feat(mla): add CUDA graph plan update API - #5041
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Add an opt-in, synchronization-free plan-update lifecycle for FA2 and FA3 MLA CUDA graphs. Freeze the captured plan contract, stage planner data in bounded reusable slots, and publish schedule and CSR metadata with one native launch while preserving captured buffer addresses. Keep the legacy private mirrors and native planner calls compatible for older SGLang. Document the same-stream replay contract, bounded staging behavior, and the pre-submission rollback boundary. Signed-off-by: mingyangw <mingyangw@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds an opt-in ChangesBatch MLA CUDA graph update
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to After recovery replanning on a different CUDA stream, all subsequent plan updates are rejected until the wrapper is recreated. This should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant BatchMLAPagedAttentionWrapper
participant FAPlanBackend
participant UpdateState
participant CUDACommit
participant CapturedGraph
Caller->>BatchMLAPagedAttentionWrapper: update_cuda_graph_plan(metadata)
BatchMLAPagedAttentionWrapper->>FAPlanBackend: validate and dispatch update
FAPlanBackend->>UpdateState: resolve CSR metadata and acquire staging slot
FAPlanBackend->>FAPlanBackend: replan with preallocated staging
FAPlanBackend->>CUDACommit: commit candidate buffers
CUDACommit->>CapturedGraph: publish updated live plan buffers
Caller->>CapturedGraph: replay run()
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In `@flashinfer/mla/_batch_mla/_wrapper.py`:
- Around line 729-731: Reset the wrapper-level _cuda_graph_plan_update_stream
binding when plan() publishes a new backend and update state, so replanning
permits binding to a different CUDA stream. Preserve the existing initial-stream
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| bound_stream = getattr(self, "_cuda_graph_plan_update_stream", None) | ||
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Reset _cuda_graph_plan_update_stream when plan() publishes a new backend.
plan() creates a new backend and update state, but the wrapper-level stream binding remains unchanged. After both staging slots are poisoned, the documented recovery calls plan() again. If the next update uses another stream, the stale binding rejects every update on that stream with "must use the initially bound CUDA stream". Clear the binding when publishing the new plan.
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In `@flashinfer/mla/_batch_mla/_wrapper.py` around lines 729 - 731, Reset the
wrapper-level _cuda_graph_plan_update_stream binding when plan() publishes a new
backend and update state, so replanning permits binding to a different CUDA
stream. Preserve the existing initial-stream binding behavior until the next
plan() call.
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📌 Description
Add a public, opt-in CUDA-graph plan-update lifecycle for the generated FA2 and
FA3 MLA backends:
The initial plan freezes the captured backend and buffer contract. Each update
uses bounded preallocated host staging, prepares a candidate schedule without
modifying live graph buffers, and publishes the schedule plus CSR metadata with
one native CUDA launch. The steady-state path performs no device/pinned-host
allocation, device-to-host copy, or blocking host synchronization.
The update state is allocated only when explicitly enabled. It reuses unused
regions of the existing device and pinned planner workspaces when capacity
allows, retains no committed schedule or page-index shadow, and preserves the
unused tail of the caller's reserved index buffer.
This keeps the private wrapper mirrors and existing planner entry points
behavior-compatible for older SGLang releases. Their deprecation is
documentation-only here because some existing callers promote deprecation
warnings to errors.
🔍 Related Issues
Follow-up to #4697. This enables the public-API migration demonstrated in
sgl-project/sglang#35555.
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pre-commitby runningpip install pre-commit(or used your preferred method).pre-commit install.pre-commit run --all-filesand fixed any reported issues.🧪 Tests
unittest, etc.).Final validation after rebasing onto
f32f740a:tests/attention/test_mla_cuda_graph_plan_update.pyand
tests/attention/test_mla_wrapper.py— 121 passed.MLA CUDA-graph suite — 6 passed, 1 pre-registered skip, 15 subtests passed;
dense block-table suite — 15 passed; repeated public update probe — 20/20.
pre-commit run --all-files— all applicable hooks passed.Paired H100 update-latency probe against the previous private direct-replan
path (100 warmups, 30 repetitions, 200 samples per arm):
An Nsight Systems trace over 48 warmed public updates observed zero device or
pinned-host allocation/free calls, zero blocking CUDA synchronization calls,
and zero device-to-host copies. The private comparator issued 96
cudaStreamSynchronizecalls.🔬 Experimental Track
flashinfer/experimental/and/or an@flashinfer_experimental_api. Tracking issue: #tests/experimental/and were validated on the intended hardware; a runnable example is included.flashinfer/aot.py, and no experimental backend is reachable frombackend="auto"withoutFLASHINFER_ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTO_BACKENDS=1. (Calling an@flashinfer_experimental_apior naming a backend explicitly is itself the opt-in and needs no environment variable.)Reviewer Notes
replay must use that same stream; cross-stream replay and concurrent updates
on one wrapper are unsupported.
kv_indicesis a non-overlapping device source that must remain alive untilpublication completes. Host controls must be contiguous CPU
int32tensors.Failures discovered after the native publication launch has been submitted
are intentionally outside the synchronization-free rollback guarantee.
future backends default to unsupported.
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New Features
update_cuda_graph_planto refresh dynamic scheduling metadata without recapturing the CUDA graph or changing captured buffer addresses.Bug Fixes
Documentation
Tests