feat(collectives): multi-AIV lane-mapped all_to_all_v launches (RFC #2521 K3) - #2900
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RFC hw-native-sys#2521 K3: the admitted blocks now partition the work instead of each repeating the whole exchange. B >= P splits each peer's payload into K = B/P contiguous lane ranges (block -> (peer = idx/K, lane = idx%K)); B < P gives each block a stride set of peers (idx, idx+B, ...). Phase 2 count pulls are partitioned (single writer per recv_counts entry). Barriers, credits and the kernel ABI are unchanged; K2's multicore ST remains the regression gate. Geometry mirrors the new UT-pinned lane_mapping.py reference, and the entry DFX line gains lanes_per_peer=K. Sim: lane-mapping UT + tests/ut/ir distributed ops + L2 kernel-render parity + entry-source test all green (260 passed). NPU correctness gate runs next.
…ci hazard) The block-partitioned Phase 2 let several blocks write different INT32 words of the SAME 64-byte cache line (recv_counts is P adjacent words), and a dcci write-back flushes the whole line: one block's write-back clobbered a neighbour's fresh word with a stale zero. NPU gate showed intermittent recv_counts=0 exactly in the P=4 cases. Phase 2 is now owned by block 0 alone (all pulls, all writes, one flush over a fully-owned line): aggregate pulls still drop from K2's B*P to P, and Phase 3 keeps the lane partition (the actual K3 win).
- B >= NR: K = B/NR lanes per peer, block -> (idx/K, idx%K), contiguous ceil-split sub-ranges, K=1 degenerates to the old push - B < NR: stride peer sets, idx + kB - counts pull stays single-owner per rank (recv_counts is one 64B cache line - partitioned writes would write-back-clobber) - DFX line documented with the new lanes_per_peer field; en/zh kept in parity
`lane_mapping.py` had the same problem `launch_width.py` did: it transcribed the lane geometry into Python, nothing compiled or ran it, and only a unit test imported it. The implementation that ships is the C++ in `kernel.cpp.in`, so the two could drift apart silently — and the review on hw-native-sys#2889 asked for exactly this class of duplicate to go. The module and its UT are removed. In their place, three tests extract the kernel's own geometry and lane-slice statements, compile them and run them: - the admitted blocks tile `peer x lane` exactly — no two blocks share a `(peer, lane)` (which would push one sub-range twice and drop another), and none is missing; - the `K` lane ranges partition `[0, valid_numel)` adjacently, with no overlap or gap; - the worked examples, including a ragged division and a payload smaller than `K` where trailing lanes send nothing. The C++ only computes and prints; the properties are asserted in Python, so a failure names the offending `(P, B)` or `(valid, K)` rather than just exiting non-zero. Extraction is anchored on exact statement text and asserts the anchor is present, so a kernel edit that moves this code fails the test rather than silently skipping it. Verified by mutation: changing the slice arithmetic fails the two slice tests and leaves the geometry test passing. Part of hw-native-sys#2521 (K3).
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HostEntry as HOST entry
participant KernelBlocks as all-to-all-v blocks
participant ReceiveCounts as GM recv_counts
participant PeerBuffers as peer buffers
HostEntry->>KernelBlocks: Submit admitted blocks and rank count
KernelBlocks->>ReceiveCounts: Block 0 writes and flushes receive counts
KernelBlocks->>PeerBuffers: Push partitioned slices or strided peer payloads
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The implementation has no confirmed merge-blocking defect, but the Chinese documentation should clarify narrow-launch logs and correct the receive-count cache-line description. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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The new lane partition can give supported INT8 transfers unaligned start addresses, risking incorrect TPUT behavior on device. The added geometry tests verify coverage of the ranges but not their transfer alignment. Review comment:
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In `@docs/zh/dev/distributed_ops.md`:
- Line 453: Update the cache-line description near NR to state that the adjacent
int32 counters may occupy one or multiple 64-byte cache lines; only claim a
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- lanes_per_peer is 0 in the B < NR stride regime - the DFX line now says so (en + zh) - recv_counts can span one or more 64-byte cache lines; the hazard is two writers in the SAME line - reworded in both docs and the kernel comment Addresses CodeRabbit review comments on hw-native-sys#2900. Part of hw-native-sys#2521 (K3).
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The new element-wise partition can create unaligned TPUT ranges for a supported payload dtype and launch width. The added geometry tests verify coverage but not whether those ranges are legal device transfers. Review comment:
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…FC SplitAligned) The element-count CeilDiv split could start a lane's TPUT at a non-32-byte address (e.g. INT8, one 64-element row, K=3 -> starts at byte 22, 44). The repo's TPUT paths treat unaligned segment starts as unsafe - the mesh-allreduce length stripes round every interior boundary up to 32 bytes for exactly this reason - and RFC hw-native-sys#2521 specifies SplitAligned(..., 32) with only the final tail ragged. lane_elems now rounds up to 32 / sizeof(dtype) elements, so every lane's TPUT starts 32-byte aligned; coverage and total traffic are unchanged. The kernel-C++ extraction tests assert the new alignment property and cover INT8/FP16/FP32 granularities; docs note the rule. Addresses the Codex automated review on hw-native-sys#2900 (P1: align per-lane TPUT boundaries). Part of hw-native-sys#2521 (K3).
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The new lane partition can produce unaligned boundaries for valid payload shapes, undermining the safety of concurrent TPUTs. Review comment:
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The multicore ST only ever ran K in {1,2}; under the previous element-count split, K=3 with a one-row FP32/SIZE=64 payload starts lane 1 at byte 88 and lane 2 at byte 176 - not 32-byte aligned. The new case (p2-l6-b6-ragged-k3) puts that geometry on device under the RFC SplitAligned boundaries, with the same full-correctness and lane-self-clear assertions.
Part of hw-native-sys#2521 (K3).
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The work partition, count ownership, and barrier flow appear consistent with the existing collective contract. I found no actionable regression in the diff. Tests could not be run because this environment has no Python executable. |
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Thanks — addressed, plus a note on the follow-up. P1 (unaligned lane cuts, both postings ≤ 11:50). Fixed in Follow-up (12:06, slot-relative vs absolute addresses). Correct that rounding Re: 12:10 — thanks for the re-check ("no actionable regression"). The full evidence set is in the PR body; tests couldn't run in that environment, but the on-device run above is recent and green. |
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Benchmark update — overall status of the per-width speedups ( 1 MiB/peer, Δ vs the
Overall status: all three widths of interest — Supporting EP8 numbers (24/24 cells, uniform protocol): 256 KiB/peer −33.4 % / −35.8 %, 16 KiB/peer flat (+2.0 % / +6.1 % — fixed-cost dominated), zero-counts control −6.3 % / −6.8 % ( This closes the EP8 half of the owed sweep (EP16 still owed). New artifacts: |
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Summary
Lands RFC #2521 work item K3 (plan 113): the admitted AIV blocks of
pld.tensor.all_to_all_vnow partition the exchange instead of each repeating it whole. K2 (merged as #2889,e48937b9) made multi-block launches correct — oneL → Bsite, atomic gang admission, DFX — but deliberately without partitioning: every block still pushed the full payload to every peer, which is why K2's own sweep measured −3.4 %…+7.6 % with sign flips. This is the change that makes the launched width pay.B >= P— peer × length:K = B/Planes per peer; blockidxowns(peer, lane) = (idx/K, idx%K)and pushes one contiguous sub-range of that peer's valid prefix — interior boundaries rounded up to 32 bytes per the RFC'sSplitAligned(..., 32)(only the final tail is ragged), so every lane'sTPUTstarts 32-byte aligned; never interleaved by chunk (interleaving would put the whole payload back on lane 0, and since K1 each peer is one flat TPUT).K = 1degenerates exactly to K2's whole-range push; the wire shape is unchanged.B < P— stride peer sets: blockidxowns peersidx, idx+B, idx+2B, …, pushing each peer's full range.Pcounts and writes the wholerecv_countsarray, so everydcciwrite-back covers only lines this core fully owns. Aggregate pulls drop from K2'sB*PtoP. See the hazard section — this is a correctness requirement, not a simplification.lanes_per_peer=Kjoins the existing singleLOG_TIMINGline (requested_core_num=L launched_core_num=B active_lanes=min(B, stride) nranks=NR lanes_per_peer=K;0in the stride regime), so the block → (peer, lane) assignment is observable from the device log alone.args[5] = CommContext*,expected_arg_countstays 9),[NR, S]signal layout, block-aware barriers, self-clearing credit protocol, admission/atomicity semantics.Measured twice (EP4, 50 cells × 2 campaigns, both 50/50; run 2 with zero retries): 1 MiB/peer −47.7 % at
L=8/ −50.4 % atL=16vs theL=1arm; egress 1.54 → 3.14 Gbit/s per rank (≈0.39 GB/s); the zero-counts fixed cost returns to the noise floor (K2's same cell: +7.6 %). 7 commits, 6 files, +340/−65. Part of #2521.Where K3 sits in RFC #2521
The RFC ("Optimize collective API performance with L2 orchestration and runtime-selected multi-AIV launches", YunjiQin) defines
P,L,B = CalAllToAllVBlocks(P, L),K = B/P, the peer × length policy, and the sender-block-column signal. This PR lands the mapping half of that design:send_countspull, so the RFC's "lane 0 publishes the count" clause is already obsolete — K3's remaining ordering duty is per-peer payload completion, and the kernel keeps the all-sends-before-any-waits invariant.L → Bentry, atomic admission, dynamiccore_num, DFX —B > 1correct, not yet partitioned.ceiland 32-byte-aligned interiors (SplitAligned), single-owner counts pull, tests pinning the geometry. Satisfies frozen contract item Fix backtrace deduplication for Clang debug info #4 (lane split — one TPUT per (lane, peer), never by chunk) and the payload/count half of item Add README and update project dependencies #6; keeps the amended signal layout (Update CANN Open Software License to Version 2.0 #5).Bdata) and K4 (TPUT double buffering — orthogonal). Owed items are in Reviewer notes.Changes
Kernel —
all_to_all_v/templates/kernel.cpp.in(+128/−44)lanes_per_peer,peer_of_block,lane_in_group, with a defensive multiple-of-Pguard that returns uniformly on every rank if ever violated (the only non-hanging failure mode). The comment marks this as the only implementation of the mapping — the tests extract these statements.B >= P:valid_numel = rows * row_numel; interior lane boundaries round up to32 / sizeof(dtype)elements — the RFC'sSplitAligned(..., 32)— so every lane'sTPUTstarts 32-byte aligned with only the final tail ragged;[begin, end)clamped two-sided; TPUT issued only whenend > begin, so a payload smaller thanKleaves trailing lanes empty — they still complete through the credit loop. Self is not special-cased.B < P: per-block stride set of peers, full range each.if (block_idx == 0) { self + P pulls + whole-array flush + dsb }, then the existing all-blockpipe_barrier(PIPE_ALL)closes the phase. Barriers, credits andactive_blocksuntouched.The Phase-2 hazard the NPU gate caught (fixed in-branch,
7df11689)recv_countsisPadjacent INT32 words — one or more 64-byte cache lines — and adcciwrite-back flushes the whole line. The first, block-partitioned Phase 2 had different blocks writing different words of the same line: one block's write-back carried stale-zero neighbours and clobbered a neighbour's fresh word → intermittentrecv_counts=0for one(rank, src)pair, reproduced on the P=4 gate cases (both regimes; P=2 passed by timing luck). Fix: exactly one writer per rank. K2 was immune only because every block wrote every word. Same hazard class as the cross-rankNotifyOp::Setbug — now reproduced within a rank across AIV blocks; word-level hand-off across cores is not available at the current pto-isa pin.Entry —
all_to_all_v/templates/entry.cpp.in(+7/−2)lanes_per_peer = admitted_blocks >= nranks ? admitted_blocks / nranks : 0appended to the DFX line — the deterministic complement of the kernel mapping. Admission, stride check and ABI untouched.Tests —
tests/ut/codegen/distributed/test_host_orch_distributed.py(+159)test_kernel_lane_geometry_is_a_bijection_over_admitted_blocks(blocks tilepeer × lane— no collision, no gap),test_kernel_lane_slice_partitions_each_peers_payload([0, valid_numel)tiled adjacently and every non-empty lane starts at a 32-byte-aligned element boundary —align_elem∈ {32, 16, 8} elements for INT8 / FP16-BF16 / FP32),test_kernel_lane_slice_worked_examples(aligned interior + ragged tail:(10,3,8) → [(0,8),(8,10),(10,10)],(36,2,32) → [(0,32),(32,36)]; and a payload smaller thanK).(P, B) ∈ {(8,8), (8,16), (16,16), (4,8), (4,4), (2,8), (4,2), (8,4)};(valid, K, align)incl.(64, 3, 32)(the review's INT8 example) and(36, 2, 32).lanes_per_peer=.p2-l6-b6-ragged-k3(K=3): with one valid row its lane starts land at bytes 88/176 under an element-count split — mid-cache-line — so the aligned split is pinned on device, not just in the UT (the ST is FP32; INT8's finer element granularity is covered by the extraction tests above).Docs —
docs/{en,zh}/dev/distributed_ops.md(+25/−12, +16/−7)B > 1is correct but not faster" caveat with the partition description (both regimes, the 32-byte interior boundary rule, single-owner counts rule + cache-line rationale); DFX line documented withlanes_per_peer; en/zh in parity.Performance (EP4 on 4×910B2, NPUs 4–7,
--impl managed-host)Two independent runs, 50 cells each, 50/50 OK both times; results reproduce. Harness:
collectives/alltoallv_a1.py(pypto-profiling), persistent windows,--rounds 100 --warmup 5 --swimlane-rounds 8,A2AV_CORE_NUMS=1,2,4,8,16, 2 interleaved reps, payloads{0, 16 KiB, 256 KiB, 1 MiB}+zero@24960control.B = CalAllToAllVBlocks(P, L): EP4 →B = L ≤ 4, 8, 16;L=16exercisesK=4lanes/peer. Metric: whole-program timing slot; the HOST rail has no independent AIV metric, so read deltas pairwise, not absolutely.Δ vs the
L=1arm — run 2 (2026-09-24):L=2L=4L=8L=16Run 1 (2026-09-23) reproduces the shape: 1 MiB −23.3 / −40.3 / −50.9 / −49.5 %; 256 KiB −11.8 / −17.8 / −19.3 / −25.1 %; 16 KiB −3.1 / −7.7 / −9.0 / −14.1 %; zero-counts +0.4 / +0.5 / +1.5 / +3.9 %.
L=1) → 8 021 µs (L=8) (run 1) — egress 1.54 → 3.14–3.15 Gbit/s per rank, saturating atB ≥ 8.L=8vsL=16at 1 MiB is a tie: the ordering flips between runs (run 1:L=8ahead by 2.7 %; run 2:L=16ahead by 5.4 %) — treatB ≥ 8as one operating point (hand-off to A3, which will re-race with ≥5 reps).L=8(run 1) vs +7.6 % measured on K2's code for the same cell — the single-owner counts pull removed most of it; run 2 stays in the same small region (+4.9 %; run-to-run noise dominates).L; the absoluteL=16times agree across runs (3 821 vs 3 834 µs) — the delta difference is baseline drift on theL=1arm.Raw data & repro:
pypto-profiling→reports/issue-2521-k3-lane-scaling-2026-09-23/K3_LANE_SCALING_REPORT.md,reports/issue-2521-k3-lane-scaling-2026-09-24/README.md(+comparison_vs_2026-09-23.txt,analysis_output.txt,summary.json,json/,campaign_console.log).Validation (910B2, NPUs 4–7)
p2-l6-b6-ragged-k3, final headcf136e739f62a1f7tests/ut/codegen/distributed+ L2 lowering (incl. the kernel-C++ extraction tests)tests/uton the branch tree (earlier refresh) + pre-commitCommits in this PR (on top of merged K2
e48937b9)6ef8a619— feat: lane-mapped partitioning (geometry, Phase 3 partition in both regimes, entry DFX)7df11689— fix: Phase 2 single-owner per rank (the 64B-linedccihazard)37d08200— docs: partition description +lanes_per_peer(en/zh)9f62a1f7— test: pin the lane geometry on the kernel's own C++ (mutation-verified)4e4b696c— docs: review nits —lanes_per_peer=0in the stride regime; cache-line span (en/zh + kernel comment)d49b9168— fix: 32-byte-aligned lane boundaries (RFCSplitAligned; the Codex review catch)cf136e73— test: on-device K=3 non-32B-clean split caseReviewer notes
4e4b696c, threads resolved. Codex reviewer: P1 unaligned per-laneTPUTstarts for element-count splits (e.g. INT8, K=3), fixed ind49b9168; the same misalignment class is now pinned on device bycf136e73; full-file re-run 14/14. A follow-up note on absolute slot-base alignment was answered: the RFC defines the cut relative to the slot (SplitAligned(rows*C*sizeof(T), ..., 32)) - which is what is implemented - and slot base/stride alignment is a pre-existing property of the multi-block paths (K1/K2 also start TPUTs at slot bases); if the maintainers want it explicit, a contract check can be added separately.B=16= 2-lanes/peer example lands with A3); receiver-side narrowing (wait only theKcolumns of each source row) is deferred — consumers currently wait all admitted columns, a safe superset with no correctness impact. An INT8 ramp in the ST builder is available on request if the literal dtype is wanted on hardware — the byte-level alignment class is already exercised by the K=3 case, and INT8 element granularity is covered in the extraction tests.task-submitunavailable here).K-column wait deferred.Part of #2521.