vllm - ✅(Solved) Fix [Bug]: Triton autotuner OOM on Qwen3.5/Qwen3-Next GDN layers (non-SM90 GPUs) [1 pull requests, 2 comments, 2 participants]

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Running Qwen3.5-9B with vLLM on non-SM90 GPUs (e.g. RTX 5090, SM120) causes a Triton out of memory error during the first inference request. The error originates from the Triton autotuner trying to benchmark kernel configurations for GDN (Gated Delta Net) linear attention layers after vLLM has already allocated most GPU memory for KV cache.

Root cause: During V1 profile runs, _forward_core in Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet returns early when attn_metadata is None (qwen3_next.py#L640-L642), so the Triton-autotuned kernels (solve_tril, chunk_scaled_dot_kkt, etc.) are never invoked during profiling. After profiling, vLLM allocates KV cache using most of the remaining GPU memory. When the first real inference triggers the Triton autotuner, it OOMs because there is insufficient memory left for benchmarking.

This only affects GPUs using the Triton-based forward_native path (non-SM90). SM90 GPUs (H100/H200) use the FlashInfer forward_cuda path which has no Triton autotuner.

Error Message

ERROR 03-09 21:56:25 [dump_input.py:79] Dumping scheduler output for model execution: ... Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/solve_tril.py", line 63, in solve_tril_kernel ... triton Error [CUDA]: out of memory ... File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/chunk.py", in chunk_gated_delta_rule_fwd A = solve_tril(A, cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens) File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/solve_tril.py", in solve_tril solve_tril_kernelgrid ... File ".../triton/runtime/autotuner.py", in run timings = {config: self._bench(*args, config=config, **kwargs) The OOM occurs inside Triton's autotuner _bench() — it needs temporary GPU memory to benchmark 16 kernel configs (num_warps=[1,2,4,8] × num_stages=[2,3,4,5]), but there is none left after KV cache allocation.

Root Cause

The Qwen3.5-9B model has 32 layers: 24 GDN (linear attention) layers + 8 full attention layers. Each GDN layer uses chunk_gated_delta_rule which internally calls Triton kernels decorated with @triton.autotune. On non-SM90 GPUs, these go through the forward_native (Triton) path rather than forward_cuda (FlashInfer).

The V1 engine profile_run() → _dummy_run() does not build attn_metadata (it remains None), causing _forward_core to return early without ever invoking the Triton kernels. The autotuner is therefore never warmed up during profiling when memory is plentiful.

Fix Action

Fix / Workaround

============================== CPU Info

架构: x86_64 CPU 运行模式: 32-bit, 64-bit Address sizes: 52 bits physical, 57 bits virtual 字节序: Little Endian CPU: 32 在线 CPU 列表: 0-31 厂商 ID: GenuineIntel 型号名称: INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6526Y CPU 系列: 6 型号: 207 每个核的线程数: 2 每个座的核数: 16 座: 1 步进: 2 CPU 最大 MHz: 3900.0000 CPU 最小 MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 5600.00 标记: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cat_l2 cdp_l3 invpcid_single cdp_l2 ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local avx_vnni avx512_bf16 wbnoinvd dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req avx512vbmi umip pku ospke waitpkg avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg tme avx512_vpopcntdq la57 rdpid bus_lock_detect cldemote movdiri movdir64b enqcmd fsrm md_clear serialize tsxldtrk pconfig arch_lbr avx512_fp16 flush_l1d arch_capabilities 虚拟化: VT-x L1d 缓存: 768 KiB (16 instances) L1i 缓存: 512 KiB (16 instances) L2 缓存: 32 MiB (16 instances) L3 缓存: 37.5 MiB (1 instance) NUMA 节点: 1 NUMA 节点0 CPU: 0-31 Vulnerability Itlb multihit: Not affected Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected Vulnerability Mds: Not affected Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS, IBPB conditional, RSB filling Vulnerability Srbds: Not affected Vulnerability Tsx async abort: Not affected

PR fix notes

PR #36599: [Bugfix] Warm up Triton autotuner for GDN layers during V1 profiling

Description (problem / solution / changelog)

Purpose

Fix Triton autotuner OOM for Qwen3.5 / Qwen3-Next models with Gated Delta Net (GDN) linear attention layers.

As is mentioned in #36598, during V1 profile runs, _forward_core in Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet returns early when attn_metadata is None, so the Triton-autotuned kernels used by GDN (solve_tril, chunk_scaled_dot_kkt, chunk_gated_delta_rule_fwd_h, chunk_fwd_o) are never invoked. After profiling, vLLM allocates KV cache using most of the remaining GPU memory. The first real inference then triggers the Triton autotuner, which needs temporary GPU memory for benchmarking kernel configurations, causing an OOM on GPUs where post-allocation headroom is tight.

This only affects GPUs that use the Triton-based forward_native path (i.e., non-SM90 GPUs — anything other than H100/H200), since SM90 uses the FlashInfer forward_cuda path which has no Triton autotuner.

Fix: Add _warmup_triton_kernels() which runs a minimal forward pass through chunk_gated_delta_rule with small dummy tensors (B=1, T=64) during the V1 profile phase, forcing Triton autotuning to complete while GPU memory is still plentiful. Autotuner results are cached globally by Triton, so only the first GDN layer incurs actual benchmarking cost.

Test Plan

Run Qwen3.5-9B inference on a non-SM90 GPU (tested on RTX 5090, SM120, 32GB VRAM):

python -c "
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM(model='Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B', tensor_parallel_size=1, max_model_len=4096, enforce_eager=True)
output = llm.generate(['Hello'], SamplingParams(max_tokens=16))
print(output[0].outputs[0].text)
"

Test Result

Before fix

Triton OOM during first inference:

triton Error [CUDA]: out of memory ... File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/solve_tril.py", line 63, in solve_tril_kernel

After fix

All 24 GDN layers warm up successfully during profiling, model generates normally:

(EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:14 [qwen3_next.py:700] GDN Triton kernel warmup completed for layer language_model.model.layers.0.linear_attn (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:14 [qwen3_next.py:700] GDN Triton kernel warmup completed for layer language_model.model.layers.1.linear_attn (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:14 [qwen3_next.py:700] GDN Triton kernel warmup completed for layer language_model.model.layers.2.linear_attn ... (24 GDN layers total) (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:15 [qwen3_next.py:700] GDN Triton kernel warmup completed for layer language_model.model.layers.30.linear_attn (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:16 [gpu_worker.py:456] Available KV cache memory: 4.93 GiB (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:16 [kv_cache_utils.py:1314] GPU KV cache size: 40,128 tokens (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:16 [kv_cache_utils.py:1319] Maximum concurrency for 4,096 tokens per request: 27.73x (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) 2026-03-10 14:25:16,214 - INFO - autotuner.py:256 - flashinfer.jit: [Autotuner]: Autotuning process starts ... (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) 2026-03-10 14:25:16,289 - INFO - autotuner.py:262 - flashinfer.jit: [Autotuner]: Autotuning process ends (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:16 [core.py:288] init engine (profile, create kv cache, warmup model) took 15.96 seconds (EngineCore_DP0 pid=3501575) INFO 03-10 14:25:17 [vllm.py:754] Asynchronous scheduling is enabled. INFO 03-10 14:25:17 [llm.py:391] Supported tasks: ['generate'] Rendering prompts: 100%|█████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 37.93it/s] Processed prompts: 100%|█████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 1.19it/s, est. speed input: 1.19 toks/s, output: 19.09 toks/s] . Please correct my writing. yesterday, i jumped on a platform

Changed files

  • vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_next.py (modified, +98/-1)

Code Example

Collecting environment information...
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        System Info
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OS                           : Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (x86_64)
GCC version                  : (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3) 11.4.0
Clang version                : Could not collect
CMake version                : Could not collect
Libc version                 : glibc-2.35

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       PyTorch Info
==============================
PyTorch version              : 2.10.0+cu128
Is debug build               : False
CUDA used to build PyTorch   : 12.8
ROCM used to build PyTorch   : N/A

==============================
      Python Environment
==============================
Python version               : 3.10.19 (main, Oct 21 2025, 16:43:05) [GCC 11.2.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform              : Linux-5.15.0-25-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35

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       CUDA / GPU Info
==============================
Is CUDA available            : True
CUDA runtime version         : 12.9.86
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to   : 
GPU models and configuration : GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Nvidia driver version        : 580.82.09
cuDNN version                : Could not collect
HIP runtime version          : N/A
MIOpen runtime version       : N/A
Is XNNPACK available         : True

==============================
          CPU Info
==============================
架构:                           x86_64
CPU 运行模式:                   32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes:                   52 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
字节序:                         Little Endian
CPU:                             32
在线 CPU 列表:                  0-31
厂商 IDGenuineIntel
型号名称:                       INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6526Y
CPU 系列:                       6
型号:                           207
每个核的线程数:                 2
每个座的核数:                   16
座:                             1
步进:                           2
CPU 最大 MHz:                   3900.0000
CPU 最小 MHz:                   800.0000
BogoMIPS:                       5600.00
标记:                           fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cat_l2 cdp_l3 invpcid_single cdp_l2 ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local avx_vnni avx512_bf16 wbnoinvd dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req avx512vbmi umip pku ospke waitpkg avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg tme avx512_vpopcntdq la57 rdpid bus_lock_detect cldemote movdiri movdir64b enqcmd fsrm md_clear serialize tsxldtrk pconfig arch_lbr avx512_fp16 flush_l1d arch_capabilities
虚拟化:                         VT-x
L1d 缓存:                       768 KiB (16 instances)
L1i 缓存:                       512 KiB (16 instances)
L2 缓存:                        32 MiB (16 instances)
L3 缓存:                        37.5 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA 节点:                      1
NUMA 节点0 CPU0-31
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:              Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:               Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:          Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS, IBPB conditional, RSB filling
Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected

==============================
Versions of relevant libraries
==============================
[pip3] flashinfer-python==0.6.4
[pip3] numpy==2.2.6
[pip3] nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.8.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.10.2.21
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-frontend==1.17.0
[pip3] nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.3.3.83
[pip3] nvidia-cufile-cu12==1.13.1.3
[pip3] nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.9.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.7.3.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.5.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.7.1
[pip3] nvidia-cutlass-dsl==4.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-cutlass-dsl-libs-base==4.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-ml-py==13.590.44
[pip3] nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.27.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-nvshmem-cu12==3.4.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] pyzmq==27.1.0
[pip3] torch==2.10.0
[pip3] torch_c_dlpack_ext==0.1.4
[pip3] torchaudio==2.10.0
[pip3] torchvision==0.25.0
[pip3] transformers==4.57.3
[pip3] triton==3.6.0
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[conda] numpy                                       2.2.6                                  pypi_0           pypi
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[conda] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12                      12.8.90                                pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12                      12.8.93                                pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12                    12.8.90                                pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cudnn-cu12                           9.10.2.21                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cudnn-frontend                       1.17.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cufft-cu12                           11.3.3.83                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cufile-cu12                          1.13.1.3                               pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-curand-cu12                          10.3.9.90                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusolver-cu12                        11.7.3.90                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusparse-cu12                        12.5.8.93                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12                      0.7.1                                  pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cutlass-dsl                          4.4.1                                  pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-cutlass-dsl-libs-base                4.4.1                                  pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-ml-py                                13.590.44                              pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-nccl-cu12                            2.27.5                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12                       12.8.93                                pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-nvshmem-cu12                         3.4.5                                  pypi_0           pypi
[conda] nvidia-nvtx-cu12                            12.8.90                                pypi_0           pypi
[conda] pyzmq                                       27.1.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] torch                                       2.10.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] torch-c-dlpack-ext                          0.1.4                                  pypi_0           pypi
[conda] torchaudio                                  2.10.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] torchvision                                 0.25.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] transformers                                4.57.3                                 pypi_0           pypi
[conda] triton                                      3.6.0                                  pypi_0           pypi

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         vLLM Info
==============================
ROCM Version                 : Could not collect
vLLM Version                 : 0.17.0rc1.dev199+g179547d62.d20260310 (git sha: 179547d62, date: 20260310)
vLLM Build Flags:
  CUDA Archs: Not Set; ROCm: Disabled
GPU Topology:
        GPU0    CPU Affinity    NUMA Affinity   GPU NUMA ID
GPU0     X      0-31    0               N/A

Legend:

  X    = Self
  SYS  = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the SMP interconnect between NUMA nodes (e.g., QPI/UPI)
  NODE = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the interconnect between PCIe Host Bridges within a NUMA node
  PHB  = Connection traversing PCIe as well as a PCIe Host Bridge (typically the CPU)
  PXB  = Connection traversing multiple PCIe bridges (without traversing the PCIe Host Bridge)
  PIX  = Connection traversing at most a single PCIe bridge
  NV#  = Connection traversing a bonded set of # NVLinks

==============================
     Environment Variables
==============================
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda-12.9
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda-12.9
PYTORCH_NVML_BASED_CUDA_CHECK=1
TORCHINDUCTOR_COMPILE_THREADS=1
TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/torchinductor_xjy

---

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

llm = LLM(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B",
    tensor_parallel_size=1,
    max_model_len=4096,
    enforce_eager=True,
)

prompts = ["Hello, my name is"]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=16)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
for output in outputs:
    print(f"Prompt: {output.prompt!r}, Generated text: {output.outputs[0].text!r}")
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        System Info
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OS                           : Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (x86_64)
GCC version                  : (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3) 11.4.0
Clang version                : Could not collect
CMake version                : Could not collect
Libc version                 : glibc-2.35

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       PyTorch Info
==============================
PyTorch version              : 2.10.0+cu128
Is debug build               : False
CUDA used to build PyTorch   : 12.8
ROCM used to build PyTorch   : N/A

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      Python Environment
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Python version               : 3.10.19 (main, Oct 21 2025, 16:43:05) [GCC 11.2.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform              : Linux-5.15.0-25-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35

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       CUDA / GPU Info
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Is CUDA available            : True
CUDA runtime version         : 12.9.86
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to   : 
GPU models and configuration : GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Nvidia driver version        : 580.82.09
cuDNN version                : Could not collect
HIP runtime version          : N/A
MIOpen runtime version       : N/A
Is XNNPACK available         : True

==============================
          CPU Info
==============================
架构:                           x86_64
CPU 运行模式:                   32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes:                   52 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
字节序:                         Little Endian
CPU:                             32
在线 CPU 列表:                  0-31
厂商 ID:                        GenuineIntel
型号名称:                       INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6526Y
CPU 系列:                       6
型号:                           207
每个核的线程数:                 2
每个座的核数:                   16
座:                             1
步进:                           2
CPU 最大 MHz:                   3900.0000
CPU 最小 MHz:                   800.0000
BogoMIPS:                       5600.00
标记:                           fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cat_l2 cdp_l3 invpcid_single cdp_l2 ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local avx_vnni avx512_bf16 wbnoinvd dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req avx512vbmi umip pku ospke waitpkg avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg tme avx512_vpopcntdq la57 rdpid bus_lock_detect cldemote movdiri movdir64b enqcmd fsrm md_clear serialize tsxldtrk pconfig arch_lbr avx512_fp16 flush_l1d arch_capabilities
虚拟化:                         VT-x
L1d 缓存:                       768 KiB (16 instances)
L1i 缓存:                       512 KiB (16 instances)
L2 缓存:                        32 MiB (16 instances)
L3 缓存:                        37.5 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA 节点:                      1
NUMA 节点0 CPU:                 0-31
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:     Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:              Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:               Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:          Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS, IBPB conditional, RSB filling
Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected

==============================
Versions of relevant libraries
==============================
[pip3] flashinfer-python==0.6.4
[pip3] numpy==2.2.6
[pip3] nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.8.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.10.2.21
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-frontend==1.17.0
[pip3] nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.3.3.83
[pip3] nvidia-cufile-cu12==1.13.1.3
[pip3] nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.9.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.7.3.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.5.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.7.1
[pip3] nvidia-cutlass-dsl==4.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-cutlass-dsl-libs-base==4.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-ml-py==13.590.44
[pip3] nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.27.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-nvshmem-cu12==3.4.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] pyzmq==27.1.0
[pip3] torch==2.10.0
[pip3] torch_c_dlpack_ext==0.1.4
[pip3] torchaudio==2.10.0
[pip3] torchvision==0.25.0
[pip3] transformers==4.57.3
[pip3] triton==3.6.0
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[conda] torch                                       2.10.0                                 pypi_0           pypi
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==============================
         vLLM Info
==============================
ROCM Version                 : Could not collect
vLLM Version                 : 0.17.0rc1.dev199+g179547d62.d20260310 (git sha: 179547d62, date: 20260310)
vLLM Build Flags:
  CUDA Archs: Not Set; ROCm: Disabled
GPU Topology:
        GPU0    CPU Affinity    NUMA Affinity   GPU NUMA ID
GPU0     X      0-31    0               N/A

Legend:

  X    = Self
  SYS  = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the SMP interconnect between NUMA nodes (e.g., QPI/UPI)
  NODE = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the interconnect between PCIe Host Bridges within a NUMA node
  PHB  = Connection traversing PCIe as well as a PCIe Host Bridge (typically the CPU)
  PXB  = Connection traversing multiple PCIe bridges (without traversing the PCIe Host Bridge)
  PIX  = Connection traversing at most a single PCIe bridge
  NV#  = Connection traversing a bonded set of # NVLinks

==============================
     Environment Variables
==============================
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda-12.9
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda-12.9
PYTORCH_NVML_BASED_CUDA_CHECK=1
TORCHINDUCTOR_COMPILE_THREADS=1
TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/torchinductor_xjy
</details>

🐛 Describe the bug

Description

Running Qwen3.5-9B with vLLM on non-SM90 GPUs (e.g. RTX 5090, SM120) causes a Triton out of memory error during the first inference request. The error originates from the Triton autotuner trying to benchmark kernel configurations for GDN (Gated Delta Net) linear attention layers after vLLM has already allocated most GPU memory for KV cache.

Root cause: During V1 profile runs, _forward_core in Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet returns early when attn_metadata is None (qwen3_next.py#L640-L642), so the Triton-autotuned kernels (solve_tril, chunk_scaled_dot_kkt, etc.) are never invoked during profiling. After profiling, vLLM allocates KV cache using most of the remaining GPU memory. When the first real inference triggers the Triton autotuner, it OOMs because there is insufficient memory left for benchmarking.

This only affects GPUs using the Triton-based forward_native path (non-SM90). SM90 GPUs (H100/H200) use the FlashInfer forward_cuda path which has no Triton autotuner.

Reproduction

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

llm = LLM(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B",
    tensor_parallel_size=1,
    max_model_len=4096,
    enforce_eager=True,
)

prompts = ["Hello, my name is"]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=16)

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
for output in outputs:
    print(f"Prompt: {output.prompt!r}, Generated text: {output.outputs[0].text!r}")

Error

ERROR 03-09 21:56:25 [dump_input.py:79] Dumping scheduler output for model execution: ... Traceback (most recent call last): File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/solve_tril.py", line 63, in solve_tril_kernel ... triton Error [CUDA]: out of memory ... File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/chunk.py", in chunk_gated_delta_rule_fwd A = solve_tril(A, cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens) File ".../vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/solve_tril.py", in solve_tril solve_tril_kernelgrid ... File ".../triton/runtime/autotuner.py", in run timings = {config: self._bench(*args, config=config, **kwargs) The OOM occurs inside Triton's autotuner _bench() — it needs temporary GPU memory to benchmark 16 kernel configs (num_warps=[1,2,4,8] × num_stages=[2,3,4,5]), but there is none left after KV cache allocation.

Analysis

The Qwen3.5-9B model has 32 layers: 24 GDN (linear attention) layers + 8 full attention layers. Each GDN layer uses chunk_gated_delta_rule which internally calls Triton kernels decorated with @triton.autotune. On non-SM90 GPUs, these go through the forward_native (Triton) path rather than forward_cuda (FlashInfer).

The V1 engine profile_run() → _dummy_run() does not build attn_metadata (it remains None), causing _forward_core to return early without ever invoking the Triton kernels. The autotuner is therefore never warmed up during profiling when memory is plentiful.

Suggested Fix

Call chunk_gated_delta_rule with small dummy tensors during the profile phase (when attn_metadata is None) to trigger Triton autotuning before KV cache allocation. I will submit a PR.

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Fix Plan

To resolve the out of memory error caused by the Triton autotuner, we need to ensure that the autotuner is warmed up during the profiling phase. This can be achieved by calling chunk_gated_delta_rule with small dummy tensors when attn_metadata is None.

Step-by-Step Solution

  1. Modify the _forward_core method: In the Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet class, modify the _forward_core method to call chunk_gated_delta_rule with small dummy tensors when attn_metadata is None.
  2. Add a conditional statement: Add a conditional statement to check if attn_metadata is None. If it is, create small dummy tensors and call chunk_gated_delta_rule with these tensors.
  3. Ensure autotuner warmup: Verify that the autotuner is warmed up during the profiling phase by checking the memory allocation before and after the profiling phase.

Example Code

def _forward_core(self, input_ids, attention_mask, attn_metadata):
    if attn_metadata is None:
        # Create small dummy tensors
        dummy_input_ids = torch.randn(1, 10, device=input_ids.device)
        dummy_attention_mask = torch.randn(1, 10, device=input_ids.device)
        
        # Call chunk_gated_delta_rule with dummy tensors
        chunk_gated_delta_rule(dummy_input_ids, dummy_attention_mask)
    
    # Rest of the method remains the same

Verification

To verify that the fix worked, run the reproduction code and check for the out of memory error. If the error is resolved, it indicates that the autotuner is now warmed up during the profiling phase, and the memory allocation issue is resolved.

Extra Tips

  • Ensure that the dummy tensors are small enough to not cause memory issues during the profiling phase.
  • Verify that the autotuner is warmed up correctly by checking the memory allocation before and after the profiling phase.
  • Test the fix with different input sizes and models to ensure that it works correctly in all scenarios.

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