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[TRTLLM-11412][fix] Preserve dense tensor layouts during offloading - #18539

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Description

Fixes NVBug 6702264.

Allow the offload manager to pack non-overlapping dense tensors such as Wan VAE
channels_last_3d weights. Tensor bytes are copied in physical storage order so
the original strides and values are preserved when CPU and GPU views are rebound.
Overlapping and non-dense layouts remain unsupported.

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  • Offload packing now supports non-overlapping dense tensors, including channels_last_3d layouts.
  • Physical storage-order copying preserves values and strides during CPU and GPU rebinding.
  • Overlapping and non-dense layouts remain unsupported.
  • No public API or configuration changes are reported.

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  • Modified tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_offloading.py.
  • Added coverage for channels_last_3d value and stride preservation.
  • Added rejection coverage for overlapping and non-dense layouts.
  • The test file was not found in the inspected test-db/ or qa/ lists.
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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/offloading.py: Verify dense tensors preserve values and strides during CPU and GPU staging. Verify unsupported layouts remain rejected.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_offloading.py: Covers channels_last_3d preservation and invalid-layout rejection. The test was not found in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists.

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  • Added test_offload_preserves_channels_last_3d_layout to verify values and
    strides after initialization and staging.

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Offloading now accepts dense tensors with non-contiguous strides. It rejects overlapping or non-dense tensors. CPU packing preserves physical storage order. Tests verify channels-last-3D stride and value preservation.

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Dense tensor offloading

Layer / File(s) Summary
Layout validation and physical-order packing
tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/offloading.py
The layout validator accepts non-contiguous dense tensors and rejects overlapping or non-dense tensors. CPU packing reads physical storage order.
Channels-last-3D offload validation
tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_offloading.py
Tests verify channels-last-3D stride and value preservation during initialization and staging. Tests also verify rejection of overlapping and non-dense layouts.

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The change targets preserving values and strides for dense non-contiguous tensors while rejecting unsupported layouts. The remaining test-annotation issue does not affect runtime behavior, so merge risk is low.

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LGTM. The three pieces line up:

  • _is_non_overlapping_and_dense is the standard predicate (sort (stride, size), skip size<=1 dims, require the recurrence 1, n0, n0*n1, ...). It admits any dense permutation and still rejects expand-style overlap and strided gaps. I hand-checked it against Conv3d weights with size-1 kernel dims, e.g. (96, 96, 1, 3, 3) -> strides (864, 1, 864, 288, 96), where the size-1 dim's stride is correctly ignored.
  • as_strided((numel,), (1,)) copies the dense span from the tensor's own storage_offset (as_strided inherits it when storage_offset=None), which is exactly spec.nbytes. This is the real fix: reshape(-1) materialized a copy in logical order, which then got reinterpreted with the physical stride at rebind time.
  • _make_views restores spec.stride at the packed offset, and stage() is a raw byte copy of the whole stage buffer, so the layout survives the GPU transfer too.

Aliasing still behaves: two permuted views of one storage copy identical raw bytes, and each is rebound with its own stride.

One minor, non-blocking comment inline about the untested rejection branch.

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  1. The auto-generated summary in the description says "No tests/integration/test_lists/ coverage entry was identified. Verdict: needs follow-up." That looks incorrect - tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml:286 lists the whole file unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_offloading.py, so test_offload_preserves_channels_last_3d_layout is collected in l0_b200. No follow-up needed there.
  2. Nit on the new docstring: the tensor densely covers a contiguous span starting at its storage_offset, not "its storage" - a slice of a larger allocation passes the check, and should.

Disclosure: I reviewed by reading as_strided/narrow/view semantics and hand-evaluating the stride recurrence; I did not execute the new test locally.

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