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Feb 27, 2026
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CUDA: add CDNA3 MFMA support for flash attention MMA kernel (#19806)

  • CUDA: add CDNA3 MFMA support for flash attention MMA kernel

Add MI300X (gfx942) MFMA tensor core flash attention using v_mfma_f32_16x16x16_f16 (FP16 in, FP32 accumulate).

  • Add FATTN_WARP_SIZE=64 for CDNA wavefront64
  • Add CDNA config for head sizes 64, 80, 96, 112, 128
  • Add FP16 MFMA intrinsic path in mma.cuh
  • Add manual V transpose load for MFMA register layout
  • Route CDNA to MMA for prompt processing, VEC for token generation
  • Fix Q loading and combine stride granularity for non-power-of-2 heads

Benchmarks (Qwen2.5-1.5B Q4_K_M, MI300X): pp512 +7%, pp1024 +13%, pp2048 +23%, pp4096 +39% tg128 -10% (FA overhead, VEC used for both)

All 2480 flash attention tests pass.

Ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/17917

  • address review: replace FATTN_WARP_SIZE with constexpr, improve dispatch
  • Replace #define FATTN_WARP_SIZE with constexpr int warp_size = ggml_cuda_get_physical_warp_size() in each device function
  • Use ne[1]*gqa_ratio threshold for MMA vs tile dispatch. Benchmarked crossover on MI300X @ d32768 with power-of-2 GQA models: hsk=64 (Llama 1B, gqa=4): MMA wins at eff >= 128 (+11%) hsk=128 (Llama 3B, gqa=4): MMA wins at eff >= 128 (+4%) Unified threshold: eff_nq >= 128 for all head sizes.
  • Remove VEC fallback; small batches fall through to tile kernel
  • Update ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn.cu

  • use ggml_cuda_info().devices warp_size instead of hardcoded check


Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler johannesg@5d6.de

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