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The PR adds one test file and makes no source or configuration changes. The tests isolate NCCL and MPI dependencies with mocks, so they verify branch selection and teardown calls but do not validate real communicator behavior.

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Added tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py. It defines five parameterized test cases covering Ray and MPI bootstrap, unique-ID generation and broadcast, group configuration, timeout-proxy registration, and teardown order. The file has a cpu_only marker. No integration test-list changes appear in the diff; CI or manual-QA list membership is not available. The prior reported test run used an overlaid source file and predates the merge with main; a run against the current source is not available. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

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• tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py: Covers Ray and MPI bootstrap branches and branch-specific cleanup using stubs. It is marked cpu_only; integration test-list applicability and membership are not available.

Description

Tests-only follow-up to #21347 (merged 2026-11-02, 71b8f3dc7), which fixed #20083. This PR first carried the same source fix; after #21347 landed, main was merged into the branch and main's nccl_ep_utils.py was taken, so the PR no longer changes any source file.

It adds tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py, a unit test for the NCCL-EP communicator bootstrap in NcclEpContext.__init__, covering the Ray branch #21347 added and the MPI branch it kept (5 cases):

• Ray branch (mpi_disabled() true): the communicator is seeded with get_nccl_comm_from_group(mapping.moe_ep_group_pg), mpi_comm() / Communicator.init are never called, and _ep_mpi_comm stays None.
• MPI branch (EP rank 0 and 1): Split(mapping.pp_rank, mapping.moe_ep_rank), the unique id is generated on EP rank 0 only, and the torch-group helper is never touched.
• destroy() on both branches: the timeout proxy is unregistered before the group is destroyed, then group.destroy() -> comm.finalize() -> comm.destroy(), and the MPI sub-communicator is freed only on the MPI branch.

The test stubs the nccl namespace package and the CUDA allocations, so it needs no GPU.

Related: #21809 tracks the same MPI-split bootstrap in the DeepEP buffers (deep_ep_utils.py:51 and :131).

Test Coverage

• Local CPU-only run at 2fd097a0e against main's nccl_ep_utils.py and _utils.py, with the cpu_only collection hook and the Ray-skip hook from tests/unittest/conftest.py (compiled modules stubbed; not the CI image): -m cpu_only gives 5 passed, -m "not cpu_only" gives 5 deselected.
• Not CI, one arm64 GB10 machine: the public nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.4.0rc3.dev202611050315 image with its installed package (its nccl_ep_utils.py is byte-identical to this branch's) and this branch's tests/unittest at 2fd097a0e. In a container started without GPUs, -m cpu_only _torch/moe collects this file and its 5 cases pass; with GPUs, -m "not cpu_only" on the file deselects all 5.
• CI placement: the CPU stage, through the existing unittest/_torch/moe entry in l0_cpu.yml. No GPU-stage list includes the file, and the GPU stages' -m "not cpu_only" would deselect it if one did.
• Not covered: a multi-GPU Ray + NCCL-EP end-to-end check, and the listening-socket growth during warmup ([Bug]: Ray orchestrator with attention DP and TRTLLM_FORCE_COMM_METHOD=NCCL_EP: each rank accumulates thousands of listening TCP sockets during warmup (1.3.0rc28) #20082), which is a separate issue.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds CPU-only unit tests for NcclEpContext communicator bootstrap and teardown. The tests cover MPI-disabled Ray orchestration, MPI-based orchestration, group configuration, timeout-proxy registration, and cleanup ordering.

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NCCL-EP bootstrap tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CPU-only test harness tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py	Adds mocked NCCL types, CPU-backed torch operations, dependency fixtures, and an NcclEpContext construction helper.
Bootstrap and teardown validation tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py	Tests communicator selection for Ray and MPI paths, rank-dependent unique-ID broadcast, group setup, timeout-proxy registration, teardown ordering, and MPI subcommunicator cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20631: Changes NcclEpContext teardown and overlaps with these communicator cleanup tests.

Suggested reviewers: litaotju

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2fd09

The Ray bootstrap branch now has a CPU-marked unit test included in the CPU test list. No actionable merge-blocking issue is established.

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/nccl_ep_utils.py: 1

229-244: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add focused coverage for both NCCL-EP bootstrap branches.

The PR changes only tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/nccl_ep_utils.py, and the inspected tests do not assert either bootstrap branch.

Add a CPU-only unit test under tests/unittest/_torch/moe/. Mock the NCCL-EP objects and CUDA tensor allocation, not only torch.cuda, because the constructor allocates CUDA tensors. Verify that:

• mpi_disabled() == True calls get_nccl_comm_from_group(mapping.moe_ep_group_pg), does not call mpi_comm(), and sets _ep_mpi_comm to None.
• mpi_disabled() == False calls Split(mapping.pp_rank, mapping.moe_ep_rank) and does not call the torch-group helper.
• destroy() calls comm.finalize() and comm.destroy() for the disabled branch, while skipping MPI Free().

This catches regressions that select the wrong bootstrap or pass the wrong EP process group without requiring a multi-GPU Ray test.

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Add focused CPU-only unit coverage for both `mpi_disabled()` bootstrap branches
in the NCCL-EP initialization flow, mocking NCCL-EP dependencies and CUDA tensor
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Addressed the CodeRabbit nitpick: 68bef52 adds tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py, a CPU-only unit test that covers both NCCL-EP bootstrap branches (Ray: get_nccl_comm_from_group(mapping.moe_ep_group_pg), no mpi_comm(), _ep_mpi_comm is None; MPI: Split(pp_rank, moe_ep_rank), rank-0-only unique id; destroy() order group -> comm.finalize() -> comm.destroy(), MPI Free() only on the MPI branch), registered next to test_communication_factory.py in l0_a10.yml and l0_rtx_pro_6000.yml. Ran CPU-only (no GPU) in the public nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.4.0rc1 image with this branch's nccl_ep_utils.py overlaid on the installed package and --noconftest (the main conftest patches tensorrt_llm._device_copy, absent from rc1): 5 passed, 4 warnings in 13.03s. The PR description's Test Coverage section is updated accordingly.

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[brnguyen2]

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

This fixes the Ray bootstrap, and it does so without changing the MPI path. destroy() already handles _ep_mpi_comm is None, so teardown needed no changes. The unit test pins the branch choice, the group passed to the helper, and the LIFO teardown order, which covers the regression risk in this diff.

Things to address or follow up on:

• Add a guard on communicator size. The original bug was a communicator whose rank count differed from moe_ep_size, and it either asserted at the first dispatch or went unnoticed. A one-line check after the if/else would catch this class of bug at init on both orchestrators. See the inline comment.
• The two branches build different groups. On the MPI path, the split color is pp_rank only, so the communicator spans the whole PP stage. On the Ray path, it spans exactly the EP group. The two agree only when moe_tp_size == 1 and cp_size == 1. Please either state that assumption or switch the MPI color to something EP-group-scoped. If that is out of scope here, the size check above would at least turn a mismatch into a clear error.
• DeepEP follow-up. The description says deep_ep_utils.py has the same Split() pattern in two places. Please open a tracking issue and link it here, so the known Ray breakage for DeepEP doesn't depend on someone rereading this PR.
• Multi-GPU coverage. The only end-to-end evidence is the manual two-node run. If a Ray multi-GPU stage exists that can force NCCL_EP, a short smoke test there would protect this path. Otherwise, please note it as a known gap.

[brnguyen2]

Please add a size check after the if/else, for example:

if self.comm.nranks != self.ep_size:  # or whatever nccl4py exposes for comm size
    raise RuntimeError(
        f"NCCL-EP communicator has {self.comm.nranks} ranks but moe_ep_size={self.ep_size}"
    )

The bug fixed here was exactly this mismatch, and it only showed up through a dispatch assert in some builds. On the 1.3.0rc28 wheel it didn't show up at all. The MPI branch can also mismatch: Split(mapping.pp_rank, ...) groups every rank in the PP stage, which is more than moe_ep_size when moe_tp_size > 1 or cp_size > 1. A check at init makes both cases fail loudly. If you want to keep it, a unit test for this is easy to add with the existing mocks.

[brnguyen2]

The docstring says these tests "run in the CPU-only stage", but the file has no pytest.mark.cpu_only marker, and the test-list changes register it only on the A10 and RTX Pro 6000 GPU stages. tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml exists now. Please consider adding pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only and listing the file in l0_cpu.yml instead of the GPU stages. If it has to stay on GPU stages (for example because the CPU image lacks something), please update the docstring so it doesn't claim otherwise.

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Done in 1286d84: the file now sets pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only (line 39), and its entries in l0_a10.yml and l0_rtx_pro_6000.yml are gone. I said I'd also list it in l0_cpu.yml, but that wasn't needed: l0_cpu.yml:155 already lists unittest/_torch/moe, and the CPU stages run that entry with -m cpu_only, so the marker alone puts the file there. The docstring's CPU-only claim now holds; I also dropped its "next to test_communication_factory.py", which is a GPU-stage test.

Checked outside CI: in a container started without GPUs from the public nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.4.0rc3.dev202611050315 image, whose installed nccl_ep_utils.py matches this branch byte for byte, pytest -m cpu_only _torch/moe run from tests/unittest collects the file and its 5 cases pass. -m "not cpu_only", the GPU stages' expression, deselects all 5.

[nv-lschneider]

Potential overlap with #21347 I think merging one is sufficient.

[sunnyqgg]

2 blockers, 0 possibly blocking and 6 required items. Both blockers are on the Ray + NCCL-EP path this PR fixes, and both are inline:

1. A model whose MoE mapping differs from the executor mapping (Kimi K3 by default) crashes when it resolves moe_ep_group_pg.
2. The zero-copy window path in the same constructor still bootstraps over MPI on every eager dispatch, which is the source of the listener growth in #20082.

Two required items are inline; the PR-level ones follow.

• [Required] This duplicates #21347 (nv-lschneider, "Closes #20083"). It makes the same change to the same hunk: the same mpi_disabled() branch and the same get_nccl_comm_from_group(mapping.moe_ep_group_pg) call. It was approved on 2026-11-02 and carries ci: full pre-merge approved.
  • Neither PR links the other, and CONTRIBUTING.md asks to "Link to the related PRs."
  • Please cross-link the two and agree on which one lands.
  • #21347 checks in no test ("Regression tests remain local"). If it lands first, please keep this PR's test_nccl_ep_utils.py and its test-db entries as a test-only change ([#20083][test] ...) instead of closing this PR.
  • If this PR lands instead, please close #21347 and reference nvbugs/6908161 here.
• [Required] +1 to brnguyen2's thread on tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py:20 (cpu_only placement). tests/AGENTS.md says "CPU-only tests go in l0_cpu.yml", and l0_cpu.yml already lists unittest/_torch/moe, so adding pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only is enough for the CPU stage to pick the file up.
  • Remove both GPU-list lines (l0_a10.yml:52, l0_rtx_pro_6000.yml:20) in the same change. GPU stages run with -m "not cpu_only", so once the marker is in, those entries collect zero tests, exit with code 5, and fail their stages (tests/integration/defs/test_unittests.py fails on any non-zero exit).
  • The RTX Pro 6000 entry also sits under the "cover the factory regression on SM120" comment without covering anything SM120-specific.
• [Required] +1 to brnguyen2's review summary (DeepEP follow-up). Fixes #20083 will auto-close #20083. Its "Same pattern elsewhere" section is currently the only record that DeepEP/DeepEPLowLatency (deep_ep_utils.py:51, :131) still split a 1-rank communicator under Ray, and that CommunicationFactory has no mpi_disabled() guard. Please open the tracking issue and link it in the description before merge.
• [Required] Release branch: release/1.3 still has the MPI-only split (nccl_ep_utils.py:226 there) and pins the same nccl-extensions commit, so the interop helper is available there too. #20083 was reported on 1.3.0rc28/rc29. Please state whether this fix (or #21347, whichever lands) should be cherry-picked to release/1.3.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] mapping.moe_ep_group_pg is resolved from the job-wide DeviceMesh, which is built once from the executor's mapping, not from the mapping this MoE layer runs with, and the two can differ. Kimi K3 is such a case: with moe_expert_parallel_size unset, the executor mapping resolves to moe_tp=tp_size, moe_ep=1 (llm_args.py:6140-6149, mapping.py:121-123), so TorchDist.__init__ -> mapping.build_mesh() (_torch/distributed/communicator.py:999) creates a [pp, tp, cp] mesh with no moe_ep dim (_torch/device_mesh.py:188-196). Kimi K3 then builds its routed-expert mapping as EP-only (moe_tp=1, moe_ep=tp_size, modeling_kimi_linear.py:1459-1462 and 1625-1634), which passes CommunicationFactory (attention DP, moe_tp_size == 1) and gets NcclEP when it is forced or when NVLinkOneSided/TwoSided are unavailable (e.g. multi-node without MNNVL).

At the first eager dispatch the lazily created context (communication/nccl_ep.py:147-169) reaches this line and _get_mesh_dim_by_name() fails with AssertionError: Dimension name moe_ep not found in device mesh. (device_mesh.py:228). Warmup aborts and the server never starts, with an error that names neither NcclEP nor Ray, so for this model the Ray + NCCL-EP path is still broken after this fix. The size check suggested in the existing thread runs after this line, so it would not catch this.

Suggested fix: resolve the EP group defensively here. NcclEP only runs with moe_tp_size == 1 (communication_factory.py:166-167), so when the mesh has no moe_ep dim you can fall back to mapping.tp_group_pg if its size equals mapping.moe_ep_size (the EP group is then the TP group); otherwise raise a ValueError that names NcclEP, the Ray orchestrator and the model's MoE split. Running the same check in CommunicationFactory._get_nccl_ep_unavailable_reason() under mpi_disabled() would let AUTO selection fall back instead of failing at warmup, and give a forced NCCL_EP a clear error.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] With this PR the Ray + NcclEP path builds a correct communicator and goes on to serve, but the zero-copy flag in the same constructor still ignores mpi_disabled(), and that is where the listener/thread growth reported in #20082 comes from.

For BF16 dispatch zerocopy_enabled is True (the pinned nccl.ep GroupConfig has a zero_copy field), so every eager dispatch calls torch.ops.trtllm.allocate_output_with_nccl_window(..., self.mapping.moe_ep_group) (communication/nccl_ep.py:307-314). Its C++ getComm() bootstraps over COMM_SESSION. On a Ray actor that is a singleton MPI world with rank 0, which equals the first rank of the EP group, so getUniqueId() calls ncclGetUniqueId() (which starts an NCCL bootstrap root thread and a listening socket) and then throws "MPI is disabled" in sendValue (cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:57-68, mpiUtils.h:441-457). allocateOutput.cpp:79-82 swallows that at DEBUG level, the fallback allocate_output() (outputTensor.h:64-72) calls getComm() a second time, and nothing is cached because getComm() caches only after a successful init.

Result: on every actor of the first PP stage, every MoE layer abandons two bootstrap threads and listeners per eager forward, for the life of the server. #20082 measured thousands per rank during warmup and ephemeral-port exhaustion on two nodes. Zero-copy also never engages under Ray. AllReduce (_torch/distributed/ops.py:1247-1256) and userbuffers (pyexecutor/model_engine.py:1419-1429) already turn NCCL windows off when MPI is disabled.

Suggested fix (mpi_disabled is already imported in this constructor):

self.zerocopy_enabled = (
    not mpi_disabled()
    and not (use_internal_fp8_dispatch or external_fp8 or external_nvfp4)
    and "zero_copy" in getattr(GroupConfig, "__dataclass_fields__", {})
)

To confirm, count per-rank LISTEN sockets (ss -Htlnp) and threads (/proc/<pid>/task) before warmup and after a few minutes of serving under Ray with TRTLLM_FORCE_COMM_METHOD=NCCL_EP, with and without the gate. Please also note this root cause on #20082.

[sunnyqgg]

[Required] Please coordinate with #20631 (open, approved), which rewrites this constructor. Its _reserve_dispatch_tokens() builds torch.classes.trtllm.NCCLWindowReservation(self.output_tokens_buf, self.mapping.moe_ep_group) and then calls self._ep_mpi_comm.Barrier(), and its destroy() also calls self._ep_mpi_comm.Barrier(). On the Ray branch this attribute is now None. The new C++ NCCLWindowReservation constructor also calls getComm(ranks) without the try/catch that allocate_output has (outputTensor.h:65-71).

With both PRs merged, in either order, Ray + NcclEP fails at context creation with "MPI is disabled", or with an AttributeError on None.Barrier() once getComm() works without MPI. Neither PR's tests would catch it: this PR's _GroupConfig stub has no __dataclass_fields__ (test_nccl_ep_utils.py:66-67), so the window path never runs here.

Please link #20631 and agree on the merge order. Whichever PR lands second needs to skip the reservation under mpi_disabled() (or bootstrap it without MPI), and to barrier on the communicator actually in use, e.g. dist.barrier(group=mapping.moe_ep_group_pg) when _ep_mpi_comm is None. A Ray-branch test case whose GroupConfig stub has a zero_copy dataclass field would make the second PR fail in CI instead of in production.

[sunnyqgg]

[Required] CODING_GUIDELINES.md (Static Typing, item 4): "Always annotate functions. Make the return type None if the function does not return anything." Several functions in this new file are unannotated:

• this fixture's return type;
• the test parameters bootstrap, ep_world_rank and mpi_disabled (lines 207, 240, 266-267);
• the return type of _CpuTorch.__getattr__ (line 98);
• **kwargs, *args and src_rank_counters in the stubs (lines 69, 76, 95).

Suggested: -> SimpleNamespace here, bootstrap: SimpleNamespace, ep_world_rank: int, mpi_disabled: bool, __getattr__(self, name: str) -> object, **kwargs: object, *args: object, and src_rank_counters: _Tensor | None = None.

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Done in 14fb237, with the annotations you suggested: the fixture returns SimpleNamespace, the test parameters are annotated (SimpleNamespace, int, bool), __getattr__(self, name: str) -> object, *args: object and **kwargs: object in the stubs, and src_rank_counters: _Tensor | None = None. 428fb5a later renamed the fixture to nccl_ep_fakes and the mpi_disabled parameter to use_ray; at 2fd097a every function in the file is annotated.

[sunnyqgg]

Follow-up to my review of 2026-11-03: All 8 lower-priority points I left out of it still apply at fbf327a. They are marked [Nice to have] and none blocks the merge on its own.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] The Ray branch is only tested with get_nccl_comm_from_group mocked and moe_ep_group_pg=object() (test_nccl_ep_utils.py:107, :140), so no CI stage checks on GPUs that the comm built from the DeviceMesh EP group matches moe_ep_rank/moe_ep_size, that the interop import resolves, or that dispatch/combine and teardown work under TLLM_DISABLE_MPI=1. A @pytest.mark.gpu2 test in tests/unittest/_torch/ray_orchestrator/multi_gpu/ (like test_mapping.py) that builds the context via get_nccl_ep_context with attention DP and EP=2, checks rank/size, runs one dispatch/combine and destroys the context would be picked up by the existing -m "gpu2" entry (l0_dgx_h100.yml:284).

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Not in this PR: I can't run a 2-GPU Ray test for it right now, and I'd rather not add a CI test I haven't run once. The PR stays a CPU-only test of the bootstrap branches, and its description lists the multi-GPU Ray + NCCL-EP check as not covered.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] On this path there is no MPI sub-comm (_ep_mpi_comm = None, comm built from the torch EP group), but the destroy() docstring (nccl_ep_utils.py:399-405) still describes "the MPI sub-comm seeding it" and a final Free on the MPI comm, so a later teardown change can easily assume every context owns one. Suggest: "Release the EP group, the NCCL comm and, on the MPI path, the MPI sub-comm that seeded it, in LIFO order. On the Ray path the comm was built over mapping.moe_ep_group_pg, which belongs to the DeviceMesh and is not released here."

[dmvevents]

Not changed here: since #21347 this is main's code, and this PR no longer changes nccl_ep_utils.py. The note still applies to main, where the destroy() docstring (nccl_ep_utils.py:391-396) still describes an MPI sub-comm on every path; the ray_orchestrator teardown case in this PR fails if a later destroy() calls Free() without the _ep_mpi_comm check.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] The MPI branch splits mpi_comm() (line 235), not MPI_COMM_WORLD; in disaggregated MPI serving that is the per-instance sub-comm installed by set_mpi_comm(sub_comm) (commands/serve.py:2566, _utils.py:456-472), so "fixing" the code to match this comment would put ctx and gen instances in one EP comm. The block also mixes both branches and narrates the bug ("every GPU actor is an MPI singleton..."), and both DeepEP buffers split this way (deep_ep_utils.py:51, :131). Suggest one lead line ("The comm must span the EP group: the receive buffers below are sized by mapping.moe_ep_size.") plus one short comment per branch.

[dmvevents]

This one no longer applies: since the merge with main the PR carries main's nccl_ep_utils.py from #21347, and the comment block you flagged isn't in it. main's comment there (nccl_ep_utils.py:219-220) is two lines and doesn't mention MPI_COMM_WORLD.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] This stub does not make the test independent of mpi4py: the imports at test_nccl_ep_utils.py:36-37 already load the real module via tensorrt_llm/_utils.py:38. Its only effect is to turn except MPI.Exception in destroy() into except Exception, so the test would swallow a non-MPI error from Free() that production raises. ep.get_lib_version (:136) and cuda.current_stream (:91) are unused (the version probe is patched at :178; get_stream() is never called), and :282 is covered by the ordered assert at :292. Drop them and the mpi4py mention in the docstring (:19-20); the mpi_comm patch at :177 is what keeps the test off MPI.

[dmvevents]

Done in 9735ca2: dropped the mpi4py stub, ep.get_lib_version, cuda.current_stream, the standalone unregister.assert_called_once_with(proxy) and the mpi4py mention in the docstring. The ordered teardown assert still expects call.unregister(proxy) first (lines 287-295). With the stub gone, destroy()'s except MPI.Exception is no longer except Exception, so a destroy() that called Free() on the Ray path's None would now fail the ray_orchestrator teardown case instead of passing.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] The EP size is written three times: moe_ep_size=2 (test_nccl_ep_utils.py:104), Get_size.return_value = 2 here, and nranks=2 (:258). If _make_mapping() moves to 4, the fake split stays at 2 ranks and the MPI test still passes while describing a 2-rank comm with 4-rank receive buffers, the mismatch this PR fixes. With ep_world_rank=0 the mapping also keeps moe_ep_rank=1 (:105, :242), an EP group that cannot occur. Use one _EP_SIZE constant for all three and set mapping.moe_ep_rank = ep_world_rank in the MPI test.

[dmvevents]

Done in c7be04e: _EP_SIZE (line 41) now sets moe_ep_size in _make_mapping(), the fake sub-comm's Get_size() and the asserted Communicator.init(nranks=...), and the MPI test sets mapping.moe_ep_rank = ep_world_rank (line 245).

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] To pin a 16-line branch (nccl_ep_utils.py:229-244) the fixture fakes every nccl.ep symbol the constructor touches, swaps the module-level torch and patches the version probe and timeout guard (test_nccl_ep_utils.py:111-183), so any unrelated new symbol, LayoutInfo field or buffer in __init__ breaks these tests. The branch is chosen by patching trtllm_utils.mpi_disabled, which only works because __init__ imports it locally (nccl_ep_utils.py:159), and the real TLLM_DISABLE_MPI check never runs. Extract a small _create_ep_comm(mapping) helper, test it with only nccl.core, nccl.ep.interop.torch and mpi_comm faked, and select the branch with monkeypatch.setenv("TLLM_DISABLE_MPI", "1") / "0".

[dmvevents]

4294299 does the second part: each test sets TLLM_DISABLE_MPI to "1" or "0" with monkeypatch.setenv, so the real mpi_disabled() picks the branch, and nothing patches trtllm_utils.mpi_disabled any more. I haven't extracted _create_ep_comm(), because that would change nccl_ep_utils.py, which is main's code since #21347, and this PR no longer changes source files. So the fixture still fakes the rest of the constructor, and the brittleness you describe is still there.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] This parameter shadows the production mpi_disabled() and gives CI ids [True]/[False] that do not say which orchestrator failed. The fixture name bootstrap (test_nccl_ep_utils.py:161) reads like a bootstrap result rather than a set of fakes, and test_mpi_orchestrator_splits_comm_world_by_pipeline_stage (:240) names COMM_WORLD although the code splits mpi_comm(). Suggest @pytest.mark.parametrize("use_ray", [True, False], ids=["ray", "mpi"]), renaming the fixture to nccl_ep_fakes, and test_mpi_orchestrator_splits_session_comm_by_pipeline_stage.

[dmvevents]

Done in 428fb5a: the parameter is use_ray, the fixture is nccl_ep_fakes, and the MPI test is test_mpi_orchestrator_splits_session_comm_by_pipeline_stage; the module docstring now says the MPI branch splits the session comm (mpi_comm()). One change from your suggestion, in 2fd097a: the ids are ray_orchestrator and mpi_orchestrator rather than ray and mpi. pytest adds each parametrize id as a keyword, and tests/unittest/conftest.py:378-387 skips every item with a ray keyword unless --run-ray or TLLM_RUN_RAY_TESTS=1 is given, so [ray] would have been skipped on the CPU stages. The comment above the parametrize (lines 267-268) says so.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] This import first runs when the context is built lazily on the first dispatch (communication/nccl_ep.py:147-169), after strategy selection. Neither is_nccl_ep_installed() (nccl_ep_utils.py:47-63) nor _get_nccl_ep_unavailable_reason() (communication_factory.py:479-541) checks for nccl.ep.interop.torch, so with an nccl.ep build that lacks the interop subpackage a Ray deployment fails with ImportError in the warmup forward instead of falling through to DeepEP/AllGather (communication_factory.py:267-295). When mpi_disabled(), also probe nccl.ep.interop.torch in the NcclEP availability check.

[dmvevents]

Not changed here: since #21347 this is main's code, and this PR no longer changes source files. The gap is still on main: neither is_nccl_ep_installed() (nccl_ep_utils.py:47-63) nor _get_nccl_ep_unavailable_reason() (communication_factory.py:479-541) probes nccl.ep.interop.torch.

[dmvevents]

#21347 (merged 2026-11-02, 71b8f3dc7) landed the same source fix for #20083, so I merged main into this branch and took main's nccl_ep_utils.py. This PR no longer changes any source file. What is left is the unit test tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_nccl_ep_utils.py, which covers the Ray and MPI bootstrap branches that #21347 added, and its CI registration. I'll retitle it as a tests-only follow-up to #21347.

Where the open threads stand:

Thread	Status
[Blocker] moe_ep_group_pg resolved from the job-wide DeviceMesh (Kimi K3)	Superseded by #21347. The line is main's code now and this PR doesn't change it, so the concern applies to main as merged.
[Blocker] zero-copy flag ignores mpi_disabled() (#20082)	Superseded by #21347 for this PR. On main, zerocopy_enabled still doesn't check mpi_disabled() (nccl_ep_utils.py:215-217 at 71b8f3dc7), and #20082 is open.
[Required] coordinate with #20631	Superseded by #21347. The constructor change is in main, so #20631 needs to line up with main rather than with this PR.
Size check after the if/else	Superseded by #21347. There is no source change left here to add it to, and main has no such check.
[Required] type annotations in the test file	Still applies here; I'll fix it in the next push.

Test placement:

Please consider adding pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only and listing the file in l0_cpu.yml instead of the GPU stages.

Agreed. The file has no cpu_only marker yet and is listed only in l0_a10.yml and l0_rtx_pro_6000.yml, so its docstring is wrong as it stands. The next push adds pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only (the string tests/unittest/conftest.py looks for when collecting with -m cpu_only) and moves the file from the two GPU lists to l0_cpu.yml. If the CPU image lacks something the test needs, I'll keep it on the GPU stages and fix the docstring instead.

The [Nice to have] notes on the test file from 2026-11-04 still apply to it, and I'll answer them in their threads with that push. The two blockers now describe main; if you'd like them tracked separately, I can open issues for them.

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[dmvevents]

Please open the tracking issue and link it in the description before merge.

Opened #21809 for the DeepEP side and linked it from the description. From reading the code (I haven't run it), deep_ep_utils.py:51 and :131 still build the DeepEP communicator with mpi_comm().Split(...). So under Ray, DeepEPLowLatency gets a 1-rank DeepEP buffer, and DeepEP is rejected earlier by its local_mpi_size() feasibility check. The issue suggests the same split by orchestrator that #21347 made for NcclEP.

[dmvevents]

Please state whether this fix (or #21347, whichever lands) should be cherry-picked to release/1.3.

This PR no longer has a source change, so the question is now only about #21347, and #21347 is not on release/1.3 today:

• at 6bd02f6dae, that branch's nccl_ep_utils.py still splits mpi_comm() unconditionally (line 226), with no mpi_disabled() branch;
• nothing on release/1.3 has touched the file since [https://nvbugs/6713426][fix] Make MoE communication timeouts follow the warmup phase #19593 (2026-10-01);
• no PR into release/1.3 mentions [https://nvbugs/6908161][fix] Bootstrap NCCL EP from the torch EP group under Ray #21347 or nvbugs/6908161.

#20083 was reported on 1.3.0rc28. CONTRIBUTING.md takes the target branch of an nvbug fix from the nvbug's Keywords field, which I can't see, so whether #21347 should go to release/1.3 is for its author and the release owners to decide. Going by recent release/1.3 PRs, that would be a separate [https://nvbugs/6908161][fix] Cherry-pick #21347 to release/1.3: ... PR.