host_build_graph: carve Graph execution storage from the outer task's heap - #1884
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGraph execution storage is now part of the outer graph task allocation. Graph definitions record its required size. Per-submission execution buffers and related APIs were removed. Definition-buffer retention and cleanup were renamed. Tests and investigation notes were updated. ChangesGraph execution storage
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR moves graph execution storage into the outer task heap and reports substantial cold-start improvements, with the supplied tests and hardware validation passing. Only minor documentation cleanup remains, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GraphDefinition
participant graph_submit_definition
participant OuterGraphTask
participant upload_graph_submissions
participant GraphExecution
GraphDefinition->>graph_submit_definition: provide execution_storage_bytes
graph_submit_definition->>OuterGraphTask: allocate required_heap plus execution storage
OuterGraphTask->>upload_graph_submissions: provide task allocation
upload_graph_submissions->>GraphExecution: localize graph and pass storage span
GraphExecution-->>OuterGraphTask: use storage after the graph heap
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tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp (1)
201-215: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the execution-storage location.
OuterHeap::execution()defines the required tail address. The tests do not compare it with the pointer fromgraph_execution_localize().Add an assertion after each localization, including the affine replay path. This detects a regression that places
GraphExecutionat the packed-output base and overlaps node outputs.Proposed test assertion
GraphExecution *execution = graph_execution_localize(outer_slot); ASSERT_NE(execution, nullptr); +EXPECT_EQ(static_cast<void *>(execution), heap.execution());🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.md`:
- Around line 99-106: The latency attribution uses inconsistent baselines: the
round-split components total −1.879 ms, not the claimed −2.56 ms. In
docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.md lines 99-106,
either change the claimed total and related attribution to −1.879 ms or provide
decomposition values based on the five-run median baseline; then update
docs/investigations/README.md line 87 to match the corrected investigation
result.
In `@src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.h`:
- Around line 918-925: Update the documentation comment for
abandon_graph_definition_buffers() to consistently refer to graph-definition
buffers or allocations instead of graph-execution buffers, matching the method
name and retained map.
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp`:
- Around line 201-215: After every call to graph_execution_localize(), including
the affine replay path, assert that the returned GraphExecution pointer equals
OuterHeap::execution(). Use the existing OuterHeap helper to verify localization
places execution storage after the required heap bytes and does not overlap
packed node outputs.
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… heap A Graph task's execution storage — the GraphExecution header, its GraphNodeStorage array and the patch arrays the device materializes into — came from a separate retained device allocation keyed by (pipeline slot, graph key, occurrence index). qwen3-14b decode replays one 277-node Definition 40 times, so that is 40 blocks of ~1.33 MB: 53 MB of rtMalloc plus 53 MB of aclrtMemset on the first bind, measured at 12.19 ms of the 12.88 ms graph_upload stage. Its lifetime is already the outer GRAPH task's: the storage is live from the first materialize slice until the task retires, which is exactly when the task's packed output buffer is reclaimed. So one allocation covers both halves the task owns — the nodes' packed outputs, then the execution storage — and the execution simply starts past required_heap. node_offsets are relative to the base, so the output layout is untouched. GraphDefinition carries the size as execution_storage_bytes, computed once when the Definition is built. Host and device then read one value instead of each running graph_execution_storage_bytes over the same inputs, and the address needs no wire field at all: it is packed_buffer_base + required_heap on both sides. GraphSubmission loses execution_storage and execution_storage_bytes (16 bytes), and acquire_graph_execution_buffer goes with them — one fewer HostApi op, and the platform no longer retains, zeroes or releases execution blocks. acquire_graph_definition_buffer stays: a shared Definition object is a different lifetime, retained across binds by content identity. The two functions that only served execution blocks now describe what they do, so release/abandon_graph_execution_buffers become release/abandon_graph_definition_buffers and RetainedGraphExecutionBuffer becomes RetainedGraphBuffer. Reclaimed heap bytes can hold a stale GRAPH_EXECUTION_STORAGE_MAGIC, which the reuse probe would read as a retained execution. That is harmless: reuse also requires the block's materialized_graph_key, materialized_definition_hash and node/patch counts to match this Definition, which only a genuine completed execution of the same Graph satisfies. Anything else falls through to a full rebuild. AffineHitRefreshesOnlyDynamicFields covered "same execution block, new output base", which can no longer occur — an affine hit now implies the same packed_buffer_base — so it replays on one heap and varies only the boundary. test_hbg_graph_submit_failure provisioned a 4 KB heap sized for outputs alone and needs room for the execution storage as well. Every localize call in the graph-cache tests now asserts the returned execution sits at base + required_heap, so a regression placing it at the packed-output base — where it would overlap node outputs — fails there rather than on device. The bind breakdown's host_orch line reports the heap high-water mark alongside its task count, since folding the storage in is what makes that number worth watching. GRAPH_EXECUTION.md described the retained-block mechanism as the design, so its orchestration step 7, its retention-keying paragraph and its affinity paragraph are rewritten: the execution address is not on the wire, affinity now follows the outer task's packed_buffer_base repeating rather than an occurrence key, and the magic-in-reclaimed-heap case is stated where the old text asserted a freshly zeroed block. Measured on qwen3-14b decode (a2a3 onboard, batch 16 / seq 3500, --rounds 3): | graph_upload | before | after | | ----------------- | -------- | ------- | | round 1 (cold) | 12.877ms | 0.652ms | | round 3 (steady) | 0.685ms | 0.585ms | | one-time cost | 12.192ms | 0.068ms | Control plane cold start falls from 17.06 ms to 2.20 ms and no longer exceeds steady state, so a Graph run has no first-bind penalty left. Heap high-water is 122.4 MB of 256 MB (47.8%) with the storage folded in. Event counts are unchanged (5 / 2 / 277 / 40 / 1, total_tasks 47). docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.md attributed this 12 ms to per-call latency across its 41 allocation-and-copy pairs and proposed batching them. The --rounds 3 split shows the pairs cost ~17 µs each and 0.685 ms in total, so batching can recover at most that; the amendment records the correction and points at this change instead. Its decomposition of the earlier change's own cold-start gain is labelled with the −1.879 ms the round-split table actually measures (14.756 → 12.877), not the −2.56 ms five-run median from the table above it, so its two rows sum to the delta they explain.
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Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so the bytes were gathered twice. The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost, resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload. Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap. Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean): H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%); h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged (44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides).
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Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so the bytes were gathered twice. The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost, resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload. Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap. Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean): H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%); h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged (44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides). Follow-up (CI st-onboard-a5 hang): the arena was a process-static aclrtMallocHost block with no release path — ChipWorker::finalize dlclose's the runtime SO after rtDeviceReset/aclFinalize, so the pinned mapping was never freed and a driver-side DMA registration outlived the process. The next process granted the same card hung in chip bring-up (two vis_isolation subprocesses SIGKILLed at 600 s on the a5 runner). The arena now belongs to the DeviceRunner, like retained_temp and the graph-definition buffers: a new HostApi op acquire_pinned_host_buffer returns a runner-retained, alignment-guaranteed block (onboard: aclrtMallocHost, linked directly; sim: aligned host memory through the existing graph-definition map). finalize_common() aclrtFreeHost's it on both the healthy and fatal paths, before the device reset. The per-bind cost is one map lookup once the block settles at 16 MB, so the measured H2D win is unchanged. Also fixed while here: acquire_submission's retained-buffer key packed (graph_key << 32) ^ occurrence, discarding graph_key's upper 32 bits — two graphs agreeing in the low half shared one device buffer. The key is now an FNV-1a mix over the full 64-bit key plus the occurrence. The 64-byte bump alignment constant moved to graph_host_state.h so the base passing through HostApi carries the same guarantee the bump assumes.
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Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so the bytes were gathered twice. The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost, resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload. Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap. Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean): H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%); h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged (44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides). Follow-up (CI st-onboard-a5 hang): the arena was a process-static aclrtMallocHost block with no release path — ChipWorker::finalize dlclose's the runtime SO after rtDeviceReset/aclFinalize, so the pinned mapping was never freed and a driver-side DMA registration outlived the process. The next process granted the same card hung in chip bring-up (two vis_isolation subprocesses SIGKILLed at 600 s on the a5 runner). The arena now belongs to the DeviceRunner, like retained_temp and the graph-definition buffers: a new HostApi op acquire_pinned_host_buffer returns a runner-retained, alignment-guaranteed block (onboard: aclrtMallocHost, linked directly; sim: aligned host memory through the existing graph-definition map). finalize_common() aclrtFreeHost's it on both the healthy and fatal paths, before the device reset. The per-bind cost is one map lookup once the block settles at 16 MB, so the measured H2D win is unchanged. Also fixed while here: acquire_submission's retained-buffer key packed (graph_key << 32) ^ occurrence, discarding graph_key's upper 32 bits — two graphs agreeing in the low half shared one device buffer. The key is now an FNV-1a mix over the full 64-bit key plus the occurrence. The 64-byte bump alignment constant moved to graph_host_state.h so the base passing through HostApi carries the same guarantee the bump assumes.
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Summary
A Graph task's execution storage — the
GraphExecutionheader, itsGraphNodeStoragearray and the patch arrays the device materializes into — camefrom a separate retained device allocation keyed by
(pipeline slot, graph key, occurrence index). qwen3-14b decode replays one 277-node Definition 40 times, sothat is 40 blocks of ~1.33 MB: 53 MB of
rtMallocplus 53 MB ofaclrtMemseton the first bind, measured at 12.19 ms of the 12.88 ms
graph_uploadstage.Its lifetime is already the outer GRAPH task's: the storage is live from the first
materialize slice until the task retires, which is exactly when the task's packed
output buffer is reclaimed. So one allocation covers both halves the task owns
— the nodes' packed outputs, then the execution storage — and the execution simply
starts past
required_heap.node_offsetsare relative to the base, so the outputlayout is untouched.
The address needs no wire field
GraphDefinitioncarries the size asexecution_storage_bytes, computed once whenthe Definition is built. Host and device then read one value instead of each running
graph_execution_storage_bytesover the same inputs, and the address ispacked_buffer_base + required_heapon both sides.GraphSubmissionlosesexecution_storageandexecution_storage_bytes(16 bytes), andacquire_graph_execution_buffergoes with them — one fewer HostApi op, and theplatform no longer retains, zeroes or releases execution blocks.
acquire_graph_definition_bufferstays: a shared Definition object is a differentlifetime, retained across binds by content identity. The two functions that only
served execution blocks now describe what they do, so
release/abandon_graph_execution_buffersbecomerelease/abandon_graph_definition_buffers, andRetainedGraphExecutionBufferbecomes
RetainedGraphBuffer.Why a stale magic in reclaimed heap is harmless
Reclaimed heap bytes can hold a stale
GRAPH_EXECUTION_STORAGE_MAGIC, which thereuse probe would read as a retained execution. Reuse also requires the block's
materialized_graph_key,materialized_definition_hashand node/patch counts tomatch this Definition — which only a genuine completed execution of the same Graph
satisfies. Anything else falls through to a full rebuild, so the probe is kept
rather than replaced by an unconditional fresh construct.
Consequences worth naming
AffineHitRefreshesOnlyDynamicFieldscovered a scenario that can no longeroccur. It exercised "same execution block, new output base"; an affine hit now
implies the same
packed_buffer_base, because the block is that allocation's owntail. The test replays on one heap and varies only the boundary, which is the part
that stays dynamic. This is a behaviour narrowing, not a test adaptation.
test_hbg_graph_submit_failureprovisioned a 4 KB heap sized for outputs alone;a one-node Graph's execution storage is ~5.3 KB, so the preflight now rejects
before reaching the fanin failure the test is about.
host_orchline reports the heap high-water mark alongsideits task count, since folding the storage in is what makes that number worth
watching. No new log line — it rides the existing
attrs.Measured (qwen3-14b decode, a2a3 onboard, batch 16 / seq 3500,
--rounds 3)graph_uploadaclrtMemsetrtMallocCold start no longer exceeds steady state (2.195 vs 2.506 ms), so a Graph run
has no first-bind penalty left — that matters more for first-token latency than the
milliseconds do. Heap high-water is 122.4 MB of 256 MB (47.8%) with the storage
folded in;
PTO2_RING_HEAPneeds no change at this configuration, though thepercentage is worth re-checking when moving to a larger batch.
Event counts unchanged: 5 / 2 / 277 / 40 / 1,
total_tasks47.Investigation correction
docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.mdattributed this12 ms to per-call latency across its 41 allocation-and-copy pairs (deriving
~295 µs per call by dividing 12.10 ms by 41) and proposed batching the reference
submissions, "expected to take the stage from ~12 ms to well under 1 ms". The
--rounds 3split shows the pairs cost ~17 µs each and 0.685 ms in total — thedivided-out 12.19 ms was the one-time execution-storage allocation, which is not
among those 41 pairs. Batching can therefore recover at most 0.685 ms, and the
stage is already under 1 ms once the one-time cost is excluded.
The same split also shows 88% of that change's own −2.56 ms came from execution
storage shrinking by 130,192 B per block (a side effect of removing the embedded
Definition) rather than from the byte reduction it targeted. The amendment records
both corrections and points at this change as the one that moves the 12 ms. It also
notes that the
SIMPLER_SKIP_DEVICE_RUN=1knob its methodology cites is absent fromthe tree, so those numbers cannot be reproduced as written.
Testing
-LE requires_hardware)examples tests/ston a2a3sim (resource phase 21cases + 28 passed / 1 skipped) and a5sim (28 passed)
task-submit,--rounds 3, table above; golden validation passes