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[None][feat] Serve image encoder disaggregation through OpenEngine - #21639
Serve image encoder disaggregation through OpenEngine as E+PD or E+P+D. E publishes a single-use encoder reference; PD or P consumes it, and separate D receives native KV plus prepared decode state without replaying the encoder reference.
Advertise typed supports_abort_cleanup on producers and requires_handoff on consumers; text-only and KV-session decode requests bypass the encoder.
Negotiate encoder/consumer roles and reject unsupported inputs or missing/oversized decode preparation before language execution.
Preserve transfer/result ownership through cancellation, release unused outputs and drain cleanup tasks during shutdown.
After successful native shutdown, eligible healthy CUDA NIXL consumers collect zero-reference IPC bookkeeping through public torch.cuda.ipc_collect, without initializing CUDA or overriding earlier failures.
Test Coverage
Behavior
Evidence
E/P/D mapping, typed capabilities and lifecycle
504 selected OpenEngine CPU cases passed, covering discovery gates, preparation bounds, single-use ownership and cancellation. The three private-service cases passed again after moving them into the transport prerequisite's CI-listed module
Cross-host E+PD and E+P+D
November 10 Lyris job 3658960: native gRPC and full Dynamo HTTP passed both topologies on three GB200 hosts, with correct distinct-image answers and baseline-matching expanded usage
Single-use references and cleanup
Public Generate replay rejected spent references; explicit/repeated release returned ABORTED then ALREADY_FINISHED. All four engines exited zero without forced kills
Production shutdown
Normal IPC collection ran after native shutdown for P/PD and D. Full Slurm and engine logs contained no CUDA IPC/MPI lifecycle diagnostics; known owned helpers were cleaned up
The run used the frozen current implementation over official runtime 1.4.0rc4.dev202611090007 (source 2d5b1fb), with coherent Python modules from the 1932b8ee5-based branch. Required wire-v3/binding source paths match, but the native binary lacks later KVCacheManagerV2 teardown fix#21795. This validates the recorded source overlay, not an unmodified published complete-feature runtime. No performance benchmark is claimed.
Dependencies and Scope
Depends on OpenEngine #35 and base transport #21638. Companion Dynamo integration: #18082. The canonical protocol pin is 9d18a3859ea6b5b08d98038d80f1203add036ea8; protocol/transport merge and complete-feature runtime publication remain pending prerequisites, not completed checklist items.
Image only, TP/PP/CP=1; validated with Qwen3-VL-2B. Encoder references are limited to 64 KiB and portable P-to-D preparation to 2 MiB. The upstream shared-safetensors helper is same-host only; Dynamo negotiates native NIXL only. Video/audio handoffs and performance tuning remain follow-ups.
PR Checklist
Both topology mappings and focused lifecycle regressions are provided.
CPU CI entries and protocol/launch documentation are included.
Native ownership fixes are inherited from the transport prerequisite.
Real source-overlay GPU validation and its limitations are recorded.
Dev Engineer Review
The change adds experimental, image-only encoder handoffs for OpenEngine. It adds shared-directory and NIXL backends, role and request validation, transfer RPCs, capability reporting, and encoder-only serving. In E+P+D, prefill can capture prepared decode state for the decoder.
The NIXL path quarantines resources after uncertain transfers and marks the cache failed. Shutdown drains encoder cleanup and calls torch.cuda.ipc_collect only for an eligible CUDA NIXL consumer when CUDA is already initialized. The change also updates native request ownership and pending-transfer handling outside OpenEngine.
The protocol and generated bindings add encoder options, handoff references, transfer RPCs, capabilities, and shutdown messages. The vendor lock pins a protocol branch and commit. Serving remains restricted by role, image inputs, and parallelism checks. The supplied objectives report that the final GPU shutdown smoke remains outstanding. Test results for the current head are not available.
QA Engineer Review
Four test files were added: test_encoder.py, test_encoder_nixl.py, test_encoder_release.py, and test_encoder_serving.py. Existing tests were modified for disaggregation transfers, executor lifetime, worker ownership, OpenEngine control, multimodal serving, node metadata, and shutdown; the OpenEngine test fixture was also updated. All four added encoder test files appear in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Native NIXL cases are opt-in, according to the supplied objectives.
Coverage includes shared-cache validation and cleanup, NIXL transfer outcomes and ownership, serving cancellation and health, multimodal handoffs, shutdown cleanup, and native request ownership. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The supplied objectives report that the final rebased production shutdown path has not been rerun on GPU. Test execution results for the current head are not available.
Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/vendor_sources.lock.yaml — Pins the OpenEngine protocol source to a branch and commit. Verify that the lock digest matches the vendored protocol tree.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py — Changes pending-transfer checks for native-only workers, including a multi-rank early return. Verify idle polling and shutdown progress in single- and multi-rank configurations.
tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py — Clears request multimodal parameters after successful enqueue. Verify native ownership after enqueue and preservation of request data when enqueue fails.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md — Documents experimental encoder handoffs, supported topologies, limits, and operational constraints. Verify the guidance matches runtime behavior and protocol availability.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.py — Adds generated bindings for encoder request, response, and transfer fields. Verify descriptors match the checked-in protocol.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.pyi — Updates generated type declarations for encoder messages. Verify declarations match the generated bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.pyi — Adds generated shutdown type declarations. Verify they match the generated bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.py — Adds generated encoder-capability fields. Verify field numbering and descriptors match model.proto.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.pyi — Adds generated type declarations for encoder capabilities. Verify they match the generated bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2.py — Updates generated service descriptors for new control RPCs. Verify RPC names and message types match the protocol.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2_grpc.py — Adds generated client and server support for shutdown and encoder transfer RPCs. Verify both RPC paths are exposed.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/bindings.py — Selects schema release metadata from the manifest source commit when present. Verify fallback behavior for older manifests.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/capabilities.py — Adds the encoder_handoff option to multimodal capability resolution. Verify the default behavior remains unchanged and handoff-enabled consumers advertise the intended capabilities.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/control.py — Adds encoder transfer handling and role-specific model metadata. Verify cancellation, error mapping, and health reporting.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py — Adds bounded, single-use shared-directory handoffs and prepared-input reconstruction. Verify directory permissions, reference validation, cleanup on all exits, and decode-state capture.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py — Adds NIXL handoff, receiver preflight, transfer, and quarantine paths. Verify resource cleanup and cache health after rejected, uncertain, timed-out, and concurrent transfers.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py — Adds a typed transfer-rejection error and metadata marker. Verify only proven pre-write rejection maps to the retry-safe rejection response.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/manifest.json — Records the unpublished protocol extension and source commit. Verify release metadata stays consistent with the vendor lock.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/generation.proto — Adds encoder options, cache references, ready responses, and transfer messages. Verify field compatibility and single-use transfer semantics.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/lifecycle.proto — Adds shutdown messages and status values. The supplied objectives say the shutdown RPC is not implemented by this server; verify the documented UNIMPLEMENTED response and supervisor/SIGTERM shutdown path.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/model.proto — Adds encoder capability metadata. Verify role and backend advertisement matches server configuration.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/openengine.proto — Adds shutdown and encoder-transfer control RPCs. Verify service declarations match generated bindings.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/request_mapping.py — Passes the optional handoff flag into media capability resolution. Verify ordinary request mapping retains its prior default.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/server.py — Adds encoder-only model startup and conditional CUDA IPC collection during shutdown. Verify cleanup ordering and that cleanup does not initialize CUDA.
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/servicer.py — Adds role selection, image request validation, cache preparation, result publication, and cleanup handling. Verify rejection of missing or oversized prepared decode state and ownership during cancellation.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds all four encoder test modules to the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py — Adds coverage for native sends retaining resources until sampler release. Verify idle polling and shutdown remain blocked only while the transfer owns resources. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py — Adds coverage for pending-transfer decisions across connector and rank configurations. Verify the attention-DP pending snapshot remains consistent. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/executor/test_base_worker.py — Adds coverage for media ownership after successful and failed enqueue. Verify tensor storage remains alive until native release. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/conftest.py — Extends the fake RPC context to capture trailing metadata. Verify the test double represents rejection metadata as expected.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_control.py — Adds coverage for encoder-cache abort handling, error mapping, and role-specific model metadata. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder.py — Covers shared-cache lifecycle, validation, quotas, token decoding, and role selection. Listed in l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py — Covers NIXL transfers, rejection and uncertain outcomes, quotas, concurrency, shutdown, and opt-in native tests. Listed in l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_release.py — Covers NIXL export discard, malformed references, and discard during transfer claims. Listed in l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_serving.py — Covers serving cleanup, cancellation, capabilities, transfer error classification, and health. Listed in l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_multimodal.py — Adds multimodal handoff tests, including missing and oversized decode-state cases. Verify downstream decode does not refetch media. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_node.py — Uses the schema-release constant in node metadata assertions. Not listed in the CPU test list.
tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_openengine.py — Adds encoder IPC shutdown and cleanup-order tests. Verify collection eligibility, error preservation, and skipping collection for a poisoned transport. Not listed in the CPU test list.
November 10 review update
The revised handoff contract passed a 268-case focused CPU suite and a 241-case encoder/OpenEngine/multimodal suite (overlapping coverage). Cross-host native and Dynamo HTTP E+PD/E+P+D validation passed with a fresh GPU baseline, omitted encoder usage, wire-different field-equal media, missing-hash isolation with P KV reuse, replay/release checks and clean shutdown.
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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OpenEngine adds encoder handoff protocol and serving support with shared-file and NIXL cache backends. It adds encoder lifecycle cleanup, health reporting, and capability discovery. It also updates executor transfer checks and multimodal request ownership.
The servicer configures encoder roles, publishes and consumes cache entries, tracks cleanup, and reports encoder health and capabilities. Shutdown drains encoder work and conditionally collects CUDA IPC resources. Documentation and tests cover these paths.
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Pending transfer and shutdown eligibility tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py
Pending-transfer checks now distinguish single-rank and multi-rank workers. Tests cover in-flight context sends and shutdown eligibility.
sequenceDiagram
participant Encoder as OpenEngine encoder role
participant Producer as EncoderCache or NixlEncoderCache
participant Consumer as OpenEngine consumer role
participant Control as OpenEngine control service
participant Receiver as Consumer encoder cache
Encoder->>Producer: publish encoder result
Producer-->>Encoder: return single-use cache reference
Encoder-->>Consumer: return EncoderReady reference
Consumer->>Control: request encoder-cache transfer
Control->>Producer: transfer published cache
Producer-->>Receiver: complete backend transfer
Receiver-->>Consumer: prepare cached tensors and request inputs
A malformed encoder reference sent to the shared-file backend returns the wrong error status, UNAVAILABLE or INTERNAL, instead of INVALID_ARGUMENT. This is a small fix. The final GPU shutdown smoke and the unmerged protocol prerequisites remain PR checklist items.
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Major · Implement Control.Shutdown. It currently returns UNIMPLEMENTED for… · lifecycle.proto:53
tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/lifecycle.proto:53 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Implement Control.Shutdown. It currently returns UNIMPLEMENTED for every call.
The Shutdown RPC is declared in openengine.proto at line 53, not in lifecycle.proto. The regenerated ControlServicer base returns UNIMPLEMENTED for it. OpenEngineControlServicer does not override Shutdown, so every call fails. Clients cannot stop the engine through this RPC. The identity checks in ShutdownRequest (INVALID_ARGUMENT for an empty ID, FAILED_PRECONDITION for a mismatch) are never evaluated.
Either implement the handler in OpenEngineControlServicer, including the expected_instance_id checks and the ShutdownStatus responses, or remove the RPC from this PR until the handler exists. If the RPC ships unimplemented, document that in the README and proto. Add tests for a valid ID, an empty ID, and a mismatched ID, for example in tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_openengine.py.
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Implement Shutdown on OpenEngineControlServicer so it no longer inherits the
UNIMPLEMENTED response: validate ShutdownRequest’s expected_instance_id,
returning INVALID_ARGUMENT for an empty ID and FAILED_PRECONDITION for a
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py:
- Around line 366-368: In `prepare`, keep `self._lock` only around health checks
and `_used` quota reservation or settlement; perform `_receive` and its blocking
`TransferEncoderCache` RPC without holding the lock, then reacquire it to update
`_used` or mark the cache failed. In producer-side `transfer`, remove the export
from `_exports` under the lock, then wait on `status` without holding it.
- Around line 331-343: Update the producer’s post-delete error handling so
native ValueErrors become RuntimeErrors, while pre-delete ValueErrors remain
INVALID_ARGUMENT rejections. In the consumer exception handler shown in the
_receive flow, treat only grpc INVALID_ARGUMENT as a definite rejection:
deregister without quarantining or marking the consumer failed; retain
quarantine for all other errors, including UNAVAILABLE. Add a regression test
beside test_expired_reference_cannot_access_source_memory that replays a
consumed reference, verifies consumer.failed remains false, and confirms a later
valid handoff succeeds; update affected consumer.failed assertions.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py:
- Around line 87-97: Update _collect to tolerate a matching file disappearing
between directory iteration and stat or stale-file removal: handle
FileNotFoundError for that entry and continue collecting the remaining files,
while preserving the existing size accounting and TTL behavior.
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- Line 53: Implement Shutdown on OpenEngineControlServicer so it no longer
inherits the UNIMPLEMENTED response: validate ShutdownRequest’s
expected_instance_id, returning INVALID_ARGUMENT for an empty ID and
FAILED_PRECONDITION for a mismatch, and return the appropriate ShutdownStatus
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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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Quarantine the consumer only when the RPC outcome is uncertain.
A replayed, consumed, or expired reference reaches _receive. The producer rejects it before any WRITE starts. The consumer still quarantines it. Every exception after attempted = True sets failed. _healthy() then rejects all later handoffs, and _engine_is_healthy() reports the engine as not ready until restart. Nothing clears failed. One client retry of a consumed reference can take the consumer engine out of service.
Two conditions limit the remedy:
Producer ValueErrors raised before del mean no WRITE started. Those raised after del do not. The post-delete try block can raise ValueError from the native agent calls, and that would map to INVALID_ARGUMENT. The producer must convert those failures to RuntimeError so that only pre-delete rejections return INVALID_ARGUMENT.
The consumer must treat only INVALID_ARGUMENT as a definite rejection. It must keep quarantine for every other error, including UNAVAILABLE from an unreachable endpoint.
Add a regression test in tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py, beside test_expired_reference_cannot_access_source_memory. Replay a consumed reference. Assert that consumer.failed is false and that a later valid handoff succeeds. Review the consumer.failed assertions at lines 191 and 214 for the scenarios that change.
Producer: convert post-delete failures to RuntimeError
- except Exception:+ except Exception as error:
self.failed = True
_QUARANTINED.append((self.agent, item))
- raise+ if isinstance(error, ValueError):+ raise RuntimeError("encoder NIXL write failed after the export was consumed") from error+ raise
Consumer: quarantine only uncertain outcomes
- except Exception:- if attempted or not registered:+ except Exception as error:+ rejected = (+ isinstance(error, grpc.RpcError)+ and error.code() == grpc.StatusCode.INVALID_ARGUMENT+ )+ if (attempted and not rejected) or not registered:
# A lost RPC reply does not prove the remote WRITE stopped.
self.failed = True
_QUARANTINED.append((self.agent, tensors, registration))
else:
try:
self.agent.deregister_memory(registration)
self._used -= total
except Exception:
self.failed = True
_QUARANTINED.append((self.agent, tensors, registration))
+ if rejected:+ raise ValueError(error.details()) from error
raise
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- 343:
Update the producer’s post-delete error handling so native ValueErrors become
RuntimeErrors, while pre-delete ValueErrors remain INVALID_ARGUMENT rejections.
In the consumer exception handler shown in the _receive flow, treat only grpc
INVALID_ARGUMENT as a definite rejection: deregister without quarantining or
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Fixed. The consumer releases its buffers only when the producer returns INVALID_ARGUMENT with the explicit pre-WRITE marker. Unmarked failures, including UNAVAILABLE and errors after submission, remain quarantined. A real-gRPC regression replays a consumed reference and then successfully transfers a fresh one.
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- Line 226: Update _path to catch RecursionError from parsing deeply nested
references and convert it to the same ValueError used for other malformed
references, so callers handle the input as invalid rather than as an internal or
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Map RecursionError from a malformed reference to ValueError.
_path rejects opaque_state only when it is longer than 1024 bytes. A 1024-byte payload such as b"[" * 1024 passes that check. json.loads then raises RecursionError, because the nesting depth is above the default recursion limit of 1000. _path catches only (ValueError, UnicodeError), so the error escapes discard and prepare.
The consequences for a client-supplied bad reference are:
Abort(encoder_cache=...) reaches the RuntimeError branch, because RecursionError subclasses RuntimeError. The client gets retryable UNAVAILABLE instead of INVALID_ARGUMENT.
Generate reaches the generic except Exception branch in the preparation path. The client gets INTERNAL, and the engine-failure metric increments.
encoder_nixl._decode already catches RecursionError, and test_abort_rejects_deeply_nested_reference_without_changing_exports covers only the NIXL backend. Apply the same handling here.
🐛 Proposed fix in `_path`
- except (ValueError, UnicodeError) as error:+ except (ValueError, UnicodeError, RecursionError) as error:
raise ValueError("invalid encoder cache reference") from error
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py at line 226:
Update _path to catch RecursionError from parsing deeply nested references and
convert it to the same ValueError used for other malformed references, so
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Already fixed on the current branch: _path converts RecursionError to ValueError. The discard and prepare regressions verify that malformed references do not consume the published handoff.
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From the disaggregated-serving side, this looks good once two small items are fixed. The runtime changes inherited from #21638 (py_executor pending-transfer check, base_worker media ownership) don't regress existing ctx/gen KV disagg, and the encoder path stays inert unless the TRTLLM_OPENENGINE_ENCODER_* settings are set. Two things to fix before merge:
The encoder consume path now mutates DisaggregatedParams in place and skips the hashes is None fallback (inline comment).
Pre-commit fails on an unused import in test_encoder_serving.py.
I also left one non-blocking comment on cleanup poisoning for plain prefill engines. This PR needs to merge after #21638.
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Since prepare() now assigns params.multimodal_hashes = metadata["hashes"] on an existing object, DisaggregatedParams.__post_init__ no longer runs on the handoff fields. That skips its length/format checks and the "random hash when hashes is None, so KV reuse is disabled" fallback.
E publishes params.multimodal_hashes verbatim, and it is None once the input processor latches multimodal_hashing_supported=False (any first-probe failure in inputs/registry.py). P then builds MultimodalParams without a multimodal_input, so block keys contain only placeholder tokens. Two requests with the same text and same-size but different images can then reuse each other's KV and return wrong answers silently.
Could you apply the same fallback/validation here, either via a shared helper or by rejecting a None hash, and add a regression test?
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Fixed. The shared-cache consume path now reconstructs parameters through dataclasses.replace, running native hash validation and the fresh-identity fallback when hashes are missing. Regressions cover different same-shaped embeddings with the same prompt, valid/malformed hashes, export cleanup and preservation of P/D fields.
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Same issue as the shared-cache prepare() in encoder.py: this in-place assignment bypasses the DisaggregatedParams.__post_init__ hash fallback and validation, so a None hash from E silently enables KV reuse keyed only by placeholder tokens.
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Fixed using the same validated helper as the shared-cache path. Missing hashes get fresh identities, valid hashes are preserved, and P/D parameters survive reconstruction. Both backends have regression coverage.
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(non-blocking) PrefillResultExports is created for every context_only request, including text-only requests on engines without an encoder role. For those requests, the finally block waits up to 30s on aresult() after an abort, and a timeout or release failure sets _encoder_cleanup_failed, which permanently fails every later Generate and Health.
A plain P/D prefill engine has no encoder exports to reclaim, so a slow cancel shouldn't take it offline. Could this be limited to encoder roles (or to results where exports were actually observed), with the timeout only logged when nothing is pending?
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Fixed. The late-export wait now applies to requests that can produce encoder/MM exports. Text-only prefill cancellation skips that wait and leaves the worker usable. Observed exports are still reclaimed even without an encoder role. Tests cover a subsequent successful text request and retain the MM timeout and release-failure safeguards.
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We should not point the proto to a feature branch. Let's work on openengine v0.2.0 release tag with your changes and move this to v0.2.0 before merging this PR. We can keep it here for you to collect reviews and run validations but make sure we merge this PR only when v0.2.0 is out there.
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Description
Serve image encoder disaggregation through OpenEngine as E+PD or E+P+D. E publishes a single-use encoder reference; PD or P consumes it, and separate D receives native KV plus prepared decode state without replaying the encoder reference.
supports_abort_cleanupon producers andrequires_handoffon consumers; text-only and KV-session decode requests bypass the encoder.torch.cuda.ipc_collect, without initializing CUDA or overriding earlier failures.Test Coverage
3658960: native gRPC and full Dynamo HTTP passed both topologies on three GB200 hosts, with correct distinct-image answers and baseline-matching expanded usageThe run used the frozen current implementation over official runtime
1.4.0rc4.dev202611090007(source2d5b1fb), with coherent Python modules from the1932b8ee5-based branch. Required wire-v3/binding source paths match, but the native binary lacks later KVCacheManagerV2 teardown fix #21795. This validates the recorded source overlay, not an unmodified published complete-feature runtime. No performance benchmark is claimed.Dependencies and Scope
Depends on OpenEngine #35 and base transport #21638. Companion Dynamo integration: #18082. The canonical protocol pin is
9d18a3859ea6b5b08d98038d80f1203add036ea8; protocol/transport merge and complete-feature runtime publication remain pending prerequisites, not completed checklist items.Image only, TP/PP/CP=1; validated with Qwen3-VL-2B. Encoder references are limited to 64 KiB and portable P-to-D preparation to 2 MiB. The upstream shared-safetensors helper is same-host only; Dynamo negotiates native NIXL only. Video/audio handoffs and performance tuning remain follow-ups.
PR Checklist
Dev Engineer Review
The change adds experimental, image-only encoder handoffs for OpenEngine. It adds shared-directory and NIXL backends, role and request validation, transfer RPCs, capability reporting, and encoder-only serving. In E+P+D, prefill can capture prepared decode state for the decoder.
The NIXL path quarantines resources after uncertain transfers and marks the cache failed. Shutdown drains encoder cleanup and calls
torch.cuda.ipc_collectonly for an eligible CUDA NIXL consumer when CUDA is already initialized. The change also updates native request ownership and pending-transfer handling outside OpenEngine.The protocol and generated bindings add encoder options, handoff references, transfer RPCs, capabilities, and shutdown messages. The vendor lock pins a protocol branch and commit. Serving remains restricted by role, image inputs, and parallelism checks. The supplied objectives report that the final GPU shutdown smoke remains outstanding. Test results for the current head are not available.
QA Engineer Review
Four test files were added:
test_encoder.py,test_encoder_nixl.py,test_encoder_release.py, andtest_encoder_serving.py. Existing tests were modified for disaggregation transfers, executor lifetime, worker ownership, OpenEngine control, multimodal serving, node metadata, and shutdown; the OpenEngine test fixture was also updated. All four added encoder test files appear intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Native NIXL cases are opt-in, according to the supplied objectives.Coverage includes shared-cache validation and cleanup, NIXL transfer outcomes and ownership, serving cancellation and health, multimodal handoffs, shutdown cleanup, and native request ownership. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The supplied objectives report that the final rebased production shutdown path has not been rerun on GPU. Test execution results for the current head are not available.
Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/vendor_sources.lock.yaml— Pins the OpenEngine protocol source to a branch and commit. Verify that the lock digest matches the vendored protocol tree.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py— Changes pending-transfer checks for native-only workers, including a multi-rank early return. Verify idle polling and shutdown progress in single- and multi-rank configurations.tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py— Clears request multimodal parameters after successful enqueue. Verify native ownership after enqueue and preservation of request data when enqueue fails.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/README.md— Documents experimental encoder handoffs, supported topologies, limits, and operational constraints. Verify the guidance matches runtime behavior and protocol availability.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.py— Adds generated bindings for encoder request, response, and transfer fields. Verify descriptors match the checked-in protocol.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/generation_pb2.pyi— Updates generated type declarations for encoder messages. Verify declarations match the generated bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.py— Adds generated shutdown message bindings. Verify the descriptor matcheslifecycle.proto.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/lifecycle_pb2.pyi— Adds generated shutdown type declarations. Verify they match the generated bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.py— Adds generated encoder-capability fields. Verify field numbering and descriptors matchmodel.proto.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/model_pb2.pyi— Adds generated type declarations for encoder capabilities. Verify they match the generated bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2.py— Updates generated service descriptors for new control RPCs. Verify RPC names and message types match the protocol.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/_generated/openengine_pb2_grpc.py— Adds generated client and server support for shutdown and encoder transfer RPCs. Verify both RPC paths are exposed.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/bindings.py— Selects schema release metadata from the manifest source commit when present. Verify fallback behavior for older manifests.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/capabilities.py— Adds theencoder_handoffoption to multimodal capability resolution. Verify the default behavior remains unchanged and handoff-enabled consumers advertise the intended capabilities.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/control.py— Adds encoder transfer handling and role-specific model metadata. Verify cancellation, error mapping, and health reporting.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder.py— Adds bounded, single-use shared-directory handoffs and prepared-input reconstruction. Verify directory permissions, reference validation, cleanup on all exits, and decode-state capture.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/encoder_nixl.py— Adds NIXL handoff, receiver preflight, transfer, and quarantine paths. Verify resource cleanup and cache health after rejected, uncertain, timed-out, and concurrent transfers.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/errors.py— Adds a typed transfer-rejection error and metadata marker. Verify only proven pre-write rejection maps to the retry-safe rejection response.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/manifest.json— Records the unpublished protocol extension and source commit. Verify release metadata stays consistent with the vendor lock.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/generation.proto— Adds encoder options, cache references, ready responses, and transfer messages. Verify field compatibility and single-use transfer semantics.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/lifecycle.proto— Adds shutdown messages and status values. The supplied objectives say the shutdown RPC is not implemented by this server; verify the documentedUNIMPLEMENTEDresponse and supervisor/SIGTERM shutdown path.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/model.proto— Adds encoder capability metadata. Verify role and backend advertisement matches server configuration.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/proto/openengine/v1/openengine.proto— Adds shutdown and encoder-transfer control RPCs. Verify service declarations match generated bindings.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/request_mapping.py— Passes the optional handoff flag into media capability resolution. Verify ordinary request mapping retains its prior default.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/server.py— Adds encoder-only model startup and conditional CUDA IPC collection during shutdown. Verify cleanup ordering and that cleanup does not initialize CUDA.tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/servicer.py— Adds role selection, image request validation, cache preparation, result publication, and cleanup handling. Verify rejection of missing or oversized prepared decode state and ownership during cancellation.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml— Adds all four encoder test modules to the CPU test list.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_disagg_coordinator_transfers.py— Adds coverage for native sends retaining resources until sampler release. Verify idle polling and shutdown remain blocked only while the transfer owns resources. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py— Adds coverage for pending-transfer decisions across connector and rank configurations. Verify the attention-DP pending snapshot remains consistent. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/executor/test_base_worker.py— Adds coverage for media ownership after successful and failed enqueue. Verify tensor storage remains alive until native release. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/conftest.py— Extends the fake RPC context to capture trailing metadata. Verify the test double represents rejection metadata as expected.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_control.py— Adds coverage for encoder-cache abort handling, error mapping, and role-specific model metadata. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder.py— Covers shared-cache lifecycle, validation, quotas, token decoding, and role selection. Listed inl0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_nixl.py— Covers NIXL transfers, rejection and uncertain outcomes, quotas, concurrency, shutdown, and opt-in native tests. Listed inl0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_release.py— Covers NIXL export discard, malformed references, and discard during transfer claims. Listed inl0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_encoder_serving.py— Covers serving cleanup, cancellation, capabilities, transfer error classification, and health. Listed inl0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_multimodal.py— Adds multimodal handoff tests, including missing and oversized decode-state cases. Verify downstream decode does not refetch media. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_node.py— Uses the schema-release constant in node metadata assertions. Not listed in the CPU test list.tests/unittest/grpc/openengine/test_openengine.py— Adds encoder IPC shutdown and cleanup-order tests. Verify collection eligibility, error preservation, and skipping collection for a poisoned transport. Not listed in the CPU test list.November 10 review update
The revised handoff contract passed a 268-case focused CPU suite and a 241-case encoder/OpenEngine/multimodal suite (overlapping coverage). Cross-host native and Dynamo HTTP E+PD/E+P+D validation passed with a fresh GPU baseline, omitted encoder usage, wire-different field-equal media, missing-hash isolation with P KV reuse, replay/release checks and clean shutdown.
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.