frost(sdpa): SM80 workspace carving + backward strided stats — no per-execute allocation on the engine paths (issue #514) - #716
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSM80 SDPA forward and backward execution now reports workspace requirements, stages non-contiguous or padded tensors in caller-provided scratch, and passes remaining workspace to kernels. Forward DSL compilation preserves non-contiguous LSE layouts across SM80, SM100, and SM120. ChangesSM80 backward kernel scratch
SM80 backward adapter and engine
Forward LSE layout and staging
Workspace-backed integration validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change removes execute-time allocations and adds workspace-based execution, but two bounded correctness risks remain: layout mismatches may surface as misleading workspace errors, and PackGQA may be accepted without affecting behavior. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up on these cases. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Graph->>SM80Forward: Execute with graph workspace
SM80Forward->>WorkspaceCarver: Carve staging and output buffers
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SM80Backward->>WorkspaceCarver: Carve staging and kernel scratch
SM80Backward-->>Graph: Write gradients to output buffers
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291-296: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAlign the sizing predicate with the runtime staging predicate.
scratch_workspace_bytes()decides staging from the static descriptor stride through_needs_bshd_stage(desc).execute()decides staging from the runtime tensor throughview.is_contiguous(). The two can disagree when the tensor passed toexecute()does not match the sample descriptor.If the descriptor reports compact BSHD but the runtime tensor is not,
_stage()carves a chunk that was never sized.WorkspaceCarver.takethen raises a "workspace overrun ... (sizing bug)" error instead of naming the real cause. The engine path is safe today becauselower_sm80_bwdbuilds_compact_descdescriptors and pre-normalizes the buffers, but the adapter is a public surface.Consider validating the runtime layout against the descriptor before carving, or deriving both decisions from one helper.
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294-294: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRuff findings on the new workspace-sizing code. The new descriptor-unpacking lines bind shape components that the surrounding code never reads, and one staged tensor uses an ambiguous single-letter name. Ruff reports
RUF059andE741on these changed lines.
python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api.py#L294-L294: rename the unusedbin_needs_bshd_stageto_b.python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/engines.py#L548-L551: rename the unusedbbin_compact_descto_bb.python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api.py#L445-L445: rename the staged output tensorOto a non-ambiguous name and update thekernel.backward(...)call at Line 487.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/engines.py`:
- Around line 609-615: Update resolve_variant_pack() to rebuild q_t, k_t, v_t,
o_t, do_t, stats_t, dq_t, dk_t, and dv_t as IR-shaped views using their port
dimensions and strides before calling _normalize(), squeeze(-1), or
api.execute(). Preserve the raw caller buffers while ensuring each variant-pack
buffer has the expected rank and element mapping for downstream operations.
In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_sm80_frontend_integration.py`:
- Around line 274-284: Update the forward allocation test around
_build_fwd_graph and stats_buf to use a configuration that genuinely requires
forward staging, such as a non-contiguous LSE buffer or GQA/padded-V graph.
Assert that _ws(g) reports nonzero required workspace, then retain the
allocation assertion so the test verifies staging allocation rather than only
successful execution.
- Around line 311-321: Extend the repeated-execution snapshot and validation to
include the backward outputs dk_buf and dv_buf alongside o_buf and dq_buf.
Update the clone initialization and add exact torch.testing.assert_close checks
for both buffers after the carved re-executions, preserving the existing
zero-tolerance comparisons.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api.py`:
- Around line 291-296: The staging decision used by scratch_workspace_bytes()
and execute() must share the same layout predicate. Update _needs_bshd_stage()
or introduce a shared helper so runtime tensor contiguity is validated against
the descriptor before _stage() carves workspace, ensuring every staged execution
is covered by the sized allocation and reports the actual layout mismatch rather
than a workspace overrun.
- Line 294: The workspace-sizing code has Ruff naming findings from unused and
ambiguous bindings. In python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api.py lines 294-294, rename the
unused b binding in _needs_bshd_stage to _b; in python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/engines.py
lines 548-551, rename the unused bb binding in _compact_desc to _bb; and in
python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api.py lines 445-445, rename staged output tensor O to a
descriptive non-ambiguous name and update the kernel.backward(...) call at line
487 accordingly.
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304-304: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject unsupported
pack_gqaon SM80.
SdpaFwdDslnow storespack_gqa, and the engine forwards it to adapters.SdpaFwdDslSm80does not reject or consume this option. A caller can request PackGQA and receive an unpacked SM80 GQA plan without an error.Add an SM80 support check that rejects
self.pack_gqa, or remove this option before SM80 adapter construction.Proposed fix
self._value_error_if( h_qo % h_kv != 0, f"H_q ({h_qo}) must be divisible by H_kv ({h_kv}) for GQA / MQA", ) + self._not_implemented_error_if( + self.pack_gqa, + "SM80 SDPA does not support PackGQA", + )Also applies to: 379-379
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- Line 304: Update SdpaFwdDslSm80 to explicitly reject a truthy self.pack_gqa
before constructing or selecting the SM80 adapter, raising the established
unsupported-option error; alternatively remove the option before adapter
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…VIDIA#514) Mirrors the merged forward port's contract: both bprop kernels gain scratch_bytes() and a workspace= param carving dQ_acc / dQ / dK_ws / dV_ws / GQA-reduced dK/dV / the deterministic-dQ semaphore / dBias+dSink accumulators / do_dot from the caller's buffer (cached 1-element dummies for absent operands); SdpabwdSm80 gains scratch_workspace_bytes(feature flags) covering pad/gather staging plus the kernel tail and a carve-aware execute(workspace=); lower_sm80_bwd builds the adapter at plan time from normalized descriptors and records the total as workspace_bytes. The row also declares strided_stats (NVIDIA#666's capability): the kernels read a packed LSE, so a stats input with any other declared strides is gathered into a carved contiguous chunk — without this, every stats-stride-randomized mhas draw (NVIDIA#304, active on cuDNN >= 9.26) declined to the backend. Adds the issue's no-alloc regression test: the CUDA allocator counter stays flat across re-executes of both SM80 engines, outputs bitwise-stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…NVIDIA#514) Completes the forward half on the merged SdpaFwdDsl/TemplateParams architecture: SdpaFwdDslSm80.scratch_workspace_bytes() now sizes the dense_flex Q/K/V/O gathers, the GQA head expansion, the V head-dim pad (one carved buffer per operand — gather, expansion, and pad fused), strided-LSE staging, and the sinks log2 rescale; execute() carves them all from the caller's workspace through lower_dsl_prefill's existing plumbing (the standalone wrapper path keeps its allocating fallbacks). The 'LSE must be contiguous on SM80' build-time reject becomes carved staging + copy-back: with mhas randomizing dense stats strides on cuDNN >= 9.26 (NVIDIA#304), that reject was declining most stats-carrying forward graphs to the backend. Test updates: workspace passed at every SM80 graph execute; the no-alloc regression no longer requires a non-zero fwd workspace (a plain compact-BSHD MHA graph direct-binds everything and genuinely needs no scratch). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…test CodeRabbit round 1: - lower_sm80_bwd rebuilds IR-shaped views for the variant-pack INPUT buffers (q/k/v/o/dO/stats) before staging, mirroring the forward lowering's _ir_view — a flat or logically-reshaped caller buffer previously raised or mapped elements incorrectly in the rank-dependent staging paths. The gradient OUTPUTS deliberately keep the caller tensor's own view: output-port IR strides are provisional row-major unless user-assigned (the layout invariant in docs/python_graph_and_execution_backends.md), and re-striding the copy-back targets to the provisional layout scatters the writes (caught by test_bwd_engine_end_to_end, 83% dQ mismatch). - The no-alloc regression now exercises real staging on both directions: GQA (fwd K/V head expansion) plus a strided stats buffer (fwd LSE staging + bwd gather), asserts a non-zero fwd workspace, and clones/compares dK and dV alongside dQ and O across the re-executes. Verified on A100: SM80 suites all levels 118 passed; test_mhas_v2 bwd_L0 176/0, sdpa_bwd_sm80 serving all 176. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_sm80_frontend_integration.py`:
- Around line 316-317: Add an appropriate pytest level marker from L0 through L4
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@vedaanta re: the What it is. The SM80 kernels consume compact BSHD operands (contiguous When it's zero. The common case. A caller buffer that is already compact-BSHD-physical (what every BSHD-declared graph binds) makes the transpose view contiguous — the gather is a zero-copy view, sized 0 bytes, and The one fusion on top: for K/V the gather, the GQA head expansion ( Sizing invariant: |
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Summary
Closes #514: both torch-native SM80 SDPA engine paths now carve every per-execute buffer from the caller's workspace via the
scratch_workspace_bytes()contract — no allocation on the engine execute path — and both rows serve strided softmax stats.Backward (
sdpa_bwd_sm80):scratch_bytes()+ aworkspace=parameter carvingdQ_acc/dQ/dK_ws/dV_ws/ the GQA-reduceddK/dV/ the deterministic-dQ semaphore / thedBias+dSinkaccumulators /do_dot; absent-operand ABI dummies are one-time cached per (dtype, device) (Rule 1's_dummyallowance).SdpabwdSm80gainsscratch_workspace_bytes(feature flags)covering head-dim pad / dense_flex gather staging plus the kernel tail, and a carve-awareexecute(workspace=); the standalone wrapper path keeps its allocating fallbacks.lower_sm80_bwdbuilds the adapter at plan time from normalized descriptors and records the total asworkspace_bytes(the_FrostSdpaBwdPlanexecutor contract).strided_stats: the kernels read a packed LSE, so a stats input with any other declared strides is gathered into a carved contiguous chunk. Without this, every stats-stride-randomized mhas draw (fix: reject non-BHSD softmax-stats strides on cuDNN < 9.26; randomize in tests (NVBug 6057616) #304, active on cuDNN >= 9.26) declined to the backend.Forward (
sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm80, on the #682/#689SdpaFwdDsl/TemplateParams architecture):SdpaFwdDslSm80.scratch_workspace_bytes()now sizes the dense_flex Q/K/V/O gathers, the GQA head expansion, the V head-dim pad (gather + expansion + pad fused into one carved buffer per operand), and the sinks log2 rescale;execute()carves them all throughlower_dsl_prefill's existing workspace plumbing.Strided-LSE stagingsuperseded during rebase: frost(sdpa): enable sdpa_fwd engines to write dense LSE directly to non-contiguous, dense-compatible layouts #712 landed native strided LSE writes for the forward engines (the SM80 template compiles against the declaredlse_stride), so this PR no longer carries a forward LSE path — the backward strided-stats gather remains this PR's.Test: new no-alloc regression in the SM80 integration suite — after the warm execute, the CUDA caching allocator's cumulative allocation counter stays flat across re-executes of both engines (any
torch.empty/zeros/clone/contiguouson the execute path would advance it), with bitwise-stable outputs. Every SM80 graph-execute test now allocatesgraph.get_workspace_size()and passes it through.Why
Rule 1 (
python/cudnn/AGENTS.md):execute()is a zero-surprise hot path — per-execute allocations cost a cached-allocator round-trip per call and made the SM80 engines the disclosed deviation from the FROST executor contract (deferred from #493, tracked as #514). The strided-stats halves double as routing coverage: on this branch,test_mhas_v2fwd+bwd L0 on A100 routes 799/799 graphs (100%) onto the FROST SM80 engines (fwd 623, bwd 176) — up from 38/554 fwd and 13/176 bwd on develop under the randomized stats strides.Related issues
Closes #514. Builds on #682/#689 (SM80 forward port; the review there inventoried the allocations this PR removes), #666 (
strided_statscapability, bwd sm120 native), #712 (native strided LSE writes, which superseded this PR's original forward LSE staging during rebase), #604/#552 (the THD compile-key fix this PR leaves untouched).API and compatibility impact
No public API change. The SM80 engines now report a non-zero
graph.get_workspace_size(); callers already sized the workspace per the graph API contract (the backend engines have always required this), but a caller that passedNoneto a pinned SM80 plan now gets a loudValueErrornaming the required size instead of silent per-execute allocation. The standalonecudnn.sdpawrappers are behaviorally unchanged.Testing
On A100 (CUDA 13.4 dev backend 9.27,
nvidia-cutlass-dsl4.7.0), all viapytestfromtest/python:sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_sm80_frontend_integration.py+test_sdpa_sm80_stream_respect.py(stream-respect + CUDA-graph capture, both directions) +fe_api/sdpa/test_sdpa_{fwd,bwd}_sm80.py+test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py, all levels: 203 passed, including the new no-alloc regression.test_import_boundaries.py+test_dispatch.py+test_api_signature_parity.py: 71 passed.test_mhas_v2.py::test_sdpa_random_{fwd,bwd}_L0with FROST auto-selection: 421 passed / 0 failed, 100.0% FROST routing (sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm80=623,sdpa_bwd_sm80=176).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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