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xc-llm-ascend/vllm_ascend/ops/mm_encoder_attention.py
Shanshan Shen 76ac688388 [MM][Perf] Parallelize Q/K/V padding in AscendMMEncoderAttention for better performance (#6204)
### What this PR does / why we need it?

Currently, we pad the last dim of qkv to 128 before flash attention (in
`AscendMMEncoderAttention`) to get better performance on Ascend NPU.
However, the qkv padding is executed serially, which may lead to more
overhead when launching `aclnnConstantPadNd` (launch 3 times).

Since the three operations are mutually independent, we stack qkv first
and then pad them in one kernel launch. With this optimization, **TTFT**
has been reduced by **3.15%**, **peak throughput** has been increased by
**4.20%**.

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### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?

No.

### How was this patch tested?

Launch the server:

```bash
vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct \
--dtype bfloat16 \
--limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 1}' \
--max-model-len 16384 \
--max-num-batched-tokens 16384
```

Run benchmark:

```bash
vllm bench serve \
--model /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/models/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct \
--backend openai-chat \
--endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
--dataset-name hf \
--hf-split train \
--dataset-path lmarena-ai/vision-arena-bench-v0.1 \
--num-prompts 1000 \
--no-stream
```

Before this PR:

```
============ Serving Benchmark Result ============
Successful requests:                     1000      
Failed requests:                         0         
Benchmark duration (s):                  122.33    
Total input tokens:                      66638     
Total generated tokens:                  122845    
Request throughput (req/s):              8.17      
Output token throughput (tok/s):         1004.18   
Peak output token throughput (tok/s):    3073.00   
Peak concurrent requests:                1000.00   
Total token throughput (tok/s):          1548.90   
---------------Time to First Token----------------
Mean TTFT (ms):                          51757.16  
Median TTFT (ms):                        44853.42  
P99 TTFT (ms):                           110700.14 
-----Time per Output Token (excl. 1st token)------
Mean TPOT (ms):                          226.06    
Median TPOT (ms):                        206.85    
P99 TPOT (ms):                           935.31    
---------------Inter-token Latency----------------
Mean ITL (ms):                           208.82    
Median ITL (ms):                         96.37     
P99 ITL (ms):                            2183.13   
==================================================
```

After this PR:

```
============ Serving Benchmark Result ============
Successful requests:                     1000      
Failed requests:                         0         
Benchmark duration (s):                  121.47    
Total input tokens:                      66638     
Total generated tokens:                  122860    
Request throughput (req/s):              8.23      
Output token throughput (tok/s):         1011.47   
Peak output token throughput (tok/s):    3202.00   
Peak concurrent requests:                1000.00   
Total token throughput (tok/s):          1560.08   
---------------Time to First Token----------------
Mean TTFT (ms):                          50125.08  
Median TTFT (ms):                        46270.85  
P99 TTFT (ms):                           108107.12 
-----Time per Output Token (excl. 1st token)------
Mean TPOT (ms):                          227.11    
Median TPOT (ms):                        205.13    
P99 TPOT (ms):                           816.08    
---------------Inter-token Latency----------------
Mean ITL (ms):                           204.60    
Median ITL (ms):                         92.66     
P99 ITL (ms):                            2219.02   
==================================================
```
- vLLM version: v0.14.0
- vLLM main:
d68209402d

Signed-off-by: shen-shanshan <467638484@qq.com>
2026-01-26 10:20:24 +08:00

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import einops
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torch_npu
from vllm.config import MultiModalConfig
from vllm.model_executor.layers.attention.mm_encoder_attention import MMEncoderAttention # type: ignore
import vllm_ascend.envs as envs_ascend
MIN_PAD_SIZE = 64 # min_size to pad weight
MAX_PAD_SIZE = 128 # max_size to pad weight
class AscendMMEncoderAttention(MMEncoderAttention):
def __init__(
self,
num_heads: int,
head_size: int,
scale: float | None = None,
num_kv_heads: int | None = None,
prefix: str = "",
multimodal_config: MultiModalConfig | None = None,
) -> None:
"""
Args:
num_heads: number of attention heads per partition.
head_size: hidden_size per attention head.
scale: scale factor.
num_kv_heads: number of kv heads.
prefix: This has no effect, it is only here to make it easier to
swap between Attention and MMEncoderAttention.
multimodal_config: configs for multi-modal.
"""
super().__init__(
num_heads=num_heads,
head_size=head_size,
scale=scale,
num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads,
prefix=prefix,
multimodal_config=multimodal_config,
)
def reshape_qkv_to_3d(
self,
query: torch.Tensor,
key: torch.Tensor,
value: torch.Tensor,
bsz: int,
q_len: int,
kv_len: int,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Reshape query, key, value to 3D tensors:
(batch_size * seq_len, num_heads, head_size)
"""
query = query.view(bsz * q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_size)
key = key.view(bsz * kv_len, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_size)
value = value.view(bsz * kv_len, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_size)
self.num_queries_per_kv = self.num_heads // self.num_kv_heads
if (num_repeat := self.num_queries_per_kv) > 1:
# Handle MQA and GQA
key = torch.repeat_interleave(key, num_repeat, dim=1)
value = torch.repeat_interleave(value, num_repeat, dim=1)
return query, key, value
def forward_oot(
self,
query: torch.Tensor,
key: torch.Tensor,
value: torch.Tensor,
cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor | None = None,
max_seqlen: torch.Tensor
| None = None, # Only used for Flash Attention
):
bsz, q_len = query.size()[:2]
kv_len = key.size(1)
is_reshaped = query.dim() == 4
# q, k, v: [b, s, head, head_dim] -> [b * s, head, head_dim]
q, k, v = self.reshape_qkv_to_3d(query, key, value, bsz, q_len, kv_len)
enable_pad = (envs_ascend.USE_OPTIMIZED_MODEL
and self.head_size > MIN_PAD_SIZE
and self.head_size < MAX_PAD_SIZE)
if enable_pad:
origin_shape = q.shape[-1]
pad_len = MAX_PAD_SIZE - origin_shape
# Merge qkv to reduce the overhead of launching npu pad operation.
# [3, b*s, head, head_dim]
qkv = torch.stack([q, k, v], dim=0)
# qkv: [3, b * s, head, head_dim] -> [3, b * s, head, MAX_PAD_SIZE]
qkv = F.pad(qkv, (0, pad_len), mode="constant", value=0)
q, k, v = qkv.unbind(dim=0)
context_layer = torch.empty_like(q)
if cu_seqlens is None:
cu_seqlens = torch.arange(0, (bsz + 1) * q_len,
step=q_len,
dtype=torch.int32,
device=query.device)
cu_seqlens = torch.diff(cu_seqlens).to("cpu")
# operator requires pta version >= 2.5.1
torch_npu._npu_flash_attention_unpad(
query=q,
key=k,
value=v,
seq_len=cu_seqlens,
scale_value=self.head_size**-0.5,
num_heads=self.num_heads,
num_kv_heads=self.num_kv_heads,
out=context_layer,
)
if enable_pad:
context_layer = context_layer[..., :origin_shape]
if is_reshaped:
context_layer = einops.rearrange(context_layer,
"(b s) h d -> b s h d",
b=bsz).contiguous()
else:
context_layer = einops.rearrange(context_layer,
"(b s) h d -> b s (h d)",
b=bsz).contiguous()
return context_layer