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Refs #15178.

On integrated GPUs, the estimation dry run can start from a mem_get_info() budget that is already depressed by mmap-backed weights sharing the same physical memory pool.

When hybrid Mamba models use an affine CacheCost, _get_token_num_for_estimation() subtracts the recurrent-state intercept from that reduced budget and can clamp the provisional token cap to zero. That is enough to trip assert max_blocks_per_seq > 0 in the attention-window path even though the later affine sizing still succeeds.

This change keeps the final affine sizing unchanged. It only relaxes the provisional estimation cap on integrated GPUs by dropping the affine intercept from the dry-run budget calculation.

The regression test covers the zero-clamp case by mocking an affine CacheCost, a small mem_get_info() budget, and an integrated device.

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Validated in the matching TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc18 CUDA 13 / PyTorch 2.10 runtime with:

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A regression test checks that integrated-device KV-cache estimation returns 64 tokens for the mocked memory and cache-cost inputs. The _utils import list is reformatted without changing its imported names.

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Integrated GPU KV-cache Estimation

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Estimation regression test and supporting import formatting
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py
The test mocks integrated-device detection, 100 bytes of available memory, and cache cost parameters slope=1 and intercept=128. It asserts that estimation returns 64 tokens. The _utils import list is reformatted without changing its imported names.

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Confirmed on hardware — this fixes #15178 for us. We applied this exact change on top of 1.3.0rc18 and re-ran the workload that was failing: a ~31B hybrid Mamba+attention model (bf16, TP=1) served on a DGX Spark (GB10, unified memory).

  • Before (stock rc15–rc18): engine init aborts with AssertionError: Impossible to fit in any sequence in kvCache — the KV-cache estimation dry-run clamps max_tokens to 0 on the integrated device, so the attention window gets 0 primary blocks.
  • After (rc18 + this PR): the dry-run no longer clamps to 0, the server starts, and the full benchmark runs to completion (exit 0). The is_device_integrated() gate fires as intended and the final affine KV sizing is unchanged, so this only relaxes the provisional dry-run cap.

Discrete-GPU (RTX Pro 6000) runs were never affected, consistent with the integrated-memory root cause. Thanks for the fix @peter941221 — would be great to land this. Happy to test a candidate build on DGX Spark if useful. cc @joyang-nv

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Thanks for testing this on DGX Spark and confirming that it fixes the rc18 unified-memory KV-cache failure while leaving the final affine sizing unchanged.

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@VALLIS-NERIA this seems to related to your #12896. Could you take a look?

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Hi @peter941221 , thank you for the fix. It looks good to me but I'm not quite clear about the cause. My understanding is:
The weights are mmap-ed to CPU memory space, which is unified memory in this case, and causes mem_get_info to get a much smaller number. After the estimation dry run, the weights are unloaded and we get a normal free memory number, right?

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Hi @peter941221 , thank you for the fix. It looks good to me but I'm not quite clear about the cause. My understanding is: The weights are mmap-ed to CPU memory space, which is unified memory in this case, and causes mem_get_info to get a much smaller number. After the estimation dry run, the weights are unloaded and we get a normal free memory number, right?

@VALLIS-NERIA Yes — on integrated/unified-memory devices, the dry-run sees a temporarily depressed mem_get_info() budget from mmap-backed weights, and subtracting the affine intercept can clamp the provisional token cap to 0. The final affine sizing is unchanged.

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The public GitHub checks are green on the current head. The remaining failure is the internal blossom-ci run on fc3b3fb after main was merged into this branch, and I can't see the internal failure details from my side. Could you share the failing job or log snippet so I can check whether it comes from this patch or from the merged main changes?

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@peter941221 nice catch on the affine-intercept clamp. fyi #12301 is sitting in the same UMA-detection territory — different files (cpp kvCacheManager + llm_args.py) so no merge conflict, but same symptom (zero/negative caps on UMA) from a different angle. Forces host_cache_size=0 via cudaDevAttrIntegrated. Probably complementary with yours, worth looking at together if a reviewer picks one up.

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Thanks, that makes sense. This PR is scoped to the Python-side dry-run path where the affine intercept can collapse the provisional token cap to 0 on integrated / unified-memory systems. #12301 looks complementary from the KV-cache-manager / host-cache-budget side, so I agree they are related but fixing different layers. I’d prefer to keep this patch narrowly scoped unless a reviewer wants them aligned more explicitly.

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@peter941221 can you maybe merge main / rebase so that we can try to get this finally merged. THX

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Merged the latest main into this branch in commit �fe52a0bd6. Resolved the _util.py import conflict by preserving both the current main imports and the integrated-device fix, and moved the regression coverage to the current ests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py path. The diff against current main remains limited to the intended two files. The merge commit is GPG-signed and DCO-signed.

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Thanks @peter941221 for refreshing this PR! One follow-up for #15178: our testing on newer releases still encounters ValueError: The V2 Mamba GPU cache quota is too small.

This PR addresses the provisional token-cap calculation in the V1 estimation path. With NemotronH using MambaHybridCacheManagerV2 from rc24 onward (via #16598), the V2 quota check needs separate attention; landing the V1 guard alone would not resolve that remaining failure.

Could a KV-cache owner advise whether to cover V2 here or track it in a linked follow-up? It would be helpful to make that scope explicit while moving this fix toward merge. Happy to help validate a candidate on Spark. Thanks!


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@peter941221 can you address the pre-commit ci failures? THX

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Applied the pre-commit fix in d2f6f56. The only failing hook on the previous head was ruff-format; the formatted test file now passes the full pre-commit suite locally. Please trigger CI again on the new head.

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tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py (1)

509-514: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Force this regression fixture onto V1.

_make_creator initializes _is_kv_cache_manager_v2 to True. V2 returns the 64-token dummy-workload value before reaching the integrated-device intercept condition. The test can therefore pass without exercising the changed V1 logic.

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     c = _make_creator(
         tpb,
         [_make_mock_request(63)],
         enable_attention_dp=False,
         tp_size=1,
     )
+    c._is_kv_cache_manager_v2 = False
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py` around
lines 509 - 514, Set the creator’s KV cache manager version to V1 in this
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@VALLIS-NERIA Clarification: I can confirm that unified-memory runs may report a lower free-memory budget during V1 estimation, but I cannot confirm when mmap-backed weights are unloaded or whether free memory then recovers. The fix only removes the affine intercept from the provisional cap; final affine sizing is unchanged.

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@janbernloehr Thanks, and your read matches what I see in the tree.

I would keep these as two separate changes rather than widen this one.

This PR fixes the V1 provisional cap: on an integrated device the affine
intercept can push tokens_for_budget() to 0, so the dry run sizes the attention
window to zero primary blocks. Only the provisional dry-run cap is relaxed
here; the final affine sizing is unchanged.

The V2 quota failure you hit is a different code path with a different error
surface. MambaHybridCacheManagerV2 landed in #16598, after this fix was
written, and that failure is the V2 manager rejecting the GPU cache quota
rather than the estimation clamping to zero. Covering it here would grow the
diff into a second manager and delay a change that is already validated on GB10
hardware.

So my proposal:

  1. Land this PR as the V1 fix.
  2. I open a dedicated issue for the V2 quota path, referencing [Bug] Hybrid Mamba KV-cache estimation clamps max_tokens to 0 on integrated/unified-memory GPUs (regression in 1.3.0rc15, commit 091ad7b0) #15178, with the
    V2 check and the failure mode written out.

To make that follow-up actionable rather than speculative, could you share the
V2 traceback plus the launch config from the Spark run (model, tp size,
max_seq_len, max_batch_size, and the KV cache free-memory fraction or any
override)? With that I can characterize the V2 sizing path directly.

If a KV-cache owner would rather see V2 covered in the same change, I am fine
with that as well - I just do not want to make that call silently.

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@peter941221 can you rebase this PR? Thanks!

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@peter941221 , could you refresh the branch to resolve the conflicts? The last CI attempt couldn’t start because the PR wasn’t mergeable. The V1 fix has been validated on Spark, and V2 is tracked separately in #20951. Once refreshed, I’m happy to rerun CI. Thanks!

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@janbernloehr Done - rebased onto current main in 67e66e6. The only conflict was the test file, which moved to tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/ on main; I re-applied the fix and the regression test at the new path, so the diff against main is unchanged apart from that move (still just those two files). pre-commit passes locally. Happy for you to rerun CI whenever convenient.

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