- Double-buffered KV (STAGES=2) for D<=128: next tile cp.async overlaps current tile MMA compute, hiding global load latency
- Q loaded directly from global into mma A-operand registers, removing sQ staging and prologue syncwarp
- Predicated cp.async unifies full and partial tile paths, eliminating scalar fallback branch
- STAGES=1 fallback for D=256 (double-buffer would exceed smem budget)
- Applied to both contiguous and paged decode MMA kernels
- ~1.27x average speedup on L20 (sm_89), zero precision loss
- Add attn_paged_decode wrapper in ops.py with gather fallback
- Register kernel in loader.py and export from __init__.py
- Extract test_utils.cuh shared by all attention unit tests
- Rename attn_paged_vs_contiguous.cu to attn_paged_decode_test.cu
- Refactor decode/prefill tests to use common bf16 helpers and cpu ref
- Fix k_cache dim check in attn_paged_decode.cu
- PagedAttentionParams merged into attn_common.h
- Scalar variant: warp-per-query-head split-KV, resolves page table per-position for the K/V shared-memory tile load
- MMA variant (sm_80+): tensor-core head-packing with cp.async, single page-table lookup per tile (BC=32 fits within page_size>=32)
- Standalone test: 14 cases across head_dim 32/64/128/256, GQA, multi-batch, both paths verified against CPU reference
- Remove tiles_total/8 min-work cap that limited splits for small workloads
- Simplify decode_num_splits to only use base_blocks and tiles_total
- Short sequences now generate more blocks, improving SM utilization
- Convert AttentionParams to a template struct supporting arbitrary types
- Rename attn_common.cuh -> attn_common.h (no CUDA-specific code remains)
- Include standard headers explicitly in each .cuh instead of via attn_common.cuh
- Allow .h files in csrc/ via .gitignore
- Rename all csrc/kernels/gqa_*.cuh/cu to attn_*, with _split_q / _split_kv
strategy suffix and optional _mma compute suffix
- Remove non-split MMA decode kernel, keep only split-KV path
- Convert scalar decode fallback to split-KV (o_part/ml_part + combine)
- Move combine kernel to attn_decode_split_kv.cuh (shared by both paths)
- Rename GQAParams to AttentionParams
- Update all C++ #include, PYBIND11, and Python extension references
- Move Qa[KD][4] into tile loop (reload from sQ per tile)
cutting ~32 resident registers for HEAD_DIM=128
- Replace extern __shared__ with static template-sized smem
(no cudaFuncSetAttribute or dynamic allocation needed)
- Add __launch_bounds__ with MIN_BLOCKS param, dispatch by HEAD_DIM
(hd=128→4, hd=64→6, hd=32→6)
- Remove dynamic smem from scalar kernel and C test
- Result: hd=128 168→128 regs, 25%→33% occupancy
- centralize CXX_FLAGS/NVCC_FLAGS in csrc/build.py as single source
- add --use_fast_math, --ptxas-options=-O3,-v, --extra-device-vectorization
- add -march=native -funroll-loops host flags
- setup.py reads shared cxx_flags/nvcc_flags from registry
- sync pure-C test build commands with new flags
- one query row per group of G=8 lanes, each owning HEAD_DIM/G dims of qreg[]/acc[] in registers
- removes full 32-lane warp_reduce_sum; S dot reduces over only G lanes
- templated on <HEAD_DIM,G,ROWS,P_BC>, block=(G,ROWS)=(8,32)
- per-group shuffle mask so causal loop-bound divergence doesn't deadlock the shuffle
- update pure-C test to the templated launch
- Split .cuh/.cu for gqa_decode_attn and gqa_prefill_attn
- gqa_prefill_attn: tiled shared-memory K/V, fused load, compute-opt, mask support
- Add pure C tests under csrc/tests/ for fast nvcc-only iteration
- Update .gitignore for build artifacts
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