[bhargavchintam]

Overview

With n>1, when one choice ended on the worker and another on a stop string, the worker was never told to stop. It ran on to EOS or max_tokens while the frontend read the output and threw it away, and the response waited for it. The worker is now stopped once every choice has ended.

Key Changes

Core logic: 38 added lines, not counting comments.

• backend.rs: DecoderState tracks engine-finished choices in their own set, and needs_engine_stop stops the stream once every choice has ended and at least one ended locally. The decode-error path and the path for chunks that arrive with decoded text use the same check.
• lib/llm/tests/streaming_tool_dispatch_http.rs: sets model_eos, so CI can build the test targets. main has not compiled this file since fix(frontend): stop tool_call_dispatch handing harnesses truncated arguments #13986, which predates the field from fix(beam): finalize constrained tool calls at confirmed model EOS #17625. It is the same line as fix(llm): set model_eos in the tool-dispatch stream test #18553, so the two merge cleanly in either order.

Validation

Only choices that stopped locally counted toward "all finished", so a choice the worker finished never completed the count. vLLM does not get stop strings on this path (components/src/dynamo/vllm/handlers.py), so it cannot stop by itself. The new set is separate from finished_choices because that set also drops a choice's later chunks.

The tests drive Backend with n=2, a stop string and a scripted engine. Where it says 50 more, the engine sends 50 more chunks after the last finish. Chunks that arrive with decoded text skip the decoder, so two cases use them. Each result is (told to stop, chunks read, chunks sent). "Before" is main at 11dc1942ce with only the new tests added, and "After" is 78c5401f33.

Finishes	Before	After
Engine finish, then local stop, 50 more	(false, 52, 2)	(true, 2, 2)
Local stop, then engine finish, 50 more	(false, 52, 2)	(true, 2, 2)
Local stop, then an engine finish with decoded text, 50 more	(false, 52, 2)	(true, 2, 2)
Both stop locally, 50 more	(true, 2, 2)	(true, 2, 2)
Engine finishes both	(false, 2, 2)	(false, 2, 2)
Engine finishes both, one with decoded text	(false, 2, 2)	(false, 2, 2)

$ cargo test -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features --lib -- backend_stops_engine_once
  left: (false, 52, 2)
 right: (true, 2, 2)

With the fix, cargo test --locked -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features --lib gives 3746 passed; 3 failed; 13 ignored. On main's code, with the new tests skipped, it gives 3740 passed; 3 failed; 13 ignored. The same three tests fail in both runs on my Mac: metrics_bind_failure_shuts_down_dynamic_and_in_process_runtimes, live_and_offline_handoff_surfaces_share_one_conformance_report and test_oversized_body_returns_json_413.

From reading the code, the normal path gains one more Option check per chunk, and the set work runs only when a choice finishes. I did not benchmark it.

Not covered: I ran this with a scripted engine, not a live worker.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Closes [BUG]: With n>1 the worker keeps generating after every choice has finished #18471

#17346 fixes the same symptom in the Python processor with the same condition. Its description says "The Rust frontend sends the same cancel after a local stop", which holds only when every choice stops locally; this PR covers the mixed case. #18405 moved these lines and kept the old condition; this branch merges main and puts the check on its DecoderState.

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Walkthrough

The decoder now tracks engine-provided and locally detected choice completion separately. It stops upstream generation when all requested choices have finished and at least one finished locally. It also handles decode errors and EOF by marking choices finished and flushing buffered text as terminal chunks.

Changes

Choice completion and upstream stopping

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Summary

Track choice completion and stop generation lib/llm/src/backend.rs

The decoder tracks engine-finished choices separately from locally finished choices. It stops upstream generation when all requested choices have finished and at least one finished locally. Decode errors and stream-level errors mark choices finished; at bare EOF, buffered decoder text is flushed as terminal chunks. Engine-predecoded terminal text flushes older withheld text before the current chunk. Tests cover choice-finish ordering, EOF flushing, and error handling.

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to fc41c

Some mixed-finish requests can keep the worker generating after every choice has finished. The affected path is narrow, but the stop behavior should be corrected.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The PR summary also identifies changes to bare-EOF flushing, synthetic terminal chunks, predecoded terminal-text ordering, and migration checkpoints on bypass chunks. These behaviors do not implement …	Remove the unrelated EOF, terminal-text ordering, and migration-checkpoint changes from this PR, or provide evidence that each is required to implement or test issue #18471.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: stopping the worker after every choice has finished.
Linked Issues check		Issue #18471 requires the backend to stop upstream generation when all choices have ended and at least one ended locally. The PR summary reports separate engine-finished tracking and a shared `needs_e…
Description check		The pull request description includes all required sections: Overview, Key Changes, Validation, Issues and Ongoing Work, the issue reference, and the checklist. It clearly explains the bug, implementa…

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Explanation

Issue #18471 requires the backend to stop upstream generation when all choices have ended and at least one ended locally. The PR summary reports separate engine-finished tracking and a shared needs_engine_stop check for normal and decode-error paths. The reported scripted-engine tests cover mixed engine/local finishes and confirm that the backend stops after two chunks rather than reading 50 extra chunks.

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The pull request description includes all required sections: Overview, Key Changes, Validation, Issues and Ongoing Work, the issue reference, and the checklist. It clearly explains the bug, implementation, test coverage, known failures, and limitations.

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Explanation

The PR summary also identifies changes to bare-EOF flushing, synthetic terminal chunks, predecoded terminal-text ordering, and migration checkpoints on bypass chunks. These behaviors do not implement or test issue #18471's worker-stop requirement. The available diff could not establish a connection between them and that requirement.

Resolution

Remove the unrelated EOF, terminal-text ordering, and migration-checkpoint changes from this PR, or provide evidence that each is required to implement or test issue #18471.

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files.

Resolution

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Review comments at @lib/llm/src/backend.rs:
- Around line 536-548: Update the bypass finish handling and needs_engine_stop
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generation should stop using the existing stop flow.

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[bhargavchintam]

CI on b3e42b8: rust-tests (.) failed only on upload_too_large_for_the_request_plane_returns_payload_too_large in tests/http-transcriptions.rs, with hyper::Error(Body, "connection error") at the response.json() unwrap. That is the flaky test #18578 fixes. It failed the same way on five main pushes on 11-10.

Before it stopped, the job ran the dynamo-llm lib suite: 4044 passed, 0 failed, including the six new backend cases. The test targets after http-transcriptions did not run there, so I ran the three that use Backend (test_stop_behavior, tool_choice and tool_choice_finish_reasons) on my Mac. All pass.

I can't re-run jobs in this repo. Could a maintainer re-run the failed job?