Feature: add dispatch-correlated same-host multi-rank swimlane timeline

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Closes #2058

Summary

Merge every Rank's L2 chip swimlane into one Perfetto-loadable trace on a common
Host timeline.

Per-Rank captures cannot simply be concatenated: each die's cycle domain has its
own base. On a 4-card run measured here the raw offset between two Ranks was
11.56 s while the real start skew was 1.60 ms — a naive merge produces a
plausible-looking, wrong trace. The converter therefore maps each Rank's cycles
to Host CLOCK_MONOTONIC through that Rank's own clock anchors before merging,
and refuses to merge at all when a Rank is uncalibrated or comes from a
different Host clock domain.

What changed

• Cross-Rank merge in swimlane_converter. Directory input plus
  --dispatch dN or --dispatch-id RUN_ID:TASK_SLOT; per-Rank PID/name/flow
  namespaces; alignment method and uncertainty recorded in trace metadata.
• Dispatch identity through the L3 mailbox (protocol 3 → 4). task_slot,
  group_index and group_size now travel with a task frame, so Ranks pair by
  stable parent-DAG identity instead of coincidental local dN ordering, which
  pipelining and prepare-only frames can reorder.
• CallConfig.capture_clock_anchors. The runtime learns from an explicit
  field that it must anchor both clocks, rather than by parsing the output
  directory. Device/AICPU orchestration had no anchors at all before this.
• Per-Rank artifact isolation. Every diagnostic writing below
  output_prefix now lands in rankN/dN/ — the filenames are fixed, so N
  ChipWorker children sharing one prefix used to overwrite each other. The clock
  anchors stay swimlane-only, so a dep_gen-only L3 run gets the directory
  separation without paying for the anchors.
• Fix: forward diagnostic flags to the L3 resource child. conftest
  builds that child's argv from scratch, so --enable-chip-swimlane and the
  other diagnostic options never reached an L3 case: the run passed and wrote no
  artifact. The gap predates this PR and was unreachable while L3 rejected the
  flag outright, and it is invisible to a green pipeline because a dropped
  diagnostic changes no assertion. Without this, the feature does not work under
  pytest — which is how CI runs.

Why no --align=none

#2058 allows an escape hatch that merges raw, unaligned cycle values. This PR
refuses instead — an unaligned merge is exactly the "plausible-looking, wrong
trace" the issue opens with (7.2 s of fake skew across 1–62 ms capture windows),
and a Chrome-trace file cannot tell the viewer that its lanes are incomparable:
the rendering asserts "left is earlier" on its own. Nothing is lost — single-file
per-Rank conversion is unchanged, and SceneTest falls back to it below level 4.

Two costs, accepted rather than hidden: captures predating this PR carry no
host_clock_domain_id and stay single-file only, and one Rank with failed
anchors fails the whole merge rather than merging the calibrated remainder.

Verification

• ut-py 2108 passed, ut-cpp 128/128, ruff / clang-format / retired-names clean.
• Onboard a2a3, 4-card AllReduce with --enable-chip-swimlane 4: all four Ranks
  calibrated, paired by parent_dispatch_identity, trace_status: complete.
  Kernel durations spanned 16.2 µs to 10.60 ms, yet all four lanes ended within
  12.7 µs of each other against a 58.1 µs cross-Rank uncertainty — the long lanes
  are blocked in the collective, not computing.
• One pre-existing flake in tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_startup_readiness.py
  under full-suite load; the module passes in isolation and the flake reproduces
  on the merge base.

Follow-ups

Deliberately out of scope, each a separate change:

1. Per-process host log placement. host.<pid>.log stays at the case root
   rather than under rankN/. It is a per-process artifact, not a per-dispatch
   one, and moving it requires strace_timing._expand_log_source to stop
   relying on a non-recursive host.*.log glob of output_prefix.

2. hbg L3 end-to-end coverage. Both host_build_graph L3 scene tests are
   device_count: 1 and override _run_and_validate_l3 to discard the
   diagnostic arguments, so no existing case exercises the hbg path. Needs a new
   multi-device hbg L3 case.

3. Collapsible Rank tracks. A Chrome-trace JSON has only process and
   thread levels, so Rank and view compete for the outer one; view keeps it,
   and a Rank cannot be collapsed as a group. Three levels require emitting
   Perfetto protobuf (TrackDescriptor.parent_uuid).

4. Timeline origin and anchor placement. The single-file origin is still the
   opening anchor rather than the minimum of all events, and the two runtimes
   open the calibrated interval at different points. Both are prerequisites for
   putting the Host swimlane ([Feature] Host swimlane (L3/L4) — the missing third DFX timeline #1708) on the same timeline as the chip swimlanes.

5. Cross-Rank dependency flows. This PR aligns and co-displays Rank-local timelines, but does not emit dependency flows between Ranks. Existing dependency and completion flows remain Rank-local and are namespaced during merge. Notify/wait and remote load/store causality will be added by a follow-up PR.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds same-host L3 multi-Rank swimlane capture and merging. It adds dispatch identity metadata, Host/Device clock anchors, Rank-scoped diagnostic outputs, directory conversion, validation, and related documentation and tests.

Changes

L3 multi-Rank swimlane

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clock-anchor capture and metadata src/common/task_interface/call_config.h, src/common/platform/..., python/bindings/task_interface.cpp, simpler_setup/tools/clock_correlation.py, tests/ut/py/test_clock_correlation.py	CallConfig carries capture_clock_anchors. Device runners conditionally start clock correlation. Captures report clock-domain, timeline-origin, and anchor-duration metadata.
Dispatch identity in mailbox frames src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.*, src/common/hierarchical/remote_wire.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_scheduler.cpp, tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_host_worker.py	Mailbox frames carry task-slot and group identity fields. Frame validation checks the new fields against the recorded dispatch.
Rank capture conversion and merging simpler_setup/scene_test.py, simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py, tests/ut/py/test_scene_test_cli_contract.py, tests/ut/py/test_swimlane_converter.py, tests/ut/py/test_chip_worker.py	SceneTest creates Rank-scoped captures. The converter discovers compatible dispatches, validates clock metadata, namespaces Rank events, aligns timelines, and emits merged traces.
Scene selection and child diagnostics conftest.py, tests/ut/py/test_scene_level_selection.py	L3 selection remains enabled. NETWORK1/L4 requires a node namespace. Resource child commands inherit selected diagnostic options.
Operational documentation and workspace support .gitignore, docs/dfx/*, docs/task-flow.md, docs/user/reference/python-api.md, simpler_setup/tools/README.md	Documentation describes Rank capture layout, converter selectors, clock requirements, and capture_clock_anchors. .venv-*/ directories are ignored.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6bde3

The new multi-rank trace conversion currently fails on supported Python 3.9 environments, and the shared runtime mailbox change lacks a demonstrated mixed-version or rollback contract. Merge should wait for the runtime compatibility fix and explicit deployment handling; mutable local capture metadata is an additional bounded trace-integrity concern.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChipWorker
  participant SceneTest
  participant SwimlaneConverter
  participant PerfettoTrace
  ChipWorker->>SceneTest: write rankN/dN captures and dispatch_identity.json
  SceneTest->>SwimlaneConverter: select dispatch or dispatch identity
  SwimlaneConverter->>SwimlaneConverter: validate Rank captures and shared clock domain
  SwimlaneConverter->>PerfettoTrace: emit namespaced cross-Rank trace

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Poem

A rabbit watched the ranks align
With clock anchors marking time
Each dispatch found its matching pair
And Perfetto bloomed from there
“Hop,” said Bun, “the lanes now share!”

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 21.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 120 functions across 25 files. (7 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #2058 by adding directory-based cross-rank conversion, per-Rank namespaces, host-clock alignment with metadata and validation, dispatch-aware pairing, and preservation of per…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are within scope for issue #2058. Runtime protocol updates, clock-anchor support, diagnostic forwarding, documentation, postprocessing, and tests directly support cross-rank swimlane captu…
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the multi-rank swimlane merge, clock alignment, dispatch correlation, artifact isolation, and verification results described by the changeset.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and concisely summarizes the primary change: dispatch-correlated, same-host multi-rank swimlane timeline support.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #2058 by adding directory-based cross-rank conversion, per-Rank namespaces, host-clock alignment with metadata and validation, dispatch-aware pairing, and preservation of per-Rank sidecars. Cross-rank dependency arrows and viewer integration are explicitly optional or follow-up work.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes are within scope for issue #2058. Runtime protocol updates, clock-anchor support, diagnostic forwarding, documentation, postprocessing, and tests directly support cross-rank swimlane capture and conversion. The listed follow-ups are not implemented as unrelated scope.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 21.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 120 functions across 25 files. (7 skipped: 6 unsupported, 1 too large.)

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`:
- Around line 435-436: Update the output-path guidance in the profiling
documentation to distinguish file-input and directory-input defaults: retain
outputs/<case>_<ts>/merged_swimlane.json for file input and state
dfx_outputs/l3_swimlane.json for directory input, while preserving the -o
override guidance.

In `@simpler_setup/tools/README.md`:
- Around line 160-166: Update the Command-Line Options table to document the
--dispatch and --dispatch-id selectors, and clarify that the input argument
accepts a dfx_outputs directory when operating in directory mode.

In `@simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py`:
- Around line 3206-3209: Update the group_discovered construction to remove the
Python 3.10-only strict=True argument from zip(). Preserve the existing parallel
pairing behavior, relying on the established invariant that discovered and
identities are built together and have matching lengths.

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• simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py
• src/a2a3/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp
• src/a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp
• src/common/hierarchical/remote_wire.cpp
• src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.cpp
• src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.h
• src/common/platform/include/host/clock_correlation.h
• src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.cpp
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• src/common/platform/shared/host/chip_swimlane_collector.cpp
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• tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_scheduler.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/types/test_call_config.cpp
• tests/ut/py/test_chip_worker.py
• tests/ut/py/test_clock_correlation.py
• tests/ut/py/test_scene_level_selection.py
• tests/ut/py/test_scene_test_cli_contract.py
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