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[None][feat] executor: add a built-in post-processor hook that dumps the raw model output - #21605
Problem. When a trtllm-serve reply looks wrong (a tool call missing or malformed, a reasoning block cut short, stray markup in the content), the cause can be the generated output itself or what the reasoning and tool-call parsers and the response formatter made of it. The server keeps no record of what the model generated before those ran, so the two cannot be told apart from the outside. The post-processor hook (--post_processor_hook) already runs at exactly that point, after detokenization and before the parsers and the formatter; this PR adds a built-in hook that records the output there.
What this change does.
New built-in hook tensorrt_llm.executor.raw_output_hook.RawOutputDump. It records only when both are set:
Each process that runs the hook (the server, or each post-processing worker) appends one JSON line per finished output (not per chunk) to $TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR/<UTC hour>/raw-<pid>.jsonl, for example 2026-11-04T05/raw-1234.jsonl. A record holds:
request_id (the engine request id, which a streaming chat response, or a streaming completions response for a single prompt, carries in its chatcmpl-<id> / cmpl-<id> id) and disagg_request_id (see below), both as strings, and output_index;
text, the full detokenized output, and frames, the text each chunk added, kept as a list: incremental parsers fail at chunk boundaries, and a marker split across two chunks looks the same as one emitted whole once the chunks are joined;
token_ids and num_output_tokens, which also show tokens that detokenization leaves out of text (skipped special tokens);
frames_consistent, false when the frames do not add up to text (see below);
The hook never changes the served output (every verdict is emit(chunk.text_diff)) and never raises: a record that cannot be written, for example because the directory is not writable, is dropped and the drop is logged as a warning. Built without TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR, it logs a warning (once per process that builds it) and writes nothing.
A record matches its output exactly when the request generates one sequence (n and best_of of 1, the default). When it generates several (n or best_of above 1, which includes beam search), frames and token_ids are what the hook was handed for that output index: token_ids can repeat ids, and when sampling with best_of above n the index is a rank the result recomputes on every response, so a record can join chunks of different sequences; frames_consistent flags a record whose frames do not add up to its text. The hook keeps at most max_pending (4096) outputs in flight; past that, it writes the least recently updated one with "partial": true and end_reason: "evicted".
PostProcessorHookChunk gains disagg_request_id: the id the disaggregated server assigned the request, or None. Unlike request_id, which each worker process numbers on its own, it is shared by the context and generation phases of a request, and the disaggregated server's per-request perf metrics carry it.
Fix in the post-processing worker (first commit): the worker forwards an executor ErrorResponse without detokenizing it, and turns an exception raised while post-processing a response into an ErrorResponse. Neither path gives the hook a final chunk, so on main a hook that keeps per-request state until chunk.is_final (such as the banned-phrase guard in the feature docs) keeps the state of every such request for as long as the worker lives. A hook may now define an optional on_request_end(request_id, reason); the worker calls it through the new end_post_processor_hook() when it drops a request on either path, with reason"error" or "postprocessing_error". RawOutputDump uses it to release the request and write what it had generated as a record with "partial": true and the end_reason.
Review follow-up (third commit): without the worker pool, a request that ends in an executor error now reaches the hook as well: DetokenizedGenerationResultBase._handle_response calls end_post_processor_hook(hook, id, "error") when the executor's error is raised from it, which happens before the hook could see a final chunk. The dump bounds what it keeps in flight (max_pending), and its records carry frames_consistent.
Docs: docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md (already in the docs index) gets a section for the built-in hook, on_request_end and its scope under Per-request state, and disagg_request_id in the field list and the disaggregated-serving note.
Why separate commits. The first commit ([None][fix] postproc worker: ...) fixes the existing hook seam and stands on its own: it touches only the worker and postprocessor_hook.py, and any stateful hook benefits from it. The second ([None][feat] executor: ...) adds the dump, which keeps each output's frames until its final chunk and relies on the first commit to release requests that end in an error. They can be reviewed separately; the first can be split into its own PR if preferred. The third ([None][fix] raw output dump: ...) answers review: it bounds the dump's in-flight state, ends in-proxy executor errors in the hook, and flags records that join sequences.
Behaviour and API changes.
Nothing changes for a deployment that does not set --post_processor_hook. The dump records only when the flag names RawOutputDump and TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR is set.
PostProcessorHookChunk.disagg_request_id: Optional[int] = None is a new last field with a default, so existing hooks, and code that builds the chunk, keep working.
on_request_end is optional; hooks without it are unaffected, and an exception raised by it is logged, not propagated. The post-processing worker calls it when it drops a request after an error. Without the worker pool (the default), the detokenizing result calls it with "error" when a request's executor error is raised from it, before the hook runs. A stream whose client disconnects first still gets neither a final chunk nor on_request_end without the worker pool: the hook runs as the server reads each response, and the server stops reading that stream, so its CANCELLED final response is queued but never read. That is how main behaves for any stateful hook. The dump keeps at most max_pending (4096) outputs in flight and writes the least recently updated one past that with "partial": true and end_reason: "evicted".
Cost when enabled: one file append per finished output, in the process that runs the hook (with no worker pool, the server's event loop).
Test Coverage
New and updated CPU unit tests; the two new files are listed in l0_cpu.yml next to the other executor tests, and test_postprocessor_hook.py stays in l0_a10.yml.
test_an_executor_error_ends_the_request_in_the_hook: an ErrorResponse drops the request's record, calls on_request_end(7, "error") and is still forwarded.
test_a_postprocessing_exception_ends_the_request_in_the_hook: a response that raises while being post-processed calls on_request_end(8, "postprocessing_error") and is turned into an ErrorResponse.
test_chunk_carries_the_disaggregated_request_id: the chunk takes disagg_request_id from the result's disaggregated params; None without params or without an id.
tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py (new, 28), driving the hook through the real apply_post_processor_hook over real CompletionOutputs:
test_the_served_text_is_unchanged; test_without_the_directory_nothing_is_recorded (no file, no drop counted, no state kept, one warning naming the variable).
Frames: test_streaming_frames_keep_the_chunk_boundaries, test_chunks_that_add_no_text_are_not_frames, test_each_output_of_a_request_keeps_its_own_frames (n = 2 over two chunks), test_a_non_streaming_request_records_its_one_chunk.
Token ids: test_the_token_ids_are_recorded_with_the_text (including ids that add no text), test_a_non_streaming_request_records_all_its_token_ids.
Records and files: test_one_record_is_written_when_the_output_finishes, test_a_finished_record_is_filed_under_its_hour_in_a_per_process_file, test_the_disaggregated_request_id_is_recorded_as_an_exact_string (an id above 2^53), test_an_aborted_output_is_recorded_as_aborted, test_it_loads_through_the_documented_import_path.
Never raising: test_an_unwritable_directory_costs_the_record_not_the_response, test_an_unexpected_failure_costs_only_the_record.
Requests that end in an error: test_a_request_ended_by_an_error_is_written_as_partial_and_released, test_ending_one_request_leaves_the_others_alone, test_a_request_that_ended_before_any_output_writes_nothing, test_a_request_that_generated_only_hidden_tokens_is_written, test_ended_requests_do_not_accumulate (1,000 requests of 1 KiB each leave no state behind), test_ending_an_unknown_request_is_harmless, and test_the_worker_ends_a_request_that_fails_after_output (the real hook behind the worker's loop).
Review follow-up: test_a_record_that_joins_two_sampled_sequences_is_marked (a real DetokenizedGenerationResultBase with n = 1, best_of = 2: the second sequence takes index 0, and the record has frames_consistent: false), test_an_executor_error_without_the_worker_pool_releases_the_request (a real result with the executor's own background error handler), test_outputs_past_the_limit_are_written_as_evicted, test_the_least_recently_updated_output_is_evicted_first, test_an_evicted_output_that_produced_nothing_is_not_written, and test_the_worker_ends_a_request_whose_post_processing_raises_after_output (the worker's real record and _handle_input; the endpoint post-processor raises after the hook ran for the request's chunks).
Results (local CPU run, without a GPU):
On main, the worker tests fail 2 of 4 by assertion (assert [] == [(7, 'error')], assert [] == [(8, 'postprocessing_error')]; the 2 guards pass). test_raw_output_hook.py and the three end_post_processor_hook tests need the new module and function; test_chunk_carries_the_disaggregated_request_id fails on main with AttributeError (the chunk has no disagg_request_id). On this branch all 50 tests of the three files pass (20 of them already on main).
Mutations, each restored afterwards: dropping the worker's call to the hook fails both regression tests, and reverting either call site fails the matching one. In the hook, not writing the finished record fails 15 tests; joining the frames 4; replacing instead of collecting token ids 2; keying the state on the request alone 1; re-emitting the whole text 6; narrowing the never-raise guard to OSError 1; keeping an ended request's state 5; not passing disagg_request_id into the chunk 2; recording while disabled 1; not writing the partial record 5; no warning when disabled 1.
A wider run over all of tests/unittest/executor/, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py, tests/unittest/api_stability/ and the 42 tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_*.py serving test files, with the two new files present on both sides: no test that passes on main fails here. main: 2449 passed, 141 failed, 220 errors; this branch: 2476 passed, 139 failed, 219 errors. The only ids that differ are the two worker regression tests and test_raw_output_hook.py; the shared failures come from the local environment (no model files, compiled extensions replaced by stubs) and are the same on both sides. executor/test_rpc.py::TestRpcCorrectness::test_incremental_task_async, which CI waives, hung once in this environment and was deselected on the branch side; this PR does not touch the RPC code.
Review follow-up (third commit), local CPU run: the three files have 56 tests, all passing. Mutations, each restored afterwards: removing the in-proxy on_request_end call fails 1 test; no eviction 3; evicting in insertion rather than update order 4; frames_consistent always true 1; writing ended outputs that produced nothing 2. Over tests/unittest/executor/, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_server_stream_errors.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disaggregated_params.py and tests/unittest/llmapi/test_executor.py, the branch and its main base fail the same 16 tests and 4 collection errors (local environment: test_proxy_fast_death.py, test_multi_frontend_routing.py, llmapi/test_executor.py, and the RPC/Ray worker modules); the branch passes 584, main 548, the difference being this PR's new tests.
The end-to-end serving test of the hook (tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/_test_openai_post_processor.py, run by test_e2e.py::test_openai_post_processor) needs a GPU and a model and was not run locally.
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RawOutputDump records completed outputs as JSONL when TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR is set. Records include text, frames, token IDs, request and disaggregated request IDs, timing, completion status, and frames_consistent. The hook passes output text through unchanged. Recording failures are logged and do not fail responses.
The hook API adds disagg_request_id and optional on_request_end(request_id, reason) handling. The post-processing worker and the non-worker result path notify the hook when errors end a request. The dump writes partial records for outputs with observed content, and evicts the least-recently-updated output when more than 4096 outputs are pending. Requests that never reach a completion or end notification can still retain pending state.
Review severity counts are unavailable. The author reports that 50 tests across three test files passed. The author also reports 2,476 passed, 139 failed, and 219 errors in a wider run; the failures were attributed to the local environment. The GPU- and model-dependent end-to-end serving test was not run locally.
QA Engineer Review
The change adds test_postproc_worker_request_end.py and test_raw_output_hook.py, and modifies test_postprocessor_hook.py. The two new test files are listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml; the modified hook test is listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
Tests cover unchanged served text, output records, streaming frames, token IDs, disaggregated IDs, partial records, request cleanup, write failures, eviction, and worker and non-worker error paths. The author-reported focused test run passed. The GPU-dependent end-to-end serving test remains unverified locally. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the reported CPU-level behavior, with end-to-end serving verification still needed.
Per-File QA Perspective
docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md — Documents hook activation, JSONL fields, pending-output limits, and request-end callbacks. Verify the documented options and callback behavior against serving configuration.
tensorrt_llm/executor/postproc_worker.py — Calls the request-end callback when executor errors or post-processing exceptions end a request. Verify that callback errors do not change client error handling.
tensorrt_llm/executor/postprocessor_hook.py — Adds disagg_request_id to chunk metadata and an optional request-end callback. Verify compatibility with hooks that do not implement the callback.
tensorrt_llm/executor/raw_output_hook.py — Adds opt-in JSONL recording, partial records, and a 4096-output pending limit. Verify record fields, write-failure behavior, and cleanup when requests end without a notification.
tensorrt_llm/executor/result.py — Notifies the hook when the non-worker result path handles an error. Verify that it releases pending dump state while preserving existing exception behavior.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds the worker request-end and raw-output hook tests to the CPU CI list.
tests/unittest/executor/test_postproc_worker_request_end.py — Covers worker cleanup for executor errors and post-processing exceptions, including missing records and hooks. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/executor/test_postprocessor_hook.py — Covers disaggregated request metadata and optional callback behavior, alongside existing hook behavior. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py — Covers output records, unchanged responses, partial records, write failures, pending eviction, and error cleanup. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
…est ends in an error
The post-processing worker forwards an executor ErrorResponse without
detokenizing it, and turns an exception raised while post-processing a
response into an ErrorResponse. Neither path gives the post-processor hook
a final chunk, so a hook that keeps per-request state until chunk.is_final
(such as the banned-phrase guard in the feature docs) keeps the state of
every such request for as long as the worker lives.
A hook may now define an optional on_request_end(request_id, reason). The
worker calls it through the new end_post_processor_hook() when it drops a
request on either path, with reason "error" or "postprocessing_error". A
hook without the method is left alone, and an exception raised by it is
logged rather than propagated.
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…the raw model output
RawOutputDump (tensorrt_llm.executor.raw_output_hook) records what the
model generated for each request, as the post-processor hook sees it:
after detokenization, and before the reasoning and tool-call parsers and
the per-endpoint response formatter. Comparing a record with the response
a client received tells an error in the generated output from one
introduced by a parser or by the response formatting.
It records only when TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR is set and the server runs with
--post_processor_hook tensorrt_llm.executor.raw_output_hook.RawOutputDump;
built without the variable, it logs a warning and writes nothing. It never
changes the served output (every verdict is emit(chunk.text_diff)) and
never raises: a record that cannot be written is dropped and logged.
Each process that runs the hook appends one JSON line per finished output
to $TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR/<UTC hour>/raw-<pid>.jsonl: the request ids, the
full text, the text each chunk added (frames, kept apart), the generated
token ids, and start and finish times. A request that a post-processing
worker drops after an error is written through on_request_end, marked
partial with its end_reason.
PostProcessorHookChunk gains disagg_request_id, the id the disaggregated
server assigned the request (None otherwise). Unlike request_id, it is
shared by the request's context and generation phases.
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The changes add disaggregated request IDs to hook chunks, notify hooks when requests end with errors, and introduce RawOutputDump for JSONL output capture. Tests and documentation cover completed and partial records, callback behavior, and write failures.
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Post-processor output capture
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Summary
Hook chunk and request-end contract tensorrt_llm/executor/postprocessor_hook.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_postprocessor_hook.py, docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md
Hook chunks now include an optional disagg_request_id. The new end-hook helper invokes an optional on_request_end callback and suppresses callback exceptions. Tests and documentation cover these changes and disaggregated request correlation.
PostprocWorker removes request records and notifies hooks when executor errors or post-processing exceptions end requests. Response handling also ends the hook when it raises with an error message. Tests cover error reasons, missing records, and missing hooks.
Raw output JSONL recording tensorrt_llm/executor/raw_output_hook.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml, docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md
RawOutputDump passes chunk text through and records completed outputs as JSONL. It can record eligible partial outputs when notified of request endings. Tests and documentation cover record contents, write failures, and configuration.
sequenceDiagram
participant PostprocWorker
participant apply_post_processor_hook
participant RawOutputDump
participant JSONLFile
PostprocWorker->>apply_post_processor_hook: process output chunks
apply_post_processor_hook->>RawOutputDump: pass each hook chunk
RawOutputDump->>JSONLFile: append a completed output record
PostprocWorker->>RawOutputDump: notify request end with reason
RawOutputDump->>JSONLFile: append an eligible partial record
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5bb27
The raw output dump is opt-in and does not alter served output. Eviction and inconsistent-frame cases are flagged in the records and documented. The default file permissions of the dump directory are the operator's responsibility, so merging carries no established blocking risk.
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**Test coverage summary and CI-list check.**
**Files:** `tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py` was replaced with a new `RawOutputDump` suite.
**Behaviors covered:**
- Chunk-boundary preservation in `frames`.
- The `best_of > n` rank change, marked by `frames_consistent` being false.
- An executor error without the worker pool, which ends the request with `end_reason` `"error"`.
- Eviction past `max_pending`, including least-recently-updated order and skipping empty outputs.
- A worker post-processing error after output, which ends the request with `end_reason` `"postprocessing_error"`.
**Verdict:** The coverage is sufficient for the changed behavior. I traced the sampled-sequence test and the executor-error test against `result.py`. Their expected values are consistent with the production code.
**Open point:** I cannot see the module header or `tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml`. The test imports `tensorrt_llm.bindings.executor` and `GenerationExecutor`. Confirm that the CPU stage can import them. Also confirm that `l0_cpu.yml` selects this file and that the `cpu_only` marker applies at module scope. A test that no list selects reports nothing and gives a false green.
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The l0_cpu.yml selector and the module-level cpu_only marker for the new test file were not visible in the supplied context.
The behavior when a client disconnects without the worker pool was not verified against the executor dispatch code. The documentation's claim of no further hook calls looks consistent with the consumer-side _result_step flow.
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The unbounded _pending growth flagged in an earlier review is now bounded by max_pending eviction, and a test covers it.
The best_of > n splicing of frames is now detected through frames_consistent, and a test covers it.
A double on_request_end call from result.py and the worker is harmless: the first call pops the pending state, so the second call finds nothing.
Write failures and hook-callback exceptions are contained at the call sites and cannot mask the request outcome.
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…h a verdict
A run of the skill on a clean machine, from the skill alone, could not
reach a passing cell. This adds what it missed:
- The Codex default profile's echo is measured (exact: codex-cli 0.155.1,
12 sessions against the fake server). Conformance was BLOCKED on it. The
contract template now asks for echo.
- The capture changes are named by PR (NVIDIA#21605, NVIDIA#21602, NVIDIA#20936), with where to
get a wheel that matches the base and which CPU suites to run.
- The wiring snippets use absolute paths, create their task, pass --build-id
and --matrix, and state which claims a wiring run must pass.
- The real run has a full serve command with the recorder in front, and
profiles/model/serving/ holds complete configs for GLM-5.3-NVFP4 and
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash as their cells were served.
- The matrix template proposes starting thresholds, lists the units each
threshold needs, drops keys the verdict never reads, and names cell
directories.
- templates/full-tier-report.md: the full tier's steps and the five files it
writes.
- Smaller additions: restricting egress, a harness's own sandbox inside a
container, Codex over-length on main (PR NVIDIA#21060), where the GLM goldens
came from, test and gate hygiene, and the controls receipt command.
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Three things to settle before this lands on main; the rest looks mergeable and the three new test files pass locally (50 tests).
1. Record identity under best_of > n sampling.apply_post_processor_hook iterates result.outputs, and for plain sampling with best_of > n that property (tensorrt_llm/executor/result.py:306-321) re-sorts the candidates by cumulative logprob on every access, rewrites each CompletionOutput.index to its rank, and returns the top n. RawOutputDump keys _pending on (request_id, output_index), so when the leader changes between chunks the record's frames and token_ids are spliced from two different sequences while text comes from the last one. The record then presents a chunk boundary that never existed, which is exactly the artifact this hook is meant to diagnose. Details inline.
2. Unbounded _pending in the default (non-worker) path. The docs say an executor-errored request, or possibly a disconnected stream, gets neither a final chunk nor on_request_end outside the worker pool and "the hook keeps what it had generated until the process exits". That is the default trtllm-serve configuration, and the hook is positioned as something to leave on in production, so this is a slow leak with no ceiling. A cap on _pending (evict oldest, write them with end_reason: "evicted") would make the failure mode visible and bounded. Also worth checking whether the disconnect claim is accurate: GenerationResult.abort() cancels on the executor, and the CANCELLED final response still flows through _handle_response on the dispatcher thread, so the hook likely does see is_final for that case and the doc overstates the gap.
3. Ticket. This adds a new env var (TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR), a new optional protocol method (on_request_end), and a new chunk field. That is a tracked feature, not a [None] change; please attach a JIRA.
Smaller: the worker tests build PostprocWorker with object.__new__ and never run _handle_input against a real record, so the postprocessing_error path is only covered by a stub whose .result raises. One test that drives a real DetokenizedGenerationResultBase record into the exception path would catch regressions in how _end_record interacts with _handle_input.
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Please verify the disconnect claim before publishing it. GenerationResult.abort() calls executor.abort_request(), and the resulting CANCELLED final response is still delivered through _handle_response on the executor's dispatcher thread, not by the consumer that went away, so the hook should see an is_final chunk with aborted/finish_reason='cancelled' for a disconnected stream. If that holds, only the executor-error case lacks a final chunk in the non-worker path.
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Checked: for the non-worker path the claim holds, so the docs keep it, scoped to that path. The dispatcher does not run _handle_response there: GenerationExecutorProxy.dispatch_result_task (and handle_for_worker in-process) only puts the response on result.queue. _handle_response, and the hook with it, runs in GenerationResult._result_step / _aresult_step, that is, when the consumer reads the result. After a disconnect the stream generator is closed and await_disconnected calls promise.abort(); the CANCELLED final response is queued and never read.
CPU check with a real RequestOutput: one chunk through the real dispatch_result_task and _result_step, then abort() with the executor answering CANCELLED through dispatch_result_task. The hook saw no final chunk and the entry stayed in _pending (the proxy had already dropped the request); one more _result_step() then handed the hook the final chunk (aborted). With the worker pool the worker runs the hook on every response, so there the final chunk does arrive. In 5bb27d4 those stranded entries are bounded by the eviction, and the executor-error case is ended in the hook.
…frames
RawOutputDump keeps an output's frames and token ids until its final
chunk. Without the post-processing worker pool, two kinds of request never
get one: a request that ends in an executor error (the error is raised
before the hook runs) and a stream whose client disconnects (the server
stops reading its responses). Their state stayed until the process exited.
- The result now calls the hook's on_request_end with "error" when it
raises an executor error, so the dump writes the request as partial and
releases it, as it already does with the worker pool.
- The dump keeps at most max_pending (4096) outputs in flight; past that,
it writes the least recently updated one as partial with end_reason
"evicted".
- When sampling with best_of > n, output_index is a rank the result
recomputes on every response, so one record can join chunks of different
sequences. Each record now carries frames_consistent, false when its
frames do not add up to its text, and the docs say when a record matches
its output exactly.
- A test drives a real worker record through _handle_input into a
post-processing exception raised after the hook ran for earlier chunks.
Signed-off-by: JunyiXu-nv <219237550+JunyiXu-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
On the ticket: we're keeping [None] for this one. The change is tracked by this PR and its docs page (docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md). The review points are answered in the threads above (5bb27d4).
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Problem. When a
trtllm-servereply looks wrong (a tool call missing or malformed, a reasoning block cut short, stray markup in the content), the cause can be the generated output itself or what the reasoning and tool-call parsers and the response formatter made of it. The server keeps no record of what the model generated before those ran, so the two cannot be told apart from the outside. The post-processor hook (--post_processor_hook) already runs at exactly that point, after detokenization and before the parsers and the formatter; this PR adds a built-in hook that records the output there.What this change does.
New built-in hook
tensorrt_llm.executor.raw_output_hook.RawOutputDump. It records only when both are set:Each process that runs the hook (the server, or each post-processing worker) appends one JSON line per finished output (not per chunk) to
$TRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR/<UTC hour>/raw-<pid>.jsonl, for example2026-11-04T05/raw-1234.jsonl. A record holds:request_id(the engine request id, which a streaming chat response, or a streaming completions response for a single prompt, carries in itschatcmpl-<id>/cmpl-<id>id) anddisagg_request_id(see below), both as strings, andoutput_index;text, the full detokenized output, andframes, the text each chunk added, kept as a list: incremental parsers fail at chunk boundaries, and a marker split across two chunks looks the same as one emitted whole once the chunks are joined;token_idsandnum_output_tokens, which also show tokens that detokenization leaves out oftext(skipped special tokens);frames_consistent, false when the frames do not add up totext(see below);streaming,aborted,started_at/finished_at(UTC),partial/end_reason, andevent: "raw_output".The hook never changes the served output (every verdict is
emit(chunk.text_diff)) and never raises: a record that cannot be written, for example because the directory is not writable, is dropped and the drop is logged as a warning. Built withoutTRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIR, it logs a warning (once per process that builds it) and writes nothing.A record matches its output exactly when the request generates one sequence (
nandbest_ofof 1, the default). When it generates several (norbest_ofabove 1, which includes beam search),framesandtoken_idsare what the hook was handed for that output index:token_idscan repeat ids, and when sampling withbest_ofaboventhe index is a rank the result recomputes on every response, so a record can join chunks of different sequences;frames_consistentflags a record whose frames do not add up to its text. The hook keeps at mostmax_pending(4096) outputs in flight; past that, it writes the least recently updated one with"partial": trueandend_reason: "evicted".PostProcessorHookChunkgainsdisagg_request_id: the id the disaggregated server assigned the request, orNone. Unlikerequest_id, which each worker process numbers on its own, it is shared by the context and generation phases of a request, and the disaggregated server's per-request perf metrics carry it.Fix in the post-processing worker (first commit): the worker forwards an executor
ErrorResponsewithout detokenizing it, and turns an exception raised while post-processing a response into anErrorResponse. Neither path gives the hook a final chunk, so onmaina hook that keeps per-request state untilchunk.is_final(such as the banned-phrase guard in the feature docs) keeps the state of every such request for as long as the worker lives. A hook may now define an optionalon_request_end(request_id, reason); the worker calls it through the newend_post_processor_hook()when it drops a request on either path, withreason"error"or"postprocessing_error".RawOutputDumpuses it to release the request and write what it had generated as a record with"partial": trueand theend_reason.Review follow-up (third commit): without the worker pool, a request that ends in an executor error now reaches the hook as well:
DetokenizedGenerationResultBase._handle_responsecallsend_post_processor_hook(hook, id, "error")when the executor's error is raised from it, which happens before the hook could see a final chunk. The dump bounds what it keeps in flight (max_pending), and its records carryframes_consistent.Docs:
docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md(already in the docs index) gets a section for the built-in hook,on_request_endand its scope under Per-request state, anddisagg_request_idin the field list and the disaggregated-serving note.Why separate commits. The first commit (
[None][fix] postproc worker: ...) fixes the existing hook seam and stands on its own: it touches only the worker andpostprocessor_hook.py, and any stateful hook benefits from it. The second ([None][feat] executor: ...) adds the dump, which keeps each output's frames until its final chunk and relies on the first commit to release requests that end in an error. They can be reviewed separately; the first can be split into its own PR if preferred. The third ([None][fix] raw output dump: ...) answers review: it bounds the dump's in-flight state, ends in-proxy executor errors in the hook, and flags records that join sequences.Behaviour and API changes.
--post_processor_hook. The dump records only when the flag namesRawOutputDumpandTRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIRis set.PostProcessorHookChunk.disagg_request_id: Optional[int] = Noneis a new last field with a default, so existing hooks, and code that builds the chunk, keep working.on_request_endis optional; hooks without it are unaffected, and an exception raised by it is logged, not propagated. The post-processing worker calls it when it drops a request after an error. Without the worker pool (the default), the detokenizing result calls it with"error"when a request's executor error is raised from it, before the hook runs. A stream whose client disconnects first still gets neither a final chunk noron_request_endwithout the worker pool: the hook runs as the server reads each response, and the server stops reading that stream, so its CANCELLED final response is queued but never read. That is howmainbehaves for any stateful hook. The dump keeps at mostmax_pending(4096) outputs in flight and writes the least recently updated one past that with"partial": trueandend_reason: "evicted".Test Coverage
New and updated CPU unit tests; the two new files are listed in
l0_cpu.ymlnext to the other executor tests, andtest_postprocessor_hook.pystays inl0_a10.yml.tests/unittest/executor/test_postproc_worker_request_end.py(new, 4), drivingPostprocWorker._mainloop:test_an_executor_error_ends_the_request_in_the_hook: anErrorResponsedrops the request's record, callson_request_end(7, "error")and is still forwarded.test_a_postprocessing_exception_ends_the_request_in_the_hook: a response that raises while being post-processed callson_request_end(8, "postprocessing_error")and is turned into anErrorResponse.test_an_error_for_a_request_without_a_record_does_not_call_the_hook,test_an_error_without_a_hook_still_drops_the_record: guards.tests/unittest/executor/test_postprocessor_hook.py(+4):test_end_hook_calls_on_request_end_when_the_hook_defines_it,test_end_hook_leaves_hooks_without_it_and_no_hook_alone,test_end_hook_never_raises:end_post_processor_hook.test_chunk_carries_the_disaggregated_request_id: the chunk takesdisagg_request_idfrom the result's disaggregated params;Nonewithout params or without an id.tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py(new, 28), driving the hook through the realapply_post_processor_hookover realCompletionOutputs:test_the_served_text_is_unchanged;test_without_the_directory_nothing_is_recorded(no file, no drop counted, no state kept, one warning naming the variable).test_streaming_frames_keep_the_chunk_boundaries,test_chunks_that_add_no_text_are_not_frames,test_each_output_of_a_request_keeps_its_own_frames(n= 2 over two chunks),test_a_non_streaming_request_records_its_one_chunk.test_the_token_ids_are_recorded_with_the_text(including ids that add no text),test_a_non_streaming_request_records_all_its_token_ids.test_one_record_is_written_when_the_output_finishes,test_a_finished_record_is_filed_under_its_hour_in_a_per_process_file,test_the_disaggregated_request_id_is_recorded_as_an_exact_string(an id above 2^53),test_an_aborted_output_is_recorded_as_aborted,test_it_loads_through_the_documented_import_path.test_an_unwritable_directory_costs_the_record_not_the_response,test_an_unexpected_failure_costs_only_the_record.test_a_request_ended_by_an_error_is_written_as_partial_and_released,test_ending_one_request_leaves_the_others_alone,test_a_request_that_ended_before_any_output_writes_nothing,test_a_request_that_generated_only_hidden_tokens_is_written,test_ended_requests_do_not_accumulate(1,000 requests of 1 KiB each leave no state behind),test_ending_an_unknown_request_is_harmless, andtest_the_worker_ends_a_request_that_fails_after_output(the real hook behind the worker's loop).test_a_record_that_joins_two_sampled_sequences_is_marked(a realDetokenizedGenerationResultBasewithn= 1,best_of= 2: the second sequence takes index 0, and the record hasframes_consistent: false),test_an_executor_error_without_the_worker_pool_releases_the_request(a real result with the executor's own background error handler),test_outputs_past_the_limit_are_written_as_evicted,test_the_least_recently_updated_output_is_evicted_first,test_an_evicted_output_that_produced_nothing_is_not_written, andtest_the_worker_ends_a_request_whose_post_processing_raises_after_output(the worker's real record and_handle_input; the endpoint post-processor raises after the hook ran for the request's chunks).Results (local CPU run, without a GPU):
main, the worker tests fail 2 of 4 by assertion (assert [] == [(7, 'error')],assert [] == [(8, 'postprocessing_error')]; the 2 guards pass).test_raw_output_hook.pyand the threeend_post_processor_hooktests need the new module and function;test_chunk_carries_the_disaggregated_request_idfails onmainwithAttributeError(the chunk has nodisagg_request_id). On this branch all 50 tests of the three files pass (20 of them already onmain).OSError1; keeping an ended request's state 5; not passingdisagg_request_idinto the chunk 2; recording while disabled 1; not writing the partial record 5; no warning when disabled 1.tests/unittest/executor/,tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py,tests/unittest/api_stability/and the 42tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_*.pyserving test files, with the two new files present on both sides: no test that passes onmainfails here.main: 2449 passed, 141 failed, 220 errors; this branch: 2476 passed, 139 failed, 219 errors. The only ids that differ are the two worker regression tests andtest_raw_output_hook.py; the shared failures come from the local environment (no model files, compiled extensions replaced by stubs) and are the same on both sides.executor/test_rpc.py::TestRpcCorrectness::test_incremental_task_async, which CI waives, hung once in this environment and was deselected on the branch side; this PR does not touch the RPC code.on_request_endcall fails 1 test; no eviction 3; evicting in insertion rather than update order 4;frames_consistentalways true 1; writing ended outputs that produced nothing 2. Overtests/unittest/executor/,tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_server_stream_errors.py,tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disaggregated_params.pyandtests/unittest/llmapi/test_executor.py, the branch and itsmainbase fail the same 16 tests and 4 collection errors (local environment:test_proxy_fast_death.py,test_multi_frontend_routing.py,llmapi/test_executor.py, and the RPC/Ray worker modules); the branch passes 584,main548, the difference being this PR's new tests.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/_test_openai_post_processor.py, run bytest_e2e.py::test_openai_post_processor) needs a GPU and a model and was not run locally.PR Checklist
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RawOutputDumprecords completed outputs as JSONL whenTRTLLM_RAW_OUTPUT_DIRis set. Records include text, frames, token IDs, request and disaggregated request IDs, timing, completion status, andframes_consistent. The hook passes output text through unchanged. Recording failures are logged and do not fail responses.The hook API adds
disagg_request_idand optionalon_request_end(request_id, reason)handling. The post-processing worker and the non-worker result path notify the hook when errors end a request. The dump writes partial records for outputs with observed content, and evicts the least-recently-updated output when more than 4096 outputs are pending. Requests that never reach a completion or end notification can still retain pending state.Review severity counts are unavailable. The author reports that 50 tests across three test files passed. The author also reports 2,476 passed, 139 failed, and 219 errors in a wider run; the failures were attributed to the local environment. The GPU- and model-dependent end-to-end serving test was not run locally.
QA Engineer Review
The change adds
test_postproc_worker_request_end.pyandtest_raw_output_hook.py, and modifiestest_postprocessor_hook.py. The two new test files are listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml; the modified hook test is listed intest-db/l0_a10.yml.Tests cover unchanged served text, output records, streaming frames, token IDs, disaggregated IDs, partial records, request cleanup, write failures, eviction, and worker and non-worker error paths. The author-reported focused test run passed. The GPU-dependent end-to-end serving test remains unverified locally. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the reported CPU-level behavior, with end-to-end serving verification still needed.
Per-File QA Perspective
docs/source/features/post-processor-hook.md— Documents hook activation, JSONL fields, pending-output limits, and request-end callbacks. Verify the documented options and callback behavior against serving configuration.tensorrt_llm/executor/postproc_worker.py— Calls the request-end callback when executor errors or post-processing exceptions end a request. Verify that callback errors do not change client error handling.tensorrt_llm/executor/postprocessor_hook.py— Addsdisagg_request_idto chunk metadata and an optional request-end callback. Verify compatibility with hooks that do not implement the callback.tensorrt_llm/executor/raw_output_hook.py— Adds opt-in JSONL recording, partial records, and a 4096-output pending limit. Verify record fields, write-failure behavior, and cleanup when requests end without a notification.tensorrt_llm/executor/result.py— Notifies the hook when the non-worker result path handles an error. Verify that it releases pending dump state while preserving existing exception behavior.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml— Adds the worker request-end and raw-output hook tests to the CPU CI list.tests/unittest/executor/test_postproc_worker_request_end.py— Covers worker cleanup for executor errors and post-processing exceptions, including missing records and hooks. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/executor/test_postprocessor_hook.py— Covers disaggregated request metadata and optional callback behavior, alongside existing hook behavior. Listed intest-db/l0_a10.yml.tests/unittest/executor/test_raw_output_hook.py— Covers output records, unchanged responses, partial records, write failures, pending eviction, and error cleanup. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.