unsloth/studio/backend/tests/test_training_worker_flash_attn.py
danielhanchen c07cddae35 studio: install flash-linear-attention and tilelang for Qwen3.5 family
Studio currently only installs causal-conv1d for qwen3.5 / qwen3.6 /
qwen3-next models. Without flash-linear-attention installed alongside
it, transformers' Qwen3.5 fast-path gate stays False and the model
falls back to a pure-PyTorch loop for the GatedDeltaNet layers. In a
60-step run on unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B on B200, this fallback costs ~2.35x
vs the full fast path.

On top of that, FLA dispatches its hottest GDN kernels through a
TileLang backend when tilelang is importable. Adding tilelang plus a
pinned apache-tvm-ffi gives another ~26% on the same workload (4.73
s/step to 3.50 s/step) and is what users have been getting indirectly
when they install mamba-ssm (mamba-ssm transitively pulls tilelang and
pins apache-tvm-ffi<=0.1.9, which is the last working version on
sm_100; 0.1.10 and 0.1.11 crash Triton with misaligned address).

Changes:
  * _ensure_flash_linear_attention: pure-Python PyPI install gated on
    the same model match set as _ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path.
  * _ensure_tilelang_backend: installs apache-tvm-ffi==0.1.9 and
    tilelang==0.1.8 in one pip resolve so the tvm-ffi pin wins over
    tilelang's >=0.1.2 constraint. Gated on the Qwen3.5 family only;
    SSM models (Nemotron-H, Falcon-H1, Granite-H, LFM2) do not use
    FLA's GDN dispatch.
  * UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_TILELANG_INSTALL=1 escape hatch matching the
    flash-attn pattern.
  * Orchestration block reordered: causal-conv1d -> fla -> mamba-ssm
    -> tilelang -> flash-attn (long context).
  * 7 new tests covering the new helpers, including SSM-model skip,
    skip-env, full Qwen3 family name variants, and graceful pip
    install failure.

Combined Qwen3.5-2B-Vision step time on B200 in our bench goes from
5.0 s/step (current Studio: causal-conv1d only) to 3.5 s/step
(causal-conv1d + fla + tilelang), a 1.43x speedup with no notebook
or user code changes required.
2026-05-15 05:26:03 +00:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
from __future__ import annotations
import builtins
import subprocess
import sys
from unittest import mock
from core.training import worker
def _missing_flash_attn_import():
real_import = builtins.__import__
def fake_import(name, globals = None, locals = None, fromlist = (), level = 0):
if name == "flash_attn":
raise ImportError
return real_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
return fake_import
def test_should_try_runtime_flash_attn_install_threshold_and_skip(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
assert worker._should_try_runtime_flash_attn_install(32767) is False
assert worker._should_try_runtime_flash_attn_install(
32768
) is sys.platform.startswith("linux")
monkeypatch.setenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, "1")
assert worker._should_try_runtime_flash_attn_install(32768) is False
def test_runtime_flash_attn_prefers_prebuilt_wheel(monkeypatch):
statuses: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "has_blackwell_gpu", lambda: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(builtins, "__import__", _missing_flash_attn_import())
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"flash_attn_wheel_url",
lambda env: "https://example.com/fa.whl",
)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "url_exists", lambda url: True)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"_send_status",
lambda queue, message: statuses.append(message),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"install_wheel",
lambda *args, **kwargs: [("pip", subprocess.CompletedProcess(["pip"], 0, ""))],
)
worker._ensure_flash_attn_for_long_context(event_queue = [], max_seq_length = 32768)
assert statuses == ["Installing prebuilt flash-attn wheel..."]
def test_runtime_flash_attn_falls_back_to_pypi(monkeypatch):
calls: list[list[str]] = []
statuses: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "has_blackwell_gpu", lambda: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(builtins, "__import__", _missing_flash_attn_import())
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"probe_torch_wheel_env",
lambda timeout = 30: {
"python_tag": "cp313",
"torch_mm": "2.10",
"cuda_major": "13",
"cxx11abi": "TRUE",
"platform_tag": "linux_x86_64",
},
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"flash_attn_wheel_url",
lambda env: "https://example.com/fa.whl",
)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "url_exists", lambda url: False)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker.shutil, "which", lambda name: None)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"_send_status",
lambda queue, message: statuses.append(message),
)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "install_wheel", mock.Mock())
def fake_run(cmd, stdout = None, stderr = None, text = None):
calls.append(list(cmd))
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, 0, "")
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", fake_run)
worker._ensure_flash_attn_for_long_context(event_queue = [], max_seq_length = 32768)
assert statuses == ["Installing flash-attn from PyPI for long-context training..."]
assert calls == [[sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "flash-attn"]]
def test_runtime_flash_attn_skip_env_avoids_all_install_work(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, "1")
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", mock.Mock())
worker._ensure_flash_attn_for_long_context(event_queue = [], max_seq_length = 32768)
worker._sp.run.assert_not_called()
def test_runtime_flash_attn_skips_on_blackwell(monkeypatch):
statuses: list[str] = []
install_mock = mock.Mock()
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._FLASH_ATTN_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker, "_should_try_runtime_flash_attn_install", lambda max_seq: True
)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "has_blackwell_gpu", lambda: True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
monkeypatch.setattr(
worker,
"_send_status",
lambda queue, message: statuses.append(message),
)
worker._ensure_flash_attn_for_long_context(event_queue = [], max_seq_length = 65536)
install_mock.assert_not_called()
assert len(statuses) == 1
assert "Blackwell" in statuses[0]
def test_causal_conv1d_fast_path_preserves_wheel_first_install_args(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
worker._ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct",
)
install_mock.assert_called_once_with(
event_queue = [],
import_name = "causal_conv1d",
display_name = "causal-conv1d",
pypi_name = "causal-conv1d",
pypi_version = worker._CAUSAL_CONV1D_PACKAGE_VERSION,
filename_prefix = "causal_conv1d",
release_tag = worker._CAUSAL_CONV1D_RELEASE_TAG,
release_base_url = "https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d/releases/download",
)
def test_causal_conv1d_fast_path_includes_qwen3_6_variants(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
worker._ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3.6-4B",
)
worker._ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3_6-4B",
)
assert install_mock.call_count == 2
def test_mamba_ssm_path_preserves_wheel_first_install_args(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
worker._ensure_mamba_ssm(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct",
)
install_mock.assert_called_once_with(
event_queue = [],
import_name = "mamba_ssm",
display_name = "mamba-ssm",
pypi_name = "mamba-ssm",
pypi_version = worker._MAMBA_SSM_PACKAGE_VERSION,
filename_prefix = "mamba_ssm",
release_tag = worker._MAMBA_SSM_RELEASE_TAG,
release_base_url = "https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba/releases/download",
)
def test_flash_linear_attention_uses_pypi_for_qwen3_5(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
worker._ensure_flash_linear_attention(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B",
)
install_mock.assert_called_once()
_, kwargs = install_mock.call_args
assert kwargs["import_name"] == "fla"
assert kwargs["display_name"] == "flash-linear-attention"
assert kwargs["pypi_name"] == "flash-linear-attention"
assert kwargs["pypi_spec"] == "flash-linear-attention"
# Pure-Python wheel from PyPI: no version pin, no github wheel lookup.
assert "pypi_version" not in kwargs or kwargs["pypi_version"] is None
assert callable(kwargs["wheel_url_builder"])
assert kwargs["wheel_url_builder"](None) is None
def test_flash_linear_attention_skips_for_unrelated_models(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
worker._ensure_flash_linear_attention(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct",
)
install_mock.assert_not_called()
def test_flash_linear_attention_matches_full_qwen3_family(monkeypatch):
install_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = True)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_install_package_wheel_first", install_mock)
for name in (
"unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B",
"unsloth/Qwen3_5-MoE-A22B",
"unsloth/Qwen3.6-4B",
"unsloth/Qwen3_6-4B",
"unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B",
"unsloth/Qwen3_Next-80B-A3B",
):
worker._ensure_flash_linear_attention(event_queue = [], model_name = name)
assert install_mock.call_count == 6
def test_tilelang_backend_installs_pinned_pair_for_qwen3_5(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._TILELANG_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker.shutil, "which", lambda name: "/usr/bin/uv")
run_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = mock.Mock(returncode = 0, stdout = ""))
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", run_mock)
# Force the "not installed" branch by making the imports fail.
real_import = builtins.__import__
def fake_import(name, *a, **kw):
if name in ("tilelang", "tvm_ffi"):
raise ImportError
return real_import(name, *a, **kw)
monkeypatch.setattr(builtins, "__import__", fake_import)
statuses: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_send_status", lambda queue, msg: statuses.append(msg))
worker._ensure_tilelang_backend(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B",
)
run_mock.assert_called_once()
args = run_mock.call_args[0][0]
assert f"apache-tvm-ffi=={worker._APACHE_TVM_FFI_PACKAGE_VERSION}" in args
assert f"tilelang=={worker._TILELANG_PACKAGE_VERSION}" in args
assert any("TileLang backend" in s for s in statuses)
def test_tilelang_backend_skipped_for_ssm_models(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._TILELANG_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
run_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = mock.Mock(returncode = 0, stdout = ""))
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", run_mock)
# Nemotron-H / Falcon-H1 / Granite-H take the mamba_ssm path, not FLA's
# gated_delta_rule -> tilelang has no effect on them.
for name in (
"tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct",
"nvidia/Nemotron-H-8B-Base",
"ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny",
"meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct",
):
worker._ensure_tilelang_backend(event_queue = [], model_name = name)
run_mock.assert_not_called()
def test_tilelang_backend_skipped_via_env(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setenv(worker._TILELANG_SKIP_ENV, "1")
run_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = mock.Mock(returncode = 0, stdout = ""))
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", run_mock)
worker._ensure_tilelang_backend(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B",
)
run_mock.assert_not_called()
def test_tilelang_backend_swallows_install_failure(monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.delenv(worker._TILELANG_SKIP_ENV, raising = False)
monkeypatch.setattr(worker.shutil, "which", lambda name: None)
run_mock = mock.Mock(return_value = mock.Mock(returncode = 1, stdout = "boom"))
monkeypatch.setattr(worker._sp, "run", run_mock)
real_import = builtins.__import__
def fake_import(name, *a, **kw):
if name in ("tilelang", "tvm_ffi"):
raise ImportError
return real_import(name, *a, **kw)
monkeypatch.setattr(builtins, "__import__", fake_import)
statuses: list[str] = []
monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_send_status", lambda queue, msg: statuses.append(msg))
# Should not raise even when pip exits non-zero.
worker._ensure_tilelang_backend(
event_queue = [],
model_name = "unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B",
)
run_mock.assert_called_once()
assert any("failed" in s.lower() for s in statuses)