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An aggressive refactor of #3275, with substantial performance gains for convolution, mHC pre, Bounded GEMM, and more. Still experimental.

Summary

The PR separates logical tile-op expansion from physical lowering. CUDA, CPU, Metal, ROCm, and WebGPU pipelines now expose logical accesses before scheduling and layout inference. SIMT im2col uses this path, while TMA im2col retains specialized lowering.

Shared transfer analysis describes memory effects, value conversion, execution guards, and TMA use. Pipeline planning uses this analysis to identify prefetch stages and async candidates. Warp-specialization analysis uses it to identify SIMT producers. CUDA and ROCm async-copy injectors use it to identify eligible transfers.

Pipeline wait planning now supports consumers that depend on multiple async producer stages. Vectorization widens access regions for vectorized cp.async transfers. Thread synchronization analysis tracks physical byte footprints for indexed and pointer accesses. Before TMA publication, producer prefixes that write shared memory now receive a shared-memory synchronization edge.

The PR adds developer documentation and updates an im2col fallback test to accept a configurable pipeline stage count.

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The PR changes C++ code covered by docs/developer_guide/cpp_style.md, but does not change that guide. The CI workflow includes the “C++ API Style Audit (warning only)” step. No current style findings were supplied, so warning counts are unavailable. Warning-only style suggestions are separate from correctness, build, and test results.

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Expose logical SIMT im2col accesses before scheduling and layout inference. Centralize transfer semantics across pipeline planning, warp specialization, and async injectors.

Coordinate synchronous shared-to-fragment relays with consumers and track vectorized physical access footprints for synchronization while preserving explicit schedules and async completion dependencies.
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The changes add logical-only tile-op lowering before scheduling, shared transfer analysis for pipeline planning and async injection, support for waits on multiple async producer stages, and physical-byte footprint analysis in ThreadSync.

Changes: Tile lowering and im2col

Layer / File(s) Summary
Logical tile-op lowering and im2col
src/op/operator.h, src/op/copy.{h,cc}, src/transform/lower_tile_op.cc, tilelang/*/pipeline.py, tilelang/transform/__init__.py, src/cuda/op/copy.cc, tilelang/backend/README.md, testing/python/transform/test_tilelang_transform_im2col_fallback.py
Adds a logical-only tile-op lowering path and runs it before scheduling in the CPU, CUDA, Metal, ROCm, and WebGPU pipelines. Im2col logical lowering uses source-region bounds and carries annotations to its outer loop. The test helper accepts a configurable pipeline stage count. The backend guide documents the lowering paths.
Transfer classification and scheduling
src/transform/common/transfer_analysis.{h,cc}, src/transform/pipeline_planning.cc, src/cuda/transform/{ws_analysis.cc,ptx_async_copy_injector.cc}, src/rocm/transform/async_copy_injector.cc, src/transform/common/pipeline_utils.h, docs/developer_guide/transfer_analysis.md
Adds shared analysis for transfer values and statement memory effects. Pipeline planning derives prefetch placement and async candidacy from the analysis. Warp specialization uses transfer effects for SIMT producer classification and queries the selected im2col implementation for TMA use. CUDA and ROCm injectors use shared transfer-value matching.
Completion waits and physical access footprints
src/transform/inject_pipeline.cc, src/transform/thread_storage_sync.cc, src/transform/vectorize_loop.cc, src/cuda/transform/producer_consumer_ws.cc, docs/developer_guide/transfer_analysis.md
Wait analysis handles consumers that depend on multiple async producer stages. ThreadSync calculates physical-byte footprints for pointer and indexed accesses and uses them for conflict checks. Vectorized cp.async operations widen declared pointer access regions. Warp specialization synchronizes shared-memory writes in moved producer prefixes before TMA publication. The developer guide describes completion and synchronization behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PassPipeline
  participant LowerTileOp
  participant Im2ColOpNode
  participant PipelinePlanning
  PassPipeline->>LowerTileOp: Run logical-only lowering
  LowerTileOp->>Im2ColOpNode: Call LowerLogical
  Im2ColOpNode-->>LowerTileOp: Return logical TIR expansion
  LowerTileOp-->>PipelinePlanning: Pass expanded TIR for scheduling
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7091d

Pipelined T.copy loads that are eligible for TMA can lose overlap between data loading and compute when warp specialization is off. Each load would wait on its own barrier instead of using the pipeline barrier. Results should still be correct, but performance could regress significantly on the workloads this change is meant to speed up. Fix this before merging.

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Comment on lines +1557 to +1561
// shared-memory hazard analysis cannot supply this completion edge.
// ThreadPartialSync lowers this to the producer partition's barrier.
producer_stmts.push_back(
Evaluate(Call(DataType::Int(32), builtin::tvm_storage_sync(),
{StringImm("shared")})));

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Validate the producer extent before inserting the shared sync.

A movable synchronous global-to-shared prefix can set producer_extent to the original consumer_extent. The new sync then runs under threadIdx.x < producer_extent. If the input block has 100 threads, ThreadPartialSyncRewriter counts 100 participants and calls LOG(FATAL) because the count is not warp-aligned. Add an actionable validation before this transformation, or use a synchronization protocol that includes a legal participant set.

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In `@src/cuda/transform/producer_consumer_ws.cc` around lines 1557 - 1561,
Validate the producer extent in the transformation that inserts the
shared-memory sync into producer_stmts. Reject or safely handle extents whose
participating thread count is not warp-aligned before ThreadPartialSyncRewriter
processes them; alternatively, use a synchronization protocol with a legal
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Preserve shared transfer analysis while retaining upstream prefix release and merged-barrier completion accounting.
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- Around line 774-776: Update TransferAnalyzer’s CopyNode classification so
summary_.tma is set when target-aware copy classification returns
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Comment on lines +774 to +776
pinfo.tma_copy =
pinfo.prefetch_stage && !transfers.execution_guard && transfers.tma;
pinfo.async_candidate = transfers.IsAsyncCandidate();

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Mark eligible CopyNode TMA loads as pipeline-managed TMA copies.

TransferAnalyzer leaves summary_.tma false for CopyNode, although target-aware CUDA classification can select kBulkLoad or kBulkLoad1D for an eligible global-to-shared copy.

The planner therefore does not mark the copy in kPipelineTmaCopies. LowerBulk can allocate a private barrier and wait immediately instead of using the shared pipeline barrier. This prevents the intended overlap when warp specialization is disabled.

Set summary_.tma when the target-aware copy classification returns CopyInstIsTMALoad(...). Do not mark TMA stores as pipeline TMA loads. The async-candidate flag alone does not prove that the copy lowers to cp.async; physical instruction selection remains separate.

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Review comment at @src/transform/pipeline_planning.cc around lines 774 - 776:
Update TransferAnalyzer’s CopyNode classification so summary_.tma is set when
target-aware copy classification returns CopyInstIsTMALoad for an eligible
global-to-shared copy; do not mark TMA stores as loads. Keep pinfo.tma_copy
based on the TMA summary and pipeline stage, independent of the async-candidate
flag.

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