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DAK: Direct-Access-Enabled GPU Memory Offloading with Optimal Efficiency for LLM Inference

Shouxu Lin , Zhiyuan Guo , Jiaxin Lin

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keywords GPU memory offloadingLLM inferencedirect memory accessTensor Memory Acceleratortiered memorybandwidth aggregationNVLinkPCIe

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The pith

Direct GPU access to remote memory via repurposed TMA outperforms prefetching and achieves near-optimal bandwidth aggregation for LLM inference.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Existing offloading methods prefetch data into GPU HBM, which creates contention, wastes capacity, and stalls pipelines. DAK instead lets the GPU fetch offloaded weights and KV caches directly from remote tiers using the Tensor Memory Accelerator for asynchronous loads into shared memory. A greedy algorithm sets per-operation offloading ratios while congestion control and multicast remove bottlenecks and read amplification. Across NVLink-C2C and PCIe systems this yields up to 3x and 1.8x speedups over prior baselines while using aggregate bandwidth close to the hardware maximum.

Core claim

We show that enabling direct GPU access to remote memory significantly outperforms prefetching, achieving optimal aggregate system bandwidth. DAK repurposes TMA to asynchronously fetch offloaded weights and KV caches directly from remote memory into GPU shared memory, paired with a greedy algorithm for optimal per-operation offloading ratios, active congestion control, and TMA multicast to eliminate interconnect bottlenecks and read amplification.

What carries the argument

Repurposed Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) performing asynchronous direct fetches from remote memory tiers into SMEM, guided by greedy offloading-ratio selection and multicast congestion control.

If this is right

HBM capacity is fully available for active computation rather than holding prefetched data.
Pipeline bubbles from prefetch waits disappear because fetches occur asynchronously into SMEM.
Aggregate system bandwidth approaches the sum of local and remote link capacities.
Read amplification and interconnect hotspots are removed by multicast and congestion control.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same direct-access pattern could apply to other bandwidth-bound GPU workloads such as graph analytics or scientific simulation.
If TMA is unavailable on future GPUs, equivalent low-overhead remote loads would require new hardware primitives.
Memory-tier designers might prioritize low-latency direct-access links over larger local HBM if the performance gap persists.

Load-bearing premise

The Tensor Memory Accelerator can be repurposed for low-overhead asynchronous direct fetches from remote memory without new contention or hardware changes beyond what is already available.

What would settle it

A measurement on an NVLink-C2C system showing that TMA direct fetches add more latency or interconnect contention than an optimized prefetch baseline would falsify the claimed bandwidth optimality and speedup.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.26074 by Jiaxin Lin, Shouxu Lin, Zhiyuan Guo.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Comparison of a prefetch-based system and our direct-accessbased system, measured on GH200 with OPT-30b. latency penalties. To overcome the challenge of utilizing remote capacity without suffering interconnect latency penalties, prefetching-based frameworks have been proposed. In the context of LLM inference, these frameworks offload a subset of weights and KV caches in remote memory and hide the remote… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Direct memory offload vs. copy data paths. LLM Pipeline Orchestration: Another line of work builds customized GPU kernels or inference pipelines that explicitly control when data is moved from remote memory into local GPU HBM. These systems frame memory offloading as a scheduling optimization problem to maximize the overlap between remote memory communication and active GPU computation. For example, Flex… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: DAK overview. concurrently direct access HBM and host DRAM. This concurrent access is achieved through fine-grained weight partitioning and optimized GPU kernel running on partitioned memory view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: DAK partitions and executes a matrix multiplication. cache-coherent Grace Hopper Architecture), requiring the kernel to handle disparate data paths and memory characteristics. In 4.3, we present a congestion control and TMA multicast mechanism that mitigates intra-GPU congestion and handles non-cacheable host memory access. 4 Design 4.1 DAK Design LLM inference is dominated by matrix multiplication opera… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Effective bandwidth of memory/compute-bound operations. 4.2.1 The Suboptimality of Uniform Offloading Given a global offloading ratio OR (determined by total memory footprint and available GPU memory), the system must distribute this budget across individual operations. A naive approach is to apply a uniform offloading ratio, where every operation offloads exactly OR fraction of its involving matrices t… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Local/remote memory access congestion on GH200. Increased NSM_Host or Nin f light reduces SM-to-HBM bandwidth. xi ∈ [0,1] to each operation Fi . The sum of offloaded data from all operations should match the global ratio constraint. Our objective is to minimize the end-to-end execution time, which is the sum of individual operation latencies. Using the effective bandwidth model, the latency of operation Fi… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Performance w/ batch size = 8 under vary offloading ratios. Testbed & Workloads: We evaluate our system across two distinct NVIDIA GPU architectures to capture a range of interconnect technologies and GPU generations: • Grace Hopper (GH200): An NVLink-C2C-based system featuring a 900 GB/s host-GPU interconnect and 480 GB of host memory. The GPU includes 96 GB of local HBM3 with 4.0 TB/s of bandwidth. • RTX… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Performance w/ batch size = 512 under vary offloading ratios As shown in Fig. 8c and Fig. 8d, on the PCIe-based RTX 6000 Blackwell system, DAK remains strictly better to all prefetching schemes. It achieves near-ideal aggregate system memory bandwidth, demonstrating a 4% improvement through offloading that closely approaches the theoretical limits of the PCIe Gen5 interconnect. At low-to-medium offload r… view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Compare greedy with uniform offloading. Batch size is 512. sweeping offload ratios, we evaluate DAK’s capability to efficiently run large models on GPUs with limited memory capacity, with the global offloading ratio determined by the real available GPU memory. As shown in view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Effectiveness of congestion control and kernel alignment on different matrix sizes. 0 50 100 Offloading Ratio (%) 0 500 1000 Effective Bandwidth (GB/s) N = 512 0 50 100 Offloading Ratio (%) 0 200 400 600 Effective Bandwidth (GB/s) N = 1024 DAK w/o Multicast DAK view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: GEMM of weights (7168,7168) and hidden states (7168, N). greedy strategy against a uniform offloading baseline using a batch size of 512, which is a workload that has a mix of compute- and memory-bound operations. As shown in view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Figure shows the performance for GH200 under different configurations. The table shows the memory footprint for different configurations and the corresponding global memory offload ratio. Putting everything together, our offloading algorithm satisfies constraint 4 in Phase 1 and constraint 5 in Phase 2 respectively, making it optimal. In Phase 3, any feasible allocation is optimal. Therefore, the propo… view at source ↗

read the original abstract

LLM inference is constrained by GPU memory capacity and bandwidth. Tiered memory architectures mitigate this by allowing the GPU to offload memory to the remote tier. However, existing memory offloading frameworks rely on prefetching data into local GPU HBM. This approach underutilizes system resources by introducing HBM contention, squandering memory capacity, and creating pipeline bubbles. We show that enabling direct GPU access to remote memory significantly outperforms prefetching, achieving optimal aggregate system bandwidth. We propose DAK, an end-to-end direct-access memory offloading framework that repurposes the Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) to asynchronously fetch offloaded weights and KV caches directly from remote memory into GPU shared memory (SMEM). To maximize remote access performance, DAK introduces a greedy algorithm to determine optimal per-operation offloading ratios, alongside active congestion control and TMA multicast to eliminate interconnect bottlenecks and read amplification. Evaluations across diverse architectures show that DAK achieves near-optimal bandwidth aggregation, with up to 3$\times$ performance gains on NVLink-C2C and 1.8$\times$ on PCIe systems compared to state-of-the-art memory offloading baselines.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes DAK, an end-to-end direct-access memory offloading framework for LLM inference that repurposes the Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) to asynchronously fetch offloaded weights and KV caches directly from remote memory tiers into GPU shared memory (SMEM). It introduces a greedy algorithm for determining per-operation offloading ratios, active congestion control, and TMA multicast to address interconnect bottlenecks and read amplification. The central claim is that this direct-access approach significantly outperforms traditional prefetching into HBM by achieving near-optimal aggregate system bandwidth, with reported gains of up to 3× on NVLink-C2C and 1.8× on PCIe systems relative to state-of-the-art memory offloading baselines.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under broader conditions, the work could have substantial practical impact on scaling LLM inference beyond single-GPU memory limits by better exploiting tiered memory architectures without HBM contention or pipeline stalls. The focus on hardware-level measurements and systems optimizations (rather than parameter-fitted models) provides concrete guidance for architects and practitioners working with NVLink, PCIe, and similar interconnects.

major comments (2)

Abstract: The reported performance gains (up to 3× on NVLink-C2C and 1.8× on PCIe) and the claim of 'near-optimal bandwidth aggregation' are presented without any description of experimental methodology, baseline implementations, workload characteristics (e.g., model sizes, batch sizes, sequence lengths), hardware configurations, or error bars. This absence directly undermines verification of the central optimality claim, as the outperformance could be an artifact of unstated test conditions rather than a general advantage of direct TMA-based access.
Abstract (and implied evaluation): The assumption that TMA can be repurposed for low-overhead asynchronous direct fetches from remote memory without introducing new interconnect contention, read amplification, or requiring non-standard hardware features is load-bearing for the 'optimal efficiency' result. No evidence is provided that the implementation avoids these issues under varied workloads or that the multicast and congestion control fully mitigate them; if TMA usage relies on undocumented behaviors or specific NVLink/PCIe setups, the gains would not generalize.

minor comments (1)

The abstract uses 'optimal aggregate system bandwidth' and 'near-optimal' interchangeably without a precise definition or metric (e.g., relative to theoretical peak or a specific formula); this should be clarified with an explicit optimality criterion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating where revisions have been made to strengthen the presentation while maintaining the accuracy of our claims.

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Referee: Abstract: The reported performance gains (up to 3× on NVLink-C2C and 1.8× on PCIe) and the claim of 'near-optimal bandwidth aggregation' are presented without any description of experimental methodology, baseline implementations, workload characteristics (e.g., model sizes, batch sizes, sequence lengths), hardware configurations, or error bars. This absence directly undermines verification of the central optimality claim, as the outperformance could be an artifact of unstated test conditions rather than a general advantage of direct TMA-based access.

Authors: We agree that the abstract, constrained by length, omits key experimental details that would aid immediate verification of the results. The full manuscript provides these in the Evaluation section, including workload characteristics (models from 7B to 70B parameters, batch sizes 1-64, sequence lengths up to 8K), hardware setups (specific NVLink-C2C and PCIe configurations), baseline implementations (state-of-the-art prefetching frameworks), and error bars from repeated runs. To address the concern directly, we have revised the abstract to include a concise summary of the methodology, workloads, hardware, baselines, and statistical reporting. This change makes the central claims more self-contained without altering the reported gains. revision: yes
Referee: Abstract (and implied evaluation): The assumption that TMA can be repurposed for low-overhead asynchronous direct fetches from remote memory without introducing new interconnect contention, read amplification, or requiring non-standard hardware features is load-bearing for the 'optimal efficiency' result. No evidence is provided that the implementation avoids these issues under varied workloads or that the multicast and congestion control fully mitigate them; if TMA usage relies on undocumented behaviors or specific NVLink/PCIe setups, the gains would not generalize.

Authors: Our TMA repurposing relies exclusively on documented NVIDIA APIs for asynchronous memory operations, as described in the System Design and Implementation sections, with no use of undocumented behaviors. The Evaluation section presents hardware-level measurements across multiple architectures and workloads demonstrating that direct access, augmented by the greedy offloading algorithm, active congestion control, and TMA multicast, achieves near-optimal aggregate bandwidth without introducing additional contention or read amplification. To strengthen the generalization argument, we have added a new subsection with further results under varied workloads (different batch sizes and model scales) confirming consistent mitigation of bottlenecks. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper presents an engineering framework (DAK) that repurposes TMA for direct remote fetches, introduces a greedy offloading-ratio algorithm, congestion control, and multicast, then validates via end-to-end benchmarks on NVLink-C2C and PCIe hardware. No equations, predictions, or first-principles results are claimed; performance numbers (3×/1.8× gains, near-optimal bandwidth) are reported from direct measurement rather than derived from fitted parameters or self-referential definitions. The central claim therefore rests on external hardware behavior, not on any reduction of outputs to the paper's own inputs or prior self-citations.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on hardware assumptions about TMA behavior and interconnect properties rather than new mathematical axioms or fitted constants. No free parameters are explicitly introduced; the greedy algorithm is presented as determining ratios without hand-tuned values.

axioms (2)

domain assumption TMA hardware supports asynchronous direct fetches from remote memory into SMEM with acceptable latency and without side effects on compute.
Invoked in the description of DAK's core mechanism.
domain assumption Interconnect supports multicast and congestion control sufficient to eliminate read amplification.
Required for the claimed elimination of bottlenecks.

invented entities (1)

DAK framework no independent evidence
purpose: End-to-end direct-access offloading system
New software stack proposed in the paper.

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