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Follow-up to #1807, which merged reuse of a completed AICore stream between code publications. That removed the reason the streams were indexed by pipeline slot, so this deletes the indexing.

Summary

A stream is an ordered queue and the execution claim (try_acquire_native_run) is exclusive, so runs reach the device one at a time. A pipeline slot indexes the resources preparation mutates — arena banks, host Runtime buffers, retained temporaries — and preparing a run writes nothing to a stream; only launch submits.

Per-slot stream sets were required only while every run created its own AICore stream, because a prepared successor then held a second live stream alongside its predecessor's. With reuse keyed on publication that requirement is gone, so RunStreamSlots collapses to RunStreamPair: one pair, no slot index. a2a3 converges toward what a5 already does — device_runner_base.h notes that a5 submits runs on the persistent bootstrap pair while "A2A3 reserves these for bootstrap/control operations and submits runs on its own per-slot stream sets".

The two streams stay distinct. The AICPU Run kernel spins in the handshake waiting for the AICore workers, so collapsing both onto one queue would leave the AICore submission behind a spin that can never end.

Two constraints a shared pair needs that per-slot did not

The pair is readied by launch, not by preparation. Launch is the first point the caller holds the execution claim. A prepared successor overlaps its predecessor's execution, so replacing a stale AICore stream during preparation would destroy a stream the predecessor is still running on.

Only the run that submitted the pair may retire it. A prepared successor that fails after preparation reaches cleanup_execution with an unproven retirement — which under a shared pair would destroy the predecessor's live stream. The pair records its submitter (the PreparedExecution, matching the opaque-owner convention try_acquire_native_run already uses) and ignores anyone else. ANonSubmittingOwnerRetiresNothing pins this.

Readiness is also gated on "a run still owns the pair" rather than on the previous run having completed, so a handle that survives a failed teardown stays stale and is replaced by the next launch instead of locking a reused runner out.

Observable change

run_stream_set_create_count now advances once per code publication rather than once per publication per slot, and preparation no longer advances it at all. The scene-test and lifecycle assertions move accordingly.

Validation

Rebased onto main at 4aabd567 and re-verified from scratch:

result
test_run_stream_pair (new, 20 cases incl. the two constraints above) 20/20
full cpput, -LE requires_hardware 99/99
a2a3 onboard tests/st/a2a3 + examples, 4 devices, -m 'not sdma' host_build_graph 33 passed / 1 skipped, tensormap_and_ringbuffer 52 passed, 0 failed
full examples tests/st sweep, pre-rebase 11 consecutive clean runs (5 × 4-device, 6 × 8-device)

Disclosure: two unexplained failures during development, and one untested configuration

Early in development, before the 11 clean sweeps, two full-suite runs on this branch failed with an AICore UB out-of-bounds → 507018 → sched_error_code=100, the signature of #1489. I could not attribute them and I have no mechanism to offer.

  • Both occurred while another tenant held 8 devices; on an otherwise-idle box the branch produced 11 consecutive clean logged sweeps, so the loaded-box configuration is effectively untested for this branch.
  • 2 failures in 13 runs on the branch against a single clean baseline run separates nothing for a fault [Bug] Allreduce L3 cases intermittently hit an AICore UB out-of-bounds in full-suite onboard runs #1489 itself describes as needing several full-suite repeats.
  • I walked the diff's three effects against "can this leave stale AICore instructions" — fewer stream creations per publication epoch (2 → 1), creation moved to a point where the device is idle rather than mid-execution, and one fewer incidental creation from abandoned prepares — and could not construct a mechanism. With resolve_block_dim() returning the runner-lifetime max_block_dim_, every run takes the whole device, so a full-device stream's creation covers every core and there are no uncovered cores to leave stale.
  • No device log of either fault was captured, so F1 was never completed on them.

I am not claiming the branch caused them, and not claiming it is clear. If reviewers want the loaded-box case covered before merge, reproducing it needs either a co-tenant load or monopolising the box; I did not do the latter on shared hardware. Details are on #1489.

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The PR replaces pipeline-slot stream sets with one persistent AICPU/AICore stream pair per runner. Stream creation moves from preparation to launch. A new thread-safe lifecycle type manages submission, polling, retirement, stale AICore replacement, teardown, and abandonment.

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Runner-wide stream pair migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
RunStreamPair lifecycle contract
src/common/platform/include/host/run_stream_pair.h, src/common/platform/include/host/run_stream_slots.h
Adds RunStreamPair and removes RunStreamSlots. The new type manages stream creation, ownership, polling, retirement, stale state, destruction, and abandonment.
DeviceRunner shared-stream integration
src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.*
Defers stream creation until launch. Uses one shared pair for launch, polling, reaping, retirement, and finalization.
Shared stream behavior validation
tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/*, tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp
Validates deferred creation, cross-slot reuse, code-publication invalidation, owner checks, failure handling, teardown, abandonment, and concurrency.
Stream creation-count documentation
docs/task-flow.md, python/bindings/task_interface.cpp, python/simpler/worker.py, src/common/worker/*.h
Updates documentation for persistent runner-wide stream pairs and AICore replacement after stale code publication.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 36205

This refactor routes runs through a shared stream pair, but callable publication can race with run reservation and submission, allowing execution to use a stream that has already been invalidated; this could cause runtime failures or incorrect execution, so merge should wait for synchronization or an explicit ownership contract.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeviceRunner
  participant RunStreamPair
  participant Runtime
  DeviceRunner->>RunStreamPair: ensure shared streams at launch
  DeviceRunner->>Runtime: submit execution
  DeviceRunner->>RunStreamPair: mark submission owner
  DeviceRunner->>RunStreamPair: poll completion
  DeviceRunner->>RunStreamPair: retire submitting run
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A rabbit hops where stream pairs meet,
AICPU stays and AICore repeats.
Launch wakes the pair from quiet rest,
Stale code gets a fresh request.
Poll, retire, and clean with care—
One shared path now runs everywhere.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: all A2A3 runs use one shared AICore/AICPU stream pair.
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src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp (1)

588-648: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize callable publication with run reservation and stream submission.

simpler_register_callable() checks native_runs_outstanding() once, then uploads code and calls mark_run_streams_stale(). A run can reserve and claim the runner after that check, call ensure_run_streams(), and capture the old AICore stream before publication marks it stale. The run then submits on that stale stream, and replacement waits until a later ensure().

Protect registration and run reservation with one synchronization mechanism, or enforce an API contract that prevents publication during the ensure_run_streams()–mark_submitted() interval.

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In `@src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp` around lines 588 - 648,
Serialize callable publication in simpler_register_callable() with run
reservation and the ensure_run_streams()–mark_submitted() interval so
publication cannot mark a captured AICore stream stale before submission. Use a
shared synchronization mechanism covering both registration and the launch
reservation path, preserving stream replacement and submission ordering.
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tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/run_stream_reuse/test_run_stream_reuse.py (1)

358-364: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Optional: align the "stream set" terminology with the new pair model.

The docstrings and test names now use "pair". The local name stream_sets at Line 350, the skip messages at Lines 131 and 449, and the run_stream_set_create_count property still use "stream set". A follow-up rename would keep one term for one concept. Keep the property name change for a separate PR, because it crosses the binding and worker layers.

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In `@tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/run_stream_reuse/test_run_stream_reuse.py`
around lines 358 - 364, Align test-local terminology with the pair model by
renaming the local stream_sets variable and updating the skip messages that
still say “stream set”; preserve the existing run_stream_set_create_count
property name for a separate change spanning binding and worker layers.
tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp (1)

497-506: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Correct the comment and remove the no-op call.

The counter is already 0 at Line 499, because the failure injected at Line 491 was consumed by the ensure() at Line 492, so fail_next_creates(0) changes nothing. The comment also describes one ensure() in which the AICPU stream is created and the AICore stream fails. The code does not exercise that path: Line 500 creates both streams, Line 502 retires only the AICore stream, and the ensure() at Line 504 creates the AICore stream alone. If you want the half-ready path inside a single ensure(), add a failure mode that fails the second create of a call.

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-    // The AICPU stream lands, the AICore one fails: the pair stays unusable
-    // rather than half-ready.
-    fake.fail_next_creates(0);
+    // The AICPU stream survives an unproven retirement, so the next readying
+    // only recreates the AICore one. That create fails, and the pair stays
+    // unusable rather than half-ready.
     ASSERT_EQ(pair.ensure(), 0);
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp` around lines 497 - 506,
Remove the no-op fail_next_creates call before pair.ensure(), and revise the
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missing AICore stream after the AICPU stream was retired, rather than claiming
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Inline comments:
In `@python/bindings/task_interface.cpp`:
- Around line 2307-2310: Update the run_stream_set_create_count documentation
near its description to clarify that the AICPU stream persists while the AICore
stream may be recreated after either a new code upload makes it stale or
conservative teardown follows unproven completion; retain the
persistent-bootstrap-platform behavior reporting 0.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp`:
- Around line 27-30: Assign distinct constant values to kRunA and kRunB while
preserving their use as owner-address sentinels, so linker identical-data
folding cannot make kOwnerA and kOwnerB equal.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/a2a3/platform/onboard/host/device_runner.cpp`:
- Around line 588-648: Serialize callable publication in
simpler_register_callable() with run reservation and the
ensure_run_streams()–mark_submitted() interval so publication cannot mark a
captured AICore stream stale before submission. Use a shared synchronization
mechanism covering both registration and the launch reservation path, preserving
stream replacement and submission ordering.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/run_stream_reuse/test_run_stream_reuse.py`:
- Around line 358-364: Align test-local terminology with the pair model by
renaming the local stream_sets variable and updating the skip messages that
still say “stream set”; preserve the existing run_stream_set_create_count
property name for a separate change spanning binding and worker layers.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp`:
- Around line 497-506: Remove the no-op fail_next_creates call before
pair.ensure(), and revise the nearby comment to accurately describe that the
later ensure creates only the missing AICore stream after the AICPU stream was
retired, rather than claiming both streams are attempted in one ensure call.
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Comment thread python/bindings/task_interface.cpp
Comment thread tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp Outdated
A stream is an ordered queue and the execution claim is exclusive, so runs
reach the device one at a time. A pipeline slot indexes the resources
preparation mutates — arena banks, host Runtime buffers, retained temporaries —
and preparing a run writes nothing to a stream. The per-slot stream sets were
required only while every run created its own AICore stream, because a prepared
successor then held a second live stream alongside its predecessor's. With
reuse keyed on code publication that requirement is gone, so RunStreamSlots
collapses to RunStreamPair: one pair, no slot index.

The pair is readied by launch rather than by preparation. Launch is the first
point the caller holds the execution claim, and a prepared successor overlaps
its predecessor's execution, so replacing a stale AICore stream during
preparation would destroy a stream the predecessor is still running on.

For the same reason only the run that submitted the pair may retire it. A
prepared successor that fails after preparation reaches cleanup_execution with
an unproven retirement, which under a shared pair would otherwise destroy the
live stream; the pair records its submitter and ignores anyone else.

Readiness is gated on "a run still owns the pair" rather than on the previous
run having completed, so a handle that survives a failed teardown stays stale
and is replaced by the next launch instead of locking a reused runner out.

The two streams stay distinct: the AICPU Run kernel spins in the handshake
waiting for the AICore workers, so one queue would leave the AICore submission
behind a spin that can never end.

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@coderabbitai Both findings were valid and are fixed:

  • run_stream_set_create_count docs — the wording was wrong, and in four places rather than one. retire(Unproven) destroys the AICore stream, so the count also advances on conservative teardown; the old text also contradicted docs/task-flow.md:310 in this same PR. Reworded across the binding, chip_worker.h, pto_runtime_c_api.h and worker.py.
  • kRunA / kRunB — now 1 and 2, with a comment stating that the tests compare owners by address so the constants must not be foldable.

Neither changes behaviour, so both were folded into the existing commit rather than appended; the PR stays a single commit. test_run_stream_pair is 20/20.

On the red ut-a2a3 check — that one is infra, not this diff:

error: downloading 'https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/v1.14.0.tar.gz' failed
TLS connect error: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading

The runner could not fetch the googletest tarball, and every retry hit the same TLS error. This diff touches no CMake fetch, and the same job passed on #1847 from the same base. The force-push above re-triggers it.

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@ChaoWao: Verified the updated PR content.

The four run_stream_set_create_count descriptions now correctly state that an unproven retirement destroys the AICore stream. The Python and C API documentation also state that the count advances on code publication or unproven retirement.

kRunA and kRunB now have distinct values. The comment correctly explains why address uniqueness is required.

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Learnt from: ChaoWao
URL: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/1852

Timestamp: 2026-08-17T08:09:47.128Z
Learning: For the A2A3 `RunStreamPair` lifecycle, `RunStreamPair::retire(CompletionStatus::Unproven, owner)` destroys the AICore stream when `owner` submitted the pair. Therefore, `run_stream_set_create_count` advances after an unproven retirement as well as after a code publication that makes the AICore stream stale.

Learnt from: ChaoWao
URL: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/1852

Timestamp: 2026-08-17T08:09:47.128Z
Learning: In `tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_run_stream_pair.cpp`, owner values represent `PreparedExecution` addresses and are compared by address. The `kRunA` and `kRunB` fixtures must have distinct non-foldable values to prevent linker identical-data folding from giving them the same address.

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