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Ports the GVR emission epilogue (#16953) to the FP8 paged-MQA indexer scorer:
packed seed row + per-block max + bucketed A/B/C candidate list, feature-parity
with the FP4 scorer. The use_fp4 guard added in #16953 review (the FP8 op's
schema took no emission kwargs) is lifted the way that review suggested as the
alternative: the FP8 op now carries the same emission surface.

  • fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py: emission epilogue in both math warpgroups,
    metadata computed on the post-conversion stored logit so block_max bounds
    what the GVR consumer reads back bit-exactly.
  • The emission epilogue and the host-side buffer contracts are now
    single-sourced: a shared _PagedMQAEmissionMixin (the 213-line bucketed
    claim step existed byte-identical at 4 sites across the two kernels) and
    three shared runner-side validation helpers. Net −694 lines on the two
    kernel files.
  • New op-surface test drives torch.ops.trtllm.cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits
    with kwargs produced by GvrEmissionState (the production seam [None][perf] Emission-assisted GVR top-K decode for the DeepSeek V4 indexer #16953
    review asked to see covered) and checks bit-identity against the runner path.

Validation (B200, wheel built from this branch)

suite result
test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py (incl. 4 new op-surface cases) 404 passed, 0 failed
test_cute_dsl_fp4_paged_mqa_logits.py (mixin refactor coverage) 1066 passed, 0 failed
test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_decode.py (consumer cross-check) 271 passed, 1 xpassed, 0 failed

Emission cost (same-node paired, per-step buffer reset, B200)

List-tier tax at production claim density (~4.5–5k claims/row, K=2048):

cell FP4 FP8
B=64, N=32k +42.4µs (+125%) +33.0µs (+64%)
B=64, N=64k +61.7µs (+106%) +39.3µs (+42%)
seed+block_max only, large cells +1% +1%

The FP8 scorer's longer per-tile math phase absorbs 22–28µs more of the claim
protocol than FP4's — the tier is cheaper to enable on FP8. Production routing
is unchanged in this PR: the list tier stays inside the envelope calibrated
with #16953 (LIST_EMIT_MAX_B = 4, LIST_EMIT_MIN_N = 65536).

Performance roadmap (follow-up, both precisions)

ncu attributes the remaining list tax to instruction volume on the math
warps (12.3M → 22.9M executed instructions; DRAM utilization drops 75% → 44%
while issue rate rises), not to stalls or bandwidth. Planned follow-up:
hand the claim work to an idle warp through an SMEM ring so the math warps
pay only two st.shared per candidate, then re-calibrate the routing
envelope (raise LIST_EMIT_MAX_B, lower LIST_EMIT_MIN_N) on the reduced
tax. Tracked as the next PR in this series; the shared mixin makes it a
single-site change for both precisions.

Summary

  • Added GVR emission support to the FP8 paged-MQA indexer scorer.
  • Added block metadata, seed counts, and bucketed candidate outputs.
  • Computed emission metadata from post-conversion stored logits.
  • Shared emission and validation logic between FP4 and FP8 implementations.
  • Removed the FP4-only routing requirement for GVR emission.
  • Added FP8 operation-surface and runner-equivalence tests.
  • Preserved production routing behavior.
  • FP8 list-tier emission adds 33.0–39.3 µs. Seed and block-max emission adds about 1% for large cells.

Dev Engineer Review

  • The FP8 runner, kernel, and custom operation now use consistent optional emission parameters.
  • Emission settings are included in compilation cache keys and fake-tensor construction.
  • Shared validation covers emission buffer allocation, capacities, seed settings, and candidate settings.
  • FP4 and FP8 kernels share the emission epilogue through _PagedMQAEmissionMixin.
  • The implementation flushes per-request state at request boundaries and kernel completion.
  • Padded positions are excluded from emission metadata.
  • The change reduces duplicated kernel code without changing candidate bucketing behavior.
  • No configuration files or test-list files changed.
  • No blocking correctness or scope issue is evident from the provided changes.

QA Engineer Review

  • Added:
    • test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_block_meta
    • test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_seed_counts
    • test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_cand_bucketed
    • test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_op_emission_surface
  • The tests cover packed and unpacked seed counts, fixed and variable context lengths, physical block sizes, capacity modes, padding, overflow, thresholds, candidate segments, controls, cursors, and write boundaries.
  • The operation-surface test verifies bit identity between production GvrEmissionState kwargs and direct runner invocation.
  • No test-list coverage changes are included. Test-list coverage should be confirmed for the four added test functions.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up.

Mirror the FP4 epilogue emission (32-token block maxima, packed seed-row
threshold counts, bucketed candidate list) into FP8MQALogitsKernel so the
V3.2 path (cr=1, K=2048) can feed the emission-assisted GVR top-k. The
gmem-reduction helpers and sentinel identities are imported from the FP4
module (single definition). FP8-specific deltas: the epilogue has no
seq-len tail masking, so a kv_pos < ctx_cur valid mask (context length
loaded at q-transition) keeps aligned-padding garbage out of every
emitted statistic; metadata is computed on the post-conversion stored
logit (after the per-token dequant scale) so it bounds what the consumer
reads back bit-exactly. Weight register cache budget drops by 8 when
emission is on (same policy as FP4). Hit-stats and the plain candidate
list stay FP4-only (production wiring never passes them).

Ops layer: cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits gains the same optional emission
tensors as the FP4 op (kept out of mutates_args - torch.library
IndexErrors on None-at-call Optional mutates). Indexer: the emission
kwargs assembly is hoisted out of the FP4 branch and shared by both DSL
decode branches; TRTLLM_GVR_EMISSION no longer requires use_fp4.

Tests: FP8 mirrors of the block_meta / seed_counts (packed and split) /
cand_bucketed emission tests, references recomputed from the kernel's
own logits.

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Review-driven polish of the FP8 emission port:
- The 213-line bucketed A/B/C candidate epilogue existed byte-identical
  at 4 sites (FP8 WG0/WG1, FP4 x2); it is now one @cute.jit method on a
  shared _PagedMQAEmissionMixin, together with _flush_seed_counts and
  _flush_cand_window_bucketed (previously copied per kernel).
- The runners' emission-buffer validation (block_max sizing, packed/split
  seed contract, bucketed SoA contract) is now three shared helpers
  instead of two hand-kept copies.
- The FP8 runner documents the emission kwargs and the tuple return.
- block_kv==128 emission precondition raises ValueError like its
  sibling guards instead of a bare assert.
- New op-surface test drives torch.ops.trtllm.cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits
  with kwargs produced by GvrEmissionState (the production seam) and
  checks bit-identity against the runner path.

Net -694 lines on the two kernel files.

Signed-off-by: siyidNV <297196620+siyidNV@users.noreply.github.com>
The A/B exact-claim ballot rounds ran for every block that passed the
loosest line; a block whose warp-uniform max sits below a band's line
cannot contain a hit for it (or a spill from a tighter band, lines being
ordered), so the rounds are now gated per block. Exactness-preserving by
construction; neutral on uniform-random benches (nearly every block
carries a t0 hit at production density), pays off when hits cluster,
which the production positional distribution does.

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FP8 CuTe DSL paged-MQA logits now support GVR emission. Shared validation and kernel logic handle block metadata, seed counts, and bucketed candidates. Tests cover direct runners and the public Torch operation.

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FP8 GVR emission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Emission contracts and runner wiring
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention_backend/sparse/dsa/indexer.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_emission.py
GVR emission now applies to FP8 CuTe DSL paged-MQA logits. Shared helpers validate and allocate emission buffers. Runner, compilation, fake registration, and public-op interfaces pass emission settings and caller-owned buffers.
Shared emission implementation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp4_paged_mqa_logits.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py
FP4 and FP8 kernels use shared seed-count flushing and bucketed-candidate emission logic.
FP8 kernel metadata emission
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py
The FP8 kernel tracks request state, computes valid post-conversion block metadata, emits seed statistics and candidate records, and flushes both math warp groups.
FP8 emission validation
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py
Tests cover block metadata, packed and split seed counts, candidate capacity behavior, sentinels, cursors, and Torch-op integration.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 57c99

This adds FP8 GVR metadata emission while leaving production routing unchanged. The implementation is broadly tested and appears mergeable, but the operation-level test should seed non-empty emission state so it can detect missing seed or candidate propagation.

Suggested reviewers: bowenfu

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py (1)

9686-9686: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the dead expression statement.

The refactor moved record sizing into _emission_block_max, so nb_pad * 4 now evaluates and discards a value. nb_pad is still used on the following lines, so deleting this line is safe. Some linters flag a useless expression statement (for example flake8-bugbear B018).

♻️ Proposed cleanup
             if emit_block_meta:
                 nb_pad = aligned_max_ctx // compute_block_kv
                 # 4 warp-partial records per block (see FP4MQALogitsKernel).
-                nb_pad * 4
                 if emit_hit_stats:
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py` at line 9686, Remove
the standalone nb_pad * 4 expression from the affected code block; retain the
subsequent uses of nb_pad and leave _emission_block_max sizing unchanged.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py (3)

525-531: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider trimming the parameter grid.

test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_block_meta expands to 64 cases and ..._seed_counts to 128 cases. Each distinct (next_n, phys_block_kv, emit_seed_counts, seed_packed) combination is a separate CuTe DSL compilation, because those values are part of the runner cache key. Compilation, not execution, will dominate wall time on CI.

The fix_length axis mostly re-tests the same code path that avg_ctx already varies. Reducing next_n to [1, 3] for seed_counts would keep the odd/even and multi-slot coverage at roughly a quarter of the compile cost.

Also applies to: 612-619

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`
around lines 525 - 531, Trim the parameter grids for
test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_block_meta and its seed_counts variant to
reduce redundant CuTe DSL compilations: remove the fix_length axis where avg_ctx
already covers the path, and restrict next_n to [1, 3] for seed-count tests
while preserving odd/even and multi-slot coverage.

1275-1277: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Seed xstate so the op-versus-runner comparison covers non-empty emission.

GvrEmissionState.__init__ zero-fills xstate, and update_seed_rows gates on valid = x[:, 0] > 0. On this cold state every line becomes inf, so the kernel's f32_t >= sthr[...] compare never passes. The seed counts, cand_ctl, and cand_cur buffers therefore stay all-zero, and the equality assertions at lines 1318-1320 compare zeros against zeros.

The test still proves the kwarg surface and the tuple unwrapping, which is its stated purpose. To also prove payload equality, set state.xstate[:, 0] = 1 and give xstate[:, 1] (kth) and xstate[:, 2] (anchor) finite values derived from a first logits pass before calling update_seed_rows.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`
around lines 1275 - 1277, Seed GvrEmissionState.xstate before update_seed_rows:
populate columns 0, 1, and 2 with valid, finite values derived from an initial
logits pass so the emission path produces non-empty candidates. Keep the
existing state.update_seed_rows, indexer_emit_kwargs, and block_max_out setup
unchanged, and ensure the comparison exercises actual payload equality rather
than only all-zero outputs.

532-538: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an independent oracle to test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_op_emission_surface

GvrEmissionState initializes the emission buffers to zero. The test creates a fresh state and compares the op path only with the runner path. This parity check may pass without proving that the op writes correct emission values. Seed non-zero inputs or assert expected emission values independently.

Test coverage summary: four tests were added; no test functions were modified or removed. The module is registered in l0_b300.yml and l0_dgx_b300.yml, with directory entries excluding it to prevent duplicate execution. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`
around lines 532 - 538, Update
test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_op_emission_surface to independently validate
emitted values rather than only comparing fresh GvrEmissionState results between
the op and runner paths. Seed the emission inputs with non-zero values or assert
known expected emissions, while preserving the existing parity check.

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py (1)

1362-1364: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace cute.make_fragment with cute.make_rmem_tensor for these arrays.

The integer shape form is supported, but cute.make_fragment is deprecated. Apply this replacement in both workgroups.

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In
`@tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`
around lines 1362 - 1364, Replace the deprecated cute.make_fragment calls for
sthr, scnt, and spass with cute.make_rmem_tensor, preserving their existing
sizes and element types; apply the same update in both workgroups.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py`:
- Line 9686: Remove the standalone nb_pad * 4 expression from the affected code
block; retain the subsequent uses of nb_pad and leave _emission_block_max sizing
unchanged.

In
`@tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/paged_mqa_logits/fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`:
- Around line 1362-1364: Replace the deprecated cute.make_fragment calls for
sthr, scnt, and spass with cute.make_rmem_tensor, preserving their existing
sizes and element types; apply the same update in both workgroups.

In
`@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits.py`:
- Around line 525-531: Trim the parameter grids for
test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_block_meta and its seed_counts variant to
reduce redundant CuTe DSL compilations: remove the fix_length axis where avg_ctx
already covers the path, and restrict next_n to [1, 3] for seed-count tests
while preserving odd/even and multi-slot coverage.
- Around line 1275-1277: Seed GvrEmissionState.xstate before update_seed_rows:
populate columns 0, 1, and 2 with valid, finite values derived from an initial
logits pass so the emission path produces non-empty candidates. Keep the
existing state.update_seed_rows, indexer_emit_kwargs, and block_max_out setup
unchanged, and ensure the comparison exercises actual payload equality rather
than only all-zero outputs.
- Around line 532-538: Update
test_cute_dsl_fp8_paged_mqa_logits_op_emission_surface to independently validate
emitted values rather than only comparing fresh GvrEmissionState results between
the op and runner paths. Seed the emission inputs with non-zero values or assert
known expected emissions, while preserving the existing parity check.

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