ROCm / ROCm/aiter

bad performance of quant op when enabled EP

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Description

when enabled EP, each EP rank only compute the tokens routed to itself, but for quant op, it compute all the token(global token)

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without deepep, sglang leverage allreduce to perform allgather, each ep rank will get all the tokens

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by tracing the quant op's token inputs with EP enabled and compare the allreduce/allgather behavior described with and without deepep; done means each EP rank processes only its routed tokens instead of the global token set.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
distributed-systems, performance
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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