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[None][perf] autotuner: drive DeepGEMM JIT warmup on a thread pool and stop re-walking excluded-op sweeps - #21610
TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup adds optional threaded warmup. The default is disabled. TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP overrides the setting. A value of -1 derives the thread count from CPU affinity and local rank count, capped at 32.
For excluded-from-cache operations, the autotuner now reuses tuning-mode cache entries only when this process profiled them. It builds input tensors only for cache misses. Warmup worker failures are logged and left for the profiling loop.
fp8SwapABGemmRunner and Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner enable threaded warmup. Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner remains serial because its C++ DeepGEMM runtime cache is not thread-safe. The new concurrent path requires the opted-in runners to be thread-safe and not use NCCL windows. Completed check results for the current head: not available.
QA Engineer Review
Modified tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py. Added test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process, parameterized test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool, test_parallel_jit_warmup_worker_failure_is_left_to_profiling, and parameterized test_default_parallel_jit_warmup_threads.
These tests cover in-process cache reuse, warmup thread behavior, worker failures, environment overrides, and thread-count selection. The integration test-db list includes this file only for test_autotuner_distributed_strategy; it does not list the new tests. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up because the new threaded behavior has no listed integration test, and multi-rank cases were not run. Test execution status for the current head: not available.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py: Verify excluded-operation cache reuse and fallback profiling for entries not profiled in this process. Verify environment overrides, CPU-affinity sizing, warmup execution, and recovery after worker failures.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py: Two DeepGEMM runners opt in to affinity-based threaded warmup; the block-scaling runner remains serial. Verify thread safety and that the opted-in runners do not use NCCL windows.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/utils.py: The docstring now describes compilation during a rank’s forward pass. No runtime behavior changes.
tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py: Added unit tests for excluded-operation reuse, threaded warmup, worker failures, and thread-count sizing. The test-db list includes a different test from this file, not the new tests.
Description
On a cold start of Kimi-K3 (DEP8, GB300), most of the autotuner warmup goes to trtllm::fp8_swap_ab_gemm. The op is tuned only to drive DeepGEMM's JIT: 9 weight shapes x 520 warmup buckets = 4681 runs, which compile 167 distinct kernels one after another with nvcc (about 1.8 s each, about 330 s per rank). Because the op is exclude_from_cache, every tuning-mode call (each layer, and both mamba-hybrid warmup passes) also walked the whole sweep again. This PR addresses both.
1. autotuner: let excluded ops hit entries this process tuned exclude_from_cache ops were forced to miss the cache on every tuning-mode call. Each call then rebuilt all profiles and allocated random inputs for each one, although this process had already tuned them. Now an entry this process profiled is a hit. Entries this process did not profile (for example ones received from a peer) still force the sweep, so its JIT side effect still happens in this process. Input tensors are now built only for profiles that miss the cache.
2. autotuner: drive the DeepGEMM JIT of a tuning sweep on a thread pool
DeepGEMM's JIT (deep_jit) releases the GIL while nvcc runs, so compiles can overlap within one process. The comments that said it forks nvcc while holding the GIL are corrected. The new TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup runs each not-yet-tuned profile once on a thread pool before the profiling loop, and the loop then finds the kernels already built. Calls in flight are interleaved across the sweep, so they mostly select different kernels.
-1 uses the CPUs in this rank's affinity mask, up to 32. A rank pinned to a subset of the host's CPUs keeps that subset; an unpinned rank divides them by the ranks on its node (local_mpi_size(), or LOCAL_WORLD_SIZE without MPI).
TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP overrides the thread count; 0 disables it.
Two DeepGEMM runners opt in: fp8SwapABGemmRunner and Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner, which use the deep_gemm package. It only touches its kernel caches while holding the GIL. Other ops are unchanged.
Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner stays serial. On Hopper its kernels come from the C++ DeepGEMM JIT in cpp/include/tensorrt_llm/deep_gemm. That JIT's RuntimeCache is an unlocked unordered_map, and torch ops run without the GIL. With the thread pool enabled for this runner, an earlier revision of this PR hung FP8 block-scale models on DGX_H100 (TestQwen3_8B::test_fp8_block_scales, TestLagunaXS::test_fp8, test_disaggregated_simple_qwen3[Qwen3-8B-FP8]). On SM100 this op uses prebuilt cubins and compiles nothing, so the pool gave no gain there.
Kimi-K3 end to end (this PR alone)
Kimi-K3-NVFP4, DEP8 on 2 GB300 trays (max_num_tokens=8192). This is a cold start: every rank uses private, empty JIT caches, and no cache file is pre-existing or shared between ranks. The baseline is main (which includes #21419). Times are the max over ranks.
main
this PR
change
LLM() construction
1194.2 s
724.2 s
-470.0 s (-39%)
warmup pass 1: autotuner
429.0 s
109.6 s
-319.4 s
of which fp8_swap_ab_gemm tuning (per rank)
396.7 s
74.9 s
-321.8 s
warmup pass 1: mamba_hybrid
66.0 s
2.1 s
-63.9 s
warmup pass 2: mamba_hybrid
81.3 s
1.0 s
-80.3 s
Each of the 9 swap-AB sweeps now drives its JIT in 7.4-7.9 s on 32 threads.
Greedy outputs are identical to main, with 0 profiling failures.
Most of the remaining time is weight loading (513 s), which this PR does not touch.
The same setup with a shared TRTLLM_CACHE_DIR on Lustre, run twice. The first run populates the cache (cold start, cache shared by both nodes); the second reuses it (warm start: DeepGEMM kernels load from disk).
main
this PR
change
cold start, shared cache: LLM()
1264.9 s
753.3 s
-511.6 s (-40%)
warm start: LLM()
787.7 s
564.6 s
-223.1 s (-28%)
warm: warmup pass 1 autotuner
79.8 s
16.2 s
-63.6 s
warm: mamba_hybrid (pass 1 + pass 2)
149.9 s
7.8 s
-142.1 s
In the warm start, the gain comes from change 1: with every kernel already on disk, main still walked the swap-AB sweep on every tuning-mode call (82.9 s per rank), against 4.7 s with this PR. Greedy outputs are identical to main in every run, with 0 profiling failures.
Autotuner-level test of trtllm::fp8_swap_ab_gemm (fresh DeepGEMM cache, tuning at 8192 tokens)
tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py::test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool (new; pool on, off, and disabled through the environment variable)
The existing tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py suite
Ran on one GB300 as a single process without the MPI-pool conftest, so the multi-rank cases were not run. All other test_autotuner.py cases pass. The new cases fail on main and pass with this PR.
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The autotuner tracks locally profiled cache keys and can warm uncached profiles on worker threads before profiling. Two DeepGemm runners enable parallel warmup. Tests cover cache reuse, worker execution, and thread-count selection.
Excluded operations reuse a cached result only if this process profiled its key. Clearing the cache resets this local state. Input tensors are prepared only for cache misses.
TuningConfig adds parallel_jit_warmup, defaulting to 0. The autotuner runs warmup profiles on worker threads before profiling when configured; worker failures are logged for the profiling loop. Two DeepGemm runners set the value to -1. The block-scaling runner remains serial. The docstring describes compilation during a rank’s forward and its effect on the attention-DP group.
The change speeds up autotuner warmup. Two edge cases can misbehave. An environment override can turn on parallel warmup for a runner that is not thread-safe, and a future excluded op with a distributed strategy could hang tuning. Neither is triggered by default configurations, so merging is low risk once these are acknowledged.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 4ffd9
A global warmup setting can enable concurrent execution for operations that require serial execution, risking startup crashes or distributed hangs. This requires deployment configuration rather than a demonstrated remote trigger. Thread-safety guarantees for the default-enabled operations also remain incompletely verified.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: The process-wide thread override bypasses the per-runner serial-safety boundary. Setting TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP to at least two enables worker execution even when parallel_jit_warmup remains zero. During an uncached tuning sweep, this can concurrently invoke the Hopper runner's unsynchronized native JIT cache and collective-capable runners that normally receive preparation and resource scoping. Native-state corruption or collective hangs are inferred consequences, not reproduced failures. The exposure is newly introduced but requires control of process configuration; no unauthenticated trigger is established.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure concerns process integrity and availability during tuning. Collective-capable runners can extend failure containment to their participating rank group. Deployment rank counts, tenant sharing, and any broader host impact are not established.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
inferred — The relevant control transition is from process configuration to permission to execute runners concurrently, not an authentication or privilege transition. Tensor shapes drive tuning profiles, but the inspected flow does not establish that untrusted requests can set the environment override or initiate tuning.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Require explicit runner eligibility before applying the environment thread-count override. Preserve zero as a serial-only boundary, or introduce a separate capability check excluding collective and preparation-dependent runners. Keep the global zero override available to disable concurrency.
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Add a worker-failure case to test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool.
ThreadRecordingRunner never raises, so the current cases do not detect a worker exception escaping _parallel_jit_warmup or a failure to continue profiling every bucket on the caller thread.
Suggested failure-path test
+def test_parallel_jit_warmup_worker_failure_is_left_to_profiling(monkeypatch):+ monkeypatch.delenv("TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP", raising=False)+ caller = threading.get_ident()++ class WorkerFailingRunner(ThreadRecordingRunner):+ calls: list[tuple[int, int]] = []++ def forward(self, /, inputs, *, tactic=-1, **kwargs):+ if threading.get_ident() != caller:+ raise RuntimeError("fails on worker threads only")+ return super().forward(inputs, tactic=tactic, **kwargs)++ tuner = AutoTuner.get()+ tuner.clear_cache()+ WorkerFailingRunner.calls.clear()+ buckets = (4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128)+ config = TuningConfig(dynamic_tensor_specs=(DynamicTensorSpec(+ 0, 0, buckets), ),+ parallel_jit_warmup=4)+ x = torch.randn(128, 64, device="cuda")+ w = torch.randn(64, 128, device="cuda")+ with autotune():+ tuner.choose_one("autotuner_test::parallel_jit_warmup_worker_failure",+ [WorkerFailingRunner()], config, [x, w])+ assert {m for m, t in WorkerFailingRunner.calls if t == caller} == set(buckets)+ assert all(t == caller for _, t in WorkerFailingRunner.calls)+ tuner.clear_cache()
The modified test file already has CI coverage through the existing unittest/_torch/misc selectors. The parallel_jit_warmup=-1 branch is a separate coverage case and does not need to be combined with this failure-path test.
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The cache-hit change and the thread pool look right to me: the three DeepGEMM runners keep no mutable state in forward, input preparation shares no state, and the warmup runs outside the KV-cache estimate's peak-memory window. One question inline on the default thread count.
Remove the AutoTuner change that swept a cache-excluded op once per sweep
key, with its load_cache/clear_cache parts and its tests: NVIDIA#21610 stops
those ops from re-walking their sweep. The low-M GEMM PARALLEL race and
the msa single-target JIT build stay.
Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>
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Minor · Process-local reuse can desynchronize ranks for non-INDEPENDENT… · autotuner.py:1206-1218
tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py:1206-1218 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Process-local reuse can desynchronize ranks for non-INDEPENDENT strategies on excluded ops.
Before this change, an excluded op in tuning mode always missed the cache, so every rank reached _maybe_sync_cache_data together. Now a rank returns early at the self.is_tuning_mode and is_cache_hit branch if this process profiled the key. A rank that received the entry through _broadcast_cache_data or _merge_cache_data does not have the key in _keys_profiled_in_process. That rank misses and enters the collective path.
Example with BROADCAST and exclude_from_cache=True:
On the second choose_one call, the root rank hits and returns before _maybe_sync_cache_data.
Non-root ranks miss and call tp_cp_broadcast.
The non-root ranks can wait for a root that never joins the collective.
No current op combines exclude_from_cache with a non-INDEPENDENT strategy, so this is latent. TuningConfig accepts the combination, so a future op can trigger it. Apply process-local reuse only when the strategy is INDEPENDENT. Otherwise, keep the forced re-tune, which every rank applies the same way.
Proposed fix
- if (tuning_config.exclude_from_cache and self.is_tuning_mode- and is_cache_hit and self.profiling_cache.get_cache_key(- custom_op,- runners[best_runner_id],- input_shapes,- tuning_config,- apply_map_to_tuning_buckets=True)- not in self._keys_profiled_in_process):+ if (tuning_config.exclude_from_cache and self.is_tuning_mode+ and is_cache_hit+ and (tuning_config.distributed_tuning_strategy+ != DistributedTuningStrategy.INDEPENDENT+ or self.profiling_cache.get_cache_key(+ custom_op,+ runners[best_runner_id],+ input_shapes,+ tuning_config,+ apply_map_to_tuning_buckets=True)+ not in self._keys_profiled_in_process)):
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py around lines 1206 - 1218:
Restrict process-local cache reuse in the excluded-op tuning check to the
INDEPENDENT strategy. For non-INDEPENDENT strategies, preserve the forced
re-tune on cache hits so all ranks follow the collective path consistently; make
this change in the cache-hit condition near _keys_profiled_in_process without
altering other strategies’ behavior.
2238-2238: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Add coverage for the production runners.
The new test exercises ThreadRecordingRunner, not fp8SwapABGemmRunner, Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner, or Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner. It can pass while a production runner fails during worker-thread input preparation or architecture-specific dispatch.
Add a GPU regression case in tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py or the DeepGEMM test suite. Exercise each enabled runner with parallel warmup. Assert that tuning completes and the output remains correct. Use precise architecture gating. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Add a GPU regression test in the autotuner or DeepGEMM test suite that exercises
each architecture-supported production runner—fp8SwapABGemmRunner,
Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner, and Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner—with parallel
warmup. Gate each case on the architecture and runner availability it requires,
and verify tuning completes and outputs remain correct.
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2093-2254: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Coverage summary: Autotuner cache reuse and parallel JIT warmup
The PR adds four test functions to tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py. They cover process-local cache reuse, thread-pool execution, worker failures, environment overrides, CPU affinity, local-rank sharing, and the 32-thread cap.
The new tests already run through the unittest/_torch/misc selectors in l0_b200.yml and l0_h100.yml. The l0_dgx_b200.yml entry does not need to list every test in this file.
Coverage needs follow-up for:
The combination of exclude_from_cache with a non-INDEPENDENT distributed tuning strategy.
The behavior for malformed TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP values.
Parallel warmup and cache reuse when multiple ranks participate.
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Extend the autotuner tests around
`test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process` and
`test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool` to cover
`exclude_from_cache` with a non-`INDEPENDENT` distributed strategy and parallel
warmup/cache reuse across participating ranks. Add cases for malformed
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the existing configuration contract rather than assuming a fallback.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py:
- Line 2462: Resolve the parallel_jit_warmup value at the
Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner call site or autotuner based on architecture: use 0 on
SM100 and retain _DEEP_GEMM_JIT_WARMUP_THREADS on Hopper. Do not make this a
fixed class-wide value, so Hopper keeps its JIT warmup benefit.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py:
- Around line 2122-2125: Update the comment above the loop in the autotuner test
to say it exercises swept shapes only; the loop over M and M // 2 does not
include an unswept shape. Leave the loop and subsequent assertions unchanged.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py:
- Around line 1206-1218: Restrict process-local cache reuse in the excluded-op
tuning check to the INDEPENDENT strategy. For non-INDEPENDENT strategies,
preserve the forced re-tune on cache hits so all ranks follow the collective
path consistently; make this change in the cache-hit condition near
_keys_profiled_in_process without altering other strategies’ behavior.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py:
- Line 2238: Add a GPU regression test in the autotuner or DeepGEMM test suite
that exercises each architecture-supported production
runner—fp8SwapABGemmRunner, Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner, and
Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner—with parallel warmup. Gate each case on the
architecture and runner availability it requires, and verify tuning completes
and outputs remain correct.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py:
- Around line 2093-2254: Extend the autotuner tests around
`test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process` and
`test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool` to cover
`exclude_from_cache` with a non-`INDEPENDENT` distributed strategy and parallel
warmup/cache reuse across participating ranks. Add cases for malformed
`TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP` values, asserting the behavior defined by
the existing configuration contract rather than assuming a fallback.
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2239-2239: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift
Add a regression test for the production DeepGEMM runners.
The current test uses a generic ThreadRecordingRunner and a hand-built TuningConfig. It does not exercise fp8SwapABGemmRunner or Fp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner. A runner-specific worker-thread failure or an omitted configuration assignment could therefore pass CI while disabling the intended warmup speedup or forcing serial recovery. Add architecture-gated GPU coverage in tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py or the DeepGEMM suite. Run each enabled runner with parallel warmup and verify tuning completes with correct output. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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2277-2277: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Cover excluded-op reuse across ranks.
Add a two-rank BROADCAST case with exclude_from_cache=True. Call choose_one twice and assert that both ranks finish within a bounded timeout. The current tests can miss a divergence where the root returns from its cache hit while the peer waits for a broadcast.
Coverage summary:test_autotuner.py adds four tests for excluded-op reuse, pool warmup, worker failures, and thread-count selection. Single-GPU CI selects the file; the existing two-rank CI test does not cover excluded ops. Verdict: insufficient.
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Review comment at @tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py at line 2277:
Extend test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process with a
two-rank BROADCAST case using exclude_from_cache=True; call choose_one twice and
assert both ranks complete within a bounded timeout, covering the cache-hit path
without leaving the peer blocked in broadcast.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py:
- Around line 1637-1639: In the autotuner warmup flow, return before reading
TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP when tuning_config.parallel_jit_warmup is 0,
so the environment variable can adjust or disable warmup only for opted-in ops.
Add the (0, "4", False) case to
test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool.
- Around line 1219-1231: Update the cache-hit guard around `is_cache_hit` so
excluded-op cache reuse is allowed only for locally profiled hits under the
INDEPENDENT strategy; preserve the miss-and-fallback behavior for all
non-INDEPENDENT strategies to keep ranks aligned in distributed collectives.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py:
- Around line 2402-2405: Update WorkerFailingRunner.forward to record each
non-caller-thread attempt before raising, using a separate collection from
calls. Assert that the recorded worker attempts are non-empty and cover all
buckets, while preserving the existing caller-thread and profiling assertions.
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Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py:
- Line 2277: Extend test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process
with a two-rank BROADCAST case using exclude_from_cache=True; call choose_one
twice and assert both ranks complete within a bounded timeout, covering the
cache-hit path without leaving the peer blocked in broadcast.
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exclude_from_cache ops (the DeepGEMM JIT-warmup runners) were forced to
miss the cache on every tuning-mode call, so every layer re-ran the whole
M sweep's bookkeeping (deep-copying all profiles and allocating random
inputs for each) although this process had already tuned them. Only an
entry this process profiled proves the JIT side effect ran here; entries
loaded from disk or received from peers still force a re-tune. Input
tensors are now built only for profiles that miss the cache.
Kimi-K3 DEP8 cold start: about 230 s less autotuner/mamba warmup.
Test: test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process.
Signed-off-by: Yukun He <23156053+hyukn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… thread pool
DeepGEMM's JIT (deep_jit) releases the GIL while nvcc runs, so the kernel
compiles that a tuning sweep triggers can overlap within one process.
TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup runs each not-yet-tuned profile once on a
thread pool before the profiling loop, which then finds the kernels built.
Calls in flight are interleaved across the sweep so that they mostly select
different kernels. -1 uses this rank's share of the host's cores (up to
32); TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUP overrides the thread count and 0
disables it. The three DeepGEMM JIT-warmup runners opt in with -1. Also
correct comments that said DeepGEMM forks nvcc while holding the GIL.
Kimi-K3 DEP8 on GB300, every rank with private empty JIT caches:
DeepGEMM swap-AB JIT ~330 s -> ~69 s per rank, LLM() 494.7 -> 220.7 s.
Test: test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool.
Signed-off-by: Yukun He <23156053+hyukn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…k's CPU affinity
Address review: parallel_jit_warmup=-1 divided os.cpu_count() by the GPUs
this process sees, which overcommits when each rank sees one GPU and
ignores cpuset limits. It now counts the CPUs in this process's affinity
mask (which the compilers it starts inherit). Unless the rank is pinned
to a subset of the host's CPUs, it divides them by the ranks on the node
(local_mpi_size(), or LOCAL_WORLD_SIZE without MPI), up to 32.
Also add a test that a profile failing on the warmup pool is left to the
profiling loop, and a test of the default thread count.
Signed-off-by: Yukun He <23156053+hyukn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rial
Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunner opted in to parallel_jit_warmup, but on Hopper
its kernels come from the C++ DeepGEMM JIT (cpp/include/tensorrt_llm/
deep_gemm), and torch ops run without the GIL. Its RuntimeCache is a
plain unordered_map that Compiler::build reads and writes with no lock,
so the warmup threads raced on it. On DGX_H100 this hung FP8 block-scale
models during warmup (TestQwen3_8B::test_fp8_block_scales, TestLagunaXS::
test_fp8, test_disaggregated_simple_qwen3[Qwen3-8B-FP8]). On SM100 the op
uses prebuilt cubins and compiles nothing, so the pool bought nothing
there. Only the two runners built on the deep_gemm package, which touches
its caches with the GIL held, keep the thread pool.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yukun He <23156053+hyukn@users.noreply.github.com>
NVIDIA#21610 landed on main with a per-rank thread pool for the JIT warmup of
the DeepGEMM swap-AB sweeps (TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmup) and the
commit this branch had cherry-picked from it. The swap-AB runners now opt
into both: with TLLM_JIT_SHARE_DIR set, the ranks split those builds
through their claims and the pool does not run; without it, the pool runs
as on main.
Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>
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TuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmupadds optional threaded warmup. The default is disabled.TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUPoverrides the setting. A value of-1derives the thread count from CPU affinity and local rank count, capped at 32.For excluded-from-cache operations, the autotuner now reuses tuning-mode cache entries only when this process profiled them. It builds input tensors only for cache misses. Warmup worker failures are logged and left for the profiling loop.
fp8SwapABGemmRunnerandFp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunnerenable threaded warmup.Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunnerremains serial because its C++ DeepGEMM runtime cache is not thread-safe. The new concurrent path requires the opted-in runners to be thread-safe and not use NCCL windows. Completed check results for the current head: not available.QA Engineer Review
Modified
tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py. Addedtest_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process, parameterizedtest_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool,test_parallel_jit_warmup_worker_failure_is_left_to_profiling, and parameterizedtest_default_parallel_jit_warmup_threads.These tests cover in-process cache reuse, warmup thread behavior, worker failures, environment overrides, and thread-count selection. The integration test-db list includes this file only for
test_autotuner_distributed_strategy; it does not list the new tests. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up because the new threaded behavior has no listed integration test, and multi-rank cases were not run. Test execution status for the current head: not available.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py: Verify excluded-operation cache reuse and fallback profiling for entries not profiled in this process. Verify environment overrides, CPU-affinity sizing, warmup execution, and recovery after worker failures.tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py: Two DeepGEMM runners opt in to affinity-based threaded warmup; the block-scaling runner remains serial. Verify thread safety and that the opted-in runners do not use NCCL windows.tensorrt_llm/_torch/utils.py: The docstring now describes compilation during a rank’s forward pass. No runtime behavior changes.tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py: Added unit tests for excluded-operation reuse, threaded warmup, worker failures, and thread-count sizing. The test-db list includes a different test from this file, not the new tests.Description
On a cold start of Kimi-K3 (DEP8, GB300), most of the autotuner warmup goes to
trtllm::fp8_swap_ab_gemm. The op is tuned only to drive DeepGEMM's JIT: 9 weight shapes x 520 warmup buckets = 4681 runs, which compile 167 distinct kernels one after another with nvcc (about 1.8 s each, about 330 s per rank). Because the op isexclude_from_cache, every tuning-mode call (each layer, and both mamba-hybrid warmup passes) also walked the whole sweep again. This PR addresses both.1.
autotuner: let excluded ops hit entries this process tunedexclude_from_cacheops were forced to miss the cache on every tuning-mode call. Each call then rebuilt all profiles and allocated random inputs for each one, although this process had already tuned them. Now an entry this process profiled is a hit. Entries this process did not profile (for example ones received from a peer) still force the sweep, so its JIT side effect still happens in this process. Input tensors are now built only for profiles that miss the cache.2.
autotuner: drive the DeepGEMM JIT of a tuning sweep on a thread poolDeepGEMM's JIT (
deep_jit) releases the GIL while nvcc runs, so compiles can overlap within one process. The comments that said it forks nvcc while holding the GIL are corrected. The newTuningConfig.parallel_jit_warmupruns each not-yet-tuned profile once on a thread pool before the profiling loop, and the loop then finds the kernels already built. Calls in flight are interleaved across the sweep, so they mostly select different kernels.-1uses the CPUs in this rank's affinity mask, up to 32. A rank pinned to a subset of the host's CPUs keeps that subset; an unpinned rank divides them by the ranks on its node (local_mpi_size(), orLOCAL_WORLD_SIZEwithout MPI).TLLM_AUTOTUNER_PARALLEL_JIT_WARMUPoverrides the thread count;0disables it.fp8SwapABGemmRunnerandFp8PrequantizedSwapABGemmRunner, which use thedeep_gemmpackage. It only touches its kernel caches while holding the GIL. Other ops are unchanged.Fp8BlockScalingGemmRunnerstays serial. On Hopper its kernels come from the C++ DeepGEMM JIT incpp/include/tensorrt_llm/deep_gemm. That JIT'sRuntimeCacheis an unlockedunordered_map, and torch ops run without the GIL. With the thread pool enabled for this runner, an earlier revision of this PR hung FP8 block-scale models on DGX_H100 (TestQwen3_8B::test_fp8_block_scales,TestLagunaXS::test_fp8,test_disaggregated_simple_qwen3[Qwen3-8B-FP8]). On SM100 this op uses prebuilt cubins and compiles nothing, so the pool gave no gain there.Kimi-K3 end to end (this PR alone)
Kimi-K3-NVFP4, DEP8 on 2 GB300 trays (
max_num_tokens=8192). This is a cold start: every rank uses private, empty JIT caches, and no cache file is pre-existing or shared between ranks. The baseline is main (which includes #21419). Times are the max over ranks.LLM()constructionfp8_swap_ab_gemmtuning (per rank)The same setup with a shared
TRTLLM_CACHE_DIRon Lustre, run twice. The first run populates the cache (cold start, cache shared by both nodes); the second reuses it (warm start: DeepGEMM kernels load from disk).LLM()LLM()In the warm start, the gain comes from change 1: with every kernel already on disk, main still walked the swap-AB sweep on every tuning-mode call (82.9 s per rank), against 4.7 s with this PR. Greedy outputs are identical to main in every run, with 0 profiling failures.
Autotuner-level test of
trtllm::fp8_swap_ab_gemm(fresh DeepGEMM cache, tuning at 8192 tokens)Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py::test_excluded_op_reuses_the_sweep_profiled_in_this_process(new)tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py::test_parallel_jit_warmup_runs_pending_profiles_on_a_thread_pool(new; pool on, off, and disabled through the environment variable)tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py::test_parallel_jit_warmup_worker_failure_is_left_to_profiling(new)tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py::test_default_parallel_jit_warmup_threads(new)tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.pysuiteRan on one GB300 as a single process without the MPI-pool conftest, so the multi-rank cases were not run. All other
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