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sol_attn: optional blk_cnt out-parameter for the routed-block count - #168

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TLDR changes:
Sol's route stage already works out how many key blocks each query block attends exactly and writes it into the scratch workspace that sol_attn allocates for the call. that workspace is freed the moment the call returns and the count is gone before the caller sees any of it - this copies it out first to a consumer (if there is one, since it's opt-in and off by default)**

**Note: It's opt-in and off by default (blk_cnt=None), pass nothing and nothing changes: no allocation, no copy, no sync, and no kernel reads the destination so you end up with the same output either way

so what?

  • tau's effect is invisible. You can't tell whether tau 1.0 routed 5% or 50% of blocks without reimplementing the route stage in python, sinks and forced diagonal and ties included, and that still wouldn't be the code that ran... figured since I leveraged it for some solid data gathering research, I'd share back in case useful to others

other stuff:

  • CUDA copies the plan's slice after the launch, eager fills from its own route mask, HIP raises if given one. Same slot is there but i have no AMD card to verify that on
  • tests: closed form at both tau extremes, monotone in tau, the top-k lower bound, the tie case with no upper bound, batch slices, wrong-buffer rejection.

happy to move it off the main signature if you'd rather not grow the args

The route stage already writes one int32 per (batch, head, query block) into
the workspace's `cnt` slot -- the number of key blocks the exact stage walks
for that query block -- and the public API discarded it with the workspace.
`blk_cnt=None` appended to `sol_attn` lets a caller receive it from the same
invocation that produced the output: the CUDA backend copies the plan's slice
device-to-device on the current stream after the launch, the eager reference
fills it from its own route mask, and HIP refuses a value until the slice is
verified on AMD. None allocates, copies and synchronizes nothing, and no
kernel reads the destination, so the output is bit-identical with or without
it.

The count includes the forced pairs (sink range and the diagonal) and is NTB
for sink_q rows. Tests pin that closed form at both tau extremes, elementwise
monotonicity in tau, the top-k lower bound, the tie case that has no upper
bound, agreement across batch slices, and rejection of a wrong buffer.
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sol_attn now accepts an optional blk_cnt tensor. Eager and CUDA direct and chunked paths report per-query-block attended-key-block counts. Shared validation checks the output buffer, while HIP rejects the unsupported option.

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Sol-Attn block count output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public contract and buffer validation
comfy_kitchen/__init__.py, comfy_kitchen/constraints.py
The public API documents and forwards blk_cnt. Shared validation requires the correct int32 shape, device, and contiguous layout.
Eager count implementation
comfy_kitchen/backends/eager/sol_attn.py
The eager path records exact routed, sink, and diagonal block counts. The custom operator declares and forwards the mutated tensor.
CUDA and HIP backend integration
comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/__init__.py, comfy_kitchen/backends/hip/__init__.py
CUDA direct and chunked paths copy planned counts from workspace storage. HIP accepts the parameter for signature parity and raises NotImplementedError when it is provided.
Count behavior and backend tests
tests/test_sol_attn.py
Tests cover exact counts, routing thresholds, monotonicity, batch and head indexing, top-k ties, chunked output, validation failures, CUDA/eager diagnostics, and HIP behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant PublicSolAttn
  participant SolAttnOperator
  participant CUDAWorkspace
  participant BlkCnt
  Caller->>PublicSolAttn: provide blk_cnt
  PublicSolAttn->>SolAttnOperator: forward blk_cnt
  SolAttnOperator->>CUDAWorkspace: execute attention and plan block counts
  CUDAWorkspace->>BlkCnt: copy per-query-block counts
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/eager/sol_attn.py`:
- Line 157: Update sol_attn so direct eager calls validate blk_cnt directly
against the expected (b, h, n) shape, torch.int32 dtype, q.device, and
contiguity, instead of invoking sol_attn_common_call_rule. Preserve support for
general q head dimensions and retain the existing validation outcome for invalid
blk_cnt values.

In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/hip/__init__.py`:
- Around line 1891-1893: Update the HIP public dispatch coverage for sol_attn
and blk_cnt: add a test that invokes HIP sol_attn through its public dispatch
path with a non-None blk_cnt and verifies behavior matches the registry
contract. If HIP should not support this argument, update the HIP-specific call
rule or registry constraints to reject non-None blk_cnt before reaching
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- Around line 952-953: Add a module-level device-availability guard alongside
the existing compiled-backend pytestmark, ensuring tests using _counts and _qkv
are skipped when torch.cuda.is_available() is false. Preserve the current
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Validating the eager reference's blk_cnt through sol_attn_common_call_rule
borrowed that rule's head_dim-128 requirement, which is a fused-kernel layout
constraint. This reference is precisely what runs when the fused backends
decline a shape, so asking it for counts had become narrower than the
reference itself: eager at head_dim 64 with a blk_cnt buffer raised
"head_dim must be 128" instead of returning counts.

Checked inline now against (b, h, n), int32, q's device and contiguity, which
is what copy_ into that buffer actually needs. Same outcomes for every bad
buffer the rejection test covers. The new test pins the general-head_dim case
that the shared rule would have refused.
Same count as sol_attn: the chunked producer runs the same route stage, so
the workspace's cnt slot is copied into blk_cnt after the launch. Keyword-only,
so the positional args are unchanged. HIP accepts it and raises, as sol_attn
does there. Tests: keyword-only on both backends, the routed-everything
extreme exact on CUDA, the HIP refusal.
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added sol_attn_chunked too. core's BlockSparseAttention runs H3 through the chunked producer, so that's the path that actually needed it

same slot, same opt in, keyword only so the positional args don't move (and it folds cleanly with #171's *, key_bias).

HIP raises like sol_attn does

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