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[https://nvbugs/7026168][fix] Skip eager NCCL-window layer scopes until the first window request - #21973
Part of the fix for https://nvbugs/7026168: GLM-5.2 NVFP4 (nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4, EP8 with attention DP) on 8x B200 runs slower on main than on v1.4.0rc1. This PR does not close that gap (see Measurement), so merging it does not resolve the bug.
Root cause (this part). With more than one rank (or with DWDP), eager PyTorch execution runs every decoder layer inside an NCCL-window tensor lease scope (install_eager_nccl_window_tensor_scopes, from #17705, which reached main with #20232). Each layer call collects the layer's CUDA tensor inputs, then enters and exits the native lease scope, which adopts and releases the leases of tensors backed by NCCL window buffers. #21095 made each scope cheaper, but every layer of every eager (context or mixed) iteration still pays for one. That includes a process that has not requested any NCCL window buffer, where no tensor can hold a lease and the scope adopts and releases nothing. In this case rank 0 had requested no window buffer by the profiled iterations: with this change, a torch-profiler trace of two context iterations shows 2 begin/end scope pairs (the per-forward scope) instead of 158, with the 156 decoder-layer calls skipping theirs.
Change.
NCCLWindowAllocator::hasRequestedBuffers() and the trtllm::has_requested_nccl_window_buffers op report whether the process has requested a window buffer, whatever the outcome of the request. Requests in a suppressed (non-SPMD) section or without NCCL window support hand out no buffer and are not counted.
The eager decoder-layer wrapper skips its scope until that first request, then stops querying and scopes every later call as before. Before the first request, it queries the allocator before and after each call. The per-forward scope and the compiler-inserted scopes of compiled models are unchanged.
The skip is keyed on requests, not on existing buffers. Outside suppressed sections, every rank makes window requests from the same operations, so by design all ranks start scoping at the same call. Whether a buffer exists can differ between ranks that share a communicator, because an allocation can fail on one communicator and succeed on another. Ranks that disagreed on scoping a layer would release its leases at different points, and could then disagree on whether a later request reuses a buffer or makes a collective allocation.
The call that makes the first request runs without a layer scope, so its window tensors join the enclosing scope, which in the model engine is the per-forward scope of the model call. Right after that call, NCCLWindowAllocator::releaseTensorLeaseScopeLeases (the new trtllm::release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leases op) releases that scope's leases except the call's outputs, as the call's own layer scope would have at its exit. No tensor holds a window lease before the first request, so all of these leases are the call's. Without this release, the next layer would find no free buffer and register another window buffer, which would stay in the pool until its communicator is destroyed. The model has to run inside nccl_window_tensor_scope for this, as the model engine does; with no open scope, the release does nothing and the allocator logs a warning the first time.
Measurement. 8x B200, the perf/test_perf.py::test_perf[...] cases below with the v1.4.0rc1 test harness (benchmark warmup of 16 requests). Each commit was built from source, and in each job both arms ran interleaved on one node. Jobs marked * first ran one discarded warm-up run per arm. Values are median total token throughput (tok/s) of main 2d5b1fb68f and of main with this PR.
Over the 28 interleaved run pairs of cases A and B, this PR was faster in 21 (mean +0.68%). In 21 of those pairs the per-run median time of the context and mixed iterations (rank 0) was shorter, and in 2 it was equal; the median difference was 2.3 ms. Case C shows no difference beyond run-to-run noise.
The table measures the first revision of this PR. The current revision adds one allocator query per layer call before the first request, and the release after the call that makes it:
Before the first request, the wrapper adds 1.34 µs to a trivial eager layer call with this revision and 0.78 µs with the first; main's scope adds 4.6 µs (one CUDA input, 200k calls repeated five times on one B200 node).
Case A, 4 runs per arm after one warm-up run each, interleaved on one node per job: this revision vs the first, 62126.6 vs 62009.0 tok/s (+0.19%), ranges overlap; this revision vs main, 61690.5 vs 61641.5 tok/s (+0.08%), ranges overlap.
Two B200 ranks, four eager layers that each run an NCCL_SYMMETRIC allreduce of a [64, 4096] bf16 tensor, three forwards: main and this revision register 2 window buffers per rank and reuse one output buffer for every layer; the first revision registered 3 per rank.
This PR addresses only the per-layer scope part of the gap to v1.4.0rc1. In a 2000/500 job (3 runs per arm, interleaved on one node), main with all Python lease scopes disabled (a diagnostic build) is still 2.8% below v1.4.0rc1.
Merge order with #21230. From its code, its new test_nccl_window_model_call.py counts one scope per eager layer and patches only the begin/end ops. With this PR, has_requested_nccl_window_buffers is false there, so those layer scopes are skipped. Whichever of the two PRs merges second needs monkeypatch.setattr(torch.ops.trtllm, "has_requested_nccl_window_buffers", lambda: True) in its scope_calls fixture, as tensor_scope_events in test_nccl_window_graph.py does here.
test_eager_decoder_layer_scopes_after_first_window_request (new): an eager decoder layer runs unscoped until the allocator reports a window request; the call that makes the request releases its leases except its outputs; later calls are scoped and the allocator is no longer queried. It fails without this PR's release of those leases.
test_eager_decoder_layer_scopes_after_failed_first_window_request (new): a call that makes the first request and raises inside an enclosing scope releases nothing, the enclosing scope exits as failed, and the layer's next call queries the allocator and is scoped.
test_nested_eager_layers_release_after_first_window_request (new): an outer layer that is not yet scoping calls an inner one that makes the first request; the inner call and then the outer call release their leases, each keeping its own outputs, and both are scoped on the next call. It fails without this PR's release of those leases.
The tests in the file that use the tensor_scope_events fixture now run with a request reported, so they keep covering the scoped path. All 53 tests in the file pass with this change.
cpp/tests/unit_tests/multi_gpu/ncclUtilsTest.cpp (2 GPUs, run by cpp/test_multi_gpu.py::test_nccl_utils in l0_dgx_h100.yml):
NCCLWindowAllocatorTest.RequestedBuffersFollowUnsuppressedRequests (new): a suppressed request is not recorded; a successful one is, and stays recorded after its buffer is released; a request that gets no buffer (a known allocation failure) is recorded too.
CreateNCCLWindowTensorTest.ScopeLeaseReleaseKeepsScopeAndKeptStorages (new): releasing an open scope's leases frees a dead temporary and a live tensor that is not kept, keeps the kept output with the scope, and leaves the scope open until its own exit.
CreateNCCLWindowTensorTest.ScopeLeaseReleaseWithoutScopeReleasesNothing (new): with no open scope, an unscoped lease stays in use.
All 49 tests of the binary pass with this change.
tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_nccl_window_layer_scopes.py::test_first_window_request_in_eager_layer_keeps_buffer_reuse (new, 2 GPUs, collected by unittest/_torch/multi_gpu in l0_dgx_h100.yml): in the module's own MPI workers, two eager decoder layers each run an NCCL_SYMMETRIC allreduce above the registration threshold, inside the scope of a model forward. On both ranks, the real has_requested_nccl_window_buffers op reports no request before the first forward and a request during the first layer's first call; every allreduce of two forwards uses the same window output buffer; the outputs are the expected sums. It fails without this PR's release of the first call's leases (the second layer gets another buffer) and on main's build (no has_requested_nccl_window_buffers). It skips when the allreduce output is not window-backed.
Perf: the glm_5.2_fp4 cases above, from tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_perf_core.yml.
…il the first window request
With peers, every eager decoder layer runs inside an NCCL-window tensor
lease scope: each call collects the layer's CUDA tensor inputs and
enters and exits the native scope. Before the process requests an NCCL
window buffer, no tensor can carry a window lease, so the scope adopts
and releases nothing.
Add NCCLWindowAllocator::hasRequestedBuffers() and the
has_requested_nccl_window_buffers op, and skip a layer's scope until
the first request. The allocator records each request it handles,
whatever its outcome; requests in a suppressed (non-SPMD) section or
without NCCL window support hand out no buffer and are not recorded.
Ranks make these requests from the same operations, so by design they
all start scoping at the same call. The record never reverts, so a
layer stops querying once it is set. A window tensor created by the
call that makes the first request joins the enclosing scope, if any.
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The allocator tracks supported, unsuppressed buffer requests and can release selected tensor leases without closing the active scope. Torch operators expose these operations. The Python wrapper activates module-call scopes after the first request and preserves that call’s outputs.
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NCCL Window Request Tracking and Scope Activation
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Summary
Track requests and manage scoped leases cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/ncclUtils.h, cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/ncclUtils.cpp, cpp/tests/unit_tests/multi_gpu/ncclUtilsTest.cpp
The allocator records supported, unsuppressed buffer requests and exposes the persistent state. It can release leases in the active scope except for kept storages. Unit tests cover request tracking and lease release.
Expose request and lease operations cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/allreduceOp.cpp
Torch operators expose the request-state query and selected-lease release operation. The registrations define CUDA, CPU, and non-multi-device behavior.
Activate scopes after the first request tensorrt_llm/_torch/nccl_window_tensor_scope.py, tests/unittest/_torch/test_nccl_window_graph.py, tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_nccl_window_layer_scopes.py
The wrapper runs calls without scopes until a forward makes the first request, then releases that call’s leases while preserving outputs. Later calls use scopes. Tests cover this transition and multi-GPU output behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant forward_call
participant has_requested_nccl_window_buffers
participant NCCLWindowAllocator
participant release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leases
forward_call->>has_requested_nccl_window_buffers: query request state
has_requested_nccl_window_buffers->>NCCLWindowAllocator: read hasRequestedBuffers()
NCCLWindowAllocator-->>has_requested_nccl_window_buffers: return request state
has_requested_nccl_window_buffers-->>forward_call: return request state
forward_call->>NCCLWindowAllocator: request a window buffer
forward_call->>release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leases: release leases and preserve outputs
release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leases->>NCCLWindowAllocator: release selected scope leases
forward_call->>forward_call: use scopes on later calls
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Possibly related PRs
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#16911: Gates symmetric all-reduce output-window requests by buffer validity and registration threshold, which can affect which call first requests a window.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20843: Adds thread-local allocation suppression, which affects whether a request changes the state queried here.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20631: Reserves pooled NCCL windows for expert-parallel dispatch and combine, contributing to the process-wide first-request state.
Suggested labels: perf
Suggested reviewers: juney-nvidia, simengliu-nv
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 3fd08
No merge-blocking regression was established. The reported performance gap remains outside this change.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 3fd08
Normal execution and failure cleanup retain protections against premature buffer reuse. No security vulnerability was established, but overlapping calls and mixed communication-group execution remain incompletely verified.
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No architecture-level concerns identified.
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inferred — The demonstrated exposure is buffer lifetime within an executing worker and its NCCL communicators. The inspected changes do not establish a new remotely callable interface or a cross-tenant authority transition; reaching the release operation requires in-process Torch execution.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The transition depends on a documented collective-execution precondition: communicator ranks must request at matching points, and rank-subset requests must suppress allocation. This is a caller invariant, not an authorization check introduced by the PR.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Available tests support sequential transition behavior, retained outputs and subsequent buffer reuse. They do not establish all overlapping-call or mixed-communicator behavior: the nested test mocks release, while the multi-GPU test exercises sequential layers and forwards.
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Reviewed the full change: the allocator flag, the new op, the eager layer wrapper and the three tests, together with the lease-scope paths in ncclUtils.cpp they depend on. Counts: 0 Blocker, 1 Possibly blocking, 5 Required, 3 Nice to have. The three Required items below have no diff line to anchor to; everything else is inline. I traced every current window-request path and every caller of a wrapped layer. Ranks flip the new flag at the same layer call, and an enclosing scope always exists, so I found no hang or crash.
[Required] Please coordinate with #21230 (open). Its new tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/test_nccl_window_model_call.py drives the real eager installer through ModelEngine._compile_model (world_size=2 / DWDP). It asserts one begin/end per layer (len(begins) == num_layers + 2) but patches only the begin/end ops. With this change the real has_requested_nccl_window_buffers returns False on the CPU stage, because requestBuffer returns before recording when windows are unsupported (ncclUtils.cpp:475-478). The layer scopes are then skipped, and both of its tests fail in l0_cpu, whichever PR lands second. Please link the PRs and agree on the merge order. The second one needs to add monkeypatch.setattr(torch.ops.trtllm, "has_requested_nccl_window_buffers", lambda: True) to its scope_calls fixture, as this PR does in tensor_scope_events. #20908 and #20631 (both open) also edit requestBuffer, ncclUtils.h and ncclUtilsTest.cpp next to the new flag.
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…es at its layer call
The eager decoder-layer call that makes the process's first NCCL window
request runs without a layer scope. Its window temporaries stayed leased
to the enclosing scope until the forward ended, so the next layer
registered another window buffer, which stays in the pool until its
communicator is destroyed.
After that call, release the innermost scope's leases except the call's
outputs, as the call's layer scope would have at its exit. No tensor
holds a window lease before the first request, so all of these leases
are the call's. NCCLWindowAllocator::releaseTensorLeaseScopeLeases and
the release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leases op do this, and later layers
reuse the call's buffers, as they do when every layer call is scoped.
Also document the request contract at requestBuffer and
hasRequestedBuffers, annotate the new tests, and move the multi-GPU
request test to its own module, whose fresh workers make the first
request inside an eager decoder layer.
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Thanks for the review. 5813461 addresses it, and each inline item has a reply in its thread. The three items without a diff line:
[None][test] Guard NCCL scope work and tensor ownership #21230. From its code, its scope_calls fixture patches only the begin/end ops. With this PR, has_requested_nccl_window_buffers is false in that test, so the layer scopes it counts are skipped. Whichever of the two PRs merges second needs monkeypatch.setattr(torch.ops.trtllm, "has_requested_nccl_window_buffers", lambda: True) in that fixture; the description now says so. If [None][test] Guard NCCL scope work and tensor ownership #21230 merges first, this PR adds the line when it merges main.
Partial fix. The description now says this PR does not close the gap to v1.4.0rc1, so merging it does not resolve https://nvbugs/7026168.
The new revision's cost before the first request is one more allocator query per layer call. In the GLM-5.2 case, the profiled iterations show 312 queries (0.13 ms in total) and still 2 scope pairs. At 8000/1000, with 4 runs per arm, this revision measured +0.19% against the first revision and +0.08% against main, with overlapping ranges in both. The description has the details.
If the first request occurs before a layer raises, a later call must query the allocator and enter a layer scope. A regression could leave later calls unscoped and retain their temporary leases until the forward ends.
In test_nccl_window_graph.py, make a layer request and raise inside an enclosing scope. Then call it again and assert the allocator query and layer scope events.
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Extend the NCCL window graph tests to cover the first-request exception
transition: make a layer request buffers and raise while inside an enclosing
scope, then invoke it again and assert that `has_requested_nccl_window_buffers`
is queried and the layer scope is entered. Verify the later call is scoped
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inside an enclosing scope, then invoke it again and assert that
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Verify the later call is scoped rather than retaining temporary leases until the
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… first window request
A layer call that makes the process's first NCCL window request and then
raises releases nothing: its leases stay with the enclosing scope, whose
failed exit quarantines them. Cover that path, and that the layer's next
call queries the allocator and is scoped.
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On CodeRabbit's nitpick about a first-request call that raises: added in 0ea76fd as test_eager_decoder_layer_scopes_after_failed_first_window_request. A layer call that makes the first request raises inside an enclosing scope. It releases nothing, the enclosing scope exits as failed, and the layer's next call queries the allocator and is scoped. With this PR, all 47 tests in test_nccl_window_graph.py pass.
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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.
The rank-uniformity argument (key the skip on requests, not on existing buffers) holds up, and the 2-GPU test checking that every layer reuses one window pointer is the right end-to-end check.
Two follow-ups:
The handoff depends on an enclosing scope._release_first_request_leases relies on two assumptions that nothing checks: an open scope exists on this thread, and every lease in it came from this call. ModelCaller guarantees both today, because it opens the per-forward scope under the same window_scopes_enabled flag that installs the layer wrappers. A caller that runs an eager wrapped model without that scope (a draft-model path, a tool, a future refactor) would silently get the leak this PR is designed to avoid. See the inline comment for a cheap guard.
Missing test case: nested scoped modules, where an outer wrapped module that is not yet scoping contains an inner one that makes the first request. Both wrappers then call the release op, inner first and then outer. I believe the result is correct (it matches what nested scopes would release), but no test pins that down.
…ow request's leases
Releasing the innermost scope's leases after the call that made the
first window request needs an open scope. Without one, that call's
window tensors keep their leases until their destructors quarantine the
buffers. Log a warning the first time this happens, and state in the
install_eager_nccl_window_tensor_scopes docstring that the model runs
inside nccl_window_tensor_scope, as ModelCaller does.
Also test nested eager layers around the first request, where the inner
call and then the outer call release their leases, and a release with no
open scope.
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If input collection drops keyword arguments, this test can still pass. A real call with only keyword CUDA inputs can then skip release and delay buffer reuse until the enclosing scope exits. Use distinct inputs and check both release events.
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Update OuterLayer.forward in
test_nested_eager_layers_release_after_first_window_request to invoke the inner
layer with a distinct input passed by keyword, and assert that each release
event records the expected positional and keyword inputs: the inner call’s
keyword input and the outer call’s positional input. Keep the existing output
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- Around line 753-822: Update OuterLayer.forward in
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…r calls
In test_nested_eager_layers_release_after_first_window_request, the
inner layer now gets its input by keyword, as models call their decoder
layers, and the test checks the inputs and outputs of each release: the
inner call's keyword input and the outer call's positional input.
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On CodeRabbit's nitpick about the nested test's release inputs: done in 3fd088f. In test_nested_eager_layers_release_after_first_window_request, the inner layer now gets its input by keyword, as models call their decoder layers, and the test checks the inputs and outputs of each release: the inner call's keyword input and the outer call's positional input. The test fails when the release leaves out the call's keyword inputs. With this PR, all 48 tests in test_nccl_window_graph.py pass.
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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
Merged upstream main in eda5954, including #22101 (6edbe383497a), without rewriting the existing PR commits. The NCCL-window fix is unchanged.
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Description
Part of the fix for https://nvbugs/7026168: GLM-5.2 NVFP4 (
nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4, EP8 with attention DP) on 8x B200 runs slower on main than on v1.4.0rc1. This PR does not close that gap (see Measurement), so merging it does not resolve the bug.Root cause (this part). With more than one rank (or with DWDP), eager PyTorch execution runs every decoder layer inside an NCCL-window tensor lease scope (
install_eager_nccl_window_tensor_scopes, from #17705, which reached main with #20232). Each layer call collects the layer's CUDA tensor inputs, then enters and exits the native lease scope, which adopts and releases the leases of tensors backed by NCCL window buffers. #21095 made each scope cheaper, but every layer of every eager (context or mixed) iteration still pays for one. That includes a process that has not requested any NCCL window buffer, where no tensor can hold a lease and the scope adopts and releases nothing. In this case rank 0 had requested no window buffer by the profiled iterations: with this change, a torch-profiler trace of two context iterations shows 2 begin/end scope pairs (the per-forward scope) instead of 158, with the 156 decoder-layer calls skipping theirs.Change.
NCCLWindowAllocator::hasRequestedBuffers()and thetrtllm::has_requested_nccl_window_buffersop report whether the process has requested a window buffer, whatever the outcome of the request. Requests in a suppressed (non-SPMD) section or without NCCL window support hand out no buffer and are not counted.NCCLWindowAllocator::releaseTensorLeaseScopeLeases(the newtrtllm::release_nccl_window_tensor_scope_leasesop) releases that scope's leases except the call's outputs, as the call's own layer scope would have at its exit. No tensor holds a window lease before the first request, so all of these leases are the call's. Without this release, the next layer would find no free buffer and register another window buffer, which would stay in the pool until its communicator is destroyed. The model has to run insidenccl_window_tensor_scopefor this, as the model engine does; with no open scope, the release does nothing and the allocator logs a warning the first time.Measurement. 8x B200, the
perf/test_perf.py::test_perf[...]cases below with the v1.4.0rc1 test harness (benchmark warmup of 16 requests). Each commit was built from source, and in each job both arms ran interleaved on one node. Jobs marked * first ran one discarded warm-up run per arm. Values are median total token throughput (tok/s) of main2d5b1fb68fand of main with this PR.glm_5.2_fp4-bench-pytorch-float4-input_output_len:8000,1000-ep:8-tp:8-gpus:8glm_5.2_fp4-bench-pytorch-float4-maxbs:512-maxnt:2048-kv_frac:0.6-input_output_len:8000,1000-con:512-ep:8-tp:8-gpus:8glm_5.2_fp4-bench-pytorch-float4-input_output_len:2000,500-ep:8-tp:8-gpus:8Over the 28 interleaved run pairs of cases A and B, this PR was faster in 21 (mean +0.68%). In 21 of those pairs the per-run median time of the context and mixed iterations (rank 0) was shorter, and in 2 it was equal; the median difference was 2.3 ms. Case C shows no difference beyond run-to-run noise.
The table measures the first revision of this PR. The current revision adds one allocator query per layer call before the first request, and the release after the call that makes it:
cd2e412f35merged in (it includes [None][chore] Allow NCCL window registration during CUDA graph capture #20908), the same profile shows the same counts.This PR addresses only the per-layer scope part of the gap to v1.4.0rc1. In a 2000/500 job (3 runs per arm, interleaved on one node), main with all Python lease scopes disabled (a diagnostic build) is still 2.8% below v1.4.0rc1.
Merge order with #21230. From its code, its new
test_nccl_window_model_call.pycounts one scope per eager layer and patches only the begin/end ops. With this PR,has_requested_nccl_window_buffersis false there, so those layer scopes are skipped. Whichever of the two PRs merges second needsmonkeypatch.setattr(torch.ops.trtllm, "has_requested_nccl_window_buffers", lambda: True)in itsscope_callsfixture, astensor_scope_eventsintest_nccl_window_graph.pydoes here.Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/test_nccl_window_graph.py(CPU,l0_cpu.yml):test_eager_decoder_layer_scopes_after_first_window_request(new): an eager decoder layer runs unscoped until the allocator reports a window request; the call that makes the request releases its leases except its outputs; later calls are scoped and the allocator is no longer queried. It fails without this PR's release of those leases.test_eager_decoder_layer_scopes_after_failed_first_window_request(new): a call that makes the first request and raises inside an enclosing scope releases nothing, the enclosing scope exits as failed, and the layer's next call queries the allocator and is scoped.test_nested_eager_layers_release_after_first_window_request(new): an outer layer that is not yet scoping calls an inner one that makes the first request; the inner call and then the outer call release their leases, each keeping its own outputs, and both are scoped on the next call. It fails without this PR's release of those leases.tensor_scope_eventsfixture now run with a request reported, so they keep covering the scoped path. All 53 tests in the file pass with this change.cpp/tests/unit_tests/multi_gpu/ncclUtilsTest.cpp(2 GPUs, run bycpp/test_multi_gpu.py::test_nccl_utilsinl0_dgx_h100.yml):NCCLWindowAllocatorTest.RequestedBuffersFollowUnsuppressedRequests(new): a suppressed request is not recorded; a successful one is, and stays recorded after its buffer is released; a request that gets no buffer (a known allocation failure) is recorded too.CreateNCCLWindowTensorTest.ScopeLeaseReleaseKeepsScopeAndKeptStorages(new): releasing an open scope's leases frees a dead temporary and a live tensor that is not kept, keeps the kept output with the scope, and leaves the scope open until its own exit.CreateNCCLWindowTensorTest.ScopeLeaseReleaseWithoutScopeReleasesNothing(new): with no open scope, an unscoped lease stays in use.tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_nccl_window_layer_scopes.py::test_first_window_request_in_eager_layer_keeps_buffer_reuse(new, 2 GPUs, collected byunittest/_torch/multi_gpuinl0_dgx_h100.yml): in the module's own MPI workers, two eager decoder layers each run an NCCL_SYMMETRIC allreduce above the registration threshold, inside the scope of a model forward. On both ranks, the realhas_requested_nccl_window_buffersop reports no request before the first forward and a request during the first layer's first call; every allreduce of two forwards uses the same window output buffer; the outputs are the expected sums. It fails without this PR's release of the first call's leases (the second layer gets another buffer) and on main's build (nohas_requested_nccl_window_buffers). It skips when the allreduce output is not window-backed.glm_5.2_fp4cases above, fromtests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_perf_core.yml.