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[None][feat] Add OpenEngine image encoder transport helpers - #21638
Add bounded, single-use image encoder-output handoffs through TensorRT-LLM's native NIXL agent. The orchestrator forwards an opaque reference while encoder tensors remain on the engine transfer path.
Validate model/revision identity, inputs, tensor layout, quotas and reference reuse. Preserve buffers after uncertain writes, and make producer release idempotent across consumer claim/discard races.
Transfer media ownership to the native request after successful enqueue; retain Python ownership on enqueue failure. Keep native KV transfers progressing during idle polling and shutdown.
Keep native transfer in the TensorRT-LLM-owned trtllm.openengine.v1.EncoderTransfer service; preserve transfer completion, cancellation ownership and proven pre-WRITE rejection metadata. Package its private schema and generated bindings.
Vendor canonical OpenEngine #35, including Abort.encoder_handoff, at 9d18a3859ea6b5b08d98038d80f1203add036ea8.
Serving integration is stacked in #21639. Native NIXL supports cross-host transfers. The optional shared-safetensors helper requires a private shared directory on one host and is outside the companion Dynamo integration.
Test Coverage
Behavior
Evidence
Typed discovery, control registration and ownership
190 focused OpenEngine CPU cases passed for these changes; encoder validation also passed its focused 12-case rerun (overlapping coverage)
Private service lifecycle and NIXL
Updated 34-case NIXL/service suite passed, including production-wrapper cancellation and proven pre-WRITE rejection metadata; native CPU-buffer transfer tests enabled
Generated and packaged protocol
Vendor/source parity and generated-binding checks passed. Setuptools package-data selection includes the private proto; installed-wheel verification now requires it and its generated files. A complete wheel was not built locally
Cross-host E+PD and E+P+D
November 10 Lyris job 3658960: native gRPC and full Dynamo HTTP passed on three GB200 hosts, with two-image correctness, baseline-matching expanded usage, public replay rejection, explicit/repeated release and clean shutdown
The GPU run used the frozen current serving/transport sources over official runtime 1.4.0rc4.dev202611090007 (source 2d5b1fb). Its wire-v3/binding paths match the required main base 1932b8ee5; the binary lacks later native KVCacheManagerV2 teardown fix#21795. All four engines exited zero without forced kills or CUDA IPC/MPI lifecycle diagnostics. This validates the recorded source overlay, not feature availability in an unmodified published runtime. No performance benchmark or transfer-pool optimization is claimed.
Dependencies and Scope
Depends on OpenEngine #35; its pinned commit is available, but protocol merge/publication and availability in a published complete-feature runtime remain prerequisites. This PR does not assert those prerequisites are complete.
Image handoffs only, TP/PP/CP=1; Qwen3-VL-2B is the validated model. Video/audio handoffs, persistent peer caches, staging pools and performance tuning remain follow-ups. Control.Shutdown is declared by the schema but remains unimplemented; validation uses the normal shutdown path.
PR Checklist
Focused regression cases and CPU CI entries are provided.
Protocol provenance, release semantics and scope are documented.
Setuptools package-data selection includes the private proto; installed-wheel payload check requires it and its generated files. A complete wheel was not built locally.
Real source-overlay GPU validation is recorded with its exact limits.
Dev Engineer Review
Adds single-use image encoder handoffs through native NIXL or a bounded, same-host shared-safetensors cache. Both paths validate references, request inputs, model configuration, tensor layout, and resource limits.
NIXL transfer code distinguishes known pre-write rejection from uncertain writes. It quarantines resources when transfer or registration state is uncertain. The shared-file path uses single-use claims, expiry, and bounded storage.
After successful enqueue, BaseWorker clears the Python request’s multimodal parameters. If enqueue fails, it retains them. Executor polling changes pending-transfer behavior for single-rank native transfers and multi-rank workers without a KV connector.
Extends the OpenEngine schema and generated bindings with encoder options, cache transfer, capabilities, abort targets, and shutdown messages/RPCs. The supplied source changes do not establish shutdown RPC implementation; the README says Control.Shutdown returns UNIMPLEMENTED.
Updates the vendor pin and schema manifest to an unreleased OpenEngine protocol revision. Serving integration remains outside this PR. The optional safetensors backend requires a shared directory on one host; native NIXL supports cross-host handoffs.
Final-rebased GPU shutdown validation is pending. Current-head CI, build, and test results are not available.
QA Engineer Review
Adds test_encoder.py, test_encoder_nixl.py, and test_encoder_release.py. Modifies control, node, OpenEngine, disaggregation-transfer, KV-connector-lifetime, and base-worker tests.
Covers encoder publication and consumption, reference and request validation, quotas, expiry, cleanup, NIXL transfer failures and resource quarantine, cache abort behavior, transfer polling, shutdown polling, and multimodal tensor ownership. Native NIXL tests are opt-in.
Adds all three encoder test modules to tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. test_base_worker.py is also already listed in that CPU test list. No manual-QA registration for the changed OpenEngine tests is established.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The test additions cover key behaviors and failure paths, but current-head results are not available. Final-rebased GPU shutdown validation is pending.
Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/vendor_sources.lock.yaml — Updates the OpenEngine protocol source revision and digest. Verify that the pin matches the protocol manifest.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py — Changes pending-transfer checks by worker rank and connector availability. Verify idle progress and shutdown behavior for single-rank native transfers and multi-rank workers.
tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py — Clears multimodal parameters after successful enqueue. Verify native ownership and retention when enqueue fails.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md — Documents encoder handoffs, backend limits, opt-in native tests, and shutdown behavior. Verify that the documented API matches runtime behavior.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.py — Adds generated encoder and transfer message bindings. Verify consistency with generation.proto.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.pyi — Updates generated type declarations for encoder and transfer messages. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.py — Adds generated encoder-abort and shutdown bindings. Verify consistency with lifecycle.proto.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.pyi — Adds lifecycle type declarations. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.py — Adds generated encoder-capability bindings. Verify consistency with model.proto.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.pyi — Adds encoder-capability type declarations. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2.py — Updates generated service descriptors. Verify that the declared RPC surface matches the schema.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2_grpc.py — Adds generated service stubs and handlers for new RPCs. Verify client/server compatibility.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/bindings.py — Selects the schema source commit or BSR release for SCHEMA_RELEASE. Verify both manifest formats.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/control.py — Adds encoder capability metadata and cache-release abort handling. Verify role gating, status codes, and cleanup task handling.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py — Adds NIXL publish, transfer, receive, and shutdown paths. Verify successful completion, retry behavior, and resource retention after uncertain outcomes.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py — Adds metadata and an exception for pre-WRITE transfer rejection. Verify callers distinguish known rejection from uncertain transfer.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/manifest.json — Records the encoder extension and source revision. Verify that the revision matches the vendor pin.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/generation.proto — Adds encoder options, readiness events, references, and transfer messages. Verify field compatibility and handoff semantics.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/lifecycle.proto — Adds encoder-cache abort targeting and shutdown messages. Verify consumers do not assume schema support means shutdown is implemented.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/model.proto — Adds encoder capabilities to ModelInfo. Verify reported capabilities against loaded engine configuration.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/openengine.proto — Declares shutdown and encoder-transfer RPCs. Verify compatibility with the server implementation.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds the three encoder test modules to the CPU CI list.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py — Covers native-send progress, shutdown polling, sampler release, and object collection. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py — Covers pending-transfer decisions across worker rank, connector, and attention-DP states. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/executor/test_base_worker.py — Covers multimodal ownership after successful enqueue and retention after enqueue failure. It is listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_control.py — Covers encoder abort results, error mapping, and capability metadata, including a gRPC cache-removal case. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder.py — Covers safetensors publication, consumption, validation, quotas, cleanup, and role checks. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py — Covers fake-agent transfer, failure handling, resource retention, concurrency, and opt-in native NIXL behavior. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_release.py — Covers malformed references, discard/claim behavior, and cleanup after receiver rejection. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_node.py — Verifies node metadata uses SCHEMA_RELEASE. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_openengine.py — Verifies server information reports the binding’s SCHEMA_RELEASE. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.
November 10 review update
The revised handoff contract passed 256 focused CPU tests with native NIXL CPU-buffer transfers enabled. Cross-host native and Dynamo HTTP E+PD/E+P+D validation passed with matching serving/Dynamo source and the canonical protocol pin below.
Lyris job 3658960 used three GB200 hosts and Qwen3-VL-2B. The current TRT-LLM Python source was overlaid on the official November 9 native runtime; Dynamo used the rebuilt sidecar and verified unchanged frontend artifacts. This is correctness evidence, not a complete current-source native build or performance result.
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Adds OpenEngine encoder-generation and cache-transfer contracts, same-host safetensors and NIXL cache implementations, and shutdown declarations. Also changes executor transfer polling and multimodal request ownership after enqueue.
Adds encoder generation, cache-transfer, and model-capability contracts, plus shutdown messages and RPCs. Schema release selection uses the manifest source commit when present. Updates the vendor pin, documentation, and schema-release expectations.
Adds bounded publication and single-use consumption of encoder outputs, role selection, request validation, and cache-abort handling. Tests cover round trips, identity checks, expiry, quotas, cleanup, and control metadata. Registers encoder tests in the CPU test list.
NIXL encoder transfer tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py, tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py, tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md, tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py, tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_release.py
Adds NIXL publication, transfer, and preparation with size limits and handling for uncertain writes. Tests cover mocked transport, opt-in native transfers, and release behavior. The README describes transport behavior and test guidance.
Executor transfer and request lifecycle
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Summary
Connector-transfer polling and shutdown eligibility tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py, tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py
Changes pending-transfer checks for multi-rank workers. Tests cover polling and shutdown behavior while native sends are pending.
Multimodal request ownership after enqueue tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_base_worker.py
Clears request multimodal parameters after successful enqueue. Tests verify that queued native payloads retain tensor storage and that enqueue failures preserve the original request data.
sequenceDiagram
participant Producer
participant NixlEncoderCache
participant Control
participant Consumer
Producer->>NixlEncoderCache: publish encoder outputs
NixlEncoderCache-->>Producer: return cache reference
Consumer->>Control: request cache transfer with destination
Control->>NixlEncoderCache: transfer referenced tensors
NixlEncoderCache-->>Consumer: provide transferred tensors
LoadingMerge Risk: Low · up to 36e54
Malformed encoder-cache references on the shared-safetensors backend can return a retryable error code or raise an unhandled exception. This is a narrow edge case with a one-line fix. The NIXL handoff availability concerns raised earlier appear to be fixed, and final GPU validation is still pending.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py:
- Around line 258-273: Update the producer flow around `load_remote_agent` and
`MemoryDescs` so both complete before removing the export; if either fails,
invalidate the remote agent and re-raise without setting `self.failed`, leaving
the export available. Set `self.failed` only after `submit_transfer_requests`
returns a status, preserving quarantine behavior for failures after submission.
Add a `test_encoder_nixl.py` case where `load_remote_agent` raises and verify
the producer remains healthy and the export remains present.
- Around line 366-368: Update prepare so its lock protects only the health check
and quota reservation, then release it before calling _receive and reacquire it
to commit or roll back the reservation. Apply the same pattern to producer
transfer: do not hold the lock while waiting on status.wait; preserve quota
consistency on success and failure.
- Around line 321-343: Update the consumer transfer exception path so producer
rejections proven to occur before any WRITE release the registration without
marking the consumer failed or quarantining its tensors, while uncertain
outcomes retain the existing safeguards. Coordinate the gRPC status mapping with
the serving implementation and map only validation rejections before export
removal; do not classify failures that can occur once a WRITE is in progress as
definite rejections. Add a test using a stub that raises a gRPC INVALID_ARGUMENT
error and assert the consumer remains healthy and the registration is released;
preserve the existing uncertain-outcome assertions.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py:
- Around line 191-207: Update prepare so it opens the unclaimed handoff under
the lock and validates the input and model digests plus lossless token decoding
before renaming path to claimed. Keep the handoff available when validation
fails, and claim it only after all checks pass. Add a regression test confirming
a wrong-prompt request leaves the reference consumable by the correct request.
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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
A failure before any WRITE should not poison the producer.
The producer removes the export at Line 258. After that, any exception sets failed = True. That includes exceptions from load_remote_agent, from MemoryDescs construction, and from a synchronous raise in submit_transfer_requests. In these cases no WRITE was submitted, so the outcome is not uncertain. A transient error while loading the peer agent therefore stops admission on the encoder engine until restart. Any caller that holds a valid reference can also trigger this with well-formed base64 that is not valid agent metadata. The listener is unauthenticated.
Fix: run load_remote_agent and MemoryDescs construction before del self._exports[...]. On failure, keep the export, call invalidate_remote_agent, and raise without setting failed. Set failed only after submit_transfer_requests returns a status. Add a test in test_encoder_nixl.py in which load_remote_agent raises, and assert that producer.failed is False and the export is still present.
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- 273:
Update the producer flow around `load_remote_agent` and `MemoryDescs` so both
complete before removing the export; if either fails, invalidate the remote
agent and re-raise without setting `self.failed`, leaving the export available.
Set `self.failed` only after `submit_transfer_requests` returns a status,
preserving quarantine behavior for failures after submission. Add a
`test_encoder_nixl.py` case where `load_remote_agent` raises and verify the
producer remains healthy and the export remains present.
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Fixed. Pre-WRITE setup failures now retire the request-owned native agent before restoring the same reference, leaving the producer healthy. Added retry tests for failed peer imports and descriptor construction. Submission exceptions still count as uncertain because a WRITE may already have started.
python3 - <<'PY'import astimport pathlibtargets = { "tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py": ["_healthy", "transfer", "prepare", "failed"], "tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py": ["test_nixl_roundtrip_retains_tensors_metadata_and_mrope"],}for path, names in targets.items(): source = pathlib.Path(path).read_text() lines = source.splitlines() tree = ast.parse(source) print(f"== {path}") for node in ast.walk(tree): if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)) and node.name in names: print(f"-- {node.name}: {path}:{node.lineno}-{node.end_lineno}") for number in range(node.lineno, node.end_lineno + 1): print(f"{number:>5} {lines[number - 1]}") if path.endswith("encoder_nixl.py"): for number, line in enumerate(lines, 1): if "failed" in line or "_QUARANTINED" in line: print(f"hit {path}:{number}: {line}")PY
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Do not quarantine the consumer for definite pre-write rejections.
Line 322 sets attempted = True before the TransferEncoderCache RPC. After that point, any exception sets self.failed = True. The producer rejects some references before it issues any WRITE. Examples are an expired or already consumed reference, a metadata mismatch, and invalid receive descriptors (transfer, lines 235-257). The consumer cannot tell these rejections from an uncertain outcome. It sets failed, and _healthy() then raises on every later prepare or transfer. Nothing in this file resets failed, so the consumer stays disabled until the engine restarts.
A retry can trigger this. If a request reuses a reference after the first handoff succeeded, the producer returns "already consumed", and the consumer enters the failed state. The roundtrip test does this at tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py:101-102, but it does not assert consumer.failed.
Use the gRPC status code to separate definite rejections from uncertain outcomes. This checkout does not map producer rejections to status codes, so the producer mapping must come from the serving PR. Map only the validation rejections at transfer lines 235-257, which run before the export is removed and before any WRITE. Do not map exceptions raised at line 262 or later, because a WRITE can already be in progress there.
Suggested consumer change
+def _rejected_before_write(error):+ return isinstance(error, grpc.Call) and error.code() in (+ grpc.StatusCode.INVALID_ARGUMENT,+ grpc.StatusCode.NOT_FOUND,+ grpc.StatusCode.FAILED_PRECONDITION,+ )+
- except Exception:- if attempted or not registered:+ except Exception as error:+ if not registered or (attempted and not _rejected_before_write(error)):
Add a test that makes the stub raise a grpc.Call error with INVALID_ARGUMENT. The test should assert not consumer.failed and check that the registration is released. The in-process stub at lines 70-80 forwards the producer's ValueError unchanged, so it cannot reach this branch. Keep the uncertain-outcome assertions at lines 191 and 213-214 unchanged.
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py around lines 321
- 343:
Update the consumer transfer exception path so producer rejections proven to
occur before any WRITE release the registration without marking the consumer
failed or quarantining its tensors, while uncertain outcomes retain the existing
safeguards. Coordinate the gRPC status mapping with the serving implementation
and map only validation rejections before export removal; do not classify
failures that can occur once a WRITE is in progress as definite rejections. Add
a test using a stub that raises a gRPC INVALID_ARGUMENT error and assert the
consumer remains healthy and the registration is released; preserve the existing
uncertain-outcome assertions.
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Fixed. A definite pre-WRITE rejection carries INVALID_ARGUMENT plus trtllm-encoder-write: not-started. The consumer requires both before releasing its receive buffers and staying healthy. Unmarked errors remain quarantined. The serving-side mapping is included in #21639, with a real-gRPC replay-then-valid-handoff regression.
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Major · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift
A network RPC runs while self._lock is held, so all handoffs on an engine run one at a time.
prepare holds the consumer lock for the full _receive call. That call includes the blocking TransferEncoderCache RPC, which can take up to 40 seconds. On the producer, transfer holds the lock while status.wait runs, which can take up to 30 seconds. Every other publish and transfer waits during that time.
As a result, the consumer runs only one image handoff at a time. One slow or hung encoder peer blocks unrelated requests to other encoders for up to 40 seconds. If the stacked caller runs prepare on an event-loop thread, the whole server stalls.
Fix: hold the lock only to check health and reserve quota, using _used += total. Release the lock before the RPC or wait. Take it again to commit or roll back the quota.
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- 368:
Update prepare so its lock protects only the health check and quota reservation,
then release it before calling _receive and reacquire it to commit or roll back
the reservation. Apply the same pattern to producer transfer: do not hold the
lock while waiting on status.wait; preserve quota consistency on success and
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Fixed. The cache lock now protects admission, quota and export bookkeeping; RPCs and native completion waits run outside it. Each send and receive owns its native agent, so concurrent handoffs cannot mix registration metadata. Added concurrency, quota and shutdown-drain coverage.
@yuxianq, could you help to review this PR as trt-llm-torch-attention-devs? Thanks~
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Removed the duplicated commit literal. The assertion now compares the advertised release against the shared SCHEMA_RELEASE constant, so changing the vendor pin does not require another hardcoded update here.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py:
- Around line 290-291: In transfer, convert producer health-check failures that
occur before claiming an export or submitting a WRITE into
EncoderTransferRejected, including a health change between checks. Keep publish
and prepare behavior unchanged, and do not classify failures after a WRITE as
pre-WRITE rejections.
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rg -n -F -e 'def TransferEncoderCache' -e 'ENCODER_TRANSFER_REJECTED_METADATA' tensorrt_llm tests/unittest/grpc/openengine
nl -ba tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py | sed -n '1,210p;430,550p;760,815p'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md | sed -n '328,365p'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py | sed -n '120,165p;235,335p;385,425p;440,510p'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py | sed -n '1,40p'
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Mark producer health failures as pre-WRITE rejections.
If the producer is failed, closing, or closed, either health check can raise before it claims an export or submits a WRITE. The unmarked error makes _receive quarantine its buffers and permanently fail the consumer. This can also affect other consumers that reach the unhealthy producer.
Convert these health failures to EncoderTransferRejected in transfer, while keeping publish and prepare unchanged.
Suggested fix
@contextmanager
- def _operation(self):+ def _operation(self, unavailable=None):
with self._lock:
- self._healthy()+ try:+ self._healthy()+ except RuntimeError as error:+ if unavailable is None:+ raise+ raise unavailable(str(error)) from error
self._active += 1
- with self._operation():+ # No export is claimed and no WRITE is issued while the producer is unhealthy.+ with self._operation(unavailable=EncoderTransferRejected):
identity, item, peer, agent_desc = self._claim(reference, destination)
with self._lock:
- self._healthy()+ try:+ self._healthy()+ except RuntimeError as error:+ raise ValueError(str(error)) from error
self._collect()
Add a pair test that publishes a reference, then closes or fails the producer before _receive. Assert that the rejection leaves the consumer healthy, with no used quota or registrations. Also cover a health change between the two checks.
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In transfer, convert producer health-check failures that occur before claiming
an export or submitting a WRITE into EncoderTransferRejected, including a health
change between checks. Keep publish and prepare behavior unchanged, and do not
classify failures after a WRITE as pre-WRITE rejections.
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Fixed in e376d57. Both producer health checks before claiming/submitting a WRITE now return EncoderTransferRejected. Added cases for failed, closing and closed producers, including health changing between the checks. The consumer releases its unused receive buffers and stays healthy; publish/prepare behavior and uncertain-WRITE quarantine are unchanged.
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Added the node-startup assertion against the shared SCHEMA_RELEASE constant, alongside the existing source and call-count checks. This avoids duplicating the vendor commit literal.
Add tests for the UNIMPLEMENTED and OSError branches of Abort(encoder_cache).
The new tests cover ABORTED, ALREADY_FINISHED, ValueError and RuntimeError. They do not cover two branches:
UNIMPLEMENTED: the result when the cache has no discard or the role is not encode. A regression there would let a consume engine silently accept release requests.
OSError to INTERNAL: the result when the shared-directory discard fails on unlink or flock.
Also add (OSError("disk"), grpc.StatusCode.INTERNAL) to the parametrization of test_abort_encoder_cache_preserves_failures.
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- Line 166: Update _path to convert RecursionError from deeply nested encoder
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Catch RecursionError when parsing the encoder cache reference in _path.
Line 171 catches only ValueError and UnicodeError. json.loads raises RecursionError for deeply nested input. A 1024-byte opaque_state such as b"[" * 1024 passes the length check on Line 167. On interpreters with a recursion limit near 1000, it then raises RecursionError.
RecursionError is a RuntimeError. In control.py, Abort maps it to UNAVAILABLE, which tells the caller to retry a malformed reference. prepare lets the raw RecursionError escape instead of a ValueError. encoder_nixl._decode already handles this case, and test_encoder_release.py has a regression test for it. The shared-safetensors backend has the same gap.
Change Line 171 to catch RecursionError as well:
- except (ValueError, UnicodeError) as error:+ except (ValueError, UnicodeError, RecursionError) as error:
Then add a deep-nesting discard test to test_encoder.py. It should assert ValueError, and that the published file is still present.
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Update _path to convert RecursionError from deeply nested encoder cache
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Already fixed on the current branch: _path converts RecursionError to ValueError. Both discard and prepare regressions verify the published handoff remains available.
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From the disaggregated-serving side this looks good to me once the CI break below is fixed.
The _has_pending_connector_transfers change only affects single-rank workers without a KV connector (TP1 native-transceiver ctx workers). It actually fixes a real issue on main: an idle TP1 ctx worker blocked in get(timeout=None) and never reclaimed the last batch's sends until the next request arrived. Gen-side receives and aggregated workers are unaffected.
request.multimodal_params = None after a successful enqueue is safe; nothing reads it afterward.
The encoder transport is not wired up in this PR (no encoder_role/_encoder_cache assignment), so the new service returns UNIMPLEMENTED by default. I left a few non-blocking notes on its failure handling for #21639.
Blocking: tests/unittest/executor/test_sleep_collective_rpc_guards.py::...::test_abort_before_control_barrier_unblocks_later_control_request (in l0_cpu) will now fail with AttributeError. See the inline comment.
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This now reads self.dist.world_size even when there is no connector. test_sleep_collective_rpc_guards.py::test_abort_before_control_barrier_unblocks_later_control_request builds the executor with dist=SimpleNamespace(rank=1, pp_size=1) and no kv_connector_manager, so _handle_control_request() hits the drain branch and raises AttributeError: 'SimpleNamespace' object has no attribute 'world_size'. That test is in l0_cpu and passes on main. Could you add world_size=1 to that fixture (or use getattr(self.dist, "world_size", 1) here)?
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Nit (non-blocking): with this change a TP1 ctx worker's shutdown now waits for in-flight sends. By default that wait is bounded by kv_transfer_timeout_ms. With kv_transfer_timeout_ms: null on the CPP runtime, however, an orphaned send would spin the idle loop and block shutdown() indefinitely. Could you add a test where the send never completes, or a note in the timeout docs?
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Documented that kv_transfer_timeout_ms: null can leave shutdown waiting indefinitely on an orphaned native send. Added a regression confirming shutdown waits while a send is pending and proceeds after completion; polling intervals do not impose an overall deadline.
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Non-blocking: submitted = True is set before submit_transfer_requests. As far as I can tell, the C++ path only throws from the createXferReq check, before anything is posted. So a request whose remote descs have valid sizes but point to unregistered memory permanently fail-stops the producer. Would it be feasible to call agent.check_remote_descs(peer["name"], target) first and take the pre-WRITE rejection path when it fails?
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Added check_remote_descs before submission. Unregistered addresses or device IDs now take the pre-WRITE rejection path, preserving the reference and producer health. Retry regressions pass. Exceptions after submission begins still retain the conservative quarantine behavior.
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Non-blocking: any connect failure or timeout to the caller-supplied endpoint is treated as uncertain and quarantines the whole consumer (failed=True) until restart. Meanwhile GetServerInfo keeps advertising transfer_backends. A single reference with a dead endpoint, or an encoder pod restart, would disable every consumer. Each operation already owns its agent and buffers, so could the quarantine cover only that operation (with a cap) instead of failing the whole cache? Fine to address in #21639.
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Addressed in #21639. Uncertain receives retain only their own buffers, registrations and agent; unrelated handoffs can proceed within the 256 MiB quota and eight active-or-quarantined receive slots. Exhausting the quarantine budget marks the cache unhealthy and removes its advertised transfer backend. Added late-WRITE, concurrency, quota and registration-failure regressions.
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Noted that this will move to a public release. One concern: the draft fields live in the canonical openengine.v1 namespace. If field numbers change during OpenEngine #35 review, a wheel built from this pin would decode them incorrectly without any error. It would be safer to re-pin after #35 merges.
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Agreed. OpenEngine #35 remains a prerequisite. Once it merges, I will re-pin the canonical merged revision, update the manifest/digest and regenerate the bindings. Added an explicit warning that the current draft revision is not a stable wire contract.
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This changes _input_digest, but prepared-decode payloads still declare version 1. If CTX and GEN run builds on opposite sides of this change, matching multimodal requests fail with INVALID_ARGUMENT instead of taking the unknown-version fallback. Please preserve version-1 hashing or version the new format with compatible handling.
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Description
Add bounded, single-use image encoder-output handoffs through TensorRT-LLM's native NIXL agent. The orchestrator forwards an opaque reference while encoder tensors remain on the engine transfer path.
trtllm.openengine.v1.EncoderTransferservice; preserve transfer completion, cancellation ownership and proven pre-WRITE rejection metadata. Package its private schema and generated bindings.Abort.encoder_handoff, at9d18a3859ea6b5b08d98038d80f1203add036ea8.Serving integration is stacked in #21639. Native NIXL supports cross-host transfers. The optional shared-safetensors helper requires a private shared directory on one host and is outside the companion Dynamo integration.
Test Coverage
3658960: native gRPC and full Dynamo HTTP passed on three GB200 hosts, with two-image correctness, baseline-matching expanded usage, public replay rejection, explicit/repeated release and clean shutdownThe GPU run used the frozen current serving/transport sources over official runtime
1.4.0rc4.dev202611090007(source2d5b1fb). Its wire-v3/binding paths match the required main base1932b8ee5; the binary lacks later native KVCacheManagerV2 teardown fix #21795. All four engines exited zero without forced kills or CUDA IPC/MPI lifecycle diagnostics. This validates the recorded source overlay, not feature availability in an unmodified published runtime. No performance benchmark or transfer-pool optimization is claimed.Dependencies and Scope
Depends on OpenEngine #35; its pinned commit is available, but protocol merge/publication and availability in a published complete-feature runtime remain prerequisites. This PR does not assert those prerequisites are complete.
Image handoffs only, TP/PP/CP=1; Qwen3-VL-2B is the validated model. Video/audio handoffs, persistent peer caches, staging pools and performance tuning remain follow-ups.
Control.Shutdownis declared by the schema but remains unimplemented; validation uses the normal shutdown path.PR Checklist
Dev Engineer Review
BaseWorkerclears the Python request’s multimodal parameters. If enqueue fails, it retains them. Executor polling changes pending-transfer behavior for single-rank native transfers and multi-rank workers without a KV connector.Control.ShutdownreturnsUNIMPLEMENTED.QA Engineer Review
test_encoder.py,test_encoder_nixl.py, andtest_encoder_release.py. Modifies control, node, OpenEngine, disaggregation-transfer, KV-connector-lifetime, and base-worker tests.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.test_base_worker.pyis also already listed in that CPU test list. No manual-QA registration for the changed OpenEngine tests is established.Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/vendor_sources.lock.yaml— Updates the OpenEngine protocol source revision and digest. Verify that the pin matches the protocol manifest.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py— Changes pending-transfer checks by worker rank and connector availability. Verify idle progress and shutdown behavior for single-rank native transfers and multi-rank workers.tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py— Clears multimodal parameters after successful enqueue. Verify native ownership and retention when enqueue fails.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md— Documents encoder handoffs, backend limits, opt-in native tests, and shutdown behavior. Verify that the documented API matches runtime behavior.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.py— Adds generated encoder and transfer message bindings. Verify consistency withgeneration.proto.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.pyi— Updates generated type declarations for encoder and transfer messages. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.py— Adds generated encoder-abort and shutdown bindings. Verify consistency withlifecycle.proto.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.pyi— Adds lifecycle type declarations. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.py— Adds generated encoder-capability bindings. Verify consistency withmodel.proto.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.pyi— Adds encoder-capability type declarations. Verify consistency with runtime bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2.py— Updates generated service descriptors. Verify that the declared RPC surface matches the schema.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2_grpc.py— Adds generated service stubs and handlers for new RPCs. Verify client/server compatibility.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/bindings.py— Selects the schema source commit or BSR release forSCHEMA_RELEASE. Verify both manifest formats.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/control.py— Adds encoder capability metadata and cache-release abort handling. Verify role gating, status codes, and cleanup task handling.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py— Adds same-host safetensors handoffs. Verify file permissions, expiry, quotas, single-use claims, and tensor ownership.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py— Adds NIXL publish, transfer, receive, and shutdown paths. Verify successful completion, retry behavior, and resource retention after uncertain outcomes.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py— Adds metadata and an exception for pre-WRITE transfer rejection. Verify callers distinguish known rejection from uncertain transfer.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/manifest.json— Records the encoder extension and source revision. Verify that the revision matches the vendor pin.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/generation.proto— Adds encoder options, readiness events, references, and transfer messages. Verify field compatibility and handoff semantics.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/lifecycle.proto— Adds encoder-cache abort targeting and shutdown messages. Verify consumers do not assume schema support means shutdown is implemented.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/model.proto— Adds encoder capabilities toModelInfo. Verify reported capabilities against loaded engine configuration.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/openengine.proto— Declares shutdown and encoder-transfer RPCs. Verify compatibility with the server implementation.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml— Adds the three encoder test modules to the CPU CI list.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py— Covers native-send progress, shutdown polling, sampler release, and object collection. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py— Covers pending-transfer decisions across worker rank, connector, and attention-DP states. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.tests/unittest/executor/test_base_worker.py— Covers multimodal ownership after successful enqueue and retention after enqueue failure. It is listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_control.py— Covers encoder abort results, error mapping, and capability metadata, including a gRPC cache-removal case. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder.py— Covers safetensors publication, consumption, validation, quotas, cleanup, and role checks. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py— Covers fake-agent transfer, failure handling, resource retention, concurrency, and opt-in native NIXL behavior. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_release.py— Covers malformed references, discard/claim behavior, and cleanup after receiver rejection. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_node.py— Verifies node metadata usesSCHEMA_RELEASE. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_openengine.py— Verifies server information reports the binding’sSCHEMA_RELEASE. It is not added by this change to the CPU test list.November 10 review update
The revised handoff contract passed 256 focused CPU tests with native NIXL CPU-buffer transfers enabled. Cross-host native and Dynamo HTTP E+PD/E+P+D validation passed with matching serving/Dynamo source and the canonical protocol pin below.
Lyris job
3658960used three GB200 hosts and Qwen3-VL-2B. The current TRT-LLM Python source was overlaid on the official November 9 native runtime; Dynamo used the rebuilt sidecar and verified unchanged frontend artifacts. This is correctness evidence, not a complete current-source native build or performance result.