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• _reclaimable_file_cache reads memory.stat and sums active_file and inactive_file. It returns 0 when the file cannot be read. It skips non-integer values and clamps each value at zero.
• On cgroup v1, the function uses total_active_file and total_inactive_file only when both are present. Otherwise it uses the plain active_file and inactive_file entries.
• cgroup_available_host_memory now computes in_use = max(0, current - reclaimable). It then computes max(0, limit - in_use) for each finite limit. Before this change, the code used the full current value.
• A cgroup is skipped when current is unavailable or when it has no finite limit.
• On cgroup v2, _protected_file_cache iterates every child directory of each ancestor cgroup. For each child, it takes the larger of memory.min and memory.low. max is treated as infinite. The protected amount per child is capped at that child's reclaimable cache. The sum is subtracted from the reclaimable value for the cgroup. The child on the process's own path is not excluded. The docstring states this is intended.
• Each ancestor adds directory scans and extra memory.stat and memory.min/memory.low reads on every admission check. The I/O cost is not measured.
• Risk: admission allows more loads. Reclaimable page cache now counts as available, so loads that were previously deferred can start. The clamps and zero defaults limit the effect of malformed input.
• Scope: the change applies to rank-striped admission, dropped-extent re-reads, and raw HF weight-cache admission. The docs change states the new policy. Non-file-backed cgroup memory still causes deferral.
• Process: a reviewer asked the author to rebase onto the latest upstream main to include the CI hang fix from PR #22101. The diff does not show that fix. This review did not verify the current head.
• The GB300 A/B results and the 46 passing tests are author-reported. This review did not run them.

QA Engineer Review

Test files changed:

• tests/unittest/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/test_rank_striped_read_ahead.py (modified, 126 changed lines per diff stat).
• Added test: test_cgroup_admission_counts_reclaimable_file_cache, parametrized on cgroup and expected. The exact case count was not verified in this review. The PR objectives report seven cases.
• Added a fake-filesystem helper that mocks file reads and directory enumeration.

Behavior covered, from the test name, parameters, and helper:

• cgroup v2 leaf and ancestor memory.stat accounting.
• cgroup v1 total_* entries and missing-total fallback.
• Malformed memory.stat values.
• Usage clamping when reclaimable cache exceeds current usage.
• Child protection through memory.min, memory.low, and max.

Test-list placement:

• A search of tests/integration/test_lists found no reference to test_rank_striped_read_ahead. The new test is not listed in test-db/ or qa/ in this checkout.
• A search of tests/ found only the test definition.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The unit test covers the new accounting paths. The test is not in a CI or QA list. The GB300 A/B results are outside the repository and were not checked.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/rank_striped_read_ahead.py (source): Verify that loads deferred on hosts with large page cache now start. Verify that an unreadable or malformed memory.stat contributes zero reclaimable cache. Verify that cgroup v2 child protection reduces available memory as described.
• tests/unittest/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/test_rank_striped_read_ahead.py (test code): Covers the new reclaimable-cache accounting for v1, v2, malformed input, clamping, and protection. Not listed in test-db/ or qa/.
• docs/source/features/checkpoint-loading.md (docs): Documents the new admission policy and the memory.min/memory.low exception. No runtime impact.

Description

cgroup_available_host_memory() takes the limit minus the cgroup's usage (memory.current; memory.usage_in_bytes on cgroup v1). That usage includes file-backed page cache: checkpoints that earlier loads left cached, and rank-striped read-ahead's own pages. Host-level psutil.virtual_memory().available counts that cache as available, because the kernel reclaims it before the cgroup runs out of memory. So in a memory-limited job (a Slurm cgroup, a Kubernetes pod), the check grows stricter with every checkpoint the job reads, and it rejects loads that fit.

CI telemetry shows the effect. The perf-sanity rows of the checkpoint I/O experiment record these host-memory fallbacks:

• DeepSeek-V3-Lite FP8 on single-GPU B200 falls back in 824 of 4,719 auto startups, with 10–21 GB counted as available for a 30 GB checkpoint.
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on GB300 falls back in 147 of 200, with 194–275 GB counted as available for 510 GB.

The fix subtracts the reclaimable file pages from the usage: active_file plus inactive_file from memory.stat, or on cgroup v1 the total_* entries, which cover the subtree like memory.usage_in_bytes. On cgroup v2, page cache that a child of a limited cgroup protects with memory.min or memory.low is not counted under that limit, the process's own child included, because reclaim for the limit keeps it or takes it last. A cgroup's own limit ignores the cgroup's own protection. The headroom is unchanged. The change applies to every caller of effective_available_host_memory():

• the rank-striped admission;
• the re-read of dropped extents ([https://nvbugs/6970940][fix] Re-read rank-striped read-ahead extents after the page cache drops them #21094);
• the raw HF weight cache admission ([https://nvbugs/6997728][fix] Fix DeepSeek-V4-Pro DEP4 MegaMoE CuTe DSL test: skip HF weight cache for oversized checkpoints, drop hard GSM8K floor, fix bootstrap hang #21225);
• the automatic host tier size of KV cache manager V2 ([TRTLLM-16288][feat] Integrate sparse KV offload for DeepSeek-V4 Flash and GLM5.2 on KVCM2 #21350), which already counts the node's page cache as available.

#19936 (open) would make native prefetch admission use the same function, so it would get the same correction.

Measurement

Setup:

• The GB300 A/B campaign of [None][test] Stop forcing the HF weight cache in test session reuse #22138: one tray, build 3066 (main @ 9d32b95), five GB300 accuracy tests per arm, warm-up session, rotated arm orders.
• Arm B is [None][test] Stop forcing the HF weight cache in test session reuse #22138 alone; arm C adds this fix.
• The two PRs are independent; this one also helps outside test session reuse.

Job page cache near its memory limit (2 jobs; 465 GB of local files re-read before every test):

• DeepSeek-R1 (424 GB) was rejected with 259–270 GB counted as available and loaded natively in 287–300 s.
• With the fix, rank-striped read-ahead loaded it in 135–146 s.
• Within each job, C−B per five-test session: model loading −148 s [−163 to −134], test time −133 s [−161 to −104].

Job page cache full of other checkpoints read from Lustre (3 jobs):

• Today's check deferred [https://nvbugs/6970940][fix] Re-read rank-striped read-ahead extents after the page cache drops them #21094's re-read of dropped extents 4–9 times per DeepSeek-R1 load ("refresh deferred by admission budget"). It counted 462–467 GB as available against the 470 GB it needs, because the read-ahead's own pages counted as used.
• With the fix there were no deferrals, and DeepSeek-R1 loaded in 209–212 s instead of 271–273 s in two of the three jobs.

All 150 test runs of the campaign passed, with the same accuracy in every arm.

Test Coverage

• tests/unittest/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/test_rank_striped_read_ahead.py: new test_cgroup_admission_counts_reclaimable_file_cache, 8 cases:

  • cgroup v2 leaf and ancestor;
  • cgroup v1 with total_* entries;
  • cgroup v1 without them;
  • a malformed entry;
  • usage that would go below zero;
  • protected page cache of a limited ancestor's children, the process's own child included, which is not counted;
  • a cgroup's own protection, which its own limit ignores;
  • protection from memory.min, memory.low and max.

  The existing cgroup admission test runs unchanged on the shared fake-file helper. With build 3066's wheel plus the first commit, the file passed in the GB300 container (46 passed). The cgroup cases, including the three added with the protection check, pass on their own.

• The A/B campaign above.

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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

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Walkthrough

Cgroup memory admission now adjusts usage for reclaimable file-backed page cache. For cgroup v2, the calculation excludes child cache protected by memory.min or memory.low. Tests and documentation cover the accounting rules.

Changes

Memory Admission

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reclaimable cache accounting tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/rank_striped_read_ahead.py, tests/unittest/_torch/models/checkpoints/hf/test_rank_striped_read_ahead.py, docs/source/features/checkpoint-loading.md	The calculation subtracts reclaimable cache from cgroup usage before computing available memory. For cgroup v2, it also accounts for child cache protected by memory.min or memory.low. Tests cover cgroup versions, malformed statistics, usage clamping, and protection values. The documentation describes reclaimable cache and non-file-backed memory.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19936: This PR routes local host-memory checks through a function whose cgroup accounting changes here.
• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21094: This PR gates checkpoint refresh on cgroup-limited available memory, which this change recalculates.

Suggested reviewers: brnguyen2

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6b4bb

Memory admission now counts reclaimable page cache as available, with protected cgroup v2 cache excluded. Tests and documentation cover the accounting rules. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed change.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6b4bb

The change retains existing memory limits, allocation margins and cleanup controls, and introduces no new externally callable interface. A conditional availability concern remains: unreadable child-protection information can make memory admission more optimistic than intended. Whether affected deployment configurations permit this condition is unverified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Unreadable cgroup v2 child-protection information is treated as no protection. Directory-listing failures return zero protected cache; unreadable protection values are ignored; unreadable child statistics also contribute zero. If parent usage and cache statistics remain readable, protected pages can therefore be credited as available. Compared with the raw-usage baseline, this can newly admit checkpoint work or enlarge automatic pinned host allocations despite insufficient unprotected capacity, increasing memory-pressure or OOM risk within the affected hierarchy. The error-handling behavior is observed; deployment reachability and resulting availability impact are inferred, not demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified exposure is availability of the loading or serving job and workloads sharing its constrained ancestor memory budget. Collective participants may also experience startup failure. The inspected change grants no additional authority over sibling cgroups and does not demonstrate escape from kernel resource enforcement.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The conditional failure path is readable parent cache statistics plus unreadable child-protection information, followed by an optimistic estimate reaching admission or host-tier sizing. No request-controlled route to create that filesystem condition was established, so this is not a verified attacker-triggerable vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Automatic KV host sizing limits each rank to a share of available memory, normally using 50 percent of that share and 80 percent of its memlock limit, capped by device quota. Automatic quotas are reduced to the fleet minimum. These existing controls constrain allocation size and rank divergence but do not independently validate whether credited cache is protected.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — KV initialization coordinates caught allocation errors across ranks, shuts down successfully created candidates when a peer aborts, and publishes the implementation only after the coordinated success path. This provides partial-failure containment, but it does not correct an optimistic budget before allocation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Distinguish known absence of child protection from failure to inspect it. When child enumeration or required protection accounting is unavailable, conservatively withhold the affected cache credit or propagate an unknown result so consumers can defer admission. Validate this policy against supported cgroup permission configurations.

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The title names the main change: reclaimable page cache is now counted as available in the rank-striped memory check. It follows the [TICKET][type] Summary format with [None][fix]. The changeset subtracts reclaimable file pages from cgroup usage in effective_available_host_memory(), which matches the title.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has a Description section that explains the problem (cgroup usage includes reclaimable page cache, making the admission check stricter), the fix (subtracting active_file/inactive_file or the cgroup v1 total_* entries, plus cgroup v2 memory.min/memory.low protection handling), and the callers affected. It has a Test Coverage section that lists the new test, its eight cases, and a GB300 run (46 passed). It also includes an A/B measurement campaign with timings and a pass count. The PR checklist is present and checked. Minor gaps: the title is not visible in the provided context, so the template title format cannot be verified, and several checklist items (API label, CODEOWNERS, docs, architecture diagram) are not addressed explicitly. The test-count wording differs between sections (the PR objectives mention seven cgroup cases while the description lists eight), which the author should reconcile. These gaps are non-critical, so the check passes.

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