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Part of the fix for https://nvbugs/6953985: Mean Gen Worker Per-Iter Device Step Time of the gpt-oss-120b-fp4 disaggregated gen-only case on GB200 went up in the post-merge window that contains #17495, which made the KV cache manager V2 and the Python transceiver the defaults; on recent main, setting both back makes that case about 0.6 ms faster (table below). This PR removes one cause of the difference: steps that stall for tens of milliseconds.
In NGC PyTorch for aarch64 the CPU allocator is mimalloc, which advises its 1 GiB arenas MADV_HUGEPAGE. With 64 KiB base pages a transparent huge page is 512 MiB. When one of them splits, khugepaged rebuilds it into a new 512 MiB page while it holds the process's mmap lock, and a page fault of the executor thread meanwhile waits for it: that rank stalls for 30-100 ms, and with tensor parallelism the other ranks wait for it. With the V2 defaults every generation rank allocates about 488 MiB of pageable CPU tensors for the Python transceiver's AuxBuffer (sized for max_batch_size * 20000 slots), and on the gen-only part of this case they sat in that arena on the ranks checked. In every run there, the arena's huge page split on two or three of the four ranks when decoding started, and khugepaged rebuilt it during the run. On the case itself, each of the eight runs without this PR below has 2-19 steps that take 44-168 ms instead of about 16 ms; the eight runs with it have none.
The change:
tensorrt_llm/__init__.py runs phase 1 and import torch inside _bootstrap._mimalloc_arenas_off_thp(). That context manager sets MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 for the block (Linux only, and only if the variable is unset), so torch's mimalloc no longer advises its arenas.
With that option off, mimalloc also disables transparent huge pages for the whole process (PR_SET_THP_DISABLE). When the block ends, the context manager withdraws the variable again, so that libraries with their own mimalloc (pyarrow) and child processes that do not import TensorRT LLM do not see it, and puts the process's THP-disable flag back to its value from before if the import changed it (an inherited PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED included). It does this in its own finally, so it also happens when the environment preparation or the torch import raises. The rest of the process keeps its THP setting, so MADV_HUGEPAGE requests elsewhere (the MoE load balancer's NUMA pool, the KV cache manager V2 host tier with TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_THP=1) still apply.
Scope: this keeps torch's arenas off huge pages under the THP mode madvise (/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled), which the GB200 hosts below and the GB300 node of the unit tests run. Under always, memory nobody advised is eligible as well, and mimalloc does not mark its arenas MADV_NOHUGEPAGE (with the default their VmFlags show neither hg nor nh), so once the process flag is cleared the arenas are eligible again. Such hosts behave as they do today, and this PR does not remove the stalls there. The flag is still cleared on them, because keeping it would also deny huge pages to the MADV_HUGEPAGE requests above, and no always host was measured.
The default only takes effect when tensorrt_llm is imported before torch, since mimalloc reads its options when torch loads it. A caller-set MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP is left as it is, so a caller's 0 keeps transparent huge pages disabled for the whole process and the processes it starts, including the MADV_HUGEPAGE requests above.
The Qwen3.8-Flash-Next modeling_v2 target keeps its 47.68 GiB PLE n-gram table in registered host memory (_RegisteredHostBuffer), which came from torch's CPU allocator and so from an advised mimalloc arena. Under this default its pages are 64 KiB, and on GB300 the device's random row gathers from them run 2.5x (64 tokens) to 23x (1024 tokens) slower. The buffer now maps its own memory, advised MADV_HUGEPAGE before cudaHostRegister faults it in, so it gets huge pages whatever torch's allocator does. A kernel without transparent huge pages refuses the advice; the table then stays on base pages with a warning.
Measured on GB200 (64 KiB pages, THP madvise) on the NVBug's case (ISL 8192, OSL 1024, concurrency 1024, ctx TP1, gen TP4, NIXL), Mean Gen Worker Per-Iter Device Step Time, lower is better. The three arms ran interleaved on the same two node pairs:
runs
ms
median
steps > run median + 25 ms
before
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16.80, 17.83, 16.87, 16.99
16.93
3, 19, 3, 2
this PR
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16.59, 16.66, 16.55, 16.92
16.62
0, 0, 0, 0
pre-#17495 settings: use_kv_cache_manager_v2: false, C++ transceiver
4
16.31, 16.32, 16.37, 16.44
16.34
0, 0, 0, 1
Of the 0.59 ms between the medians of the first and last row, 0.28 ms remains with this PR. In each of the four rounds the run with this PR was faster than the run without it on the same nodes, but the two ranges overlap: in the last round on one node pair the response burst lengthened its step by 13.7 ms in both arms instead of 10.3-11.7 ms, and this PR's run there (16.92 ms) is slower than the fastest run without it (16.80 ms). A separate before/after run on two other node pairs (4 runs each) did not overlap: 16.56-16.71 ms before, 16.47-16.54 ms with this PR.
This PR does not address the rest of the gap. The largest part of it measured on this case is the response burst every stream_interval (20) steps: in the runs above it lengthens one device step by 10.3-13.7 ms with V2 and by 7.9-8.5 ms with the pre-#17495 settings.
Related: #20650, merged on 11-04 for the same NVBug, checks the KV window crossing before the logger level. Its reviewer measured that, with the logger fast path main already has (#19646), it saves about 10-25 µs per 1024 calls on x86 (23-114 µs in my run for 0-3 windowed layer groups; with 4 it is slower), so by estimate about 0.04-0.2 ms per step on GB200. The table above was measured on a base without it, and the 0.28 ms that remains has not been re-measured on top of it.
The context manager sets the default only on Linux and only when the variable is unset, and withdraws it also when its block raises.
It puts the raw THP-disable flag back, an inherited PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED (3) included, and warns when the kernel refuses.
A PR_SET_THP_DISABLE round trip.
In a fresh interpreter, import tensorrt_llm (then pyarrow) leaves the process's THP flag unchanged and a fresh torch tensor's mapping unadvised. A control child without TensorRT LLM must first show that mapping advised; the test skips where it does not (e.g. x86).
A failing torch import, or a failure inside phase 1 (the vendored triton_kernels import), leaves no default behind.
Without the context manager around the torch import, the arena test and both failed-import tests fail.
On GB300 (aarch64, 64 KiB pages, THP madvise), with the post-merge wheel of main 47cd51b (its __init__.py and _bootstrap.py equal this PR's base) and this PR's two files on top: test_mimalloc_thp.py passes 15 of 15 and test_unified_cache.py 17 of 17. The tensor's mapping is hg under torch alone and unadvised after import tensorrt_llm.
test_modeling_v2_ple_ngram_embed.py::test_host_table_is_advised_transparent_huge_pages (B300 CI): the host table's mapping is advised MADV_HUGEPAGE. On GB300, the full table from _host_resident_empty under this default: 98.6% on huge pages, gathers 11-13 / 11-13 / 17 µs per step at 64 / 256 / 1024 tokens, against 0% and 28 / 101 / 378 µs for a torch.empty table (the previous allocation) and 11-12 / 11 / 17 µs on main.
CI's perf-sanity case gb300_qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_grace_blackwell / qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_mv2_tp1_mtp3_8k1k on GB300, with the post-merge wheel of main 47cd51b and 7 runs per arm: this PR against main gives 9402 against 9439 tok/s at c256 (−0.39%, 95% CI −1.37 to +0.60), and TTFT +0.15% at c256 and +0.19% at c1. Without the weights.py change it gives −2.2% tok/s, and TTFT +1.6% at c256 and +2.6% at c1. Details are in the PR comments.
The perf case above, before and after.
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On Linux, _prepare_environment() sets MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 only when the caller has not set it. __init__.py calls _restore_process_thp() in a finally block around environment preparation and the Torch import. Cleanup withdraws the temporary default and restores the prior THP-disable flag if Torch changed it. Importing torch before tensorrt_llm bypasses this setup. Under THP mode always, mimalloc arenas can remain eligible for huge pages.
The Qwen3.8-Flash-Next host-resident table now uses its own anonymous mapping and requests MADV_HUGEPAGE. If the advice fails, the code logs a warning and continues with base pages. The source documents slower gathers on base pages.
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tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py adds tests for Linux-only setup, explicit-setting precedence, setup order, THP flag restoration, arena advice, and cleanup after failed Torch or environment-preparation imports. The test listing confirms test_unified_cache.py in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
The Qwen PLE test adds test_host_table_is_advised_transparent_huge_pages, which checks the mapping's huge-page flag and table shape. No CI or manual-QA list entry for this test was found. No test results were supplied. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.
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tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py: Verify the Linux-only default is set before Torch loads, caller-provided values remain unchanged, and cleanup restores the prior THP-disable flag when needed.
tensorrt_llm/__init__.py: Verify cleanup after successful and failed environment preparation or Torch import. Callers that import torch first must set MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 themselves.
tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py: Covers setup order, explicit settings, THP state, arena advice, and failed-import cleanup. Listed in the CI test list at tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/weights.py: Verify the host table uses the anonymous mapping and receives MADV_HUGEPAGE; advice errors log a warning and do not fail allocation.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/ple/test_modeling_v2_ple_ngram_embed.py: The new test checks the host table's shape and mapping huge-page flag, and skips when the kernel THP control file is absent. No CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
…sparent huge pages
On aarch64 the PyTorch CPU allocator is mimalloc, which advises its 1 GiB
arenas MADV_HUGEPAGE. With 64 KiB base pages a transparent huge page is
512 MiB. After one splits, khugepaged collapses it again by copying 512 MiB
while it holds the process's mmap lock, and a page fault of the executor
thread in that window stalls the rank, and with it its tensor-parallel
peers, for tens of milliseconds. With the KV cache manager V2 and the Python
transceiver as defaults, each generation rank keeps several hundred MiB of
pageable CPU tensors in that arena, so these collapses happen while serving.
Default MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP to 0 before torch is imported, so mimalloc stops
advising its arenas. With that option off, the mimalloc in PyTorch also
turns transparent huge pages off for the whole process while torch loads.
Right after the import, withdraw the default again, so that libraries
bundling their own mimalloc (pyarrow) and child processes that do not
import TensorRT LLM do not see it, and clear the process-wide flag when the
import set it, so memory that asks for huge pages with MADV_HUGEPAGE keeps
getting them. A MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP value set by the caller is left alone.
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Linux bootstrap applies a default mimalloc THP setting before Torch loads when the caller has not set one. Package initialization restores the process THP state after environment preparation and the Torch import, including when either raises. The Qwen registered host buffer now uses an anonymous mapping advised for huge pages.
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Bootstrap THP controls
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Set and restore mimalloc THP state tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py, tensorrt_llm/__init__.py, tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py
On Linux, bootstrap records the prior process THP state and sets MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 when the caller has not set the variable. Package initialization removes that default after environment preparation and the Torch import. Tests cover explicit settings, platform handling, ordering, restoration, and subprocess imports.
Qwen registered host buffer
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Allocate and verify advised host mapping tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/weights.py, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/ple/test_modeling_v2_ple_ngram_embed.py
The registered host buffer uses an anonymous private mapping with huge-page advice and exposes it as a torch.uint8 tensor. It logs a warning if the advice raises an OSError. A test checks the mapping’s huge-page flag and the table shape.
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participant Package as tensorrt_llm.__init__
participant Bootstrap as _prepare_environment
participant Torch as torch
participant Restore as _restore_process_thp
Package->>Bootstrap: Prepare environment and set mimalloc default
Package->>Torch: Import torch
Package->>Restore: Withdraw default and restore eligible process flag
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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.
The measurements back the mechanism well, and the restore step keeps the opt-out scoped to torch's arenas. Two points to address or document:
THP mode always. The fix depends on mimalloc not calling madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE). On a host with /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled = always (the default on several enterprise distros), every anonymous mapping is THP-eligible whether or not it was advised. Once _restore_process_thp() clears PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, torch's arenas can get 512 MiB pages again, and the khugepaged stall can come back. Please either state in the _restore_process_thp comment that this is scoped to madvise mode, or decide what always hosts should do (for example, keep the process flag set when the mode is always), and say which one you chose in the description.
The process is affected only when tensorrt_llm is imported before torch. If a launcher or user script runs import torch first, mimalloc has already read its options and the default does nothing. The worker entry points appear to import the package first, but a one-line note in the docstring would save someone a debugging session when a custom launcher doesn't.
No docs or changelog are needed. The variable is internal and gets withdrawn after import, and an explicit user value still wins.
- Withdraw the default in a finally block, so that a failing phase 1 or
torch import does not leave MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 in the environment.
- Note that the default needs tensorrt_llm to be imported before torch,
and that keeping torch's arenas off huge pages relies on the madvise
THP mode.
- Tests: isolate the variable and the module state in every test, accept
an inherited PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag, skip the arena check
when no mimalloc mapping is visible, and cover a failed torch import.
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@brnguyen2 thanks for the review. Both of your points are in f4b7996, and the description now covers them:
THP mode always: documented in the comment on _restore_process_thp. The arenas stay eligible there, as they are today, and the flag is still cleared. Details are in the thread on _bootstrap.py.
Import order: _keep_mimalloc_arenas_off_thp now notes that the default needs tensorrt_llm to be imported before torch. A launcher that imports torch first needs MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 in its own environment.
The five CodeRabbit findings are fixed as well; see the replies on each thread. On GB300 (aarch64, THP madvise), tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py passes 28/28. The new failed-import test fails against the previous __init__.py.
Add a regression test for failure during environment preparation.
The new finally also promises cleanup when _prepare_environment() raises after setting MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP. The failed-Torch-import test does not exercise that path. Add a fresh-interpreter test that makes a later preparation step raise, then checks that the variable is absent after the import error. This would catch a regression that moves preparation outside the try. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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…ort cleanup tests
Fail the import with a sys.meta_path finder and check that the caught
ImportError is the injected one, and also cover a failure inside phase 1
(the vendored triton_kernels import) after the default is set.
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- Line 371: Update the partial-import failure test around
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…he import cleanup tests
The injected failure records the default it sees and disables THP for
the process, as torch's mimalloc does when it loads; after the failed
import, the default must have been "0" there, and neither the variable
nor the flag may be left behind.
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No blockers; 3 possibly blocking and 3 required (5 inline, 1 below). The root-cause analysis and the interleaved GB200 runs are convincing, and setting the option only for the torch import is the right shape. What remains: a GB300 measurement for another consumer of torch's CPU allocator whose page size this default changes, two small fixes around the THP-disable flag and the advice for torch-first launchers, and a few guideline/description items.
[Required] PR description: #20650 ([https://nvbugs/6953985][fix] Check the KV window crossing before the logger level) merged to main today for the same NVBug and is not linked. This PR's base predates it, so the before/after table and the "0.28 ms remains" figure were measured without it. Please link it and say whether the remaining gap still holds on top of it (CONTRIBUTING.md: "Link to the related PRs").
…er the torch import
Record PR_GET_THP_DISABLE as its raw value and put it back as it was
when the import changed it, so an inherited PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
(3) is not left as the plain flag. Document _restore_process_thp() as a
docstring with its contract, mention the temporary default in the module
docstring and at phase 1, and say that a caller-set MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0
keeps THP off for the whole process tree instead of advising it.
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…le on huge pages itself
The modeling_v2 target's host-resident n-gram table came from torch's CPU
allocator, whose mimalloc arenas no longer get MADV_HUGEPAGE: on GB300 the
device's random row gathers from its 64 KiB pages then run 2.5x (64 tokens)
to 23x (1024 tokens) slower. Give the buffer its own anonymous mapping,
advised MADV_HUGEPAGE before the registration faults it in.
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…V_HUGEPAGE is refused
A kernel without transparent huge pages rejects the advice; warn and keep
the table on base pages instead of failing the load. The advice test skips
on such kernels.
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- Line 190: Add a test in the n-gram embedding test suite that forces madvise to
raise OSError, then verifies the host-offloaded allocation still succeeds and
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…host PLE table
Gate the advice test on whether the kernel takes MADV_HUGEPAGE, and check
that a refused advice still allocates and registers the table, with a
warning.
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@sunnyqgg I ran the real case for your PLE-table question. The case is CI's perf-sanity gb300_qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_grace_blackwell / qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_mv2_tp1_mtp3_8k1k (modeling_v2, TP1, MTP3, PLE host offload on by default, 8k/1k at c1 and c256), driven by CI's own test_perf_sanity.py.
Setup:
GB300, with the post-merge wheel of main 47cd51b (L0_PostMerge 3053). That wheel's __init__.py, _bootstrap.py and weights.py are identical to this PR's base.
The arms differ only in those three files: main, this PR, and a control that has this PR's bootstrap but main's weights.py (the table from torch.empty).
16 runs on 2 nodes, 4 at a time with one per GPU; the arms rotate across GPUs between waves.
arm
runs
table on THP
c256 tok/s
c256 TPOT (ms)
c256 TTFT (ms)
c1 TTFT (ms)
main
7
99–100%
9439
25.43
1271.7
83.68
this PR
7
91–100%
9402 (−0.39%, 95% CI −1.37 to +0.60)
25.52 (+0.37%)
1273.7 (+0.15%)
83.84 (+0.19%)
control: no weights.py change
2
0%
9230 (−2.2%)
25.94 (+2.0%)
1292.6 (+1.6%)
85.82 (+2.6%)
Without the _RegisteredHostBuffer change, this PR would have cost the case about 2%. Both control runs fall outside main's range on throughput and on both TTFTs.
With it, every metric is within noise of main. On the second node, which ran 4 against 4 on the same GPUs, c256 throughput differs by −0.08% (95% CI −0.68 to +0.53).
main's numbers match CI's post-merge rows for this case (9431 and 9447 tok/s at c256).
c1 throughput is left out: with 10 requests it follows MTP acceptance, which ranged from AL 3.02 to 3.41 between runs.
Each arm's state was checked in its running server's /proc/<pid>/smaps:
main: an [anon:mimalloc] mapping with hg;
this PR: its own mapping with hg;
control: [anon:mimalloc] with neither hg nor huge pages.
One PR run reached 91% THP while four servers allocated their tables at the same time; the other six reached 99–100%.
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Follow-up to my earlier review: 12 non-blocking nice-to-have suggestion(s); none of them blocks merging.
[Nice to have]tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py:290 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): Where prctl(PR_GET_THP_DISABLE) is filtered or unsupported it returns -1, and this assert then fails instead of skipping, although _thp_disable_flag() maps the same -1 to None and carries on. The children have the mirror case: if libc.prctl(42, 0, 0, 0, 0) != 0: raise SystemExit(77) (lines 309-310 and 355-356) also catches -1 and skips with "THP is already disabled", which is the wrong reason. Suggest if original < 0: pytest.skip(...) here and a separate exit code for "prctl unavailable" in the children. CI pods have the prctl, so this only affects local runs in sandboxes.
[Nice to have]tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py:122 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): The return value of this prctl is dropped and the flag isn't read back, so if the clear fails (e.g. a seccomp policy that allows reading the flag but not setting it), THP stays disabled for the process and its children with no diagnostic. Both helpers also pass use_errno=True but never read errno, and build a new ctypes.CDLL(None) on every call. Suggest one libc handle with prctl.argtypes/restype set, as _arm_parent_death_signal() in tensorrt_llm/llmapi/_llmapi_process_guard.py does, then check the clear's return value and warn with os.strerror(ctypes.get_errno()) on failure (stdlib warnings, since the logger isn't loaded yet). Minor: bool | None instead of Optional[bool] (lines 56 and 106) would also make the new typing import unnecessary.
[Nice to have]tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py:56 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): A few names don't quite match what they hold: _restore_process_thp() doesn't restore THP in general, it withdraws this module's mimalloc default and clears only a flag the torch import set; this global is read right before the default is set (which is after torch when torch was imported first); the _mimalloc_default_state fixture only sets sys.platform to linux; and _Fail.default holds the MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP value seen at the injected failure. Consider _withdraw_mimalloc_thp_default, _thp_disabled_before_default, _on_linux and _Fail.mimalloc_allow_thp, so a reader of the finally in __init__.py doesn't take it for a general THP restore.
[Nice to have]tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py:53 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): Setting and withdrawing the default are paired only by convention: two mutable module globals with global statements, the try/finally in __init__.py, and an autouse test fixture that resets the globals. A @contextlib.contextmanager here that sets the default, yields, and withdraws it in its own finally would keep that state local and keep the two halves from drifting apart:
The default would then be set by the context manager rather than inside _prepare_environment(), and these globals and their resets in _isolate_mimalloc_thp_state go away.
…xt manager around the torch import
Replace the module globals and the finally in tensorrt_llm/__init__.py with
_bootstrap._mimalloc_arenas_off_thp(), which sets MIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0 for
phase 1 and the torch import and withdraws it on exit. Read prctl through
one handle with its argument types set, and warn when the THP-disable flag
cannot be put back.
Move the tests to tests/unittest/others/test_mimalloc_thp.py: one
fresh-interpreter helper built from the _bootstrap constants, named skip
exit codes, skips where prctl is unavailable, and a positive control for
the arena check, which now reads the mapping that holds the tensor.
Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>
@sunnyqgg thanks for the second pass. 004f6cc has your suggestions, with the inline ones answered in their threads. The four in the review body:
prctl unavailable: the round-trip test skips when _thp_disable_flag() is None. The children exit with their own code for that case instead of the "already disabled" one.
prctl handle and errors: there is one cached prctl with argtypes/restype set. _set_thp_disable_flag checks the return value and warns (stdlib warnings, RuntimeWarning, with os.strerror(errno)) when the kernel refuses. The annotations use int | None, and the typing import is gone.
Names and state:_restore_process_thp and both module globals are gone. _bootstrap._mimalloc_arenas_off_thp() is the context manager you sketched: it sets the default, yields, and in its own finally withdraws the default and puts the THP-disable flag back. __init__.py wraps only _prepare_environment() and import torch in it. The fixture is now _on_linux, and the injected failure records _Fail.mimalloc_allow_thp.
Tests: they live in tests/unittest/others/test_mimalloc_thp.py, and test_unified_cache.py matches main again.
On GB300 (aarch64, THP madvise) with main's post-merge wheel and this PR's two files on top, test_mimalloc_thp.py passes 15 of 15 and test_unified_cache.py 17 of 17. The arena test now runs instead of skipping. With this PR's _bootstrap.py and main's __init__.py, which never applies the default, the arena test and both failed-import tests fail.
On the last CI run, L0 #68110: it failed only on tests that fail for other PRs too. Those are the ADP connector tests on the CPU stages, two mixed-precision KV-cache tests on B300, and an H100 shared-tensor flake. main has since waived all but test_mixed_precision_kv_cache.py::test_deepseek_v4_mixed_disagg_names_every_layer on B300, which still fails on B300-PyTorch-2 in other PRs' runs.
@Wanli-Jiang this commit supersedes the CI run you started, so I'm re-running it.
…dent PLE table on transparent huge pages, as NVIDIA#21463 does for the tp1 target
Signed-off-by: Wanli Jiang <35160485+Wanli-Jiang@users.noreply.github.com>
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Description
Part of the fix for https://nvbugs/6953985: Mean Gen Worker Per-Iter Device Step Time of the gpt-oss-120b-fp4 disaggregated gen-only case on GB200 went up in the post-merge window that contains #17495, which made the KV cache manager V2 and the Python transceiver the defaults; on recent main, setting both back makes that case about 0.6 ms faster (table below). This PR removes one cause of the difference: steps that stall for tens of milliseconds.
In NGC PyTorch for aarch64 the CPU allocator is mimalloc, which advises its 1 GiB arenas
MADV_HUGEPAGE. With 64 KiB base pages a transparent huge page is 512 MiB. When one of them splits, khugepaged rebuilds it into a new 512 MiB page while it holds the process's mmap lock, and a page fault of the executor thread meanwhile waits for it: that rank stalls for 30-100 ms, and with tensor parallelism the other ranks wait for it. With the V2 defaults every generation rank allocates about 488 MiB of pageable CPU tensors for the Python transceiver'sAuxBuffer(sized formax_batch_size * 20000slots), and on the gen-only part of this case they sat in that arena on the ranks checked. In every run there, the arena's huge page split on two or three of the four ranks when decoding started, and khugepaged rebuilt it during the run. On the case itself, each of the eight runs without this PR below has 2-19 steps that take 44-168 ms instead of about 16 ms; the eight runs with it have none.The change:
tensorrt_llm/__init__.pyruns phase 1 andimport torchinside_bootstrap._mimalloc_arenas_off_thp(). That context manager setsMIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0for the block (Linux only, and only if the variable is unset), so torch's mimalloc no longer advises its arenas.PR_SET_THP_DISABLE). When the block ends, the context manager withdraws the variable again, so that libraries with their own mimalloc (pyarrow) and child processes that do not import TensorRT LLM do not see it, and puts the process's THP-disable flag back to its value from before if the import changed it (an inheritedPR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISEDincluded). It does this in its ownfinally, so it also happens when the environment preparation or the torch import raises. The rest of the process keeps its THP setting, soMADV_HUGEPAGErequests elsewhere (the MoE load balancer's NUMA pool, the KV cache manager V2 host tier withTLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_THP=1) still apply.madvise(/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled), which the GB200 hosts below and the GB300 node of the unit tests run. Underalways, memory nobody advised is eligible as well, and mimalloc does not mark its arenasMADV_NOHUGEPAGE(with the default theirVmFlagsshow neitherhgnornh), so once the process flag is cleared the arenas are eligible again. Such hosts behave as they do today, and this PR does not remove the stalls there. The flag is still cleared on them, because keeping it would also deny huge pages to theMADV_HUGEPAGErequests above, and noalwayshost was measured.tensorrt_llmis imported beforetorch, since mimalloc reads its options when torch loads it. A caller-setMIMALLOC_ALLOW_THPis left as it is, so a caller's0keeps transparent huge pages disabled for the whole process and the processes it starts, including theMADV_HUGEPAGErequests above._RegisteredHostBuffer), which came from torch's CPU allocator and so from an advised mimalloc arena. Under this default its pages are 64 KiB, and on GB300 the device's random row gathers from them run 2.5x (64 tokens) to 23x (1024 tokens) slower. The buffer now maps its own memory, advisedMADV_HUGEPAGEbeforecudaHostRegisterfaults it in, so it gets huge pages whatever torch's allocator does. A kernel without transparent huge pages refuses the advice; the table then stays on base pages with a warning.Measured on GB200 (64 KiB pages, THP
madvise) on the NVBug's case (ISL 8192, OSL 1024, concurrency 1024, ctx TP1, gen TP4, NIXL), Mean Gen Worker Per-Iter Device Step Time, lower is better. The three arms ran interleaved on the same two node pairs:use_kv_cache_manager_v2: false, C++ transceiverOf the 0.59 ms between the medians of the first and last row, 0.28 ms remains with this PR. In each of the four rounds the run with this PR was faster than the run without it on the same nodes, but the two ranges overlap: in the last round on one node pair the response burst lengthened its step by 13.7 ms in both arms instead of 10.3-11.7 ms, and this PR's run there (16.92 ms) is slower than the fastest run without it (16.80 ms). A separate before/after run on two other node pairs (4 runs each) did not overlap: 16.56-16.71 ms before, 16.47-16.54 ms with this PR.
This PR does not address the rest of the gap. The largest part of it measured on this case is the response burst every
stream_interval(20) steps: in the runs above it lengthens one device step by 10.3-13.7 ms with V2 and by 7.9-8.5 ms with the pre-#17495 settings.Related: #20650, merged on 11-04 for the same NVBug, checks the KV window crossing before the logger level. Its reviewer measured that, with the logger fast path main already has (#19646), it saves about 10-25 µs per 1024 calls on x86 (23-114 µs in my run for 0-3 windowed layer groups; with 4 it is slower), so by estimate about 0.04-0.2 ms per step on GB200. The table above was measured on a base without it, and the 0.28 ms that remains has not been re-measured on top of it.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/others/test_mimalloc_thp.py(CPU;l0_cpu.ymllistsunittest/others):PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED(3) included, and warns when the kernel refuses.PR_SET_THP_DISABLEround trip.import tensorrt_llm(then pyarrow) leaves the process's THP flag unchanged and a fresh torch tensor's mapping unadvised. A control child without TensorRT LLM must first show that mapping advised; the test skips where it does not (e.g. x86).triton_kernelsimport), leaves no default behind.madvise), with the post-merge wheel of main 47cd51b (its__init__.pyand_bootstrap.pyequal this PR's base) and this PR's two files on top:test_mimalloc_thp.pypasses 15 of 15 andtest_unified_cache.py17 of 17. The tensor's mapping ishgunder torch alone and unadvised afterimport tensorrt_llm.test_modeling_v2_ple_ngram_embed.py::test_host_table_is_advised_transparent_huge_pages(B300 CI): the host table's mapping is advisedMADV_HUGEPAGE. On GB300, the full table from_host_resident_emptyunder this default: 98.6% on huge pages, gathers 11-13 / 11-13 / 17 µs per step at 64 / 256 / 1024 tokens, against 0% and 28 / 101 / 378 µs for atorch.emptytable (the previous allocation) and 11-12 / 11 / 17 µs on main.gb300_qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_grace_blackwell/qwen3_8_flash_next_fp4_mv2_tp1_mtp3_8k1kon GB300, with the post-merge wheel of main 47cd51b and 7 runs per arm: this PR against main gives 9402 against 9439 tok/s at c256 (−0.39%, 95% CI −1.37 to +0.60), and TTFT +0.15% at c256 and +0.19% at c1. Without theweights.pychange it gives −2.2% tok/s, and TTFT +1.6% at c256 and +2.6% at c1. Details are in the PR comments.PR Checklist
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Dev Engineer Review
On Linux,
_prepare_environment()setsMIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0only when the caller has not set it.__init__.pycalls_restore_process_thp()in afinallyblock around environment preparation and the Torch import. Cleanup withdraws the temporary default and restores the prior THP-disable flag if Torch changed it. Importingtorchbeforetensorrt_llmbypasses this setup. Under THP modealways, mimalloc arenas can remain eligible for huge pages.The Qwen3.8-Flash-Next host-resident table now uses its own anonymous mapping and requests
MADV_HUGEPAGE. If the advice fails, the code logs a warning and continues with base pages. The source documents slower gathers on base pages.No current review findings or test execution results were supplied. Review severity counts and test status are unavailable.
QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.pyadds tests for Linux-only setup, explicit-setting precedence, setup order, THP flag restoration, arena advice, and cleanup after failed Torch or environment-preparation imports. The test listing confirmstest_unified_cache.pyintests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.The Qwen PLE test adds
test_host_table_is_advised_transparent_huge_pages, which checks the mapping's huge-page flag and table shape. No CI or manual-QA list entry for this test was found. No test results were supplied. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py: Verify the Linux-only default is set before Torch loads, caller-provided values remain unchanged, and cleanup restores the prior THP-disable flag when needed.tensorrt_llm/__init__.py: Verify cleanup after successful and failed environment preparation or Torch import. Callers that importtorchfirst must setMIMALLOC_ALLOW_THP=0themselves.tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py: Covers setup order, explicit settings, THP state, arena advice, and failed-import cleanup. Listed in the CI test list attests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/weights.py: Verify the host table uses the anonymous mapping and receivesMADV_HUGEPAGE; advice errors log a warning and do not fail allocation.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1/ple/test_modeling_v2_ple_ngram_embed.py: The new test checks the host table's shape and mapping huge-page flag, and skips when the kernel THP control file is absent. No CI or manual-QA list entry was found.