[FEA] cuda.core: support stream batch memory operations (incl. CUDA 13.1 atomic reductions)
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Description
Summary
CUDA 13.1 extends the stream batch memory operations with atomic reductions: a new op type
CU_STREAM_MEM_OP_ATOMIC_REDUCTION with params struct CUstreamMemOpAtomicReductionParams
(operation, flags, reductionOp, dataType, address, value, alias), plus enums
CUstreamAtomicReductionOpType (ADD/AND/OR) and CUstreamAtomicReductionDataType
(UNSIGNED_32/UNSIGNED_64), joined into CUstreamBatchMemOpParams_union.atomicReduction.
Device support is advertised by CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_ATOMIC_REDUCTION_SUPPORTED (13.1, see
also #2361).
cuda.core has no batch mem-op surface at all today — the only mentions are a
graph debug-dot print flag
(https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python/blob/c000331de6c37aa4565af74b001271ffcf6d5c99/cuda_core/cuda/core/graph/_graph_builder.pyx#L123)
and a DeviceProperties support query
(https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python/blob/c000331de6c37aa4565af74b001271ffcf6d5c99/cuda_core/cuda/core/_device.pyx#L803).
So this issue covers designing the base surface (the pre-12.8 wait/write-value ops) and
including the 13.1 atomic-reduction op in it — adding the new op alone is not possible.
Underlying C APIs to cover
| Symbol | Purpose |
|---|---|
cuStreamBatchMemOp(CUstream, unsigned int count, CUstreamBatchMemOpParams* paramArray, unsigned int flags) |
execute a batch of memory operations on a stream (pre-12.8, unexposed) |
CU_STREAM_MEM_OP_ATOMIC_REDUCTION + CUstreamMemOpAtomicReductionParams (13.1) |
atomic-reduction op entry |
CUstreamAtomicReductionOpType, CUstreamAtomicReductionDataType (13.1) |
reduction op / operand type |
CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_ATOMIC_REDUCTION_SUPPORTED (13.1) |
support gating |
Design sketch (draft — needs design-meeting review)
[!IMPORTANT]
Starting point only, not a settled design — review in the cuda.core design meeting.
stream.batch_mem_op([ # names TBD
WaitValue(addr, value, condition=">="),
WriteValue(addr, value),
AtomicReduction(address=addr, value=1, op="add", dtype="u64"), # 13.1+
])
Open questions for the meeting:
- Scope: stream-level only, or also the graph batch-mem-op node type?
- Typed per-op dataclasses (above) vs. lower-level pass-through of binding structs.
- Semantics/purpose of the
aliasfield (clarify against driver docs during design). - Version/device gating (op availability differs across 12.x/13.x and devices).
References
- Driver docs: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-driver-api/
- Found during the CUDA 12.8 → 13.3 bindings vs. cuda.core gap sweep (2026-07-14)
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