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v60.py
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interfacepython
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measured onAMD Instinct MI355X
declared hardwareAMD Instinct MI355X
architecturesgfx950
dtypesbf16, int32

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1 measurement across 1 GPU, fastest first.

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Hardware
Latency
Rank
Observed
AMD Instinct MI355X
35.9µs
#79 of 766
2026-03-24

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revision digestsha256:0b00cabf78c11500fb72954787f91b0e0940a1c64b8866d1e3d83f6ad3c4772a
license declaredunknown
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authorsjohnny.t.shi
imported2026-08-15

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persistent-kernel"""MLA v60 — v50 + a8w8 (FP8 Q + FP8 KV) for persistent mode shapes.

Kernel source

v60.py174 lines
#!POPCORN leaderboard amd-mixed-mla
#!POPCORN gpu MI355X
"""MLA v60 — v50 + a8w8 (FP8 Q + FP8 KV) for persistent mode shapes.

Hypothesis: a8w8 ASM kernel has higher MFMA throughput than a16w8 due to
FP8×FP8 MFMA (v_mfma_f32_32x32x64_f8f6f4) vs BF16×FP8 mixed path.
Changes: Q converted to FP8, q_scale=1.0, metadata uses dtype_q=fp8.
"""
from task import input_t, output_t
import torch
from aiter.mla import mla_decode_fwd
from aiter import dtypes as aiter_dtypes
from aiter import get_mla_metadata_info_v1, get_mla_metadata_v1

_meta_cache = {}
_tensor_cache = {}


def _get_cached_tensors(key, create_fn):
    cached = _tensor_cache.get(key)
    if cached is None:
        cached = create_fn()
        _tensor_cache[key] = cached
    return cached


def _get_or_make_metadata(batch_size, total_kv, num_heads, nhead_kv, num_splits, page_size,
                          q_dtype, kv_dtype, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, kv_last_page_lens, device):
    key = (batch_size, total_kv, num_heads, num_splits, page_size, str(q_dtype), str(kv_dtype))
    cached = _meta_cache.get(key)
    if cached is not None:
        return cached

    info = get_mla_metadata_info_v1(
        batch_size, 1, num_heads, q_dtype, kv_dtype,
        is_sparse=False, fast_mode=True,
        num_kv_splits=num_splits, intra_batch_mode=False,
    )
    work = [torch.empty(s, dtype=t, device=device) for s, t in info]
    (wmd, wi, wis, ri, rfm, rpm) = work

    get_mla_metadata_v1(
        qo_indptr, kv_indptr, kv_last_page_lens,
        num_heads // nhead_kv, nhead_kv, False,
        wmd, wis, wi, ri, rfm, rpm,
        page_size=page_size, kv_granularity=max(page_size, 16),
        max_seqlen_qo=1, uni_seqlen_qo=1, fast_mode=True,
        max_split_per_batch=num_splits, intra_batch_mode=False,
        dtype_q=q_dtype, dtype_kv=kv_dtype,
    )

    result = dict(
        work_meta_data=wmd, work_indptr=wi, work_info_set=wis,
        reduce_indptr=ri, reduce_final_map=rfm, reduce_partial_map=rpm,
    )
    _meta_cache[key] = result
    return result


def _run_bf16(q, kv_bf16, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config):
    batch_size = config['batch_size']
    total_kv = kv_bf16.shape[0]
    kv_buffer = kv_bf16.unsqueeze(1)

    tensors = _get_cached_tensors(
        ('bf16', batch_size, total_kv),
        lambda: {
            'kv_indices': torch.arange(total_kv, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
            'kv_last_page_lens': torch.ones(batch_size, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
        }
    )

    mla_decode_fwd(
        q=q, kv_buffer=kv_buffer, o=output,
        qo_indptr=qo_indptr, kv_indptr=kv_indptr,
        kv_indices=tensors['kv_indices'], kv_last_page_lens=tensors['kv_last_page_lens'],
        max_seqlen_q=1, page_size=1, nhead_kv=1, sm_scale=config['sm_scale'],
    )


def _run_fp8_nonpersist(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config):
    batch_size = config['batch_size']
    total_kv = kv_fp8_data.shape[0]

    q_fp8 = q.to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
    kv_buffer = kv_fp8_data.unsqueeze(1)

    tensors = _get_cached_tensors(
        ('fp8np', batch_size, total_kv),
        lambda: {
            'q_scale': torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q.device),
            'kv_indices': torch.arange(total_kv, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
            'kv_last_page_lens': torch.ones(batch_size, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
            'num_kv_splits_indptr': torch.arange(batch_size + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=q.device),
        }
    )

    mla_decode_fwd(
        q=q_fp8, kv_buffer=kv_buffer, o=output,
        qo_indptr=qo_indptr, kv_indptr=kv_indptr,
        kv_indices=tensors['kv_indices'], kv_last_page_lens=tensors['kv_last_page_lens'],
        max_seqlen_q=1, page_size=1, nhead_kv=1, sm_scale=config['sm_scale'],
        num_kv_splits=1, num_kv_splits_indptr=tensors['num_kv_splits_indptr'],
        q_scale=tensors['q_scale'], kv_scale=kv_fp8_scale,
    )


def _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size, num_splits=4):
    """a8w8 persistent: FP8 Q + FP8 KV — uses higher-throughput FP8×FP8 MFMA."""
    batch_size = config['batch_size']
    num_heads = config['num_heads']
    total_kv = kv_fp8_data.shape[0]

    q_fp8 = q.to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
    num_pages = total_kv // page_size
    kv_buffer = kv_fp8_data.view(num_pages, page_size, 1, 576)

    tensors = _get_cached_tensors(
        ('a8w8', batch_size, total_kv, page_size),
        lambda: {
            'q_scale': torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q.device),
            'kv_indices': torch.arange(num_pages, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
            'kv_indptr_pages': kv_indptr // page_size,
            'kv_last_page_lens': torch.full((batch_size,), page_size, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
        }
    )

    meta = _get_or_make_metadata(
        batch_size, total_kv, num_heads, 1, num_splits, page_size,
        aiter_dtypes.fp8, aiter_dtypes.fp8,
        qo_indptr, tensors['kv_indptr_pages'], tensors['kv_last_page_lens'], q.device,
    )

    mla_decode_fwd(
        q_fp8, kv_buffer, output,
        qo_indptr, tensors['kv_indptr_pages'], tensors['kv_indices'], tensors['kv_last_page_lens'],
        1, page_size=page_size, nhead_kv=1, sm_scale=config['sm_scale'],
        logit_cap=0.0, num_kv_splits=num_splits,
        q_scale=tensors['q_scale'], kv_scale=kv_fp8_scale,
        intra_batch_mode=False, **meta,
    )


def custom_kernel(data: input_t) -> output_t:
    q, kv_data, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config = data

    batch_size = config['batch_size']
    num_heads = config['num_heads']
    v_head_dim = config['v_head_dim']
    kv_seq_len = config['kv_seq_len']

    output = torch.empty((q.shape[0], num_heads, v_head_dim), dtype=q.dtype, device=q.device)

    if kv_seq_len <= 1024 and batch_size <= 4:
        _run_bf16(q, kv_data["bf16"], output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config)
    elif kv_seq_len <= 1024 and batch_size == 64:
        kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale = kv_data["fp8"]
        _run_fp8_nonpersist(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config)
    elif kv_seq_len <= 1024:
        kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale = kv_data["fp8"]
        splits = 16 if batch_size <= 32 else 8
        _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=2, num_splits=splits)
    else:
        kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale = kv_data["fp8"]
        if batch_size <= 4:
            splits = 16
        elif batch_size <= 32:
            splits = 8
        else:
            splits = 4
        _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=8, num_splits=splits)

    return output
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Source code from GPU Mode and the KernelBot dataset · June 9 Researcher Reciprocity License v1.0

Changes from previous submission

Against this author's previous submission submission 619946.

#!POPCORN leaderboard amd-mixed-mla
#!POPCORN gpu MI355X
- """MLA v50 — v47 + aggressive tensor caching to eliminate GPU kernel launch overhead.
+ """MLA v60 — v50 + a8w8 (FP8 Q + FP8 KV) for persistent mode shapes.
- All shape-dependent tensors (kv_indices, kv_last_page_lens, kv_indptr_pages,
- num_kv_splits_indptr) are cached in module-level dicts keyed by shape params.
- Eliminates 3-5 GPU kernel launches (torch.arange, torch.ones, etc.) per call.
+ Hypothesis: a8w8 ASM kernel has higher MFMA throughput than a16w8 due to
+ FP8×FP8 MFMA (v_mfma_f32_32x32x64_f8f6f4) vs BF16×FP8 mixed path.
+ Changes: Q converted to FP8, q_scale=1.0, metadata uses dtype_q=fp8.
"""
from task import input_t, output_t
import torch
⋯ 94 unchanged lines
)
- def _run_a16w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size, num_splits=4):
+ def _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size, num_splits=4):
+ """a8w8 persistent: FP8 Q + FP8 KV — uses higher-throughput FP8×FP8 MFMA."""
batch_size = config['batch_size']
num_heads = config['num_heads']
total_kv = kv_fp8_data.shape[0]
+ q_fp8 = q.to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
num_pages = total_kv // page_size
kv_buffer = kv_fp8_data.view(num_pages, page_size, 1, 576)
tensors = _get_cached_tensors(
- ('a16w8', batch_size, total_kv, page_size),
+ ('a8w8', batch_size, total_kv, page_size),
lambda: {
+ 'q_scale': torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q.device),
'kv_indices': torch.arange(num_pages, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
'kv_indptr_pages': kv_indptr // page_size,
'kv_last_page_lens': torch.full((batch_size,), page_size, device=q.device, dtype=torch.int32),
⋯ 2 unchanged lines
meta = _get_or_make_metadata(
batch_size, total_kv, num_heads, 1, num_splits, page_size,
- torch.bfloat16, aiter_dtypes.fp8,
+ aiter_dtypes.fp8, aiter_dtypes.fp8,
qo_indptr, tensors['kv_indptr_pages'], tensors['kv_last_page_lens'], q.device,
)
mla_decode_fwd(
- q, kv_buffer, output,
+ q_fp8, kv_buffer, output,
qo_indptr, tensors['kv_indptr_pages'], tensors['kv_indices'], tensors['kv_last_page_lens'],
1, page_size=page_size, nhead_kv=1, sm_scale=config['sm_scale'],
logit_cap=0.0, num_kv_splits=num_splits,
- q_scale=None, kv_scale=kv_fp8_scale,
+ q_scale=tensors['q_scale'], kv_scale=kv_fp8_scale,
intra_batch_mode=False, **meta,
)
⋯ 16 unchanged lines
elif kv_seq_len <= 1024:
kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale = kv_data["fp8"]
splits = 16 if batch_size <= 32 else 8
- _run_a16w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=2, num_splits=splits)
+ _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=2, num_splits=splits)
else:
kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale = kv_data["fp8"]
if batch_size <= 4:
⋯ 2 unchanged lines
splits = 8
else:
splits = 4
- _run_a16w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=8, num_splits=splits)
+ _run_a8w8(q, kv_fp8_data, kv_fp8_scale, output, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config, page_size=8, num_splits=splits)
return output
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