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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, 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 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.

ChipTaskSlotState::task_state is 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 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 reserved absorbs the freed byte so the slot stays a single cache line.

Testing

No reproducible regression. Each run had one case above 2%, and both reversed sign on the other die, so neither survives:

Example / Case die 5 die 13
alternating_matmul_add/Case1 -1.35% +3.69%
benchmark_bgemm/Case0 -4.15% -2.39%
paged_attention_unroll/Case1 +2.60% -0.59%
paged_attention_unroll/Case2 -0.77% -1.20%
paged_attention_unroll_manual_scope/Case1 +0.55% -0.28%
paged_attention_unroll_manual_scope/Case2 -1.61% -2.62%
batch_paged_attention/Case1 -2.73% -0.28%
qwen3_14b_decode/GraphExecutionBatch16Seq3500 +1.54% +0.47%

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_head on 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 — instrumenting graph_fill_definition over 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.

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The 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.

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Graph polling and early dispatch

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Execution state storage contract
src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.h, src/common/host_build_graph/runtime_types.h, src/common/host_build_graph/device/graph_execution.cpp, src/common/host_build_graph/shared_memory.h, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp
GraphExecution now owns a per-task atomic state array. Storage layout, reset, completion accessors, validation, and wake-cursor bounds use the new representation.
Early-dispatch qualification
src/common/host_build_graph/host/orchestrator.cpp, src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_ed_qualification.cpp, tests/st/.../graph_execution_orch.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
Definition filling records candidate and tracked flags, sorts qualifying fanin rows, clears the wire early-resolve bit, and adds tests for flagged and unflagged producers.
Scheduler wake and completion flow
src/a2a3/.../scheduler/*, src/a5/.../scheduler/*, src/a5/.../runtime_maker.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/*, tests/ut/cpp/a5/*, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_ed_qualification.cpp
Schedulers publish completion through task-state arrays, scan fanin rows backward from saved cursors, resolve producers by row, fast-path single-producer waiters, and update diagnostics and activation tests.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to db759

The graph execution documentation describes an obsolete completion mechanism, which can mislead maintainers working on scheduler and storage behavior. Update it before merge.

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  participant Scheduler
  participant GraphExecution
  participant WakeList
  participant ReadyQueue
  Scheduler->>GraphExecution: store_completed(task_index)
  Scheduler->>WakeList: drain graph waiters
  WakeList->>GraphExecution: scan fanin from wake_scan_cursor
  GraphExecution->>ReadyQueue: route satisfied consumer
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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
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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,
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Rebased onto main now that #2144 has landed (squash-merged as f7f4766, so this replayed with --onto). No longer stacked; the PR is one commit off main.

#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:

  • consumers_rescannedconsumers_resolved in drain_graph_wake_list, both arches
  • static_assert(sizeof(InGraphTaskDefinition) == 80) pinning the wire layout
  • in-graph allocations now record set_early_resolve(true), so a hidden alloc cannot be the unflagged producer that disqualifies a consumer
  • the doc note that the flags are validated but propagate to no slot

The one that needed work: #2144's merged version added HbgGraphWakeScanTest and HiddenAllocProducerDoesNotDisqualifyItsConsumer to test_hbg_graph_ed_qualification.cpp — about 185 lines that were not in the head this branch was based on. They drive readiness through slot.task_state and mark_completed(), which this PR deletes. Git reported no conflict, because this branch never touched that file; the breakage was semantic and only the build showed it. The new fixture now allocates the execution's state array alongside its task storage and completions go through execution.store_completed(i), which is what those tests were really asserting about.

Re-verified on the new base: C++ unit tests 137/137, a2a3 host_build_graph sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 13 passed.

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 (bccd9b0b). Clean, but worth recording what it was carrying and why the rebase mattered here.

#2104 rewrote the one file this PR touches on a single arch. src/a5/.../host/runtime_maker.cpp gained the whole AICore-scheduler profiling publisher (publish_aicore_scheduler_profiling, publish_runtime_chip_swimlane_extensions, the SchedulerStateOwner::api field, run_control->chip_swimlane_level, the extra scheduler_plan_layout argument). This branch was based on f7f47662 and predated all of it, so before the rebase a git diff upstream/main on that file read as a ~300-line deletion of #2104. That was an artifact of diffing against a moved main, not something in the commit — but it is exactly the shape a bad merge would take, so I verified after rebasing that every one of those symbols is still present and that the file's diff is now only the three lines this PR actually changes, at their new line numbers.

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. slot.task_state held two values, so == PENDING was the complement of == COMPLETED; the array holds three, so !is_completed is literally "PENDING or PUBLISHED" and collapses to the old meaning only because PUBLISHED cannot be observed on the host at that point. Memory ordering is unchanged — the old reads were acquire and is_completed defaults to acquire.

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; git grep task_state over a2a3's runtime_maker.cpp finds only a comment. Every genuinely paired change in this PR — both scheduler.h, both scheduler_cold_path.cpp — does move in lockstep.

Re-verified on the new base: C++ unit tests 139/139 (two targets arrived with the newly merged PRs), a2a3 host_build_graph sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 13 passed.

The device A/B was re-run against merge-base f7f47662 on pinned even die 4, 100 rounds, both arms sequential: device deltas span -0.71% .. +0.52%, nothing near the 2% threshold, qwen3_14b_decode +0.47%. Note that seven of the eight cases moved slightly positive this time, including cases with no in-graph tasks at all — which have no mechanism to be affected — so that offset reads as run drift rather than as an effect. qwen has now been measured three times at +0.47% / +1.54% / +0.47%: same sign, magnitude not converging, and all of it above what the mechanism can account for. Both directions remain below this box's resolution.

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 lines are the ones 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.
A fanin scan reads its producers out of a cache line or two, and the array is
read-mostly — each byte is written once per execution, at completion — so
concurrent scanners share those lines instead of contending for them. The
region is last in the storage layout because a byte needs no alignment, so
appending it moves no other section.

With the in-graph readiness 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, and the field goes away 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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