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  • DFlash now validates token budgets and pooled-context memory during configuration validation.
  • Buffer sizing uses min(max_seq_len, max_position_embeddings).
  • Context-arena sizing uses the KV-cache manager’s served length.
  • TRTLLM over-budget checks warn; VANILLA and FA4 still raise errors.
  • FlashInfer rejects DFlash and modes that require a separate draft KV-cache manager.
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  • Added CPU-only tests for DFlash budget validation, weight estimation, arena sizing, position handling, configuration wiring, and FlashInfer gating.
  • Tests cover budget failures, capacity caps, warnings, and accepted or rejected speculation modes.
  • No test-list files or entries were changed.
  • Coverage verdict: sufficient.

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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py: Verify FlashInfer admission and rejection for DFlash and separate draft-KV-cache modes.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py: Verify token-budget validation, buffer sizing, warnings, backend-specific errors, and context-buffer bypass behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: Verify the new skip flag, default batch-size adjustment, warnings, and explicit oversized-value failures.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py: Verify that Suffix Automaton uses the shared KV-cache path.
  • tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json: Verify the new boolean manifest fields and schema consistency.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_py_executor_creator_flashinfer_spec_gate.py: CPU-only tests cover FlashInfer admission and rejection rules. No test-list entry is reported.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py: CPU-only tests cover budget validation, sizing, warnings, and configuration wiring. No test-list entry is reported.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_ctx_arena_sizing.py: CPU-only tests cover KV-cache served-length handling and position-embedding caps. No test-list entry is reported.

Description

DFlash's pooled-context K/V buffers are allocated lazily during warmup, after the KV-cache pool has committed, so sizing mistakes fail late and opaquely: an oversized max_batch_size dies as a bare CUDA OOM, and a violated token budget (max_batch_size * (1 + max_draft_len) > max_num_tokens) corrupts memory at engine init. This PR has two commits:

Commit 1 — config-time budget validation and sizing/position fixes:

  • validate_dflash_ctx_buffer_budget (called from TorchLlmArgs.validate_speculative_config for DFlash) turns both failure modes into config-time errors: it enforces the token-budget rule and estimates the pooled-context buffer footprint against the memory left after the KV pool commits. The budget subtracts an estimate of the per-rank weight footprint (checkpoint shard bytes across TP x PP ranks) before applying (1 - free_gpu_memory_fraction); budgeting against the device total blesses batch sizes that then OOM in warmup. Refusals name the largest fitting max_batch_size.
  • Buffer capacity is min(max_seq_len, max_position_embeddings) — the same clamp the lazy allocation applies. Sizing off max_position_embeddings alone made 1M-position drafters refuse batch sizes their serve shape fits with room to spare (~21x over-budget at a 49152 serve length).
  • The context arena reads the served length from attn_metadata.kv_cache_manager.max_seq_len, which every backend carries, instead of a max_seq_len attribute only some metadata classes declare. On FlashInfer the attribute read came back empty and the arena was sized for the drafter's advertised 1048576 positions (a 165 GiB allocation, OOM in the first warmup forward) instead of the served 49152.
  • RoPE drafter prefill context is written at slot-local positions: on a prefix-cache hit the target-forward positions start at the reused-token count, which would offset every stored key from the numbering the draft queries use.

Commit 2 — FlashInfer one-engine speculation gate as a qualification boundary:
The FLASHINFER one-engine speculation check refused every one-engine mode that does not share the target KV cache, with a message claiming a capability gap. That predicate is too broad (it refuses modes that need no separate draft KV cache manager at all — the suffix automaton, and DFlash's VANILLA/FA4 draft backends with worker-owned private buffers) and inaccurately stated for DFlash, where the refusal is a qualification decision: the combination boots and generates at a small batch size but has not been qualified at serving scale. _flashinfer_one_engine_spec_supported refuses DFlash regardless of draft backend or cache ownership, admits one-engine modes that need no separate draft manager, and states the qualification grounds plus the remedy (TRTLLM target attention).

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All CPU-only:

  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py (new): the buffer-bytes formula (VANILLA and TRTLLM paged layouts), budget derivation and weight-shard estimate, the config-time refusals with fitting-value messaging, the trained-width warning, and the TorchLlmArgs wiring including the weight-subtraction path.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_ctx_arena_sizing.py (new): the arena sizing decision on metadata with and without the max_seq_len attribute, agreement between backends, and the position table remaining a ceiling.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_py_executor_creator_flashinfer_spec_gate.py (new): DFlash pinned as refused on FLASHINFER for every draft backend and cache-ownership setting; admission of no-speculation, shared-cache, external-drafter, and suffix-automaton configurations; other backends ungated.

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The change updates FlashInfer speculative-configuration gates and adds DFlash context-budget validation. It also adds CPU-only tests for DFlash budget handling and context-arena sizing.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
FlashInfer speculative configuration gate
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_py_executor_creator_flashinfer_spec_gate.py
FlashInfer rejects DFlash and configurations that require a separate draft KV cache manager. Suffix-automaton decoding does not require a separate draft KV cache.
DFlash context budget validation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py
DFlash validation checks context-buffer budgets, estimates checkpoint weights, derives memory budgets, clamps unset batch limits, and supports skipping pooled-context checks while retaining token-budget checks.
DFlash context arena sizing coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_ctx_arena_sizing.py
CPU-only tests verify sizing from the KV cache manager’s served sequence limit and cap the value at the drafter position-table limit.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  PyExecutorCreator->>SpeculativeConfig: inspect speculation mode and draft KV cache requirement
  PyExecutorCreator->>FlashInfer: apply support rules
  FlashInfer-->>PyExecutorCreator: admit or reject executor configuration
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The current test can fail on non-sparse filesystems, and DFlash memory validation can approve configurations that later exhaust GPU memory because draft weights are omitted. Resolve these issues before merging.

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🟡 Minor · Include max_gpu_total_bytes in the DFlash budget derivation. · llm_args.py:6324-6338

tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py:6324-6338
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include max_gpu_total_bytes in the DFlash budget derivation.

When max_gpu_total_bytes is below the fraction-based KV-pool size, runtime sizing uses the smaller byte cap and leaves more memory for DFlash buffers. The current derivation still uses only free_gpu_memory_fraction, so it can raise ValueError for a configuration whose effective KV-pool allocation leaves enough headroom. Pass the effective minimum KV-pool size into derive_dflash_ctx_memory_budget_bytes and derive the remaining budget from that value. Do not skip validation, because that would remove the early DFlash buffer-fit check.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py` around lines 6324 - 6338, The DFlash budget
derivation currently ignores the byte-based KV-pool cap. Update the relevant
speculative-configuration validation flow around
_validate_moe_backend_compatibility and derive_dflash_ctx_memory_budget_bytes to
compute the effective KV-pool size as the minimum of the fraction-based size and
max_gpu_total_bytes, pass that value into the budget derivation, and retain the
existing DFlash buffer-fit validation.
🟡 Minor · Admit standalone SA before applying the separate-draft-KV-cache… · py_executor_creator.py:212-229

tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py:212-229
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Admit standalone SA before applying the separate-draft-KV-cache gate. SADecodingConfig inherits _allow_separate_draft_kv_cache=True, so should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache() returns True on SA's one-engine, non-shared-cache path. The FlashInfer predicate negates that result and rejects standalone SA. SA uses SuffixAutomatonManager and SAWorker; it has no draft-model or separate draft-KV-cache worker. Add an is_sa() admission path before calling the helper, and keep the test's admission assertion.

Test coverage: The CPU-only unit tests cover no speculation, SA, DFlash variants, cache opt-out, NGram, MTP, shared KV cache, and non-FlashInfer backends. No integration test-list entry applies. Coverage is sufficient for this gate after the production predicate is corrected.

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before evaluating should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache(), since SA uses
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py`:
- Around line 463-468: Update the rejection branch around
_flashinfer_one_engine_spec_supported to distinguish DFlash from other
unsupported one-engine speculation modes using
spec_config.spec_dec_mode.is_dflash(). Keep the existing DFlash guidance for
DFlash, and provide a separate message naming the speculation mode and
unsupported separate draft KV cache manager requirement for other modes.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py`:
- Around line 72-74: Update the capacity rounding condition in the relevant
helper to use _PAGED_ATTENTION_BACKENDS, ensuring both TRTLLM and FA4 round
capacity to whole pages. Update that helper’s docstring and attention_backend
argument description to identify VANILLA as contiguous and TRTLLM or FA4 as
paged.
- Around line 1232-1233: Add a focused regression test beside
test_dflash_ctx_arena_sizing.py covering DFlashWorker._store_prefill_context
with a reused-prefix chunk. Construct the worker via object.__new__, stub
draft_model.precompute_context_kv, and use metadata whose position_ids begin
above zero; assert the stub receives slot-local positions torch.arange(cur, cur
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py`:
- Around line 266-267: Replace the 200 GiB truncate-based fixture in the dflash
budget test with an empty model.safetensors file, and patch
dflash.os.path.getsize to return 200 * GIB around the
_validate_dflash_ctx_budget call so the test preserves its oversized-checkpoint
behavior without allocating a large file.

In
`@tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_ctx_arena_sizing.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Add the pytestmark assignment using the cpu_only marker in
the test module before the SERVED and POSITION_TABLE constants, ensuring the
GPU-free tests are selected by the CPU lane.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py`:
- Around line 212-229: The speculative-decoding admission predicate must allow
standalone SA before evaluating should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache(), since SA
uses SuffixAutomatonManager and SAWorker without a draft-KV-cache worker. Update
the relevant FlashInfer gate to check is_sa() first, while preserving the
existing admission assertion and other speculation paths.

In `@tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py`:
- Around line 6324-6338: The DFlash budget derivation currently ignores the
byte-based KV-pool cap. Update the relevant speculative-configuration validation
flow around _validate_moe_backend_compatibility and
derive_dflash_ctx_memory_budget_bytes to compute the effective KV-pool size as
the minimum of the fraction-based size and max_gpu_total_bytes, pass that value
into the budget derivation, and retain the existing DFlash buffer-fit
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🟠 Major · Include separate DFlash drafter weights in the memory estimate. · llm_args.py:6331-6337

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Include separate DFlash drafter weights in the memory estimate.

When spec_cfg.speculative_model points to a distinct checkpoint, its weights are loaded by the DFlash worker but are not included in per_rank_weight_bytes. The derived budget can therefore approve a context arena that leaves insufficient GPU memory and later causes a CUDA OOM. Sum the target and draft checkpoint estimates per rank, and count the draft only when its path does not identify the target checkpoint.

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KV-cache manager and rejecting an oversized private arena budget.

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…em off the served length

DFlash's pooled-context K/V buffers are allocated lazily during warmup,
after the KV-cache pool has committed, so sizing mistakes fail late and
opaquely: an oversized max_batch_size dies as a bare CUDA OOM, and a
violated token budget (max_batch_size * (1 + max_draft_len) >
max_num_tokens) corrupts memory at engine init. This change makes those
failure modes config-time errors and fixes three sizing/position defects:

- Config-time budget validation: validate_dflash_ctx_buffer_budget
  (called from TorchLlmArgs.validate_speculative_config for DFlash)
  enforces the token-budget rule and estimates the pooled-context buffer
  footprint against the memory left after the KV pool commits. The
  budget subtracts an estimate of the per-rank weight footprint
  (checkpoint shard bytes across TP x PP ranks) before applying
  (1 - free_gpu_memory_fraction); budgeting against the device total
  blesses batch sizes that then OOM in warmup. Refusals name the largest
  fitting max_batch_size.

- Capacity from the serve-time max_seq_len: the buffer capacity is
  min(max_seq_len, max_position_embeddings), the same clamp the lazy
  allocation applies. Sizing off max_position_embeddings alone made
  1M-position drafters refuse batch sizes their serve shape fits with
  room to spare (a 49152-seq-len posture was budgeted ~21x too large).

- Context arena sized from the KV cache manager: the served length is
  read from attn_metadata.kv_cache_manager.max_seq_len, which every
  backend carries, instead of a max_seq_len attribute only some metadata
  classes declare. On FlashInfer the attribute read came back empty and
  the arena was sized for the drafter's advertised 1048576 positions
  (165 GiB, OOM in the first warmup forward) instead of the served
  49152. The attribute stays as the fallback for no-cache attention.

- RoPE drafter prefill at slot-local positions: prefill context is
  written at positions local to the request's arena slot rather than
  global sequence positions, so a RoPE drafter scores draft tokens
  against context embedded at the positions it was trained to see.

Adds cpu_only unit tests for the buffer-bytes formula, the budget
derivation and weight estimate, the config-time refusals (including the
TorchLlmArgs wiring), and the arena-sizing decision on metadata with and
without the max_seq_len attribute.

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The FLASHINFER one-engine speculation check refused every one-engine
mode that does not share the target KV cache, with a message claiming
the backend "supports one-engine speculative decoding only when the
draft model shares the target KV cache". That predicate is both too
broad and inaccurately stated:

- Too broad: it refuses one-engine modes that need no separate draft KV
  cache manager at all -- the suffix automaton drafts from the target's
  own logits and token history, and DFlash's VANILLA/FA4 draft backends
  keep context KV in worker-owned private buffers
  (should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache returns False for all of these).
- Inaccurately stated: for DFlash, the refusal is a qualification
  decision, not a capability gap. The combination boots and generates at
  a small batch size; it has not been qualified at serving scale (long
  context, block-reuse pressure, accuracy gates). A refusal whose stated
  reason is a nonexistent defect sends people hunting for it.

Replace the inline predicate with _flashinfer_one_engine_spec_supported:

- DFlash is refused on FLASHINFER target attention regardless of its
  draft attention backend or cache ownership, on qualification grounds,
  with the remedy named (TRTLLM target attention).
- Other one-engine speculative modes are admitted exactly when they need
  no separate draft KV cache manager (shared-cache modes, the suffix
  automaton); modes that do need one stay refused.

Adds cpu_only unit tests pinning DFlash as refused for every draft
backend and cache-ownership setting, and the admission of shared-cache,
external-drafter, and suffix-automaton modes.

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Address review feedback on the DFlash budget/gate changes:

- SA one-engine gate: should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache reached its final
  return for Suffix Automaton and reported True, so the FlashInfer gate refused
  SA even though SA drafts from its own suffix-automaton state pool and needs no
  separate draft KV cache manager. Add an SA carve-out returning False.
- FlashInfer refusal message: it always named DFlash even when the refusal was
  another one-engine mode needing a separate draft KV cache manager. Branch the
  message on spec_dec_mode.is_dflash().
- Token budget: under stock defaults (max_batch_size=2048, max_num_tokens=8192)
  the check hard-failed any max_draft_len>=4, so a plain
  DFlashDecodingConfig(max_draft_len=7) failed at construction. When
  max_batch_size was not set explicitly, clamp it to max_num_tokens/(1+K) and
  warn; an explicitly-set max_batch_size still hard-fails.
- Buffer-budget false refusals: skip the buffer-fit check when max_seq_len is
  unset (it would otherwise size off the drafter's max_position_embeddings and
  refuse every batch size) and when attention_backend==TRTLLM (which borrows the
  managed pool and reserves no private arena).
- estimate_checkpoint_weight_bytes: prefer .safetensors and fall back to .bin
  rather than summing both (double-counting shrank the budget), and walk
  subdirectories so sharded layouts are not missed.
- Add skip_ctx_buffer_budget_check to DFlashDecodingConfig as an explicit
  opt-out of the buffer-fit check (the estimate is deliberately conservative).
- _check_ctx_arena_fits: reuse compute_dflash_ctx_buffer_bytes instead of a
  duplicated arena formula so the runtime check and config-time estimate cannot
  drift. Note in the config-time path that dtype_bytes and block width are
  approximations of the real allocation's inputs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
…ehavior

The budget/gate fixes changed behavior the existing tests pinned to the old
behavior. Update them and add coverage for the new paths:

- Buffer-fit refusal tests now set an explicit max_seq_len (with a tight budget
  to force the refusal) instead of relying on the removed 1M max_position
  fallback.
- Add test_unset_max_seq_len_skips_the_buffer_check and
  test_trtllm_backend_skips_the_buffer_check for the two new skip paths.
- Weight estimate: assert prefer-.safetensors (150, not the old 157 sum),
  add .bin fallback and subdirectory-walk cases.
- Add test_default_batch_is_clamped_not_rejected for the token-budget clamp of
  an unset max_batch_size.
- Move the derived-budget refusal test to an explicit max_seq_len with a batch
  large enough to still overrun the weight-subtracted budget.

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The TRTLLM backend does not guarantee it uses the KV-cache manager's managed
pool: when the pool is unavailable (no draft manager, or an incompatible
pool/block-table) _lazy_init_ctx_buffers falls back to allocating the private
arena, so unconditionally skipping the config-time buffer-fit check for TRTLLM
let an oversized config defer its failure to a bare CUDA OOM at warmup.

Instead of skipping, compute the arena and, for TRTLLM, warn rather than raise
when it exceeds the budget: the common managed-pool config is not refused, and
the private-arena fallback OOM is no longer silent. VANILLA and FA4 still raise
(they always own the arena). skip_ctx_buffer_budget_check still suppresses it.

Tests: TRTLLM over-budget now asserts a warning (not a silent skip), plus a
parameterized test that the token-budget check fires before both the
max_seq_len-None and TRTLLM buffer-check bypasses.

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When speculative_model is a Hugging Face repo id, the drafter's config.json
is not readable at validation time, so _validate_dflash_ctx_budget ran with
draft_config=None and only the token-budget check applied; the buffer-fit
check was skipped and never re-run. CachedModelLoader now re-runs the check
right after it downloads the drafter and re-resolves the config, under the
same was_hub_model guard, so a local path is not checked twice.

Add unit coverage for both the Hub-id re-check and the local-path
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…n KV estimation runs

The config-time buffer-fit check budgeted the pooled-context arena as
(1 - free_gpu_memory_fraction) x (total - overhead - weights) x 0.7 on
the premise that the arena is carved from what is left after the KV pool
commits. On the default executor path (KV-cache estimation runs) the
arena is allocated inside the estimation forward, before the pool is
sized, and the pool then takes its fraction of what remains. The real
constraint there is weights + overhead + arena + activation reserve <=
total; the fraction bounds the pool, not the arena. With fraction 0.9
the old form kept 7% of the headroom and refused ordinary configs (the
Laguna-XS L0 tests: 10.09 GiB arena vs a 7.85 GiB / 2.96 GiB budget on
B200 / H100 while the real headroom was ~106 / ~36 GiB).

derive_dflash_ctx_memory_budget_bytes now takes a keyword-only
arena_before_pool flag. True: total - overhead - weights - 6 GiB reserve
(activations of the profiling forward, CUDA-graph capture, autotuner
workspaces, fragmentation; additive because those do not scale with
headroom). False: the previous (1 - fraction) x 0.7 form, which is right
when estimation is skipped and the pool commits first.

TorchLlmArgs._kv_cache_estimation_runs mirrors the config-time-knowable
conditions of KvCacheCreator.try_prepare_estimation
(TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION, VANILLA target attention, context
parallelism) and _validate_dflash_ctx_budget passes the result to both
the derivation and the validator, so the post-download re-validation in
CachedModelLoader uses the same derivation. The refusal message states
which headroom was budgeted and stops suggesting a lower
free_gpu_memory_fraction in the arena-first case, where it does not help.

Tests: both derivations, the mode decision, L0-shaped B200/H100 cases
accepted arena-first and refused pool-first, and the wiring tests pinned
to an explicit mode. No LlmArgs fields added.

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The two L0 failures (TestLagunaXS_2_1::test_bf16_dflash on B200, ::test_fp8_dflash on H100) were a false refusal from the new config-time buffer check. The arena size estimate was right (10.09 GiB, within 0.03 GiB of the runtime allocation). The budget it was compared against was wrong.

The check assumed the arena is allocated after the KV-cache pool commits, so it budgeted (1 - free_gpu_memory_fraction) x (total - 4 GiB overhead - weights) x 0.7. On the default path the order is reversed: KV-cache estimation runs a profiling forward, the DFlash worker allocates the arena inside that forward (VANILLA backend, _lazy_init_ctx_buffers), and the pool is then sized as free_gpu_memory_fraction of what is left. The fraction bounds the pool, not the arena. With fraction 0.9 the old formula kept 7% of the headroom: 7.85 GiB on B200 and 2.96 GiB on H100 against a 10.09 GiB arena, while the real headroom was about 106 GiB and 36 GiB. The "largest max_batch_size estimated to fit" values in the failing messages (99 and 36) reproduce exactly from that formula.

What changed in 414ba69:

  • derive_dflash_ctx_memory_budget_bytes takes a keyword-only arena_before_pool flag. True (estimation runs, the default): budget = total - 4 GiB overhead - per-rank weights - 6 GiB reserve. The reserve is additive because what it covers (activation peak of the profiling forward, CUDA graph capture, autotuner workspace, fragmentation) does not scale with headroom. The live data already in the PR put the post-arena consumers at 2-4 GiB plus ~1.6 GiB fragmentation, so 6 GiB covers their sum. False (estimation skipped): the previous (1 - fraction) x 0.7 form, which is correct there because the pool commits first.
  • TorchLlmArgs._kv_cache_estimation_runs mirrors the config-time-knowable conditions of KvCacheCreator.try_prepare_estimation: TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION=1, target attn_backend == "VANILLA", context parallelism. Encoder-decoder also skips estimation but is only known at load time; it lands on the looser side, so no false refusal.
  • The refusal message says which headroom was budgeted. In the arena-first case it no longer suggests lowering free_gpu_memory_fraction, which does not help there.
  • Tests: both derivations, the mode decision, and L0-shaped B200/H100 cases that pass arena-first and are refused pool-first. No LlmArgs fields added; manifest untouched.

Tradeoff: a config whose arena fits but leaves the pool tiny now passes the check and fails later with a KV-capacity error instead of a bare OOM. I think that is fine. The error is clear and names the real problem.

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PR NVIDIA#19466 added TestHubIdRevalidation, which constructs CachedModelLoader
with llm_build_stats and workspace. PR NVIDIA#19428 landed afterwards and removed
both parameters (together with LlmBuildStats and the workspace property), so
the two tests in that class now fail with TypeError on main.

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so the tmp_path argument of the _loader helper is no longer needed either.

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SEMANTIC_REVIEW

Best-effort AI judgment for these fixed revisions. PASS, FAIL, and INCONCLUSIVE
may be incomplete or incorrect. PR authors and reviewers should independently
verify the evidence and relevant behavior. This semantic review and its
status/workflow are advisory, not required merge checks under current repository
rules; other merge requirements still apply. Advisory status does not make a
confirmed defect safe to ignore.

Verdict: FAIL

Revision and integration verification

All three commit IDs resolve exactly. Git reports 0d4304aab66e8da3023a027042fb0736f6d63b75 as the unique merge-base. Head and target diverge.

I compared both merge_base..head and merge_base..target. The three-way preview merges the shared executor-creation, DFlash, and speculative-interface files without conflict markers. It preserves head’s validation and gate changes together with target’s initialization monitor, capture-buffer sharing, and RNG changes.

Finding 1 — The new token-budget check rejects supported token-limited DFlash configurations

Classification: PR-local compatibility defect, not target drift.
Confidence: High for the configuration refusal; source-based, not runtime-tested.

Trigger: Use compatible local target and DFlash checkpoints with:

  • PyTorch backend and TRTLLM target attention.
  • VANILLA DFlash attention and max_draft_len=7.
  • Explicit max_batch_size=32 and max_num_tokens=128.
  • Single-GPU execution, no context parallelism, and overlap scheduling disabled.
  • Adequate memory and KV capacity. CUDA graphs can be disabled to isolate this path.

Changed contract: The PR requires every possible request slot to fit in one speculative generation step. The existing executor treats request capacity and per-step token capacity as separate limits.

Verified source facts:

  1. Head calls the new validation during TorchLlmArgs validation: head, Line 6589–6595. The check raises because 32 × 8 = 256 > 128: head, Line 265–278.
  2. The clamp applies only when max_batch_size was not explicit: head, Line 6354–6373. Disabling the memory-budget check does not bypass the token check.
  3. The target executor populates one-engine draft-token counts before scheduling: target, Line 3847–3875. The scheduler then charges each generation request for its bonus and draft tokens and stops at the token limit: target, Line 460–466. This configuration schedules at most 16 full-width generation requests per step.
  4. Initialization already limits maximum-shape warmup by token width: target, Line 1302–1314. When graphs are enabled, graph filtering also limits batches to max_num_tokens // tokens_per_request: target, Line 30–43.

Observable failure: Configuration construction now fails with the DFlash token-budget error before the executor can apply those limits. This is not merely a changed constraint with an unknown trigger: the explicit values reach the new unconditional refusal.

The scheduler and graph-filter files have identical blobs at merge-base, head, and target. The warmup limit also exists at merge-base. Target validation lacks the new refusal: target, Line 6459–6462. No paired target edit removes these limits or resolves the incompatibility.

Other inspected paths and limitations

I also checked helper imports and callers, hub-download revalidation, allocation-order gates, context-arena sizing, prefill/generation position bindings, suffix-automaton cache ownership, and capture-buffer test contracts. I found no additional concrete incompatibility in those paths.

This review used read-only source and Git inspection. It did not execute tests or GPU workloads. It does not establish checkpoint-specific memory fit or provide exhaustive coverage of target changes.

SEMANTIC_RESULT request_id=e002777b-6ced-41a4-81ba-53cd21e10bb2 head=414ba69f42c204243549d2b3cf809c206ee32a0d target=34533411d7c9cf92f036b6d9b7eafc93c38a84e8 merge_base=0d4304aab66e8da3023a027042fb0736f6d63b75 verdict=FAIL


🧠 Learnings used
Learnt from: brnguyen2
Repo: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Timestamp: 2026-09-21T19:00:07.463Z
Learning: For DFlash context-buffer budget validation in `tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py`, an over-budget estimate with the `TRTLLM` attention backend must emit a warning rather than raise `ValueError`. TRTLLM can bind a managed draft KV-cache pool and avoid private-arena allocation, but it can fall back to a private arena. The warning must describe the fallback allocation risk. VANILLA and FA4 own the private arena and must continue to raise on an over-budget estimate.

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