cuda: retain routed experts in bounded cache - #739
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Depends on #737 and #738 (the safety and async-upload branches are required bases).
Context
This change is stacked on the SSD safety and async-upload changes. DeepSeek routing is data-dependent: the same experts can be selected again in later tokens, so a bounded persistent cache can avoid repeated SSD reads and PCIe transfers. This is separate from the compact one-layer upload buffer.
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(layer, expert)keys and physical slots with LRU replacement; do not retain an entry smaller than the deterministic 480-slot token working set.Validation
Builds completed with no compiler warnings:
git diff --checkis clean. Target hardware is an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GiB (sm_89) and the workload is the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 IQ2XXS SSD-streamed GGUF. End-to-end isolated-branch GPU execution still needs to be run from a driver-visible shell; the user's integration measurements motivating this work were approximately 1.9 t/s generation on compact streaming and 4.96--5.81 t/s with progressively improved persistent/direct-cache variants, with the aged-frequency experiment rejected after a 4.27 t/s regression.Dependency
This is the persistent expert-cache/direct-dispatch feature only and is intentionally stacked on the preceding two CUDA changes.