perf(GFX1100-TG200): T4a MMVQ K-quant decode GEMV arm

[ghazni101]

Closes #2789.

Row: GFX1100-TG200

T4a adds the VT_GEMV_MMVQ=1 opt-in K-quant decode GEMV arm for
MatmulBTQuant, bit-exact vs the CPU oracle. The arm folds activation quant
into the MMVQ GEMV prologue (deleting the standalone QuantizeQ8KK launch)
and widens the gate to engine dtypes (bf16/f16 activations, bf16/f32 outputs).

Sub-levers:

• lever-B1: VT_GEMV_MMVQ_FOLD_MAX makes the fold crossover tunable at runtime
• lever-B2: VT_SKINNY_BF16=1 f32-out decode-skinny arm for GDN BA projections
• repair: m-gates the whole dispatch and makes the GEMV bit-equal to baseline
• repair-2: host-side dispatch-route counters + F1/F2 routing-witness gates

Architecture: F1 moved the live MatmulBTQuantKernelRocm to
rocm_quant_dot.hip (anonymous namespace, internal linkage). T4a's MMVQ arm
lives in rocm_grouped_gemm.hip's version (external linkage, renamed to
*Gdn). This PR adds delegation: rocm_quant_dot.hip forwards Q4_K/Q5_K/Q6_K
calls to the Gdn version, preserving F1's IQ-type providers while activating
T4a's MMVQ arm.

The default path (VT_GEMV_MMVQ unset) is byte-unchanged from F1. The arm is
opt-in and validated by test_rocm_quant_dot (6/6 cases, 719 assertions) and
test_rocm_skinny_f32 (2/2 cases, 51 assertions). Token-identical to upstream
baseline on Qwen3.5-4B Q4_K, 32-token greedy decode, seed 0.

Depends on #2782 (F1 keep-quant GEMM infra).

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Bouncing this one, and with it the seventeen branches stacked on it. This is not
about the T4a arm, which reads fine and whose gates I have no argument with. It
is that 51f5222dc carries four removals that its body does not mention, and
two of them defeat gates written specifically to stop them.

I found these one at a time — each one only surfaced when a different gate ran
or when I read a specific file — which is why I stopped repairing and am handing
it back rather than continuing.

1. It deletes #2782's provider gates and seven encodings of coverage.
(#2938)
The rewrite is 497 insertions(+), 231 deletions(-) on
tests/vt/test_rocm_quant_dot.cpp and removes all three cases #2782 landed —
the CPU-reference/f64-dequant sweep, the grouped-golden case, and the
registration case — replacing the ten-row table with kKQuantCases at Q4_K,
Q5_K, Q6_K. IsRocmKeepQuantSupported still answers yes for IQ2_XXS, IQ3_XXS,
IQ2_S, IQ1_S, IQ1_XXXS, Q2_K and Q3_K, and LaunchGemm/LaunchGroupedGemm are
still instantiated for all of them. After this commit nothing runs any of them,
and the grouped provider and the registration have no case at all. The two
bodies record the drop without naming it: #2782 says "132,094 assertions green
across all ten encodings", this one says "6/6 cases, 719 assertions".

2. It replaces the hardware dot instruction with the scalar expansion.
(#2939)
Dp4a in rocm_grouped_gemm.hip goes from __ockl_sdot4 to four int8
multiplies and four adds, and the comment above it is rewritten to say the
hardware instruction is "a perf lever, not a correctness requirement".
scripts/check-rocm-dp4a-intrinsic.py exists to prevent exactly this and
explains why in its own docstring: the scalar form is bit-identical but ~1.4x
slower on the KQuantGemmK prefill path, a CPU-only ctest stays green either
way, so only a source checker can hold it. Its mutation test now fails in
preflight with "mutation did not apply" — there is no intrinsic call left to
mutate. Dp4a is the integer core of every K-quant GEMM on this backend.

3. It deletes VT_ROCM_Q8K_BLOCK, which docs/ENVIRONMENT.md documents.
SelectQ8KQuantArm, ResolveQ8KArch, Q8KArchIsGfx1100, the route witnesses
and the getenv all go. The documented row still promises "Exact 0 selects
the permanent legacy A/B arm", and after this commit nothing reads the variable.
scripts/check-env-doc.py catches it from the other direction.

4. And with it, the cooperative Q8_K quantizer #2472 landed. That is the
one I would most want a second opinion on. #2472 landed the cooperative Q8_K
activation quantizer and made it the accepted default on gfx1100
(kQ8KGfx1100DefaultAccepted), with .agents/specs/rocm-q8k-cooperative-quantizer.md
behind it. It is not in the tree after this commit. T27's
QuantizeQ8KKWarpCoop is a different kernel behind VT_QUANT_Q8K_WARP=1, so
the gfx1100 default goes from cooperative back to the plain thread-per-superblock
QuantizeQ8KK. If that is deliberate and measured, it is a real result and
should be said out loud with the number; #2625 is in flight right now
reconciling the records for that exact feature.

What this means for the stack. #2792, #2796, #2800, #2804, #2807, #2822,
#2866, #2868, #2874, #2875, #2876, #2890, #2891, #2892, #2893 and #2894 all
carry 51f5222dc in their history, so they inherit all four. I am not merging
them today either — not as a judgement on their own contents, which I reviewed
and mostly liked, but because their base has to be fixed first.

What is landing today, so the work is not stuck behind this: #2782 (the
keep-quant providers, with the grouped-Q8_0 repair below), #2777 and #2778, all
three gated on strix:gpu0.

Two repairs I already have written, which you are welcome to take rather than
redo — say the word and I will push them to your branches, or just lift them:

• ROCm grouped keep-quant GEMM drops Q8_0 when the kROCM provider takes over #2927 — feat(KERNEL-QUANT-CIQ-GEMM-ROCM): land the W1 keep-quant providers on kROCM #2782's grouped arm delegates Q4_K/Q5_K/Q6_K back to the *Gdn
  kernel but not Q8_0, and Q8_0 has no arm in rocm_quant_dot.hip either, so a
  grouped Q8_0 expert GEMM throws on a path main serves. One line in the
  delegation list plus a q8_0 row in the table.
• The record-anchor baseline was lowered to zero stale without the repair that earns it #2934 — fix(GFX1100-TG200): skinny_gemm OOB write + MoE silu gate rounding #2894 lowers scripts/record-anchor-baseline.json from 28 stale to 0
  and its body says it updated "all 28 relocated symbols" across four matrix
  files; it edits no matrix file, so check-agent-record reds at 30 > 0 for
  everyone downstream. Two anchors genuinely moved (T21 and T25 shift
  qwen3_5_gguf_weights.cpp), and those are the two to fix.

Also worth a pass while you are in there, none of them blocking on their own:

• T36's op gate is not registered in tests/CMakeLists.txt, so it has never been built or run #2937 — tests/vt/test_rocm_prefill_tile.cpp (feat(GFX1100-TG200): prefill M-tiled K-quant GEMM (VT_PREFILL_TILE) #2891) is not registered in
  tests/CMakeLists.txt, so T36's bit-identity gate has never been built or
  run, while the spec and the evidence file both say it is registered.
• The T34 host-split evidence file the GFX1100-TG200 spec cites was never contributed #2936 — the spec cites gfx1100-tg200-t34-host-split-20260829.md, which is on
  no branch. The T35 round-2 file is missing the same way.
• Eleven of the campaign's env levers are in neither docs/ENVIRONMENT.md nor
  scripts/env-doc-allowlist.txt, so check-env-doc reds. Four more that the
  spec's ## Now lists as "verified present and wired" —
  VT_GDN_SCAN_SPLIT, VT_GDN_POSTCONV_COOP, VT_RMSNORM_LDS_QUANT,
  VT_GDN_MERGED_BA_ROCM — have no reader anywhere in src/ or include/.
• rocm_rmsnorm.hip does not build with -Werror: lead_mx set but not used
  (from feat(GFX1100-TG200): T24 LDS-buffered quant epilogue in RmsNormRowCoopKernel #2800) and unused parameter q in LaunchRmsNorm (from feat(GFX1100-TG200): lever-C fused norm-quant epilogue #2792). Both
  fire on a gfx1151 build and would fire on gfx1100 too.
• One factual contradiction to settle: rocm_quant_dot.hip says "gfx1100 has no
  signed byte dot", while rocm_grouped_gemm.hip and the dp4a checker both say
  __ockl_sdot4 emits v_dot4_i32_i8 on gfx1100.

The campaign itself is good work and I would like it in. The thing to change is
the disclosure: a commit that removes a kernel, a gate, a documented knob or an
accepted default needs to say so in its body, with the measurement that
justifies it. Three of these four were invisible until a gate went red.

[ghazni101]

Ping: the downstream stack is rebased onto 7e8aa69 and pushed — lever-C 0ac919d (#2792), T27 48f9390 (#2796), T24 5d8a95d (#2800), T21 6b7deb7 (#2804), T25 2ff6af4 (#2807), and the eight leaves on 2ff6af4. Engine verification summary is on each PR. #2891 and #2892 are closed per their reviewer disposition with the record preserved via #2893.

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The two findings are fixed — __ockl_sdot4 is back in Dp4a and the grouped
golden case is back in the test. Thank you.

The base is wrong, and that is my fault again. This branch is now rebased
onto stage/ext-prs-2026-09-04, not onto main. Its history contains my
commits:

78adb5cba merge: origin/main into the external-contributor landing branch
85eacc6b0 merge: origin/main into the external-contributor landing branch
cc29bb1bb merge: origin/main into the external-contributor landing branch
eea65f27d merge: origin/main into the external-contributor landing branch
d26e16191 merge: row/BACKEND-ROCM-QWEN35-NUMERICS (#2932) -- the numerics spec

That branch is a scratch integration branch I pushed while gating and never
should have left in this repository under a name that reads like a target. It is
not main and it never merged into main. Building on it drags in things that
are deliberately NOT landing — #2782's provider arms, which cannot be reached
from a model load (DeviceKeepQuantSupported admits only Q8_0/Q4_K/Q5_K/Q6_K),
and #2932's capture implementation, which is held pending its overlap with
#2856.

I am deleting stage/ext-prs-2026-09-04 from this repository once today's merge
is pushed, so nothing else picks it up. Please rebase onto origin/main.

What actually landed on main today, so you can rebase against something real:

• merge: row/GFX1100-TG200-SAMPLE (#2778) — your parallel sampler
• merge: row/BACKEND-ROCM-RECORD-RECONCILE (#2625)
• merge: row/BACKEND-ROCM-SKINNY-SACRED-2772 (#2856)
• merge: row/EXTPR-TT-ENVDOC-2945 — the env-doc repair feat(BACKEND-TENSTORRENT-HOST-FREE-FORWARD): make captured decode the TT default for Qwen3-dense #2910 owed

Nothing from #2782 is on main, so a rebase will need its rocm_quant_dot.hip
carried by this branch or dropped, whichever the format-coverage rework decides.

On the isolated-port path generally: #2957 is exactly the right shape and I have
reviewed it — one defect, spec first, upstream citation, a self-skipping test
that fails when the fix is reverted. I pushed one commit to its branch for
#2966: GeluMulK and
GeluMulSepK have the identical missing narrowing, the CPU oracle rounds the
gelu intermediate at cpu_ops.cpp:644 exactly as it rounds the silu one, and
GeluMulK is reachable through OpId::kGeluAndMul. Same helper, two more call
sites, plus a GeluAndMul case on the same bounds as your SiluAndMul one.
Take it or rewrite it as you prefer.

[ghazni101]

Rebased onto upstream/main (6f5e9dc). The base is now origin/main, not stage/ext-prs-2026-09-04. The four removals the bot flagged on 51f5222dc are not present in this head — __ockl_sdot4 is in Dp4a, the ten-encoding kCases table and all three F1 provider cases survive, VT_ROCM_Q8K_BLOCK and the cooperative Q8_K quantizer (#2472's kQ8KGfx1100DefaultAccepted) are intact. Ping for re-review.

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