perf: cp.async K/V loads, shared sQ staging, causal skip, XOR swizzle

- cp.async global→shared for K/V full-tile loads, eliminates 99.6% of shared-store bank conflicts (612K→2.7K per ncu)
- add cp_async_16/commit/wait_all/wait_group<N> helpers in mma utils
- shared sQ staging (single area, serialized per-warp load), cuts smem from (2*BC + WARPS*BR)*LD to (2*BC + BR)*LD bf16
- pre-scale Q by attention scale during Q load, removes per-tile scale multiply in softmax loop
- causal tile skipping: block-level early break + warp-level skip
- scalar fallback only for last partial tile
- XOR swizzle (swiz_col) at 8-bf16 chunk granularity, eliminates ldmatrix bank conflicts without LD padding, LD=HEAD_DIM (zero smem waste), saves 1280 bytes/block vs HEAD_DIM+8 padding
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ViperEkura 2026-07-08 12:30:32 +08:00
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commit 9ebaea840f
3 changed files with 151 additions and 61 deletions

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@ -55,3 +55,37 @@ __device__ __forceinline__ void ldmatrix_x2_trans(unsigned* r, const bf16* p) {
: "=r"(r[0]), "=r"(r[1])
: "r"(a));
}
// XOR swizzle for shared-memory column at 8-bf16 chunk granularity.
// Eliminates ldmatrix bank conflicts without LD padding: consecutive rows
// land in distinct bank groups. swiz_col(d, r) = ((d>>3)^(r&7))<<3 | (d&7).
// Works for any d; aligned (d%8==0) simplifies to d ^ ((r&7)<<3).
__device__ __forceinline__ int swiz_col(int d, int r) {
return ((d >> 3) ^ (r & 7)) << 3 | (d & 7);
}
// cp.async: copy 16 bytes (8 bf16) from global to shared memory directly,
// bypassing registers. Eliminates shared-store bank conflicts and cuts
// load-loop instruction count in half (1 cp.async vs 1 LDG + 1 STS).
// Requires sm_80+.
__device__ __forceinline__ void cp_async_16(bf16* smem_ptr, const void* gmem_ptr) {
unsigned smem_addr = __cvta_generic_to_shared(smem_ptr);
asm volatile("cp.async.ca.shared.global [%0], [%1], 16;"
:: "r"(smem_addr), "l"(gmem_ptr));
}
__device__ __forceinline__ void cp_async_commit() {
asm volatile("cp.async.commit_group;");
}
__device__ __forceinline__ void cp_async_wait_all() {
asm volatile("cp.async.wait_all;");
}
// Wait until at most N commit groups are still in flight. Used for
// double-buffered pipelining: wait_group<1> lets the next tile's cp.async
// continue while ensuring the current tile's data is ready.
template <int N>
__device__ __forceinline__ void cp_async_wait_group() {
asm volatile("cp.async.wait_group %0;" :: "n"(N));
}

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@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
template <int HEAD_DIM>
static void dispatch_prefill(GQAParams& p) {
#ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
constexpr int WARPS = 4, BC = 32, BR = 16, LD = HEAD_DIM + 8;
constexpr int WARPS = 4, BC = 32, BR = 16, LD = HEAD_DIM;
dim3 grid((p.q_len + BR * WARPS - 1) / (BR * WARPS), p.q_head, p.batch);
dim3 block(WARPS * 32, 1, 1);
int smem = (2 * BC * LD + WARPS * BR * LD) * (int)sizeof(bf16);
// shared sQ: single staging area (BR*LD), not per-warp
int smem = (2 * BC * LD + BR * LD) * (int)sizeof(bf16);
cudaFuncSetAttribute(gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel<HEAD_DIM, WARPS, BC>,
cudaFuncAttributeMaxDynamicSharedMemorySize, smem);
gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel<HEAD_DIM, WARPS, BC><<<grid, block, smem>>>(p);

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@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
// for-element onto the P matrix_a (bf16) operand, so softmax needs no shuffle
// repack; row reductions fold across the 4-lane thread group. Templated on
// <HEAD_DIM, WARPS, BC> with BC a multiple of 16.
//
// Optimizations vs v6 baseline: shared sQ staging (single area, serialized
// per-warp load) → cuts smem from (2*BC + WARPS*BR)*LD to (2*BC + BR)*LD bf16,
// raising occupancy; pre-scale Q by attention scale during Q load → removes
// per-tile scale multiply in the softmax loop; cp.async global→shared for K/V
// full-tile loads → eliminates shared-store bank conflicts and register staging,
// scalar fallback only for the last partial tile; causal tile skipping (block-
// level early break + warp-level skip); XOR swizzle (swiz_col) at 8-bf16 chunk
// granularity → eliminates ldmatrix bank conflicts without LD padding, setting
// LD=HEAD_DIM (zero waste).
template <int HEAD_DIM, int WARPS, int BC>
__global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
@ -19,9 +29,7 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
constexpr int NC8 = BC / 8; // S n-tiles (N=8 each)
constexpr int KT2 = BC / 16; // P k-tiles (K=16 each)
constexpr int DN8 = HEAD_DIM / 8; // O n-tiles (N=8 each)
constexpr int LD = HEAD_DIM + 8; // padded smem row stride (kills ldmatrix
// bank conflicts: consecutive rows land
// in distinct banks instead of colliding)
constexpr int LD = HEAD_DIM; // XOR swizzle (swiz_col) handles bank conflicts
const int warp = threadIdx.x / 32;
const int lane = threadIdx.x % 32;
@ -35,26 +43,33 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
const int qrow0 = (blockIdx.x * WARPS + warp) * BR;
extern __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 smem[];
bf16* sK = smem; // [BC][LD]
bf16* sV = sK + BC * LD; // [BC][LD]
bf16* sQ = sV + BC * LD + warp * (BR * LD); // per-warp [BR][LD]
bf16* sK = smem; // [BC][LD]
bf16* sV = sK + BC * LD; // [BC][LD]
bf16* sQ = sV + BC * LD; // shared staging [BR][LD]
// stage Q into smem (zero-padded past q_len)
// Q resident A-fragments (loaded once per warp via shared staging).
// Pre-scale by attention scale so softmax doesn't need to multiply later.
const int q_base = ((batch * p.q_head + q_head) * p.q_len) * HEAD_DIM;
for (int i = lane; i < BR * HEAD_DIM; i += 32) {
int r = i / HEAD_DIM, d = i % HEAD_DIM;
int qr = qrow0 + r;
sQ[r * LD + d] = (qr < p.q_len) ? p.q[q_base + qr * HEAD_DIM + d] : __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
}
__syncwarp();
// Q resident A-fragments: Qa[kt][0..3] (loaded once via ldmatrix.x4)
unsigned Qa[KD][4];
bf16 scale_bf16 = __float2bfloat16(p.scale);
int qrow_l = (lane & 7) + (lane & 8); // 0..15
int qcol_l = (lane & 16) ? 8 : 0;
#pragma unroll
for (int kt = 0; kt < KD; kt++)
ldmatrix_x4(Qa[kt], &sQ[qrow_l * LD + kt * 16 + qcol_l]);
for (int w = 0; w < WARPS; w++) {
if (warp == w) {
for (int i = lane; i < BR * HEAD_DIM; i += 32) {
int r = i / HEAD_DIM, d = i % HEAD_DIM;
int qr = qrow0 + r;
bf16 qv = (qr < p.q_len) ? p.q[q_base + qr * HEAD_DIM + d]
: __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
sQ[r * LD + swiz_col(d, r)] = __hmul(qv, scale_bf16);
}
__syncwarp();
#pragma unroll
for (int kt = 0; kt < KD; kt++)
ldmatrix_x4(Qa[kt], &sQ[qrow_l * LD + swiz_col(kt * 16 + qcol_l, qrow_l)]);
}
__syncthreads(); // prevent next warp from overwriting sQ prematurely
}
float Oacc[DN8][4];
#pragma unroll
@ -67,60 +82,90 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
const int qr0 = qrow0 + gid; // row for c0/c1
const int qr1 = qrow0 + gid + 8; // row for c2/c3
// Causal tile-skip bounds (no-op when is_causal == 0)
const int use_skip = p.is_causal;
const int max_kv = qrow0 + BR - 1 + p.causal_offset;
const int block_max_kv =
blockIdx.x * WARPS * BR + WARPS * BR - 1 + p.causal_offset;
const int has_mask = p.use_mask && p.mask;
const int mb = batch * p.kv_len;
for (int ti = 0; ti < tiles; ti++) {
int kv0 = ti * BC;
for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < BC * HEAD_DIM; i += nthreads) {
int r = i / HEAD_DIM, d = i % HEAD_DIM;
int kc = kv0 + r;
bf16 z = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
sK[r * LD + d] = (kc < p.kv_len) ? p.k[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d] : z;
sV[r * LD + d] = (kc < p.kv_len) ? p.v[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d] : z;
// Block-level causal early break
if (use_skip && kv0 > block_max_kv) break;
// ---- load K/V tile to shared memory (cp.async on full tiles) ----
bool full_tile = (kv0 + BC <= p.kv_len);
if (full_tile) {
constexpr int VEC = 8; // bf16 per cp.async unit (16 bytes)
int total = BC * HEAD_DIM;
#pragma unroll
for (int i = threadIdx.x * VEC; i < total; i += nthreads * VEC) {
int r = i / HEAD_DIM;
int d = i % HEAD_DIM;
int kc = kv0 + r;
cp_async_16(&sK[r * LD + swiz_col(d, r)], &p.k[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d]);
cp_async_16(&sV[r * LD + swiz_col(d, r)], &p.v[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d]);
}
cp_async_commit();
cp_async_wait_all();
} else {
for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < BC * HEAD_DIM; i += nthreads) {
int r = i / HEAD_DIM, d = i % HEAD_DIM;
int kc = kv0 + r;
bf16 z = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
sK[r * LD + swiz_col(d, r)] = (kc < p.kv_len)
? p.k[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d] : z;
sV[r * LD + swiz_col(d, r)] = (kc < p.kv_len)
? p.v[kv_base + kc * HEAD_DIM + d] : z;
}
}
__syncthreads();
// Warp-level causal skip
if (!use_skip || kv0 <= max_kv) {
// S = Q @ K^T → Sacc[n8][0..3] (n8: 8 kv cols each)
float Sacc[NC8][4];
#pragma unroll
for (int n8 = 0; n8 < NC8; n8++) {
Sacc[n8][0] = Sacc[n8][1] = Sacc[n8][2] = Sacc[n8][3] = 0.0f;
int kv = kv0 + n8 * 8 + gid;
int krow_l = n8 * 8 + (lane & 7); // kv within tile
int kcol_h = (lane & 8) ? 8 : 0; // which k-half
int krow_l = n8 * 8 + (lane & 7);
int kcol_h = (lane & 8) ? 8 : 0;
#pragma unroll
for (int kt = 0; kt < KD; kt++) {
unsigned b[2];
ldmatrix_x2(b, &sK[krow_l * LD + kt * 16 + kcol_h]);
ldmatrix_x2(b, &sK[krow_l * LD + swiz_col(kt * 16 + kcol_h, krow_l)]);
mma16816(Sacc[n8], Qa[kt], b, Sacc[n8]);
}
(void)kv;
}
// ---- online softmax (in registers) ----
// scale + mask, then per-row (gid, gid+8) max over held cols
// Q is pre-scaled, so Sacc already includes the attention scale.
int maxc0 = p.is_causal ? min(p.kv_len, qr0 + p.causal_offset + 1)
: p.kv_len;
int maxc1 = p.is_causal ? min(p.kv_len, qr1 + p.causal_offset + 1)
: p.kv_len;
float rmax0 = -FLT_MAX, rmax1 = -FLT_MAX;
#pragma unroll
for (int n8 = 0; n8 < NC8; n8++) {
int cc = kv0 + n8 * 8 + 2 * tid4; // col for c0/c2
bool bc0 = (cc >= p.kv_len) ||
(p.use_mask && p.mask && !p.mask[batch * p.kv_len + cc]);
bool bc1 = (cc + 1 >= p.kv_len) ||
(p.use_mask && p.mask && !p.mask[batch * p.kv_len + cc + 1]);
bool cz = p.is_causal;
int off = p.causal_offset;
bool bad0 = bc0 || (cz && cc > qr0 + off);
bool bad1 = bc1 || (cz && (cc + 1) > qr0 + off);
bool bad2 = bc0 || (cz && cc > qr1 + off);
bool bad3 = bc1 || (cz && (cc + 1) > qr1 + off);
float s0 = bad0 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][0] * p.scale;
float s1 = bad1 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][1] * p.scale;
float s2 = bad2 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][2] * p.scale;
float s3 = bad3 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][3] * p.scale;
Sacc[n8][0] = s0; Sacc[n8][1] = s1; Sacc[n8][2] = s2; Sacc[n8][3] = s3;
int cc = kv0 + n8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
int c1 = cc + 1;
bool b0 = (cc >= maxc0) || (has_mask && !p.mask[mb + cc]);
bool b1 = (c1 >= maxc0) || (has_mask && !p.mask[mb + c1]);
bool b2 = (cc >= maxc1) || (has_mask && !p.mask[mb + cc]);
bool b3 = (c1 >= maxc1) || (has_mask && !p.mask[mb + c1]);
float s0 = b0 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][0];
float s1 = b1 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][1];
float s2 = b2 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][2];
float s3 = b3 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][3];
Sacc[n8][0] = s0; Sacc[n8][1] = s1;
Sacc[n8][2] = s2; Sacc[n8][3] = s3;
rmax0 = fmaxf(rmax0, fmaxf(s0, s1));
rmax1 = fmaxf(rmax1, fmaxf(s2, s3));
}
// reduce max across the 4-lane group (tid4)
rmax0 = fmaxf(rmax0, __shfl_xor_sync(0xFFFFFFFF, rmax0, 1));
rmax0 = fmaxf(rmax0, __shfl_xor_sync(0xFFFFFFFF, rmax0, 2));
rmax1 = fmaxf(rmax1, __shfl_xor_sync(0xFFFFFFFF, rmax1, 1));
@ -133,11 +178,16 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
float rsum0 = 0.0f, rsum1 = 0.0f;
#pragma unroll
for (int n8 = 0; n8 < NC8; n8++) {
float p0 = (Sacc[n8][0] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f : __expf(Sacc[n8][0] - nm0);
float p1 = (Sacc[n8][1] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f : __expf(Sacc[n8][1] - nm0);
float p2 = (Sacc[n8][2] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f : __expf(Sacc[n8][2] - nm1);
float p3 = (Sacc[n8][3] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f : __expf(Sacc[n8][3] - nm1);
Sacc[n8][0] = p0; Sacc[n8][1] = p1; Sacc[n8][2] = p2; Sacc[n8][3] = p3;
float p0 = (Sacc[n8][0] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f
: __expf(Sacc[n8][0] - nm0);
float p1 = (Sacc[n8][1] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f
: __expf(Sacc[n8][1] - nm0);
float p2 = (Sacc[n8][2] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f
: __expf(Sacc[n8][2] - nm1);
float p3 = (Sacc[n8][3] == -FLT_MAX) ? 0.0f
: __expf(Sacc[n8][3] - nm1);
Sacc[n8][0] = p0; Sacc[n8][1] = p1;
Sacc[n8][2] = p2; Sacc[n8][3] = p3;
rsum0 += p0 + p1;
rsum1 += p2 + p3;
}
@ -164,15 +214,16 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
Pa[1] = pk2(Sacc[kt2 * 2][2], Sacc[kt2 * 2][3]);
Pa[2] = pk2(Sacc[kt2 * 2 + 1][0], Sacc[kt2 * 2 + 1][1]);
Pa[3] = pk2(Sacc[kt2 * 2 + 1][2], Sacc[kt2 * 2 + 1][3]);
int vrow_l = kt2 * 16 + (lane & 15); // kv within tile (0..15)
int vrow_l = kt2 * 16 + (lane & 15);
#pragma unroll
for (int dn8 = 0; dn8 < DN8; dn8++) {
unsigned b[2];
ldmatrix_x2_trans(b, &sV[vrow_l * LD + dn8 * 8]);
ldmatrix_x2_trans(b, &sV[vrow_l * LD + swiz_col(dn8 * 8, vrow_l)]);
mma16816(Oacc[dn8], Pa, b, Oacc[dn8]);
}
}
__syncthreads(); // sK/sV reused next tile
} // if active (warp-level causal skip)
__syncthreads();
}
// ---- write output ----
@ -183,12 +234,16 @@ __global__ void gqa_prefill_attn_mma_kernel(GQAParams p) {
for (int dn8 = 0; dn8 < DN8; dn8++) {
int d = dn8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
if (qr0 < p.q_len) {
p.o[o_base + qr0 * HEAD_DIM + d] = __float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][0] * rl0);
p.o[o_base + qr0 * HEAD_DIM + d + 1] = __float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][1] * rl0);
p.o[o_base + qr0 * HEAD_DIM + d] =
__float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][0] * rl0);
p.o[o_base + qr0 * HEAD_DIM + d + 1] =
__float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][1] * rl0);
}
if (qr1 < p.q_len) {
p.o[o_base + qr1 * HEAD_DIM + d] = __float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][2] * rl1);
p.o[o_base + qr1 * HEAD_DIM + d + 1] = __float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][3] * rl1);
p.o[o_base + qr1 * HEAD_DIM + d] =
__float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][2] * rl1);
p.o[o_base + qr1 * HEAD_DIM + d + 1] =
__float2bfloat16(Oacc[dn8][3] * rl1);
}
}
}