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feat(platforms): persistent kernel auto-tuning in the HAL (#50) - #536
Ready for review. Closes#50 for CUDA; ROCm hardware validation is still open (see Limitations).
Summary
Adds opt-in persistent auto-tuning of Triton launch parameters to the HAL, as described in #50:
rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py profiles launch candidates on first use and caches the winner on disk. The cache key includes the device identity (UUID and PCI bus ID, driver, runtime and library versions), the source revision, the candidate set, input shape/dtype/stride, scalar arguments and phase. Writes are versioned JSON with a per-key lock and atomic replacement; unreadable or unwritable caches fall back to memory with a warning.
rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py wires SiLU, SwiGLU, RoPE, embedding forward, RMSNorm forward/dx, ratio/KL and GRPO normalisation through the tuner (TunableKernel / pin_autotune).
rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/tuned.py adds tuned GEMM, attention and logprob backends. They are selectable only by explicit backend ID via kernel_registry.get_op(..., backend="rlkernel.triton.tuned_gemm"), never through strict or default dispatch, and they do not claim batch invariance.
Tuning is disabled by default. With RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE unset or 0, every operator launches its existing fixed configuration.
Prior art & reuse decision
Triton 3.8's @triton.autotune(cache_results=True) already persists autotune results on disk. Its key covers the Triton version, compile target, kernel source, cache-relevant environment variables, the tuning key and the config list, and it chooses the fastest config by timing alone.
This PR does not build on it for three reasons:
Device identity. The issue asks for a cache keyed on the specific GPU (PCI ID). Triton keys on the architecture target, so two different GPUs of the same model share an entry.
Numerical safety. RL-Kernel's reduction kernels are batch-invariant: arithmetic order must not depend on the launch configuration. Triton's autotuner does not check outputs. Here the candidate set is restricted to configurations that keep arithmetic order fixed: reduction candidates vary only num_stages, with warp layout fixed after a warp-count change caused a later-input RMSNorm mismatch. Every candidate is qualified byte-for-byte against the fixed launch (see Tests).
CUDA graph capture. During capture the tuner never profiles or touches disk; it uses a warm in-memory selection or the fixed launch.
Behavior changes
No default-path change: dispatch, priorities, strict/fallback policy, arithmetic precision, reduction layout and K partition are unchanged.
KernelRegistry.get_op gains an optional keyword-only backend= for the three explicit tuned backends. An unknown or unavailable explicit backend raises rather than falling back.
tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py: the import guard caught any ImportError, and the test imports a ROCm reduce kernel under its old name (_det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_kernel, now ..._rocm_kernel), so every Triton GEMM case skipped as "Triton is unavailable". The import now uses the current name, and only a missing triton package skips. With _C built on B200, main reports 22 passed / 49 skipped for this file; this change reports 73 passed / 9 skipped (gfx942-only). No test is newly skipped.
Results (B200)
Full evidence, commands and raw data are in reports/experiments/issue50_b200/README.md. Two environments: A = PyTorch 2.14 / Triton 3.8 (native extension not built: PyTorch 2.14 headers need C++20, the extension builds with C++17), B = PyTorch 2.13 / Triton 3.7.1 with _C built from this tree.
tests/ops/test_autotuning_candidates.py (all candidates vs fixed launch, bytewise)
A and B
402
27
0
tests/benchmarks/test_autotuning_benchmark.py
A
18
0
0
Skips: the GEMM skips need ROCm gfx942. The others are dtypes the existing operators do not support; their original errors are asserted instead.
Candidate coverage: 24 CUDA-reachable kernels and 101 kernel/config pairs, all matching under both Triton versions.
Existing tests/ops vs main (env B, same _C, tuning off / on):
This change
main
Tuning off
1577 passed / 377 skipped / 2 failed
1527 / 417 / 1
Tuning on
1578 / 377 / 1
1526 / 417 / 2
40 GEMM tests that skip on main now pass.
The five two-GPU cases (cross-device rejection, deterministic TP logprob, device-context restoration), run on two B200s: 4 passed and 1 skipped (TP=4 needs four GPUs), on both this change and main, tuning off and on. On four B200s the TP check passes for TP=2 and TP=4 on both trees.
The remaining failures also occur on main. test_rms_norm::test_registry_dispatches_rms_norm fails in every run. test_swiglu::test_autograd_wrapper_contiguity_and_gradient_routing is flaky: it is a CPU test with unseeded inputs, and failed 6/20 runs on main and 4/20 with this change.
Performance: 5 independent process groups, 52 BF16 operator/preset/phase cases. A benefit counts only when the ranges of process medians do not overlap.
Confirmed faster
Tuned slower
Overlapping
Eager wall time
0
24
28
CUDA graph device time
19
5
28
Graph replay: small SiLU/SwiGLU cases are 20–31% faster, small RoPE/embedding/ratio-KL/GRPO cases 4–9%, and GEMM/attention under 1%.
Eager: no case is faster. Tuned forward calls are typically 7–15 µs slower (attention forward about 30 µs) because per-call selection and dispatch cost exceeds the kernel gain.
Cache behaviour: cold processes select tuned, restarted processes load from disk, and hot selector calls are zero.
Auto-tuning is therefore mainly useful under CUDA graph capture, which is why it stays opt-in.
Re-run at head 54307e1b (B200, torch 2.13, 4 GPUs visible). All six PR commands pass with the same counts as the table above (73/9, 34, 60/2, 402/27, 18). tests/ops: head 2044 passed / 2 failed / 401 skipped (tuning off), 2045 / 1 / 401 (on); merge base 1532 / 1 / 412 and 1530 / 3 / 412. The failures are test_registry_dispatches_rms_norm (all runs, both trees) and the flaky CPU swiglu autograd test; nothing new at the head. Performance, 52 cases: 0 eager and 19 CUDA-graph cases with a confirmed benefit, as above. Raw data: pr_assetspr536/b200-gaps/.
Environment: NVIDIA B200, driver 580.126.20, CUDA 13.0; see the two environments above. Performance was measured in env A. python ci/run.py layout passes.
Scope / Known limitations
ROCm: not run on ROCm hardware, including the ROCm fused GEMM leaf. The tests are written to run unchanged on ROCm.
Performance with _C: performance was measured in env A only, as tuned vs fixed Triton launches.
Cache edge cases: a read-only cache directory, a failing os.replace (ENOSPC), a failing directory fsync and a restart after that are checked on a real filesystem by pr536/cache-edge-probe (all pass: the selection stays in memory, no temporary record is left, and the persisted record is read back after a restart). Not tested: physical multi-device isolation and device-visibility remapping.
Performance scope: measured only at the preset sizes on B200, in BF16. No end-to-end training-step speedup is claimed.
Results (H100 / Hopper)
Run at this PR's head f203661c and, for comparison, at its merge base 16b81175 on the same machine. NVIDIA H100, torch 2.13.0+cu130, _C built from each tree, RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=0 and =1, a private autotune cache, and det_gemm, tests/platforms and tests/ops in separate processes. Raw logs and the per-case summary: pending/h100-rerun-20261028/pr536/ (commit 1dd3e8fc).
Suite
head, AUTOTUNE=0
head, AUTOTUNE=1
base, AUTOTUNE=0
base, AUTOTUNE=1
tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py
73 passed, 9 skipped
73 passed, 9 skipped
22 passed, 49 skipped
22 passed, 49 skipped
tests/platforms
516 passed, 29 skipped
516 passed, 29 skipped
no tests ran
no tests ran
tests/ops (includes the autotuning GPU and all-candidates-vs-fixed-launch bytewise tests)
2095 passed, 359 skipped, 8 failed
2095 passed, 359 skipped, 8 failed
1536 passed, 330 skipped, 8 failed
1536 passed, 330 skipped, 8 failed
tests/ops has the same 8 failing test IDs at the head and at the base, under both autotune settings. The IDs below come from the FAILURES sections of the four *_ops.log files linked above. All 8 fail the same way at the base, so none is a regression from this PR:
the registry returns NativeRMSNormOp; this fails identically at the base
The head collects more tests than the base (tests/platforms ran no tests at the base); I have not itemised the difference. No CUDA illegal memory access appears in the logs. Skips are dtypes the existing operators do not support (their original errors are asserted) and the GEMM cases that need ROCm gfx942.
Performance: 5 independent process groups, 52 BF16 operator/preset/phase cases, same rule as above (a benefit counts only when the ranges of process medians do not overlap).
Confirmed faster
Tuned slower
Overlapping
Eager wall time
0
28
24
CUDA graph device time
12
4
36
Graph replay: the small SiLU and SwiGLU cases are 20% to 25% faster (silu-small 20.1 / 23.0 / 21.4% forward / backward / both, swiglu-small 24.5 / 21.3 / 22.8%); swiglu-throughput 1.4% to 1.8%; one embedding, one RMSNorm and one GEMM case under 1%. The four slower cases are 0.1% to 0.3% (RMSNorm backward, attention).
Eager: no case is faster; the tuned path is slower in 28 cases because per-call selection and dispatch cost exceeds the kernel gain, as on B200.
Auto-tuning therefore pays off mainly under CUDA graph capture on H100 as well.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added opt-in persistent autotuning for selected GPU operations, with validated kernel choices and cached selections across runs.
Added explicit access to tuned backends for supported operations.
Added benchmarking tools for comparing tuning results across fresh and restarted runs.
Documentation
Added a guide to autotuning configuration, supported operations, and benchmark results.
Performance
Added measurements for comparing tuned and fixed launches; this release does not claim confirmed performance gains.
Add an opt-in persistent autotuner (rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py) that
profiles Triton launch candidates on first use and caches the winner on disk,
keyed by device identity (UUID/PCI, driver/runtime/library versions), source
revision, candidate set, input shape/dtype/stride, scalars and phase. Disabled
by default; with RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE unset every operator keeps its fixed launch.
The shared Triton adapter (backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py) wires SiLU,
SwiGLU, RoPE, embedding forward, RMSNorm forward/dx, ratio/KL and GRPO
normalisation through the tuner. Explicit tuned GEMM, attention and logprob
backends (backends/shared/triton/tuned.py) are selectable only by backend ID
through the runtime registry; strict and default dispatch are unchanged.
Reduction candidates vary only the stage count, so arithmetic order is fixed
and every candidate is byte-identical to the fixed launch.
Also fix the det_gemm test import guard: an internal ImportError (a renamed
ROCm reduce kernel) was reported as "Triton is unavailable", skipping the
Triton GEMM tests. The test now imports the current kernel name, and only
a missing triton package skips.
Includes the candidate qualification suite, cache/graph regression tests, the
cold/restart/precompiled benchmark (benchmarks/tuning) and B200 evidence under
reports/experiments/issue50_b200.
Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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Walkthrough
This change adds opt-in persistent launch-configuration tuning for Triton kernels. It adds tuned backend dispatch for GEMM, attention, and log-probability, and connects tuning wrappers to operator kernels. It also adds candidate-validation tests, benchmark experiments, and user documentation.
Changes: Persistent Triton Auto-Tuning
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Summary
Persistent selection and cache rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py, tests/platforms/test_persistent_autotuner.py
Wraps operator kernels for tuning and carries the forward tuning policy into backward execution. Adds explicit tuned GEMM, attention, and log-probability backends and registry dispatch. Tests check output and gradient equivalence, tuning modes, capture, and existing error behavior.
Workload and benchmark experiments benchmarks/tuning/autotuning_cases.py, benchmarks/tuning/autotuning_experiment.py, benchmarks/tuning/benchmark_autotuning.py, tests/benchmarks/test_autotuning_benchmark.py
Adds workload construction and benchmark runners for operator and phase matrices. Experiments record cold, restarted, and precompiled trials, validate tuned results against fixed results, and aggregate timing and break-even estimates.
sequenceDiagram
participant TunedGemmOp
participant TunableKernel
participant PersistentAutotuner
TunedGemmOp->>TunableKernel: launch within core tuning scope
TunableKernel->>PersistentAutotuner: select configuration for launch signature
PersistentAutotuner-->>TunableKernel: return selected configuration
TunableKernel-->>TunedGemmOp: launch with selected configuration
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Possibly related issues
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#581: The PR adds a tuning mechanism related to the issue’s MI300X profile-guided operator-selection work; ROCm hardware validation remains incomplete.
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#583: The PR implements opt-in selection, caching, and graph-safe behavior relevant to guarded profile lookup, but does not implement or validate the specified ROCm production path.
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#585: The PR profiles candidates and persists selections, matching the issue’s calibration behavior and isolation requirements.
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#580: The PR adds opt-in profile-guided dispatch and cached launch plans for Triton launch parameters.
Possibly related PRs
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#562: It changes shared Triton GEMM kernels that this PR wraps in TunableKernel for launch-configuration selection.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 98bfe
No merge-blocking issue is established; the change is ready for normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2e12d
Risk is limited by explicit opt-in, private-cache checks, constrained launch candidates, and unchanged default backend selection. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Hardware acceptance remains incomplete, and deployment-specific cache isolation still needs verification.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is launch selection for opted-in operators and processes reusing the same compatible cache entries. Cache write authority can affect subsequent matching launches, but does not supply arbitrary kernel code or arbitrary launch options. Tenant and service exposure cannot be determined without deployment topology.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new filesystem-to-launch boundary accepts records only for a matching schema, key, and caller-supplied candidate. Disk hits bypass fresh numerical qualification. Directories are created with mode 0700, and POSIX checks reject foreign ownership or group/other write permission before disk access; the check does not establish trusted ancestry.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Candidate search deliberately leaves reduction layouts fixed because initial-input equality does not establish equivalence on later inputs. Documentation explicitly states that full CUDA/ROCm acceptance remains incomplete; available cache tests do not establish hardware numerical acceptance.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Provision deployment caches under trusted directory ancestry and isolate writable cache volumes between mutually untrusted workloads, including workloads sharing an operating-system identity. Treat cache write access as launch-selection authority, not merely access to disposable performance data.
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Changes map to issue #50 or support it: - Tuner and cache: rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py, rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py. - Operator wiring: swiglu, deterministic_attn, embedding, d…
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Directly linked issue #50 requires: (1) a HAL autotuning wrapper in rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py that profiles on first execution; (2) local caching keyed by GPU identity and input shape; (3) Triton operators routed through the wrapper instead of static @triton.autotune heuristics.
(1) Covered. The raw summary describes PersistentAutotuner.select in rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py. It evaluates candidates on a cache miss, keeps the unchanged launch as the baseline, and selects the lowest timing.
(2) Covered. The cache key includes device identity (UUID or PCI bus ID, driver, runtime and library versions), input shape, dtype, stride, scalars and phase. Writes are atomic, with per-key locks and a memory fallback. The issue names a PCIe ID; the implementation accepts UUID or PCI bus ID, which includes the PCIe ID.
(3) Covered in substance. Base-revision files checked (activation/swiglu.py, rope/rope.py) contain no @triton.autotune decorator. They used fixed launch parameters. The head wires these kernels, and the other listed operators, through TunableKernel and pin_autotune in rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/*. The wiring uses decorators and a launch adapter, not literal base-class inheritance from ops/triton/base.py. That path is an example in the issue, and the requirement intent (operators launch through the wrapper) is met.
Benchmarks, tests and reports in the PR record the operator suites, candidate qualification and the cache behavior. ROCm validation is not a requirement in #50. Remaining uncertainty: the whole-PR diff was not read line by line; the assessment relies on the whole-PR summary and two base-file reads.
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Changes map to issue #50 or support it:
Tuner and cache: rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py, rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py.
Explicit tuned backends in tuned.py and the get_op(backend=) registry extension. These route GEMM, attention and logprob core kernels through the same tuner. They are selectable only by explicit ID, and default dispatch is unchanged, so they serve the wrapper objective.
Tests (autotuner, registry, GPU regressions, candidate qualification, benchmark) and benchmarks/tuning/*, docs/usage/autotuning.md and docs/.nav.yml. These verify or document the wrapper.
tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py import guard. It affects the Triton GEMM path that this PR wires through the tuner.
No change was found that lacks a connection to #50. Remaining uncertainty: the explicit tuned backends extend beyond the issue text; they are judged in scope because they apply the wrapper to existing operators.
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Avoid shadowing the backend parameter in the priority loop.
The new backend: str | None parameter is reused by the legacy loop. Mypy therefore reports _get_or_create_backend(backend) as receiving str | Any, which fails the configured CI check. The explicit branch already passes an OpBackend; this is not a runtime cache-key mismatch.
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- for backend in candidates:- op_instance = self._get_or_create_backend(backend)+ for candidate_backend in candidates:+ op_instance = self._get_or_create_backend(candidate_backend)
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Review comment at @rl_engine/runtime/registry.py around lines 1041 - 1072:
Rename the priority-loop variable in `get_op` so it does not shadow the
`backend` string parameter, and pass the renamed `OpBackend` candidate to
`_get_or_create_backend`.
The code fsyncs the temporary file before the rename. It does not fsync the containing directory after the rename. After a power loss, the renamed entry can be lost and the tuning result disappears. The cost is only one extra tuning run, so this is a durability gap, not a correctness defect. Open path.parent read-only, call os.fsync on it, and ignore OSError.
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Review comment at @rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py at line 170:
After os.replace(temporary, path), fsync the containing directory by opening
path.parent read-only and closing the descriptor afterward; ignore OSError from
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Review comments at @rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py:
- Line 216: Annotate `self._launches` with an explicit dictionary type, and
update the revision calculation to check the modules returned by
`inspect.getmodule` before passing them to `inspect.getsource`; handle
unresolved modules explicitly so neither call receives `None`.
Review comments at @rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py:
- Line 23: Update the import in the autotuner module to source RLKernelMode and
rl_kernel_mode from the canonical module, rl_engine.runtime.policy, rather than
the compatibility module.
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- Around line 51-54: Update the non-default candidate handling in the
OutOfResources exception within the candidate launch loop: record the failing
kernel and config in request.node.user_properties, then continue to the next
candidate instead of calling pytest.skip. Preserve the existing behavior that
re-raises for the default TuneConfig.
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- Around line 1041-1072: Rename the priority-loop variable in `get_op` so it
does not shadow the `backend` string parameter, and pass the renamed `OpBackend`
candidate to `_get_or_create_backend`.
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- Line 170: After os.replace(temporary, path), fsync the containing directory by
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- Import RLKernelMode/rl_kernel_mode from rl_engine.runtime.policy, not the
compatibility alias mypy cannot resolve.
- Annotate the launch cache and fail explicitly when a kernel's source
module cannot be resolved; the revision hash input is unchanged.
- Rename the priority-loop variable in KernelRegistry.get_op so it no longer
shadows the explicit backend argument.
- Fsync the cache directory after the atomic rename.
- In candidate qualification, an OutOfResources candidate is recorded and
skipped on its own instead of skipping the whole test.
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Thanks for the review. The two findings from the review body are also addressed in f3df6e9:
get_op shadowing backend (registry.py): the priority loop now uses candidate_backend, which clears the mypy arg-type error.
Directory fsync after os.replace (autotuner.py): after the rename, the cache directory is opened read-only and fsynced. An OSError there is ignored, since losing the entry only costs one extra tuning run.
All six mypy errors from the linting job are fixed; mypy --ignore-missing-imports rl_engine/ reports no issues. With PyTorch's own type stubs installed, this branch shows the same 14 pre-existing errors as main and no new ones.
After these changes the auto-tuning suites were re-run on B200 with PyTorch 2.14/Triton 3.8 and with PyTorch 2.13/Triton 3.7.1, and the results are unchanged. HAL and registry: 31 passed. Regressions: 60 passed, 2 skipped. Candidate qualification: 402 passed, 27 skipped, all candidates byte-identical and none resource-limited. Benchmark: 18 passed. GEMM with _C: 73 passed, 9 skipped. The evidence and source fingerprints under reports/experiments/issue50_b200 are updated.
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- Create the cache directory with mode 0700. If an existing directory is owned
by another user or is group/other-writable, keep selections in memory and
warn, since anyone able to write records could steer candidate selection.
Tests cover both cases and the mode of a newly created directory.
- Document the private-cache requirement in docs/usage/autotuning.md.
- Add docstrings to every function, method and class this change adds or
modifies, including benchmarks and tests (code is otherwise unchanged).
Re-ran the auto-tuning suites on B200 in both environments and refreshed the
evidence and source fingerprints.
Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
@coderabbitai, outside-diff finding: Avoid shadowing the backend parameter in the priority loop (rl_engine/runtime/registry.py:1041-1072).
Agreed, fixed in f3df6e9. The priority loop in KernelRegistry.get_op now uses candidate_backend, so the explicit backend: str | None argument is no longer reused for OpBackend values. This clears the mypy arg-type error from the linting job. As you noted, there was no runtime cache-key mismatch: the explicit branch already passed an OpBackend.
@coderabbitai, nitpick: Fsync the parent directory after os.replace (rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py:170).
Agreed, fixed in f3df6e9. After the atomic rename the cache directory is opened read-only and fsynced. An OSError from that step is ignored, since losing the entry after a power failure only costs one extra tuning run.
@coderabbitai, pre-merge check: Docstring coverage is 10.24% (threshold 80%).
Fixed in afb2c48. Every function, method and class this PR adds or modifies now has a docstring: 115 of 115, counting all functions in the new modules, benchmarks and tests, plus the functions whose lines change in det_gemm.py, registry.py and test_det_gemm.py. Test docstrings state the behaviour each test asserts.
The commit adds docstrings only. With docstrings stripped, the AST of every touched file is identical to the revision the B200 suites were re-run on.
@coderabbitai, security review hardening proposal: require a trusted private cache directory and check its ownership and permissions, since candidate-membership validation does not prove a persisted choice was qualified.
The tuner creates the cache directory with mode 0700.
If the directory already exists and is owned by another user, or is writable by group or others, the tuner logs a warning and keeps selections in memory. It neither reads nor writes records there.
Two new tests in tests/platforms/test_persistent_autotuner.py cover the group-writable and foreign-owner cases, plus the private mode of a newly created directory. With the check disabled, both cases fail.
docs/usage/autotuning.md now states that the cache directory must be private and must not be shared across users.
Even before this change, a record was accepted only if its configuration is one of the current candidates for that kernel; arbitrary launch options were rejected. On B200 every candidate is byte-identical to the fixed launch (see reports/experiments/issue50_b200), so there a tampered record could change speed but not results. That has not been shown on other hardware, which is why the directory check matters.
After this change the auto-tuning suites were re-run on B200 with PyTorch 2.14/Triton 3.8 and with PyTorch 2.13/Triton 3.7.1. HAL and registry: 34 passed, including the new tests. Regressions: 60 passed, 2 skipped. Candidate qualification: 402 passed, 27 skipped. Benchmark: 18 passed. GEMM with _C: 73 passed, 9 skipped.
@fusheng-ji Thanks for fixing the docstring coverage finding. I checked the docstring additions. The new test docstrings describe the behavior each test asserts.
One clarification: afb2c489 also includes cache-directory hardening and new tests. The docstring-only files have identical ASTs after docstrings are removed, but that statement does not apply to the entire commit.
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@fusheng-ji Thanks for implementing the hardening. I checked the current code, tests, and documentation.
The tuner creates new cache directories with mode 0700.
The tuner rejects foreign-owned directories and directories writable by group or others before opening the lock file.
If a directory fails these checks, select() skips both cache reads and cache writes.
The tests cover the three reported cases. The documentation states the private-directory requirement.
This addresses the cache-directory finding. I did not rerun the B200 suites. The reported byte-identical results remain specific to the tested B200 environments.
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Learning: In RL-Align/RL-Kernel, candidate-membership validation in rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py does not establish that a persisted selection was qualified on the current hardware. The reported byte-identical autotuning candidate results in PR #536 apply to the tested B200 environments; qualification on other hardware, including ROCm, remains unverified.
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@fusheng-ji Thanks for the fix. I verified that KernelRegistry.get_op now uses candidate_backend in the priority loop. It no longer shadows the backend: str | None parameter.
The explicit branch passes an OpBackend to _get_or_create_backend, as you stated. The finding concerned type checking, not a runtime cache-key mismatch. I did not rerun mypy.
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Learning: In RL-Align/RL-Kernel, KernelRegistry.get_op in rl_engine/runtime/registry.py maps an explicit backend string to an OpBackend before calling _get_or_create_backend. The priority-loop shadowing fixed in f3df6e92 caused a mypy arg-type error, not a runtime cache-key mismatch.
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@fusheng-ji Thanks for the fix and explanation. I verified that rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py opens the cache directory read-only after os.replace, calls os.fsync, and closes the descriptor in finally.
Ignoring an OSError from directory open or fsync is acceptable for this disposable cache. Losing the cache entry causes another tuning run.
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local_key embeds raw non-tensor positional args and tuple(sorted(kwargs.items())), then is used as a dict key via self._launches.get(local_key)before the try: cache_key(...) except (TypeError, ValueError) guard. If any such arg/kwarg value is unhashable (e.g. a list/dict or another container passed through to the kernel), the hashing raises TypeError and the forward pass crashes instead of falling back to the fixed launch. Compute the key defensively (wrap the key build/lookup in the same except (TypeError, ValueError) fallback) or restrict the key to hashable descriptors only.
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This hardcodes the backend strings a second time, duplicating each tuned class's backend_id. Since get_op never checks selected.backend_id == backend, a future rename of a class backend_id would silently return an op whose autotune_provenance["backend"] reports a different id than the caller requested (incorrect attribution), and the string↔op_type routing can drift from the actual classes. Consider asserting getattr(selected, "backend_id", None) == backend (or deriving the map from the classes) before returning.
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On ROCm, ensure_idle() calls torch.cuda.list_gpu_processes(0), which goes through torch.cuda.current_device() and therefore lazily initializes this (launcher) process's CUDA/ROCm context. run_experiments then spawns the cold/restart/precompiled workers as child processes. Each child's experiment_worker calls ensure_idle() again, and that check only filters out its own PID (pid != str(os.getpid())). The launcher now holds a live context on the same device, so it appears as a foreign compute process and every child raises RuntimeError("GPU is occupied") -> the whole matrix run is reported "blocked" on ROCm (the CUDA path is unaffected because it shells out to nvidia-smi without initializing a context). Fix: run the launcher-side admission probe out-of-process (e.g., via the same amdsmi/subprocess tooling used for CUDA), or skip the parent probe on ROCm so the launcher never owns a context while children run.
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Please resolve the failing review check and compare the eight H100 failures by test ID against the base branch so we can rule out regressions. also cc @maxiaosong1124@KJLdefeated@KJLdefeated PTAL
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On ROCm, torch.cuda.list_gpu_processes(0) initializes a CUDA context (and may allocate memory) in whichever process invokes it. run_experiments() calls ensure_idle() in the orchestrating parent before spawning the per-mode worker subprocesses, so the parent ends up holding a GPU context for its lifetime. Each child worker then runs ensure_idle() and sees the parent's PID in the listing as a foreign process, raising RuntimeError("GPU is occupied..."), which run_experiments records as status: blocked. Net effect: the entire --operator matrix cannot run on ROCm. Admission should only be performed in the measuring worker (or the parent must avoid touching CUDA, e.g. by shelling out to amd-smi/rocm-smi instead of torch.cuda.list_gpu_processes).
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Not changed. On ROCm, torch.cuda.list_gpu_processes(0) takes the AMD SMI path. It calls amdsmi_init() and amdsmi_get_gpu_process_list(), and maps the device index without torch.cuda._lazy_init(), because _get_device_index(0) returns the int as is. So it creates no HIP context. Before spawning workers, the parent process only imports torch and builds the spec list: supported() compares dtypes and touches no device. It therefore holds no GPU context and is not listed as a foreign process when a worker runs ensure_idle(). Admission stays in both places on purpose: the parent check records a blocked status before any worker starts.
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forward_accum_fp32 is aliased to the forward_fp32 wrapper instead of wrapping TritonDetGemmOp.forward_accum_fp32. If the base class exposes both as distinct entry points (one with fp32 accumulation, one without), callers of TunedGemmOp.forward_accum_fp32 will silently execute the wrong arithmetic path and get different accumulator precision. Verify whether TritonDetGemmOp defines a separate forward_accum_fp32; if so, wrap it independently rather than aliasing.
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Not changed. In TritonDetGemmOp, forward_accum_fp32 is not a separate entry point: rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/det_gemm.py defines forward_accum_fp32 = forward_fp32 (also on main). Both names run the same FP32-output path (_TritonDetGemmFn.apply(a, b, True)). Aliasing the wrapped forward_fp32 keeps TunedGemmOp the same as its base class, and wrapping the base attribute separately would wrap the same function.
Failing review check: after your merge of main (85842461), the review check now passes. Its two new findings are answered inline. Neither needs a code change.
The eight H100 failures: the H100 logs do have FAILURES sections, so I compared the failures by test ID. The head and the base have the same 8 failing IDs, under both autotune settings:
7 are tests/ops/norm/test_reproducible_norm.py accelerator tests that fail to load libnvrtc.so.12 (that environment has torch cu130).
1 is tests/ops/norm/test_rms_norm.py::test_registry_dispatches_rms_norm.
All 8 fail identically at the base, so none is a regression. The table is in the PR body's H100 Results section.
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This wrapper block only guards on _TRITON_AVAILABLE, but _det_gemm_tree_leaf_reduce_rocm_kernel is a ROCm-specific kernel. If that symbol is only defined under the module's ROCm branch (the usual pattern for ROCm-only Triton kernels, e.g. if _IS_ROCM:), then importing det_gemm on a CUDA machine raises NameError at module load time — breaking TritonDetGemmOp, deterministic_gemm_triton, and anything that imports this module (including tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py). Trigger: any non-ROCm GPU/CPU run that imports this module. Please guard the ROCm kernel with the module's ROCm flag (and/or a globals() existence check) so the wrapping only runs when the kernel actually exists.
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Not changed. _det_gemm_tree_leaf_reduce_rocm_kernel is not behind a ROCm flag. It is defined with the other Triton kernels inside the module's if _TRITON_AVAILABLE: block (line 426, also on main), and only its launch path is ROCm-specific. The wrap at line 1120 sits under the same if _TRITON_AVAILABLE:, so the symbol exists whenever the wrap runs. On CUDA, tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py imports the module and passes (73 passed on H100, in the PR body).
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Declaring the whole BF16 tree workspace ([node_count, M, N]) as an output makes the tuning adapter clone it twice (reference/scratch in _profile_candidates) on the first launch of every new shape. Peak workspace therefore becomes 3× the size that _triton_tree_gemm budgets: rows_per_chunk = _MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (node_count * n_size) (line ~800) sizes the chunk assuming exactly one workspace allocation. Trigger: a prefill call whose node_count * M * N is close to the current cap (the chunking exists precisely because "Qwen prefill workspaces can exceed 2**31 elements") under TunedGemmOp with autotuning enabled → the two extra full-size clones push the process over the intended memory budget / OOM, whereas the untuned path fits. Either divide the tuned-path chunk budget by 3 (e.g. (node_count * n_size * 3)) or leave the tree-leaf kernel untuned.
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Fixed in e5373328, in the adapter rather than by leaving the kernel untuned. TunableKernel now checks, before profiling, that two private copies of every declared output fit in half of the free device memory (free plus cached-but-unused, autotuning.py_profiling_fits). If they do not, the fixed kernel is launched and nothing is cached or persisted, so a later call with room can still tune. The copies are made once per new shape, and each is at most the 128 Mi-element BF16 workspace cap (256 MiB); this guard also covers the other tuned kernels. tests/platforms/test_persistent_autotuner.py has a regression for it.
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The tuned attention op is built on TritonDetGemmOp's sibling TritonDeterministicAttentionOp (the deterministic Triton attention), but it is registered here under op_type "attn". Per docs/operators/attention.md, "attn" and "attention" are distinct and do not overlap: "attn" is the production FlashAttention path while the deterministic attention is served under "attention". With this mapping, get_op("attention", backend="rlkernel.triton.tuned_attention") raises ValueError (op_type mismatch), and get_op("attn", backend=...) would hand back a deterministic op attribution that contradicts the production "attn" contract. Confirm and map to the op_type under which TritonDeterministicAttentionOp is actually registered.
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Not changed. On main, "attention" resolves to CUDA_DETERMINISTIC_ATTENTION and PYTORCH_NATIVE_ATTENTION; the Triton deterministic attention is in neither list. The explicit tuned IDs are never added to a priority list, so the note in docs/operators/attention.md about how get_op("attn") resolves by default is not affected. get_op pins each explicit ID to one op type and raises ValueError for any other, and test_explicit_backend_dispatch_does_not_change_strict_routes pins the "attn" pairing.
autotuning.py L112, version("triton"): fixed in e5373328. It reads triton.__version__, which exists whatever the distribution is called (pytorch-triton-rocm on ROCm).
tuned.py L40, forward_accum_fp32 alias: same finding as the open thread on that line; the reply there applies. TritonDetGemmOp defines forward_accum_fp32 = forward_fp32, so the alias keeps TunedGemmOp identical to its base class.
tuned.py L63, self passed to a static apply: not changed. TritonBatchInvariantLogpOp.apply is an instance method (def apply(self, logits, ...), batch_invariant_logp.py:213), and so is every other wrapped method (__call__, forward_with_lse, forward_fp32). No static or class method is wrapped.
autotuner.py L63, cache_key on unserialisable arguments: fixed in e5373328. A launch whose signature cannot be encoded (a non-finite float or an arbitrary object) now runs the fixed kernel, uncached. The test covers NaN, infinity and a plain object.
det_gemm.py L1120-L1122, output index 3 when WRITE_OUTPUT is false: not changed. WRITE_OUTPUT is true only for a single-level tree (len(plan.host.reduction_levels) == 1, det_gemm.py:897), so index 3 is declared to validate that case. The extra copies are [M, N] against a [node_count, M, N] workspace, are made once per shape, and are now covered by the free-memory check. Two wrapper instances would duplicate the launch site for that.
deterministic_attn.py L890, copies of scores: fixed by the same free-memory check as the inline reply above. When two copies of scores do not fit, the fixed kernel runs.
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The test now imports _det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_rocm_kernel instead of the previously imported _det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_kernel, but the corresponding source diff for det_gemm.py does not add or rename any kernel to that name (it only adds the TunableKernel wrappers for _det_gemm_fp32_kernel, _det_gemm_kernel and _det_gemm_tree_leaf_reduce_rocm_kernel). If that symbol does not exist in the module, from ... import raises a plain ImportError, which is no longer caught now that the imports were moved into the else: branch of the ModuleNotFoundError guard, so collection of this whole module hard-fails on any Triton machine (and on machines without Triton the CUDA/ROCm coverage is silently skipped). Please verify the symbol exists; if the intent was to keep testing the CUDA direct-output kernel, keep importing _det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_kernel.
No code change. Replies to the five OpenCodeReview items:
tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py, ROCm reduce kernel in a CUDA test: not changed. _det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_rocm_kernel is a plain @triton.jit kernel (det_gemm.py:550), not a HIP-only one, and test_triton_final_tree_level_direct_output_matches_legacy_copy_raw_bytes is the same test that is on main (tests/test_det_gemm.py), moved with the file. It runs on CUDA and compares the result with the legacy reduce-and-copy path byte for byte; I ran it on a Blackwell GPU and it passes. The ROCm-only tests carry their own skip ("require ROCm gfx942").
autotuning.py L154-L159, default config raising OutOfResources: not changed. OutOfResources is Triton's launch-resource error (shared memory, registers), not a memory shortage. run(TuneConfig(), reference) runs on the line before the loop, so a default configuration that raised it would already have failed there, and the fixed launch the finding proposes as the fallback is that same configuration. Memory is handled by _profiling_fits before any clone is made; the captured body only calls copy_ and kernel launches on the preallocated clones.
L160-L161, qualification on one input only: not changed. Only kernels that cannot reorder a cross-element reduction opt into more than num_stages: tune_warps is set for the embedding gather (embedding.py:260) and RoPE (rope.py:203), and flat_block for the SwiGLU pointwise kernels (swiglu.py:290-294). Gather, rotation and pointwise maths do not depend on the values, so a configuration that matches the fixed kernel's bytes for one input matches for every input of that shape. Reduction kernels get only num_stages, and launch_candidates says so in its comment.
tuned.py L40, forward_accum_fp32 alias: same finding as the open thread on that line; the reply there applies (TritonDetGemmOp defines forward_accum_fp32 = forward_fp32).
autotuning.py L392-L393, unsynchronised _launches: not changed. Tuning itself is serialised by the RLock in PersistentAutotuner.select, and the second thread re-checks _memory under that lock (autotuner.py:111-113), so a kernel is tuned once. The _launches and _DEVICES dicts are plain reads and single-key writes; two threads that both miss build equal entries.
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Only _ProfilingDoesNotFit is caught around select, so any other failure raised by _profile_candidates/timing (e.g. a CUDA graph capture error from torch.cuda.graph(...), a RuntimeError replayed on an unsupported stream/driver, or an OOM during capture that passes the _profiling_fits estimate) propagates out of launch and fails the operator call. That regresses a call that would have succeeded with the fixed launch whenever RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=1. The design comments say a fitting call must not be turned into an error, so profiling/timing exceptions should fall back to self.kernel[grid](*args, **kwargs) (log + degrade) rather than escape.
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This wrapper target name looks inconsistent with the other files in this change: every other module rebinds the @triton.jit kernel name (which always carries the _kernel suffix, e.g. _silu_fwd_kernel, _rmsnorm_fwd_kernel, _rope_kernel), while here _embedding_fwd is wrapped. In this file the sibling helper at line ~183 is named _embedding_bwd without a _kernel suffix, i.e. these names appear to be plain Python launchers that internally do _embedding_fwd_kernel[grid](...), not JIT kernels. Wrapping a Python launcher (or a name that does not exist) will either raise NameError at import time or produce a wrapper that never sees the Triton launch/grid, so autotuning silently never runs for embedding fwd. Please confirm and wrap the JIT kernel directly, e.g. _embedding_fwd_kernel = TunableKernel(_embedding_fwd_kernel, tune_warps=True, outputs=(2,)), and make sure the outputs indices refer to that kernel's pointer arguments (the launcher's signature is different).
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Ready for review. Closes #50 for CUDA; ROCm hardware validation is still open (see Limitations).
Summary
Adds opt-in persistent auto-tuning of Triton launch parameters to the HAL, as described in #50:
rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.pyprofiles launch candidates on first use and caches the winner on disk. The cache key includes the device identity (UUID and PCI bus ID, driver, runtime and library versions), the source revision, the candidate set, input shape/dtype/stride, scalar arguments and phase. Writes are versioned JSON with a per-key lock and atomic replacement; unreadable or unwritable caches fall back to memory with a warning.rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.pywires SiLU, SwiGLU, RoPE, embedding forward, RMSNorm forward/dx, ratio/KL and GRPO normalisation through the tuner (TunableKernel/pin_autotune).rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/tuned.pyadds tuned GEMM, attention and logprob backends. They are selectable only by explicit backend ID viakernel_registry.get_op(..., backend="rlkernel.triton.tuned_gemm"), never through strict or default dispatch, and they do not claim batch invariance.Tuning is disabled by default. With
RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNEunset or0, every operator launches its existing fixed configuration.Prior art & reuse decision
Triton 3.8's
@triton.autotune(cache_results=True)already persists autotune results on disk. Its key covers the Triton version, compile target, kernel source, cache-relevant environment variables, the tuning key and the config list, and it chooses the fastest config by timing alone.This PR does not build on it for three reasons:
num_stages, with warp layout fixed after a warp-count change caused a later-input RMSNorm mismatch. Every candidate is qualified byte-for-byte against the fixed launch (see Tests).Behavior changes
KernelRegistry.get_opgains an optional keyword-onlybackend=for the three explicit tuned backends. An unknown or unavailable explicit backend raises rather than falling back.tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py: the import guard caught anyImportError, and the test imports a ROCm reduce kernel under its old name (_det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_kernel, now..._rocm_kernel), so every Triton GEMM case skipped as "Triton is unavailable". The import now uses the current name, and only a missingtritonpackage skips. With_Cbuilt on B200,mainreports 22 passed / 49 skipped for this file; this change reports 73 passed / 9 skipped (gfx942-only). No test is newly skipped.Results (B200)
Full evidence, commands and raw data are in
reports/experiments/issue50_b200/README.md. Two environments: A = PyTorch 2.14 / Triton 3.8 (native extension not built: PyTorch 2.14 headers need C++20, the extension builds with C++17), B = PyTorch 2.13 / Triton 3.7.1 with_Cbuilt from this tree.tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py,RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=0tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py,RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=1tests/platforms/test_persistent_autotuner.py+tests/runtime/test_kernel_registry.pytests/ops/test_autotuning_gpu.py(operator, cache, graph regressions)tests/ops/test_autotuning_candidates.py(all candidates vs fixed launch, bytewise)tests/benchmarks/test_autotuning_benchmark.pySkips: the GEMM skips need ROCm gfx942. The others are dtypes the existing operators do not support; their original errors are asserted instead.
Candidate coverage: 24 CUDA-reachable kernels and 101 kernel/config pairs, all matching under both Triton versions.
Existing
tests/opsvsmain(env B, same_C, tuning off / on):mainmainnow pass.main, tuning off and on. On four B200s the TP check passes for TP=2 and TP=4 on both trees.main.test_rms_norm::test_registry_dispatches_rms_normfails in every run.test_swiglu::test_autograd_wrapper_contiguity_and_gradient_routingis flaky: it is a CPU test with unseeded inputs, and failed 6/20 runs onmainand 4/20 with this change.Performance: 5 independent process groups, 52 BF16 operator/preset/phase cases. A benefit counts only when the ranges of process medians do not overlap.
tuned, restarted processes load fromdisk, and hot selector calls are zero.Auto-tuning is therefore mainly useful under CUDA graph capture, which is why it stays opt-in.
Tests
Environment: NVIDIA B200, driver 580.126.20, CUDA 13.0; see the two environments above. Performance was measured in env A.
python ci/run.py layoutpasses.Scope / Known limitations
_C: performance was measured in env A only, as tuned vs fixed Triton launches.os.replace(ENOSPC), a failing directoryfsyncand a restart after that are checked on a real filesystem bypr536/cache-edge-probe(all pass: the selection stays in memory, no temporary record is left, and the persisted record is read back after a restart). Not tested: physical multi-device isolation and device-visibility remapping.Results (H100 / Hopper)
Run at this PR's head
f203661cand, for comparison, at its merge base16b81175on the same machine. NVIDIA H100, torch 2.13.0+cu130,_Cbuilt from each tree,RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=0and=1, a private autotune cache, anddet_gemm,tests/platformsandtests/opsin separate processes. Raw logs and the per-case summary:pending/h100-rerun-20261028/pr536/(commit1dd3e8fc).tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.pytests/platformstests/ops(includes the autotuning GPU and all-candidates-vs-fixed-launch bytewise tests)tests/opshas the same 8 failing test IDs at the head and at the base, under both autotune settings. The IDs below come from the FAILURES sections of the four*_ops.logfiles linked above. All 8 fail the same way at the base, so none is a regression from this PR:tests/ops/norm/test_reproducible_norm.py::test_accelerator_bins_preserve_exact_sum_under_repartitionOSError: libnvrtc.so.12: cannot open shared object file(that environment has torch cu130)tests/ops/norm/test_reproducible_norm.py::test_accelerator_warp_bins_with_mixed_exponents_and_nonfinite[1, 31, 32, 33, 257, 32771](6 cases)libnvrtc.so.12load failuretests/ops/norm/test_rms_norm.py::test_registry_dispatches_rms_normNativeRMSNormOp; this fails identically at the baseThe head collects more tests than the base (
tests/platformsran no tests at the base); I have not itemised the difference. No CUDA illegal memory access appears in the logs. Skips are dtypes the existing operators do not support (their original errors are asserted) and the GEMM cases that need ROCm gfx942.Performance: 5 independent process groups, 52 BF16 operator/preset/phase cases, same rule as above (a benefit counts only when the ranges of process medians do not overlap).
silu-small20.1 / 23.0 / 21.4% forward / backward / both,swiglu-small24.5 / 21.3 / 22.8%);swiglu-throughput1.4% to 1.8%; one embedding, one RMSNorm and one GEMM case under 1%. The four slower cases are 0.1% to 0.3% (RMSNorm backward, attention).Summary by CodeRabbit
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