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  • Part of [Story][FEA] Order-aware streaming execution in cuDF-Polars #22128
  • Depends on Add OrderScheme.get_boundaries API rapidsai/rapidsmpf#1039
  • Prerequisite for set_sorted/MapFunction("hint_sorted") support
  • Adds an async extract_orderscheme_partitioning function. This utility can be used to collect the OrderScheme metadata from a channel that is known to be sorted ahead of time.
    • This function is not trivial, because we must "see" every chunk to collect the boundaries.
    • This implementation collects a flat inter-rank OrderScheme for the entire system. In the future, we may prefer a stratified partitioning description. However, that change should be relatively easy to make in the future.

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  • New Features

    • Improved distributed sorting for streaming data.
    • Added automatic partition boundary detection for ascending and descending order.
    • Supports selecting sort keys independently from payload column order.
    • Preserves non-empty input chunks for replay after partitioning analysis.
    • Validates global ordering and safely handles empty, insufficient, or unsorted input.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for multi-rank boundaries, descending order, strict ordering, unsorted input, single-chunk scenarios, and retained chunk contents.

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The sort collective now returns partitioning metadata with replayable non-empty input chunks. Tests cover successful, insufficient-data, unsorted, projected-key, ascending, descending, single-chunk, and empty-input cases.

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Replayable partitioning result
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/collectives/sort.py
extract_orderscheme_partitioning returns a frozen result with optional partitioning metadata and buffered non-empty chunks. It gathers first and last rows for boundary extraction and applies scoped ordered checks.
SPMD partitioning validation
python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py
Tests validate returned chunk counts, sequence numbers, chunk contents, key projection, empty-chunk omission, and ascending and descending boundaries.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b9539

This change adds an asynchronous utility for collecting ordering metadata from sorted channels, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining beyond normal checks and review.

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python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py (1)

181-190: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add edge-case coverage for the uncovered branches.

The four tests all use one non-null Int32 key with distinct values. The following implementation branches stay untested:

  • empty chunks, which extract_orderscheme_partitioning skips at line 198.
  • single-row chunks, which take the [0, 1, 0, 1] slice path at line 205.
  • null keys with NullOrder.BEFORE and NullOrder.AFTER.
  • duplicate keys across a chunk boundary, which must produce strict_boundaries == False. No test currently asserts a non-strict result.
  • a table with a payload column in addition to the key column.

The last two cases expose the projection defect flagged in collectives/sort.py. Do you want me to draft these tests?

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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py` around lines 181 - 190, Add
edge-case cases to test_extract_orderscheme_partitioning covering empty chunks,
single-row chunks, all-null and mixed null keys with both NullOrder.BEFORE and
NullOrder.AFTER, duplicate keys across partition boundaries, and a payload
column alongside the sort key. Assert the expected partitioning boundaries,
including strict_boundaries == False for duplicate boundary keys, while
preserving existing distinct non-null coverage.

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python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/collectives/sort.py (1)

134-139: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use plc.reduce.reduce with plc.aggregation.any() instead of apply_boolean_mask.

apply_boolean_mask allocates a filtered column only to test whether any row matches. The reduction returns the same result without that copy. Pass stream=stream to .to_py().

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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/collectives/sort.py`
around lines 134 - 139, Update the strictness calculation to use
plc.reduce.reduce with plc.aggregation.any() over row_eq_col instead of
plc.stream_compaction.apply_boolean_mask and num_rows(). Preserve the existing
empty-match boolean result, pass stream=stream to the resulting to_py() call,
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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/collectives/sort.py`:
- Around line 236-245: Update sort.py lines 236-245 and 113-140: project
gathered min_max_table to the columns identified by OrderKey.index before
calling plc.sorting.is_sorted or _extract_boundaries, ensuring order metadata
matches table arity; in the boundary derivation path, compute strictness only
from projected key columns and return those projected columns as boundaries,
consistent with _build_order_scheme.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/collectives/sort.py`:
- Around line 134-139: Update the strictness calculation to use
plc.reduce.reduce with plc.aggregation.any() over row_eq_col instead of
plc.stream_compaction.apply_boolean_mask and num_rows(). Preserve the existing
empty-match boolean result, pass stream=stream to the resulting to_py() call,
and keep the change localized to the strict assignment.

In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py`:
- Around line 181-190: Add edge-case cases to
test_extract_orderscheme_partitioning covering empty chunks, single-row chunks,
all-null and mixed null keys with both NullOrder.BEFORE and NullOrder.AFTER,
duplicate keys across partition boundaries, and a payload column alongside the
sort key. Assert the expected partitioning boundaries, including
strict_boundaries == False for duplicate boundary keys, while preserving
existing distinct non-null coverage.
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python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py (1)

301-303: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for non-strict boundaries.

The current tests only assert strict boundaries. Add a case with equal adjacent keys, including equal null keys, and assert that ordering.strict_boundaries is False. This executes the NULL_EQUAL path in sort.py.

As per coding guidelines, python/**/*{test,tests}/**/*.{py,pyx,pxd} requires coverage for “empty, all-null, single-element, mixed types.”

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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py` around lines 301 - 303,
Extend the ordering test around ordering.keys and ordering.num_boundaries with a
non-strict case containing equal adjacent values, including equal null keys, and
assert ordering.strict_boundaries is False. Ensure the case exercises sort.py’s
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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py`:
- Around line 301-303: Extend the ordering test around ordering.keys and
ordering.num_boundaries with a non-strict case containing equal adjacent values,
including equal null keys, and assert ordering.strict_boundaries is False.
Ensure the case exercises sort.py’s NULL_EQUAL path while preserving the
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201-256: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Expand replay-buffer assertions.

The ascending test verifies buffered key values. The projected-key, unsorted, single-chunk, and descending tests verify only len(result.chunks). Incorrect chunk contents or replay order can still pass. Add value and order assertions for these paths.

Add a case with an empty chunk between non-empty chunks. Assert that the empty chunk is excluded and the non-empty chunks remain in replay order.

As per coding guidelines, tests in this path must cover empty, all-null, single-element, and mixed-type cases.

Also applies to: 319-323, 388-390, 422-424, 476-480

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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_sort.py` around lines 201 - 256,
Expand replay-buffer assertions in the ascending, projected-key, unsorted,
single-chunk, and descending sort tests to validate chunk values and replay
order, not just len(result.chunks). Add a case with an empty chunk between
non-empty chunks and assert the empty chunk is excluded while non-empty chunks
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- Around line 201-256: Expand replay-buffer assertions in the ascending,
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The use-after-free looks legit, therfore blocking

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partition_ends = plc.concatenate.concatenate(
plc.copying.slice(
min_max_key_table, list(range(1, 2 * num_partitions - 1)), stream=stream
),
stream=stream,
)
partition_starts = plc.concatenate.concatenate(
plc.copying.slice(
min_max_key_table, list(range(2, 2 * num_partitions)), stream=stream
),
stream=stream,
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oof. Would it have made sense in the parquet read to have returned the min and max as separate columns. Or struct columns? Rather than a single column that we must transpose like this?

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Actually, hold on. These two tables are somehow identical to one-another just offset by one row I think?

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I'll think about your comments soon, but just a quick clarification: We will not use this infrastructure at all if/when the min/max information could have been extracted from parquet metadata. We will only do this in practice when the following criteria are all met:

So, we only do this when the user tells us we have ordered data and we haven't already extracted the boundaries before this point.

"""The consumed non-empty chunks, stored in replay order."""


def _extract_boundaries(

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question: How big are all these things likely to be. Would it make more sense to maintain this data on the host and do (say) numpy or list slicing?

rapids-bot Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
Adds streaming support for `MapFunction("hint_sorted")` by preserving or attaching `Ordering` metadata when the hint can be represented safely in the streaming runtime.

For now, this supports the narrow single-partition case and passes through existing compatible `Ordering` metadata. Multi-partition boundary extraction is left to the follow-up work in #22526.

Partially addresses #21039.

Authors:
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