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Background

The monolithic tools/perf_matrix.py script (approx 2,743 lines) had become difficult to maintain, optimize, and safely update without causing severe merge conflicts for individual model-family developers. The goal of this change is to modularize the matrix script into a cohesive Python package while keeping backward compatibility intact.

Exit Criteria

  • The monolithic script is successfully broken down into distinct, single-responsibility modules (core.py, types.py, and cli.py).
  • Existing external shell scripts, CI systems, and direct usages of tools/perf_matrix.py continue to work without modification (via a newly introduced wrapper script).
  • Static analysis checks (linters and LSP validators) pass cleanly without circular or undefined imports.

Implementation

  • Created a new directory structure tools/perf_matrix/.
  • Segregated data types into types.py.
  • Aggregated heavy logic (configuration parsing, execution commands, and output comparison metrics) into core.py.
  • Encapsulated argument parsing and runtime dispatch into cli.py.
  • Replaced the root tools/perf_matrix.py file with a lightweight wrapper that dynamically imports the newly isolated CLI logic, ensuring the sys.path correctly resolves upstream dependencies (trtmc_benchmark) in advance.

Change categories

  • Model or runtime behavior
  • Public API
  • ABI
  • Bundle or artifact format
  • Dependencies
  • Documentation only
  • CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

```bash

py tools/perf_matrix.py -h
usage: perf_matrix.py [-h] {check,prepare,run,resume,report} ...
```
Command successfully renders help context without crashing or throwing import errors.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Not applicable: Architectural refactor isolated to local tooling layout.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

None: Backward compatibility is retained via the wrapper proxy, and functionality logic remains identical.

Contributor Self-Review

  • I have completed a self-review of this change.

Notes For Future Readers

Risk level

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

Low risk because the execution logic was lifted and shifted identically, and the entry point guarantees backward-compatible interactions for CI runner steps.

Modularize the 2743-line monolithic script into types, core execution logic, and cli.

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Ensure benchmark paths are added to sys.path before attempting to import them. Also include trailing whitespace fixes.

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📝 Summary

Refactors the performance-matrix tool into the tools/perf_matrix/ package.

  • Adds types.py for schemas, constants, errors, and data classes.
  • Adds core.py for configuration loading, entry resolution, benchmark execution, result comparison, preparation, resumption, and reporting.
  • Adds cli.py for command parsing and dispatch.
  • Adds __main__.py for package execution.
  • Keeps tools/perf_matrix.py as a compatibility wrapper.
  • Preserves direct invocation and benchmark dependency path resolution.
  • Updates architecture tests and benchmark test patch targets.

Architecture impact

  • Family-owned files: No model-family implementation files change. The change remains in shared performance-matrix tooling.
  • Changed shared surfaces: Package exports, CLI commands, performance-matrix types, private helper imports, and test patch targets.
  • Dependency directions: The wrapper imports cli, core, and types. cli uses core and types. core depends on benchmark and performance-baseline modules.
  • Affected consumers: Direct script users, package-module users, CI and shell workflows, benchmark tests, architecture tests, and compatibility-surface imports.
  • Unresolved blast-radius questions: Full runtime behavior, alternate launch contexts, and compatibility of all re-exported private helpers require human review.

Outcome: HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED. Review finding counts are unavailable. Supplied validation confirms only that py tools/perf_matrix.py -h displays help without import errors.

Walkthrough

The change adds performance-matrix types, package exports, executable entry points, and a CLI for checking, preparing, running, resuming, and reporting matrices. It also updates architecture and benchmark tests for the new module boundaries.

Changes

Performance Matrix CLI

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared types and package entry points
tools/perf_matrix/types.py, tools/perf_matrix/__init__.py, tools/perf_matrix/__main__.py
Adds schema constants, runtime dataclasses, error types, repository path setup, package exports, and a module entry point that delegates to cli.main.
CLI commands and options
tools/perf_matrix/cli.py
Adds parsing for check, prepare, run, resume, and report, with suite, environment, filter, coverage, output, receipt, verbosity, and build options.
CLI dispatch and test integration
tools/perf_matrix/cli.py, tools/tests/test_architecture.py, apps/benchmark/trtmc_benchmark/tests/*
Dispatches commands, validates stored runs and preparation receipts, returns status 2 for supported errors, and updates tests to patch implementations through perf.core.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant main
  participant parser
  participant CoreOperations
  User->>main: invoke performance-matrix command
  main->>parser: parse command and options
  parser-->>main: parsed arguments
  main->>CoreOperations: validate, prepare, run, resume, or report
  CoreOperations-->>main: result or supported error
  CoreOperations-->>main: result or supported error
  main-->>User: status code and diagnostics
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4fe45

The modular CLI now preserves package exports, but resume can still reject valid partially covered runs or fail abruptly on malformed records, while help output may omit its description. These issues can disrupt benchmark workflows, so the PR is not ready to merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: refactoring tools/perf_matrix.py into a modular package.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the background, exit criteria, implementation, change category, validation, environment, remaining gaps, self-review, notes, and risk level. It is relevant and mostly complete, …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Family Ownership Boundary ✅ Passed No family ownership boundary violation is introduced. The diff changes only the shared performance-matrix tooling, its shared tests, and the architecture inventory; no family-owned implementation, man…
Shared Semantic Neutrality ✅ Passed PASS. The shared change is a package refactor and import-path update. AST comparison found no changed function or class bodies between the base monolith and core.py, cli.py, and types.py. The se…
Benchmark Validation Integrity ✅ Passed No benchmark validation integrity failure is introduced. The base tools/perf_matrix.py accounting path and the head tools/perf_matrix/core.py path have AST-identical implementations for command ex…
Shared Change Blast Radius ✅ Passed The check passes. The description identifies a shared, model-agnostic need: the release performance matrix is a large central tool that creates merge conflicts for model-family developers. It names af…

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- Add SPDX headers to all files in tools/perf_matrix.
- Re-export tools.perf_matrix.core and types in tools/perf_matrix.py to maintain backward compatibility for internal test imports.

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🟠 Major · Restore the former tools.perf_matrix exports. · __init__.py:4

tools/perf_matrix/__init__.py:4
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the former tools.perf_matrix exports.

tools/perf_matrix now resolves to the package, whose __init__.py exports nothing. Imports such as from tools.perf_matrix import PerfMatrixError and perf.load_suite(...) therefore fail.

Re-export the former module surface. Import core and types before cli because cli depends on both.

Suggested compatibility exports
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+from .core import *  # noqa: F401,F403
+from .types import *  # noqa: F401,F403
+from .cli import main, parser
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In `@tools/perf_matrix/__init__.py` at line 4, Restore the public exports in the
package initializer by re-exporting symbols from core and types before importing
main and parser from cli. Preserve compatibility with former tools.perf_matrix
imports such as PerfMatrixError and perf.load_suite.
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21-27: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Centralize performance policy in one module.

OUTPUT_CONTRACTS, REFERENCE_INPUTS, REFERENCE_FIELDS, and the timing thresholds are defined independently in types.py, cli.py, and three locations in core.py. core.py uses its own globals in _adapter_options, _timing_stability, and _contract_name. It does not import these policies from types.py. This permits policy drift and couples shared types to model-specific behavior and timing policy.

Create one dedicated policy module. Import its canonical definitions into core.py and cli.py. Re-export them from types.py only when required for the compatibility wrapper. Remove all duplicate assignments.

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In `@tools/perf_matrix/types.py` around lines 21 - 27, Create a dedicated policy
module containing the canonical OUTPUT_CONTRACTS, REFERENCE_INPUTS,
REFERENCE_FIELDS, and timing-stability thresholds. Update core.py to import and
use these definitions in _adapter_options, _timing_stability, and
_contract_name, and update cli.py to use the same module; remove duplicate
policy assignments while re-exporting from types.py only where required by the
compatibility wrapper.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@tools/perf_matrix/cli.py`:
- Line 53: Move the module description string to the beginning of
tools/perf_matrix/cli.py, before the from __future__ import annotations
statement, so Python assigns it to __doc__ and argparse.ArgumentParser receives
the intended description.
- Around line 99-100: In the resume flow around _load_results, validate
suite_path and environment_path as non-empty strings before constructing Path
objects or calling load_suite and load_environment. Raise the established
PerfMatrixError with clear field-specific diagnostics so invalid or missing
values reach main’s documented status-2 handling, while preserving normal
loading for valid paths.
- Line 108: Persist the run’s allow-partial setting in results.json when
executing the run command, and update resume to read that saved setting and skip
_coverage when partial coverage was allowed. Keep _coverage validation for
resumed runs that did not enable partial coverage.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@tools/perf_matrix/__init__.py`:
- Line 4: Restore the public exports in the package initializer by re-exporting
symbols from core and types before importing main and parser from cli. Preserve
compatibility with former tools.perf_matrix imports such as PerfMatrixError and
perf.load_suite.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tools/perf_matrix/types.py`:
- Around line 21-27: Create a dedicated policy module containing the canonical
OUTPUT_CONTRACTS, REFERENCE_INPUTS, REFERENCE_FIELDS, and timing-stability
thresholds. Update core.py to import and use these definitions in
_adapter_options, _timing_stability, and _contract_name, and update cli.py to
use the same module; remove duplicate policy assignments while re-exporting from
types.py only where required by the compatibility wrapper.

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Comment thread tools/perf_matrix/cli.py
_TIMING_STABILITY_MAX_HALF_CHANGE_PERCENT = 5.0
_TIMING_STABILITY_MEDIAN_BAND_PERCENT = 5.0
_TIMING_STABILITY_MIN_IN_BAND = 8
'Run and report the TRTMC release performance matrix.'

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make this string the module docstring.

This string appears after executable statements, so Python does not assign it to __doc__. Line 57 therefore gives argparse.ArgumentParser a None description.

Move the string before from __future__ import annotations.

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In `@tools/perf_matrix/cli.py` at line 53, Move the module description string to
the beginning of tools/perf_matrix/cli.py, before the from __future__ import
annotations statement, so Python assigns it to __doc__ and
argparse.ArgumentParser receives the intended description.

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- Around line 7-9: Update the compatibility export loop around core and types to
copy only names declared in each module’s __all__, rather than every member
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Hi @yifeif-nv
Could you please let me know the reason why it keeps failing? I’m not able to understand what exactly is causing the failure this time. It would be really helpful if you could clarify the issue so I can fix it.

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