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The tiled QKV path is opt-in through TRTLLM_ENABLE_QKV_ROPE_TILING=1; the setting is read at import time. The kernel selects eight-token tiles only for eligible SM107 devices and shapes. Other calls use the stock path. Tiled reductions and compiler contraction can change Q/K rounding across dispatch boundaries.

get_sm_version now accepts a device argument. Callers that omit it retain device-0 behavior.

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The modified unit test covers reference matching, tiled-versus-stock output, CUDA graph replay, eager and Inductor compilation, dispatch exclusions, tensor-parallel head counts, and batch boundaries. No reference to this test file was found in the integration CI or manual-QA lists. Coverage verdict: sufficient.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/kernels/fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py: Verify import-time opt-in, SM107 and shape eligibility, stock fallback, partial-tile handling, and Q/K rounding at dispatch boundaries.
• tensorrt_llm/_utils.py: Verify get_sm_version for CUDA devices, integer device IDs, None, and systems without CUDA.
• tests/unittest/_torch/attention/kernels/test_fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py: Tests output matching, compilation, CUDA graph replay, and dispatch conditions. No matching integration CI or manual-QA list entry was found.

Description

• Why?

One CTA per token and head adds overhead to large Qwen attention batches. Token tiling reduces this overhead while retaining the fused normalization, rotary embedding, and gate extraction.

• What?

Add an eight-token path behind TRTLLM_ENABLE_QKV_ROPE_TILING=1. Limit selection to validated SM107 shapes and 256 - 16,384 tokens. Keep stock execution for other calls, including B200.

Test Coverage

• B200: 1.82× / 1.88× faster direct kernel at those token counts. Production dispatch remains scalar.
• Validation: 158 tests passed per GPU. Scalar fallback matches baseline across 192 benchmark cases.
• Rollout: default off; enable with TRTLLM_ENABLE_QKV_ROPE_TILING=1 before import on eligible SM107 workloads.
• Q/K rounding can change generated tokens across dispatch boundaries.

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Walkthrough

The fused QKV preprocessing kernel now supports one-token and eight-token tiles. Tiled dispatch depends on an environment flag, device capability, token count, dimensions, and total Q/K/V token-head rows. get_sm_version accepts an optional CUDA device. Tests cover dispatch, output behavior, compilation, and CUDA graph replay.

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QKV/RoPE Tiling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Device capability and tiling configuration tensorrt_llm/_utils.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/kernels/fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py	get_sm_version accepts an optional device and caches results by argument. The kernel reads the tiling flag and defines the minimum row threshold.
Tiled kernel and launch selection tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/kernels/fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py	The kernel processes masked token tiles and retains Q/K RMSNorm and RoPE, gate extraction, and packed V copying. Dispatch selects eight-token or one-token tiles and sets the warp count and launch grid. The wrapper documentation describes dispatch conditions and possible Q/K rounding differences.
Dispatch and output validation tests/unittest/_torch/attention/kernels/test_fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py	Tests compare stock and tiled outputs and check dispatch conditions, production launches, compilation backends, token boundaries, and CUDA graph replay.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant fused_qk_norm_rope_gate
  participant _use_tiled_qkv_rope
  participant get_sm_version
  participant QKV_RoPE_kernel
  fused_qk_norm_rope_gate->>_use_tiled_qkv_rope: check tiling conditions
  _use_tiled_qkv_rope->>get_sm_version: query device SM version
  fused_qk_norm_rope_gate->>QKV_RoPE_kernel: launch selected tile configuration

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Merge Risk: Low · up to e7f6b

The opt-in tiled QKV preprocessing path is off by default and limited to validated SM107 shapes. The remaining gap is test coverage: nothing asserts that 16384 tokens still selects the tiled path. This is safe to merge, with a small follow-up to add that assertion.

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title follows the repository template: it has the [None] ticket tag, the [perf] type, and a short summary. It names the main change, the opt-in tiled eight-token QKV preprocessing path, which matc…
Description check		The description covers the Why and What, the Test Coverage section lists benchmark speedups, validation counts, rollout guidance, and a rounding caveat, and the checklist is marked. It does not fully …
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tests/unittest/_torch/attention/kernels/test_fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py: 1

513-523: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a positive case at the inclusive 16384-token bound.

_use_tiled_qkv_rope accepts 256 <= qkv.shape[0] <= 16384. No test asserts that 16384 tokens select the tiled path. The positive cases in test_qkv_rope_tiling_accepts_tp_head_counts stop at 1024 tokens. The 16384-token input in test_qkv_rope_tiling_batch_boundaries compares outputs with tolerance and does not check which path ran. If <= 16384 changes to < 16384, these tests can still pass.

Add a positive case at 16384 tokens. With 8 query heads and 1 KV head, the head-row count exceeds the 3072 threshold at that token count.

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         (512, 4, 1, True),
         (1024, 1, 1, True),
+        (16384, 8, 1, True),
     ),

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Add a positive 16384-token case to the parameterized cases in
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- Around line 513-523: Add a positive 16384-token case to the parameterized
cases in test_qkv_rope_tiling_accepts_tp_head_counts, using 8 query heads and 1
KV head, and assert that the tiled path is selected.

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