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Enable explicitly selected CUTEDSL routed experts for Kimi K3 NVFP4 on SM100/SM103. The Blackwell kernel already implements SiTU in the rebased main; this change enables it through the MoE capability declaration and K3 backend selection, forwards both soft-caps, and rejects an explicit CUTEDSL request that cannot be served instead of silently selecting CUTLASS.

The Blackwell custom op and fake schema use Optional[float] = None directly. SiTU constants must be finite and positive. SM107 end-to-end SiTU integration remains gated; existing Rubin ops retain their separate legacy sentinel API.

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  • Compare the NVFP4 output with a SiTU reference and a plain SwiGLU negative reference, using dequantized checkpoint weights and a SiTU relative-L2 bound of 0.20.
  • Derive backend admission candidates from BACKEND_FAMILY and check exact agreement with the K3 allow-list.
  • Exercise the real KimiK3MoERuntime / resolver call chain with CUTEDSL ineligible and CUTLASS eligible; require an explicit rejection, with an allowed-degradation positive control.
  • At fixed outer/FC1 tactics, independently change each soft-cap across (4,25), (2,25), (4,10), (2,10) and verify distinct runner identities and numerical outputs.
  • Register the regressions in l0_b300.yml. Keep the numerical discriminator's CI selection focused on CUTEDSL as requested; retain the existing TRTLLM selector. Update the upstream Blackwell direct-op test to use None for absent SiTU parameters.

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Current PR head: e04607744e7571a9817ce4bc0add0434591366f5. GPU validation ran at 74a480e98701ba8423151f68503edd5e6db31e7b; the only subsequent change restores three example files to the base version. Implementation, unit tests, and CI selectors are unchanged. The DEP16 quickstart result below used the earlier example launcher with explicit backend selection. The branch was rebased onto 63e64e5bdb447af0eb12b5b6ca6a185483131783.

OCIAGA GB300/SM103, image trtllm-ociaga-gb300-k3-base-nsys2025.5-20260916.sqsh; libtensorrt_llm.so SHA256 3eac19a923ae4df65df65bd63d03a64d5716f5ce298424433738eeabc78b5eeb. Build job 802376 used ad95dd32a303; the GPU-validated candidate differs only in the CI selector YAML.

Check Result
Local pre-commit / CI-selector validation / DCO Passed
K3 SiTU tests, job 802479 83 passed, 1 existing strict xfail
Blackwell direct-op tests, separate process, job 802479 6 passed
MoE backend suite, separate process, job 802479 430 passed, 166 skipped
DEP16 quickstart, job 805968 4/4 expected responses
GSM8K, job 806041 96.3609 ± 0.5158% strict; 96.5125 ± 0.5053% flexible

GSM8K used nvidia_kimi-k3-nvfp4/hf/hf-f8c5234_orig, 4 nodes × 4 GPUs in one NVLink segment, DEP16, batch size 8, KV fraction 0.35, 5-shot, all 1319/1319 questions, and a 256-token output limit. Nodes: nvl72d136-T[02,07-09].

The same GSM8K run recorded both CuteDslFusedMoE::run_moe_nvfp4 and trtllm::cute_dsl_nvfp4_gather_grouped_gemm_act_fusion_blackwell on every rank 0–15. These are runtime call-path records, emitted once per rank during warmup, rather than per-question kernel counts. There were no trtllm::fused_moe::gemm1 records or resolver declines. The four soft-cap unit cases had relative L2 errors 0.164376 / 0.167295 / 0.165008 / 0.167400.

These are local cluster validation results, not a claim that official PR GPU CI has passed. No performance improvement or backend ranking is claimed.

PR Checklist

  • Description and tests cover the final change.
  • Reviewed the coding guidelines and applicable PR requirements.
  • CI selectors updated.
  • No new dependencies or ownership changes.

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Kimi K3 NVFP4 now supports SiTU through CuteDSL, preserves explicit backend failures, adds resolver and kernel tests, and exposes backend selection in Python and Slurm launchers.

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Kimi K3 SiTU backend support

Layer / File(s) Summary
SiTU kernel implementation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/...
The Blackwell grouped GEMM kernel validates SiTU beta parameters and applies vectorized or scalar SiTU epilogues.
Custom operator and CuteDSL wiring
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/..., tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/...
SiTU beta values use optional parameters, participate in cache and autotuning identities, and flow through NVFP4 CuteDSL dispatch. SM107 rejects SiTU.
Backend resolution and regression coverage
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py, tests/unittest/_torch/moe/*, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b300.yml
Explicit backend requests no longer degrade silently. CUTEDSL is allowed for Kimi K3 SiTU, with resolver, beta-validation, availability, and execution tests.
Kimi K3 launcher controls
examples/kimi_k3/*
The launchers accept --moe-backend, document backend choices, and configure rank-local DeepGEMM JIT caches.

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant KimiK3Launcher
  participant LLM
  participant BackendResolver
  participant CuteDslFusedMoE
  participant SiTUKernel
  KimiK3Launcher->>LLM: pass MoeConfig backend override
  LLM->>BackendResolver: resolve explicit MoE backend
  BackendResolver->>CuteDslFusedMoE: validate NVFP4 SiTU eligibility
  CuteDslFusedMoE->>SiTUKernel: pass SiTU beta parameters
  SiTUKernel->>LLM: return fused MoE output
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In `@examples/kimi_k3/quick_start_kimi_k3.sbatch`:
- Line 43: Update the usage() function to include the accepted --moe-backend
option as [--moe-backend BACKEND], leaving the existing argument parsing
unchanged.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py`:
- Line 92: Update _canonicalize_situ_beta to return None only when situ_beta
equals the SITU_BETA_DISABLED sentinel, preserving explicit values such as 0.0
and -2.0. Add coverage for ActivationType.Swiglu confirming those values are
rejected by validation.

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- Around line 436-440: Update the SiTU beta validation in the constructor around
the existing situ_beta and situ_linear_beta check to reject any non-finite value
as well as zero or negative values, while preserving the current ValueError
behavior and message context. Add regression coverage in the Kimi SiTU MoE tests
for NaN, positive infinity, zero, and negative beta inputs.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py`:
- Line 1141: Add a regression test in the Kimi K3 MoE runtime tests covering
explicit CUTEDSL selection when CUTEDSL is ineligible but CUTLASS is eligible.
Assert that KimiK3MoERuntime raises and includes the backend rejection trail,
rather than falling back to CUTLASS; keep existing allow-list and
configuration-preservation tests unchanged.

In `@tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_kimi_k3_situ_moe.py`:
- Around line 1043-1044: Update the CUTEDSL test skip condition around
IS_CUTLASS_DSL_AVAILABLE to also require an SM100 or SM103 GPU, using the
existing device capability detection symbols in the test; skip before backend
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We rarely use the CUTLASS backend for kimi k3, so could we keep this test focused on CUTEDSL and remove the CUTLASS case to avoid spending CI resources on it? thanks

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- Around line 3460-3461: Add regression coverage in the SiTU MoE execution test
using the same CUTEDSL shape and tactic with two distinct beta pairs. Verify
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Docstring coverage over the diff was 72%, under the 80% gate. Seven
functions were missing one; each now says the thing a reader could not
recover from the signature.

The two that carry real information:

unique_id() lists trace-time constants, which is why the activation
soft-caps belong in it -- they are folded into the compiled kernel as
const_expr, so two runners differing in a beta are different kernels and
must not share a tuning result. Omitting them would silently serve one
layer's kernel to a layer with different soft-caps.

_skip_if_backend_unavailable() probes at call time rather than through
pytest.mark.skipif, because the marker is evaluated during collection and
importing cute_dsl_utils that early puts the CuTe DSL wheel's package
directory on sys.path for every other test file in the session.

No behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guan <294044352+xguannv@users.noreply.github.com>
Five review findings, all verified against the code first.

_canonicalize_situ_beta mapped the whole `<= 0` range to None, not just
the sentinel. On a SwiGLU layer that turned situ_beta=0.0 into "no
soft-caps supplied" and accepted it, when the kernel's own check would
have refused the combination. Only SITU_BETA_DISABLED disables now;
everything else is forwarded so the kernel sees it.

The kernel's `situ_beta <= 0` test let NaN and positive infinity through
-- every comparison against NaN is false, and an infinity is positive.
The epilogue folds 2/beta and 2*beta at trace time, so either one is
compiled in and returns quietly wrong activations rather than failing.
Replaced with `0 < beta < inf`. Note this file's `math` is the MLIR
dialect, not Python's, so isfinite() is not available here.

Three new tests: the sentinel is the only disabling value; the kernel
refuses NaN, infinity, zero and negative betas; and an ineligible
explicit CUTEDSL request raises rather than degrading to CUTLASS, with
the allow_degradation=True case as the control so the assertion cannot
pass because substitution stopped working altogether.

_skip_if_backend_unavailable() checked only for the CuTe DSL wheel, but
nvfp4_moe_supported admits every SM >= 100 and only the Blackwell
act-fusion kernel carries the SiTU epilogue, so on other architectures
the CUTEDSL case failed in resolution instead of skipping.

Also the launcher's usage() text, which omitted --moe-backend while the
parser accepted it -- and printed that incomplete text on the error path
-- and the kernel class docstring, which still said SwiGLU or Relu2 only.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guan <294044352+xguannv@users.noreply.github.com>
Four findings from review, all verified against the code first.

The op schema does take Optional[float]. My earlier commit message claimed
it cannot, and that claim was the whole reason SITU_BETA_DISABLED existed;
trtllm::kda_mtp_decode in this repo has carried `scale: Optional[float] =
None` all along. The sentinel, its canonicalization helper and the test
that covered the helper are gone -- None now means "not a SiTU layer" the
way it does everywhere else.

test_nvfp4_kernel_actually_applies_situ compared against SwigluBias,
`gate*sigmoid(gate*alpha)*(up+beta)`. No epilogue on this path computes
that. What a CuteDSL layer computes when it does not run SiTU is
`up * silu(gate)`, so a genuine SwiGLU fallback landed far from both
references and still satisfied `situ_cos > swiglu_cos` -- the test could
not fail the way it claimed to. The control is now the realistic wrong
answer. The absolute bounds the review also asked for are deliberately
not in this commit: cosine is scale-invariant, so the assertion that
catches a mis-scaled SiTU has to be on rel_l2, and its threshold should
come from the measured spread rather than a guess. Both scores are
printed; the bounds land once there is a number to set them from.

test_kimi_k3_allow_list_matches_what_the_backends_declare said "exactly"
and tested inclusion, walking a dict of backends written out by hand --
a second copy of the capability set, which is the defect this module
exists to catch. Both sides are derived now, from BACKEND_FAMILY and from
asking the allow-list, and compared as sets so an offered-but-incapable
backend fails too. `any` rather than `all` over a family because
resolution walks members in IMPL_PRIORITY order: CUTEDSL qualifies
through CuteDslFusedMoE while CuteDslB12xFusedMoE does not declare SiTu.

None of the five tests this PR adds were in any CI list, including
test_nvfp4_kernel_actually_applies_situ[CUTEDSL] -- the one the PR is
for. All are listed in l0_b300.yml now. The [CUTLASS] arm is replaced
rather than joined, per review: K3 rarely runs CUTLASS, and the
parametrization keeps the case for local use.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guan <294044352+xguannv@users.noreply.github.com>
…budget

Review asked for two things: compare against plain SwiGLU, and assert an
error bound, because the cosine ordering alone accepts both plain-SwiGLU
output and incorrectly scaled SiTU. The first landed earlier; this is the
second, and getting there needed two corrections first.

input_scale is 1.0. All 247296 *.input_scale entries in nvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4,
across 92 shards, are exactly 1.0, so that is what inference runs. This test
derived amax/(448*6) instead, a value no checkpoint produces, and on that
path the kernel lands 36% short of the reference -- norms 263.02 against
412.49 -- which is the open activation-scale issue that
test_nvfp4_experts_match_situ_reference already carries as a strict xfail.
At input_scale=1.0 the norms agree to 1.004. So the test was running off the
inference path and on top of an unrelated defect, and the cosine assertion
could not see the 36% at all, cosine being scale-invariant. That is the
reviewed failure mode, live in the suite rather than hypothetical.

Both references now read the weights back out of the checkpoint tensors via
e2m1_and_ufp8sf_scale_to_float_v2, as tests/unittest/_torch/thop/serial/
test_moe.py does, so weight quantization cancels instead of landing on one
side only.

The bound is derived rather than fitted. One NVFP4 round trip of Gaussian
data -- the e2m1 grid under a per-16 e4m3 block scale -- costs eps = 0.0950
relative L2, which the checkpoint weights confirm at 0.09515/0.09510/0.09512.
Quantization error does not amplify through a dot product of random data, so
N independent stages compose as sqrt(N)*eps; with the weight stages cancelled
three remain -- the activation reaching the gate, the activation reaching the
up projection, independent because they cross different weight matrices and
SiTU multiplies them, and the FC1->FC2 intermediate -- giving a floor of
sqrt(3)*0.0950 = 0.1645. Measured across 6 seeds x {CUTLASS, TRTLLM, CUTEDSL}:
0.1613 to 0.1656, i.e. 0.980 to 1.006 of prediction, norm ratio in
0.9992..1.0035. The budget is confirmed, not calibrated.

0.20 is that floor plus ~21% headroom against a +-2% spread, and catches a
SiTU mis-scaled by >=11.4% since a scale error s appears as
sqrt(s**2 + 0.1645**2). Fitting the bound to measurements instead would have
frozen whatever the implementation does today into the baseline; anchored on
the budget, an extra quantization stage reports as a failure rather than as a
number to loosen.

The ordering assertion stays as the diagnosis. The norm ratio is printed next
to cosine because rel_l2**2 = r**2 - 2*r*cos + 1, so the two split the
asserted number into a magnitude half and a direction half.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guan <294044352+xguannv@users.noreply.github.com>
Measured from nvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4: with the post_attention_layernorm weight
giving the MoE input its per-channel magnitude, real g and u have sigma
0.095..0.234 across layers 3/10/30/55, against beta=4 and linear_beta=25. At
that scale SiTU and plain SwiGLU differ by 0.08%..0.4%, well under the
sqrt(3)*eps = 0.1645 quantization floor, so no assertion could separate them.

The test's randn*0.05 puts sigma at 1.497, 6-15x production, where they differ
by 14%. That is the reason the discriminator works, so it belongs in the
docstring rather than being left to look like an arbitrary constant. Keeping
the scale, not changing it: an earlier plan to raise it further was based on
assuming production activations were larger, which the measurement reversed.

Also drops two claims that the previous commit made stale by adding a bound:
the comparison is no longer tolerance-free.

Signed-off-by: Xin Guan <294044352+xguannv@users.noreply.github.com>
Review asked for regression coverage on beta-specific cache identity. The
betas are trace-time const_expr folded into the compiled epilogue, so
unique_id() lists them; if they ever drop out, the autotuner returns the
kernel built for the previous betas and nothing raises -- the second layer
just silently applies the first layer's soft-caps.

Two layers run in one process, in cache order, and each output is checked
against the reference built for ITS OWN betas. Asserting only that the two
differ would pass if the second were wrong some other way.

What varies is the betas, not the input distribution. Measured from the
checkpoint, production g and u sit at sigma 0.10..0.23, so inflating the
activation to make the caps bite would push the test further from inference,
not closer.

The second pair is (2.0, 10.0) because the residual grows as the caps tighten
and that is the last pair the sqrt(3)*eps budget still covers -- 0.1644,
0.1674, 0.1869, 0.2185 for (4.0,25.0), (2.0,10.0), (0.5,2.0), (0.25,1.0). The
growth is not explained: sharper clipping does make the FC1->FC2 intermediate
quantize slightly worse, but that is ~3% of it, not 33%. Picking a pair the
budget covers keeps one bound over both arms instead of granting an
unexplained exception, and (2.0, 10.0) still lands 27% from the production
output, far outside allclose, which is all the cache question needs.

_make_routed_moe and _make_nvfp4_moe take the soft-caps as parameters now,
defaulting to the production 4.0 / 25.0, so two layers can differ in nothing
else. Listed in l0_b300.yml.

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reasonsolo added a commit to reasonsolo/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
Port the MoE feature family from the Rubin development branch that main does
not already carry:

* PDL launch support in the SiTU Triton kernel (`_torch/modules/situ.py`),
  gated on `get_env_enable_pdl()` and SM >= 90.
* `_Pointer.__add__` in `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/rubin/moe/utils.py`, so a
  Rubin device pointer can be offset by an element count with the alignment
  narrowed to the real `gcd`.
* A `moe_a2a_cft_release` hook on the NVLink one-sided teardown path: the C++
  CFT logical endpoint is destroyed before the last Python reference to its
  MNNVL backing memory is dropped.
* MegaMoE DeepGEMM rendezvous: trust `MASTER_ADDR`/`MASTER_PORT`/`RANK`/
  `WORLD_SIZE` only when they actually describe this MPI world, so a
  disaggregated launcher's outer world cannot be adopted by an inner one.
* Duplicate routing-input warnings demoted to debug across the TRTLLM-Gen MoE
  ops, except `fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` -- see below.
* Drop the unused `<ATen/native/cuda/Resize.h>` includes from `moeOp.cpp` and
  `moeUtilOp.cpp`.
* An NVFP4 SiTU MoE unit test, on the B200 L0 list.

`cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/moe/fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` is deliberately left
byte-identical to main. The EP-aware padded-token sizing this series carried
for it (`num_experts` -> `local_num_experts` for `getMaxPermutedPaddedCount`
and `getMaxNumCtasInBatchDim`) is under separate review in NVIDIA#19251:
`routingIndicesWarpKernel` in `RoutingLlama4.cu` counts tokens ungated by
`isLocalExpert` and writes a global expert id as the CTA batch index, so the
smaller allocation can be written out of bounds on the Llama4 routing path.
That change and the one-line log-level demote for the same file travel with
NVIDIA#19251 rather than with SM107 enablement.

Two things this series used to carry are now main's and are not restated
here. `CuteDslFusedMoE.run_moe_nvfp4` already admits `ActivationType.SiTu`
after NVIDIA#19003, so `fused_moe_cute_dsl.py` is left byte-identical to main.
And the MegaMoE NVFP4 CuteDSL kernel tree that lived in
`_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/mega_moe_nvfp4/` was deleted by PR NVIDIA#17956 and
replaced with `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/cutedsl_megamoe/`, which already
carries the same SM107 work (renamed: `build_sm107_static_idesc_base` ->
`build_static_idesc_base`, `Sm107MegaMoEKernel` ->
`rubin/inference/mega/BlockScaledSwapAbMegaMoeKernel`, and so on). The
`CuteDslFc12FusedMoE` backend and the Rubin fused-FC12 GEMM landed upstream
too.
reasonsolo added a commit to reasonsolo/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
Port the MoE feature family from the Rubin development branch that main does
not already carry:

* PDL launch support in the SiTU Triton kernel (`_torch/modules/situ.py`),
  gated on `get_env_enable_pdl()` and SM >= 90.
* `_Pointer.__add__` in `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/rubin/moe/utils.py`, so a
  Rubin device pointer can be offset by an element count with the alignment
  narrowed to the real `gcd`.
* A `moe_a2a_cft_release` hook on the NVLink one-sided teardown path: the C++
  CFT logical endpoint is destroyed before the last Python reference to its
  MNNVL backing memory is dropped.
* MegaMoE DeepGEMM rendezvous: trust `MASTER_ADDR`/`MASTER_PORT`/`RANK`/
  `WORLD_SIZE` only when they actually describe this MPI world, so a
  disaggregated launcher's outer world cannot be adopted by an inner one.
* Duplicate routing-input warnings demoted to debug across the TRTLLM-Gen MoE
  ops, except `fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` -- see below.
* Drop the unused `<ATen/native/cuda/Resize.h>` includes from `moeOp.cpp` and
  `moeUtilOp.cpp`.
* An NVFP4 SiTU MoE unit test, on the B200 L0 list.

`cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/moe/fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` is deliberately left
byte-identical to main. The EP-aware padded-token sizing this series carried
for it (`num_experts` -> `local_num_experts` for `getMaxPermutedPaddedCount`
and `getMaxNumCtasInBatchDim`) is under separate review in NVIDIA#19251:
`routingIndicesWarpKernel` in `RoutingLlama4.cu` counts tokens ungated by
`isLocalExpert` and writes a global expert id as the CTA batch index, so the
smaller allocation can be written out of bounds on the Llama4 routing path.
That change and the one-line log-level demote for the same file travel with
NVIDIA#19251 rather than with SM107 enablement.

Two things this series used to carry are now main's and are not restated
here. `CuteDslFusedMoE.run_moe_nvfp4` already admits `ActivationType.SiTu`
after NVIDIA#19003, so `fused_moe_cute_dsl.py` is left byte-identical to main.
And the MegaMoE NVFP4 CuteDSL kernel tree that lived in
`_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/mega_moe_nvfp4/` was deleted by PR NVIDIA#17956 and
replaced with `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/cutedsl_megamoe/`, which already
carries the same SM107 work (renamed: `build_sm107_static_idesc_base` ->
`build_static_idesc_base`, `Sm107MegaMoEKernel` ->
`rubin/inference/mega/BlockScaledSwapAbMegaMoeKernel`, and so on). The
`CuteDslFc12FusedMoE` backend and the Rubin fused-FC12 GEMM landed upstream
too.

Signed-off-by: Lizhi Zhou <1432185+reasonsolo@users.noreply.github.com>
reasonsolo added a commit to reasonsolo/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
Port the MoE feature family from the Rubin development branch that main does
not already carry:

* PDL launch support in the SiTU Triton kernel (`_torch/modules/situ.py`),
  gated on `get_env_enable_pdl()` and SM >= 90.
* `_Pointer.__add__` in `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/rubin/moe/utils.py`, so a
  Rubin device pointer can be offset by an element count with the alignment
  narrowed to the real `gcd`.
* A `moe_a2a_cft_release` hook on the NVLink one-sided teardown path: the C++
  CFT logical endpoint is destroyed before the last Python reference to its
  MNNVL backing memory is dropped.
* MegaMoE DeepGEMM rendezvous: trust `MASTER_ADDR`/`MASTER_PORT`/`RANK`/
  `WORLD_SIZE` only when they actually describe this MPI world, so a
  disaggregated launcher's outer world cannot be adopted by an inner one.
* An NVFP4 SiTU MoE unit test, on the B200 L0 list.

Every `cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/` translation unit this series used to touch is
now left byte-identical to main. The EP-aware padded-token sizing carried for
`fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` (`num_experts` -> `local_num_experts` for
`getMaxPermutedPaddedCount` and `getMaxNumCtasInBatchDim`) is under separate
review in NVIDIA#19251: `routingIndicesWarpKernel` in `RoutingLlama4.cu` counts
tokens ungated by `isLocalExpert` and writes a global expert id as the CTA
batch index, so the smaller allocation can be written out of bounds on the
Llama4 routing path. The duplicate-routing-input log-level demote and the
unused `<ATen/native/cuda/Resize.h>` include removals are unrelated to SM107
enablement and are dropped from this series; `th_common` is already built as
C++20 on main, so those includes cost nothing but a line.

Two things this series used to carry are now main's and are not restated
here. `CuteDslFusedMoE.run_moe_nvfp4` already admits `ActivationType.SiTu`
after NVIDIA#19003, so `fused_moe_cute_dsl.py` is left byte-identical to main.
And the MegaMoE NVFP4 CuteDSL kernel tree that lived in
`_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/mega_moe_nvfp4/` was deleted by PR NVIDIA#17956 and
replaced with `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/cutedsl_megamoe/`, which already
carries the same SM107 work (renamed: `build_sm107_static_idesc_base` ->
`build_static_idesc_base`, `Sm107MegaMoEKernel` ->
`rubin/inference/mega/BlockScaledSwapAbMegaMoeKernel`, and so on). The
`CuteDslFc12FusedMoE` backend and the Rubin fused-FC12 GEMM landed upstream
too.

Signed-off-by: Lizhi Zhou <1432185+reasonsolo@users.noreply.github.com>
reasonsolo added a commit to reasonsolo/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
Port the MoE feature family from the Rubin development branch that main does
not already carry:

* PDL launch support in the SiTU Triton kernel (`_torch/modules/situ.py`),
  gated on `get_env_enable_pdl()` and SM >= 90.
* `_Pointer.__add__` in `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/rubin/moe/utils.py`, so a
  Rubin device pointer can be offset by an element count with the alignment
  narrowed to the real `gcd`.
* A `moe_a2a_cft_release` hook on the NVLink one-sided teardown path: the C++
  CFT logical endpoint is destroyed before the last Python reference to its
  MNNVL backing memory is dropped.
* MegaMoE DeepGEMM rendezvous: trust `MASTER_ADDR`/`MASTER_PORT`/`RANK`/
  `WORLD_SIZE` only when they actually describe this MPI world, so a
  disaggregated launcher's outer world cannot be adopted by an inner one.

The NVFP4 SiTU MoE unit test that accompanied this work, its `l0_b200` entry
and the de-duplication of the overlapping tactic-reachability case in
`tests/unittest/_torch/thop/serial/test_moe.py` are not part of this series;
this PR carries the production change only.

Every `cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/` translation unit this series used to touch is
now left byte-identical to main. The EP-aware padded-token sizing carried for
`fp4BlockScaleMoe.cpp` (`num_experts` -> `local_num_experts` for
`getMaxPermutedPaddedCount` and `getMaxNumCtasInBatchDim`) is under separate
review in NVIDIA#19251: `routingIndicesWarpKernel` in `RoutingLlama4.cu` counts
tokens ungated by `isLocalExpert` and writes a global expert id as the CTA
batch index, so the smaller allocation can be written out of bounds on the
Llama4 routing path. The duplicate-routing-input log-level demote and the
unused `<ATen/native/cuda/Resize.h>` include removals are unrelated to SM107
enablement and are dropped from this series; `th_common` is already built as
C++20 on main, so those includes cost nothing but a line.

Two things this series used to carry are now main's and are not restated
here. `CuteDslFusedMoE.run_moe_nvfp4` already admits `ActivationType.SiTu`
after NVIDIA#19003, so `fused_moe_cute_dsl.py` is left byte-identical to main.
And the MegaMoE NVFP4 CuteDSL kernel tree that lived in
`_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/mega_moe_nvfp4/` was deleted by PR NVIDIA#17956 and
replaced with `_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/cutedsl_megamoe/`, which already
carries the same SM107 work (renamed: `build_sm107_static_idesc_base` ->
`build_static_idesc_base`, `Sm107MegaMoEKernel` ->
`rubin/inference/mega/BlockScaledSwapAbMegaMoeKernel`, and so on). The
`CuteDslFc12FusedMoE` backend and the Rubin fused-FC12 GEMM landed upstream
too.

Signed-off-by: Lizhi Zhou <1432185+reasonsolo@users.noreply.github.com>
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