[Bugfix][KV Offloading] Preserve MTP/Mamba state across external hits - #249
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…ream vllm#42554 + vllm#44599)
Hybrid GDN models (Qwen3.8, Qwen3-Next family) with the native CPU
offloading connector crashed or corrupted outputs on any repeated prefix:
1. Scheduler asserted num_external_computed_tokens==0 in
_mamba_block_aligned_split ("External KV connector is not verified
yet"), killing the engine whenever the offloading connector reported
a hit (backport of vllm-project/vllm#42554, merge 68f5e565: drop the
assert; skip the mamba-aligned split when load_kv_async).
2. OffloadingConnector treated MambaSpec groups like sliding-window
attention and returned hit windows not aligned to the mamba block
size, which is incorrect for align cache mode (mamba keeps a single
state per block). Hit windows are now rounded down to the offloaded
block size via resolve_mamba_align_size() (backport of
vllm-project/vllm#44599, merge b927004c).
Validation on Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 (8xV100, TP4, --kv-offloading-size 64
native): cold prefill 10.7s -> CPU-offload hit 2.2s with byte-identical
greedy outputs; engine stays healthy on subsequent requests.
(1Cat tests/test_gdn_offload.py)
Drop this commit when rebasing onto an upstream base that contains both
PRs.
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源码审计通过:accepted-token D2H 状态按请求身份安全重映射;attention lookahead 裁剪与非 attention 状态隔离;Mamba align 使用同一步 scheduler 的精确 boundary block handoff,并在异步 store 生命周期沿用 source-block fence。当前 main 合并态及 diff/语法/Ruff/格式检查通过。
Purpose
Fix incorrect native CPU KV offload restores for hybrid Mamba/GDN models when
MTP speculative decoding is enabled.
This PR depends on 1Cat PR #247. PR #247 removes the original external-KV
assertion and backports the Mamba boundary-alignment fixes from upstream vLLM,
but it does not cover MTP-owned accepted-token state or mutable Mamba
alignsource blocks. This branch is stacked on the fixed head of #247
(
c514f39e15ca74a1f51bb5270f0f4734d1da8bc7) and will be rebased after #247lands.
Root cause
On a real external CPU-tier hit, MTP4 output consistently lost exactly four
tokens. The fixed loss matching the MTP width exposed two related ownership
bugs:
InputBatchrows.Rows can be removed, condensed, resumed, or reused before the event is
consumed, so accepted-token state could be applied to the wrong request.
aligntable is not append-only. MTP scratch blocks move to newlogical positions when a boundary is committed, while the native connector's
block mirror only appends. A positional store could therefore save a stale
Mamba state under a valid prefix key.
Changes
request identity after synchronization. New, resumed, or same-ID replacement
requests reset their speculative state.
allocator-defined non-attention state groups.
alignboundary block IDs to the connector.their store jobs only from exact boundary handoffs.
store completes, including deduplication when MTP aliases one physical block.
Scope and duplicate-work check
This is not duplicate work:
or the exact external-hit corruption described here.
#51358 implements exact
Mamba boundary persistence for Mooncake with its own pin/watermark protocol;
this PR adapts the correctness invariant to the native
OffloadingConnectorand its per-job fence lifecycle.
#52771 fixes MTP/EAGLE
lookups being reduced to zero. In this reproduction the external hit was
already real; the restored recurrent state was wrong.
#52832 concerns
Mooncake finish-time partial tails and does not cover this native exact-
boundary path.
No open 1Cat PR or issue was found for this mechanism.
Test Plan
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \ tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py \ tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_scheduler.py \ tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py \ -k 'sync_mamba_accepted_token_state_tracks_request_ownership or mamba_align_postprocess_uses_runner_owned_d2h_buffers or mamba_align_cpu_postprocess_mirrors_runner_owned_snapshot or mamba_all_mode_uses_runner_owned_d2h_buffers' pre-commit run --from-ref upstream/pr-247 --to-ref HEAD git diff --check upstream/pr-247..HEADTest Result
git diff --checkpassed.failed. All three failures reproduce unchanged on the unmodified [Bugfix][KV Offloading] Backport mamba/GDN CPU offloading fixes (upstream vllm#42554 + vllm#44599) #247 base:
one existing sampling mock lacks
drafter, and two GPU/FLASHINFER assertionsare not valid in the CPU-only test environment.
[Bugfix][KV Offloading] Backport mamba/GDN CPU offloading fixes (upstream vllm#42554 + vllm#44599) #247 and the separately submitted VMM-safe connector change in 1Cat [Bugfix][KV Offloading] Allow native CPU offload with expandable_segments #248,
passed a
39,999-token cold / external-hit / local-rehit sequence with byte- and
SHA-identical output. Exact-boundary, mid-block, Responses API, tool-call, and
follow-up cases passed; MTP reported 136 drafted / 135 accepted tokens, with
no OOM, process restart, or EngineCore fatal error.
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