Feature: add A5 HBG Ready routing

[zhusy54]

Why

This is the second increment in the six-PR A5 host_build_graph resident-scheduler stack. It builds on the scheduler contracts merged in #2056 and the Host/AICore boundary fix in #2062.

The contracts define the shared GM layout and graph access model; this PR adds the dependency-to-Ready layer that future single-lane dispatch and production cutover use. It does not switch the production execution path: the existing AICPU scheduler remains active until the later cutover increment.

What changed

Bootstrap and wake resolution

• Classify bootstrap tasks as immediately Ready, already completed, or waiting on the first executable producer.
• Register consumers on producer wake lists and reclassify/migrate them as producers complete.
• Close and drain wake lists without losing a waiter when completion races with registration.
• Validate task IDs, fanin ordering, task shape, predicates, and payload materialization before publication.

Ready ownership and routing

• Add resolver-owned, per-core-type AIC/AIV FIFO Ready inboxes.
• Keep published work and owner-only pending work in separate banks; only the owner can promote the pending bank after the public bank drains.
• Publish sharded Ready-directory hints and use local-first, shard-constrained peer stealing.
• Make the successful CAS on the public inbox head the only task-ownership linearization point. Directory bits are hints and may be stale-positive; they never grant ownership.
• Preserve FIFO order within one Resolver and one core type. No global FIFO ordering across Resolvers is introduced.

Dispatch and completion integration

• Add Ready claim and generation-tagged dispatch-slot fill helpers for the later single-lane scheduler loop.
• Resolve a completed producer by closing its wake list, rerouting its waiters, and publishing newly Ready AIC/AIV batches to the completing Resolver's inbox.
• Count each successful scheduler_resolve_completion exactly once in resolve_count; Ready-to-kernel latency remains owned by executor start because it measures a later lifecycle stage.

Correctness and scope

• Concurrent consumers can claim each task at most once, including during stealing.
• A thief cannot observe or promote an owner's pending bank, and older pending work stays ahead of newly arriving work.
• Shared scheduler helpers follow Fix: align A5 HBG scheduler helpers with TMR #2062's __aicore__-only annotation contract; no CUDA-style __host__ compatibility layer is reintroduced.
• Unit-test graph descriptors, payloads, and fanins share one aligned contiguous image so SelfRelativePtr fanin references remain valid on all hosts.
• Product code remains under src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/; this PR does not change A2/A3, common HBG runtime layout, public APIs, wire contracts, environment variables, or feature gates.

Reviewer guide

• Verify wake registration versus producer completion cannot lose or duplicate a consumer.
• Treat the public-head CAS, not the Ready directory, as the ownership point.
• Check owner-only pending-bank promotion and per-owner/per-type FIFO preservation.
• Confirm error paths do not publish partial Ready or dispatch state, and that this increment does not alter the production scheduler entry point.

Testing

• Targeted Ready unit tests: 16/16 passed.
• ASan/UBSan Ready unit tests: 16/16 passed.
• Full no-hardware C++ unit-test suite: 124/124 passed.
• Pre-commit on changed files: all hooks passed.
• GitHub CI: all applicable Ubuntu/macOS packaging, unit, simulation, onboard, profiling-smoke, and pre-commit checks passed.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds the A5 scheduler ready-queue runtime. It implements task routing, ready-batch publication, owner queues, directory-based stealing, dispatch-slot filling, completion resolution, and comprehensive host-build-graph tests.

Changes

Scheduler ready-queue execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Task routing and bootstrap publication src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Adds scheduler-ready contracts, task and predicate validation, wake-list routing, bootstrap registration, ready-batch publication, and directory aggregation.
Ready inboxes and owner queues src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Adds FIFO inbox operations, owner pending-bank maintenance, packed endpoints, directory advertisement updates, bounded popping, and concurrency tests.
Directory-based claiming and stealing src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Adds local claiming and shard-limited stealing. Tests cover victim marking, shard masks, cursor wrapping, and duplicate-free concurrent consumption.
Dispatch filling and completion resolution src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/CMakeLists.txt, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Adds dispatch-slot publication, payload materialization, completion wake-list closure, waiter rerouting, ready-task publication, and test registration. Wake-resolution tests verify resolver-local FIFO behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86050

This change adds shared ready-queue routing, stealing, and dispatch transitions. An interruption during pending-work promotion could replay tasks, while dispatch construction failure could strand tasks that remain marked ready; completion metrics also remain zero. These bounded reliability and observability risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Producer
  participant scheduler_resolve_completion
  participant WakeLists
  participant scheduler_ready_batch_push
  participant Worker
  Producer->>scheduler_resolve_completion: publish DONE state
  scheduler_resolve_completion->>WakeLists: close list and migrate waiters
  scheduler_resolve_completion->>scheduler_ready_batch_push: publish newly ready tasks
  Worker->>scheduler_claim_ready_for_slot: claim ready task
  scheduler_claim_ready_for_slot->>scheduler_fill_dispatch_slot: fill dispatch slot

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A rabbit hops through queues of light
Ready tasks line up just right
Wake lists open, waiters run
Slots are filled beneath the sun
Steals stay safe, and none duplicate

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src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h (1)

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completion_stats is accepted but never updated.

The body of scheduler_resolve_completion does not touch completion_stats. resolve_count, ready_to_kernel_cycles, and ready_to_kernel_max_cycles therefore stay at zero for every resolution, so completion throughput is not observable. Increment resolve_count on the success path, or drop the parameter until it is used.

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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h` around
lines 1016 - 1022, The scheduler_resolve_completion function accepts
completion_stats but never updates it, leaving resolution metrics at zero. On
the successful completion-resolution path, update
completion_stats->resolve_count and the associated ready_to_kernel_cycles and
ready_to_kernel_max_cycles metrics using the existing timing data; otherwise
remove the unused completion_stats parameter.

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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h`:
- Around line 1016-1022: The scheduler_resolve_completion function accepts
completion_stats but never updates it, leaving resolution metrics at zero. On
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ready_to_kernel_max_cycles metrics using the existing timing data; otherwise
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@coderabbitai Addressed the review finding in 230aadc: every successful scheduler_resolve_completion now increments completion_stats->resolve_count exactly once, with focused unit-test assertions. ready_to_kernel_cycles and ready_to_kernel_max_cycles intentionally remain owned by executor start because they measure a later lifecycle stage. The same update also preserves the #2062 aicore annotation contract and fixes the macOS UT by keeping self-relative graph data in one contiguous image.

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@zhusy54 Verified in 230aadcc.

scheduler_resolve_completion increments completion_stats->resolve_count exactly once on its successful path. Error paths return before the increment. The focused tests assert the count for both local wake publication and owner-pending-bank routing.

The __aicore__ annotations remain on the scheduler helpers. GraphBuffer now uses one contiguous GraphImage for descriptors, payloads, and fanins. This preserves self-relative fanin pointers on macOS.

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Learning: In the A5 host-build-graph scheduler, `SchedulerCompletionStats::ready_to_kernel_cycles` and `SchedulerCompletionStats::ready_to_kernel_max_cycles` are owned by executor start because they measure a later lifecycle stage than `scheduler_resolve_completion`.

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[ChaoZheng109]

Reviewed the Ready-routing increment. The algorithm itself holds up — I traced the four invariants the PR body claims (single claim under stealing, thief cannot see the owner's pending bank, older pending work stays ahead, per-owner/per-type FIFO) and they are all sound. The exchange -> CLOSED wake-list close paired with the "CAS failed, observed CLOSED, advance the fanin cursor" branch is a neat way to make registration and completion race-free without a lock, and reading next before calling scheduler_route_task on a waiter is exactly the ordering that makes migration safe.

Four things I would like addressed before this lands. One is a concrete out-of-bounds read; the rest are about this increment being the definition site for contracts that the next PR in the stack will consume.

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Addressed all current review feedback in 92718cd: bounded callable lookup, tri-state predicate validation with Host-side prevalidation, named first-error sites, and focused Ready contention coverage. Local validation passed: a2a3sim/a5sim package build, all 128 no-hardware C++ UTs, four contention tests repeated 100 times, relevant A5sim cases (3 passed, 2 platform-deselected), and pre-commit including clang-tidy 18. I have not waited for the newly triggered remote CI.