Refactor: drop the ring design from host_build_graph - #2004
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHost-build-graph now uses a fixed ChangesHost-build-graph task-table migration
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66-69: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the task-header initialization comment.
TaskHeaderView::tasksstores the device address ofSharedMemoryTaskHeader. The comment still states that a ring stores a ring-header address.
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp#L66-L69: Replace the ring terminology with task-table terminology.src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp#L66-L69: Apply the same correction.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@docs/troubleshooting/device-error-codes/capacity.md`:
- Line 45: Update the HBG diagnostic reference in the document introduction to
use the allocator’s current name, “Graph Too Large!”. Include “Task Window
Exhausted” only if backward log compatibility requires recognizing the legacy
name.
In
`@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`:
- Around line 1504-1507: Validate each dependency or producer TaskId’s ring and
local range before task-table lookup, rejecting nonzero rings and local IDs
outside capacity; apply this at
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp
lines 1504-1507, 1519-1522, and 1842-1843, and the corresponding ranges in
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp.
Update append_fanin_or_fail to compare the complete TaskId rather than only the
local ID.
In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared_memory.h`:
- Around line 295-297: Replace the obsolete task_window terminology with
max_tasks in the shared-memory sizing comments at
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared_memory.h lines 295-297 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared_memory.h lines 295-297; no other
changes are needed.
In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/runtime_core.cpp`:
- Around line 197-204: Validate the producer’s local_id against the task table
bounds before calling tasks.get_slot_state_by_task_id(local_id). Reject
out-of-range values through the existing fatal invalid-arguments path, then
retain the current descriptor mismatch check for valid IDs.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp`:
- Around line 66-69: Update the comment in TaskHeaderView::init_data_from_layout
to describe tasks as the device address of SharedMemoryTaskHeader, replacing
ring and ring-header terminology with task-table terminology. Apply this
comment-only correction in both
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp lines 66-69
and src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp lines 66-69.
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host_build_graph is whole-graph-resident: the host builds the entire graph before the device starts, and no task slot or heap byte is reclaimed during a run. All three premises of a ring were therefore already false — alloc() caps ids at the table's size so they never wrap, there is no reclaim channel back to the allocator, and a full table is a one-shot "graph too large" verdict that no wait can make satisfiable. hw-native-sys#1980 retired the PTO2 prefix on these names but left the ring semantics untouched. A task id is now its own table index. task_window_mask, get_slot_by_task_id, TaskAllocResult::slot and the power-of-two requirement are gone; every segment is indexed by the id directly. Producer dedup keys on the TaskId itself, so append_fanin_or_fail loses the ring and slot parameters that were derivable from it. TaskAllocator::task_head is gone too: with nothing retiring, the next id is both the occupancy and the run's total, so active_count answers both questions. The task count stays configurable through runtime_env.ring_task_window — that is orthogonal to the ring, and a graph larger than the default still only needs the knob, not a rebuild. Any positive count is accepted, since nothing masks with it. The power-of-two, >= 4 requirement belongs to tensormap_and_ringbuffer, which does mask, and is enforced in that runtime's own resolve; neither the RuntimeEnv setter nor Worker.run constrains the value, so host_build_graph's own bound is the only one it passes through. ChipRingFlowControl::current_task_index is deleted outright. It existed so a device-side orchestrator could publish its ring head incrementally to a concurrently running scheduler; with host orchestration the count is a one-shot scalar, so it becomes a plain int32 in SharedMemoryTaskHeader that the host writes once after orchestration and the restack ships with the rest of the header. It packs into existing padding, so the shared-memory header still shrinks from 256 to 192 bytes, and update_completed_watermark reads the bound from the table it is walking rather than taking it as an argument. This also removes a boot-time read of that counter whose value was discarded, and the cross-module contract that had the allocator's local id depend on the counter's per-boot reset. TaskHeaderView::advance_lock goes with the ring it guarded: nothing on the device advances a reclaim cursor, so the field had no reader. The same for the `uint8_t ring_id = 0` locals in prepare_task and in the tensor-wait diagnostics — every TaskId::make in this runtime emits ring 0, so they only made a constant look configurable, and the wait timeouts no longer print a ring that is always the same. Renaming is confined to names carrying ring or window: SharedMemoryRingHeader -> SharedMemoryTaskHeader, RingSchedState -> TaskHeaderView, ring_buffer.h -> task_allocator.h, CHIP_TASK_WINDOW_SIZE -> CHIP_DEFAULT_GRAPH_TASKS, and the sm_layout types lose the prefix their neighbours never had. The ring_task_window knob keeps its name — it is the cross-runtime RuntimeEnv ABI.
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`TaskId` declared its layout as `(ring_id << 32) | local_id` and named the accessor `ring()`, but only `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` encodes a ring index there. `host_build_graph` has no ring at all since hw-native-sys#2004, and uses the high bits as an id space: `graph_execution.cpp` minted `TaskId::make(1, synthetic_local)` for a node materialized inside a Graph, which lives in `GraphNodeStorage` and has no entry in the task table. Every hbg guard reading `ring() != 0` therefore read as a bounds check on a dimension the runtime does not have, while actually asking "is this a graph-node id". `FaninBuilder::mark_seen` answered that question inside its dedup return value, and `append_fanin_or_fail` read its `false` as "not deduplicated yet". A GRAPH_NODE producer id, whose low bits are a packed (outer task, node index) pair, thus indexed the task table with that pair and produced a fanin edge to an unrelated task, silently. hw-native-sys#2004 dropped the ring and the parameters derivable from the id, but kept the space check folded into the dedup result. `TaskId` is now an opaque 64-bit handle: `raw`, `invalid()`, `is_valid()`, equality, and the 8-byte shared-memory assertion. Each runtime owns its layout in `src/common/<runtime>/task_id_encoding.h`, one arch-shared file each: simpler::hbg TaskIdSpace{RING, GRAPH_NODE}, make_ring_task, make_graph_node(outer_local_id, node_index), task_id_space, is_ring_task, task_local_id simpler::tmr make_task_id(ring_id, local_id), task_ring, task_local_id The graph-node packing (`outer_local << 10 | index`) moves out of `graph_execution.cpp` into the hbg header, and `graph_execution.h` now asserts `GRAPH_MAX_NODES` fits that index field. With the space named, `mark_seen` deduplicates and nothing else, and `append_fanin_or_fail` rejects a non-RING producer up front with `report_fatal(SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS, ...)` — the same treatment `runtime_core.cpp` already gave a non-ring tensor producer. `tests/st/host_build_graph_validation` gains a `graph_node_dependency` case that declares a `make_graph_node` id as an explicit dependency. It fails with the new guard removed (`DID NOT RAISE` — the run completes, having built the bogus edge). Comments that repeated the ring layout as if it were universal are corrected where they cover both runtimes: `dep_gen.h`, `chip_swimlane_profiling.h`, hbg's `runtime_types.h` and `profiling_levels.md`, `docs/dfx/dep-gen.md`, `docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`, and the two host tools that already decoded the hbg id space while calling it a ring (`swimlane_converter.py`'s `_decode_graph_node_task_id`, `deps_viewer.py`). Each states what the high field means per runtime and its range, rather than implying a nonzero value is unusual — a tmr task on ring 2 is as ordinary as one on ring 0. Behavior and output keys in the tools are unchanged. `MULTI_RING.md` keeps its layout — it is true for tmr — and moves to the new function names. Verified: full product build (both arches, sim and onboard, all four runtimes), cpput 119/119, pyut 1919 passed, and the per-PR sim gate (`--manual exclude`) green on both a2a3sim and a5sim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`TaskId` declared its layout as `(ring_id << 32) | local_id` and named the accessor `ring()`, but only `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` encodes a ring index there. `host_build_graph` has no ring at all since hw-native-sys#2004, and uses the high bits as an id space: `graph_execution.cpp` minted `TaskId::make(1, synthetic_local)` for a node materialized inside a Graph, which lives in `GraphNodeStorage` and has no entry in the task table. Every hbg guard reading `ring() != 0` therefore read as a bounds check on a dimension the runtime does not have, while actually asking "is this a graph-node id". `FaninBuilder::mark_seen` answered that question inside its dedup return value, and `append_fanin_or_fail` read its `false` as "not deduplicated yet". A GRAPH_NODE producer id, whose low bits are a packed (outer task, node index) pair, thus indexed the task table with that pair and produced a fanin edge to an unrelated task, silently. hw-native-sys#2004 dropped the ring and the parameters derivable from the id, but kept the space check folded into the dedup result. `TaskId` is now an opaque 64-bit handle: `raw`, `invalid()`, `is_valid()`, equality, and the 8-byte shared-memory assertion. Each runtime owns its layout in `src/common/<runtime>/task_id_encoding.h`, one arch-shared file each: simpler::hbg TaskIdSpace{RING, GRAPH_NODE}, make_ring_task, make_graph_node(outer_local_id, node_index), task_id_space, is_ring_task, task_local_id simpler::tmr make_task_id(ring_id, local_id), task_ring, task_local_id The graph-node packing (`outer_local << 10 | index`) moves out of `graph_execution.cpp` into the hbg header, and `graph_execution.h` now asserts `GRAPH_MAX_NODES` fits that index field. With the space named, `mark_seen` deduplicates and nothing else, and `append_fanin_or_fail` rejects a non-RING producer up front with `report_fatal(SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS, ...)` — the same treatment `runtime_core.cpp` already gave a non-ring tensor producer. That check also has to precede the table lookup, so the lookup moves into `append_fanin_or_fail` and its `prod_state` parameter goes away. Its three callers each resolved `slot_states[task_local_id(id)]` and passed the result in; `SharedMemoryTaskHeader::get_slot_state_by_task_id` does not bounds-check, so a GRAPH_NODE id — whose low bits are a packed pair, not an index — formed an out-of-bounds slot reference at the call site before the guard could reject it. Resolving inside the callee keeps the invariant in one place and leaves callers no way to form that reference. `tests/st/host_build_graph_validation` gains a `graph_node_dependency` case that declares a `make_graph_node` id as an explicit dependency. It fails with the new guard removed (`DID NOT RAISE` — the run completes, having built the bogus edge). Comments that repeated the ring layout as if it were universal are corrected where they cover both runtimes: `dep_gen.h`, `chip_swimlane_profiling.h`, hbg's `runtime_types.h` and `profiling_levels.md`, `docs/dfx/dep-gen.md`, `docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`, and the two host tools that already decoded the hbg id space while calling it a ring (`swimlane_converter.py`'s `_decode_graph_node_task_id`, `deps_viewer.py`). Each states what the high field means per runtime and its range, rather than implying a nonzero value is unusual — a tmr task on ring 2 is as ordinary as one on ring 0. Behavior and output keys in the tools are unchanged. `MULTI_RING.md` keeps its layout — it is true for tmr — and moves to the new function names. Verified: full product build (both arches, sim and onboard, all four runtimes), cpput 119/119, pyut 1919 passed, and the per-PR sim gate (`--manual exclude`) green on both a2a3sim and a5sim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`TaskId` declared its layout as `(ring_id << 32) | local_id` and named the accessor `ring()`, but only `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` encodes a ring index there. `host_build_graph` has no ring at all since #2004, and uses the high bits as an id space: `graph_execution.cpp` minted `TaskId::make(1, synthetic_local)` for a node materialized inside a Graph, which lives in `GraphNodeStorage` and has no entry in the task table. Every hbg guard reading `ring() != 0` therefore read as a bounds check on a dimension the runtime does not have, while actually asking "is this a graph-node id". `FaninBuilder::mark_seen` answered that question inside its dedup return value, and `append_fanin_or_fail` read its `false` as "not deduplicated yet". A GRAPH_NODE producer id, whose low bits are a packed (outer task, node index) pair, thus indexed the task table with that pair and produced a fanin edge to an unrelated task, silently. #2004 dropped the ring and the parameters derivable from the id, but kept the space check folded into the dedup result. `TaskId` is now an opaque 64-bit handle: `raw`, `invalid()`, `is_valid()`, equality, and the 8-byte shared-memory assertion. Each runtime owns its layout in `src/common/<runtime>/task_id_encoding.h`, one arch-shared file each: simpler::hbg TaskIdSpace{RING, GRAPH_NODE}, make_ring_task, make_graph_node(outer_local_id, node_index), task_id_space, is_ring_task, task_local_id simpler::tmr make_task_id(ring_id, local_id), task_ring, task_local_id The graph-node packing (`outer_local << 10 | index`) moves out of `graph_execution.cpp` into the hbg header, and `graph_execution.h` now asserts `GRAPH_MAX_NODES` fits that index field. With the space named, `mark_seen` deduplicates and nothing else, and `append_fanin_or_fail` rejects a non-RING producer up front with `report_fatal(SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS, ...)` — the same treatment `runtime_core.cpp` already gave a non-ring tensor producer. That check also has to precede the table lookup, so the lookup moves into `append_fanin_or_fail` and its `prod_state` parameter goes away. Its three callers each resolved `slot_states[task_local_id(id)]` and passed the result in; `SharedMemoryTaskHeader::get_slot_state_by_task_id` does not bounds-check, so a GRAPH_NODE id — whose low bits are a packed pair, not an index — formed an out-of-bounds slot reference at the call site before the guard could reject it. Resolving inside the callee keeps the invariant in one place and leaves callers no way to form that reference. `tests/st/host_build_graph_validation` gains a `graph_node_dependency` case that declares a `make_graph_node` id as an explicit dependency. It fails with the new guard removed (`DID NOT RAISE` — the run completes, having built the bogus edge). Comments that repeated the ring layout as if it were universal are corrected where they cover both runtimes: `dep_gen.h`, `chip_swimlane_profiling.h`, hbg's `runtime_types.h` and `profiling_levels.md`, `docs/dfx/dep-gen.md`, `docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`, and the two host tools that already decoded the hbg id space while calling it a ring (`swimlane_converter.py`'s `_decode_graph_node_task_id`, `deps_viewer.py`). Each states what the high field means per runtime and its range, rather than implying a nonzero value is unusual — a tmr task on ring 2 is as ordinary as one on ring 0. Behavior and output keys in the tools are unchanged. `MULTI_RING.md` keeps its layout — it is true for tmr — and moves to the new function names. Verified: full product build (both arches, sim and onboard, all four runtimes), cpput 119/119, pyut 1919 passed, and the per-PR sim gate (`--manual exclude`) green on both a2a3sim and a5sim.
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Three kinds of stale documentation, all of it naming something the tree does not contain. `doc-consistency.md` §3: when a referent is gone, the reference goes too. **`problems.md`, deleted.** A personal working audit of `host_build_graph` — findings, their status, and notes on what to look at next. It was never meant to be here. It arrived in hw-native-sys#1974 through a `git add -A` that swept it up with that change's 958 files, and hw-native-sys#2012 then updated it rather than noticing it. Nothing references it (`git grep problems.md` is empty), it is absent from `mkdocs.yml`, and `wheel.packages` is `["simpler_setup", "python/simpler"]` so it never shipped. Its closed items name the PRs that closed them, each of which carries the reasoning in its own commit message. **`last_task_alive`, in hbg's `RUNTIME_LOGIC.md`.** The paragraph gives four reasons `SchedulerState` holds no per-run content, and the third was "hbg never advances `last_task_alive`". That was accurate when written — hbg inherited the field from `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` and did not advance it — but hw-native-sys#1837 deleted the field with the rest of the reclamation paths, for exactly the reason the sentence gives, and hw-native-sys#2004 then removed the ring that held it. The clause now names the one thing in that list that does not exist. It is replaced by the live fact from the same runtime: polling reserves no wiring or dependency pool, because readiness comes from the task table's `completion_flags`. **`ring 0`, in hbg's `SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md`.** Ownership validation was described as checking that "the task ID ... carries ring 0, the only ring HBG places tasks on". hbg has had no ring since hw-native-sys#2004 (`git grep 'rings\['` over its tree is empty), and since hw-native-sys#2012 the check is on the id *space*, not a ring index. The bullet now says what the code does and why a `GRAPH_NODE` id fails it. **`pto_runtime2_init`, in three `scheduler.h` files.** A comment credited it with reserving and wiring the early-dispatch queues. `git grep pto_runtime2_init` returned only those three comments — the symbol exists nowhere. The work is done by `SchedulerState::init_data_from_layout`, which the comment now names. Only three of the four runtime trees carried the line; `src/a5/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer` words that member differently. **`run_from_blob`, in `docs/buffer-abi.md`.** A present-tense table row told the chip leaf to "hand the POD blob to `run_from_blob`", a name that has never existed (introduced with the row in hw-native-sys#1599). The row now names the three functions that do the work — `read_args_from_blob`, `ImportRegistry.materialize_args`, `_submit_chip_run_materialized` — matching `worker.py`'s `submit_frame`. Deliberately untouched: `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`'s ring documentation. `current_task_index`, `task_window_mask`, `advance_lock` and `last_task_alive` are all live there (162 uses across 20 non-doc files); hw-native-sys#2004 dropped the ring from `host_build_graph` only, and said so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three kinds of stale documentation, all of it naming something the tree does not contain. `doc-consistency.md` §3: when a referent is gone, the reference goes too. **`problems.md`, deleted.** A personal working audit of `host_build_graph` — findings, their status, and notes on what to look at next. It was never meant to be here. It arrived in #1974 through a `git add -A` that swept it up with that change's 958 files, and #2012 then updated it rather than noticing it. Nothing references it (`git grep problems.md` is empty), it is absent from `mkdocs.yml`, and `wheel.packages` is `["simpler_setup", "python/simpler"]` so it never shipped. Its closed items name the PRs that closed them, each of which carries the reasoning in its own commit message. **`last_task_alive`, in hbg's `RUNTIME_LOGIC.md`.** The paragraph gives four reasons `SchedulerState` holds no per-run content, and the third was "hbg never advances `last_task_alive`". That was accurate when written — hbg inherited the field from `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` and did not advance it — but #1837 deleted the field with the rest of the reclamation paths, for exactly the reason the sentence gives, and #2004 then removed the ring that held it. The clause now names the one thing in that list that does not exist. It is replaced by the live fact from the same runtime: polling reserves no wiring or dependency pool, because readiness comes from the task table's `completion_flags`. **`ring 0`, in hbg's `SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md`.** Ownership validation was described as checking that "the task ID ... carries ring 0, the only ring HBG places tasks on". hbg has had no ring since #2004 (`git grep 'rings\['` over its tree is empty), and since #2012 the check is on the id *space*, not a ring index. The bullet now says what the code does and why a `GRAPH_NODE` id fails it. **`pto_runtime2_init`, in three `scheduler.h` files.** A comment credited it with reserving and wiring the early-dispatch queues. `git grep pto_runtime2_init` returned only those three comments — the symbol exists nowhere. The work is done by `SchedulerState::init_data_from_layout`, which the comment now names. Only three of the four runtime trees carried the line; `src/a5/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer` words that member differently. **`run_from_blob`, in `docs/buffer-abi.md`.** A present-tense table row told the chip leaf to "hand the POD blob to `run_from_blob`", a name that has never existed (introduced with the row in #1599). The row now names the three functions that do the work — `read_args_from_blob`, `ImportRegistry.materialize_args`, `_submit_chip_run_materialized` — matching `worker.py`'s `submit_frame`. Deliberately untouched: `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`'s ring documentation. `current_task_index`, `task_window_mask`, `advance_lock` and `last_task_alive` are all live there (162 uses across 20 non-doc files); #2004 dropped the ring from `host_build_graph` only, and said so.
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… its ring names (#2030) Four changes to `host_build_graph`. The first is a live out-of-bounds write; the rest close the gap between what the runtime does and what its own comments claim. **The out-of-bounds write.** A Graph recording's hazard map holds `GRAPH_MAX_NODES` task chains and indexes them by a producer's low id field directly, but a recorded node was minted in the RING space as `start_local_task_id + node_index` — the allocator's own numbering. Any Graph beginning after the run's first `GRAPH_MAX_NODES` tasks, which is the ordinary shape for a decode workload, therefore registered its nodes past the last chain and wrote outside `task_entry_heads`. ASAN puts it at `link_entry` → `insert` → `register_task_outputs` → `graph_record_submit_node`, on the 8192-byte region `graph_recording_init_tensor_map` allocates for `max_tasks = GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 1024`. A recorded node now takes an `IN_GRAPH` id whose low field is the node index alone, so the key is in range however far into a run the Graph begins. The recording baseline that existed only to tell a node from a pre-Graph task by numeric range is gone: the two now differ by id space, decided at the mint rather than derived by subtraction. Two consequences beyond the write itself — a ring id the main thread allocates while a recorder runs can no longer land inside a node's index range and be wired as an internal fanin, and a node id that escapes its Graph and is later declared as an explicit dependency now trips `append_fanin_or_fail`'s id-space guard instead of resolving to an unrelated task slot. `link_entry` and `remove_from_task` gained a `debug_assert` on the chain index so a future caller inserting under the wrong id space fails where it happens. **The id spaces.** `TaskIdSpace::RING` came in with #2012, which gave hbg its own `TaskId` encoding but kept the older ring vocabulary for the two spaces — and hbg has had no ring since #2004 (`git grep 'rings\['` over its tree is empty), so the header's own comment had to apologize for the name. There is likewise no separate "node" concept to name: everything the runtime schedules is a task, and the only question the high bits answer is whether a task belongs to a Graph. TaskIdSpace::RING -> TaskIdSpace::GLOBAL TaskIdSpace::GRAPH_NODE -> TaskIdSpace::IN_GRAPH make_ring_task -> make_global_task is_ring_task -> is_global_task make_graph_node -> make_in_graph_task GRAPH_NODE_INDEX_BITS -> IN_GRAPH_TASK_INDEX_BITS `TaskIdSpace` keeps its name: the field holds which namespace an id belongs to, and "type" would collide conceptually with `TaskKind`. The deeper `node` vocabulary is untouched — `GraphNodeStorage`, `GraphNodeDefinition`, `graph_node_index`, `GRAPH_MAX_NODES`, `node_count` and `node_at` are ~350 occurrences across host, device and the Definition wire structs, and `TaskKind::GRAPH_NODE` is not a rename at all, since it also discriminates what `graph_context` points at. **The ring vocabulary in comments and docs.** Renaming the identifiers left the surrounding prose still describing tasks as living on a ring, so one concept stayed spelled two ways. Six of those comments were not stale wording but descriptions of mechanisms the runtime does not have, which is the part worth reading: - `TaskPayload`'s layout comment promised that large fanins "spill into a per-ring ring buffer slice". Fanin is always inline and hard-capped at `CHIP_MAX_FANIN`, which `append_fanin_or_fail`'s own fatal states. - `reserve_layout` and `wire_arena_pointers` claimed to declare and wire per-ring `dep_pool` regions. Polling has no `dep_pool`, as a comment 700 lines above them already says. - `TaskDescriptor` placed itself in a "ring buffer"; it lives in the task table. - `TaskPayload::init` and the predicate write in `submit_task_common` attributed uninitialized payload storage to slot reuse. hbg never reuses a slot: the storage is raw because shared memory is not zero-filled, and that is what the surrounding code depends on. The rest is vocabulary. `per-ring completed_watermark` drops a modifier that distinguishes nothing, there being one watermark. `the ring path` becomes `the ordinary path`, which is what `GRAPH_EXECUTION.md` and eight existing comments already call it — one of them the line directly below a `ring path` mention. hbg's `SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md` moves for the second time in this sequence: #2017 corrected its "ring 0" claim to name the `RING` id space, and that name is what this change retires. Untouched, because each is accurate or externally consumed: the ring names that describe `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, the mailbox and ready-queue ring buffers, the doorbell verb (`ring_one_doorbell`, `maybe_rendezvous_ring`, ...), the `runtime_env.ring_*` knobs, and the `TASK ring=%d` stall-log field. **`FaninBuilder`, dropped.** It had shrunk to four fields and one method, two of those fields copies of `payload.fanin_count` and `payload.fanin_data()`, with STEP 6 copying the count back to the payload at the end of every submit. `append_fanin_or_fail` now takes the consumer payload's fanin region and its count directly, so the count accumulates in place and the copy-back is gone; `mark_seen` becomes the free function `fanin_mark_seen`. The region is still resolved once per task rather than per producer. `submit_task_common` zeroes `payload.fanin_count` before the appends, which is this device-read field's init-on-write point since hbg does not zero-fill the task table; `graph_submit_outer` needs no zeroing because `graph_reset_outer_payload` already does it. No functional change. Also converts `dep_compute.h` to `#pragma once`: its guard macro named `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` and carried the retired `PTO` prefix, and the a5 copy was already converted. Testing: - `ctest` on `tests/ut/cpp`: 121/121. - ASAN build of `tests/ut/cpp`: the two `link_entry` overflows reported before the fix are both gone. CI does not cover this — `sanitizers.yml` runs sim scene tests, not cpput. - `test_hbg_graph_recording_bounds` is new and fails against the pre-fix tree with `task_local_id(node_id)` at 1024 against a 1024-chain map. It runs on both arch trees, since the fix is mirrored in both. - `test_hbg_tensormap`'s slot-aliasing case rested on a mask hbg does not have — its own inserts ran one chain past the fixture's dimension. It now reads `task_entry_heads` to pin the invariant that holds: a local id is its own chain index. An entry count cannot observe that, which is why the earlier `valid_count()` assertion did not. - Scene tests on `a2a3sim` and `a5sim` with `--manual include`, plus `host_build_graph_validation` including `graph_node_dependency` — the standing barrier for "a Graph-internal id used as an explicit dependency is a fatal".
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host_build_graphis whole-graph-resident: the host builds the entire graph before the device starts, and nothing is reclaimed during a run. All three premises of a ring were therefore already false —alloc()caps ids at the table's size so they never wrap, there is no reclaim channel back to the allocator, and a full table is a one-shot "graph too large" verdict that no wait can make satisfiable. #1980 retired thePTO2prefix on these names but left the ring semantics untouched; this removes the semantics.A task id is its own table index.
task_window_mask,get_slot_by_task_id,TaskAllocResult::slotand the power-of-two requirement are gone. Producer dedup keys on theTaskIditself, soappend_fanin_or_failloses the ring and slot parameters that were derivable from it.The task count stays configurable.
runtime_env.ring_task_windowstill sizes the table per task — that is orthogonal to the ring, and a graph larger than the default still only needs the knob, not a rebuild.Worker.run's sharedRuntimeEnvvalidation still requires a power of two, which this layer no longer needs but has no reason to reject.ChipRingFlowControl::current_task_indexis deleted outright. It existed so a device-side orchestrator could publish its ring head incrementally to a concurrently running scheduler; with host orchestration the count is a one-shot scalar. The host reads it from its own allocator, and the device keeps usinghost_total_tasks, whichon_orchestration_donelatches into the scheduler beside the task-table pointer forupdate_completed_watermark. This also removes a boot-time read of that counter whose value was discarded, and the cross-module contract that had the allocator's local id depend on the counter's per-boot reset. The shared-memory header shrinks from 256 to 192 bytes.Renaming is confined to names that carry
ringorwindow:SharedMemoryRingHeader→SharedMemoryTaskHeader,RingSchedState→TaskHeaderView,ring_buffer.h→task_allocator.h,CHIP_TASK_WINDOW_SIZE→CHIP_DEFAULT_GRAPH_TASKS, and thesm_layouttypes lose the prefix their neighbours never had. Thering_task_windowknob keeps its name — it is the cross-runtimeRuntimeEnvABI.Testing
examples tests/stsweep on a2a3sim and a5sim, both exit 0, 0 failurestask-submit): full onboard CI (-m 'not sdma' --exclude-level 4) — 57 passed / 0 failed, covering both runtimes; plus a targeted hbg sweep overtests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph,examples/a2a3/host_build_graph,host_build_graph_validation,host_build_graph_wide_dispatchandtask_timing_slots. Device logs carry no fatal, deadlock or timeout signature.runtime_env.ring_task_window: 4reportsTasks: used=4/4andFATAL: Graph Too Large!, confirming the value reaches the allocator.pre-commitclean on every changed fileTwo bind-time allocation costs surfaced during this work but are not in scope, since they trace to "reserve the worst case" rather than to the ring: the per-bind reallocation of the host mirror, and two
O(capacity)clear loops (fanin_seen_epoch,task_entry_heads). Both are recorded locally for separate evaluation.