Fix: separate disjoint views of one backing in L3 dependency inference

[YunjiQin]

Summary

Orchestrator::infer_deps keyed a local Tensor on hash(buffer.identity) alone and dropped the view's offset, so every view of one backing resolved as every other's producer. A host key carries no worker id, so nothing else separated them: two workers handed x[0] and x[1] of one rank-major host tensor took a rank0 -> rank1 edge and serialized. Each rank's kernel is meanwhile spinning on the other's cross-rank notify, so the dispatch that would release it is the one held back — the run deadlocks rather than merely slowing down.

The key was buffer-granular on purpose; the source comment recorded the offset refinement as "a future precision pass". This is that pass.

• TensorMap holds every live producer per key, not one slot, and a lookup returns only the ones whose view the querying view actually touches. Multi-entry is what makes the refinement sound rather than merely permissive: with one slot per key, rank 1's insert evicts rank 0 and a later reader of x[0] infers no dependency at all.
• The overlap cascade is ported from L2's PTO2TensorMap::check_overlap, which already hashes by base address and walks the chain:
  1. Bounding range [byte_offset, byte_offset + extent). O(1), and enough for a leading-axis slice, which is contiguous.
  2. Per-dimension intersection where the boxes do overlap. A bounding box cannot answer x[:, 0:4] versus x[:, 8:12] — every row of one sits between two rows of the other, so the boxes interleave ([0, 244) and [8, 252) for a 16x16 matrix) while the views are disjoint. The reference shape is recovered from the stride vector, each origin decomposes into per-axis coordinates, and the axes intersect one at a time.
• An insert drops only the entries it covers whole. One it reaches into but not past stays live, because it remains the last writer of the bytes outside. That also closes a false negative the single-slot map had: a sub-view write used to displace a whole-buffer producer outright, leaving a reader of the untouched part with no edge to it.
• tensors_overlap runs the same comparison, so the submit-time check is fixed in the same shape — two arguments of one task naming disjoint tiles of one buffer were being rejected as overlapping writes.

Precision limits, and why they matter here

Stage 2 models only pairs sharing one canonical row-major layout: same dtype and ndims, identical strides descending as exact multiples down to 1, origins on that layout's lattice. A transposed pair, a stepped slice, or two views of different rank over one backing fall through as overlapping, as does a producer a later write only partly covers.

Every fallback is in that one direction — an extra edge is possible where the truth is subtler, a real dependency is never dropped. But an extra edge is not free here: between two tasks that rendezvous with each other it holds back the dispatch that would release the other, which is exactly this bug. Precision is a correctness property on this path, not a performance one.

Out of scope

The remote-sidecar path is unchanged. Its key already folds offset in, so every entry under one denotes the same origin; it takes the default whole-backing footprint and behaves bit-identically. Moving it onto the same model means dropping offset from the key, which HOST_INLINE is not ready for — it pins buffer_id and generation to zero, so offset is the only thing separating two inline payloads today. What that upgrade needs is written down in the two remote design docs rather than half-done here.

Testing

• C++ unit tests — 105/105 pass.
  • Orchestrator, end to end through infer_deps: two INOUT rank slices dispatch with no dependency; two INOUT column blocks and a 2x2 grid of four INOUT tiles likewise; intersecting tiles still take their edge; a whole-backing reader depends on every disjoint writer; consuming one disjoint writer leaves the other.
  • TensorMap, on the cascade directly: disjoint column blocks, a tile grid, tiles sharing a block, partial supersede, a row block crossing a column block, and the conservative fallback for a mismatched axis layout.
• Python unit tests — 1653 passed, 6 skipped.
• Simulation tests — full pytest examples tests/st --platform a2a3sim: 21 scene tests + both L2 batches pass.
• Hardware tests — not run locally; the deadlock repro lives in pypto-lib.

Red-checked in both layers. Reverting the footprint to buffer-granular fails the rank-slice cases. Short-circuiting stage 2 to the bounding box alone leaves the rank-slice case passing (it is contiguous) and fails exactly the column-block and tile cases — at both the Orchestrator and TensorMap levels — while the intersecting-tile case keeps passing throughout.

Fixes hw-native-sys/pypto#2448

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Walkthrough

Changes

Footprint-aware tensor dependencies

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tensor footprint and overlap model src/common/task_interface/buffer.h, python/simpler/worker.py, docs/buffer-abi.md	Adds byte-range and tensor-footprint types. Overlap checks use bounding ranges and per-dimension layout checks, with conservative handling for unsupported layouts.
Multi-producer TensorMap storage src/common/hierarchical/tensormap.*, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_tensormap.cpp	Stores multiple footprint producers per key. Overlap lookup, partial overwrite retention, cleanup, and multidimensional footprint tests are added.
Hierarchical dependency integration src/common/hierarchical/orchestrator.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_orchestrator.cpp, docs/remote-l3-worker-design*	Derives footprints for tensor views, tracks overlapping local producers, preserves whole-backing remote behavior, and validates disjoint and overlapping view scheduling.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 000c9

The change narrows dependency inference to overlapping views while retaining conservative fallbacks; current-head risk is limited to clarifying a stale documentation statement, with no merge-blocking product impact.

Possibly related issues

• hw-native-sys/pypto#2448 — The change addresses disjoint rank-major host views that otherwise share dependency keys and can create false rendezvous dependencies.
• [Feature] Track reader accesses in TensorMap and derive WAR dependencies automatically #1388 — Both changes modify TensorMap dependency tracking and overlap handling.

Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1599 — Introduced buffer identity, offsets, shapes, strides, and overlap metadata used by this footprint logic.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1703 — Modified the same buffer overlap and footprint implementation.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1459 — Added related run-scoped TensorMap dependency and lifecycle behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TensorView
  participant Orchestrator
  participant TensorMap
  participant ConsumerTask
  TensorView->>Orchestrator: provide canonical identity and view geometry
  Orchestrator->>TensorMap: lookup_overlapping footprint
  TensorMap-->>Orchestrator: return intersecting producer slots
  Orchestrator->>ConsumerTask: create dependency edges
  Orchestrator->>TensorMap: insert output footprint

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Poem

A rabbit hops through ranges bright,
Disjoint views no longer fight.
Overlapping writes line up in rows,
TensorMap keeps what each one knows.
“Hop, hop!” says Bun, “the footprints flow!”

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 27.40% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation addresses issue #2448 by separating disjoint host views while preserving overlap-based InOut ordering.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code changes remain focused on TensorMap, overlap detection, dependency inference, and submit-time validation for issue #2448.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: separating disjoint views of one backing buffer during L3 dependency inference.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the dependency inference fix, overlap handling, testing, scope, and linked issue.

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docs/remote-l3-worker-design/buffers-and-transports.md (1)

318-325: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reconcile the section preamble with the new local-key semantics.

The new paragraph states that local keys name the backing alone and that each entry carries the view geometry. The preamble of the same section still states that local dependency tracking keys on the start pointer and that shape and byte length do not participate in lookup. A reader meets the stale statement first and can conclude the opposite of the new behavior.

Update the preamble so it scopes the exact-start rule to remote keys only.

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In `@docs/remote-l3-worker-design/buffers-and-transports.md` around lines 318 -
325, Update the section preamble to scope the exact-start-pointer and excluded
shape/byte-length lookup semantics to remote dependency-tracking keys only.
Ensure it no longer implies that local keys ignore view geometry, consistent
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In `@docs/remote-l3-worker-design/buffers-and-transports.md`:
- Around line 318-325: Update the section preamble to scope the
exact-start-pointer and excluded shape/byte-length lookup semantics to remote
dependency-tracking keys only. Ensure it no longer implies that local keys
ignore view geometry, consistent with the local-key behavior described in the
surrounding text.

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