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The test now triggers one KV-pool rebalance during generation after all active requests generate at least four tokens. It validates progress, limits near-tie flips to post-rebalance output, requires one exact match, and warns on accepted flips. The B300 waiver removal expands tested scope. Later QA-triggered runs failed, so follow-up is required.

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test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py updates overlap and non-overlap coverage for test_rebalance_matches_baseline. It checks mid-generation rebalance, invalid timing cases, exact matches, and constrained near-tie flips. The test IDs are listed in both test-db/l0_h100.yml and qa/llm_function_core.txt. waives.txt removes the related waiver entries. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up because later QA runs failed and a literal B300 overlap run is not reported.

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  • tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py: Covers KV-pool rebalance during generation for both scheduler modes. Verify rebalance timing, progress checks, output comparison, and negative error paths.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt: Removes waivers for the affected cases. Verify the newly unwaived cases in CI and manual QA.

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Follow-up to #19809 (nvbugs/6838020). It delivers the change promised in this review thread and removes the B300 waiver.

The test never rebalanced mid-generation. _inject_pool_ratio_mismatch forced the rebalance precondition before generate(). The executor acted on it on its first iteration, before any request was scheduled. I confirmed this by instrumenting _rebalance_kv_pools_now: it ran at iter_counter == 0 with no active requests, in both scheduler modes. So adjust() resized empty pools, and the suspend → adjust() → resume of live KV the test is meant to cover never ran. The pool-ratio assertion still passed because the ratio did move.

Changes to test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py:

  • _arm_mid_generation_rebalance replaces _inject_pool_ratio_mismatch. It forces the precondition from inside the executor's rebalance hook, on the first iteration where every in-flight request has generated at least _REBALANCE_AFTER_TOKENS = 4 tokens. It also records, per request, how many tokens had been generated when adjust() ran.
  • _generate_tokens asserts that exactly one rebalance ran and that every prompt was in flight when it did.
  • From the [https://nvbugs/6838020][fix] Tolerate near-tie greedy flips in KV pool rebalance accuracy test #19809 review (@brnguyen2):
    • A near-tie flip is tolerated only at or after that prompt's rebalance point. Before it, both arms are configured identically, so an earlier flip can't be the rebalance's doing, and it would leave none of that prompt's post-rebalance tokens checked.
    • At least one prompt must match exactly, so at least one output is checked end to end across the rebalance.
    • Accepted flips are reported with warnings.warn instead of print, so they show up in the CI summary.
  • From this PR's review (@brnguyen2): _REBALANCE_AFTER_TOKENS went from 8 to 4. Prompt 1 has a near-tie at token 10, and on GB300 its top-1 and top-2 logits are exactly tied in bf16. With 8, the overlap scheduler put prompt 1's rebalance at token 9 or 10, right on that tie. A one-token shift would move the tie before the rebalance step, where a flip fails the test instead of being accepted. With 4, the rebalance lands at tokens 4–6.

waives.txt: removes full:B300/...[overlap] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6838020).

Stacked on #20476. It removes the platform-wide nvbugs/6930163 waivers; without that, this test is skipped everywhere, B300 included. This branch is rebased on #20476's branch, so until #20476 merges, this PR also shows its commit (433ada259e, the two 6930163 lines in waives.txt). Please review only the top commit. Once #20476 merges, I'll rebase this onto main so only this PR's own change remains.

Test Coverage

accuracy/test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py::TestKvPoolRebalanceAccuracy::test_rebalance_matches_baseline[no_overlap|overlap]. It's in l0_h100.yml and qa/llm_function_core.txt; B300 runs come from the QA list.

Local runs on 1x GB300 (the same Blackwell Ultra GPU as B300, on a Grace/aarch64 host), Gemma-3-1B, installed tensorrt_llm 1.3.0rc26. Each run logged the tokens generated per prompt at rebalance:

_REBALANCE_AFTER_TOKENS Case Runs Tokens generated per prompt at rebalance Result
8 [no_overlap] 2 [9, 9, 8, 8] all PASSED, all 4 prompts exact
8 [overlap] 12 [10, 9, 9, 9] ×9, [10, 10, 9, 9] ×2 all PASSED, all 4 prompts exact
4 [no_overlap] 2 [5, 4, 4, 4] all PASSED, all 4 prompts exact
4 [overlap] 10 [6, 5, 5, 5] ×9, [6, 6, 5, 5] ×1 all PASSED, all 4 prompts exact

(One threshold-8 [overlap] run predates the step logging.) No near-tie flip was accepted in any run.

Earlier runs on 1x H100 at threshold 8, with an older tensorrt_llm that has the same rebalance hook call chain and #20294's threadleak_exclude applied: [no_overlap] [9, 8, 8, 8] and [overlap] [10, 10, 10, 9], both PASSED with all 4 prompts exact.

Negative checks ([no_overlap]):

  • Arming before generation, as the old code did, now fails: the rebalance did not land mid-generation (in flight at the time: {} ...).
  • Never arming still fails the existing ratio assertion.

The comparison helper was also checked on synthetic inputs: an exact match, a flip after the rebalance point, a flip at it, a flip before it, and a wide-gap divergence.

GB300 is not the literal full:B300 QA config (aarch64 host vs x86), so a B300 QA run of [overlap] is still welcome as confirmation.

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The accuracy test triggers one KV-pool rebalance after active requests generate at least four tokens. It records rebalance steps and validates output differences. It also removes three test waiver entries.

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KV-pool rebalance accuracy

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Trigger and record mid-generation rebalance
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py
Executor hooks arm one rebalance during live decoding after active requests generate at least four tokens. The test records generated-token counts and requires one rebalance.
Validate output differences
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py, tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
The comparison rejects divergences before the recorded rebalance step, warns for accepted post-rebalance near-tie flips, and requires at least one exact match. Three waiver entries are removed.

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Change: Bug fix

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The test remains susceptible to a scheduling-dependent failure when a prompt is still queued at rebalance. Reported runs passed, and the warning text is corrected; the remaining risk is bounded but warrants owner awareness.

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

This fixes the right problem. A ratio-only assertion couldn't tell a rebalance on empty pools from one that moved live KV, and recording the active requests inside _rebalance_kv_pools_now closes that gap. In overlap mode the hook records after _consume_previous_batch_for_rebalance, so the per-request step index matches the first token decoded against the migrated cache.

Only H100 runs this test in pre-merge (l0_h100.yml). The B300 [overlap] configuration from the bug only runs through the QA list, so this PR's CI says nothing about whether the B300 waiver can come out. Details inline.

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🟡 Minor · Correct the warning’s token count description. · test_kv_pool_rebalance_accuracy.py:300-301

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Correct the warning’s token count description.

k - rebalance_step counts matching tokens after the rebalance and before the flip. The warning says those tokens matched before the rebalance. Change the text so the CI warning identifies the correct phase.

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…ccuracy test

Both parametrizations of test_rebalance_matches_baseline were waived
because pytest-threadleak flagged Inductor compile-worker threads that
the test's torch.compile'd logprob path starts in-process. NVIDIA#20294 added
those thread names to the integration threadleak_exclude, so the test
passes again and the waivers can go.

Signed-off-by: Thor Johnsen <41591019+thorjohnsen@users.noreply.github.com>
…balance accuracy test

The test forced the rebalance precondition before generate(), so the
executor acted on it on its first iteration, before any request was
scheduled. adjust() resized empty pools and never migrated live KV, so
the suspend/adjust/resume path the test is meant to cover was never
exercised.

Force the precondition from inside the executor's rebalance hook once
every in-flight request has generated 8 tokens, record where the
rebalance landed for each request, and assert that it landed
mid-generation for every prompt.

Follow-up to NVIDIA#19809 review feedback:
- a near-tie flip is only tolerated at or after the prompt's rebalance
  point,
- at least one prompt must match exactly, so one output is checked end
  to end across the rebalance,
- accepted flips are reported with warnings.warn instead of print.

Also removes the B300 waiver for the overlap variant.

Signed-off-by: Thor Johnsen <41591019+thorjohnsen@users.noreply.github.com>
…pt 1's near-tie

With _REBALANCE_AFTER_TOKENS = 8, prompt 1's rebalance lands at token 9
or 10 under the overlap scheduler, right on its known exact bf16 near-tie
at token 10. A one-token shift would put that tie before the rebalance
step, where a flip fails the test instead of being accepted. Arming after
4 tokens puts the rebalance at tokens 4-6, well ahead of it.

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