frost(sdpa): paged KV for the SM100 per-tensor FP8 d128 engine

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Affected area

FE OSS kernels or CuTeDSL

Summary

Paged KV caches (cuDNN's paged_attention_k_table / paged_attention_v_table + use_padding_mask contract) are now served by the FROST SM100 per-tensor FP8 engine (sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8) on the d128 flavor — sdpa_fp8 graphs with scalar descale_q/k/v and scale_o, an Amax_O output, E4M3/E5M2 page pools (HND or NHD through the strides), int32 block tables and per-batch seq_len_q / seq_len_kv; d64 rides the d128 envelope (exact in FP8). Previously every FROST row declined fp8 pools and the graph fell through to the backend.

Directly on develop @ 034776363 (#1088 the block-scaled O epilogues — NVFP4 / MXFP8 O with an sf_o output — on the SAME d128 FP8 kernel, whose sf_o slots now share the kernel's trailing signature with this PR's block-table slots; #1178 the sm100 exp2 MUFU / FMA split on the same kernel — auto-merged, the softmax body is untouched by paging; #1168 Rule 8 / Rule 5 — the f16/bf16 kernels bind their pools at run time through the pointer ABI now and _paged_compile_kwargs is gone, so the fp8 compile branch inlines its four entries (this tensor-ABI kernel still compiles the pool strides in); #1180, #1193 (1.31.0), #1161, #1190, #1192 / #1194 and the DSv4.1 FROST commits in; from the previous base: #1095 the attention sink at S_q == 1 incl. paged KV — it lifted the blanket "paged KV with an attention sink is not validated" decline for the f16/bf16 kernels; #1096 paged KV on the d192×d128 f16/bf16 flavor — the paged head-dim gate is the SELECTED flavor via Capabilities.paged_d_shapes; #1109 the d256 decode tile; #1119 the f16/bf16 explicit-pointer host entry, which does not touch the fp8 path; #1094, #1118, #1131); #1107, the decode placement hook this PR used to stack on, was closed by policy and nothing of it is in this PR. FROST engines are opt-in (CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1) and, under the opt-in, FROST is FROST-first wherever a row can serve the graph. Parity with the backend is delivered by kernels (the d128 decode tile #1094 for f16/bf16, d256 #1109, an fp8 d128 decode tile to follow), not by a backend-relative ordering rule, which encodes a performance snapshot that goes stale. The shapes where the fp8 paged prefill tile measures behind the backend's engine are recorded in SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md (footnote ᵖ and two gaps-table rows naming the follow-up kernel work), not gated.

• Kernel (kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py): the f16 d128 PAGED_KV specialization ported hunk-for-hunk — _paged_load_tile (@cute.jit; a tile is K_BOXES / V_BOXES page-sized row boxes, page ids read from the device block table, slots past ceil(seq_kv / page_size) take page -1 = TMA-OOB zero fill with the mbarrier bytes still credited), the TMA-LDG warp's four load sites, n_pages_b after both bounds decodes, the HND coordinate swap, _host boxes / descriptors, and compile() taking the pool strides and the tables' strides with num_pages / max_pages as cute.sym_int (Rule 4). Nothing FP8-specific touches paging (descales are page-invariant scalars, the amax runs over the same live rows). THD + paged raises at module scope on this kernel (the FP8 THD leg clamps runtime K/V descriptors to a packed total a pool does not have). On the merged kernel the paged slots (block_table_tensor, block_table_v_tensor, the paged_hnd constexpr) PRECEDE FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's block-scaled O group (sf_o_tensor + the four sfo_* geometry scalars) at all four signature sites — _kernel, _host, _host's launch call and compile()'s fake-argument spread — so a paged build compiles no dynamic scalar slot it does not bind and a block-scaled dense build None-specializes the two table slots (the omitted-None-slot mechanism develop already uses for o_partial_f32); the merged kernel carries develop's sf_o epilogue, develop's exp2 split (frost(sdpa): sm100 exp2 MUFU/FMA split on d128 MXFP8, d128 FP8, d192x128 bf16 prefill (cc 10.0) #1178) and this PR's PAGED_KV loader, and its dense specializations are develop's apart from the two None slots on a block-scaled build.
• Engine row / adapter (fwd/engines.py, fwd/api_dsl.py, fwd/config_sm100.py): _sm100_fp8_spec gets paged_kv=not rubin_row and paged_d_shapes=frozenset({(128, 128)}) — the fp8 head-dim gate rides frost(sdpa): paged KV on the d192x128 f16/bf16 flavor; gate paged head dims on the selected flavor #1096's selected-flavor gate (_selected_d_shape, the smallest covering envelope) instead of a raw d_qk, d_v <= 128 check: the same accepted set (the fp8 row's d_envelope_floors make every d <= 128 pair select (128, 128) and every other pair a d192×d128 / d256 shape or nothing), the decline text is paged KV is wired on the d128 kernel flavors only; head dims (...) select (...). mismatch() / check_support decline MXFP8 pools, fp8 + THD queries, fp8 + an attention sink over pools (frost(sdpa): serve the attention sink at S_q == 1 (decode), incl. paged KV and sliding window #1095 lifted the blanket paged + sink decline on the strength of the f16/bf16 kernels' validation; the FP8 kernel's sink fold over pools is not validated, so that pair stays declined on the fp8 row by name), fp8 + a block-scaled O (sf_o, FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088) over pools — the SF_O store (correction warps) and the PAGED_KV loader (TMA-LDG warp) are structurally independent but the pair is not validated, so it is declined by name on the fp8 row (paged KV with a block-scaled O (sf_o) is served on dense K/V only (...) in mismatch() and check_support; the config_sm100 backstops _validate_params / _validate_cfg_d128 now read "dense (unpaged), unsplit, unpacked") — and cc 10.7 by name; the fp8 compile branch adds the paged kwargs inline (k_stride / v_stride from _paged_pool_stride, both table strides, the canonical skv) since Rule 8 / Rule 5 low-hanging fruit: one torch-stream helper, no plan-owned device memory, dead ABI slots are 0, recipes in AGENTS.md #1168 removed the _paged_compile_kwargs helper with the f16/bf16 kernels' move to run-time pool binding; _execute_fp8 binds the pools as permute(0, 2, 1, 3) views (Rule 2 — _to_bshd's .contiguous() fallback would gather the whole HND cache per execute), passes the tables after the o_partial_f32 slot and ahead of FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's sf_o group, and gains block_table / block_table_v before sf_o (which stays the last parameter per FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's append-only tripwire); the dtype-keyed paged_kv backstop in _validate_params is replaced by module-scope guards in every unwired d128 / d192×d128 / d256 kernel file (five SM100 — incl. the d192×d128 FP8 / MXFP8 files, which frost(sdpa): paged KV on the d192x128 f16/bf16 flavor; gate paged head dims on the selected flavor #1096's d192 entry in config_sm100._PAGED_KV_FLAVORS left without a config-level backstop — and six SM107), each with an accept-and-reject test. The paged fp8 compile key carries a canonical skv (_PAGED_COMPILE_SKV): the paged kernel ignores the compile-time KV maximum (its extent is the block table's dynamic page axis, read by _host), so separately constructed plans declaring different paged_attention_max_seq_len_kv share one compiled artifact — one lru / persistent template key per paged specialization (review P2); dense keys keep the real S_kv.
• Tests: paged fp8 graph tests (NHD/HND × page 16/128 × e4m3/e5m2, output dtypes, long-KV split heuristic, d64 envelope, prefill-shaped S_q, causal top-left / bottom-right at S_q=4, sliding window at S_q 1 and 8, declared max below the table's reach, off-contract declines, CUDA-graph replay without host sync + plan-time compile key), analyzer eligibility / mismatch-reason tests (incl. the selected-flavor decline text, the fp8 + paged + sink decline and the fp8 + paged + sf_o decline), the unwired-kernel guard test over all 11 files and the SM107 adapter declines, and default-walk tests that assert the fp8 row ranks FIRST and serves the graph at S_q in {1, 8, 9, 128} and for the FlashInfer-shaped real-data decode graph (B=32, 64/4, no Stats, bf16 O). test_mhas_v2.py gains a 64-seed fp8 paged decode fuzz that asserts the FROST fp8 row served every draw over the default walk, a pinned FlashInfer-shaped 64/4 decode case and a pinned prefill-shaped case (both strict: a harness skip fails), all on develop's shared _require_frost_sm100(engine) gate; the fp8 harness binds per-batch lengths for paged configs (partial last pages, zero-length sequences) and gains an opt-in dead-page NaN poison (ExecConfig.paged_nan_dead_pages) the FROST-asserting tests turn on. The direct API declines K and V block tables of unequal page-axis extents by name in execute() (accept-and-reject test; the graph path already declines it in the analyzer), and a compile-key reuse test constructs three paged plans (max KV 96 / 128 / 96) that share one artifact while a dense control still specializes.

Out of scope, on purpose: MXFP8 pools (the F8_128x4 block-scale atoms bundle 128 rows of one head and cannot be assembled from sub-tile pages), THD queries over fp8 pools, the d192×d128 and d256 fp8 flavors, the attention sink and a block-scaled O (sf_o) over fp8 pools (both declined by name; f16/bf16 paged + sink landed in #1095, block-scaled O on dense fp8 in #1088), packed block tables, the SM107 siblings, a decode-shaped fp8 tile.

Why

FlashInfer's fp8 KV-cache decode / MTP graphs (sdpa_fp8 over E4M3 page pools) were declined by every FROST row and fell through to the backend, which cuDNN 9.26 fails to build for the FlashInfer-shaped 64/4 d128 decode graph (B=32, no Stats, bf16 O: cudnnFinalize — runtime kernel compilation failure). With this PR FROST serves that graph over the default walk (137–161 us on B200): the capability win. Where the backend's decode engine is faster the row still leads under the opt-in: the d128 paged kernel is a prefill tile, and on GLM-shaped 96/8 fp8 decode it measures 807 us against the backend engine's 54.9 us; the review's S_q=64 chunked-prefill graph (B=4, 16/4, page 16, max KV 2048) measures 50.0 us vs 28.7 us on the reviewer's 148-SM SM100 / cuDNN 9.25.1 and 204.7 vs 30.4 us on B200 / 9.26. Both gaps are recorded in the tracker with their kernel follow-up (an fp8 d128 decode tile; the prefill tile's short-S_q tuning); an opted-in caller that needs the backend plan for such a shape today deselects the FROST row by engine name (graph.deselect_engines([...])).

Related issues

Related to #920 (paged KV through the FROST SM100 engine; extends #964's d128/d256 f16/bf16 work to per-tensor FP8).

API and compatibility impact

• Public API: unchanged. Same paged graph contract; sdpa_fp8 graphs additionally need descale_q/k/v, scale_o and an Amax_O output, and must not declare Amax_S (every FROST FP8 row declines that output — the kernels do not produce it), so a generic fp8 graph that binds Amax_S stays on the backend engine. Declines remain NotImplementedError in check_support and mismatch strings in engines.mismatch. SdpaFwdDslSm100.execute()'s signature is unchanged (FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's sf_o stays its last parameter); the internal _execute_fp8 gains block_table / block_table_v before sf_o.
• Capabilities: paged_kv=True and paged_d_shapes={(128, 128)} (the frost(sdpa): paged KV on the d192x128 f16/bf16 flavor; gate paged head dims on the selected flavor #1096 field) on the SM100 fp8 row (Rule S2: SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md updated in the same commits — paged row cell, footnote ᵖ, gaps table). No other Capabilities field changes; the new paged + sf_o decline is a mismatch() sub-gate, not a Capabilities field (footnote ᵖ and the gaps row carry it).
• Routing / performance (opted-in callers): every paged fp8 graph the row accepts — decode, MTP and chunked prefill — runs on FROST by default (FROST-first under the opt-in), as on every other flavor; the measured shapes where the backend engine is faster are in the tracker with their kernel follow-up. Callers who do not opt into FROST see no change.
• CI time: the three test_mhas_v2.py cases assert FROST routing and skip where the FROST fp8 row is not offered (non-SM100/SM103, FROST off, DSL below the floor); about 45 s of added L0 on the FROST SM100 lane only.
• Supported versions / platforms: SM100 / SM103 only for paged fp8 (the cc 10.7 sibling kernel has no PAGED_KV); CuTe DSL floor unchanged (CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION).

Testing

Hardware / stack: B200 (SM100, 148 SMs, pinned by UUID — the box's default CUDA device is an L40S now, and an unpinned run skips every SM100 test while looking green), cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7.0, develop's pybind module rebuilt against CUDA 13.2. Rebased on develop @ 034776363; head 88c067f05 (seven commits: the lane's six plus the r2 rebase-forced commit adding the module-scope paged_kv guards to the SM100 d192×d128 FP8 / MXFP8 kernel files, all replayed). Conflicts: sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py (four sites where #1088's sf_o slots and this PR's block-table slots both append after o_partial_f32: the _kernel / _host signatures, the launch call and the compile() fake-argument spread — paged slots first, see the Kernel bullet; #1178's exp2 block auto-merged), sm100/prefill_d128_mxfp8.py / sm100/prefill_d192_d128_mxfp8.py (guard placement next to #1178's PREDICATED_CREDIT_ARRIVE), api_dsl.py (_execute_fp8 dispatch / signature / body / launch call: this PR's paged kwargs next to #1088's sf_o; the fp8 compile branch's call to the _paged_compile_kwargs helper #1168 removed — not flagged by git, caught by grep — inlined) and the tracker (footnote ᵖ, gaps row); engines.py, config_sm100.py, test_mhas_v2.py, test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py, test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py, fp8.py, random_config.py auto-merged (one definition of each shared helper; no _skip_unless_frost_sm100_serves / _exec_sdpa_served_by_frost_sm100 anywhere). git range-diff ebe3bba99..8223edae2 origin/develop..HEAD: commits 2 and 5 =, commits 1, 3, 6, 7 differ only by those resolutions, commit 4 by context.

RED first. test_paged_adapter_fp8_compile_key_canonicalizes_the_logical_kv_maximum with skv=self.s_k_max restored on the paged fp8 branch: 1 failed in 11.1 s ("paged_attention_max_seq_len_kv=128 minted a new compile: the logical KV maximum leaked into the paged compile key"); restored → 1 passed in 12.9 s. Earlier commits' RED runs are in their messages (the SM107 guard declines, the paged-analyzer eligibility, the mask coverage).

pytest test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py -q -p no:cacheprovider
-> 118 passed, 16 failed (4 min 27 s). Every fp8 / lane test, develop's graph-level d192x128 and sink cases and the
   11 unwired-kernel guard params pass. The 16 failures are develop's OWN f16/bf16 kernel-level tests
   (test_paged_kernel_page_sizes[32|64|256], test_paged_kernel_forced_splits_empty_ranges_cga1[2|8],
   test_paged_kernel_d256[16|128], test_paged_kernel_d192_d128 x3, test_paged_kernel_gqa_group_not_dividing_tile x6)
   and fail identically on unmodified develop @ 034776363 in the same environment (control run on the pristine
   checkout, same pinned B200 / pybind module: 16 failed, 77 passed -- the identical 16 ids): #1119's
   frost_test_utils.launch_f16 builds its kwargs filter from inspect.signature(fn) of the COMPILED DSL callable
   (_run_kernel passes host=None), which under CuTe DSL 4.7.0 -- the repo floor, CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION = (4, 7, 0) --
   is (*args, **kwargs), so every kwarg is dropped and the wrapper raises
   "TypeError: wrapper() missing 26 required positional arguments: 'q_ptr', ...". They pass on stacks with DSL 4.8.
   The adapter path is unaffected (it introspects km._host). Not touched by this PR; a develop follow-up.

pytest test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py -q -p no:cacheprovider      (dense fp8 -- the merged kernel: sf_o epilogue + exp2 split + PAGED_KV loader)
-> 206 passed, 6 skipped (2 = the Rubin-only gate-tail test on an SM100 box, 4 = #1178's SASS pins without an nvdisasm on $CUDA_PATH/bin or $PATH)

pytest test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_heuristics.py -q -p no:cacheprovider
-> 186 passed (incl. the new fp8 + paged + sf_o decline pin)

pytest test/python/test_mhas_v2.py -q -s -p no:cacheprovider \
    -k "test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_pinned_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_prefill_pinned_frost_L0"
-> FROST on:  66 passed (64 fuzz draws + the 2 pinned cases); routing tally frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 66 and
              frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 66 (66/66 served by the fp8 row's prefill tile, 0 native)
   FROST off: 66 skipped (FROST-asserting; opt-in gate)

MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 pytest test/python/test_mhas_v2.py -q -s -p no:cacheprovider -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_L0
-> FROST on:  11 passed, 5 skipped (pre-existing harness skip: d not a multiple of 16), frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 11
   FROST off: 11 passed, 5 skipped (the same 5), native:fp8-fwd: 11; the 16 draws are identical on / off (no sink draws either way)

MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 pytest test/python/test_mhas_v2.py -q -s -p no:cacheprovider -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_L0      (dense fp8; develop's o_block_scale knob in the deck)
-> 10 passed, 6 skipped, frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 8 + frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d256_fp8: 2;
   one of the 10 is a d128 dense o_block_scale=32 draw (E5M2 in, E4M3 O + UE8M0 sf_o, S_q=1, S_kv=2081, bottom-right causal,
   GQA 9/1) -- #1088's block-scaled epilogue ran and matched on the merged kernel (the other three block-scaled draws fold
   to plain fp8 by the harness's d128-only rule)

MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 pytest test/python/test_mhas_v2.py -q -s -p no:cacheprovider \
    -k "test_sdpa_fwd_paged_gqa_partial_pack_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fwd_paged_decode_split_frost_L0"      (develop's f16 paged FROST tests)
-> 32 passed, frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100: 32 (26 on decode_d128_f16, 6 on decode_d256_f16) -- the fp8 row's paged admission stole no f16 graph

black --check (26.3.1, -l 160): "19 files would be left unchanged" — every non-test_mhas_v2.py Python file this PR touches.

Measured (B200 / cuDNN 9.26, B=32, S_q=1, S_kv=4096 mixed per-batch lengths, page 16, e4m3 Q/K/V, bf16 O, no Amax_S, 20-call CUDA-event mean, probe fp8paged_placement_probe.py; the paged fp8 specialization's behaviour is unchanged by the rebase — the merge adds develop's sf_o / exp2 code, which the paged build folds out / carries exactly as develop's dense build does — so no new measurement): 96/8 heads FROST (default walk, prefill tile) 807 us vs the backend engine 54.9 us; 64/4 heads FROST 137–161 us, the backend fails to build (CUDNN_BACKEND_EXECUTION_PLAN_DESCRIPTOR: cudnnFinalize Descriptor Failed ... compilationResult != NVRTC_SUCCESS at B=32 without a Stats output; B=2 or a Stats output builds); 8/2 heads FROST 137 us, the backend fails to build; 96/8 S_q=9 FROST 807 us vs the backend's 369 us; chunked prefill B=4, 16/4, page 16, S_kv=2048: S_q=64 204.7 vs 30.4 us, S_q=128 200.5 vs 30.7 us, S_q=512 135.6 vs 31.9 us (max |O − ref| 0.014–0.027 on every arm). These are the two gaps-table rows in SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md: (1) fp8 d128 paged decode (S_q=1, B=32, 96/8 heads, B200): prefill tile 807 us vs backend 54.9 us — follow-up: an fp8 d128 decode tile (the quantized twin of the f16 decode tile ᵈᵗ); (2) the review's S_q=64 fp8 paged prefill graph: FROST PACK_GQA=1 / SPLIT_KV=2 plan 50.0 us GPU / 186–189 us CPU enqueue vs the backend engine's 28.7 us / 15–16 us (148-SM SM100, cuDNN 9.25.1, independent review measurement; B200 / 9.26: 204.7 vs 30.4 us) — follow-up: the prefill tile's tile / split heuristics for short-S_q paged fp8. Closed by kernels, not by ordering.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added per-tensor FP8 support for paged key-value attention on supported SM100 d128 configurations.
  • Added support for FP8 paged-cache layouts, scaling, masking, Amax validation, and CUDA graph replay.
  • Improved plan selection so backend and framework proposals are ordered appropriately while remaining selectable.
• Documentation
  • Updated support documentation with supported paged-attention variants, placement behavior, and unsupported configurations.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved fallback behavior when backend plan creation fails.
  • Added validation and clearer handling for unsupported devices, dimensions, layouts, and FP8 modes.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds SM100 per-tensor FP8 paged-KV support for d128. It updates compilation and kernel loading, rejects unsupported specializations, and adds numerical, graph, compile-reuse, and FROST routing tests.

Changes

FP8 paged-KV eligibility and compilation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Paged-KV eligibility and compilation contract python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/config_sm100.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py	Per-tensor FP8 paged KV is enabled for SM100 d128 configurations. Compilation now includes pool and block-table strides, and paged artifacts use a shared KV extent. Execution validates matching page extents and forwards paged block tables.

SM100 FP8 paged kernel

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SM100 FP8 paged kernel python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/*, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/*	The kernel loads page-contained K/V boxes through block tables, supports HND and NHD layouts, validates TMA-compatible strides, and preserves dense paths. Unsupported paged-KV kernel variants now raise ValueError.

Validation coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Paged-KV numerical and contract coverage test/python/sdpa/fp8.py, test/python/sdpa/random_config.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py	Tests add variable sequence lengths, optional dead-page NaN poisoning, FP8 references, masks, Amax handling, graph replay, compile-artifact reuse, layout and page-size checks, unsupported configurations, and block-table extent validation.

FROST routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FROST decode and prefill routing test/python/test_mhas_v2.py	Randomized and deterministic FP8 paged decode, MTP, and chunked-prefill tests assert FROST service selection for varied lengths, masks, page sizes, data types, and zero-length KV sequences.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDPA
  participant FROST
  participant SM100Kernel
  participant KVPool
  SDPA->>FROST: construct and rank FP8 paged graph
  FROST->>SM100Kernel: compile and launch d128 paged kernel
  SM100Kernel->>KVPool: access K/V pages through block tables
  KVPool-->>SM100Kernel: provide page data and zero-fill out-of-range boxes
  SM100Kernel-->>SDPA: return FP8 paged-attention output

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Suggested reviewers: yangxu1990uiuc, romananders90

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3de66

Unusually padded FP8 page pools may fail during compilation, while some routing documentation and assertions remain inaccurate. The risk is bounded but should be corrected before merge if these layouts are supported.

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<title>python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py</title> https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/dcf215af/python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py class SymInt: r"""A symbolic integer for runtime-bound dimensions of an AOT-compiled ``@cute.jit`` function. A ``SymInt`` stands in for a Python ``int`` at compile-tracing time — its concrete value is bound only at kernel launch. Use it when a tensor shape, loop bound, or scalar argument varies launch-to-launch but the compiler still needs to know enough about its structure to emit aligned vector ops, strength-reduce ``%``/``//``, or skip tail-loop prologues. The preferred way to construct a ``SymInt`` is via the :func:`sym_int32` / :func:`sym_int64` convenience constructors: .. code-block:: python # In compile(): sym_n = cute.sym_int64(divisibility=16) # "N is mul of 16" # In the `@cute.jit` signature, declare the matching arg type: `@cute.jit` def _host(..., num_k_tiles: Int64): ... :param width: Bit width of the integer at runtime — ``32`` or ``64``. Use 64 for tensor shape dims (M, N, K, batch) that may exceed 2 G; 32 for small counts. :param divisibility: **Hard contract** on the runtime value — the compiler is free to assume the value is always a multiple of ``divisibility`` and may emit aligned vector stores, strength-reduce ``%`` / ``//`` against the divisor, and drop tail-loop prologues based on it. **Violating the contract at runtime is undefined behaviour** and typically surfaces as ``cudaErrorMisalignedAddress`` (a sticky CUDA error that poisons the worker&`#39`;s CUDA context) or silently wrong results. The TVM-FFI runtime adapter does not validate divisibility (the JAX adapter does, see ``cutlass/jax/primitive.py``); kernels that want a friendly Python-side error on the TVM-FFI path should ``raise ValueError(...)`` in their ``run()`` wrapper *in addition to* the SymInt declaration. The default ``1`` means no constraint. :param symbol: Human-readable name for the variable, e.g. ``"M"``. Appears in IR dumps and compile-time error messages. **Common patterns** Pick the divisibility that matches the kernel&`#39`;s actual contract on each dim — declare neither more nor less than what the codegen relies on: .. code-block:: python # Contiguous output dim — declare the alignment the epilogue&`#39`;s # vector store depends on (32 B / sizeof(dtype) elements): sym_n = cute.sym_int64(divisibility=32 // (out_dtype.width // 8)) # K dim — must be a multiple of the K-tile so the K-loop is exact: sym_k = cute.sym_int64(divisibility=mma_tiler_mnk[2]) # M dim — no compile-time constraint when the kernel masks # ``if row < M`` at runtime: sym_m = cute.sym_int64() .. note:: ``divisibility`` is the kernel&`#39`;s hard contract, not a hint. Don&`#39`;t *over-promise*: declaring ``divisibility=128`` when the kernel only needs 16-byte alignment will reject more shapes than necessary. Don&`#39`;t *under-promise*: declaring ``divisibility=1`` when the epilogue assumes 32 B alignment will silently fault on non-conforming inputs. .. seealso:: :func:`sym_int32`, :func:`sym_int64` — convenience constructors. """ def __init__( self, width: Literal[32, 64] = 32, *, divisibility: int = 1, symbol: str | None = None, ) -> None: if width not in [32, 64]: raise ValueError(f"Unsupported width: {width}") self._width = width self._divisibility = divisibility self._symbol = symbol ... def __repr__(self) -> str: return self.__str__() def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool: if not isinstance(other, SymInt): return False return all( [ self._width == other._width, self._divisibility == other._divisibility, self._symbol == other._symbol, ] ) ... def __mod__( ... if isinstance(other ... div, result_width = ... _div, result ... width = ( ... (self._width, other ... ) ... : return NotImplemented ... if self._div ... % other_div ... gcd return ... def __floordiv__(self, other: "int | SymInt") -> "SymInt": """SymInt // int | SymInt: floor-divide a symbolic integer. The result is always a fresh ``SymInt`` (the quotient is symbolic since ``self`` is). Its divis…[truncated] <title>python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py</title> https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/d4e16f5d/python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py class SymInt: def __init__(self, width: Literal[32, 64] = 32, *, divisibility=1): if width not in [32, 64]: raise ValueError(f"Unsupported width: {width}") self._width = width self._divisibility = divisibility `@property` def width(self): return self._width `@property` def divisibility(self): return self._divisibility def __str__(self) -> str: return f"?{{i{self._width} div={self._divisibility}}}" def __repr__(self) -> str: return self.__str__() def __eq__(self, other) -> bool: if not isinstance(other, SymInt): return False return all( [self._width == other._width, self._divisibility == other._divisibility] ) def __c_pointers__(self): return [ctypes.c_void_p(0).value] def __get_mlir_types__(self) -> List[ir.Type]: res_ty = ir.Type.parse( f&`#39`;!cute.int_tuple<"?{{i{self.width} div={self.divisibility}}}">&`#39`; ) return [res_ty] def __new_from_mlir_values__(self, values) -> "SymInt": from .core import IntValue if self.width == 32: return Int32(IntValue(values[0])) elif self.width == 64: return Int64(IntValue(values[0])) else: assert False, f"Unsupported width: {self.width}" return self ... def sym_int(width: Literal[32, 64] = 32, *, divisibility=1) -> SymInt: return SymInt(width, divisibility=divisibility) def sym_int32(divisibility=1) -> SymInt: return sym_int(32, divisibility=divisibility) def sym_int64(divisibility=1) -> SymInt: return sym_int(64, divisibility=divisibility) ... Union[Int, Tuple ... ...]] ... Shape", ... ... Stride = Union[Int, ScaledBasis, ... ["Stride", ...]] ... Coord = Union[Int, None, Tuple["Coord", ...]] ... class Tensor(ABC): r"""Abstract base class for Tensor representations in CuTe DSL. A CuTe Tensor is iterator with layout. A tensor evaluates the layout by mapping a coordinate to the codomain, offsets the iterator accordingly, and dereferences the result to obtain the tensor&`#39`;s value. **Formally:** .. math:: T(c) = (E \circ L)(c) = *(E + L(c)) where - :math:`E` is the iterator/engine - :math:`L` is the layout **Notes:** - The tensor supports both direct element access via coordinates and slicing operations - Load/store operations are only supported for specific memory spaces (rmem, smem, gmem, generic) - For composed layouts, stride information is not directly accessible - Dynamic layouts do not support vector load/store operations **Examples:** Create tensor from torch.tensor with Host Runtime: .. code-block:: python import torch from cutlass.cute.runtime import from_dlpack mA = from_dlpack(torch.tensor([1, 3, 5], dtype=torch.int32)) print(mA.shape) # (3,) print(mA.stride) # (1,) print(mA.layout) # (3,):(1,) Define JIT function: .. code-block:: python `@cute.jit` def add(a: Tensor, b: Tensor, res: Tensor): res.store(a.load() + b.load()) Call JIT function from python: .. code-block:: python import torch a = torch.tensor([1, 3, 5], dtype=torch.int32) b = torch.tensor([2, 4, 6], dtype=torch.int32) c = torch.zeros([3], dtype=torch.int32) mA = from_dlpack(a) mB = from_dlpack(b) mC = from_dlpack(c) add(mA, mB, mC) print(c) # tensor([3, 7, 11], dtype=torch.int32) """ `@abstractmethod` def __str__(self) -> str: ... `@abstractmethod` def __getitem__(self, idx) -> Union["Tensor", ir.Value, IntTuple]: ... `@abstractmethod` def __setitem__(self, idx, value): ... `@property` `@abstractmethod` def element_type(self) -> Union[Type[Numeric], Type[IntTuple]]: ... `@element_type.setter` def element_type(self, new_type): ... `@property` `@abstractmethod` def memspace(self) -> AddressSpace: ... `@property` `@abstractmethod` def iterator(self) -> Union[Pointer, IntTuple]: ... `@property` def layout(self) -> Union[Layout, "ComposedLayout"]: ... `@property` def shape(self) -> Shape: ... `@property` def stride(self) -> Stride: ... def load(self, *, loc=None, ip=None) -> "TensorSSA": ... def store(self, data: "TensorSSA", *, loc=None, ip=None…[truncated] <title>README.md</title> https://github.com/luongthecong123/learn-cutedsl/blob/main/README.md Used in [`a1_naive_cute.py` main()](https://github.com/luongthecong123/learn-cutedsl/blob/main/cutedsl/a1_naive_cute.py#L75). This compiles a kernel specialized to ... shapes and strides of ... the kernel compute ... **TVM FFI compilation** uses fake tensors — lightweight placeholders that carry shape, dtype, stride order, and alignment metadata but hold no actual data. This lets you compile a kernel once without allocating GPU memory, and call the resulting function with any tensor that satisfies the declared constraints. The compiled TVM FFI function accepts `torch.Tensor` objects directly (no `from_dlpack` wrapping needed at call time), providing a faster eager invocation path: ... ```python BS = cute.sym_int() # symbolic (dynamic) batch dimension M, N, K = 1024, 1024, 1024 # static dimensions A_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, M, K), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) B_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, N, K), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) C_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, M, N), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) ... compiled = cute.compile(cute_naive, A_fake, B_fake, C_fake, options="--enable-tvm-ffi") ... # Call with real torch tensors — no ... , C) ... **Static vs. dynamic shapes.** Dimensions passed as Python `int` (e.g. `M = 1024`) are baked into the generated kernel as compile-time constants, enabling aggressive optimizations like loop unrolling. Dimensions declared with `cute.sym_int()` remain dynamic — the kernel accepts any value at runtime. You can also attach divisibility constraints (`cute.sym_int(divisibility=16)`) so the compiler can still generate aligned loads and unroll by that factor. ... With `from_dlpack`, you can achieve a similar effect using `mark_compact_shape_dynamic`: ... ```python A_ = from_dlpack(A, assumed_align=16).mark_compact_shape_dynamic( mode=0, stride_order=A.dim_order()) # mode 0 (batch) is dynamic, rest static ... **`assumed_align` matters for performance.** When the compiler knows the base pointer is 16-byte aligned (4 × `float32`), it can emit 128-bit vectorized loads (`ld.global.v4.f32`) that fetch 4 floats per instruction. Without alignment information, it falls back to scalar loads (`ld.global.f32`) — one float per instruction, 4× more memory transactions — which can cause a ~2× wall-clock slowdown on memory-bound kernels. Always pass `assumed_align=16` for `float32` tensors (or `assumed_align=32` for wider types) in both `from_dlpack` and `make_fake_compact_tensor`. ... **`stride_order` convention.** CuTe&`#39`;s convention assigns lower order numbers to higher-priority (faster-varying) dimensions. For a row-major tensor of shape `(BS, M, K)`, the innermost dimension is K (stride 1), then M, then BS — so `stride_order=(2, 1, 0)`. Note this is the reverse of PyTorch&`#39`;s `dim_order()` which returns `(0, 1, 2)` for the same tensor. When using `mark_compact_shape_dynamic`, pass `stride_order=A.dim_order()` which uses PyTorch&`#39`;s convention directly — the API handles the translation internally. ... Arguably the most important concept in CUTLASS CuTe / CuTeDSL. A `Layout` pairs a **shape** (extents in each dimension) with a **stride** (step size in linear memory per dimension). The key formula is: ... For the GMEM tensor, TMA has one hard constraint: one dimension must have stride 1 (contiguous), and all other strides must be multiples of 16 bytes. For float16, this means the leading dimension must be divisible by 8. For a row-major A of shape `(M, K)`, this translates to `K % 8 == 0`. This is why inputs are created with `assumed_align=16`: <title>bikrammajhi/learn-cutedsl</title> https://github.com/bikrammajhi/learn-cutedsl **TVM FFI compilation** uses fake tensors — lightweight placeholders that carry shape, dtype, stride order, and alignment metadata but hold no actual data. This lets you compile a kernel once without allocating GPU memory, and call the resulting function with any tensor that satisfies the declared constraints. The compiled TVM FFI function accepts `torch.Tensor` objects directly (no `from_dlpack` wrapping needed at call time), providing a faster eager invocation path: ... ```python BS = cute.sym_int() # symbolic (dynamic) batch dimension M, N, K = 1024, 1024, 1024 # static dimensions A_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, M, K), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) B_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, N, K), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) C_fake = cute.runtime.make_fake_compact_tensor( cute.Float32, (BS, M, N), stride_order=(2, 1, 0), assumed_align=16) ... compiled = cute.compile(cute_naive, A_fake, B_fake, C_fake, options="--enable-tvm-ffi") ... **Static vs. dynamic shapes.** Dimensions passed as Python `int` (e.g. `M = 1024`) are baked into the generated kernel as compile-time constants, enabling aggressive optimizations like loop unrolling. Dimensions declared with `cute.sym_int()` remain dynamic — the kernel accepts any value at runtime. You can also attach divisibility constraints (`cute.sym_int(divisibility=16)`) so the compiler can still generate aligned loads and unroll by that factor. A common pattern is to keep batch size dynamic while fixing the problem dimensions (M, N, K) statically. ... With `from_dlpack`, you can achieve a similar effect using `mark_compact_shape_dynamic`: ... ```python A_ = from_dlpack(A, assumed_align=16).mark_compact_shape_dynamic( mode=0, stride_order=A.dim_order()) # mode 0 (batch) is dynamic, rest static ``` ... **`assumed_align` matters for performance.** When the compiler knows the base pointer is 16-byte aligned (4 × `float32`), it can emit 128-bit vectorized loads (`ld.global.v4.f32`) that fetch 4 floats per instruction. Without alignment information, it falls back to scalar loads (`ld.global.f32`) — one float per instruction, 4× more memory transactions — which can cause a ~2× wall-clock slowdown on memory-bound kernels. Always pass `assumed_align=16` for `float32` tensors (or `assumed_align=32` for wider types) in both `from_dlpack` and `make_fake_compact_tensor`. ... **`stride_order` convention.** CuTe&`#39`;s convention assigns lower order numbers to higher-priority (faster-varying) dimensions. For a row-major tensor of shape `(BS, M, K)`, the innermost dimension is K (stride 1), then M, then BS — so `stride_order=(2, 1, 0)`. Note this is the reverse of PyTorch&`#39`;s `dim_order()` which returns `(0, 1, 2)` for the same tensor. When using `mark_compact_shape_dynamic`, pass `stride_order=A.dim_order()` which uses PyTorch&`#39`;s convention directly — the API handles the translation internally. ... Arguably the most important ... in CUTLASS CuTe / CuTeDSL. A `Layout` pairs a **shape** (extents in ... dimension) with a **stride** (step size in linear memory per dimension). The key formula is: ... For the GMEM tensor, TMA has one hard constraint: one dimension must have stride 1 (contiguous), and all other strides must be multiples of 16 bytes. For float16, this means the leading dimension must be divisible by 8. For a row-major A of shape `(M, K)`, this translates to `K % 8 == 0`. This is why inputs are created with `assumed_align=16`: <title>Runtime — NVIDIA CUTLASS Documentation</title> https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/4.6.2/media/docs/pythonDSL/cute_dsl_api/cute_runtime.html mark_compact_shape_dynamic( : mode: int, : stride_order: tuple [int, ...] | None = None, : divisibility: int = 1, )→ _Tensor# ... : Marks the tensor shape as dynamic and propagates dynamic and divisibility information to the corresponding strides. ... order of the modes ... dimensions) if the current layout were ... row-major order. It starts from the outermost to the innermost dimension ... :type stride_order: tuple ... int, …], optional :param divisibility: The divisibility constraint for the compact shape, defaults to 1 :type ... ibility: int, optional :return: The tensor with dynamic compact shape :rtype: _Tensor ... If `stride_order` is not provided, the stride ordering will be automatically deduced from the layout. Automatic deduction is only possible when exactly one dimension has a stride of 1 (compact layout). An error is raised if automatic deduction fails ... cutlass.cute.runtime. make_fake_compact_tensor( : dtype: Type [cutlass.cute.typing.Numeric], : shape: tuple [int | cutlass.cute.typing.SymInt, ...], : *, : stride_order: tuple [int, ...] | None = None, : memspace: cutlass.cute.typing.AddressSpace = cutlass.cute.typing.AddressSpace.gmem, : assumed_align: int | None = None, : use_32bit_stride: bool = False, )→ _FakeTensor# : Create a fake tensor descriptor with a compact layout derived from shape. ... This is the usual builder for `cute.compile(...)` when the logical tensor is compact and you want the runtime stride tuple to be derived automatically from `shape` and `stride_order`. Each entry in `shape` may be a static Python `int` or a dynamic `SymInt`. Dynamic dimensions become runtime-bound scalar parameters on the compiled callable. ... - shape (tuple [int | SymInt, ...]) – Tensor extents in elements, one per mode. Each entry may be static (`int`) or dynamic (`SymInt`). ... - stride_order (tuple [int, ...], optional) – Permutation describing which mode is fastest-changing. `0` means the innermost / stride-1 mode, `len(shape)-1` the slowest-changing mode. If omitted, the default is left-to-right order `(0, 1, ..., n-1)`. ... - use_32bit_stride (bool, optional) – Use 32-bit symbolic strides instead of 64-bit ones for dynamic layouts. This only affects dynamically-derived stride entries and is useful when the compact layout provably fits in int32. ... Use `make_fake_tensor()` instead when the logical layout is non-compact or when you need to spell the stride tuple explicitly. ... x = make_fake_compact_tensor( cutlass.Float32, (100, cute.sym_int32(divisibility=8)), stride_order=(1, 0) ) ... ,?{div= ... 2 div=8}, ... foo = cute.compile( ... cutlass.cute.runtime. make_fake_tensor ... shape: tuple [int | cutlass.cute.typing ... Int, ...], ... cutlass.cute. ... Use this builder for `cute.compile(...)` when the logical tensor layout is not compact, when you already know the exact stride tuple, or when you want fake-tensor layout to match an external contract exactly. `shape` and `stride` are both expressed in elements, not bytes. ... - shape (tuple [int | SymInt, ...]) – Tensor extents in elements, one per mode. Each entry may be static (`int`) or dynamic (`SymInt`). Dynamic dimensions become runtime-bound scalar parameters on the compiled callable. ... - stride (tuple [int | SymInt, ...]) – Explicit stride tuple in elements. Must have the same rank as `shape`. Each entry may be static (`int`) or dynamic (`SymInt`). ... If the same runtime symbolic quantity appears in multiple positions, reuse the same `SymInt` object at every occurrence. Different `SymInt` objects are treated as distinct runtime parameters even if they share the same `symbol` string. ... Use `make_fake_compact_tensor()` instead when the layout is compact and you want the stride tuple inferred from `shape` and a mode order. ... ``` `@cute.jit` def foo(x: cute.Tensor): ... sym_m = cute.sym_int64(symbol="M") sym_ld = cute.sym_int64(divisibility=16, symbol="LD") ... # Row-major logical layout: contiguous K dimension, explici…[truncated]

Citations:

• 1: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/dcf215af/python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py
• 2: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/d4e16f5d/python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/typing.py
• 3: https://github.com/luongthecong123/learn-cutedsl/blob/main/README.md
• 4: https://github.com/bikrammajhi/learn-cutedsl
• 5: https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/4.6.2/media/docs/pythonDSL/cute_dsl_api/cute_runtime.html
• 6: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass/blob/dcf215af/python/CuTeDSL/cutlass/cute/runtime.py
• 7: https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/latest/media/docs/pythonDSL/cute_dsl_general/compile_with_tvm_ffi.html
• 8: https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/4.4.2/media/docs/pythonDSL/cute_dsl_api/cute_runtime.html

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Reject unequal K/V page extents before launch. Direct validation checks block_table and block_table_v independently, but both compiled fake tables use the same _max_pages symbol. Unequal bindings violate that compiled callable’s shared runtime-extent contract and may fail during binding or launch. The kernel derives n_pages_b from eff_seqlen_kv, not the K-table width, so the wider K table does not itself cause a V-table out-of-bounds read.

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2693, Validate before launch that block_table and block_table_v have equal
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Tests on this head (B200, cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7):

• test_sdpa_fwd_heuristics.py 33 passed; test_dispatch.py -k yielding 2 passed; test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py 111 passed
• test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py 71 passed (2 min 20 s; now includes the base's envelope-placement tests)
• MHAS_NUM_TESTS=32 test_mhas_v2.py -k fp8_fwd_paged, FROST on: 60 passed, 6 skipped (pre-existing harness skip: d_qk not a multiple of 16); routing tally frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 27 (26 prefill-shaped paged_L0 draws + the FROST-pinned prefill case), native:fp8-fwd: 33 (the 32 decode-fuzz configs + the pinned 64/4 case — the backend serves every decode config)
• same, FROST off: 59 passed, 7 skipped (+ the FROST-asserting prefill case), native:fp8-fwd: 59
• test_dispatch.py::test_frost_opt_in_does_not_leak_out_of_the_frost_suites 1 passed with the FROST env vars unset

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Both sites compute frost_at = next(i for i in range(len(g.plans)) if _is_frost(g, i)) and then assert all(not _is_frost(g, i) for i in range(frost_at)). Since frost_at is by definition the smallest index satisfying _is_frost, every index before it already fails _is_frost — the assertion is always true and verifies nothing. The intended invariant ("every backend entry of the block precedes the FROST plan") requires checking the other side of the split: that nothing after frost_at is a backend entry.

• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py#L398-399: in test_paged_decode_envelope_shapes_yield_to_the_backend, replace the assertion with assert all(_is_frost(g, i) for i in range(frost_at, len(g.plans))).
• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py#L416-417: in test_paged_decode_yielding_flavor_ranks_behind_the_backend, apply the same fix.

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The FP8 page-load port and its unsupported-combination gates look sound, and the focused correctness tests passed. The remaining approval blocker is placement outside the decode window: a supported Sq=64 prefill graph now defaults to a substantially slower FROST plan. Please preserve the previous default for this losing regime while keeping the new kernel selectable and available as fallback. I am withholding approval via COMMENT; this is high-risk P1, not P0.

[P1 · blocks approval] Preserve the faster default outside the decode-only yield window (source)

The new row yields only for Sq<=8, but its default prefill plan also loses on a supported chunked-prefill workload. With E4M3 Q/K/V, BF16 O, B=4, Hq/Hkv=16/4, Sq=64, D=128, page16 and maxKV2048, the old default is backend eng10; this head selects the FROST PACK_GQA=1/SPLIT_KV=2 plan. Repeated measurements give GPU28.67us ->49.97–50.08us and CPU execute/enqueue about15–16us ->186–189us. O, LSE, Amax_O and changed-input CUDA Graph replay pass on both routes. Extend the placement protection to the affected paged-FP8 prefill regime until the default kernel/knobs earn the lead; a support decline is unnecessary. This is high risk because existing opted-in callers silently acquire a substantial steady-state regression, not merely a slow explicitly selected alternative.

Evidence: Same148-SM SM100, CuTe DSL4.8/backend9.25.1: native/FROST/FROST/native on this head, followed by two native-default measurements on exact merge-base26595603, with the same seeded inputs, stream-bound handle and correctness gates. Baseline offers no FROST paged-FP8 plan and independently measures28.667us GPU and15.09–15.39us CPU. On head, decode still correctly keeps backend first; the finding is specifically the newly default prefill path. Attribution: New caller regression from this PR's eligibility expansion and default placement for Sq>=9; not a new arithmetic defect or a pre-existing slow optional route.

[P2] Canonicalize the unused logical KV maximum in paged compile keys (source)

The paged kernel ignores compile's skv and derives its extent from the dynamic block table, but fp8_kwargs still carries self.s_k_max into both the LRU and persistent template key. Constructing otherwise identical direct-API plans with logical maxima96 then128 recompiles the same paged specialization; returning to96 hits. Canonicalize this unused argument for the paged path, retaining dense specialization, and exercise reuse across two separately constructed plans. Widening a table on one already-compiled API instance does not test that cache boundary.

Evidence: Current head, B3/Hq8/Hkv2, D128, page32, identical Q/O and pool shapes/strides, split1: maximum96 compiles once, maximum128 compiles again (2.34s inside cute.compile,2.55s total), then96 reuses the original object with zero compiles. All three select the same template module. template_key includes every compile argument, including the unused skv. Attribution: Unnecessary specialization in the newly enabled paged-FP8 path; the adapter carries over the dense compile argument. This is a nonblocking reuse gap, separate from the measured default-route regression.

Validation: Current-head SM100, CuTe DSL4.8, backend9.25.1, L0/L1 explicitly selected: paged plus analyzer182 passed; targeted dense/THD FP8 regression49 passed; paged MHAS32 passed and2 skipped, with15 FROST and17 native forwards. The MHAS skips do not count as kernel validation. Two additional pinned-FROST paged tests passed O/LSE/Amax checks with80 batch/head work units on a68-SM GPU, exceeding its34 resident CTA pairs, mixed KV lengths including empty/one-token batches, and both HND/NHD pools. This exercises live-page refresh after persistent handoff. The repeated decode/prefill performance probe checked numerical O/LSE/Amax and changed-Q/poisoned-output CUDA Graph replay before timing. Decode correctly remains backend-first (about20.5us GPU versus157us for explicit FROST in the sampled96/8-head workload); the prefill regression is quantified above. Measurements exclude setup/compilation and are component evidence, not end-to-end claims. Checked the existing unequal-block-table-extent concern against the actual compiled entrypoint on DSL4.7.1 and4.8. Both reject K/V page extents2/3 and3/2 with ValueError before kernel launch; equal2/2 and widened3/3 controls produce correct O/LSE. Thus the shared symbolic dimension already enforces equality on these tested versions; an earlier adapter error would improve diagnostics, but I did not reproduce a correctness hole. Shared placement code was independently reviewed at #1107 d037daa. Current-head pre-commit passed. There is no current-head GPU CI result, and merge analysis confirms conflicts in the tracker, api_dsl.py and the paged test file; please resolve them and request fresh CI with the standalone command @cudnn-ci-bot run oss frost.

Limitations: GPU qualification here covers SM100 only. SM107 rejection was tested through the source/module and adapter gates, not a new Rubin run. The local checks validate the isolated head. CI on the eventual resolved merge remains required; the owner's cuDNN9.26 measurements are separate from the independently measured9.25.1 results above.

I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.

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Re-stacked on the refreshed placement base 0398b23a5 (#1107; on develop @ b5ff076fb with #1092 / #1104 / #1102 merged). Lane commits replayed unchanged in content; new head b4df3db4b (was 7e6397ee9 on d037daa85).

Conflicts resolved (both sides kept):

• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py (5 hunks): the base's epilogue-gate / declared-stride plumbing (frost(sdpa): SM107 d256 epilogue gate fusion (O *= sigmoid(G)) in the production kernels, as an op graph, and the gated attention block on top #1102) beside this lane's paged plumbing -- fp8_kwargs takes the paged compile kwargs then the stride / gate / amax kwargs; _execute_fp8 takes gate= and the block tables; the paged K/V pools stay permute views while Q / O take the declared strides; the launch passes gate_tensor and the paged tables.
• python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md (all four lane commits): the paged row and footnote p carry the base's frost(sdpa): keep split-KV on paged decode when the declared KV max is not a 128-multiple #1092 split text, frost(sdpa): partial PackGQA for GQA groups that do not divide the 128-row tile #1104 partial-PackGQA text (the FP8 kernel packs the whole group only) and the (192, 192) lead claim, followed by this lane's FP8 paragraphs; the gaps table keeps the base's gate / PackGQA rows next to this lane's paged rows.
• engines.py, config_sm100.py, the tests and test_mhas_v2.py auto-merged (one FROST helper block -- develop's; no duplicate defs).

Review follow-ups on this head (one commit): execute() declines K and V block tables of unequal page-axis extents by name before binding (accept-and-reject test; the analyzer already declines it on the graph path); the fp8 decode-placement test now asserts the tail of the plan list (nothing of the backend's ranks behind the FROST plan) instead of the tautological prefix -- the base's two f16 twins of that assertion carry the same pattern (#1107).

Tests (B200, cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7): test_sdpa_fwd_heuristics.py 36 passed; test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py 137 passed; test_dispatch.py -k yielding 2 passed; test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py 96 passed (3 min 34 s; includes the base's placement tests and the new equal-extent test); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 test_mhas_v2.py -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged FROST on 29 passed, 5 skipped (the pre-existing harness skip: d_qk not a multiple of 16) (frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 12 (the 11 prefill-shaped paged_L0 draws + the FROST-pinned prefill case), native:fp8-fwd: 17 (the 16 decode-fuzz configs + the pinned 64/4 case: the backend serves every decode config)), FROST off 28 passed, 6 skipped (+ the FROST-asserting prefill case) (native:fp8-fwd: 28); develop's test_sdpa_fwd_paged_gqa_partial_pack_frost_L0 + test_sdpa_fwd_paged_decode_split_frost_L0, 16 draws each, FROST on: 32 passed (frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100: 32). black --check clean.

Placement / perf on this head (probe as in the body, 20-call mean; a fourth arm bars FROST to expose the backend at prefill shapes): 96/8 S_q=1 default = backend 55.3 us (FROST pinned 808.9); 64/4 S_q=1 default = FROST via fall-through 139.1 us (the backend's plan fails to build); 96/8 S_q=9 default = FROST 808.3 us vs backend 369.2 us; B=4 16/4 page 16 S_kv=2048: S_q=64 FROST 204.7 vs backend 30.4 us, S_q=128 200.5 vs 30.7, S_q=512 135.6 vs 31.9. So the review's P1 reproduces here: the backend leads every prefill-shaped paged fp8 point measured. This head keeps the row leading at S_q >= 9 as on every other flavor (the base's hook is decode-only); extending the yield past the decode window is a follow-up, not folded into this re-stack. P2 (the unused skv in the paged compile key) is left as is here too: the same argument rides develop's f16/bf16 paged compile branch and the execute-time dims tuple, so canonicalizing it is a two-row change with a runtime-tuple audit.

Mergeability: gh reports mergeable: false (dirty) against develop @ ae80d63a9 -- one conflict hunk, the tracker's gaps table, where #1110 (merged after the placement base was cut) rewrote the epilogue-gate row on the line right after this lane's paged row (git treats touching hunks as one conflict). No code conflicts: a three-way merge-tree of this head against develop merges api_dsl.py, engines.py, the sm107 kernel files and the analyzer test clean. It clears once the placement base is refreshed onto develop >= 3ea0fb63c and this lane is re-stacked on it.

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🟡 Minor · Update the earlier dispatch descriptions. · README.md:87-90

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Update the earlier dispatch descriptions.

Line 88 still says that recommend() selects the first plan. Shared _assemble() now selects the final order.

Lines 414-418 still show the old recommend(modes, facts, offered, backend_plans) contract. Show recommend(kind, facts, offered) followed by _assemble(..., backend_plans).

Proposed documentation update

-  index 0, at whatever the family's `recommend()` put first.
+  index 0, at whatever shared plan assembly ranked first.

-                                -> resolve_heuristics()   --> recommend(modes, facts,
-                                                                  offered, backend_plans)
+                                -> resolve_heuristics()   --> recommend(kind, facts,
+                                                                  offered)
                                                                   mismatch(capabilities,
                                                                     facts, knobs) per cell
+                                -> _assemble(..., backend_plans)
                                 -> ONE ranked list = graph.plans

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In `@python/cudnn/frost/README.md` around lines 87 - 90, Update the README
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py`:
- Around line 460-461: Update both placement assertions near the FROST plan
checks to validate the suffix: after computing frost_at, assert that every index
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check while preserving the existing failure message and surrounding placement
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In `@test/python/test_mhas_v2.py`:
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• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_mxfp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d256_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d256_mxfp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d128_f16.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d128_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d128_mxfp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d256_f16.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d256_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d256_mxfp8.py
• test/python/api_index/api_index.txt
• test/python/sdpa/fp16.py
• test/python/sdpa/fp8.py
• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_heuristics.py
• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py
• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py
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Assert the FROST suffix in both placement tests. frost_at is the first FROST index, so every earlier entry is non-FROST by construction. The current prefix assertion is tautological and cannot detect an interleaved or trailing backend entry. Match the FP8 placement test and assert that every plan from frost_at through the end of g.plans is FROST. Apply this change at both lines 460-461 and lines 478-479:

assert all(_is_frost(g, i) for i in range(frost_at, len(g.plans))), f"every backend entry of the block precedes the FROST plan: {names}"

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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py` around lines 460 - 461,
Update both placement assertions near the FROST plan checks to validate the
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Set CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD inside the try block.

pytest.skip runs before the try/finally, so the blocked path leaves CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD=4.0 in the worker process. The frontend serializers read this variable and write it into the SDPA graph JSON. A later graph that does not set its own value can therefore inherit 4.0. This is not a universal default: config_sm100.rescale_threshold returns 8.0 for some dtypes.

Move the assignment into the try block, after the blocked-test check.

♻️ Proposed change

     test.cfg.rescale_threshold = 4.0
-    os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"] = str(test.cfg.rescale_threshold)
     test.showConfig(test_no, request)
 
     if request.node.name in test.blocked_tests:
         pytest.skip(f"blocked test: {request.node.name}")
+    os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"] = str(test.cfg.rescale_threshold)
     try:
         exec_sdpa_fp8(test.cfg, request, cudnn_handle)
     finally:
         if "CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD" in os.environ:
             del os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"]

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	os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"] = str(test.cfg.rescale_threshold)
	test.showConfig(test_no, request)
	if request.node.name in test.blocked_tests:
	pytest.skip(f"blocked test: {request.node.name}")
	try:
	exec_sdpa_fp8(test.cfg, request, cudnn_handle)
	finally:
	if "CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD" in os.environ:
	del os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"]
	test.showConfig(test_no, request)
	if request.node.name in test.blocked_tests:
	pytest.skip(f"blocked test: {request.node.name}")
	os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"] = str(test.cfg.rescale_threshold)
	try:
	exec_sdpa_fp8(test.cfg, request, cudnn_handle)
	finally:
	if "CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD" in os.environ:
	del os.environ["CUDNN_RESCALE_THRESHOLD"]

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Reviewed b4df3db4b05b against base ae80d63a974a.

The rebase preserves the gate/declared-stride plumbing, and the explicit table-extent check and corrected placement assertion look good. Six focused current-head tests pass. The previously reported prefill placement regression remains, as the owner also confirms: please address it before merging, either here or through a dependency that lands first. This remains high-risk P1, so I am leaving COMMENT without approval or a request for changes.

• [P1 · blocks approval] Still open: Preserve the faster default outside the decode-only yield window.

• [P2] Still open: Canonicalize the unused logical KV maximum in paged compile keys.

Validation: Read the complete lane range-diff against the prior reviewed head and the new follow-up commit. The FP8 d128 kernel is byte-identical; paged K/V views, declared Q/O strides, gate keywords and block-table launch arguments are preserved across the rebase. Current-head SM100, cuDNN 9.25.1, DSL 4.8: 6 passed, 90 deselected. Covered unequal-table rejection plus equal-table acceptance, adapter CUDA Graph replay/plan-time key, decode backend-first placement, and prefill FROST-first placement. Both L0 and L1 were explicitly enabled. Earlier broader correctness, persistent-handoff, compile-reuse and performance evidence remains scoped to 7e6397e; it is not presented as a new full regression run. The PR still has a merge conflict and no current-head GPU CI result. Please resolve the stack conflict and run CI on the resulting head; I did not submit a known-unmergeable duplicate run.

Limitations: This follow-up independently ran SM100 only; it is not new Rubin qualification or a complete performance sweep. Owner-reported cuDNN 9.26 measurements are separate evidence from the earlier independent cuDNN 9.25.1 timing.

I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.

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Re-stacked so the PR merges cleanly against develop @ ae80d63a9 (#1110 / #1105 in). The placement base #1107 (0398b23a5) still sits on develop @ b5ff076fb and is itself mergeable, so instead of waiting on a refresh there, this branch now carries #1107's five commits replayed onto current develop (52b28cede..84dcf2312; range-diff b5ff076fb..0398b23a5 ae80d63a9..84dcf2312 is all =), followed by this lane's five commits replayed unchanged in content. New head 30f83a6e4 (was b4df3db4b on 0398b23a5). When #1107 moves or merges, this lane re-stacks with rebase --onto <new base> 84dcf2312.

Conflict resolved (one hunk, both rows kept): python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md, gaps table -- this lane's Paged KV cache row (... f16/bf16 d128 / d256 and per-tensor FP8 d128 (see p) ...) directly above #1110's rewritten Fused epilogue gate row (... SM107 d256 f16/bf16, per-tensor FP8 and MXFP8, exact (256, 256) ...); touching hunks count as one conflict, which is why gh reported the PR dirty. Everything else (api_dsl.py, engines.py, the sm107 kernel files, the analyzer test, test_mhas_v2.py with develop's single FROST helper block) replayed clean; range-diff 0398b23a5..b4df3db4b 84dcf2312..30f83a6e4 shows context-only differences (the gate-row text and #1110's TCGEN05_V0_ADDR_LIMIT import in sm107/prefill_d256_mxfp8.py) in three commits and none in the other two; the net added / removed line sets of the two ranges are identical (1910 lines). gh now reports the PR mergeable.

Tests on this head (B200, cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7): test_sdpa_fwd_heuristics.py + test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py 174 passed; test_dispatch.py -k yield 2 passed; test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py 96 passed (215.47s (0:03:35)); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 test_mhas_v2.py -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged FROST on 29 passed, 5 skipped (frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 12, native:fp8-fwd: 17), FROST off 28 passed, 6 skipped (native:fp8-fwd: 28); develop's test_sdpa_fwd_paged_gqa_partial_pack_frost_L0 + test_sdpa_fwd_paged_decode_split_frost_L0, 16 draws each, FROST on: 32 passed (frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100: 32). black --check clean. No code changed relative to b4df3db4b beyond the develop content, so the placement / perf numbers in the body and the previous comment stand; the review P1 / P2 items stay open as stated there.

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🟡 Minor · Update the lifecycle diagram to show the current recommender contract and call… · README.md:414-415

python/cudnn/frost/README.md:414-415
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the lifecycle diagram to show the current recommender contract and call order.

rank passes a recommend(kind, facts, offered) callback to _assemble; _assemble invokes it for each mode. The four-argument signature is stale, and the proposed _assemble(...) --> recommend(...) order is correct.

Proposed documentation fix

-                                  -> resolve_heuristics()   --> recommend(modes, facts,
-                                                                  offered, backend_plans)
+                                  -> resolve_heuristics()
+                                  -> _assemble(modes, ...)  --> recommend(kind, facts,
+                                                                  offered)

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remove the stale four-argument signature and preserve the proposed
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test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py (1)

460-461: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Two placement assertions are tautological. frost_at is defined as the first FROST plan index, so every index in range(frost_at) is non-FROST by construction. Both assertions always pass and cannot detect an interleaved or trailing backend entry. Assert the suffix instead, as the FP8 placement test does at line 1277.

• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py#L460-L461: replace the prefix check with assert all(_is_frost(g, i) for i in range(frost_at, len(g.plans))).
• test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py#L478-L479: apply the same replacement in test_paged_decode_yielding_flavor_ranks_behind_the_backend.

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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py` around lines 460 - 461,
Replace the tautological prefix assertions after computing frost_at with suffix
checks that require every plan from frost_at through the end of g.plans to
satisfy _is_frost. Apply this change in
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py at lines 460-461 and
478-479, including test_paged_decode_yielding_flavor_ranks_behind_the_backend.

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In `@python/cudnn/frost/README.md`:
- Around line 414-415: Update the lifecycle diagram around _assemble and
recommend to show rank passing recommend(kind, facts, offered) into _assemble,
with _assemble invoking recommend for each mode; remove the stale four-argument
signature and preserve the proposed _assemble-to-recommend call order.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py`:
- Around line 460-461: Replace the tautological prefix assertions after
computing frost_at with suffix checks that require every plan from frost_at
through the end of g.plans to satisfy _is_frost. Apply this change in
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py at lines 460-461 and
478-479, including test_paged_decode_yielding_flavor_ranks_behind_the_backend.

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• python/cudnn/engines/base.py
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• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/config_sm100.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/heuristics.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d128_mxfp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d256_fp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm100/prefill_d256_mxfp8.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d128_f16.py
• python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/sm107/prefill_d128_fp8.py
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The restack is now mergeable, and I found no GPU CI request or pipeline for 30f83a6e4c9a. I am starting the oss frost targets for this revision. This supplements the local validation; the previously reported placement P1 remains open and is not cleared by launching CI.

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🏁 Pipeline finished

SHA: 30f83a6
Targets: oss, frost
Branch: cudnn-gh/pr-1106-30f83a6
Pipeline: 68305144
Last updated: 2026-09-17 09:19 UTC

25 passed, 7 failed, 5 manual

manual

• manual:python_samples - Manual
• manual:python_tests - Manual
• manual:frost - ✅ Passed
• manual:oss - ✅ Passed
• manual:pycudnn - Manual
• manual:multi_gpu - Manual
• manual:backend - Manual

analysis

• analysis:cudnn_clang_disable_exception - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_v9_no_half_conversion - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_clang - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-relative-includes - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-CUDNN_FRONTEND_SKIP_JSON_LIB - ✅ Passed
• analysis:guardwords_scan - ✅ Passed
• analysis:jax-import-guard - ✅ Passed
• san:build - ✅ Passed

build

• analysis:api_index - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)
• build:dev:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:win:amd64 - ✅ Passed

oss_tests

• oss:cutlass-rel:sm80 - ❌ New Failure! (nightly passed)
• oss:cutlass-rel:sm90 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)
• oss:cutlass-rel:sm100-shard0 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)
• oss:cutlass-rel:sm100-shard1 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)
• oss:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ✅ Passed

frost_tests

• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm120 - ✅ Passed
• frost-linear:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-gemm:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm103 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)

sanitizer_tests

• san:cpp_test:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm90 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm100 - ✅ Passed

triage

• triage:ai - ✅ Passed

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Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed 30f83a6e4c9a against base adb963c01b6f.

The restack resolves mergeability and preserves the reviewed paged-FP8 implementation. No new issue in the replayed lane commits. The owner explicitly leaves the prefill placement P1 and compile-key P2 open, and source verification agrees. Please fix the placement regression before merging, here or through a dependency that lands first; this remains COMMENT without approval.

• [P1 · blocks approval] Still open: Preserve the faster default outside the decode-only yield window.

• [P2] Still open: Canonicalize the unused logical KV maximum in paged compile keys.

Validation: Read the complete lane range-diff and inherited adapter delta. All five placement-base commits are equivalent; lane differences are tracker/import context only. The FP8 d128 kernel is byte-identical, and the config, MHAS and placement heuristics did not change. Diff whitespace check passed. Reused the previous six focused SM100/DSL4.8/backend9.25.1 passes for unequal-table rejection, equal-table acceptance, CUDA Graph replay, decode backend-first selection and prefill FROST-first selection. Broader correctness and performance evidence remains scoped to the earlier measured revision. Style passed on this head. After verifying mergeability and absence of an existing GPU CI request/run, started oss frost pipeline 68305144 through the supported bot command and verified the mirror commit's full GitHub head SHA. The pipeline is running; tests are pending.

Limitations: No new GPU/performance sweep for this source-equivalent restack; existing performance findings are retained explicitly as reused evidence. Pipeline 68305144 is running for this head; pending test results are not a passing full regression.

I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.

[vedaanta]

Rebased onto develop @ ebe3bba99 (#1095 the attention sink at S_q == 1 incl. paged KV, #1096 paged KV on the d192×d128 f16/bf16 flavor + the selected-flavor paged gate, #1109 the d256 decode tile, #1119 the f16/bf16 explicit-pointer host entry, #1131 in). Conflicts, all resolved keeping both sides' facts: engines.py (mismatch()'s paged block: develop's paged + sink comment and its Capabilities.paged_d_shapes gate, this PR's MXFP8 and fp8 + THD declines; the fp8 row now declares paged_d_shapes=frozenset({(128, 128)}), so its head-dim gate is #1096's SELECTED-flavor gate instead of the raw d_qk, d_v <= 128 check — the same accepted set, since the fp8 row's d_envelope_floors make every d <= 128 pair select (128, 128) and every other pair a d192×d128 / d256 shape or nothing; only the decline text changed, to paged KV is wired on the d128 kernel flavors only; head dims (...) select (...)), api_dsl.py (check_support's paged block: this PR's SM107 / MXFP8 / THD / d128-flavor declines ahead of develop's _SM100_PAGED_KV_FLAVORS check), test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py (#1096's test_paged_mixed_head_dims_are_served next to this PR's fp8 probes; the two "d128 flavor only" assertions retargeted to the selected-flavor text) and SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md in four of the six commits (support row: develop's decode-tile rows kept, the paged row annotated f16 + fp8 / f16 only per flavor; footnote ᵖ: develop's #1095 / #1096 / #1109 text with this PR's fp8 facts woven in — both rows' paged_d_shapes, whole-group PackGQA on the fp8 kernel, THD over fp8 pools declined, the Amax_S contract, split_combine owning Amax_O, the measured decode / prefill gaps; gaps table: develop's two sink rows plus this PR's two rows). test_mhas_v2.py and test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py auto-merged (one definition of each shared helper; the three fp8 functions were already on develop's _require_frost_sm100(engine); no _skip_unless_frost_sm100_serves / _exec_sdpa_served_by_frost_sm100 anywhere).

One semantic consequence of #1095 the textual merge did not surface: develop lifted the blanket paged KV with an attention sink is not validated decline on the strength of the f16/bf16 kernels' validation, and the fp8 row declares sink=True, so an sdpa_fp8 paged graph carrying a sink_token would have been admitted unvalidated (graph_analyzer reads sink_token on every node type). This PR's contract lists sink under "Not yet" for fp8 pools, so mismatch() and check_support now decline fp8 + paged + sink by name (paged KV with an attention sink is served by the f16/bf16 kernel only (the FP8 kernel's sink fold over pools is not validated)); footnote ᵖ and the gaps row say so, and test_paged_quantized_rows_mismatch_reasons pins it. Lifting it is a validation task (the fp8 kernel's HAS_SINK fold and its PAGED_KV loader are structurally independent, as on f16), not a rebase one.

New seventh commit 8223edae2 (the head): #1096 added "d192" to config_sm100._PAGED_KV_FLAVORS for the f16/bf16 kernel, and this PR's first commit removed the dtype gate from _validate_params, so on the rebased head a paged TemplateParams reaches sm100/prefill_d192_d128_fp8.py and sm100/prefill_d192_d128_mxfp8.py (neither consumes CFG.PAGED_KV) with PAGED_KV=1 in their CfgD192 — unreachable through the adapter (the fp8 d128-flavor decline, the MXFP8 decline, the fp8 row's paged_d_shapes) but without the module-scope backstop this PR promises for every unwired kernel file. Both files get the same 4-line guard as the nine already guarded, and test_paged_unwired_kernels_refuse_paged_params lists them (11 params). The SM107 d192×d128 / d512 siblings stay outside this PR's scope as before (config_sm107 has no paged flavor gate; the SM107 rows declare paged_kv=False and check_support declines cc 10.7). Lane commits otherwise unchanged in content (git range-diff 55fdf97ca..3de6644d1 ebe3bba99..8223edae2: commits 5 and 6 =, commits 1-4 differ only by the resolutions above).

Re-run on B200 (cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7.0, develop's rebuilt pybind module, CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1 unless stated): test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py 118 passed, 16 failed — all 16 are develop's own f16/bf16 kernel-level tests (test_paged_kernel_page_sizes[32|64|256], test_paged_kernel_forced_splits_empty_ranges_cga1[2|8], test_paged_kernel_d256[16|128], test_paged_kernel_d192_d128[3], test_paged_kernel_gqa_group_not_dividing_tile[6]) and they fail identically on unmodified develop @ ebe3bba99 in the same environment (control run: 16 failed): #1119's frost_test_utils.launch_f16 builds its kwargs filter from inspect.signature(fn) of the compiled DSL callable when _run_kernel passes host=None, which under CuTe DSL 4.7.0 — the repo floor, CUTEDSL_MIN_VERSION = (4, 7, 0) — is (*args, **kwargs), so every kwarg is dropped and the wrapper raises TypeError: wrapper() missing 26 required positional arguments: 'q_ptr', ... (tvm_ffi_provider.py:1065); the adapter path is unaffected (it introspects km._host). Every fp8 paged test in the file, develop's graph-level d192×d128 / sink tests and the 11 unwired-kernel guard params pass. test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py (dense fp8 — the kernel file changed) 197 passed, 2 skipped; analyzer + heuristics 173 passed; test_mhas_v2.py -k "test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_pinned_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_prefill_pinned_frost_L0" FROST on 66 passed (64 fuzz draws + the 2 pinned cases), routing frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 66 / frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 66 (66/66 on the fp8 row's prefill tile, 0 native); FROST off 66 skipped (FROST-asserting, opt-in gate); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_L0 FROST on 11 passed / 5 skipped (pre-existing harness skip: d not a multiple of 16), frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 11; FROST off 11 passed / 5 skipped, native:fp8-fwd: 11; the 16 draws are identical on / off (no sink draws either way); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_L0 (dense fp8) 10 passed / 6 skipped, frost:...:prefill_d128_fp8: 8 + prefill_d256_fp8: 2; develop's f16 paged FROST smoke -k "paged_gqa_partial_pack_frost_L0 or paged_decode_split_frost_L0" (16 draws each) 32 passed, frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100: 32 (26 on decode_d128_f16, 6 on decode_d256_f16) — the fp8 row's paged admission stole no f16 graph. black --check (26.3.1, -l 160): 19 non-test_mhas_v2.py Python files unchanged. New head 8223edae2 (7 commits).

[YangXu1990uiuc]

Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed 8223edae205b against base 5567e2733408.

The rebase and two additional unwired-kernel guards look sound. I found no new correctness blocker, and 45 focused checks pass on this head with CuTe DSL 4.7. The earlier compile-cache issue remains resolved. The outstanding item is still the explicitly documented FROST-first performance tradeoff: the kernel and routing policy are unchanged, and I found no subsequent maintainer acceptance of the quantified regression. Please accept that tradeoff explicitly or mitigate it before merging; this review remains COMMENT without approval.

• [P1 · blocks approval] Still open: Accept or mitigate the default paged-FP8 performance tradeoff.

Validation: Compared the complete rebased patch series with the previously reviewed version. The selected-flavor paged gate preserves the FP8 d128 envelope; the explicit paged+FP8+sink rejection prevents the newly merged f16 sink capability from accidentally widening this row. The new d192 FP8/MXFP8 module guards cover the config-level gap introduced by admitting the f16 d192 flavor. Exact-head SM100, cuDNN 9.25.1, CuTe DSL 4.7, -m 'L0 or L1': 45 passed, 228 deselected, no skips in the selected paged/analyzer checks. Coverage includes all 11 unwired-module guards, selected-flavor and sink rejection, FP8 layouts/dtypes/masks, poisoned dead pages, default routing, CUDA Graph replay, unequal-table rejection and logical-KV-maximum compile-key reuse. The prior performance numbers are reused evidence, not a new timing claim. No repeated performance sweep or broad CI was launched for this mostly source-equivalent follow-up. Current head is mergeable; develop's subsequent #1132 merge was checked and does not change the FP8 kernel or these support gates.

Limitations: Focused SM100 validation only; no new Rubin qualification or full CI result. The owner's reported DSL 4.7 failures in inherited f16 kernel-test wrappers were outside this selected set and were not independently reproduced in this follow-up.

I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.

[vedaanta]

Maintainer decision on the open P1 ("accept or mitigate the default paged-FP8 performance tradeoff"): accepted, explicitly.

Under CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1 the FROST engines are FROST-first wherever a row can serve the graph; that is the opt-in's contract, and it is the same decision that closed #1107. Parity with the backend is delivered by kernels, not by ordering rules or by performance-based declines in mismatch().

For this row the quantified gaps are recorded as tracker rows with their follow-ups, and I accept them for the merge:

graph (B200 unless noted)	FROST fp8 prefill tile	backend engine	follow-up
fp8 d128 paged decode, S_q=1, B=32, 96/8	807 µs	54.9 µs	fp8 d128 decode tile (the f16 tile from #1094 is the template)
fp8 d128 paged prefill, S_q=64, B=4, 16/4, page 16, max KV 2048	50.0 µs GPU / 186–189 µs CPU (148-SM SM100, 9.25.1) · 204.7 µs (B200, 9.26)	28.7 µs / 15–16 µs · 30.4 µs	short-S_q tuning of the fp8 prefill tile

An opted-in caller that needs the backend plan for such a shape today deselects the FROST row by engine name (graph.deselect_engines([...])); without the opt-in nothing changes. No further mitigation is required for this PR. The branch is being rebased onto the current develop tip (the fp8 kernel picked up #1088 and #1178 there); please re-review the rebased head when it lands.

[vedaanta]

Rebased onto develop @ dae3a3346 (#1088 block-scaled O epilogues — NVFP4 / MXFP8 O with an sf_o output — on the d128 FP8 kernel, #1178 the sm100 exp2 MUFU / FMA split on the same kernel, #1180 the MXFP8 twin, #1168 Rule 8 / Rule 5 — the f16/bf16 dense launch moved onto the prepared pointer ABI and _paged_compile_kwargs went away, #1193 1.31.0, #1161, #1190, #1192 / #1194, the DSv4.1 FROST commits in). Conflicts, all resolved keeping both sides:

• sm100/prefill_d128_fp8.py — four sites, every one the same collision: this PR appends the paged slots (block_table_tensor, block_table_v_tensor, the paged_hnd constexpr) after o_partial_f32, FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088 appends the block-scaled O group (sf_o_tensor + the four sfo_* Int32 geometry scalars) at the same place, in _kernel's signature, _host's signature, _host's _kernel(...) launch call and compile()'s fake-argument spread. Both kept, the paged slots FIRST at all four sites: a paged build without block-scaled O then compiles no dynamic scalar slot that execute() would have to bind, and a block-scaled dense build None-specializes the two table slots — the omitted-None-slot mechanism develop already relies on for o_partial_f32 — so _execute_fp8 passes **sf_o_kwargs and **paged_kwargs independently. The spread is now three explicit groups (o_partial_f32 slot: fake_o under a split, else None when anything follows; the two tables or (None, None); the SF_O buffer + scalars or nothing). frost(sdpa): sm100 exp2 MUFU/FMA split on d128 MXFP8, d128 FP8, d192x128 bf16 prefill (cc 10.0) #1178's _E2E_* block and both _softmax_kv_body exp2 sites auto-merged (they sit far from the TMA-LDG warp this PR changes), so the merged kernel carries develop's sf_o epilogue, develop's exp2 split and this PR's PAGED_KV loader; the dense specializations are develop's byte for byte apart from the two None slots on a block-scaled build.
• sm100/prefill_d128_mxfp8.py, sm100/prefill_d192_d128_mxfp8.py — frost(sdpa): sm100 exp2 MUFU/FMA split on d128 MXFP8, d128 FP8, d192x128 bf16 prefill (cc 10.0) #1178's PREDICATED_CREDIT_ARRIVE constant landed where this PR's module-scope paged_kv guard goes; guard placed after it, next to the softmax_f16 guard as on every other unwired file.
• api_dsl.py — four sites in the fp8 path: the execute() -> _execute_fp8 dispatch and _execute_fp8's signature (this PR's block_table / block_table_v kwargs and FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's sf_o, sf_o kept LAST per FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's append-only tripwire), the body (this PR's paged pool view k_tensor.permute(0, 2, 1, 3) in place of _to_bshd, then FROST SDPA fp8: block-scaled O epilogues (NVFP4 / MXFP8) with an sf_o output #1088's FP4 O byte-container branch, sf_o_kwargs and this PR's paged_kwargs) and the launch call (**sf_o_kwargs, **paged_kwargs). Plus one the auto-merge did NOT flag: Rule 8 / Rule 5 low-hanging fruit: one torch-stream helper, no plan-owned device memory, dead ABI slots are 0, recipes in AGENTS.md #1168 removed _paged_compile_kwargs (the f16/bf16 kernels bind their pools at run time through the pointer ABI now), and this PR's fp8 compile branch still called it — a git grep after the rebase caught it; the four entries are inlined (k_stride / v_stride from _paged_pool_stride, both table strides) together with commit 6's skv=_PAGED_COMPILE_SKV (that commit re-conflicted at the same lines, same resolution). check_support's paged block auto-merged (this PR's declines replace develop's blanket paged KV is served by the f16/bf16 kernel only).
• SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md (commits 1 and 3: footnote ᵖ's fp8 paragraph and the gaps row), engines.py, config_sm100.py, test_sdpa_graph_analyzer.py, test_mhas_v2.py, fp8.py, random_config.py auto-merged — one definition of each shared mhas helper (develop's manifest-based _frost_engines_enabled(engine) and the MonkeyPatch _exec_sdpa_on_frost), no _skip_unless_frost_sm100_serves / _exec_sdpa_served_by_frost_sm100 anywhere.

One semantic consequence of #1088 the textual merge did not surface, handled the way r2 handled #1095's sink: the fp8 row now advertises o_block_scales={0, 16, 32}, and mismatch() / check_support keep the block-scaled O epilogue to dense, untrimmed, unsplit, unpacked graphs — paged KV was not in that list because no quantized row served pools until this PR. With paged_kv=True on the fp8 row a paged sdpa_fp8 graph carrying sf_o would have compiled the two features together unvalidated (structurally independent — the SF_O store lives in the correction warps, PAGED_KV only changes the TMA-LDG warp — but never run). Declined by name on the fp8 row (paged KV with a block-scaled O (sf_o) is served on dense K/V only (the FP8 kernel's block-scaled epilogue over pools is not validated)) in mismatch() and check_support, mirrored in the config_sm100 backstops (_validate_params / _validate_cfg_d128: block-scaled O serves "dense (unpaged), unsplit, unpacked" graphs), pinned in test_paged_quantized_rows_mismatch_reasons, stated in footnote ᵖ and the gaps row. Lifting it is a validation task, not a rebase one. Lane commits otherwise unchanged in content (git range-diff ebe3bba99..8223edae2 origin/develop..HEAD: commits 2 and 5 =; 1, 3, 6, 7 differ by the resolutions above, 4 by context only).

Re-run on B200 (cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7.0, develop's pybind module rebuilt against CUDA 13.2 — /usr/local/cuda-13.3 on this box, the bare /usr/local/cuda link is gone — CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1 unless stated; the box's default CUDA device is an L40S now, so the B200 is pinned by UUID — an unpinned run skips every SM100 test, 134 / 212 / 66 skipped, which is what the first attempt printed): test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py 118 passed, 16 failed — the same 16 develop-side f16/bf16 kernel-level tests as in r2 (test_paged_kernel_page_sizes[32|64|256], test_paged_kernel_forced_splits_empty_ranges_cga1[2|8], test_paged_kernel_d256[16|128], test_paged_kernel_d192_d128[p32_cga1|p16_cga2_split4|p128_cga2_split4], test_paged_kernel_gqa_group_not_dividing_tile[6 params]), the same TypeError: wrapper() missing 26 required positional arguments: 'q_ptr', ... from #1119's frost_test_utils.launch_f16 introspecting the compiled (*args, **kwargs) callable under CuTe DSL 4.7.0; they fail identically on unmodified develop @ dae3a3346 in the same environment (control run on the pristine base checkout, same pinned B200 / pybind module: 16 failed, 77 passed — the identical 16 ids, diff empty), so they are develop's, not this PR's (the adapter path introspects km._host and is unaffected). Every fp8 paged test in the file, develop's graph-level d192×d128 / sink tests and the 11 unwired-kernel guard params pass. test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py (dense fp8 — the merged kernel: sf_o epilogue + exp2 split + the PAGED_KV loader) 206 passed, 6 skipped (2 = the Rubin-only gate-tail test on an SM100 box, 4 = #1178's SASS pins without an nvdisasm on $CUDA_PATH/bin / $PATH); analyzer + heuristics 186 passed (incl. the new paged + sf_o decline pin); test_mhas_v2.py -k "test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_pinned_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_prefill_pinned_frost_L0" FROST on 66 passed (64 fuzz draws + the 2 pinned cases), routing frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8: 66 / frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 66 (66/66 on the fp8 row's prefill tile, 0 native); FROST off 66 skipped (FROST-asserting, opt-in gate); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_L0 FROST on 11 passed / 5 skipped, frost:...:prefill_d128_fp8: 11; FROST off 11 passed / 5 skipped, native:fp8-fwd: 11; the 16 draws are identical on / off (no sink draws either way); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_L0 (dense fp8, develop's new o_block_scale knob in the deck) 10 passed / 6 skipped, frost:...:prefill_d128_fp8: 8 + prefill_d256_fp8: 2 — one of the 10 is a d128 dense o_block_scale=32 draw (E5M2 in, E4M3 O + UE8M0 sf_o, S_q = 1, S_kv = 2081, bottom-right causal, GQA 9/1), i.e. #1088's block-scaled epilogue ran and matched on the merged kernel (the other three block-scaled draws fold to plain fp8 by the harness's d128-only rule); develop's f16 paged FROST smoke -k "paged_gqa_partial_pack_frost_L0 or paged_decode_split_frost_L0" (16 draws each) 32 passed, frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100: 32 (26 on decode_d128_f16, 6 on decode_d256_f16) — the fp8 row's paged admission stole no f16 graph. black --check (26.3.1, -l 160): 19 non-test_mhas_v2.py Python files unchanged. New head 5cb6fb180 (7 commits).

[YangXu1990uiuc]

Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed 5cb6fb180021 against base 8efd951037de.

The rebase looks sound, including the paged/block-scaled-O argument slots and the explicit rejection of their unvalidated combination. The earlier performance decision is resolved by the maintainer's explicit acceptance in #1106 (comment); the documented slowdown remains a deliberate tradeoff, not a claimed performance fix. The compile-cache P2 remains fixed. No remaining approval blocker found.

Validation: Reviewed the complete seven-commit range-diff from 8223eda and traced the rebase resolutions through compile(), _host, kernel launch and _execute_fp8. The dense softmax/correction bodies match the new merge base; the paged table slots precede the block-scaled O slots consistently. Engine, adapter and config guards reject paged plus sf_o, with matching support-matrix documentation. Exact-head SM100 with CuTe DSL 4.7, cuDNN 9.26 and explicit L0/L1 selection: 46 paged FP8/support/cache checks passed without skips, including layouts, output/statistics/Amax, dead pages, empty KV, CUDA Graph replay, unwired kernel guards and the new sf_o decline. A further 25 dense FP8 mask/output and block-scaled FP4/MXFP8 output tests passed without skips. Independent cold-cache 96 -> 128 -> 96 logical-KV-max sequence compiled 1/0/0 times and reused the same callable. All three executions produced correct O, LSE and Amax, including an empty sequence. Fresh native/FROST/FROST/native component spot check on a 68-SM SM100, E4M3 Q/K/V, BF16 O, D128, page16, maxKV2048: decode B8/Hq96/Hkv8/Sq1 measured native GPU 32.79-32.80 us and CPU enqueue 14.41-15.14 us, versus FROST GPU 484.49-484.57 us and CPU 152.23-156.27 us. Prefill B4/Hq16/Hkv4/Sq64 measured native GPU 45.08 us and CPU 14.40-14.67 us, versus FROST GPU 82.57-83.42 us and CPU 183.61-185.98 us. All eight arms passed O/LSE/Amax checks and changed-input, poisoned-output graph replay. These measurements preserve the explicitly accepted performance limitation. Current head is mergeable and style passes. No existing GPU pipeline or CI request for this revision was found; old pipeline results are not current-head validation.

Limitations: Focused SM100 validation, not a full CI result or independent SM103/Rubin qualification. The performance figures are component timings on a 68-SM device, not B200 or end-to-end claims, and are not a matched inter-head regression measurement across differing backend versions. The owner's reported inherited f16/bf16 direct-test wrapper failures were outside this focused selection and were not independently rerun here.

Approved: no P0 or high-risk P1 found. Remaining findings stay with the owner; merge timing stays with the owner.

[YangXu1990uiuc]

The current-head re-review is complete: the rebase and 71 focused SM100 tests passed, the compile-cache reuse probe passed, and the maintainer explicitly accepted the documented performance tradeoff. I am requesting the frost target for 5cb6fb180021 because it collects the changed paged SDPA and dense FP8 suites. No pipeline for this revision is already running. I am not requesting an additional OSS sweep.

Codex bot review — model gpt-6-astra.

[YangXu1990uiuc]

@cudnn-ci-bot run frost

[cudnn-ci-bot]

🏁 Pipeline finished

SHA: 5cb6fb1
Targets: frost
Branch: cudnn-gh/pr-1106-5cb6fb1
Pipeline: 69371221
Last updated: 2026-09-23 06:30 UTC

25 passed, 1 failed, 6 manual

manual

• manual:python_samples - Manual
• manual:python_tests - Manual
• manual:frost - ✅ Passed
• manual:oss - Manual
• manual:pycudnn - Manual
• manual:multi_gpu - Manual
• manual:backend - Manual

analysis

• analysis:cudnn_clang_disable_exception - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_v9_no_half_conversion - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_clang - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-relative-includes - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-CUDNN_FRONTEND_SKIP_JSON_LIB - ✅ Passed
• analysis:guardwords_scan - ✅ Passed
• analysis:jax-import-guard - ✅ Passed
• san:build - ✅ Passed

build

• analysis:api_index - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:win:amd64 - ✅ Passed

frost_tests

• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm120 - ✅ Passed
• frost-linear:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-gemm:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm103 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ❌ Failed (nightly unknown)

sanitizer_tests

• san:cpp_test:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm90 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm100 - ✅ Passed

triage

• triage:ai - ✅ Passed

[vedaanta]

Rebased onto develop @ 034776363 (#1191 ragged Q over paged KV on the d128 decode tile, #1197 bit-word mask op on the SM100 prefill / decode arms, #1195 execution plans kept alive for recorded CUDA graphs — a C++ change, pybind module rebuilt —, #1203 gemm host parameter order, #958, #1205 in). One conflict, on the port commit's SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md: #1191 added the ʳᵠ footnote right above footnote ᵖ and a ragged-Q sentence inside ᵖ's paged paragraph; kept develop's footnote and sentence, this PR's fp8-extended ᵖ heading and paragraph around it. Everything else auto-merged (git range-diff dae3a3346..5cb6fb180 origin/develop..HEAD: commits 2–7 =, commit 1 differs by that resolution only). No _paged_compile_kwargs, no removed helper names, no conflict markers. New head 88c067f05 (7 commits).

Re-run on B200 (pinned by UUID; cuDNN 9.26.0.51, CuTe DSL 4.7.0, develop's rebuilt pybind module, CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1 unless stated): test_sdpa_fwd_paged_sm100.py + test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py + test_sdpa_fwd_decode_d128_sm100.py (#1191's ragged-Q leg tests included) 411 passed, 2 skipped, 16 failed -- the same 16 develop-side f16 kernel-level test_paged_kernel_* cases as r2 / r3 (#1119's launch_f16 under CuTe DSL 4.7.0; ids identical, 0 fp8 or decode-tile failures); analyzer + heuristics 186 passed; test_mhas_v2.py -k "test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_decode_pinned_frost_L0 or test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_prefill_pinned_frost_L0" 66 passed, routing frost:sdpa_fwd_prefill_sm100_fp8:prefill_d128_fp8: 66 (66/66, 0 native); MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16 -k test_sdpa_fp8_fwd_paged_L0 FROST on 11 passed / 5 skipped (prefill_d128_fp8: 11), FROST off 11 / 5 (native:fp8-fwd: 11), draws identical on / off; black 26.3.1 -l 160 clean (19 files unchanged). GitHub reports MERGEABLE on 88c067f05.

[YangXu1990uiuc]

Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed 88c067f05686 against base 2c3783d7a66b.

The rebase preserves the reviewed paged-FP8 behavior. No new blocker found; my existing approval remains. The previously documented FROST-first performance tradeoff remains explicitly accepted in #1106 (comment), and this rebase does not claim to eliminate it.

Validation: Reviewed the complete seven-commit range-diff from 5cb6fb1: six commits are equivalent and the first differs only in the support-matrix resolution. Traced the inherited ragged-decode eligibility and bit-word FP8 mask lowering; FP8 THD/sink/block-scaled-output paged combinations remain explicitly declined. Exact-head SM100, CuTe DSL 4.7, cuDNN 9.26, with L0/L1 enabled: 41 focused paged-FP8, unsupported-kernel/device, CUDA Graph replay and compile-key tests passed without skips. Verified the imported checkout and native binding's source compatibility. Matched previous-head/current-head spot checks on the same 68-SM SM100 and software stack found no material slowdown in the two sampled FROST shapes. For E4M3 Q/K/V, BF16 O, D128, page16/maxKV2048: decode B8/Hq96/Hkv8/Sq1 GPU 484.55-484.75 -> 465.21-465.24 us, CPU enqueue 153.49-153.55 -> 154.79-157.78 us; prefill B4/Hq16/Hkv4/Sq64 GPU 82.58-83.43 -> 81.14-82.11 us, CPU 184.00-185.04 -> 184.60-187.36 us. Both revisions used native/FROST/FROST/native timing arms; all 16 arms passed reference O/LSE/Amax and changed-input, poisoned-output replay checks. Compilation was excluded. Current-head style and latest merge-requirements checks pass; the PR is mergeable. No GPU pipeline or CI request for this exact revision was found at review completion.

Limitations: Focused SM100 component evidence, not B200, Rubin, end-to-end, or full current-head CI qualification. Previous pipeline 69371221 tested 5cb6fb1, not this head; the owner's broader rebase test results are separate evidence.

Comment only: this PR already has an active approval; preserving existing approvals.

[YangXu1990uiuc]

The rebase review is complete: 41 focused tests passed on the current head, and the matched CPU/GPU spot checks found no material new regression in the sampled shapes. The existing approval remains. Requesting one frost run for 88c067f05686 to cover the paged SDPA and dense FP8 suites; no pipeline for this revision is already running.

Codex bot review — model gpt-6-astra.

[YangXu1990uiuc]

@cudnn-ci-bot run frost

[cudnn-ci-bot]

🏁 Pipeline finished

SHA: 88c067f
Targets: frost
Branch: cudnn-gh/pr-1106-88c067f
Pipeline: 69517463
Last updated: 2026-09-23 22:18 UTC

25 passed, 1 failed, 6 manual

manual

• manual:python_samples - Manual
• manual:python_tests - Manual
• manual:frost - ✅ Passed
• manual:oss - Manual
• manual:pycudnn - Manual
• manual:multi_gpu - Manual
• manual:backend - Manual

analysis

• analysis:cudnn_clang_disable_exception - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_v9_no_half_conversion - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_clang - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-relative-includes - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-CUDNN_FRONTEND_SKIP_JSON_LIB - ✅ Passed
• analysis:guardwords_scan - ✅ Passed
• analysis:jax-import-guard - ✅ Passed
• san:build - ✅ Passed

build

• analysis:api_index - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:win:amd64 - ✅ Passed

frost_tests

• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm120 - ✅ Passed
• frost-linear:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-gemm:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-rel:sm103 - ✅ Passed
• frost-sdpa:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)

sanitizer_tests

• san:cpp_test:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm90 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm100 - ✅ Passed

triage

• triage:ai - ✅ Passed

[YangXu1990uiuc]

Current-head CI update for 88c067f05686: pipeline 69517463's Rubin job 453329501 finished with 3230 passed, 2077 skipped and 12 XPASS(strict) failures. All 12 are test_sdpa_ragged_decode_stats cases: the native plan now succeeds where the test still expects the old build failure. I verified that test is unchanged from develop, so this is inherited expectation drift rather than a new FP8-paged failure demonstrated by this run. Please narrow or retire the obsolete xfail for the fixed backend while retaining coverage for affected older versions.

The remaining lanes are still pending/running, so the pipeline is not yet clean. No duplicate run requested.

Codex bot review — model gpt-6-astra.