[davide221]

Status

Draft integration branch. Do not merge until a matched 8K/32K/128K qualification runs on the 128 GiB Strix Halo target.

Composition

• current main, including merged perf(ds4): enable sparse gate-up MMQ prefill #673 sparse gate/up MMQ prefill;
• perf(ds4): extend sparse prefill scheduling to 10K #684's 8K layer-major sparse scheduling and direct long-prefill top-k handoff;
• perf(ds4): accelerate ROCm decode and long-context selection #667's already-qualified adaptive/fused gfx1151 verification stack;
• perf(ds4): default mixed ROCmFP MMQ prefill on gfx1151 #683's mixed ROCmFP MMQ policy, streaming MLA attention, vectorized staging, ROCmFP2/3 loads, adaptive sparse-MoE tiles, persistent compact work queue, and fast softmax.

The commits are replayed rather than percentage-stacked. Existing measurements from divergent branches are not added together.

Validation completed

Physical gfx1151 / ROCm HIP build on Lucebox Cina:

• dflash_server builds;
• test_deepseek4_unit: pass;
• test_deepseek4_mmid_grouped_cuda: 76/76 parity cases pass;
• test_server_unit: 455/455 pass;
• test_feature_gate: 1/1 pass.

The composed streaming-attention microbenchmark measured 2613.4 us for the grouped path and 2079.0 us for FP32-staged streaming MLA with fast exp: 1.26x kernel speedup, NMSE 1.97e-14 and max absolute error 4.1e-8 versus the precise path.

Existing full-model evidence, not a unified result

• perf(ds4): extend sparse prefill scheduling to 10K #684 reported 254.921 tok/s at 7680 tokens versus a cited Vulkan 254.07 tok/s. The prompt/model artifact was not proven identical, so this is directional short-context parity, not a strict cross-engine result.
• perf(ds4): accelerate ROCm decode and long-context selection #667's independent 122879-token result was 142.82 tok/s versus cited Vulkan 226.82 tok/s. This remains the last matched long-context baseline; no unified long-context number is claimed yet.

Qualification switches

The first matched run should preserve the deployed release settings and additionally test:

• DFLASH_DS4_DIRECT_INDEXER_TOPK=1
• GGML_CUDA_MLA_STREAM_TOPK=1
• GGML_CUDA_MLA_STREAM_F32_STAGE=1
• GGML_CUDA_MLA_STREAM_FAST_EXP=1
• GGML_CUDA_MMQ_MOE_ADAPTIVE_X=1
• GGML_CUDA_MMQ_MOE_PERSISTENT=1
• DFLASH_DS4_LONG_CONTEXT_CHUNK=8192

Each switch remains independently killable until the full-model matrix is complete.

[davide221]

PR58 integration revalidation found that this unified draft still carries several unresolved correctness issues from the Cubic reviews on its #664/#667 ancestors. I verified them against ab83605 rather than assuming the rebased commits fixed them:

• DeepSeek4Backend::park() frees target cache/weights before backend synchronization; the later sync in PFlash compression is too late for queued GPU work.
• A failed PFlash drafter load can leave pflash_drafter_ctx_ allocated because cleanup is guarded by pflash_drafter_loaded_.
• the capability table advertises DeepSeek4 PFlash for split placement, whose inherited adapter path returns no compressed tokens;
• q-wide fused verification can select sparse attention after SWA wrap without representing the appended preserved-raw-row boundary;
• the incremental verifier-mask range is not guarded for future >= n_swa;
• the q4 HC MMVF default is gated on all RDNA3.5 devices, not specifically the qualified gfx1151 target;
• the paired ROCmFP3 helper uses explicit fmaf while the reference helper uses the chained expression, so the claimed rounding sequence is not guaranteed identical.

The branch is already marked draft, which is correct. For any matched throughput result, please either fix these paths or explicitly disable the affected switches and record that environment; otherwise the speed number is not yet a merge/quality-qualified result.

[davide221]

Closing as superseded. 11 of the 13 commits here are already on main through #684 (same patches, re-applied), and the remaining two (long-context/pflash, opt-in adaptive verification width) were merged in newer form via #664 and #667. The one piece unique to this branch, the gfx1151 HC MMVF q4 dispatch behind DFLASH_GFX1151_HC_MMVF_Q4, will land with the follow-up gfx1151 fast-path PR together with the remaining gfx1151 defaults. Keeping the branch: ab83605 is the base the recovered fast-path patch was diffed against.