feat(distributed): expose InCore async remote put (pld.tensor.put_async) - #2703
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds asynchronous SDMA remote puts with typed sessions and events. The change spans DSL and IR builders, validation, tensor-to-tile lowering, PTO emission, deferred cache invalidation, SDMA workspace setup, ordering checks, documentation, and a2a3 distributed tests. ChangesAsynchronous operation contracts and APIs
Scratch binding and fence ordering
PTO lowering and SDMA workspace
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Kernel
participant AsyncSession
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participant Wait
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Kernel->>AsyncSession: Create session
Kernel->>SDMA: Issue put_async
Kernel->>Kernel: Run overlapping local compute
Kernel->>Wait: Drain async event
Wait->>SDMA: Complete transfer
Wait->>Kernel: Apply deferred invalidation and fence
Kernel->>Notify: Publish after wait
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Async writes can be published before completion in bare control-flow bodies or when an event is waited with a different session, risking stale remote data. These ordering and pairing issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| auto it = fs_.pending_peer_invalidates.find(event_ssa); | ||
| if (it == fs_.pending_peer_invalidates.end()) return std::nullopt; | ||
| PendingPeerInvalidate pending = std::move(it->second); | ||
| fs_.pending_peer_invalidates.erase(it); |
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When an event is issued before a runtime conditional or zero-trip loop and waited only inside that construct, code generation visits the wait syntactically and erases the event here. The end-of-function undrained check then passes, and a later notify also sees no outstanding event, even though the runtime path that skips the wait publishes while SDMA is still in flight. Make outstanding-event validation control-flow aware or reject drains that do not post-dominate their issue.
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Agreed this is a real gap of the syntactic guards. A wait in one if branch, or in a loop that may run zero times, still clears pending_peer_invalidates, so a later notify on the skipped path is not rejected.
v1 documents straight-line issue / compute / wait / notify. Doing this properly needs path-sensitive (post-dominating) tracking, which is not in this PR. Noted on TakeDeferredPeerInvalidate and in the PR description as out of scope.
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Keeping out of scope for this PR (as previously noted): path-sensitive / post-dominating outstanding-event tracking stays documented on TakeDeferredPeerInvalidate and in the PR body. Syntactic guards + undrained-at-end check remain the contract for this slice.
| if (ir::IsOp(op, "pld.tile.async_session")) { | ||
| uses_sdma_workspace_ = true; | ||
| uses_async_session_ = true; |
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For an InCore function that calls pld.system.async_session() twice, this collector collapses both calls into one boolean and the subsequent check only rejects the prefetch-plus-put combination. Two async-put sessions can therefore be emitted even when their lifetimes overlap, despite both resolving to the same channel group and queue; as the adjacent code explains, the later initialization can reset state used by the first event and cause device hangs or corruption. Count session builders or otherwise reject overlapping independent sessions.
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Fixed in b110abb. The collector now counts pld.tile.async_session builds and GenerateFunction rejects a second one in the same kernel — same channel-group collision as prefetch + put_async. Covered by test_two_async_sessions_in_one_kernel_is_rejected.
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Already fixed earlier (see prior reply on this thread / b110abb): a second async_session in one InCore kernel is rejected. No further change in this round.
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| comm_op::ValidateRegionArgs(args, region_base, dst_type->shape_, src_type->shape_, op_name); |
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In the subregion form, unlike the full-slice path, no rank check runs before ValidateRegionArgs. With a rank-2 destination and rank-1 source, otherwise well-typed offsets and shape reach that helper, whose destination-sized loop indexes src_shape[1] out of bounds; with a higher-rank source, validation passes here and codegen later raises an internal rank error. Reject differing source and destination ranks before invoking the region helper.
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Fixed in b110abb. Rank is checked before ValidateRegionArgs (and inside that helper, which indexes src_shape by destination rank). The new test test_put_async_subregion_rejects_mismatched_src_dst_rank used to segfault on the old path.
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Already fixed earlier (see prior reply on this thread / b110abb): src/dst rank is checked before ValidateRegionArgs. No further change in this round.
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In `@include/pypto/codegen/pto/pto_codegen.h`:
- Around line 1104-1107: Update FunctionState::Reset() to clear
pending_peer_invalidates along with the other per-generation state, ensuring
subsequent Generate() calls do not inherit entries left by a failed generation.
In `@src/backend/common/pto_ops_distributed.cpp`:
- Around line 1116-1148: Preserve the session identity associated with each
put_async event and validate it in MakeWaitAsyncEventCodegenPTO before emitting
the wait. Reject wait_async_event calls whose supplied session differs from the
event’s issuing session, or carry the issuing session through the IR so the wait
reuses it; ensure peer invalidation and fence handling occur only for a
validated pair.
In `@src/ir/transforms/insert_comm_fence_pass.cpp`:
- Around line 330-344: Update MarkBody to mirror the async classification
already implemented in SeqStmts: handle bare async remote writes as a no-op at
issue time, and handle bare async waits by inserting the GM release fence when
no adjacent system.fence exists. Ensure bare synchronous remote writes retain
their existing cacheinvalid and fence behavior, while async operations no longer
receive a whole-GM invalidation at issue.
In `@src/ir/transforms/op_conversion_registry.cpp`:
- Line 2730: Update the tensor-to-tile lowering for pld.tensor.put_async to
reject computed TileType sources before RegisterSimple performs the rename,
reusing the existing TileType guard and diagnostic pattern from pld.tensor.put.
Ensure the error identifies pld.tensor.put_async and prevent creation of
pld.tile.put_async for unsupported computed producers.
In `@tests/ut/codegen/distributed/test_distributed_pto_codegen.py`:
- Line 1713: Update test_put_async_emitted_pto_assembles to skip when
_find_ptoas_binary() returns None, before invoking ir_compile with
skip_ptoas=False; preserve the existing real-assembler execution when the ptoas
binary is available.
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| // pld.tile.wait_async_event(event, session, scratch) -> pto.comm.wait_async_event, | ||
| // then the peer invalidate the matching put_async parked. | ||
| // | ||
| // The scratch operand is not emitted: it exists in the IR purely so the memory | ||
| // allocator keeps the session's UB buffer live across the async window (pto-isa | ||
| // reads the completion word back through session.tmpBufAddr, which points into | ||
| // it). PTOAS's op takes only (event, session). | ||
| static std::string MakeWaitAsyncEventCodegenPTO(const CallPtr& op, codegen::CodegenBase& codegen_base) { | ||
| auto& codegen = AsPto(codegen_base); | ||
| INTERNAL_CHECK_SPAN(op->args_.size() == 3, op->span_) | ||
| << "pld.tile.wait_async_event expects 3 arguments (event, session, scratch), got " << op->args_.size(); | ||
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| const std::string event = codegen.GetExprAsCode(op->args_[0]); | ||
| const std::string session = codegen.GetExprAsCode(op->args_[1]); | ||
| INTERNAL_CHECK_SPAN(!event.empty(), op->span_) | ||
| << "pld.tile.wait_async_event event has no SSA binding; the producing put_async must be " | ||
| "assigned to a named variable"; | ||
| INTERNAL_CHECK_SPAN(!session.empty(), op->span_) << "pld.tile.wait_async_event session has no SSA binding"; | ||
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| std::string done = codegen.GetCurrentResultTarget(); | ||
| if (done.empty()) done = codegen.NewTemp(); | ||
| pto_ops_detail::EmitWaitAsyncEventPTO(codegen, done, event, session); | ||
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| // Data-before-signal, deferred: the peer-region cacheinvalid the async put | ||
| // could not emit at its issue is emitted here, once the transfer has landed. | ||
| // The paired GM release fence is inserted by the InsertCommFence pass. | ||
| if (auto pending = codegen.TakeDeferredPeerInvalidate(event)) { | ||
| codegen.Emit("pto.cmo.cacheinvalid " + pending->partition_view + | ||
| " single_cache_line : " + pending->partition_type); | ||
| } | ||
| codegen.SetCurrentExprValue(done); | ||
| return ""; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve and validate the put_async/wait_async_event session pairing. The IR checks only the singleton AsyncEventType and AsyncSessionType, so it permits put_async(..., session_a) followed by wait_async_event(event, session_b). Codegen then emits the supplied session_b; the completion word is read through that session's tmpBufAddr, while the event's peer invalidate and release fence still execute after the wait. The wrong session can therefore leave the transfer undrained and publish the destination early. Reject mismatched pairs or carry the issuing session with the event.
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In `@src/backend/common/pto_ops_distributed.cpp` around lines 1116 - 1148,
Preserve the session identity associated with each put_async event and validate
it in MakeWaitAsyncEventCodegenPTO before emitting the wait. Reject
wait_async_event calls whose supplied session differs from the event’s issuing
session, or carry the issuing session through the IR so the wait reuses it;
ensure peer invalidation and fence handling occur only for a validated pair.
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Fixed locally (pending push): PendingPeerInvalidate now stores the issuing session SSA. MakeWaitAsyncEventCodegenPTO peeks before taking the deferred invalidate and rejects a mismatched session with a CHECK_SPAN (ValueError). Covered by test_wait_async_event_rejects_mismatched_session.
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@georgebisbas, the described change addresses the session-pairing risk.
The fix is still pending push, so I cannot verify it against the pull request yet. Please push the change. I will then verify that MakeWaitAsyncEventCodegenPTO validates the issuing session before it removes the deferred invalidate, and that test_wait_async_event_rejects_mismatched_session covers the mismatch path.
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| } else if (IsRemoteWrite(LeafCall(child)) || IsAsyncWait(LeafCall(child))) { | ||
| // Sync remote write: codegen emits the peer-region cacheinvalid (peer | ||
| // offset is not IR-expressible yet); this pass inserts only the GM | ||
| // release fence. Async wait: the drain point, where the matching async | ||
| // write's GM release fence belongs (the issue itself is a no-op below). | ||
| if (!(i + 1 < stmts.size() && IsLeafOp(stmts[i + 1], "system.fence"))) { | ||
| out.push_back(MakeNoArgOp("system.fence", child->span_)); | ||
| changed = true; | ||
| } | ||
| } else if (IsAsyncRemoteWrite(LeafCall(child))) { | ||
| // Async remote write: no release marker at the issue — the data is still | ||
| // in flight. Codegen defers the peer-region cacheinvalid to the wait, and | ||
| // the GM release fence is inserted after that wait (above). This arm is | ||
| // a deliberate no-op so the issue does not fall through to the opaque | ||
| // kWrite path below. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Mirror the async classification in MarkBody. Bare async puts currently receive a whole-GM cacheinvalid and fence at issue time, while bare async waits receive no release fence. Add the same branches used by SeqStmts:
🐛 Proposed fix for the bare-body path
if (auto target = WriteTargetToInvalidate(body)) {
out.push_back(MakeCacheInvalid(target, body->span_));
out.push_back(MakeNoArgOp("system.fence", body->span_));
- } else if (IsRemoteWrite(LeafCall(body))) {
+ } else if (IsRemoteWrite(LeafCall(body)) || IsAsyncWait(LeafCall(body))) {
out.push_back(MakeNoArgOp("system.fence", body->span_)); // codegen emits the peer cacheinvalid
+ } else if (IsAsyncRemoteWrite(LeafCall(body))) {
+ // Async issue: no release marker here; the fence rides the wait.
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In `@src/ir/transforms/insert_comm_fence_pass.cpp` around lines 330 - 344, Update
MarkBody to mirror the async classification already implemented in SeqStmts:
handle bare async remote writes as a no-op at issue time, and handle bare async
waits by inserting the GM release fence when no adjacent system.fence exists.
Ensure bare synchronous remote writes retain their existing cacheinvalid and
fence behavior, while async operations no longer receive a whole-GM invalidation
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Fixed locally (pending push): MarkBody now mirrors the SeqStmts async branches — put_async is a no-op at issue; wait_async_event gets the GM release fence. Covered by test_async_put_inside_bare_if_gets_no_issue_marker and test_async_wait_inside_bare_if_gets_release_fence.
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@georgebisbas, thank you for the update. Please push the change to the pull request. I can then verify that MarkBody matches the SeqStmts handling and that both bare-body tests cover the regression.
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| // `buf(...)` operand group — so the tile-level form carries exactly the same | ||
| // operands. The rename still happens because backend codegen registers | ||
| // transfer emitters at the tile level (`reg("pld.tile.put")` / `"pld.tile.get"`). | ||
| RegisterSimple("pld.tensor.put_async", "pld.tile.put_async"); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject computed src in pld.tensor.put_async before the rename.
The tensor-to-tile pass rewrites a computed producer to TileType before RegisterSimple creates pld.tile.put_async. That op requires a tensor-like GM source, so creation fails with pld.tile.put_async src must be a Tensor or DistributedTensor. This is unsupported input, not valid lowering, because pto.comm.tput_async transfers GM to GM. Add the same TileType guard used by pld.tensor.put so the diagnostic names pld.tensor.put_async.
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In `@src/ir/transforms/op_conversion_registry.cpp` at line 2730, Update the
tensor-to-tile lowering for pld.tensor.put_async to reject computed TileType
sources before RegisterSimple performs the rename, reusing the existing TileType
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Fixed locally (pending push): pld.tensor.put_async uses RegisterCustom with the same TileType src guard pattern as pld.tensor.put, so the diagnostic names pld.tensor.put_async. Covered by test_put_async_rejects_computed_tile_src.
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@georgebisbas, thanks for the update. The described RegisterCustom guard and test_put_async_rejects_computed_tile_src address the finding. Please push the change for verification.
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Issue an SDMA remote write, overlap local compute, then drain at an explicit wait. Lowers to PTOAS build_async_session / tput_async / wait_async_event with release markers at the wait. a2a3 only; one session per kernel; the wait is required before notify or kernel exit.
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PyPTO's only remote write was the synchronous
pld.tensor.put, which bracketspto.comm.tputwith twoPIPE_ALLbarriers and stalls the AIV core on every transfer. The hardware async SDMA write (TPUT_ASYNC) has been in pto-isa / PTOAS / the runtime for a while, but it was not reachable from the DSL.This PR adds an InCore async put so a kernel can issue an SDMA write, keep computing, then drain at an explicit wait:
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_asyncsuffix here is the InCore p2p op, not the HOST-tier_asynccollective /CollectiveHandlesurface. They do not appear at the same kernel level.Same-name distributed ST coverage for
pto.comm.build_async_session,pto.comm.tput_async, andpto.comm.wait_async_eventon #2166. Related to #1906 (this wait is a per-rank TPUT-quiesce primitive; that issue's API question stays open). Builds on #2591: after that PR removed the barrier beforeTNOTIFY, the explicit wait is what orders an SDMA transfer against a later publish.Surface
3-segment ops (
pld.system.*/pld.tensor.*/pld.tile.*), reusing prefetch'sAsyncSession/AsyncEventhandles:pld.system.async_session(*, sync_id=0, block_bytes=1MiB)tile.create(256 B UB scratch) +pld.tile.async_session(scratch)pto.comm.build_async_sessionpld.tensor.put_async(dst, peer, src, session[, regions])pld.tile.put_async(rename; no staging tile)pto.comm.tput_asyncpld.system.wait_async_event(event, session)pld.tile.wait_async_event(event, session, scratch)pto.comm.wait_async_eventOnly the trailing
PIPE_ALLdrain goes away — that is the stall the event replaces. The leading barrier stays: a precedingTSTOREintosrcstill has to land before SDMA reads that GM.v1 is a hand-called primitive. This does not wire
put_asyncinto composite collective lowering, addtget_async, or exposechannel_group_idx.Emitted PTO
sync_idmust be emitted asi32andblock_bytesasi64. A bare{sync_id = 0}parses as i64 and ptoas rejects it.block_bytesis always emitted (default 1 MB); omitting it lets PTOAS apply 32 KB.These failure modes do not show up on the simulator or in a single-rank test.
1. Release markers are at the wait, not the issue
The peer-region
cacheinvalidand the GMsystem.fenceare emitted afterwait_async_event. At the issue the data has not reached the peer, so fencing there would order memory while the transfer is still in flight.InsertCommFencetherefore puts no marker at the issue and inserts the GM fence after the wait.The wait's PTO operands are only
(event, session), so it cannot rebuild the destination partition view. The put emitter stores the view inPTOCodegen::FunctionStateunder the event's SSA name; the wait emitter takes it back out and emitscacheinvalid.GenerateFunctionpre-binds each assignment LHS, so both sides resolve the same event to the same name.2. The wait is required; notify while the event is outstanding is rejected
Both checks reject rather than inserting a drain (that would hide a kernel that never waited):
put_asyncand never waits is rejected. With no wait, neither release marker is emitted.pld.system.notifywhile any async-put event is still outstanding is rejected. Since perf(composite): slim per-peer dcci + remove the notify barrier — device_wall win on a2a3 #2591 there is no barrier beforeTNOTIFY, and PTOAS's TNotify lowering drains only MTE2/MTE3, which SDMA does not use.Notify after the wait is the intended publish pattern. The guard is about order, not a ban on notify in an async kernel.
These two checks walk the IR syntactically. A wait in one branch of an
if, or in a loop that may run zero times, still clears the outstanding-event map, so a later notify on the skipped path is not rejected. v1 documents straight-lineissue / compute / wait / notify. Path-sensitive tracking is not in this PR.3. The 256 B UB scratch has to stay live through the last wait
async_sessionmaterialises a Vec(UB) scratch ([1, 256] INT8, pto-isakUbAlignSize) inConvertTensorToTileOps, not in codegen, so the allocator assigns its address before PTO emission at--pto-level=level3. pto-isaBuildSdmaSessionstoressession.tmpBufAddr = tmpBuf.addr, andAsyncEvent::Waitreads the completion word back through that address — hardware touches the scratch at every wait, while the IR without a rewrite would mention it only at the build.AsyncWaitScratchBinder(after conversion inTransformIncoreFunction) threads that same scratch Var into everywait_async_eventon the session. Without it, MemoryReuse (lifetimes from IR uses) would end the scratch at the build and could reuse the UB address for compute between issue and wait, which corrupts the completion word on hardware only.A session the binder cannot resolve — a loop-carried
IterArgor an if/else join — is rejected rather than lowered without the operand. A wait nested in a loop whose session is a local assign still binds.4. No staging tile, no atomic, 1-D only
pto.comm.tput_asynctakes(dst, src, session)with nobuf(...)group: SDMA moves GM→GM. Soput_asynchas noatomic/chunk_rows/chunk_cols/pipelineparameters; async atomic-add is not expressible. Regions must be static, flat-contiguous, and logically 1-D (PTOASverifyAsyncFlatContiguous1DGMViewLike). A 2-D window is fine if the moved region is 1-D (shape=[1, N]). Scattered multi-row combine-push stays on syncput.Subregion
dstandsrcmust have the same rank. The region helper indexessrc_shapeby destination rank; a mismatch used to be an out-of-bounds read.5. One SDMA session per kernel
Prefetch and
pld.system.async_sessionboth defaultchannel_group_idx = get_block_idx()andqueue_num = 1, so on one core they share the SQ / post-done record. The laterInitializeRuntimeCtxzeroes the record the earlier wait is polling. Prefetch builds its session on the firstTPREFETCH_ASYNC, so the overlap is easy to miss. Codegen rejects a function that uses both, and also rejects a secondpld.system.async_sessionin the same function.The actual sharing fix is on the PTOAS side: pto-isa already accepts an external session on
PrefetchAsyncContextBase, butpto.make_prefetch_async_contexthas no session operand. Until that exists, this rejects rather than emitting a kernel that hangs on device and looks fine on the simulator.sync_idis the AICore pipe-flag id insideSetValue/GetValue. It does not isolate sessions.channel_group_idxstays unexposed: a fixed alternate group collides with another core's auto group once the block count grows.v1 restrictions
enable_sdmaon the artifact. The runtime provisions that workspace only on a2a3 onboard with the tensormap+ringbuffer provider. Host-build-graph, simulation, a5, and builds without that provider fail at worker registration. Same reasontest_prefetch_async.pyis@pytest.mark.platforms("a2a3")-only. No sim data-path ST, no P=4 leg.pl.spmdinside). The multi-core drain class ([Feature] In-kernel put-fence / TPUT-quiesce primitive to enable multi-core parallelized cross-rank push (combine_push / dispatch) #1906 / [Bug] Spmd task submission omits the DistributedTensor CommContext arg → cross-rank notify/wait/put from a pl.spmd scope deadlocks (AICore 507015) #1913) does not apply to this v1.build_async_session/tput_async/wait_async_event). This PR does not bump the pin.sync_id ∈ [0, 7]is checked at IR construction (BuildSdmaSessionreturns a bool that PTOAS discards).Example we ran (pypto ST)
The kernel is
tests/st/distributed/test_l3_put_async.py, the async counterpart oftest_l3_put.py. Each rank SDMA-writes intopeer = (r + 1) % 2, does local compute while the transfer is in flight, then waits before the notify that publishes it:SIZE = 1024, logically 1-D. Golden is the ring shuffle:outputs[r] == inputs[(r - 1) % 2].test_async_matches_sync_resultruns an otherwise-identical synchronous-puttwin and asserts bit-identical results. Ifcacheinvalid/ the GM fence were emitted at the issue rather than after the wait, the peer could see a partially-landed buffer and the two results would diverge. Timing is not gated; a shared box is too noisy for that.Onboard a2a3, P=2, devices 0,1:
tests/st/distributed/test_l3_put_async.py: 2 passed (test_ring_shuffle_async,test_async_matches_sync_result).tests/st/distributed/test_l3_put.pyon the same pair: 5 passed.39ce891d.A larger throwaway kernel (8 MiB SDMA of local GM, no full-payload UB load; 32768 Vec adds on a 16 KiB tile) was timed with
pypto.runtime.benchmarkdevice_wallon the same pair, golden still PASS:Median 825 µs saved (about 70% of the transfer hidden). A first try with tiny compute was inconclusive (stdev larger than the signal). Loading a 1 MiB payload into UB hits
Vec buffer usage exceeds 188416 bytes— the overlap window has to be on-core work that does notpl.loadthe whole transfer.Educational example in
examples/distributed/?Not in this PR. Worth a follow-up after the API settles, but not as tutorial step 17.
The 01–16 series is written to run on
a2a3sim(seedocs/en/user/distributed/11-put_get.md).put_asynccannot run on the simulator:enable_sdmais rejected at worker registration. A numbered17_put_async.pywould either break that contract or sit in the series as the one program that only works on real NPUs.After this lands, an a2a3-only sibling of
06_put_get.py(same ring-shuffle shape, wait-before-notify in comments) plus a short user-doc page would be useful — that ordering is what people will copy wrong, andexamples/is what they copy. Keep it out of the 01–16 sequence, or mark it hardware-only. Prefetch is documented that way for the same SDMA-workspace reason.Review map
sync_id/block_bytes/ window dst / same-rank subregionsrc/ir/op/distributed/put_async.cpp,comm_op_utils.hpython/pypto/language/distributed/op/{system,tensor,tile}_ops.pyAsyncWaitScratchBinderop_conversion_registry.cpp,convert_tensor_to_tile_ops_pass.cppcacheinvalid; sharedEmitWaitAsyncEventPTO; undrained / notify-while-outstanding / prefetch and second-session guards;enable_sdmapto_ops_distributed.cpp,pto_codegen.cpp,pto_backend.pyinsert_comm_fence_pass.cppdistributed_ops.md+ptoas-op-status.mdST columnsdocs/{en,zh}/dev/docs/en/dev/ir/05-operators.mdis untouched: it documents registration mechanics, these ops follow existing rules, and the file is already over the 1000-line limit.Tests
tests/ut/ir/operators/test_async_put_ops.py— handle types, both arities, rejections (non-1D, dynamic shape, atomic kwarg, non-window dst, dtype mismatch, bad arity, missing scratch, out-of-rangesync_id,block_bytes0/−1, subregion rank mismatch).tests/ut/ir/transforms/test_convert_tensor_to_tile_ops.py— scratch shape/dtype, rename, scratch as wait's third operand, nested-loop bind, branch-join reject, loop-carried reject.tests/ut/codegen/distributed/test_distributed_pto_codegen.py— nobuf(...), leading barrier kept, no drain between issue and wait,cacheinvalidthen fence after wait, always-emitted 1 MBblock_bytes,enable_sdmaon the artifact, undrained-event reject, notify-before-wait reject, prefetch+async-put reject, twoasync_sessioncalls reject, realptoasassembly round-trip (skip_ptoas=False,platform="a2a3"). Fence-pass before/after intest_insert_comm_fence.py.tests/st/distributed/test_l3_put_async.py(@pytest.mark.platforms("a2a3")).Test plan
test_l3_put_async.py— 2 passed; sync controltest_l3_put.py— 5 passedptoas-op-status.mddistributed-ST columns flipped for the three opsbuf(...), markers after wait, typedsync_id/block_bytes)async_session) match the intended contractOut of scope
put_asyncinto composite collectivestget_async/test_async_eventDSLchannel_group_idxif/ zero-trip loopsexamples/distributed/