[None][perf] Speed up GLM-5.3-Flash serving on Blackwell by ruocheng-nv · Pull Request #20755 · NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

ruocheng-nv · 2026-10-21T15:31:42Z

Description

GLM-5.3-Flash serving optimizations on Blackwell, measured on a long-prompt, short-answer workload (prompts longer than 10K tokens, short outputs, TP4, MTP 3, max_num_tokens 16384, FP8 KV cache). The per-commit effects below were measured on 4x B200 and the end-to-end table under Test Coverage was measured on whole 4x B300 nodes.

Changes

The per-commit effects below were measured on 4x B200 while developing each change; the end-to-end table under Test Coverage measures this branch.

Commit	What it does	Measured effect
Prefer TRTLLM-Gen MoE on Blackwell	`moe_config.backend: AUTO` resolved NVFP4 GLM-5.3-Flash checkpoints to CUTLASS; resolve it to TRTLLM for `Glm5Next*` on SM100-family GPUs, next to the existing DeepSeek-V4 and Kimi K3 preferences in `resolve_moe_backend`. Layers TRTLLM-Gen cannot serve (the unquantized MTP layer) still fall back through `resolve_moe_impl`. Set `moe_config.backend: CUTLASS` to keep the previous behavior.	NVFP4, EP4: decode 7.52 -> 6.46 ms/step; C1 355 -> 412 tok/s/user; C8 131.6 -> 141.2 output tok/s
Score context indexer pools in FP8	Packed context rows scored pools with the BF16 Triton kernel (~0.84 ms per sparse layer for a >10K-token prompt). On SM100-family GPUs, quantize keys per row and queries per (row, head) and score with DeepGEMM `fp8_mqa_logits`. `TRTLLM_GLM_INDEXER_BF16=1` keeps the BF16 scorer. Generation and verification rows are unchanged.	Indexer scoring 0.93 -> 0.21 ms per sparse layer for a >10K-token prompt; LongBench-v2 and GSM8K unchanged (see Test Coverage)
Share generation row lengths across sparse layers	Build per-forward generation-row positions, visible lengths and pool counts once instead of in every sparse layer.	Bundled with the next two: about 0.5-1% C1
Write absorbed V output in o_proj layout	The batched GEMM writes through a transposed view, so the per-layer transpose copy disappears. Bit-identical.	(bundle above)
Trim per-layer kernels from sparse decode	Verification rows index block tables by request id instead of copying a table row per draft token; a cached device zero (a BF16 0-dim tensor allocated before CUDA-graph capture) replaces a per-call scalar fill; outputs are bit-identical.	(bundle above)
Return text prompt ids as a list	The text-only input path converted tokenizer output to a tensor and back.	About -4 ms TTFT for a >10K-token prompt
Bound context pool-scoring memory	FP8 context scoring allocated logits for every packed row against the pools of every context request, which grows with the request count and cached prefixes; startup profiling never reaches that growth. Context rows are now scored in host-planned calls of at most 2^26 FP32 elements (a fresh prompt of up to 16K tokens still takes one call), the BF16 scorer is tiled to the same bound, and KV-cache sizing reserves it through `runtime_workspace_fixed_bytes`.	Fixes a possible runtime OOM with long cached prefixes; no perf change expected
Count every context-scoring buffer in its bound	Follow-up to the commit above: each tile's scores are released before the next call allocates; one cost function, shared by the planner and the KV-cache reserve, counts DeepGEMM's padded logits stride (256 extra columns per row), a multi-table call's gather temporary and the key scales/slot indices; and the reserve is the largest call the planner can emit for the serving capacities (`max_num_tokens`, `max_batch_size`, `max_seq_len`) instead of `min(bound, max_num_tokens * max_seq_len)` (64 one-row continuations of 4K prompts needed ~43 MB against a 1 MiB reserve before this).	Memory-accounting fix; no perf change expected
Simplify verification row addressing	Verification rows always carry request ids (eager and CUDA-graph paths), so the repeat-the-tables path is removed; the FP8 scorer is gated on packed context rows only.	Cleanup
Note the low-M GEMM option in the guide	Documents `TRTLLM_LOW_M_GEMM_BACKEND=auto`.	Doc
Recommend EP1 for low-concurrency serving	The guide recommends `--ep_size 1` (experts tensor-parallel) for long prompts at low concurrency on the FP8 checkpoint, keeping EP4 for attention data parallelism, and documents low-M GEMM as an opt-in.	Doc; FP8 TP4, 4x B300, same node: EP1 vs EP4 C1 400 vs 378 tok/s/user (+6%), C8 125.6 vs 124.2 tok/s
Update the performance chart to B300 long-prompt serving	Replaces the 4x B200 ISL 1024 / OSL 1024 chart with the Pareto frontier on 4x B300 at ISL 10240 / OSL 1024 (FP8 checkpoint, FP8 KV cache, MTP 3) over TP4/EP1, TP4/EP4 and attention DP4/EP4, and restates the EP1 and low-M notes with same-node B300 measurements.	Doc; TP4/EP1 forms the frontier up to concurrency 32 (398 tok/s/user at C1), attention DP4/EP4 from 64 (1303 tok/s/GPU at C256)
Say when the low-M GEMM option helps	The guide note read as a verdict on the size of the gain; it now points at the condition instead — the flag only reaches decoding steps that run with few tokens in flight, so it is worth trying for latency-sensitive serving.	Doc

Shared code touched

tensorrt_llm/_torch/model_config.py: one resolve_moe_backend preference rule for Glm5Next* architectures on SM100-family GPUs.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py: get_attention_workspace_fixed_bytes routes glm5_next models to GlmKpoolSparseAttention's reserve. GLM layers create their glm_kpool backend in the model, so model_config has no sparse_attention_config naming it; the routing sits next to the existing glm5_next cache-manager routing in the same file, and TrtllmAttention stays free of model checks. A model-level sparse config (as DeepSeek-V4.1 gets in ModelConfig.__post_init__) would remove this check but needs a new llm_args config class, so it is left for a follow-up.

Everything else is under attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/, models/modeling_glm5_next*.py, the GLM tests and the GLM deployment guide.

Considered and left out

Low-M BF16 GEMM on by default for GLM. In same-node A/Bs on 4x B300 it raised C1 per-user output speed by about 4% on the NVFP4 checkpoint (437 -> 457 tok/s/user, repeated on two nodes) and by 1% on FP8 (400 -> 406), with C1 TTFT and C8 throughput unchanged. Its autotuning, though, adds about 6.5 minutes to every NVFP4 server start on B300 (executor ready in ~573 s instead of ~177 s; ~330 s more on B200): the tuner sweeps 10 M buckets per new BF16 shape, and the direct kernel is compiled per exact M (120 CuTe-DSL compiles per shape). The dropped commit also put a per-call check on every unquantized Linear. TRTLLM_LOW_M_GEMM_BACKEND=auto remains the opt-in, documented in the guide.
Sharing one sparse selection across MTP draft steps (index_share_for_mtp_iteration). Acceptance is unchanged with or without it; it only saves draft-step indexer work (well under 1% of C1). Doing it properly needs the engine to build GLM's own attention metadata class, so it is not worth the shared-code change now.

Test Coverage

tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_glm_kpool.py: context-score planning stays within the reserved bound (fresh prompt, cached prefixes, long chunk, tiny + long requests; BF16 and FP8), groups short requests and splits long ones, and the executor reserves the bound for glm5_next only.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_kernels.py: FP8 pool scores track the BF16 selection; scoring a table range matches the packed multi-table call.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_glm5_next_contracts.py: GLM MoE backend resolution and batch contracts.
test_glm_kpool.py also checks that the KV-cache reserve covers every call the planner emits for small and large serving capacities; test_kernels.py checks that the FP8 scorer's measured peak memory fits the planner's cost model.
CI: glm_kpool/ runs under the unittest/_torch/attention entry of l0_b200.yml; test_glm5_next_contracts.py has its own entry there.
Local runs: 257 passed (glm_kpool/, test_glm5_next_contracts.py) on B200; the 187 glm_kpool/ tests also pass on B300 (SM103).
End to end on this branch, whole 4x B300 nodes (>10K-token prompts, short outputs, MTP 3, FP8 KV; p50 C1 TTFT ms / C1 tok/s/user / C8 TTFT ms / C8 output tok/s, three rounds each):

Checkpoint	Config	Build	C1 TTFT	C1 tok/s/user	C8 TTFT	C8 tok/s
NVFP4	TP4 EP4	main	260	364	980	137.4
NVFP4	TP4 EP4	this PR	230 (-30)	436 (+19.8%)	855	153.8 (+11.9%)
FP8	TP4 EP1	main	292	391	1176	121.3
FP8	TP4 EP1	this PR	278 (-14)	400 (+2.3%)	1078	124.9 (+3.0%)

main is main without this PR's commits, and this PR is the same base with them, so the two builds differ only by this PR. They ran back to back on the same node for each checkpoint (one node for NVFP4, one for FP8), with no other jobs on it; earlier runs on a shared B200 dev machine were skewed by other users' host CPU load and are not used here. C8 TTFT moves a lot from round to round for both builds (closed-loop C8 trades TTFT against ITL at a near-constant throughput), so compare C8 on throughput.

GSM8K (full set, one run each, 4x B200): this PR 93.21 (NVFP4) / 92.42 (FP8 EP1); main 93.52 (NVFP4) / 92.99 (FP8). The differences are within the ~1-point run-to-run spread seen on this model.
FP8 context indexer (the new default) vs TRTLLM_GLM_INDEXER_BF16=1, LongBench-v2 short subset (180 questions, up to 60K-token prompts, max 4096 output tokens), NVFP4, same serving config except free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.6: FP8 56.11 vs BF16 57.78. 91 questions right in both, 10 right only with FP8, 13 only with BF16 (sign test p = 0.68); two BF16 runs of the same config differ by a similar margin (55.56 vs 57.78).

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PR description explains what and why.
Follows the TRT-LLM coding guidelines.
Test cases cover the new code paths.
No API changes (no label needed).
No new dependencies; CODEOWNERS unchanged.
Documentation updated (GLM-5.3-Flash deployment guide).
Please check this after reviewing the above items as appropriate for this PR.

Dev Engineer Review

AUTO selects the TRTLLM MoE backend for GLM-5 Next architectures on SM100f. Explicit backend selections remain unchanged.
Sparse attention caches generation-row schedules and uses request IDs for verification table selection. These changes affect internal APIs and table addressing. Verify mixed decode and verification batches, table bounds, and CUDA graph replay.
Context scoring adds an FP8 path and bounded scoring plans. Workspace sizing reserves space for the context-score bound. Verify planned calls, temporary allocations, and multi-table gathers against that reservation.
Sparse decode uses a prepared BF16 zero tensor for empty outputs. It raises an error if allocation is required during CUDA graph capture.
Text-only prompt processing returns tokenizer input_ids directly as a list. Verify the tokenizer output contract.
The deployment guide documents workload-specific EP1 and low-M GEMM settings. The performance and startup effects are reported results, not independently verified here.
The supplied objectives report 257 passing local B200 tests. They also report CI failure and an unstable L0 pipeline, without specific failure details. The available evidence does not establish the cause or current status.

QA Engineer Review

Three test files changed: test_glm_kpool.py, test_kernels.py, and test_glm5_next_contracts.py. Tests cover score planning and workspace reservation, request-ID table addressing, FP8/BF16 scoring, packed scoring, CUDA graph replay, tokenizer behavior, MoE backend selection, and runtime contracts. Only test_glm5_next_contracts.py appears in the inspected CI and manual-QA lists; it is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml. No test-list files changed. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The supplied evidence does not establish end-to-end serving accuracy or peak memory.

Per-File QA Perspective

docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5.3-flash-on-trtllm.md — Verify the documented EP1 and low-M GEMM conditions. The stated performance and startup effects are reported results.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/backend.py — Verify scorer selection, score planning, workspace reservation, request-ID table selection, and updated method signatures.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/kernels.py — Verify FP8 scores and request-specific table bounds for packed and multi-table calls.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/native_decode.py — Verify prepared zero outputs and the allocation error path during CUDA graph capture.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/model_config.py — Verify AUTO selection for the targeted architectures and preservation of explicit selections.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next.py — Verify cached decode and verification schedules, span-based scoring, and schedule reuse across sparse layers.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next_vision.py — Verify text-only processing preserves prompt IDs when the tokenizer returns a list.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py — Verify GLM-5 Next workspace sizing uses the sparse backend and other model types retain their prior selection.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_glm_kpool.py — Covers score planning and workspace reservation. It does not appear in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_kernels.py — Covers table addressing, FP8/BF16 selection, planned memory cost, packed scoring, and graph replay. It does not appear in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_glm5_next_contracts.py — Covers tokenizer behavior, MoE backend selection, runtime schedules, and other GLM-5 Next contracts. It is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.

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PR effort	8 points — Introduces an FP8 context-scoring path alongside memory bounding and decode optimizations. Quantization accuracy, causal pool visibility, request-table addressing, transient allocation accounting and capture-safe lifetimes require deep attention-contract review.
Importance	Important — FP8 query/key conversion and scale folding change sparse pool-selection numerics. The scoring planner and runtime_workspace_fixed_bytes introduce a memory-bound contract sensitive to cached prefixes, request grouping and aligned allocations.
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The PR updates GLM-5 Next sparse attention scoring, workspace planning, and generation scheduling. It also changes MoE backend selection and text-only prompt handling, and revises deployment guidance and benchmark conditions.

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Sparse attention scoring and scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FP8 scoring and request-indexed selection `tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/backend.py`, `tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/kernels.py`, `tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_kernels.py`	The backend adds an SM100-family FP8 scorer and uses request IDs to select tables for packed rows. Tests compare FP8 scoring with BF16 selection and check memory estimates and packed-versus-individual scores.
Budgeted packed-context scoring `tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/backend.py`, `tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next.py`, `tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py`, `tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_glm_kpool.py`	The backend plans context-score calls within workspace limits. GLM-5 Next supplies per-request spans to sparse selection. Workspace sizing and planner tests cover the scoring bounds.
Generation-row scheduling and execution `tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next.py`, `tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/glm_kpool/native_decode.py`	GLM-5 Next builds and caches generation-row data for decode and verification, then passes scheduled values into sparse selection. Native decode uses a device-side BF16 zero tensor for empty rows and raises if allocation is needed during CUDA graph capture. The output projection writes batched products into its destination buffer.

GLM-5 Next MoE backend selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Architecture-aware backend resolution `tensorrt_llm/_torch/model_config.py`, `tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_glm5_next_contracts.py`	For GLM-5 Next architectures on SM 100f, AUTO now selects TRTLLM. Tests cover other devices, NVFP4 settings, and explicit CUTLASS selection.

Text-only prompt processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Direct tokenizer input IDs `tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next_vision.py`, `tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_glm5_next_contracts.py`	The text-only processor returns tokenizer input IDs directly. The test verifies that it does not pass `return_tensors`.

Deployment performance guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workload-specific performance settings and benchmarks `docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5.3-flash-on-trtllm.md`	The guide reports EP1 versus EP4 observations and documents `TRTLLM_LOW_M_GEMM_BACKEND=auto` with its measured performance and startup effects. The benchmark description now covers the stated B300, FP8 KV cache, MTP, and sequence lengths, and identifies TP4/EP1 and attention DP4/EP4 frontier configurations.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SparseAttention as Glm5NextSparseAttention
  participant Backend as GlmKpoolSparseAttention
  participant Kernel as kpool_score_fp8
  SparseAttention->>Backend: Plan bounded context score calls
  SparseAttention->>Backend: Pass row spans and visible-length bounds
  Backend->>Kernel: Score packed rows using request IDs
  Kernel-->>Backend: Return FP8 logits or None
  Backend-->>SparseAttention: Return scores or use the existing scorer

Suggested reviewers: juney-nvidia, farazkh80

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tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/glm_kpool/test_glm_kpool.py: 1
502-583: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the complete FP8 context-score cost.

The FP8 assertion checks only the raw logits product. plan_context_scores also accounts for rounded logits, multi-table copy storage, and gathered key storage. A regression in any of these terms can pass.
Suggested test fix
-    kpool = GlmKpoolSparseParams().index_kpool
+    params = GlmKpoolSparseParams()
+    kpool = params.index_kpool
...
         if fp8:
-            assert (end - start) * (last - first) * (max_kv_len // kpool) <= budget
+            tables = last - first
+            pools = max_kv_len // kpool
+            logits = -(-tables * pools // 256) * 256
+            copy = max(1024, -(-pools // 64) * 64) if tables > 1 else 0
+            key_elements = params.index_head_dim * 3 // 4
+            assert (
+                (end - start) * (logits + copy) + tables * pools * key_elements <= budget
+            )
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Update the FP8 check in _check_plan to validate the complete context-score
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Add backend-path coverage for score_pools().

The added tests call kpool_score_fp8() directly. Add backend-level cases that:

Call score_pools() with a nonzero table_range and full request IDs, then verify the result against the corresponding table slice.

Make kpool_score_fp8() return None, then verify that score_pools() returns the BF16 kpool_score() result.

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complete context-score allocation, not just the raw logits product. Include
rounded logits storage, multi-table copy storage, and gathered key storage using
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Cover the largest grouped FP8 allocation shape.

test_fp8_pool_score_peak_memory_fits_the_planned_cost covers only one- and three-table calls. The planner can emit a larger grouped call, while the planner and reservation tests use the same cost model. They can therefore pass when the kernel has an unmodeled allocation that appears only in a larger group.

Add many short requests whose planned call is near _CONTEXT_SCORE_ELEMENTS. Reuse the existing warmup, synchronization, max_memory_allocated() baseline, and row-sized allowance. Compare the resulting transient allocation with the fixed workspace reservation. Compare active allocations, not memory_reserved(), because the CUDA caching allocator includes unrelated cached blocks.
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The absorbed V projection produced [H, T, v_head] and o_proj then needed a transposed copy of it in every sparse-attention layer. Let the batched GEMM write through a transposed view of a [T, H, v_head] buffer instead; the result is bit-identical and the copy kernel is gone. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

Each sparse-attention layer launched small kernels whose inputs are fixed for the whole forward: - Verification copied each request's block-table row once per draft token for both pool scoring and expansion. Give verification rows their tables' batch rows as request ids, built once per forward, and let the kernels index the tables instead. - Discarding empty rows used torch.where with a Python 0, which fills a scalar tensor per call. Use a cached device zero. Scores, selections and outputs are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

The text-only input path asked the tokenizer for a tensor, cast it to int32 and converted it back to a list. For a 13K-token prompt that round trip added about 4 ms to every request's time to first token; take the tokenizer's list directly. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

FP8 context scoring allocated logits for every packed row against the pools of every context request, plus the gathered keys and a row copy, so its transient grew with the batch's request count and visible prefixes. Startup profiling scores a fresh prompt and never reached that growth; neither did the capacity-wide BF16 scorer once FP8 replaced it in profiling. A batch with long cached prefixes could exceed the memory left after KV-cache sizing. Context rows are now scored and selected in calls planned on the host: consecutive requests share a call while its logits, row copy and gathered keys fit 2^26 FP32 elements, each call gathers only its own requests' tables, and a request that does not fit alone is split by rows. The BF16 scorer is tiled to the same bound. KV-cache sizing reserves that bound through runtime_workspace_fixed_bytes. A fresh prompt of up to 16K tokens still scores in one call. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

Verification rows now always carry request_ids, their block-table rows, on the eager path as on the CUDA-graph path, so score_pools and expand_selection no longer repeat the generation tables per draft token. The FP8 context scorer is gated on packed context rows (rows_per_request == 1), and its 2^29-element cap is gone because plan_context_scores bounds every call. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

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…ound The context-score bound undercounted what a scoring call holds: - Each tile's scores stayed referenced while the next call allocated, and the last tile lived on into attention. Release them after the top-k. - The FP8 cost model missed the extra 256 columns fp8_mqa_logits pads each row with, the [rows, pools] gather temporary of a multi-table call, and the key scales and slot indices. The planner and the KV-cache reserve now share one cost function that counts them. - The reserve was min(bound, max_num_tokens * max_seq_len), which ignores how many request tables a call can gather: 64 one-row continuations of 4K prompts need about 43 MB against a 1 MiB reserve. Reserve the largest call the planner can emit for the serving capacities instead. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

With long prompts at concurrency 1 and 8, running the routed experts tensor-parallel (EP1) was faster than EP4 on 4x B200 FP8. Correct the low-M GEMM note, whose measured effect on the FP8 checkpoint is too small to recommend it. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

…rompt serving Replace the 4x B200 ISL 1024 / OSL 1024 chart with the Pareto frontier measured on 4x B300 at ISL 10240 / OSL 1024 (FP8 checkpoint, FP8 KV cache, MTP 3) over TP4/EP1, TP4/EP4 and attention DP4/EP4. Restate the EP1 and low-M GEMM notes with same-node B300 measurements: EP1 raises concurrency-1 speed by about 6% with concurrency-8 throughput unchanged, and low-M GEMM gains about 1% with time to first token unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

The note read as a verdict on the size of the gain. Point at the condition instead: the flag only reaches decoding steps that run with few tokens in flight, so it is worth trying for latency-sensitive serving, and its kernel tuning suits long-running servers. Signed-off-by: Ruocheng Jia <ruochengj@nvidia.com>

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[None][feat] Add a glm_kpool sparse attention config #20811

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[None][perf] GLM-5.3-Flash FP8 performance fixes on Hopper #21179

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