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[None][refactor] Route per-step device copies through a model-declared copy plan - #20972
The PR replaces separate step-input packing and H2D skip-cache utilities with device_copy, a model-declared copy plan. The plan supports named copy sites, staged copy merging, flush barriers, eager-copy fallback, and optional check-mode validation. The MiniMax-M3 TP4 and TP8 plans declare merge sites and flush after the BLOCK_TABLE copy.
Copy suppression now depends on buffer owners recording unchanged values. Callers across decoder, attention, Mamba, and speculative paths use explicit copy sites. Review should verify that each copy site has a consistent owner and that each flush occurs before a consumer reads the destination. The MiniMax-M3 block-table barrier and skipped-copy checks are important safeguards.
The PR also moves MSA KV-update code into the shared sparse-attention backend and removes MSA-specific runtime hooks. This changes where MSA behavior is selected and removes prior hook and helper APIs. Callers outside the changed paths may need migration if they depend on the removed APIs.
No test-list files changed. The supplied summary reports test results, but this review did not independently verify completed checks on the current head.
QA Engineer Review
The change adds broad device_copy and buffer tests, updates decoder, MSA, Mamba, and speculative-copy tests, and removes the old step_inputs and H2D-cache test modules. MSA KV-update tests move from the model-specific suite to the shared sparse-MSA suite. The changed tests are unit tests; no matching integration-test list entries are expected. No files under tests/integration/test_lists/ changed.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The new suite covers copy routing, ordering, fallback, discard, check mode, and owner-side skipping. Removed test modules covered staging, cache behavior, graph capture, and thread isolation; verify that their essential cases remain covered by the replacement tests. Confirm behavior on supported devices and graph-capture paths through completed CI.
Per-File QA Perspective
Paths below use tensorrt_llm/ or tests/ as the prefix where shown. Test files are unit tests and are not listed in the integration CI or manual-QA lists.
Source, docs, and build files
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatter.cu → cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/deviceCopyScatter.cu; cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatter.h → cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/deviceCopyScatter.h; cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatterOp.cpp → cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/deviceCopyScatterOp.cpp; cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt: Renames the scatter kernel and Torch operator and adds the new operator source to the build. Verify operator registration, validation, and staging-buffer behavior.
docs/source/features/torch_compile_and_piecewise_cuda_graph.md: Documents DeviceCopyBuffer updates, snapshot behavior, tail preservation, and check mode. Verify that the documented capture and upload behavior matches the implementation.
tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py: Removes the previous DeviceCopyBuffer module. Verify that downstream imports use the replacement module.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/modeling.py and .../minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/modeling.py: Add model copy plans. Verify the declared sites and BLOCK_TABLE barrier against actual MSA readers.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/ops/attention/msa_kv_update.py, .../tp4/ops/msa_kv_update.py, .../tp8/ops/attention/msa_kv_update.py, and .../tp8/ops/msa_kv_update.py: Remove model-local MSA wrappers and references. Verify no callers still depend on the removed modules.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/ATTENTION_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md: Documents metadata upload and sequence-threshold hooks. Verify guidance for metadata classes that opt in.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/cache_manager.py: Moves the buffer import and removes configure_decode_shortcuts. Verify block-offset skipping remains restricted to safe destination owners.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/common.py: Defines named MSA copy sites and directions. Verify all MSA upload and fill paths use appropriate sites.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/kernels/msa_kv_update.py: Adds the shared kernel wrapper and reference implementation. Verify declined inputs follow the fallback path and valid outputs match the reference.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/msa_backend.py: Routes MSA uploads through device_copy, changes identity-selection behavior, and uses the shared update kernel. Verify decode and prefill selection, copy ordering, and the fallback when the kernel declines.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/trtllm.py: Routes metadata uploads through device_copy and tracks upload records by destination and site. Verify private CUDA-graph metadata and opt-in unchanged-upload behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py: Adds a fake implementation for device_copy_scatter. Verify fake registration supports compile and tracing paths.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/mamba/mamba2_metadata.py: Tags the state-indices buffer with a copy site. Verify the site matches the owner’s update path.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py: Routes input and position copies through named sites and flushes before replay reads. Verify replay ordering.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/inputs.py: Tags gather-ID and position-ID copies. Verify those copies flush before their consumers.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py: Removes runtime-hook propagation and MSA policy setup. Verify metadata setup still enables required MSA behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/runner.py: Activates a model’s copy plan and manages copier begin, flush, and discard around replay. Verify failure cleanup and graph replay boundaries.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/h2d_cache.py and tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/step_inputs.py: Remove the former skip-cache and deferred-pack APIs. Verify no dependent paths remain.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/legacy.py and .../mamba_cache_manager_v2.py: Move buffer imports and assign copy sites to Mamba buffers. Verify updates use the declared sites.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/runtime_hooks.py: Removes copy and MSA policy fields. Verify model definitions and runtime callers no longer require them.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py, .../eagle3.py, and .../spec_sampler_base.py: Move buffer imports and assign copy sites to speculative buffers. Verify each upload is routed through its owner.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py: Removes skip_greedy_rng_upload. Verify speculative callers do not rely on the removed flag.
Test files
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_minimax_m3_shared_draft_layers.py: Initializes pool views in a cache-manager test. Verify the test still exercises native HND storage writes.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_backend.py: Updates tests for direct MSA-kernel use, fallback, and static KV lengths. Verify both accepted and declined kernel paths.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_kv_update.py: Adds shared-kernel reference comparisons and invalid-input cases. Verify CUDA and kernel availability gates work as intended.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_runtime_policy.py: Replaces policy-based tests with direct upload-record, block-offset, and pool-view checks. Verify shared metadata records and unchanged-upload behavior.
tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_custom_ops.py: Removes the obsolete step-input import. Verify remaining fake-op registration coverage is sufficient.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/kimi_k3_vl/test_k3_decode_worker.py and .../test_modeling_v2_kimi_k3_decode_step.py: Update buffer imports and sites. Verify Mamba-mask and DFlash slot uploads.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/attention/_m3_attn_runtime_tp4.py and .../tp8/attention/_m3_attn_runtime_tp8.py: Remove test-fixture runtime-policy setup. Verify fixtures still select the intended MSA path.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/attention/test_modeling_v2_msa_kv_update.py: Removes model-specific kernel tests. Verify relevant cases are covered by the shared MSA kernel test.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/test_modeling_v2_m3_tp4_drift.py: Removes obsolete MSA paths from the TP4 identity check. Verify remaining path comparisons still cover intended shared files.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/mamba/test_mamba2_metadata.py: Adds check-mode coverage for an unchanged state-index copy. Verify the expected error identifies the copy site.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/test_decoder_forward_scopes.py: Replaces old cache and pack tests with copier activation and discard checks. Verify exceptions invalidate pending-copy records.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/test_decoder_runtime_hooks.py: Tests sequence-threshold selection instead of removed runtime policies. Verify absent and configured thresholds.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_mamba_cache_manager.py and .../test_mamba_model_managers.py: Assign sites to Mamba buffers and update check-mode controls. Verify manager-level skip behavior.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy.py: Adds coverage for plans, ordering, staging, fallback, discard, context isolation, barriers, and check mode. Verify CUDA-gated cases run on supported CI hardware.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy_buffer.py: Adds buffer update, snapshot, failure, view-keying, and tail-fill cases. Verify record invalidation on dropped copies.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_h2d_cache.py and .../test_step_inputs.py: Remove tests for the retired cache and staging modules. Verify essential behavior is covered in the replacement device-copy tests.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_runtime_hooks.py: Updates tests for the reduced hook fields. Verify removed fields are not referenced by runtime configuration.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_copy_skip.py, .../test_dflash_dummy_slot.py, .../test_dflash_worker.py, and .../test_dspark_model_engine_runtime.py: Assign explicit copy sites to speculative buffers. Verify skip and slot-table paths.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_eagle3.py: Adds explicit sites for Eagle3 buffers. Verify unchanged-upload behavior uses those sites.
tests/unittest/conftest.py: Enables device-copy check mode only when the module is loaded. Verify the fixture does not silently omit checks in relevant test runs.
Description
Problem
Between two decode CUDA graph replays, the next step's inputs and metadata reach their graph-stable device buffers as a chain of tiny copies: positions, KV lengths, page tables and the graph runner's static inputs. Each copy is a separate operation on the stream the next graph waits for, so the GPU idles for the whole chain.
#20306 removed that idle time for MiniMax-M3 with two mechanisms behind M3-specific RuntimeHooks flags:
a step-input pack (step_inputs.py): one upload plus one scatter right before the replay;
a skip-unchanged cache (h2d_cache.py).
The decision of which copy may be packed was spread over if branches and pack= arguments at each call site, so another model could not reuse the mechanism without adding more flags and branches to shared code. RuntimeHooks had also collected options that belong to a single component (MSA's decode shortcuts, attention-metadata upload skipping), plus one field nothing read.
Design
Two questions decide what happens to a per-step copy, and each has its own owner.
When the copy must land: the copy plan, declared by the model. It depends on the destination's readers, which the model chose.
Every such copy names its call site and goes through device_copy.copy(site, dst, src) (or fill_tail). site is a CopySiteEnum member that declares its direction (H2D, D2D, FILL); the copier checks the source device against it.
Shared sites live in CopySite: graph-runner inputs, decoder inputs, TRTLLM attention, and the DeviceCopyBuffer uploads of the speculative metadata, samplers and Mamba managers. MSA names its own sites with MsaCopySite.
A model sets copy_plan = CopyPlan(merge={...}, flush_after={...}).
merge: staged into the step's pack. A flush issues one upload of [descriptors | data] and one trtllm::device_copy_scatter launch. A merged copy lands before the next barrier; the graph replay is the step's final barrier.
flush_after (⊆ merge): barrier sites. When a call through one stages its copy, the pack is flushed right after that call, so the copy has landed before anything that runs next.
A call whose copy is skipped as unchanged, or runs eagerly, adds no barrier.
Only the anchor's own write is guaranteed; a reader that needs other merged data anchors on those sites too.
Several barriers in a step append segments in the same pinned slot and device staging buffer. The 4-slot ring advances once per step, so barriers never wait on the host.
Listing a site in merge asserts that no device work reads or writes the destination before its barrier. A site not in the plan, and every site of a model without a plan, is a plain dst.copy_(src, non_blocking=True).
Whether the copy is needed at all: the buffer owner. It depends on the values and on who else writes the buffer.
The owner passes unchanged=True when the destination already holds what the call would write; the copy is not issued. unchanged=True is refused during CUDA graph capture.
device_copy.DeviceCopyBuffer(tensor, *, site, pin_memory=..., snapshot=True) is the owner-side record. It moves here from tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py.
update(host, force=False) compares with what its last issued copy wrote (prefix matching, as before), then calls device_copy.copy(site, ..., unchanged=..., on_drop=self.invalidate). It records only an issued copy, and a merged copy whose pack is discarded drops the record.
update(host, view=v) writes a view of the storage and is keyed by its geometry.
fill_tail(site, start, value) records a tail fill as (view, start, value).
The host values are snapshotted only when the copy runs eagerly; a merged copy is snapshotted by the pack.
During CUDA graph capture, an update is always issued and not recorded.
site=None makes a record-only buffer, for owners with their own copy path (the MSA KV manager's block-offset gather).
Attention metadata: whether its uploads skip is the metadata class's own choice, TrtllmAttentionMetadata.skips_unchanged_uploads.
It is False on the base class and True for MiniMax-M3 MSA.
Such a class keeps one DeviceCopyBuffer per destination, shared by its CUDA-graph metadata copies, and the runner gives those copies private buffers.
The MSA metadata also arms its KV manager's block-offset skip.
Check mode.
device_copy.CHECK_MODE is the one switch. It is read once from TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1, or from TLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1, which used to verify DeviceCopyBuffer's skipped copies. The unit-test conftest turns it on.
It verifies:
that no merged destination is written before its flush;
that no merged D2D source changes before its flush;
that every unchanged copy or fill, including every upload a DeviceCopyBuffer skips, matches the device.
A reader before the replay asserts that its barrier fired:
expect_landed names the anchor site when merged bytes are still staged, and raises if called with check mode off.
RuntimeHooks now holds only engine step-loop behaviour a model opts into:
decode_prologue, executor_events, spec_step_fold;
loop_on_execution_stream and merge_tuned_tactics_across_ranks. These two stay model opt-ins: neither is provably semantics-preserving for every model.
MSA's decode shortcuts are now MSA's own behaviour in every configuration, including the legacy modeling_minimaxm3 path:
identity selections for short steps; the metadata class names the short/long decode graph split;
prefix sums staged from the host;
pool views built once;
the one-launch KV-length update. It moves from the MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2 targets into sparse/minimax_m3/kernels/msa_kv_update.py and falls back to the torch formulation when the op or its operands do not qualify.
_COPY_PLAN in both minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__{tp4,tp8}/modeling.py
MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2.
Both targets merge the graph inputs, decoder positions, attention KV lengths and the host-staged MSA tables.
MsaCopySite.BLOCK_TABLE is merged and is a flush_after barrier: on a sub-page pool, write_subpage_block_table reads it on the device before the replay, on exactly the steps where its copy was issued. The reader asserts it with expect_landed.
Steady decode issues one segment per step, and two on the ~1% of steps where the block table changes.
Removed.
step_inputs.py and h2d_cache.py.
tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py (its content moved into device_copy.py).
MsaRuntimePolicy, MsaKvUpdate and configure_decode_shortcuts.
skip_greedy_rng_upload was never read: all-greedy one-model batches already skip the Philox uploads for every model.
Adding a model
Declare a copy_plan from the readers of each destination:
merge what no device work touches before the replay;
add a flush_after barrier on each copy that has an eager reader.
Let each buffer owner decide whether its uploads may be skipped: a DeviceCopyBuffer with the copy's site, or skips_unchanged_uploads on an attention metadata class whose buffers only its own uploads write.
Put component behaviour in the component (attention metadata or backend, KV cache manager), and keep RuntimeHooks for step-loop choices.
Run once with TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1.
Behaviour changes outside MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2
Legacy modeling_minimaxm3 with implementation="msa" now gets MSA's decode shortcuts.
Perf, TP4 no spec:
c1 TPOT 6.10 against 6.57 ms (−7%), TTFT 105 against 124 ms;
c4 TPOT 7.65 ms; main measured 7.64–8.04 ms across instances.
Perf, Eagle3: TPOT −6%.
Graphs and memory: twice the decode CUDA graphs (short and long families), about +0.25 GiB non-torch memory per GPU and about −0.15 GiB of KV cache, with twice the graph capture time.
Accuracy: GSM8K 89.7 against 89.8 on main.
DeviceCopyBuffer users.
During CUDA graph capture an update is now always issued instead of being skipped when unchanged. No update ran under capture in the speculative, Mamba or Kimi unit-test suites.
TLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1 now also turns on the copy plan's merge checks, and a violation raises a RuntimeError naming the site instead of an AssertionError.
Test Coverage
All results are on GB300 (sm_103), container pytorch-26.09-...-202611020300-19783.
merging and ordering, with fallbacks for capacity and descriptors;
barriers: staged, skipped, eager and unstageable anchors; repeated anchors; multi-segment steps without a host stall; capacity across segments; H2D/D2D order across segments;
unchanged (returns False, refused during capture, verified in check mode);
MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2 TP4 1222 passed, TP8 1061 passed (the skips need two trays);
Qwen4 exp 762 passed; GLM-5.2 447 passed;
Mamba 2063 passed (after the one expectation fix); Kimi 535 passed; decoder engine 865 passed.
_torch/speculative: 1637 passed. The 52 failures are the same tests that fail on main (checkpoints absent here, and one step-fold test that fails on main).
End to end, MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 modeling_v2, TP4, TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1, chat GSM8K.
With the BLOCK_TABLE barrier removed, check mode stops at the reader and names MsaCopySite.BLOCK_TABLE.
Legacy MiniMax-M3 MSA + Eagle3, TP4, TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1: no violations. This run covers the Eagle3, gather-id and spec-sampler sites and the fused KV-length update.
Accuracy.
GSM8K at TP4: 89.462, identical to main (reference 88.704).
Legacy MiniMax-M3 MSA TP4: 89.727 (main 89.841).
Performance against main (#20306's step_inputs / h2d_cache).
Setup: TP4, no speculation, 16 × 512-token requests, same node, runs alternated.
c1:
TPOT 2.028 ± 0.011 against 2.033 ± 0.009 ms;
ITL median 2.008 ms in both.
c4: ITL median 2.949 against 2.945 ms.
Host time of the copy path: about 230 against 210 µs per step. The ~20 µs difference covers:
the per-copy direction check;
the H2D-after-D2D ordering check;
the owner-side record keys.
It is hidden at TP4, where decode is GPU-bound.
Unifying DeviceCopyBuffer changes neither step time (c1 2.031 against 2.026 ms) nor host time (229.5 against 227.0 µs).
Not covered end to end here:
DFlash/DSpark and Mamba-hybrid models: there are no usable checkpoints on this cluster.
The M3 modeling_v2 Eagle3 accuracy test: it fails on main too, in Eagle3OneModelWorker._forward_draft_loop.
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[None][refactor] Route per-step device copies through a model-declared copy plan
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Really like this design! Would you mind sharing a quick before/after step time vs #20306 (e.g. TP4 c1)? Just want to make sure the generic path doesn't add host overhead. Thanks!
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Thanks! Measured against #20306 (now on main) on MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 TP4, c1, no spec, same node/container, alternating runs (16 req x 512 tokens per round):
No measurable step-time impact: decode is GPU-bound here (graph ~1.994 ms vs ITL 1.996 ms). nsys also shows the same GPU work between replays on both (same 9 non-graph ops, ~24 us). With TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1, per-site defer/skip counts match main exactly, and GSM8K is identical (89.46 on both).
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Update after the latest push (merge/flush_after barriers, owner-side skips, DeviceCopyBuffer unification), re-measured against main (#20306) on MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 TP4, no spec, same node, alternating runs:
Still no step-time impact. GSM8K is unchanged (89.462), and TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1 reports no violations with the same per-site merged/skipped counts as main.
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Nice to have the spec sites named here! MiniMax-M3.1 uses the DSpark/DFlash drafter instead of Eagle3, so it would be great to add sites for dflash.py / dspark.py too, either here or as a follow-up. Happy to help map them.
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Thanks! I looked into this, and no merged sites are needed for DFlash/DSpark in this PR:
MiniMax-M3.1's DSpark drafter runs through the DFlash worker. Its per-step uploads (batch_indices, batch_to_slot) already go through DeviceCopyBuffer, which skips unchanged uploads. With this push, DeviceCopyBuffer is the copy plan's owner-side record, so those uploads now have sites (CopySite.DFLASH_BATCH_INDICES / DFLASH_BATCH_TO_SLOT, next to the Eagle3 ones here). No plan merges them yet.
The MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2 targets accept only Eagle3 today, so M3 + DSpark falls back to the legacy model, which has no copy plan. Merging those sites only makes sense once M3.1 + DSpark runs on modeling_v2; I'd do that as a follow-up, and would be glad to take you up on helping map them then.
The remaining plain copies in dspark.py belong to the embedded DSpark path (DeepSeek-V4), not M3.1.
…d copy plan
Turn the MiniMax-M3 step-input pack and skip-unchanged cache into a runtime
mechanism any model can opt into:
* pyexecutor/device_copy.py: CopySite names each copy call site (with its
direction), CopyPlan(defer=..., skip_unchanged=...) is declared by the
model as `copy_plan`, and DeviceCopier applies it per engine: deferred
copies are packed into one upload plus one trtllm::device_copy_scatter
launch before the graph replay, unchanged copies are skipped. The skip
shadows are DeviceCopyBuffer records keyed by device storage; a shadow
is dropped before its copy is issued and recorded only after it, so a
failed copy leaves no record. TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1 verifies the
plan's assertions at runtime.
* The scatter kernel and op move out of minimaxM3/ as deviceCopyScatter.
* Shared call sites (attention, CUDA graph runner, decoder inputs) only
name their site; MSA names its own with MsaCopySite. The speculative
gather / previous-batch tables and the Eagle3 metadata uploads keep
their model-independent unchanged-value skip and get no site.
* step_inputs.py, h2d_cache.py and their RuntimeHooks flags are removed;
the host-staged MSA tables become MsaRuntimePolicy.stage_tables_on_host.
* Both MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 sm_103 targets declare the plan that reproduces
the previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…uting
Measured against main's step_inputs/h2d_cache path on MiniMax-M3 TP4 decode,
the generic copier spent about 4 us more host time per copy. Most of it was
bookkeeping the default path does not need:
* Site membership is tested by identity: an Enum member hashes through a
Python-level __hash__.
* The pack computes byte ranges only against staged device copies and in
check mode, and keeps the written-ranges list only in check mode (its
only readers). Contiguous tensors take a direct byte-range path.
* The source direction is checked with Tensor.is_cuda instead of building
a torch.device, and the skip cache looks up the destination storage once
per copy.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
A copy plan's deferred copies could only land at the graph replay, so a
destination with a device reader before the replay (MiniMax-M3's block
table, read by write_subpage_block_table on a sub-page pool) had to stay a
plain copy.
* CopyPlan.defer becomes CopyPlan.merge: a merged copy lands before the
next barrier, and the graph replay flush stays the step's final barrier.
* CopyPlan.flush_after declares barrier sites. Every call through one
(copy, fill_tail, inputs_unchanged, record_inputs) flushes the open pack
right after it, also when the copy was skipped as unchanged. A plan with
barriers but nothing merged is rejected. Call sites still only name
themselves.
* The pack appends one segment ([header | descriptors | data], uploaded
and scattered on its own) per barrier into the step's pinned and device
staging buffers; the staging ring advances once per step, at begin, so
barriers never wait on the host. A copy that no longer fits is issued
eagerly after the staged segment, as before.
* Check mode is the module constant device_copy.CHECK_MODE, read once from
TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK. device_copy.expect_landed(site, t) asserts at a
reader, under `if device_copy.CHECK_MODE:`, that no merged copy into t is
still staged, naming the anchor site; it raises when check mode is off.
* Both MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 sm_103 targets merge MsaCopySite.BLOCK_TABLE with
a barrier after it, and the sub-page table writer asserts it landed.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…copies only
The copy plan now says only when merged copies land; whether a copy is
needed at all is decided by the code that owns the buffer.
* CopyPlan is (merge, flush_after) with flush_after a subset of merge. A
flush_after site flushes the pack only when its own copy was staged, so
its write lands before what runs next; a copy skipped as unchanged, run
eagerly or not stageable adds no barrier. Steady MiniMax-M3 decode is
back to one segment per step, two when the block table changes.
* The copier's skip cache, CopyPlan.skip_unchanged, skips(),
inputs_unchanged() and record_inputs() are gone. copy() and fill_tail()
take the owner's unchanged= assertion (refused during CUDA graph
capture, verified in check mode) and copy() takes on_drop=, called when
a merged copy is discarded with its pack so the owner's record is
dropped. device_copy.UploadRecords packages the owner-side pattern
around DeviceCopyBuffer.
* Owners skip as on main: RuntimeHooks.skip_unchanged_h2d turns it on for
the TRTLLM and MSA attention metadata uploads (prompt lengths, MSA
tables, the unused-slot fill), and MsaRuntimePolicy
skip_unchanged_block_offsets for the KV cache manager's block-offset
gather, which is main's code again; skips_unchanged_metadata_uploads
again gives the engine private CUDA graph metadata buffers.
MsaCopySite.BLOCK_OFFSETS is gone.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
RuntimeHooks held options that belong to a component and a field nothing
read. They move to where they belong.
* Skipping unchanged uploads is the attention metadata's own choice:
TrtllmAttentionMetadata.skips_unchanged_uploads (False), set by the
MiniMax-M3 MSA metadata, which also arms its KV cache manager's
block-offset skip. The runner gives CUDA graph metadata private buffers
when the metadata class skips. RuntimeHooks.skip_unchanged_h2d and
skips_unchanged_metadata_uploads are gone.
* MsaRuntimePolicy, RuntimeHooks.msa and MsaKvUpdate are gone; what they
selected is MSA's behaviour in every configuration: identity selections
for short steps (now also read by MSA's own run_indexer on decode-only
steps; the metadata class names the short/long decode graph split),
prefix sums staged from the host, pool views built once, and the
one-launch KV-length update, which moves from the MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2
targets into the MSA backend (kernels/msa_kv_update.py) with its tests.
* RuntimeHooks.skip_greedy_rng_upload and SpecMetadata's copy of it are
removed: nothing read them, and all-greedy one-model batches already
skip the Philox uploads for every model.
* loop_on_execution_stream and merge_tuned_tactics_across_ranks stay model
opt-ins.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
DeviceCopyBuffer and the copy plan's owner-side records were two
implementations of the same idea. DeviceCopyBuffer now lives in
pyexecutor/device_copy.py and is the one owner-side record:
* DeviceCopyBuffer(tensor, *, site, pin_memory=..., snapshot=True). update()
issues through device_copy.copy(site, ...) with unchanged= when the record
matches and on_drop=invalidate, and records only an issued copy (prefix
matching, key=/exact=, and forget-during-capture are kept). The host
values are snapshotted only when the copy runs eagerly; a merged copy is
snapshotted by the pack. update(host, view=v) writes a view of the storage,
keyed by its geometry. fill_tail(site, start, value) records a tail fill as
(view, start, value). site=None makes a record-only buffer (the MSA KV
cache manager's block-offset guard).
* device_copy.CHECK_MODE is the one check switch: TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1,
or TLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1, which used to verify DeviceCopyBuffer's skipped
copies. The unit-test conftest turns CHECK_MODE on instead of the old flag.
* UploadRecords is removed. A metadata class that skips unchanged uploads
keeps one DeviceCopyBuffer per destination storage, with the upload's
site, shared by its CUDA graph metadata copies.
* Every update() user names a site: Eagle3 batch indices and slot ids,
DFlash batch indices and batch-to-slot map, the speculative sampler's slot
table, the Mamba managers' state indices and dummy-request mask, the Mamba2
metadata's state indices, and the decoder's speculative gather ids. No
plan merges them, so they are still plain copies.
* tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py is removed; its users import from
tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.device_copy.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
The pull request introduces a centralized device-copy system with planned staging, barriers, copy-site tracking, and validation. It migrates decoder, attention, Mamba, speculative, and MiniMax M3 paths from legacy copy mechanisms and runtime policies. It also renames the scatter operator.
MSA copy and update paths tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/*
Adds named MSA copy sites, routes metadata transfers through device_copy, and adds a validated KV-update kernel wrapper with a reference implementation.
Model wiring tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/*
MiniMax M3 variants expose CopyPlan values and remove MSA runtime-policy and experimental KV-update wrappers.
sequenceDiagram
participant DecoderRunner
participant DeviceCopier
participant AttentionMetadata
participant DeviceCopyScatter
DecoderRunner->>DeviceCopier: activate and begin planned copies
AttentionMetadata->>DeviceCopier: submit site-tagged metadata uploads
DeviceCopier->>DeviceCopyScatter: flush staged descriptors and data
DeviceCopyScatter->>AttentionMetadata: update device buffers
DecoderRunner->>DeviceCopier: discard or flush pending copies
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NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21560: The pull request routes Mamba state-index data through DeviceCopyBuffer, which covers the issue’s staging and ordering path.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21385: The pull request adds a BLOCK_TABLE barrier before sub-page-table consumption, matching the issue’s page-table ordering objective.
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Add a unit test for the short decode-only identity branch in run_indexer.
The new branch returns the staged msa_short_table through view(num_kv_heads, num_tokens, topk). The slice length depends on num_tokens. If num_tokens does not match the token count used when the table was staged, the branch can return wrong block indices without raising an error. The unit tests in test_msa_backend.py do not reach this branch. The grep shows no test that sets _msa_short_ok = True or stages a non-None msa_short_table.
Add one case in tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_backend.py with span.row_first == 0, _msa_short_ok = True, and a staged msa_short_table. Assert the returned [num_tokens, num_kv_heads, topk] indices. Assert that select_blocks is not called. A shape check on the staged table before the view would also catch a mismatch cheaply.
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Also set the check environment variable, so that a lazy import of device_copy runs in check mode.
The fixture patches CHECK_MODE only when tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.device_copy is already in sys.modules. Assume that a test imports the module for the first time inside its body, for example through model or runner construction. The module then reads CHECK_MODE from the environment, which is normally False. Every DeviceCopier built in that test therefore runs without poisoning and without unchanged verification. The test passes, but check mode does not run.
The previous fixture patched the legacy module on every test. Set the environment variable as well, so that a later import also starts in check mode.
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--- "a/tests/unittest/conftest.py"+++ "b/tests/unittest/conftest.py"@@ -442,9 +442,12 @@
device. Applied when the test's modules imported device_copy at collection, so tests that never
touch it do not import the PyTorch backend.
"""
module = sys.modules.get("tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.device_copy")
if module is not None:
monkeypatch.setattr(module, "CHECK_MODE", True)
+ monkeypatch.setenv(module.CHECK_ENV, "1")+ else:+ monkeypatch.setenv("TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK", "1")
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
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8 points — Attention review requires tracing upload ownership, flush-before-reader ordering, skipped-copy validity and graph-buffer lifetime across MSA and shared metadata. This merits 8 points for contract reasoning; mechanical scatter renames and call-site migrations contribute little independently.
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Important — Copy-site declarations introduce ordering contracts for attention page tables, while metadata now owns unchanged-upload policy and the MSA cache manager enables pool-view reuse unconditionally. These changes affect device-buffer correctness and graph replay across shared execution paths.
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The PR replaces separate step-input packing and H2D skip-cache utilities with
device_copy, a model-declared copy plan. The plan supports named copy sites, staged copy merging, flush barriers, eager-copy fallback, and optional check-mode validation. The MiniMax-M3 TP4 and TP8 plans declare merge sites and flush after theBLOCK_TABLEcopy.Copy suppression now depends on buffer owners recording unchanged values. Callers across decoder, attention, Mamba, and speculative paths use explicit copy sites. Review should verify that each copy site has a consistent owner and that each flush occurs before a consumer reads the destination. The MiniMax-M3 block-table barrier and skipped-copy checks are important safeguards.
The PR also moves MSA KV-update code into the shared sparse-attention backend and removes MSA-specific runtime hooks. This changes where MSA behavior is selected and removes prior hook and helper APIs. Callers outside the changed paths may need migration if they depend on the removed APIs.
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The change adds broad
device_copyand buffer tests, updates decoder, MSA, Mamba, and speculative-copy tests, and removes the oldstep_inputsand H2D-cache test modules. MSA KV-update tests move from the model-specific suite to the shared sparse-MSA suite. The changed tests are unit tests; no matching integration-test list entries are expected. No files undertests/integration/test_lists/changed.Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The new suite covers copy routing, ordering, fallback, discard, check mode, and owner-side skipping. Removed test modules covered staging, cache behavior, graph capture, and thread isolation; verify that their essential cases remain covered by the replacement tests. Confirm behavior on supported devices and graph-capture paths through completed CI.
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tensorrt_llm/ortests/as the prefix where shown. Test files are unit tests and are not listed in the integration CI or manual-QA lists.Source, docs, and build files
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatter.cu→cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/deviceCopyScatter.cu;cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatter.h→cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/deviceCopyScatter.h;cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/minimaxM3/stepInputsScatterOp.cpp→cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/deviceCopyScatterOp.cpp;cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt: Renames the scatter kernel and Torch operator and adds the new operator source to the build. Verify operator registration, validation, and staging-buffer behavior.docs/source/features/torch_compile_and_piecewise_cuda_graph.md: DocumentsDeviceCopyBufferupdates, snapshot behavior, tail preservation, and check mode. Verify that the documented capture and upload behavior matches the implementation.tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py: Removes the previousDeviceCopyBuffermodule. Verify that downstream imports use the replacement module.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/modeling.pyand.../minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/modeling.py: Add model copy plans. Verify the declared sites andBLOCK_TABLEbarrier against actual MSA readers.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/ops/attention/msa_kv_update.py,.../tp4/ops/msa_kv_update.py,.../tp8/ops/attention/msa_kv_update.py, and.../tp8/ops/msa_kv_update.py: Remove model-local MSA wrappers and references. Verify no callers still depend on the removed modules.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/ATTENTION_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md: Documents metadata upload and sequence-threshold hooks. Verify guidance for metadata classes that opt in.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/cache_manager.py: Moves the buffer import and removesconfigure_decode_shortcuts. Verify block-offset skipping remains restricted to safe destination owners.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/common.py: Defines named MSA copy sites and directions. Verify all MSA upload and fill paths use appropriate sites.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/kernels/msa_kv_update.py: Adds the shared kernel wrapper and reference implementation. Verify declined inputs follow the fallback path and valid outputs match the reference.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/minimax_m3/msa_backend.py: Routes MSA uploads throughdevice_copy, changes identity-selection behavior, and uses the shared update kernel. Verify decode and prefill selection, copy ordering, and the fallback when the kernel declines.tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/trtllm.py: Routes metadata uploads throughdevice_copyand tracks upload records by destination and site. Verify private CUDA-graph metadata and opt-in unchanged-upload behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py: Adds a fake implementation fordevice_copy_scatter. Verify fake registration supports compile and tracing paths.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/mamba/mamba2_metadata.py: Tags the state-indices buffer with a copy site. Verify the site matches the owner’s update path.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py: Routes input and position copies through named sites and flushes before replay reads. Verify replay ordering.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/device_copy.py: Adds copy plans, site-specific routing, staging, barriers, fallback, check mode, andDeviceCopyBuffer. Verify merged-copy ordering, buffer lifetime, capture behavior, and skipped-copy checks.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/inputs.py: Tags gather-ID and position-ID copies. Verify those copies flush before their consumers.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py: Removes runtime-hook propagation and MSA policy setup. Verify metadata setup still enables required MSA behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/runner.py: Activates a model’s copy plan and manages copier begin, flush, and discard around replay. Verify failure cleanup and graph replay boundaries.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/h2d_cache.pyandtensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/step_inputs.py: Remove the former skip-cache and deferred-pack APIs. Verify no dependent paths remain.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/legacy.pyand.../mamba_cache_manager_v2.py: Move buffer imports and assign copy sites to Mamba buffers. Verify updates use the declared sites.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/runtime_hooks.py: Removes copy and MSA policy fields. Verify model definitions and runtime callers no longer require them.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py,.../eagle3.py, and.../spec_sampler_base.py: Move buffer imports and assign copy sites to speculative buffers. Verify each upload is routed through its owner.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py: Removesskip_greedy_rng_upload. Verify speculative callers do not rely on the removed flag.Test files
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_minimax_m3_shared_draft_layers.py: Initializes pool views in a cache-manager test. Verify the test still exercises native HND storage writes.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_backend.py: Updates tests for direct MSA-kernel use, fallback, and static KV lengths. Verify both accepted and declined kernel paths.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_kv_update.py: Adds shared-kernel reference comparisons and invalid-input cases. Verify CUDA and kernel availability gates work as intended.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/msa/test_msa_runtime_policy.py: Replaces policy-based tests with direct upload-record, block-offset, and pool-view checks. Verify shared metadata records and unchanged-upload behavior.tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_custom_ops.py: Removes the obsolete step-input import. Verify remaining fake-op registration coverage is sufficient.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/kimi_k3_vl/test_k3_decode_worker.pyand.../test_modeling_v2_kimi_k3_decode_step.py: Update buffer imports and sites. Verify Mamba-mask and DFlash slot uploads.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/attention/_m3_attn_runtime_tp4.pyand.../tp8/attention/_m3_attn_runtime_tp8.py: Remove test-fixture runtime-policy setup. Verify fixtures still select the intended MSA path.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/attention/test_modeling_v2_msa_kv_update.py: Removes model-specific kernel tests. Verify relevant cases are covered by the shared MSA kernel test.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/minimax_m3/minimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__tp8/test_modeling_v2_m3_tp4_drift.py: Removes obsolete MSA paths from the TP4 identity check. Verify remaining path comparisons still cover intended shared files.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/kimi_kda/test_kimi_k3_mamba_metadata.pyand.../test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py: Assign Mamba state-index copy sites. Verify buffer updates retain parity.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/mamba/test_mamba2_metadata.py: Adds check-mode coverage for an unchanged state-index copy. Verify the expected error identifies the copy site.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/test_decoder_forward_scopes.py: Replaces old cache and pack tests with copier activation and discard checks. Verify exceptions invalidate pending-copy records.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/test_decoder_runtime_hooks.py: Tests sequence-threshold selection instead of removed runtime policies. Verify absent and configured thresholds.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_mamba_cache_manager.pyand.../test_mamba_model_managers.py: Assign sites to Mamba buffers and update check-mode controls. Verify manager-level skip behavior.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy.py: Adds coverage for plans, ordering, staging, fallback, discard, context isolation, barriers, and check mode. Verify CUDA-gated cases run on supported CI hardware.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy_buffer.py: Adds buffer update, snapshot, failure, view-keying, and tail-fill cases. Verify record invalidation on dropped copies.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_h2d_cache.pyand.../test_step_inputs.py: Remove tests for the retired cache and staging modules. Verify essential behavior is covered in the replacement device-copy tests.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_runtime_hooks.py: Updates tests for the reduced hook fields. Verify removed fields are not referenced by runtime configuration.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_copy_skip.py,.../test_dflash_dummy_slot.py,.../test_dflash_worker.py, and.../test_dspark_model_engine_runtime.py: Assign explicit copy sites to speculative buffers. Verify skip and slot-table paths.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_eagle3.py: Adds explicit sites for Eagle3 buffers. Verify unchanged-upload behavior uses those sites.tests/unittest/conftest.py: Enables device-copy check mode only when the module is loaded. Verify the fixture does not silently omit checks in relevant test runs.Description
Problem
Between two decode CUDA graph replays, the next step's inputs and metadata reach their graph-stable device buffers as a chain of tiny copies: positions, KV lengths, page tables and the graph runner's static inputs. Each copy is a separate operation on the stream the next graph waits for, so the GPU idles for the whole chain.
#20306 removed that idle time for MiniMax-M3 with two mechanisms behind M3-specific
RuntimeHooksflags:step_inputs.py): one upload plus one scatter right before the replay;h2d_cache.py).The decision of which copy may be packed was spread over
ifbranches andpack=arguments at each call site, so another model could not reuse the mechanism without adding more flags and branches to shared code.RuntimeHookshad also collected options that belong to a single component (MSA's decode shortcuts, attention-metadata upload skipping), plus one field nothing read.Design
Two questions decide what happens to a per-step copy, and each has its own owner.
When the copy must land: the copy plan, declared by the model. It depends on the destination's readers, which the model chose.
device_copy.copy(site, dst, src)(orfill_tail).siteis aCopySiteEnummember that declares its direction (H2D,D2D,FILL); the copier checks the source device against it.CopySite: graph-runner inputs, decoder inputs, TRTLLM attention, and theDeviceCopyBufferuploads of the speculative metadata, samplers and Mamba managers. MSA names its own sites withMsaCopySite.copy_plan = CopyPlan(merge={...}, flush_after={...}).merge: staged into the step's pack. A flush issues one upload of[descriptors | data]and onetrtllm::device_copy_scatterlaunch. A merged copy lands before the next barrier; the graph replay is the step's final barrier.flush_after(⊆merge): barrier sites. When a call through one stages its copy, the pack is flushed right after that call, so the copy has landed before anything that runs next.mergeasserts that no device work reads or writes the destination before its barrier. A site not in the plan, and every site of a model without a plan, is a plaindst.copy_(src, non_blocking=True).Whether the copy is needed at all: the buffer owner. It depends on the values and on who else writes the buffer.
unchanged=Truewhen the destination already holds what the call would write; the copy is not issued.unchanged=Trueis refused during CUDA graph capture.device_copy.DeviceCopyBuffer(tensor, *, site, pin_memory=..., snapshot=True)is the owner-side record. It moves here fromtensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py.update(host, force=False)compares with what its last issued copy wrote (prefix matching, as before), then callsdevice_copy.copy(site, ..., unchanged=..., on_drop=self.invalidate). It records only an issued copy, and a merged copy whose pack is discarded drops the record.update(host, view=v)writes a view of the storage and is keyed by its geometry.fill_tail(site, start, value)records a tail fill as (view, start, value).site=Nonemakes a record-only buffer, for owners with their own copy path (the MSA KV manager's block-offset gather).TrtllmAttentionMetadata.skips_unchanged_uploads.Falseon the base class andTruefor MiniMax-M3 MSA.DeviceCopyBufferper destination, shared by its CUDA-graph metadata copies, and the runner gives those copies private buffers.Check mode.
device_copy.CHECK_MODEis the one switch. It is read once fromTLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1, or fromTLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1, which used to verifyDeviceCopyBuffer's skipped copies. The unit-test conftest turns it on.unchangedcopy or fill, including every upload aDeviceCopyBufferskips, matches the device.expect_landednames the anchor site when merged bytes are still staged, and raises if called with check mode off.RuntimeHooks now holds only engine step-loop behaviour a model opts into:
decode_prologue,executor_events,spec_step_fold;loop_on_execution_streamandmerge_tuned_tactics_across_ranks. These two stay model opt-ins: neither is provably semantics-preserving for every model.MSA's decode shortcuts are now MSA's own behaviour in every configuration, including the legacy
modeling_minimaxm3path:sparse/minimax_m3/kernels/msa_kv_update.pyand falls back to the torch formulation when the op or its operands do not qualify.unchanged/on_drop,DeviceCopyBuffer, check modetensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/device_copy.pycuda_graph_runner.py(graph inputs and the final flush),engine/runners/decoder/inputs.py,attention/backends/trtllm.pyDeviceCopyBufferusers with a site (none merged)speculative/eagle3.py,dflash.py,spec_sampler_base.py,kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/{legacy,mamba_cache_manager_v2}.py,modules/mamba/mamba2_metadata.py,engine/runners/decoder/inputs.pyMsaCopySiteinsparse/minimax_m3/common.py;msa_backend.py;cache_manager.py;kernels/msa_kv_update.pyDecoderRunner(copy_plan_of,begin,flush,private_metadata_buffers,_short_long_seq_len_threshold)minimaxM3/)cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/deviceCopyScatter.cu,thop/deviceCopyScatterOp.cpp_COPY_PLANin bothminimax_m3_nvfp4__sm_103__{tp4,tp8}/modeling.pyMiniMax-M3 modeling_v2.
MsaCopySite.BLOCK_TABLEis merged and is aflush_afterbarrier: on a sub-page pool,write_subpage_block_tablereads it on the device before the replay, on exactly the steps where its copy was issued. The reader asserts it withexpect_landed.Removed.
step_inputs.pyandh2d_cache.py.tensorrt_llm/_device_copy.py(its content moved intodevice_copy.py).RuntimeHooksfields:pack_step_inputs,skip_unchanged_h2d,skips_unchanged_metadata_uploads,skip_greedy_rng_upload,msa.MsaRuntimePolicy,MsaKvUpdateandconfigure_decode_shortcuts.skip_greedy_rng_uploadwas never read: all-greedy one-model batches already skip the Philox uploads for every model.Adding a model
copy_planfrom the readers of each destination:flush_afterbarrier on each copy that has an eager reader.DeviceCopyBufferwith the copy's site, orskips_unchanged_uploadson an attention metadata class whose buffers only its own uploads write.RuntimeHooksfor step-loop choices.TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1.Behaviour changes outside MiniMax-M3 modeling_v2
Legacy
modeling_minimaxm3withimplementation="msa"now gets MSA's decode shortcuts.DeviceCopyBufferusers.TLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1now also turns on the copy plan's merge checks, and a violation raises aRuntimeErrornaming the site instead of anAssertionError.Test Coverage
All results are on GB300 (sm_103), container
pytorch-26.09-...-202611020300-19783.Unit tests.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy.pycovers:flush_after ⊆ merge);unchanged(returnsFalse, refused during capture, verified in check mode);on_dropon discard;DeviceCopyBufferowners: views, overlap, snapshots, dtype, capture, tail records;CHECK_MODEandexpect_landed;tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_device_copy_buffer.py(ported) coversDeviceCopyBuffer's:force;TLLM_DEBUG_MODE.test_msa_runtime_policy.pycovers:DeviceCopyBuffers.test_msa_kv_update.pycovers the fused KV-length update against its reference, up to batch 300, and its decline cases._torch/speculative: 1637 passed. The 52 failures are the same tests that fail on main (checkpoints absent here, and one step-fold test that fails on main).End to end, MiniMax-M3 NVFP4 modeling_v2, TP4,
TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1, chat GSM8K.MsaCopySite.BLOCK_TABLE.Legacy MiniMax-M3 MSA + Eagle3, TP4,
TLLM_DEVICE_COPY_CHECK=1: no violations. This run covers the Eagle3, gather-id and spec-sampler sites and the fused KV-length update.Accuracy.
Performance against main (#20306's
step_inputs/h2d_cache).Setup: TP4, no speculation, 16 × 512-token requests, same node, runs alternated.
c1:
c4: ITL median 2.949 against 2.945 ms.
Host time of the copy path: about 230 against 210 µs per step. The ~20 µs difference covers:
It is hidden at TP4, where decode is GPU-bound.
Unifying
DeviceCopyBufferchanges neither step time (c1 2.031 against 2.026 ms) nor host time (229.5 against 227.0 µs).Not covered end to end here:
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