- Replace is_causal + causal_offset with unified causal_offset (-1 = off, >=0 = first Q pos)
- Causal and mask can now coexist (was mutually exclusive)
- Add stride-based addressing for Q/KV/O (layout-agnostic, zero-copy)
- Add layout param ("bhld"/"blhd") parsed in Python, passed as int to C++
- Support 2D [batch, kv_len] and 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] mask
- Vectorize paged KV gather in Python fallback (was per-token Python loop)
- Extract shared helpers: compute_num_splits, alloc_split_partials, dispatch_head_dim
- Unify paged_decode entry via attn_pack_paged_params
- Update mma_softmax_tile for 3D mask with per-row qrow indexing
- Remove MIN_BLOCKS template param and __launch_bounds__ attribute
- Profiling shows smem (not registers) is the occupancy bottleneck for D>=64, making the hint a no-op
- D=64 sees 2-4% speedup, D=128 unchanged (smem-capped at 1 block/SM)
- Update comment blocks in kernel header and both dispatch sites
- Verified correctness via standalone CUDA test (max_err ~1e-4)
- 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
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