- merge AttentionParams and PagedAttentionParams into one struct
- add attn_kv_source.cuh with ContigKV/PagedKV addressing policies
- template prefill/decode kernels (MMA + scalar) on the KV policy, deleting the four duplicated attn_paged_*.cuh variants
- template dispatcher launchers on KV; single combine kernel
- verify: all correctness tests pass and SASS matches baseline (no perf regression)
- compute_num_splits used 2*sm/base, undersplitting at large batch
- single-warp decode blocks host ~11/SM, not 1/2-SM, so B=16 got 3 splits when 8 was optimal
- Grid search on L20: bandwidth saturates near 256-512 total blocks; target 512
- Pass num_passes into base_blocks for the non-paged decode to match the paged path
- B=16 kv=2048: 0.0230->0.0157ms (-32%); paged B=16: 0.0527->0.0243ms (-54%); B=32: 0.0406->0.0241ms (-41%)
- Thread a cudaStream_t through attn dispatchers onto torch's current stream
- Scope the device guard to the entry function so kernels run on tensor device
- DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM now forwards varargs so stream reaches each dispatch
- Parallelize CPU reference kernels with OpenMP (paged test 31s -> 7s)
- Merge decode/prefill standalone tests into attn_test.cu with correctness tables
- Drop bench error column (CPU ref too slow at large sizes)
- Update cuda_kernels.md for the merged test layout
- Replace per-tile page lookup with per-element lookup in load_tile
- Remove page_ok gate and scalar fallback in launch_paged_decode_mma
- Unified path works for any page_size (L1-cached when page_size >= BC)
- HBM BW: 12% → 73%, decode throughput: 2,250 → 2,606 tok/s (B=32)
- Scales to 5,232 tok/s at B=128 (2.54x vs torch native)
- Merge 3 duplicated dispatch blocks into single attn_dispatchers.cuh
- Merge compute_num_splits from attn_utils.cuh into dispatcher header
- All dim3 grid/block declarations and <<<>>> launches are single-line
- Production .cu files (35-42 loc) only handle torch wrapping + pybind11
- Test files include dispatcher header directly, removing all #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA duplication