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[None][perf] HALO-Q: plan every EP above 8 in registers and repair only pairs that can move quota - #21373
The planner CTA's EP>8 paths kept rank state in shared memory, walked group ranks serially and ran every tournament phase of the quota repair behind a full-block barrier, so planning took about 9x and 28x as long at EP16 and EP32 as at EP8. Every output stays bit for bit the same.
Placement (plan_halo_m_warp): lane = rank with all state in registers, owner/group/destination choices as redux.sync keys, group rooms kept per lane and updated as ranks receive, each level's two emptiest members found beside the owner choice, and ranks that would be frozen (no candidate left, an empty one, no qualifying group; all final) left out of the owner choice instead of costing an iteration. Compile-time warp masks.
Prepare: homes of at most 32 experts rank their experts in parallel.
Repair with at most 32 broadcasts: pairs sharing fewer than two broadcasts are dropped (they never move quota) and the rest run in dependency steps -- a pair once neither rank has an earlier pair left -- so ranks keep the tournament's order. Warp 15 computes the steps ahead into kScheduleInts ints of their own at the end of the planner's shared memory, so the path holds for any expert count; up to 14 other warps (never warp 8) run the pairs, returning early when neither direction can move quota. run_halo_q takes that region as a new argument.
Coloring: warp 8 assigns helper slots with one lane per broadcast when there are at most 32 broadcasts and 32 helpers.
None of it assumes a power-of-two EP; EP <= 8 keeps its 8-lane paths.
On the planner microbenchmark (one CTA, three helper slots, placement + repair medians on routing traces), EP12, 16, 24 and 32 plan 4.5x, 6.6x, 7.1x and 14x faster and EP6/EP8 are unchanged, with 96 or 384 experts; coloring at EP32 is about 4x faster. Plans and pre-/post-repair quotas equal the previous kernel in 32 configurations (EP3-EP32, 3-40 helpers, 96 and 384 experts, generic fallbacks included), as do the coloring outputs for local ranks 0, ep/2 and ep-1, and 100 repeated runs of each reproduce them bit for bit.
Dev Engineer Review
The kernel changes add register-resident HALO-Q planning, scheduled quota repair, and warp-based helper coloring for supported group sizes, while retaining fallback paths. Performance gains and plan-matching results are author-reported. No test execution results or review findings were supplied.
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The changes add moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu and register its target in cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt. The test checks plan invariants and golden outputs for plans, quotas, and helper colors across eight parameter sets. The integration test runs on architectures "100" and "107". The B200 and GR100 test-db lists include the HALO-Q test. Test execution status is unavailable. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.
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cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/loadBalance/dynamicEplb/moeRebalanceHaloQKernel.cuh: Verify register-based planning, quota-pair scheduling, and helper coloring across supported EP, broadcast, and helper counts, including fallback paths.
cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu: Covers deterministic routing-count cases, plan and quota invariants, and golden plan, quota, and color outputs. The test is invoked by the integration test for architectures "100" and "107".
cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt: Registers the new GPU MoE load-balancing unit-test target. Verify it builds and runs in the applicable C++ unit-test workflow.
tests/integration/defs/cpp/conftest.py: Adds a fixture that builds the HALO-Q test target using an architecture-specific standalone build.
tests/integration/defs/cpp/test_unit_tests.py: Adds test_haloq_planner_unit_tests for architectures "100" and "107". It runs the gtest binary and writes JUnit output.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml: Adds the architecture-100 HALO-Q integration test to the B200 C++ test list.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gr100.yml: Adds the HALO-Q planner test to the GR100 post-merge PyTorch test list.
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The kernel adds direct ranking for small homes and updates the HALO-M planner. HALO-Q gains generalized pair repair, scheduled repair for up to 32 broadcasts, and warp-based helper coloring. A CUDA test validates planner and repair outputs.
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Dynamic EPLB planning and repair
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HALO-M preparation and warp planning cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/loadBalance/dynamicEplb/moeRebalanceHaloQKernel.cuh
Homes with at most 32 experts use per-expert ranking by descending mass, with local index breaking ties. The register-resident planner tracks rank groups, capacity, receiver slots, candidates, quotas, and rank loads. It selects active lanes and reduction key width based on EP size and total load.
HALO-Q pair repair and scheduling cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/loadBalance/dynamicEplb/moeRebalanceHaloQKernel.cuh
Pair-repair reductions and scans support configurable lane counts. For up to 32 broadcasts, warp 15 schedules ordered pair steps in scratch for other warps to execute. Larger cases retain ring-based repair. Schedule scratch is included in allocation and shared-memory sizing.
For up to 32 broadcasts and 1–32 helpers, the warp path assigns the lowest available helper slot to each broadcast and records slot errors. Other cases use the lane-0 path.
Planner validation and test integration cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu, cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt, tests/integration/defs/cpp/conftest.py, tests/integration/defs/cpp/test_unit_tests.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/*
The CUDA test checks planning, quota validity and conservation, load preservation, helper coloring, and expected output hashes across eight cases. CMake registers the test, and integration fixtures build and run it for architectures 100 and 107.
This PR rewrites the HALO-Q planner for EP values above 8 and adds a CUDA planner test with CI registration. The remaining risk is a possible clang-format pre-commit failure in the kernel header. That failure would block merge but would not affect runtime behavior. Run the formatter on that file before merging.
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Run clang-format on this file so the pre-commit check passes.
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…ly pairs that can move quota
The planner CTA's EP>8 paths kept rank state in shared memory, walked
group ranks serially and ran every tournament phase of the quota repair
behind a full-block barrier, so planning took about 9x and 28x as long at
EP16 and EP32 as at EP8. Every output stays bit for bit the same.
- Placement (plan_halo_m_warp): lane = rank with all state in registers,
owner/group/destination choices as redux.sync keys, group rooms kept per
lane and updated as ranks receive, each level's two emptiest members found
beside the owner choice, and ranks that would be frozen (no candidate
left, an empty one, no qualifying group; all final) left out of the owner
choice instead of costing an iteration. Compile-time warp masks.
- Prepare: homes of at most 32 experts rank their experts in parallel.
- Repair with at most 32 broadcasts: pairs sharing fewer than two
broadcasts are dropped (they never move quota) and the rest run in
dependency steps -- a pair once neither rank has an earlier pair left --
so ranks keep the tournament's order. Warp 15 computes the steps ahead
into kScheduleInts ints of their own at the end of the planner's shared
memory, so the path holds for any expert count; up to 14 other warps
(never warp 8) run the pairs, returning early when neither direction can
move quota. run_halo_q takes that region as a new argument.
- Coloring: warp 8 assigns helper slots with one lane per broadcast when
there are at most 32 broadcasts and 32 helpers.
None of it assumes a power-of-two EP; EP <= 8 keeps its 8-lane paths.
On the planner microbenchmark (one CTA, three helper slots, placement +
repair medians on routing traces), EP12, 16, 24 and 32 plan 4.5x, 6.6x,
7.1x and 14x faster and EP6/EP8 are unchanged, with 96 or 384 experts;
coloring at EP32 is about 4x faster. Plans and pre-/post-repair quotas
equal the previous kernel in 32 configurations (EP3-EP32, 3-40 helpers,
96 and 384 experts, generic fallbacks included), as do the coloring
outputs for local ranks 0, ep/2 and ep-1, and 100 repeated runs of each
reproduce them bit for bit.
Signed-off-by: jintaop <jintaop@nvidia.com>
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Rename optin to pass the configured codespell hook.
The codespell hook can reject optin, which prevents the Release Checks / Pre-commit Check job from passing. Use a descriptive name that is not flagged.
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--- "a/cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu"+++ "b/cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu"@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@
int const home = experts / ep;
int const capacity = broadcast_capacity(ep, experts, helpers);
int const sharedBytes = halo_q_shared_ints(ep, experts, capacity, kThreads) * static_cast<int>(sizeof(int));
- int optin = 0;- ASSERT_EQ(cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&optin, cudaDevAttrMaxSharedMemoryPerBlockOptin, device), cudaSuccess);- if (sharedBytes > optin)+ int maxSharedBytes = 0;+ ASSERT_EQ(cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&maxSharedBytes, cudaDevAttrMaxSharedMemoryPerBlockOptin, device), cudaSuccess);+ if (sharedBytes > maxSharedBytes)
GTEST_SKIP() << "needs " << sharedBytes << " B of shared memory per block";
std::vector<int> const counts = makeCounts(c);
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[error] 189-191: The codespell pre-commit hook failed: 'optin' was flagged as a misspelling of 'option' on lines 189–191.
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The per-layer dynamic EPLB tests run on CPU only, so no CI test executed
the planner kernel. moeRebalanceHaloQTest runs placement, quota repair
and helper-slot coloring on routing counts given to one CTA, without the
cross-rank count exchange or the copy, so it needs one GPU. HALO-Q runs
on Blackwell and Rubin only, so the test skips other GPUs, and CI builds
just this gtest and runs it on B200 (pre-merge) and GR100 (post-merge),
sharing the single-target build of the KV cache compression test.
Eight inputs cover EP4 to EP32 (including EP12), 96 and 384 experts, the
8-lane and 32-lane planners, the pair and scheduled repairs, more than 32
broadcasts and more than 32 helpers. Each case checks the plan's
invariants -- valid groups and owners, quota rows that add up to the
expert's tokens on its hosts only, a repair that keeps every rank's load,
a placement that never raises the busiest rank, conflict-free helper
slots and each rank's slot table -- and pins the exact plan by a hash.
Signed-off-by: jintaop <jintaop@nvidia.com>
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…ly pairs that can move quota
The planner CTA's EP>8 paths kept rank state in shared memory, walked group ranks serially and ran every tournament phase of the quota repair behind a full-block barrier, so planning took about 9x and 28x as long at EP16 and EP32 as at EP8. Every output stays bit for bit the same.
None of it assumes a power-of-two EP; EP <= 8 keeps its 8-lane paths.
On the planner microbenchmark (one CTA, three helper slots, placement + repair medians on routing traces), EP12, 16, 24 and 32 plan 4.5x, 6.6x, 7.1x and 14x faster and EP6/EP8 are unchanged, with 96 or 384 experts; coloring at EP32 is about 4x faster. Plans and pre-/post-repair quotas equal the previous kernel in 32 configurations (EP3-EP32, 3-40 helpers, 96 and 384 experts, generic fallbacks included), as do the coloring outputs for local ranks 0, ep/2 and ep-1, and 100 repeated runs of each reproduce them bit for bit.
Dev Engineer Review
The kernel changes add register-resident HALO-Q planning, scheduled quota repair, and warp-based helper coloring for supported group sizes, while retaining fallback paths. Performance gains and plan-matching results are author-reported. No test execution results or review findings were supplied.
QA Engineer Review
The changes add
moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cuand register its target incpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt. The test checks plan invariants and golden outputs for plans, quotas, and helper colors across eight parameter sets. The integration test runs on architectures"100"and"107". The B200 and GR100 test-db lists include the HALO-Q test. Test execution status is unavailable. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.Per-File QA Perspective
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/loadBalance/dynamicEplb/moeRebalanceHaloQKernel.cuh: Verify register-based planning, quota-pair scheduling, and helper coloring across supported EP, broadcast, and helper counts, including fallback paths.cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/moeRebalanceHaloQTest.cu: Covers deterministic routing-count cases, plan and quota invariants, and golden plan, quota, and color outputs. The test is invoked by the integration test for architectures"100"and"107".cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt: Registers the new GPU MoE load-balancing unit-test target. Verify it builds and runs in the applicable C++ unit-test workflow.tests/integration/defs/cpp/conftest.py: Adds a fixture that builds the HALO-Q test target using an architecture-specific standalone build.tests/integration/defs/cpp/test_unit_tests.py: Addstest_haloq_planner_unit_testsfor architectures"100"and"107". It runs the gtest binary and writes JUnit output.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml: Adds the architecture-100HALO-Q integration test to the B200 C++ test list.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gr100.yml: Adds the HALO-Q planner test to the GR100 post-merge PyTorch test list.Description
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