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// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT OR Apache-2.0
//! 2026-09-25: Single-stream prefill step: one chunk of one prefilling
//! stream, fused with the active decode through `mixed_forward` when
//! `can_mix` allows it, otherwise a plain `prefill_chunk`.
//!
//! Owner: scheduler.
//! Invariants:
//! - A failed EP broadcast, forward or first-token sample pushes
//! `(idx, None)` to `completed_indices`.
use anyhow::Result;
use metrale_model_engine::traits::{Model, SequenceState};
use super::super::decode_logits_step::process_decode_logits;
use super::super::lifecycle::send_error;
use super::super::types::{ActiveSeq, PrefillInProgress};
use super::super::{FirstTokenPolicy, sample_first_token};
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
pub(super) fn run_standard_chunk_loop(
model: &dyn Model,
p: &mut PrefillInProgress,
idx: usize,
active: &mut Vec<ActiveSeq>,
max_prefill_tokens: usize,
slice_budget: usize,
prefill_stream: u64,
prefill_event: u64,
use_mtp: bool,
use_self_speculative: bool,
use_ngram_speculative: bool,
think_end_token: Option<u32>,
think_start_token: Option<u32>,
code_fence_token: Option<u32>,
tool_call_start_token: Option<u32>,
tool_call_end_token: Option<u32>,
adaptive_sampling: bool,
sched: &crate::scheduler::sched_ctx::SchedCtx,
completed_indices: &mut Vec<(usize, Option<u32>)>,
did_mixed_step: &mut bool,
) {
// 2026-09-25: InnerQ calibration poll (`poll_innerq`).
super::poll_innerq(model);
// 2026-09-25: One chunk per call; a later tick advances the next one.
let remaining = p.prompt_tokens.len() - p.chunk_offset;
// 2026-09-25: MLA prefill attends only over the K/V of the tokens in the
// current call, not the paged cache (`paged_mla`, see
// `mla_prefill_needs_full_recompute`), so an MLA prompt must not be
// split: its chunk is the whole remaining prompt.
let effective_max = if model.is_mla() {
remaining
} else {
max_prefill_tokens
};
// 2026-09-25: Cap the chunk at the slice budget. Without
// `METRALE_HOLO_ALWAYS_MIXED` the caller passes `max_prefill_tokens`, so
// the cap changes nothing. MLA ignores the slice budget.
let cap = if model.is_mla() {
effective_max
} else {
effective_max.min(slice_budget)
};
let mut chunk_len = remaining.min(cap);
// 2026-09-25: With `METRALE_SSM_TAIL_CKPT=1` and mid-chunk capture off,
// end a chunk at `ssm_tail_boundary`, so an SSM snapshot lands where the
// next turn's prefix match stops (see `ssm_tail_boundary`, gpu-runtime).
if sched.levers.ssm_tail_ckpt
&& !sched.levers.ssm_tail_midchunk
&& let Some(bs) = model.kv_block_size()
&& let Some(tb) = metrale_gpu_runtime::ssm_tail_boundary(p.prompt_tokens.len(), bs)
&& p.chunk_offset < tb
&& p.chunk_offset + chunk_len > tb
{
chunk_len = tb - p.chunk_offset;
}
// 2026-09-27: A non-last chunk ends on a KV block boundary, or at the model's
// tail split point when it would span it, so its SSM snapshot is restorable
// (`prefill_plan::plan_chunk_len`).
let chunk_len = metrale_model_engine::prefill_plan::plan_chunk_len(
p.chunk_offset,
p.prompt_tokens.len(),
chunk_len,
model.kv_block_size(),
model.prefill_tail_split(&p.prompt_tokens),
);
let is_last = p.chunk_offset + chunk_len >= p.prompt_tokens.len();
// 2026-09-25: `METRALE_BISECT_NO_MIX=1` turns the fused `mixed_forward`
// path off.
let no_mix_bisect = sched.levers.bisect_no_mix;
// 2026-09-25: The speculation check depends on this tick's width
// (`spec_mixing::mixing_blocked_by_spec`), so a speculative serve still
// fuses when more than one sequence is active. `spec_mixing` documents
// the widths where this disagrees with the MTP dispatch gate.
let any_spec = use_mtp || use_self_speculative || use_ngram_speculative;
let spec_step_this_tick = super::spec_mixing::mixing_blocked_by_spec(active.len(), any_spec);
let can_mix = !no_mix_bisect && !active.is_empty() && !model.is_ep() && !spec_step_this_tick;
if can_mix {
// 2026-09-25: Under a speculative serve, drop every sequence's
// pending drafts and confidences before the plain mixed decode, and
// when any were pending, wait for the secondary stream (the last
// verify's async state copies) with `sync_secondary`.
if any_spec {
let had_drafts = active.iter().any(|a| !a.pending_drafts.is_empty());
for a in active.iter_mut() {
a.pending_drafts.clear();
a.pending_draft_conf.clear();
}
if had_drafts && let Err(e) = model.sync_secondary() {
tracing::error!("mtp->mixed sync_secondary: {e:#}");
}
}
// 2026-09-25: Sort by ssm pool slot, as `decode_step.rs` does: the
// batched GDN recurrence needs the sequences on consecutive pool
// slots in slice order. Moving whole `ActiveSeq`s keeps each decode
// row matched to its sequence.
if active.len() > 1 {
active.sort_by_key(|a| a.seq.ssm_slot_idx().unwrap_or(a.seq.slot_idx));
}
let decode_tokens: Vec<u32> = active.iter().map(|a| a.last_token).collect();
let mut decode_refs: Vec<&mut SequenceState> =
active.iter_mut().map(|a| &mut a.seq).collect();
let t0_mixed = sched.io.clock.now();
match model.mixed_forward(
&decode_tokens,
&mut decode_refs,
&p.prompt_tokens,
&mut p.seq,
p.chunk_offset,
chunk_len,
is_last,
prefill_stream,
) {
Ok(result) => {
p.chunk_offset += chunk_len;
tracing::info!(
"Mixed forward: prefill {}/{} tokens + {} decode",
p.chunk_offset,
p.prompt_tokens.len(),
decode_tokens.len(),
);
// 2026-09-25: Last chunk: sample the prefill's first token.
if is_last {
// 2026-09-25: No SSM normalize here: `mixed_forward`
// normalizes the prefill's SSM state on the default
// stream after every chunk, this last one included
// (trait_impl/decode_b.rs), and a normalize on
// `prefill_stream` would not be ordered after it.
let _ = model.record_event(prefill_event, prefill_stream);
let _ = model.stream_wait_event(model.default_stream(), prefill_event);
// 2026-09-25: `sample_first_token` applies the
// sequence's `min_p` (0.0 under `METRALE_NO_MTP_MINP=1`)
// and, when `FirstTokenPolicy` lets it act on token 0,
// the grammar.
match sample_first_token(
model,
result.prefill_logits,
p.temperature,
p.top_k,
p.top_p,
p.min_p,
&p.eos_tokens,
p.grammar_state.as_mut(),
FirstTokenPolicy::for_birth(
p.enable_thinking,
think_end_token,
tool_call_start_token,
p.min_tokens,
p.require_tool_call,
),
&sched.levers.sampling(),
sched.io.tel.dumps(),
) {
Ok(first) => {
tracing::info!("Mixed prefill first token: {first}");
completed_indices.push((idx, Some(first)));
}
Err(e) => {
tracing::error!("Mixed prefill sampling: {e:#}");
completed_indices.push((idx, None));
}
}
}
// 2026-09-25: Decode logits for the active sequences.
let _ = model.record_event(prefill_event, prefill_stream);
let _ = model.stream_wait_event(model.default_stream(), prefill_event);
let mut staging = sched.scratch.host_bytes.borrow_mut().split_off(0);
if let Some(step) = super::super::decode_logits_step::decode_readback_or_fail(
active,
result.decode_logits,
sched,
&mut staging,
) {
process_decode_logits(
active,
step,
&mut staging,
t0_mixed,
think_end_token,
think_start_token,
code_fence_token,
tool_call_start_token,
tool_call_end_token,
adaptive_sampling,
sched,
);
}
*did_mixed_step = true;
}
Err(e) => {
tracing::error!("Mixed forward error: {e:#}");
completed_indices.push((idx, None));
}
}
return;
}
// 2026-09-25: Plain prefill chunk; decode runs separately. Under EP the
// chunk is first broadcast to the worker.
let ep_ok = (|| -> Result<()> {
model.ep_broadcast_cmd_for_seq(p.seq.slot_idx as u32, 0xFFFFFFF0)?;
model.ep_broadcast_cmd(chunk_len as u32)?;
model.ep_broadcast_cmd(p.chunk_offset as u32)?;
model.ep_broadcast_cmd(p.prompt_tokens.len() as u32)?;
model.ep_broadcast_tokens(&p.prompt_tokens)?;
// 2026-09-25: Every `0xFFFFFFF0` broadcast must be followed by this
// call: the worker runs the matching collective in its `0xFFFFFFF0`
// handler (`Model::ep_sync_vision_embeds`).
model.ep_sync_vision_embeds(&p.prompt_tokens)?;
Ok(())
})();
if let Err(e) = ep_ok {
tracing::error!("EP broadcast chunk: {e:#}");
completed_indices.push((idx, None));
return;
}
// 2026-09-25: While `prefill_chunk` fails with "KV cache exhausted",
// end the active sequence without a grammar that holds the most KV
// blocks with a "preempted" error (`send_error`), then retry. With no
// such sequence left, the error stands and this prefill fails.
let mut chunk_res = model.prefill_chunk(
&p.prompt_tokens,
&mut p.seq,
p.chunk_offset,
chunk_len,
is_last,
prefill_stream,
);
while chunk_res
.as_ref()
.err()
.is_some_and(|e| format!("{e:#}").contains("KV cache exhausted"))
{
let Some(vi) = active
.iter()
.enumerate()
.filter(|(_, a)| a.grammar_state.is_none())
.max_by_key(|(_, a)| a.seq.block_table.len())
.map(|(i, _)| i)
else {
break;
};
let mut victim = active.remove(vi);
tracing::warn!(
"KV cache exhausted during prefill chunk: preempting slot={} ({} blocks) \
so this prefill can proceed ({} sequence(s) remain)",
victim.seq.slot_idx,
victim.seq.block_table.len(),
active.len(),
);
send_error(
&sched.io,
&mut victim,
"preempted: KV cache exhausted (a prefill needed its blocks)",
);
chunk_res = model.prefill_chunk(
&p.prompt_tokens,
&mut p.seq,
p.chunk_offset,
chunk_len,
is_last,
prefill_stream,
);
}
match chunk_res {
Ok(logits) => {
p.chunk_offset += chunk_len;
tracing::info!(
"Prefill chunk {}/{} tokens",
p.chunk_offset,
p.prompt_tokens.len(),
);
// 2026-09-25: Normalize the SSM state after every plain chunk
// (`Model::normalize_ssm_states` bounds h_state norms over a long
// chunked prefill); a failure is logged.
if let Err(e) = model.normalize_ssm_states(&p.seq, prefill_stream) {
tracing::warn!("SSM state normalization failed: {e:#}");
}
if is_last {
let _ = model.record_event(prefill_event, prefill_stream);
let _ = model.stream_wait_event(model.default_stream(), prefill_event);
// 2026-09-25: `sample_first_token` applies the sequence's
// `min_p` (0.0 under `METRALE_NO_MTP_MINP=1`) and, when
// `FirstTokenPolicy` lets it act on token 0, the grammar.
match sample_first_token(
model,
logits,
p.temperature,
p.top_k,
p.top_p,
p.min_p,
&p.eos_tokens,
p.grammar_state.as_mut(),
FirstTokenPolicy::for_birth(
p.enable_thinking,
think_end_token,
tool_call_start_token,
p.min_tokens,
p.require_tool_call,
),
&sched.levers.sampling(),
sched.io.tel.dumps(),
) {
Ok(first) => {
tracing::info!("Prefill first token: {first}");
completed_indices.push((idx, Some(first)));
}
Err(e) => {
tracing::error!("Chunked prefill argmax: {e:#}");
completed_indices.push((idx, None));
}
}
}
}
Err(e) => {
tracing::error!("Prefill chunk error: {e:#}");
completed_indices.push((idx, None));
}
}
}