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Flash M=8192 on 4x H200 goes from 6152.7us to 4034.5us (-34.4%) and the smoke diff improves an order of magnitude (1.7e-4 -> 1.4e-5). Changes, each measured in isolation: - Flat m-task queue replaces the per-tile expert rescan in both kernels. The old scheduler walked all experts of a wave twice per tile; with experts-per-wave at 64 that dominated everything else (-22%). - `clear_accum=True` lets WGMMA overwrite its accumulator instead of an explicit per-k-step clear of a 64x256 fp32 tile (L2 -8.7%). - Default L1 pipeline stages 5 -> 3. Three ties five at M<=512 and wins 0.6%/2.1% at M=2048/8192, so the extra shared memory is not earning its keep. - FP32 running sum. A BF16 accumulator needs a quarter-rate F2FP per element pair to narrow the WGMMA output every k-step, and costs an order of magnitude of accuracy. - Quantize straight into the shared staging tile, dropping a block_m x block_n/2 fp8 fragment. - A TMA stage now holds num_k_sub contiguous scale-group sub-tiles, so one barrier round-trip covers several of them while WGMMA still consumes them one scale group at a time. The register split is the subtle one. `setmaxnreg` was being dropped outright -- ptxas reported "(C7507) 'setmaxnreg' ignored to maintain minimum register requirements" and SASS contained no USETMAXREG, so the warp-specialised budgets never took effect. The cause is that the dec/inc lived in their own if/else, separate from the specialised code: once that branch rejoins, ptxas cannot prove the deallocating threads never reach the high-pressure path. Nesting dispatch/producer under the dec and the consumer under the inc makes it stick. Budgets are now 64/192, chosen because spilling tracks the frontend budget rather than the math one (40/48/56 give 72/16/0 bytes) and because a split summing to exactly 65536 compiles but deadlocks at run time. Adds --profile-phases plus tuning overrides used to derive the above. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ncu points at two LDG instructions carrying 96% of the L1 kernel's excessive sectors. They are the per-token activation scale loads: with `recv_x_sf` laid out (expert, token, group), reading a column walks a 128-byte stride, and the thread mapping has four lanes share an address so each warpgroup re-reads the same 64 floats -- 8x redundant across the CTA. The producer now reads that column once into shared and the math warpgroups read shared instead. Placement matters more than the staging itself: issuing the strided load at the top of the k-step, before the TMA copies, lets its latency hide behind TMA issue. Doing the same load just before `mbarrier_arrive` instead measured 1% *slower* than not staging at all, because it serialises the load into the producer's critical path. Flash M=8192 on 4x H200: 4034.5us -> 3984.6us. Four samples, no overlap between the two configurations. Also tried and rejected: transposing `recv_x_sf` to scale-group major so the consumer read is contiguous and TMA-eligible (TMA needs the innermost dim to be a multiple of 16 bytes, which a single float is not). That is what PR383 does -- its SFA descriptor is MN-major and the scales arrive by TMA on the same stage barrier as A/B. Here it cost 11.7% on L1: the dispatch gathers by token while the GEMM consumes by k, so a transposed pool turns one vectorised `get_warp` into a per-lane remote scalar read plus a strided local write, and that loss exceeds the read-side gain. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`recv_x_sf` is now (expert, group, capacity), so the producer reads a whole block_m column of activation scales contiguously instead of walking a 128-byte stride. An earlier attempt at this layout cost 11.7% on L1, but it changed two things at once: it also replaced the vectorised `get_warp` pull with a per-lane remote scalar load. Splitting them shows the transpose itself is cheap and the pull primitive was the whole regression. The pull now keeps `get_warp` -- reading the remote row contiguously into a small shared staging tile -- and only the local write scatters, one scale group per lane. Flash M=8192 on 4x H200: 3978.9us -> 3930.2us. This is the layout half of what PR383 gets from its MN-major SFA descriptor. The other half, feeding the scales in by TMA on the stage barrier, needs the innermost dimension to be a multiple of 16 bytes; a block_m column of floats now qualifies, so it is worth revisiting. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`l2_x_sf` is now scale-group major, matching `recv_x_sf`, and the L2 producer issues its scale read at the top of the k step instead of immediately before `mbarrier_arrive` -- the same placement that was worth 2.2% on L1. L2 goes from 1769.6us to 1750.7us (two samples each, both lower). The win is smaller than L1's because L2 already staged its scales in shared memory and never had the 8x redundancy; only the contiguous read and the earlier issue are new here. Flash M=8192 end to end: 3927.9 -> 3925.5us. Also tried and rejected: dropping the tail `sync_threads` after the put_warp scatter, on the theory that the next iteration's fragment-to-shared copy already carries the loop-carried hazard barrier. The two configurations' samples overlap completely (1738.5/1757.5 vs 1737.7/1748.7). An earlier note measured 0.94% for this, but that was on the wave scheduler, where fewer, larger tiles made the per-tile barrier a bigger share; the flat task queue has already absorbed it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverts 4068861 (scale-group major `recv_x_sf`) and c8e2f78 (the same treatment for `l2_x_sf`). Both are wrong at M>=2048: `--check` reports a diff of 0.28/0.31 on Flash, in both scatter modes, while M<=1024 passes. 68088ed reports 2.4e-5 at the same size. The two commits were validated at M<=512 only, so the M sweep that followed them measured a kernel that computes wrong results at the top of the range. The 1.2% and 1.1% they claimed are forfeited until the race is understood -- the suspect is the dispatch pull, which now stages the remote scale row in shared memory and scatters it into a transposed pool, where the previous code wrote the pool directly with a single `get_warp`.
The `put_warp` scatter was selected from M=256 up, but it only starts
winning at M=1024. Measured on Flash (4x H200), direct vs put_warp:
M=128 468.2 vs 487.7
M=256 478.8 vs 496.0
M=512 520.1 vs 523.1
M=1024 782.6 vs 763.7
M=2048 1352.5 vs 1216.3
So M=256 and M=512 were paying 3.5% and 0.6% for the wrong branch. The
old threshold predates the flat task queue, which changed the per-tile
cost balance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds an SM90 FP8 distributed MegaMoE example. The pipeline uses persistent L1 and L2 kernels for routing, expert computation, remote communication, reduction, validation, and benchmarking. It also adds configuration tests and runtime documentation. ChangesDistributed FP8 MegaMoE
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- Around line 777-831: Move resolve_model_config and select_manual_warp_configs
to module scope, and promote normalize_experts_per_wave from the nested
select_manual_warp_configs scope to module scope so the test can import all
three helpers as module attributes; preserve the current selection logic and
assertions. In examples/distributed/mega_moe/example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py lines
777-831, apply the implementation change; in
examples/distributed/mega_moe/test_example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py lines 19-61,
make no direct changes because the existing assertions should pass once the
helpers are importable.
- Around line 656-671: The tail T.copy from reduce_shared to out in the
reduce_tile loop must not write rows beyond num_tokens when the token count is
not a multiple of reduce_block_m (8). Guard or otherwise predicate this store
while preserving full-tile behavior, ensuring bulk TMA lowering cannot emit an
unbounded 8-row write for the final tile.
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| for reduce_tile in T.serial(bid, num_reduce_tiles, num_sms): | ||
| reduce_n = reduce_tile % num_reduce_n_blocks | ||
| reduce_m = reduce_tile // num_reduce_n_blocks | ||
| T.clear(reduce_accum) | ||
| for topk_slot in T.serial(num_topk): | ||
| for i, j in T.Parallel(reduce_block_m, reduce_block_h): | ||
| if reduce_m * reduce_block_m + i < num_tokens: | ||
| reduce_accum[i, j] += combine[reduce_m * reduce_block_m + i, topk_slot, reduce_n * reduce_block_h + j] | ||
| T.copy(reduce_accum, reduce_shared) | ||
| T.copy( | ||
| reduce_shared, | ||
| out[ | ||
| reduce_m * reduce_block_m, | ||
| reduce_n * reduce_block_h, | ||
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Guard the tail T.copy store when num_tokens is not a multiple of 8.
On the default CUDA path, T.copy selects a bulk TMA store because the 128-column tile satisfies CheckBulkStore. Copy::LowerBulk emits the full 8-row tma_store without a destination predicate. For a tail tile such as rows 96–103 when num_tokens == 100, this can write beyond out. Predicate the tail store or reject unaligned token counts.
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In `@examples/distributed/mega_moe/example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py` around lines 656
- 671, The tail T.copy from reduce_shared to out in the reduce_tile loop must
not write rows beyond num_tokens when the token count is not a multiple of
reduce_block_m (8). Guard or otherwise predicate this store while preserving
full-tile behavior, ensuring bulk TMA lowering cannot emit an unbounded 8-row
write for the final tile.
| def resolve_model_config(args: argparse.Namespace) -> Tuple[str, dict[str, int]]: | ||
| model = MODEL_CONFIGS[args.model_config].copy() | ||
| overrides = { | ||
| "hidden": getattr(args, "hidden", None), | ||
| "intermediate_hidden": getattr(args, "intermediate_hidden", None), | ||
| "num_experts": getattr(args, "num_experts", None), | ||
| "num_topk": getattr(args, "num_topk", None), | ||
| } | ||
| is_custom = any(value is not None for value in overrides.values()) | ||
| model.update({key: value for key, value in overrides.items() if value is not None}) | ||
| return ("custom" if is_custom else args.model_config), model | ||
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| num_tokens: int, | ||
| num_topk: int, | ||
| num_experts_per_rank: int, | ||
| num_sms: int, | ||
| ) -> Tuple[str, dict[str, int], dict[str, int]]: | ||
| """Select the TileScale counterpart of DeepGEMM SM90 schedule families.""" | ||
| if 3072 <= hidden < 5120 and 1536 <= intermediate_hidden < 2560: | ||
| shape_family = "compact" | ||
| elif 5120 <= hidden <= 8192 and 2560 <= intermediate_hidden <= 4096: | ||
| shape_family = "wide" | ||
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| requested = min(max(requested, 1), num_experts) | ||
| for candidate in range(requested, num_experts + 1): | ||
| if num_experts % candidate == 0: | ||
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| expected_tokens = (routed_tokens + num_experts_per_rank - 1) // num_experts_per_rank | ||
| num_m_blocks = (expected_tokens + 63) // 64 | ||
| blocks_per_expert = num_m_blocks * (2 * intermediate_hidden // 256) | ||
| requested = min(num_experts_per_rank, (2 * num_sms + blocks_per_expert - 1) // blocks_per_expert) | ||
| if blocks_per_expert < num_sms: | ||
| max_candidate = min(num_experts_per_rank, 2 * requested) | ||
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| key=lambda candidate: 1.0 if num_experts_per_rank % candidate == 0 else (num_experts_per_rank % candidate) / candidate, | ||
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| generic_experts_per_wave = normalize_experts_per_wave(num_experts_per_rank, requested) |
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The configuration helpers live inside main, so the unit test cannot import them. resolve_model_config, select_manual_warp_configs, and normalize_experts_per_wave are nested functions, while the test reads them as module attributes of example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe. test_custom_model_config_and_schedule fails with AttributeError on its first call.
examples/distributed/mega_moe/example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py#L777-L831: defineresolve_model_config,select_manual_warp_configs, andnormalize_experts_per_waveat module scope, and promotenormalize_experts_per_waveout ofselect_manual_warp_configs.examples/distributed/mega_moe/test_example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py#L19-L61: keep the existing assertions; they match the current selection logic once the helpers are importable.
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In `@examples/distributed/mega_moe/example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py` around lines 777
- 831, Move resolve_model_config and select_manual_warp_configs to module scope,
and promote normalize_experts_per_wave from the nested
select_manual_warp_configs scope to module scope so the test can import all
three helpers as module attributes; preserve the current selection logic and
assertions. In examples/distributed/mega_moe/example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py lines
777-831, apply the implementation change; in
examples/distributed/mega_moe/test_example_sm90_fp8_mega_moe.py lines 19-61,
make no direct changes because the existing assertions should pass once the
helpers are importable.
Summary
This PR adds a distributed FP8 MegaMoE example for NVIDIA SM90 GPUs. It executes the routed expert MLP with two persistent, phase-specialized fused kernels:
The example includes Flash and Pro model presets, aligned custom shapes, a PyTorch correctness reference, benchmark support, documentation, and a four-GPU distributed smoke test. The change is example-only and does not modify the TileScale compiler or runtime.
Design
Experts are evenly sharded across ranks. Inputs and weights use FP8 E4M3 with FP32 per-128-element scales, and the final output is BF16.
Kernel 1: dispatch + L1 + SwiGLU
Kernel 2: L2 + scatter + reduce
(token, top-k slot)workspace. Small token batches use direct packed stores; larger batches use warp-level remote stores.The schedule selects compact, wide, or generic shape families and tunes pipeline depth and experts per wave from the model shape and routed-token load.
Why two kernels on SM90?
The implementation is informed by the SM90 FP8 MegaMoE design in DeepGEMM PR #383. We also considered optimizations used by DeepGEMM's SM100 MegaMoE path, including ring-buffered routed-expert buffers, L1/L2 wave interleaving, and fused shared-expert execution.
Those techniques do not map directly to Hopper. Without TMEM and the SM100 cluster/UMMA pipeline, combining routing, both GEMMs, scatter, and reduction in one persistent kernel creates excessive register and shared-memory pressure and weakens phase specialization. This PR therefore ships only the two-kernel path; the experimental single-kernel prototype is intentionally excluded. Ring buffering, cross-layer wave interleaving, and shared-expert fusion would require a dedicated SM90 redesign and can be evaluated as follow-up work.
Performance
On 8x NVIDIA H200, the current TileScale implementation is within approximately +/-10% of DeepGEMM PR #383 across the full Flash M sweep (
M = 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192). This puts the two implementations in a comparable performance range.Benchmark setup
M: tokens per rankNegative values in the relative column indicate that TileScale is faster than the DeepGEMM PR #383 CUDA baseline.
TileScale is faster than the DeepGEMM PR #383 CUDA baseline for
M <= 256in this setup. For largerM, the remaining gap is mainly in distributed dispatch, remote activation/scatter traffic, and the final reduction path.Testing
Correctness is checked against a PyTorch reference that reconstructs the per-128 FP8 scales and evaluates the routed expert MLP. The distributed smoke test also covers model/schedule selection and a four-rank end-to-end run.
The example can be checked and benchmarked directly on an eight-GPU host:
The distributed path requires peer-accessible SM90 GPUs and a configured NVIDIA IMEX channel.
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