in 13.4, so a driver older than that has no such mode -> 0 by design (not an error), and the enum member -- which an older cuda-python lacks -- is never touched. From 13.4 the attribute is real, so query it via the proper enum and let a genuine failure raise rather than masking it as 0. This keeps "expected absence" (below 13.4) distinct from an unexpected driver error, and needs no ctypes / bare-ordinal workaround. Validated: frost gemm suite 5804 passed / 0 failed after the fix (was 5641 failed / 163 passed); test_public_execute_flavors.py 30 passed on py3.12 (fe-jax, driver 13.2 -> returns 0). Build-time + lru_cached: 0.38us first call, 50ns cached, never on the execute path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The FROST GEMM engine read every device-derived kernel constant (arch, ab_stages, grid_num_clusters, sm_count, the SMEM/L2 budgets) off frost.device.current_device() -- a workaround from when the graph handed it no device. With a first-class cudnn.Handle carrying a device, source them from the handle instead, so a plan is baked for the GPU the handle is on rather than whatever CUDA device happens to be current at build time. Every one of those constants already funnels through current_device() / resolve_device(None), so rather than thread an ordinal through ~20 signatures, scope it once: build_device(ordinal) is a context manager (like torch.cuda.device()) that overrides current_device() for the build. FrostGemmEngine .build_plan wraps build_gemm_plan() in `with build_device(ctx.handle.device.ordinal)`. tile_config._sm_count() -- the one query that bypassed current_device() (it used torch.cuda.current_device) -- is re-routed through frost.device so it honours the scope too. Grep `build_device`/`_build_device` to trace it end to end. _check_plan_device is unchanged: it is the EXECUTE-time launch guard and must read the LIVE current device (where the launch is going) vs the baked device; the override is a build scope only, unset at execute. VariantPack.device likewise stays on the live device (operand views, read at execute). Validated: frost gemm test_public_execute_flavors + test_stream_respect 32 passed (no regression, SM100); test_build_device.py scopes a build to a different-arch real GPU (L40S/H100/A100) and asserts every constant reports that device -- the multi-GPU behaviour proven on parley without two Blackwells. Foreign raw-int handles (or none) carry no device -> None -> classic current-device. Follow-up: same hinge wrap for the linear-attention and sdpa frost engines (they also read buffers.current_sm()/current_device_id() at build). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eInfo Frost had its own device introspection (frost/device.py querying the driver for compute capability, SM count, the SMEM/L2 ceilings, ...), a workaround from when the FE had no device concept to hand it. Move that layer up to a common cudnn._device.DeviceInfo: each fact is a @cached_property queried from the driver once and cached ON the instance, with one instance per CUDA ordinal (device_info(ordinal), lru-cached), so a GPU's facts are asked for once and shared. Handle.device is that object. This inverts the direction: the driver queries used to live in frost and DeviceInfo (Handle.device) delegated down to them; now the common layer owns the queries + cache, and frost/device.py's fact functions become thin shims onto device_info(ordinal). Frost's ~24-file / 65-site call surface is unchanged (still frost.device.compute_capability(ord)), but it now reads the same DeviceInfo the handle exposes -- one device concept, not a per-engine introspection stack. A later step can repoint those sites at handle.device.* directly; this ownership move is the enabling half. frost/device.py keeps only its runtime concerns (current_device / build_device / resolve_device / device_context), importing the driver machinery from cudnn._device. Validated: handle.device facts + frost shims read the same instance; cache lives on the DeviceInfo instance (test_device_info.py, 3 passed); Handle-core set_stream 4 + matmul/conv/rope 41; build_device cross-device redirect 3; frost gemm test_public_execute_flavors + test_stream_respect 32 -- all pass, no regression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
get_workspace_size, get_workspace_size_plan_at_index and populate/update_cuda_graph were (*args, **kwargs) passthroughs, which meant the handle could be at any position -- so the handle->backend conversion had to scan every arg (unwrap_handles). The C++ overloads are just optional trailing args, so ONE explicit Python signature per method (handle=None, override_uids/shapes/strides=None) forwards to them with no duplication, and the handle is unwrapped by name via to_backend_handle(). The methods now self-document and a reader can see exactly where the backend handle is extracted. (test_api_signature_parity only covers __init__/tensor, so these are free to make explicit.) deserialize is the one genuinely ambiguous classic overload -- (data) vs (handle, data, enforce_precompiled) -- so it stays a passthrough, unwrapping just its first positional (the only place a handle can be; to_backend_handle is a no-op on the data blob). unwrap_handles is removed. Validated: test_deviceless_aot_compilation (deserialize, positional handle) + set_stream + device_info + matmul 44 passed; build_device 3; frost gemm 32. The 4 test_block_scale_quantize_dynamic_shape failures are pre-existing (the override-shape backend feature needs cuDNN >= 9.21; the local .so is 9.20) -- identical on HEAD. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Like the frost GEMM engine, the GDN/GDN2/KDA engines read their one device-baked constant -- num_sm, for the split-K work distribution -- off the ambient device (multiprocessor_count(current_device_id()), a buffers probe that bypasses the build-device scope). Wrap each build_plan in `with build_device(ctx.handle.device .ordinal)` and re-route num_sm onto frost.device.current_device(), so the plan is sized for the handle's GPU rather than whatever CUDA device is current at build. The sdpa frost engines need no such change: their build bakes no device constant from current_device (arch gating lives in check_support), and the lone torch.cuda.current_device() tags a TensorDesc's operand device, which is correctly the live device (as VariantPack.device is). Validated: test_la.py 359 passed / 462 skipped / 0 failed on SM100 (frost opted in) -- no regression across the gdn/gdn2/kda forward + backward engines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version facts are process-global, not per-device: the installed driver and the linked runtime each have one version for the whole process regardless of which GPU a handle is bound to. They had accreted as re-queries in each consumer -- the DeviceInfo oversized-SMEM gate re-called cuDriverGetVersion, and the cutile GDN/KDA check_support each re-implemented a cudaRuntimeGetVersion probe + version gate. Collect them into cudnn/_env.py. This mirrors the backend convention: cuDNN exposes its own versions as argument-less globals (cudnnGetVersion/cudnnGetCudartVersion), never off a handle or the DEVICEPROP descriptor. cuDNN's own version stays there (cudnn.backend_version()); _env owns only the CUDA-side versions that were otherwise duplicated. This is the environment tier below the per-ordinal DeviceInfo and the per-handle Handle -- a process-global fact placed on either would be duplicated per ordinal / per handle. - driver_version() replaces the inline cuDriverGetVersion in the DeviceInfo oversized-SMEM gate. - runtime_version() replaces the duplicated cudaRuntimeGetVersion + gate in the cutile GDN/KDA engines; the decline outcome is unchanged (an unavailable runtime declines exactly like a too-old one). ~100 ns and off the execute hot path, so the lru_cache is for a single owner returning a stable constant, not for speed (measured: raw cuda-python query ~110 ns, cache hit ~43 ns -- invisible against a build/compile path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GDN/GDN2/KDA kernels bake num_sm / max_active_clusters (the persistent grid size) as a compile-time constant. They read it from buffers.current_device_id() -- a raw cudaGetDevice that does NOT honour the build_device() scope -- while the engine (tier 1) and the tile/arch codegen (tier 2) read it through frost.device.current_device(), which does. So inside a build_device(A) scope while the process is live on B, the engine and tiles bake for A but the kernel grid bakes for B: one build, two GPUs. Point the 9 kernel sites at frost.device.current_device() so all three tiers follow the one handle-sourced scope. Same value in the common case (build device == current device); consistent under a cross-GPU build scope. _check_plan_device stays the execute-time launch guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docstring still described the handle forwarding to the backend "via __index__". That path was dropped for the explicit to_backend_handle() handoff -- Handle deliberately has no int-coercing dunder, so an unconverted Handle reaching a binding fails loudly. Correct the docstring to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The python-engine execute path builds an ExecutionContext every call. Two stateless trims to that hot path -- no caching / invalidation surface: - ExecutionContext was a frozen dataclass; its generated __init__ sets each of the three fields through object.__setattr__ (the immutability tax), ~387 ns. A NamedTuple is equally immutable (an engine still cannot rebind ctx.stream) but constructs in ~242 ns for the same three read-only fields. Nothing treats the ctx as a dataclass (no replace()/fields()/is_dataclass), and it is never compared or hashed, so the switch is transparent to engines. - _resolve_stream re-ran `import cudnn` on every call (~69 ns for the sys.modules re-lookup); hoist it to a module-level import (already safe -- _pygraph does `from cudnn import _pybind_module` at module scope, and cudnn.get_stream is resolved at call time, not import time). _build_context: 647 -> 427 ns/execute. With the Handle stream-resolve and the removed discarded rebuild, the python-engine execute path now saves ~4.0 us vs develop. Measured on parley (host timing). Validated: frost gemm 5805 passed / 0 failed, test_la 359 / 0 (SM100). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Seed Handle.stream from the backend's actual stream at create_handle (a fresh handle runs on stream 0). It was None, so a python plan resolved the stream to torch's current while a backend plan on the same handle ran on stream 0 -- divergent ordering under a non-default current stream. - destroy_handle clears Handle.backend_handle after destruction, so a double-destroy or a later set_stream cannot hand a released cudnnHandle_t back to C++. __init__ accepts a None backend handle; __repr__ renders it. - Do not cache the stream for a foreign raw-int handle: its owner may call cudnnSetStream out-of-band, so a cached "unchanged" skip could leave the wrong stream. The idempotency fast path stays only on Handle (handle.stream); the _handle_to_stream registry is removed. Foreign destroy_handle forwards to the backend (the classic destroy-destroys contract). - Gate the oversized-SMEM attribute on binding support, not just driver version: a CUDA 13.4+ driver with an older cuda-python has driver support but no CUdevice_attribute enum member, which raised AttributeError instead of the intended 0 fallback. getattr(...) is None now short-circuits too. - deserialize unwraps a Handle passed as the handle_ keyword, not just the first positional (the pybind overload names the arg handle_). - Restore create_handle/destroy_handle/get_stream/set_stream to cudnn.__all__ (they moved from pybind symbols to Python wrappers and fell out of the export list), and export Handle/DeviceInfo. - Docs: _handle.py no longer claims __index__ coercion; the design doc notes the properties.cpp binding rename so "no .cpp changes" -> "the C++ handle ABI is unchanged". test_set_stream_cache rewritten for the new semantics (Handle-only idempotency, foreign always-set, destroy clears the backend handle, double-destroy safe). Validated (SM100): set_stream 5, device_info 3, matmul/conv/rope, deviceless-AOT (create_handle + deserialize), native lowering 15, frost gemm 95, test_la 359. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The build_device() scope already baked every device-derived frost GEMM constant (ab_stages, grid clusters, sm_count, SMEM/L2 budgets, target SM selection) for the handle's GPU, but the cute.compile TARGET still came from the ambient CUDA device: cutedsl derives it from torch.cuda.get_device_capability() when no --gpu-arch is passed. A build for handle-GPU-A while GPU-B was current therefore baked A's constants into a B-targeted kernel. _frost_compile_options() now pins `--gpu-arch sm_<scope>` into the cute.compile() options string (rendered into the content-hashed source, so a cross-arch kernel can no longer collide in the JIT cache). The pin is honoured on the public nvidia-cutlass-dsl >= 4.7 (frost's CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION, where compile_and_cache / get_arch_enum consult compile_options.gpu_arch before the env arch) AND on internal RCs. The support probe reuses buffers.cutedsl_too_old so an internal RC's own 0.x numbering is judged new, not old (else a capable internal build would be wrongly disabled). On a public wheel below the floor the option is inert and cutedsl targets an arch captured at import time, which we can neither set nor reliably read; a handle-scoped build there fails loud rather than bake scope constants into a possibly-mis-targeted kernel (an unscoped build makes no cross-device promise and is unchanged). frost declines sub-floor wheels as too-old before reaching here, so the refusal is belt-and-suspenders. frost.device gains ambient_device() (the scope-free live device, the extracted body of current_device()) and build_scope_device() (the active scope ordinal or None, for the fail-loud guard). check_support gating and the linear-attention lazy-compile still read the ambient arch; documented as holes that only diverge on a sub-floor handle-scoped build. Verified on SM100 (cutedsl 4.7): test_matmul bf16 sweep 677 passed / 337 skipped with the pin baked in; compiling one graph as sm_100a and sm_103a both succeed while sm_90a fails in the arch-specific NVVM backend (proving the option reaches the target); the sub-floor fail-loud is unit-checked by forcing the support probe false (scoped build raises, unscoped passes). Also forced through flashinfer's unified GEMM fuzzer on the cudnn backend (this build shimmed into flashinfer's venv): 731 passed / 0 failed / 151 xfailed across bf16/fp8/nvfp4/mxfp4/mxfp8 mm+bmm. Addresses codex review (internal-RC support; import-time-arch fallback). note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…engines FrostGemmEngine.check_support (probe_supported) analysed the graph and picked a template but never checked the cutedsl version, so on a wheel below CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION (4.7) the GEMM engine still accepted the graph and tried to compile -- unlike the linear-attention engines, which decline a too-old wheel up front. Below the floor that either faults deep in cute or, worse, runs unpinned: surfaced live driving this build through flashinfer's GEMM fuzzer on its pinned cutedsl 4.5.2 with FROST engines on, where the frost plan (no backend knobs) then tripped flashinfer's autotuner. Gate probe_supported on buffers.cutedsl_state() / cutedsl_too_old the same way, so a sub-floor wheel declines to the backend cleanly. Internal RCs pass (cutedsl_too_old judges only the public wheel). This also makes the --gpu-arch target pin from the previous commit always available by compile time, so its sub-floor fail-loud is pure belt-and-suspenders. Verified: declines frost on flashinfer's cutedsl 4.5.2 (the fuzzer config that tripped the autotuner now passes via the backend); no-op on 4.7 where probe_supported still accepts. note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Local cross-arch validation (gh CI mirror is lagging, so running the handle/device suites locally)Ran on parley (cudnn 9.20, torch 2.13+cu130) across four architectures, at HEAD
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…t 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 NVIDIA#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>
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…#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. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…g 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.
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…kend handle, device, stream}) (NVIDIA#612) * Make cudnn.set_stream idempotent: skip the backend call when the stream is unchanged cudnnSetStream is not free. For a non-null stream, cudnn::ops::SetStream (backend src/graph/src/context.cpp) issues several CUDA driver queries on EVERY call — green-context detection (cuStreamGetGreenCtx), cudaStreamGetPriority, cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange, plus a cudaEventRecord device check when the stream changes — to maintain cuDNN's internal per-priority / per-green-context stream pool. It does this even when the stream has not changed (there is no unchanged-stream early return). On Blackwell that is ~2.4us/call (measured), and a framework that calls set_stream before every execute pays it every iteration. Cache the last stream per handle in the Python layer and skip the backend call when it is unchanged, so a steady-state single-stream loop pays it once. destroy_handle forgets the entry so a reused handle address is not wrongly skipped. Assumes a handle is not driven from two streams concurrently (the normal single-stream case; a caller that does needs its own handle per stream regardless). This closes most of the per-op host-overhead gap between routing a plain GEMM through cuDNN and calling cuBLAS directly (the cudnn backend execute itself is already at cuBLAS parity). A complementary backend fix — an unchanged-stream early return in SetStream — would help all callers (including framework code that calls cudnnSetStream directly); filed separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Skip the discarded per-call context in graph.execute() execute() built a caller ExecutionContext (a cudnnGetStream round-trip + an object alloc) at the top of every call, but only used it when the plan was not yet built. In steady state the plan is built, so the context was computed and thrown away on every execute — a ~2.9us tax that made execute() slower than execute_plan_at_index() for the identical plan. Move the context build inside the `not _is_built` branch, where it is the only user. No API/behavior change; the JIT-build path still gets the caller's handle/stream. On SM100, 256^3 bf16 single-plan matmul this closes the whole execute()-vs-execute_plan_at_index() gap (16.3 -> 10.5 us), matching execute_plan_at_index; test_matmul_bias_relu 34 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Make cudnn.create_handle() return a first-class Handle The backend cudnnHandle_t binds a device and carries the stream, but on the FE side the handle was a bare int with nowhere to hang per-handle state, so that state accreted as side tables (the _handle_to_stream dict) and per-engine device queries (frost's current_device()). create_handle() now returns a cudnn.Handle owning {backend_handle, device, stream}. The naming anticipates the front end being "cudnn" and today's cuDNN becoming "cudnn backend": this object is the handle; the wrapped cudnnHandle_t is its backend_handle. - The backend handle is handed to C++ EXPLICITLY -- to_backend_handle(h) at the named handoffs (_execute*, backend_graph) and unwrap_handles(args, kwargs) at the opaque passthroughs (get_workspace_size, cuda-graph, deserialize). A reader can grep `backend_handle` and trace the plumbing top-to-bottom without an IDE. An inventory confirmed every handle->C++ handoff is in _pygraph/__init__ (the __getattr__ delegation carries no handle), so the set is closed. Handle has NO __index__: the only path to the backend is those explicit calls, and a Handle reaching a binding unconverted fails loudly. No C++ binding changes. - Dunders are minimal (no int coercion; __eq__/__hash__/__bool__ at object defaults) so the handle stays a valid dict key, stays truthy in `if handle:`, and does not raise on wrapper.py's `== 'auto'`. - stream lives on Handle.stream (absorbing the write-only _handle_to_stream cache); get_stream() reads it with no cudnnGetStream round-trip, which also removes the live query _resolve_stream did on every python-engine execute. - device is a lazy DeviceInfo (compute_capability + packed sm_version, sm_count, smem-optin, oversized-smem, L2, name) sourced from the frost driver introspector and cached per ordinal -- one device-info surface for the FE. Foreign raw-int handles (framework-created via the C API) keep working: stream falls back to the _handle_to_stream registry keyed by int(handle), and a live cudnnGetStream. Design + call-site inventory in docs/handle_first_class_design.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost: fix oversized-SMEM query crashing all frost GEMM on CUDA<13.4 cuda-python oversized_shared_memory_per_block() passed a bare attribute ordinal (150, CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK, added in CUDA 13.4) to cuda-python's cuDeviceGetAttribute. That binding is strongly typed on the attribute -- it reads attrib.value -- so a bare int (for an enum member the installed cuda-python does not carry; 13.0.2 tops out at 148) raises "'int' object has no attribute 'value'". The query is on the tile-selection hot path (_sm_smem_budget_bytes_of), so this one call took down every frost GEMM kernel: on develop tip the frost gemm suite is 5641 failed / 163 passed, all with that single signature; the query was introduced in NVIDIA#593. Gate on the driver's CUDA version instead: the attribute arrived in 13.4, so a driver older than that has no such mode -> 0 by design (not an error), and the enum member -- which an older cuda-python lacks -- is never touched. From 13.4 the attribute is real, so query it via the proper enum and let a genuine failure raise rather than masking it as 0. This keeps "expected absence" (below 13.4) distinct from an unexpected driver error, and needs no ctypes / bare-ordinal workaround. Validated: frost gemm suite 5804 passed / 0 failed after the fix (was 5641 failed / 163 passed); test_public_execute_flavors.py 30 passed on py3.12 (fe-jax, driver 13.2 -> returns 0). Build-time + lru_cached: 0.38us first call, 50ns cached, never on the execute path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(gemm): bake the plan for the handle's device, not the ambient one The FROST GEMM engine read every device-derived kernel constant (arch, ab_stages, grid_num_clusters, sm_count, the SMEM/L2 budgets) off frost.device.current_device() -- a workaround from when the graph handed it no device. With a first-class cudnn.Handle carrying a device, source them from the handle instead, so a plan is baked for the GPU the handle is on rather than whatever CUDA device happens to be current at build time. Every one of those constants already funnels through current_device() / resolve_device(None), so rather than thread an ordinal through ~20 signatures, scope it once: build_device(ordinal) is a context manager (like torch.cuda.device()) that overrides current_device() for the build. FrostGemmEngine .build_plan wraps build_gemm_plan() in `with build_device(ctx.handle.device.ordinal)`. tile_config._sm_count() -- the one query that bypassed current_device() (it used torch.cuda.current_device) -- is re-routed through frost.device so it honours the scope too. Grep `build_device`/`_build_device` to trace it end to end. _check_plan_device is unchanged: it is the EXECUTE-time launch guard and must read the LIVE current device (where the launch is going) vs the baked device; the override is a build scope only, unset at execute. VariantPack.device likewise stays on the live device (operand views, read at execute). Validated: frost gemm test_public_execute_flavors + test_stream_respect 32 passed (no regression, SM100); test_build_device.py scopes a build to a different-arch real GPU (L40S/H100/A100) and asserts every constant reports that device -- the multi-GPU behaviour proven on parley without two Blackwells. Foreign raw-int handles (or none) carry no device -> None -> classic current-device. Follow-up: same hinge wrap for the linear-attention and sdpa frost engines (they also read buffers.current_sm()/current_device_id() at build). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * device: extract the device-fact layer to a common cudnn._device.DeviceInfo Frost had its own device introspection (frost/device.py querying the driver for compute capability, SM count, the SMEM/L2 ceilings, ...), a workaround from when the FE had no device concept to hand it. Move that layer up to a common cudnn._device.DeviceInfo: each fact is a @cached_property queried from the driver once and cached ON the instance, with one instance per CUDA ordinal (device_info(ordinal), lru-cached), so a GPU's facts are asked for once and shared. Handle.device is that object. This inverts the direction: the driver queries used to live in frost and DeviceInfo (Handle.device) delegated down to them; now the common layer owns the queries + cache, and frost/device.py's fact functions become thin shims onto device_info(ordinal). Frost's ~24-file / 65-site call surface is unchanged (still frost.device.compute_capability(ord)), but it now reads the same DeviceInfo the handle exposes -- one device concept, not a per-engine introspection stack. A later step can repoint those sites at handle.device.* directly; this ownership move is the enabling half. frost/device.py keeps only its runtime concerns (current_device / build_device / resolve_device / device_context), importing the driver machinery from cudnn._device. Validated: handle.device facts + frost shims read the same instance; cache lives on the DeviceInfo instance (test_device_info.py, 3 passed); Handle-core set_stream 4 + matmul/conv/rope 41; build_device cross-device redirect 3; frost gemm test_public_execute_flavors + test_stream_respect 32 -- all pass, no regression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Give the passthrough methods explicit signatures; drop unwrap_handles get_workspace_size, get_workspace_size_plan_at_index and populate/update_cuda_graph were (*args, **kwargs) passthroughs, which meant the handle could be at any position -- so the handle->backend conversion had to scan every arg (unwrap_handles). The C++ overloads are just optional trailing args, so ONE explicit Python signature per method (handle=None, override_uids/shapes/strides=None) forwards to them with no duplication, and the handle is unwrapped by name via to_backend_handle(). The methods now self-document and a reader can see exactly where the backend handle is extracted. (test_api_signature_parity only covers __init__/tensor, so these are free to make explicit.) deserialize is the one genuinely ambiguous classic overload -- (data) vs (handle, data, enforce_precompiled) -- so it stays a passthrough, unwrapping just its first positional (the only place a handle can be; to_backend_handle is a no-op on the data blob). unwrap_handles is removed. Validated: test_deviceless_aot_compilation (deserialize, positional handle) + set_stream + device_info + matmul 44 passed; build_device 3; frost gemm 32. The 4 test_block_scale_quantize_dynamic_shape failures are pre-existing (the override-shape backend feature needs cuDNN >= 9.21; the local .so is 9.20) -- identical on HEAD. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(linear-attention): bake gdn/gdn2/kda plans for the handle's device Like the frost GEMM engine, the GDN/GDN2/KDA engines read their one device-baked constant -- num_sm, for the split-K work distribution -- off the ambient device (multiprocessor_count(current_device_id()), a buffers probe that bypasses the build-device scope). Wrap each build_plan in `with build_device(ctx.handle.device .ordinal)` and re-route num_sm onto frost.device.current_device(), so the plan is sized for the handle's GPU rather than whatever CUDA device is current at build. The sdpa frost engines need no such change: their build bakes no device constant from current_device (arch gating lives in check_support), and the lone torch.cuda.current_device() tags a TensorDesc's operand device, which is correctly the live device (as VariantPack.device is). Validated: test_la.py 359 passed / 462 skipped / 0 failed on SM100 (frost opted in) -- no regression across the gdn/gdn2/kda forward + backward engines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * env: single owner for CUDA driver/runtime versions (cudnn/_env.py) Version facts are process-global, not per-device: the installed driver and the linked runtime each have one version for the whole process regardless of which GPU a handle is bound to. They had accreted as re-queries in each consumer -- the DeviceInfo oversized-SMEM gate re-called cuDriverGetVersion, and the cutile GDN/KDA check_support each re-implemented a cudaRuntimeGetVersion probe + version gate. Collect them into cudnn/_env.py. This mirrors the backend convention: cuDNN exposes its own versions as argument-less globals (cudnnGetVersion/cudnnGetCudartVersion), never off a handle or the DEVICEPROP descriptor. cuDNN's own version stays there (cudnn.backend_version()); _env owns only the CUDA-side versions that were otherwise duplicated. This is the environment tier below the per-ordinal DeviceInfo and the per-handle Handle -- a process-global fact placed on either would be duplicated per ordinal / per handle. - driver_version() replaces the inline cuDriverGetVersion in the DeviceInfo oversized-SMEM gate. - runtime_version() replaces the duplicated cudaRuntimeGetVersion + gate in the cutile GDN/KDA engines; the decline outcome is unchanged (an unavailable runtime declines exactly like a too-old one). ~100 ns and off the execute hot path, so the lru_cache is for a single owner returning a stable constant, not for speed (measured: raw cuda-python query ~110 ns, cache hit ~43 ns -- invisible against a build/compile path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(linear-attention): bake kernel num_sm for the build-scope device The GDN/GDN2/KDA kernels bake num_sm / max_active_clusters (the persistent grid size) as a compile-time constant. They read it from buffers.current_device_id() -- a raw cudaGetDevice that does NOT honour the build_device() scope -- while the engine (tier 1) and the tile/arch codegen (tier 2) read it through frost.device.current_device(), which does. So inside a build_device(A) scope while the process is live on B, the engine and tiles bake for A but the kernel grid bakes for B: one build, two GPUs. Point the 9 kernel sites at frost.device.current_device() so all three tiers follow the one handle-sourced scope. Same value in the common case (build device == current device); consistent under a cross-GPU build scope. _check_plan_device stays the execute-time launch guard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * handle: fix stale create_handle docstring (no __index__) The docstring still described the handle forwarding to the backend "via __index__". That path was dropped for the explicit to_backend_handle() handoff -- Handle deliberately has no int-coercing dunder, so an unconverted Handle reaching a binding fails loudly. Correct the docstring to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * execute: build the per-execute ExecutionContext ~220 ns cheaper The python-engine execute path builds an ExecutionContext every call. Two stateless trims to that hot path -- no caching / invalidation surface: - ExecutionContext was a frozen dataclass; its generated __init__ sets each of the three fields through object.__setattr__ (the immutability tax), ~387 ns. A NamedTuple is equally immutable (an engine still cannot rebind ctx.stream) but constructs in ~242 ns for the same three read-only fields. Nothing treats the ctx as a dataclass (no replace()/fields()/is_dataclass), and it is never compared or hashed, so the switch is transparent to engines. - _resolve_stream re-ran `import cudnn` on every call (~69 ns for the sys.modules re-lookup); hoist it to a module-level import (already safe -- _pygraph does `from cudnn import _pybind_module` at module scope, and cudnn.get_stream is resolved at call time, not import time). _build_context: 647 -> 427 ns/execute. With the Handle stream-resolve and the removed discarded rebuild, the python-engine execute path now saves ~4.0 us vs develop. Measured on parley (host timing). Validated: frost gemm 5805 passed / 0 failed, test_la 359 / 0 (SM100). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * handle: address codex + CodeRabbit review findings - Seed Handle.stream from the backend's actual stream at create_handle (a fresh handle runs on stream 0). It was None, so a python plan resolved the stream to torch's current while a backend plan on the same handle ran on stream 0 -- divergent ordering under a non-default current stream. - destroy_handle clears Handle.backend_handle after destruction, so a double-destroy or a later set_stream cannot hand a released cudnnHandle_t back to C++. __init__ accepts a None backend handle; __repr__ renders it. - Do not cache the stream for a foreign raw-int handle: its owner may call cudnnSetStream out-of-band, so a cached "unchanged" skip could leave the wrong stream. The idempotency fast path stays only on Handle (handle.stream); the _handle_to_stream registry is removed. Foreign destroy_handle forwards to the backend (the classic destroy-destroys contract). - Gate the oversized-SMEM attribute on binding support, not just driver version: a CUDA 13.4+ driver with an older cuda-python has driver support but no CUdevice_attribute enum member, which raised AttributeError instead of the intended 0 fallback. getattr(...) is None now short-circuits too. - deserialize unwraps a Handle passed as the handle_ keyword, not just the first positional (the pybind overload names the arg handle_). - Restore create_handle/destroy_handle/get_stream/set_stream to cudnn.__all__ (they moved from pybind symbols to Python wrappers and fell out of the export list), and export Handle/DeviceInfo. - Docs: _handle.py no longer claims __index__ coercion; the design doc notes the properties.cpp binding rename so "no .cpp changes" -> "the C++ handle ABI is unchanged". test_set_stream_cache rewritten for the new semantics (Handle-only idempotency, foreign always-set, destroy clears the backend handle, double-destroy safe). Validated (SM100): set_stream 5, device_info 3, matmul/conv/rope, deviceless-AOT (create_handle + deserialize), native lowering 15, frost gemm 95, test_la 359. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(gemm): pin cute.compile target to the build_device scope arch The build_device() scope already baked every device-derived frost GEMM constant (ab_stages, grid clusters, sm_count, SMEM/L2 budgets, target SM selection) for the handle's GPU, but the cute.compile TARGET still came from the ambient CUDA device: cutedsl derives it from torch.cuda.get_device_capability() when no --gpu-arch is passed. A build for handle-GPU-A while GPU-B was current therefore baked A's constants into a B-targeted kernel. _frost_compile_options() now pins `--gpu-arch sm_<scope>` into the cute.compile() options string (rendered into the content-hashed source, so a cross-arch kernel can no longer collide in the JIT cache). The pin is honoured on the public nvidia-cutlass-dsl >= 4.7 (frost's CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION, where compile_and_cache / get_arch_enum consult compile_options.gpu_arch before the env arch) AND on internal RCs. The support probe reuses buffers.cutedsl_too_old so an internal RC's own 0.x numbering is judged new, not old (else a capable internal build would be wrongly disabled). On a public wheel below the floor the option is inert and cutedsl targets an arch captured at import time, which we can neither set nor reliably read; a handle-scoped build there fails loud rather than bake scope constants into a possibly-mis-targeted kernel (an unscoped build makes no cross-device promise and is unchanged). frost declines sub-floor wheels as too-old before reaching here, so the refusal is belt-and-suspenders. frost.device gains ambient_device() (the scope-free live device, the extracted body of current_device()) and build_scope_device() (the active scope ordinal or None, for the fail-loud guard). check_support gating and the linear-attention lazy-compile still read the ambient arch; documented as holes that only diverge on a sub-floor handle-scoped build. Verified on SM100 (cutedsl 4.7): test_matmul bf16 sweep 677 passed / 337 skipped with the pin baked in; compiling one graph as sm_100a and sm_103a both succeed while sm_90a fails in the arch-specific NVVM backend (proving the option reaches the target); the sub-floor fail-loud is unit-checked by forcing the support probe false (scoped build raises, unscoped passes). Also forced through flashinfer's unified GEMM fuzzer on the cudnn backend (this build shimmed into flashinfer's venv): 731 passed / 0 failed / 151 xfailed across bf16/fp8/nvfp4/mxfp4/mxfp8 mm+bmm. Addresses codex review (internal-RC support; import-time-arch fallback). note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(gemm): enforce the cutedsl floor in check_support, like the LA engines FrostGemmEngine.check_support (probe_supported) analysed the graph and picked a template but never checked the cutedsl version, so on a wheel below CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION (4.7) the GEMM engine still accepted the graph and tried to compile -- unlike the linear-attention engines, which decline a too-old wheel up front. Below the floor that either faults deep in cute or, worse, runs unpinned: surfaced live driving this build through flashinfer's GEMM fuzzer on its pinned cutedsl 4.5.2 with FROST engines on, where the frost plan (no backend knobs) then tripped flashinfer's autotuner. Gate probe_supported on buffers.cutedsl_state() / cutedsl_too_old the same way, so a sub-floor wheel declines to the backend cleanly. Internal RCs pass (cutedsl_too_old judges only the public wheel). This also makes the --gpu-arch target pin from the previous commit always available by compile time, so its sub-floor fail-loud is pure belt-and-suspenders. Verified: declines frost on flashinfer's cutedsl 4.5.2 (the fuzzer config that tripped the autotuner now passes via the backend); no-op on 4.7 where probe_supported still accepts. note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — "PR NVIDIA#612 first-class Handle + A'" cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: drop the session-provenance line from the handle design doc Remove the internal note-to-self (session id + absolute local working path) from the published design doc; provenance lives in the PR and git history. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * handle: accept only cudnn.Handle on the Python API, reject raw backend ints cudnn.create_handle() is the only way to make a handle in the Python API, so every real caller already holds a first-class Handle (verified across flashinfer / sglang / the FE's own code; torch uses the C++ frontend, not this module). A raw backend int silently opted out of the Handle's device/stream tracking and device-scoped build, so keeping it as an equal citizen was a second, incompatible concept on every handle API. to_backend_handle / set_stream / get_stream / destroy_handle / execute(handle=) now require a cudnn.Handle (or None) and raise TypeError on a bare int. A framework holding a foreign cudnnHandle_t wraps it once -- cudnn.Handle(backend_handle, ordinal, stream) -- so it becomes first-class instead of a bare int. deserialize keeps its classic (handle, data) vs (data) overload by unwrapping only a Handle and leaving the blob alone. Fixes a stale handle:int annotation on execute() and a duplicate return in destroy_handle. Design doc Hard-constraint NVIDIA#4 updated; the raw-int unit tests now assert rejection. Verified: test_set_stream_cache + test_dispatch (64 passed), and a real create_handle -> build -> execute on GPU (rel-L2 1.6e-3, raw int rejected, destroy clears). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * handle: address review — drop Handle.__slots__, trim the ExecutionContext comment Per @Anerudhan's review: Handle is created once per (device, stream), not on a hot path, so __slots__ buys nothing worth the restriction; and the NamedTuple-vs-dataclass rationale on ExecutionContext is trimmed to one line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…efined (NVIDIA#638) NVIDIA#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 NVIDIA#634. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…g cannot name it (NVIDIA#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 NVIDIA#638; that commit was dropped from this PR. - Supersedes NVIDIA#615, which fixed the same class of bug in `frost/device.py` before NVIDIA#612 moved the query into `cudnn/_device.py` — NVIDIA#615 can be closed.
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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 NVIDIA#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.
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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 NVIDIA#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.
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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 NVIDIA#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.
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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 NVIDIA#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.
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…n 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.
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…U 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 aaa8bbf: 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>
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Full-suite alternative to #611 (first-class
cudnn.Handle); #611 stays open as the minimal, low-risk fallback. Exactly one merges.What
Make
cudnn.create_handle()return a first-classHandleobject instead of a bare int, giving the handle a home for the per-handle state that had accreted as side tables and per-engine queries:_handle_to_streamcache (FE execute-path host overhead: idempotent set_stream + skip the discarded per-call context #611) moves ontoHandle.stream;sm_count/sm_version/device_propertyargs; frost's owncurrent_device()+ driver introspection) unify behindHandle.device.The naming anticipates the front end being "cudnn" and today's cuDNN becoming "cudnn backend": this object is the
handle; the wrappedcudnnHandle_tis itsbackend_handle. It is optional by design — python engines (frost, cutedsl, linear-attention) need device+stream, not acudnnHandle_t.The C++ boundary mirrors the backend's own model: a device is carried as
CUDNN_BACKEND_DEVICEPROP_DESCRIPTORthrough the whole build/compile chain (engine / heuristic / execution-plan), and the handle is needed only to populate that descriptor or, at execute, to supply the stream. This PR is the Python analog:Handle.device(aDeviceInfo) is the device concept threaded into the python engines' build; the handle is consulted for the stream at execute.Design + a full call-site inventory: docs/handle_first_class_design.md.
Backward compatibility — transparent for normal use
Every handle-taking cudnn API (
execute,set_stream,get_stream,destroy_handle, all graph methods) is Handle-aware — the backend handle is extracted explicitly viato_backend_handle(h)at each named handoff.Handlehas the dunders the real usage needs: truthy (if handle:), identity hash (dict key), identity eq (compares cleanly against'auto'/Nonesentinels). Both directions work: a Handle fromcreate_handle(), and a foreign raw-intcudnnHandle_ta framework created via the C API (isinstance → registry + livecudnnGetStream).The one deliberate change:
Handlehas no__index__/__int__, so code that used the handle as a raw integer (int(handle), passing it to a non-FE C API expectingintptr_t, integer arithmetic) must readhandle.backend_handle. This is fail-loud by design — a Handle reaching a binding unconverted raises rather than being silently coerced. A repo-wide grep (python + tests + samples) found zero such patterns.Landed (all validated)
Handle core (
_handle.py,__init__.py): explicitto_backend_handle(h)at every handoff (grepbackend_handleto trace it; an inventory confirmed the set is closed — the__getattr__delegation carries no handle).Handle.streamis the source of truth (absorbs the write-only_handle_to_stream);get_stream()reads it with nocudnnGetStreamround-trip, removing the live query_resolve_streamdid on every python-engine execute. Passthrough methods (get_workspace_size{,_plan_at_index},populate/update_cuda_graph) namehandle/overrides explicitly (no*args);deserializestays a genuine data-or-handle passthrough. Carries #611 (set_stream idempotency + skip the discarded per-callexecute()context).Common device layer (
_device.py):DeviceInfois the FE's single owner of a GPU's facts — each fact a@cached_propertyqueried once and cached on the instance, one instance per ordinal.Handle.deviceis it;frost/device.py's fact functions become thin shims onto it (its ~24-file / 65-site surface unchanged), so frost consumes the same object instead of a parallel introspection stack.Environment layer (
_env.py): CUDA driver/runtime versions are process-global, not per-device — collected here (mirroring the backend's argument-lesscudnnGetVersion/cudnnGetCudartVersion), replacing the inlinecuDriverGetVersiongate inDeviceInfoand the duplicatedcudaRuntimeGetVersionprobes in the cutile GDN/KDA engines.Device-consumer adoption (frost / linear-attention): a
build_device(ordinal)scope, set once at each engine'sbuild_planhinge fromctx.handle.device.ordinal, makes every device-derived build constant follow the handle's GPU. All three tiers now read through the one scope: the engine (current_device()), the tile/arch codegen, and the GDN/GDN2/KDA kernels (their baked persistent-gridnum_sm/max_active_clusters, previously read off a scope-blindcudaGetDevice)._check_plan_devicestays the execute-time launch guard. sdpa engines need nothing (no device constant baked at build).Execute hot-path overhead (measured, parley)
The Handle removes per-execute host work on the python-engine path (frost / LA / cutedsl):
cudnnGetStream(~1.5 µs) →handle.streamattribute;_build_contextrebuild removed (~2.3 µs; from FE execute-path host overhead: idempotent set_stream + skip the discarded per-call context #611);NamedTuple(still immutable) +import cudnnhoisted out of_resolve_stream:_build_context647 → 427 ns.Net: python-engine execute saves ~4.0 µs/execute vs develop; classic backend execute saves ~2.3 µs (the shared discarded-rebuild removal;
to_backend_handleadds a negligible ~65 ns).Validation (SM100 parley, fe-jax test bed)
test_la359 / 0 · frost gemm 5805 / 0 ·test_set_stream_cache4 ·test_device_info3 ·test_build_devicecross-device redirect 3 (scopes a build to L40S/H100/A100 and asserts every frost constant follows — proves device-follows-handle without two Blackwells) · matmul/conv/rope 41 · deviceless-AOT deserialize + workspace passthrough green. The 4test_block_scale_quantize_dynamic_shapefailures are pre-existing (override-shape needs cuDNN ≥ 9.21; local backend is 9.20 — identical on develop).note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — first-class cudnn.Handle. cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend · worktree /home/scratch.yanxu_gpu/fe-handle
Summary by CodeRabbit
cudnn.Handleobjects with device and stream tracking.