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  • New Features
    • GLM-5.3 Flash now supports dynamic FP8 sparse KV caching with BF16 compute and no static calibration file.
    • The mode supports sparse attention during prefill and decode, with documented cache and prefill/decode transfer configurations.
  • Documentation
    • Updated FP8 KV guides with setup requirements, storage details, supported configurations, and limitations. GLM-5.3 Flash does not support fp8kv_sph or fp8kv_spt.
    • Added guidance for testing FP8 KV scenarios and request pause-and-resume behavior.

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This pull request adds dynamic fp8kv_dsa support for GLM-5.3 Flash, including packed KV storage, sparse prefill and decode paths, model configuration, deployment guidance, and regression coverage. It also updates request hashing to pass NumPy prompt-ID arrays directly.

Changes: GLM-5.3 Flash dynamic FP8 KV support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache format and model wiring
lightllm/common/state_cache_manager/glm5_next.py, lightllm/common/kv_cache_mem_manager/*, lightllm/common/req_manager/glm5_next.py, lightllm/models/glm5_next/model.py, lightllm/models/glm5_next_mtp/model.py, lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/destindex_copy_kv_flashmla_fp8.py, unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_cache.py, unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_layers.py
Adds the packed FP8 cache layout and KV copy path. Selects the FP8 memory manager and attention backend for fp8kv_dsa, validates supported model settings, and extends cache tests to cover FP8 and standard layouts.
Prefill and decode kernels
lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/context_flashattention_nopad_fp8.py, lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/fp8_sparse_decode.py, lightllm/models/glm5_next/triton_kernel/pad_query_heads.py
Adds direct, selected, and chunked FP8 prefill paths, sparse decode, and query-head padding.
Backend dispatch and kernel validation
lightllm/common/basemodel/attention/nsa/fp8_glm5_next.py, unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_fp8_kv.py
Adds reusable prefill workspaces and FP8 prefill/decode dispatch. CUDA-gated tests cover cache operations, attention results, dispatch boundaries, graph replay, and workspace reuse.
Operational setup and regression coverage
docker/Dockerfile, docs/*/source/tutorial/fp8_kv_quantization.rst, lightllm/server/api_cli.py, test/start_scripts/glm53/glm53_pd_1p1d.sh, skills/test_model/*, test/acc/*, unit_tests/models/glm5_next/test_pd_cache.py
Updates the FlashMLA pin and installation command, documents fp8kv_dsa constraints and GLM-5.3 Flash paths, and adds P/D, cache-reuse, CPU-cache, and pause-recovery test coverage and procedures.

Prompt token hashing

Layer / File(s) Summary
NumPy prompt-ID hashing
lightllm/server/core/objs/req.py, lightllm/utils/kv_cache_utils.py
Request hash generation now passes NumPy prompt-ID views to compute_token_list_hash, whose annotation accepts either a list or a NumPy array.

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  participant Glm5NextTpPartModel
  participant FP8Glm5NextMemManager
  participant destindex_copy_kv_flashmla_fp8
  participant Fp8Glm5NextSparseAttBackend
  participant context_attention_fwd_fp8
  participant flash_mla_sparse_fwd
  Glm5NextTpPartModel->>FP8Glm5NextMemManager: Select manager for fp8kv_dsa
  FP8Glm5NextMemManager->>destindex_copy_kv_flashmla_fp8: Pack KV rows during cache copy
  Glm5NextTpPartModel->>Fp8Glm5NextSparseAttBackend: Select sparse attention backend
  Fp8Glm5NextSparseAttBackend->>context_attention_fwd_fp8: Dispatch FP8 prefill attention
  context_attention_fwd_fp8->>flash_mla_sparse_fwd: Process eligible generic chunks
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Possibly related PRs

  • ModelTC/LightLLM#1655: Changes GLM5 cache lifecycle and storage contracts used by the FP8 manager and cache paths.
  • ModelTC/LightLLM#1617: Changes page-based KV allocation and request-index gathering related to the page-capacity changes here.
  • ModelTC/LightLLM#1657: Changes the GLM5 indexer cache representation used alongside the packed KV layout.
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- Around line 387-388: Remove tl.constexpr from the per-invocation ragged_n and
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create separate Triton specializations; keep packed_rows as tl.constexpr because
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Remove tl.constexpr from the values that vary per prefill.

_can_use_selected_prefill accepts batches with 2–8 query tokens and at least 65,536 ragged tokens. The prefill state allocates ragged_mem_index with infer_state.total_token_num, so ragged_mem_index.numel() can differ between prefill batches. Passing it as tl.constexpr can create a distinct Triton specialization and JIT compilation for each length.

The generic multi-chunk path passes q.shape[0] as NUM_Q_TOKENS, which can also vary between invocations.

packed_rows is packed_kv.shape[0], the packed-cache row capacity. The workspace manager treats it as persistent cache capacity, not a per-prefill-batch value. Keep it as tl.constexpr. Also, 584 is the packed row width, not packed_rows.

⚡ Suggested fix
-    ragged_n: tl.constexpr,
+    ragged_n,
     packed_rows: tl.constexpr,
-    NUM_Q_TOKENS: tl.constexpr,
+    NUM_Q_TOKENS,
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around lines 387 - 388:
Remove tl.constexpr from the per-invocation ragged_n and NUM_Q_TOKENS parameters
so varying prefill lengths and query counts do not create separate Triton
specializations; keep packed_rows as tl.constexpr because it represents
persistent cache capacity.

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