ADR-0064 D8 broadened from "DMA fast-path" to "single-op-cmd fast-path":
every single-op command (DmaRead/DmaWrite/Gemm/Math/Copy) now pays the
lighter FIXED=8; only CompositeCmd keeps the 40-cycle control-path FIXED
(it alone needs scheduler plan generation + per-tile RW-hazard tracking +
completion wiring). Renamed knob fixed_per_dma_cmd_cycles ->
fixed_per_single_op_cmd_cycles. dispatch_cycles now branches on
"is CompositeCmd" rather than enumerating DMA types.
Term choice: "single-op" (not "atomic", which read as sync/async) — the
axis is composition (one engine op vs fused multi-op plan), orthogonal to
timing. single-op <-> composite.
Tests: test_pe_cost_model.py updated to the single-op surface (defaults,
fast-path over all 5 single-op cmd types, composite general path, yaml
override). All green.
Recalibrated tests/attention/test_gqa_decode_opt2.py
::test_opt3_dispatch_exceeds_opt2 — NOT a regression: D8 makes single-op
cmds 5x cheaper, so opt2's two-composite fusion win over opt3's many
single-ops narrowed from pre-D8 ~3.7x to ~1.87x (opt3=224 > opt2=120).
The CPU-offload invariant (opt2 cheaper) still holds; only the model-
dependent ">2x" constant was over-fit to the old uniform-40 model. Gate
now: direction + >1.5x margin (matches sibling R-sweep test's stated
"absolute ratio informative-only" philosophy).
NOTE for review: ADR-0065's "2x CPU-offload win" headline may want a
refresh to reflect the post-D8 ~1.87x — left to user (architectural doc).
Full regression: 826 passed, 1 skipped (tests/ excl. tests/gemm).
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5. Re-run scripts/paper/paper_plot_gemm_async_vs_composite.py with new
cost model; verify async-tiled dispatch overhead drops (~4576ns ->
~1536ns expected) and the composite-vs-async-tiled gap narrows from
the prior ~6.3x at K=3072.
6. Copy regenerated gemm_composite_vs_async_tflops.png to
docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/figures/.
7. Paper §3.4 (03-gemm.tex sec:gemm-vs-async): finish naive->async-full /
chunked->async-tiled rename AND reframe FIXED_DMA wording to single-op
vs composite (currently still says "lighter FIXED for DMA descriptors,
FIXED_DMA=8"). Table 2 (02-platform) + §2 dispatch prose already done.
8. Paper §3.4 K=3072 corner para + mechanism #3: update dispatch breakdown
to new model (96 DMA*8 + 95 single-op*8 ≈ 1.5us vs old 4.6us); update
headline ratio if it changed.
9. Rebuild docs/report/1H-codesign-paper/build/main.pdf (tectonic) +
verify via pdftotext.
10. Then this is the bench-harness + paper commits (Groups 2 & 3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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