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Dev Engineer Review

The PR adds CausalKVCacheManager for a pinned prefix, rolling history, staged tokens, and causal-block layouts. The cuDNN and TRTLLM backends add paged cached-attention paths. Unsupported backends report no cache support, and Attention._attn_impl rejects cache use with those backends.

The cache API separates pool construction from rollout configuration in open(). It retains device state across close and reopen, and cleans up after a failed open. The CUDA operators add in-place row rotation, K/V slot scatter, the device-side block layout and a pool-to-pool slot copy.

The cache and backend paths have different limits. TRTLLM requires 32-token pages, while cuDNN accepts unquantized cache attention for a single video. Callers must provide the real-token seq_len when using a cache. Verify that callers check backend cache support and pass consistent sequence lengths. The objectives state that no model consumes the cache in this PR.

QA Engineer Review

The PR adds unit and multi-GPU tests for cache management, cached attention, Ulysses integration, and the CUDA operators. The tests cover cache rollover, causal-block visibility, padding, dirty-step overwrites, CUDA graph replay, reopen behavior, unsupported inputs, and operator validation. The objectives report 102 passed and 14 skipped cache and attention tests, plus 2 passed Ulysses tests on B200 and H100; these are author-reported results.

The new VisualGen integration tests appear in the B200, DGX B200, and H100 test-db lists. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the new cache and attention paths described here. No manual-QA list change is identified in the supplied summary.

Per-File QA Perspective

• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.h: Verify in-place row rotation for supported element sizes, shifts, and strided rows. Check launch-error handling and no-op cases.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.h: Verify vector-width dispatch and copies to one or two destinations. Duplicate destination slots can race, and device slot indices are not range-checked.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/causalLayout.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/causalLayout.h: Verify the per-block layout (full pages, partial pages, committed_private, current_private, staged slots, refill) against the host model, and the pool-to-pool copy with sentinel entries.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/causalLayoutOp.cpp: Verify shape, dtype and scalar validation of causal_layout_ and copy_kv_slots_.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt: The VisualGen common object library now includes the new operator wrappers. Verify these sources are included in the intended build targets.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/rotateRowsOp.cpp: Verify tensor shape, stride, device, and dtype checks, plus CUDA stream dispatch and no-op behavior.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/scatterKvSlotsOp.cpp: Verify tensor validation and optional dst2 and src handling. Device-side slot bounds remain the caller’s responsibility.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py: Fake registrations were added for the four operators. Verify tracing and compile paths use signatures consistent with the CUDA operators.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/cudnn.py: Verify cached attention, causal-block writes, real-token seq_len, and zeroed padded outputs. The cache path rejects unsupported masks, quantization, inputs, and forward_with_lse.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/interface.py: Verify backend cache-support declarations and the shared forward keyword contract. Unsupported backends retain a default support value of False.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py: Verify Ulysses preserves caller-provided real-token counts through exchange and uses the unfused Q/K/V path for cached calls. forward_async rejects cache inputs.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/trtllm.py: Verify the 32-token-page restriction, metadata reuse and cleanup, and graph-capture behavior. First-time metadata creation during capture raises an error.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/__init__.py: Verify CausalKVCacheManager is importable from the cache package.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/kv_causal_cache.py: Verify pool sizing, open/close lifecycle, failed-open cleanup, commits, page rotation, private causal-block copies, and persistent device state across reopen.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/attention.py: Verify cache calls require the real-token count and fail when the selected backend does not support the cache.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml: Adds the VisualGen cached-attention test and both CUDA operator tests to the B200 CI list.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml: Adds the Ulysses cached-attention test to the DGX B200 CI list.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml: Adds the cached-attention and cache-manager tests to the H100 CI list.
• tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py: Compares paged and dense attention variants against references and supports graph or eager timing. Benchmark measurements cited in the objectives are B200-only; they do not establish H100 performance.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_causal_layout.py: Hand-computed layouts, the rotation reading the fixed tail from the moved page, staged tokens on partial pages, invalid arguments.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_copy_kv_slots.py: Copies across layers, K/V and heads against a reference, sentinel entries, graph replay, invalid arguments.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py: Covers rotation results, strided rows, invalid inputs, graph capture, compilation, large row counts, and extreme shifts. The supplied summary does not identify this test as an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_scatter_kv_slots.py: Covers scatter results, strided inputs, optional destinations and source indices, graph replay, invalid arguments, and compilation. The supplied summary does not identify this test as an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_kv_causal_attention_ulysses.py: Covers two-GPU cached attention, cache rollover, causal blocks, padding, stored K/V values, head-count validation, and real sequence lengths. Listed in test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_attention.py: Covers cuDNN and TRTLLM cached attention, exact visible-key windows, padding, overwrites, graph replay, reopen behavior, TRTLLM restrictions, and metadata lifecycle. Listed in test-db/l0_b200.yml and test-db/l0_h100.yml.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_cache.py: Covers allocation, page tables, lifecycle, pinning, eviction, writes, causal-block layouts, validation, recovery, and memory accounting. Listed in test-db/l0_h100.yml.
• tests/unittest/utils/kv_causal_reference.py: Adds dense fp32 and exact-window references. Verify the reference window boundaries against the cache’s pinned-prefix and rolling-history semantics.

Description

Autoregressive video models generate a few latent frames at a time. Every chunk
attends to a fixed prefix (the text prompt), a sliding window of finished frames
and itself, through several denoising forwards and one frame-causal "clean" forward
whose K/V become history. Finished frames never change, so their K/V should be
computed once and kept. VisualGen has no K/V cache today; this PR adds one, plus
the attention paths that read it. No model uses it yet; the first consumer is a
follow-up PR.

Cache. BlockCausalKVCacheManager (visual_gen/cache/block_causal_kv_cache.py) is a
subclass of KVCacheManagerV2, driven as one long-lived sequence:
[fixed region | rolling history window | staged tokens], where the staged tokens
are what forwards have written and not yet committed. The constructor owns the
pool (pool_tokens); open(spec, pin_tokens) owns a rollout, described by a frozen RolloutSpec. "Block-causal": attention
is full within a causal block and causal across causal blocks and against history.
Terms (also the class docstring's glossary): a page is the pool's storage unit (V2's
"block"); a causal block is a run of staged tokens with full attention among
themselves, one request in the TRTLLM metadata; a chunk is the frames one forward
processes. "Block" alone is never used.

• One pool and one page table for all layers; a page holds the same tokens in every
  layer, so eviction is one decision, not one per layer.
• open(spec, pin_tokens) starts a rollout inside the pool. The RolloutSpec holds the
  window, the most tokens a forward stages, each causal block size with the most causal
  blocks of that size one forward uses ({chunk: 1, frame: 4} at Cosmos), and a bound on
  the pinned tokens; private pages and the TRTLLM metadata are sized from those counts.
  The first pin_tokens committed tokens become the fixed region and are never evicted.
  A spec's kernel-facing tensors are allocated the first time it is opened and kept at
  fixed addresses, so a graph captured over it replays when it is opened again, with any
  pin_tokens up to the bound (a new resolution is a new spec on the same pool). write_range writes K/V at a logical position;
  commit(n) turns the n staged tokens into history and slides the window.
  Eviction is an in-place rotation of the page table on the device (new op
  trtllm::rotate_rows_), not a reallocation. Commit runs entirely on the device:
  a layout kernel (trtllm::block_causal_layout_) reads the table and rewrites every
  per-causal-block tensor in place, and one pool-to-pool copy (trtllm::copy_kv_slots_)
  fills the private pages; no bytes cross from the host, no sync. The K/V pool and
  the cache's device tensors are reused across forwards.
• Frame-causal attention needs no mask: the staged tokens are cut into causal blocks
  that run as one ragged batch over the same table, each with its own key count.
  Each forward is a plan, cache.plan(num_tokens, causal_block_size), which
  attention takes as kv=.
• Exact window: a page table can only start a key sequence at a page boundary, so
  each causal block gets a page list (causal_block_pages(size)) ending in a few
  private pages that hold the visible slots of the up to three partly visible pages
  (fixed-region tail, window-start page, earlier causal blocks' tokens in the causal
  block's start page), then its own tokens. Both kernels read exactly the window in one launch, no mask,
  no duplicated key: reading the page-aligned resident window instead deviates from
  the fp32 exact-window reference by up to 0.006 (denoising) / 0.016 (clean pass);
  this layout shows an observed 0.0002, at the scale of bf16 rounding. The layout
  works for both backends because each causal block's new tokens stay the last keys
  of its page list, which trtllm-gen requires (it writes them itself right after the
  cached length); cheaper layouts that end a page list on prefix tokens work for cuDNN
  only.
• CUDA-graph safe: everything a kernel reads lives in persistent device tensors
  rewritten in place at commit; device state survives close()/open(). The host
  keeps a mirror of the page table (page_table()) for host-addressed edits and never reads the GPU back;
  commit itself uploads nothing. A captured
  forward is keyed on plan.graph_key (cache, spec, real token count, causal block
  size) besides tensor shapes; commits change device contents and reuse the
  graph, so the staging offset and the commit count are never part of a key.
• Chunk K/V write: one kernel, new op trtllm::scatter_kv_slots_, reads the source
  once with any token/head stride (no copy for K/V sliced from a fused QKV
  projection) and writes each token to one or two pool slots.
• pool_tokens_for / pool_bytes_for (static) and pool_bytes give the pool a
  spec needs and the device memory it takes, before anything is built, so a
  caller can size the pool for its largest spec or against a memory budget. The pool asks V2 for no resume headroom (nothing is ever
  suspended), and the figure includes the allocator's chunk rounding; a test
  measures the real allocation with the driver's free-memory counter. zero_values zeroes V of a logical range. Edits through
  write_range / zero_values to committed tokens also update the private copies
  the causal blocks read, so an edit takes effect on the next forward, not the next
  commit.
• Batch size 1 by construction; the cache knows nothing about parallelism (built
  with the K/V heads this rank holds).

Attention.

• cuDNN (_run_paged): cuDNN paged SDPA over the causal block page lists. Any
  power-of-two page size.
• TRTLLM (_forward_with_kv_cache): fused paged context kernel over the same page
  lists; accepts separate q/k/v or one packed QKV tensor (no split copies). The page
  sizes it takes are the ones the build has a kernel for:
  support_kv_cache_page_size() asks the build, and the forward refuses others
  (on H200, 16/32/64/128 all pass). Attention inside a causal block is FULL by
  design. Its attention metadata is built once per (cache, spec, causal block
  count and size), kept on the cache and released by shutdown(), and bound to the
  cache's own tensors (causal_block_offsets(size), the per-causal-block key
  counts), so like cuDNN it needs no refresh between a commit and a graph replay.
• The plan's num_tokens is the global number of real query tokens of this forward,
  before sequence sharding; seq_len keeps one meaning everywhere, the padded row count
  the module derives from q.shape[1]. Under Ulysses a shard may carry padding rows the
  sharder added so the sequence splits evenly. Without a cache those rows are attended
  and their outputs dropped; with a cache a padding row staged as history would be
  attended by every later forward of the rollout, and the tensor carries no marker of
  where the real tokens end. So padding rows past the plan's count are neither staged nor
  attended and come back zero, and commit() takes the planned count by default and
  refuses another.
• Backends declare support_kv_cache(); the Attention module and Ulysses refuse a
  cache on any backend without support instead of silently dropping it through
  **kwargs.
• Ulysses: the plan is passed through untouched; the
  cache path and grouped-query models use the per-tensor all-to-all (the fused path
  stacks q/k/v and needs equal head counts). Async Ulysses refuses a cache.
• attention/attention.py: the fused packed QK norm + RoPE wrapper passes the
  rank-local head counts, so it runs under tensor parallelism with per-head norm
  weights. Full-dim norm weights under TP raise.
• KVCacheManagerV2._remove_kv_cache(request_id): the counterpart of
  _create_kv_cache. V2's request teardown and guard-page bail-outs call it, and so
  does the block-causal cache for its rollout sequence; a repeated call is a no-op.
• Depends on [None][fix] Keep a one-rank DeviceMeshTopology off the job-wide device mesh #20021 (device_mesh.py: a one-rank Mapping must not borrow a
  dimension of the job-wide mesh). The cache hands KVCacheManagerV2 a one-rank
  Mapping; without [None][fix] Keep a one-rank DeviceMeshTopology off the job-wide device mesh #20021, rank 1 under Ulysses with MPI disabled read pipeline
  rank 1 from the job's mesh.

Performance, B200, CUPTI with L2 flushed, bf16, 32 query / 8 K/V heads of 128,
1576 query tokens over 39,912 keys (prompt 512 + 96 frames of history, the
benchmark's default, + chunk; the model's window is 95 frames plus the chunk's own
frame), K/V write included. Error is max |out - fp32 exact-window reference|.

one layer, one forward	cuDNN	trtllm-gen
denoising forward (one causal block), median	940 µs	1092 µs
error vs exact window	0.0002	0.0002

per chunk, 36 layers (CUDA graph per forward)	cuDNN	trtllm-gen
4 denoising forwards	151.1 ms	168.9 ms
clean pass (4 causal blocks, one launch per layer)	38.9 ms	44.2 ms
commit, first to last kernel	0.06 ms	0.05 ms
commit, host wall	0.08 ms	0.06 ms

Commit is six launches and no host-to-device traffic (before the device-side layout: 12 launches and copies, 0.46 ms first to last kernel, 0.47 ms host wall).

For reference at the same geometry: one contiguous buffer + cuDNN dense 961 µs;
concatenating history per forward + dense 1040 µs.

Reproduce:

python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_block_causal_attention.py
python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_block_causal_attention.py --chunk-cycle --layers 36 --backend cudnn_paged
python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_block_causal_attention.py --chunk-cycle --layers 36 --backend trtllm

Test Coverage

• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_block_causal_kv_cache.py (H100 pre-merge):
  geometry, pin, eviction, reopen, exact causal block page lists in odd geometries,
  write_range/write_staged/zero_values against per-token references, pool sizing
  measured against the GPU, bad-spec rejection, per-size causal block counts, plans and the commit check,
  a failed open() leaving nothing open, per-spec device state across spec switches. Per-layer stamped data, so a layer mix-up fails.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_block_causal_attention.py (B200 and H100
  pre-merge): both backends against an fp32 exact-window reference across rollouts,
  an exact visible-key-set test (q=0, one-hot V) with the window filling and full,
  padding, causal blocks, packed vs separate QKV, CUDA graph replay across commits
  (including capture before the window fills and a reopen with a longer pinned
  prefix), a run through VisualGen's CUDAGraphRunner keyed on plan.graph_key, torch.compile, refusals.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_block_causal_attention_ulysses.py
  (DGX_B200 multi-GPU pre-merge): 2-rank Ulysses on both backends, padded first
  chunk, through the Attention module.
• tests/unittest/_torch/kernels/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py,
  test_scatter_kv_slots.py, test_block_causal_layout.py, test_copy_kv_slots.py (B200
  pre-merge, plus the H100 directory entry): ops
  against torch references, dtypes, strides, aliasing, CUDA graphs.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/kernels/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_fused_dit_qk_norm_rope.py:
  a rank's slice of the packed QK norm + RoPE matches the full computation (tp 2 and 4).
• tests/microbenchmarks/bench_block_causal_attention.py: CUPTI-timed; before timing,
  the paged variants are checked against the fp32 exact-window reference and the
  dense baselines against the resident-window reference. The fp32 exact-window reference the
  tests and the bench compare against is one module,
  tests/unittest/utils/block_causal_reference.py.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds a paged causal K/V cache and cuDNN and TRTLLM attention paths. It also adds CUDA row-rotation and K/V slot-scatter operators, updates single-rank mapping and cache teardown behavior, and adds tests and a benchmark.

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Paged causal K/V attention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache geometry, lifecycle, and writes tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/kv_causal_cache.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/__init__.py, tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_cache.py	Adds cache geometry and pool-sizing APIs, lifecycle operations, page-table layouts, staged writes, commits, history eviction, and cache-index accessors. Tests cover layout, allocation, writes, eviction, and geometry validation.
Paged attention execution tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/modules/attention.py	Adds paged-cache attention to cuDNN and TRTLLM backends. Cache calls use real-token sequence lengths, stage K/V data, and zero padded output rows. Ulysses validates cached sequence lengths and backend support.
Cache attention validation and benchmark tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/*, tests/unittest/utils/kv_causal_reference.py, tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/*	Adds cache, attention, and multi-GPU reference tests, plus a benchmark for paged and dense attention paths with correctness checks and timing modes.

CUDA row and K/V operators

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Row rotation operator and tests cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/rotateRowsOp.cpp, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py	Adds an in-place row-rotation operator for supported element sizes. The CUDA implementation uses three reversals and supports row counts beyond the grid y-dimension limit. Tests cover shifts, strided rows, invalid inputs, graph replay, and compilation.
K/V slot scatter operator and tests cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/scatterKvSlotsOp.cpp, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_scatter_kv_slots.py	Adds a CUDA operator that copies K/V vectors to one or two destination slots, with optional source indices. The operator validates tensor inputs and supports strided K/V data.

Mapping and cache teardown behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Single-rank mapping behavior tensorrt_llm/_torch/device_mesh.py, tests/unittest/_torch/ray_orchestrator/multi_gpu/test_mapping.py	Uses the world process group only for an initialized world of size one. For single-rank mappings, reuses an existing named mesh dimension only when its size is one.
KV cache teardown tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py	Centralizes cache removal, close, stats cleanup, and index-slot release for reservation failure and resource cleanup paths.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AttentionModule as Attention._attn_impl
  participant AttentionBackend as CuDNNAttention or TrtllmAttention
  participant Cache as CausalKVCacheManager
  AttentionModule->>AttentionBackend: Pass kv_cache and real-token seq_len
  AttentionBackend->>Cache: Write staged K/V and read page tables and lengths
  AttentionBackend->>AttentionBackend: Run paged attention
  AttentionBackend-->>AttentionModule: Return attention output

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@chang-l thanks. On the follow-ups:

• Window rule: sinks after the prompt already work through pin_tokens. If a model needs mid-history sinks, commit would move their pages into the fixed prefix, so the layout kernel and the per-commit path stay unchanged. Computing ranges on the host would add a host-to-device copy on every commit, which we don't want. Not planned until a model needs it.
• Pool/shim split, kv_cache_caps(), contract test per layout: deferred until a second layout exists. The early refusals are in (a1cb2ce): cuDNN with quantization, TRTLLM with Sage or sparse.
• graph_key: per-instance counter instead of id() (a1cb2ce).

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