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fix(vt,hooks): async readback is a Backend capability + unbreak the pre-push sandbox - #159

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Two guards on main were RED and between them blocked every open external-contributor PR (#127, #154, #155) and every push. Both premises were verified in the tree before changing anything.

1. check-device-leakage — the shared layer named a device

src/vllm/v1/worker/gpu/runner.cpp named vt::DeviceType::kCUDA (DSR bucket kcuda 1 > baseline 0). It came in with the QueueSupportsAsyncInputCombine rescope during the PR #140 fix round — ours, not the contributors'. @richiejp reported it in #127's honest gaps and was right.

Fixed the way the guard's own message prescribes, mirroring the SupportsAuxStream precedent: ask the backend, not the device. New vt::Backend::SupportsAsyncSampledTokenReadback() (base false) answers whether the host may validly read the sampled token id back between steps — CPU overrides true (host and device memory are one allocation), CUDA overrides true (the id is device-mirrored). The runner asks vt::TryGetBackend(...), whose nullptr for a device absent from the build also subsumes the old #ifdef VLLM_CPP_CUDA.

Semantics unchanged: CPU async-ON, CUDA async-ON, discrete non-CUDA (ROCm gfx1201) async-OFF — the "!"-token hazard stays closed, and the ROCm TODO now points at an override instead of a device branch.

2. .githooks/pre-push failed closed on fine content

The hook runs check-policy.py inside a partial export (README.md docs scripts .agents), but policy_contract.py:428 asserts AGENTS.md is a non-symlink regular file and resolves its Markdown links against that sandbox. AGENTS.md and its .env.example link were both missing, so every push was refused with errors that do not reproduce in the real tree. EXPORT_PATHS is now a superset of what the CHECKERS read.

Gates

  • check-device-leakage RED → GREEN (kcuda=0, DSR 32 == baseline 32)
  • all four hook checkers OK in the reproduced sandbox
  • test_async_llm 8/8·347, test_engine_core 6/6·44, test_llm_engine 11/11·204 — CPU still resolves async-ON (the regression this could have caused)
  • clean -Werror CPU build; full 11-gate record battery green

This push used --no-verify because the running hook is the pre-fix copy in the primary worktree; all four of its checkers were run manually against the exported tree first.

Separately noted in state.md, not fixed here: check-doc-checkpoint is also RED on 1a021b1b itself (that policy commit touched 70+ .agents/ files without docs/BENCHMARKS.md/docs/FEATURES.md); it validates HEAD, so it self-heals as compliant commits land.

…re-push sandbox (#159)

Two guards on main were RED and between them blocked every open external
contributor PR (#127, #154, #155) and every push. Both premises were verified in
the tree before changing anything.

1) check-device-leakage: src/vllm/v1/worker/gpu/runner.cpp named
   vt::DeviceType::kCUDA in the device-agnostic shared layer (DSR bucket 'kcuda'
   1 > baseline 0). It came in with the QueueSupportsAsyncInputCombine rescope
   during the PR #140 fix round - ours, not the contributors'; richiejp reported
   it in #127's honest gaps. Fixed the way the guard's own message prescribes,
   mirroring the SupportsAuxStream precedent: ask the backend, not the device.
   New vt::Backend::SupportsAsyncSampledTokenReadback() (base false) answers
   whether the host may validly read the sampled token id back between steps;
   CPU overrides true (host and device memory are one allocation) and CUDA
   overrides true (the id is device-mirrored). The runner asks
   vt::TryGetBackend(queue.device.type), whose nullptr for a device absent from
   the build also subsumes the old #ifdef VLLM_CPP_CUDA guard.
   SEMANTICS UNCHANGED: CPU async-ON, CUDA async-ON, discrete non-CUDA (ROCm
   gfx1201) async-OFF - the "!"-token hazard stays closed.

2) .githooks/pre-push ran check-policy.py inside a PARTIAL export
   (README.md docs scripts .agents), but policy_contract.py:428 asserts AGENTS.md
   is a non-symlink regular file and resolves its Markdown links against that
   sandbox. AGENTS.md and its .env.example link were both missing, so the hook
   failed closed on content that is fine in the real tree - every push refused.
   EXPORT_PATHS is now a superset of what the CHECKERS read.

Gates: check-device-leakage RED->GREEN (kcuda=0, DSR 32 == baseline 32); all four
hook checkers OK in the reproduced sandbox; test_async_llm 8/8-347,
test_engine_core 6/6-44, test_llm_engine 11/11-204 (CPU still resolves async-ON);
clean -Werror CPU build; full 11-gate record battery green.

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mudler force-pushed the row/FIX-DSR-ASYNC-READBACK branch from 6ebf48e to 1f3b714 Compare August 8, 2026 19:54
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perf(gdn): dispatch exact causal-conv chunks

Contributed by Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>; merged with --no-ff so the
four authored commits land under their own authorship.

Mirrors upstream compute_causal_conv1d_metadata: grid.y becomes a flattened
list of (sequence, 8-token chunk) programs instead of a rectangular grid that
either padded or ran sequences serially. The descriptor is optional on
CausalConv1dArgs and validated as a pair in vt::CausalConv1dFwd; CUDA consumes
it, CPU keeps its scalar reference. Default ON per the parity-enabler policy,
with VT_CONV_EXACT_CHUNKS=0 as the same-binary rollback. Contributor measured
720.047 -> 234.607 ms (3.07x) on the causal-conv family, sm_120 Qwen3.5-4B c32,
byte-identical output tokens.

The branch's only red check was device-leakage, which was OUR blocker: runner.cpp
named DeviceType::kCUDA in the device-agnostic layer. Fixed on main in #159.

Verified on the merge result: every scripts/check-*.py green, clean CPU build
1103/1103, ctest 356/356 (test_engine_core_proc fails only under -j8 and passes
serially, the known parallel-starvation flake). CI on the #165 landing branch
also had build-test-cpu, build-test-vulkan and device-leakage green.

Conflicts, three files, all records: .agents/state.md and
.agents/benchmark-record.md unioned per the append-log rule;
scripts/merged-gemm-consistency-allowlist.txt had a gemma4_moe key added
independently on both sides, kept as one entry with main's text.

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