Refactor: hbg gives in-graph tasks their own compact state array - #2159
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change moves completion state into shared task-state arrays, adds GraphExecution readiness accessors, records early-dispatch qualification in graph definitions, and updates scheduler fanin scanning to use row cursors and direct producer resolution. Tests cover storage layout, qualification, activation, and completion behavior. ChangesGraph polling and early dispatch
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The graph execution documentation describes an obsolete completion mechanism, which can mislead maintainers working on scheduler and storage behavior. Update it before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Scheduler->>WakeList: drain graph waiters
WakeList->>GraphExecution: scan fanin from wake_scan_cursor
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In `@src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md`:
- Around line 449-450: Update the in-graph task completion description in
GRAPH_EXECUTION.md to state that GraphExecution::task_states, indexed by the
in-graph local ID, is the completion source instead of a slot-local task_state.
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| - an in-graph task's release/acquire `task_state` is its Graph-local completion truth, so | ||
| such tasks need neither a shared-memory `task_states` byte nor a task-table slot; |
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Replace the removed task_state description.
Lines 449-450 still state that an in-graph task uses a slot-local task_state. Completion now uses GraphExecution::task_states, indexed by the in-graph local ID. Update this text and the execution-storage description to include the appended state array.
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In `@src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md` around lines 449 - 450,
Update the in-graph task completion description in GRAPH_EXECUTION.md to state
that GraphExecution::task_states, indexed by the in-graph local ID, is the
completion source instead of a slot-local task_state. Also revise the
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Rebased onto main now that #2144 has landed (squash-merged as f7f4766, so this replayed with #2144 picked up changes after the head this branch was cut from, and one of them needed syncing here rather than just carrying over. All four are present after the rebase:
The one that needed work: #2144's merged version added Re-verified on the new base: C++ unit tests 137/137, a2a3 The device A/B in the description was measured against #2144's pre-merge head. Its conclusion is unaffected — the four changes above are a rename, a static_assert, a recording-time attribute on a task the device never dispatches, and a doc line — but say the word if you would rather see it re-run against merged main before this lands. |
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Rebased onto current main ( #2104 rewrote the one file this PR touches on a single arch. Also added the premise those three lines rest on, which was implicit before: // The progress byte is PENDING or COMPLETED throughout this walk, never
// PUBLISHED: that value is stored only by the device dispatch path, which
// has not run yet, and orch::prepare_task resets every claimed slot this
// bind. So `is_completed` and its negation partition the tasks here, and a
// future host-side publication would silently change what these tests mean.That matters because the substitution is only exactly equivalent under it. On the asymmetry, since it will look odd in review: a2a3 has no counterpart to change. This host-side preflight is a5-only, introduced by #2090's switch of A5 HBG single-lane scheduling to AICore; Re-verified on the new base: C++ unit tests 139/139 (two targets arrived with the newly merged PRs), a2a3 The device A/B was re-run against merge-base |
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Two updates: a rename, and a second workload measured that changes what this PR should claim. Renamed to
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| qwen | dsv4 | |
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| in-graph rows | 277 | 3358 |
| width 1 | 251 (90.6%) | 64 (1.9%) |
| width >= 6 | 21 (7.6%) | 686 (20.4%) |
| mean width | ~1.4 | 2.93 |
| modes | W=1 | W=3 (1470 rows), W=6 (656) |
Summed (W-1) — the producer-line reads a scan skips — is ~304 per execution on qwen against ~6470 on dsv4, a 21x difference. Measured on dies 12,14, 30 rounds, interleaved:
head_r1 vs base: Device +0.58%
head_r2 vs base: Device -0.36%
Opposite signs against the same baseline, so by the interleaving rule this resolves nothing. The two HEAD arms differ from each other by 0.94% on identical binaries, minutes apart on the same dies — that is the noise floor, and it is the same order as the effect being looked for.
So the honest position is stronger than "unmeasured on this corpus": the access-time benefit is below this box's resolution on both a chain-shaped graph and an aggregation-shaped one. I would rather record that than leave a note implying the right workload has yet to be tried. What justifies the change is that the array is the one hard prerequisite for in-graph early dispatch — the publish bit has nowhere else to live — plus removing the duplicate state field.
qwen's cleanest measurement, incidentally, came out at +0.02% device (die 14, dedicated, warm, adjacent arms), the smallest of four readings and consistent with the same conclusion.
One environmental note for anyone re-running this: the first onboard run after acquiring a die failed with 507901 chip run lane is poisoned on both this workload and qwen, then every subsequent run on the same die passed. That matches the die-poisoning pattern already seen on dies 9 and 2; it is not attributable to either arm.
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Reverted the Re-verified after the revert: C++ unit tests 139/139, a2a3 |
An in-graph task's readiness lived in its ChipTaskSlotState, so graph_first_unmet_producer dereferenced one 64-byte slot per producer, striding 320 bytes between them — and those are the lines the completion path writes, through the wake-list CAS, the per-subtask completed_subtasks increment and the per-block next_block_idx claim. A scan therefore paid a miss per producer on lines being invalidated by traffic it had no interest in. A GraphExecution now carries a byte-per-task ChipTaskState array in its storage tail, the same shape the shared-memory task header already gives GLOBAL tasks, so both cohorts answer readiness the same way. That is what lets the publish chain be parameterized rather than forked when in-graph early dispatch lands: the publish bit finally has somewhere to live for an in-graph task, which was the one hard gap. The region is last in the layout because a byte needs no alignment, so appending it moves no other section. With the in-graph read migrated, ChipTaskSlotState::task_state has no readers left that the arrays cannot answer: the cold-path stall dump and the a5 host-side scheduler preflight both walk GLOBAL slots, so they read the task header's array. The field goes, along with mark_completed and the PENDING stores that paired with it. One task now has one completion state rather than a state and a mirror of it, and the reserved bytes absorb the freed one so the slot stays a single cache line. This is the last prerequisite for wiring the publish chain to in-graph tasks; it turns on no early dispatch of its own.
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Fixed the doc/comment drift this change caused. All four sites you and CodeRabbit landed on were real — deleting a field is exactly the case
Grepping the whole tree for the same drift rather than only the reported lines turned up two more: the file-header comments in The sweep also hit Re-verified: C++ unit tests 139/139, a2a3 |
Early dispatch reached only top-level tasks. It now also covers a Graph body's internal edges and the edge from an ordinary task into a Graph, which together leave one direction unhandled: a Graph as a producer, since a shell publishes no placement of its own for a consumer to bet on. **In-graph to in-graph.** The publish chain hw-native-sys#2095 built is reused, not forked. Nothing about the mechanism changes: a candidate hangs on its deepest unpublished producer, a producer that places its last logical block seals the chain, and detached waiters rescan and pre-stage. The cohorts differed only in where the fanin row lives and where the states do, and both were already made to match — the row by hw-native-sys#2144's sorted CSR, the states by hw-native-sys#2159's per-execution array — so three call sites take a cohort and the rest is shared. in_graph_execution_of names the cohort once, returning null for a GLOBAL task and for a GRAPH shell, which is a task of the run despite carrying a graph_context; complete_task routes on that same pair. Registration happens at materialization, where a body's tasks are already walked to hang each non-root on its first unmet producer. That point is single-owner per graph, so no peer can register the same task — a stronger guarantee than the top-level intake has. The completion path seals a tracked in-graph producer for the reason the global one does: COMPLETED >= PUBLISHED, so a producer that never publishes (a DUMMY, or one a predicate retired) still releases its waiters. Materialization also copies the Definition's ed_flags onto the slot, consuming the verdicts hw-native-sys#2144 recorded and left inert. **Ordinary task into a Graph.** A shell qualifies by the top-level rule minus the terms that describe dispatching to cores, since it has no predicate, no shape, and occupies no core: producers alone decide it. What its release does is stage the body's roots, each an ordinary AICore task with its own mask and blocks, gated exactly like any pre-staged task. They ring when the shell's real completion routes it through push_ready_routed, so the data dependency the shell stands for is still honoured — the shell's PUBLISHED buys placement, and only its COMPLETED launches. A root carries no host verdict, because qualification needs a producer to bet on and a root has none inside the body, so staging sets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on it first. push_ready_routed reads that flag as "this task may hold a staging claim, so check for a release", which is true of a root from that point on. Without it a staged root is gated and never rung, and the run ends in SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT. The graph_execution scene tests flag the seed task that feeds the Graph shells, so onboard CI exercises the ordinary-to-Graph edge rather than only the sim.
Early dispatch reached only top-level tasks. It now also covers a Graph body's internal edges and the edge from an ordinary task into a Graph, which together leave one direction unhandled: a Graph as a producer, since a shell publishes no placement of its own for a consumer to bet on. **In-graph to in-graph.** The publish chain hw-native-sys#2095 built is reused, not forked. Nothing about the mechanism changes: a candidate hangs on its deepest unpublished producer, a producer that places its last logical block seals the chain, and detached waiters rescan and pre-stage. The cohorts differed only in where the fanin row lives and where the states do, and both were already made to match — the row by hw-native-sys#2144's sorted CSR, the states by hw-native-sys#2159's per-execution array — so three call sites take a cohort and the rest is shared. in_graph_execution_of names the cohort once, returning null for a GLOBAL task and for a GRAPH shell, which is a task of the run despite carrying a graph_context; complete_task routes on that same pair. Registration happens at materialization, where a body's tasks are already walked to hang each non-root on its first unmet producer. That point is single-owner per graph, so no peer can register the same task — a stronger guarantee than the top-level intake has. The completion path seals a tracked in-graph producer for the reason the global one does: COMPLETED >= PUBLISHED, so a producer that never publishes (a DUMMY, or one a predicate retired) still releases its waiters. Materialization also copies the Definition's ed_flags onto the slot, consuming the verdicts hw-native-sys#2144 recorded and left inert. **Ordinary task into a Graph.** A shell qualifies by the top-level rule minus the terms that describe dispatching to cores, since it has no predicate, no shape, and occupies no core: producers alone decide it. What its release does is stage the body's roots, each an ordinary AICore task with its own mask and blocks, gated exactly like any pre-staged task. They ring when the shell's real completion routes it through push_ready_routed, so the data dependency the shell stands for is still honoured — the shell's PUBLISHED buys placement, and only its COMPLETED launches. A root carries no host verdict, because qualification needs a producer to bet on and a root has none inside the body, so staging sets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on it first. push_ready_routed reads that flag as "this task may hold a staging claim, so check for a release", which is true of a root from that point on. Without it a staged root is gated and never rung, and the run ends in SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT. The graph_execution scene tests flag the seed task that feeds the Graph shells, so onboard CI exercises the ordinary-to-Graph edge rather than only the sim.
Early dispatch reached only top-level tasks. It now also covers a Graph body's internal edges and the edge from an ordinary task into a Graph, which together leave one direction unhandled: a Graph as a producer, since a shell publishes no placement of its own for a consumer to bet on. **In-graph to in-graph.** The publish chain hw-native-sys#2095 built is reused, not forked. Nothing about the mechanism changes: a candidate hangs on its deepest unpublished producer, a producer that places its last logical block seals the chain, and detached waiters rescan and pre-stage. The cohorts differed only in where the fanin row lives and where the states do, and both were already made to match — the row by hw-native-sys#2144's sorted CSR, the states by hw-native-sys#2159's per-execution array — so three call sites take a cohort and the rest is shared. in_graph_execution_of names the cohort once, returning null for a GLOBAL task and for a GRAPH shell, which is a task of the run despite carrying a graph_context; complete_task routes on that same pair. Registration happens at materialization, where a body's tasks are already walked to hang each non-root on its first unmet producer. That point is single-owner per graph, so no peer can register the same task — a stronger guarantee than the top-level intake has. The completion path seals a tracked in-graph producer for the reason the global one does: COMPLETED >= PUBLISHED, so a producer that never publishes (a DUMMY, or one a predicate retired) still releases its waiters. Materialization also copies the Definition's ed_flags onto the slot, consuming the verdicts hw-native-sys#2144 recorded and left inert. **Ordinary task into a Graph.** A shell qualifies by the top-level rule minus the terms that describe dispatching to cores, since it has no predicate, no shape, and occupies no core: producers alone decide it. What its release does is stage the body's roots, each an ordinary AICore task with its own mask and blocks, gated exactly like any pre-staged task. They ring when the shell's real completion routes it through push_ready_routed, so the data dependency the shell stands for is still honoured — the shell's PUBLISHED buys placement, and only its COMPLETED launches. A root carries no host verdict, because qualification needs a producer to bet on and a root has none inside the body, so staging sets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on it first. push_ready_routed reads that flag as "this task may hold a staging claim, so check for a release", which is true of a root from that point on. Without it a staged root is gated and never rung, and the run ends in SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT. The graph_execution scene tests flag the seed task that feeds the Graph shells, so onboard CI exercises the ordinary-to-Graph edge rather than only the sim.
Early dispatch reached only top-level tasks. It now also covers a Graph body's internal edges and the edge from an ordinary task into a Graph, which together leave one direction unhandled: a Graph as a producer, since a shell publishes no placement of its own for a consumer to bet on. **In-graph to in-graph.** The publish chain hw-native-sys#2095 built is reused, not forked. Nothing about the mechanism changes: a candidate hangs on its deepest unpublished producer, a producer that places its last logical block seals the chain, and detached waiters rescan and pre-stage. The cohorts differed only in where the fanin row lives and where the states do, and both were already made to match — the row by hw-native-sys#2144's sorted CSR, the states by hw-native-sys#2159's per-execution array — so three call sites take a cohort and the rest is shared. in_graph_execution_of names the cohort once, returning null for a GLOBAL task and for a GRAPH shell, which is a task of the run despite carrying a graph_context; complete_task routes on that same pair. Registration happens at materialization, where a body's tasks are already walked to hang each non-root on its first unmet producer. That point is single-owner per graph, so no peer can register the same task — a stronger guarantee than the top-level intake has. The completion path seals a tracked in-graph producer for the reason the global one does: COMPLETED >= PUBLISHED, so a producer that never publishes (a DUMMY, or one a predicate retired) still releases its waiters. Materialization also copies the Definition's ed_flags onto the slot, consuming the verdicts hw-native-sys#2144 recorded and left inert. **Ordinary task into a Graph.** A shell qualifies by the top-level rule minus the terms that describe dispatching to cores, since it has no predicate, no shape, and occupies no core: producers alone decide it. What its release does is stage the body's roots, each an ordinary AICore task with its own mask and blocks, gated exactly like any pre-staged task. They ring when the shell's real completion routes it through push_ready_routed, so the data dependency the shell stands for is still honoured — the shell's PUBLISHED buys placement, and only its COMPLETED launches. A root carries no host verdict, because qualification needs a producer to bet on and a root has none inside the body, so staging sets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on it first. push_ready_routed reads that flag as "this task may hold a staging claim, so check for a release", which is true of a root from that point on. Without it a staged root is gated and never rung, and the run ends in SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT. The graph_execution scene tests flag the seed task that feeds the Graph shells, so onboard CI exercises the ordinary-to-Graph edge rather than only the sim.
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This is the last prerequisite for in-graph early dispatch. It turns on no early dispatch of its own; the next PR wires the publish chain and is where the payoff is measured.
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An in-graph task's readiness lived in its
ChipTaskSlotState, sograph_first_unmet_producerdereferenced one 64-byte slot per producer, striding 320 bytes between them — and those are the lines the completion path writes, through the wake-list CAS, the per-subtaskcompleted_subtasksincrement and the per-blocknext_block_idxclaim. A scan paid a miss per producer on lines being invalidated by traffic it had no interest in.A
GraphExecutionnow carries a byte-per-taskChipTaskStatearray in its storage tail — the same shape the shared-memory task header already gives GLOBAL tasks, so both cohorts answer readiness the same way. That is what lets the publish chain be parameterized rather than forked when in-graph early dispatch lands: the publish bit finally has somewhere to live for an in-graph task, which was the one hard gap. The region is last in the layout because a byte needs no alignment, so appending it moves no other section.ChipTaskSlotState::task_stateis deleted. With the in-graph read migrated it had no readers the arrays cannot answer: the cold-path stall dump and the a5 host-side scheduler preflight both walk GLOBAL slots, so they read the task header's array. The field goes, along withmark_completedand the PENDING stores that paired with it. One task now has one completion state rather than a state and a mirror of it, andreservedabsorbs the freed byte so the slot stays a single cache line.Testing
host_build_graphsim 12 passed / 7 skipped; a5 13 passedNo reproducible regression. Each run had one case above 2%, and both reversed sign on the other die, so neither survives:
The two dies are not comparable in absolute terms — on identical baseline code die 13 ran 3.5% to 29% slower than die 12 did in #2144's A/B — which is why the per-run outliers are read as die noise rather than as effects.
One thing worth recording rather than glossing: qwen is the only case with the same sign in both runs, small and positive. There is a mechanism for it. The scan used to read the producer's slot line, and the caller then CASes
wake_list_headon that same line; the old scan warmed the line the CAS was about to take. Reading the array instead leaves that CAS cold. Amortization only repays this on wide rows, and qwen's in-graph rows are not wide — instrumentinggraph_fill_definitionover a qwen decode gives 251 of 277 rows at width 1, with the rest at 6-11 and two outliers (27, 85). So on this workload the change is close to a wash, as the numbers show.That does not argue against the change: the array is required for in-graph early dispatch regardless, the wide rows are exactly the ones a candidate's sorted row will be, and the redundant second state field is gone. It does argue against selling it as a scheduling win, and it gives the next PR something specific to watch — if the cold CAS shows up once ED is on, prefetching the producer slot at the point the scan decides to hang on it is the obvious lever.