The bs>1 partial-current materialize issued one sum-all-reduce per request
span per buffer per layer (48 collectives per F-layer at bs=12, 2880 per
batch, 419ms + 49ms launch gaps in the production trace), all inline on
the compute stream. The data is a partitioned gather, not a reduction:
every byte has exactly one producer.
compose_v2 (SGLANG_CP_SHARED_KV_COMPOSE_V2, default on) replaces this with:
- fast path: one tai-kernel CUDA-IPC slot-dense gather covering ALL prefix
spans (full-range descriptors, -1 sentinels zero-fill current slots and
replace the dense zero-fill) + ONE collective over the compact current
pages (uint8 byte view; exact because every byte is writer-exclusive).
- fallback (no peer IPC): local materialize of all prefix spans + ONE
whole-buffer sum-all-reduce (rows are still writer-exclusive pre-reduce).
IPC capability is decided once by the cached peer-pointer probe; after a
successful probe a failing gather raises (no per-call try/except).
cp_shared_kv_compose.py adds the per-batch ComposePlan descriptor cache
(layer-invariant, keyed on the slot_logical_pages identity) and the
CpComposeArena with tier-S carve discipline (deterministic bump, layer-
parity halves; default off) so the Step B symmetric-memory conversion is
a registration flip.
Microbenchmark (g0034 8xH200, traced 12-req batch, per batch): per-span
214ms -> fused AR 119ms -> IPC prefix + compact current 84ms; symm target
61ms. Validation: 143 unit tests incl. v2-contract twins, legacy siblings
and rank-merged simulations under both paths; mem_cache dir 432 passed;
8-rank GPU byte-exactness vs legacy with real NCCL + IPC (test/manual/
test_cp_shared_kv_compose_v2_8rank.py) passed with no fallback markers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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