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LocalAI/backend/cpp/llama-cpp/patches/kernel/0001-fp4-grouped-moe-scaffold.patch
Ettore Di Giacinto b7b2e8291c kernel(fp4-grouped-moe): scaffold the FP4 grouped-GEMM MoE dispatch (Lever 3)
The only work that closes the vLLM gap on Blackwell: mul_mat_q<MXFP4> is 37%
prefill + 54.6% decode-B64 GPU time; paged attention can't touch it (proven).
Scaffold (builds clean on GB10, default byte-identical): fp4-grouped-moe.{cuh,cu}
entry + gated hook in ggml_cuda_mul_mat_id (env GGML_CUDA_FP4_GROUPED), always
falls back to MMQ for now. Design doc has the CUTLASS/tcgen05 implementation
phases + parity harness + the dense-path follow-up (#28).

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-19 23:44:31 +00:00

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diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cu
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f5a782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#include "fp4-grouped-moe.cuh"
+
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+// SCAFFOLD for the FP4 grouped-GEMM MoE kernel (Lever 3).
+//
+// Why: on GB10 (sm_121) the MoE matmul runs mul_mat_q<MXFP4> - a warp-level mma.sync grouped MMQ -
+// at ~22 effective TFLOP/s, ~27x behind vLLM prefill, and it also dominates decode at concurrency
+// (54.6% of GPU time at B=64). It is the single bottleneck to vLLM parity in BOTH phases; paged
+// attention cannot touch it (proven by profiling). The fix is a CUTLASS-3.x collective-mainloop
+// grouped GEMM over all experts, block-scaled e2m1 operands via tcgen05 tensor-memory MMA.
+//
+// This file is the integration seam. It is currently a no-op that always falls back to MMQ, so the
+// default build is byte-identical. The kernel is filled in over the phases in the design doc.
+
+static bool fp4_grouped_enabled() {
+ static const bool en = (std::getenv("GGML_CUDA_FP4_GROUPED") != nullptr);
+ return en;
+}
+
+bool ggml_cuda_fp4_grouped_moe(
+ ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx,
+ const ggml_tensor * src0,
+ const ggml_tensor * src1,
+ const ggml_tensor * ids,
+ ggml_tensor * dst) {
+ GGML_UNUSED(ctx); GGML_UNUSED(src1); GGML_UNUSED(ids); GGML_UNUSED(dst);
+
+ if (!fp4_grouped_enabled()) {
+ return false; // default: existing MMQ path
+ }
+ if (src0->type != GGML_TYPE_MXFP4 && src0->type != GGML_TYPE_NVFP4) {
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ // TODO(kernel - see kernel design doc): CUTLASS 3.x GemmGrouped, sm_120a, block-scaled e2m1,
+ // tcgen05 MMA; per-expert problem offsets from `ids`; fused activation quant; numerical parity
+ // vs mul_mat_q<MXFP4> before enabling by default.
+ static bool warned = false;
+ if (!warned) {
+ warned = true;
+ fprintf(stderr, "[fp4-grouped] GGML_CUDA_FP4_GROUPED set, kernel not yet implemented - using MMQ\n");
+ }
+ return false; // scaffold: fall back until the kernel lands
+}
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cuh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..29e1b5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cuh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include "common.cuh"
+
+// Entry point for the tcgen05/CUTLASS block-scaled FP4 (MXFP4/NVFP4) grouped-GEMM MoE kernel for
+// Blackwell consumer GPUs (sm_120/121). Returns true if it handled the op; false to fall back to
+// the existing warp-mma MMQ path. Gated behind GGML_CUDA_FP4_GROUPED until correct + faster.
+bool ggml_cuda_fp4_grouped_moe(
+ ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx,
+ const ggml_tensor * src0, // expert weights, MXFP4/NVFP4 [n_embd, n_ff, n_expert]
+ const ggml_tensor * src1, // activations, F32 [n_embd, n_tokens, ...]
+ const ggml_tensor * ids, // expert routing, I32
+ ggml_tensor * dst); // F32 output
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
index 8ea462a..104d131 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include "ggml-cuda/im2col.cuh"
#include "ggml-cuda/mmf.cuh"
#include "ggml-cuda/mmq.cuh"
+#include "ggml-cuda/fp4-grouped-moe.cuh"
#include "ggml-cuda/mmvf.cuh"
#include "ggml-cuda/mmvq.cuh"
#include "ggml-cuda/norm.cuh"
@@ -2701,6 +2702,7 @@ static void ggml_cuda_mul_mat_id(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor *
}
if (ggml_cuda_should_use_mmq(src0->type, cc, ne12, /*n_experts=*/ne02)) {
+ if (ggml_cuda_fp4_grouped_moe(ctx, src0, src1, ids, dst)) { return; }
ggml_cuda_mul_mat_q(ctx, src0, src1, ids, dst);
return;
}