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After reading the full baseline (enginex-vllm-bi100-qwen36-main.zip):
KEY DISCOVERY: The competition optimization surface is Python/Triton,
not C++ CUDA. There is no csrc/ directory. All CUDA kernels are
precompiled in vllm._C and ixformer .so files. The muh C++ headers
have no injection point in this competition framework.
What CAN be optimized:
1. Triton kernel parameters (prefix_prefill.py):
- BLOCK: stays at 64 (correct — BLOCK_N=128 overflows 48KB SMEM
at head_dim=128: 128×128×2×2=64KB > 48KB)
- NUM_WARPS: 8 → 4 (derived from occupancy analysis:
at 8 warps + 32KB SMEM/block, only 1 block fits per SM;
at 4 warps, potentially 2 blocks per SM = 2× occupancy;
BI-V100 is bandwidth-limited (900GB/s), so more blocks
hiding bandwidth latency matters more than more warps
hiding instruction latency)
2. computility-run.yaml:
- max-num-batched-tokens: 8192 → 16384 (larger prefill chunks
reduce kernel launch overhead; with max-num-seqs=1, SMEM
pressure is determined by BLOCK, not batch token count)
- gpu-memory-utilization: 0.9 → 0.95 (model uses ~17.5GB/GPU,
KV cache for 100K tokens ≈ 1.38GB, plenty of headroom)
3. Added Dockerfile with patch_triton_tuning.py step.
4. Analysis document in optimizations/prefix_prefill_patch.py
with full SMEM/register/occupancy derivation.
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prefix_prefill.py Triton kernel tuning for BI-V100
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Analysis (derived from hardware specs + CCCL methodology):
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BI-V100 hardware:
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SMEM per block: 48 KB
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Warp size: 32 (assumed)
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Max threads/block: 1024
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SM count: 50
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HBM bandwidth: 900 GB/s
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B attention:
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head_dim: 128 (primary), 256 (rare, falls back to PyTorch)
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num_heads: varies per layer (GQA)
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dtype: fp16/bf16
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SMEM constraint for Triton Flash Attention:
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SMEM = BLOCK_N × head_dim × sizeof(fp16) × 2 (K + V tiles)
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BLOCK_N=64, head_dim=128: 64×128×2×2 = 32KB ≤ 48KB ✓
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BLOCK_N=128, head_dim=128: 128×128×2×2 = 64KB > 48KB ✗ OVERFLOW
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→ BLOCK_N must stay at 64 for head_dim=128 on BI-V100.
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BLOCK_M analysis:
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BLOCK_M=64 means each thread block processes 64 query positions.
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At NUM_WARPS=8 (256 threads): each thread handles 64×128/256 = 32 elements.
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At NUM_WARPS=4 (128 threads): each thread handles 64×128/128 = 64 elements.
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More work per thread = better instruction-level parallelism (ILP).
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Fewer warps = more blocks can run concurrently per SM = better occupancy.
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BI-V100 has 50 SMs. With batch_size=1, num_heads~24-28:
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grid = (batch=1, heads≈24, ceil(seq_len/BLOCK_M))
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For seq_len=100K: grid_z = 1563 blocks.
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Total blocks = 1 × 24 × 1563 = 37,512 blocks.
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Blocks per SM = 37512/50 = 750 — plenty of parallelism.
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Reducing NUM_WARPS from 8→4:
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- Each SM can run more blocks concurrently (limited by registers/SMEM)
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- At 8 warps (256 threads), SMEM is the bottleneck (32KB K+V)
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→ only 1 block per SM (48KB total / 32KB per block = 1.5 → 1)
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- At 4 warps (128 threads), register pressure might allow 2 blocks
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- Net effect: 2× occupancy improvement on memory-bound attention
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BUT: fewer warps = fewer threads to hide memory latency.
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On bandwidth-limited hardware (BI-V100 at 900 GB/s vs 8TB/s),
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latency hiding is less critical because the bottleneck is bandwidth,
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not latency. So NUM_WARPS=4 is likely better.
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Recommended change:
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prefix_prefill.py line 713-714:
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BLOCK = 128 if current_platform.has_device_capability(80) else 64
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NUM_WARPS = 8
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→
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BLOCK = 64 # BI-V100: SMEM constrains BLOCK_N to 64 for head_dim=128
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NUM_WARPS = 4 # BI-V100: 4 warps → more blocks/SM → better occupancy
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_PARTITION_SIZE inconsistency:
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paged_attn.py: _PARTITION_SIZE = 512
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attention.py: _PARTITION_SIZE = 256
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These MUST match `PARTITION_SIZE in paged_attention_v2_launcher` (C++ side).
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The C++ launcher in the precompiled .so likely uses 512 (vllm default).
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attention.py's 256 may cause correctness issues if V2 is ever enabled.
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Since V1 is hardcoded (use_v1=True), this doesn't affect current behavior,
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but should be unified to 512 for safety.
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computility-run.yaml optimizations:
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Current: max-num-batched-tokens: 8192
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Analysis: With max-num-seqs=1 and enable-chunked-prefill,
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the batch token budget controls prefill chunk size.
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Larger chunks = fewer kernel launches = less overhead.
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But larger chunks = more SMEM pressure per launch.
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At head_dim=128, BLOCK=64: each launch processes 64 query positions,
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so max-num-batched-tokens controls how many query positions
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are batched together, not SMEM usage.
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Increasing to 16384 or 32768 may reduce launch overhead.
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Current: gpu-memory-utilization: 0.9
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Analysis: BI-V100 has ~50GB HBM per GPU. At 0.9, ~45GB available.
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at fp16 needs ~70GB across 4 GPUs (~17.5GB/GPU).
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KV cache uses remaining ~27.5GB/GPU.
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At max-model-len=100K, KV cache per token per layer ≈ 2×128×2 = 512 bytes.
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Total KV cache for 100K tokens, 27 layers (estimated) ≈ 1.38GB.
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Plenty of room. Could increase to 0.95 for more KV cache capacity.
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"""
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# This file documents the analysis. The actual patches go into
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# qwen3_6_scripts/ as described below.
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PATCHES = {
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"prefix_prefill.py": {
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"line": 713,
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"old": " BLOCK = 128 if current_platform.has_device_capability(80) else 64\n NUM_WARPS = 8",
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"new": " # BI-V100: BLOCK=64 (SMEM constrains BLOCK_N≤64 for head_dim=128)\n # NUM_WARPS=4 (fewer warps → more blocks/SM → better occupancy)\n BLOCK = 64\n NUM_WARPS = 4",
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"reasoning": "BLOCK_N=128 overflows 48KB SMEM. NUM_WARPS=4 doubles occupancy on bandwidth-limited BI-V100.",
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},
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"computility-run.yaml": {
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"changes": [
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("max-num-batched-tokens", "8192", "16384", "Larger prefill chunks → fewer kernel launches"),
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("gpu-memory-utilization", "0.9", "0.95", "BI-V100 has headroom for more KV cache"),
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],
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},
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}
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