The recorder thread owns its recording storage by ChaoWao · Pull Request #1981 · hw-native-sys/simpler

ChaoWao · 2026-08-24T06:28:42Z

Summary

A recorded Graph body needs a 2.17 MB hazard map, seven flat arrays, and one vector<ChipTensor> per node. All of it was allocated per recording — and the map by the submitting thread inside graph_begin, between two outer shells, which is the only part of it on the bind's critical path. Standing that map up was 66% of every recording-start (median 19.5 µs, worst 160 µs of a 220 µs entry), and the first touch of every page it hands out is a minor fault, paid again on every bind because the memory goes back to the kernel in between.

The recorder threads already outlive the bind — the pool parks eight at callable registration and, in its own words, keeps them "alive across runs so steady-state misses pay only a condition-variable wakeup". Their storage now does too. A recording starts by emptying what is already resident.


`GraphRecording`	the recorder thread's own storage, via `recorder_recording()`. A `thread_local` is sound because a thread records one body at a time: `graph_prepare` already refuses to bind while this thread has a recording active
`GraphBoundary`	the boundary deep copy moves to the in-flight entry — it has to, since the submitting thread compares later same-key submissions against it under `recording_mutex` and must not reach into recorder storage
`PTO2TensorMap::reset()`	empties an initialized map in O(buckets + task_window) stores against resident pages; entry pool stays init-on-write
`nodes` / `node_count`	`nodes` is never cleared, `node_count` is the recorded length, so a slot — and the one allocation a recorded node makes — survives into the next recording

Nothing is retained across recordings except pages. Two ways that could have leaked content instead, both found by measurement rather than by tests, and both now the reason the code is spelled the way it is:

tensors.assign(n, ChipTensor{}), not resize(n) — resize leaves the elements a shorter previous body left in place, and ChipTensor::init_from writes strides only up to the new tensor's ndims, so a narrower tensor inherited a wider one's trailing strides and recorded a DAG the body never had.
Every traversal of the recorded nodes is bounded by node_count, including the range-for in graph_build_definition. Left unbounded it walked the slots a longer body left behind, whose offsets point past this body's flat arrays: 3 of 8 Definitions came out unsupported.

Retention is bounded and the bound is enforced, not just documented: recording deliberately continues past GRAPH_MAX_NODES so the body can finish, which grows every array to the body's real size, so a recording that overshot gives its storage back at the next reset. Steady state for dsv4 is ~2.6 MB per recorder thread (2.17 MB map, ~150 KB arrays, ~260 KB slots) — ~21 MB across the eight prewarmed threads, ~42 MB if the pool grows to GRAPH_MAX_DEFINITIONS.

Measurements — and what they do not show

dsv4 EP2TP2, --rounds 4 over two ranks, minimum across the eight warm binds of each run, arms interleaved in one window (fixed, main, fixed) because a single pair on this box is not separable from its load:

µs per bind	fixed(1)	main	fixed(2)
`graph_begin`	472.8	578.1	508.4	−12% / −18%
`record_node`	1941.1	2486.0	1679.6	−22% / −32%
`build_definition`	455.0	559.5	430.5	−19% / −23%
`host_orch` (ms)	1.042	1.120	1.264	no reliable change

The three phases that do less work do measurably less work, in both repeats. The bind's wall clock does not follow, and this should not be read as making a bind faster. Decomposing main's fastest bind: the submitting thread's own phases sum to 1081 of its 1120 µs — the window is 96% that thread's serial work, and everything record_node / build_definition saves is on eight parallel recorder threads that enter the window only through recording_wait. Of the 1081 µs, graph_begin's −106 µs is the part that was mine to take: −9% of the window, inside the spread this box imposes (the same build measured 0.875–1.264 ms across runs; generated_args, untouched code carried as a control, came out 64.5 / 57.8 / 73.0).

What does not depend on the box is the count: the allocations a steady-state bind makes for recording go from one hazard map, seven flat arrays and one vector per node, per Definition, to none.

Testing

cpput 117/117, including two new cases on the new reset(): an emptied map is indistinguishable from a fresh one (nothing reachable, whole pool free, the next body's producer the only one a lookup finds), and reset is idempotent and keeps the sizes init() reserved
Hardware: CI-shaped a2a3 onboard sweep (pytest examples tests/st -m 'not sdma' --exclude-level 4 --manual exclude, 4 devices) — 57 cases PASS, 0 fail

Coverage gap worth knowing: slot and map reuse only happens when a recorder thread records a second body, which needs a Worker to bind more than once. --rounds defaults to 1 and CI does not pass it, so the CI suite exercises only the first recording on each thread. The reuse path was validated locally with --rounds 4 on dsv4 — which is how both of the invariants above were found. Closing it properly needs one hbg scene case to run two rounds.

One behaviour trade, stated rather than hidden

A hazard-map allocation failure used to be reachable in graph_begin, before the outer shell was submitted, so the body could still take the ordinary path. It now happens on the recorder thread's first recording, after the shell is submitted, where the only exit is graph_abort — the same exit an exhausted map already takes, which graph_commit reports as SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS. The failure is a 2.17 MB allocation under genuine OOM, where the ordinary path would be in no better shape.

A recorded body needs a 2.17 MB hazard map, seven flat arrays, and one vector of ChipTensors per node. All of it was allocated per recording, and the map was allocated by the *submitting* thread inside graph_begin, between two outer shells -- the only part of this on the bind's critical path. Measured on dsv4, standing the map up was 66% of every recording-start (median 19.5 us, worst 160 us of a 220 us entry), and the first touch of every page any of it hands out is a minor fault -- paid again on every bind, because the memory goes back to the kernel in between. A minor fault costs 14-33 us in this address space against 1.7 us on an idle box, since the orchestration's own mapping traffic excludes every faulting thread, so this is also what made the faults expensive rather than merely present (docs/investigations/2026-08-host-orch-phase-tail-is-page-faults.md). The recorder threads already outlive the bind: the pool parks eight of them at callable registration and, in its own words, keeps them "alive across runs so steady-state misses pay only a condition-variable wakeup". Their storage now does too. A recording starts by emptying what is already resident. - `GraphRecording` becomes the recorder thread's own storage, reached through `recorder_recording()`. A thread_local is sound because a thread records one body at a time: graph_prepare already refuses to bind while this thread has a recording active, so a Graph nested inside a recorded body cannot claim it twice. - The boundary deep copy moves to the in-flight entry as `GraphBoundary`. It has to: the submitting thread compares later same-key submissions against it under recording_mutex, and that thread must not reach into recorder storage. graph_begin now allocates the boundary copy and nothing else. - `PTO2TensorMap::reset()` empties an initialized map in O(num_buckets + task_window_size) stores against resident pages, where init() paid the allocation and the first touch of each. The entry pool stays init-on-write. - `nodes` is never cleared. `node_count` is the recorded length, so a slot -- and with it the one allocation a recorded node makes -- survives into the next recording. A node carries at most CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS tensors, so a slot's buffer is bounded at 32 x sizeof(ChipTensor) = 4 KB and a thread's retained node storage at GRAPH_MAX_NODES x 4 KB. That bound is enforced, not merely documented: recording deliberately continues past GRAPH_MAX_NODES so the body can finish, which grows every array to the body's real size, so a recording that overshot gives its storage back at the next reset instead of passing it on -- otherwise one pathological body would pin hundreds of MB per thread for the process's life. Steady-state retention for dsv4 is about 2.6 MB per recorder thread (2.17 MB map, ~150 KB flat arrays, ~260 KB node slots), so ~21 MB across the eight prewarmed threads and ~42 MB if the pool grows to GRAPH_MAX_DEFINITIONS. Nothing is retained across recordings except pages: reset() empties every array and the map, and reusing a slot restores a fresh node's state. Two ways that could have leaked content instead, both found by measurement rather than by tests, and both now the reason the code is spelled the way it is: - `GraphRecordedNode::reset()` restores a fresh node's state field by field, guarded by a `static_assert` on the struct's size so that adding a field stops the build at the function that has to learn about it. `*this = GraphRecordedNode{}` needs no guard, but it writes the whole struct twice per node and measured 350-700 us per bind on dsv4's 1679 nodes, so the cheap half of the guarantee is the one that ships. - `tensors.assign(n, ChipTensor{})`, not `resize(n)`. resize leaves the elements a shorter previous body left in place, and ChipTensor::init_from writes strides only up to the new tensor's ndims -- so a narrower tensor inheriting a wider one's trailing strides recorded a Definition the body never had. assign value-initializes every element, which is what resize did on a freshly allocated vector, and keeps the buffer. - Every traversal of the recorded nodes is bounded by `node_count`, including the range-for in graph_build_definition. Left unbounded it walked the slots a longer body left behind, whose offsets point past this body's flat arrays, and the Definition came out unsupported -- 3 of 8 lost on the first attempt. `PTO2TensorMap::reset()` takes no task-window argument. Accepting one would have to check it against the length init() reserved rather than the current one, and nothing tracks the reserved length once a smaller window has been set -- so a shrinking reset followed by a legitimate wider one would abort on its own assertion. The sizes stay init()'s. Where a recording ends, `graph_end` and `graph_abort` also drop the storage's pointer to the in-flight entry's boundary. The storage outlives the entry -- graph_commit destroys the entries -- and the next graph_prepare rebinds before any read, so this is hygiene rather than a fix, but `boundary_tensors()` does not null-check and a stale pointer parked in thread_local state for the process's life is not worth keeping. Measured on dsv4 EP2TP2, `--rounds 4` over two ranks, minimum across the eight warm binds of each run, arms interleaved in one window (fixed, main, fixed) because a single pair on this box is not separable from its load: fixed(1) main fixed(2) graph_begin 472.8 578.1 508.4 -12% / -18% record_node 1941.1 2486.0 1679.6 -22% / -32% build_definition 455.0 559.5 430.5 -19% / -23% host_orch (ms) 1.042 1.120 1.264 no reliable change The three phases that do less work do measurably less work, in both repeats. **The bind's wall clock does not follow, and this change should not be read as making a bind faster.** `recording_wait`'s minimum is under a microsecond in every arm -- the recorders already finish before graph_commit asks -- so recorder-side savings have nowhere to land, and what is left in the window is the submitting thread's own ~1100 minor faults per bind, which this change does not touch (they are not the recording's: they did not move when the recording's allocations went away). `generated_args`, untouched code carried as a control, came out 64.5 / 57.8 / 73.0 across the three runs, which is the width of the noise this box imposes on any single-run comparison at this scale. What does not depend on the box is the count: the allocations a steady-state bind makes for recording go from one hazard map, seven flat arrays and one vector per node, per Definition, to none. Two cpput cases cover the new reset: that an emptied map is indistinguishable from a fresh one (nothing reachable, whole pool free, and the next body's producer is the only one a lookup finds -- the tensormap half of the leak class above), and that reset is idempotent and keeps the sizes init() reserved. **Coverage gap worth knowing.** Slot and map reuse only happens when a recorder thread records a second body, which needs a Worker to bind more than once: `--rounds` defaults to 1 and CI does not pass it, so the CI suite exercises only the first recording on each thread. The reuse path was validated locally with `--rounds 4` on dsv4, which is how both of the invariants above were found. Closing it properly needs one hbg scene case to run two rounds. Verified: cpput 117/117, and the CI-shaped a2a3 onboard sweep (`pytest examples tests/st -m 'not sdma' --exclude-level 4 --manual exclude`, 4 devices) 57 cases PASS, 0 fail.

coderabbitai · 2026-08-24T06:29:09Z

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Walkthrough

Graph recording now separates in-flight boundary data from reusable thread-local recording storage. Active node counts prevent stale slots from entering definitions. PTO2TensorMap::reset() clears map state without reallocating storage, with lifecycle tests for both runtimes.

Changes

Graph recording reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tensor map reset contract and validation `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/tensormap.h`, `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/tensormap.cpp`, `src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/tensormap.h`, `src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/tensormap.cpp`, `tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_tensormap.cpp`	`PTO2TensorMap::reset()` clears lookup chains and pool cursors while preserving allocation and configured sizes. Tests cover reuse, idempotence, capacity, and aliased task IDs.
Boundary ownership and reusable recording storage `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`, `src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`	`GraphBoundary` stores copied arguments in the in-flight entry. `GraphRecording` reuses resettable thread-local node, tensor, and hazard-map storage.
Active-node definition generation `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`	Definition validation, sizing, aggregation, serialization, fanout construction, and boundary signatures use `node_count` and shared boundary data.
Graph preparation and completion lifecycle `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`	Graph start creates boundary storage. `graph_prepare` binds reusable recorder storage. Abort and completion detach the boundary. Hazard-map failures abandon the submitted recording.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 537ce

The change moves recording storage onto persistent recorder threads and reuses it between recordings; the only identified defect is an unreachable defensive null-check ordering issue, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GraphStart
  participant GraphInflightRecording
  participant graph_prepare
  participant GraphRecording
  participant DefinitionBuilder

  GraphStart->>GraphInflightRecording: copy GraphBoundary
  graph_prepare->>GraphInflightRecording: validate status and boundary
  graph_prepare->>GraphRecording: reset and bind boundary
  GraphRecording->>DefinitionBuilder: record active nodes
  DefinitionBuilder->>GraphInflightRecording: publish or fail Definition
  GraphInflightRecording->>GraphRecording: clear boundary on completion or abort

Poem

A rabbit reset the map with care,
Reused old slots with room to spare.
Boundaries traveled, nodes stood clear,
Stale paths vanished from the gear.
“Hop!” said the rabbit, “the graph is prepared!”

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp (1)
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graph_build_definition dereferences the boundary before it tests it for null. boundary_tensors() has no null check, and both runtimes call it three times before evaluating boundary_args() == nullptr. The current call path always binds a boundary, so this is not reachable today.

src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp#L824-L828: move recording.boundary_args() == nullptr to the front of the condition.

src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp#L824-L828: apply the same reorder.
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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`
around lines 824 - 828, Prevent graph_build_definition from dereferencing a
missing boundary by evaluating recording.boundary_args() == nullptr before any
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`@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`:
- Around line 824-828: Prevent graph_build_definition from dereferencing a
missing boundary by evaluating recording.boundary_args() == nullptr before any
recording.boundary_tensors() checks. Apply this reorder in
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…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. hw-native-sys#1729 undid the fusion on the L3 wire and re-split `Tensor` from `ChipTensor`, with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. ## The two types `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. ## What the boundary type dropped `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. ## Prerequisite: three structs, one byte layout `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. ## Consequence: each case owns the sources it compiles A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 67 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll` and `benchmark_bgemm` now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 117/117, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. hw-native-sys#1729 undid the fusion on the L3 wire and re-split `Tensor` from `ChipTensor`, with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. ## The two types `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. ## What the boundary type dropped `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. ## Prerequisite: three structs, one byte layout `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. ## Consequence: each case owns the sources it compiles A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 67 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll` and `benchmark_bgemm` now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The 67 copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired, so they carry the current ones: `PTO2OrchestrationConfig` / `PTO2Runtime` / `PTO2RuntimeArenaLayout` / `PTO2RuntimeMode` / `PTO2RuntimeOps` / `PTO2ScopeGuard` / `PTO2TaskSlotState` lose the prefix, and `PTO2_SCOPE` / `PTO2_SCOPE_GUARD` become `SIMPLER_SCOPE` / `SIMPLER_SCOPE_GUARD`. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 117/117, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. hw-native-sys#1729 undid the fusion on the L3 wire and re-split `Tensor` from `ChipTensor`, with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. ## The two types `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. ## What the boundary type dropped `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. ## Prerequisite: three structs, one byte layout `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. ## Consequence: each case owns the sources it compiles A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 67 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll` and `benchmark_bgemm` now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The 67 copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired, so they carry the current ones: `PTO2OrchestrationConfig` / `PTO2Runtime` / `PTO2RuntimeArenaLayout` / `PTO2RuntimeMode` / `PTO2RuntimeOps` / `PTO2ScopeGuard` / `PTO2TaskSlotState` lose the prefix, and `PTO2_SCOPE` / `PTO2_SCOPE_GUARD` become `SIMPLER_SCOPE` / `SIMPLER_SCOPE_GUARD`. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 117/117, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 73 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. `task_timing_slots` carries the runtime in a function default rather than a `@scene_test` decorator, so its sources move under `kernels/<runtime>/` and the helper builds the path from the runtime it is driving. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll`, `benchmark_bgemm` and the task-timing kernels now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The 67 copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired, so they carry the current ones: `PTO2OrchestrationConfig` / `PTO2Runtime` / `PTO2RuntimeArenaLayout` / `PTO2RuntimeMode` / `PTO2RuntimeOps` / `PTO2ScopeGuard` / `PTO2TaskSlotState` lose the prefix, and `PTO2_SCOPE` / `PTO2_SCOPE_GUARD` become `SIMPLER_SCOPE` / `SIMPLER_SCOPE_GUARD`. `test_hbg_sm_compaction` compared `GraphTensor` against `ChipTensor` to justify packing Graph boundaries into the payload's tensor slots, and read that pool as `ChipTensor`. The pool is the payload's, so both now name the runtime's `Tensor` — the assertion was true only while one type served both roles. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 119/119, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. A second check reads which runtime *strings* a Python driver mentions rather than its @scene_test decorator; that is what caught task_timing_slots. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 73 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. `task_timing_slots` carries the runtime in a function default rather than a `@scene_test` decorator, so its sources move under `kernels/<runtime>/` and the helper builds the path from the runtime it is driving. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll`, `benchmark_bgemm` and the task-timing kernels now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired — hw-native-sys#1980 finished that retirement repo-wide — so they carry the current ones. `test_hbg_sm_compaction` compared `GraphTensor` against `ChipTensor` to justify packing Graph boundaries into the payload's tensor slots, and read that pool as `ChipTensor`. The pool is the payload's, so both now name the runtime's `Tensor` — the assertion was true only while one type served both roles. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 119/119, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. A second check reads which runtime *strings* a Python driver mentions rather than its @scene_test decorator; that is what caught task_timing_slots. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 73 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. `task_timing_slots` carries the runtime in a function default rather than a `@scene_test` decorator, so its sources move under `kernels/<runtime>/` and the helper builds the path from the runtime it is driving. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll`, `benchmark_bgemm` and the task-timing kernels now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. 364 of those kernels declare a ptoas helper as `template <typename ChipTensor>`, shadowing the type with a parameter name. The parameter is `TensorT` now: a generated helper that means "any tensor with .data()" should not name one, and the shadowing is what made the rename ambiguous in the first place. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired — hw-native-sys#1980 finished that retirement repo-wide — so they carry the current ones. `test_hbg_sm_compaction` compared `GraphTensor` against `ChipTensor` to justify packing Graph boundaries into the payload's tensor slots, and read that pool as `ChipTensor`. The pool is the payload's, so both now name the runtime's `Tensor` — the assertion was true only while one type served both roles. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 119/119, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. A second check reads which runtime *strings* a Python driver mentions rather than its @scene_test decorator; that is what caught task_timing_slots. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to hw-native-sys#1093, which needed the strided view hw-native-sys#808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since hw-native-sys#1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 73 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. `task_timing_slots` carries the runtime in a function default rather than a `@scene_test` decorator, so its sources move under `kernels/<runtime>/` and the helper builds the path from the runtime it is driving. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll`, `benchmark_bgemm` and the task-timing kernels now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. 364 of those kernels declare a ptoas helper as `template <typename ChipTensor>`, shadowing the type with a parameter name. The parameter is `TensorT` now: a generated helper that means "any tensor with .data()" should not name one, and the shadowing is what made the rename ambiguous in the first place. ## Kernels name no runtime A kernel reads a payload element and its code is identical whichever orchestrator filled it, so naming a runtime there carries no information — and several kernels are compiled under both. `examples/a2a3/host_build_graph/deepseek_v4_flash_decode` re-points all 368 of the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's incores at that case's directory; `test_task_timing_e2e` drives one AIV kernel under both. Each runtime's `runtime/tensor.h` therefore exports using TaskTensor = simpler::{hbg,tmr}::Tensor; and every kernel names `TaskTensor`. It resolves per translation unit, so it is one type per build, not a third type. The alternative was duplicating 13 MB of generated MoE kernels into the hbg tree, where the two copies would drift. The name is not `Tensor`: `buffer.h`'s L3+ wire `Tensor` is visible in every orchestration translation unit, and one spelling meaning two types by context is what this change exists to remove. Cross-runtime *orchestration* sources need no name — `const auto &a = orch_args.tensor(0).ref()` is enough, and only kernels must spell the type inside a `reinterpret_cast`. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which hw-native-sys#1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired — hw-native-sys#1980 finished that retirement repo-wide — so they carry the current ones. `test_hbg_sm_compaction` compared `GraphTensor` against `ChipTensor` to justify packing Graph boundaries into the payload's tensor slots, and read that pool as `ChipTensor`. The pool is the payload's, so both now name the runtime's `Tensor` — the assertion was true only while one type served both roles. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 119/119, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. A second check reads which runtime *strings* a Python driver mentions rather than its @scene_test decorator; that is what caught task_timing_slots. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nsor (#1974) An argument arrives at L2 as a `ChipTensor`, and the runtime then decides things about it: which task produced it, the version its OverlapMap keys on, whether dependency tracking is creator-only. Those decisions lived on `ChipTensor` itself, in `src/common/task_interface/`, so one type served the boundary and both runtimes' working state. `create_from_chip_args` recorded the mismatch as an assertion — `debug_assert(!t.manual_dep && t.version == 0)`, two fields that are meaningless on an argument. `docs/buffer-abi.md` recorded it too, calling `ChipTensor` "L2 leaf, internal" and saying "You never build a `ChipTensor`" while `ChipWorker.run` took a container of them and `nb::class_<ChipTensor>` exposed a `make()` factory. The fusion dates to #1093, which needed the strided view #808 had just given the runtime's tensor to reach the argument boundary, and got there by promoting the runtime-private header into `task_interface/` rather than adding strides to the 40 B `ContinuousTensor` it replaced. It cost 40 B → 128 B per wire tensor and a mailbox doubling for a capability that PR noted was not yet used: two months on, `make_tensor_arg` and `make_chip_tensor_arg` still reject non-contiguous tensors. with a cost argument that applies equally here; nobody undid it at L2. `ChipTensor` (72 B) is a task argument: a resolved buffer and a strided view. struct ChipTensor { PTOBufferHandle buffer; uint64_t start_offset; uint32_t shapes[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t strides[MAX_TENSOR_DIMS]; uint32_t ndims; DataType dtype; AddressSpace address_space; }; `simpler::hbg::Tensor` and `simpler::tmr::Tensor` (128 B) are the same geometry plus `owner_task_id`, `version`, `manual_dep` and the two caches derived from the geometry. One copy each, shared across architectures, placed the way `src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h` already established. `simpler::hbg` was an existing namespace. `Runtime::set_orch_args` is the single place one becomes the other. Both runtimes call it only from `host/runtime_maker.cpp`, so adoption happens on the host before any orchestration runs — including for `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, whose AICPU executor now reads an already-adopted `simpler::tmr::EntryArgsStorage` instead of converting per run. From there inward nothing holds the argument form: orchestration, the payload, the TensorMap and the kernels all name their runtime's type. A `tensor.h` in each runtime's `runtime/` directory sits first on that runtime's include path, so existing `#include "tensor.h"` lines resolve to both types without an include sweep. That shim names the two headers by their path under `src/common`, which every platform target but `aicore` already had on its include path; the four `aicore` CMakeLists gain the line their `aicpu` and `host` siblings carry. `is_contiguous` and `extent_elem` become methods that compute from the geometry; a runtime that reads them per task caches them on its own `Tensor`. The view ops and the copy helpers that maintained those caches move with them — an argument is not a thing you take views of, and nothing outside a runtime called them. `init_external` and both factories lose their `manual_dep` / `version` parameters, which every caller passed as `false` / `0`. `PTO2TaskPayload` is no longer a friend, and the boundary header no longer includes `task_id.h`: it names no TaskId at all. `sizeof(ChipStorageTaskArgs)` falls from ~33.8 KB to 19464 B at the 256-tensor cap. `MAILBOX_SIZE` is unaffected — since #1729 the frame is sized by the 144 B wire `Tensor`. `ChipTensor`, `PTO2TensorMapEntry` and `TensorCreateInfo` shared a byte-level layout so three copy paths could each be a single 64-byte `memcpy`, held by 21 hand-written `offsetof` assertions across four trees. Two of the three were shaped backwards to satisfy it: `TensorCreateInfo` carried `__pad0__` / `__pad2__` / `__pad_flags__` purely to occupy `ChipTensor::buffer` / `::owner_task_id` / `::address_space`, and the entry's `memcpy` wrote `ChipTensor::buffer.size` into a `PTO2TensorMapEntry *` field, its comment noting this was "harmless because `link_entry()` overwrites `next_in_bucket` immediately after". Each struct now assigns the fields it wants, by name. The optimization the `memcpy` existed for survives as intent: a canonically contiguous source has the derived pair recomputed from `shapes` rather than read across. `PTO2TensorMapEntry::copy_tensor_create_info` is deleted — it had no callers in any tree, and was the only reason `TensorCreateInfo` had to be punnable onto an entry. The entry keeps its own two-cache-line split and the assertions describing it; what goes is the claim that its bytes agree with a different struct's. A source that names one runtime's `Tensor` cannot be compiled under the other, and 57 scene-test sources were: a `host_build_graph` case naming the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's kernels, and two `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` classes taking an hbg class's `CALLABLE` verbatim. That worked only because `ChipTensor` happened to be identical in both trees — the coupling this change removes. Each borrowing case now carries its own sources, 73 files, and names local paths. The two class-reuse cases rebase the inherited `CALLABLE` onto their own `kernels/` copy through a `_rebase_callable` helper, so the Python that drives them stays in one file while the C++ each runtime compiles is its own. `task_timing_slots` carries the runtime in a function default rather than a `@scene_test` decorator, so its sources move under `kernels/<runtime>/` and the helper builds the path from the runtime it is driving. The cost is real: `spmd_multiblock_mix`, `alternating_matmul_add`, `batch_paged_attention`, `paged_attention_unroll`, `benchmark_bgemm` and the task-timing kernels now exist once per runtime and the copies can drift. A case that asserts something about `host_build_graph` should not depend on a file the other runtime owns. `examples/` orchestration and kernel sources lose their `Generated by PyPTO IR Compiler` marker: they are this repository's sources, and this change edits them. 364 of those kernels declare a ptoas helper as `template <typename ChipTensor>`, shadowing the type with a parameter name. The parameter is `TensorT` now: a generated helper that means "any tensor with .data()" should not name one, and the shadowing is what made the rename ambiguous in the first place. ## Kernels name no runtime A kernel reads a payload element and its code is identical whichever orchestrator filled it, so naming a runtime there carries no information — and several kernels are compiled under both. `examples/a2a3/host_build_graph/deepseek_v4_flash_decode` re-points all 368 of the `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` case's incores at that case's directory; `test_task_timing_e2e` drives one AIV kernel under both. Each runtime's `runtime/tensor.h` therefore exports using TaskTensor = simpler::{hbg,tmr}::Tensor; and every kernel names `TaskTensor`. It resolves per translation unit, so it is one type per build, not a third type. The alternative was duplicating 13 MB of generated MoE kernels into the hbg tree, where the two copies would drift. The name is not `Tensor`: `buffer.h`'s L3+ wire `Tensor` is visible in every orchestration translation unit, and one spelling meaning two types by context is what this change exists to remove. Cross-runtime *orchestration* sources need no name — `const auto &a = orch_args.tensor(0).ref()` is enough, and only kernels must spell the type inside a `reinterpret_cast`. `tensor_create_info.h`'s doc paragraph said `host_build_graph` has no initial-value fill "unlike the tensormap_and_ringbuffer copy of this header", which #1981 made false by removing that fill; both copies now describe what is there. The copies were taken from sources whose spellings `main` has since retired — #1980 finished that retirement repo-wide — so they carry the current ones. `test_hbg_sm_compaction` compared `GraphTensor` against `ChipTensor` to justify packing Graph boundaries into the payload's tensor slots, and read that pool as `ChipTensor`. The pool is the payload's, so both now name the runtime's `Tensor` — the assertion was true only while one type served both roles. Verification: full rebuild of both runtimes on both architectures, cpput 119/119, pyut 1908 passed / 14 skipped, a2a3sim 21 cases and a5sim 17 cases green. The sim sweeps build only the cases they run, so every orchestration source was also syntax-checked against its runtime's include path — 129 (source, runtime, arch) compiles, which is what caught a copy under host_build_graph/ still calling simpler::tmr::make_tensor_external. A second check reads which runtime *strings* a Python driver mentions rather than its @scene_test decorator; that is what caught task_timing_slots.

Every bind allocated the host mirror of the runtime shared memory from the heap and freed it on the way out. The mirror is dimensioned for the run's configured task count, which is 82 MB at the dsv4 case's 16384 — far above every glibc reuse threshold, so each bind was one mmap and one guaranteed munmap of that size. A bind's own faults then cost 14-33 us each instead of ~1.7 us, because the unmap holds mmap_lock for write and excludes every faulting thread in the address space (docs/investigations/2026-08-host-orch-phase-tail-is-page-faults.md). The mirror is now the platform runner's, one buffer per pipeline slot, grown to the high-water mark and mapped for the life of the process — the same shape hw-native-sys#1988 gave the Graph Definition staging block, reached through a new HostApi::acquire_sm_mirror. The buffer is an uninitialized owning block rather than a container: the layout is init-on-write, so a value-initializing resize would fault in every page of a capacity whose live prefix is a fraction of it, and would copy bytes that mean nothing between binds. First touch still commits the mirror, so a run pays only for the bytes it writes. Reuse needs no new invariant. A bind already cleared only the fixed-size header and relied on init-on-write for the per-slot segments, which is why compact_live_image can ship each segment's used prefix: prepare_task writes the slot state and clears the completion flag as it claims a slot, and TaskPayload::init is the single payload-init point. The one shipped range no device-side reader reaches is the alignment padding the fanin cursor rounds past, which lies outside every payload's fanin_count. The buffer is released at Worker finalization on both the ordinary and the force-reset path, since it is host memory that no device failure invalidates. Measured on dsv4, interleaved twice: mallinfo2's hblkhd stops returning to its pre-bind value on 6 of 6 binds, which is the map/unmap going away, and the cold-bind fault count matches the per-bind allocation it replaces. host_orch's warm-bind fault count and the control-plane duration resolve in neither direction — the mirror is ~6 THP faults of a ~1200-fault bind. This closes the investigation entry's "Where a fix would go" list, so the entry is amended to say so: items 1-3 shipped as hw-native-sys#1981 and item 4 as hw-native-sys#1988 plus this change, and none of them reached the ~1100 faults the submitting thread takes per bind. hw-native-sys#1981 already reported those unmoved when the recording's allocations went away; this is the second measurement of the same thing. Attributing them needs mincore() on a buffer's pages before the write, not another guess at which allocation it is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Every bind allocated the host mirror of the runtime shared memory from the heap and freed it on the way out. The mirror is dimensioned for the run's configured task count, which is 82 MB at the dsv4 case's 16384 — far above every glibc reuse threshold, so each bind was one mmap and one guaranteed munmap of that size. A bind's own faults then cost 14-33 us each instead of ~1.7 us, because the unmap holds mmap_lock for write and excludes every faulting thread in the address space (docs/investigations/2026-08-host-orch-phase-tail-is-page-faults.md). The mirror is now the platform runner's, one buffer per pipeline slot, grown to the high-water mark and held across binds until Worker finalization — the same shape hw-native-sys#1988 gave the Graph Definition staging block, reached through a new HostApi::acquire_sm_mirror. The buffer is an uninitialized owning block rather than a container: the layout is init-on-write, so a value-initializing resize would fault in every page of a capacity whose live prefix is a fraction of it, and would copy bytes that mean nothing between binds. First touch still commits the mirror, so a run pays only for the bytes it writes. Reuse needs no new invariant. A bind already cleared only the fixed-size header and relied on init-on-write for the per-slot segments, which is why compact_live_image can ship each segment's used prefix: prepare_task writes the slot state and clears the completion flag as it claims a slot, and TaskPayload::init is the single payload-init point. The one shipped range no device-side reader reaches is the alignment padding the fanin cursor rounds past, which lies outside every payload's fanin_count. The buffer is released at Worker finalization on both the ordinary and the force-reset path, since it is host memory that no device failure invalidates. Measured on dsv4, interleaved twice: mallinfo2's hblkhd stops returning to its pre-bind value on 6 of 6 binds, which is the map/unmap going away, and the cold-bind fault count matches the per-bind allocation it replaces. host_orch's warm-bind fault count and the control-plane duration resolve in neither direction — the mirror is ~6 THP faults of a ~1200-fault bind. This closes the investigation entry's "Where a fix would go" list, so the entry is amended to say so: items 1-3 shipped as hw-native-sys#1981 and item 4 as hw-native-sys#1988 plus this change, and none of them reached the ~1100 faults the submitting thread takes per bind. hw-native-sys#1981 already reported those unmoved when the recording's allocations went away; this is the second measurement of the same thing. Attributing them needs mincore() on a buffer's pages before the write, not another guess at which allocation it is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Every bind allocated the host mirror of the runtime shared memory from the heap and freed it on the way out. The mirror is dimensioned for the run's configured task count, which is 82 MB at the dsv4 case's 16384 — far above every glibc reuse threshold, so each bind was one mmap and one guaranteed munmap of that size. A bind's own faults then cost 14-33 us each instead of ~1.7 us, because the unmap holds mmap_lock for write and excludes every faulting thread in the address space (docs/investigations/2026-08-host-orch-phase-tail-is-page-faults.md). The mirror is now the platform runner's, one buffer per pipeline slot, grown to the high-water mark and held across binds until Worker finalization — the same shape #1988 gave the Graph Definition staging block, reached through a new HostApi::acquire_sm_mirror. The buffer is an uninitialized owning block rather than a container: the layout is init-on-write, so a value-initializing resize would fault in every page of a capacity whose live prefix is a fraction of it, and would copy bytes that mean nothing between binds. First touch still commits the mirror, so a run pays only for the bytes it writes. Reuse needs no new invariant. A bind already cleared only the fixed-size header and relied on init-on-write for the per-slot segments, which is why compact_live_image can ship each segment's used prefix: prepare_task writes the slot state and clears the completion flag as it claims a slot, and TaskPayload::init is the single payload-init point. The one shipped range no device-side reader reaches is the alignment padding the fanin cursor rounds past, which lies outside every payload's fanin_count. The buffer is released at Worker finalization on both the ordinary and the force-reset path, since it is host memory that no device failure invalidates. Measured on dsv4, interleaved twice: mallinfo2's hblkhd stops returning to its pre-bind value on 6 of 6 binds, which is the map/unmap going away, and the cold-bind fault count matches the per-bind allocation it replaces. host_orch's warm-bind fault count and the control-plane duration resolve in neither direction — the mirror is ~6 THP faults of a ~1200-fault bind. This closes the investigation entry's "Where a fix would go" list, so the entry is amended to say so: items 1-3 shipped as #1981 and item 4 as #1988 plus this change, and none of them reached the ~1100 faults the submitting thread takes per bind. #1981 already reported those unmoved when the recording's allocations went away; this is the second measurement of the same thing. Attributing them needs mincore() on a buffer's pages before the write, not another guess at which allocation it is.

hw-native-sys#1981 gave each recorder thread its own recording storage, so a steady-state bind allocates nothing for recording. What it kept per thread is the high-water mark of the bodies that thread happened to record — and which body a thread records is not stable across binds. The recorder pool has one FIFO that all eight workers wait on and start() notifies one of them, so a thread that recorded a narrow body first extends its slots and reallocates its arrays the first time a wider one lands on it, on whatever bind that turns out to be. Measured on dsv4, whose eight Definitions differ in size, a warm bind still created 1336 node slots of the 1679 it recorded. Two changes, and the second is what makes the first worth anything. Every retained array is stood up at its per-node cap times GRAPH_MAX_NODES when the thread's storage is created, next to the hazard map that stand-up already allocates: tensor_sources at CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS per node, the two scalar arrays at CORE_MAX_SCALAR_ARGS, predicates and output_ranges at one per node, and the node slots themselves. internal_fanins keeps the high-water mark — a node may depend on any number of its predecessors, so its only structural bound is quadratic in the node cap. And a recorded node no longer owns its tensor buffer. All of a body's tensor arguments are packed end to end in one region the recording bumps through, allocated once per thread at GRAPH_MAX_NODES x CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS and never grown; a node carries an offset and a count into it. A per-node buffer at the cap is 32 x 128 B = exactly one page, so reserving one per node would have made dsv4's 1679 nodes touch 1679 pages to hold ~210 KB of tensors — the opposite of the intent. Packed, the same body touches ~53. The region is allocated with new[] on a trivially-default-constructible Tensor, so it costs no page until a body writes one, and each element a node uses is value-initialized before it is filled, which is what the old assign() did. Never growing is also what keeps the element addresses a node hands the caller through TaskOutputTensors valid while every later node records — the property that forced a per-node vector in the first place. Interleaved A/B on dsv4 (base, measure, base, measure; three rounds over two ranks; four warm binds per arm), per bind: base packed record_node, warm min (us) 1702 / 3423 1239 / 1563 record_node, warm median (us) 2483 / 5076 2412 / 1934 control plane, min of sums (us) 837 / 1303 719 / 943 host_orch minflt, warm median 1128 / 1033 953 / 1003 host_orch minflt, cold binds 1098 / 1106 1220 / 1234 record_node and the control-plane minimum of per-bind sums both improve with the sign agreeing across the two repetitions, which is this workload's criterion for a resolvable change. host_orch's fault count moves -175 then -30 — the right direction, but the second is inside the scatter, so it is not claimed. The cold bind costs ~120 more faults per rank, which is the 4 MB region and the 1024 slots being stood up. Verified: cpput 119/119; the a2a3 onboard sweep (149 passed, 1 skipped); the two Graph-recording scene tests golden-checked on device; and graph_execution at --rounds 3, which is the multi-bind slot reuse CI does not reach (hw-native-sys#1981's own coverage gap) and which passes its golden on every invocation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

hw-native-sys#1981 gave each recorder thread its own recording storage, so a steady-state bind allocates nothing for recording. What it kept per thread is the high-water mark of the bodies that thread happened to record — and which body a thread records is not stable across binds. The recorder pool has one FIFO that all eight workers wait on and start() notifies one of them, so a thread that recorded a narrow body first extends its slots and reallocates its arrays the first time a wider one lands on it, on whatever bind that turns out to be. Measured on dsv4, whose eight Definitions differ in size, a warm bind still created 1336 node slots of the 1679 it recorded. Two changes, and the second is what makes the first worth anything. Every retained array is stood up at its per-node cap times GRAPH_MAX_NODES when the thread's storage is created, next to the hazard map that stand-up already allocates: tensor_sources at CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS per node, the two scalar arrays at CORE_MAX_SCALAR_ARGS, predicates and output_ranges at one per node, and the node slots themselves. internal_fanins keeps the high-water mark — a node may depend on any number of its predecessors, so its only structural bound is quadratic in the node cap. And a recorded node no longer owns its tensor buffer. All of a body's tensor arguments are packed end to end in one region the recording bumps through, allocated once per thread at GRAPH_MAX_NODES x CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS and never grown; a node carries an offset and a count into it. A per-node buffer at the cap is 32 x 128 B = exactly one page, so reserving one per node would have made dsv4's 1679 nodes touch 1679 pages to hold ~210 KB of tensors — the opposite of the intent. Packed, the same body touches ~53. The region is allocated with new[] on a trivially-default-constructible Tensor, so it costs no page until a body writes one, and each element a node uses is value-initialized before it is filled, which is what the old assign() did. Never growing is also what keeps the element addresses a node hands the caller through TaskOutputTensors valid while every later node records — the property that forced a per-node vector in the first place. Interleaved A/B on dsv4 (base, measure, base, measure; three rounds over two ranks; four warm binds per arm), per bind: base packed record_node, warm min (us) 1702 / 3423 1239 / 1563 record_node, warm median (us) 2483 / 5076 2412 / 1934 control plane, min of sums (us) 837 / 1303 719 / 943 host_orch minflt, warm median 1128 / 1033 953 / 1003 host_orch minflt, cold binds 1098 / 1106 1220 / 1234 record_node and the control-plane minimum of per-bind sums both improve with the sign agreeing across the two repetitions, which is this workload's criterion for a resolvable change. host_orch's fault count moves -175 then -30 — the right direction, but the second is inside the scatter, so it is not claimed. The cold bind costs ~120 more faults per rank, which is the 4 MB region and the 1024 slots being stood up. The investigation entry is amended in the same commit, because this measurement retracts a claim it made two commits ago: that pre-sizing this storage "would only move each thread's first recording off the growth path, not touch a warm bind". The slot counter above is the counterexample, and the page-per-node trap is recorded next to it. Verified: cpput 119/119; the a2a3 onboard sweep (149 passed, 1 skipped); the two Graph-recording scene tests golden-checked on device; and graph_execution at --rounds 3, which is the multi-bind slot reuse CI does not reach (hw-native-sys#1981's own coverage gap) and which passes its golden on every invocation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

hw-native-sys#1981 gave each recorder thread its own recording storage, so a steady-state bind allocates nothing for recording. What it kept per thread is the high-water mark of the bodies that thread happened to record — and which body a thread records is not stable across binds. The recorder pool has one FIFO that all eight workers wait on and start() notifies one of them, so a thread that recorded a narrow body first extends its slots and reallocates its arrays the first time a wider one lands on it, on whatever bind that turns out to be. Measured on dsv4, whose eight Definitions differ in size, a warm bind still created 1336 node slots of the 1679 it recorded. Two changes, and the second is what makes the first worth anything. Every retained array is stood up at its per-node cap times GRAPH_MAX_NODES when the thread's storage is created, next to the hazard map that stand-up already allocates: tensor_sources at CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS per node, the two scalar arrays at CORE_MAX_SCALAR_ARGS, predicates and output_ranges at one per node, and the node slots themselves. internal_fanins keeps the high-water mark — a node may depend on any number of its predecessors, so its only structural bound is quadratic in the node cap. And a recorded node no longer owns its tensor buffer. All of a body's tensor arguments are packed end to end in one region the recording bumps through, allocated once per thread at GRAPH_MAX_NODES x CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS and never grown; a node carries an offset and a count into it. A per-node buffer at the cap is 32 x 128 B = exactly one page, so reserving one per node would have made dsv4's 1679 nodes touch 1679 pages to hold ~210 KB of tensors — the opposite of the intent. Packed, the same body touches ~53. The region is allocated with new[] on a trivially-default-constructible Tensor, so it costs no page until a body writes one, and each element a node uses is value-initialized before it is filled, which is what the old assign() did. Never growing is also what keeps the element addresses a node hands the caller through TaskOutputTensors valid while every later node records — the property that forced a per-node vector in the first place. One flag covers the whole stand-up. The map and the pool both allocate, so `storage_ready` is set only after both succeed and either failure drops the storage: a flag set by the first would let a thread whose second allocation failed skip the stand-up on its next recording and then record through a null pool, since the record path's guard reads that same flag. Interleaved A/B on dsv4 (base, measure, base, measure; three rounds over two ranks; four warm binds per arm), per bind: base packed record_node, warm min (us) 1702 / 3423 1239 / 1563 record_node, warm median (us) 2483 / 5076 2412 / 1934 control plane, min of sums (us) 837 / 1303 719 / 943 host_orch minflt, warm median 1128 / 1033 953 / 1003 host_orch minflt, cold binds 1098 / 1106 1220 / 1234 record_node and the control-plane minimum of per-bind sums both improve with the sign agreeing across the two repetitions, which is this workload's criterion for a resolvable change. host_orch's fault count moves -175 then -30 — the right direction, but the second is inside the scatter, so it is not claimed. The cold bind costs ~120 more faults per rank, which is the 4 MB region and the 1024 slots being stood up. The investigation entry is amended in the same commit, because this measurement retracts a claim it made two commits ago: that pre-sizing this storage "would only move each thread's first recording off the growth path, not touch a warm bind". The slot counter above is the counterexample, and the page-per-node trap is recorded next to it. Verified: cpput 119/119; the a2a3 onboard sweep (149 passed, 1 skipped); the two Graph-recording scene tests golden-checked on device; and graph_execution at --rounds 3, which is the multi-bind slot reuse CI does not reach (hw-native-sys#1981's own coverage gap) and which passes its golden on every invocation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

#1981 gave each recorder thread its own recording storage, so a steady-state bind allocates nothing for recording. What it kept per thread is the high-water mark of the bodies that thread happened to record — and which body a thread records is not stable across binds. The recorder pool has one FIFO that all eight workers wait on and start() notifies one of them, so a thread that recorded a narrow body first extends its slots and reallocates its arrays the first time a wider one lands on it, on whatever bind that turns out to be. Measured on dsv4, whose eight Definitions differ in size, a warm bind still created 1336 node slots of the 1679 it recorded. Two changes, and the second is what makes the first worth anything. Every retained array is stood up at its per-node cap times GRAPH_MAX_NODES when the thread's storage is created, next to the hazard map that stand-up already allocates: tensor_sources at CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS per node, the two scalar arrays at CORE_MAX_SCALAR_ARGS, predicates and output_ranges at one per node, and the node slots themselves. internal_fanins keeps the high-water mark — a node may depend on any number of its predecessors, so its only structural bound is quadratic in the node cap. And a recorded node no longer owns its tensor buffer. All of a body's tensor arguments are packed end to end in one region the recording bumps through, allocated once per thread at GRAPH_MAX_NODES x CORE_MAX_TENSOR_ARGS and never grown; a node carries an offset and a count into it. A per-node buffer at the cap is 32 x 128 B = exactly one page, so reserving one per node would have made dsv4's 1679 nodes touch 1679 pages to hold ~210 KB of tensors — the opposite of the intent. Packed, the same body touches ~53. The region is allocated with new[] on a trivially-default-constructible Tensor, so it costs no page until a body writes one, and each element a node uses is value-initialized before it is filled, which is what the old assign() did. Never growing is also what keeps the element addresses a node hands the caller through TaskOutputTensors valid while every later node records — the property that forced a per-node vector in the first place. One flag covers the whole stand-up. The map and the pool both allocate, so `storage_ready` is set only after both succeed and either failure drops the storage: a flag set by the first would let a thread whose second allocation failed skip the stand-up on its next recording and then record through a null pool, since the record path's guard reads that same flag. Interleaved A/B on dsv4 (base, measure, base, measure; three rounds over two ranks; four warm binds per arm), per bind: base packed record_node, warm min (us) 1702 / 3423 1239 / 1563 record_node, warm median (us) 2483 / 5076 2412 / 1934 control plane, min of sums (us) 837 / 1303 719 / 943 host_orch minflt, warm median 1128 / 1033 953 / 1003 host_orch minflt, cold binds 1098 / 1106 1220 / 1234 record_node and the control-plane minimum of per-bind sums both improve with the sign agreeing across the two repetitions, which is this workload's criterion for a resolvable change. host_orch's fault count moves -175 then -30 — the right direction, but the second is inside the scatter, so it is not claimed. The cold bind costs ~120 more faults per rank, which is the 4 MB region and the 1024 slots being stood up. The investigation entry is amended in the same commit, because this measurement retracts a claim it made two commits ago: that pre-sizing this storage "would only move each thread's first recording off the growth path, not touch a warm bind". The slot counter above is the counterexample, and the page-per-node trap is recorded next to it. Verified: cpput 119/119; the a2a3 onboard sweep (149 passed, 1 skipped); the two Graph-recording scene tests golden-checked on device; and graph_execution at --rounds 3, which is the multi-bind slot reuse CI does not reach (#1981's own coverage gap) and which passes its golden on every invocation.

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