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fix(frost): drain final MoE scheduler broadcast - #813

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Affected area

FE OSS kernels or CuTeDSL

Summary

  • Retain the final grouped-MoE broadcast-ring stage and its completion parity.
  • Keep the leader CTA alive until every peer scheduler warp acknowledges the final invalid record.
  • Compile the snapshot and drain out for singleton clusters.
  • Apply the DSM-lifetime fix symmetrically to plain and block-scaled SM100 grouped-MoE templates.

This is a correctness/lifetime fix with no public API or model-performance claim.

Why

Normal ring reuse waits for acknowledgements before a stage is reused. The final invalid scheduler record exits the loop instead, so no later reuse keeps the leader CTA and its distributed shared-memory barrier alive while peers still acknowledge it.

The fix snapshots the final stage before ring wrap. Each acknowledgement flips the saved pre-wrap empty phase, so pre-wrap bcast_empty_phase ^ 1 is the completed parity waited on by the leader.

Related issues

None.

API and compatibility impact

None. This changes only internal scheduler lifetime in the existing FROST grouped-MoE kernels. Singleton clusters compile away the additional state and wait.

Testing

  • Current review head d784e62ae: removed the renderer helper, private schedule constants, regex/exact generated-source assertions, and the two codegen tests. Changed-file pre-commit, Python compilation, and diff checks passed.
  • ComputeLab B200 at current head: one existing clustered plain-MoE E2E and one existing block-scaled NVFP4 grouped-MoE E2E reported 2 passed in 5.35 s.
  • ComputeLab B200 at the production-fix head daf9ba5ba: the complete L0 suites for both affected grouped-MoE families reported 229 passed, 20 skipped. Prior functional smoke covered all six 1x1, 1x2, and 2x1 template/cluster combinations.
  • An attempted observable CUDA Graph stress test queued 33 poisoned-output replays for each template, but the unfixed parent also passed both cases. It was therefore removed rather than presented as regression evidence.
  • Compute Sanitizer synccheck reported zero errors before and after; racecheck produced identical, non-discriminating DSM reports in both versions. Sanitizer silence is supporting evidence rather than proof.

No deterministic black-box RED test was found for the DSM lifetime violation. The fix is supported by the broadcast-ring protocol argument and existing fixed-path functional coverage; no timing difference is expected or claimed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability of Mixture-of-Experts grouped matrix multiplication by ensuring coordinated processing completes before resources are released.
    • Improved completion handling across supported multi-cluster configurations while preserving efficient behavior for single-cluster scenarios.
    • Standardized routed outputs as a flat two-dimensional surface for more consistent downstream processing.
  • Tests

    • Updated validation coverage for grouped matrix multiplication and output layout behavior.

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Walkthrough

The MoE grouped matmul schedulers now record the final invalid broadcast state and drain multi-CTA acknowledgements before scheduler-warp exit. Obsolete scheduler code-generation helpers and tests are removed. The routed output comments now describe a flat (S, N) surface.

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MoE scheduler broadcast drain

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track and drain final broadcasts
python/cudnn/gemm/frost/kernel_templates/sm100_moe_grouped*_fwd.py
Both scheduler templates record the final broadcast stage and empty-barrier parity. Multi-CTA leaders wait for cluster-wide acknowledgements before exit. Singleton clusters skip the drain.
Align output description and validation
python/cudnn/gemm/frost/kernel_templates/sm100_moe_grouped*_fwd.py, test/python/gemm/frost/gemm_test_utils.py, test/python/gemm/frost/test_moe_grouped*_fwd.py
The epilogue comments describe the routed output as a flat (S, N) surface. Obsolete scheduler-rendering helpers and code-generation tests are removed. The rank-2 descriptor test receives the L0 marker.

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This localized change drains the final grouped-MoE scheduler broadcast while preserving existing API behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SchedulerLeaderCTA
  participant SchedulerWarps
  participant ClusterAcknowledgements
  SchedulerLeaderCTA->>SchedulerWarps: Record final broadcast stage and parity
  SchedulerWarps->>ClusterAcknowledgements: Acknowledge final invalid broadcast
  SchedulerLeaderCTA->>ClusterAcknowledgements: Wait for multi-CTA acknowledgements
  SchedulerLeaderCTA->>SchedulerWarps: Exit after acknowledgement drain
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@YangXu1990uiuc YangXu1990uiuc added cat-bug Reports of incorrect behavior, crashes, regressions, or unexpected results. orig-nv-eng Reported or requested by NVIDIA engineering. mod-cutedsl CuTeDSL kernels, generated kernels, examples, or related integration work. mod-frost labels Aug 31, 2026
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Each persistent cluster emits one invalid scheduler record before its scheduler warp exits. The final ring slot is never reused, so the leader previously could leave while peer CTAs still acknowledged its distributed shared-memory barrier.

Retain the exact broadcast stage and completion parity, then keep the leader alive until every scheduler warp acknowledges the final record. Compile the snapshot and wait out for singleton clusters, which have no remote DSM lifetime.

Cover plain and block-scaled MoE templates across 1x1, 1x2, and 2x1 scheduler geometries.
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