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Add a fused FP16/BF16 WMMA path for medium-M workloads and use dequantization followed by PyTorch matmul for very large M.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAWQ W4A16 GEMV now selects WMMA for supported inputs. BF16 inputs above 1280 rows and FP16 inputs above 2048 rows use PyTorch dequantization and matmul. The binding forwards WMMA selection, and tests cover dispatch, alignment, dtypes, shapes, and numerical results. ChangesAWQ W4A16 execution paths
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant gemv_awq_w4a16
participant dlpack_binding
participant launch_gemv_awq_kernel
participant HIP_kernel
participant PyTorch
Caller->>gemv_awq_w4a16: Submit AWQ W4A16 input
alt BF16 rows > 1280 or FP16 rows > 2048
gemv_awq_w4a16->>PyTorch: Dequantize INT4 weights and run matmul
PyTorch-->>gemv_awq_w4a16: Return result with bias
else supported native path
gemv_awq_w4a16->>dlpack_binding: Pass use_wmma and stream
dlpack_binding->>launch_gemv_awq_kernel: Forward use_wmma
launch_gemv_awq_kernel->>HIP_kernel: Run WMMA or scalar GEMV
HIP_kernel-->>gemv_awq_w4a16: Return result
end
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new large-M AWQ execution path can change results for mixed-dtype inputs, consume excessive device memory for valid large layers, and fail when FP32 bias is applied to FP16/BF16 output. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and runtime risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/hip/__init__.py`:
- Around line 1243-1244: Update the dispatch condition around
_AWQ_W4A16_MMA_M_LIMIT so _awq_w4a16_dequant_then_matmul is selected only when
x2d.dtype matches wscales.dtype; route large-M mixed-dtype inputs through the
scalar kernel to preserve the original activation dtype and fp32 accumulation,
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Built The kernel itself is a large win here. Against the existing scalar GEMV at Four things worth looking at.
The bf16 crossover on this part is between 1536 and 2048, so Mixed-dtype inputs above the limit now fall off a cliff. Keeping them on the scalar path is the right call for the numerics, but the scalar path is The fallback's transient allocation is large. There is no test that asserts the WMMA path is taken. One nit: Not blocking, but for context on why the fallback is needed at all: at |
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@0xDELUXA Thanks for the detailed gfx1200 testing. I’ve lowered the large-M threshold to 1536, aligned mixed-dtype handling with the CUDA/eager backends, added a positive WMMA dispatch test, and clarified the LDS padding unit. |
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1199-1208: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftBound the dequantization workspace.
Lines 1199-1207 retain
packed,lo,hi,values, and elementwise tensors while constructingweight. The fallback activates fromMonly, but these allocations scale withN * K. ForN = K = 16384with BF16, the named intermediates alone require about 2 GiB before temporary expression buffers and output allocation.Decode and multiply output-column chunks into a preallocated output tensor. This keeps the fallback usable when the full dequantized weight would otherwise exhaust device memory.
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+ out = torch.empty((x.shape[0], n), device=x.device, dtype=compute_dtype) + chunk_n = max(1, _AWQ_W4A16_DEQUANT_CHUNK_ELEMENTS // k) + for n0 in range(0, n, chunk_n): + n1 = min(n, n0 + chunk_n) + packed = qweight[n0:n1].to(torch.int32) + lo = (packed & 0xF).to(torch.int8) + hi = ((packed >> 4) & 0xF).to(torch.int8) + values = torch.stack((lo, hi), dim=-1).reshape(n1 - n0, k).to(compute_dtype) + weight = ( + (values.view(n1 - n0, k // group_size, group_size) - 8.0) + * wscales[:, n0:n1].t().unsqueeze(-1) + + wzeros[:, n0:n1].t().unsqueeze(-1) + ).view(n1 - n0, k) + out[:, n0:n1] = x.matmul(weight.t()) + return out🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/hip/__init__.py`:
- Around line 1199-1208: Update the dequantization path around packed, values,
weight, and x.matmul to process output-column chunks into a preallocated result
tensor instead of materializing the full dequantized weight and retaining all
intermediates. Preserve the existing nibble decoding, scaling, zero-point
adjustment, dtype conversion, and final output shape while bounding workspace by
the chosen chunk size.
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Built The mixed-dtype cliff above the limit is fixed. On the limit itself, gfx1200 disagrees with
bf16 crosses between 1024 and 1280 here; fp16 does not cross until between 2048 and 2560. At What is not allocator-dependent is why the crossover is dtype-dependent at all. Counting the gfx1200 ISA, the bf16 instantiation is 1612 instructions against 1089 for fp16, and 1612/1089 = 1.48 matches the measured 1.48x runtime ratio at every M in the table. fp16 gets Two things left over from the previous round. Mixed dtype below the limit still falls to the scalar path. The fallback's transients are unchanged: One note in the other direction: gating the fused path on |
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@0xDELUXA Thanks for the detailed follow-up. I added dtype-specific large-M limits (BF16: 1280, FP16: 2048), aligned the HIP operand constraints with CUDA, and changed the fallback to unpack directly into the compute dtype and dequantize in place. On gfx1151, this reduced the peak allocation increase from about 144 MiB to 48–64 MiB for N=K=4096. The large-M results remain bit-identical to eager, and the full test set passes with 421 passed and 9 skipped. I also kept the group-size guard unchanged as suggested. |
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/hip/__init__.py`:
- Around line 1249-1250: In the large-M path around
_awq_w4a16_dequant_then_matmul, cast the FP32 bias returned by _bias_operand to
out.dtype before calling the in-place out.add_ operation, while preserving
existing behavior for other paths. Add a regression test covering a large-M
FP16/BF16 output with FP32 bias.
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Summary
This PR improves the HIP implementation of
gemv_awq_w4a16with size-based dispatch:The tiered design follows the existing CUDA backend: GEMV for small M, fused MMA for medium M, and dequantization followed by PyTorch matmul for very large M. The HIP implementation uses the project's existing RDNA WMMA policies.
M <= 8.M > 2048.The public API, packed weight layout, output layout, and bias behavior remain unchanged.
Implementation
The fused kernel uses a
16 x 128 x 64tile. Each workgroup stages one activation tile and one dequantized weight tile in LDS. The dequantized weights are shared across 16 activation rows and accumulated with the existingMmaF16orMmaBf16policy.The WMMA path requires group size 64, matching activation/scale/output dtypes, and a 16-byte-aligned activation pointer. Other inputs continue to use the original kernel. For very large M, materializing the dequantized weight is amortized by the tuned PyTorch matrix multiplication path.
Performance
Measured on an AMD Radeon 8060S (
gfx1151) with ROCm 7.2.BF16,
N=K=4096, medium-M comparison against the previous HIP kernel:BF16,
N=K=4096, routing comparison:The crossover near the dispatch limit varies with dtype and projection shape, so the fallback is intentionally limited to very large M.
Architecture verification
The extension was successfully compiled for every currently supported gfx11/gfx12 target
Code-object inspection confirmed FP16 and BF16 WMMA instructions on every target. The optimized kernels use 20,736 bytes of LDS and have no private-memory, VGPR, or SGPR spills. Runtime performance was measured on gfx1151; the remaining targets were validated through compilation and code-object inspection.
Validation
Test result:
The AWQ tests cover FP16/BF16 execution, small and non-tile-aligned shapes, scalar fallback, misaligned contiguous inputs, bias, and large-M routing.