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Summary

• replace the SM100/SM103 KDA forward native extension with a pure CuTeDSL implementation
• port chunk intra, FP32 Akk inversion, and recompute W/U using the native implementation as the arithmetic reference
• support MHA, grouped-value attention, fixed-length, packed varlen, partial tails, BF16/FP32 beta, and optional QG
• keep the SM90 native extension unchanged; Blackwell wheels no longer contain an SM100 shared object

Numerical behavior

• preserves the native operand association, accumulation types, TF32/BF16 conversion points, causal masking, tail clamping, and FP32 inverse workspace
• representative MHA, GVA-varlen, and tail vectors match the removed native implementation byte-for-byte for both BF16 and FP32 beta
• exact BF16-zero edge cases are numerically equal; a few lower-triangular Akk entries may differ only in the sign bit of zero because equivalent predicated operations execute in a different order
• FP64-reference error bounds are frozen in tests and do not regress relative to the native baseline

Performance

Complete public forward path, native baseline vs pure CuTeDSL, B=2 H=64:

dtype	T	native (ms)	CuTeDSL (ms)	speedup
BF16 beta	512	0.0803	0.0809	0.993x
BF16 beta	1024	0.1379	0.1320	1.044x
BF16 beta	4096	0.4696	0.4362	1.076x
BF16 beta	8192	0.9152	0.8896	1.029x
FP32 beta	512	0.0804	0.0810	0.992x
FP32 beta	1024	0.1380	0.1326	1.040x
FP32 beta	4096	0.4692	0.4263	1.101x
FP32 beta	8192	0.9164	0.8564	1.070x

GVA BF16, B=1 Hq=16 Hv=64 T=4096: 0.2468 ms native vs 0.2379 ms CuTeDSL (1.038x).

The gain is from the CuTeDSL kernels and lower host-dispatch overhead on the combined path; gate activation and cumsum are not fused into the exact migration path.

Validation

• targeted CuTeDSL tests: 19 passed
• public forward/backward fast suite: 12 passed, 20 skipped, 104 deselected
• pre-removal native-vs-CuTeDSL migration suite: 21 passed
• determinism: 10,000,000 fixed-shape replays and 10,000,000 packed-varlen replays, zero mismatches
• pure wheel inspection: 84 files, no native shared object, no SM100 native-extension module, and no packaged SM100 csrc sources
• pre-commit: all hooks passed
• final CUDA synchronization audit passed for TMA-to-SMEM handoff, generic SMEM publication, TMEM completion, stage reuse, and same-stream kernel ordering

The implementation remains compatible with the supported nvidia-cutlass-dsl>=4.4.2,<4.7,!=4.5.0 range and was validated with 4.6.2. A trial upgrade did not remove the composed-host compiler limitation, so batch-size-one uses the modular pure-CuTeDSL path.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • SM100/SM103 KDA forward and backward operations use CuTeDSL, supporting distinct query/key and value head counts, packed variable-length inputs, and partial chunks.
  • Added a combined SM100 forward path for supported input shapes.
• Improvements
  • SM100 output buffers can be reused while keeping outputs separate across active calls and concurrent streams.
• Build & Compatibility
  • SM90 retains native extension support; SM100/SM103 KDA operations use CuTeDSL instead of a native extension. NVCC is required only to build the optional SM90 extension.
  • Requirements now specify Python 3.12+, CUDA Toolkit 12.9+, and PyTorch 2.9.1+.
• Documentation
  • Updated architecture, build, and KDA support guidance.

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Walkthrough

SM100/SM103 KDA forward and recomputation now use CuTeDSL rather than native CUDA extensions. The changes update kernel implementations, public dispatch, build configuration, benchmarks, tests, and documentation. The SM90 native extension remains.

Changes: SM100/SM103 CuTeDSL migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CuTeDSL kernels and output handling cula/ops/kda/sm100/intra_fused.py, cula/ops/kda/sm100/recompute_wu.py, cula/ops/kda/sm100/full_port.py, cula/ops/kda/sm100/akk_inv_fp32.py, cula/ops/kda/sm100/akk_inv_tf32.py	The intra and recomputation paths support separate query/key and value head counts, packed variable-length inputs, and optional QG output. They add stream-aware launches and pooled output handling. A full-port entry point combines intra computation, inversion, and W/U recomputation.
Public routing and native-extension removal cula/kda/chunk_intra.py, cula/kda/chunk_bwd.py, cula/cudac.py, csrc/api/*, csrc/kda/sm100/*, setup.py, README.md, REPO_LAYOUT.md, .coderabbit.yaml	Public SM100/SM103 paths select CuTeDSL. The SM100/SM103 native bindings, kernels, and build targets are removed. The README and repository layout describe the SM90 native extension and CuTeDSL JIT kernels for SM100/SM103. The review configuration disables the docstrings check.
Benchmarks, tests, and status documentation benchmarks/*, tests/test_kda_sm100_*, docs/kda_sm100_cutedsl_fwd_status.md	Benchmarks exercise CuTeDSL paths. Tests cover output digests, numerical precision, determinism, stream isolation, storage, and memory retention. The status document describes supported inputs, dispatch, contracts, and validation.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PublicKDA
  participant FullPort
  participant IntraCuTeDSL
  participant AkkInverse
  participant RecomputeWU
  PublicKDA->>FullPort: Dispatch eligible fixed-length inputs
  FullPort->>IntraCuTeDSL: Run intra computation
  FullPort->>AkkInverse: Invert Akk
  FullPort->>RecomputeWU: Compute W and U
  FullPort-->>PublicKDA: Return KDA outputs

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🟡 Minor · The pre-built wheel description is stale. · README.md:29

README.md:29
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The pre-built wheel description is stale.

This line still says the pre-built wheels are "fat-binary wheels (SM90 + SM100 + SM103)". After this PR, SM100/SM103 use CuTeDSL JIT and the wheel contains only the SM90 extension. This also contradicts the updated heading on Line 60. Reword it to describe the SM90 native extension plus CuTeDSL JIT for Blackwell.

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Update the pre-built wheel description in the README to clarify that the wheel
contains the SM90 native extension and uses CuTeDSL JIT for Blackwell, rather
than describing it as a fat binary containing SM90, SM100, and SM103. Keep the
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Review comments at @cula/ops/kda/sm100/full_port.py:
- Line 235: Move the exception-handling boundary in the full-port execution flow
so `_compile_full_port` and the metadata and dummy-tensor getters run inside the
`try` that releases `intra_entry` and `wu_entry`. Alternatively, perform
compilation before acquiring either pool entry; ensure compile failures cannot
leave acquired entries busy.

Review comments at @cula/ops/kda/sm100/intra_fused.py:
- Line 3020: Open the try block immediately after `_acquire_exact_port_outputs`
and include wrapper creation, `make_host_function`, compilation, and kernel
launch so any failure releases the pooled entry via `release_after_error()`.
Apply the same ordering fix to `_acquire_output_buffers` and
`chunk_kda_fwd_full_sm100_from_gk`.
- Around line 2724-2725: Update _ExactPortOutputEntry.is_free and its liveness
tracking in attach so pool reuse remains blocked while any derived view retains
the output storage; if storage lifetime cannot be tracked reliably, stop pooling
these outputs. Apply the same fix to _OutputPoolEntry only if it has the same
wrapper-versus-storage behavior.
- Around line 1417-1419: Update the packed beta prefetches in the `sBeta_pf` and
`sBeta_ns` load paths to clamp each row at its sequence’s end, using the current
chunk’s and next chunk’s `mCuSeqlens` boundaries respectively. Preserve the
existing load behavior for non-variable-length inputs.

Review comments at @cula/ops/kda/sm100/recompute_wu.py:
- Around line 1419-1422: Start the try block immediately after
`_acquire_output_buffers` so `_compile_recompute_wu` runs inside it and
compilation failures release `output_entry` rather than leaving it busy.

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- Line 29: Update the pre-built wheel description in the README to clarify that
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rather than describing it as a fat binary containing SM90, SM100, and SM103.
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