perf(glm): batch K-pool gathers and reuse decode pages by shihaobai · Pull Request #1667 · ModelTC/LightLLM

shihaobai · 2026-10-30T10:30:25Z

Prefill currently launches one CTA per 128-byte K-pool key, and decode recopies the same packed keys for adjacent MTP verification queries. Batch the prefill gather and let eligible decode rows share page storage.

Changes

Gather 32 independent prefill pools per CTA, preserving FP8 key bytes, FP32 scales, input strides and masked padding.
Reuse decode pages within complete aligned groups when their request slots match on the GPU and their maximum pool length is at least 4096. Preserve each query's original causal length. Mixed, short and incomplete groups use independent pages.
Check slot ownership on every CUDA Graph replay, retain per-row allocation capacity, reset page-table identity on replay, and initialize one dummy page for empty rows.
Keep the change limited to the four gather functions; pooling, compression, indexer math, scheduling and deployment configuration are unchanged. Add focused tests and a standalone comparison script.

Validation

23 GPU tests passed on NVIDIA H100 80GB, PyTorch 2.11.0+cu130 and Triton 3.6.0. Tests compare valid keys and scales exactly and cover strided views, partial pools, up to 1M context, causal lengths, mixed/incomplete groups, empty/HOLD rows, request-slot recycling and changing CUDA Graph inputs.
Black 21.12b0, flake8 and git diff --check passed for the changed files.

Gather microbenchmark

Baseline: main 6a6e980fddfc79c271f304a4121bf2ec229092f5. Three alternating AB/BA rounds, median wrapper latency, including allocation and page-table initialization; compilation excluded.

Operation	Pool capacity	Batch/layout	Before	After	Speedup
Prefill	32,768	1	25.82 us	12.03 us	2.15x
Prefill	32,768	4	85.25 us	28.93 us	2.95x
Decode	32,768	8/two shared groups of four	39.10 us	21.34 us	1.83x
Prefill	262,144	1	163.74 us	47.30 us	3.46x
Prefill	262,144	4	636.42 us	153.41 us	4.15x
Decode	262,144	8/two shared groups of four	257.92 us	96.61 us	2.67x

262,144 pools correspond to 1,048,576 input tokens with the existing 4:1 pooling. At this capacity, mixed-request decode improves 311.52 -> 298.08 us (1.05x). Small cases are not uniformly faster: prefill at 640 pools/batch 1 changes 6.50 -> 6.75 us. Empty-row initialization adds 0.64–1.34 us across tested capacities (8.8–18.1% versus the baseline, which leaves empty pages uninitialized).

These are synthetic gather measurements, not model TPS, TTFT or full-model accuracy results. No end-to-end gain is attributed to this component alone.

Reproduce on a CUDA/FP8-capable machine:

pytest -q unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kpool_gather.py
git show 6a6e980f:lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/kpool.py > /tmp/kpool_before.py
python test/benchmark_glm53_kpool.py --baseline /tmp/kpool_before.py

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Performance
- Paged pool gathering can reuse pages across adjacent requests when they share the same request and meet the configured conditions, reducing redundant data copying for large pools.
- Pool gathering now handles allocated slots beyond a sequence’s length with default values.
Tests
- Added coverage for pool gathering across varied pool sizes, reuse settings, and request patterns.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T10:30:43Z

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Update the HOLD-row replay assertion for the dummy page.
Pass the row count as a runtime value instead of a tl.constexpr.

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- Line 312: Update the HOLD-row replay assertion for the all-zero-length case to
verify page 0 contains zero keys and 1.0 scales, while later pages remain filled
with 127. Keep the dummy-page kernel behavior unchanged; locate the
corresponding test near the loop using `tl.program_id(0)`.
- Line 286: Remove `BATCH` from the kernel signature and launch in the
short-pool and long-pool paths. In the kernel, use `tl.num_programs(1)` as the
row count for bounds checks and batch-limit calculations, preserving the
existing behavior without specializing compilation on the runtime batch size.

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The GLM5 K-pool gather kernels now process pools in groups and support sharing paged data across eligible rows. CUDA tests cover gathering behavior, and a standalone benchmark compares baseline and candidate implementations.

Changes: GLM5 K-pool gathering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gather kernel behavior `lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/kpool.py`	The regular gather kernel processes 32 pools per CTA and fills slots beyond each sequence length with default values. Paged gathering accepts reuse groups of 1, 2, 4, or 8. For complete adjacent groups with matching request IDs and a maximum pool length of at least 4096, it copies pages for the first row and maps other rows to those pages.
Gather validation and benchmark `unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kpool_gather.py`, `test/benchmark_glm53_kpool.py`	CUDA tests cover regular and paged gathering, including graph replay, partial groups, and invalid reuse-group values. The benchmark measures baseline and candidate implementations across prefill and decode cases and reports JSON results.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant gather_paged_pools
  participant _gather_paged_pools
  participant BlockTable
  Caller->>gather_paged_pools: pass buffers, pool lengths, and reuse group
  gather_paged_pools->>_gather_paged_pools: launch paged gather kernel
  _gather_paged_pools->>BlockTable: map eligible rows to owner pages

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The existing GPU replay test needs to match the intended dummy-page behavior before merge. Varying batch sizes can also incur avoidable first-use compilation.

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- Line 312: Update the HOLD-row replay assertion for the all-zero-length case to
verify page 0 contains zero keys and 1.0 scales, while later pages remain filled
with 127. Keep the dummy-page kernel behavior unchanged; locate the
corresponding test near the loop using `tl.program_id(0)`.
- Line 286: Remove `BATCH` from the kernel signature and launch in the
short-pool and long-pool paths. In the kernel, use `tl.num_programs(1)` as the
row count for bounds checks and batch-limit calculations, preserving the
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T10:35:42Z

    REQ_STRIDE: tl.constexpr,
-    MAX_PAGES: tl.constexpr,
+    MAX_PAGES,
+    BATCH: tl.constexpr,


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sed -n '210,365p' lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/kpool.py rg -n 'gather_paged_pools\(' lightllm unit_tests/models/glm5_next

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Pass the row count as a runtime value instead of a tl.constexpr.

BATCH is a tl.constexpr and receives req_idx.numel() at launch. Triton compiles a separate kernel for each distinct constexpr value, so each new row count pays a compile on its first launch.

The grid already provides this value. The launch grid's second axis is batch, so tl.num_programs(1) equals req_idx.numel() in both the short-pool and long-pool paths. Use tl.num_programs(1) in the kernel and remove BATCH from the signature and the launch.

♻️ Proposed change

- BATCH: tl.constexpr, REUSE_GROUP: tl.constexpr, ): batch = tl.program_id(1) + num_rows = tl.num_programs(1) ... - requests = tl.load(ReqIdx + members, members < BATCH, -1) - lengths = tl.load(PoolLengths + members, members < BATCH, 0) + requests = tl.load(ReqIdx + members, members < num_rows, -1) + lengths = tl.load(PoolLengths + members, members < num_rows, 0) same_request = ( - (group_start + REUSE_GROUP <= BATCH) + (group_start + REUSE_GROUP <= num_rows) ... - BATCH=batch, REUSE_GROUP=reuse_group if batch >= reuse_group else 1,

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T10:35:42Z

-        # DeepGEMM stores 64 FP8 keys followed by their 64 FP32 scales.
-        tl.store(dest + rows[:, None] * 128 + cols[None, :], keys)
-        tl.store((dest + 64 * 128).to(tl.pointer_type(tl.float32)) + rows, scales)
+    for page in range(tl.program_id(0), tl.cdiv(tl.maximum(length, 1), 64), tl.num_programs(0)):


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#!/bin/bash # Check whether the old HOLD-row "no page writes" assertion is still present and whether the PR touched it. rg -n -C6 'HOLD rows must do no page writes|pages == 127' unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kernels.py git diff --stat HEAD~1 -- unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kernels.py

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#!/bin/bash set -e printf '%s\n' '--- current kernel ---' nl -ba lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/kpool.py | sed -n '220,365p' printf '%s\n' '--- current test ---' nl -ba unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kernels.py | sed -n '300,370p' printf '%s\n' '--- merge-base kernel relevant diff ---' git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=24 6a6e980fddfc79c271f304a4121bf2ec229092f5 e5bc280c722b7e531d1682befd4540ae2fd991f8 -- lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/kpool.py unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_kernels.py

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Update the HOLD-row replay assertion for the dummy page.

When all lengths are zero, each row remains its own owner. The kernel runs page 0, loads masked defaults, and writes zero keys and 1.0 scales. The existing assertion expects every byte to remain 127, so this test fails.

Keep the dummy-page behavior and check page 0 contents instead.

Suggested test update

- assert (pages == 127).all() + page_bytes = pages.view(pages.shape[0], -1).reshape(3, triton.cdiv(max_pools, 64), -1) + assert (page_bytes[:, 0, : 64 * 128] == 0).all() + assert (page_bytes[:, 0, 64 * 128 :].contiguous().view(torch.float32) == 1).all() + assert (page_bytes[:, 1:] == 127).all()

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