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Summary

  • Upload each distinct Graph Definition once per run as a retained device object.
  • Reference the shared Definition from Graph submissions and remove duplicate Definition copies from Graph execution storage.
  • Preserve content validation and affine execution reuse, with referenced-wire and dirty-storage regression coverage.
  • Exclude additional profiling changes and H2D submission packing.

Performance

Measured with examples/a2a3/host_build_graph/qwen3_14b_decode, 40 layers, batch 16, sequence length 3500, on a2a3 onboard with chip swimlane level 4:

  • graph_submit: 2847.277 us -> 111.200 us (-96.1%).
  • host_orch: 4204.381 us -> 847.818 us (-79.8%).
  • Graph upload bytes: 5,310,080 B -> 232,944 B (-95.6%).
  • graph_upload: 15.025 ms -> 12.050 ms in the single trace; exact timing includes run-to-run noise.

Testing

  • Pre-commit hooks, including clang-format, clang-tidy, cpplint, and markdownlint.
  • Editable runtime rebuild.
  • test_graph_cache and test_a5_graph_cache C++ unit tests.
  • a2a3 onboard Qwen3 HBG GraphExecutionBatch16Seq3500, including golden validation and level-4 swimlane collection.

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Graph Definitions are uploaded once into retained device buffers. Submission images now contain invocation data plus definition hashes and addresses. Device localization verifies shared definitions and allocates execution storage only for nodes and patches. Tests and investigation documentation cover the new model.

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Shared Graph Definition Flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Definition and submission contracts
src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.h, src/common/host_build_graph/graph_host_state.h
Adds shared definition headers, hash and address references, host definition metadata, and definition-free execution storage sizing.
Retained buffer API and backends
src/common/platform/include/common/host_api.h, src/common/platform/onboard/host/*, src/common/platform/sim/host/*
Adds retained Graph Definition buffer acquisition, keyed storage, reuse, validation, cleanup, and API dispatch for onboard and simulator backends.
Host upload and submission construction
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/..., src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/...
Uploads distinct definitions once, deduplicates them by hash, and builds submissions that reference shared device objects.
Device verification and localization
src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp
Removes embedded definition storage and adds shared-object header validation, atomic verification, metadata checks, and direct definition references.
Validation and investigation record
tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp, docs/investigations/*
Updates tests for external definition objects and adds coverage for storage initialization, identity validation, and materialization. Documents measured behavior and follow-up work.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d4686

This change shares retained Graph Definitions across submissions, but malformed definitions can currently trigger out-of-bounds reads and potentially leave executions stuck. Merge should be blocked until the retained-object length is validated before hashing and the oversized-length case is covered by a regression test.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PTOOrchestrator
  participant RuntimeMaker
  participant HostApi
  participant DeviceRunnerBase
  participant GraphExecution
  PTOOrchestrator->>RuntimeMaker: enumerate definitions and build hash-based submissions
  RuntimeMaker->>HostApi: acquire retained definition buffer
  HostApi->>DeviceRunnerBase: allocate or reuse keyed device buffer
  DeviceRunnerBase-->>RuntimeMaker: return definition address
  RuntimeMaker->>GraphExecution: submit definition address and hash
  GraphExecution->>GraphExecution: verify shared definition and localize execution
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Poem

I’m a rabbit with buffers to spare,
One graph definition rests in the air.
Hashes point true, shared objects stay bright,
Nodes and patches claim storage just right.
Tests hop through clean memory tonight.

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tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp (1)

123-178: LGTM!

Also applies to: 258-276, 288-300, 382-394, 525-582

src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp (1)

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Verify cleanup after a failed Definition upload.

After acquire_graph_definition_buffer() succeeds, these paths return on copy_to_device() failure without releasing or abandoning object. If the retained-buffer API does not roll back this state internally, a partially copied Definition object can persist and consume retained memory. Confirm the API contract. If it does not clean up, abandon the object before returning and add failure-path coverage.

Based on learnings, maintain byte-for-byte parity between src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/ and src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/; apply the cleanup to both trees.

src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.h (3)

104-125: LGTM!


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Verify the definition_addr address base contract.

GraphDefinitionHeader defines the retained object as [GraphDefinitionHeader][GraphDefinition image]. The lookup at Line 272 casts definition_addr directly to const GraphDefinition *.

If the runtime maker stores the address returned by acquire_graph_definition_buffer, the lookup reads the header as a GraphDefinition and rejects the submission. Make the producer store the image address, or make the lookup derive the image address from the header.

Also applies to: 269-274


413-452: LGTM!

src/common/host_build_graph/graph_host_state.h (1)

15-18: LGTM!

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src/common/platform/include/common/host_api.h (1)

65-74: LGTM!

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src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.h (1)

150-151: LGTM!

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src/common/platform/onboard/host/c_api_shared.cpp (1)

171-181: LGTM!

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src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.cpp (1)

210-267: LGTM!

src/common/platform/sim/host/device_runner_base.h (1)

200-200: LGTM!

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src/common/platform/sim/host/c_api_shared.cpp (1)

157-167: LGTM!

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.md`:
- Around line 50-58: Separate the shared Definition upload from the 40
reference-submission uploads in the discussion around rtMalloc and rtMemcpy, and
remove the unsupported uniform latency calculation based on 12.1 ms divided by
41; docs/investigations/2026-08-hbg-graph-definition-single-upload.md lines
50-58 require this distinction. Update docs/investigations/README.md line 87 to
remove the claim that all 41 calls carry 2.5 KB payloads.

In `@src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp`:
- Around line 278-285: Validate the retained Definition object length before
invoking graph_definition_hash_matches: obtain the trusted retained-object
length and require definition->total_bytes to be at least
sizeof(GraphDefinition) and no greater than that length. Mark malformed images
INVALID through the existing verify_state publication path so peers do not
remain in VERIFYING, and add a regression test covering a valid header and
identity fields with oversized total_bytes.
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@coderabbitai Addressed the additional review-body findings:

  • Removed the unused graph_submission_definition() helper instead of maintaining a second parser for the shared-object layout; the production localizer already uses the Header-aware verifier.
  • Kept the retained Definition buffer on copy_to_device failure. acquire_graph_definition_buffer is intentionally Worker-lifetime storage with no per-attempt release API, and a retry overwrites the same retained object, so this does not create an unbounded allocation leak.

The two inline findings are fixed and resolved: Definition hashing is bounded by the retained byte length, and the H2D investigation now distinguishes the one shared Definition upload from the forty reference submissions.

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@ChaoZheng109 Confirmed. The removed helper avoids a duplicate shared-object parser. The retained buffer behavior is valid for Worker-lifetime storage because retries overwrite the existing allocation. The hash bound and H2D documentation corrections address the inline findings.

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Learning: In the host-build-graph runtime, `acquire_graph_definition_buffer` provides Worker-lifetime retained storage with no per-attempt release API. If `copy_to_device` fails, the retained Graph Definition buffer must remain allocated because a retry overwrites the same retained object and does not create unbounded allocation growth.

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Upload each distinct Graph Definition once per run and let Graph submissions reference the retained device object.

Remove duplicate Definition storage from Graph executions while preserving content validation and affine reuse. Record the retained object length so malformed total_bytes values are rejected before hashing, remove the unused legacy Definition accessor, and use architecture-specific hints while waiting for peer verification.

Add shared wire-format coverage, dirty-storage guardrails, and an investigation record that distinguishes the shared Definition upload from per-submission reference uploads.
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ChaoWao merged commit 0aae452 into hw-native-sys:main Aug 18, 2026
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yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Rebased onto main after the shared Graph Definition upload (hw-native-sys#1874) landed:
submissions now reference a runner-retained Definition device object, so the
eager uploader creates that object lazily on first reference instead of a
batched pre-pass.

The eager-upload hook and pinned bump arena now live on the run-owned
GraphHostState instead of process globals, with an RAII guard clearing the
hook on every exit path, so overlapping orchestrations cannot clobber each
other's uploader or bump cursor.

Retained device submission storage moves from a process-lifetime static map
with a lossy packed key to a new runner-owned HostApi op
(acquire_graph_submission_buffer) keyed by (graph_key, occurrence), released
at Worker finalization like the execution and Definition buffers.

An eager-upload failure after the outer GRAPH task is published now latches
EXPLICIT_ORCH_FATAL instead of returning an ordinary-path fallback, which
would have re-submitted the graph body on top of a half-uploaded task.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Rebased onto main after the shared Graph Definition upload (hw-native-sys#1874) landed:
submissions now reference a runner-retained Definition device object, so the
eager uploader creates that object lazily on first reference instead of a
batched pre-pass.

The eager-upload hook and pinned bump arena now live on the run-owned
GraphHostState instead of process globals, with an RAII guard clearing the
hook on every exit path, so overlapping orchestrations cannot clobber each
other's uploader or bump cursor. The pinned arena is allocated through
dlopen-resolved aclrt entry points, falling back to plain host memory where
no Ascend toolkit is present (sim builds, CI runners).

Retained device submission storage moves from a process-lifetime static map
with a lossy packed key to a new runner-owned HostApi op
(acquire_graph_submission_buffer) keyed by (graph_key, occurrence), released
at Worker finalization like the execution and Definition buffers.

An eager-upload failure after the outer GRAPH task is published now latches
EXPLICIT_ORCH_FATAL instead of returning an ordinary-path fallback, which
would have re-submitted the graph body on top of a half-uploaded task.

Both a2a3 and a5 host_build_graph carry the change.
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Rebased onto main after the shared Graph Definition upload (hw-native-sys#1874) landed:
submissions now reference a runner-retained Definition device object, so the
eager uploader creates that object lazily on first reference instead of a
batched pre-pass.

The eager-upload hook and pinned bump arena now live on the run-owned
GraphHostState instead of process globals, with an RAII guard clearing the
hook on every exit path, so overlapping orchestrations cannot clobber each
other's uploader or bump cursor. The pinned arena is allocated through
dlopen-resolved aclrt entry points, falling back to plain host memory where
no Ascend toolkit is present (sim builds, CI runners).

Retained device submission storage moves from a process-lifetime static map
with a lossy packed key to a new runner-owned HostApi op
(acquire_graph_submission_buffer) keyed by (graph_key, occurrence), released
at Worker finalization like the execution and Definition buffers.

An eager-upload failure after the outer GRAPH task is published now latches
EXPLICIT_ORCH_FATAL instead of returning an ordinary-path fallback, which
would have re-submitted the graph body on top of a half-uploaded task.

Both a2a3 and a5 host_build_graph carry the change.
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
Rebased onto main after the shared Graph Definition upload (hw-native-sys#1874) landed:
submissions now reference a runner-retained Definition device object, so the
eager uploader creates that object lazily on first reference instead of a
batched pre-pass.

The eager-upload hook and pinned bump arena now live on the run-owned
GraphHostState instead of process globals, with an RAII guard clearing the
hook on every exit path, so overlapping orchestrations cannot clobber each
other's uploader or bump cursor. The pinned arena is allocated through
dlopen-resolved aclrt entry points, falling back to plain host memory where
no Ascend toolkit is present (sim builds, CI runners).

Retained device submission storage moves from a process-lifetime static map
with a lossy packed key to a new runner-owned HostApi op
(acquire_graph_submission_buffer) keyed by (graph_key, occurrence), released
at Worker finalization like the execution and Definition buffers.

An eager-upload failure after the outer GRAPH task is published now latches
EXPLICIT_ORCH_FATAL instead of returning an ordinary-path fallback, which
would have re-submitted the graph body on top of a half-uploaded task.

Both a2a3 and a5 host_build_graph carry the change.
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and
copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small
copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The
submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so
the bytes were gathered twice.

The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost,
resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall
back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are
memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly
into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime
copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a
single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into
the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds
while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D
per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the
std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload.

Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same
GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only
the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation
into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared
per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and
execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap.

Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean):
H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%);
h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged
(44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides).
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and
copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small
copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The
submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so
the bytes were gathered twice.

The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost,
resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall
back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are
memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly
into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime
copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a
single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into
the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds
while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D
per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the
std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload.

Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same
GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only
the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation
into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared
per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and
execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap.

Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean):
H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%);
h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged
(44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides).

Follow-up (CI st-onboard-a5 hang): the arena was a process-static
aclrtMallocHost block with no release path — ChipWorker::finalize dlclose's
the runtime SO after rtDeviceReset/aclFinalize, so the pinned mapping was
never freed and a driver-side DMA registration outlived the process. The
next process granted the same card hung in chip bring-up (two
vis_isolation subprocesses SIGKILLed at 600 s on the a5 runner).

The arena now belongs to the DeviceRunner, like retained_temp and the
graph-definition buffers: a new HostApi op acquire_pinned_host_buffer
returns a runner-retained, alignment-guaranteed block (onboard:
aclrtMallocHost, linked directly; sim: aligned host memory through the
existing graph-definition map). finalize_common() aclrtFreeHost's it on
both the healthy and fatal paths, before the device reset. The per-bind
cost is one map lookup once the block settles at 16 MB, so the measured
H2D win is unchanged.

Also fixed while here: acquire_submission's retained-buffer key packed
(graph_key << 32) ^ occurrence, discarding graph_key's upper 32 bits —
two graphs agreeing in the low half shared one device buffer. The key is
now an FNV-1a mix over the full 64-bit key plus the occurrence. The
64-byte bump alignment constant moved to graph_host_state.h so the base
passing through HostApi carries the same guarantee the bump assumes.
yanghaoran29 added a commit to yanghaoran29/simpler that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
Graph submission PODs each went through their own device_malloc and
copy_to_device at bind time — for a 40-layer decode that is 40 small
copies per inference, each paying allocation and H2D setup. The
submission image was also built into a per-upload std::vector first, so
the bytes were gathered twice.

The host runtime now keeps a 16 MB pinned host arena (aclrtMallocHost,
resolved with dlopen so sim/CI builds without an Ascend toolkit fall
back to plain memory, which costs nothing there because sim copies are
memcpy). graph_submit_definition writes each submission image directly
into that bump as the orchestrator runs; after entry() the runtime
copies the used prefix [base, used) to one retained device blob with a
single copy_to_device and points each outer task's graph_context into
the blob at its POD's pinned offset. The blob is reused across rounds
while capacity fits, so the steady state is one allocation and one H2D
per inference instead of forty. A POD that falls back to the
std::vector path (bump exhausted) keeps the per-layer upload.

Device-side byte layout is unchanged: the device reads the same
GraphSubmission header, tensors and scalars at the same offsets; only
the address each graph_context holds moves from a per-POD allocation
into the shared blob. Definition objects keep their hw-native-sys#1874 shared
per-content upload ahead of the submissions that reference them, and
execution storage keeps its hw-native-sys#1884 carve from the outer task's heap.

Measured on qwen3_14b_decode (a2a3, 50-round interleaved trim-mean):
H2dGraph 646.5 -> 276.7 us (-57%), Gate 3.559 -> 2.711 ms (-24%);
h2d_graph copies per inference 41 -> 1. Device span unchanged
(44.83 -> 44.28 ms, 19208 tasks both sides).

Follow-up (CI st-onboard-a5 hang): the arena was a process-static
aclrtMallocHost block with no release path — ChipWorker::finalize dlclose's
the runtime SO after rtDeviceReset/aclFinalize, so the pinned mapping was
never freed and a driver-side DMA registration outlived the process. The
next process granted the same card hung in chip bring-up (two
vis_isolation subprocesses SIGKILLed at 600 s on the a5 runner).

The arena now belongs to the DeviceRunner, like retained_temp and the
graph-definition buffers: a new HostApi op acquire_pinned_host_buffer
returns a runner-retained, alignment-guaranteed block (onboard:
aclrtMallocHost, linked directly; sim: aligned host memory through the
existing graph-definition map). finalize_common() aclrtFreeHost's it on
both the healthy and fatal paths, before the device reset. The per-bind
cost is one map lookup once the block settles at 16 MB, so the measured
H2D win is unchanged.

Also fixed while here: acquire_submission's retained-buffer key packed
(graph_key << 32) ^ occurrence, discarding graph_key's upper 32 bits —
two graphs agreeing in the low half shared one device buffer. The key is
now an FNV-1a mix over the full 64-bit key plus the occurrence. The
64-byte bump alignment constant moved to graph_host_state.h so the base
passing through HostApi carries the same guarantee the bump assumes.
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