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  • Publish HCA output directly from 48 packing workers
  • Fold CSA and SWA merge, normalization, inverse RoPE, and packing
    into distributed publishers
  • Gather published output with a reusable notification handshake before
    O projection
  • Add HCA and CSA frozen-golden CLI forwarding for repeatable timing
  • Seed decode runtime buffers explicitly on device and pass ring sizing
    through RunConfig for the current Simpler API
  • Unify the CSA, HCA, and SWA sparse-attention helper names around a
    shared intermediates/publish split

Fastest-rank effective mean on a2a3 TP2, local_t=256, devices 1,3,
100 rounds, 5 warmup, a 1 GiB ring, and one frozen golden per path:
HCA 6375.8 -> 4785.9 us (24.9%), CSA 7069.5 -> 4775.9 us
(32.4%), and SWA 2919.4 -> 1797.7 us (38.4%). The CSA baseline
contained 25.95 and 37.44 ms raw outliers; its fastest-rank median
still moved 6412.0 -> 4755.6 us (25.8%).

Fastest-rank effective mean on a2a3 TP4 with frozen golden data:
HCA 3879.8 -> 3012.5 us (20 rounds, 5 warmup; devices 3,5,7,9).
CSA 3295.6 -> 2642.7 us (100 rounds, 5 warmup;
devices 1,9,11,13).
SWA 2308.5 -> 1180.7 us (100 rounds, 5 warmup;
devices 1,9,11,13).

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Distributed A2A decode

Layer / File(s) Summary
Attention A2A publishers
models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_sparse_attn_{csa,hca,swa}.py
CSA, HCA, and SWA add grouped output packing, distributed publication, peer notifications, task dependencies, and configuration validation.
Output exchange completion
models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_o_proj.py
o_group_a2a_finish gathers published rows, synchronizes peers, resets signals, and returns completed local output.
Decode integration and test controls
models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_{csa,hca,swa}.py
Decode paths use the new publish/finish sequence before projection. CSA and HCA add golden-data CLI forwarding and distributed replay validation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dd7c7

The PR adds fused distributed attention-output handling and golden-data replay options. CSA replay can use the wrong fixture shape when distributed --golden-data is provided without --start-pos, which could make benchmark or validation results misleading; the localized issue is mergeable with owner follow-up.

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  participant sparse_attn_a2a
  participant o_group_a2a_finish
  participant TensorParallelPeers
  participant ShardedOProjection
  sparse_attn_a2a->>o_group_a2a_finish: Publish token tiles and dependency
  o_group_a2a_finish->>TensorParallelPeers: Gather rows and synchronize
  TensorParallelPeers-->>o_group_a2a_finish: Completion signals
  o_group_a2a_finish->>ShardedOProjection: Return local grouped output
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A rabbit packs tiles in a tensor-wide stream

Signals hop ranks in a carefully timed dream
Attention heads gather, then outputs align
Projection proceeds on the synchronized line
Golden data rests where test paths can see
A2A hops neatly, as neat as can be

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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the AllToAll fusion, distributed attention changes, golden-data support, and reported performance improvements.
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models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_csa.py (1)

1681-1682: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider mirroring the HCA golden-data guard.

decode_hca.py rejects a distributed run that passes --golden-data without --start-pos, because the replay shape is then ambiguous. This parser accepts that combination and falls back to the default CSA start set, so a replay can silently use a different fixture shape than the saved data.

♻️ Suggested guard after `args = parser.parse_args()`
+    if args.golden_data is not None and args.start_pos is None and TP_SIZE != 1:
+        parser.error("distributed --golden-data requires --start-pos to select one replay shape")
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In `@models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_csa.py` around lines 1681 - 1682,
Update the argument-validation flow after parser.parse_args() in the CSA decoder
to reject distributed runs where --golden-data is provided without --start-pos,
matching the guard used by decode_hca.py. Preserve the existing default CSA
start-set behavior for runs without golden data.
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In `@models/deepseek_v4_flash_dspark/decode_csa.py`:
- Around line 1681-1682: Update the argument-validation flow after
parser.parse_args() in the CSA decoder to reject distributed runs where
--golden-data is provided without --start-pos, matching the guard used by
decode_hca.py. Preserve the existing default CSA start-set behavior for runs
without golden data.

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decode_o_proj_tp1,
decode_sharded_o_projection_reduce_scatter,
o_group_a2a,
o_group_a2a_finish,

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use the new function to replace the old, while keep name unchanged.


with pl.spmd(
48,
name_hint="hca_stream_pack_publish",

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see if you can move this to oproj.py, similar with csa/swa, then there is no need for xxx-a2a funcs.

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wangqin1723-max force-pushed the perf/fuse-attention-output-with-alltoall branch 6 times, most recently from 2b764cc to 0a4a1f1 Compare August 27, 2026 03:39
- Publish CSA, HCA, and SWA finalized output groups directly from
  their attention workers
- Keep private attention finalization and publishing in each owning
  module and remove private attention imports from decode_o_proj
- Gather output groups through a reusable notification handshake before
  O projection
- Let SWA publish tiles span TP output-group owners so TP4 is valid
- Add HCA and CSA frozen-golden CLI forwarding for repeatable timing
- Seed decode runtime buffers explicitly on device and pass ring sizing
  through RunConfig for the current Simpler API

Fastest-rank effective mean on a2a3 TP4 with frozen golden data:
HCA 3879.8 -> 3012.5 us (20 rounds, 5 warmup; devices 3,5,7,9).
CSA 3295.6 -> 2642.7 us (100 rounds, 5 warmup;
devices 1,9,11,13).
SWA 2308.5 -> 1180.7 us (100 rounds, 5 warmup;
devices 1,9,11,13).
- Name CSA, HCA, and SWA helpers for their shared intermediate-compute role
- Update standalone attention and O-group publisher call sites
INT8_AMAX_EPS,
INT8_SCALE_MAX,
)
from decode_sparse_attn_csa import (

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move 3 merge-publish functions to decode-xxa.py

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zhangqi-chen merged commit 2a1809f into hw-native-sys:main Aug 27, 2026
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