[Kernel] Extend Marlin atomic-add reduction to fused MoE#48569
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Apply the existing should_use_atomic_add_reduce heuristic (opt-in via VLLM_MARLIN_USE_ATOMIC_ADD=1) to both grouped GEMMs in fused_marlin_moe, mirroring the dense marlin path. No behavior change by default. This change was developed with AI assistance (Claude); all lines human-reviewed and validated on hardware. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: hsamrat007 <144432599+hsamrat007@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
should_use_atomic_add_reducepolicy to both Marlinfused-MoE GEMMs.
use_atomic_add=Falsewith a per-GEMMdecision using the actual
(M, N, K), device, and activation dtype.VLLM_MARLIN_USE_ATOMIC_ADD=1.Motivation
Dense Marlin already uses the atomic-add policy introduced in #14138, while the
current fused-MoE integration hardcodes the option off even though
moe_wna16_marlin_gemmsupports it. This change restores policy parity for MoEwithout changing the kernel or enabling experimental behavior by default.
Atomic reduction can avoid Marlin's lock/global-reduction path for eligible
GEMMs with a narrow output dimension and large reduction dimension. The benefit
is workload-dependent, so this PR deliberately reuses the existing opt-in
policy rather than introducing a new default.
Example eligibility under the existing
n < 2048,k >= 2048shape gates:n=2I,k=H)n=H,k=I)H=2048,I=768)H=2816,I=704)H=4096,I=14336)The existing helper also preserves its CUDA, environment-variable, and BF16
architecture checks.
Performance validation
Tested on NVIDIA GB10 (SM121) with BF16 activations and 4-bit weights.
vLLM serving: Qwen3-30B-A3B-GPTQ-Int4
The B=1 median was effectively unchanged (82.8 vs 83.0 tok/s); aggregate gains
appeared as the effective batch size increased.
DiffusionGemma custom decode stack
This comparison isolates atomic reduction while holding AWQ and
moe_block_size=32fixed:Atomic reduction improved end-to-end throughput by 3.6% in this workload. The
accuracy counts are a coarse task-level sanity check, not a
numerical-equivalence claim.
Paired Marlin MoE-layer timing
With block size held at 32, paired/interleaved timing showed the isolated atomic
contribution tapering with token count:
Correctness and limitations
change.
ULP-level differences, matching the trade-off of the existing dense Marlin
path.
reject unsupported or unsuitable device, dtype, and shape combinations.
project CI remain authoritative.
Test plan
AI assistance disclosure
Claude and Cursor were used for non-trivial assistance during implementation,
validation, and PR preparation. The submitter reviewed the changed code and
validation results. The commit includes the corresponding
Co-authored-bytrailer and DCO sign-off.