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Safety-gate and regression-coverage follow-up for https://nvbugs/7030393. The NVBug remains open; this PR establishes no production latency recovery.
Relative to main, this PR adds a default-off AttentionBackend.accepts_unowned_inputs capability and a batch-one NHD receive-view branch in UlyssesAttention.forward_async. No production backend opts in. Existing production backends therefore retain main's BF16 fused post-unscatter copy dispatch; only synthetic test backends explicitly opt in. HND and multi-batch receives retain copies even with an opt-in.
The capability contract applies only to async-Ulysses receive slots, not every attention path or communication allocation. Related draft #20254 adds a separate synchronous peer-write path; this flag does not establish its ownership policy or impose a landing-order dependency on that draft. The attribute documentation requires an opt-in to cover all inheriting configurations/subclasses, forbids retaining or recording streams on these inputs or their views, and requires side-stream joins and native verification.
This PR also adds receive-slot ordering documentation and regression coverage. The ordering rule is stated at _output_a2a: backend reads precede the same-group collective, and the collective plus its wait precede the next _issue_async, in eager and compiled execution. The call-site and native slot-ring comments point to that rule.
Not ready to merge. Please keep this PR in draft while validation is outstanding. Native two-rank unequal-Q/KV Q-first slot-reuse coverage, a layout-preserving hardware ordering-negative control, allocator/side-stream verification and current-head full pre-merge CI remain outstanding. A production backend must not opt in without that evidence. No production opt-in or split-out follow-up PR is included here.
Earlier unguarded-prototype timing and quality runs are not verification of this default-denied candidate. The earlier Wan2.2-A14B golden mismatch is not resolved or rebaselined. No benchmark, golden, threshold, waiver or dependency is changed.
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This PR adds the CPU dispatch test and its l0_cpu.yml entry, plus the two-rank lifetime test. It does not merely document tests already on main.
test_forward_async_receive_view_gate in tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py preserves seven scenarios, now with descriptive IDs:
nhd-b1-cross-denied-copy: explicit False with unequal lengths and Q-first order retains owned copies.
The CPU fixture uses object.__new__(UlyssesAttention) with explicit backend, process-group and world-size attributes, rather than a namespace, and does not run the constructor. It checks output, Q/K/V values and ownership, sequence metadata, the complete requested issue order and exactly one fused launch when required. The fused-op mock allocates clones to model the native operator's owned-output boundary; pointer checks are not native allocator validation.
The PR adds module selection at tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. The existing module entry in l0_dgx_b200.yml selects test_batch_one_receive_view_lifetime through the 8-GPU B200 block; that test launches two ranks with four eager/CUDA-graph and gate on/off variants. Its eight-layer/four-replay workload, 2,000,000-cycle delay and assertions are unchanged; named constants replace duplicated literals. These four variants still cover equal Q/K/V lengths, not the requested native cross-attention variant.
Local validation of this follow-up is AST-isolated execution of the actual interface, complete Ulysses class and actual CPU test body, using real CPU PyTorch with simulated native/collective/attention boundaries. All seven cases pass with both the parent constructor-based fixture and the candidate object.__new__ fixture; the seven parameter rows and every CPU assertion are unchanged. Capability/default, KV-length, issue-order, tail-order and duplicate-fused-launch fault controls retain the same expected failures with both fixtures. Production executable Python AST and native non-comment tokens are unchanged by this fixture follow-up; normalized GPU-worker logic is unchanged. Repository pre-commit, Ruff and whitespace checks pass.
No full TensorRT-LLM-module, native/GPU, allocator, side-stream, hardware negative-control or performance run is claimed for this follow-up. The seven CPU cases and four B200 lifetime variants still need current-head full pre-merge CI. Older pipeline #68074 recorded zero JUnit test-case failures but was UNSTABLE with blocked Multi-GPU stages; it is not successful full CI or validation of this head. The prior description's six-failed-test-cases claim is withdrawn.
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forward_async now bypasses fused post-unscatter for batch-one NHD receives. The backend documentation describes receive-buffer lifetime constraints. Tests cover path selection and receive-view reuse across attention layers.
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Post-unscatter path and receive-view constraints tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/interface.py, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/asyncUlyssesOp.cpp, tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py
forward_async excludes batch-one NHD receives from fused post-unscatter. The backend documentation states that transient communication-buffer inputs must not be retained after the call, and that side-stream reads must be joined before return. C++ comments describe receive-view read ordering before the reverse collective. CPU-only tests check path selection, outputs, sequence metadata, and buffer aliases.
The multi-GPU test checks receive-buffer aliases and compares repeated-layer outputs with collective references. It covers optional gates and CUDA graph capture. The integration test list includes the test module.
Batch-one async Ulysses with SOL sparse attention can fail under cudaMallocAsync. Address allocator compatibility before merging.
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Review of 4760c85: 1 blocker, 0 possibly blocking, 2 required. I checked the slot-reuse concern from the existing CodeRabbit thread and the ordering holds: every forward_async call ends with the blocking reverse all_to_all_single on the same group (tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/ops.py:1833-1835), and a peer only pushes the next call's data after its own reverse collective completes, so aliasing the receive slots is ordered the same way the fused copy already relied on. The blocker below is a different consequence of the aliasing: the views are memory that PyTorch's allocator does not own. CI run PR_Github #82465 was still in progress when this review was written.
[Required] PR title: the description calls this a partial recovery for nvbug 7030393 (about 1% of a ~4% gap) and leaves the main contributor (#18079, native self-attention enablement) as it is, but the [fix] type records the bug as fixed on squash-merge. Please retitle it as a perf change, e.g. [https://nvbugs/7030393][perf] Elide redundant async Ulysses copies, and state in the description that the NVBug stays open for the remaining gap (or link the change that closes it).
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[Blocker] With this branch the inner backend now receives views of the async-Ulysses receive slots, i.e. memory that PyTorch's allocator does not own (torch::from_blob(slot.basePtr, shape, /*deleter=*/[](void*) {}, opts) in cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/asyncUlyssesOp.cpp:158-159). Before this change those inputs were always fresh torch::empty buffers from ulysses_post_unscatter_qkv, and at least one NHD backend depends on that:
SOL sparse attention on the TRTLLM backend: SOLTrtllmAttention.support_fused_qkv() returns False (sparse/sol/backend.py:411-414), so sparse-phase calls set use_separate_qkv and _compact_qkv keeps the views, since q.reshape(...).contiguous() does not copy a contiguous input (visual_gen/attention/backends/trtllm.py:517-529, 442). The core then runs the default-enabled PrimTS block-sparse FMHA (fmha/prims_ts_block_sparse.py:589, 632), and record_block_sparse_run_args does for tensor in (run_args.q, run_args.k, run_args.v): tensor.record_stream(stream) (prims_ts/_block_sparse/runtime.py:586-587).
With the native allocator, record_stream silently skips foreign memory. Under PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=backend:cudaMallocAsync it raises ptr not found in ptr_info. That is the assert _record_stream in tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/multi_stream_utils.py:43-53 already has to tolerate, for an allocator that TRT-LLM recommends in its startup warning (pyexecutor/_util.py:4855-4857) and reruns tests under in CI (tests/unittest/_torch/modules/test_multi_stream_utils.py:202-213).
So Wan with sparse_attention_config.algorithm: sol_attn on TRTLLM, async_ulysses: true and a per-rank batch of 1 (single prompt or CFG parallel, exactly the case this PR switches to views) fails its first sparse-phase attention with a RuntimeError under cudaMallocAsync. SOL's own docstring (sol/backend.py:264-266) names WAN's attn1 under async Ulysses as a configuration it serves. Attention2D under async Ulysses may hit the same assert if ProcessGroupNCCL records streams on the all_gather_into_tensor input at parallel.py:1101-1103; I did not verify that for torch 2.14.
Suggested fix: keep the fused copy when torch.cuda.memory.get_allocator_backend() == "cudaMallocAsync" (resolve it once in __init__), or make record_block_sparse_run_args skip memory the allocator does not own, the way multi_stream_utils._record_stream does. Please also add a cudaMallocAsync rerun of a batch-one async-Ulysses case (like test_this_file_under_cuda_malloc_async) so this stays covered.
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Agreed: the receive views are backed by torch::from_blob slots rather than PyTorch-owned allocations. The reported record_stream failure is consistent with the allocator handling already present in multi_stream_utils. I propose caching the allocator policy in UlyssesAttention.init, retaining the existing fused copy under cudaMallocAsync, and adding a subprocess regression that exercises real async receives and record_stream under that allocator. Head 4760c85 and the CPU-registration-only follow-up do not contain that correction. I have not reproduced or verified the allocator case on GPUs, so this remains a blocker.
Agreed that this is only partial performance recovery and must not declare the NVBug closed. Proposed title: [https://nvbugs/7030393][perf] Elide redundant async Ulysses copies. Proposed description clarification: This PR is a partial performance optimization; NVBug 7030393 remains open for the remaining latency gap. These are proposed text changes, not a claim that the title or description has already been updated.
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Document receive-buffer lifetime constraints at the slot ring and backend interface. Simplify the batch-one NHD predicate using the native receive layout guarantee, and share the lifetime-test launcher without changing its worker or parameter matrix.
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- Line 830: Extend the parallel attention dispatch and lifetime tests around
post_unscatter_is_view with a two-rank batch-one cross-attention case: use
different Q and K/V lengths, issue Q first, reuse the slot, and verify both the
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- production diff ---'
git diff --unified=35 9e334fbaae504cc836cddea8a20cc1bdab543e55 42c53e6c7fc30ab336d1df9a5758d8a421c78cba -- tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py
printf'%s\n''--- async test diff ---'
git diff --unified=25 9e334fbaae504cc836cddea8a20cc1bdab543e55 42c53e6c7fc30ab336d1df9a5758d8a421c78cba -- tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py
printf'%s\n''--- async test symbols ---'
rg -n -C 8 -F -- 'issue_order' tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py ||test"$?" -eq 1
rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'seq_len_kv' tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py
printf'%s\n''--- async test file ---'
sed -n '1,520p' tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.py
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nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py | sed -n '735,850p'printf'%s\n''--- issue_order references in async visual-gen scope ---'
rg -n -C 5 -F -- 'issue_order' tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu
printf'%s\n''--- forward_async call sites in async tests ---'
rg -n -C 4 -F -- 'forward_async' tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu
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Cover cross-attention receive views.
The current dispatch and lifetime tests use equal Q/K/V lengths and the default issue order. They can miss a regression in batch-one cross-attention, where Q and K/V have different lengths and Q is issued first. Add a two-rank case that checks output and seq_len_kv across slot reuse.
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at line 830:
Extend the parallel attention dispatch and lifetime tests around
post_unscatter_is_view with a two-rank batch-one cross-attention case: use
different Q and K/V lengths, issue Q first, reuse the slot, and verify both the
output and seq_len_kv remain correct.
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The native two-rank slot-reuse case is still outstanding. I added a CPU-only dispatch case with different Q and K/V lengths and issue_order=("q", "k", "v"), checking output, every Q/K/V input, view aliasing, and separate seq_len/seq_len_kv metadata. All four dispatch cases pass against the unchanged production source in AST-isolated CPU execution; the new case also rejects deliberately incorrect KV-length and issue-order controls. This does not exercise native communication or slot reuse. Native two-GPU validation is currently unavailable, so I have not added or claimed a verified two-rank case; the requested lifetime coverage and allocator blocker remain open, and the PR is not ready to merge.
Add a CPU-only unequal-length, Q-first dispatch control with separate sequence metadata and full input-value checks. Preserve the original three scenarios. Production code and the native GPU lifetime worker remain unchanged; native cross-attention slot-reuse coverage is still outstanding.
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The description already lists the two merge blockers, the allocator record_stream failure and the missing native cross-attention slot-reuse test. I agree both must be resolved before this lands. The fix for the first should go in the dispatch code, not in documentation.
Gate the view path on a backend capability.post_unscatter_is_view is currently true for every NHD backend. The new paragraph in interface.py asks backends not to keep the inputs, not to call record_stream on them, and to join any side streams before returning, but no existing backend has been checked against that, and nothing enforces it. No code under tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/ calls record_stream, so the failure you hit comes from a dependency or from generated code. That means nobody can confirm compliance by reading this repo. A class-level opt-in (e.g. accepts_unowned_inputs: ClassVar[bool] = False on the backend interface, set to True only on backends you've run under cudaMallocAsync and with side streams) turns a silent-corruption risk into a missed ~1% speedup on unverified backends. That is a better tradeoff for a partial perf mitigation.
Tests to add before merge:
A two-rank variant of _receive_view_lifetime_logic using issue_order=("q", "k", "v") with Sp_k != Sp_q, i.e. the cross-attention path the CPU test only covers with mocks.
A negative control for the lifetime test. Run once with the reverse collective removed, or moved after the next forward_async, and confirm the test fails. Without that, there's no evidence the 2 ms delayed read can actually detect the hazard on the hardware CI runs on.
Description: the Validation section lists three CPU cases, but the test now has four (the unequal-Q/KV, Q-first case was added later). It is also cut off after "whitespace chec". Please update both.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py:868: The receive-view path now relies on this reverse all-to-all being the first cross-rank collective after the inner backend reads q/k/v, and on it running before the next forward_async on the same group. The only place that is written down is the comment at the call site. Please add a short note here too, so that a later change moving the reverse A2A into the caller's compile region (as the forward_async docstring suggests) doesn't remove the ordering by accident.
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Two gaps: (1) only self-attention is covered. Please add a cross-attention variant (issue_order=("q", "k", "v"), KV sequence length different from Q) so slot reuse is tested with unequal slot sizes. (2) Please confirm this test fails when the ordering is removed, for example by temporarily stubbing _output_a2a to skip the collective. Otherwise a pass doesn't show that the 2 ms delayed read actually catches the race.
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Both gaps remain outstanding. I have not added or run a native two-rank unequal-Q/KV, Q-first slot-reuse variant, and I have not run a reverse-collective hardware negative control; a runnable two-GPU environment is unavailable for this follow-up. The existing delay is 2,000,000 GPU cycles, not a verified two-millisecond duration or evidence of overwrite sensitivity. The CPU dispatch fault controls are not substitutes for either hardware check. The description keeps both requirements as merge blockers, and no production backend is opted in while that evidence is missing. I am leaving this thread unresolved.
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Require explicit backend opt-in before eliding BF16 post-unscatter copies. No production backend is opted in. Document the reverse-collective ordering at the output exchange, preserve the four CPU scenarios, and add inherited-default and explicit-false ownership controls. Keep the synthetic delayed-reader backend on the receive-view path.
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Added AttentionBackend.accepts_unowned_inputs: ClassVar[bool] = False and made batch-one NHD receive views require an explicit True. No production backend is opted in; unverified backends keep the existing BF16 fused-copy path. This deliberately gives up production copy-elision gains rather than assume allocator or side-stream compatibility. The historical performance table is now explicitly scoped to the unguarded prototype, not this candidate.
Added the ordering note directly to _output_a2a, including the requirement to preserve it when moving the exchange into a caller's compile region.
Rewrote Validation to enumerate the existing four CPU scenarios, including unequal-Q/KV Q-first dispatch, plus three new capability-denied controls. In AST-isolated source execution with real CPU PyTorch and simulated native boundaries, the original four pass against the parent, the three new controls fail against the parent, and all seven pass against this candidate. Disabling the gate or changing its inherited default also triggers the appropriate controls. Copy cases now require distinct Q/K/V storage. The complete replacement description has been checked; none of these CPU results is native allocator or lifetime validation.
The synthetic delayed-reader backend explicitly opts in only to keep its existing receive-view test exercised. I have not added or run the requested native unequal-length Q-first lifetime variant, nor run the reverse-collective hardware negative control: a runnable two-GPU environment is unavailable for this follow-up. Both remain merge blockers, along with allocator/side-stream verification and current-head CI. The 2,000,000-cycle delay is not evidence that the test detects slot overwrite on hardware, and I am not treating this review as resolved.
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Follow-up review of a1a4cb2. The default-off accepts_unowned_inputs gate resolves the allocator-ownership blocker from the earlier review: no production backend receives receive-slot views any more, and production dispatch is identical to main. Counts: 0 Blocker, 0 Possibly blocking, 4 Required, 10 Nice to have. The inline comments cover 1 Required and 9 Nice-to-have items; the rest are below.
[Required] PR title (raised in the earlier review, still unchanged): [https://nvbugs/7030393][fix] Elide redundant async Ulysses copies no longer describes the code. With no production backend opted in, nothing is elided and the NVBug stays open, so a [fix] squash commit would record the bug as fixed by a change with no production effect. Please retitle to what lands, e.g. [https://nvbugs/7030393][chore] Gate async Ulysses receive views behind a backend opt-in, and keep the bug open; [perf] no longer fits either.
[Required] The description is written against the previous head and contradicts the diff against main: "The module is already selected by l0_cpu.yml ... no test-list change is needed" while this PR adds l0_cpu.yml:164; the CPU test and the two-rank lifetime test are called "existing", but both are new here, as are the ordering comments it says are "retained". It also says "Not ready to merge ... Both remain merge blockers" while the PR is open and not a draft. Please rewrite it against main under the template's ## Description / ## Test Coverage headings (capability default False, view branch reachable only by opted-in backends, 7 CPU cases plus the l0_cpu.yml entry, 4 two-rank variants through l0_dgx_b200.yml, production dispatch unchanged), and either move the listed merge blockers to the follow-up opt-in PR or mark this PR as draft until they are done.
[Required] CI: there is no run on a1a4cb2, and neither new test has run in CI yet. The only pipeline (PR_Github #82465 / L0_MergeRequest_PR #68074, on 4760c85) predates the l0_cpu.yml entry and the gate, and its Multi-GPU stages were Blocked for the missing ci: full pre-merge approved label, so test_batch_one_receive_view_lifetime (listed only in the 8-GPU B200 block, l0_dgx_b200.yml:246) never ran. Please /bot run on the current head with the label and confirm that the 7 CPU cases and the 4 B200 variants pass. For the record, #68074's test report shows 0 failed tests (its UNSTABLE status came from the Blocked Multi-GPU stages), so the description's "six failed tests" needs correcting.
[Nice to have] +1 to brnguyen2's thread on test_ulysses_async.py:526: the two-rank Q-first, unequal-Q/KV variant and the negative control are still missing. Note that stubbing _output_a2a out cannot serve as the control: the output becomes [1, 256, 4, 32] against a [1, 128, 8, 32] reference, so the test fails on the shape whether or not the race happens. A valid control keeps the exchange but defers it until after the next layer's _issue_async. If the view branch moves to the opt-in PR, these tests can move with it.
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[Nice to have] This branch has no production user yet: only the tests set accepts_unowned_inputs, async prepare is BF16-only (asyncUlyssesOp.cpp:419) and Ulysses is built only for group size > 1 (wrap_parallel_attention), so use_fused_post_unscatter stays True for every real backend, exactly as on main. That leaves a dispatch branch, a cross-rank ordering rule that lives only in comments, and four two-GPU CI variants that only a test backend exercises, while the NVBug latency is unchanged. Suggest landing the branch with its first validated opt-in (with the cudaMallocAsync/side-stream evidence, the native Q-first test and before/after numbers), or keeping this PR to the comment fixes and moving the capability, the branch and the lifetime test to that PR.
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Agreed that this is not a production performance mitigation with every backend still default-denied. The rewritten description now states the main-relative production dispatch is unchanged and withdraws any current-head recovery claim. I am retaining the safety gate and regression coverage rather than deleting or splitting them in this clarification follow-up. No production opt-in or new follow-up PR is included; the outstanding native evidence remains required, and I am asking that this PR remain unmerged and be marked draft while it is missing.
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[Nice to have] The opt-in is per class and inherited, but whether the inputs get copied depends on the instance. Dense TrtllmAttention copies them in _concat_qkv (torch.cat), while Sage-quant instances (quant_attention_config), SOLTrtllmAttention and VSATrtllmAttention take use_separate_qkv -> _compact_qkv, whose .contiguous() is a no-op on these views (trtllm.py:517-529, :442-444). So the natural first opt-in, TrtllmAttention.accepts_unowned_inputs = True, would also send the views into the SOL-on-TRTLLM path from the earlier allocator discussion, where record_block_sparse_run_args calls record_stream on q/k/v (prims_ts/_block_sparse/runtime.py:584-585) and raises under cudaMallocAsync. Suggest an instance-level predicate that the backend answers from its resolved config (or resetting the flag in __init_subclass__ unless the subclass sets it), plus a CPU case that a subclass or Sage instance of an opted-in backend still gets the fused copy.
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Agreed: a class flag is not evidence that every resolved configuration or subclass is compatible. No production class or instance is opted in here. The attribute contract now explicitly requires an opt-in to cover all configurations and subclasses that inherit it; setting TrtllmAttention to True without covering its quantized/separate-QKV paths would not meet that requirement. I am deferring an instance-specific capability design and its configuration tests to a real backend opt-in with native allocator/side-stream evidence, rather than adding an unverified opt-in or predicate in this documentation/test follow-up.
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[Nice to have] Nit: every production backend inherits this ClassVar from AttentionBackend; the getattr default only serves the duck-typed test doubles (_CaptureBackend in test_ulysses_attention.py:72 and DelayedNHDBackend here). Making those subclass AttentionBackend lets this read self.inner_backend.accepts_unowned_inputs directly, without the string lookup or the is True identity check.
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I kept the strict default-deny getattr(..., False) is True check rather than changing the capability lookup and other duck-typed fixtures in this clarification follow-up. The CPU gate fixture now constructs a real UlyssesAttention with a backend subclass and simulated process-group queries, so its inherited-default case exercises AttentionBackend directly. All seven cases still pass, and no production backend is opted in. Converting the remaining native/test doubles solely to shorten this lookup is deferred.
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Scope the receive-view contract to async Ulysses, document eager and compiled ordering once, and keep dispatch behavior unchanged. Preserve the seven CPU scenarios with named IDs, a real wrapper constructor, full issue-order checks and a single fused-launch check. Name existing native-test constants without changing its workload.
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The replacement description is now written against main under ## Description and ## Test Coverage: default-False capability, views reachable only by opted-in backends, no production opt-in or latency recovery, seven CPU cases and the added l0_cpu.yml entry, and four two-rank variants selected through the existing B200 module entry. It does not call the PR's new tests or ordering documentation pre-existing on main.
For a code-behavior-only title, I propose [https://nvbugs/7030393][fix] Gate async Ulysses receive views behind a backend opt-in. Here the type describes the ownership guard, not closure of the latency issue. The current copy-elision title is misleading; I have not changed the public title or draft state in this follow-up. Could a maintainer apply an appropriate code-behavior title and mark this PR as draft until the listed validation is complete? NVBug 7030393 remains open.
I checked pipeline #68074's aggregate JUnit report: zero recorded test-case failures, with the Multi-GPU stages blocked and the pipeline UNSTABLE. The earlier GitHub status summary's failure counter was not adequate evidence for the description's six-failed-test-cases claim; that claim is withdrawn. This does not make the older run successful full CI or validate the current head.
Current-head blossom-ci is still absent, and the full-pre-merge approval label is missing. I cannot trigger CI from this account and will not self-grant the approval label. An authorized maintainer needs to approve full pre-merge CI and start it on the published head, then verify the seven CPU cases and four B200 variants. No such pass result is claimed.
I agree that removing _output_a2a outright can fail only on layout/shape and is not an adequate overwrite-sensitivity control. A hardware control must preserve the output exchange/layout while deferring the ordering boundary past subsequent issues, and demonstrate a data failure rather than a shape failure. The native unequal-length Q-first case and this hardware control remain unimplemented/unverified here; no production backend is enabled while that evidence is missing.
The inline replies describe the scoped documentation and CPU-test improvements and identify the optional capability-API cleanups that are deferred. No native/GPU, allocator, side-stream or performance validation is claimed for this follow-up.
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[https://nvbugs/7030393][fix] Elide redundant async Ulysses copies
[https://nvbugs/7030393][fix] Gate async Ulysses receive views behind a backend opt-in
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The title now describes the code that lands: [https://nvbugs/7030393][fix] Gate async Ulysses receive views behind a backend opt-in. The [fix] type describes the ownership guard, not closure of the latency issue. No production backend opts in, no current-head production recovery is established, and NVBug 7030393 remains open. The outstanding native-validation and full-CI requirements remain unchecked; this title correction does not make the PR ready to merge.
Correcting my earlier title response: the PR is now titled [https://nvbugs/7030393][chore] Gate async Ulysses receive views behind a backend opt-in, as requested. The description also reflects the constructor-bypassing CPU fixture. No production backend opts in, no current-head latency recovery is established, and NVBug 7030393 remains open. Native validation and current-head full CI are still outstanding.
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Description
Safety-gate and regression-coverage follow-up for https://nvbugs/7030393. The NVBug remains open; this PR establishes no production latency recovery.
Relative to main, this PR adds a default-off
AttentionBackend.accepts_unowned_inputscapability and a batch-one NHD receive-view branch inUlyssesAttention.forward_async. No production backend opts in. Existing production backends therefore retain main's BF16 fused post-unscatter copy dispatch; only synthetic test backends explicitly opt in. HND and multi-batch receives retain copies even with an opt-in.The capability contract applies only to async-Ulysses receive slots, not every attention path or communication allocation. Related draft #20254 adds a separate synchronous peer-write path; this flag does not establish its ownership policy or impose a landing-order dependency on that draft. The attribute documentation requires an opt-in to cover all inheriting configurations/subclasses, forbids retaining or recording streams on these inputs or their views, and requires side-stream joins and native verification.
This PR also adds receive-slot ordering documentation and regression coverage. The ordering rule is stated at
_output_a2a: backend reads precede the same-group collective, and the collective plus its wait precede the next_issue_async, in eager and compiled execution. The call-site and native slot-ring comments point to that rule.Not ready to merge. Please keep this PR in draft while validation is outstanding. Native two-rank unequal-Q/KV Q-first slot-reuse coverage, a layout-preserving hardware ordering-negative control, allocator/side-stream verification and current-head full pre-merge CI remain outstanding. A production backend must not opt in without that evidence. No production opt-in or split-out follow-up PR is included here.
Earlier unguarded-prototype timing and quality runs are not verification of this default-denied candidate. The earlier Wan2.2-A14B golden mismatch is not resolved or rebaselined. No benchmark, golden, threshold, waiver or dependency is changed.
Test Coverage
This PR adds the CPU dispatch test and its
l0_cpu.ymlentry, plus the two-rank lifetime test. It does not merely document tests already on main.test_forward_async_receive_view_gateintests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_ulysses_async.pypreserves seven scenarios, now with descriptive IDs:nhd-b1-optin-view: batch-one NHD, equal lengths, opted-in receive views.nhd-b2-optin-copy: multi-batch NHD retains the fused copy.hnd-b1-optin-copy: HND retains the fused copy.nhd-b1-cross-optin-view: local Q length 3, K/V length 5, Q-first issue order and receive views.nhd-b1-default-copy: inherited defaultFalseretains owned copies.nhd-b1-denied-copy: explicitFalseretains owned copies.nhd-b1-cross-denied-copy: explicitFalsewith unequal lengths and Q-first order retains owned copies.The CPU fixture uses
object.__new__(UlyssesAttention)with explicit backend, process-group and world-size attributes, rather than a namespace, and does not run the constructor. It checks output, Q/K/V values and ownership, sequence metadata, the complete requested issue order and exactly one fused launch when required. The fused-op mock allocates clones to model the native operator's owned-output boundary; pointer checks are not native allocator validation.The PR adds module selection at
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. The existing module entry inl0_dgx_b200.ymlselectstest_batch_one_receive_view_lifetimethrough the 8-GPU B200 block; that test launches two ranks with four eager/CUDA-graph and gate on/off variants. Its eight-layer/four-replay workload, 2,000,000-cycle delay and assertions are unchanged; named constants replace duplicated literals. These four variants still cover equal Q/K/V lengths, not the requested native cross-attention variant.Local validation of this follow-up is AST-isolated execution of the actual interface, complete Ulysses class and actual CPU test body, using real CPU PyTorch with simulated native/collective/attention boundaries. All seven cases pass with both the parent constructor-based fixture and the candidate
object.__new__fixture; the seven parameter rows and every CPU assertion are unchanged. Capability/default, KV-length, issue-order, tail-order and duplicate-fused-launch fault controls retain the same expected failures with both fixtures. Production executable Python AST and native non-comment tokens are unchanged by this fixture follow-up; normalized GPU-worker logic is unchanged. Repository pre-commit, Ruff and whitespace checks pass.No full TensorRT-LLM-module, native/GPU, allocator, side-stream, hardware negative-control or performance run is claimed for this follow-up. The seven CPU cases and four B200 lifetime variants still need current-head full pre-merge CI. Older pipeline #68074 recorded zero JUnit test-case failures but was
UNSTABLEwith blocked Multi-GPU stages; it is not successful full CI or validation of this head. The prior description's six-failed-test-cases claim is withdrawn.PR Checklist