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Reuse inference metadata to eliminate full-context ragged index preparation. FP8 prefill uses one FlashAttention 3 path and reserves KV/top-k workspaces before KV cache capacity planning. NSA layers reuse the buffers; prefill overlap gets separate regions. KV chunks remain capped at 2 GiB.

H200, PyTorch 2.11.0+cu130, Triton 3.6.0; baseline 37a9d4c. Index benchmarks: 8 requests × 1M tokens, median of three 200 ms CUDA Graph samples. Attention benchmarks: Q=16384, 64 heads, 1,048,576 KV tokens/request, median of five CUDA Graph trials with ten calls each.

Stage / workload Before After
Decode index preparation + top-k mapping 25.13 μs 1.77 μs
MTP index preparation, width 4 26.04 μs 1.81 μs
Prefill index preparation, 16 queries/request 25.20 μs 3.63 μs
FP8 prefill attention, 2 requests 10.49 ms 10.04 ms
FP8 prefill attention, 4 requests / 2 KV chunks 15.10 ms 14.47 ms

Cached production prefill improves 3–6% across 8/64-head cases. Cold prefill and preallocation alone remain similar within measurement variability. These are operator timings.

Container validation: 461 tests passed; 85 compute-sanitizer cases and concurrent microbatch replay checks, zero memory errors.

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gen_nsa_ks_ke now accepts an optional max_seq_len bound. For sufficiently large bounds and a contiguous sequence dimension, it copies ragged memory indices with a separate Triton kernel. CUDA tests cover output equivalence, recycled request rows, and graph replay.

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lightllm/common/basemodel/triton_kernel/gen_nsa_ks_ke.py, unit_tests/common/basemodel/triton_kernel/test_gen_nsa_ks_ke.py
gen_nsa_ks_ke accepts an optional max_seq_len. For bounds of at least 32768, it uses a separate parallel kernel when the sequence dimension is contiguous; otherwise, it retains the in-kernel copy path. CUDA tests check outputs across context lengths and layouts, recycled request rows, and graph replay.

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The long-context test leaves HOLD-row copying insufficiently checked. An independent expected result would improve merge confidence.

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Nitpick Compare the parallel output with a complete independent expectation.

122-122: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Compare the parallel output with a complete independent expectation.

For context_length >= 32768, the reference call infers the same parallel path as the actual call. The equality assertion at line 135 therefore does not compare serial and parallel implementations. A transposed reference table is not safe because the serial kernel ignores the token stride.

Compare the full ragged buffer with its expected contents, including the HOLD rows:

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-    reference_ragged = torch.full((capacity,), -1, device="cuda", dtype=torch.int32)
-    parallel_ragged = reference_ragged.clone()
-    reference = gen_nsa_ks_ke(seq, q, req, table, len(req), reference_ragged, hold_req_idx=hold)
+    parallel_ragged = torch.full((capacity,), -1, device="cuda", dtype=torch.int32)
     actual = gen_nsa_ks_ke(
         seq,
         q,
         req,
         table,
         len(req),
         parallel_ragged,
         hold_req_idx=hold,
         max_seq_len=context_length,
     )
-    for observed, expected in zip(actual, reference):
-        assert torch.equal(observed, expected)
-    assert torch.equal(parallel_ragged, reference_ragged)
+    expected_ragged = torch.full_like(parallel_ragged, -1)
+    expected_ragged[:context_length] = table[2, :context_length]
+    expected_ragged[context_length : context_length + 4096] = table[0, :4096]
+    expected_ragged[context_length + 4096 :] = table[hold, :2].repeat(4)
+    assert torch.equal(parallel_ragged, expected_ragged)

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Replace the inferred `reference` comparison in the test with an independent
expected ragged buffer: construct the expected contents for the context,
request, and HOLD rows, then compare the full `parallel_ragged` buffer against
it. Keep the `actual` call using `max_seq_len=context_length` and preserve the
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@shihaobai shihaobai changed the title perf(nsa): parallelize long ragged index copies perf(glm): eliminate full-context ragged index preparation Nov 10, 2026
@shihaobai shihaobai changed the title perf(glm): eliminate full-context ragged index preparation perf(glm): reuse inference metadata and streamline FP8 prefill Nov 10, 2026
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