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Summary

The block-sparse d256 forward (kernels/sm107/sparse_d256_f16.py) carried no griddepcontrol site, so the gated attention block's
use_pdl switch was a typed decline under a QsaSpec geometry and the block-sparse decode chain never overlapped at its attention
link. This PR lands the sites and serves the switch -- a knob: the same kernels, the same math, out / O / LSE / the pools
bitwise the plain chain eagerly and under capture. Two commits:

1. The sites and the switch -- the sparse core's per-role griddepcontrol.wait sites, the launch attribute on the core and its split
   combine, use_pdl=True served under QsaSpec (the caller-list sparse chain), thd=True x the switch a typed decline by name.
2. The trigger at completion -- the first measurement of commit 1 (below) lost 3.2-4.4 us per step at B <= 4 with the device span
   NOT longer: the core released its dependents right after its init sync, so the split combine's CTAs sat resident through the whole
   mainloop and, once the core completed, took 7.4-7.9 us to finish 2.75 us of work. The prologue release is deleted: a CTA that never
   executes griddepcontrol.launch_dependents counts as released when it exits, so the dependent grid launches at the core's completion
   through the programmatic edge. Every role's wait, the barrier table, the SMEM and TMEM budgets are unchanged; the knob stays bitwise.

The measured decision (the Measured section, Rubin cc 10.7 performance class, 212 SMs): the SHIP bar passed -- the switched chain is
faster on 13 / 13 B <= 4 cells by >= +1 % (+2.6 % geomean; +2.2 % over all 19 cells), no cell loses beyond its control band, ON == OFF
bitwise on every cell -- so the switch ships as a served explicit knob. The DEFAULT-FLIP bar (>= 1.0 us AND >= 5 % at both B 1 x 8K and
B 1 x 32K) is not met (B 1 x 8K: 0.80 us / +2.1 %; B 1 x 32K: 1.54 us / +4.1 %), so the AUTO reading stays off on the sparse
form: SPARSE_DECODE_PDL_DEFAULT_CCS is empty, cc 10.7 does not enter it, and no commit on this branch flips it.

• The kernel (python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/sparse_d256_f16.py): use_pdl, a compile-time kernel argument (appended last)
  and the launch attribute (the host entry under the same flag; compile(use_pdl=) in the key). Under the programmatic-stream-
  serialization attribute the grid may start while its predecessor still writes the slab, the pools, the block list, the lengths and
  the table, so EVERY global read of a predecessor's output sits below a griddepcontrol.wait of the reading role and no global write
  sits above one: the TMA warp waits before the prologue's ids bulk copy and Q^T box; the gather warps before their first _item_bounds
  (the lengths / counts), the block-table lookups and the K / V gathers; the MMA warp after its TMEM allocation, hand-off and descriptor
  builds, before _item_bounds; the softmax warps after the TMEM hand-off, before _item_bounds and every store. No explicit release
  anywhere (commit 2): the dependent grid is released by the CTA's exit, i.e. at the core's completion. The scheduler warp reads
  nothing global on the CLC form and the spare warp exits: no wait there. The module header's PDL SITES paragraph enumerates every
  global read per role and records the placement's measurement by node class. The barrier table (18 rows), every init count, ring
  depth, SMEM buffer and TMEM column are unchanged -- the sites are per-thread grid-dependency instructions, not mbarrier operations --
  and the use_pdl=False rendering traces the program as before. The pre-dispatch prologue holds ONE global read above every role
  wait: the THD form's exit_if_dead_thd_cluster reads the setup launch's live-unit total (and its scheduler the claim counter) --
  values the kernel launched right before this one writes -- so THD x use_pdl is a typed decline by name; the switch's scope is
  the dense BSHD and paged decode chain.
• The adapter (python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/sparse_gqa_sm107.py): use_pdl (the flag the previous PR appended and declined) is served --
  the kernel compiled with the switch in its key and launched with the attribute, the split combine's entry with its pair
  (compile_ptr(use_pdl=)); thd=True with use_pdl=True is the typed decline, naming the metadata read above the role waits.
  pdl_decline_reason(thd=) is the ONE statement of that fact: check_support raises it verbatim and the block's declaration-time
  decline carries it -- the two sites are pinned equal by both suites, so neither text drifts alone when the kernel's PDL scope moves.
• The block (python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/api.py): the PDL decline's no QsaSpec clause is dropped (the pinned prefix
  use_pdl=True is served for the bf16 / f16 block only and the no e4m3 KV cache clause survive: the quantized pipelines and the e4m3
  pools under QsaSpec stay typed declines); use_pdl=True with thd=True on a QsaSpec geometry is declined at declaration with the
  adapter's statement (pdl_decline_reason). Under QsaSpec(index_source="indexer") (the in-block indexer, merged meanwhile) the
  explicit True stays a typed decline by name under the same prefix: the indexer's stages thread the block's resolved switch into
  their own kernels' compile keys (the paged step, the scorer, the top-k), and that switched chain is not what was measured here -- the
  measured chain is the caller-list block + band -- so the stage is only ever handed False (the existing pins of the indexer suites
  hold). The AUTO reading answers for the same domain: _pdl_default's sparse arm requires the caller-list form
  (index_source != "indexer"), so no future entry in the measured-parts tuple flips an indexer block through the back door (pinned by a
  cell that patches the tuple to the part: the indexer block resolves False, the caller-list block True). _SparseSdpa takes use_pdl (appended) and hands it to the adapter, so pdl_stages names sdpa_sparse and
  use_pdl_effective reads True on the switched sparse chain. _pdl_default gains the sparse arm BEHIND SPARSE_DECODE_PDL_DEFAULT_CCS,
  an empty tuple of measured parts: a part enters it only with a measurement that meets the flip bar (the measured-default rule of
  DECODE_PDL_DEFAULT_CCS); an explicit value wins. serving_envelope(): decode.pdl_stages = DECODE_PDL_STAGES on the caller-list sparse
  form too (the four stage kinds; the sparse core + its combine are the sdpa kind) and () under the indexer, decode.pdl_default read
  off the sparse tuple under sparse_core (never True under the indexer).
• Docs and the tracker: docs/fe-oss-apis/gated_attention_block.md (the decode form's PDL paragraph and the use_pdl row: the sparse
  chain served, bitwise eagerly and under capture, its AUTO reading -- pdl_default read off the sparse tuple under the block-sparse
  mode --, the THD and the indexer declines, the trigger placement); SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md (the knob sentence of the serving-forms
  section). A knob: no Capabilities field and no EngineSpec moves.

Barrier audit

Audited before and after the sites, and again after commit 2, against the mbarrier rules (the issuing-lane ledger of every row:
SUM(issuing lanes) == init_count, then the per-rule checks): the 18-row table is unchanged -- 20 arrive sites, 26 wait sites, 17 init
sites, 5 scheduler credits before and after, every sum equal to its init constant (ONE_LANE, SOFTMAX_LANES 256, KV_FULL_ARRIVERS 8,
IDS_EMPTY_ARRIVERS 16, READ_TILE_ARRIVERS 18, the named barriers 288 / 128, barrier 0 at 640), the init block single-warp AND
elect-gated with the fence and the CTA sync outside, every drain on its carried state. The PDL sites add no arrive, wait, init or stage;
each is a straight-line const_expr arm at the top of its role before the role's first barrier operation; commit 2 removes the one
release and adds nothing. Verdict PASS, 0 findings, every pass. The RED half of the evidence is the detector below.

Tests

• test_sdpa_fwd_sparse_sm107.py: use_pdl served on the dense / paged decode forms and the prefill form, thd x use_pdl declined
  by name; the source pins (the pair imported, four role waits, NO explicit release -- the placement of commit 2 --, each wait a
  const_expr arm, the constexpr threaded kernel -> roles / host -> launch, compile(use_pdl=) in the key, the THD exit above the role
  waits, no new barrier / tile / ring wait); the compile_ptr switch and the kernel's compile key recorded under a stub for both values.
  Rubin: the PDL arm bitwise the plain arm on O and LSE over the decode cells of the pinned combine forms and the prefill form.
• test_block_qsa_decode.py: a use_pdl axis on the case; PDL on vs off bitwise (out, the gated O slot, the LSE, the pools)
  on six ladder rows (bf16 / f16 pools, the shared and the per-row form, splits 1 / 2 / 4 / 17 / default, the fused gate and the
  launch, the 24 / 2 geometry), a second switched step bitwise; the AUTO reading False on the sparse form with the tuple empty and True
  with it patched to a listed part (the arm exists behind the tuple), the envelope's pdl_stages / pdl_default on the sparse form;
  the e4m3-pool, the THD and the indexer declines pinned by name; the census under the switch = the plain chain's kernel list; the
  capture of the FIRST execute of a fresh switched declaration on a new stream with no warm-up under set_sync_debug_mode("error")
  -- the capture launches nothing, the replay bitwise the eager plain chain and the eager switched chain, stable over 50 replays;
  the detector of a late wait -- a primary that releases its dependent at once and writes the slab, the K pool, the block list or
  the lengths late, ahead of the standalone switched core: GREEN with the shipped kernel (every operand, two spins), and RED on every
  operand at the longest spin with the core's waits swapped for a no-op and the kernel retraced (the detector's sensitivity).
• test_block_serving_pdl.py: the sparse decline pin INVERTED (the explicit True served with sdpa_sparse among the switched
  stages, AUTO False, the band block alike); the e4m3 cache's, the QuantSpec's, the packed form's and the indexer's declines by name.
• test_qsa_prepare.py: the fused-prepare cell's band branch follows the served form -- the caller-list band with
  fuse_prepare=True, use_pdl=True is accepted and use_pdl reaches both slot recipes, as the dense branch pins.

Run on a Rubin cc 10.7 development node (204 SMs; shared, functional only, no performance claim) from this head on develop, the tree
imported from this branch and the extension pinned by md5 (the binding sources unchanged since the build), every session under a
timeout with none hit:

module	tier	passed / skipped / failed
test_sdpa_fwd_sparse_sm107.py (the whole module: the kernel body changed; run on the previous head of this branch -- the review-fix commit does not touch the kernel)	L0	347 / 2 / 0 (the 2 skips: the recorded real-list cells, their data not on the node -- not cells of this PR; every PDL cell and source pin passed)
test_qsa_prepare.py (the fused-prepare cells inside)	L0 (the module's tier)	67 / 0 / 0
test_block_qsa_decode.py	every tier	91 / 0 / 0 (the PDL ladder, the indexer-AUTO pin, the AUTO / envelope readings on the caller-list and the indexer forms, the decline pins, the census, the capture cell, the detector GREEN + RED pair)
test_block_serving_pdl.py	every tier	19 / 0 / 0 (the inverted sparse pin, the indexer / e4m3 / QuantSpec / packed-form declines, the prefill-route readback)
test_block_serving_decode.py (the dense chain's PDL cells)	L0	140 / 0 / 0
test_block_serving_capture.py	L0	23 / 0 / 0

pre-commit (black, SPDX) clean on every file.

Measured

The switch's performance gate on the head of this PR (commit 2: the trigger at completion): use_pdl=True against the plain chain
(use_pdl=False, the same tree) and against vLLM's QSA layer, on a 212-SM Rubin cc 10.7 GPU at the 2376 MHz lock, the caller-list
block + the 640-column band GEMM, fuse_gate=True, page 16, bf16 pools, the default split (16 on the B <= 4 x S_q 1 cells). The +idx
column adds the stack-side indexer rows (vLLM's own census time of its prepare + scorer + top-k, conservative) to the FROST block +
band, so the vLLM column and the FROST column cover the same work.

cell (B x KV x S_q, bf16 pools, page 16; [Q] = the seven cells measured first)	vLLM QSA layer (us)	FROST block + band + the indexer rows (+idx), PDL ON (us)	speed-up vs vLLM (+X %)	SOL % (HBM, FROST +idx, own bytes)	FROST block + band measured (us): PDL ON / OFF	the lever: OFF / ON - 1	control pair
identity B 4 x 2048 x S_q 1 [Q] (every block selected)	38.5	45.1	-14.6 %	21.0	37.5 / 38.3	+2.0 % (0.75 us)	-1.4 % (see the caption)
B 1 x 8K x S_q 1 [Q]	38.3	46.9	-18.3 %	17.7	37.3 / 38.1	+2.1 % (0.80 us)	-0.3 %
B 1 x 8K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	41.2	50.4	-18.2 %	18.8	39.9 / 41.3	+3.4 % (1.38 us)	+0.1 %
B 1 x 32K x S_q 1 [Q]	39.6	49.4	-19.8 %	17.1	37.9 / 39.4	+4.1 % (1.54 us)	-0.2 %
B 1 x 32K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	42.2	48.8	-13.6 %	19.7	37.6 / 38.7	+2.9 % (1.10 us)	+0.0 %
B 1 x 128K x S_q 1	46.9	55.7	-15.7 %	16.0	37.3 / 38.2	+2.4 % (0.90 us)	-0.3 %
B 1 x 128K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	48.3	54.6	-11.5 %	18.5	37.6 / 38.8	+3.4 % (1.26 us)	+0.1 %
B 4 x 8K x S_q 1	40.7	47.4	-14.1 %	20.3	37.2 / 38.0	+2.1 % (0.77 us)	-0.0 %
B 4 x 8K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	47.2	53.9	-12.6 %	25.4	43.7 / 45.2	+3.3 % (1.46 us)	+0.2 %
B 4 x 32K x S_q 1 [Q]	42.3	49.2	-13.9 %	20.5	37.7 / 38.1	+1.2 % (0.45 us)	-0.1 %
B 4 x 32K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	50.0	55.6	-10.2 %	25.5	43.8 / 45.0	+2.7 % (1.18 us)	+0.3 %
B 4 x 128K x S_q 1	50.2	56.5	-11.2 %	21.3	37.2 / 38.1	+2.3 % (0.85 us)	-0.2 %
B 4 x 128K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	59.0	64.1	-8.1 %	25.1	44.0 / 44.8	+1.7 % (0.74 us)	+0.1 %
B 32 x 8K x S_q 1 [Q]	59.4	62.7	-5.2 %	32.1	51.5 / 52.0	+1.0 % (0.51 us)	+0.1 %
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4 [Q] (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	95.1	99.8	-4.8 %	51.0	87.6 / 88.3	+0.7 % (0.66 us)	+0.0 %
B 32 x 32K x S_q 1	66.2	68.7	-3.7 %	34.9	51.8 / 52.4	+1.1 % (0.59 us)	-0.2 %
B 32 x 32K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	104.3	106.5	-2.1 %	51.5	87.7 / 89.8	+2.4 % (2.06 us)	-0.0 %
B 32 x 128K x S_q 1 [Q]	87.2	89.2	-2.2 %	44.2	51.7 / 52.4	+1.3 % (0.67 us)	+0.1 %
B 32 x 128K x S_q 4 (vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	127.7	130.4	-2.1 %	53.9	89.7 / 91.9	+2.4 % (2.16 us)	-0.2 %

Geomean of the lever (PDL OFF / PDL ON - 1): +2.2 % over the 19 measured cells, +2.6 % over the 13 B <= 4 cells, +1.5 % over the B 32
cells (+1.8 % on the T 128 cells, where the core runs unsplit and no combine is launched). vLLM vs FROST +idx: geomean -11.5 % (PDL ON)
/ -12.7 % (PDL OFF) over the seven cells marked [Q], -10.8 % / -12.3 % over all 19 cells. The dense decode form on the identity cell,
same GPU and regime: PDL on 36.4 us vs off 37.9 us (+4.1 %), the instrument's control.

Where the time goes (one profiled replay per slot, every kernel's device start / end stamp): the core -> combine link that carried
the first measurement's loss now reads the combine starting 0.12 us after the core's end (median; with the prologue release it sat
resident 5-6 us BEFORE it, spinning) and finishing 3.20 us after the core's end against 3.47 us for the plain chain's combine (with the
prologue release: +1.7 us over the plain chain); 8 of 16 processes with a combine launch read the link within the fix's pin (lead in
[-0.5, +0.3] us, increment within 0.3 us of the plain chain's), the rest within 0.5 us.

The first measurement (commit 1 alone, the release in the core's prologue; same class, same protocol, an earlier head of develop)
read the switched chain SLOWER: the lever -5.8 % geomean over the 13 B <= 4 cells (-10.6 % .. -0.1 %), +2.2 .. +2.4 % only on the three
T 128 cells, with the device span NOT longer (36.86 vs 38.14 us) -- the loss sat on the core -> combine link (the combine released at the
core's start, resident and spinning, finishing 1.66 us later after the core's end than the plain chain's). That table is superseded by
the one above; it is what commit 2 answers.

Caption: 212 SMs at the 2376 MHz lock (busy samples 2364.0 MHz, the part's under-load reading, identical across arms), one exclusive GPU
of the Rubin cc 10.7 performance class, the HBM term against that GPU's measured copy pin 13030.8 GB/s (never the datasheet); CUDA-graph
REPLAY (vLLM's decode regime), every arm of a cell in ONE process, interleaved, A/B/A x 3 rounds x 100 iterations, slots shuffled per
iteration, CUDA events, per-round medians, 40 % duty. The control pair (the switched arm measured twice): |pair| <= 0.34 % on 18 of
the 19 cells (band = max(|pair|, 1 %)); on the identity cell it read -1.4 % (-1.15 / -1.62 / -1.41 % on three processes -- the
first-built arm of that cell's five-arm table carries a fixed offset against its own twin, not noise), so that row's band is 1.41 %, its
lever +2.0 % is read against that band and is conservative; the row is kept, not re-run away. The oracle gates at the suites' own
constants on every timed arm (cos(out) > 0.999, gated O within 2e-2, two launches bitwise on every FROST arm, the vLLM arm's selection
exact vs its own reference), never widened; the per-kernel census from torch.profiler over 5 replays per slot, the attribution from the
PDL-OFF arm only (a dependent's spin before its wait is charged to it under PDL); power-cap counters delta 0 and Xid unchanged on every
process. vLLM = SM100-family code untuned for cc 10.7 (vllm 0.32.0 QSA kernels verbatim, its own CUDA top-k; Triton 3.8.0); stand-ins:
none. On the S_q 4 cells vLLM selects per row while the FROST shared list applies row 0 (a function difference, recorded; the admission
gate is each arm's own fp32 oracle). Speed-ups POSITIVE base / new - 1, the minus sign kept. The plain chain's output is bitwise the
switched chain's on every cell.

Verdict. The SHIP bar (the lever >= +1 % on every B <= 4 cell, no cell beyond its control band, the dense identity control a gain):
PASS -- 13 / 13 B <= 4 cells at +1.2 % .. +4.1 %, 0 / 19 cells beyond their band, the control +4.1 %; this bar decides that the switch
ships, as a served explicit knob. The DEFAULT-FLIP bar (>= 1.0 us AND >= 5 % at B 1 x 8K AND B 1 x 32K): NOT MET -- B 1 x 8K 0.80 us /
+2.1 %, B 1 x 32K 1.54 us / +4.1 %; this bar decides the default: SPARSE_DECODE_PDL_DEFAULT_CCS stays empty, the AUTO reading stays
off on the sparse form, use_pdl=True is served as the explicit switch, bitwise the plain form.

Review notes

• Rules checked: execute validates and launches only (Rules 1 / 3); the switch is a plan-time compile key, nothing compiles on the
  execute path (Rule 4); every torch operation on the handed stream (Rule 5); the DSL version gate before the kernel import (Rule 7);
  a knob -- the same function under either value -- so no Capabilities field moves (Rule S2) and the sparse record is untouched; the
  decline texts the suites pin were grepped first (the prefix and the no e4m3 KV cache token survive; the indexer's decline carries
  the prefix); the THD x use_pdl text has ONE source (pdl_decline_reason), raised by the adapter and carried by the block, pinned
  equal in both suites.
• The dependent's correctness never depends on where the release sits: griddepcontrol.wait blocks on the primary's full completion
  and memory flush. The placement is a performance choice; the waits are the correctness surface, and the detector cells are what
  turns a missing one red. The two measurements above are the placement's evidence: the prologue release lost 3-4 us per step on the
  core -> combine link, the completion trigger gains 0.45-2.2 us on every cell.
• The THD decline names a measured fact, not an asserted limit: the pre-dispatch read of the setup launch's metadata is in the source
  (exit_if_dead_thd_cluster, the claim-counter scheduler), above any role wait by construction.

Open items

• The default flip waits for the flip bar (>= 1.0 us AND >= 5 % at B 1 x 8K and B 1 x 32K) on a measured part: today's lever is
  +2.1 % / +4.1 % there. What would move it is below the knob, not in it: the remaining link overheads of the four-node programmatic
  graph (norm + RoPE -> cache write -> core -> combine) and the per-kernel fixed costs of the chain.
• The in-block indexer under the switch (QsaSpec(index_source="indexer")): declined by name (and AUTO pinned False there,
  whatever the tuple holds) until its own switched chain (the paged step, the scorer, the top-k carrying the pair) is measured against
  the plain one on the same protocol.
• A PDL pair across the end-to-end sparse step's scorer -> top-k -> core links (the kernels carry the sites; the switch is what the item
  above measures).

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• New Features
  • Sparse attention decode now supports explicitly enabling programmatic dependent launch for caller-list QsaSpec configurations, including split decode.
  • Serving information now reports applicable sparse decode launch stages and defaults.
• Limitations
  • Automatic enablement remains off by default. PDL is unsupported for packed THD sparse requests, the in-block indexer, and quantized or e4m3 cache pipelines.

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The sparse decode path now supports explicit PDL for eligible caller-list forms. THD sparse forms and the in-block indexer remain declined. Sparse automatic PDL selection remains disabled.

Changes: Sparse Decode PDL

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sparse kernel PDL execution python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/sparse_d256_f16.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/sparse_gqa_sm107.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_sparse_sm107.py	The sparse kernel adds a PDL rendering with dependent-grid waits before role-specific reads. The adapter passes use_pdl through compilation and declines THD with PDL. Tests cover compilation, wait placement, and bitwise comparisons.
Gated block support and PDL reporting python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/api.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_serving_pdl.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_qsa_prepare.py	The block forwards PDL to the sparse adapter and accepts supported caller-list forms. The decode envelope reports sparse PDL stages. Sparse automatic PDL remains off, and THD and in-block indexer declines remain. Tests cover serving and stage configuration.
Execution checks and support documentation test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa_decode.py, docs/fe-oss-apis/gated_attention_block.md, python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md	Tests compare enabled and disabled outputs, check graph replay and wait behavior, and verify supported forms and declines. The documentation and tracker describe sparse PDL support and its disabled automatic default.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant GatedAttentionBlock
  participant SparseSdpa
  participant SparseGqaFwdDslSm107
  participant sparse_d256_f16
  Caller->>GatedAttentionBlock: Declare use_pdl
  GatedAttentionBlock->>SparseSdpa: Pass resolved use_pdl
  SparseSdpa->>SparseGqaFwdDslSm107: Check support and compile
  SparseGqaFwdDslSm107->>sparse_d256_f16: Select PDL rendering

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Perf gate -- PDL on the block-sparse decode chain (this PR: use_pdl=True) vs the plain chain (use_pdl=False, the same tree) vs vLLM, on a 212-SM Rubin cc 10.7 GPU at the 2376 MHz lock

cell (B x KV x S_q, bf16 pools, page 16; Q = the quick-gate seven)	baseline: vLLM QSA layer (us)	FROST PDL ON (this PR) +idx (us)	speed-up (+X %)	SOL % (HBM, FROST +idx, own bytes)	FROST block + band, measured (us): PDL ON / PDL OFF	the lever: OFF / ON - 1	control pair
identity B 4 x 2048 x S_q 1 [Q] (every block selected)	36.8	48.4	-23.8 %	19.2	40.6 / 37.1	-8.6 % (-3.47 us)	-0.9 %
B 1 x 8K x S_q 1 [Q]	36.7	51.0	-27.9 %	16.1	41.2 / 37.3	-9.3 % (-3.81 us)	-0.1 %
B 1 x 8K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	39.7	51.9	-23.4 %	17.9	41.1 / 39.7	-3.4 % (-1.41 us)	-0.1 %
B 1 x 32K x S_q 1 [Q]	38.0	53.3	-28.6 %	15.7	41.9 / 38.6	-7.7 % (-3.22 us)	-0.9 %
B 1 x 32K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	40.2	51.9	-22.6 %	18.1	40.8 / 37.6	-7.8 % (-3.20 us)	+0.7 %
B 1 x 128K x S_q 1	45.6	60.1	-24.1 %	14.7	41.5 / 37.1	-10.6 % (-4.38 us)	-0.1 %
B 1 x 128K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	47.1	59.0	-20.1 %	16.7	41.3 / 37.8	-8.4 % (-3.46 us)	-0.2 %
B 4 x 8K x S_q 1	38.7	49.0	-21.0 %	19.2	38.9 / 37.0	-4.8 % (-1.87 us)	-0.5 %
B 4 x 8K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	45.6	54.0	-15.6 %	25.1	43.5 / 43.4	-0.1 % (-0.06 us)	+0.4 %
B 4 x 32K x S_q 1 [Q]	40.2	52.7	-23.7 %	18.7	41.2 / 37.1	-9.9 % (-4.10 us)	-0.1 %
B 4 x 32K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	48.0	55.5	-13.5 %	25.3	43.7 / 43.7	-0.1 % (-0.03 us)	+0.3 %
B 4 x 128K x S_q 1	48.7	58.6	-16.9 %	20.1	38.9 / 37.7	-3.2 % (-1.23 us)	+0.0 %
B 4 x 128K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0)	57.4	64.3	-10.7 %	24.8	44.0 / 43.6	-0.9 % (-0.38 us)	+0.1 %
B 32 x 8K x S_q 1 [Q]	57.7	62.7	-8.0 %	31.8	51.4 / 50.3	-2.2 % (-1.14 us)	-0.2 %
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4 [Q] (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	94.0	96.8	-3.0 %	52.1	84.7 / 86.7	+2.3 % (1.97 us)	-0.0 %
B 32 x 32K x S_q 1	64.4	68.4	-5.8 %	34.7	51.5 / 50.9	-1.2 % (-0.59 us)	-0.2 %
B 32 x 32K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	103.1	104.4	-1.2 %	52.0	85.7 / 87.6	+2.2 % (1.89 us)	-0.3 %
B 32 x 128K x S_q 1 [Q]	85.5	88.3	-3.2 %	44.2	51.3 / 50.8	-1.0 % (-0.51 us)	+0.1 %
B 32 x 128K x S_q 4 (D1: vLLM selects per row, the FROST shared list applies row 0) (T 128: the core unsplit, no combine launch)	127.1	129.4	-1.8 %	53.8	88.0 / 90.1	+2.4 % (2.11 us)	-0.1 %

Geomean of the lever (PDL OFF / PDL ON - 1): -3.9 % over the 19 measured cells, -5.8 % over the B <= 4 cells, +0.4 % over the B 32 cells. vLLM vs FROST +idx geomean -17.6 % (PDL ON) / -14.0 % (PDL OFF) over the quick-gate seven, -16.0 % / -13.4 % over all 19 cells.

Where the time goes (one profiled replay per slot, every kernel's device start / end stamp): on the device the switched chain is NOT slower -- first-kernel-start to last-kernel-end 36.86 us vs 38.14 us for the plain chain (median; paired -1.15 us), the dependents resident before their primaries end as designed (the combine from the core's start, the cache write during the norm + RoPE pass, the out-projection GEMM during the combine). The loss sits outside the kernels: timed step minus device span = 4.64 us on the switched chain against 1.57 us on the plain one (medians; 3.09 us more, 3.23 us over the B <= 4 pairs) -- the graph whose four extra kernel nodes carry programmatic edges (norm + RoPE, cache write, core, combine) starts its first kernel later (or retires later) than the plain graph, by several times what the sites buy inside it; a per-stage A/B (internal stage pokes, not the public knob) puts the loss on the sparse core's switch (the core + its combine), the norm + RoPE / cache-write half alone reading like the plain chain. The dense decode form on the identity cell, same node and regime, reads PDL on 34.5 us vs off 35.7 us (+3.3 %): a gain -- the regression is specific to the switched sparse chain's graph (structurally: the core releases its dependents above its own waits where the dense tile releases below; a separate cache-write launch under the attribute; four programmatic nodes against three), not to PDL on this part.

Caption: 212 SMs @ 2376 MHz lock (busy samples 2364 MHz, the part's under-load reading, identical across arms), one exclusive GPU of the Rubin cc 10.7 performance class, HBM term against that GPU's measured-here copy pin 13153.4 GB/s (never the datasheet); the tree = this PR's head (stacked on the form-pin PR, both on develop's in-block-indexer merge; the extension built for that develop commit, the binding-source detector non-empty across the stack's base, so the matching build was taken); CUDA-graph REPLAY (vLLM's decode regime), every arm of a cell in ONE process, interleaved, A/B/A x 3 rounds x 100 iterations, slots shuffled per iteration, CUDA events, per-round medians, 40 % duty; the control pair (the switched arm twice) within 1 % on every quoted process (band = max(|pair|, 1 %)); the oracle gates at the suites' own constants on every timed arm (cos(out) > 0.999, gated O within 2e-2, two launches bitwise on every FROST arm, the vLLM arm's selection exact vs its own reference), never widened; the per-kernel census from torch.profiler over 5 replays per slot, the attribution from the pdl-OFF arm only (a dependent's spin before its wait is charged to it under PDL); cap counters delta 0 and Xid 0 -> 0 on every process. vLLM = SM100-family code untuned for cc 10.7 (vllm 0.32.0 QSA kernels verbatim, its own CUDA top-k; Triton 3.8.0); stand-ins: none. +idx = the FROST block + the stack-side band GEMM + vLLM's own census time of its prepare + scorer + top-k (conservative: prepare's main half double-counted). Speed-ups POSITIVE base / new - 1, the minus sign kept. The plain chain's output is bitwise the switched chain's on every cell.

Verdict against the bar (>= 1 % at B <= 4 with the pair within 1 %; no cell beyond its control band -- the T 128 guard): FAIL -- the switched chain reads -10.6 % .. -0.1 % (-4.38 .. -0.03 us) on the 13 B <= 4 cells (10 of them beyond their control band: every S_q 1 cell and the B 1 x S_q 4 cells, by 3.2-4.4 us at S_q 1; none at +1 %), -2.2 % .. -1.0 % at B 32 x S_q 1, +2.2 % .. +2.4 % on the T 128 cells; every pair within 0.91 %; 12 of 19 cells beyond their band; the switched chain's step also wanders round to round (per-round spread up to 2.3 % on the ON slot vs 0.4 % on the plain chain). The AUTO default does not flip on this evidence (cc (10, 7) stays out of SPARSE_DECODE_PDL_DEFAULT_CCS); the explicit switch stays a served, bitwise knob -- consistent with the PR as pushed, which makes no performance claim. Owed before the switch can default on: the launch-side gap (a per-stage A/B of the four programmatic nodes, the core's release placement) on the same protocol.

[RomanAnders90]

Rebased onto develop @ c2903d7 (the indexer-band small-M route, #1754, squash-merged) to clear the conflict in test_block_qsa_decode.py: both that merge and this branch append test sections at the end of the module (they share one graph-capture block), so the resolution keeps both -- the band-tile tests first, this branch's PDL tests after. The two commits are otherwise unchanged (git range-diff: the second patch identical, the first differs only in that test module); the same files; black clean. New head 27878781a (previous 0e70fd7f5). Still a draft: its gate on an exclusive 212-SM part and the body rewrite for the completion-trigger placement are pending.

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Reviewed de1ee7f8fb93 against base 9c9db1ef311b.

The explicit sparse PDL path has no approval-blocking finding. Each operand-reading role waits before its first dependent access; THD remains declined, and sparse automatic enablement stays off. One old rejection test needs to follow the new supported contract. CI is not green.

[P2] Update the fused-prepare test for the newly supported sparse PDL form (source)

Removing the QsaSpec rejection makes test_fuse_prepare_builds_one_stage_in_place_of_two_and_keeps_the_carve[qsa_band] fail: test_qsa_prepare.py:856 still expects NotImplementedError for the caller-list band with fuse_prepare=True and use_pdl=True. I reproduced DID NOT RAISE locally, and the same test fails in the current-head CI run. Update that branch and its docstring to assert the accepted declaration and forwarding of use_pdl to both prepare recipes, as the dense branch already does.

Evidence: Focused local run: 8 passed, 1 failed, 35 skipped; the sole failure is the old qsa_band rejection. Pipeline 76030235 reports the same assertion. The API now deliberately permits this caller-list form. Attribution: Newly enabled combination leaves an existing contract test stale.

Validation: Reviewed all eight changed files and traced launch attributes, constexpr/cache identity, runtime pointer arguments, per-role waits, output stores, split combine and declaration declines. The added waits do not change barrier counts, ring depths or allocation layouts. Precheck B14 is not a finding: runtime slots are passed explicitly, while use_pdl is an explicit compile-time specialization. Focused local tests on SM100 with CuTe DSL 4.7.1: 8 passed, 1 failed, 35 skipped, 479 deselected. The failure is the stale rejection test above; skipped SM107 cases are not counted as native validation. Inspected current-head CI results and verified all eight changed files match the tested integration tree. All 12 new block-level PDL tests passed: six decode ladder cases, automatic/default and decline checks, kernel census, first-execute graph capture/replay, and both dependency detectors. The detector with waits removed also behaved as expected. Pipeline 76030235 finished failed: SM107 reported 8170 passed, 3 failed, 2695 skipped and 2 xfailed. Besides the stale sparse-PDL assertion, two unchanged GEMM/JAX tests failed with invalid launch configuration. SM80, SM90 and SM100 jobs succeeded. These results do not make the overall pipeline green.

Limitations: An independent SM107 rerun could not start because the available GPU became busy; native PDL evidence above is from CI. The standalone sparse SDPA tests are not collected by the selected wildcard CuTe DSL target. No independent performance comparison was available. Automatic sparse PDL remains disabled; the author's performance measurements were reviewed for scope but not reproduced.

Approved: no P0 or high-risk P1 found. Remaining findings stay with the owner; merge timing stays with the owner.

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CI follow-up for de1ee7f8fb93: pipeline 76030235 finished failed. All eight changed files match the tested integration tree.

The SM107 job reported 8170 passed, 3 failed, 2695 skipped and 2 xfailed. One failure is attributable to this change: test_fuse_prepare_builds_one_stage_in_place_of_two_and_keeps_the_carve[qsa_band] still expects PDL to be rejected. I reproduced it locally; the review requests updating that old test. The other two failures are invalid launch configurations in unchanged grouped-GEMM JAX tests.

All 12 new block-level PDL tests passed, including both dependency detectors and first-execute graph capture. The SM80, SM90 and SM100 jobs succeeded. The selected target does not collect the standalone sparse SDPA module, so those tests are outside this CI evidence.

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[RomanAnders90]

[P2] fixed in 9b3a03b: test_fuse_prepare_builds_one_stage_in_place_of_two_and_keeps_the_carve[qsa_band] now asserts the accepted declaration of the caller-list band with fuse_prepare=True, use_pdl=True (use_pdl / use_pdl_requested True, _prepare.use_pdl True, _prepare.index_band True) and that use_pdl reaches both prepare recipes, as the dense branch does; docstring updated. The same commit takes the CodeRabbit note on _pdl_default (the AUTO reading never resolves True under the in-block indexer, with a RED-then-green cell) and the two CodeQL items (with open, one import style). The branch is rebased on the current develop (#1802 in).

Verified on a Rubin cc 10.7 development node from this head (shared, functional only; passed / skipped / failed): test_qsa_prepare.py 67 / 0 / 0, test_block_qsa_decode.py (every tier) 91 / 0 / 0, test_block_serving_pdl.py (every tier) 19 / 0 / 0, test_block_serving_decode.py (L0) 140 / 0 / 0, test_block_serving_capture.py (L0) 23 / 0 / 0.

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[Anerudhan]

This follow-up was underway when the PR merged. All nine PR files match merge cf27700396c7 exactly.

The prior P2 finding is resolved: the caller-list qsa_band fused-prepare case now accepts PDL and checks both compile recipes. The new AUTO guard keeps the in-block indexer disabled even when its device is added to the sparse default tuple. I found no new actionable defect in the follow-up; the original two PDL patches are unchanged through the rebase.

Five focused local checks passed. A direct current-head SM107 run passed 23 checks, including all seven standalone PDL equivalence cases, both dependency detectors (with the no-wait control), first-execute CUDA Graph capture, and the changed declarations. Three profiler checks skipped because CUPTI recorded no CUDA events, so the kernel census is unverified. No performance measurement was made.

Pipeline 76184963 remains active. All nine changed files match its integration. Its SM107 FROST selector omits the standalone sparse module; the direct run above supplies that focused native coverage. CI follow-up will continue for the run already started.

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[Anerudhan]

Pipeline 76184963, started before merge for 9b3a03b1, passed all four CuTeDSL and five SDPA FROST lanes. All nine PR files match its integration tree and merge cf277003.

The SM107 CuTeDSL lane had 8,180 passes and no failures. It also passed all three profiler-dependent cases that the direct native run skipped: the PDL kernel census and both fused-prepare PDL variants. The standalone sparse PDL coverage remains the direct native validation recorded above, since that module is absent from the SM107 SDPA CI selector.

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