From 0188c54fbee2c515520d0e7c6f35bff65ec9a0b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DovLin <dovis.zhang02@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:41:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [FA3] Add unit test for only_qv (NoPE) KV decode path
 (#28595)

Signed-off-by: Shijin Zhang <dovis.zhang02@gmail.com>
---
 .../jit/test_flash_attention_3_only_qv.py     | 100 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/registered/jit/test_flash_attention_3_only_qv.py

diff --git a/test/registered/jit/test_flash_attention_3_only_qv.py b/test/registered/jit/test_flash_attention_3_only_qv.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34221e563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/registered/jit/test_flash_attention_3_only_qv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+# Adapted from sgl-flash-attn hopper/test_attn_kvcache.py::test_flash_attn_kvcache_only_qv
+# Covers the only_qv (NoPE) decode path that FA3 adds for sparse MLA on SM90:
+# the QK^T matmul is skipped and attention is computed as softmax(qv * V) over
+# a paged V cache (no K cache, no rope).
+
+import math
+import sys
+import unittest
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+from einops import rearrange, repeat
+
+from sglang.jit_kernel.flash_attention import flash_attn_with_kvcache
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
+from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
+
+register_cuda_ci(est_time=30, suite="base-b-kernel-unit-1-gpu-large")
+
+# FA3 only_qv path is SM90 (Hopper) only — skip on pre-Hopper and on
+# Blackwell+ (sm100+) where FA3 is not built.
+skip_condition = not torch.cuda.is_available() or (
+    torch.cuda.get_device_capability()[0] != 9
+)
+
+
+def _only_qv_reference(qv, v_cache, page_table, batch_size, nheads_q):
+    v_ref = rearrange(
+        v_cache.float()[page_table.flatten()],
+        "(b s) p h d -> b (s p) h d",
+        b=batch_size,
+    )
+    v_ref = repeat(v_ref, "b s h d -> b s (h g) d", g=nheads_q)
+    scores = torch.einsum("bqhd,bkhd->bhqk", qv.float(), v_ref)
+    probs = torch.softmax(scores / math.sqrt(qv.shape[-1]), dim=-1)
+    return torch.einsum("bhqk,bkhd->bqhd", probs, v_ref).to(qv.dtype)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    skip_condition, reason="FA3 only_qv requires compute capability sm90 (Hopper)."
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("batch_size", [1, 2])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("seqlen_k", [129, 257])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("nheads_q", [8, 16])
+def test_flash_attn_kvcache_only_qv(batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_q):
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    device = "cuda"
+    dtype = torch.bfloat16
+    seqlen_q = 1
+    nheads_kv = 1
+    v_dim = 512
+    page_size = 1
+    num_pages = batch_size * seqlen_k
+
+    v_cache = torch.randn(
+        num_pages, page_size, nheads_kv, v_dim, device=device, dtype=dtype
+    )
+    page_table = torch.arange(num_pages, device=device, dtype=torch.int32).view(
+        batch_size, seqlen_k
+    )
+    qv = torch.randn(batch_size, seqlen_q, nheads_q, v_dim, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    cache_seqlens = torch.full(
+        (batch_size,), seqlen_k, device=device, dtype=torch.int32
+    )
+
+    out_ref = _only_qv_reference(qv, v_cache, page_table, batch_size, nheads_q)
+
+    out = flash_attn_with_kvcache(
+        q=None,
+        k_cache=None,
+        v_cache=v_cache,
+        qv=qv,
+        cache_seqlens=cache_seqlens,
+        page_table=page_table,
+        only_qv=True,
+        num_splits=1,
+        ver=3,
+    )
+
+    max_err = (out - out_ref).abs().max().item()
+    mean_err = (out - out_ref).abs().mean().item()
+    print(f"only_qv max diff: {max_err}  mean diff: {mean_err}")
+
+    assert max_err <= 8e-3, f"max abs err {max_err} > 8e-3"
+    assert mean_err <= 3e-4, f"mean abs err {mean_err} > 3e-4"
+
+
+class TestFlashAttentionV3OnlyQV(CustomTestCase):
+    """unittest wrapper so `python -m unittest` and direct invocation also work."""
+
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        skip_condition,
+        "FA3 only_qv requires compute capability sm90 (Hopper).",
+    )
+    def test_only_qv_smoke(self):
+        test_flash_attn_kvcache_only_qv(batch_size=2, seqlen_k=257, nheads_q=8)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(pytest.main([__file__, "-v", "-s"]))