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Description

Three opt-in optimizations for KV cache manager V2 SSD offload. All are off by default and set through KvCacheConfig; behavior is unchanged unless they are enabled.

kv_cache_config:
  disk_cache_size: 1099511627776
  disk_cache_path: /path/to/nvme
  disk_io_threads: 16                  # 1. parallel SSD I/O
  disk_keep_copy_after_restore: true   # 2. keep the SSD copy after a restore
  disk_write_through: true             # 3. write-through to SSD (needs 1)

#	Optimization	What it changes	Throughput (req/s)	TTFT p50 (s)	TTFT p90 (s)
0	Baseline (this PR, options off)		18.7	3.43	42.6
1	Parallel SSD I/O	SSD I/O on a thread pool	24.8 (+33%)	3.21 (−6%)	15.0 (−65%)
2	Keep the SSD copy after a restore	No SSD rewrite after a restore	27.2 (+10%)	2.18 (−32%)	7.7 (−48%)
3	Write-through to SSD	Copy to SSD in the background	28.2 (+3%)	1.46 (−33%)	3.8 (−51%)
	All three vs baseline		28.2 (+51%)	1.46 (−57%)	3.8 (−91%)

Setup: Kernel Factory 4-hour campaign workload on GLM-5.3, FP8 KV · 8× GB300 nodes, disagg 4P (4× DEP4) + 4D (1× DEP16) · KV tiers per ctx rank: HBM + 160 GiB host + 1 TiB local NVMe RAID0 · multi-turn agentic coding trace replay, 800 concurrent sessions, 300–2400 s window. Each row is measured on top of the previous rows, and its percentages are relative to the row above; one run per config, so the write-through row is not established. TPOT is unchanged (p50 14–15 ms). The SSD tier never filled in these runs.

These numbers predate the review changes below. In these runs every SSD write was buffered and write-through only ever used free SSD slots, so dropping O_DIRECT and limiting write-through to free slots don't change what was measured. The background write queue and its 1 GiB cap are new and were not part of these runs.

Comparison with Mooncake

The same workload with the Mooncake KV connector instead of the native SSD tier, at Mooncake's best throughput with a host-memory pool only (C800) and with its SSD tier added (C1120):

Method	Concurrent sessions	Throughput (req/s)	TTFT p50 (s)	TTFT p90 (s)
Native SSD, this PR (all three options)	800	28.2	1.46	3.8
Mooncake, host pool (5,696 GiB)	800	26.1	2.31	14.9
Mooncake, host pool (4,960 GiB) + Mooncake SSD tier	1120	27.8	5.85	19.8

This PR vs Mooncake C800: +7.8% throughput, TTFT p50 −37%, p90 −75%. vs Mooncake + SSD C1120: +1.2% throughput, TTFT p50 −75%, p90 −81%.

Same 8× GB300 nodes, trace, 300–2400 s window and throughput definition as the table above. The SSD tiers use the same local NVMe. Mooncake v0.3.13 through the mooncake_store connector. Mooncake's throughput peaks at C1120 because it needs more sessions in flight to keep prefill busy, and that raises TTFT. Each Mooncake row averages two runs and pools both runs' requests for the percentiles; the native row is one run. Node sets and runtime revisions differ between runs, and repeats of one C800 config have differed by up to about 3 req/s, so on throughput this PR and Mooncake + SSD are tied; the TTFT differences are well outside that noise.

1. Parallel SSD I/O (disk_io_threads: N)

• Today: each SSD transfer is a blocking pread/pwrite loop in a cuLaunchHostFunc callback. CUDA may run host functions one at a time, so an SSD transfer can wait for every other one, and a large eviction write can hold up the next restore read.
• This PR: the callback only hands the transfer to a pool of N threads, and the stream waits on a completion flag (cuStreamWaitValue64), so stream ordering and event semantics are unchanged. If the stream can't wait on the flag (no 64-bit stream memory operations, or the call fails), a host function waits for the transfer instead.
• Transfers are split into pieces of at most 4 MiB. Pieces are served reads first, then required (eviction) writes, then background (write-through) writes; a write that has waited 10 ms (required) or 100 ms (background) is served ahead of that order, at most every other piece while reads wait, so no queue starves.
• Writes are buffered (page cache); O_DIRECT is not used.
• A failed piece fails its transfer and the rest of its pieces are skipped. A disk copy whose write failed is never reused.
• The pool is process-wide: the first manager that sets a nonzero disk_io_threads starts it, and later values (including 0) don't change it; a warning is logged when a value is ignored.

2. Keep the SSD copy after a restore (disk_keep_copy_after_restore: true)

• Today: a restore from SSD is a move. The SSD slot is freed, so the page is written again on its next eviction, and a restore that needs free GPU slots waits behind that write.
• This PR: the SSD copy of a fully committed page is kept as a retained copy and reused on the page's next eviction, with no write (committed pages are immutable). Partially filled pages are always written.
• When the SSD tier needs room, its least recently used pages are dropped first; retained copies belong to pages still in a hotter tier, so they are reclaimed (oldest first) only for the remaining shortfall. Held pages of suspended requests take precedence over a retained copy's slot. Resizing the SSD tier releases only the copies of pool groups that shrink.
• Retained copies count toward the SSD tier's evictable statistic (and so secondary_evictable_num_blocks), since they can be reclaimed without losing a block's only copy. disk_copy_counters reports them separately.
• Relation to [TRTLLM-13617][feat] Inclusive host KV-cache tier (shadow reuse) for KVCacheManager V2 #15828: [TRTLLM-13617][feat] Inclusive host KV-cache tier (shadow reuse) for KVCacheManager V2 #15828 applied the same idea to the host tier and was closed for no end-to-end gain, as expected: the write it avoids is a fast GPU → host copy. On the SSD tier the avoided write is a slow SSD write that restores wait behind.

3. Write-through to SSD (disk_write_through: true, needs disk_io_threads > 0)

• Today: a new page is first written to SSD when it is evicted from host memory, in the chain that frees GPU slots for restores.
• This PR: a page evicted GPU → host is also copied to SSD in the background and kept as a retained copy, so its later host → SSD eviction writes nothing.
• Write-through is opportunistic: it takes free SSD slots only and never evicts or reclaims anything. On a full SSD tier the copy is skipped and the page is written on its host → SSD eviction as without write-through (write_through_skipped). Its writes go behind restores and eviction writes, and at most 1 GiB of them is in flight per process. A failed copy is skipped without failing the eviction that triggered it.
• The write is tracked on the SSD slot only, so host → GPU reads don't wait for it, and the host slot is not reused while the write still reads it.
• It needs a host tier directly above the SSD tier; without one it is turned off with a warning.
• Options 2 and 3 are independent: either can be used alone.

Validation: setting any of the three options without disk_cache_size > 0, or with KV cache manager V1, is an error, and so is disk_write_through without disk_io_threads > 0. Keep-copy or write-through with block reuse disabled logs a warning (they act only on reusable pages). disk_io_threads is limited to 0–256 (in both KvCacheConfig and DiskCacheTierConfig). The options are per disk tier in DiskCacheTierConfig.

Docs: new section "Offloading to Disk (KV Cache Manager V2)" in docs/source/features/kvcache.md; a release-note entry under 1.4; retained-copy, write-through and disk I/O invariants in both kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md files.

Test Coverage

• test_KvCacheConfig_disk_offload_options (CPU): defaults and validation of the new KvCacheConfig fields and the DiskCacheTierConfig options they map to.
• test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py: accepted and rejected values of the new fields in the serve config schema.
• TestNoBatchingDiskOptions, TestResizeQuotaDiskOptions: the inherited tests that reach the SSD tier (test_cache_reuse, test_sol_mem_utilization, test_resize_quota) rerun with all three options on, plus:
  • test_disk_io_threads_alone_restore_correctly: async I/O only; restores pass refcheck and no copies are retained.
  • test_keep_copy_without_write_through, test_write_through_without_keep_copy: each option alone.
  • test_retained_disk_copies_are_reused_and_reclaimed: copies are kept on restore and reused on re-eviction, survive a resize that doesn't shrink them, and are released by one that does; the copy counters balance at each step.
  • test_write_through_uses_only_free_disk_slots: on a full SSD tier write-through writes no more pages than there are free slots.
  • test_full_disk_evicts_lru_pages_before_retained_copies: with the SSD tier full, no retained copy is reclaimed while SSD pages can be evicted, and cached KV still restores correctly.
  • test_held_pages_take_kept_copy_slots_on_a_full_disk, test_partial_tail_decoded_after_restore_reads_back_correctly, test_failed_write_through_copy_is_not_reused: held pages vs kept copies, partially filled pages, and injected write failures.
• The KvCacheConfigV2 test stubs declare the new fields (stub-coverage check).

Status: on 4db3287: test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py (TestNoBatching, TestResizeQuota, TestDisagg, their DiskOptions variants, TestRetention, TestCachedTokensByTier, TestLivingKvCacheGuard, TestStorageStatistics) 90 passed, 51 skipped (perf tests and inherited tests that don't reach the SSD tier); TestTeardownWithoutCudaContext 6 passed; test_llm_args.py -k KvCacheConfig 22 passed; test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py 295 passed; test_kv_transfer.py -k stub_covers 3 passed.

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Walkthrough

The KV cache manager adds optional asynchronous disk I/O, retained disk copies, and host-to-disk write-through. Configuration and validation expose these options. Storage and migration code use them, and tests cover configuration and selected disk-cache scenarios.

Changes

KV cache disk storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Disk cache options and configuration cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/config.h, cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/config.cpp, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2.cpp, tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/__init__.pyi, tensorrt_llm/schemas/*, docs/source/developer-guide/telemetry.md, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py	Disk cache configuration adds an I/O thread count, copy-retention option, and write-through option. Validation rejects negative thread counts and write-through without copy retention. Bindings, schemas, telemetry entries, and tests reflect these options.
Asynchronous disk transfer pipeline cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/utils/copyUtils.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/storage/core.cpp	Disk-to-host and host-to-disk copies can submit chunked work to a worker pool. Stream completion signaling is used when available; otherwise, the callback waits for the transfer. Optional direct I/O is supported. Disk-file release waits for in-flight I/O.
Retained copies and migration write-through cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/storageManager.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/page.cpp, tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/_introspection.py	StorageManager tracks retained disk slots, reuses them during migration, and reclaims them during eviction, destruction, and level resizing. When enabled, write-through copies eligible committed host pages to the following disk level. Introspection exposes disk-copy counters. Tests run selected disk-cache scenarios with these options enabled.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StorageManager
  participant copyHostToDisk
  participant DiskIoPool
  participant Disk
  participant CUDAStream
  StorageManager->>copyHostToDisk: Submit host-to-disk copy
  copyHostToDisk->>DiskIoPool: Queue transfer chunks
  DiskIoPool->>Disk: Write chunks
  DiskIoPool->>CUDAStream: Publish completion ticket

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 16737

The disk I/O fallback and retained-copy assertions are in place. Remaining concerns are limited to test isolation and adapter coverage; the change is mergeable with owner awareness of those gaps.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 16737

A failed background disk write can later replace a valid in-memory copy without another write, allowing incomplete cached data to survive into subsequent inference. Exposure requires enabling the new write-through policy. Normal ownership and cleanup controls substantially limit the risk, and no remotely exploitable security issue was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Write-through records disk destinations as reusable even when their writes fail. Completion publishes readiness without communicating success, so a later eviction can skip rewriting an incomplete destination and release the still-valid host copy. Compared with the base behavior, which submitted a fresh write on eviction, a transient speculative-write failure can now persist into subsequent restores. This is a failure-containment and inference-integrity concern; cross-tenant disclosure or attacker-controlled triggering was not established.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Execution-policy effects can reach all disk-enabled managers sharing the process-wide pool. The identified integrity failure concerns pages backed by failed write-through destinations in the affected disk tier. Deployment-wide propagation and tenant boundaries cannot be determined from the inspected configuration and storage paths.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The inspected activation path uses cache configuration and the existing disk directory. Direct I/O reopens the process's existing descriptor through /proc/self/fd, checks device and inode identity, and falls back to buffered writes when direct I/O is unavailable or rejected. This path does not introduce a caller-selected transfer destination separate from the configured disk pool.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Represent retained-copy validity separately from transfer completion. A failed speculative write should invalidate its duplicate so later eviction performs a fresh copy or preserves the valid source. Completion should still unblock cleanup, without making failed data authoritative.

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tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py: 1

11418-11435: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Assert retained-copy and write-through behavior.

The inherited tests can pass if these optimizations become no-ops. Add a test that observes a write-through copy, then evicts the page to disk and checks that the retained slot is reused without a disk write. Also check reclamation after restoring the page and shrinking the disk tier. Expose numRetainedCopies and a reuse counter through _introspection if needed.

Coverage summary: The PR modifies test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py and test_llm_args.py. It adds option-validation tests and three option-enabled subclasses. The KV cache test directory is listed in CI. Coverage is insufficient for retained-copy and write-through behavior.

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Add a focused test alongside the disk-option tests in TestNoBatchingDiskOptions
that verifies write-through creates a disk copy, eviction reuses the retained
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tier reclaims the retained copy. Use existing introspection where available, and
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Test disk option forwarding

The existing tests check the two configurations separately. They would not catch an option dropped or miswired by KVCacheManagerV2.

Add an adapter-level test under tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/ that checks the resulting disk tier configuration. Include cases with keep-copy enabled and write-through both disabled and enabled, so the test can distinguish the two options.

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Add an adapter-level test under tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/ that
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TestNoBatchingDiskOptions that verifies write-through creates a disk copy,
eviction reuses the retained slot without another disk write, and restoring the
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Major · Retry an EINVAL O_DIRECT write through the buffered descriptor. · copyUtils.cpp:274-284

cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/utils/copyUtils.cpp:274-284
Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Retry an EINVAL O_DIRECT write through the buffered descriptor.

When writeAll(direct, ...) fails with EINVAL, writePiece currently returns failure without trying fd. DiskTransfer::finish() still publishes completion, so the migration can expose a disk slot that does not contain the source page. Retry this alignment-related failure through the buffered descriptor before returning failure.

Suggested fix

         if (int const direct = directFd(fd); direct >= 0)
         {
-            return writeAll(direct, pos, data, size);
+            if (writeAll(direct, pos, data, size))
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+            if (errno != EINVAL)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
         }

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Update writePiece so a failed writeAll on the direct descriptor retries through
fd only when the failure is EINVAL; return success immediately when the direct
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2054-2057: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add coverage for disk-option propagation.

This test validates KvCacheConfig and direct DiskCacheTierConfig behavior, but it does not check that _build_cache_config passes all three options into the produced DiskCacheTierConfig. Add a focused assertion for that mapping.

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• Modified test: test_KvCacheConfig_disk_offload_options.
• Covers defaults, configured values, invalid write-through configuration, and negative I/O-thread validation.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py is listed in both l0_cpu.yml and l0_a10.yml.
• The manager-level propagation path remains uncovered by this test.
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[zhangcl]

Follow-up on the CodeRabbit comments that were not posted inline:

• Retry an EINVAL O_DIRECT write through the buffered descriptor (outside-diff, copyUtils.cpp): fixed in 1673785. If a file system rejects an aligned O_DIRECT write with EINVAL, the piece is rewritten through the buffered descriptor and that file stops using O_DIRECT. Other errors still fail the transfer.
• Assert retained-copy and write-through behavior (nitpick, test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py): added in acd27aa. test_retained_disk_copies_are_reused_and_reclaimed checks through disk_copy_counters that write-through creates disk copies, that they are reused, and that shrinking the disk quota reclaims them.
• Test disk option forwarding (nitpicks on kv_cache_manager_v2.py and test_llm_args.py): not adding this one. The adapter passes the three fields straight through as keyword arguments, and the *DiskOptions test classes already build managers with all three options on.

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[sunnyqgg]

Review of the three opt-in SSD-offload options for KV cache manager V2. Result: 5 blockers, 9 possibly blocking, 10 required and 15 nice-to-have items. Most are inline; the items below have no line in the diff.

The blockers:

• a retained SSD copy of a partially committed tail page goes stale (wrong tokens);

• pinned retained copies make held pages fail at the SSD tier;

• the CPU stub-coverage guard test now fails;

• disk_io_threads semantics don't match its documentation;

• the aarch64 flag publish lacks an outer-shareable barrier.

• [Required] Documentation. The new disk-tier options have no user documentation. docs/source/features/kvcache.md documents comparable KV cache manager V2 prototype options and host offload, but nothing covers the disk tier, its prerequisites (V2, disk_cache_size/disk_cache_path, block reuse, a host tier for write-through), the process-wide pool or O_DIRECT. CODING_GUIDELINES.md also says: "If you change workflows, commands, architecture, or conventions that would benefit all developers and AI agents, update AGENTS.md in the same PR". cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md should describe the process-wide disk I/O pool, the O_DIRECT descriptor table and retained copies.

• [Required] PR scope. CONTRIBUTING.md: "If the PR is large, explain why it cannot be broken down into multiple PRs." The async I/O engine (copyUtils.cpp, storage/core.cpp:472, storageManager.cpp:547) does not depend on retained copies, and each option is switched and measured on its own. Please split the PR (async I/O | retained copies | write-through) or explain in the description why they must land together.

• [Required] Overlap with open PRs. Open #20229 (locality domains) rewrites the same _batchedMigrate allocation lines (allocatableSlots/allocatePreferring with a destination domain), plus getStatistics, _prepareFreeSlots and destroy. #20087 makes the same hasValidSlot() change in _batchedMigrate's catch, and #16252 adds disk_* fields at the same place in KvCacheConfig. If the #20229 conflict is resolved by keeping this PR's numFreeSlots()/allocateMultiple(), the code still compiles (the domain defaults to 0) but allocates restores in the wrong locality domain. Please link these PRs and agree on a merge order.

• [Required] Telemetry review. AGENTS.md: "new fields require telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER approval". llm_args_golden_manifest.json now captures disk_io_threads, disk_keep_copy_after_restore and disk_write_through. Please get a review from @NVIDIA/trt-llm-usage-telemetry-devs, and from @NVIDIA/trt-llm-kv-cache-manager-devs for the ~950 lines of C++; the only review so far covers the Python side.

• [Required] PR description and CI evidence:

  • The description replaces the template's Description / Test Coverage / PR Checklist sections.
  • It keeps a CodeRabbit QA block that wrongly says test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py has no test-db entry; unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests is listed in l0_a10, l0_b200, l0_h100 and l0_cpu.
  • There is no /bot run yet.
  • It doesn't say whether the kvCacheManagerV2 C++ gtests were rebuilt and run after the config.h/storageManager.h layout changes, which kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md asks for.

• [Nice to have] Performance evidence. The table is one run per configuration, with the rows stacked. Write-through gives "+3% (within noise)", and its −51% TTFT p90 is the tail of a single run. Please add at least 3 runs with their spread, each option measured alone on top of main, SSD bytes written per configuration, and the disk_io_threads value used.

• [Nice to have] Question. Retained copies are reclaimed before any real page is evicted, so is there a known cost that keeps disk_keep_copy_after_restore off by default? If not, consider turning it on by default once it leaves prototype.

• +1 to CodeRabbit's nitpick on testing option forwarding, which zhangcl declined in a follow-up comment. The *DiskOptions classes build KVCacheManagerConfig directly and never go through kv_cache_manager_v2.py:2493-2499, and the stub drift above shows these reads do drift. tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py:1498-1516 already captures the DiskCacheTierConfig the adapter builds, so asserting the three fields there takes a few lines.

[eopXD]

Thank you for the pull request @zhangcl.

The parallel SSD I/O optimization improves the existing transfer mechanism without introducing retained-copy state into the KVCM lifecycle. I recommend landing it separately first to keep this PR focused.

For retained SSD copies and write-through, the lender mechanism and the backend/store contracts in #20117 and #20217 provide a path for exposing these operations to external cache frameworks, including Mooncake. My concern is where this policy belongs: modeling duplicate-copy ownership and synchronization inside KVCM expands its lifecycle responsibilities, while we already have an integration boundary through which an external cache framework can manage that policy.

I would prefer to keep these policies outside KVCM. A native implementation would need a concrete requirement that the external path cannot satisfy to justify the additional lifecycle complexity.

[sunnyqgg]

The Blockers from my review of 2026-11-07 are resolved or answered at 7dfef40:

• test_kv_transfer.py:96-98 and the other two KvCacheConfigV2 stubs now declare the three disk fields with KvCacheConfig defaults, and the stub-coverage check finds nothing missing (ed0873a)
• storageManager.cpp:192-200 keeps or writes through disk copies only of full committed pages, so a partially committed tail is always written on eviction (41ba9bf)
• llm_args.py:5227-5236 and config.h:102-104 describe disk_io_threads as process-wide, and copyUtils.cpp:658-667 warns when a later manager's value is ignored (48a06bb; O_DIRECT removed in e168642)
• copyUtils.cpp:350-352 issues dmb oshst on aarch64 before publishing the disk-read completion flag (c5e20f9)
• storageManager.cpp:1483-1529 lets held pages take the kept-copy slots of droppable pages at the last level, with a full-disk regression test (98260f1)

About 630 lines of C++ landed after 1673785 and were checked only where they touch these Blockers: failed-write tracking, a three-queue disk I/O scheduler with a 1 GiB background cap, per-tier copy flags and the cuStreamWaitValue64 fallback.

Not covered here: disk-tier user docs and kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md (still absent from the diff), the telemetry-owner sign-off on the three manifest fields, and aarch64+PCIe testing of the new barrier, which CI does not have.

[chienchunhung]

My previous comments have been addressed; thanks!

[zhangcl]

Docs and the remaining review-level items, as of 3891b99:

Docs (from brnguyen2's review and sunnyqgg's approval note)

• docs/source/features/kvcache.md has a new section, "Offloading to Disk (KV Cache Manager V2)". It covers:
  • disk_cache_size, disk_cache_path and disk_prefetch_num_reqs;
  • a table of the three prototype options;
  • that keep-copy and write-through are independent (write-through no longer requires keep-copy), and that both act only on reusable, fully computed blocks;
  • how a full disk tier evicts;
  • that disk_io_threads is process-wide (the first nonzero value wins; ignored values log a warning);
  • which settings are rejected;
  • a YAML example.
• cpp/.../kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md: invariants for retained disk copies, write-through and the async disk I/O pool, plus a high-risk entry for them.
• tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md: a gotcha about the process-wide pool and the disk-copy introspection hooks.
• docs/source/release-notes.md: not edited. Feature PRs don't usually touch it, so I left it for the release process. I can add an entry if you want one here.

Evictable statistic (brnguyen2): this is intended. At a disk level, retained copies are reclaimable slots, so they count toward evictable, and therefore toward secondary_evictable_num_blocks. That number is what can be freed without losing a block's only copy. This is now stated in the feature doc and on StorageStatistics::evictable. disk_copy_counters reports the copies separately for anyone who needs real blocks only.

Still open from sunnyqgg's approval note

• The three new golden-manifest fields need sign-off from the telemetry owner.
• The aarch64 dmb oshst barrier is tested on aarch64 with NVLink-C2C-attached GPUs. aarch64 with a PCIe-attached GPU isn't covered, here or in CI.

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

All six threads from the last round are fixed in the current code, not just resolved: writeThroughToDisk is guarded and gives back unretained slots; nextQueue implements the three-queue aging with the every-other-piece bound; RetainedCopy::page is Page*; O_DIRECT is gone; only the two disk-reaching TestNoBatching tests plus TestResizeQuota's single test re-run with the options; the validator rejects the options without disk_cache_size or with explicit v1. I also checked that cold pool groups are single-pool ([storageManager.cpp:492](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/21822/files#diff-a389163b399d040d9a104a15b38005a3bc9db2cb5e59fbba8cb775217bc0e524R492)), so the PoolIndex{0} keys in validateRetainedCopy and the write-through budget are sound, and that teardown is safe (pages die in clearReusableBlocks under a live context before StorageManager::destroy; the context-less path leaks storage and tree so no ~Page runs). Approving.

Two items from the previous review are still open:

• JIRA. The title is still [None] on ~2000 lines and three public KvCacheConfig fields. Please file a ticket and put it in the title before merge.
• Release notes. kvcache.md and telemetry.md are updated, but docs/source/release-notes.md has no entry. Non-blocking since the fields are status="prototype", but a one-line entry under the next release would help users find the feature.

Non-blocking follow-ups (inline): the C++ validate() has no upper bound on numIoThreads while Python caps at 256; the ring-wrap wait still sleep-polls; waitForDiskIo drains the whole process pool rather than this file's pieces.

One description note: the perf table predates the background queue and 1 GiB budget, which the description already says. When you have a run with the final code, replacing the write-through row would make the table trustworthy for the config it documents.

[JunyiXu-nv]

Python runtime part still LGTM at this head: the new checks (the disk options need disk_cache_size > 0 and KV cache manager V2, write-through needs disk_io_threads > 0, a warning when block reuse is off) and the introspection hooks look right, and the schemas and the golden manifest are updated. I did not review the C++ runtime changes.

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[eopXD]

Existing stat of secondary_evictable_num_blocks needs to be adjusted. I think we should have a secondary_retained_copy_num_blocks next to secondary_evictable_num_blocks. secondary_evictable_num_blocks should not count the copies.

[eopXD]

This is a performance issue so I think it can be followed-up after. Agents are powerful so addressing it here is okay too as the code change should not be much.

• If the write is pending (not failed), reserve the copy and let _batchedMigrate take it back as the primary, the same as a finished copy. Its slot's readyEvent is already in the prior events, so ordering holds, and the eviction writes nothing. If that write later fails, the page ends up where a failed required write leaves it today.
• Once a required eviction depends on it, move that transfer's queued pieces from mBackground to mWrites. The retained copy would need to keep a handle to its DiskTransfer. Without this, the host
  slot still waits on low-priority traffic.

Let us have a separate counter to show expose how much the two pressures overlap.

[zhangcl]

Done in b5bbe06. A pending copy is now taken back like a finished one, and its transfer's queued pieces move from mBackground to mWrites (pieces not yet submitted go there directly). New counter reused_pending. In our replay runs it stayed 0: write-through copies always finished before their pages left host.

[eopXD]

The tension is the disk copy against a SSD-only block.

The performance impact will depend on whether the deployment is write-bound or capacity-bound. Your experiment setup seems to imply that the bottleneck is write-bound. However, with this mechanism in-tree, let us make the tension adjustable through a knob.

Possibly something like a per-disk-tier protectedCopyFraction in DiskCacheTierConfig. Copies within fraction * numSlots(pgIdx) keep today's order. Beyond that share:

• under shortage, unreserved copies above the share are reclaimed before any LRU disk-only page (in this loop, so it lands before numToEvict is computed);
• write-through doesn't create copies past the share (one more term in writeThroughToDisk's take). Otherwise a low fraction would write copies that are the next victims.

Please conduct experiment to cover both sides of the use case.

[zhangcl]

Added protectedCopyFraction (default 1.0 = today's order) with both parts as you described: excess copies are reclaimed before LRU disk-only pages, and write-through creates no copy past the share.

Experiment (4P+4D, multi-turn agentic replay), 0.25 vs 1.0:

• Large disk (never fills): no difference.
• Small disk (full): KV miss -31%, but reused copies -72%, so more real writes and -3.7% throughput.

This workload stays write-bound even with a full disk, so 1.0 stays the default.

[eopXD]

Please update the description here after further adjusting for the dual tension.

[zhangcl]

Updated.

[eopXD]

Please adjust the description here based on the dual tension.

[zhangcl]

Updated: added a row for disk_protected_copy_fraction and a short paragraph on the copy vs. disk-only trade-off.

[hanjingtian]

Could you please rebase this branch onto the latest upstream main to include the CI hang fix in #22101 (6edbe383497a)? The current branch still contains the regression that can cause pipelines to hang for an extended period and worsen CI queueing

[zhangcl]

Re the secondary_evictable_num_blocks review: added secondary_retained_copy_num_blocks next to it, and secondary_evictable_num_blocks no longer counts copies (b5bbe06).