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ZMQ sockets are not thread-safe, but the Sender's shared DEALERs were used concurrently by the listener thread (FAILED for a request whose session already ended), the executor thread (CANCEL_SESSION) and, through the legacy early-failure routing, by worker threads. The dict lookup and connect were also unlocked. Queue those messages on the worker that owns the (request, peer) stream, the path ownership mode already used for listener rejections. Only worker threads now send, each on its own DEALERs, and a queued FAILED or CANCEL_SESSION follows everything the worker already queued for that stream. Route every stream through one _worker_index() helper. Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
Run four Sender workers by default so writes to different peers and different requests overlap. Each (request, peer) stream still stays on one worker. - Reject TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS values below 1 when the Sender is built. - SendTaskBase.fail() and complete() now change state under task.lock, and complete() no longer overwrites ERROR set by another thread. Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
WalkthroughThe sender now assigns each request-peer stream to one of four worker threads by default. Results, rejection messages, and cancellation messages use the stream’s worker-owned DEALER socket. Send-task state updates are synchronized. ChangesSender KV transfer routing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Sender
participant Queue as _queue_to_receiver_stream
participant Worker as Sender worker
participant Dealer as Worker-local DEALER
participant Receiver
Sender->>Queue: Queue request-peer messages
Queue->>Worker: Preserve stream order
Worker->>Dealer: Send queued messages
Dealer->>Receiver: Deliver reports or cancellation
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- Line 2244: Update Sender._submit_transfer so its non-ownership-mode
status.wait cannot block indefinitely; ensure the queued CANCEL_SESSION can
progress even while that worker is blocked, while preserving message order on
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| # Number of worker threads for KV transfer queues (default: 1) | ||
| KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS = int(os.environ.get("TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS", "1")) | ||
| # Number of Sender worker threads; each (request, peer) stream stays on one of them. | ||
| KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS = int(os.environ.get("TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS", "4")) |
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Preserve ERROR when concurrent workers start the same task.
With four workers, two peers of one request can enter Sender._deliver_kv_to_agent concurrently. In non-ownership mode, one worker can call task.fail() after another reads session.status but before that worker assigns task.status = TRANSFERRING at Line 1416. That assignment does not use task.lock and can overwrite ERROR after the task’s event is set. Synchronize the transition and reject it when the task is terminal. Add a two-peer regression test in tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py that controls this interleaving. As per path instructions, review production changes for “meaningful test coverage in addition to normal code review.”
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| [MessageType.CANCEL_SESSION, str(unique_rid).encode("ascii")] | ||
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| endpoint = self._get_result_receiver_endpoint(req_info) | ||
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Do not leave cancellation behind an unbounded backend wait.
In non-ownership mode, Sender._submit_transfer calls status.wait() without a timeout. If that call stalls, its worker cannot process the CANCEL_SESSION message now queued here for the same stream. The receiver may not learn that the sender cancelled the request. Preserve stream order, but provide a bounded or independently progressing path for cancellation when a worker is blocked.
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Update Sender._submit_transfer so its non-ownership-mode status.wait cannot
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TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADSnow defaults to4.SenderraisesValueErrorwhen the configured value is below1.SendTaskBase.fail()andcomplete()now update task state undertask.lock.complete()preserves an existingERRORstate.1restores the prior default behavior for affected configurations.QA Engineer Review
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py— Verify the four-thread default, rejection of worker counts below one, and race-safe task state transitions. The default change can affect non-ownership configurations; verify those configurations separately where one context rank sends to multiple peers.tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py— Adds checks that completion does not overwrite a failure and thatSenderrejects thread counts of zero and negative one. These unit tests are not listed in integration CI or manual-QA lists.Description
Important
This PR assumes physical-ownership mode is the general path. Ownership mode (
enforce_physical_ownership, today enabled only for the FP4-MLA bridge throughTRTLLM_ENABLE_FP4_MLA_KV_OWNERSHIP_BRIDGE) is planned to be generalized to all configurations soon. This PR relies on ownership mode, not on new bookkeeping, to make several Sender workers safe. It deliberately adds nothing to protect the non-ownership path, which is expected to go away.Why ownership mode makes four workers safe
Sender work is routed by
(request, peer), so different peers of one request can be written by different workers at the same time. In ownership mode each(task, peer)write is admitted at dispatch and tracked by its own physical-operation state (ADMITTED→SUBMITTING→SUBMITTED→BACKEND_DONE, orIN_DOUBT). A session drains only when every operation is proven finished, so one peer's failure cannot release source memory that another peer's write is still reading. In #19966's CI, where the default was already 4, the DGX_B200 4-GPU pre-merge stages that runtest_transfer_lifecycle_gpu.py(the real-NIXL ownership-mode test) passed.Known races outside ownership mode (accepted)
Until ownership mode is general, a configuration outside it that sends one request to two or more peers from the same context rank can hit:
Set
TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS=1to get the previous behavior. Configurations where each context rank sends a request to a single peer (for example attention-DP generation) are not exposed.This PR replaces #19966. That PR fixed these races with non-ownership write counters, admission atomic with the session ending, and a lock-and-timeout pool of shared DEALERs. Under the assumption above that machinery duplicates ownership mode and would become dead code.
Changes
TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADSfrom 1 to 4. Values below 1 are rejected when theSenderis built.CANCEL_SESSION) and, through the legacy early-failure routing, worker threads all sent on the sharedSender._dealerswithout a lock. ZMQ sockets are not thread-safe, so this is a bug even with one worker. These messages are now queued on the worker that owns the(request, peer)stream, the path ownership mode already used for listener rejections. A queued FAILED or CANCEL follows everything the worker already queued for that stream._dealers,_get_or_connect_dealer,_get_result_dealerand thedefer_to_workerflag are removed._worker_index(unique_rid, peer_rank)replaces five inlinehash(...) % num_threadscomputations; the values are unchanged.SendTaskBase.fail()/complete()change state undertask.lock, andcomplete()no longer overwrites ERROR. This matters in ownership mode too, where the executor'sset_exception()can race a worker'scomplete().Production code:
transfer.py+53 / −84.Behavior notes
status.wait()have no timeout), the receiver falls back to itskv_transfer_timeout_ms.Performance
Local perf sanity on oci-jhb (the CI cluster for this case),
gb300_deepseek-r1-fp4_128k8k_con256_ctx1_pp4_gen1_dep8_eplb0_mtp1_ccb-NIXLe2e, mainec357dd9e4, only the thread count changed: 1 vs 4 threads gave 15323 vs 15320 tok/s, with TTFT, TPOT and E2EL within 0.4%. No regression. This case is context-bound, so it shows no gain either.Test Coverage
New
cpu_onlytests intests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py(collected byl0_cpu.ymlthroughunittest/disaggregated). Each fails on main:test_sender_failed_result_is_queued_on_the_stream_worker_in_ordertest_cancel_to_receivers_is_queued_behind_each_stream_earlier_reportstest_send_task_complete_does_not_overwrite_a_failuretest_sender_rejects_fewer_than_one_worker_thread[0|-1]Updated: mocks of
_get_result_dealernow target_get_or_connect_thread_dealer;test_listener_failure_uses_worker_stream_in_ownership_bridgecalls_queue_to_receiver_stream. Removedtest_sender_result_dealer_preserves_legacy_early_failure_routing, which pinned the removed routing.Local run of
unittest/disaggregated -m cpu_onlywith the L0_PostMerge 3027 wheel, which was built from this PR's base commit3163e66b2c: 1137 passed. The one failure,test_cancel_after_publication_cannot_overtake_request_data, is pre-existing receiver-side flakiness that this PR does not touch: 5/20 failures on the base and 6/20 with this PR. The new tests passed 10 of 10 repeats.The multi-GPU disaggregated stages need the
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