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The A5 host_build_graph scheduler needs a stable shared contract before dependency resolution and dispatch can move onto resident AICore workers. The contract must preserve the existing ActiveMask, TaskAttrs, TaskPayload, and legacy AICPU scheduler behavior while giving later scheduler layers bounded graph access and cache-line-stable state.

What changed

  • Add the scheduler state layout, sizing and initialization helpers, graph view, GM access primitives, and worker-to-cluster topology mapping.
  • Project compact AICore metadata from the existing submit contracts without changing their semantics.
  • Keep direct whole-graph task indexing for arbitrary capacities, reject invalid graph and fanin bounds before payload access, and bind the fanin wire offset to TaskPayload.
  • Add focused C++ coverage for state planning/alignment, metadata projection, non-power-of-two indexing, fanin validation, dispatch guards, and mixed-kernel launch coordinates.
  • Keep the legacy AICPU scheduler buildable; this PR defines contracts only and does not cut production scheduling over to AICore.

Testing

  • cmake -B tests/ut/cpp/build -S tests/ut/cpp && cmake --build tests/ut/cpp/build --target test_a5_hbg_scheduler_contracts -j 16 && ctest --test-dir tests/ut/cpp/build -R "^test_a5_hbg_scheduler_contracts$" --output-on-failure — target built and 1/1 test passed.
  • git diff --check origin/main...HEAD — passed.
  • pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD passed every other applicable hook and successfully built the sim runtimes, but the local image has no clang-tidy executable, so that hook could not run locally; CI will run the complete gate.

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The change adds resident AICore scheduler wire contracts, state layout and initialization helpers, cache and GM memory operations, graph validation and dispatch materialization helpers, topology mapping, and host contract tests.

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Resident scheduler runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scheduler wire contracts and state layout
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h
Adds scheduler state structures, metadata flags, layout planning, overflow checks, alignment validation, and state initialization.
Scheduler memory and topology primitives
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_memory.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_topology.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/async_wait.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/aicore/aicore_executor.cpp
Adds host and AICore cache, GM, atomic, and topology helpers. Updates an alignment cast and includes the memory helper.
Graph classification and dispatch payloads
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_graph.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_dispatch.cpp, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/common/intrinsic.h
Adds graph wire constants, task validation, fan-in checks, payload materialization, the fan-in offset contract, and per-dispatch sub_block_id documentation.
Scheduler contract test coverage
tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_contracts.cpp
Registers and implements tests for layout, alignment, metadata, graph validation, payload materialization, and topology mapping.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5ffb8

This PR adds shared scheduler contracts for future AICore execution, but the current changes can strip native device qualifiers on CCE builds, leave A5 and A2A3 contract definitions inconsistent, and permit unsafe layout initialization if malformed metadata reaches the new API. Production scheduling is not yet switched over, but these bounded build and contract-safety risks require owner follow-up before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SchedulerGraphView
  participant scheduler_classify_task_shape
  participant scheduler_materialize_task_payload_resolved
  participant DispatchPayload
  SchedulerGraphView->>scheduler_classify_task_shape: read task descriptor and fan-in data
  scheduler_classify_task_shape->>scheduler_materialize_task_payload_resolved: provide validated task shape
  scheduler_materialize_task_payload_resolved->>DispatchPayload: write arguments and sub_block_id
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A rabbit checks the task queue bright
New fields align in rows just right
Fan-ins hop from node to node
Payloads carry their dispatch load
Cache lines whisper, “All is well”
Tests ring a tidy validation bell

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75-75: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Synchronize the corresponding A2A3 contract files in this change. The A5 tree adds the fan-in wire contract and related shared edits, but the corresponding A2A3 files remain out of sync. Apply the same changes to the A2A3 tree: add TASKPAYLOAD_FANIN_DELTA_OFFSET and the fan-in offset assertion, copy the updated GlobalContext lifecycle comments, copy the sub_block_id documentation change, and copy the static_cast<uintptr_t>(CHIP_ALIGN_SIZE) change. Keep corresponding files byte-for-byte identical.

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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h` at line 75,
Maintain byte-for-byte parity by applying the corresponding changes in both
trees: update dispatch_payload.h at
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h:75 and
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h:75 with the fan-in
delta constant and GlobalContext lifecycle comments; copy the sub_block_id
documentation change from
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/common/intrinsic.h:109-111 to
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/common/intrinsic.h:109-111; and apply the
CHIP_ALIGN_SIZE cast change in async_wait.h at
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/async_wait.h:36 and
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/async_wait.h:36.

Apply the same fix in
`@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h` at line 75: Covers
the missing fan-in offset constant and assertion in the sibling scheduler tree.

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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h`:
- Around line 625-635: Move the __gm__, __aicore__, and __host__ fallback
definitions into the existing host-only guard, ensuring they are not defined
during __CCE_AICORE__ builds. Preserve the native AICore qualifiers for
scheduler_memory.h and aicore_executor.cpp.

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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h`:
- Line 75: Maintain byte-for-byte parity by applying the corresponding changes
in both trees: update dispatch_payload.h at
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h:75 and
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h:75 with the fan-in
delta constant and GlobalContext lifecycle comments; copy the sub_block_id
documentation change from
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/common/intrinsic.h:109-111 to
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/common/intrinsic.h:109-111; and apply the
CHIP_ALIGN_SIZE cast change in async_wait.h at
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/async_wait.h:36 and
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/async_wait.h:36.

Apply the same fix in
`@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/dispatch_payload.h` at line 75: Covers
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Comment thread src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h
Add the shared scheduler state layout, graph view, GM primitives, and worker
topology mapping while keeping the legacy AICPU scheduler buildable.

Derive compact AICore metadata from the existing ActiveMask and TaskAttrs
contracts, preserve direct whole-graph task indexing for arbitrary capacities,
and lock cache-line layouts with focused C++ tests. Reject invalid graph bounds
before GM payload access, bind the fanin wire offset to TaskPayload, and define
the resident GlobalContext lane from the selected task subslot.
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Follow-up review triage:

  • Fixed the CCE qualifier fallback issue in 52130db3; the native AICore qualifiers are no longer shadowed.
  • I am intentionally not copying these changes into A2A3. This PR introduces the resident scheduler only under A5 (scheduler_graph.h, scheduler_memory.h, and scheduler_topology.h have no A2A3 counterpart). The fanin wire constant and per-dispatch GlobalContext wording describe that A5-only consumer; adding them to A2A3 would create unused contracts and inaccurate lifecycle documentation. The repository parity rule applies to cross-tree identifier renames, not architecture-specific feature additions. The CHIP_ALIGN_SIZE cast is likewise an A5 compiler compatibility change, not a contract change.
  • The automated docstring-coverage warning is non-blocking for these C++ contract primitives; repository pre-commit and the full CI matrix passed on the preceding revision.

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…mon (#2060)

The a2a3 and a5 host_build_graph trees were near-duplicates. Every
host-side source the two held byte-identically now lives once in
src/common/host_build_graph; the arch trees keep the scheduler, the AICPU
and AICore sources, and what genuinely differs. Net -10,700 lines in
src/, no behavioral change.

- src/common/host_build_graph splits its .cpp files into host/, device/
  and shared/ subdirectories naming the targets that compile them. The
  split is required because every build_config source_dirs entry is
  collected by a recursive glob, and host-only code uses the STL
  containers the AICPU target forbids.
- That directory is also on every hbg target's include path, which is
  what lets the runtime-agnostic platform/ and common/worker/ sources
  reach this runtime's runtime.h and types.h by bare name: they resolve
  to the shared copies when compiled for host_build_graph and to
  tensormap_and_ringbuffer's own copies when compiled for that runtime.
  "runtime" precedes the shared directory on the path, so an arch-local
  header of the same name still wins.
- Sources under src/common name the shared headers with their
  host_build_graph/ prefix rather than relying on that include path,
  because cpput compiles them with its own include configuration. Only
  the runtime-agnostic files keep bare names, which is what keeps them
  usable from either runtime.
- RUNTIME_MAX_WORKER resolves through PLATFORM_MAX_CORES instead of a
  literal 72 / 108 spelled twice per architecture, which leaves
  runtime.h and scheduler_context.h identical across the two. The value
  is still per-arch, it comes from the platform's own core count as
  tensormap_and_ringbuffer has always spelled it, and an absent
  definition is a compile error rather than a silently wrong struct
  layout.
- The remaining drift between the copies is collapsed: three include
  guards to #pragma once, two blank lines, and comment text that had
  diverged.
- cpput's twelve repeated five-file source lists become one
  HBG_ORCH_SHARED_SOURCES, now that both architectures compile the same
  translation units.

Ten files still differ by architecture. Six carry #2056's A5 scheduler
contracts (scheduler_types.h, dispatch_payload.h, intrinsic.h,
async_wait.h, aicore_executor.cpp, scheduler_dispatch.cpp); the rest are
runtime_maker.cpp (a5 exports simpler_aicpu_query_topology),
scheduler_completion.cpp (the a5 PMU record carries the AICore register
token), sdma_completion_scheduler.h (a2a3 invalidates the record's cache
line) and runtime_compile_info.cpp (orchestration toolchain selection,
where a2a3's copy looks cloned from tmr without adjusting).
ChaoZheng109 added a commit to ChaoZheng109/simpler that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The AICPU scheduler aborts with SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT after a
wall-clock budget of no task progress. That budget was defined twice, in two
different shapes: sim/aicpu/spin_hint.h held a 10 s literal, while
onboard/aicpu/spin_hint.h forwarded to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS
in each arch's platform_config.h. Onboard needed the indirection because the
host reads the same value for timeout-ordering validation and cannot include
an AICPU header; sim, having no STARS or ACL timeout to order against, kept
its own copy.

Both variants run the same no-progress watchdog, so define the budget once as
PLATFORM_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS in platform_config.h, which every build already
includes unconditionally, and raise it to 20 s. Sim needs the headroom: its
AICPU scheduler threads share host cores with the AICore threads doing the
work, so a matmul-heavy kernel making real progress could miss a 10 s window
and be reaped as a deadlock. Onboard still fires well before the 45 s STARS
op-execute timeout, keeping the ordering the args dump depends on
(20 s < 45 s < 50 s, and stream-sync covers scheduler + the 1.5 s arming
guard).

Both spin_hint.h headers now define no constant; sim gains the
platform_config.h include the onboard one already had.

This also removes two local redefinitions that existed only because
spin_hint.h is absent from some include paths. Both host_build_graph trees
carried a placeholder under host_runtime_EXPORTS, and a5's #else branch
resolved to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS unconditionally (hw-native-sys#2056),
so an a5sim host_build_graph AICPU build silently ran the onboard budget
rather than the sim one. platform_config.h is reachable everywhere, so the
placeholders are unnecessary and both trees now match their tmr siblings.

Verified: all 8 platform/runtime variants build; 128/128 C++ unit tests pass,
including the default-value assertion in test_runtime_timeout_config.cpp;
tensormap_and_ringbuffer and host_build_graph scene tests pass on a2a3sim.

CI is unaffected — every job pins SIMPLER_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS explicitly
(2000 onboard, 5000 sim).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChaoZheng109 added a commit to ChaoZheng109/simpler that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The AICPU scheduler aborts with SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT after a
wall-clock budget of no task progress. That budget was defined twice, in two
different shapes: sim/aicpu/spin_hint.h held a 10 s literal, while
onboard/aicpu/spin_hint.h forwarded to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS
in each arch's platform_config.h. Onboard needed the indirection because the
host reads the same value for timeout-ordering validation and cannot include
an AICPU header; sim, having no STARS or ACL timeout to order against, kept
its own copy.

Both variants run the same no-progress watchdog, so define the budget once as
PLATFORM_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS in platform_config.h, which every build already
includes unconditionally, and raise it to 20 s. Sim needs the headroom: its
AICPU scheduler threads share host cores with the AICore threads doing the
work, so a matmul-heavy kernel making real progress could miss a 10 s window
and be reaped as a deadlock. Onboard still fires well before the 45 s STARS
op-execute timeout, keeping the ordering the args dump depends on
(20 s < 45 s < 50 s, and stream-sync covers scheduler + the 1.5 s arming
guard).

Both spin_hint.h headers now define no constant; sim gains the
platform_config.h include the onboard one already had.

This also removes two local redefinitions that existed only because
spin_hint.h is absent from some include paths. Both host_build_graph trees
carried a placeholder under host_runtime_EXPORTS, and a5's #else branch
resolved to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS unconditionally (hw-native-sys#2056),
so an a5sim host_build_graph AICPU build silently ran the onboard budget
rather than the sim one. platform_config.h is reachable everywhere, so the
placeholders are unnecessary and both trees now match their tmr siblings.

Verified: all 8 platform/runtime variants build; 128/128 C++ unit tests pass,
including the default-value assertion in test_runtime_timeout_config.cpp;
tensormap_and_ringbuffer and host_build_graph scene tests pass on a2a3sim.

CI is unaffected — every job pins SIMPLER_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS explicitly
(2000 onboard, 5000 sim).
zhusy54 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
)

The AICPU scheduler aborts with SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT after a
wall-clock budget of no task progress. That budget was defined twice, in two
different shapes: sim/aicpu/spin_hint.h held a 10 s literal, while
onboard/aicpu/spin_hint.h forwarded to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS
in each arch's platform_config.h. Onboard needed the indirection because the
host reads the same value for timeout-ordering validation and cannot include
an AICPU header; sim, having no STARS or ACL timeout to order against, kept
its own copy.

Both variants run the same no-progress watchdog, so define the budget once as
PLATFORM_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS in platform_config.h, which every build already
includes unconditionally, and raise it to 20 s. Sim needs the headroom: its
AICPU scheduler threads share host cores with the AICore threads doing the
work, so a matmul-heavy kernel making real progress could miss a 10 s window
and be reaped as a deadlock. Onboard still fires well before the 45 s STARS
op-execute timeout, keeping the ordering the args dump depends on
(20 s < 45 s < 50 s, and stream-sync covers scheduler + the 1.5 s arming
guard).

Both spin_hint.h headers now define no constant; sim gains the
platform_config.h include the onboard one already had.

This also removes two local redefinitions that existed only because
spin_hint.h is absent from some include paths. Both host_build_graph trees
carried a placeholder under host_runtime_EXPORTS, and a5's #else branch
resolved to PLATFORM_ONBOARD_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS unconditionally (#2056),
so an a5sim host_build_graph AICPU build silently ran the onboard budget
rather than the sim one. platform_config.h is reachable everywhere, so the
placeholders are unnecessary and both trees now match their tmr siblings.

Verified: all 8 platform/runtime variants build; 128/128 C++ unit tests pass,
including the default-value assertion in test_runtime_timeout_config.cpp;
tensormap_and_ringbuffer and host_build_graph scene tests pass on a2a3sim.

CI is unaffected — every job pins SIMPLER_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT_MS explicitly
(2000 onboard, 5000 sim).
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