Add HBG resolution-thread scheduler phases to chip swimlane

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Summary

• emit device-side Resolve and Dummy bars from the dedicated HBG resolution thread on A3 and A5
• preserve empty AsyncPoll CPU cost with bounded aggregation, and count all resolved entries including internal Graph nodes
• teach scheduler overhead analysis to count standalone HBG phases without double-counting nested TMR Resolve
• add mirrored A3/A5 scene coverage and simulator workflow smokes

Validation

• Python scheduler/converter unit tests: 41 passed
• focused A3 and A5 graph-cache tests: passed after rebasing onto current main
• A3Sim and A5Sim HBG chip-swimlane scene tests: passed
• A3 onboard HBG scheduler-phase smoke: passed
• A3 onboard batch paged-attention CaseVarSeq4 with chip swimlane: passed
• Ruff, clang-format, repository header/English/platform checks, YAML parsing, and git diff check: passed

Closes #1803

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The change adds HBG resolution-thread profiling for Resolve, AsyncPoll, and Dummy phases in a2a3 and a5. It updates scheduler analysis and documentation, adds scene tests and kernels, validates phase records, and enables conditional CI smoke coverage.

Changes

Host-build-graph scheduler profiling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Phase emission and profiling contract src/common/platform/include/common/chip_swimlane_profiling.h, src/a2a3/..., src/a5/...	HBG records Resolve, AsyncPoll, and Dummy phases with queue-depth snapshots, loop counts, timestamps, and processed-task counts. Consecutive empty async polls are aggregated.
Scheduler analysis and documentation simpler_setup/tools/sched_overhead_analysis.py, docs/dfx/*, simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py	Analysis includes the new outer phases and standalone HBG Resolve records. Documentation describes HBG phase nesting and empty-poll accounting.
Scene tests and CI smoke coverage tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/*, tests/st/a5/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/*, tests/ut/*, .github/workflows/*	New kernels, orchestration, and scene tests validate synchronous and asynchronous phase records. Conditional a2a3sim and a5sim smoke steps run the new tests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6d3b4

The change is mergeable with owner follow-up: both scene tests should use sub-second timestamp comparisons so a stale output directory cannot cause a false-positive test result.

Poem

I’m a rabbit with phases to chart,
Resolve and Poll now play their part.
Dummy hops through the queue,
Swimlanes show what schedulers do,
And tests keep every bar smart.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 22.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 19 files. (4 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The changes add HBG Resolve, AsyncPoll, and Dummy phase records, use existing swimlane support, exclude Release, and add focused coverage for issue #1803. However, the summaries describe standalone re…	Confirm that Resolve measures the required HBG consumer/fanout work at the specified completion path and that the emitted phase semantics match issue #1803. Provide code-level evidence or adjust the instrumentation if the bars measure a dif…

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding HBG resolution-thread scheduler phases to the chip swimlane.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly covers the scheduler-phase instrumentation, analysis updates, mirrored tests, workflow smokes, and validation results.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The workflow, documentation, profiling, helper, implementation, and test changes all support HBG scheduler-phase visibility and its validation. No unrelated code changes or Release instrumentation wer…

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Explanation

The changes add HBG Resolve, AsyncPoll, and Dummy phase records, use existing swimlane support, exclude Release, and add focused coverage for issue #1803. However, the summaries describe standalone resolution-thread bars, while the issue specifies Resolve instrumentation as an inner portion of Complete around the existing consumer/fanout walk. The exact required placement is therefore not fully demonstrated.

Resolution

Confirm that Resolve measures the required HBG consumer/fanout work at the specified completion path and that the emitted phase semantics match issue #1803. Provide code-level evidence or adjust the instrumentation if the bars measure a different resolution-thread loop instead.

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The workflow, documentation, profiling, helper, implementation, and test changes all support HBG scheduler-phase visibility and its validation. No unrelated code changes or Release instrumentation were identified.

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Docstring coverage is 22.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 19 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

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• .github/workflows/_st-sim-a2a3.yml
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• docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md
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• simpler_setup/tools/sched_overhead_analysis.py
• simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py
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• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_dispatch.cpp
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• tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/kernels/aiv/kernel_signal_counter.cpp
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• tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp
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Should fix (non-blocking): simpler_setup/tools/sched_overhead_analysis.py now reports a separate Resolve (HBG P-thread completion resolution) row, but the shared Complete label still says Complete (poll handshake, resolve deps).

In HBG's 3S+1P path, Complete detects FIN and hands the slot to P; dependency resolution is accounted by the standalone Resolve phase. The current labels therefore make an HBG report imply that dependency resolution belongs to both rows.

Please make the Complete label runtime-neutral, for example Complete (poll handshake, completion handling), or select a runtime-specific label. The runtime phase-emission logic itself does not need to change.

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Review: PR #2031 — Add HBG resolution-thread scheduler phases to chip swimlane

Branch codex/issue-1803-a3 → main · 1 commit · merge-base 9bfa0ab0

Stated Goal

Sources, in priority order (no user-supplied goal in the invocation):

Linked issue #1803 (authoritative — PR body says Closes #1803): HBG emits only a subset of the SchedPhaseKind bars TMR emits. Add Resolve / AsyncPoll / Dummy device-side emission at the sites where the work already happens, reflecting HBG's own structure. Issue explicitly scopes: "no post-process changes are expected — this is device-side emission only", and "Release is intentionally out of scope."

PR body: emit Resolve and Dummy from the dedicated HBG resolution thread on A3/A5; preserve empty AsyncPoll CPU cost with bounded aggregation; teach sched_overhead_analysis to count standalone HBG phases; add mirrored A3/A5 scene coverage + sim workflow smokes.

No goal downgrade. The PR body is a superset of the issue — it adds post-process work the issue said wouldn't be needed. That widening is justified (see Traceability), but it is where every finding below lives.

One stale detail in the issue, not the PR's fault: #1803 cites pto_scheduler.h:1153 / :467,488 and scheduler_dispatch.cpp:903-964. Those line numbers predate the 3S+1P split; pto_scheduler.h is now scheduler.h. The PR correctly targets the current sites.

Real Goal (as read from the code)

Matches. All three mechanisms are instrumented, and I verified the instrumentation is complete — in the HBG tree there is exactly one poll_and_complete call site (scheduler_dispatch.cpp:1020) and exactly one dummy_ready_queue.pop_batch drain (:1058), both now covered, plus the SPSC resolve drain (:969). ChipSwimlaneSchedPhaseKind::Resolve has exactly one HBG emitter. No uninstrumented sibling paths.

Change Breakdown

  Core            7 files  +  272  -   21  =293
  Build           0 files  +    0  -    0  =0
  Test/Ex        12 files  +  585  -    0  =585
  Docs            2 files  +   37  -   12  =49
  Uncategorized   2 files  +   16  -    0  =16
  TOTAL          23 files  +  910  -   33  =943

No oversized-PR warning (total 943, core 293). Uncategorized is the two _st-sim-*.yml workflow files — legitimately in scope, adding one gated chip_swimlane smoke step per sim lane, matching the sibling PMU/dep-gen steps.

The a2a3 and a5 halves are byte-identical except platform names in CASES — I diffed all five mirrored test files and both scheduler_dispatch.cpp hunks. Good sibling-parity discipline (codestyle §10).

Mechanism Brief

Problem. HBG's 3S+1P scheduler moved every completion→ready transition onto a dedicated core-less resolution thread P (run_resolution_thread). P emitted no sched-phase records at all, so at swimlane level 3 the P lane was blank and all of HBG's dependency-resolution, async-completion, and dummy-retirement cost was invisible. S threads still emit Complete (FIN observation only), so the swimlane implied resolution was free.

Central abstraction. Three outer bars on the P lane, all under #if SIMPLER_DFX and gated on chip_swimlane_level_ >= SCHED_PHASES:

• Resolve — lazily anchored at the first sp_queues_[s].pop() that returns a slot; tasks_processed = slots completed. Emitted once per loop iteration that did any resolution.
• Dummy — same lazy-anchor shape around the dummy_ready_queue batch drain.
• AsyncPoll — the interesting one. P polls async_wait_list every iteration it has pending work, and the overwhelming majority of those polls resolve nothing. One record per poll would blow the 16 384-record/thread buffer in milliseconds. Instead the code accumulates async_poll_cycles += t1 - t0 across consecutive non-resolving polls and emits a single compacted bar at flush time, anchored as [flush_point - Σcycles, flush_point].

Flush points are: the start of a Resolve bar, the start of a Dummy bar, any poll that resolved work or errored, and P's loop exit.

Non-overlap invariant. I traced this because the compacted bar's start is synthesized, which is exactly the shape that produces overlapping bars. It holds: every flush point is the start of the next emitted bar, so the accumulation window always begins strictly after the previously emitted bar's end, and Σcycles ≤ window length. Within an iteration the order is resolve → poll → dummy, and resolve/dummy each flush before anchoring. I could not construct an interleaving that overlaps, and the ST test asserts the property directly (left.end_time_us <= right.start_time_us over the sorted P-lane records) — a well-chosen regression barrier.

Cost when off. Everything is inside #if SIMPLER_DFX; within a DFX build with swimlane disabled the added cost is one sched_loop_count++ per iteration and one predictable branch per popped slot. That matches the existing S-thread instrumentation style. No logging added on the hot path (codestyle §7 ✅).

Post-process. sched_overhead_analysis.py previously counted only complete/async_poll/dispatch as work and reconstructed idle from gaps. It now counts eight outer phases plus standalone resolve, classifying each resolve record by time-containment: contained by a complete/dummy parent ⇒ TMR nested ⇒ dropped; otherwise ⇒ HBG P-thread standalone ⇒ counted.

Goal-Method Traceability

Stated goal	Design choice	Code location	Assessment
Emit Resolve from HBG scheduler	Lazy-anchored outer bar around P's SPSC drain	scheduler_dispatch.cpp:962-1000 (both arches)	✅ Solid
Emit AsyncPoll	Bounded aggregation of empty polls into one compact bar	scheduler_dispatch.cpp:922-940, 1008-1033	✅ Solid — invariant verified, ST-asserted
Emit Dummy	Lazy-anchored outer bar around dummy_ready_queue drain	scheduler_dispatch.cpp:1053-1091	✅ Solid
Bars reflect HBG's model, not TMR's verbatim	Standalone P-thread outer, not inner-nested	chip_swimlane_profiling.h:488-505 doc block	✅ Solid
Mirror A3/A5	Byte-identical hunks + mirrored scene tests	src/a5/..., tests/st/a5/...	✅ Solid
No Release for HBG	Not emitted	—	✅ Solid
(issue: "no post-process changes expected")	Analyzer taught to classify resolve; converter comments only	sched_overhead_analysis.py:220-250	⚠️ Weak — necessary, but three side effects unstated (Must-fix #1, Should-fix #2/#5)
➕ (not in any stated goal)	Analyzer now also counts release/early_dispatch/drain/graph_prepare as work for TMR captures	sched_overhead_analysis.py:38-46	➕ Implicit — silently changes every existing TMR report's totals and percentages. Defensible improvement, but it is a behavior change to a shared tool that the PR body does not mention.

Type-Specific Analysis (Feature)

Needed / fits design — yes; extends the existing record_sched_phase extension point, no new enumerator, no wire-format change, so no version story is required. static_assert-guarded record layout untouched.

Blast radius — a2a3 + a5 HBG device code (DFX-only), plus two shared host tools (sched_overhead_analysis.py, swimlane_converter.py) that also serve TMR captures. The shared-tool half is where the risk is.

Completeness — no TODOs or stubs. Both arches covered. Sim smokes wired into CI behind the existing include_dfx_smokes gate.

Concurrency — capture_shared_depth calls ready_queues[s].size() from P, which is the queues' sole producer while S threads consume. This matches the existing S-thread get_or_sample_shared() pattern at :1242, and the value is a diagnostic snapshot with an explicit int16_t clamp. No new invariant introduced.

Alternatives considered — the PR body doesn't say why aggregation-with-synthesized-start was chosen over, say, a per-iteration bar with a real wall-clock envelope (which would over-report) or a counter track. The code comment covers the what correctly; the trade-off belongs in the PR description.

pto-isa Pin Check — recommendation

⚠️ pto-isa pin check: this PR changes how it references pto-isa while pto_isa.pin is pinned to be5ccb765a4ce5d14ca5da8b0e2f182d7f003369. Verify the pinned commit still provides every pto-isa header the PR references. If the pin is bumped, rebuild onboard a2a3 host_runtime.so against the new commit (--config-settings=cmake.define.SIMPLER_PTO_ISA_BUILD_COMMIT=<sha>).

Triggering signal (weak): ADDED pto/pto-inst.hpp — new test kernels. No changed include paths (the strong signal). pto_isa.pin itself untouched. In practice pto-inst.hpp is the universal kernel header and pto::comm::NotifyOp / send_notification are already used by tests/st/worker/comm_domain/** against this same pin, so I expect no bump is needed — but the check is on the record.

Issues Found

Must fix

1. Part 5's headline "Avg scheduler loop iteration" silently changes meaning. — simpler_setup/tools/sched_overhead_analysis.py

Before this PR, P emitted no sched-phase records, so parse_scheduler_from_json_phases skipped it entirely (if not records: continue). Now P is a full participant: it contributes both total_us and loops = max_loop_iter, the latter driven by the new unconditional chip_swimlane.sched_loop_count++ at scheduler_dispatch.cpp:954.

P is a tight spin loop with no dispatch work, so its iteration count is far higher than an S thread's. avg_loop_us = total_us / total_loops therefore drops sharply, and the two derived lines print correspondingly wrong conclusions:

Avg scheduler loop iteration: {avg_loop_ns} ns
Avg Tail OH = {x} us ~= {loop_ratio} x avg loop iteration
-> On average, a completed task waits ~{loop_ratio} loop iterations before being detected

loop_ratio inflates by whatever ratio P's spin rate bears to the S threads'. On HBG captures this is now a blended S+P number presented as a single scheduler-loop figure. Either exclude P from the loop-rate aggregate, or report it separately and say so in docs/dfx/sched-overhead-model.md. No test covers this — the two new UTs only check per-thread phase sums.

Should fix

2. is_nested_resolve is O(n²); measured ~10 s per thread on a realistic capture. — sched_overhead_analysis.py:229-238

For every resolve record it re-filters and scans all of outer_recs. I benchmarked the PR's own function against a synthetic TMR-shaped capture (8 000 complete + 8 000 nested resolve + 8 000 dispatch on one thread — well within the 16 384-record/thread buffer, PLATFORM_PHASE_RECORDS_PER_THREAD):

scale 16000 outer / 8000 resolve: 9.8s   resolve_us=0.0

Correct result, ~10 s for one thread; a 4-thread capture is ~40 s, and it grows quadratically past the single-buffer case. Previously this was a set-membership test and effectively free. Outer bars are mutually non-overlapping and already sorted-able, so at most one parent can contain a given resolve — bisect over parent start times makes it O(n log n):

parents = sorted(((r["start_time_us"], r["end_time_us"]) for r in outer_recs
                  if r.get("phase") in ("complete", "dummy")))
starts = [p[0] for p in parents]
def is_nested_resolve(rec):
    i = bisect.bisect_right(starts, rec.get("start_time_us", 0)) - 1
    return i >= 0 and rec.get("end_time_us", 0) <= parents[i][1]

3. The three monkeypatch.setenv calls in the new scene test are dead. — tests/st/{a2a3,a5}/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/test_scheduler_phases.py:87-89

These are copied verbatim from tests/st/aicore_op_timeout/test_aicore_op_timeout.py:61-63, but that test sets them before constructing its own Worker. Here they run inside test_run, after the session-scoped st_worker fixture has already created and loaded the runtime (conftest.py:1574 — "L2: session-scoped, reused across classes"), possibly during an entirely earlier test class.

On the sim path — the only platform CI runs for these cases — SIMPLER_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS is explicitly latched once at .so load (src/a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp:150-160, a2a3 :165): "honor SIMPLER_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS once at SO load, not per run", and the same comment notes sim skips the op/stream timeout path entirely. So all three are no-ops.

Either they aren't needed (delete them — .claude/rules/env-macro-gating.md §2 makes every env touch a chance to remove one), or they are, in which case the test currently relies on defaults and will flake when the 100 000-iteration kernel_signal_counter spin runs slowly on sim.

4. The header's OUTER list is now load-bearing and still incomplete. — src/common/platform/include/common/chip_swimlane_profiling.h:490-492

The PR edits this exact block to add AsyncPoll:

 *   OUTER (mutually time-exclusive within an iter; emit advances _t0_phase):
 *     Complete, Dispatch, Release, Dummy, EarlyDispatch, AsyncPoll.

But Drain and GraphPrepare are both outer — their own enumerator comments say "Outer (sched lane)", and GraphPrepare advances _t0_phase at scheduler_dispatch.cpp:1459. The omission was pre-existing and harmless while nothing consumed the list; this PR makes it authoritative by deriving _SCHED_OUTER_PHASES (which does include both) from that concept. Same gap in the prose: docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md:48-49 lists seven outer phases and omits graph_prepare. Fix both in this commit (doc-consistency §1, §4).

5. The converter still routes HBG's P-thread resolve to a sibling sub-lane. — swimlane_converter.py:1802, 1952

event_tid = resolve_tid if phase == "resolve" else tid is unconditional. The PR's own new doc paragraph promises HBG's Resolve/AsyncPoll/Dummy are "standalone, mutually exclusive P-thread bars" — but splitting Resolve onto a separate Perfetto row is precisely what makes mutual exclusivity invisible; the P lane renders as two rows full of complementary gaps. The docs describe the current behavior accurately, so this is a design choice rather than a doc bug, but it works against the stated purpose. Relatedly, the comment at :1971-1973 — "release/resolve/early_dispatch zero-fill them, so skip their counter samples" — is now false for HBG: record_p_phase captures real shared_at_start/shared_at_end for every P bar, so genuine queue-depth data from the thread that owns the ready queues is being discarded.

Consider

6. async_poll_shared_at_start doesn't correspond to the bar it labels. It's captured at the first poll of the aggregation window, while the emitted bar's start is synthesized as flush_point - Σcycles — potentially many iterations later. Same for loop_iter, which records the flush iteration, not the polling one. Both are defensible for a compacted bar, but neither is mentioned in the doc paragraph that otherwise carefully explains the compaction.

7. The phase table now prints permanently-zero rows. phases is iterated unconditionally, so TMR reports gain zero rows for graph_prepare and resolve, and HBG reports gain one for release. The label "Resolve (HBG P-thread completion resolution)" on a TMR report is actively misleading. The fanout/fanin block immediately below already demonstrates the suppress-when-absent pattern.

8. async_poll_tasks_processed() earns little. AsyncPollResult::resolved is int32_t and never negative; the helper is result.resolved > 0 ? cast : 0. It costs a public header change in four files (two arches × the a5 mirror) plus a UT assertion to test a clamp that cannot fire. static_cast<uint32_t>(std::max(0, poll_result.resolved)) at the single call site would do.

9. _build_config override is a fragile way to read a CLI flag. test_scheduler_phases.py:76-79 overrides a private base-class method purely to capture enable_chip_swimlane, with an args[0] if args else 0 positional fallback that is dead (both call sites at scene_test.py:1718, 1806 pass keywords). request.config.getoption("--enable-chip-swimlane", default=0) in test_run reads the same value directly — and scene_test.py:1864 already does exactly that. Note the current form does fail safe: with --rounds > 1 the flag is zeroed upstream and the assertions self-skip.

10. phase_threads[-1] assumes P is the last entry. True today (p_thread_idx_ = aicpu_thread_num_ - 1) and a wrong pick fails loudly on the next assertion, so it's low-risk — but p_thread_idx isn't otherwise exposed to the test, so a comment naming the assumption would help.

Verdict

Request changes — narrowly, on findings 1 and 2.

The device-side half is the strong part of this PR and I'd take it as-is: the instrumentation is complete for HBG, the aggregation invariant holds under adversarial reading, both arches are mirrored exactly, everything is DFX-gated, and the ST test asserts the one property that could plausibly break (end <= next.start) rather than just asserting the bars exist.

The host-side half widened past the issue's scope into a tool shared with TMR, and two consequences went unstated: Part 5's headline loop metric now blends P's spin loop into the S threads' average, and the resolve classifier is quadratic at ~10 s/thread on a realistic capture. Both are contained fixes in one file. Findings 3–5 (dead env setup, stale OUTER list the PR made authoritative, converter lane/comment drift) should land in the same commit per doc-consistency §4; 6–10 are optional.