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Summary

Implements RFC #2521 work item K2's
CalAllToAllVBlocks(P, L) — the pure L -> B launch-width mapping that frozen contract item 3
specifies. Standalone infrastructure: it makes no behaviour change to any existing code, and
nothing calls it yet.

Plan 117 of the K2 stack (117 -> 118 -> 119 -> 120).

The contract

core_num is a requested maximum L, not a promise to launch exactly L. The admitted
block count is:

B = L             if L <  P     (each block owns multiple peers)
B = (L // P) * P  if L >= P     (highest multiple of P that is <= L)

B is computed once and never recomputed downstream (frozen contract item 11), and takes no
payload input — so shapes and valid_elems never influence it.

Changes

  • python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/launch_width.py (new) — cal_all_to_all_v_blocks(p, l).
    Rejects non-int arguments (bool and floats, so the annotated int contract holds),
    non-positive P, and non-positive L.
  • python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/__init__.py — exports the helper.
  • tests/ut/ir/test_distributed_ops.py — the RFC's own 8-row worked-example table plus
    4 non-positive and 4 non-integer rejection cases (16 tests).

No C++/bindings/.pyi changes: the eventual runtime call site is entry.cpp.in, a
self-contained template with no link-time path back into these compiler sources, so it carries
its own C++ mirror of the formula (plan 120) rather than linking against this module.

What this PR is not

  • Not the entry-level wiring (that is plan 120).
  • Not a behaviour change of any kind — core_num stays a compile-time-only kwarg until plan 118
    makes it a genuine dynamic argument.

Verification

Sim Docker pypto3-hw-native-sys:sim, rebuilt 2026-09-22 from
Dockerfile.hw-native-sys.sim.ubuntu22.04 (PYPTO_COMMIT=d626aea16, PTOAS v0.65); worktree
mounted and installed with pip install --no-build-isolation -e ..

Run Result
This PR's own tests 16 passed
tests/ut/ir/test_distributed_ops.py (the touched file) 204 passed
Full tests/ut at this head 73098c98b 14344 passed, 1 failed, 16 skipped, 1 xfailed
Full tests/ut on unmodified main d626aea16, same image 14328 passed, same 1 failure

The delta is exactly +16 passed — this PR's own tests. Nothing else moved. The baseline was
re-measured rather than reused, because main gained two commits (below) since the previous
revision was verified.

The single failure is pre-existing and environment-caused, not a regression:
tests/ut/language/test_unified_ops.py::TestUnifiedSlicePadValue::test_symlinked_import_path_still_names_the_caller
reproduces identically on unmodified main in the same image (an editable-install symlink-path
naming issue).

Revision history

The original revision was cut from K1's feat/all-to-all-v-flat-tput, so its diff carried all of
K1's commits (17 files / +739/-190) and went CONFLICTING as main moved. It was rebuilt
directly on main: this PR's own content — the mapping, its export, and its tests — is
byte-for-byte unchanged, and the K1 content is no longer part of it. Same code, 3 files.

2026-09-22 re-cascade. K1 merged (#2828 -> main as 5cb75663a), and main also gained
#2837 (the PTOAS v0.65 bump), moving main to d626aea16. This branch was rebuilt onto it
with zero conflicts and re-verified end to end on a freshly built image — the counts above are
from that run, not the earlier one.

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insert_comm_fence_pass.cpp and other K1 files. That is a stale artifact from the 17-file
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What is next in the K2 stack

Three more PRs on top of this one, all now re-cascaded onto the merged main d626aea16:

PR Branch Head Scope UT delta
118 feat/all-to-all-v-core-num-arg eec7d51bf core_num as a genuine dynamic arg 0 (no-op)
119 feat/all-to-all-v-noop-clamp-barrier 57db5634a [NR, S] signal + block-aware barrier +6
120 feat/all-to-all-v-multiblock-enable 4e08ea8b2 actual B>1 on the HOST rail +2

118 and 119 depend on this PR's helper; 120 is where CalAllToAllVBlocks finally gets called.

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The change adds cal_all_to_all_v_blocks, exports it with the launch_width module, and tests valid calculations plus invalid input handling.

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Launch-width calculation API

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Launch-width calculation and exports
python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/launch_width.py, python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/__init__.py
The new function validates exact integer, positive inputs and returns the requested width or the largest multiple of p not exceeding l. The package exports the function and module.
Launch-width behavior tests
tests/ut/ir/test_distributed_ops.py
Parameterized tests cover worked examples, non-positive inputs, and non-integer inputs, including booleans.

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…ts, launch-width

Rescan sequential loop/while bodies for loop-carried Phase B order (skip
parallel), memoize wrapper resolution, reject non-int cal_all_to_all_v_blocks
inputs, and snapshot peer send_counts after the start barrier so Phase 2
recv_counts matches this call's payload.
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Review follow-up (2b37bd028)

Pushed fixes for the Codex / CodeRabbit threads on this PR:

  1. Phase B loop-carried order — rescan sequential for/while with seen_publish=true; skip pl.parallel; do not prologue builtin_template_dir AIV publishers.
  2. Memoize ResolveSingleInCoreDelegate (incl. negative cache).
  3. cal_all_to_all_v_blocks — reject non-int / bool with TypeError.
  4. Kernel — snapshot peer send_counts after the start barrier for Phase 2 recv_counts.

UTs: all test_insert_comm_fence.py (39) + cal_all_to_all_v_blocks* (16) green locally; pre-commit clean on the touched files.

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…ts, launch-width

Rescan sequential loop/while bodies for loop-carried Phase B order (skip
parallel), memoize wrapper resolution, reject non-int cal_all_to_all_v_blocks
inputs, and snapshot peer send_counts after the start barrier so Phase 2
recv_counts matches this call's payload.
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…ts, launch-width

Rescan sequential loop/while bodies for loop-carried Phase B order (skip
parallel), memoize wrapper resolution, reject non-int cal_all_to_all_v_blocks
inputs, and snapshot peer send_counts after the start barrier so Phase 2
recv_counts matches this call's payload.
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georgebisbas force-pushed the feat/all-to-all-v-cal-blocks branch from a65c9d9 to d0287d7 Compare September 15, 2026 08:50
georgebisbas added a commit to georgebisbas/pypto that referenced this pull request Sep 15, 2026
…ts, launch-width

Rescan sequential loop/while bodies for loop-carried Phase B order (skip
parallel), memoize wrapper resolution, reject non-int cal_all_to_all_v_blocks
inputs, and snapshot peer send_counts after the start barrier so Phase 2
recv_counts matches this call's payload.
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georgebisbas force-pushed the feat/all-to-all-v-cal-blocks branch 2 times, most recently from 1a99292 to 9faf296 Compare September 21, 2026 14:12
@georgebisbas georgebisbas changed the title feat(distributed): add cal_all_to_all_v_blocks launch-width mapping (K2 PR 1/4, stacked on #2738) feat(distributed): add cal_all_to_all_v_blocks launch-width mapping (RFC #2521 K2) Sep 21, 2026
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2521 - Partially compliant

Compliant requirements:

  • CalAllToAllVBlocks(P, L) implemented as a pure (P, L) -> B mapping: L when L < P, (L // P) * P otherwise.
  • No payload/shape input; result depends only on (P, L).
  • Rejects non-positive P and L and non-int inputs, so the admitted value is always a positive block count.
  • Unit tests encode the RFC's own worked-example table for the mapping plus rejection cases.

Non-compliant requirements:

  • CHIP/L2 orchestration (LowerL2TensorCollectives, one local builtin AIV task, single outer per-rank dispatch).
  • Runtime-selected multi-AIV launch wiring and the entry.cpp.in call site that must apply B to a real sync_start launch.
  • Managed all_to_all_v padding removal / exact traffic.
  • Follow-on collectives (all_to_all, allgather, broadcast, reduce_scatter).
  • Scaling-curve measurement and Phase-0 baseline archiving.
  • DSpark benchmark reporting (actual vs intended EP8 config, pack/collective/unpack/E2E split).

Requires further human verification:

  • Cross-PR parity between this Python reference and the C++ mirror that plan 120 will add to all_to_all_v/templates/entry.cpp.in; this diff contains no cross-check, so divergence can only be confirmed by reviewing that plan/PR.
  • Hardware-level validation on A2/A3 EP8/EP16 (not exercisable by this standalone helper).

2828 - Not compliant

Non-compliant requirements:

  • Scalar pull of per-source counts from window-bound send_counts.
  • Two-round credit barrier (1 -> 2, AtomicAdd(-2) epilogue, no Set).
  • One TPUT per destination.
  • Plain-Tensor send_counts rejection plus negative UT.
  • counts_buf sizing/ST updates and the reuse/skew ST.
  • Protocol documentation updates.

Requires further human verification:

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🔒 No security concerns identified
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Divergence Risk

The only executable copy of the frozen (P, L) -> B rule added here is the Python reference, while the code that actually runs (the C++ mirror this docstring says will live in all_to_all_v/templates/entry.cpp.in, plan 120) is a separate hand-written implementation with no shared source and no cross-check in this diff. Nothing in CI compares the two, so a copy that drops the L < P branch or changes the rounding will not be caught: for example a C++ mirror that computes only (L / P) * P returns B = 0 for P = 8, L = 4, i.e. a zero-width sync_start launch, while all 16 tests here still pass. Suggested mitigation when plan 120 lands: derive one side from the other (codegen/constant table) or add a test that pins the C++ mirror to the same worked-example table so divergence fails CI. Flagging as a risk rather than a defect, since the C++ mirror is out of this PR's scope.

Tested, canonical reference for the ``(P, L) -> B`` formula the RFC's frozen contract
item 3 specifies. This module builds no IR and is not itself part of any lowering
pass or codegen path: the actual runtime call site
(``all_to_all_v/templates/entry.cpp.in``, plan 120 in ``pypto-3.0-notes``) is a
self-contained C++ template compiled separately from these compiler sources, so it
carries its own C++ mirror of this exact formula rather than linking against it.

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2521 - Partially compliant

Compliant requirements:

  • CalAllToAllVBlocks(P, L) implemented with the exact L < P / (L // P) * P formula as a pure function of (P, L) with no payload input.
  • Documented core_num as a requested maximum L rather than a promised launch width.
  • Helper exported from pypto.ir.op.distributed and covered by unit tests, including the RFC worked-example table and input-domain rejections.

Non-compliant requirements:

  • L2-orchestration call site that computes B before submitting the AIV task (entry.cpp.in, plan 120) is not part of this PR; nothing consumes the new helper yet.
  • No change to L3→L2 dispatch structure, AIV task/require_sync_start placement, or per-collective launch behavior.
  • No padding-free all_to_all_v transfer in the managed path.
  • No Phase 0 performance archival or EP8/EP16 bandwidth/saturation validation.

Requires further human verification:

  • Whether the planned C++ mirror in entry.cpp.in will stay numerically identical to this Python reference, and what mechanism (if any) keeps the two in sync.
  • Whether the RFC's frozen contract item 3 table matches the eight worked examples encoded in the tests.

2828 - Partially compliant

Compliant requirements:

Non-compliant requirements:

  • Scalar-pull count distribution, two-round credit barrier, K1 one-TPUT-per-destination, plain-Tensor send_counts rejection, reuse/skew ST, and protocol documentation are all absent from this PR.

Requires further human verification:

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🔒 No security concerns identified
⚡ No major issues detected

…RFC hw-native-sys#2521 K2)

Frozen contract item 3: a pure (P, L) -> B admission mapping — the admitted
block count for all_to_all_v — with no payload input. Computed once and never
recomputed downstream (contract item 11).

    B = L             if L <  P   (each block owns multiple peers)
    B = (L // P) * P  if L >= P   (highest multiple of P that is <= L)

`core_num` is a requested maximum L, not a promise to launch exactly L.

- python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/launch_width.py (new): cal_all_to_all_v_blocks,
  rejecting non-int (bool/float) arguments, non-positive P and non-positive L.
- python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/__init__.py: export the helper.
- tests/ut/ir/test_distributed_ops.py: the RFC's own 8-row worked-example
  table, 4 non-positive cases, 4 non-integer cases.

Standalone infrastructure with no callers yet. The eventual runtime call site is
entry.cpp.in, a self-contained template with no link-time dependency on these
compiler sources, so it carries its own C++ mirror of this formula in the
follow-up PR in this stack rather than linking against this module.

Review follow-up: the module docstring now anchors the call-site explanation to
RFC hw-native-sys#2521 instead of naming an out-of-tree planning document, and the Raises
section states explicitly that int subclasses are rejected along with bool and
float.
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2521 - Partially compliant

Compliant requirements:

  • (P, L) -> B pure mapping implemented exactly as specified (B = L if L < P, else (L // P) * P).
  • Rejects non-positive P/L and non-int inputs, so the shape/launch arithmetic stays integer-exact.
  • Formula is pinned and tested (RFC worked-example table plus rejection cases); no existing behaviour changed.

Non-compliant requirements:

  • CHIP/L2 orchestration path and per-rank compute_before -> collective -> compute_after pipeline.
  • Wiring the mapping into the entry.cpp.in runtime call site (the PR states this is plan 120 and only a C++ mirror exists).
  • core_num maximum semantics / Scalar[INDEX] acceptance at the op and parser surfaces.
  • Managed all_to_all_v exact-traffic (padding removal) and the follow-on collectives.
  • Rank agreement / require_sync_start launch configuration on A2/A3 EP8/EP16.
  • Documentation updates for the new contract; benchmark/Phase 0 performance evidence.

Requires further human verification:

  • Whether the runtime C++ mirror (plan 120) matches this Python reference bit-for-bit, and whether the two implementations can drift.
  • Hardware launch behaviour for B < L / B = L cases on EP8 and EP16, and the measured B* per collective.
  • Benchmark configuration correctness (EP8 MOE_TOKENS=256 vs 128) and the pack/collective/unpack timing split.
⏱️ Estimated effort to review: 2 🔵🔵⚪⚪⚪
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🔒 No security concerns identified
⚡ Recommended focus areas for review

Public API surface

launch_width (the module object) is added to __all__, while the sibling implementation submodules (system_ops, tensor_ops, tile_ops) are imported but deliberately not exported. The package docstring states the DSL layer's unified pld.<op> dispatch re-exports the names here, so listing a module name exports a module where callers/dispatch expect an op callable; if that dispatch is generated from __all__, this also adds a bogus pld.launch_width entry. The intended public addition appears to be only the cal_all_to_all_v_blocks function, which is already listed. Confidence is limited because the dispatch-generation code is not visible in this diff, so verify before changing; if it is not generated from __all__, this is only namespace pollution.

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On the ticket-compliance analysis

Thanks — two of the "requires further human verification" items are real design questions worth
answering explicitly, and three of the "non-compliant" items look like they are already landed or
already satisfied on main. Details below, with the evidence inline.

1. What keeps the Python reference and the C++ mirror in sync?

Straight answer: there is no automated numerical-equivalence check between them, and there cannot
easily be one.
entry.cpp.in is compiled standalone by the runtime builder, with no link-time path
back into the compiler's sources — that is precisely why it mirrors the formula instead of calling into
python/pypto/ir/op/distributed/launch_width.py. The module docstring records this rather than leaving
it implicit.

What exists instead is three levels of pinning, none of which is a proof:

Level What it pins
The RFC's frozen worked-example table the normative (P, L) -> B definition both sides implement
test_cal_all_to_all_v_blocks_worked_examples (this PR) the Python side — the RFC's eight rows verbatim
test_host_all_to_all_v_entry_computes_b_and_launches_only_b (the last branch in this stack, which is what wires B into the entry.cpp.in call site) the rendered C++: it must contain the literal expression l < p ? l : (l / p) * p and the call CalAllToAllVBlocks(nranks, core_num)

So a rewrite of either formula fails a test.

Residual risk, stated plainly: the C++-side check is a text assertion, not an evaluation, and it
asserts the expression rather than comparing values. A change that preserved the expression's text
while altering its meaning would pass it, and so would a one-sided edit to the Python reference. Closing
that properly means generating the mirror from a single shared source rather than hand-maintaining two
copies. Worth doing if the pattern spreads to the other collectives; out of scope for this step.

2. Does the RFC's table match the eight worked examples?

Yes — row for row, in the same order.

P L B
8 1 1
8 7 7
8 8 8
8 10 8
8 15 8
8 16 16
16 7 7
16 16 16

The RFC's launch-width policy table is consistent with it as well: its AllToAllV row
(L<P: B=L; otherwise B=floor(L/P)*P) yields 16 for both the EP8 and EP16 L=16 columns, matching
the two L=16 rows above. The C++ mirror in entry.cpp.in carries the same expression, so all three
agree today.

3. What the non-compliant list is really measuring

The list is an accurate description of RFC #2521 as a whole. This PR is one step of a four-branch
stack, and several of the listed items are already on main from earlier PRs. Mapping each onto the
RFC's own Rollout / Migration phases:

Flagged item Where it actually lives
L2 orchestration (LowerL2TensorCollectives, one local builtin AIV task, one outer per-rank dispatch) Already landed — the pass exists, is wired into the default pipeline, and has its own UT/ST suites (added #2635, extended #2828)
Exact valid-prefix traffic Already landed — #2536 (2026-08-28); see §4
Counts pull, two-round credit barrier, one TPUT/destination, plain-Tensor send_counts rejection, protocol docs Already landed — #2828 merged 2026-09-22 as 5cb75663a, which is why they are absent from this diff
entry.cpp.in call site computing B; require_sync_start; signal-stride validation Last branch in this stack (RFC phase 3)
core_num converted to a scalar operand Follow-up branch in this stack (phase 3)
Signal-shape relaxation + block-aware barrier lanes Follow-up branch in this stack (phase 4)
all_to_all, allgather, broadcast, reduce_scatter RFC phases 5–6
Phase-0 archival, EP8/EP16 scaling curves RFC phase 1 and the acceptance criteria — measurement, not a code PR
DSpark reporting RFC phase 8

The three sibling branches are pushed, but this is the only one of the four with a PR open; the later
three are stacked on it and will follow once this lands.

4. Exact-traffic looks already done

"No padding-free all_to_all_v transfer in the managed path."

all_to_all_v/templates/kernel.cpp.in on main transfers only the valid prefix: it computes
rows = clamp(send_counts[dest], 0, max_recv) and TPUTs exactly those rows, with the in-source comment
"The TPUT transfers exactly rows rows, not the full max_recv capacity — only the payload crosses the
interconnect."
That predates this stack (#2536, 2026-08-28), and this stack carries it as a
do-not-regress invariant rather than as new work.

Two RFC passages may simply be stale rather than unmet, and I flag them as observations, not
objections: the Motivation section's "transfer every peer slot at full capacity", and the
affected-files line that lists lower_l2_tensor_collectives_pass.cpp as "proposed" when it has since
landed and been extended.

5. Review threads

All five threads are resolved. Four are outdated — they pointed at files that left the diff when the
branch was rebuilt directly off main (an earlier revision carried a sibling PR's commits). The one
that stayed live (rejecting a non-integer launch width) was fixed rather than dismissed: the function
now rejects bool, floats and int subclasses explicitly, and its docstring records why an exact-type
check is used.

6. Current head, and the stack's heads

The branch head is now 32eb15220. The only difference from the revision the analyses above were
pinned to is a docstring edit — launch_width.py, +10/−8, with no change to the function itself — so
the measured counts are unchanged, and they were re-measured rather than carried over: full tests/ut
14344 passed, 1 failed, the failure being the pre-existing
test_symlinked_import_path_still_names_the_caller, which fails identically on unmodified main.

For anyone following the stack: all four branches were re-cascaded onto the corrected 117 and
force-pushed, so the heads in the PR description's "What is next" table have moved. Current values,
measured on the rebuilt chain in the same Sim Docker image:

Branch Head now tests/ut delta vs main
feat/all-to-all-v-core-num-arg f349f44d8 0 — the no-op bar holds
feat/all-to-all-v-noop-clamp-barrier beeaee5fc +6
feat/all-to-all-v-multiblock-enable 52832fef5 +4

Baseline: unmodified main d626aea16 = 14328 passed, same image.

main has since advanced to e666c2fd6 (#2865), which touches only .github/ — a CI setup
action and two workflow files, with no source, test, or build file in the diff. It therefore
cannot affect the counts above, and the branches need no further re-cascade on its account.

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Closing in favour of #2889

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