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[None][feat] Close the Mooncake store feature gap: async loads, attention DP, speculative prefill and KV connector support in KVCacheManagerV2 - #21195
This PR brings the Mooncake KV-cache-store work from the fork branch M3-mooncake-main to main. That branch carries MiniMax-M3-specific changes, so it is not rebased; each feature is re-implemented against main instead:
Mooncake features go into the existing connectors/mooncake_store package. Everything it already has stays: pool manifest, capacity role, ledger, GPUDirect, LoRA and multimodal scoping, node budget.
Generic features go into the KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2, the V2 scheduler, the executor and serving code.
The PR builds on #19369 (attention DP for V2 KV cache connectors) and keeps its behaviour: the status vote, the transfer deadlines and the _kv_connector_fail fail-stop.
The generic KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler support (group A) and the work-aware router (commit 19) are opt-in. With all new knobs at their defaults and no connector declaring the new class attributes, they leave main's behaviour unchanged. The in-tree mooncake_store connector declares those attributes, so existing mooncake_store deployments change behaviour by default. The disaggregated-serving fixes in commits 17 and 18 have no knob and apply to every disaggregated deployment. Both are listed under Behaviour changes.
The PR has 19 commits in three groups, rebased onto mainff1aa0f. Group A comes first and B depends on A. In group C, commits 17 and 18 depend on neither and can be split out as they are. Commit 19's router code does not depend on A or B either, but its end-to-end test runs mooncake_store under attention DP and so needs commit 11.
A. Generic KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler support (commits 1-7)
C++ reuse_match_alignment in the V2 radix-tree match, with its nanobind binding and runtime config field.
Whole-block local reuse declarations on connector workers: requires_block_aligned_reuse and drops_reuse_match_backoff. KVCacheManagerV2 reads them when a one-model draft would back local reuse matches off a block boundary.
Dummy requests are skipped outside attention DP (tensor-parallel mode), not only under ADP.
A connector can opt in to hand back requests whose offered prefix could not be loaded. Only those requests are freed, rewound and readmitted, and the connector is asked again.
Restarts are owner-local: they apply on a single rank or an attention-DP owner, and a report from a tensor-parallel rank fails the executor. The declaration needs KVCacheManagerV2 and cannot be combined with prefix reservations.
Exceptions, deadline misses and misreported ids still fail-stop the executor.
Speculative-prefill-only mode.
One-model MTP or EAGLE3 can run next to a KV connector on a disaggregated context server, when both connector classes declare supports_speculative_prefill.
Requests that are not context-only are refused at admission.
Completion reservation (opt-in).
Applies on a disaggregated server whose KVCacheManagerV2 has no tier below GPU, with beam width 1, a single pipeline stage and full attention on every layer.
Admission records a logical completion bound per request; no page is allocated early. A generation request is bounded through its output limit. On a context server whose connector does not use prefix reservations, each prompt the connector may serve is bounded through the end of the prompt.
A new request is admitted only while every bound still fits; otherwise it waits instead of preempting a running one. A decode no longer runs out of room for its output, and a connector restore is no longer cut short by other requests' chunks.
It turns on only when the connector worker declares requires_completion_reservation (mooncake_store does) or kv_cache_config.enable_disagg_completion_reservation is set (for generation servers without a connector and with host_cache_size: 0).
Servers without either opt-in keep main's admission. A set knob that cannot apply logs a warning.
Admission-time connector queries.
The connector is asked at admission, and the pages a shifting offer needs are booked then.
Optionally, up to N asynchronous-load parks per iteration are admitted without a token charge.
Configured with kv_connector_config.admission_query.
B. mooncake_store (commits 8-16)
Commit 8: block tokens encoded in one numpy pass. Stored keys are byte-identical to before.
Commit 9: only computed blocks are published, the offer is trimmed to the prefix the runtime honoured, and a save counts as stored only once the worker has queued it.
Commit 10: a missing page restarts the request on a single rank. Under tensor parallelism it still fails the server.
Commit 11: attention DP. Every owner keys pages as attention shard 0 of 1, so all owners share one pool key space.
Commit 12:local_reuse_backoff (off/align) for whole-block local reuse under one-model drafts.
Commit 13: speculative prefill. Block keys include the draft's prompt lookahead, and drafters whose KV the store cannot key are refused.
Commit 14: soft-pinned puts and per-block eviction groups.
Commit 15: prefix-hole and load-phase statistics.
Commit 16: asynchronous prefix loads on background workers, with the allocation fence waited off the executor thread; configurable host staging; declares admission-query support.
Idle generation server. On servers with one pipeline stage and without in-flight cancellation, timed-out KV receives are cancelled and failed even when no forward step runs. This also fixes a timed-out request being parked and then dropped with no response. Client cancels stay on main's idle cancellation path ([None][fix] Progress idle disaggregated worker cancellation #20702).
Work-aware attention-DP router. Ranks are balanced by each request's estimated uncached prefill, for servers whose connector restores prefixes from a pool shared by all ranks.
prototype; KVCacheManagerV2, disaggregated, no tier below GPU, beam width 1, one pipeline stage, full attention on every layer; otherwise ignored, with a warning from KVCacheManagerV2 (KVCacheManagerV1 ignores it silently)
prototype; ignored with a warning under attention DP, for a capacity-only role, with prefix reservations, or when the connector scheduler does not declare supports_admission_query; otherwise startup fails unless KVCacheManagerV2 and disable_overlap_scheduler=True are in use; without chunked prefill it has no effect (logged as a warning)
KVCacheManagerConfig.reuse_match_alignment (C++ and binding)
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The fork's environment variables became config fields: TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_SOFT_PIN_TTL_MS, TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_GROUP_BLOCKS, TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_HOLE_STATS, TLLM_M3_LOAD_PHASE_TIMING, TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_LOCAL_REUSE_BACKOFF, TLLM_CTX_UNCHARGED_ASYNC_PARKS, TLLM_CTX_PARK_OFFER_DEFERRALS and TRTLLM_ADP_WORK_AWARE_ROUTING.
Telemetry: four new fields are captured and need telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER review: kv_cache_config.enable_disagg_completion_reservation, kv_connector_config.admission_query.max_uncharged_parks, kv_connector_config.admission_query.max_offer_deferrals and attention_dp_config.enable_work_aware_routing. Every new mooncake_store field sets telemetry=False. The golden manifest and both serve schemas are regenerated in the commit that adds each field.
Behaviour changes
With KVCacheManagerV2, a KV connector next to one-model MTP or EAGLE3 is no longer always refused. It is allowed on a disaggregated context server when both connector classes declare supports_speculative_prefill. A capacity-role generation server may also run one-model drafts.
A disaggregated server whose mooncake_store role transfers KV (its host tier is already dropped) now reserves completion headroom when every layer uses full attention, beam width is 1 and there is a single pipeline stage. Windowed or recurrent models keep main's admission.
On a context server, each prompt the connector may serve reserves pages through the end of the prompt before its first chunk. A new prompt waits for room instead of preempting a running one, so long prompts lower that server's concurrency.
On a generation server running a transferring role, decode requests reserve through their output limit, so a large max_tokens lowers that server's concurrency.
role: capacity servers are unaffected.
mooncake_store publishes only blocks whose KV has been computed. On a single rank or under attention DP, a prefix page missing from the pool restarts that request instead of failing the server.
A chat or completion stream that fails before its first chunk returns an HTTP error, not a 200 with a truncated body. The server reads the first chunk before it sends headers, so a client that stops waiting for headers sooner than for the first token can now time out.
/v1/messages streams are unchanged.
Responses streams now also hold their headers, but only until the generation server's opening events, which come before the first token. A failure still ends them with a 200 and an error event.
Generation servers with one pipeline stage and without in-flight cancellation, including the default Python transceiver, now cancel and fail KV receives that time out under kv_transfer_timeout_ms (60 s by default) at the top of the executor loop, so an idle server no longer waits for a forward step. Under pipeline parallelism the loop still checks generation receive timeouts only while a context send or KV connector save is in flight, as on main. Servers with in-flight cancellation (TRTLLM_DISAGG_ENABLE_INFLIGHT_CANCEL=1) already did this on main.
A timed-out generation request whose receive was cancelled now moves to DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR and gets an error response, instead of being parked and then dropped. Context-side timeouts and the in-flight cancellation path are unchanged.
Without in-flight cancellation, the C++ transceiver cannot cancel a receive that is already in flight. The loop-head check asks such a receive to cancel once and then lets it settle on its own; the response pass after each forward step still retries the cancel, as on main.
Intentionally not included
The mooncake_store_m3 package and mooncake-store-m3 preset, trtllm-serve mooncake_master_m3, mooncake_donor and launch_master. The pool manifest and the role: capacity server on main cover them.
The fork's stored-key format version bump. Keys stay byte-identical, so existing pools stay readable. The trade-off: a server without commit 9 can save a page whose KV was never computed (a chunk trimmed to the token budget after its pages were allocated), and that page stays a valid prefix hit for upgraded servers sharing the pool. Restart the Mooncake pool when upgrading to drop such pages.
The fork's CTX park diagnostics (TLLM_CTX_PARK_STATS, TLLM_GIL_PROBE_US), which were debug-only.
The single-block synchronous offer under align with async_load (d169724). Under that combination a one-block offer parks; this is a follow-up.
Restarts across tensor-parallel ranks, a failure outcome for prefix reservations, and a generic rewind hook that would make aggregated attention-DP serving safe with Mooncake. The last item is documented as unsupported.
LateBindingADPRouter, which is on a different fork branch.
Measured on the pre-rebase head 2cebc83, before main had the prefix wait (#20938); not yet rerun on this rebase. The workload is GLM-5.2 AgentX at concurrency 480 on London GB300: 36 GPUs (5 context servers, 1 generation server), forced MTP acceptance 1.99 and a 6,304 GiB Mooncake pool. The baseline is London job 219351 on the same pool size. It ran GLM-5.2 fork commit 06bbb46 (branch codex/glm52-adp-mooncake, not M3-mooncake-main) plus that fork's local scheduler patches. Only throughput and latency are reported; accuracy is not scored under forced acceptance.
Prefix hit rate (95.67% vs 95.69%), evicted keys (5.664M each) and prefill work (−1%) match the fork. Lost previous-turn prefix tokens are 3.5% lower on the PR (88.2M vs 91.4M).
One small known gap remains. Light or empty prefill iterations take about 44 ms more GPU forward time: a zero-context-token iteration has a forward p50 of 273 ms, against 229 ms on the fork.
This raises TTFT p10 by 156 ms and p50 by 52 ms, and leaves the mean, p90 and p99 unchanged.
It is not yet attributed. Besides the PR code, the two runs differ in container image (26.09 with NIXL 1.5 / UCX 1.23, against 26.08) and UCX control plane (tcp against rc; KV data uses cuda_ipc in both). The PR run also set two engine options explicitly to the fork's effective values.
An earlier run of this PR on a 5,936 GiB pool showed TTFT p50 / p90 / p99 of 2.44 / 8.47 / 50.9 s. Rerunning the same PR code and image on London at both pool sizes reproduced that gap at 5,936 GiB (2.60 / 10.8 / 116 s) and removed it at 6,304 GiB. With the code held fixed, the smaller pool is enough to cause it.
These are single runs per arm, and the two London arms ran on different racks. The 5,936 GiB arm also used the earlier run's uneven segment layout, and the fork was not run at 5,936 GiB.
The worst of that tail comes from bursts in which recently read prefix chains stop being found in the pool while master eviction volume stays normal. Whether those bursts are capacity eviction or an eviction or lookup defect in Mooncake or this connector is not yet established.
Test coverage
The branch adds or changes tests in 36 files under tests/ and cpp/tests/:
the C++ kvCacheManagerV2ConfigTest and kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py (reuse_match_alignment);
the four mooncake_store unit-test files;
KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and V2 scheduler tests under tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/;
test_adp_router.py, _torch/test_connector_adp.py and the work-aware router case in _torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py;
idle-generation-server timeout tests in _torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_{errors,progress,transfers}.py and executor/test_forward_error_survival.py;
the disaggregated server and client tests and test_llm_args.py;
end-to-end Mooncake tests in tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py. The new cases are listed in l0_a10.yml (async load), l0_h100.yml (speculative prefill with EAGLE3) and l0_dgx_h100.yml (attention-DP owners in both overlap modes, and work-aware routing).
Local gate runs on OCI GB300 (aarch64, 4 GPUs per node). Each gate ran the same command on this branch and on its base, mainff1aa0f, with each tree built in its own container image. The branch side ran e33d306525, which differs from the pushed head only by the new work-aware e2e test and its test-list line. The last e2e row ran at the pushed head itself.
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CPU: llmapi/test_llm_args.py, serve schemas, usage, API stability, kv_cache_manager_v2_tests
3 test_kv_cache_v2_vocab_size::test_branch_only_enables_multimodal_keys_when_needed[qwen3_5_hybrid-*], in both the CPU and GPU runs. They are already waived in CI (https://nvbugs/6818710).
1 flaky test: test_kv_transfer_fail_stop.py::test_openmpi_subcommunicator_abort_also_terminates_other_executor_in_job. It failed once in the branch's CPU run. In 38 reruns per tree (8, then 30) it failed twice on the branch and once on main. The branch changes neither the test nor the code it exercises.
A debug run of the work-aware test showed the following:
the router was built on both ranks;
every route_requests call went through the placement= contract;
requests were placed on both ranks.
The other changed test files (the mooncake_store, KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler tests, and the disaggregated client and server tests) also ran together in one process on GPU.
Both trees failed the same transceiver tests. They need the cluster's UCX settings and pass in the tests/unittest/disaggregated row.
Every other test in those files passed on both trees.
That process crashed on both trees inside an mpi4py worker spawn at test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgs::test_runtime_sizes, which is why test_llm_args.py and _torch/disaggregation were rerun alone.
identical C++ reuse_match_alignment, plus whole-block local-reuse alignment for any connector (commits 1, 2, 12); mooncake_store saves bounded to computed blocks (commit 9); mooncake_store attention DP with every owner keyed as attention shard 0 of 1 (commit 11); a speculative-prefill gate with prompt-lookahead block keys (commits 5, 13); and a disaggregated completion reservation (commit 6)
un-skips tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py (https://nvbugs/7003528), which holds 19 of this PR's test functions (22 test cases)
Already merged and rebased over: #20938 (prefix wait and the client half of the old commit 18), #20491 and #20815 (the client retry loop), #20702 (idle cancellation), #21073 (KV-balanced admission and the placement= router contract), #20669 (test directory move).
Design notes (internal cookbook): /home/simengl/shared/trt_repos/trtllm-cookbook/projects/minimax-m3-mooncake/design/2026-10-27-mooncake-gap-port/ and /home/simengl/shared/trt_repos/trtllm-cookbook/projects/minimax-m3-mooncake/analysis/upstream-gap/2026-10-27-main-vs-M3-mooncake-main.md
This change ports Mooncake KV-cache-store features into the main connector and executor paths. Most new behavior is opt-in. Defaults such as token-granular reuse, synchronous loads, no completion reservation, and disabled admission queries preserve existing behavior.
The main correctness risks are coordination across scheduler, cache manager, connector, and worker state. Failed-load recovery, async-load cancellation, completion-reservation release, and admission-offer expiry need end-to-end validation. The new attention-DP work-aware router also changes placement decisions when enabled. Check that its estimates and capacity handling remain stable under retries and request changes.
Configuration and API additions span Python arguments, JSON schemas, C++ bindings, and Mooncake settings. Keep defaults and validation consistent across these surfaces. The C++ reuse-alignment setting requires a positive value that divides the block size. The disaggregated streaming change also affects response headers: chat and completion failures before the first chunk become HTTP errors.
The change adds substantial test coverage, but reported performance measurements predate the rebase. The reported 0.3% output-throughput decrease and TTFT tail should be remeasured before drawing conclusions. The reported light/empty-prefill latency gap has no established cause.
QA Engineer Review
Tests and test lists changed across KV-cache reuse alignment, connector admission and recovery, Mooncake async loading and speculative prefill, attention-DP routing, completion reservations, and disaggregated stream and timeout handling. New integration cases cover asynchronous loads, attention-DP reuse and routing, and EAGLE3 speculative prefill.
The test-list changes add the async-load case to l0_a10.yml, two attention-DP reuse cases and a work-aware routing case to l0_dgx_h100.yml, and the EAGLE3 speculative-prefill case to l0_h100.yml. These entries place the changed integration cases in CI lists. No manual-QA list changes are supplied.
Reported validation includes 8 passing cases in test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py, 341 passing GPU KV-cache-manager tests, and 14 passing kvCacheManagerV2*Test binaries. The report also identifies existing-main failures and a flaky transfer test; these results are not an all-clear for the full change. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up, especially for post-rebase performance and the reported flaky or baseline-failing cases.
Per-File QA Perspective
Source files
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/blockRadixTree.cpp, blockRadixTree.h, config.cpp, config.h, kvCacheManager.cpp, cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2.cpp, tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/__init__.py, and __init__.pyi: Verify alignment validation and trimming after backoff and snapshot pruning. Check that default alignment preserves token-granular reuse and that C++ and Python configuration surfaces agree.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/kv_cache_connector.py: Verify capability declarations, dummy-request filtering, speculative-prefill validation, and failed-load restart rules. Confirm unsupported tensor-parallel recovery remains an error.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/config.py, master.py, settings.py, staging.py, and validation.py: Verify defaults, strict type and size validation, inherited settings, node-budget accounting, and required staging-buffer budget arguments.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/keys.py: Verify lookahead hashing preserves existing keys when lookahead is zero, and that shard keys remain distinct from eviction-group IDs.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/metadata.py and scheduler.py: Verify async-load metadata, allocation trimming, destination-page checks, save eligibility, and save-progress confirmation.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/worker.py: Verify sync and async missing-page recovery, save removal, thread shutdown, staging-pool cleanup, and attention-DP key sharing. Tensor-parallel missing pages remain fatal.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify connector offers expire at the right pass, completion reservations are released on all cleanup paths, and endpoint mismatches fail clearly.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/llm_request.py: Verify new admission-offer and preemption fields initialize correctly for every request.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py and py_executor_creator.py: Verify connector setup gates, speculative-prefill eligibility, admission-query setup, and recovery from sync and async failed loads.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py: Verify scheduler admission settings use the documented defaults when connector configuration is absent.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/adp_router.py: Verify work estimates, capacity behavior, explicit-rank handling, and fallback when no eligible connector is attached.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify offer deferrals, uncharged parks, preemption, and completion reservations under chunked and non-chunked admission.
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_disagg_server.py: Verify chat and completion errors before the first chunk return HTTP errors, while Responses and Anthropic streams retain their event behavior.
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json, tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json, and tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json: Verify option defaults, prototype schema fields, incompatibility rules, and serialization consistency.
docs/source/features/disagg-serving.md and docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md: Verify documented retry conditions, connector restrictions, async-load behavior, and supported speculative-prefill modes match implementation.
examples/disaggregated/slurm/cache_transceiver_test/run_cache_transceiver_test.py and tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_cache_transceiver_single_process.py: Verify the completion-reservation setting is exposed consistently in their test configuration.
examples/llm-api/configs/trtllm_mooncake_store_connector_extra.yaml: Optional Mooncake settings remain commented out; verify example values and constraints match supported configuration.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml, l0_dgx_h100.yml, and l0_h100.yml: Verify the listed async-load, attention-DP, work-aware-routing, and speculative-prefill cases remain valid CI selectors.
Test files
tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py: Adds async-load, attention-DP reuse and routing, and speculative-prefill integration coverage. Cases are listed in l0_a10.yml, l0_dgx_h100.yml, and l0_h100.yml.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/conftest.py: Adds a fixture to exercise timeout handling without in-flight cancellation.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py: Adds work-aware router coverage to per-rank capacity checks.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_errors.py, test_disagg_coordinator_progress.py, and test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py: Cover timed-out generation receives, cancellation outcomes, state transitions, and ADP failure handling.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/test_mooncake_store_real_pool.py: Covers async page restoration, attention-DP sharing, and soft-pin or grouped-page replay.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/test_mooncake_store_settings.py: Covers inherited settings, defaults, invalid values, and local reuse backoff.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/test_kv_connector_speculative_prefill.py: Covers capability gating and request admission in speculative-prefill-only mode.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_manager_v2_connector_alignment.py: Covers alignment and backoff decisions for connector and draft managers.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_disagg_completion_reservation.py: Covers reservation eligibility, pool accounting, and release paths under CPU and CUDA.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: Covers admission offers, deferrals, uncharged parks, and reservation refusal.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_connector_v2_prefix.py and test_kv_connector_v2_prefix_real_manager.py: Cover admission-time query reuse, stale offers, growth, rollback, and real allocation behavior.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py: Covers connector-dependent alignment and allocation cleanup.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_adp_router.py: Covers work estimation, placement, capacity, telemetry, and fallback.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_disagg_receive_ordering.py: Initializes completion-reservation state in test fixtures.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py: Covers parked-request handling and admission-query scheduler resolution.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_initialization.py: Covers connector setup and speculative-prefill initialization constraints.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor.py: Initializes timeout state in mocked transfer requests.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor_creator_connector_spec_prefill.py: Covers speculative-prefill eligibility and connector capability declarations.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_remote_tail_adp_phase.py: Verifies the router factory receives the connector manager argument.
tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py: Covers admission-query behavior, dummy requests, and failed-load recovery across attention-DP and tensor-parallel paths.
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disagg_openai_client.py: Covers chat, completion, and Responses retry behavior and retry disabling.
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_kv_transfer.py: Adds the completion-reservation setting to test configuration.
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_disagg_server.py: Covers stream startup errors, status handling, chunk forwarding, and cleanup.
tests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.py: Covers synchronized ADP handling of receive timeouts.
…ock multiple (reuse_match_alignment)
A one-model EAGLE3 or MTP draft sets reuse_match_backoff, so the radix
tree trims every local match by the draft lookahead and a match of K
whole blocks ends a few tokens short of a block boundary. A KV connector
that stores and offers whole blocks is queried from that endpoint and
has nothing to offer for any request with a local hit.
Add KVCacheManagerConfig::reuseMatchAlignment. After the backoff,
BlockRadixTree::match trims the final match down to a multiple of the
alignment, and pruneMatch re-aligns before validating pages and again
whenever SSM snapshot truncation moves the endpoint off the alignment,
so the probe, the claim and the first-new-block probe all trim once in
the same tree walk. The attention-only diagnostic pass is aligned too;
the content-divergence depth stays raw. The default of 1 keeps
token-granular reuse, and validate() refuses an alignment that is not a
positive divisor of tokens_per_block.
The nanobind constructor gains a trailing reuse_match_alignment=1 kwarg
and a read-write field, and the runtime field spec lists it so that
dataclasses.replace() rebuilds of the config keep it. The struct layout
changes, so the bindings and the kvCacheManagerV2 gtests must be
rebuilt together with the library.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…by KVCacheManagerV2
A connector that stores and offers KV by whole blocks is queried from the
local prefix match. Under a one-model draft that match is backed off by the
draft's prompt lookahead and ends a few tokens short of a block boundary,
so such a connector has nothing to offer for any request with a local hit.
KvCacheConnectorWorker gains two opt-in declarations next to
supports_attention_dp, both False by default and honoured only when
exactly True:
- requires_block_aligned_reuse: when a backoff is in effect and partial
reuse is off, KVCacheManagerV2 passes its ledger tokens_per_block as the
core reuse_match_alignment, so every local match is aligned down to a
block boundary and the connector serves the trimmed block with the rest
of the prefix. A paired draft pool aligns too, keeping the joint claim on
a boundary.
- drops_reuse_match_backoff: the target manager drops the one-model draft
backoff instead and uses whole local matches. Draft KV at the tail of a
reused block may then come from another continuation, which affects
draft acceptance only. A draft manager never drops its own backoff, and
the raw draft_prompt_lookahead stays for the sharing lender.
The manager reads both through one helper that ignores a capacity-only
connector and tolerates partially built managers and connector doubles
without a worker. Nothing declares them yet, and speculative decoding is
still refused with a connector, so production behaviour is unchanged.
The connector guide documents the declarations in the worker interface,
and the shutdown and capacity_only worker bullets that had drifted under
the attention data parallelism section move back there.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
KvCacheConnectorManager and its scheduler-output manager skipped placeholder
requests only when attention DP was on, by testing
`enable_attention_dp and req.is_dummy_request`. A dummy request carries no
prompt a connector could load or save, whatever the parallel mode, so the
check now goes through one module helper, `_is_dummy_request`, used by the
scheduler output, prefix reservation, query, commit, request_finished and
update_state_after_alloc paths.
The helper reads both `is_dummy_request` (bound by the C++ LlmRequest, so
readable on the base class C++ callers hand over) and the Python-only
`is_attention_dp_dummy`, and compares each against True. The explicit
comparison keeps a MagicMock request, which answers every attribute
truthily, from being mistaken for a dummy and silently skipped.
Under tensor parallelism this is defensive rather than a behaviour change:
C++ addSequence already skips dummies, KVCacheManagerV2 does not ask the
connector for them, and padding dummies exist only under attention DP. Every
TP rank sees the same flags, so the early returns before the leader
broadcast stay collective-consistent.
The output manager's `enable_attention_dp` keyword is now dead and is
removed together with the one call site that passed it.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…d failed (reports_failed_loads)
A page a connector offered at lookup can be gone by the time it is loaded:
evicted from a full pool, or left behind by a put that never completed. The
runtime has already counted those positions as computed, so today the only
safe answer is for the connector to raise, which stops the executor for one
request's cache miss. This adds an opt-in protocol that hands such a request
back for a restart instead.
A worker declares `reports_failed_loads = True` and implements
`take_failed_load_requests()` (polled after every `start_load_kv`),
optionally `take_failed_async_load_requests()` (polled after every
`get_finished`), and `drop_bound_saves(request_ids)`. The manager masks the
declaration for a capacity-only role, refuses a declaring worker that leaves
its hooks at the base defaults, and refuses the combination with prefix
reservations, whose completion protocol has no failure outcome. The executor
refuses it on KVCacheManagerV1, which cannot restart a request.
For each reported request the executor drops its bound saves, then calls the
new `KVCacheManagerV2.drop_context_allocation`, which is `free_resources`
followed by a context rewind, and releases any speculative-decoding slot. The
cache is closed without committing, so the never-filled range does not reach
the radix tree, and the scheduler readmits the request and asks the
connector afresh. `_kv_connector_prepare_batch` now parks, pads an
attention-DP batch the connector emptied (`_pad_attention_dp_batch_emptied_by_connector`),
then binds the plan and starts loads (`_kv_connector_start_loads`), which is
where synchronous failures are taken. Asynchronous failures are taken right
after the terminations in `_kv_connector_terminate_requests`, so a parked
load whose cancellation was deferred is not restarted.
The attention-DP recovery loop drops restarted parked requests from the
requests it waits for, so a restarted request (CONTEXT_INIT with no cache) is
never put back into the batch, and a loop whose only parked request
restarted stops waiting and retries padding. A rebuilt plan goes through
`_kv_connector_start_loads` too.
A restart is owner-local, so it applies on a single rank or an attention-DP
owner; a tensor-parallel report is fatal. Connector exceptions, deadline
misses and misreported IDs remain fail-stop through `_kv_connector_fail`,
with no new collective or vote field. A misreported ID is a synchronous ID
outside the batch, an asynchronous ID whose load has not been reported
finished, or one an earlier `get_finished` already returned as finished:
a finished load stays in `finished_async_loading_requests` after the
scheduler admits the request, so only the `get_finished` call the poll
follows can still name a request that is parked.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…l MTP/EAGLE3 on disaggregated context servers
KVCacheManagerV2 refuses speculative decoding next to a KV connector because
a rejected draft token shrinks a request's page list underneath the
connector, which only hears about appended pages. A context-only request on a
disaggregated context server never rejects a draft token, so its page list
only grows, and one-model MTP and EAGLE3 keep their draft KV in the target
pool the connector has registered. This lets such a server run speculative
decoding next to a connector that declares it can.
Both connector halves gain a `supports_speculative_prefill` class attribute,
modelled on `supports_attention_dp`. The scheduler's declaration promises
that its keys cover the draft's prompt lookahead past each block and that it
saves only computed blocks; the worker's promises whole-page transfers of
every layer group, draft layers included. `KvCacheConnectorManager` takes a
keyword-only `speculative_prefill_only` and refuses it, after the
attention-DP and failed-load checks, unless both present halves declare
support (`declares_speculative_prefill`; a TP follower has no scheduler).
The executor creator computes the mode once the connector classes are
resolved: one-model MTP (MTP-Eagle or vanilla) or EAGLE3 with a positive
draft length, a cache transceiver backend, and both declarations. It is
never set for an explicit `use_kv_cache_manager_v2=False`, so V1 keeps
constructing exactly as before. The speculative-decoding refusal moves after
class resolution, keeps its wording, and is lifted only in this mode. The
executor accepts the mode on KVCacheManagerV2 only (an "auto" that resolves
to V1 is refused), lifts its own speculative refusal for it, and refuses a
separate draft KV cache, which the connector never sees.
A request that is not context-only is refused at admission by the
module-level `_validate_connector_admission`, the first check in
`_validate_request`, so only that request fails, for example a
/health_generate probe sent straight to the context server. Being a
module-level helper read through getattr, it needs no stub in the minimal
executors unit tests build. As a backstop, the manager refuses such a request
again in `query_num_new_matched_tokens` and `reserve_prefix` before the
leader broadcast, so every TP rank raises together, and in
`build_scheduler_output` before any output state is recorded. Dummy requests
and a capacity-only connector are never refused, which also lets a
capacity-role generation server whose classes declare the mode run one-model
speculation.
No connector declares the mode yet, so behaviour is unchanged until one
opts in.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…egated servers without an eviction tier
With no eviction tier, a full-attention disaggregated server admitted
requests against their prompt-sized allocations only. Incoming transfers
and new prompts could then take pages that admitted requests still
needed: a decode request ran out of room for its output, and a connector
prefill, whose prefix is restored only after the final batch is chosen,
found the pages for that restore taken by other requests' chunks.
KVCacheManagerV2 can now keep a logical completion bound, in ledger
blocks, per admitted request and admit a new one only while every bound
still fits each GPU pool's free and evictable slots. No page is allocated
early. Disaggregated generation init reserves through the output limit
plus the maximum generation lead, and frees a refused request's cache
instead of suspending it. A connector first chunk reserves through the
end of its prompt when the connector has no source reservations; the V2
scheduler consults the reservation after every budget, chunking and
multimodal-alignment refusal and defers the request instead of
preempting an admitted one.
The reservation is opt-in. A connector asks for it with a new
KvCacheConnectorWorker declaration, requires_completion_reservation,
which the manager reads from the attached connector's worker like
requires_block_aligned_reuse, so every rank sees it. Only an explicit
True counts, and a capacity-only connector's is ignored. The
mooncake_store worker declares it: registering its pages drops the
automatic host tier, and its prefix restores are chosen only after the
final batch.
A server opts in without such a connector through a new prototype
KvCacheConfig field, enable_disagg_completion_reservation, False by
default. It lets a disaggregated generation server with no connector and
host_cache_size: 0 reserve its decode headroom; the connector prefill
reservation still needs a connector that may serve the prompt. A target
manager that cannot apply the field logs a warning rather than ignore it
silently: without a connector the automatic host tier stays unless
host_cache_size is 0. The field is Python-only, so the C++ KvCacheConfig
conversion leaves it out, and usage telemetry captures it like the other
KvCacheConfig booleans. A server with neither opt-in keeps its existing
admission; that includes host_cache_size: 0 and page-registering
connectors such as LMCache and KVBM, whose automatic host tier the
manager drops.
Beyond either opt-in, the reservation applies only to a disaggregated
target manager with no tier below GPU, beam width 1, a single pipeline
stage and full attention on every layer. Pipeline parallelism is
excluded because each rank decides alone and a follower refusing a
generation-init request that rank 0 admitted would not be reconciled. A
bound is released by free_resources, by revert_allocate_context and a
failed first-chunk resize while the chunk is unconsumed, and on
shutdown.
The receive-ordering tests bind the real prepare_disagg_gen_init onto a
spec'd Mock, which would otherwise answer the new class-level state with
truthy child mocks, so their fixture sets both reservation maps
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…booking and uncharged async parks
The KVCacheManagerV2 scheduler sizes and charges a first context chunk
before the connector is asked for its prefix, which only happens in
prepare_resources once the batch is final. A chunk the connector then
loads asynchronously is parked before the forward pass, so its charge is
lost budget, and an offer that moves the chunk window has to grow its
pages after every later admission of the pass took theirs; when that grow
fails, only the whole blocks the chunk's pages hold are loaded and the rest
of the offer is recomputed.
kv_connector_config.admission_query (KvCacheConnectorAdmissionConfig,
prototype) lets the scheduler ask a connector that declares
KvCacheConnectorScheduler.supports_admission_query once a first chunk is
sized and allocated. The answer is stored on the request as an
epoch-checked ConnectorAdmissionOffer and used by prepare_resources, so
each allocation is still queried and reported once.
KVCacheManagerV2.cover_admission_offer grows the allocation to the shifted
window right away. When the pool cannot cover it, the chunk is skipped and
the existing first-chunk release returns its pages, up to
max_offer_deferrals passes or until the request has just preempted another
one for pages; deferrals count as scheduler progress. With
max_uncharged_parks > 0, up to that many chunks per pass that will park are
admitted with a 0-token charge; they still take a request slot.
The manager reports the capability from the scheduler class and turns it
off under attention DP. The executor ignores the config with a warning for
a capacity-only role, prefix-reservation connectors and connectors without
the capability, and refuses it with the overlap scheduler or without the
KVCacheV2Scheduler. A request admitted without a charge that does not park
fails the executor through _kv_connector_fail, because other parked loads
may already own destination pages. The cover is a no-op under SWA scratch
reuse, whose pre-grown replay would otherwise read the grow as a skipped
forward.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
BlockHashChain.extend encoded every token with int.to_bytes and joined the
pieces per block, which dominated the lookup of a long prompt. It now
encodes all newly completed blocks with a single
np.asarray(dtype="<i8").tobytes() call and digests consecutive
8 * tokens_per_block byte windows of that buffer, returning early when no
new full block exists.
'<i8' is the same signed 8-byte little-endian encoding int.to_bytes
produced, so every stored key is byte-identical and pages already in a pool
stay addressable. A token outside int64 still raises OverflowError, now
before any block is appended.
Tests pin the encoding against a frozen copy of the per-token loop for an
unscoped, a cache_salt and a multimodal scope (including -1 and both int64
extremes, fed incrementally), pin golden digests captured from the
unmodified code, and check out-of-range tokens.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…save once it is queued
The scheduler adapter published every block that had a hash and a page.
The whole prompt is hashed at lookup, and pages can run ahead of
computation: the post-allocation token-budget trim shrinks a context chunk
whose pages were already allocated, and a served prefix grows capacity by
the extra KV tokens a one-model draft needs. Such a block was saved with
KV that had not been computed, and since the save mark moved past it and
_put never overwrites an existing key, a later prefix hit loaded it.
Saves are now bounded by the blocks this pass completes:
computed_position, plus this iteration's honoured restore (which the
runtime leaves out of computed_position), plus num_scheduled_tokens.
The offer is trimmed to what the runtime honoured. update_state_after_alloc
settles the outstanding offer to request.py_num_connector_matched_tokens,
which KVCacheManagerV2 reaches through the base by-layer-group fold, and
raises when that count is not a whole-block part of the offer. _loads_for
now raises when an honoured block has no destination page instead of
silently dropping the tail, because the runtime already counts those
tokens as computed.
A save counts as stored only once the worker queued it. _saves_for returns
the block ordinal its saves end at without moving the save mark;
build_connector_meta records it as unconfirmed, and the next build promotes
it only for requests the worker's wait_for_save reported through the new
take_submitted_saves. Saves bound for a pass that never reached
wait_for_save are therefore emitted again rather than lost. The report is
taken on every build, even with nothing unconfirmed, so a report about a
request reset since cannot confirm that request's next pass if that pass
never runs; request_reset also drops the request's unconfirmed entry.
The scheduler test helpers gain FakeWorker.take_submitted_saves,
submit_saves, settle_offer, saved_pages and request_data's
computed_position / num_scheduled_tokens keywords, and make_request carries
a settable py_num_connector_matched_tokens.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…art on a single rank
A page the pool offered at lookup can be gone by the time it is loaded:
evicted from a full pool, or left behind by a put that never completed.
The runtime has already counted those positions as computed, so the worker
used to fail the server on any missing page.
The worker now declares reports_failed_loads. On a rank that holds whole
pages and its own batch (a single-rank server, or an attention-DP owner once
this connector supports attention DP) a request that lost a page is recorded
for take_failed_load_requests instead, and the executor restarts only that
request without the offered prefix. Under tensor parallelism the ranks hold
shards of the same page and cannot restart a request alone, so there the
load still raises with the existing "failed to load ... already reported as
computed" error.
Loads go through a new _load_pages(keys, addresses, sizes, owners, staging,
handle, batch_size, *, recover), which later work reuses for asynchronous
loads. It skips the remaining pages of a request that already lost one,
treats a result list of the wrong length as all pages failed, scatters only
the staged slots that landed and syncs the stream per batch, so no write
into a restarted request's pages is in flight when it is reported. It
returns the failed requests, the failed page count, the first missing key
and the bytes that landed.
A failed request's saves leave the bound metadata at once through
drop_bound_saves, which edits the saves list wait_for_save reads in place
and is idempotent with the manager's forget_request; otherwise the pass
would publish pages the request never computed under its valid keys.
The fake-store tests cover the single-rank report and its TP raise, the
skip of a failed request's later pages, the save drop for a mixed batch and
for a batch the failed request was all of, and staged loads that scatter
only the landed pages. TP variants set _recover_failed_loads on the built
worker rather than changing the world size, which would change every key
namespace.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
The attention-DP framework creates a scheduler adapter and a worker on every
owner and asks a connector to opt in, but mooncake-store declared nothing,
so the executor creator refused it under enable_attention_dp, including for
a capacity-only server. Its keys also assumed tensor parallelism: each rank
keyed pages w{N}r{rank} and a lookup required every rank's shard, so under
attention DP no owner could ever find a prefix, because no other owner
writes the same page under a different rank.
Both connector halves now declare supports_attention_dp. The worker keys
pages by attention shard rather than by global rank: 0 of 1 under attention
DP, where every owner holds all heads, and the global rank and world size
under tensor parallelism. All owners therefore share one key space (w1r0),
a prefix one owner saved is a hit for every other owner and for a
single-rank server with the same model key and page layout, and a lookup
asks one key per layer group per block. Tensor-parallel keys are
byte-identical to before. The global rank still names the process in the
segment ledger, thread names and logs. Request state, transfers, completion
and the store handle were already owner-local.
With the failed-load restart in place, a page lost between lookup and load
restarts only the affected request on its owner instead of fail-stopping
every owner; the docs and the worker docstring now say so without a hedge.
Docstrings that described a single rank-0 leader now describe the scheduler
adapter, which runs on rank 0 under tensor parallelism and on every owner
under attention DP. The connector docs gain an attention-DP subsection for
Mooncake, drop attention DP from the unsupported list, replace the line
that said no Mooncake backend exists, and state that aggregated serving
under attention DP is not supported yet: when the attention-DP gate skips a
prepared pass, a generation page already reported to the connector can be
reassigned without the connector hearing of it. Disaggregated context
servers and roles that save nothing are unaffected.
Tests: the fake-store suite covers owners sharing pages across rank pairs,
tensor-parallel lookups still needing every shard, pinned key strings for
a single rank and for rank 2 of 4, the class declarations against
validate_attention_dp, the restart formula on an owner versus a TP rank,
and a capacity-only worker under attention DP. The real-pool suite saves a
page from one owner and loads it byte-identical on another while a TP rank
misses it. A new TP2 attention-DP end-to-end test, parametrized over the
overlap scheduler and listed in l0_dgx_h100, checks that both owners join
the pool, that rank 0 serves prompt tokens from it, and that every replayed
copy agrees with the cold output.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…l drafts (local_reuse_backoff)
A one-model draft (MTP or EAGLE3) makes KVCacheManagerV2 back every local
reuse match off by its prompt lookahead, so a local match of whole blocks
ends one or more tokens short of a block boundary. mooncake-store offers
only from a block boundary, so after any local hit it would offer nothing.
The worker now fills in the two whole-block reuse declarations the cache
manager reads once it is built after the connector. A role that reads the
pool (both, consumer) always declares requires_block_aligned_reuse, and
declares drops_reuse_match_backoff according to the new
kv_connector_config.mooncake_store.local_reuse_backoff:
- "off", the default, drops the backoff and takes local matches whole. The
draft KV at the tail of a reused block may belong to another
continuation, which can lower draft acceptance but never the output.
- "align" keeps the backoff and has the manager align local matches down
to a block, so the pool serves the trimmed block with the rest of the
prefix at the cost of that block's transfer.
Producer and capacity roles never offer, so they declare neither and keep
the manager's own reuse. Every rank resolves the same role and arguments,
so the declarations agree across the ranks of a server.
The mode is an engine setting read from llm_args through the new
config.local_reuse_backoff helper on every rank. It is not rendered into
the client config or restated from an inherited one, so a deployment that
inherits MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH without a mooncake_store block gets "off".
The field is telemetry=False.
The setting takes effect once the connector may run next to one-model
speculative decoding. The single-block synchronous offer that the source
branch made under "align" with asynchronous loads is not ported; this
connector loads synchronously.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…text servers
The speculative-prefill-only mode lets one-model MTP or EAGLE3 run next to a
KV connector on a disaggregated context server, but only for a connector
whose two halves declare supports_speculative_prefill. mooncake-store now
declares it on both and makes the promises behind the declaration true.
A one-model draft writes the KV at a position from the prompt tokens after
it, so a stored block's draft-layer KV depends on tokens past the block.
BlockHashChain takes a keyword-only prompt_lookahead: with a lookahead of L,
block b is hashed over tokens[b*T : (b+1)*T + L] at a one-block stride over
the same int64 payload, so a block exists only once its lookahead does, and
a non-zero L re-digests the scope seed with b"prompt-lookahead" and L. With
L = 0 the seed and every key are byte-identical to before, so pools already
populated stay addressable, while a speculative server never shares pages
with a server without a draft or with a different lookahead.
The scheduler adapter reads the lookahead with draft_prompt_lookahead (one
for MTP-Eagle and EAGLE3, max_draft_len for vanilla MTP), imported inside
its constructor so importing the connector package does not pull in every
drafter. It raises when max_draft_len is still unresolved, since vanilla
MTP's lookahead is its draft length and lookahead-0 keys would silently
name draft KV that reads ahead. Offers are already bounded by the chain, so
a block whose lookahead runs past the prompt is neither offered nor saved.
Saves were already capped at computed blocks, which this mode needs because
one-model speculation allocates KV slots past every context chunk.
The worker moves whole pages of every layer group, draft layers included,
and its per-layer hooks are no-ops. Before the store is opened it runs the
new validate_speculative_config, an allow-list of one-model MTP and EAGLE3
whose draft layers share the target KV cache: any other drafter, or a
separate draft KV cache, would leave missing or stale draft KV behind a
restored prefix and is refused. A capacity role addresses no page and skips
the check, so a disaggregated generation server may run one-model MTP or
EAGLE3, with or without attention DP.
Tests pin key bytes built by hand from the framed scope and the lookahead
digest for lookahead 0, 1 and 3 with salt and multimodal scopes, and cover
lookahead keys, the unresolved draft length, chunk-ahead capacity pages,
the drafter allow-list and the creator's acceptance of the real classes. An
end-to-end test runs Qwen3-8B with EAGLE3 as a cold and a warm disaggregated
context server against a live pool, with a generation server pulling each
request, and requires reuse, matching first and draft tokens, and the
refusal of a request that is not context-only; it is listed in l0_h100.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
A full Mooncake pool evicts on the master, and two of its behaviours cost
hits that the connector can avoid with per-put options.
Mooncake 0.3.13's first eviction pass makes up a shortfall from the
shard-ordered rest of the pool when lookups re-lease part of its oldest
frontier mid-eviction. That evicts blocks from the middle of prefixes still
in use, and a prefix is replayed only up to its first missing block, so
every stored block behind such a hole is recomputed. Soft-pinned objects are
evicted only by the second, age-ordered pass. The new
mooncake_store.soft_pin_ttl_ms soft-pins every page a server writes for that
many milliseconds.
A hit on a block needs every page of it: all layer groups and, under tensor
parallelism, every rank's shard. The master evicts pages independently, so
it can keep a shard that holds space but can never hit again. With the new
mooncake_store.group_blocks, every page of a block is put into one eviction
group, named by the new KeyNamespace.group as
<namespace>/<model_key>/w<world>/<block hash>, which leaves out the shard,
the layer group, the tokens per block and the page size but keeps the
attention world size.
Both fields are off by default, telemetry=False, and apply only to a role
that writes. They are rendered into the client config, read back by
MooncakeStoreConnectorConfig.from_file, and restated from an inherited
MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH; a config without a TTL restates the block to off. The
JSON keys match the source branch's, so an existing client config keeps
working, while its TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_SOFT_PIN_TTL_MS and
TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_GROUP_BLOCKS environment overrides are not read.
group_blocks must be a JSON boolean, since bool("false") is True.
The worker builds a Mooncake ReplicateConfig through _replicate_config
(the source branch's _put_config, renamed so it no longer shadows the
worker's _put_config attribute). A soft pin alone shares one config across
every put; grouped puts build one per call with a group per key that
survived the existence filter. The constructor builds a probe config before
the segment is mounted, so bindings older than 0.3.13 fail at startup with
an ImportError naming SoftPinAction and the ReplicateConfig fields. With
neither option the put keeps its three-argument form. A put whose every page
is refused under a soft pin logs once that a TTL above the master's
--max_kv_soft_pin_ttl (24 h by default) makes the master refuse every put.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…tats_interval)
Tuning a shared pool needs two numbers the connector did not report: how
often a prefix lookup stops at a block the pool evicted from the middle of a
chain it otherwise still holds, and where the time of a prefix load goes.
The source branch read them behind three environment variables and a fixed
interval; here one setting, mooncake_store.stats_interval (seconds, gt=0,
finite, telemetry=False), turns on both. It is rendered into the client
config, read back by MooncakeStoreConnectorConfig.from_file and restated
from an inherited MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH like the eviction settings; a config
without it restates the block to off. TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_HOLE_STATS,
TLLM_M3_LOAD_PHASE_TIMING and TLLM_MOONCAKE_LOAD_PHASE_TIMING are not read.
Only a role that reads the pool counts anything, since only it looks
prefixes up and loads them. count_prefix_hit then folds its existing
batch_is_exist answer into _PrefixHoleStats: lookups, looked-up and hit
blocks, holes, the missing blocks inside them, and the stored tokens behind
a hole that are recomputed anyway. The hit itself is unchanged and no store
call is added. A "prefix-hole stats" line is logged at info level at most
once per interval.
The synchronous load times its phases with _timed_phase, which sums wall
and thread CPU seconds per phase and reads no clock when stats are off:
resolve, the allocation fence, and, inside _load_pages through its new
phases argument, describe, get, unstage and sync. Each start_load_kv pass
that moved pages is folded into _LoadStats with its pages, store calls,
landed bytes and transfer time, and get_finished logs a "load stats" line
at most once per interval. _LoadStats records and drains under a lock, so
loads that later run on background threads can record into the same
counters. Both lines are flushed when the worker shuts down.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…host staging and admission-query support
A prefix the pool serves is loaded inside the executor iteration that
schedules the request, so every other request in the batch waits on the
transfer. With the new mooncake_store.async_load, a role that reads the pool
offers every hit asynchronously instead: the runtime parks the request
outside the batch and async_load_workers background threads per rank load its
pages while other requests keep computing.
The scheduler adapter computes a parked request's transfer when its
allocation is reported. update_state_after_alloc now delegates to the new
update_state_after_alloc_by_layer_group, which settles the honoured count
first, as before, and for an asynchronous offer builds the transfer from the
request's full page lists, refusing a missing or invalid destination page. An
offer honoured with no tokens still queues an empty transfer, because the
runtime parks the request regardless. The transfer travels once, in
MooncakeStoreMetadata.async_loads of the same iteration's metadata; the blocks
it covers are never written back, and request_reset drops one not yet handed
out. The adapter also declares supports_admission_query: a query only refills
the request's offer state and transfers are built only once the allocation is
reported, so a repeated admission-time answer replaces the earlier one.
Every rank queues its own pages when it binds the metadata, so under tensor
parallelism each rank loads its own shard. Binding never raises, since it runs
outside the attention-DP failure vote; what cannot be queued (async_load off,
no load thread, no allocation fence) is kept for the next start_load_kv or
get_finished to raise. A load thread waits for the KV cache manager's
allocation fence on its own thread, fetches through the shared _load_pages,
and get_finished reports a request only after the runtime announced it and its
pages landed or one was found missing. A missing page hands the request back
through take_failed_async_load_requests on a single rank or an attention-DP
owner, and fails the rank under tensor parallelism. Any exception on a load
thread is kept and raised by every later start_load_kv and get_finished until
shutdown. start_load_kv now consumes the bound synchronous loads, so a second
call on the same metadata starts nothing.
The pinned host memory per direction under stage_through_host becomes the
configurable staging_buffer_bytes (default 1GiB, the previous fixed ceiling),
which replaces staging.MAX_STAGING_BUFFER_BYTES and is what the node memory
check counts. With async_load each load thread gets its own staging pool and
CUDA stream from an even share of the load direction's budget, and no
synchronous load pool is pinned, so the check still counts one budget per
direction; a pool whose share is below one page is warned about. Shutdown
signals the save and load threads together, joins them against one deadline,
skips loads still queued, and unregisters every staging pool before closing
the store, keeping any pool whose unregistration failed.
The three settings are telemetry-free MooncakeStoreConfig fields, rendered
into the client config, read back by MooncakeStoreConnectorConfig.from_file
(async_load must be a JSON boolean) and restated from an inherited
MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH. Asynchronous loads record into the stats_interval load
line, which gains failed_pages and, with async_load, wait_ms and the load
threads' queue. The integration list runs a new end-to-end test comparing an
asynchronously loaded prefix with a synchronous run.
Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <simengl@nvidia.com>
…t chunk with an HTTP error
A generation server whose KV-cache transfer fails raises in its stream
generator after the 200 headers. The disaggregated server relayed that
as a 200 whose body was cut off, so the client saw a truncated stream
instead of an error.
_wrap_entry_point now pulls a relayed stream's first chunk before it
sends the headers. A chat or completion stream that fails before its
first chunk reaches _handle_exception and becomes an HTTP error. The
returned relay is already started, so closing it before it is iterated
still closes the upstream stream and releases the router reservation.
Responses streams keep their 200 plus an `error` event, because
guard_responses_stream stays inside the first-chunk pull. /v1/messages
keeps sending its headers at once: its reframed stream pings until the
first chunk, and a failure before that chunk ends in an Anthropic
`error` event, as before. total_responses now counts a held stream only
once its first chunk arrived.
The client's retry rules for generation legs are main's (NVIDIA#20938, NVIDIA#20491).
The client tests gain the cases main does not cover: the chat and
Responses request kinds failing after the headers over a real
connection, the transient retry budget and TRTLLM_DISAGG_NO_RETRY for an
undelivered leg, and three more possibly-delivered errors.
disagg-serving.md describes the retry rules, including the
frontend-affinity fallback that TRTLLM_DISAGG_NO_RETRY does not disable.
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…generation server
Without in-flight cancellation, the generation-side KV-transfer timeout
only flags the request in check_transfer_timeouts. The cancel and the
error response happen in the response pass, which runs only after a
forward step. A generation server with nothing else scheduled therefore
kept a request whose KV never arrived until the client gave up, even after
logging "Observed timeout on generation request".
DisaggTransferCoordinator.poll_gen_transfers, which runs at every loop
head, now cancels and fails the receives that check_transfer_timeouts
flagged whenever in-flight cancellation is inactive. This covers any
transceiver without that capability, including KvCacheTransceiverV2 and
TRTLLM_DISAGG_ENABLE_INFLIGHT_CANCEL=1 on an unsupporting transceiver. A
cancel that finishes at once fails the request through fail_timed_out,
inline or buffered for handle_timeouts_synced under multi-rank ADP. A
cancel the transceiver refuses is asked only once: the Python transceiver
has then marked the session cancelled and the next reap_gen_receives fails
the request through the transfer-error path, while the C++ transceiver
cannot cancel a receive already in flight and would only repeat its
"Cannot cancel request" warning at the idle loop rate. Requests the user
cancelled are left to the cancel path. No collective is added. The
in-flight cancellation path is unchanged.
fail_timed_out now moves a request still in
DISAGG_GENERATION_TRANS_IN_PROGRESS to DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR before failing
it. cancel_request does not change the state, so PyExecutor._handle_errors
parked the failure for a transfer that no longer existed, and
_sweep_transfer_held_failures then dropped it because the request had
already left active_requests: no error response was sent and the KV was
never freed. This also fixes the same loss on the existing response-pass
timeout path.
Main's idle request cancellation (NVIDIA#20702) retires requests the client
cancelled while no batch runs, where the transceiver reports
supports_idle_request_cancellation. It does not act on transfer
timeouts, which this change covers; client cancels stay on that path.
As on the response-pass timeout path, cancel_request decides whether a
receive can stop, and refuses one that is still writing.
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…stimated uncached prefill
The default attention-DP router balances ranks by prompt length. When a KV
cache connector restores prefixes from a pool shared by all attention-DP
ranks, most of a later turn's prompt is restored rather than computed, so
equal-length prompts can bring very different prefill work and one rank can
end up working through a large prefill while its partners pad in lockstep.
WorkAwareADPRouter estimates a new request's prefill as its prompt growth
since the previous request with the same conversation_id (the whole prompt
for a first turn, a request without an id, or a shrinking prompt; at least
one token). A rank's load is the summed estimate of its requests still in
the context phase, and new requests go, largest first, to the least-loaded
rank below max_num_active_requests. Every request, including explicitly
placed ones, is estimated once in routing order and charged to its rank;
n>1 child ids inherit the parent's estimate, and the estimate is published
as py_uncached_prefill_tokens through the existing hook while the V2
scheduler's long-prefill demotion consumes it. The conversation and
per-request tables are LRU-bounded and change only inside route_requests,
which every rank runs on identical inputs; create_rank_state only reads
them, so placements stay consistent across ranks. The NVIDIA#19369 connector
fields in the gathered rank state are untouched.
The router is selected by the new prototype field
attention_dp_config.enable_work_aware_routing, replacing the fork's
TRTLLM_ADP_WORK_AWARE_ROUTING environment variable so the choice is
validated and identical on every rank. ADPRouter.create gains a
kv_connector_manager argument, which PyExecutor passes through, and builds
the router only with a connector that moves KV; otherwise it falls back to
the default router with a warning, staying silent for the KV-cache
estimation executor, which is built without its connector. The field
cannot be combined with enable_kv_cache_aware_routing,
kv_cache_routing_conversation_affinity or enable_kv_balanced_admission;
the last plans admission in DefaultADPRouter.pop_requests, which this
router does not use. Like the other routers whose pop_requests plans no
ranks, route_requests accepts the planned placement and ignores it.
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prefixes, rather than relying only on capacity_only; if the factory cannot
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This pull request adds aligned KV-cache reuse, connector admission and failed-load recovery, Mooncake Store asynchronous loading and eviction features, work-aware attention-DP routing, disaggregated timeout handling, and first-chunk streaming error handling.
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Aligned reuse contract and implementation cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/*, tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/*
Reuse matches accept alignment, round endpoints after backoff and pruning, and validate alignment against tokensPerBlock.
WorkAwareADPRouter balances estimated uncached prefill work when the connector and routing configuration allow it.
Timeout and stream handling tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/orchestration/coordinator.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_disagg_server.py
Timed-out generation receives follow separate cancellation paths. Streaming endpoints can hold headers until the first chunk so early failures become HTTP or protocol errors.
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Add a regression test for the retry after an off-alignment SSM snapshot.
The continue at blockRadixTree.cpp:924-927 realigns the match after SSM truncation moves the endpoint off alignment. The docstring of test_reuse_match_alignment_applies_after_snapshot_pruning states that this retry is not reached. Its alignments are 1 and 32, so alignment 16 is not exercised.
Add a case to tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py with these properties:
tokens_per_block=32, alignment=16, and enable_partial_reuse=True, as in the existing SSM test.
The first block holds an SSM snapshot at 32. The second block holds an SSM snapshot at 40.
The query matches 48 tokens. The raw match is aligned, but the snapshot at 40 truncates it to an unaligned endpoint.
The test asserts that num_committed_tokens and _get_num_reusable_tokens_before_hybrid_pruning() both equal 32.
Without this case, a change that removes or reorders the continue branch can return an SSM endpoint that is not a multiple of alignment. The inspected tests do not fail in that case.
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test_reuse_match_alignment_applies_after_snapshot_pruning using
tokens_per_block=32, alignment=16, and partial reuse enabled; place SSM
snapshots at 32 and 40 in consecutive blocks, then query 48 matching tokens.
Assert both num_committed_tokens and
_get_num_reusable_tokens_before_hybrid_pruning() equal 32, exercising the retry
through the alignment check after snapshot pruning.
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Require a connector that can load prefixes.
When Mooncake uses its producer role, capacity_only is false, but the connector never loads KV. This branch still selects WorkAwareADPRouter. Later turns then receive small prompt-growth estimates even though the server must compute their full prompts. This also defeats long-prefill demotion when it uses the published estimate. Gate selection on a prefix-loading capability, or reject this configuration. Add a factory test for the producer role. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the router factory branch that selects WorkAwareADPRouter so it requires
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Enabling this declaration also admits aggregated attention-DP servers with role: both or producer, whose generation-page bookkeeping is still unsafe. After prepare_resources() reports a new tail page, _kv_connector_start_batch() can veto the forward when another owner cannot pad. _revert_gen_alloc() frees that page, but KvCacheConnectorSchedulerOutputRequest.update_and_build_data() and Mooncake _record_pages() retain its index. If another request takes the slot, a later save can publish that request's KV under the original request's hash, corrupting subsequent prefix reuse. Could you reject aggregated attention-DP saving roles at startup until the page-rewind notification is implemented, and cover that rejection? The current ADP e2e test explicitly avoids this hazard. Required for this PR.
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Please split this PR. It spans 19 commits across the C++ radix tree, KVCacheManagerV2, the V2 scheduler, PyExecutor, the KV connector, mooncake_store, the ADP router and the disaggregated server, which is too much to review responsibly in one pass. As the description notes, commits 17 and 18 depend on neither group A nor B, and they change default behavior for every disaggregated deployment with no knob, so they should land as their own PRs where disagg serving owners will see them. Groups A (generic connector / KVCacheManagerV2 support) and B (mooncake_store) would also be easier to review separately.
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Before this change the handler returned the StreamingResponse at once, and Starlette (uvicorn reports ASGI spec 2.3) runs listen_for_disconnect alongside it, so a client that disconnects during TTFT cancels the relayed stream and the upstream request. While _start_stream awaits the first chunk nothing reads http.disconnect, and uvicorn does not cancel the app task on connection_lost, so an abandoned request now runs through prefill, KV transfer and the first decode step before anyone notices, which is most costly under overload, when clients drop on TTFT. Could the first-chunk wait race a disconnect listener on raw_req and aclose the stream on disconnect, with a test for it?
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This PR brings the Mooncake KV-cache-store work from the fork branch
M3-mooncake-maintomain. That branch carries MiniMax-M3-specific changes, so it is not rebased; each feature is re-implemented againstmaininstead:connectors/mooncake_storepackage. Everything it already has stays: pool manifest, capacity role, ledger, GPUDirect, LoRA and multimodal scoping, node budget.The PR builds on #19369 (attention DP for V2 KV cache connectors) and keeps its behaviour: the status vote, the transfer deadlines and the
_kv_connector_failfail-stop.The generic KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler support (group A) and the work-aware router (commit 19) are opt-in. With all new knobs at their defaults and no connector declaring the new class attributes, they leave
main's behaviour unchanged. The in-treemooncake_storeconnector declares those attributes, so existingmooncake_storedeployments change behaviour by default. The disaggregated-serving fixes in commits 17 and 18 have no knob and apply to every disaggregated deployment. Both are listed under Behaviour changes.The PR has 19 commits in three groups, rebased onto
mainff1aa0f. Group A comes first and B depends on A. In group C, commits 17 and 18 depend on neither and can be split out as they are. Commit 19's router code does not depend on A or B either, but its end-to-end test runsmooncake_storeunder attention DP and so needs commit 11.A. Generic KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler support (commits 1-7)
reuse_match_alignmentin the V2 radix-tree match, with its nanobind binding and runtime config field.requires_block_aligned_reuseanddrops_reuse_match_backoff. KVCacheManagerV2 reads them when a one-model draft would back local reuse matches off a block boundary.reports_failed_loads).supports_speculative_prefill.requires_completion_reservation(mooncake_store does) orkv_cache_config.enable_disagg_completion_reservationis set (for generation servers without a connector and withhost_cache_size: 0).main's admission. A set knob that cannot apply logs a warning.kv_connector_config.admission_query.B.
mooncake_store(commits 8-16)local_reuse_backoff(off/align) for whole-block local reuse under one-model drafts.C. Disaggregated serving (commits 17-19)
errorevent./v1/messageskeeps sending its headers at once somain's keepalive pings still go out; there a failure before the first chunk ends in an Anthropicerrorevent, as before. The proxy's no-replay rule for generation legs ismain's ([None][perf] Serving runtime: disagg/KV-transfer/ADP fixes, KV cache manager V2 prefix wait, ConversationRouter prefix placement, KV-balanced ADP admission #20938, [TRTLLM-17083][feat] Cancel paired GEN on CTX failure or cancellation #20491); this commit adds client tests for it.main's idle cancellation path ([None][fix] Progress idle disaggregated worker cancellation #20702).User-visible knobs
kv_cache_config.enable_disagg_completion_reservationkv_connector_config.admission_query.{max_uncharged_parks, max_offer_deferrals}supports_admission_query; otherwise startup fails unless KVCacheManagerV2 anddisable_overlap_scheduler=Trueare in use; without chunked prefill it has no effect (logged as a warning)kv_connector_config.mooncake_store.local_reuse_backoffoffofforalign; only matters with one-model draftskv_connector_config.mooncake_store.soft_pin_ttl_ms--max_kv_soft_pin_ttlkv_connector_config.mooncake_store.group_blockskv_connector_config.mooncake_store.stats_intervalkv_connector_config.mooncake_store.staging_buffer_bytes1GiBstage_through_host, ignored otherwise; the default equalsmain's fixed 1 GiBkv_connector_config.mooncake_store.{async_load, async_load_workers}attention_dp_config.enable_work_aware_routingenable_kv_cache_aware_routing,kv_cache_routing_conversation_affinityorenable_kv_balanced_admissionsupports_speculative_prefill,reports_failed_loads(plustake_failed_load_requests,take_failed_async_load_requests,drop_bound_saves),requires_block_aligned_reuse,drops_reuse_match_backoff,requires_completion_reservation,supports_admission_queryKVCacheManagerConfig.reuse_match_alignment(C++ and binding)The fork's environment variables became config fields:
TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_SOFT_PIN_TTL_MS,TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_GROUP_BLOCKS,TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_HOLE_STATS,TLLM_M3_LOAD_PHASE_TIMING,TRTLLM_MOONCAKE_STORE_LOCAL_REUSE_BACKOFF,TLLM_CTX_UNCHARGED_ASYNC_PARKS,TLLM_CTX_PARK_OFFER_DEFERRALSandTRTLLM_ADP_WORK_AWARE_ROUTING.Telemetry: four new fields are captured and need telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER review:
kv_cache_config.enable_disagg_completion_reservation,kv_connector_config.admission_query.max_uncharged_parks,kv_connector_config.admission_query.max_offer_deferralsandattention_dp_config.enable_work_aware_routing. Every newmooncake_storefield setstelemetry=False. The golden manifest and both serve schemas are regenerated in the commit that adds each field.Behaviour changes
supports_speculative_prefill. A capacity-role generation server may also run one-model drafts.mooncake_storerole transfers KV (its host tier is already dropped) now reserves completion headroom when every layer uses full attention, beam width is 1 and there is a single pipeline stage. Windowed or recurrent models keepmain's admission.max_tokenslowers that server's concurrency.role: capacityservers are unaffected.mooncake_storepublishes only blocks whose KV has been computed. On a single rank or under attention DP, a prefix page missing from the pool restarts that request instead of failing the server./v1/messagesstreams are unchanged.errorevent.kv_transfer_timeout_ms(60 s by default) at the top of the executor loop, so an idle server no longer waits for a forward step. Under pipeline parallelism the loop still checks generation receive timeouts only while a context send or KV connector save is in flight, as onmain. Servers with in-flight cancellation (TRTLLM_DISAGG_ENABLE_INFLIGHT_CANCEL=1) already did this onmain.DISAGG_TRANS_ERRORand gets an error response, instead of being parked and then dropped. Context-side timeouts and the in-flight cancellation path are unchanged.main.Intentionally not included
mooncake_store_m3package andmooncake-store-m3preset,trtllm-serve mooncake_master_m3,mooncake_donorandlaunch_master. The pool manifest and therole: capacityserver onmaincover them.TLLM_CTX_APPEND_RESERVE,_ctx_append_reserve*and_ctx_pending_init. Admission parks are re-expressed againstmain's scheduler_v2 without it.TLLM_CTX_PARK_STATS,TLLM_GIL_PROBE_US), which were debug-only.alignwithasync_load(d169724). Under that combination a one-block offer parks; this is a follow-up.Open design questions for review
main's prefix wait ([None][perf] Serving runtime: disagg/KV-transfer/ADP fixes, KV cache manager V2 prefix wait, ConversationRouter prefix placement, KV-balanced ADP admission #20938) and the admission-time connector queries (commit 7).PrefixWaitPlannerholds back a request whose prefix another request is still prefilling, and a held request never reaches the connector query. A request whose prefix is already in the Mooncake pool can therefore wait for up to 128 passes. The GB300 results under Performance predate the planner.Performance
Measured on the pre-rebase head 2cebc83, before
mainhad the prefix wait (#20938); not yet rerun on this rebase. The workload is GLM-5.2 AgentX at concurrency 480 on London GB300: 36 GPUs (5 context servers, 1 generation server), forced MTP acceptance 1.99 and a 6,304 GiB Mooncake pool. The baseline is London job 219351 on the same pool size. It ran GLM-5.2 fork commit 06bbb46 (branchcodex/glm52-adp-mooncake, notM3-mooncake-main) plus that fork's local scheduler patches. Only throughput and latency are reported; accuracy is not scored under forced acceptance.tcpagainstrc; KV data usescuda_ipcin both). The PR run also set two engine options explicitly to the fork's effective values.Test coverage
The branch adds or changes tests in 36 files under
tests/andcpp/tests/:kvCacheManagerV2ConfigTestandkv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py(reuse_match_alignment);mooncake_storeunit-test files;tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/;test_adp_router.py,_torch/test_connector_adp.pyand the work-aware router case in_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py;_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_{errors,progress,transfers}.pyandexecutor/test_forward_error_survival.py;test_llm_args.py;tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py. The new cases are listed inl0_a10.yml(async load),l0_h100.yml(speculative prefill with EAGLE3) andl0_dgx_h100.yml(attention-DP owners in both overlap modes, and work-aware routing).Local gate runs on OCI GB300 (aarch64, 4 GPUs per node). Each gate ran the same command on this branch and on its base,
mainff1aa0f, with each tree built in its own container image. The branch side ran e33d306525, which differs from the pushed head only by the new work-aware e2e test and its test-list line. The last e2e row ran at the pushed head itself.mainllmapi/test_llm_args.py, serve schemas, usage, API stability,kv_cache_manager_v2_tests--check_torch/pyexecutor,_torch/executor_torch/test_connector*.py,_torch/disaggregationdisaggregated/, forward-error survival, Anthropic and Responses routes_torch/pyexecutor,_torch/executortest_kv_cache_manager_v2.pykvCacheManagerV2*Testbinariestests/unittest/disaggregated, using the cluster's UCX settings_torch/test_connector.py,_torch/test_connector_adp.pyllmapi/test_llm_args.py_torch/disaggregationtest_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py, at the pushed head 4918c76Every failure also fails on
main:_torch/test_connector_adp.py. That file is skipped in CI (https://nvbugs/7003528) until [https://nvbugs/7003528][fix] Align ADP connector fixtures with executor contracts #21465 lands. This PR's own tests in it pass.test_kv_cache_v2_vocab_size::test_branch_only_enables_multimodal_keys_when_needed[qwen3_5_hybrid-*], in both the CPU and GPU runs. They are already waived in CI (https://nvbugs/6818710).test_cache_transceiver_precheck_e2e::test_precheck_declared_architecture_without_checkpoint.test_kv_transfer_fail_stop.py::test_openmpi_subcommunicator_abort_also_terminates_other_executor_in_job. It failed once in the branch's CPU run. In 38 reruns per tree (8, then 30) it failed twice on the branch and once onmain. The branch changes neither the test nor the code it exercises.A debug run of the work-aware test showed the following:
route_requestscall went through theplacement=contract;The other changed test files (the
mooncake_store, KV connector, KVCacheManagerV2 and scheduler tests, and the disaggregated client and server tests) also ran together in one process on GPU.tests/unittest/disaggregatedrow.test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgs::test_runtime_sizes, which is whytest_llm_args.pyand_torch/disaggregationwere rerun alone.Coordination with open upstream PRs
reuse_match_alignment, plus whole-block local-reuse alignment for any connector (commits 1, 2, 12);mooncake_storesaves bounded to computed blocks (commit 9);mooncake_storeattention DP with every owner keyed as attention shard 0 of 1 (commit 11); a speculative-prefill gate with prompt-lookahead block keys (commits 5, 13); and a disaggregated completion reservation (commit 6)tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py(https://nvbugs/7003528), which holds 19 of this PR's test functions (22 test cases)Already merged and rebased over: #20938 (prefix wait and the client half of the old commit 18), #20491 and #20815 (the client retry loop), #20702 (idle cancellation), #21073 (KV-balanced admission and the
placement=router contract), #20669 (test directory move).Design notes (internal cookbook): /home/simengl/shared/trt_repos/trtllm-cookbook/projects/minimax-m3-mooncake/design/2026-10-27-mooncake-gap-port/ and /home/simengl/shared/trt_repos/trtllm-cookbook/projects/minimax-m3-mooncake/analysis/upstream-gap/2026-10-27-main-vs-M3-mooncake-main.md
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Dev Engineer Review
This change ports Mooncake KV-cache-store features into the main connector and executor paths. Most new behavior is opt-in. Defaults such as token-granular reuse, synchronous loads, no completion reservation, and disabled admission queries preserve existing behavior.
The main correctness risks are coordination across scheduler, cache manager, connector, and worker state. Failed-load recovery, async-load cancellation, completion-reservation release, and admission-offer expiry need end-to-end validation. The new attention-DP work-aware router also changes placement decisions when enabled. Check that its estimates and capacity handling remain stable under retries and request changes.
Configuration and API additions span Python arguments, JSON schemas, C++ bindings, and Mooncake settings. Keep defaults and validation consistent across these surfaces. The C++ reuse-alignment setting requires a positive value that divides the block size. The disaggregated streaming change also affects response headers: chat and completion failures before the first chunk become HTTP errors.
The change adds substantial test coverage, but reported performance measurements predate the rebase. The reported 0.3% output-throughput decrease and TTFT tail should be remeasured before drawing conclusions. The reported light/empty-prefill latency gap has no established cause.
QA Engineer Review
Tests and test lists changed across KV-cache reuse alignment, connector admission and recovery, Mooncake async loading and speculative prefill, attention-DP routing, completion reservations, and disaggregated stream and timeout handling. New integration cases cover asynchronous loads, attention-DP reuse and routing, and EAGLE3 speculative prefill.
The test-list changes add the async-load case to
l0_a10.yml, two attention-DP reuse cases and a work-aware routing case tol0_dgx_h100.yml, and the EAGLE3 speculative-prefill case tol0_h100.yml. These entries place the changed integration cases in CI lists. No manual-QA list changes are supplied.Reported validation includes 8 passing cases in
test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py, 341 passing GPU KV-cache-manager tests, and 14 passingkvCacheManagerV2*Testbinaries. The report also identifies existing-main failures and a flaky transfer test; these results are not an all-clear for the full change. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up, especially for post-rebase performance and the reported flaky or baseline-failing cases.Per-File QA Perspective
Source files
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/blockRadixTree.cpp,blockRadixTree.h,config.cpp,config.h,kvCacheManager.cpp,cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2.cpp,tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/__init__.py, and__init__.pyi: Verify alignment validation and trimming after backoff and snapshot pruning. Check that default alignment preserves token-granular reuse and that C++ and Python configuration surfaces agree.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/kv_cache_connector.py: Verify capability declarations, dummy-request filtering, speculative-prefill validation, and failed-load restart rules. Confirm unsupported tensor-parallel recovery remains an error.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/config.py,master.py,settings.py,staging.py, andvalidation.py: Verify defaults, strict type and size validation, inherited settings, node-budget accounting, and required staging-buffer budget arguments.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/keys.py: Verify lookahead hashing preserves existing keys when lookahead is zero, and that shard keys remain distinct from eviction-group IDs.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/metadata.pyandscheduler.py: Verify async-load metadata, allocation trimming, destination-page checks, save eligibility, and save-progress confirmation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/worker.py: Verify sync and async missing-page recovery, save removal, thread shutdown, staging-pool cleanup, and attention-DP key sharing. Tensor-parallel missing pages remain fatal.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify connector offers expire at the right pass, completion reservations are released on all cleanup paths, and endpoint mismatches fail clearly.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/llm_request.py: Verify new admission-offer and preemption fields initialize correctly for every request.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.pyandpy_executor_creator.py: Verify connector setup gates, speculative-prefill eligibility, admission-query setup, and recovery from sync and async failed loads.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py: Verify scheduler admission settings use the documented defaults when connector configuration is absent.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/adp_router.py: Verify work estimates, capacity behavior, explicit-rank handling, and fallback when no eligible connector is attached.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify offer deferrals, uncharged parks, preemption, and completion reservations under chunked and non-chunked admission.tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_disagg_server.py: Verify chat and completion errors before the first chunk return HTTP errors, while Responses and Anthropic streams retain their event behavior.tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py,tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json,tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json, andtensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json: Verify option defaults, prototype schema fields, incompatibility rules, and serialization consistency.docs/source/features/disagg-serving.mdanddocs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md: Verify documented retry conditions, connector restrictions, async-load behavior, and supported speculative-prefill modes match implementation.examples/disaggregated/slurm/cache_transceiver_test/run_cache_transceiver_test.pyandtests/unittest/disaggregated/test_cache_transceiver_single_process.py: Verify the completion-reservation setting is exposed consistently in their test configuration.examples/llm-api/configs/trtllm_mooncake_store_connector_extra.yaml: Optional Mooncake settings remain commented out; verify example values and constraints match supported configuration.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml,l0_dgx_h100.yml, andl0_h100.yml: Verify the listed async-load, attention-DP, work-aware-routing, and speculative-prefill cases remain valid CI selectors.Test files
tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_connector_mooncake.py: Adds async-load, attention-DP reuse and routing, and speculative-prefill integration coverage. Cases are listed inl0_a10.yml,l0_dgx_h100.yml, andl0_h100.yml.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/conftest.py: Adds a fixture to exercise timeout handling without in-flight cancellation.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py: Adds work-aware router coverage to per-rank capacity checks.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_errors.py,test_disagg_coordinator_progress.py, andtest_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py: Cover timed-out generation receives, cancellation outcomes, state transitions, and ADP failure handling.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/test_mooncake_store_common.py: Covers key encoding, lookahead, configuration validation, node budgets, and staging geometry.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/test_mooncake_store_real_pool.py: Covers async page restoration, attention-DP sharing, and soft-pin or grouped-page replay.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/test_mooncake_store_settings.py: Covers inherited settings, defaults, invalid values, and local reuse backoff.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/test_kv_connector_speculative_prefill.py: Covers capability gating and request admission in speculative-prefill-only mode.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_manager_v2_connector_alignment.py: Covers alignment and backoff decisions for connector and draft managers.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_disagg_completion_reservation.py: Covers reservation eligibility, pool accounting, and release paths under CPU and CUDA.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: Covers admission offers, deferrals, uncharged parks, and reservation refusal.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_connector_v2_prefix.pyandtest_kv_connector_v2_prefix_real_manager.py: Cover admission-time query reuse, stale offers, growth, rollback, and real allocation behavior.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py: Covers connector-dependent alignment and allocation cleanup.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_adp_router.py: Covers work estimation, placement, capacity, telemetry, and fallback.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_disagg_receive_ordering.py: Initializes completion-reservation state in test fixtures.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py: Covers parked-request handling and admission-query scheduler resolution.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_initialization.py: Covers connector setup and speculative-prefill initialization constraints.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor.py: Initializes timeout state in mocked transfer requests.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor_creator_connector_spec_prefill.py: Covers speculative-prefill eligibility and connector capability declarations.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_remote_tail_adp_phase.py: Verifies the router factory receives the connector manager argument.tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py: Covers admission-query behavior, dummy requests, and failed-load recovery across attention-DP and tensor-parallel paths.tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disagg_openai_client.py: Covers chat, completion, and Responses retry behavior and retry disabling.tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_kv_transfer.py: Adds the completion-reservation setting to test configuration.tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_disagg_server.py: Covers stream startup errors, status handling, chunk forwarding, and cleanup.tests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.py: Covers synchronized ADP handling of receive timeouts.tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Covers alignment, backoff order, probing consistency, validation, and SSM pruning.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py: Covers defaults, schema status, validation, and serialization for new arguments.