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Early dispatch reached only top-level tasks. This extends it to a Graph body's internal edges and to the edge from an ordinary task into a Graph. One direction is deliberately left out: a Graph as a producer, since a shell publishes no placement of its own for a consumer to bet on — that needs a definition of "shell published" and belongs in its own change.

This is the payoff step for the three prerequisites that preceded it (#2130, #2144, #2159); it adds no new mechanism.

In-graph to in-graph

The publish chain #2095 built is reused rather than forked. The behaviour is unchanged: a candidate hangs on its deepest unpublished producer, a producer that places its last logical block seals the chain, detached waiters rescan and pre-stage.

The two cohorts differed only in where the fanin row lives and where the states do, and both were already made to match — the row by #2144's sorted CSR, the states by #2159's per-execution array. So three call sites take a cohort and everything else is shared. in_graph_execution_of names that cohort once; it returns null for a GLOBAL task and for a GRAPH shell, which is a task of the run despite carrying a graph_context — the same pair complete_task already routes on.

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 (the prepare-queue slot), 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. #2144 recorded those verdicts and left them inert — validated but propagated nowhere; this is the line that consumes them.

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: its 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 on the ordinary route: the shell's producers complete, push_ready_routed hands the shell to graph_ready_queue, and activate_graph_task opens the external gate graph_route_ready_roots reads. So the dependency the shell stands for is still honoured — the producers' PUBLISHED buys the roots' placement; only their COMPLETED launches them. The shell's own completion is a later and unrelated event: the body retiring.

Two things worth review attention here:

  • A root carries no host verdict. Qualification needs a producer to bet on and a root has none inside the body, so materialization sets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on it. 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 — I hit exactly that, and the run ends in SIMPLER_ERROR_SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT rather than anything that names the cause. The verdict is three terms, none of them the recorded conjunction: the shell must itself be a candidate, since stage_graph_roots_early is the only thing that can stage a root and it runs only on a shell release — without this term every root under a non-ED Graph pays a seq_cst CAS per route for a claim it can never hold; and the root must be neither DUMMY (no dispatchable shape to index a per-shape queue with) nor predicated (an early release returns before the predicate test). Deciding all three at materialization rather than at staging time is what keeps them off a slot a reader can already see.
  • route_cursor is untouched. Staging is not routing; the ordinary route must still run, because that is what rings.

An earlier attempt had the shell call prepare_graph_task instead, on the theory that early release buys earlier materialization. It does not: intake pushes every shell onto the prepare queue as it is classified, and that path never waited on the shell's producers, so materialization was already running early. That version also dragged graph_execution_materialize_slice into the link line of unit tests that do not build it.

Testing

  • C++ unit tests 140/140. RejectsCandidateFlagWithoutItsConjunction pins the image check below, mutation-verified: with the check removed all three malformed images localize. Plus five assertions for the two host/device verdicts this PR introduces: RootStagingVerdictWithholdsCandidate covers each way a root fails to qualify (non-candidate shell, predicated root, DUMMY root), and FlaggedProducerMakesTheShellACandidate / OneUnflaggedProducerDisqualifiesTheShell cover the shell's own conjunction through a real graph_submit_outer.
  • a2a3 host_build_graph sim 12 passed / 7 skipped; a5 13 passed
  • Both paths verified as actually firing, not merely compiling. Temporary probes on the a2a3 sim graph_execution case showed the in-graph candidate registering, both its producers publishing and sealing, and the shell staging its root — the full chain, three times over the case's three layers.
  • Hardware A/B on a2a3 device 4, host_build_graph, 100 rounds trimmed to 80. One discarded warm-up arm, then base/head interleaved twice. qwen3_14b_decode — the only case with a Graph body — improves and is the only case whose sign agrees across both repetitions on both metrics: device -0.68% / -1.23%, host -0.78% / -1.60%. Every other case sits inside +-0.6% on device with mixed signs, except batch_paged_attention at a sign-consistent +0.32% / +0.33%, which is the shared-path cost of the cohort test and is smaller than the +0.7% the pre-review revision measured.

The graph_execution scene tests flag the seed task feeding the Graph shells and carry a dependency-only root, so onboard CI exercises the ordinary-to-Graph edge and the DUMMY-root exclusion rather than only the sim.

Image validation

ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE was inert until this PR: #2144 recorded the verdicts and nothing propagated them, so bind_graph_topology only had to reject unknown bits. Materialization now replays the flag onto a slot and it steers dispatch, so the reader holds the whole conjunction the recorder decides it by — a candidate must have a producer, a dispatchable shape and no predicate.

The exit this closes is not the root path: stage_graph_roots_early requires an empty CSR row and a recorded candidate always has fanin_count > 0, so that one was already shut. It is the non-root path. A malformed image with ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE on a DUMMY non-root reaches early_dispatch_queues[active_mask.to_shape()] with ResourceShape::DUMMY == 3 against early_dispatch_queues[NUM_RESOURCE_SHAPES == 3] — one past the end. The predicated variant is a correctness bug rather than a memory one: an early release returns before the predicate is tested.

graph_fill_definition is the only writer of this field and holds all three terms, so the check can only reject images it cannot produce.

Known gap

An in-graph sync_start root now reaches the early-dispatch sync-start drain queue, and the only scene test on that path is top level. Tracked as #2184 — it wants a pass over how sync_start is scoped under hbg, not one more scene test bolted onto the existing shape.

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The scheduler now supports early dispatch for GRAPH shells and IN_GRAPH tasks. Graph shells stage dependency-free body roots. Publication scans and completion use either global task-table state or GraphExecution CSR state.

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Graph early dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graph qualification and materialization
src/common/host_build_graph/host/orchestrator.cpp, src/common/host_build_graph/device/graph_execution.cpp, src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.h, tests/st/*/host_build_graph/graph_execution/kernels/orchestration/graph_execution_orch.cpp
Graph shells qualify for early dispatch when their global producers allow early resolution. Materialized task slots restore ed_flags. GraphExecution exposes published-state helpers. Seed tasks enable early resolution in both test variants.
Early staging of graph roots
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h
GRAPH shells claim staging without entering a dispatch queue. Their dependency-free body roots are marked and enqueued. Incrementally materialized candidates are registered and dispatched when their producers are published.
Publication scanning and completion
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h
The scheduler routes publication state and fanin scanning through global task storage or in-graph CSR arrays. In-graph completion now seals tracked early-dispatch publish lists.

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  participant Orchestrator
  participant SchedulerState
  participant GraphExecution
  participant EarlyDispatchQueue
  Orchestrator->>SchedulerState: qualify GRAPH shell and set scheduling flags
  SchedulerState->>GraphExecution: inspect body roots and published state
  SchedulerState->>EarlyDispatchQueue: enqueue dependency-free roots
  GraphExecution->>SchedulerState: expose incrementally ready candidates
  SchedulerState->>EarlyDispatchQueue: enqueue ready in-graph tasks
  SchedulerState->>GraphExecution: store publication and seal tracked lists
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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h`:
- Around line 831-834: Update both mirrored scheduler headers so
graph_incremental_publish stages and enqueues roots materialized after the GRAPH
shell claims NONE to EARLY_DISPATCH_STAGING, before graph_route_ready_roots()
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Comment on lines +831 to +834
// Only tasks already materialized can be staged; the rest are picked up by
// the same pass as materialization advances, since prepare_graph_task calls
// graph_incremental_publish on every slice. route_cursor is not touched:
// staging is not routing, and the ordinary route must still run to ring.

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Stage roots materialized after the shell claim

When a root is materialized after the GRAPH shell wins NONE -> EARLY_DISPATCH_STAGING, graph_incremental_publish() skips it. The one-time stage_graph_roots_early() scan cannot see it, so graph_route_ready_roots() later sends it through the normal ready queue without ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE. This loses the intended early staging. When the shell remains staged, mark and enqueue each newly materialized root before graph_route_ready_roots() runs. Preserve route_cursor so normal routing remains exactly once. Apply this correction in both mirrored scheduler headers.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h` around lines
831 - 834, Update both mirrored scheduler headers so graph_incremental_publish
stages and enqueues roots materialized after the GRAPH shell claims NONE to
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root.ed_flags |= ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE;
enqueue_early_dispatch_candidate(root);

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Skip non-dispatchable roots before setting ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE.

stage_graph_roots_early can stage an AIC/AIV/MIX root without checking its predicate. If the predicate later fails, push_ready_routed calls try_early_dispatch_release first. After all logical_block_num blocks are staged, it returns true, so the root bypasses dummy_ready_queue and its body can run on AICore. DUMMY roots also enter an early-dispatch queue that run_staging_order never drains. Skip ResourceShape::DUMMY roots and roots with failed predicates before setting the flag in both scheduler variants.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler.h` around lines
848 - 849, In both scheduler variants, update stage_graph_roots_early to skip
roots whose ResourceShape is DUMMY or whose predicate fails before setting
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All nine hold up. I checked each against the code rather than taking them, and none was a false positive — ① and ② in particular are defects I would not have found from the passing suite, since both fail silently. Fixed in b28f3b9.

①③④ — one fix. Took the suggested shape: the root verdict moves into graph_execution_materialize_slice, beside the existing slot.ed_flags = source.ed_flags, and stage_graph_roots_early reduces to enqueueing whatever is already flagged.

That site is single-owner and runs strictly before any path can route the root, which is what removes ③ — setting the flag at staging time did not fix the failure mode described in the PR body, it turned it from deterministic into a race, exactly as you say. And it can apply the same two terms the recorded conjunction applies to the task itself, which is ①:

  • ResourceShape::DUMMY == 3 against NUM_RESOURCE_SHAPES == 3 — confirmed, the write lands in early_sync_start_queue. Materialization does produce DUMMY in-graph tasks (slot.task_kind = slot.active_mask.is_dummy() ? ...), so this was reachable.
  • The predicate test sits at scheduler.h:582, after the early-release return at :572 — confirmed unreachable for a staged task.

fanin_count > 0 is not carried over: it is the term that excludes roots, and a root is precisely what this decides. ④'s comment is rewritten to say what actually happens — a root materialized after the pass takes the ordinary route, since graph_incremental_publish skips roots and the shell's claim admits the pass once. That is the ⑧ gap; it costs the pre-stage, never correctness, and I would rather leave it visible than add a second staging trigger in this change.

② — widened to uint16_t. Chose the width over capping in-graph fanin, since a cap would reject bodies that are legal today. The freed byte comes from reserved[4], so the slot stays 64 bytes, and the cursor now sits beside wake_scan_cursor rather than in the byte block — uint16_t after a uint8_t inserted padding and broke the layout assert, which is how I found that placement matters.

The comment and static_assert are replaced by a statement of what actually bounds it. wake_scan_cursor's neighbouring comment claimed it was "wider than its early-dispatch twin below", which is no longer true either; fixed.

⑦ — the wide-row case is now a test, and I verified it fails without the fix. HbgGraphWakeScanTest.WideRowCursorDoesNotTruncate builds a 300-producer row, publishes 299 of them, and asserts the scan never reports the row finished. Reverting the field to uint8_t makes it fail; restoring the fix makes it pass. The root verdict is asserted in the existing materialize test (root flagged, non-root not), and the graph_execution body gains a dependency-only root so the DUMMY exclusion is exercised on device.

I tried a table-driven test over all three root kinds against hand-built Definitions first and could not get graph_execution_localize to accept the mutated image; rather than keep bisecting a test harness, I put the assertions where materialization already runs. So DUMMY and predicated roots are covered by construction and by the scene test, not by a dedicated unit case — worth knowing.

⑤⑥ — both stale, both fixed. GRAPH_EXECUTION.md said the flags "steer no dispatch yet"; runtime_types.h said "the device only ever reads them", which materialization now contradicts.

⑨ — real, and the comment is corrected. HBG producer propagation currently leaves this queue dormant stops being true the moment a sync_start Graph root is staged. It is intentional — a sync_start root needs the all-or-nothing cohort exactly as a top-level one does — so the queue is the right destination; only the comment was wrong.

Re-verified: C++ unit tests 140/140, a2a3 host_build_graph sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 13 passed.

The hardware A/B in the description was measured before these fixes. The device-visible change since then is that DUMMY and predicated roots are no longer staged, which the qwen body has none of, but I will re-run it rather than assume the number carries.

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All seven verified against the code; all seven were true. Fixed in b6b9c7d6 except ⑥, which is now #2184.

① Predicated root had no assertion. Confirmed: every set_predicate task in graph_predicated_dispatch also calls set_dependencies, so none of them is a root — the !has_predicate() term had zero coverage, while the DUMMY half was covered by the scene test's dependency-only root. make_test_definition now takes a TestRoot variant and RootStagingVerdictWithholdsCandidate asserts each way the verdict comes out false.

② Shell qualification had no unit test. Confirmed: all eight existing fixtures exercise graph_fill_definition, none reaches graph_submit_outer. Added FlaggedProducerMakesTheShellACandidate and OneUnflaggedProducerDisqualifiesTheShell, which submit a real shell through the record → commit → producer → cache-hit path that test_hbg_graph_submit_failure.cpp already uses, then read the shell's slot. They also pin the TRACKED propagation onto the producer.

③ Stale comment. Fixed on both arches. It now says the verdict is the host's for a task it submitted and materialization's for a body root, and names the condition under which a root gets one.

④ Took the behaviour change rather than the comment. stage_graph_roots_early is the only path that gives a root a staging claim, and it runs only from enqueue_early_dispatch_candidate's GRAPH branch — i.e. only when the shell itself was released early. So under a shell the host did not qualify, a root's ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE is unreachable by construction and pays a seq_cst CAS per route for nothing. The shell's verdict is host-written before upload and never changes, so the test is loop-invariant and hoisted out of the slice loop.

That this is load-bearing is not an argument: the pre-existing ResubmissionRebuildsFromDefinition assertion EXPECT_NE(task_at(0).ed_flags & ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE, 0) started failing until the test set outer_slot.ed_flags = ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE.

This also retires an idea I had floated separately — hoisting root_stageable into recording time. The two are incompatible, since a Definition is shared across executions and cannot know which shell replays it, and saving a seq_cst CAS on the dispatch path beats saving three predictable branches at materialization.

⑤ Confirmed the assert was deleted by this PR. runtime_types.h cannot see MAX_IN_GRAPH_TASKS (graph_execution.h includes it, not the reverse), so the replacement sits in graph_execution.h next to the wake_scan_cursor one and pins both cohorts' bounds — the in-graph row by task count, the GLOBAL row by CHIP_MAX_FANIN.

⑥ Filed as #2184, not fixed here. Agreed the path is newly live. Writing a scene test for it means new orchestration plus kernels on both arches, and the questions it raises — what a sync_start cohort is scoped to when its members are staged by a shell release rather than by their own producers, and whether an in-graph root may rendezvous with a top-level one — are worth answering before picking a test shape. The residual risk is narrow: push_ready_routed runs one body of code for both cohorts, differing only in the state array and row location, both of which ① and ② now cover.

⑦ PR body updated. Test counts, the new coverage, and the #2184 gap. The hardware A/B is running now on qwen decode — the earlier numbers predate the last two review rounds and no longer describe this device behaviour, so I will post the fresh ones rather than carry them forward.

140/140 C++ UTs, a2a3 sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 sim 13 passed.

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Hardware A/B

a2a3 device 4 under one task-submit allocation, host_build_graph, 100 rounds trimmed to 80 (10 low + 10 high dropped). One warm-up arm discarded to absorb first-acquisition die poisoning, then base/head interleaved twice. base = f2478fad (merge-base), head = b6b9c7d6. pto-isa pinned to 5a4f74cb on both sides, each in its own venv.

Device is the column to read: the host column carries Python dispatch overhead and swings +-5% between repetitions on the short cases.

case metric Δ r1 Δ r2 sign
qwen3_14b_decode device -0.68% -1.23% agree
qwen3_14b_decode host -0.78% -1.60% agree
paged_attn_unroll (C1) device -0.38% -0.22% agree
paged_attn_unroll (C2) device -0.62% -0.45% agree
pau_manual_scope (C1) device -0.17% -0.24% agree
pau_manual_scope (C2) device -0.33% +0.06%
alternating_matmul_add device -0.06% +0.38%
benchmark_bgemm device +0.55% +0.21% agree
batch_paged_attention device +0.32% +0.33% agree

qwen3_14b_decode is the only case in the set with a Graph body, and it is the only one whose sign agrees across both repetitions on both metrics. Its device deltas are -253 us and -461 us against a ~37,500 us baseline — 2-4x the ~0.3% spread the non-graph cases show, so modest but not noise.

The non-graph cases sit at or below that spread with mixed signs, with one exception worth naming: batch_paged_attention regresses a sign-consistent +0.32% / +0.33%. That is the shared-path cost of the cohort test in enqueue_early_dispatch_candidate, paid by workloads that get nothing back. It is roughly half the +0.71% / +0.79% the pre-review revision measured, which is consistent with the ④ gate keeping ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE off roots nothing can stage.

These numbers replace the earlier -1.86% / -1.57% I quoted. That measurement predates the last two review rounds, which changed what the device actually does — DUMMY and predicated roots are no longer staged, and roots under a shell the host did not qualify are no longer flagged at all — so it no longer describes this branch.

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检视意见

已按 merge-base(f2478fad)逐行读完,没有发现正确性缺陷。下面分三部分:我实际推演验证过的、需要补或需要答复的、以及建议考虑的。


一、已验证的部分

这几条是本次检视花时间最多的地方,列出来是为了让后续读者知道哪些论证已经走到底了:

  1. shell 不会被 ED 路径吞掉。 push_ready_routed(shell) 在 shell 处于 STAGING 时会进 try_early_dispatch_release,走完 STAGING→DISPATCHED、空 doorbell、LAUNCH_COMPLETE,最后返回 next_block_idx >= logical_block_num。靠 graph_submit_outer 里的 slot.logical_block_num = 1 使其为假,shell 才得以进入 graph_ready_queue。见下面第 ⑤ 条。
  2. root 不会被双发。 stage 线程的 CAS NONE→STAGING 与 route 线程的 CAS NONE→DISPATCHED 恰好一方胜出。route 后手时 next_block_idx(0) >= N 为假,root 走普通队列;ED 队列里那份被 pop 时因状态已是 DISPATCHEDearly_dispatch_shape 丢弃。
  3. 预占核不会死锁。 shell 释放的前提是其 producer 全部 PUBLISHED(= 所有 block 已落核),gated roots 占的是另外的核,而 shell 激活只需 producer 完成,与 roots 之间无环。与顶层 ED 同一套论证。
  4. 状态字节不会回退。 store_published 只可能发生在最后一批 MMIO token 之前,所以 COMPLETED(2) 不会被 PUBLISHED(1) 覆盖。
  5. slot 复用干净。 reset_for_reuse() 会清零 ed_flags(所以 |= 的前提成立),graph_reset_outer_payloadreset_graph_payload 覆盖了全部 ED payload 字段。
  6. a2a3 / a5 两份 scheduler.h 的 diff 逐行一致(仅 hunk 偏移不同);两份 st 编排 kernel 同样一致。codestyle 规则 10 对架构兄弟目录的同步要求满足。

WideRowCursorDoesNotTruncate 用 300 个 producer 守住游标加宽这条,是这个 PR 里最该有的那个测试,写得很好。


二、需要补 / 需要答复

① 文档只改了一行,欠了一整节。

GRAPH_EXECUTION.md 改后的那句说 materialization "replays them onto each task's slot",但这不完整:materialization 还会造出 Definition 里没有的裁决(root 的 ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE),而 shell 自己的 host 端资格判定文档里完全没提。同时 "Scheduler flow" 那一节逐条列了 materialization 的职责(wake 注册、CSR 扫描、游标语义),唯独漏了本 PR 新增的两项挂接点。按 doc-consistency.md §1/§4 应在同一个 commit 落地。

② in-graph sync_start root 这条路径零测试,但现在已经可达。

"Known gap" 里已经承认并挂了 #2184,但选择了先放行。保守做法只需在 root_stageable 上多一个合取项:

&& !slot.task_attrs.requires_sync_start()

一项就让这条未测路径重新不可达,代价只是 sync_start root 拿不到预占。

单独拎出这一条的理由:它牵涉 early_sync_drain 的三态握手,以及 cancel_early_sync_drain 回灌 push_ready_routed 这条路径——是本 PR 里唯一我无法靠读代码穷尽验证的分支,其余路径都推演到底了。想请说明为什么选择放行而不是先关掉。


三、建议考虑

③ 预占很可能经常整体落空,这直接决定 −1.23% 能不能复现。

stage_graph_roots_early 只跑一次(一次性 CAS),且只覆盖当时已 publish 的 root。而 body 是每次访问 prepare 队列推进 4 个任务,shell 的 producer 一落核就 PUBLISHED——完全可能在 published_tasks == 0 时触发,整个预占白给。

注释把它写成"只损失预占、不损失正确性"是准确的,但没有说这可能是常态而不是边角情况。建议二选一:从 graph_incremental_publish 里对已释放的 shell 重试一次;或者把描述里提到的临时探针固化成 SIMPLER_SCHED_PROFILING 计数器,让命中率可观测。

④ Definition 校验没跟上语义升级。

bind_graph_topology 只检查 ed_flags 没有未知位。而 stage_graph_roots_early 信任从 Definition 拷来的那一位,不复查 DUMMY / predicate(复查只发生在它自己 |= 的那条 root 上)。今天不可达(录制器保证 CANDIDATE ⇒ fanin ≥ 1),但这一位从本 PR 起开始左右派发,而文档原话就是 "bind_graph_topology validates these flags"。建议把校验补成完整合取式:CANDIDATE ⇒ 行非空 ∧ active_mask 非 DUMMY ∧ 无 predicate_slot。

⑤ 一个隐式耦合值得留一句不变式注释。

shell 能否进 graph_ready_queue,取决于 try_early_dispatch_release 末尾 next_block_idx >= logical_block_num 返回 false,而这靠 graph_submit_outer 里的 slot.logical_block_num = 1。哪天有人把它改成 0,整个 Graph 会静默永不激活,只表现为 SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT——和描述里提到踩过的那个坑同一类失败模式。那一行值得一句注释把不变式写明。

⑥ 同一个条件两种写法。 host 侧写 active_mask.to_shape() != ResourceShape::DUMMY,materialization 写 slot.task_kind != TaskKind::DUMMY。今天等价(submit_types.hto_shape() 当且仅当 is_dummy() 返回 DUMMY),但同一个合取项在两处读起来像两件事。

⑦ 注释术语不准。 stage_graph_roots_early 上方那段说 root "rings when the shell's real completion routes it through push_ready_routed"——shell 的 completion 是 body 跑完;真正 route roots 的是 shell 的激活(activate_graph_taskgraph_route_ready_roots,由 graph_execution_external_ready 门控)。PR 描述里是同一处口误。这类注释读者会直接采信。

⑧ 非 Graph 用例的永久成本。 batch_paged_attention 那 +0.32% / +0.33% 双轮同号,是 cohort 分支进入 account_published_blocks / advance_ed_publish_scan 热路径的代价。已披露、且比 pre-review 版本的 +0.7% 好,这里只是记一笔:对完全不使用 Graph 的用例这也是长期支付的开销。


关于 CodeRabbit 的两条意见

  • 第 1 条(Stage roots materialized after the shell claim)成立,与我独立得出的结论一致,即上面第 ③ 条。它标为 Minor,我认为应该更高。
  • 第 2 条(Skip non-dispatchable roots before setting ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE)无效,不需要改。 materialization 的 root_stageable 已经同时排除了 has_predicate()task_kind == DUMMY,再设置该标志位;CodeRabbit 是孤立地读 stage_graph_roots_early 得出的结论。它附带的"shape-DUMMY 与 kind-DUMMY 可能不同"也不成立:submit_types.hto_shape() 当且仅当 is_dummy() 时返回 ResourceShape::DUMMY

结论

倾向 approve,条件是补上 ① 的文档、并就 ② 给个答复。

pto_isa.pin 锁在 5a4f74cb,本 PR 未改动任何 pto-isa header 引用,无需 bump。

硬件 A/B 的方法学(丢弃预热臂 + base/head 交错两轮 + 只认双轮同号)比这类 PR 的常见水平扎实,把 batch_paged_attention 那笔共享路径开销也如实报出来了,这点值得说一句。

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Thanks — the verification depth here is unusual and it caught two things I had wrong. 0538f244 lands the zero-behaviour-change half. The rest is deferred deliberately, with reasons below.

② The diagnosis is right, the fix would not close the path — and one of my own comments is why

Adding && !slot.task_attrs.requires_sync_start() to root_stageable closes only the root half. The non-GRAPH branch of enqueue_early_dispatch_candidate picks its queue from the task's own attribute, with no cohort test:

consumer.task_attrs.requires_sync_start() ? early_sync_start_queue : early_dispatch_queues[shape]

An in-graph non-root gets ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE from the recorded verdict, never from root_stageable, and reaches that fork through graph_incremental_publish → chain → drain. Closing the path would need the same term in graph_fill_definition.

And the path is already live on the measured workload. examples/a2a3/host_build_graph/qwen3_14b_decode/.../decode_fwd_layers.cpp:521 sets set_require_sync_start(true) on params_t11, inside the layer_definition body submitted at line 2067. It has six producers — so, non-root — and all six (t3, t4, t6, t8, t9, t10) carry set_allow_early_resolve(true), with no predicate and a non-DUMMY mask. That is the recorded conjunction exactly. The A/B therefore ran this path 5 arms x 100 rounds x 16 layers with golden validation passing.

I think the reason the proposed fix looks sufficient is a comment I wrote in this PR:

// A sync_start Graph root reaches this queue when its shell is
// early-released, which is the only producer propagation in HBG that fills it.

That "only" is false twice over — a top-level candidate fills it (that is what spmd_sync_start_early_dispatch covers), and so does a non-root in-graph one. Fixed in 0538f244; the queue comment now says the fork is chosen by the task's own attribute and never by cohort.

On why I am leaving the behaviour alone rather than closing it: the sync-start drain never resolves a task through the task table. The pop validates by comparing the tag against the slot's own descriptor (c->to_descriptor().task_id.raw == sync_task_id_snapshot) and then reads only slot-relative state; publish_ready_to_early_sync_drain and try_launch_sync_start_cohort contain no task id at all. That matters because an in-graph TaskId encodes (outer local id, in-graph index) rather than a table index — any id-based lookup on this path would read the wrong slot. There is none, so the path is cohort-agnostic by construction. The two things that do differ per cohort — which array carries completion state, where the fanin row lives — are read by account_published_blocks / advance_ed_publish_scan / the dep scan, all cohort-dispatched here and unit-tested.

So what is missing is an asserting test, not first validation. #2184 owns it, together with the spec question of what a sync_start cohort is scoped to under hbg.

⑦ Correct, and it is worse than a loose phrase

The comment named the wrong event. Roots are routed by the shell's activation — producers complete, push_ready_routed hands the shell to graph_ready_queue, activate_graph_task opens the gate graph_route_ready_roots reads — whereas "the shell's completion" has a definite and different meaning here (the body retiring, per complete_task). Rewritten on both arches. The PR description carried the same error plus a second one — "the shell's PUBLISHED buys placement" should be its producers' PUBLISHED — both fixed.

⑤ Correct, and I had it wrong in my head

I assumed the GRAPH branch not enqueueing meant the shell never entered the ED state machine. It does: the branch CASes NONE→STAGING and returns, so the shell sits in STAGING and its readiness runs through try_early_dispatch_release, escaping only because next_block_idx(0) >= logical_block_num(1) is false. 0538f244 writes that invariant at the assignment, naming the failure mode.

① Doc

Added a section under Scheduler flow covering both directions early dispatch enters a body and who decides each — the shell's submit-time qualification, and the root verdict materialization creates rather than replays — plus the queue fork. The Definition bullet now says the recorded verdict covers non-root tasks only.

③ ④ ⑥ deferred

  • Mechanism confirmed: the NONE→STAGING CAS makes it exactly-once and it reads a published_tasks snapshot, with no retry. I could not confirm "often": within one thread's loop the Graph step precedes Phase 4b, so a same-thread ordering leaves published_tasks >= 4; landing at 0 needs a cross-thread race. Two counter-observations too — the probes in the description observed a shell staging its root, and qwen moved. A SIMPLER_SCHED_PROFILING counter first, then decide on the retry, seems the right order; it is a behaviour change either way.
  • Agreed, and the sharper exit is not stage_graph_roots_early — that one requires an empty CSR row, and a recorded CANDIDATE always has fanin_count > 0, so it is closed. It is the non-root path: a malformed Definition with CANDIDATE on a DUMMY non-root reaches early_dispatch_queues[active_mask.to_shape()] with ResourceShape::DUMMY == 3 against early_dispatch_queues[NUM_RESOURCE_SHAPES == 3]. Out of bounds. Worth doing, but it is net-new rejection logic and this PR is meant to stop moving.
  • Agreed they read as two things. Cosmetic; next time that file is open.

Noted as a standing cost, not a one-off. Fair.


0538f244: C++ files changed in comment lines only (git diff -U0 -- '*.h' '*.cpp' filtered of comment lines is empty), plus the doc. 140/140 C++ UTs, a2a3 sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 sim 13 passed. The A/B stands as posted — nothing executable moved.

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Reversing my own call on ④ — it is in, as b9025971.

I had deferred it as "net-new rejection logic". Checking the field properly undercut that: graph_fill_definition is the only writer of InGraphTaskDefinition::ed_flags (orchestrator.cpp:1170 for TRACKED, :1186 for CANDIDATE — the other ed_flags writes in that file target GLOBAL slots and the shell, not the Definition), and Definitions do not persist across runs. So the check can only reject an image the recorder cannot produce, and the "might reject something valid" risk I was pricing in does not exist. It is also this PR that turned the flag from inert into dispatch-steering, which makes the validation its own obligation rather than an extra.

Your framing was right and the exit is the non-root one, not stage_graph_roots_early:

if ((tasks[consumer].ed_flags & ED_FLAG_CANDIDATE) != 0 &&
    (begin == end || tasks[consumer].predicate_slot != 0 ||
     ActiveMask(tasks[consumer].active_mask).to_shape() == ResourceShape::DUMMY)) {
    return false;
}

It sits in the CSR loop rather than the task loop because the row-emptiness term needs begin/end, and the other two fields are reachable there. It spells the shape term to_shape() deliberately — this validates the recorder's conjunction, so it should read in the recorder's terms, which also happens to be the ⑥ side I would keep if that ever gets unified.

RejectsCandidateFlagWithoutItsConjunction covers all three violations, with AcceptsTheSameImageWithoutTheDefect as the control so a rejection cannot come from something the builder broke in passing. Mutation-verified: with the check commented out, all three malformed images localize successfully and the test fails on each — so none of them was being caught by a pre-existing validator.

140/140 C++ UTs, a2a3 sim 12 passed / 7 skipped, a5 sim 13 passed.

Still deferred, unchanged: ② (behaviour, #2184 owns the spec question), ③ (behaviour; counter before retry), ⑥ (cosmetic).

The hardware A/B stands as posted. bind_graph_topology runs once per Graph before activation, never on the dispatch path, and returns identically on every well-formed image.

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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