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[None][fix] Fix two synchronization gaps in the MiniMax M3 low-M split-K GEMM - #21848
mma_warp now waits for phase 0 of bar_tmem_alloc before its release arrival, then waits for phase 1 before deallocating TMEM. This orders deallocation after the epilogue’s TMEM load and arrival.
The split-K owner now uses a relaxed cluster-scope parity wait followed by an acquire fence before reading peer partials. The fence restricts the acquire to shared-cluster memory and avoids an unnecessary L1 invalidation for global data.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/kernels/gemm/m3_lowm_splitk.py: Verify that TMEM deallocation occurs only after the epilogue’s TMEM loads complete. Verify that the split-K owner observes peer mailbox writes before reading partials.
Description
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/kernels/gemm/m3_lowm_splitk.py is this target's copy of FlashInfer's dense_bf16_gemm_sm100_splitk.py. FlashInfer found and fixed two ordering defects in that kernel (flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6786, fixed in #7443); the copy here still has both. This PR ports the two fixes.
1. The MMA warp can deallocate TMEM before the epilogue has read the accumulator.
bar_tmem_alloc is initialized with 160 arrivals (32 MMA-warp lanes + 128 epilogue threads). The MMA warp arrives once after alloc_tmem, runs the K loop, arrives a second time and waits for parity 1, then runs dealloc_tmem. The epilogue warps arrive, wait for parity 0, load the accumulator with tcgen05.ld, run tcgen05.wait::ld and arrive again.
The second MMA-warp arrival is meant to land in phase 1, but nothing makes the MMA warp observe the completion of phase 0 first. If at most two epilogue warps have made their first arrival when the MMA warp arrives the second time, phase 0 is still open, that arrival counts toward phase 0, and the parity-1 wait names the immediately preceding phase, which mbarrier.try_wait.parity reports as complete at once (PTX ISA, mbarrier.test_wait / mbarrier.try_wait: the parity form tests the current or the immediately preceding phase). The MMA warp then frees the TMEM columns while the epilogue has not loaded them yet. Nothing hangs: the late first arrivals close phase 0 afterwards, the surplus spills into phase 1, and the epilogue's parity-0 wait passes. tcgen05.dealloc does not clear TMEM, so the result is wrong only if another allocation takes the columns before the load; relinquish_tmem_alloc_permit right after the alloc and PDL launch_dependents during the mainloop exist to let that happen early.
In this kernel the epilogue's first arrival is its first instruction and the host guarantees a non-empty K loop, so the window is the epilogue warps' lag against the TMA issue plus a few K tiles. Narrow, but legal. FlashInfer reproduced wrong output for the same sequence on GB300 with two epilogue warps delayed (20 of 20 launches, #6786), and the same stall reproduces it on this kernel on a B200 (hardware verification below). What masks it in the shipped launch is the full-capacity shared-memory request: nothing can co-reside on the SM, so the freed columns keep their contents until the CTA exits.
Fix (the #7443 shape): the MMA warp waits for parity 0 before its release arrival, so that arrival lands in phase 1 and the parity-1 wait really waits for the 128 post-load arrivals.
The added wait is already satisfied in the common case (phase 0 closes long before the K loop ends), so the cost is one satisfied try_wait.
2. The split-K mailbox is waited on with a CTA-scope acquire.
For split_k > 1 the peer ranks publish their FP32 partials into rank 0's SMEM with st.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytes (_store_shared_remote_v4), crediting bar_reduce. Rank 0 arms the barrier, runs cute.arch.mbarrier_wait(bar_reduce, 0) and sums the mailbox.
cute.arch.mbarrier_wait lowers to mbarrier.try_wait.parity with no qualifiers, which the ISA defines as .acquire at .cta scope. The peers' complete-tx is a release at .cluster scope performed by a thread of another CTA (ISA, st.async: the complete-tx operation has .release semantics at .cluster scope). Under the PTX memory consistency model (chapter 8, morally strong operations and release/acquire patterns) a release and an acquire synchronize only if each specifies a scope that includes the thread executing the other. A .cta-scope acquire does not include a thread of another CTA, so the mailbox reads after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example for a remote arrive pairs mbarrier.arrive.release.cluster with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster. (TMA loads into this CTA are different: there the async proxy acts for the issuing thread, which is in the waiting CTA, and .acquire.cta suffices.)
Fix: wait on bar_reduce with a relaxed cluster-scope mbarrier.try_wait.parity and follow the loop with a single fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster before the mailbox reads. Both are emitted through the CuTe DSL's primitives module (mbarrier_try_wait_parity(..., scope=CLUSTER, order=RELAXED) and fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE)), so no inline PTX is needed. This is the acquire pattern of the PTX memory model (a strong read that observes the completion, then an acquire fence) and matches the ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the generic proxy. It is preferred over a .acquire.cluster qualifier on the wait itself: a cluster-scope acquire must also make peer SMs' global writes visible, so ptxas emits an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) after every try_wait attempt, while the fence restricted to shared::cluster covers exactly the mailbox and compiles to no SASS instruction. No wrong result is expected on current parts (payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path, and FlashInfer saw no failure when making this change), but the ISA does not promise that, which is why #7443 made the same change. Cost: one relaxed cluster-scope wait plus a free fence per split-K reduction.
Nothing else changes. The other waits in this kernel are on barriers completed by this CTA's own threads or its TMA unit.
Hardware verification
A static review found both gaps; the kernel was then run on a B200 (compute capability 10.0, 148 SMs) through its own run_splitk_dense host path (PDL on) with the shipped (64, 8, 2, 10) tactic, cluster (1,2,1), M 4, N 6144, K 4096 (96 clusters, 192 CTAs per launch), plus split_k 4 (N 2304, K 12288) and N 49152 (768 clusters); bf16 output compared per launch with the fp32 torch product and bitwise with the unperturbed output; 20 launches per configuration. Method: a nanosleep stall of epilogue warps 6 and 7 before their first arrive on bar_tmem_alloc, globaltimer probes at the MMA warp's tcgen05.dealloc and the epilogue's tcgen05.ld, and a kernel on a second stream that allocates 256 TMEM columns, writes NaN into them and frees them (600 x 4096 CTAs per GEMM launch).
Unpatched, no stall: 0/3840 CTAs with the dealloc before the load (the load leads by about 130 ns); output correct.
Unpatched, stall of 5, 10 or 100 us, with the launch's shared-memory request trimmed to the kernel's footprint so that another kernel can co-reside: dealloc before the epilogue load in 3840/3840 CTAs and a wrong output in 20/20 launches (22 of 96 output tiles each, NaN; 74 of 96 with two GEMM CTAs per SM; split_k 4: 20/20 launches, 3 of 36 tiles). Stalling only the non-owner rank or only the owner rank corrupts the output the same way through the DSMEM reduction. 3 us: 270/3840 early deallocs and 0 wrong; 2 us and below: none. With the shipped full-capacity shared-memory request nothing can co-reside: the ordering is violated in 3840/3840 CTAs but the output stays correct, as it does without the second kernel. A positive control (release wait removed) behaves identically.
Patched (phase-0 wait): 0/3840 early deallocs and 0 wrong elements at 5, 10 and 100 us; with both changes the kernel is correct and bitwise identical to the unpatched kernel's unperturbed output in all nine configurations (split_k 2 and 4, 96 to 768 clusters, shipped and trimmed request, with and without stalls).
Mailbox wait (2): no run, patched or not, showed a mailbox-ordering failure (every unpatched launch without an early dealloc matched the reference, 20/20 in nine configurations). Nothing injectable reorders payload and complete-tx on current hardware, so this part is a conformance fix with no measurable cost. These runs used an earlier form of the same wait with the .acquire.cluster qualifier on the try_wait; the relaxed-wait-plus-fence form now in the PR was compile-checked for the shipped tactics (split_k 1 and 2, with and without the push epilogue, sm_100a and sm_107a) and differs from it only in the wait instruction and the added fence.
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Existing tests exercise this kernel and compare it against FlashInfer's output bit for bit: tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_107__tp{2,4,8}/spec/test_modeling_v2_m3_lowm_splitk.py and .../gemm/test_modeling_v2_m3_draft_lowm.py. No new test: the first defect needs an injected stall of two epilogue warps plus a concurrent TMEM allocation to become observable (confirmed on hardware above), and the second is a memory-model conformance fix with no observable failure to test for. The patched kernel compiles for the shipped tactics (split_k 1 and 2, with and without the push epilogue) and runs correctly for split_k 2 and 4.
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…t-K GEMM
The MMA warp of m3_lowm_splitk.py now observes phase 0 of bar_tmem_alloc
before its release arrival, so that arrival lands in phase 1 and the parity-1
wait before tcgen05.dealloc really waits for the epilogue's TMEM loads
(FlashInfer issue 6786, fixed there in PR 7443). The split-K mailbox wait on
bar_reduce acquires at cluster scope (an inline
mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster spin, ported from the same FlashInfer
kernel), since the peers' st.async complete-tx releases at cluster scope and the
default CTA-scope acquire does not synchronize with threads of another CTA.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
The GEMM kernel adds CuTe experimental synchronization primitives. The MMA path waits on phase 0 of bar_tmem_alloc before arriving and waiting on phase 1. The split-K owner uses a cluster-scope parity wait and acquire fence before reading mailbox partials.
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Add and apply cluster-scope barrier waits tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/kernels/gemm/m3_lowm_splitk.py
Imports cluster-scoped mbarrier wait and acquire-fence primitives. The MMA path waits on phase 0 of bar_tmem_alloc before its phase-1 arrival and wait. The split-K owner uses a cluster-scope relaxed parity-0 try-wait loop, then issues a cluster-restricted acquire fence before reading mailbox partials.
The TMEM fix lacks an automated stress regression, so a future timing regression could escape existing tests. The reported hardware check limits current risk.
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inferred — The changed synchronization state is allocated in CTA shared memory and grouped within the existing split-K cluster geometry. The PR adds no cross-launch synchronization object or persistent mailbox; its direct effects are on the existing GEMM output and optional exchange publication paths.
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inferred — The patch strengthens ordering between existing cooperating GPU participants rather than granting callers additional authority. Input arguments, dispatch conditions, destination addressing, and owner-only publication are unchanged in the base-to-head comparison.
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…r the split-K mailbox
The owner's wait on bar_reduce now spins on a relaxed cluster-scope
mbarrier.try_wait.parity and follows the loop with one
fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster before reading the
mailbox, both emitted through the CuTe DSL primitives module instead of
an inline PTX string. This is the acquire pattern of the PTX memory model
and the ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the
generic proxy. A .acquire.cluster qualifier on the wait itself makes
ptxas invalidate L1 after every try_wait attempt, because a cluster-scope
acquire must also cover peer SMs' global writes; the fence restricted to
shared::cluster covers exactly the mailbox and costs no SASS instruction.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
928-928: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Add a regression test for the TMEM release ordering.
The existing bitwise output tests do not force an epilogue delay before the TMEM load. They can pass if a future change again deallocates TMEM before that load finishes. Add a B200 stress case near test_modeling_v2_m3_lowm_splitk.py that delays epilogue warps, launches a competing TMEM allocation, and repeatedly checks output against FlashInfer. The test should fail without the phase-0 wait. As per path instructions, flag “A bug fix without a practical regression test that would have failed before the fix.”
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Update: commit 701c0d5 changes the cluster-scope acquire wait this PR introduced at the split-K mailbox into a relaxed cluster-scope wait followed by fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster, both through the DSL's native primitives (mbarrier_try_wait_parity(..., scope=CLUSTER, order=RELAXED) and fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE)), so the inline-PTX helper is gone. The TMEM phase-0 wait (fix 1) is unchanged. The ordering guarantee is the same: this is the PTX ISA's acquire pattern (memory consistency model, "Release and Acquire Patterns"), and the ISA's own example for acquiring shared memory written by a peer CTA through the generic proxy is exactly this pair. The difference is in what ptxas emits: an acquire-cluster try_wait is followed by an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) on every poll, while the relaxed wait plus the restricted fence emits none and the fence adds no instruction. A reviewer raised this on the same fix in another codebase, so all copies of the fix are being aligned. Checked by compiling the kernel for the shipped tactics (split_k 1 and 2, with and without the push epilogue, sm_100a and sm_107a) with the pinned DSL: the IR shows the relaxed cluster-scope try_wait and the acquire fence at the mailbox and nothing else changes, the PTX and SASS are as expected, and the output is unaffected. Since the head changed, CI needs to run again. Sorry for the churn.
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mma_warpnow waits for phase 0 ofbar_tmem_allocbefore its release arrival, then waits for phase 1 before deallocating TMEM. This orders deallocation after the epilogue’s TMEM load and arrival.QA Engineer Review
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/kernels/gemm/m3_lowm_splitk.py: Verify that TMEM deallocation occurs only after the epilogue’s TMEM loads complete. Verify that the split-K owner observes peer mailbox writes before reading partials.Description
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/kernels/gemm/m3_lowm_splitk.pyis this target's copy of FlashInfer'sdense_bf16_gemm_sm100_splitk.py. FlashInfer found and fixed two ordering defects in that kernel (flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6786, fixed in #7443); the copy here still has both. This PR ports the two fixes.1. The MMA warp can deallocate TMEM before the epilogue has read the accumulator.
bar_tmem_allocis initialized with 160 arrivals (32 MMA-warp lanes + 128 epilogue threads). The MMA warp arrives once afteralloc_tmem, runs the K loop, arrives a second time and waits for parity 1, then runsdealloc_tmem. The epilogue warps arrive, wait for parity 0, load the accumulator withtcgen05.ld, runtcgen05.wait::ldand arrive again.The second MMA-warp arrival is meant to land in phase 1, but nothing makes the MMA warp observe the completion of phase 0 first. If at most two epilogue warps have made their first arrival when the MMA warp arrives the second time, phase 0 is still open, that arrival counts toward phase 0, and the parity-1 wait names the immediately preceding phase, which
mbarrier.try_wait.parityreports as complete at once (PTX ISA,mbarrier.test_wait/mbarrier.try_wait: the parity form tests the current or the immediately preceding phase). The MMA warp then frees the TMEM columns while the epilogue has not loaded them yet. Nothing hangs: the late first arrivals close phase 0 afterwards, the surplus spills into phase 1, and the epilogue's parity-0 wait passes.tcgen05.deallocdoes not clear TMEM, so the result is wrong only if another allocation takes the columns before the load;relinquish_tmem_alloc_permitright after the alloc and PDLlaunch_dependentsduring the mainloop exist to let that happen early.In this kernel the epilogue's first arrival is its first instruction and the host guarantees a non-empty K loop, so the window is the epilogue warps' lag against the TMA issue plus a few K tiles. Narrow, but legal. FlashInfer reproduced wrong output for the same sequence on GB300 with two epilogue warps delayed (20 of 20 launches, #6786), and the same stall reproduces it on this kernel on a B200 (hardware verification below). What masks it in the shipped launch is the full-capacity shared-memory request: nothing can co-reside on the SM, so the freed columns keep their contents until the CTA exits.
Fix (the #7443 shape): the MMA warp waits for parity 0 before its release arrival, so that arrival lands in phase 1 and the parity-1 wait really waits for the 128 post-load arrivals.
The added wait is already satisfied in the common case (phase 0 closes long before the K loop ends), so the cost is one satisfied
try_wait.2. The split-K mailbox is waited on with a CTA-scope acquire.
For
split_k > 1the peer ranks publish their FP32 partials into rank 0's SMEM withst.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytes(_store_shared_remote_v4), creditingbar_reduce. Rank 0 arms the barrier, runscute.arch.mbarrier_wait(bar_reduce, 0)and sums the mailbox.cute.arch.mbarrier_waitlowers tombarrier.try_wait.paritywith no qualifiers, which the ISA defines as.acquireat.ctascope. The peers' complete-tx is a release at.clusterscope performed by a thread of another CTA (ISA,st.async: the complete-tx operation has.releasesemantics at.clusterscope). Under the PTX memory consistency model (chapter 8, morally strong operations and release/acquire patterns) a release and an acquire synchronize only if each specifies a scope that includes the thread executing the other. A.cta-scope acquire does not include a thread of another CTA, so the mailbox reads after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example for a remote arrive pairsmbarrier.arrive.release.clusterwithmbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster. (TMA loads into this CTA are different: there the async proxy acts for the issuing thread, which is in the waiting CTA, and.acquire.ctasuffices.)Fix: wait on
bar_reducewith a relaxed cluster-scopembarrier.try_wait.parityand follow the loop with a singlefence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.clusterbefore the mailbox reads. Both are emitted through the CuTe DSL's primitives module (mbarrier_try_wait_parity(..., scope=CLUSTER, order=RELAXED)andfence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE)), so no inline PTX is needed. This is the acquire pattern of the PTX memory model (a strong read that observes the completion, then an acquire fence) and matches the ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the generic proxy. It is preferred over a.acquire.clusterqualifier on the wait itself: a cluster-scope acquire must also make peer SMs' global writes visible, so ptxas emits an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) after everytry_waitattempt, while the fence restricted toshared::clustercovers exactly the mailbox and compiles to no SASS instruction. No wrong result is expected on current parts (payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path, and FlashInfer saw no failure when making this change), but the ISA does not promise that, which is why #7443 made the same change. Cost: one relaxed cluster-scope wait plus a free fence per split-K reduction.Nothing else changes. The other waits in this kernel are on barriers completed by this CTA's own threads or its TMA unit.
Hardware verification
A static review found both gaps; the kernel was then run on a B200 (compute capability 10.0, 148 SMs) through its own
run_splitk_densehost path (PDL on) with the shipped(64, 8, 2, 10)tactic, cluster (1,2,1), M 4, N 6144, K 4096 (96 clusters, 192 CTAs per launch), plus split_k 4 (N 2304, K 12288) and N 49152 (768 clusters); bf16 output compared per launch with the fp32 torch product and bitwise with the unperturbed output; 20 launches per configuration. Method: ananosleepstall of epilogue warps 6 and 7 before their first arrive onbar_tmem_alloc,globaltimerprobes at the MMA warp'stcgen05.deallocand the epilogue'stcgen05.ld, and a kernel on a second stream that allocates 256 TMEM columns, writes NaN into them and frees them (600 x 4096 CTAs per GEMM launch)..acquire.clusterqualifier on thetry_wait; the relaxed-wait-plus-fence form now in the PR was compile-checked for the shipped tactics (split_k 1 and 2, with and without the push epilogue, sm_100a and sm_107a) and differs from it only in the wait instruction and the added fence.Test Coverage
Existing tests exercise this kernel and compare it against FlashInfer's output bit for bit:
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_107__tp{2,4,8}/spec/test_modeling_v2_m3_lowm_splitk.pyand.../gemm/test_modeling_v2_m3_draft_lowm.py. No new test: the first defect needs an injected stall of two epilogue warps plus a concurrent TMEM allocation to become observable (confirmed on hardware above), and the second is a memory-model conformance fix with no observable failure to test for. The patched kernel compiles for the shipped tactics (split_k 1 and 2, with and without the push epilogue) and runs correctly for split_k 2 and 4.PR Checklist
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