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[None][perf] GVR K=2048 reg_clus with block64 sampling and parallel rescue - #20998
Extend GVR V2's clustered-register (reg_clus) path to K=2048, and address the long-latency tail caused by poor prefix sampling at K=512/1024/2048. The hint-free reg_clus implementation uses uniform block64 sampling + exact parallel rescue. The final revision derives hint-slot unrolling from static K, without adding a runtime operator argument or environment variable. On a captured GLM-5.3-Flash row, cold-L2 selection latency falls from 107.4–107.6 µs to 9.4–9.7 µs.
Provenance and motivation: TensorRT-LLM → FlashInfer → vLLM
GVR V2's upstream implementation is TensorRT-LLM #17821.FlashInfer #4811 ports that implementation from commit ed94d4cfbf as the gvr_2 backend, with FlashInfer-specific API, caching and platform adaptations. vLLM #57109 proposes integrating this downstream port into the DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5.3-Flash sparse indexers.
That downstream feedback motivated this PR's improvements to sampling and recovery in the upstream TensorRT-LLM GVR V2 implementation. FlashInfer/vLLM would need to synchronize and validate the changes separately. Our B200 captures are independent: the local ~107 µs row below confirms prefix underestimation and candidate overflow, but does not establish the tensor identity, layer/step or internal recovery branch of the reviewer's ~461 µs case.
Integrates the FlashInfer port into sparse indexers and reports workload-level evaluation and regression feedback.
FlashInfer's device source provenance and host source provenance, pinned to the port's merge commit, both state: “Provenance: ported near-verbatim from TensorRT-LLM” and cite #17821 / ed94d4cfbf. The device header also identifies subsequent fixes ported from TensorRT-LLM #18501 and #18625.
Reviewer case, B300, BS=1, K=512. The slow and control rows come from neighboring decode positions of the same MRCR prompt and layer. The review table reports:
Input
Cooperative µs
Persistent µs
gvr_2 µs
Neighboring control row
14.0
24.5
7.7
Slow real GLM row
14.0
24.5
461.3
The slow row is approximately 33× slower than cooperative on the same input and 60× slower than gvr_2 on the control row. Both comparisons are kernel latency, with correct top-K output. Original reviewer measurements.
Author follow-up, GB300, 462 real GLM decode rows, K=512. The PR reports warm-L2 CUDA Graph replay on MRCR inputs with 134K–448K context:
BS=1 statistic
Cooperative µs
gvr_2 µs
p50
12.4
10.3
p99
12.6
23.3
Maximum
13.3
32.9
The author associates the slower rows with strong score/position skew and reports ~140 µs on synthetic tie-heavy rows versus ~12 µs for cooperative. These results led to explicit opt-in selection rather than changing auto. Author's response, full benchmark setup and tables.
The October 26 follow-up review also raises a prefill-only rollout as an option until decode handles these distributions better. This motivates checking both ordinary inputs and adversarial decode distributions here.
Comparison scope: these external measurements use different hardware, inputs and baselines. The performance tables in this TensorRT-LLM PR compare the same locally captured inputs against the prefix-GVR baseline. They do not claim a measured 461 µs → 9 µs improvement on the vLLM reviewer's row, or a fix to vLLM's integration/warmup code.
Why the GLM row overflows
Before this change, the hint-free reg_clus path estimated a value-histogram bracket from the first K scores: GMIN and GMAX are the sample minimum and maximum. Let τ be the true K-th largest score in the full valid row.
The prefix misses the high scores. In the slow GLM row, GMAX = 91.25 < τ = 170.89. The sampled bracket is finite and non-collapsed, so the invalid-bracket guard does not catch this underestimate.
The top histogram bin becomes too large. Scores above GMAX saturate into the highest bin. This bin contains all top-K winners plus many lower-scoring values: 43,797 candidates, exceeding the cluster's 32,768-slot candidate buffer.
Recovery preserves exactness but becomes the bottleneck. The original overflow path refines the whole row using cluster rank 0. Losing the other CTAs' parallelism produces the ~107 µs tail.
Uniform block64 sampling raises the sampled GMAX to 219.85 on this row. The crossing bin then contains just 10 candidates, with 506 winners already above it, so only six more indices need refinement. The normal fast path completes without rescue.
GLM failure anatomy — exact row, bracket and branch diagnostics
Locally captured GLM-5.3-Flash indexer scores: BS=1, K=512, layer 3, decode step 18 (both zero-based), MRCR prompt length 459,833. The valid compressed row has N=114,963 FP32 scores, compression ratio 4, and physical stride 131,072. The selected cluster has eight CTAs and 4,096 candidate slots per CTA.
Across all 1,408 GLM rows, GMAX < τ decreases from 125 rows to 0, and rescue triggers decrease from 5 rows to 0. An underestimated GMAX does not always exceed buffer capacity; the candidate count determines whether overflow recovery is needed.
The measured GLM improvement therefore comes from better sampling. The parallel rescue is validated separately on adversarial distributions that still defeat sampling. The captured row's scores are finite; the overflow described here is exceeding candidate-buffer capacity.
What changes
Change
Resulting behavior
K=2048 reg_clus support
Admit eligible small-batch rows in the ~16K–128K range, including scalar-tail edges; use two hint/sample slots per thread, derived as HINT_SLOTS = ceil(K / BLK) with BLK=1024. Retain the faster one-wave register choices where applicable, including deterministic routing.
Uniform block64 sampling
In hint-free reg_clus, sample exactly K distinct scores in 64-score blocks spread over the row's actual valid length, including both endpoints: 8 / 16 / 32 blocks for K=512 / 1024 / 2048. Short rows retain the identity path.
Exact parallel rescue
In hint-free reg_clus, an invalid bracket or crossing-bin count m > min(CS × 4096, 32 × K, 16384) triggers up to four exact key-space radix passes using all cluster CTAs' resident register fragments. CS is the number of CTAs in the cluster.
Static K for hint-slot unrolling
The internal compile tuple is (BLK, VPT, CS, K). Compile-time K controls only hint-slot loop unrolling; tensor shapes and selection arithmetic remain dynamic. There is no separate kh parameter.
The hint-free 16K cap moves expensive refinement to the parallel path before a large, still-in-capacity bucket becomes a latency problem. The supplied-index path continues to gather its supplied hints and retains its existing recovery policy. Sampling can still miss adversarial peaks; the exact rescue handles those cases within the same selection kernel, without an extra launch or host synchronization. Exact membership, smallest-index deterministic ties, optional output sorting, short-row identity and MTP/compression semantics are preserved.
Calling contract. Public host entry points, including run_varlen, and device launch arguments are unchanged. The host obtains K from existing tensor metadata (indices.shape[1] for run_varlen) and carries it in the compile tuple/cache key; callers do not supply a new scalar, configuration field or environment variable. Direct users of the internal GvrRegClusKernel constructor or get_compiled__regclus tuple must use (BLK, VPT, CS, K).
Performance: tail improvement and common-case cost
The comparisons below isolate sampling/rescue against 449894d, the initial PR revision that already includes K=2048 routing. They do not measure the total PR speedup against main. Broad measurements use fa9763cf. The scalar-tail correctness fix a56566e4bb and the final static-K refactor 510238a each have separate focused validation described under Test Coverage. The broad tables retain their original measurements and revision scope; they were not rerun for the static-K refactor.
Workload / metric
Prefix baseline
Block64 + parallel rescue
GLM, BS=1, K=512 — p99 across 1,408 real rows, warm L2
34.93–35.15 µs
7.42–7.45 µs
GLM slow row, BS=1, K=512 — cold-L2 latency
107.4–107.6 µs
9.4–9.7 µs
Controlled stress, K=512/1024/2048 — largest latency across 144 cases
~160 µs
~27 µs
Tradeoff: common-case overhead remains. Warm-L2 paired median latency increases by 0.9–7.3% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 5.4–8.8% for DeepSeek V3.2. Selected cold-L2 single-row DeepSeek inputs regress by 12.6–16.4%. A selected normal GLM row also regresses from 7.6–7.8 µs to 8.5–8.6 µs. These results support improved tail robustness, with a cost on ordinary inputs; they are kernel replays, not end-to-end throughput measurements or a formal latency bound.
Full real-score tables and measurement method
Setup. B200 (148 SMs), unlocked clocks, serial GPU jobs, FP32 saved indexer scores. Forward/reverse are independent processes with opposite variant load orders. Ranges in the overview span these two runs; they are not confidence intervals. Every replay checks index range, unique indices and the exact selected value multiset.
Inputs. GLM: two MRCR prompts × 11 layers × 64 decode steps = 1,408 rows, native K=512. DeepSeek V4 Pro and V3.2: real model outputs on random-token prompts, retaining native K=1024 / 2048 and compression ratios 4 / 1. Of 697 DeepSeek rows, 90 Pro and 183 V3.2 rows dispatch to reg_clus and are timed below; the other 424 rows are checked separately on their existing routes.
Warm-L2 CUDA Graph, BS=1. Each cell shows prefix → combined latency in µs. p50/p99/max are calculated across per-input median latencies. Paired Δ is median(combined / prefix - 1) over matched inputs; positive means slower.
Model
K
Load order
Rows
p50 µs
p99 µs
Max µs
Paired Δ
GLM-5.3-Flash
512
forward
1,408
7.145 → 6.984
35.153 → 7.446
107.663 → 7.642
-3.2%
GLM-5.3-Flash
512
reverse
1,408
7.247 → 6.862
34.934 → 7.421
107.556 → 8.317
-4.8%
DeepSeek V4 Pro
1024
forward
90
6.123 → 6.312
7.699 → 7.734
7.767 → 7.878
+0.9%
DeepSeek V4 Pro
1024
reverse
90
5.859 → 6.512
7.662 → 7.807
7.685 → 7.954
+7.3%
DeepSeek V3.2
2048
forward
183
6.414 → 7.195
8.376 → 8.576
8.566 → 10.416
+8.8%
DeepSeek V3.2
2048
reverse
183
6.569 → 7.083
8.381 → 8.502
8.647 → 10.741
+5.4%
Cold-L2 Nsight Systems check. A 512 MiB eviction precedes each call; 32 repetitions per input/variant, 26 selected single-row or assembled-batch inputs, two process orders. The selection kernel remains one launch per call. BS > 1 combines distinct captured rows and is not a live serving-batch capture.
Selected GLM input, BS=1
Load order
Prefix µs
Combined µs
Slow: layer 3, step 18
forward
107.614
9.408
Slow: layer 3, step 18
reverse
107.439
9.680
Normal: layer 35, step 49
forward
7.648
8.592
Normal: layer 35, step 49
reverse
7.808
8.464
Selected DeepSeek single-row subset
Inputs per order
Cold-L2 paired Δ, forward
Cold-L2 paired Δ, reverse
V4 Pro, K=1024
6
+12.6%
+16.4%
V3.2, K=2048
6
+14.0%
+12.9%
Neither native DeepSeek subset triggers rescue in this replay. Its timing change reflects the common path, which is why these regressions are shown alongside the GLM tail improvement.
Stress tests — why sampling alone is insufficient and why the cap is 16K
The 144 controlled cases cover odd lengths, equal/near-equal scores, outliers, hidden peaks and 8K–30K crossing buckets. Each K has 48 cases. Entries below are the largest measured latency in each K group, in µs; the maximizing input can differ between columns.
K
Cases
Prefix
Block64 only
Block64 + parallel rescue, capacity/K limit
Selected: add 16K cap
512
48
159.82
159.35
26.75
26.74
1024
48
160.71
160.54
40.11
26.89
2048
48
159.85
160.27
36.88
26.98
The intermediate parallel policy triggers at m > min(CS × 4096, 32 × K). At K=1024/2048 it can still leave ~27K–30K candidates for expensive rank-0 refinement. Capping this limit at 16,384 reduces the measured 37–40 µs tail to ~27 µs.
Earlier rescue is not always faster: one 20K tied-bucket case increases from about 22.8 to 26.1 µs. Block32 and block64 were both evaluated; block64 is the selected common policy for all three K values, without claiming it is best on every input.
Test Coverage
Final revision 510238a: 36 targeted local kernel tests passed, and the x86_64/SBSA build and single-GPU test jobs completed successfully in L0 #66631, with PR CI helper #80906 also reporting success. B300 CI includes 59 passing GVR deterministic cases.
Earlier local coverage through scalar-tail revision a56566e4bb comprises 309 kernel-module tests + 59 deterministic-module tests, with zero errors in the targeted memcheck/synccheck runs. Those earlier counts are separate from the final revision's 36 targeted local tests.
Earlier correctness coverage, scalar-tail fix and benchmark revision scope
Validation
Result / coverage
test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py
309 passed; includes 162 added rescue cases, maximum cluster geometry, hidden peaks, candidate-limit boundaries, infinities, dirty padding, short rows, MTP, ties and CUDA Graph replay.
test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_deterministic.py
59 passed; exact tie membership, repeatable order and sorted output.
memcheck / synccheck on the combined candidate
18 configurations / 144 row appearances each; zero errors.
memcheck / synccheck on scalar-tail revision a56566e4bb
6 configurations / 36 row appearances each; zero errors, all three K values and both deterministic modes.
Scalar-tail correction (a56566e4bb). For a row whose length is not divisible by four, the vector-load path does not load the incomplete float4; rank 0 loads its real tail elements separately. Rescue now excludes those unloaded vector slots from all four membership checks, so the tail is counted once. The added -inf-threshold regression test reproduced duplicate indices for all three K values in non-deterministic mode before the fix; all six configurations pass afterward.
Revision scope. The broad native, cold-L2 and stress tables measure fa9763cf against 449894d (521a9ff only adds tests to that baseline). The scalar-tail revision a56566e4bb is checked separately on 26 selected native/assembled inputs + 18 rescued stress cases, in forward/reverse processes. All remain exact. Grouped median latency changes versus fa9763cf are -1.35% to +0.95%; individual changes span -5.97% to +5.45% with unlocked clocks. This focused replay is not a rerun of the full native sweep.
Local pytest uses a standalone wrapper loading the actual worktree device/host modules while bypassing stale installed TensorRT-LLM bindings and repository conftest/plugins. It does not replace integration CI.
Final static-K revision: focused performance, code generation and CI
The static-K refactor (510238a) is compared with the preceding kh-based implementation (a56566e4bb), which already contains block64 sampling, exact parallel rescue and the scalar-tail correction.
Validation
Result / scope
Targeted local kernel tests
36 passed in 55.43 s, using the standalone worktree-module wrapper described above.
Existing performance replay
9 cases: six native-data inputs/batches covering GLM-5.3-Flash K=512, DeepSeek V4 Pro K=1024 and DeepSeek V3.2 K=2048 at BS=1/8, plus one hidden-peak stress case per K. Warm-L2 CUDA Graph replay uses shared input/output buffers and forward/reverse variant orders.
Static K versus kh latency
Maximum absolute difference across the per-case median comparisons in either order is 0.137%. This supports no measurable regression on the tested cases; it is not a full native-data sweep or an end-to-end result.
Generated code
Three representative native-K configurations (hint-free, varlen, non-deterministic) have identical full SASS instruction/control encodings and resource usage: 64 registers and zero local memory.
Integration CI on 510238a
SUCCESS for x86_64/SBSA builds and single-GPU test jobs, L0 #66631 and helper #80906. The B300 attention stage passed all 59 GVR deterministic cases. The 309-case local kernel suite is not claimed as a CI suite execution.
CI's built-in retries resolved two A10 test failures (test_disaggregated_mixed and test_workers_kv_cache_aware_router) without source changes. The rerun-report stage is advisory UNSTABLE; the overall jobs and GitHub CI status are SUCCESS. Archived retry report.
These are existing validation results. The static-K comparison isolates the final refactor and does not replace the earlier prefix-versus-block64/rescue tables or their common-case regression disclosures. JIT compilation time and cache-size effects were not benchmarked.
PR Checklist
Description explains the routing change, overflow mechanism, rescue policy and measured tradeoffs.
Tests cover the new paths; coding guidelines, copyright and DCO followed.
No new public APIs, dependencies, ownership changes or architecture-level changes.
Existing requested kernel reviewers retained.
Please check this after reviewing the above items as appropriate for this PR.
Automated review notes
Dev Engineer Review
GvrRegClusKernel now takes (BLK, VPT, CS, K) and supports K up to 2*BLK. Host routing selects a K=2048 register rung for some eligible SM 100/103 shapes and uses reg_clus for other eligible shapes.
Hint-free K=512, 1024, and 2048 paths use distributed sampling. The kernel skips histogram construction for invalid hint brackets and uses exact parallel rescue for invalid brackets or oversized crossing-bin populations.
The changes affect sampling, rescue, short-row output, deterministic tie handling, and kernel construction. Verify dispatch boundaries and performance on supported hardware. Supplied replay results show gains on selected GLM cases and regressions on some common-case workloads. They are not end-to-end measurements or formal latency bounds.
Review severity counts are unavailable. Reported test and sanitizer results are not independently established here.
QA Engineer Review
The modified unit tests cover K=2048 routing and cache selection, clustered-register exactness, deterministic output, varlen and mixed MTP rows, and rescue boundary cases. The deterministic suite adds a K=2048 shape. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up; test execution and test-list membership are not established by the available results.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling.py — Verify the updated (BLK, VPT, CS, K) constructor, hint-slot iteration, distributed sampling, exact rescue, short-row output, and deterministic tie handling.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py — Verify K=2048 register-rung eligibility and clustered-register fallback across supported SMs and shape boundaries.
tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py — Adds K=2048 routing and cache tests, plus exactness and rescue coverage for tied, degenerate, varlen, and mixed MTP inputs. Membership in test-db/ or qa/ is not established.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_deterministic.py — Adds (4, 32771, 2048) to the deterministic suite’s parameterized shapes. Membership in test-db/ or qa/ is not established.
…r path
K=2048 rows with 16K < N <= 128K and BS <= 64 that do not fit the one-wave
register rung fell through to the streaming main kernel. reg_clus now takes
them: the kernel reads two hint slots per thread (new compile-time KH = 2) so
the GMIN/GMAX bracket still covers the first K row elements, and the short-row
identity emit covers all K slots. The K=2048 one-wave register rung keeps its
rows. K <= 1024 routing is unchanged.
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The clustered register kernel now uses K-dependent hint slots and adds hint-free exact rescue for degenerate cases. Host routing adds eligible K=2048 shapes. Tests cover routing, exactness, deterministic output, and variable-length rows.
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K-dependent hint slots and kernel configuration tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling.py
GvrRegClusKernel accepts (BLK, VPT, CS, K). It samples up to two hint batches, and short-row output covers all K positions. The compile wrapper passes the full tuple.
For invalid hint-free brackets, the kernel skips histogram construction. Degenerate hint-free rows use cluster-wide radix narrowing and emit winners and threshold ties. Deterministic mode orders ties by logical index.
K=2048 routing and output validation tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py, tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py, tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_deterministic.py
route selects the register rung for qualifying wide K=2048 shapes or clustered-register execution for other eligible shapes. Tests cover routing, exact results across input patterns, rescue boundaries, deterministic behavior, mixed-length rows, and the added shape (4, 32771, 2048).
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This is a coverage improvement, not evidence of an existing failing test. For rows with 0 < valid <= k, a permutation passes both current assertions. Compare out[r] directly with ref[r] for short rows. Keep the value-multiset check for long rows, so tied long rows do not require stable indices.
Suggested fix
for r in range(4 * nn):
if (ref[r] >= 0).any():
+ valid = int((ref[r] >= 0).sum())+ if valid <= k:+ assert torch.equal(out[r], ref[r]), f"row {r} short-row identity mismatch"+ continue
row = lg[r]
got = row[out[r].long().clamp_min(0)].sort().values
want = row[ref[r].long().clamp_min(0)].sort().values
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b=1, n=131072, k=2048 reaches reg_clus with n4=32768 and the (vpt=4, cs=8, kh=2) template. The current reg_clus exactness cases stop at n=65551; the separate n=262144 case uses the batch-uniform main path. Add the boundary case:
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(1, 131072) is added to test_selfsampling_varlen_regclus_k2048_exact. It takes reg_clus with n4=32768, CS=8 and KH=2, which the test asserts.
test_selfsampling_varlen_regclus_k2048_short_rows now checks short rows by exact equality against the identity + -1 reference. The split is on valid < k rather than the suggested valid <= k, because ref[r] of a long row also has exactly k non-negative entries, so <= k would send long rows down the exact-index path. Long rows keep the value-multiset check.
_reference_varlen_indices requires identity indices when valid <= top_k. The mixed inputs produce valid counts of 32770, 32771, 1499, 1500, 0, 1, 19999, 20000, so none equals 2048. Change one row to produce valid == 2048 and include that boundary in the identity assertion.
Suggested fix
- kv = torch.tensor([msl, 1500, nn - 1, 20000], dtype=torch.int32, device=_DEV)+ kv = torch.tensor([msl, 1500, nn - 1, 2049], dtype=torch.int32, device=_DEV)
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@longcheng-nv Thanks for the update. The added (1, 131072) case covers the missing CS=8, KH=2 geometry.
Your valid < k correction is right. Long-row references also contain exactly k non-negative entries, so my suggested valid <= k condition was incorrect. Keep exact identity-plus--1 comparison for short rows and the value-multiset check for long rows.
The reported changes address both nitpicks. I have not independently verified commit 521a9ff65d or the reported 147 passing tests.
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The claim about 40 route combinations is incorrect. test_selfsampling_route_k2048_regclus checks four explicit reg_clus cases, two reg exceptions, and one main case.
The two rescue tests validate output only. They do not prove that the reg_clus rescue path ran. Add route assertions with the same inputs used by run_varlen.
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[None][perf] GVR V2 top-K: route K=2048 rows to the clustered register path
[None][perf] GVR K=2048 reg_clus with block64 sampling and parallel rescue
Oct 26, 2026
Remove the kh constructor argument and derive hint-slot unrolling from K in the compile tuple. Keep tensor shapes and selection arithmetic dynamic to preserve the existing generated kernels.
Add cross-K cache coverage for hint-based and hint-free launches. Validation: 36 targeted tests and pre-commit passed; nine paired B200 replay cases stayed within 0.15% of the kh baseline, with identical SASS for three representative native-K configurations.
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Description
Extend GVR V2's clustered-register (
reg_clus) path to K=2048, and address the long-latency tail caused by poor prefix sampling at K=512/1024/2048. The hint-freereg_clusimplementation uses uniform block64 sampling + exact parallel rescue. The final revision derives hint-slot unrolling from static K, without adding a runtime operator argument or environment variable. On a captured GLM-5.3-Flash row, cold-L2 selection latency falls from 107.4–107.6 µs to 9.4–9.7 µs.Provenance and motivation: TensorRT-LLM → FlashInfer → vLLM
GVR V2's upstream implementation is TensorRT-LLM #17821. FlashInfer #4811 ports that implementation from commit
ed94d4cfbfas thegvr_2backend, with FlashInfer-specific API, caching and platform adaptations. vLLM #57109 proposes integrating this downstream port into the DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5.3-Flash sparse indexers.In the vLLM PR, a reviewer reported a real GLM decode row on B300 (BS=1, K=512, ~458K context) taking 461.3 µs with
gvr_2versus 14.0 µs with cooperative, about 33× slower, while preserving correct output. The author subsequently kept the backend opt-in after real-score tests confirmed distribution-dependent decode tails.That downstream feedback motivated this PR's improvements to sampling and recovery in the upstream TensorRT-LLM GVR V2 implementation. FlashInfer/vLLM would need to synchronize and validate the changes separately. Our B200 captures are independent: the local ~107 µs row below confirms prefix underestimation and candidate overflow, but does not establish the tensor identity, layer/step or internal recovery branch of the reviewer's ~461 µs case.
Implementation lineage and vLLM #57109 evidence
longcheng-nved94d4cfbf.dhiraj113gvr_2, with FlashInfer integration and adaptations.JaredforRealFlashInfer's device source provenance and host source provenance, pinned to the port's merge commit, both state: “Provenance: ported near-verbatim from TensorRT-LLM” and cite #17821 /
ed94d4cfbf. The device header also identifies subsequent fixes ported from TensorRT-LLM #18501 and #18625.Reviewer case, B300, BS=1, K=512. The slow and control rows come from neighboring decode positions of the same MRCR prompt and layer. The review table reports:
gvr_2µsThe slow row is approximately 33× slower than cooperative on the same input and 60× slower than
gvr_2on the control row. Both comparisons are kernel latency, with correct top-K output. Original reviewer measurements.Author follow-up, GB300, 462 real GLM decode rows, K=512. The PR reports warm-L2 CUDA Graph replay on MRCR inputs with 134K–448K context:
gvr_2µsThe author associates the slower rows with strong score/position skew and reports ~140 µs on synthetic tie-heavy rows versus ~12 µs for cooperative. These results led to explicit opt-in selection rather than changing
auto. Author's response, full benchmark setup and tables.The October 26 follow-up review also raises a prefill-only rollout as an option until decode handles these distributions better. This motivates checking both ordinary inputs and adversarial decode distributions here.
Comparison scope: these external measurements use different hardware, inputs and baselines. The performance tables in this TensorRT-LLM PR compare the same locally captured inputs against the prefix-GVR baseline. They do not claim a measured 461 µs → 9 µs improvement on the vLLM reviewer's row, or a fix to vLLM's integration/warmup code.
Why the GLM row overflows
Before this change, the hint-free
reg_cluspath estimated a value-histogram bracket from the first K scores:GMINandGMAXare the sample minimum and maximum. Letτbe the true K-th largest score in the full valid row.GMAX = 91.25 < τ = 170.89. The sampled bracket is finite and non-collapsed, so the invalid-bracket guard does not catch this underestimate.GMAXsaturate into the highest bin. This bin contains all top-K winners plus many lower-scoring values: 43,797 candidates, exceeding the cluster's 32,768-slot candidate buffer.Uniform block64 sampling raises the sampled
GMAXto 219.85 on this row. The crossing bin then contains just 10 candidates, with 506 winners already above it, so only six more indices need refinement. The normal fast path completes without rescue.GLM failure anatomy — exact row, bracket and branch diagnostics
Locally captured GLM-5.3-Flash indexer scores: BS=1, K=512, layer 3, decode step 18 (both zero-based), MRCR prompt length 459,833. The valid compressed row has N=114,963 FP32 scores, compression ratio 4, and physical stride 131,072. The selected cluster has eight CTAs and 4,096 candidate slots per CTA.
GMINGMAXτAcross all 1,408 GLM rows,
GMAX < τdecreases from 125 rows to 0, and rescue triggers decrease from 5 rows to 0. An underestimatedGMAXdoes not always exceed buffer capacity; the candidate count determines whether overflow recovery is needed.The measured GLM improvement therefore comes from better sampling. The parallel rescue is validated separately on adversarial distributions that still defeat sampling. The captured row's scores are finite; the overflow described here is exceeding candidate-buffer capacity.
What changes
reg_clussupportHINT_SLOTS = ceil(K / BLK)withBLK=1024. Retain the faster one-wave register choices where applicable, including deterministic routing.reg_clus, sample exactly K distinct scores in 64-score blocks spread over the row's actual valid length, including both endpoints: 8 / 16 / 32 blocks for K=512 / 1024 / 2048. Short rows retain the identity path.reg_clus, an invalid bracket or crossing-bin countm > min(CS × 4096, 32 × K, 16384)triggers up to four exact key-space radix passes using all cluster CTAs' resident register fragments.CSis the number of CTAs in the cluster.(BLK, VPT, CS, K). Compile-time K controls only hint-slot loop unrolling; tensor shapes and selection arithmetic remain dynamic. There is no separatekhparameter.The hint-free 16K cap moves expensive refinement to the parallel path before a large, still-in-capacity bucket becomes a latency problem. The supplied-index path continues to gather its supplied hints and retains its existing recovery policy. Sampling can still miss adversarial peaks; the exact rescue handles those cases within the same selection kernel, without an extra launch or host synchronization. Exact membership, smallest-index deterministic ties, optional output sorting, short-row identity and MTP/compression semantics are preserved.
Calling contract. Public host entry points, including
run_varlen, and device launch arguments are unchanged. The host obtains K from existing tensor metadata (indices.shape[1]forrun_varlen) and carries it in the compile tuple/cache key; callers do not supply a new scalar, configuration field or environment variable. Direct users of the internalGvrRegClusKernelconstructor orget_compiled__regclustuple must use(BLK, VPT, CS, K).Performance: tail improvement and common-case cost
The comparisons below isolate sampling/rescue against
449894d, the initial PR revision that already includes K=2048 routing. They do not measure the total PR speedup againstmain. Broad measurements usefa9763cf. The scalar-tail correctness fixa56566e4bband the final static-K refactor510238aeach have separate focused validation described under Test Coverage. The broad tables retain their original measurements and revision scope; they were not rerun for the static-K refactor.Tradeoff: common-case overhead remains. Warm-L2 paired median latency increases by 0.9–7.3% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 5.4–8.8% for DeepSeek V3.2. Selected cold-L2 single-row DeepSeek inputs regress by 12.6–16.4%. A selected normal GLM row also regresses from 7.6–7.8 µs to 8.5–8.6 µs. These results support improved tail robustness, with a cost on ordinary inputs; they are kernel replays, not end-to-end throughput measurements or a formal latency bound.
Full real-score tables and measurement method
Setup. B200 (148 SMs), unlocked clocks, serial GPU jobs, FP32 saved indexer scores. Forward/reverse are independent processes with opposite variant load orders. Ranges in the overview span these two runs; they are not confidence intervals. Every replay checks index range, unique indices and the exact selected value multiset.
Inputs. GLM: two MRCR prompts × 11 layers × 64 decode steps = 1,408 rows, native K=512. DeepSeek V4 Pro and V3.2: real model outputs on random-token prompts, retaining native K=1024 / 2048 and compression ratios 4 / 1. Of 697 DeepSeek rows, 90 Pro and 183 V3.2 rows dispatch to
reg_clusand are timed below; the other 424 rows are checked separately on their existing routes.Warm-L2 CUDA Graph, BS=1. Each cell shows prefix → combined latency in µs. p50/p99/max are calculated across per-input median latencies. Paired Δ is
median(combined / prefix - 1)over matched inputs; positive means slower.Cold-L2 Nsight Systems check. A 512 MiB eviction precedes each call; 32 repetitions per input/variant, 26 selected single-row or assembled-batch inputs, two process orders. The selection kernel remains one launch per call. BS > 1 combines distinct captured rows and is not a live serving-batch capture.
Neither native DeepSeek subset triggers rescue in this replay. Its timing change reflects the common path, which is why these regressions are shown alongside the GLM tail improvement.
Stress tests — why sampling alone is insufficient and why the cap is 16K
The 144 controlled cases cover odd lengths, equal/near-equal scores, outliers, hidden peaks and 8K–30K crossing buckets. Each K has 48 cases. Entries below are the largest measured latency in each K group, in µs; the maximizing input can differ between columns.
The intermediate parallel policy triggers at
m > min(CS × 4096, 32 × K). At K=1024/2048 it can still leave ~27K–30K candidates for expensive rank-0 refinement. Capping this limit at 16,384 reduces the measured 37–40 µs tail to ~27 µs.Earlier rescue is not always faster: one 20K tied-bucket case increases from about 22.8 to 26.1 µs. Block32 and block64 were both evaluated; block64 is the selected common policy for all three K values, without claiming it is best on every input.
Test Coverage
Final revision
510238a: 36 targeted local kernel tests passed, and the x86_64/SBSA build and single-GPU test jobs completed successfully in L0 #66631, with PR CI helper #80906 also reporting success. B300 CI includes 59 passing GVR deterministic cases.Earlier local coverage through scalar-tail revision
a56566e4bbcomprises 309 kernel-module tests + 59 deterministic-module tests, with zero errors in the targeted memcheck/synccheck runs. Those earlier counts are separate from the final revision's 36 targeted local tests.Earlier correctness coverage, scalar-tail fix and benchmark revision scope
test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.pytest_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_deterministic.pya56566e4bbScalar-tail correction (
a56566e4bb). For a row whose length is not divisible by four, the vector-load path does not load the incomplete float4; rank 0 loads its real tail elements separately. Rescue now excludes those unloaded vector slots from all four membership checks, so the tail is counted once. The added-inf-threshold regression test reproduced duplicate indices for all three K values in non-deterministic mode before the fix; all six configurations pass afterward.Revision scope. The broad native, cold-L2 and stress tables measure
fa9763cfagainst449894d(521a9ffonly adds tests to that baseline). The scalar-tail revisiona56566e4bbis checked separately on 26 selected native/assembled inputs + 18 rescued stress cases, in forward/reverse processes. All remain exact. Grouped median latency changes versusfa9763cfare -1.35% to +0.95%; individual changes span -5.97% to +5.45% with unlocked clocks. This focused replay is not a rerun of the full native sweep.Local pytest uses a standalone wrapper loading the actual worktree device/host modules while bypassing stale installed TensorRT-LLM bindings and repository conftest/plugins. It does not replace integration CI.
Final static-K revision: focused performance, code generation and CI
The static-K refactor (
510238a) is compared with the precedingkh-based implementation (a56566e4bb), which already contains block64 sampling, exact parallel rescue and the scalar-tail correction.khlatency510238aCI's built-in retries resolved two A10 test failures (
test_disaggregated_mixedandtest_workers_kv_cache_aware_router) without source changes. The rerun-report stage is advisoryUNSTABLE; the overall jobs and GitHub CI status areSUCCESS. Archived retry report.These are existing validation results. The static-K comparison isolates the final refactor and does not replace the earlier prefix-versus-block64/rescue tables or their common-case regression disclosures. JIT compilation time and cache-size effects were not benchmarked.
PR Checklist
Automated review notes
Dev Engineer Review
GvrRegClusKernelnow takes(BLK, VPT, CS, K)and supports K up to2*BLK. Host routing selects a K=2048 register rung for some eligible SM 100/103 shapes and usesreg_clusfor other eligible shapes.QA Engineer Review
The modified unit tests cover K=2048 routing and cache selection, clustered-register exactness, deterministic output, varlen and mixed MTP rows, and rescue boundary cases. The deterministic suite adds a K=2048 shape. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up; test execution and test-list membership are not established by the available results.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling.py— Verify the updated(BLK, VPT, CS, K)constructor, hint-slot iteration, distributed sampling, exact rescue, short-row output, and deterministic tie handling.tensorrt_llm/_torch/kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py— Verify K=2048 register-rung eligibility and clustered-register fallback across supported SMs and shape boundaries.tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py— Adds K=2048 routing and cache tests, plus exactness and rescue coverage for tied, degenerate, varlen, and mixed MTP inputs. Membership intest-db/orqa/is not established.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_deterministic.py— Adds(4, 32771, 2048)to the deterministic suite’s parameterized shapes. Membership intest-db/orqa/is not established.