diff --git a/src/ext/ep/kernels/internode.cu b/src/ext/ep/kernels/internode.cu
index b64205e0..5c25b0fc 100644
--- a/src/ext/ep/kernels/internode.cu
+++ b/src/ext/ep/kernels/internode.cu
@@ -1550,6 +1550,7 @@ __global__ void cached_notify(const int rdma_clean_offset, const int rdma_num_in
   auto sm_id = static_cast<int>(blockIdx.x);
   auto thread_id = static_cast<int>(threadIdx.x);
   auto num_threads = static_cast<int>(blockDim.x);
+  auto num_warps = num_threads / 32;
   auto warp_id = thread_id / 32;
   auto lane_id = get_lane_id();
 
@@ -1639,49 +1640,52 @@ __global__ void cached_notify(const int rdma_clean_offset, const int rdma_num_in
   } else if (sm_id == 2) {
     if (is_cached_dispatch) return;
 
-    EP_DEVICE_ASSERT(num_warps >= num_channels);
     EP_DEVICE_ASSERT(num_rdma_ranks <= 32);
 
-    // Iterate in reverse order
-    if (lane_id < num_rdma_ranks and warp_id < num_channels) {
-      int token_start_idx, token_end_idx;
-      get_channel_task_range(num_combined_tokens, num_channels, warp_id, token_start_idx, token_end_idx);
+    // Iterate in reverse order. Stride over channels in warp granularity so we
+    // support num_channels > num_warps (per-block thread cap on GB200 is 1024).
+    if (lane_id < num_rdma_ranks) {
+      for (int ch = warp_id; ch < num_channels; ch += num_warps) {
+        int token_start_idx, token_end_idx;
+        get_channel_task_range(num_combined_tokens, num_channels, ch, token_start_idx, token_end_idx);
 
-      // NOTES: `1 << 25` is a heuristic large number
-      int last_head = 1 << 25;
-      for (int token_idx = token_end_idx - 1; token_idx >= token_start_idx; --token_idx) {
-        auto current_head = __ldg(combined_rdma_head + token_idx * num_rdma_ranks + lane_id);
-        if (current_head < 0) {
-          combined_rdma_head[token_idx * num_rdma_ranks + lane_id] = -last_head - 1;
-        } else {
-          last_head = current_head;
+        // NOTES: `1 << 25` is a heuristic large number
+        int last_head = 1 << 25;
+        for (int token_idx = token_end_idx - 1; token_idx >= token_start_idx; --token_idx) {
+          auto current_head = __ldg(combined_rdma_head + token_idx * num_rdma_ranks + lane_id);
+          if (current_head < 0) {
+            combined_rdma_head[token_idx * num_rdma_ranks + lane_id] = -last_head - 1;
+          } else {
+            last_head = current_head;
+          }
         }
       }
     }
   } else {
     if (is_cached_dispatch) return;
 
-    EP_DEVICE_ASSERT(num_warps >= num_channels);
     EP_DEVICE_ASSERT(rdma_channel_prefix_matrix != nullptr and rdma_rank_prefix_sum != nullptr);
     EP_STATIC_ASSERT(NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS <= 32, "Too many NVL peers");
 
-    if (lane_id < NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS and warp_id < num_channels) {
+    // Stride over channels per warp so num_channels > num_warps works.
+    if (lane_id < NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS) {
       for (int dst_rdma_rank = sm_id - 3; dst_rdma_rank < num_rdma_ranks; dst_rdma_rank += num_channels * 2 - 3) {
-        // Iterate in reverse order
-        int token_start_idx = warp_id == 0 ? 0 : rdma_channel_prefix_matrix[dst_rdma_rank * num_channels + warp_id - 1];
-        int token_end_idx = rdma_channel_prefix_matrix[dst_rdma_rank * num_channels + warp_id];
-        int shift = dst_rdma_rank == 0 ? 0 : rdma_rank_prefix_sum[dst_rdma_rank - 1];
-        token_start_idx += shift, token_end_idx += shift;
+        for (int ch = warp_id; ch < num_channels; ch += num_warps) {
+          // Iterate in reverse order
+          int token_start_idx = ch == 0 ? 0 : rdma_channel_prefix_matrix[dst_rdma_rank * num_channels + ch - 1];
+          int token_end_idx = rdma_channel_prefix_matrix[dst_rdma_rank * num_channels + ch];
+          int shift = dst_rdma_rank == 0 ? 0 : rdma_rank_prefix_sum[dst_rdma_rank - 1];
+          token_start_idx += shift, token_end_idx += shift;
 
-        // NOTES: `1 << 25` is a heuristic large number
-        int last_head = 1 << 25;
-#pragma unroll
-        for (int token_idx = token_end_idx - 1; token_idx >= token_start_idx; --token_idx) {
-          auto current_head = __ldg(combined_nvl_head + token_idx * NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS + lane_id);
-          if (current_head < 0) {
-            combined_nvl_head[token_idx * NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS + lane_id] = -last_head - 1;
-          } else {
-            last_head = current_head;
+          // NOTES: `1 << 25` is a heuristic large number
+          int last_head = 1 << 25;
+          for (int token_idx = token_end_idx - 1; token_idx >= token_start_idx; --token_idx) {
+            auto current_head = __ldg(combined_nvl_head + token_idx * NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS + lane_id);
+            if (current_head < 0) {
+              combined_nvl_head[token_idx * NUM_MAX_NVL_PEERS + lane_id] = -last_head - 1;
+            } else {
+              last_head = current_head;
+            }
           }
         }
       }
@@ -1712,9 +1716,16 @@ void cached_notify(int hidden_int4, int num_scales, int num_topk_idx, int num_to
   EP_HOST_ASSERT(num_nvl_bytes < std::numeric_limits<int>::max());
   EP_HOST_ASSERT(num_channels * 2 > 3);
 
-  // Launch kernel
+  // Launch kernel.
+  // NOTE: cached_notify's sm_id>=2 work iterates `warp_id < num_channels`, so the
+  // kernel originally requested 32*num_channels threads per block. On GB200 the
+  // per-block thread limit is 1024 (= 32 warps), so nc>32 silently failed launch
+  // (cudaLaunchKernelEx returns cudaErrorInvalidValue / "invalid argument").
+  // Cap at 1024 here and add a strided fallback in the kernel (warps loop over
+  // channels in stride-num_warps) so nc up to the SM-count is supported.
   auto cached_notify_func = low_latency_mode ? cached_notify<true> : cached_notify<false>;
-  SETUP_LAUNCH_CONFIG(num_channels * 2, num_threads, stream);
+  const int launch_threads = std::min(num_threads, 1024);
+  SETUP_LAUNCH_CONFIG(num_channels * 2, launch_threads, stream);
   LAUNCH_KERNEL(&cfg, cached_notify_func, rdma_clean_meta.first, rdma_clean_meta.second, nvl_clean_meta.first,
                 nvl_clean_meta.second, combined_rdma_head, num_combined_tokens, num_channels,
                 rdma_channel_prefix_matrix, rdma_rank_prefix_sum, combined_nvl_head, rdma_buffer_ptr, buffer_ptrs,