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[https://nvbugs/7063452][fix] Reuse profiling executor thread for serving - #21962
DeepSeek-V3-Lite disaggregated serving with MTP can fail on the first request with Failed to create cublas handle. Status: 3. Memory profiling initializes CUDA library state on an executor thread and includes its allocations in the KV-cache budget, but resource release then destroys that thread. Serving creates a new thread and lazily allocates the same state after final warmup has consumed device memory.
Keep the profiling executor thread alive across release_resources() / rebind_resources() and run serving on that same thread and execution stream. Releasing a phase waits for its event-loop cleanup before detaching resources. Terminal shutdown first queues the worker's exit signal, so it cannot park awaiting another phase if later cleanup raises; the current event-loop wrapper and its finally still finish naturally. Normal shutdown joins at the original thread-completion boundary, before connector, sampler, and GPU-resource teardown; already-released and pool-retry paths also join before cleanup. A detected hang still returns without waiting, and failed-DMA resources remain retained by their existing owners. Cleanup errors and model ownership remain available for retry. Creation failures through final startup and metrics collection invoke normal shutdown; if cleanup itself fails, its diagnostic is logged while preserving the original startup exception. A worker is recorded only after Thread.start() succeeds. Queued and active phases own their executor, while the parked thread retains only the phase queue and completion event. A finalizer sends its exit sentinel when the executor is collected. This preserves RPC follower reclamation in a reused MPI session even when that follower does not call shutdown() explicitly, without changing the RPC collective-shutdown protocol.
This preserves CUDA library state initialized by the LLM dummy forward on the execution worker. The multimodal encoder dummy runs on the startup thread. Libraries and execution paths first used by a serving thread still initialize lazily; this change does not guarantee that profiling covers every library or algorithm. The existing memory_pool_prepop cache and sleep-mode MemPool semantics are retained; this change adds no final cache flush. No new memory threshold or synthetic library-warmup list is introduced. Paths that skip memory profiling do not receive additional library initialization.
Test Coverage
880 related CPU tests passed on 6736b8818c09 (78.94 seconds) in a matching, isolated Linux runtime with CUDA visibility disabled. Both executed production files and all eleven selected test files were hash-matched to the commit. Coverage includes real-thread TLS reuse, phase cleanup/release ordering, restart guards, cancellation/cleanup errors through both response consumers, final-startup failure cleanup and weak-reference reclamation, failed Thread.start(), sampler failure after an execution phase starts, and bound/released terminal graph and synchronization errors with successful shutdown retry, plus a failed profiling-pool release followed by terminal-pool retry. Real-thread cases additionally cover node-close failure with an active or parked phase, connector/listener/encoder/sampler cleanup failure and retry, hang-safe natural thread exit, and retained DMA ownership. The lifecycle file contributes 44 passing cases, including deterministic queued/active/parked ownership and release/rebind without starting another phase. Negative controls using the previous bound target and an initial weakref-only target fail the intended GC and queued-handoff assertions, respectively. Lifecycle waits are bounded and propagate helper-thread errors; the teardown-order test synchronizes on the actual wait entry and asserts the phase has not already completed.
Linux pre-commit and DCO commit hooks passed. Pyrefly was unavailable; its advisory hook does not establish a type-check pass.
Shared-MPI RPC reclamation passed on 6736b8818c09 on two H100 GPUs (1 test, 137.70 seconds). Two TP2 Qwen3-0.6B LLMs use the same explicit MPI pool and the same rank/PID identities. After each LLM shuts down, both ranks must collect the old executor and terminate its actual worker before constructing the next LLM; the test also asserts the pool processes exit at the end. The pytest isolation marker only prevents reuse of the cross-test IPC pool; it does not create a separate pool for each LLM.
Both modes of the strengthened existing GPU memory-profiling test passed on final head 6736b8818c09 on one H100 (2 tests, 100.22 seconds), using Qwen3-0.6B. Each mode asserts real profiling and serving cache phases, the same live Thread object across both, and the shared execution stream. The bound mode performs terminal shutdown directly; the released mode first verifies release_resources() keeps the worker parked. Both assert terminal shutdown stops the worker. The profiling cache is recorded by weak reference so the assertion does not extend its allocation lifetime.
The original 8-H100 DeepSeek-V3-Lite mtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=True regression passed on a924cf9b30ad (526.16 seconds): MMLU 71.491 > 69.583, GSM8K 64.177 > 61.537, and the test's MTP acceptance assertions passed. This used the current rebased source before the latest startup and terminal cleanup refinements; it is not an end-to-end run of 6736b8818c09.
The earlier rebased core at ad93ce305460 passed all three H100 disaggregated cases (1,055 seconds total), including accuracy and applicable MTP assertions:
Case
MMLU
GSM8K
mtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=True
71.442
64.329
mtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=False
71.199
64.936
test_symmetric
71.516
64.784
Also on ad93ce305460, Qwen3-0.6B TP2 with SleepConfig passed three real MPI sleep/resume cycles with identical generated output, expected parked/running states, and approximately 2.00 GiB released while parked, measured by the actual GPU UUIDs. The Ray AsyncLLM sleep test was not run. These older multi-case and sleep results have not been repeated on the final head.
The branch is rebased onto fec3d91919501, including CI runner fix[None][fix] Keep Slurm runners local to each parallel branch #22101. The 6736b8818c09 CPU run and a924cf9b30ad H100 run used the native wheel from 0352cc5a297b with complete PR Python source overlaid and hash-verified; its C++ sources, third-party revisions, requirements and image match this base. The older ad93ce305460 GPU tests used the matching native runtime for their own base.
The original baseline at a7a60c3959eea42b2b90a1c7b9d55b4633e1a594 reproduced the cuBLAS initialization error with only 16 MiB free.
The a924cf9b30ad overlap case reports a 53.20 GiB KV-cache budget and a 21.365 GiB Torch memory limit. In the original-base comparison, retaining the profiled non-Torch library state lowered that limit by approximately 64 MiB relative to releasing it when the profiling thread exited. No throughput or TTFT improvement is claimed.
Official CI status
Official CI #69659 on 6736b8818c09 finished FAILURE. Both native builds passed; both x86 and SBSA Single-GPU jobs finished with failures. Within their published JUnit, the complete local 880-case CPU selection is accounted for on each architecture: 879 passed and one existing EPLB waiver skip (NVBug 7034332), with no failing or missing selected cases. Both strengthened A100 profiling modes also passed (18.10 / 13.96 seconds).
The source failures are inherited from the base and reproduced identically on separately archived base/head trees in Linux:
Two test_modeling_v2_ci_selection assertions fail on both architectures. #22085 fixes them; it remains unmerged. Proposed waivers #22128 and #22129 are unmerged drafts.
ARM progress artifacts additionally record serve/test_no_object_new.py::test_no_new_object_new_sites failing against an already-stale baseline. The exact test reports the same six discrepancies on the complete tracked base/head test trees. #22122 is an unmerged draft waiver. This was observed before ARM1 was aborted, and is separate from the final SBSA aggregate's three modeling-selection failure records.
Jenkins also synthesized [failed-to-read] from a cuDNN JUnit XML with 12 trailing bytes after its complete document. The intact document and original subprocess stdout both show 31 passed / 3 skipped, with no assertion failure. The corruption mechanism is unknown; the original artifact is preserved.
The requested H200 stage did not execute: the parent blocked x86 Multi-GPU dispatch because Single-GPU was infra-incomplete (UNSTABLE); SBSA Multi-GPU was blocked by its failed Single-GPU prerequisite. Separately, a subsequent multi-GPU dispatch requires the authorized ci: full pre-merge approved approval. No final-head original DeepSeek E2E pass or completed green CI is claimed. After the independent baseline fixes or normal waivers land, the next step is a minimal required rebase and normal CI run.
PR Checklist
Reviewed the repository checklist. Existing l0_cpu.yml directory entries for pyexecutor, modules, and moe, plus explicit connector and response-consumer entries, cover the nine changed CPU test files, including the creator failure regressions. The existing l0_a100.yml entry selects the strengthened test_pyexecutor_and_kvcache_share_execution_stream GPU test, and the existing l0_dgx_h100.yml gpu2 module entry selects the shared-session RPC regression. No duplicate test-list entries, public API, dependency, or configuration changes.
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Walkthrough
PyExecutor now reuses one worker thread across execution phases. Resource release waits for phase cleanup, and terminal shutdown stops the worker. Startup failures trigger executor cleanup while preserving the original exception.
PyExecutor queues execution phases on one persistent worker and records event-loop errors. Tests check worker reuse across resource rebinding and sequential RPC LLMs, plus error propagation and worker lifetime.
Resource release waits for phase completion. Terminal shutdown queues the worker sentinel and joins the worker where required. Tests check teardown order, cleanup retries, and shutdown outcomes. The integration-test comment now describes worker reuse and terminal shutdown.
Executor creation calls shutdown when startup raises, logs cleanup failures, and re-raises the original exception. Tests cover startup failure points and exception preservation.
sequenceDiagram
participant PyExecutor
participant WorkerPhaseLoop
participant EventLoopWrapper
participant ResourceRelease
PyExecutor->>WorkerPhaseLoop: enqueue execution phase
WorkerPhaseLoop->>EventLoopWrapper: run phase
EventLoopWrapper-->>WorkerPhaseLoop: finish or raise
WorkerPhaseLoop->>PyExecutor: signal phase completion
ResourceRelease->>PyExecutor: wait for phase completion
PyExecutor->>WorkerPhaseLoop: queue terminal sentinel and join
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Possibly related PRs
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#15963: Adds caller-owned MPI-session reuse and cleanup, which the new shared-session RPC lifetime test exercises.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21113: Changes PyExecutor resource release and cleanup behavior that this PR also modifies.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20359: Introduces resource release and rebinding, which this PR extends with persistent worker behavior.
Suggested reviewers: lori-ren
Merge Risk: Low · up to 6736b
The persistent-worker change looks sound on the main paths. Terminal cleanup errors no longer leave the retained worker running. Two small items remain. A startup failure in the narrow window after the pipeline-parallel relay thread starts but before the worker is marked started can still leave the relay thread alive. A failing shutdown in the profiling test skips one CUDA cache cleanup call. Both are bounded follow-ups rather than merge blockers.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6736b
The inspected changes preserve resource ownership during normal phase transitions and shutdown. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but concurrent lifecycle calls and failures partway through startup remain incompletely covered.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — A lifecycle failure could affect executor-owned GPU resources and participating MPI ranks, potentially disrupting other work sharing those processes. The evidence does not establish tenant boundaries or a remotely triggerable path to the unresolved lifecycle interleavings.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The inspected startup paths enqueue the owning executor onto its private phase queue. Profiling and final serving startup use the same executor; no new request-supplied identity, credential, or authority transition was identified in those paths.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The PP relay starts before worker_started is set, and its shutdown sentinel and join are guarded by that flag. This ordering also exists at the PR base. The expanded creator cleanup does not independently establish relay reclamation after failure in that startup interval.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — If concurrent lifecycle calls are supported, serialize terminal shutdown with phase admission so an exit sentinel cannot precede an accepted phase. Otherwise, make startup-thread ownership an explicit lifecycle precondition.
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The title follows the required ticket/type format and clearly identifies the primary change: reusing the profiling executor thread for serving.
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Issue #22101 is closed and supplies historical context only. No active directly linked issue remains. No linked-issue coding requirements apply.
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The production changes and tests support the stated profiling-thread reuse scope. They cover phase cleanup, terminal shutdown, startup-failure cleanup, retryable resource ownership, and worker reclamation. No unrelated change is established.
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The description follows the repository template in substance. It has a Description section that explains the problem (CUDA library state lost when the profiling executor thread is destroyed, causing a cuBLAS handle failure on the first serving request) and the fix (keeping the worker thread alive across release and rebind). It also has a detailed Test Coverage section and a checklist. However, the description is very long and dense, and the template's PR title format is not confirmed by the provided context. The Description section does not state the ticket or NVBugs ID, and the checklist is only partly checked (one box is marked, and the others are described in prose rather than ticked). Several claims cannot be verified from the description alone: the CI run #69659 finished FAILURE, the final head was not run end-to-end on the original DeepSeek E2E test, and the H200 stage did not run. These gaps make the validation status hard to judge.
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Thanks for tracking this down. The root cause in the description matches the code: the serving thread creates its cuBLAS/cuBLASLt handles lazily with allocations outside the Torch caching allocator, so they cannot make Torch release the warmup cache. The Torch memory cap computed right after the release is indeed unchanged. This review has 1 Blocker, 2 Possibly blocking, 0 Required and 2 Nice to have items. The blocker: the release frees nothing on sleep_config launches. The possibly-blocking items: the release discards the warmup's memory_pool_prepop pool on every launch (needs numbers), and the fix depends on allocation order rather than reserving headroom.
[Nice to have] Tests/CI: the three TestDeepSeekV3Lite disaggregated tests cited in the description are listed only in the post-merge tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_h200.yml (lines 26, 27, 35; stage DGX_H200-8_GPUs-PyTorch-Post-Merge-1). No CI has run on this head yet, and no test exercises fresh-thread cuBLAS handle creation under memory pressure. Please run that stage on this head, e.g. /bot run --extra-stage "DGX_H200-8_GPUs-PyTorch-Post-Merge-1", and link the passing run. A small GPU unit test would also catch a regression before merge: build an executor with a high free_gpu_memory_fraction, then run torch.ops.trtllm.cublas_mm in a fresh thread. Also watch the pre-merge single-GPU disagg MTP case test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_fp8_tp1_single_gpu_mtp: it runs two executors on one GPU, so the memory released here becomes visible to the co-located server.
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[https://nvbugs/7063452][fix] Release warmup cache before starting executor workers
[https://nvbugs/7063452][fix] Reuse profiling executor thread for serving
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- Line 2583: Update _release_execution_resources so failures from
engine.release_executor_resources() or torch.cuda.synchronize() after phase
completion still terminate the idle worker via _stop_worker_thread(). Preserve
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- Line 2686: Update terminal shutdown cleanup around _stop_worker_thread so
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Thanks for reworking this. Keeping the profiling worker alive is a much smaller fix than flushing the cache, and the phase-completion wait, the restart guards and the startup cleanup read well. The catch is that the executor's lifetime now hangs on the parked thread: it is released only by an explicit shutdown(). This review has 2 Blockers, 0 Possibly blocking, 4 Required and 13 Nice-to-have items. The blockers (inline): with orchestrator_type="rpc" the non-zero ranks never call shutdown(), so after LLM.shutdown() the parked worker keeps their whole executor (weights, KV cache, CUDA graphs) alive in reused worker processes; and on terminal shutdown the worker is stopped only after several fallible helper teardowns, so a cleanup failure after a startup failure leaves the serving executor pinned for the rest of the process. Stopping the worker right after the phase wait fixes the second blocker and the connector-contract item together.
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[Required] PR description: the CodeRabbit "Per-File QA Perspective" block still says "No matching test-list entry was found" for seven of the changed CPU test files, but l0_cpu.yml selects them through the unittest/_torch/pyexecutor (line 113), unittest/_torch/modules (203) and unittest/_torch/moe (204) directory entries, and every file sets pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only, which the CPU stage filters on. "The added final empty_cache() call is removed" also describes an intermediate revision: relative to the base, this PR adds or removes no empty_cache(). Please fix or drop those lines (the PR template asks that a CodeRabbit summary make sense).
[Nice to have] +1 to sunnyqgg's review summary asking for a completed CI run on the head: none of the bot runs has finished (#84030, #84046, #84051 / L0 #69519, #84183 / L0 #69603 and #84200 were all aborted or killed, and nothing ran on 42226af, 9f8bbb0 or 0ececcc). The four commits after a924cf9 rewrote the creator cleanup and the terminal stop order, and the DeepSeek-V3-Lite disagg MTP accuracy cases that reproduce the bug are post-merge only (l0_dgx_h200.yml:26-27,35). Please run /bot run --extra-stage "DGX_H200-8_GPUs-PyTorch-Post-Merge-1" on 0ececcc to completion and link the passing pipeline.
[Blocker]tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:2686 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): The terminal stop still runs after several fallible teardown steps, so a cleanup failure can leave the parked worker pinning the serving executor.
After the phase wait (2645-2646), the terminal path runs the connector shutdown() (2648, user code), the PP relay stop and broadcast_sample_state_handler.join() (2649-2658), _shutdown_sleep_wakeup_listeners() (2663), the encoder pool shutdown (2664-2667) and sampler.async_worker_stop() (2671-2675) before this _stop_worker_thread(), with no try/finally around them (unlike the released branch at 2584-2593). If one of them raises during the new startup-failure cleanup (py_executor_creator.py:1526-1535, e.g. _adjust_torch_mem_fraction, node discovery or start_worker() failing after the rebind), the creator logs the cleanup error and re-raises the original one, but the executor is never closed and the parked thread keeps its final KV cache, CUDA graphs and model alive for the rest of the process (long-lived MPI workers, the in-process GenerationExecutorWorker). Before this PR there was no live executor thread at that point (the profiling thread was joined at release), so the executor could be collected. This is the window left over from the earlier "stop the idle worker when bound-resource cleanup raises" thread: the stop moved ahead of graph release, but not ahead of these helpers.
Suggested fix: stop the worker right after the phase wait on terminal shutdown (see my comment at line 2648), or wrap the block from the phase wait to the graph release in a try/finally that calls _stop_worker_thread() when release_model_owned_graphs and not self._kv_connector_failed.
[Nice to have]tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:2684 (this line changed after the review, so the comment cannot be attached inline): A few comments and docstrings still describe the old one-thread-per-phase lifetime:
this one ("Profiling retains its TLS state") would read better as "Stop the idle worker before fallible teardown: its thread references this executor. release_resources() keeps it so the next phase reuses its thread-local CUDA library state.";
shutdown()'s docstring doesn't say it stops the worker, except on the hang and pending-DMA paths;
rebind_resources() says "without starting workers", and 2202-2203 says "must run before any worker thread starts";
terminal_cleanup() says "after all worker threads stop", which isn't true on the pending-DMA path;
the _event_loop_error comment at 1071-1078 doesn't mention SystemExit/KeyboardInterrupt, cleanup failures or the restart guard;
the creator comment at py_executor_creator.py:1527-1528 could say that the parked thread keeps the executor alive.
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The Blockers from my review of 2026-11-11 are resolved or answered at 6736b88:
The empty_cache() release is gone, and serving now reuses the profiling worker thread (py_executor.py:2236-2249), whose library state exists before the KV cache takes memory, sleep_config included (8509642).
py_executor_creator.py:1449-1535 now shuts the executor down on any failure after rebind_resources(), and the parked worker no longer holds it (64e5fdd, 6736b88).
py_executor.py:2117-2139 now runs phases from a static target that drops the executor before parking, and the finalizer at 2243 ends the thread once the executor is collected (6736b88).
shutdown() queues the worker exit first (py_executor.py:2596-2599), and the terminal path joins the worker right after the phase wait (2670-2673), before any fallible helper (e4ac07c).
Pre-merge CI has not completed on 6736b88: the DGX_H100 stage with the new RPC shared-pool test was blocked, and the DeepSeek-V3-Lite disagg MTP reproduction (l0_dgx_h200.yml:26-27) runs only post-merge.
Rare residual: the finalizer at py_executor.py:2243 calls the non-reentrant Queue.put, so a full GC that frees an RPC follower's executor on its worker inside Queue.get() deadlocks that thread. Making _worker_phases a queue.SimpleQueue avoids it.
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Description
DeepSeek-V3-Lite disaggregated serving with MTP can fail on the first request with
Failed to create cublas handle. Status: 3. Memory profiling initializes CUDA library state on an executor thread and includes its allocations in the KV-cache budget, but resource release then destroys that thread. Serving creates a new thread and lazily allocates the same state after final warmup has consumed device memory.Keep the profiling executor thread alive across
release_resources()/rebind_resources()and run serving on that same thread and execution stream. Releasing a phase waits for its event-loop cleanup before detaching resources. Terminal shutdown first queues the worker's exit signal, so it cannot park awaiting another phase if later cleanup raises; the current event-loop wrapper and itsfinallystill finish naturally. Normal shutdown joins at the original thread-completion boundary, before connector, sampler, and GPU-resource teardown; already-released and pool-retry paths also join before cleanup. A detected hang still returns without waiting, and failed-DMA resources remain retained by their existing owners. Cleanup errors and model ownership remain available for retry. Creation failures through final startup and metrics collection invoke normal shutdown; if cleanup itself fails, its diagnostic is logged while preserving the original startup exception. A worker is recorded only afterThread.start()succeeds. Queued and active phases own their executor, while the parked thread retains only the phase queue and completion event. A finalizer sends its exit sentinel when the executor is collected. This preserves RPC follower reclamation in a reused MPI session even when that follower does not callshutdown()explicitly, without changing the RPC collective-shutdown protocol.This preserves CUDA library state initialized by the LLM dummy forward on the execution worker. The multimodal encoder dummy runs on the startup thread. Libraries and execution paths first used by a serving thread still initialize lazily; this change does not guarantee that profiling covers every library or algorithm. The existing
memory_pool_prepopcache and sleep-modeMemPoolsemantics are retained; this change adds no final cache flush. No new memory threshold or synthetic library-warmup list is introduced. Paths that skip memory profiling do not receive additional library initialization.Test Coverage
880 related CPU tests passed on
6736b8818c09(78.94 seconds) in a matching, isolated Linux runtime with CUDA visibility disabled. Both executed production files and all eleven selected test files were hash-matched to the commit. Coverage includes real-thread TLS reuse, phase cleanup/release ordering, restart guards, cancellation/cleanup errors through both response consumers, final-startup failure cleanup and weak-reference reclamation, failedThread.start(), sampler failure after an execution phase starts, and bound/released terminal graph and synchronization errors with successful shutdown retry, plus a failed profiling-pool release followed by terminal-pool retry. Real-thread cases additionally cover node-close failure with an active or parked phase, connector/listener/encoder/sampler cleanup failure and retry, hang-safe natural thread exit, and retained DMA ownership. The lifecycle file contributes 44 passing cases, including deterministic queued/active/parked ownership and release/rebind without starting another phase. Negative controls using the previous bound target and an initial weakref-only target fail the intended GC and queued-handoff assertions, respectively. Lifecycle waits are bounded and propagate helper-thread errors; the teardown-order test synchronizes on the actual wait entry and asserts the phase has not already completed.Linux pre-commit and DCO commit hooks passed. Pyrefly was unavailable; its advisory hook does not establish a type-check pass.
Shared-MPI RPC reclamation passed on
6736b8818c09on two H100 GPUs (1 test, 137.70 seconds). Two TP2 Qwen3-0.6B LLMs use the same explicit MPI pool and the same rank/PID identities. After each LLM shuts down, both ranks must collect the old executor and terminate its actual worker before constructing the next LLM; the test also asserts the pool processes exit at the end. The pytest isolation marker only prevents reuse of the cross-test IPC pool; it does not create a separate pool for each LLM.Both modes of the strengthened existing GPU memory-profiling test passed on final head
6736b8818c09on one H100 (2 tests, 100.22 seconds), using Qwen3-0.6B. Each mode asserts real profiling and serving cache phases, the same liveThreadobject across both, and the shared execution stream. The bound mode performs terminal shutdown directly; the released mode first verifiesrelease_resources()keeps the worker parked. Both assert terminal shutdown stops the worker. The profiling cache is recorded by weak reference so the assertion does not extend its allocation lifetime.The original 8-H100 DeepSeek-V3-Lite
mtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=Trueregression passed ona924cf9b30ad(526.16 seconds): MMLU 71.491 > 69.583, GSM8K 64.177 > 61.537, and the test's MTP acceptance assertions passed. This used the current rebased source before the latest startup and terminal cleanup refinements; it is not an end-to-end run of6736b8818c09.The earlier rebased core at
ad93ce305460passed all three H100 disaggregated cases (1,055 seconds total), including accuracy and applicable MTP assertions:mtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=Truemtp_nextn=2, overlap_scheduler=Falsetest_symmetricAlso on
ad93ce305460, Qwen3-0.6B TP2 withSleepConfigpassed three real MPI sleep/resume cycles with identical generated output, expected parked/running states, and approximately 2.00 GiB released while parked, measured by the actual GPU UUIDs. The Ray AsyncLLM sleep test was not run. These older multi-case and sleep results have not been repeated on the final head.The branch is rebased onto
fec3d91919501, including CI runner fix [None][fix] Keep Slurm runners local to each parallel branch #22101. The6736b8818c09CPU run anda924cf9b30adH100 run used the native wheel from0352cc5a297bwith complete PR Python source overlaid and hash-verified; its C++ sources, third-party revisions, requirements and image match this base. The olderad93ce305460GPU tests used the matching native runtime for their own base.The original baseline at
a7a60c3959eea42b2b90a1c7b9d55b4633e1a594reproduced the cuBLAS initialization error with only 16 MiB free.The
a924cf9b30adoverlap case reports a 53.20 GiB KV-cache budget and a 21.365 GiB Torch memory limit. In the original-base comparison, retaining the profiled non-Torch library state lowered that limit by approximately 64 MiB relative to releasing it when the profiling thread exited. No throughput or TTFT improvement is claimed.Official CI status
Official CI #69659 on
6736b8818c09finished FAILURE. Both native builds passed; both x86 and SBSA Single-GPU jobs finished with failures. Within their published JUnit, the complete local 880-case CPU selection is accounted for on each architecture: 879 passed and one existing EPLB waiver skip (NVBug 7034332), with no failing or missing selected cases. Both strengthened A100 profiling modes also passed (18.10 / 13.96 seconds).The source failures are inherited from the base and reproduced identically on separately archived base/head trees in Linux:
test_modeling_v2_ci_selectionassertions fail on both architectures. #22085 fixes them; it remains unmerged. Proposed waivers #22128 and #22129 are unmerged drafts.serve/test_no_object_new.py::test_no_new_object_new_sitesfailing against an already-stale baseline. The exact test reports the same six discrepancies on the complete tracked base/head test trees. #22122 is an unmerged draft waiver. This was observed before ARM1 was aborted, and is separate from the final SBSA aggregate's three modeling-selection failure records.[failed-to-read]from a cuDNN JUnit XML with 12 trailing bytes after its complete document. The intact document and original subprocess stdout both show 31 passed / 3 skipped, with no assertion failure. The corruption mechanism is unknown; the original artifact is preserved.The requested H200 stage did not execute: the parent blocked x86 Multi-GPU dispatch because Single-GPU was
infra-incomplete (UNSTABLE); SBSA Multi-GPU was blocked by its failed Single-GPU prerequisite. Separately, a subsequent multi-GPU dispatch requires the authorizedci: full pre-merge approvedapproval. No final-head original DeepSeek E2E pass or completed green CI is claimed. After the independent baseline fixes or normal waivers land, the next step is a minimal required rebase and normal CI run.PR Checklist
l0_cpu.ymldirectory entries forpyexecutor,modules, andmoe, plus explicit connector and response-consumer entries, cover the nine changed CPU test files, including the creator failure regressions. The existingl0_a100.ymlentry selects the strengthenedtest_pyexecutor_and_kvcache_share_execution_streamGPU test, and the existingl0_dgx_h100.ymlgpu2 module entry selects the shared-session RPC regression. No duplicate test-list entries, public API, dependency, or configuration changes.