Add: queue consecutive runs on shared streams

[Crane-Liu]

Summary

This is the implementation and optimization for #1853.

• Queue two consecutive a2a3 native runs on the runner-owned AICPU/AICore stream pair.
• Record completion events per stream and pipeline slot so run N can drain without waiting for queued run N+1.
• Preserve runtime failure propagation through each run's orch/scheduler status latch without restoring a stream-wide synchronization barrier.
• Keep submitted-run ownership and retirement FIFO while preserving depth-one behavior for diagnostics and unsupported backends.
• Isolate device phase/timing buffers by pipeline slot and strengthen the native-overlap trace assertion.
• Classify latched runtime failures: timeout or unknown failures poison the runner and enter device recovery; known orchestration/capacity failures fail only the current run, allowing an already queued successor and later Worker calls to continue.
• Convert out-of-order proven retirement into conservative unproven cleanup so FIFO ownership and stale-stream replacement cannot be stranded.

Runtime-status rationale

Per-run completion events replace the stream-wide wait, but event synchronization does not carry the runtime orch/scheduler latch back to the host. Therefore every completed run performs the small status-header D2H read during drain. This keeps failure attribution per run while allowing the successor to remain queued.

This also surfaces cleanly exited runs whose orch/scheduler latch is nonzero. The previous stream-validation path read that latch only after a nonzero stream result, so orchestration and capacity verdicts could otherwise be returned as success.

Verification

• Rebased onto upstream main at 330c111e3.
• Pre-commit passed, including clang-format, clang-tidy, cpplint, Ruff, Pyright, markdownlint, and kernel wire isolation.
• C++ non-hardware suite: 122/122 passed locally.
• Focused Python worker and trace suites: 286 passed locally.
• Full Python unit suite: 2026 passed, 24 skipped locally; one pre-existing tooling check could not run because system gpg is unavailable on macOS.
• a2a3 onboard CI passed, including queued lifecycle, fatal/timeout recovery, and Worker reuse after a recoverable INVALID_ARGS runtime failure.
• a2a3 DeepSeek onboard, a5 onboard, a2a3/a5 device UT, Linux simulation, packaging, networking, and profiling smoke checks passed.
• Remaining CI is being monitored. The generic Ubuntu UT job reached the workflow's 20-minute limit while its executed tests were passing; macOS matrix jobs are still queued.
• Before merge, add one complete before/after device benchmark for the latency change.

Fixes #1853

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR enables queued native successor launches on supported onboard backends. It adds per-run completion events, per-slot timing buffers, FIFO stream ownership, runtime capability detection, updated overlap proofs, and expanded lifecycle tests.

Changes

Queued native launch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stream and capability contracts src/common/platform/include/host/run_stream_pair.h, src/common/worker/*, python/bindings/task_interface.cpp	RunStreamPair tracks multiple owners in FIFO order. Runtime and Python APIs expose queued-launch support.
Per-slot completion and timing src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/*, src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.*, src/a5/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp	Completion events and device timing buffers are associated with pipeline slots. Native ownership supports the configured launch depth.
Queued successor orchestration src/common/worker/chip_run_lane.cpp, docs/task-flow.md, docs/worker-manager.md, tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/native_run_lifecycle/test_native_run_lifecycle.py, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_chip_run_lane.cpp, tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_host_worker.py	Supported paths launch prepared successors before predecessor finalization. FIFO completion and finalization remain enforced.
Validation and trace contracts simpler_setup/tools/strace_timing.py, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp, tests/ut/py/test_strace_timing.py, docs/dfx/*, docs/dynamic-linking.md, src/common/platform/include/common/device_phase.h	Tests and documentation validate owner-specific polling, deferred stream destruction, per-run timing, and overlap before predecessor completion.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 055dc

The PR enables consecutive queued runs, but one recovery path can permanently strand a pipeline slot after a stream-retirement error, causing later work assigned to that slot to fail and reducing runner availability. The slot reset should be fixed before merging; the documentation contradiction should also be corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HostWorker
  participant ChipRunLane
  participant DeviceRunner
  participant RunStreamPair
  participant CompletionEvents
  HostWorker->>ChipRunLane: activate prepared successor
  ChipRunLane->>DeviceRunner: submit successor
  DeviceRunner->>RunStreamPair: record successor owner
  DeviceRunner->>CompletionEvents: record per-slot events
  DeviceRunner->>CompletionEvents: query or wait for run completion
  CompletionEvents-->>ChipRunLane: completion status
  ChipRunLane->>RunStreamPair: retire owners in FIFO order

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Poem

A rabbit queued runs in a bright stream

Events marked each slot with a gleam
FIFO kept order, buffers stayed near
Successors launched while tails still were here
The host trace recorded the dream

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 13.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 113 functions across 20 files. (5 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #1853 by admitting queued runs, adding per-run completion events, isolating per-slot timing buffers, preserving FIFO ownership and cleanup, and supporting capability-based de…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, documentation, API, and test changes are related to implementing and validating issue #1853. No unrelated changes are evident.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: queuing consecutive runs on shared streams.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the queued native-run implementation, completion events, FIFO retirement, timing isolation, failure handling, and verification.

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Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #1853 by admitting queued runs, adding per-run completion events, isolating per-slot timing buffers, preserving FIFO ownership and cleanup, and supporting capability-based depth-one behavior.

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Docstring coverage is 13.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 113 functions across 20 files. (5 skipped: 5 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/task-flow.md`:
- Line 761: Update the activation rule described around the
predecessor-finalization constraint to allow a queued-capable A2/A3 successor to
launch before predecessor finalization, while retaining the wait requirement for
diagnostic and incompatible paths. Align the earlier rule with the behavior
documented in the chip_0 native-run path.

In `@src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp`:
- Around line 455-458: Move reset_run_completion_events(prepared.pipeline_slot)
to immediately after the device fence is observed and before
retire_run_aicore_stream is called, so every terminal path clears
events.recorded even when retirement returns an error. Keep the existing
retirement error propagation and successful completion behavior unchanged.

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• docs/dfx/device-phases.md
• docs/dfx/host-trace.md
• docs/dynamic-linking.md
• docs/task-flow.md
• docs/worker-manager.md
• python/bindings/task_interface.cpp
• simpler_setup/tools/strace_timing.py
• src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp
• src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.h
• src/a5/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp
• src/common/platform/include/common/device_phase.h
• src/common/platform/include/host/run_stream_pair.h
• src/common/platform/onboard/host/c_api_shared.cpp
• src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.cpp
• src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.h
• src/common/platform/sim/host/c_api_shared.cpp
• src/common/worker/chip_run_lane.cpp
• src/common/worker/chip_worker.cpp
• src/common/worker/chip_worker.h
• src/common/worker/runtime_c_api.h
• tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/native_run_lifecycle/test_native_run_lifecycle.py
• tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_chip_run_lane.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp
• tests/ut/py/test_strace_timing.py
• tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_host_worker.py

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[ChaoZheng109]

Review

I read this against #1853's four named blockers and they are each handled: device_wall_dev_ptr_ is now per-slot, publication and unproven completion both defer the AICore stream replacement until the submitted queue empties, and RunStreamPair's single owner became a FIFO. The part I want to call out as genuinely well done is that order inversion is excluded structurally rather than by a check — permits_queued_successor reuses permits_native_successor, which already requires predecessor.phase == LAUNCHED, so a successor cannot reach the stream ahead of its predecessor no matter which of the three call sites fires. Making --assert-native-overlap require the overlap instead of merely permitting it is also the right move: the property is now held by CI rather than by review.

Two items below I'd like answered before merge — a resolution is fine, and so is a reasoned "won't fix", but not silence. The remaining four are yours to schedule: this PR or a follow-up, whichever you judge right.

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1. A five-layer, 845-line change whose only purpose is latency, with no latency measurement — please answer

This is the main request. The Verification section is entirely correctness — scene tests, UT, C++ suite, pre-commit — and I don't doubt any of it. But #1853's entire premise is a performance one: the device idles for one host round trip between every pair of runs. Nothing in this PR shows that window closed, or by how much, on any workload.

--assert-native-overlap proves the successor is now submitted before the predecessor's fence. That is a structural property, not a number. It cannot distinguish "the device gap is gone and a decode step got faster" from "the device gap is gone and something else grew to fill it".

The reason a number is needed rather than an argument is that the change gives some of it back in several places, each individually small:

• Completion moved from two aclrtSynchronizeStreamWithTimeout calls to two aclrtRecordEvent plus two aclrtSynchronizeEventWithTimeout calls per run.
• native_run_active() was a lock-free atomic load and is now a native_run_mu_ acquire, and it is on the prepare path (c_api_shared.cpp:757).
• Every successful run now does one extra synchronous D2H in drain (completed_execution_rc, c_api_shared.cpp:647) — before this PR the status latch was read only when execution_rc != 0 (runtime_maker.cpp:944).

Each of those is microseconds. So is the host round trip being removed. That symmetry is exactly why this cannot be settled by reading the diff — the win and the giveback are the same order of magnitude, and only a measurement fixes the sign.

benchmark / perf-example-device / hbg-bind-phases should each be able to produce this. A single decode case, before and after, would be enough.

On the third bullet specifically, so it isn't mistaken for an oversight: I understand why it is there. Commit 725e67f's now-deleted comment states it exactly —

// Event completion does not propagate a failed predecessor task.

aclrtSynchronizeStream returns the stream's sticky error; aclrtSynchronizeEvent does not. The event fence replaced "wait for the device" and "carry the failure back" together, and only the first was replaced in kind. The reasoning is right and I am not asking you to undo it. It belongs in the PR body, though — right now it lives only in a commit message and in a comment that commit 109960d deleted, so a reviewer sees an unexplained D2H on the hot path.

One more thing the body should claim, because it is a real fix this PR does not take credit for: since validate_runtime_impl gated its latch read on execution_rc != 0, a run that ended cleanly on the device with a nonzero orch/sched latch — an orchestration error, a capacity verdict — was silently swallowed: the run returned success and its output tensors were copied back. This PR surfaces that class for the first time.

2. completed_execution_rc force-resets the card for orchestration and capacity errors — please answer

if (runtime_status == 0) return 0;
state->runner->recover_device_or_mark_unusable(runtime_status);   // unconditional

recover_device_or_mark_unusable sets device_unusable_ unconditionally (device_runner.cpp:873 — its own comment says "always mark the runner unusable here"), and finalize() takes the fatal branch on that flag: force reset of the card plus aclFinalize, with can_accept_run() false for everything in between.

That policy was written for a specific input — a 207001 launch failure or a STARS-reaped op-timeout, where a force reset is the only thing that clears the sticky error. The new call site passes a different kind of value. Reading the hint table in src/common/runtime_status/error_names.h, most of what can land in that latch is explicitly not a device fault:

• INVALID_ARGS — "an orchestration bug, not a capacity problem — resizing the rings will not help; recheck the arguments of the orchestration API calls listed above"
• SCOPE_DEADLOCK / FLOW_CONTROL_DEADLOCK — "raise runtime_env.ring_task_window …"
• REQUIRE_SYNC_START_INVALID — "lower the task's block_num …"
• EXPLICIT_ORCH_FATAL — "self-inflicted — follow the message passed to the rt_report_fatal() call site"

Those hints all read "change something and run again". Under this PR, orchestration code that calls rt_report_fatal() on its own precondition check now force-resets the NPU. In CI the st_worker pool is class-scoped, so one case's orchestration bug takes the rest of the class with it. CI being green does not cover this — no case deliberately latches an orchestration error.

Suggested shape, if you agree:

if (runtime_status_may_poison_device(runtime_status)) {      // SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT, TENSOR_WAIT_TIMEOUT
    state->runner->recover_device_or_mark_unusable(runtime_status);
}
return runtime_status;

Timeouts mean something may still be live on the device and deserve the recovery path; an orchestrator that latched INVALID_ARGS and short-circuited its remaining API calls to no-ops exits cleanly.

There is a related design question the PR does not discuss: what should happen to a queued successor when its predecessor latches one of these? If run N's AICPU exits cleanly after an orchestration error, run N+1 is already on the stream and could complete normally. Today it is taken down with the card. Whichever way you decide, it is worth a sentence in the code.

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The four below are yours to schedule. None of them is reachable through the lane today; they are all "the layer below does not enforce what the layer above happens to guarantee".

3. An out-of-order Complete retirement leaks its FIFO entry

// run_stream_pair.h:165
if (completion_status == CompletionStatus::Complete && index != 0) {
    return PTO_RUNTIME_ERR_INTERNAL;   // submissions_ is left untouched
}

The caller sets prepared.aicore_retirement_attempted = true before this call (device_runner.cpp:456), so the RAII cleanup will not retry with Unproven. The owner then stays in submissions_ permanently: depth is down one for the life of the runner, and a stale AICore stream can never be replaced because submission_count_ never reaches 0.

ChipRunLane::progress recurses into fifo.front() first so the lane cannot produce this, but simpler_wait_run and ChipWorker::_wait_native_run do not enforce it. Either drop the entry on the rejected path or have the caller retry as Unproven.

4. The per-slot event reset depends on an invariant that is not stated anywhere

reset_run_completion_events is only reached on the success path (device_runner.cpp:446-451 returns early on a failed reap_run), so a failed reap leaves recorded == true, and ensure_run_completion_events rejects that slot forever (:567).

The only reason this is not a bug is that a failed reap always runs recover_device_or_mark_unusable, which permanently marks the runner unusable. That is a load-bearing dependency spanning two files and it is written down in neither. Resetting on the error path too, or stating the invariant per .claude/rules/comments.md, would both close it.

5. #1853's blocker 2 asked to be confirmed, and the comment still reads the other way

The isolation does hold — Handshake workers[] is an inline member of Runtime, Runtime is per-slot, and the device-side runtime_args is allocated per run. But the comment above the clear still says:

// device_runner.cpp:734
// workers region persists across runs in the pooled arena. Clearing each

Read in a world where two runs are in flight, "persists across runs in the pooled arena" is exactly the sentence that suggests the successor's clear could reach the predecessor's live handshake. The issue asked for this to be "confirming, not assuming"; a present-tense statement of the per-slot invariant would settle it for the next reader.

6. concurrent_prepare_stress's module docstring predates the stronger assertion

assert_native_overlap now also requires runner_run(N+1) to start before runner_run(N) ends, but the docstring still describes only prepare-vs-device overlap. The three arms are still correct — the negative arms match did not overlap, which fires first — so this is documentation lag only (doc-consistency.md §1).

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Two smaller things, no action needed unless you want them:

• completed_runtime_status_impl has a strong definition only under src/a2a3/runtime/. a5 falls back to the weak return 0, which is correct today (a5 keeps native_launch_depth() == 1 and still uses sync_stream_pair) but would fail silently if a5 ever gains queued launch — a weak symbol produces no diagnostic. A comment at one of the two sites would flag the coupling.
• In try_reserve_native_run, the existing_active lambda parameter is named owner and shadows the function parameter of the same name.

[Crane-Liu]

@ChaoZheng109 Thanks for the detailed review. I rebased this PR onto current main and addressed the non-benchmark items in 46e3adf12.

1. Latency measurement: agreed. I am keeping this open until the full validation stage, where I will run one before/after device benchmark on the same decode case and add the result before merge. The PR body now explains why the per-run status-header D2H is required after replacing stream synchronization with event synchronization, and calls out the newly surfaced clean-exit/nonzero-latch failures.
2. Runtime-status recovery policy: classified the latch results. SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT, TENSOR_WAIT_TIMEOUT, and unknown codes conservatively poison the runner and enter device recovery. Known orchestration/capacity errors fail only the current run. An already submitted successor remains valid and later calls on the same Worker can continue. This is covered by lane UTs and an a2a3 onboard test that runs a recoverable INVALID_ARGS case followed by a successful callable on the same Worker; the onboard CI job passed.
3. Out-of-order Complete retirement: the rejected owner is now removed through conservative Unproven cleanup, preserving FIFO capacity and ensuring the stale AICore stream is replaced when the queue drains.
4. Failed reap invariant: documented that a failed reap poisons the runner and the still-recorded event remains owned until fatal finalization.
5. Handshake isolation comment: rewritten to state the actual per-slot Runtime::workers and per-run runtime_args ownership.
6. Stress-test documentation: updated to include queued launch overlap.

I also documented the conservative a5 weak fallback coupling and renamed the shadowing lambda parameter. Pre-commit, 122/122 local C++ tests, the full local Python suite, and the critical onboard/Linux CI paths have passed. The remaining CI queue is still being monitored.