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Count a node left on one core as holding its tensors whole in the capacity tiler - #155

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The capacity tiler divided every tensor's footprint by the group's inter-core split. A node the mapping leaves on one core, like a softmax's elementwise exp on a single vector core, holds its tensors whole, so the tiler believed that core held a quarter of the scores and never tiled them. The allocation then rejected the mapping (128.5 KB pinned on a 128 KB core).

Tensors of a node placed on a single core now count in full on that core.

Test: a Gemm whose output columns the group splits over four cores streams only its contraction dim; the same Gemm left on one core also streams its output columns. Without the change both plans are the same.

Stacked on #154.

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Stream AIE Metrics Regression Guard

⚠ 5 cell(s) flagged (total_latency > 0.1% tol): hardware_two_conv[eyeriss_like_dual_core], hardware_two_conv[eyeriss_like_quad_core], hardware_two_conv[meta_prototype], hardware_two_conv[simba_small], hardware_two_conv[tpu_like_quad_core]

16 of 16 cells captured

Provenance: baseline 32b8eaa94931143f86c3a135c774febd1d8b96ae | date 2026-10-04 | Python 3.12.3 | backend ortools_gscip
Note: mip_gap: null — OR-Tools GSCIP
Columns: array fill = per-layer PE-array spatial fill (dataflow quality); MAC eff (e2e) = useful MACs / (chip peak MACs/cycle × total latency), the true fraction of the chip's compute used (incl. idle cores, temporal stalls & transfers).

hardware_swiglu — 8 hardware

seq_len=256, embedding_dim=2048, hidden_dim=8192, bf16; layer-fused tiles seq=16/embedding=128/hidden=32

Hardware total_latency (base → cur) Δ% array fill MAC eff (e2e) note
eyeriss_like_dual_core 149684492 → 149684492 +0.00% 52% 26%
eyeriss_like_quad_core 101581557 → 101581557 +0.00% 52% 19%
eyeriss_like_single_core 303038604 → 303038604 +0.00% 52% 25%
fusemax 233766951 → 233766951 +0.00% 9.3% 0.26%
meta_prototype 101711933 → 101711933 +0.00% 100% 6.2%
simba 125344507.60 → 125344507.60 +0.00% 65% 1.0%
simba_small 106627594 → 106627594 +0.00% 65% 3.0%
tpu_like_quad_core 101580877 → 101580877 +0.00% 97% 3.1%
hardware_two_conv — 8 hardware (⚠ 5 flagged)

batch=1, in_ch=8, H=32, W=32, out_ch1=16, out_ch2=32, kernel=3x3, bf16 (generic auto-tiling, not layer-fused)

Hardware total_latency (base → cur) Δ% array fill MAC eff (e2e) note
eyeriss_like_dual_core 74631 → 74761 ⚠ ↑+0.17% 51% 23%
eyeriss_like_quad_core 39917 → 40209 ⚠ ↑+0.73% 51% 22%
eyeriss_like_single_core 115003 → 115003 +0.00% 68% 31%
fusemax 187612 → 187676 ↑+0.03% 1.4% 0.05% low array utilization
meta_prototype 15341 → 15487 ⚠ ↑+0.95% 51% 19%
simba 4610.67 → 4610.67 +0.00% 50% 4.9%
simba_small 8706 → 8998 ⚠ ↑+3.35% 50% 16%
tpu_like_quad_core 12300 → 12592 ⚠ ↑+2.37% 42% 11%

To regenerate baseline: python scripts/analysis/render_metrics_comment.py --update-baseline

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asyms force-pushed the fix/single-core-footprint branch from dc45e9b to 5544970 Compare October 9, 2026 10:57
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asyms changed the base branch from fix/multicast-reader-axes to main October 9, 2026 10:57
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asyms merged commit df7f371 into main Oct 9, 2026
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