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[TRTLLM-17679][feat] KernelBuilder and the autotuner's build state: build kernels on worker threads while the weights load - #21628
KernelBuilder (tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py) runs, on worker threads, the kernel builds of ops that compile on first use and do not go through the autotuner. It works as the autotuner does: the forward supplies the largest shape, and the op sweeps its own shapes down from it. An op declares the dimensions its kernels depend on in a BuildConfig of DynamicSpecs, as a TuningConfig declares DynamicTensorSpecs. Inside a build pass, each call lists and submits the kernels of the shapes swept from it that its call signature has not listed yet. The list comes from the op's own dispatch, so nothing in it is model-specific.
An op that calls choose_one builds through the autotuner instead, which gives it three states:
Inside autotune() (the autotuner warmup), it tunes, as before.
Inside build_kernels() (the rehearsal below), choose_one queues on KernelBuilder's threads the builds of every profile, runner and tactic its tuning will time (AutoTuner.prebuild), without timing them, and the op returns zeros of its output shape.
Otherwise, it runs its tuned tactic, as before.
A runner builds a tactic with TunableRunner.build, which by default runs it once, and says which builds compile the same kernels with build_key. Only ops that opt in with TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup build, since their runners' builds are thread-safe and use no NCCL windows:
FlashInfer's MXFP8 GEMM (FlashInferMXFP8GemmRunner), whose CUTLASS build loads its JIT module without running it. The MXFP8 linear queues it when the warmup will tune FlashInfer MXFP8.
The sweep is queued interleaved, as the parallel JIT warmup of #21610 does; that warmup now shares the per-profile build and skips builds this process already ran. These builds run their kernels on inputs of their own, so the creator waits for them (an autotuner_builds phase) before the KV cache estimation measures free memory. In the build state, ops that do not opt in run their fallback tactic, as before: CuTe DSL runners, the Triton FP8 quantizer, AllReduce and other collectives, and the SM90 C++ DeepGEMM JIT.
For a model such an op is in, the weights are now dummies first, so the builds can run while the real weights load:
ModelLoader.load(defer_checkpoint=True) builds the model as LoadFormat.DUMMY does: dummy values in the tensors materialized from meta (which hold no value of their own), the draft tied to the target, the post-load hooks.
A rehearsal (KernelBuilder.rehearsal()) runs the autotuner warmup's two forwards on these weights in the build state: a context batch at the maximum token count and one generation request with its draft tokens. They run eagerly, on throwaway KV cache managers sized as for the capacity estimation. The ops list and submit their kernels without compiling or launching them, and the rehearsal does not wait for the builds. Its NCCL-window requests are served from plain memory (nccl_window_allocation_suppressed(), as the autotuner's parallel profiling does): buffers the eager forwards added to the window pool would not be reused by the compiled warmup, and on MiniMax-M3 left 0.8 GiB less for the KV cache.
load_deferred_checkpoint puts the model back as it was created and loads the checkpoint as load does: the module tree restored (this undoes the draft tie and aliases), pre_reload_weights as for a weight update, a check that every parameter is in its creation shape and dtype, then the same AUTO fill, post-load hooks and finalization. A torch.compile wrapper is removed for the load and put back after, as for a weight update.
The warmup is a build pass that waits for whatever is still building at its end.
Which models: an op family registers in kernel_builder._FAMILIES a function telling whether a model, as created, reaches it:
fmha_sm100: MiniMax-M3's MSA attention;
deep_gemm: an FP8 block-scale linear on DeepGEMM (SM100f, with neither use_cute_dsl_blockscaling_mm nor disable_deep_gemm).
Everything else keeps today's order, and so do these cases: MX checkpoints, GMS, DUMMY or VISION_ONLY load formats, host-resident (pinned) weights, a failed meta init, sleep mode, the MoE load balancer, DWDP, multimodal encoder CUDA graphs, Modeling V2 targets, and launches without the KV cache estimation.
fmha_sm100 (msa_kernel_builds.py): its plan picks the variant from the longest query segment and the KV split count, so these are its build dimensions:
query lengths up to the call's longest segment: each of 1 to 129 (each crosses a boundary of the pack factor, the single warp group or the 128-row tile), and 256;
for the MSA indexer's maximum-score pass, which chooses per batch whether to split KV, also 1 and 2 splits.
require_msa_module() wraps the package's plan and run once. On a run in a build pass, the plan and the run are replayed for one query segment of each new shape, with the package's variant lookup recording each variant instead of compiling it; workers compile them with the package's _compile_only, in its directory and under its per-variant file lock. In a rehearsal every run is such a replay, with zeros in its output and -inf in its maximum score. The plan, split-KV reduction and sparse top-k modules are queued as soon as the model is known to reach the op.
MiniMax-M3 keeps one 16-byte-aligned NVFP4 K/V scale buffer per layer, created by the first forward and refreshed after a weight load. A forward creates it inside inference mode, so the refresh now runs in inference mode when the buffer is an inference tensor (msa_prefill.py).
Environment variables, documented in docs/source/llm-api/index.md:
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER=0 turns KernelBuilder off;
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_REHEARSAL=0 keeps the builds but loads the checkpoint first;
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER=0 leaves the autotuned ops' kernels to the autotuner warmup;
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_THREADS sets the worker threads (default: this rank's share of the CPUs, up to 32, as for the parallel JIT warmup).
Launch to /health on GB300, every JIT cache empty and per rank, arms back to back on one node. Every arm runs main's post-merge wheel 3065 (df908c54), with every file under tensorrt_llm/ that differs from this PR's tree copied over it.
MiniMax-M3 ctx (TP2, Eagle3, piecewise torch.compile). Both arms rehearse and differ only in TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER:
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Build state off
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Launch to /health
792 s
703 s
−89 s (−11 %)
Rehearsal
144.5 s
154.0 s
Warmup, first pass
371.2 s
278.0 s
−93 s
Autotuner phase
134.8 s
44.9 s
−90 s
KV cache memory
114.04 GiB
114.04 GiB
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FlashInfer's mxfp8_gemm_cutlass module is built on a worker thread during the rehearsal (82 s), instead of on the main thread in the autotuner phase (90 s).
The rehearsal queues 3,123 DeepGEMM builds: 6 GEMM signatures × 520 M buckets from the context batch, and 3 more for the generation batch's M. The autotuner warmup then finds them built.
In every arm, every parameter and buffer is bitwise equal at the start of the warmup (M3: 2,653 per rank; DeepSeek: 1,107). The 15 greedy completions of a serving probe are identical, and its slowest request takes 3.8 s on M3 and 1.8 s on DeepSeek (no compile stalls).
Earlier A/Bs of this PR on MiniMax-M3: the first commit against main, 1,094 s → 888 s; the rehearsal against builds from the warmup, 928 s → 793 s.
the build state builds every profile on KernelBuilder's threads without tuning or caching, and the tuning that follows still profiles every profile and builds nothing again;
only ops that opt in build: not one with parallel_jit_warmup=0, not a MERGE op, nothing with TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER=0;
a runner's own build, once per build_key, and a nested autotune(tune_mode=False) keeps the build state;
a failed build is left to the tuning;
fp8_swap_ab_gemm returns zeros in the build state and builds its sweep (SM100);
FlashInfer's MXFP8 runner loads its module without a launch.
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This change adds a worker-thread kernel builder, connects it to decoder warmup and MiniMax-M3 MSA kernel planning and execution, and documents its settings. Tests cover builder scheduling and MSA build listing.
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Parallel Kernel Builds During Warmup
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KernelBuilder queue and build-pass lifecycle tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py, tests/unittest/_torch/test_kernel_builder.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml, docs/source/llm-api/index.md
KernelBuilder registers and queues builds, tracks build states and statistics, and waits for pending work at the end of the outermost pass. CPU tests cover enabled, disabled, and failure cases. Documentation describes the environment settings.
The MSA integration installs wrappers for planning, execution, and kernel lookups. Eligible runs register module builds and discover variants through replay. Tests cover variant listing and repeated build calls.
Parallel kernel builds during warmup are mostly safe, with first-use compilation kept as the fallback. A rare worker failure could hang startup, and an unexpected MSA package mismatch could now fail a path that worked before. Harden both and add the missing tests before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to f2b51
Compilation remains within startup warmup and existing package-controlled build paths; no new externally reachable authority was established. The main concern is recovery: queued compilation can continue after warmup fails. Incomplete coverage also limits confidence in unusual deployment configurations.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · observed: An escaping warmup exception closes the build pass without joining or cancelling its queued compilation. Workers can therefore continue consuming compilation resources and holding shared-cache locks after engine initialization has failed. This introduces incomplete recovery containment in persistent worker processes. Normal completion drains pending work, and asymmetric distributed failures may trigger process termination, but those controls do not cover every failed-engine recovery path.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated incremental exposure is compilation resource use and package-cache activity within a worker process, with contention extending to processes sharing those cache locations. The inspected callers do not establish a new remote submission path, tenant identity transition, or additional compilation privilege.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The observed callbacks select package-derived cache locations, acquire package file locks, check for an existing library, and release locks in finally blocks. These coordinate background compilation with existing package cache ownership; the package-internal atomic publication behavior was not verified.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The existing distributed warmup guard can terminate peers after asymmetric failure, but deliberately avoids that action for symmetric crashes and teardown signals. Its documentation identifies persistent rank processes that can outlive failed engines, so process termination is not a universal substitute for build-pass cleanup.
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Add a unit test for linear_prebuild_fp8_block_scale_shapes.
No test in tests/unittest reaches this hook. The fake _TextModel in test_linear_prebuild.py returns a fixed shape and does not run the Kimi selection logic. A change to the guard, the attention-DP gate_up_proj gating, the fused KDA shape, or the MoE MLP targets would not fail any test. The warmup then builds the missed kernels, and the startup gain is lost.
Add a small test that calls KimiLinearForCausalLM.linear_prebuild_fp8_block_scale_shapes on a SimpleNamespace model. Cover these cases:
The SM100f or Rubin MXFP8 guard returns []. Patch is_sm_100f and _rubin_mxfp8_is_available in modeling_kimi_linear.
_fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp is off. The result has no MoE MLP shapes.
_fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp is on with enable_attention_dp off. The shared gate_proj, up_proj, and down_proj shapes are included, and gate_up_proj is not.
_fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp is on with enable_attention_dp on. The shared gate_up_proj shape is also included.
A KDA layer stubs fused_fp8_qkvg_shape to return (sum(out), in) for four FP8 projections. Assert that this fused entry is in the result.
Shared MLP stubs must be nn.Linear, or TrtllmLinear with tp_size == 1. The targets iterator skips TP-sharded TrtllmLinear children.
Place the test in tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_linear_checkpoint.py, or in a new file next to test_linear_prebuild.py.
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lines 3722 - 3750:
Add focused unit coverage for
KimiLinearForCausalLM.linear_prebuild_fp8_block_scale_shapes using a
SimpleNamespace model and patch the guard functions in modeling_kimi_linear.
Verify guard exits, MoE shapes are omitted when disabled, shared projection
shapes and attention-DP gate_up_proj gating when enabled, and the fused KDA
shape is included. Use supported shared MLP stubs (nn.Linear or TrtllmLinear
with tp_size == 1) so the targets iterator exercises the intended paths.
Cover positive FlashInfer MXFP8 plan selection and the build group.
The added tests cover token counts, FP8 shape and sweep planning, hook discovery, and DeepGEMM prebuild. Existing MXFP8 tests cover backend construction and forward behavior, but not this linear-prebuild plan.
Add a parameterized _uses_flashinfer_mxfp8() test for use_cutlass=False, flashinfer, auto, trtllm, and unset overrides with and without cuda_graph_config. Use a stub model module with _use_flashinfer_mxfp8_decode_graph_default, and account for the backend helper’s FlashInfer-only GPU guard. Add an actual MXFP8 fixture that makes collect() select FlashInfer and exercises the resulting build_flashinfer_mxfp8() group.
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Review comment at @tests/unittest/_torch/modules/test_linear_prebuild.py at line
87:
Add positive coverage for the linear-prebuild FlashInfer MXFP8 plan:
parameterize `_uses_flashinfer_mxfp8()` across the listed backend overrides and
CUDA-graph configurations using a stub model module with
`_use_flashinfer_mxfp8_decode_graph_default`, while respecting the backend
helper’s FlashInfer-only GPU guard. Add an MXFP8 fixture that makes `collect()`
select FlashInfer and verify the resulting `build_flashinfer_mxfp8()` build
group.
Monkeypatch lp.build_deep_gemm to raise for the planned item. Call start_linear_prebuild and wait(), then assert that the DeepGEMM group records failed == 1 and that no linear-prebuild thread remains alive. The current success-only test does not detect a regression in _Group.run's recovery path.
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py around lines
149 - 159:
Add a regression test for `_Group.run`’s per-item failure recovery: monkeypatch
`lp.build_deep_gemm` to raise for the planned item, call `start_linear_prebuild`
and `wait()`, then assert the DeepGEMM group records `failed == 1` and no
linear-prebuild thread remains alive. Retain the existing success-path test.
Add a test for the zero-thread DeepGEMM memory fallback.
_deep_gemm_threads returns 0 when free device memory is below _LOADER_RESERVE_BYTES plus one DeepGEMM footprint. In that case start_linear_prebuild starts no DeepGEMM workers. The existing linear-prebuild test uses the host's real free memory and asserts only the roomy-device path. A regression that drops the loader reserve or the zero floor would start DeepGEMM workers under memory pressure and still pass. A focused test should patch torch.cuda.mem_get_info to report little free memory, assert the zero result, and assert that no deep_gemm worker thread starts.
Suggested fix
assert not any(thread.is_alive() for thread in warmup_overlap._linear_threads)
+++@pytest.mark.skipif(not is_sm_100f(), reason="DeepGEMM swap-AB GEMMs run on SM100f")+def test_deep_gemm_threads_fall_back_when_loader_reserve_is_not_free(monkeypatch):+ monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "mem_get_info", lambda *args, **kwargs: (1 << 20, 1 << 40))+ monkeypatch.setattr(warmup_overlap, "_linear_groups", [])+ monkeypatch.setattr(warmup_overlap, "_linear_threads", [])+ monkeypatch.setattr(warmup_overlap, "_released", False)+ monkeypatch.setattr(warmup_overlap, "_thread", None)+ plan = lp.collect(_model(), _llm_args(8192, 8), _Mapping(False))+ assert warmup_overlap._deep_gemm_threads(plan) == 0+ warmup_overlap.start_linear_prebuild(_model(), _llm_args(8192, 8), _Mapping(False))+ warmup_overlap.wait()+ assert not any("deep_gemm" in thread.name for thread in warmup_overlap._linear_threads)
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py around lines
176 - 181:
Add a focused test for the zero-thread fallback in `_deep_gemm_threads`: mock
`torch.cuda.mem_get_info` to report free memory below the loader reserve plus a
DeepGEMM footprint, then assert the result is zero and `start_linear_prebuild`
starts no `deep_gemm` worker. Keep the test isolated from shared warmup state
and retain any applicable hardware skip.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py:
- Around line 3722-3750: Add focused unit coverage for
KimiLinearForCausalLM.linear_prebuild_fp8_block_scale_shapes using a
SimpleNamespace model and patch the guard functions in modeling_kimi_linear.
Verify guard exits, MoE shapes are omitted when disabled, shared projection
shapes and attention-DP gate_up_proj gating when enabled, and the fused KDA
shape is included. Use supported shared MLP stubs (nn.Linear or TrtllmLinear
with tp_size == 1) so the targets iterator exercises the intended paths.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py:
- Around line 149-159: Add a regression test for `_Group.run`’s per-item failure
recovery: monkeypatch `lp.build_deep_gemm` to raise for the planned item, call
`start_linear_prebuild` and `wait()`, then assert the DeepGEMM group records
`failed == 1` and no linear-prebuild thread remains alive. Retain the existing
success-path test.
- Around line 176-181: Add a focused test for the zero-thread fallback in
`_deep_gemm_threads`: mock `torch.cuda.mem_get_info` to report free memory below
the loader reserve plus a DeepGEMM footprint, then assert the result is zero and
`start_linear_prebuild` starts no `deep_gemm` worker. Keep the test isolated
from shared warmup state and retain any applicable hardware skip.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/modules/test_linear_prebuild.py:
- Line 87: Add positive coverage for the linear-prebuild FlashInfer MXFP8 plan:
parameterize `_uses_flashinfer_mxfp8()` across the listed backend overrides and
CUDA-graph configurations using a stub model module with
`_use_flashinfer_mxfp8_decode_graph_default`, while respecting the backend
helper’s FlashInfer-only GPU guard. Add an MXFP8 fixture that makes `collect()`
select FlashInfer and verify the resulting `build_flashinfer_mxfp8()` build
group.
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_deep_gemm_threads decides how many DeepGEMM threads run, based on torch.cuda.mem_get_info() and the 8-GiB loader reserve. It can return 0. When it does, _linear_groups passes an empty item list to the group and logs a message. The only visible test uses a small shape that always fits, so the cap and the 0 result are untested. An arithmetic error here could cause OOM during weight loading, or silently skip all DeepGEMM builds.
Add a unit test that monkeypatches torch.cuda.mem_get_info and lp.deep_gemm_footprint. Pass a SimpleNamespace(fp8=[...]) plan. Assert the result for three cases:
free memory below the reserve gives 0;
free memory for two operands gives 2;
free memory above the requested count gives the requested count.
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py around lines
151 - 152:
Add a unit test for _deep_gemm_threads that monkeypatches
torch.cuda.mem_get_info and lp.deep_gemm_footprint, using a SimpleNamespace plan
with fp8 operands. Verify it returns 0 when free memory is below the 8-GiB
loader reserve, 2 when only two operands fit, and the requested thread count
when memory can accommodate more than requested.
Add a CUDA-gated body-exception test for warmup_overlap.
When the with body raises, the except BaseException branch in warmup_overlap.py (lines 215-219) sets group.stop and re-raises. It does not join the threads. The inspected test excerpt covers only the success path and the disabled no-op path. A regression could join the threads on error and delay the original exception. It could also drop the stop signal, so workers keep taking queued items after the body fails.
The proposed CPU-only test cannot reach this branch with live groups. groups is populated only when torch.cuda.is_available() is true. Mocking that gate is not enough, because _Group._run still calls torch.cuda.set_device and torch.cuda.Stream(). Gate the test on CUDA and stub the build functions instead:
This test sets the stop flag, lets blocked workers finish their current item, and then checks that they exit. Add import threading if the file does not already import it.
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py around lines
215 - 219:
Add a CUDA-gated test for the body-exception path in warmup_overlap: stub
_warmup_steps and _run_step so workers can be held during a step, then verify
the original body exception propagates promptly, the group’s stop signal is set,
and workers exit after the held step is released. Keep the test focused on live
groups and avoid relying on mocking CUDA availability alone.
The branch that leaves Linear GEMM builds to the warmup has no test. The existing disabled test turns off all overlap, so it does not reach this branch. The new test must run only with CUDA, because warmup_overlap builds no groups without it. A CPU-only test cannot check sampling prewarm here.
The test sets TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM=1 and TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_LINEAR=0. It uses the same wide Linear as the enabled test. It asserts that sampling still prewarms and that warmup_steps is present. It also asserts that no deep_gemm or flashinfer_mxfp8 group exists.
Suggested test
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not torch.cuda.is_available(), reason="warmup_overlap builds groups only with CUDA")+def test_warmup_overlap_leaves_linear_builds_to_warmup_when_linear_disabled(monkeypatch):+ monkeypatch.setenv("TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM", "1")+ monkeypatch.setenv("TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_LINEAR", "0")+ sampled = []+ monkeypatch.setattr(sampler_ops, "warmup_sampling_module", lambda: sampled.append(True))+ with torch.device("meta"):+ model = nn.Module()+ model.wide = Linear(+ NO_LOW_M[1], NO_LOW_M[0], bias=False, dtype=torch.bfloat16, quant_config=FP8+ )+ model_config = SimpleNamespace(pretrained_config=None)++ with warmup_overlap(model, model_config, _llm_args(14, 2, draft=6), _Mapping(True)) as groups:+ pass++ names = {group.name for group in groups}+ assert sampled == [True]+ assert "warmup_steps" in names+ assert "deep_gemm" not in names+ assert "flashinfer_mxfp8" not in names
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Review comment at @tests/unittest/_torch/modules/test_linear_prebuild.py around
lines 125 - 129:
Add a CUDA-only test beside the existing warmup_overlap tests for
TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM=1 and TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_LINEAR=0, using the same wide
Linear setup as the enabled test. Verify sampling prewarm occurs, warmup_steps
is present, and neither deep_gemm nor flashinfer_mxfp8 is in the returned
groups.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap.py:
- Around line 151-152: Add a unit test for _deep_gemm_threads that monkeypatches
torch.cuda.mem_get_info and lp.deep_gemm_footprint, using a SimpleNamespace plan
with fp8 operands. Verify it returns 0 when free memory is below the 8-GiB
loader reserve, 2 when only two operands fit, and the requested thread count
when memory can accommodate more than requested.
- Around line 215-219: Add a CUDA-gated test for the body-exception path in
warmup_overlap: stub _warmup_steps and _run_step so workers can be held during a
step, then verify the original body exception propagates promptly, the group’s
stop signal is set, and workers exit after the held step is released. Keep the
test focused on live groups and avoid relying on mocking CUDA availability
alone.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/modules/test_linear_prebuild.py:
- Around line 125-129: Add a CUDA-only test beside the existing warmup_overlap
tests for TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM=1 and TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_LINEAR=0, using the
same wide Linear setup as the enabled test. Verify sampling prewarm occurs,
warmup_steps is present, and neither deep_gemm nor flashinfer_mxfp8 is in the
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The idea is sound and the Kimi hook plus the dummy-operand layout match what transform_weights / _Fp8BlockScaleWeightReadLinear._prepare_weights produce. Two whole-PR concerns before this goes default-on for every model on main:
Memory._deep_gemm_threads samples mem_get_info once, before the loader allocates any staging buffers or runs conversions, and the only guard is a fixed 8 GiB. The repo already records a ~22 GiB load-time transient peak on one Kimi config. A build that fails is caught and left to the warmup; a loader OOM caused by the dummy operands is not, and the error will not mention the overlap. Please describe how the reserve was sized and add a run on the tightest supported config (DEP8 context rank or similar) to the PR evidence. See the inline note for a cheap mitigation.
Policy drift.linear_prebuild re-derives what DecoderWarmup decides (token counts, MXFP8 backend, autotuner on/off) by hand, and nothing observes a mismatch: wasted builds just lengthen the with, missed builds just compile mid-warmup as before. Consider one shared derivation both callers import, or at least have the warmup log any DeepGEMM compile it still performs so the gap is visible.
Smaller items:
Title carries [None]. This is a user-visible perf feature with three env vars; it should have a JIRA.
The three env vars (TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM, _LINEAR, _DEEP_GEMM_THREADS) are undocumented, and the description names only two. docs/source/llm-api/index.md already has an env var table.
Default is 4 concurrent nvcc per rank, so 32 per node racing the loader's I/O. Worth a sentence in the description on how that was chosen.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/utils.py:448 says DeepGEMM forks nvcc while holding the GIL; the new docstring says it runs with the GIL released. One of them is stale; please fix whichever in this PR.
Tests cover planning and one happy build, not a failing build, zero threads, or the body raising. All three are cheap monkeypatch tests.
Add a test for the shared MoE-MLP target enumerator.
_moe_mlp_fp8_weight_read_targets now has two consumers: _convert_moe_mlps_to_fp8_weight_read and the load-time shape planner in warmup_overlap/linear.py. test_kimi_k3_load_time_gemms sets _fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp = False. No test covers the enumerator.
These branches stay untested:
the include_fused_gate_up split
the skip for TP-sharded TrtllmLinear
the routed latent nn.Linear targets
A regression here has no visible symptom. The planner builds the wrong DeepGEMM shapes. A missed shape then compiles inline during warmup or serving, and a stray shape wastes build time.
Smallest test: add a case to tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_warmup_overlap.py.
Build a fake MoE layer with shared_experts and routed_expert_{down,up}_proj on the meta device.
Set _fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp = True.
Assert that _load_time_fp8_shapes returns the expected shapes for both values of enable_attention_dp.
Assert that a TrtllmLinear shared projection with tp_size != 1 is excluded.
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lines 1094 - 1123:
Add a focused test in the warmup-overlap tests for the shared MoE target
enumeration used by _load_time_fp8_shapes. Enable _fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp,
build a fake meta-device MoE layer with shared experts and routed down/up
projections, and verify the expected shapes for both values of
enable_attention_dp, covering the include_fused_gate_up split. Also verify that
a shared TrtllmLinear projection with tp_size other than 1 is excluded.
Add a test for the DeepGEMM thread and memory gating.
_deep_gemm_threads decides how many builders run next to the loader. It computes (free_bytes - _LOADER_RESERVE_BYTES) // largest. It returns 0 when the dummy operands do not fit.
No test covers this logic. The integration test runs with ample free memory and the default thread count. A regression could cause either of two failures:
Too many threads allocate dummy operands and OOM the loader.
DeepGEMM prebuilds are silently disabled.
Smallest test: add a case to tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_warmup_overlap.py.
Monkeypatch torch.cuda.mem_get_info.
Use a Plan with one known fp8 item.
Assert 0 threads when free memory is below _LOADER_RESERVE_BYTES + footprint.
Assert the TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_DEEP_GEMM_THREADS cap when memory is abundant.
Assert the exact quotient in between.
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around lines 243 - 252:
Add focused coverage for _deep_gemm_threads using a Plan with one fp8 item and a
monkeypatched torch.cuda.mem_get_info result. Verify it returns zero below the
loader reserve plus the item’s footprint, the configured thread cap when memory
is abundant, and the exact memory-limited quotient for an intermediate amount of
free memory.
This function derives three arguments for prewarm_split_proxy_variants: the dtype, the sharded index-head count, and the page size. DecoderWarmup later makes the same call with its own arguments. The call is lru_cached and keyed on those arguments. If the arguments differ, the overlapped build warms a variant the warmup does not use. The warmup then compiles inline, which stalls every rank.
No test covers these branches:
implementation != "msa" returns None.
use_kv_cache_manager_v2 is false and returns None.
Smallest test: add a case to tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_warmup_overlap.py.
Build a MiniMaxM3SparseAttentionConfig and a kv_cache_config namespace.
Call forward_free_steps.
Assert that the msa_indexer step is present or absent.
Monkeypatch prewarm_split_proxy_variants to capture its arguments.
Compare the captured arguments with what DecoderWarmup computes.
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lines 23 - 45:
Add focused coverage for _msa_indexer_params through forward_free_steps: verify
the msa_indexer step is absent for non-MSA implementations and when
use_kv_cache_manager_v2 is false, and verify fp8 dtype and tokens_per_block are
passed through when enabled. Capture the prewarm_split_proxy_variants arguments
and compare them with the arguments DecoderWarmup uses, ensuring both paths warm
the same variant.
BuildGroup._run counts an item whose build raises as failed and continues with the next item. No test exercises this branch. The existing warmup_overlap tests assert only failed == 0.
A CPU-only test cannot reach this branch. _run calls torch.cuda.set_device(device) and torch.cuda.Stream() before its loop. Without CUDA, the worker thread fails there before any item is built, so failed stays 0.
Add a CUDA-gated test with one worker thread. The single thread processes the items in order.
Suggested test
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.linear import Linear
from tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.warmup_overlap import warmup_overlap
+from tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.warmup_overlap.group import BuildGroup
Append to the end of tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_warmup_overlap.py:
++@pytest.mark.skipif(not torch.cuda.is_available(), reason="BuildGroup starts CUDA streams")+def test_build_group_counts_a_failed_item_and_runs_the_rest():+ def build(item):+ if item == 2:+ raise RuntimeError("boom")+ return 1++ group = BuildGroup("test", [1, 2, 3], build, threads=1)+ group.start(torch.cuda.current_device())+ group.join()+ assert (group.count, group.failed, group.launches) == (3, 1, 2)+ assert not any(t.is_alive() for t in group.threads)
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Add a CUDA-gated test for the failed-build fallback in BuildGroup._run. With one
worker and an item whose build raises between successful items, start and join
the group, then assert all items were processed, the failure and launch counts
are correct, and the worker has stopped; skip the test when CUDA is unavailable.
tuning token counts, including Helix CP and draft tokens
DeepGEMM shape and sweep planning with the low-M rule
Kimi K3 load-time attention and qkvg shapes
background DeepGEMM builds, with launch counts equal to the sweep
thread termination
TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM=0
Test list: the file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml. Four tests skip unless is_sm_100f(), which matches that list.
Gaps (inline comments elsewhere in this review):
_deep_gemm_threads memory gating
_msa_indexer_params
the MoE-MLP target enumerator with _fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp=True
the failed-build and body-exception paths
_uses_flashinfer_mxfp8 and the FlashInfer group. The integration test only asserts count == 0 for that group.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py:
- Around line 1094-1123: Add a focused test in the warmup-overlap tests for the
shared MoE target enumeration used by _load_time_fp8_shapes. Enable
_fp8_weight_read_moe_mlp, build a fake meta-device MoE layer with shared experts
and routed down/up projections, and verify the expected shapes for both values
of enable_attention_dp, covering the include_fused_gate_up split. Also verify
that a shared TrtllmLinear projection with tp_size other than 1 is excluded.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap/group.py:
- Around line 63-69: Add a CUDA-gated test for the failed-build fallback in
BuildGroup._run. With one worker and an item whose build raises between
successful items, start and join the group, then assert all items were
processed, the failure and launch counts are correct, and the worker has
stopped; skip the test when CUDA is unavailable.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap/linear.py:
- Around line 243-252: Add focused coverage for _deep_gemm_threads using a Plan
with one fp8 item and a monkeypatched torch.cuda.mem_get_info result. Verify it
returns zero below the loader reserve plus the item’s footprint, the configured
thread cap when memory is abundant, and the exact memory-limited quotient for an
intermediate amount of free memory.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap/steps.py:
- Around line 23-45: Add focused coverage for _msa_indexer_params through
forward_free_steps: verify the msa_indexer step is absent for non-MSA
implementations and when use_kv_cache_manager_v2 is false, and verify fp8 dtype
and tokens_per_block are passed through when enabled. Capture the
prewarm_split_proxy_variants arguments and compare them with the arguments
DecoderWarmup uses, ensuring both paths warm the same variant.
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[TRTLLM-17679][feat] Build warmup kernels while the weights load
Nov 6, 2026
@brnguyen2, thanks for the review. On the points in your review summary:
Memory. The 8 GiB was a fixed margin, not derived from the loader's peak.
Each DeepGEMM sweep now re-checks free memory before it starts, so the loader's own allocations count.
A failed load drains the builders, and an OOM logs a hint.
The lowest free memory is logged. On Kimi-K3 ctx, every rank had at least 99.2 GiB free each time a sweep started, with the four threads running.
Main's Kimi-K3 context recipes are the DWDP16 workers measured here, and I don't have a DEP8 context config to run. The ~22.6 GiB in modeling_kimi_linear.py is the peak that repointing the fused rows avoids. If you can point me to a DEP8 context config, I'll add a run.
Policy drift. I mirrored the conditions you listed; details are in the inline threads. A derivation shared with DecoderWarmup would change the warmup, which this PR deliberately leaves untouched (its only runtime change is the one with), so I'd do that as a follow-up.
Title. It is now [TRTLLM-17679][feat].
Env vars. The three variables are documented in docs/source/llm-api/index.md under Startup Metrics, and the description names all three.
4 threads. This is a moderate default; I didn't sweep it. On GB300 (4 ranks per node) it means 16 concurrent nvcc per node. On Kimi-K3 ctx, the 9 sweeps finish in 190–200 s, inside the ~300–390 s of weight loading. Construction and loading took 8–13 s longer, and the copy loop above slowed from 17 to 20 µs. TLLM_OVERLAP_PREWARM_DEEP_GEMM_THREADS overrides it.
GIL comment. The comment in _torch/utils.py was the stale one, and it is fixed; details are in that thread.
Tests. Added for a failing build, zero threads, a skipped sweep, the body raising, and the autotuner off.
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- Around line 79-94: Guard torch.cuda.empty_cache() in the exception handler so
a cache-cleanup failure cannot replace the original loading exception or skip
the OOM hint; log the cleanup failure and continue to the existing OOM handling
and re-raise.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/warmup_overlap/linear.py:
- Around line 304-311: Coordinate the memory check in the build_deep_gemm sweep
across concurrent build threads by tracking outstanding sweep reservations under
a lock and including them when deciding whether enough memory remains above
_LOADER_RESERVE_BYTES. Avoid counting reservations that mem_get_info() already
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[TRTLLM-17679][feat] KernelBuilder: build fmha_sm100 kernel variants on worker threads during warmup
Nov 9, 2026
Add tests for the build_pass exception path and nested passes.
build_pass keeps a pass counter that drives active(). On an exception from the body, the counter must be decremented without a join. Only the outermost pass may join and report.
If this logic regresses, active() stays true after a failed warmup. Every later prebuild call then replays and submits builds during serving.
tests/unittest/_torch/test_kernel_builder.py covers only the normal exit and the disabled case.
Add two CPU tests in that file:
Raise inside with builder.build_pass(...). Assert that the exception propagates and not builder.active().
Nest two passes. Submit a slow build in the inner pass. Assert that the inner exit does not join (builder.state(...) == "queued") and the outer exit does. Use a threading.Event to hold the build.
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Add two CPU tests for KernelBuilder.build_pass: verify an exception from the
pass body propagates and leaves builder.active() false, and verify nested passes
defer joining until the outermost exit. For the nested-pass test, hold the
submitted build with a threading.Event, assert it remains queued after the inner
exit, then release it and confirm the outer exit joins.
96-102: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Test the wrapped plan-to-run path during a build pass.
The direct helper tests do not check that _Package.run finds the plan tag and lists a signature. A regression could leave kernels to compile on first use.
Add an SM100 test in test_msa_kernel_builds.py that calls the installed plan and run entry points inside build_pass("test"). Compare the output with the unwrapped call and assert that stats("fmha_sm100").signatures == 1.
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around lines 96 - 102:
Add an SM100 integration test in test_msa_kernel_builds.py that exercises the
installed plan and run entry points inside build_pass("test"), compares its
output with the unwrapped call, and asserts stats("fmha_sm100").signatures == 1.
Use the existing test setup and APIs; leave the plan wrapper unchanged.
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- Around line 242-246: Update the exception handling in install around _Package
construction so package-surface mismatches that raise ordinary exceptions do not
propagate and prevent the MSA backend from being used; retain the existing
warning with the exception type and message.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py:
- Around line 267-268: Move torch.cuda.set_device into the worker’s per-item
guarded block and catch BaseException for device setup and build failures.
Ensure every dequeued item reaches the _pending decrement so build_pass cannot
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- Around line 96-102: Add an SM100 integration test in test_msa_kernel_builds.py
that exercises the installed plan and run entry points inside
build_pass("test"), compares its output with the unwrapped call, and asserts
stats("fmha_sm100").signatures == 1. Use the existing test setup and APIs; leave
the plan wrapper unchanged.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py:
- Around line 106-127: Add two CPU tests for KernelBuilder.build_pass: verify an
exception from the pass body propagates and leaves builder.active() false, and
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[TRTLLM-17679][feat] KernelBuilder: build fmha_sm100 kernels on worker threads while the weights load
Nov 10, 2026
…on worker threads during warmup
KernelBuilder (tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py) queues the kernel builds of ops that
compile on first use without going through the autotuner, and runs them on worker threads.
The decoder warmup is a build pass: an op lists, on the first sight of each call signature,
the kernels the signature reaches over its runtime shapes, and the pass waits for the builds
at its end.
MiniMax-M3's MSA attention (fmha_sm100) is the first op. Its plan and run are wrapped once,
at import. The first run of each call signature in the warmup replays the package's plan and
run for one query segment of every length up to 129 and of 256, with the variant lookup
recording the variant instead of compiling it. Workers compile each variant in the directory
and under the file lock the package's own lookup uses; the first run also queues the plan,
split-KV reduction and sparse top-k modules. TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER=0 turns it off.
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… checkpoint loads
For a model a KernelBuilder op family reaches (today fmha_sm100, for
MiniMax-M3's MSA attention), the model is first built on dummy weights,
a rehearsal runs the warmup's MSA indexer prewarm and attention forwards
on them so the ops list and submit their kernels, and the checkpoint then
loads while the kernels build.
- ModelLoader.load(defer_checkpoint=True) loads what LoadFormat.DUMMY
loads into the tensors materialized from meta; load_deferred_checkpoint
restores the module tree as created, restores the creation layout with
pre_reload_weights, checks every parameter against its creation shape
and dtype, and runs load's AUTO fill, post-load hooks and finalization.
- ModelEngine.rehearse / load_deferred_checkpoint (the torch.compile
wrapper is removed for the load and put back after, as for a weight
update); DecoderWarmup.rehearse; pyexecutor/rehearsal.py runs it on
throwaway estimation-sized KV cache managers.
- KernelBuilder.rehearsal(): a build pass that does not wait;
wants_rehearsal() over the _FAMILIES table. fmha_sm100 runs in a
rehearsal are replays that compile and launch nothing.
- msa_prefill: refresh the NVFP4 K/V scale buffer in inference mode when
a forward created it there.
- TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_REHEARSAL=0 loads the checkpoint first.
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…ts from plain memory
The rehearsal's eager forwards grew the NCCL window pool with buffers
the compiled warmup could not reuse, which left 0.8 GiB less for the KV
cache on MiniMax-M3 TP2. Run them under nccl_window_allocation_suppressed(),
as the autotuner's parallel profiling does, so the pool grows only with
the warmup that sizes it.
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…the forward's, as the autotuner does
An op declares the dimensions its kernels depend on in a BuildConfig of
DynamicSpecs, as a TuningConfig declares DynamicTensorSpecs. A call supplies
the shape; the op lists the kernels of the shapes its dimensions sweep from
it that its call signature has not listed yet.
fmha_sm100 sweeps query lengths up to the call's longest segment (1-129, and
256); the MSA indexer's maximum-score pass also sweeps KV splits (1, 2).
The rehearsal runs the autotuner warmup's two forwards (a context batch at
the maximum token count and one generation request) in place of the
attention warmup's batches and the MSA indexer prewarm.
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… kernels while the weights load
An op that calls choose_one now has three states. Inside autotune() it
tunes; inside the new build_kernels() (the rehearsal) choose_one queues on
KernelBuilder's worker threads the builds of every profile, runner and
tactic its tuning will time, without timing them (AutoTuner.prebuild), and
the op returns zeros of its output shape; otherwise it runs its tuned
tactic.
A runner builds a tactic with TunableRunner.build (by default, it runs it
once) and says which builds compile the same kernels with build_key. Only
ops that opt in with TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup build: DeepGEMM's FP8
block-scale GEMMs, and FlashInfer's MXFP8 GEMM, whose CUTLASS build loads
its JIT module without running it. The parallel JIT warmup shares the
per-profile build and the interleaved order, and skips builds this process
ran. The creator waits for these builds (the autotuner_builds phase) before
the KV cache estimation measures free memory.
A model whose FP8 block-scale linears run DeepGEMM now rehearses too (the
deep_gemm KernelBuilder family; families receive the model). KernelBuilder
sizes its threads as the parallel JIT warmup does, and join() can wait for
the ops of one prefix. TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER=0 leaves the autotuned
ops' kernels to the autotuner warmup.
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[TRTLLM-17679][feat] KernelBuilder: build fmha_sm100 kernels on worker threads while the weights load
[TRTLLM-17679][feat] KernelBuilder and the autotuner's build state: build kernels on worker threads while the weights load
Nov 10, 2026
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KernelBuilder(tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernel_builder.py) runs, on worker threads, the kernel builds of ops that compile on first use and do not go through the autotuner. It works as the autotuner does: the forward supplies the largest shape, and the op sweeps its own shapes down from it. An op declares the dimensions its kernels depend on in aBuildConfigofDynamicSpecs, as aTuningConfigdeclaresDynamicTensorSpecs. Inside a build pass, each call lists and submits the kernels of the shapes swept from it that its call signature has not listed yet. The list comes from the op's own dispatch, so nothing in it is model-specific.An op that calls
choose_onebuilds through the autotuner instead, which gives it three states:autotune()(the autotuner warmup), it tunes, as before.build_kernels()(the rehearsal below),choose_onequeues on KernelBuilder's threads the builds of every profile, runner and tactic its tuning will time (AutoTuner.prebuild), without timing them, and the op returns zeros of its output shape.A runner builds a tactic with
TunableRunner.build, which by default runs it once, and says which builds compile the same kernels withbuild_key. Only ops that opt in withTuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmupbuild, since their runners' builds are thread-safe and use no NCCL windows:fp8_swap_ab_gemm,fp8_prequantized_swap_ab_gemm);FlashInferMXFP8GemmRunner), whose CUTLASS build loads its JIT module without running it. The MXFP8 linear queues it when the warmup will tune FlashInfer MXFP8.The sweep is queued interleaved, as the parallel JIT warmup of #21610 does; that warmup now shares the per-profile build and skips builds this process already ran. These builds run their kernels on inputs of their own, so the creator waits for them (an
autotuner_buildsphase) before the KV cache estimation measures free memory. In the build state, ops that do not opt in run their fallback tactic, as before: CuTe DSL runners, the Triton FP8 quantizer, AllReduce and other collectives, and the SM90 C++ DeepGEMM JIT.For a model such an op is in, the weights are now dummies first, so the builds can run while the real weights load:
ModelLoader.load(defer_checkpoint=True)builds the model asLoadFormat.DUMMYdoes: dummy values in the tensors materialized from meta (which hold no value of their own), the draft tied to the target, the post-load hooks.KernelBuilder.rehearsal()) runs the autotuner warmup's two forwards on these weights in the build state: a context batch at the maximum token count and one generation request with its draft tokens. They run eagerly, on throwaway KV cache managers sized as for the capacity estimation. The ops list and submit their kernels without compiling or launching them, and the rehearsal does not wait for the builds. Its NCCL-window requests are served from plain memory (nccl_window_allocation_suppressed(), as the autotuner's parallel profiling does): buffers the eager forwards added to the window pool would not be reused by the compiled warmup, and on MiniMax-M3 left 0.8 GiB less for the KV cache.load_deferred_checkpointputs the model back as it was created and loads the checkpoint asloaddoes: the module tree restored (this undoes the draft tie and aliases),pre_reload_weightsas for a weight update, a check that every parameter is in its creation shape and dtype, then the same AUTO fill, post-load hooks and finalization. A torch.compile wrapper is removed for the load and put back after, as for a weight update.Which models: an op family registers in
kernel_builder._FAMILIESa function telling whether a model, as created, reaches it:fmha_sm100: MiniMax-M3's MSA attention;deep_gemm: an FP8 block-scale linear on DeepGEMM (SM100f, with neitheruse_cute_dsl_blockscaling_mmnordisable_deep_gemm).Everything else keeps today's order, and so do these cases: MX checkpoints, GMS, DUMMY or VISION_ONLY load formats, host-resident (pinned) weights, a failed meta init, sleep mode, the MoE load balancer, DWDP, multimodal encoder CUDA graphs, Modeling V2 targets, and launches without the KV cache estimation.
fmha_sm100 (
msa_kernel_builds.py): its plan picks the variant from the longest query segment and the KV split count, so these are its build dimensions:require_msa_module()wraps the package's plan and run once. On a run in a build pass, the plan and the run are replayed for one query segment of each new shape, with the package's variant lookup recording each variant instead of compiling it; workers compile them with the package's_compile_only, in its directory and under its per-variant file lock. In a rehearsal every run is such a replay, with zeros in its output and -inf in its maximum score. The plan, split-KV reduction and sparse top-k modules are queued as soon as the model is known to reach the op.MiniMax-M3 keeps one 16-byte-aligned NVFP4 K/V scale buffer per layer, created by the first forward and refreshed after a weight load. A forward creates it inside inference mode, so the refresh now runs in inference mode when the buffer is an inference tensor (
msa_prefill.py).Environment variables, documented in
docs/source/llm-api/index.md:TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER=0turns KernelBuilder off;TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_REHEARSAL=0keeps the builds but loads the checkpoint first;TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER=0leaves the autotuned ops' kernels to the autotuner warmup;TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_THREADSsets the worker threads (default: this rank's share of the CPUs, up to 32, as for the parallel JIT warmup).Launch to
/healthon GB300, every JIT cache empty and per rank, arms back to back on one node. Every arm runs main's post-merge wheel 3065 (df908c54), with every file undertensorrt_llm/that differs from this PR's tree copied over it.MiniMax-M3 ctx (TP2, Eagle3, piecewise torch.compile). Both arms rehearse and differ only in
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER:/healthmxfp8_gemm_cutlassmodule is built on a worker thread during the rehearsal (82 s), instead of on the main thread in the autotuner phase (90 s).DeepSeek-V3-Lite FP8 (128×128 block scales, MLA, 72-expert MoE; TP1):
TLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_REHEARSAL=0)/healthTest Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py(GPU):parallel_jit_warmup=0, not a MERGE op, nothing withTLLM_KERNEL_BUILDER_AUTOTUNER=0;build, once perbuild_key, and a nestedautotune(tune_mode=False)keeps the build state;fp8_swap_ab_gemmreturns zeros in the build state and builds its sweep (SM100);tests/unittest/_torch/test_kernel_builder.py(CPU,l0_cpu):tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_kernel_builds.py(SM100):tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_deferred_checkpoint.py(GPU,unittest/_torch/pyexecutor):tests/unittest/_torch/models/test_minimax_m3.py: the NVFP4 scale-buffer reload test also with the buffer created in inference mode.test_warmup.py(73);test_autotuner.py(99; the 6 cases of its 3 MPI-pool tests not run);test_mxfp8_linear.py(55);test_fp8_block_scale_gemm.py(28);test_msa_proxy_split.pythrough the wrapped entry points.PR Checklist
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