[AMD][MI35X] Enable fused allreduce+RMSNorm for Qwen3.5 MXFP4 MI355X agentic-mtp

[ChangLiu0709]

Summary

Enable AITER fused allreduce+RMSNorm (--enable-aiter-allreduce-fusion) on the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-MXFP4 MI355X agentic-coding benchmark arm, replacing the INT8 QuickReduce path.

Config keys touched:

• qwen3.5-fp4-mi355x-sglang-agentic-mtp

Scope

Benchmark recipe change only (launch flags + env vars). No image bump — same lmsysorg/sglang-rocm:v0.5.18-rocm720-mi35x-20260829.

What changed in the recipe

Before	After
export ROCM_QUICK_REDUCE_QUANTIZATION=INT8	commented out (disabled)
(no fusion flag)	--enable-aiter-allreduce-fusion added to SGLang server args

The two paths are mutually exclusive — AITER custom allreduce fusion requires QuickReduce to be disabled.

Motivation

The AITER allreduce_fusion_kernel_1stage HIP kernel fuses TP allreduce + residual addition + RMSNorm into a single kernel launch, eliminating ~122 redundant kernel launches per decode cycle (from 256 → 134 total AR+RMS launches).

This targets the decode-phase bottleneck where Qwen3.5's 60-layer architecture (45 KDA + 15 MHA) generates ~256 standalone allreduce and RMSNorm kernel calls per cycle, each dominated by launch overhead (99.5% of per-call time) rather than compute or memory bandwidth.

Results

Kernel-level profiling (TP2, conc=4, EAGLE 3-step MTP)

Metric	Baseline (QuickReduce)	Fused AR+RMS	Delta
Total kernels/cycle	1,562	1,318	-15.6%
Cycle time	14,316 µs	11,440 µs	-20.1%
AR+RMS time (isolated)	1,733 µs	1,069 µs	-663 µs

Production smoke test (TP2, conc=4, 1-hour AgentX agentic replay)

Metric	Baseline	Fused	Delta
Output throughput/GPU	114.1 tok/s	120.8 tok/s	+5.9%
Total throughput/GPU	10,394.8 tok/s	11,023.7 tok/s	+6.1%
Interactivity	229.0 tok/s	230.7 tok/s	+0.7%
MTP acceptance length	3.39	3.39	unchanged
Error rate	0/892	0/892	0.0%

Validation

Relying on the labeled full-sweep-fail-fast sweep.

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Co-authors

@ChangLiu0709
@chunfangamd

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[claude]

🔴 New changelog entry omits the required pr-link field, which every prior entry in the file includes and which ChangelogEntry.pr_link (utils/matrix_logic/validation.py:1031) requires with no default. Fix: add pr-link: https://github.com/SemiAnalysisAI/InferenceX/pull/<number> (or pr-link: TBD before the PR exists, per docs/configuration-procedures.md) to this entry so schema validation succeeds.

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ChangelogEntry is a pydantic model with extra='forbid' and pr_link: str = Field(alias="pr-link") — no default value, so a missing key raises a pydantic ValidationError when the changelog is parsed. Every other entry in perf-changelog.yaml (e.g. the immediately preceding one at line ~6819 for pull/2774) includes pr-link. Any CI step or matrix-logic tooling that loads perf-changelog.yaml via ChangelogMetadata/ChangelogEntry will fail on this new tail entry, blocking the PR's changelog validation step until pr-link is added.

Verification: normal. The new tail entry at perf-changelog.yaml:6825-6830 has config-keys, scenario-type, and description but no pr-link key (confirmed by reading the file tail; the immediately preceding entry at 6823 and every other entry include pr-link). ChangelogEntry (utils/matrix_logic/validation.py:1025-1031) declares pr_link: str = Field(alias="pr-link") with NO default, under `model_config =…

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[amebaleon]

I ran an automated claim/evidence check on this PR and had one question about the reported MTP acceptance length.

At commit 6ecec642c152e5d3d06d853d5d2cd20cfca0d8e5, the benchmark recipe sets:

SGLANG_SIMULATE_ACC_LEN=3.39
SGLANG_SIMULATE_ACC_METHOD=match-expected

and describes that acceptance length as synthetic for throughput testing.

But the PR table also reports MTP acceptance length as 3.39 → 3.39 (unchanged).

Was that 3.39 intended to be a configured synthetic benchmark parameter, or was it independently measured as a quality check?

If it was independently measured, is there an exact-head evaluator/result artifact for that run? I noticed the corresponding full-sweep validation run was cancelled.