Perf: parallelize the DSpark TP-4 SWA decode hot tasks

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• Fan the CP token all-gather push over 16 SPMD workers, each pushing
  its own row bands to every peer, and the window readback over 16
  workers; scale the two-phase signal counts to one notify per worker
• Switch the all-gather's two peer waits from defer_wait to a blocking
  pld.system.wait, matching lm_head and decode_o_proj, and give each
  one the producer it must follow, so neither floats free in the task
  graph
• Split swa_cache_insert_valid_bias into swa_cache_writeback and
  swa_valid_bias, both SPMD, so the KV scatter and the attention bias
  build run concurrently instead of serially in one core-group task
• Size the writeback block count by ceiling division and clamp the last
  block to the remaining rows, so a kv_dim that is not a multiple of
  SWA_WB_TOKEN_TILE still commits every swa_slot_mapping entry
• Add a kv_proj split-M factor KV_OM so the kv_proj_matmul M-tile loop
  fans out 4-fold instead of running serially inside each N/K block
• Halve the kv_rms_norm_rope block count by widening KV_RMS_T_TILE to
  16; the task was scheduling-bound rather than compute-bound

Fastest-rank decode latency 1092 -> 732 us (a2a3, TP 4, devices
8,10,12,14, 100 rounds, per-round fastest card).

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change parallelizes decode token all-gather, separates SWA cache writeback from bias construction, and adds split-M fan-out to the KV projection matmul.

Changes

Decode and projection parallelization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Token all-gather worker protocol models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_cp_token_allgather.py	The push and readback phases use strided SPMD workers. Signal wait and retire counts now reflect the worker totals.
SWA writeback and bias blocks models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_swa.py	Cache writeback runs over 32-token tiles in one SPMD block. Valid-bias construction runs in a separate SPMD block.
KV projection split-M fan-out models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/qkv_proj_rope.py	The KV projection matmul launches four split-M groups. The fused KV token tile increases from 8 to 16.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 53805

The parallel cache writeback can skip valid KV rows for a supported TP_SIZE=2/start-pos configuration, causing incorrect decode results, and the new synchronization behavior still needs explicit confirmation for interruption or retry handling; merge should wait for the writeback fix and owner confirmation of the synchronization contract.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PushWorkers
  participant PeerBuffers
  participant ReadbackWorkers
  participant group_out
  PushWorkers->>PeerBuffers: Publish strided row bands and tail rows
  PeerBuffers->>ReadbackWorkers: Send payload and readback notifications
  ReadbackWorkers->>group_out: Copy row tiles and tail rows

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Poem

A rabbit sees workers hop in a row
Sixteen pushers make payloads flow
Cache tiles march in tidy lines
Split-M sprouts four bright signs
KV and tokens race with cheer

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the parallelization changes, signal updates, task splits, and reported latency improvement.

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In `@models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_swa.py`:
- Line 231: Update the writeback block-count calculation near wb_blocks to use
ceiling division, then guard the final block so it processes only the remaining
kv_dim entries when the dimension is not a full SWA_WB_TOKEN_TILE. Ensure all
swa_slot_mapping entries are committed to kv_cache_flat, including the partial
tail.

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