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PyExecutor retires in-flight work before control actions. It also provides recompute_active_requests() to preserve transfer-bound requests, terminate and pause other active requests, and reset the prefix cache.

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Active request recomputation

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Control-action quiescence
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py
_request_flag reads callable predicates and boolean properties. _handle_control_request retires the in-flight batch after CUDA synchronization.
Recompute active requests
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py
Adds PyExecutor.recompute_active_requests(). For a non-PP executor, the method raises RuntimeError when previous_batch exists. It preserves transfer-bound requests, terminates and pauses other active requests, and resets the prefix cache.

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Requests that are recomputed and continue can lose response routing or multimodal inputs. Use resource-only cleanup before merging.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py`:
- Around line 8600-8604: Update the rebalance control flow around
_consume_previous_batch_for_rebalance, _terminate_requests, and _pause_requests
so PP executions with pp_size greater than one cannot release request resources
while the microbatch ring remains active; either reject the operation for PP or
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self._consume_previous_batch_for_rebalance()

requests_to_recompute = list(self.active_requests)
self._terminate_requests(requests_to_recompute)

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When pp_size > 1 && enable_kv_cache_reuse && kv_cache_transceiver, _terminate_request() only stashes the request into DisaggPPTerminationHandler._pending_termination (line 8651); the actual free_resources() happens later in terminate_pending_requests() after a full pp_size-round ring vote. So _pause_requests() below resets those requests to CONTEXT_INIT, the scheduler re-admits them with fresh KV, and the deferred termination then frees the resources of a request that is running again. Should the pending terminations be drained (or this path be excluded) before pausing?

# its cache resources or the loop would later access released entries.
self._consume_previous_batch_for_rebalance()

requests_to_recompute = list(self.active_requests)

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active_requests can contain requests that hold no cache yet — a freshly fetched CONTEXT_INIT one under drain=False, or a disagg request in transmission. The existing all-active-requests primitive guards each one with mgr.is_request_active(req.py_request_id) (_rebalance_kv_pools_now, line 4882), and every other _terminate_request call site is state-qualified (e.g. line 8419 excludes is_disagg_context_transmission_state). With the rocket sparse KV manager this is a hard failure: BlockManager.free_resources does del self.block_ids[request_id] on an entry only ever created by add_tokens. Please filter by state / cache liveness before terminating.

scheduler then treats those tokens as context and prefills them again
before decoding resumes.
"""
print(

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This looks like a leftover debug sentinel — it writes to stdout unconditionally on every rank, bypassing the log level. Please drop it, or use logger.info(...) if the visibility is actually wanted.

the previous weights, and completing those requests can register stale
blocks in the reuse pool after the reset.

Preserve already generated tokens by pausing each request. The normal

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pause() clamps to min(maxInputLen, promptLen + numGenerated) and, for beamWidth > 1, resets tokens back to promptLen entirely (llmRequest.h:905-941). So generated tokens are not always preserved — worth stating both exceptions here, or rejecting the beam-search case explicitly.


requests_to_recompute = list(self.active_requests)
self._terminate_requests(requests_to_recompute)
self._pause_requests(requests_to_recompute)

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V2 evicts through _suspend_request inside scheduler_v2 (lines 571/673), and the closest existing "release every active request" primitive, _rebalance_kv_pools_now, uses mgr.suspend_request instead. Could the docstring say why suspend is not usable here (presumably because it preserves the old-weight KV that must be discarded)?

def reset_prefix_cache(self):
self.kv_cache_manager.reset_reuse_state()

def recompute_active_requests(self) -> None:

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This method has no caller in the tree and no test. Given it touches request state transitions and KV release ordering, could the control_action wiring and at least one test (overlap loop, requests re-prefilled and completing correctly) land with it — or is that a follow-up PR?

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The engine fixture was a bare MagicMock, which auto-creates any attribute on
access -- so every existing test silently exercised the "hook present"
branch even though none configured one explicitly. Make "absent" (every
released TRT-LLM today) the honest fixture default, and add a test for the
"present" branch (e.g. a TRT-LLM build carrying
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937).

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Point the fallback comment at NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937 (open, not yet
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The engine fixture was a bare MagicMock, which auto-creates any attribute on
access -- so every existing test silently exercised the "hook present"
branch even though none configured one explicitly. Make "absent" (every
released TRT-LLM today) the honest fixture default, and add a test for the
"present" branch (e.g. a TRT-LLM build carrying
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937).

Signed-off-by: Erin Ho <14718778+hchings@users.noreply.github.com>
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feat/rl_rc (NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM) guarantees all the APIs that were
previously guarded with getattr fallbacks. Simplify now that 4230
(feat/rl_rc bump) will merge before this PR:

- _unwrap_compiled_model_for_refit / _restore_compiled_model_after_refit:
  drop old name fallbacks and None-guard; call the canonical names directly
- recompute_active_requests: drop reset_prefix_cache fallback in both
  NCCL and IPC paths; feat/rl_rc has the method (NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937)
- _finalize_weight_update: drop manual fallback loop; WorkerExtension
  always has finalize_weight_update in feat/rl_rc
- _require_fp8_refit_hooks: drop WorkerExtension.finalize_weight_update
  check, always present in feat/rl_rc
- configure_fp8_llm_kwargs: drop llm_args_type parameter; set
  use_cute_dsl_blockscaling_mm unconditionally (LlmArgs has it in feat/rl_rc)
- Tests: remove workarounds that forced absent-API fallback paths;
  update assertions to expect recompute_active_requests and the fast
  finalize path; delete test_refit_finalization_falls_back_for_older_trtllm

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The engine fixture was a bare MagicMock, which auto-creates any attribute on
access -- so every existing test silently exercised the "hook present"
branch even though none configured one explicitly. Make "absent" (every
released TRT-LLM today) the honest fixture default, and add a test for the
"present" branch (e.g. a TRT-LLM build carrying
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937).

Signed-off-by: Erin Ho <14718778+hchings@users.noreply.github.com>
hchings added a commit to NVIDIA-NeMo/RL that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2026
feat/rl_rc (NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM) guarantees all the APIs that were
previously guarded with getattr fallbacks. Simplify now that 4230
(feat/rl_rc bump) will merge before this PR:

- _unwrap_compiled_model_for_refit / _restore_compiled_model_after_refit:
  drop old name fallbacks and None-guard; call the canonical names directly
- recompute_active_requests: drop reset_prefix_cache fallback in both
  NCCL and IPC paths; feat/rl_rc has the method (NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17937)
- _finalize_weight_update: drop manual fallback loop; WorkerExtension
  always has finalize_weight_update in feat/rl_rc
- _require_fp8_refit_hooks: drop WorkerExtension.finalize_weight_update
  check, always present in feat/rl_rc
- configure_fp8_llm_kwargs: drop llm_args_type parameter; set
  use_cute_dsl_blockscaling_mm unconditionally (LlmArgs has it in feat/rl_rc)
- Tests: remove workarounds that forced absent-API fallback paths;
  update assertions to expect recompute_active_requests and the fast
  finalize path; delete test_refit_finalization_falls_back_for_older_trtllm

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Erin Ho <14718778+hchings@users.noreply.github.com>

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8859-8889: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add focused regression tests for the new recomputation branches.

The existing in-flight weight-update test covers an end-to-end update flow, but it does not assert the new request partition or quiescence guard. Add minimal tests under tests/unittest/_torch/executor/ for:

  1. Requests returned by async_transfer_manager.requests_in_transfer() remaining untouched.
  2. Context-only and generation-only requests remaining untouched with both callable and property flags.
  3. Each _DISAGG_TRANSFER_BOUND_STATES fallback state remaining untouched.
  4. An ordinary request being terminated and paused, followed by reset_prefix_cache().
  5. The pp_size == 1 guard raising when previous_batch is set.

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Comment on lines +4832 to +4835
# Retire the overlap loop's in-flight batch (lockstep on all ranks) so
# the action runs against a quiescent executor and nothing consumes it
# later from a per-rank code path.
self._retire_inflight_batch_for_control()

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Implement _retire_inflight_batch_for_control before calling it.

_executor_loop_pp reaches _handle_control_request(), which calls this method after the drain check. No implementation exists, and no dynamic attribute hook provides it. A control request can therefore raise AttributeError before the action runs. Add the method and preserve PP microbatch bookkeeping and rank-symmetric collective ordering.

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Port the feat/rl_rc implementation: retire the overlap loop's in-flight
batch at the control-action boundary (_retire_inflight_batch_for_control)
instead of consuming it inside recompute_active_requests, add the
quiescence guard, and skip disaggregated transfer-bound requests.

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🟠 Major · Do not run terminal cleanup on requests that must continue. · py_executor.py:9015-9016

tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:9015-9016
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not run terminal cleanup on requests that must continue.

_terminate_requests() reaches _do_terminate_request(). That function pops result_wait_queues[request_id] and strips py_multimodal_data. The paused request then resumes, but its later responses no longer reach a Ray result queue, and a multimodal re-prefill has no inputs. Two other cases are also wrong. When _disagg_pp_termination_handler is set, it only defers the free, so pause() resets a request whose resources are freed later while the request runs again. Under KV manager V2, the regular terminate/pause path is skipped elsewhere. Use _free_request_resources() together with _pause_recompute_request(), as _on_disagg_pp_termination already does. Also skip requests that have no live cache.

Proposed fix
-        self._terminate_requests(requests_to_recompute)
-        self._pause_requests(requests_to_recompute)
+        for req in requests_to_recompute:
+            self._free_request_resources(req)
+            self._pause_recompute_request(req)

The PR also adds no test for this path. Add a test under tests/unittest/_torch/executor/. The test should call recompute_active_requests() on a partially generated request and assert two things: the request stays in result_wait_queues, and it is paused with its generated tokens kept. Add a second case that checks transfer-bound requests stay untouched. As per path instructions, "Test coverage review is additive."

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In recompute_active_requests(), replace the _terminate_requests() and
_pause_requests() flow with per-request resource freeing and recompute pausing,
using _free_request_resources() and _pause_recompute_request(); skip requests
without a live cache. Add coverage verifying a partially generated request
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Add a regression test for retiring the in-flight batch at a control boundary.

Under attention DP, _retire_inflight_batch_for_control must issue the same number of gathers on every rank: one for early first-token, one for flush, and one for responses. No test checks this. A divergence between ranks deadlocks the engine. Add a unit test with a mocked dist. It should cover a rank that has previous_batch and a rank that does not. On both ranks, assert equal _enqueue_responses call counts and that previous_batch is None afterward. As per path instructions, add tests for "new or changed... distributed behavior."

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- Around line 9015-9016: In recompute_active_requests(), replace the
_terminate_requests() and _pause_requests() flow with per-request resource
freeing and recompute pausing, using _free_request_resources() and
_pause_recompute_request(); skip requests without a live cache. Add coverage
verifying a partially generated request retains its result queue and generated
tokens when paused, and transfer-bound requests remain untouched.

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attention-DP enabled, covering both a rank with previous_batch and one without.
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return True
if getattr(self, "kv_cache_transceiver", None) is None:
return False
if _request_flag(request, "is_context_only_request"):

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Is this API intended to support non-draining weight updates on disaggregated engines? It also exempts CTX requests partway through chunked prefill, which can retain old-weight KV and re-publish blocks via store_context_blocks() after the reset. If supported, how is cache consistency across weight versions ensured? Otherwise, could we make that limitation explicit? If the exemption is narrowed, please guard with _is_request_in_transmission(): intermediate pipelined chunks never go through start_transfer, so requests_in_transfer() does not see them.

LlmRequestState.DISAGG_GENERATION_TRANS_COMPLETE,
})

def _is_disagg_transfer_bound(self, request: LlmRequest) -> bool:

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Could we move the CTX/GEN and DISAGG_* state checks into DisaggTransferCoordinator, exposed through something like exempt_from_recompute(request)? This would keep disagg recompute policy in disaggregation/orchestration, while PyExecutor retains batch retirement and resource operations. Please preserve the independent async-transfer check: connector-only transfers still need protection when no transceiver exists, and NoopDisaggCoordinator does not track them.

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Closing as the changes have been included in #20075

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