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The streaming decoder marshals all 97 layer caches through the host between chunks: a device-to-host copy per cache after every chunk and a host-to-device copy per cache before the next. At the default 4-frame chunk that is ~196 blocking copies per chunk, and almost none of it is bandwidth -- the caches are a few KB each, so the cost is per-copy cudaStreamSynchronize latency. Profiled on a five-sentence paragraph, the codec worker thread issues 26,862 cudaMemcpyAsync and 26,989 cudaStreamSynchronize calls to launch 1,330 kernels: 678 ms of marshalling around a small amount of compute. The caches now live in a backend buffer for the lifetime of the stream. The decode graph reads each one in place and writes the next value back with ggml_cpy, ordered after the node that reads the old value, so a chunk uploads only the latent and reads back only the audio. Two smaller changes come with it: - The upsampler kernels were cast F16->F32 inside the graph, so 7.7M weights were reconverted on every chunk. That conversion now happens once at load, and only where it changes the result: CUDA and Metal widen an F16 kernel to F32 and accumulate in F32, so they use the weights as stored, while Vulkan (which rejects a non-F32 kernel) and the CPU path (which would round activations to F16 as well) get a converted copy. - One fixed-size graph now serves the stream, built and run once up front so the first-run capture is off the first chunk. Measured on a GB300, greedy, median of 5 runs per case on an idle-gated GPU. Both arms carry the half_snake aliasing guard (see below): case e2e RTF codec RTFx line 0.0431 -> 0.0413 33.7 -> 68.1 paragraph 0.0400 -> 0.0395 38.4 -> 70.0 script 0.0401 -> 0.0395 38.8 -> 70.1 Codec throughput is 1.8-2.0x. End to end is only 1.3-4.2%, and that is the honest framing: the codec runs on a worker thread and the acoustic model still sets the pace. What this buys is headroom and latency -- codec time-to-first-audio 2.88 ms, and a codec that no longer caps the system at RTFx ~39 once the decoder gets faster. By CUDA API call, same paragraph: cudaMemcpyAsync 34,194 -> 7,409 (-78%) cudaStreamSynchronize 29,332 -> 2,567 (-91%) Correctness. This reshapes the codec graph, which changes what the graph allocator does, and that surfaced something worth stating plainly: **main is not currently reproducible.** Three greedy runs of the same 20-sentence script on stock a5b6953 give three different WAVs. It was reproducible at 69d7fd4, so one of the two commits since woke it. The cause is the half_snake fusion reading a parent activation the allocator has already recycled for the concat output. With that guard applied and no other change, stock main is deterministic again and reproduces 69d7fd4's output byte for byte. Against that reference, this change is 92.2 dB SNR, max 6 LSB, with the only differing samples in the last 0.06 s of a 100 s clip -- the final partial chunk's padding and trim. Three runs are byte-identical. So the guard is a prerequisite for measuring anything on the codec path, not a consequence of this change. It is not included here.
The codec change beside this one needed a harness that could be trusted, and two properties of this pipeline make a naive one misleading. Sampled decoding picks a different code sequence when anything perturbs the arithmetic, which changes the audio *duration*, which moves RTF on its own -- so an A/B of two builds can show a difference that is entirely an artefact of one arm producing 2.7 s of audio and the other 3.0 s. --greedy holds the sequence fixed. And a background job on the same GPU moves these numbers by 2-4x, so the script refuses to start until nvidia-smi reports <= 3% for four consecutive samples, and re-checks between cases. Three cases -- one line, a five-sentence paragraph, a twenty-sentence script -- because RTF does not scale flatly with length and one short utterance hides both long-form and codec behaviour. --check runs each case N times and reports the sha256 of the decoded WAV instead of timing it. Under --greedy every run must produce the same hash. That is not a hypothetical guard: stock main currently fails it, which is the subject of NVIDIA#28, and no benchmark taken against a non-reproducible baseline means anything. Metrics come from the existing --verbose line, so this needs no runtime change: e2e_rtf, decoder_itl_avg_ms, codec_rtfx, codec_ttfa_ms and e2e_audio_s. Reports the median of N.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a MagpieTTS benchmark and changes NanoCodec streaming to use backend-resident caches, prepared convolution weights, and one prewarmed graph per streaming workspace. ChangesMagpieTTS streaming and benchmarking
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MagpieTTSWorker
participant NanoCodecStreamGraph
participant BackendCacheTensors
participant AudioOutput
MagpieTTSWorker->>NanoCodecStreamGraph: submit streaming chunk
NanoCodecStreamGraph->>BackendCacheTensors: read and refresh persistent caches
NanoCodecStreamGraph->>AudioOutput: return decoded audio
MagpieTTSWorker->>MagpieTTSWorker: reuse graph for next chunk
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Models exceeding the cache limit can fail while initializing streaming decode rather than receiving the intended limit error. Fix the validation order before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Line 178: Update the between-case idle check around wait_idle() to handle a
False result by exiting with the same failure behavior as the initial idle
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- Line 132: Update the argparse validation for the --reps argument in the
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- Around line 1035-1041: Move the cache-capacity guard into
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- Around line 1099-1101: Update nc_stream_decode_graph to store its owning
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before execution in addition to the existing cache checks. Clear the owner when
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- Around line 260-264: Update nc_prepare_deconv_weights to validate the
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NanoCodec: - A backend that will not take F16 upsampler kernels, given a model that already stores them as F32, converted nothing and then asked the allocator for an empty context. ggml_backend_alloc_ctx_tensors returns NULL there, which was read as a failure. Return success instead, and reject an unsupported kernel type before reserving for it rather than after. - The stream cache context reserved overhead for exactly NANO_CODEC_MAX_CACHES tensors, but the limit is tested after the graph is built, so the cache that trips it still had to be created. An exhausted pool aborts rather than reporting. Reserve one more so the check does the reporting. - decode_eval_stream matched a graph to a state by cache count alone, so a different state holding as many caches passed while the nodes still pointed at the original state's tensors. Record the owner at init and compare it. Benchmark: - The idle guard read the first nvidia-smi row. synthesize takes no CUDA index -- it initializes the first available device -- and CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES can map that onto any physical GPU, so row 0 could report idle while the GPU running the synthesis was saturated. Take the busiest GPU on the box. - --extra was appended after the benchmark's own options, so a duplicate won: an overridden --output made the run hash a file it had not written. It now goes first, and the benchmark's options win. - --reps below 1 left every metric list empty and the report raised KeyError on a missing e2e_rtf. Rejected during argument parsing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1007-1024: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winValidate the cache count before creating cache tensors.
nc_stream_decode_graph_initreserves space for 513 cache tensors, thennc_stream_cache_tensorcreates caches while walking the model-providedh.up_ratestopology. Thestate.caches.size()check runs only after graph construction. A topology requiring 514 or more caches can exhaust the context before the limit error is returned. Compute the cache count first, reject values aboveNANO_CODEC_MAX_CACHES, and only then create cache tensors.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The streaming decoder marshals all 97 layer caches through the host between
chunks: a device-to-host copy per cache after every chunk, and a host-to-device
copy per cache before the next. At the default 4-frame chunk that is ~196
blocking copies per chunk, and almost none of it is bandwidth — the caches are a
few KB each, so the cost is per-copy
cudaStreamSynchronizelatency.Profiled on a five-sentence paragraph, the codec worker thread issues 26,862
cudaMemcpyAsyncand 26,989cudaStreamSynchronizecalls to launch 1,330kernels — 678 ms of marshalling around a small amount of compute.
The change
The caches now live in a backend buffer for the lifetime of the stream. The
decode graph reads each one in place and writes the next value back with
ggml_cpy, ordered after the node that reads the old value, so a chunk uploadsonly the latent and reads back only the audio.
Two smaller changes come with it:
were reconverted on every chunk. That now happens once at load, and only where
it changes the result: CUDA and Metal widen an F16 kernel to F32 and
accumulate in F32, so they use the weights as stored, while Vulkan (which
rejects a non-F32 kernel) and the CPU path (which would round activations to
F16 as well) get a converted copy.
first-run capture is off the first chunk.
Results
GB300, v2602 f16, greedy, median of 5 runs per case on an idle-gated GPU.
Both arms carry the half_snake aliasing guard — see Correctness.
The e2e number is small and that is the honest framing. The codec runs on a
worker thread and the acoustic model still sets the pace, so 1.3–4.2% is all
that surfaces end to end. What this actually buys is throughput headroom and
latency: codec time-to-first-audio is 2.88 ms, and the codec no longer caps the
system at RTFx ~39 — which is what matters the moment the decoder gets faster
(batched long-form decode, for instance, reaches RTFx ~48 and would otherwise
run straight into that ceiling).
By CUDA API call, same paragraph:
cudaMemcpyAsynccudaStreamSynchronizeCorrectness
This reshapes the codec graph, which changes what the graph allocator does — and
that surfaced something that has to be said first:
mainis not currentlyreproducible. Three greedy runs of the same script on stock
a5b6953givethree different WAVs. It was reproducible at
69d7fd4. Full evidence is in#28.
With that guard applied and nothing else, stock
mainis deterministic againand reproduces
69d7fd4's output byte for byte. That is the reference thischange is measured against:
Every differing sample is in the final partial chunk, whose padding and trim
this change alters; 4–6 LSB out of 32768 is inaudible. Three runs of each case
are byte-identical to each other.
So the guard is a prerequisite for measuring anything on the codec path, not a
consequence of this change. It is not included here — this PR should land
after #28.
Benchmark script
scripts/tts/bench_magpietts.pyis included so the numbers above can bereproduced. Two properties of this pipeline make a naive harness misleading, and
it handles both:
--greedyfor any A/B. Sampled decoding picks a different code sequencewhen anything perturbs the arithmetic, which changes audio duration, which
moves RTF on its own — an A/B can show a difference that is entirely one arm
producing 2.7 s and the other 3.0 s.
refuses to start until
nvidia-smireports ≤ 3% for four consecutive samples,and re-checks between cases.
--checkskips timing and reports the sha256 of each run's WAV instead. Under--greedyevery run must produce the same hash; stockmaincurrently failsthis, which is how the reproducibility problem above was found.
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