host_build_graph: optimize Definition construction and lookup - #1904
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGraph recording now uses shared flat arrays with per-node offsets and counts. Tensor dependency lookup uses sorted output ranges. Definition serialization reserves aggregate storage. Graph hashing processes aligned 64-bit words. ChangesGraph recording refactor
Graph hash alignment
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34-55: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueScope the streaming guarantee to aligned callers.
rt_graph_make_keyuses non-8-byte call boundaries, so its result depends on how fields are split. The runtime uses this opaque key consistently, so no cache mismatch occurs. Limit the comment abovegraph_hash_bytesto aligned callers instead of changing graph-key hashing.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/common/host_build_graph/graph_cache.h`:
- Around line 34-55: Update the comment above graph_hash_bytes to state that the
chunked streaming guarantee applies only to callers whose boundaries are aligned
to eight bytes. Remove the claim that all callers’ chunked updates equal hashing
the concatenation, while preserving the existing hashing implementation and
graph-key behavior used by rt_graph_make_key.
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The Definition builder materialized thirteen std::vectors by push_back, then appended each into the image with a resize plus memcpy. Every byte of the Definition was written twice and every section allocated twice, and #1904's reserve calls removed the reallocation but not the copy. graph_layout_section walks a byte cursor from sizeof(GraphDefinition), aligning each section start and recording it into the matching definition.off_*, so total_bytes is known before anything is written. One assign allocates the image, graph_image_section hands out a typed pointer per section, and the fill loop writes each record at its final address. The fan-out CSR needs no vectors of its own: counts accumulate into fanout_offsets[producer + 1], an in-place prefix sum turns counts into offsets, and the second pass reads fanin_indices out of the image it just built rather than re-walking the recording. Sparse predicates are written in place, with predicate_count bounded once up front instead of re-checked against UINT16_MAX per node. Two correctness properties come with the new order rather than from the performance goal. The up-front pass rejects tensor_source_offset plus tensors.size() past recording.tensor_sources, and likewise scalar_offset and scalar_count against both scalars and scalar_sources and fanin_offset and fanin_count against internal_fanins; those four indexings were unchecked. And a failed layout is now a hard false rather than a zero offset the caller had to re-inspect, so the "0 means empty" sentinel can no longer collide with a real section — every section starts past sizeof(GraphDefinition). Host construction and device verification share one four-lane content hash. The embedded content_hash is read as zero instead of cleared in a copy, so the device verifies the uploaded image in place, and the old three-call split with its chunk-boundary static_asserts is gone. The digest is a hand transcription of XXH64 and both sides call the same function, so self-consistency proves nothing about the transcription: it is pinned to reference XXH64 values (python-xxhash 3.8.1) at this seed for images of 120, 124 and 127 bytes, whose input has bytes 8..15 zeroed so the substitution is a no-op and the two implementations must agree exactly. Those sizes reach the 8-byte, 4-byte and single-byte tail branches; no real Definition reaches the last two, because every image the builder emits is a whole number of 8-byte words — the last non-empty section is always boundary_signatures (56 B) or predicates (136 B) at an 8-aligned start. IgnoresOnlyEmbeddedContentHash flips one bit per 8-byte word across the image and requires the digest to change at every word except content_hash, which distinguishes one excluded field from a whole excluded region. Both tests fail on a mutant that widens the skip window to include full_key. Three properties the rewrite made load-bearing are stated where they live. image->assign zero-fills rather than merely sizing, and the alignment slack between sections is inside the hashed range, so leaving it uninitialized would still verify on the device while giving two structurally identical Definitions different hashes. graph_definition_content_hash takes (const void *, size_t) but reads the word at offsetof(GraphDefinition, content_hash) as zero, so it hashes a GraphDefinition based at data and nothing else. Sections are written through typed pointers into a byte vector, whose data() is aligned only for fundamental alignments; every section type is 8-aligned today and a static_assert says so, because an over-aligned member added later would make those stores undefined with no diagnostic. Removing thirteen vector materializations and a second write of every byte cannot make build_definition slower, and on DSV4 its total falls from 5,487.9 us to 1,689.0 us with the largest single Definition event falling from 762.9 us to 245.0-303.9 us. That magnitude is not quotable as measured: the run predates three intervening merges, and it compares one baseline pass against a three-pass median, which is how contention becomes an apparent win. Qwen's three passes — 63.471 us, 69.731 us and 70.710 us with no event over 150 us — are the case whose spread is small enough to trust. An earlier graph_submit figure is withdrawn: nothing here touches graph_submit_outer, so an improvement in that phase measured the baseline's contention rather than an effect. The GraphDefinition wire struct is unchanged field for field. No cross-Graph state is added, no work moves into submission or upload, and Graph execution lifetime and allocation are untouched. Verified on a2a3 and a5: C++ unit tests 115/115, Python unit tests 1894 passed with 14 skipped, host_build_graph a2a3 simulator 12 passed with 8 skipped including host_build_graph_validation and host_build_graph_wide_dispatch, a5 simulator 7 passed, clang-format and clang-tidy clean, and the two arch orchestrator diffs byte-identical after normalizing the arch path. Co-authored-by: Chao Wang <26245345+ChaoWao@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Optimize the host-side construction and lookup paths used to build a Host Build Graph
GraphDefinition:upper_boundinstead of scanning every prior node output.The per-node tensor container remains separate so existing
ChipTensor *addresses stay stable while recording.Performance
Measured with the a2a3 Host Build Graph Qwen3-14B decode case (
GraphExecutionBatch16Seq3500, 40 layers, batch 16, sequence length 3500) on the samef74ad5e133baseline:build_definitionhost_orchAcross the stepwise profiles,
build_definitionsettled at approximately 91-97 us. Upload volume is intentionally unchanged (graph_upload: 232,312 bytes;sm_h2d: 233,799 bytes;arena_h2d: 632 bytes). Transfer timings are noisy on the shared machine and are not claimed as a benefit of this PR.Validation
main(6f56ce64a5, host_build_graph: overlap Graph recording with outer submissions #1897).task_20260819_181129_418306613953).git diff --checkpasses.Scope
This PR is limited to host-side Definition construction, hashing, and lookup. It does not change runtime allocation, Graph/Task Window packing, H2D copy count, heap sizing/reuse, or the SM/heap device-memory layout. Those resource-lifecycle changes are intentionally left for follow-up PRs so their behavior and performance can be reviewed independently.