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Jeff Huang fdf4bb7fcc [rocm-libraries] ROCm/rocm-libraries#6653 (commit 1df887e)
[CK_TILE] fix(fmha): support >2GB KV cache in batch prefill
 via template dispatch (#6653)
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## Motivation

The CK batch prefill kernel previously failed (silent overflow + page
faults) when the KV cache exceeded 2 GB, blocking long-context inference
workloads (e.g., 128K+ token contexts with paged KV).

Two distinct failure modes were addressed:

1. **>4GB SRD overflow (`page_size < kN0`):** The SRD
`buffer_load_dwordx4` path uses a 32-bit `voffset` register; for small
page sizes the rebased SRD spans the full KV pool and the offset wraps
past 2 GB, corrupting K/V loads.
2. **gfx950 page-table fault (`page_size >= kN0`):** On CDNA4 the
hardware validates the **full SRD `num_records` range** against
page-table permissions (CDNA3 only checks per-instruction `voffset`).
After per-tile SRD rebase, an un-trimmed `num_records` field extends
past the live page and faults on freed/protected memory.

## Technical Details

**Two-mode `tile_scatter_gather` selected by the `kUseGlobalLoad`
template parameter:**

| Case | `page_size` | KV cache size | Mode | Load path | Addressing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `>= kN0` (large pages) | any | SRD (`kUseGlobalLoad=false`) |
`buffer_load_dwordx4` | 32-bit `voffset`, bounded by per-page rebase |
| 2 | `< kN0` (small pages) | `<= 2 GB` | SRD (`kUseGlobalLoad=false`) |
`buffer_load_dwordx4` | 32-bit `voffset`, fits in INT32 byte range |
| 3 | `< kN0` (small pages) | `> 2 GB` | Global-load
(`kUseGlobalLoad=true`) | `async_load_tile_raw_flat` (K) +
`load_tile_flat` (V) | 64-bit |

**Dispatch:** the auto-gen API layer (`fmha_batch_prefill.py`) selects
the kernel instantiation at launch from `(page_block_size,
num_total_pages * batch_stride_k * kElementBytes)`, so the small-page
penalty is paid only when correctness requires it.

**gfx950 SRD `num_records` trimming:** in the K and V rebase lambdas of
`block_fmha_batch_prefill_pipeline_qr_ks_vs_async`,
`set_bottom_tensor_view_buffer_size(page_stride_k/v)` is called after
each rebase to constrain `num_records` to the live page. Required for
CDNA4 page-table validation; harmless on CDNA3.

**Pipeline sync for the global-load path:**
- V uses synchronous `load_tile_flat`; K uses
`async_load_tile_raw_flat`.
- `v_physical_pages_current` is double-buffered so the V flat load
doesn't race against the next iteration's K rebase computation.

**Arch guards:** `global_load_lds` intrinsics are gated to `__gfx94__` /
`__gfx950__` (CDNA3+). Other architectures hit a `dependent_false`
static_assert with a descriptive message.

**Device-side assertion convention:** SRD setters use
`__builtin_assume(cond)` (hint-only) rather than `<cassert>`'s
`assert()`. The latter introduces an `__assert_fail` call whose register
pressure scatters the K-SRD scalar register window across conditional
branches, corrupting `buffer_load_dwordx4` on gfx950.

## Test Plan

Tested on both MI308 (gfx942) and MI355 (gfx950) via the aiter wrapper
test suite. All coverage lives in **`op_tests/test_batch_prefill.py`**:

- **Functional matrix (96 cases)** — `test_batch_prefill`: `page_size ∈
{1, 16, 1024}` × `kv_layout ∈ {linear, vectorized}` × `dtype ∈ {bf16,
fp8 quant variants}` × `causal` × `soft_cap` × `LSE` × `batch_size ∈ {1,
4}` (parametrized to exercise per-sequence SRD rebase across batch
boundaries).
- **>2 GB coverage** — `test_batch_prefill_large_kvcache`: extended to
allocate a 5 GB+ KV cache pool and exercise both `kUseGlobalLoad=true`
(small-page) and `kUseGlobalLoad=false` (large-page rebase) paths.
Includes both single-batch and multi-batch (`batch_size=4`) cases to
exercise per-sequence SRD rebase across the >2 GB pool.
- Numerical reference: PyTorch SDPA, per-batch loop with `atol` / `rtol`
from the existing batch prefill test harness.

## Test Result

| Arch | `test_batch_prefill` | `test_batch_prefill_large_kvcache` (>2
GB) |
|------|----------------------|---------------------|
| MI308 (gfx942) | All passed | Passed |
| MI355 (gfx950) | All passed | Passed |

**Performance impact (gfx950, hot SRD path):**
- +2.67% kernel-time on `seqlen=1024 / page_sz=1024 / bf16 / sglang /
causal / soft_cap=30`, attributable in full to the two
`set_bottom_tensor_view_buffer_size` calls in the K/V rebase lambdas
(5-run median, signal/noise ≈ 9×).
- This cost is **mandatory for gfx950 correctness** on >2 GB workloads —
removing the setters re-introduces page-faults.
- gfx942: 0 regressions in the same range (all configs ≤ +0.97%).

## Submission Checklist

- [ ] Look over the contributing guidelines at
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests.
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CK Tile Example Suite

This directory contains a comprehensive suite of examples demonstrating the CK Tile programming model for high-performance GPU kernels. Each example illustrates a key deep learning or HPC operation, implemented using tile-based parallelism, modular pipelines, and data movement policy.


What is CK Tile?

CK Tile is a composable GPU programming API that expresses kernels as a composition of "tiles"—rectangular blocks of computation and data movement. The pipeline & policy orchestrates data movement (global <-> LDS <-> registers), computation, and synchronization, enabling high efficiency and flexibility.


Example Index

Example Operation Description
01_fmha Fused Multi-Head Attention Tile-based FMHA with masking, quantization, and epilogue fusion
02_layernorm2d LayerNorm2D Blockwise layer normalization with fusion and quantization
03_gemm GEMM Matrix multiplication with tilewise parallelism
04_img2col im2col Image-to-column transformation for GEMM-based convolution
05_reduce Reduction Tilewise sum, max, mean reductions
06_permute Permute Generic tensor permutation (up to rank-8)
09_topk_softmax TopK-Softmax Rowwise softmax and top-k selection for MoE gating
10_rmsnorm2d RMSNorm2D Root mean square normalization for LLMs
11_add_rmsnorm2d_rdquant Add + RMSNorm2D + RDQuant Fused add, RMSNorm, and rowwise dynamic quantization
12_smoothquant SmoothQuant Per-channel scaling and quantization for int8 inference
13_moe_sorting MoE Sorting Token-to-expert rearrangement for MoE dispatch
14_moe_smoothquant MoE-SmoothQuant Expert-dependent quantization fused with top-k selection
15_fused_moe Fused MoE End-to-end fused MoE block: sorting, group-GEMM, activation, weighting
16_batched_gemm Batched GEMM Parallel computation of multiple GEMMs
17_grouped_gemm Grouped GEMM Multiple independent GEMMs with different shapes
18_flatmm FLATMM Flattened matrix multiplication for packed layouts
19_gemm_multi_d Multi-D GEMM GEMM with multiple side inputs (bias, residual, etc.)
35_batched_transpose Batched Transpose NCHW <-> NHWC and other layout conversions
36_copy Copy Minimal example for tile-based memory movement
37_transpose Block Transpose High-performance tiled transpose for large tensors

Technical Highlights


How to Build & Run

mkdir build && cd build
sh ../script/cmake-ck-dev.sh ../ <arch>
make -j

Each example produces its own executable in build/bin/.


Learning and Extending


References


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