- snapshot_backend_flags reads each flag defensively (getattr + hasattr), so a build/platform
missing one (no cuda.matmul on CPU/MPS) still captures the rest instead of skipping the
whole snapshot. restore_backend_flags restores each flag independently so one failure can't
leave the others leaked process-wide.
- load_pipeline restores the flags (and clears the GPU cache) when the build fails after
apply_speed_optims mutated the process-wide flags but before _state captured them for unload
to restore -- otherwise a failed default/max load left cudnn.benchmark/TF32 on and
contaminated later off generations.
The opt-in `max` speed tier now compiles the repeated block with
mode=max-autotune-no-cudagraphs (dynamic=False) instead of the default mode:
Triton autotuning for GEMM/conv-heavier models, gated to the tier where a longer
cold compile is acceptable. CUDA-graph modes (reduce-overhead / max-autotune) are
deliberately avoided -- both crash on the regionally-compiled block (its static
output buffer is overwritten across denoise steps), measured.
Adds two reproducible benchmarks used to validate the optimization research:
- scripts/compare_engines.py: PyTorch (diffusers GGUF) vs native sd.cpp head-to-head.
- scripts/leverage_probe.py: coordinate_descent_tuning + FirstBlockCache probes.
Measured on B200 (Z-Image Q4_K_M, 1024px, 8 steps): default compile 0.80s/gen;
coordinate_descent_tuning 0.79s (within noise, already covered by max-autotune);
FirstBlockCache does not run on Z-Image (diffusers 0.38 block-detection / Dynamo).
Re-review of the diffusion stack (#6675/#6679/#6680) surfaced one real accuracy
bug and a dead-on-arrival speed path; this fixes both and adds the lossless /
near-lossless wins, all measured on a B200.
Correctness:
- TF32 global-state leak (fix). speed_mode=max flipped torch.backends.*.allow_tf32
process-wide and never restored them, so a later `off` load silently inherited
TF32 and was no longer bit-identical. Added snapshot_backend_flags /
restore_backend_flags (TF32 + cudnn.benchmark), captured before the speed layer
runs and restored on unload. Verified: load max -> unload -> load off is now
byte-identical (PSNR inf) to a fresh off.
- sd-cli timeout could hang forever. _run() blocked in `for line in stdout` and
only checked the timeout after EOF, so a child stuck in model load / GPU init
with no output ignored the timeout. Drained stdout on a reader thread with a
wall-clock deadline. Added a silent-hang regression test.
Speed (diffusers path), near-lossless, opt-in tiers:
- Regional torch.compile now runs on the GGUF transformer. The is_gguf gate (and
Z-Image's supports_torch_compile=False) were stale: compile_repeated_blocks
compiles and runs ~2.2x faster on the GGUF Z-Image transformer on
torch 2.9.1 / diffusers 0.38 (the per-op dequant stays eager, the rest of the
block compiles). Measured: off 1.80s -> default 0.82s/gen (+54.7%), PSNR 37.7 dB
vs eager -- far above the Q4 quant noise floor (~21 dB), so it does not move
output quality. Gate relaxed; default tier delivers it.
- cudnn.benchmark added to the default tier (autotunes the fixed-shape VAE convs).
- torch.inference_mode() around the pipeline call (lossless, strictly faster than
the no_grad diffusers uses internally).
Memory path:
- VAE tiling (not bit-identical >1MP) restricted to the model/sequential/CPU tiers;
the balanced (group) tier keeps exact slicing only, so it is now bit-identical to
the resident image (verified PSNR inf) and slightly faster.
- Group offload adds non_blocking + record_stream on the CUDA stream path to
overlap each block's H2D copy with compute (lossless; gated on the installed
diffusers signature so older versions still work).
Native (sd.cpp) path:
- native_speed_flags: a first-class speed knob (default -> --diffusion-fa, a
near-lossless CUDA win that was previously only added on offload tiers; max also
-> --diffusion-conv-direct). conv-direct stays opt-in: measured +45% on CUDA, so
it is never auto-on. Engine generate() merges it, de-duped against offload flags.
Default profile: a GGUF model with no explicit speed_mode now resolves to the
`default` profile (resolve_speed_mode), since compile's perturbation sits below the
quantisation noise floor and so does not reduce quality versus the dense reference;
out of the box a GGUF Z-Image generation drops from 1.80s to 0.81s. Dense models
stay `off` / bit-identical, and an explicit speed_mode -- including "off" -- is
always honored, so the byte-identical path remains one flag away and is the
regression reference.
Tooling: scripts/compile_probe.py (eager vs compiled GGUF probe), scripts/
perf_verify.py (the B200 verification above), and diffusion_bench.py gains
--speed-mode so the speed tiers are benchmarkable.
Tests: 183 passing (was 166); new coverage for the backend-flag snapshot/restore,
GGUF compile eligibility, the balanced tiling/slicing split, native_speed_flags +
the engine de-dup, and the sd-cli silent-hang timeout.
Add a speed_mode knob (off by default, so the render path stays bit-identical):
default applies channels_last VAE + regional torch.compile of the denoiser's
repeated block where eligible; max also enables TF32 matmul and fused QKV. Regional
compile is gated off for the GGUF transformer (dequantises per-op) and for families
flagged not compile-friendly (a new supports_torch_compile flag, False for Z-Image),
so it activates automatically only once a non-GGUF bf16 transformer is loaded. Speed
optims run before placement/offload, per the diffusers composition order. status now
reports speed_mode + the optims actually engaged.
Verified on Z-Image (B200): default -> ['channels_last'], max -> ['channels_last',
'tf32'], compile correctly skipped for GGUF; generation works in every mode.
121 CPU tests pass.
