[None][fix] Let the kernel ledger record comm kernels and partial ncu captures without hiding the gaps - #18574
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WalkthroughThe kernel ledger now supports communication-bound kernels, unavailable NCU metrics with explanatory notes, row-level bounds, and disposition-specific fusion evidence. ChangesKernel Ledger Contract
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boundfor the unavailable-NCU representation.
_validate_ncu()returns at Line 142 for any non-empty string. Therefore,ncu: "unavailable: ..."validates withoutbound, although the updated contract requiresboundfor every row. This permits ledgers without the classification required by the reporting contract.Remove the string-only representation, or move
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In `@agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_kernel_ledger.py`:
- Line 115: Annotate each new test function in the affected test module,
including test_comm_bound_class_is_accepted and the other added tests, with
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In `@agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/kernel_ledger.py`:
- Around line 137-142: Update _validate_ncu so the unavailable-NCU string
representation cannot bypass validation of the required bound field; either
remove that representation or validate bound at the enclosing row level. Add a
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Review: verified against real ledgers, not just the diffI ran both the pre-PR and post-PR validators over a set of The relaxations are earnedBoth map to aborts I reproduced on real ledgers:
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fusion.neighborsto fusion dismissals.The new contract permits a fusion
itemwithoutneighbors, but this instruction still requires neighbors for every row. Require adjacency evidence here only whenfusion.dispositionisdismissed. The roadmap item already carries that evidence for anitemverdict.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/kernel_ledger.py`:
- Around line 177-178: Update the entry validation branch in the ledger workflow
to trim the string and require the non-empty value to start with the documented
“unavailable:” prefix; reject other non-empty strings while preserving the
existing error reporting behavior.
In `@agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/prompts/_common.py`:
- Around line 1195-1202: The NCU coverage guidance must distinguish unavailable
rows from partial captures: count rows with duration_us and SOL metrics as
NCU-measured even when individual fields are null. Update the headline and
bound-cell guidance to disclose each partial capture’s missing fields and note,
while reserving unavailable/degrade-reason wording for rows with no NCU capture.
In `@agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_prompts.py`:
- Line 981: Add the return type annotation -> None to each newly added test
function, including
test_kernel_coverage_template_never_shows_a_note_the_schema_rejects and the
other tests identified in the diff, while leaving their behavior unchanged.
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- Line 1038: Update the prompt instructions around fusion.neighbors so adjacency
evidence is required only when fusion.disposition is dismissed; allow fusion
items without neighbors otherwise, while preserving the existing neighbor
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Require the documented unavailable-entry prefix.
A non-empty value such as "not captured" passes this branch. The ledger contract requires unavailable: <reason>. Reject strings that do not start with unavailable: after trimming whitespace.
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In `@agent-flow/agent_flow/workflows/perf_optimize/kernel_ledger.py` around lines
177 - 178, Update the entry validation branch in the ledger workflow to trim the
string and require the non-empty value to start with the documented
“unavailable:” prefix; reject other non-empty strings while preserving the
existing error reporting behavior.
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Annotate the new test functions.
Add -> None to each new test function.
As per coding guidelines, **/*.py requires: “Annotate every function.”
Also applies to: 991-991, 1000-1000, 1005-1005
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In `@agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_prompts.py` at line 981, Add
the return type annotation -> None to each newly added test function, including
test_kernel_coverage_template_never_shows_a_note_the_schema_rejects and the
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… captures `kernel_ledger.yaml` is the per-kernel coverage proof the perf-optimize orchestrator schema-validates after every analyzer turn, aborting the stage on an incomplete ledger. Three rules in that schema were stricter than the evidence an analyzer can actually obtain, and each one left it choosing between fabricating a value and dropping a row it was required to write: - **No `comm` bound class.** The workflow forbids putting collectives under ncu — they deadlock under kernel replay — so an allreduce is dispositioned from nsys evidence and has no ncu-derived bound class to report. With the enum fixed at compute/memory/latency/balanced, the only way to record the row was to mislabel it as one of the four. - **All-or-nothing ncu metrics.** Partial capture is the common case, not an edge case: ncu routinely reaches a kernel well enough to time it while its SOL/occupancy sections come back empty (replay stalls, LaunchFailed, a hang-detector budget). Requiring every metric meant inventing the missing percentages or discarding a duration that was legitimately measured. - **`fusion.neighbors` required on every verdict.** `neighbors` is the evidence for a *negative* verdict — "I looked at what runs either side and fusion is not viable because X". When the verdict is `item` the opportunity was promoted into a roadmap entry, and that entry, named by `ref`, is where the adjacency lives; demanding a duplicate held `fusion` to a stricter bar than `faster`, which accepts `item` + `ref` on its own. So: add `comm` to the enum (plus the shorthands an analyzer plausibly writes), let any metric be null when the block carries a non-empty `note` saying why the capture did not yield it, and require `neighbors` only on a dismissal. The relaxations are narrow — `bound` stays mandatory, a present-but-non-numeric metric is still an error, and a blank `note` does not excuse a null. That keeps the "say why" contract the whole-block `unavailable: <reason>` degrade already embodies, just at field granularity. The analyzer-facing contract in the prompt is updated to match, since a schema that permits `comm` and `note` is inert if the prompt still shows the analyzer a four-value enum and no way to say "not measured". Signed-off-by: Kaiyu Xie <26294424+kaiyux@users.noreply.github.com>
…red ledger Three follow-ups to the kernel-ledger relaxation, all in the same contract: - **The degrade string waived `bound`.** `_validate_ncu` returned from the whole-block `unavailable: <reason>` branch before `bound` was looked at, so a row using it carried no bound class at all. That is precisely the collective case `comm` was added for: an allreduce is excluded from every ncu pass, takes the degrade string, and therefore never reached the enum the previous commit widened. Ledgers written against a deployment whose ncu passes all fail take the string form for every row, so the new class was unreachable exactly where it was needed, and the prompt's promise that "`bound` is the one field always owed" was false. `bound` is now validated (and alias-normalized) in both shapes: inside `ncu` when `ncu` is a metrics mapping, on the row beside it when `ncu` is the degrade string. The prompt bullet was self-contradictory on this point — it said to record `bound: comm` while also saying a collective never goes under `ncu`, which is where `bound` lived — so it and the template now show the row-level form. - **The template shipped a value the schema rejects.** `note: ""` was exemplified as "required when a metric above is null", but a blank note does not excuse a null; copying the template and nulling a metric aborted the analyzer stage — the exact failure the field was added to remove. The template now demonstrates the partial-capture shape it is teaching, with a real note. - **`note` was write-only.** Neither the human mirror table nor the reporter guidance surfaced `note` or the nulls it explains, so a coverage proof whose every row was dispositioned without a capture rendered identically to one backed by measurements. Both are now required to mark rows whose `bound` did not come from ncu, and the reporter states how many of the table's rows ncu actually measured. The first change is a tightening: a row using the degrade string now owes a row-level `bound`. Ledgers are written fresh each round and validated at write time, so there is no migration — but an analyzer that writes the string form without a bound class now gets a clear error naming where it goes, instead of silently dropping the classification its dispositions rest on. Signed-off-by: Kaiyu Xie <26294424+kaiyux@users.noreply.github.com>
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Reject non-finite NCU metric values.
PyYAML’s yaml.safe_load() parses .nan as a floating-point NaN. _validate_ncu() then accepts it because _is_number() returns true and value < 0 is false. Reject non-finite values with math.isfinite() and add a regression test expecting LedgerError.
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kernel_ledger.yamlis the per-kernel coverage proof theperf-optimizeorchestrator schema-validates after every analyzer turn — it aborts the stage
on an incomplete ledger, so a rule that is stricter than the evidence an
analyzer can actually obtain does not degrade gracefully; it stalls the
campaign. This PR relaxes three such rules, then closes the three gaps that
relaxation exposed downstream.
The schema demanded evidence the analyzer cannot get
Each of these rules left the analyzer choosing between fabricating a value and
dropping a row it was required to write:
commbound class. The workflow forbids putting collectives underncu— they deadlock under kernel replay — so an allreduce is dispositionedfrom nsys evidence and has no ncu-derived bound class to report. With the
enum fixed at
compute | memory | latency | balanced, the only way to recordthe row at all was to mislabel it as one of the four.
edge case:
ncuroutinely reaches a kernel well enough to time it while itsSOL / occupancy sections come back empty (replay stalls,
LaunchFailed, ahang-detector budget). Requiring every metric meant inventing the missing
percentages or discarding a duration that was legitimately measured.
fusion.neighborsrequired on every verdict.neighborsis the evidencefor a negative verdict — "I looked at what runs either side of this kernel
and fusion is not viable because X". When the verdict is
item, theopportunity was promoted into a roadmap entry, and that entry — named by
ref— is where the adjacency lives; demanding a duplicate here heldfusionto a stricter bar thanfaster, which acceptsitem+refon itsown.
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kernel:
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commwas added for. An allreduce is excluded from every ncu pass, takes thedegrade string, and therefore never reached the enum the first commit
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string form and the new class is unreachable exactly where it is needed.
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ncuis a metrics mapping, on the row beside it whenncuis thedegrade string.
note: ""wasexemplified as "required when a metric above is null", but a blank note does
not excuse a null — copying the template and nulling a metric aborted the
analyzer stage, the exact failure the field was added to remove. The template
now demonstrates the partial-capture shape it is teaching, with a real note.
notewas write-only. Neither the human mirror table inprofile_findings.mdnor the reporter guidance surfacednoteor the nullsit explains, so a coverage proof whose every row was dispositioned without a
capture rendered identically to one backed by measurements. Both now must
mark rows whose
bounddid not come from ncu, and the reporter states howmany of the table's rows ncu actually measured.
Scope and compatibility
The relaxations are deliberately narrow —
boundstays mandatory, apresent-but-non-numeric metric is still an error, and a blank
notedoes notexcuse a null. That keeps the "say why" contract the whole-block
ncu: "unavailable: <reason>"degrade already embodies, just at fieldgranularity.
Owing a row-level
boundon the degrade string is the one tightening here.Ledgers are written fresh each round and validated at write time, so there is no
migration — an analyzer that writes the string form without a bound class now
gets a clear error naming where the field goes, instead of silently dropping the
classification its dispositions rest on.
The analyzer-facing contract in
prompts/_common.pyis updated to matchthroughout: a schema that permits
commandnoteis inert if the prompt stillshows the analyzer a four-value enum and no way to say "not measured".
Scope:
agent-flow/only — 2 source files and 2 test files. No TensorRT-LLMruntime, kernel, API or Python package code is changed.
Test Coverage
agent-flow/tests/workflows/perf_optimize/test_kernel_ledger.py(23 → 42collected) and
test_prompts.py(71 → 75), covering both sides of eachrelaxation and each disclosure rule:
commaccepted; shorthands normalizedtest_comm_bound_class_is_accepted,test_comm_bound_shorthand_is_normalized(4 params)noteloadstest_null_ncu_metric_allowed_with_a_notenotestill rejectedtest_null_ncu_metric_without_a_note_rejected,test_blank_note_does_not_excuse_a_null_metric,test_absent_ncu_metric_is_treated_as_nullnotedoes not widen past "not measured"test_note_does_not_excuse_a_missing_bound,test_note_does_not_excuse_a_non_numeric_metricneighborsis a dismissal-only requirementtest_fusion_dismissal_requires_observed_neighbors(renamed, wastest_fusion_requires_observed_neighbors),test_fusion_item_does_not_require_neighborsboundtest_ncu_degrade_string_still_owes_a_row_level_bound,test_collective_row_records_comm_beside_the_degrade_string,test_row_level_bound_shorthand_is_normalized(4 params),test_row_level_bound_must_be_a_known_classtest_kernel_coverage_template_never_shows_a_note_the_schema_rejects,test_kernel_coverage_degrade_string_takes_bound_on_the_row,test_kernel_coverage_note_requires_marking_unmeasured_rows,test_kernel_coverage_reporter_discloses_how_much_ncu_measuredFull vendored suite, no regressions:
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