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Summary

NVBUG 6590666 captured a worker SIGKILL while Kimi K2.5 weights were loading. The cause of the SIGKILL is unknown. The spawned MPI job aborted, but the proxy did not observe the worker death and serving eventually reached its 1800-second health timeout.

Worker identities were previously registered only with the final READY signal. This change publishes identities before backend construction and weight loading, then monitors those processes while waiting for READY. A worker exit now fails startup promptly with its rank and PID, even if the MPI future remains pending. READY-time registration remains as a compatibility fallback.

Scope

This PR does not attempt to prevent SIGKILL or determine why the worker exited. It fixes the secondary failure: after a pre-READY worker death, the parent must react promptly instead of remaining idle until the serving health timeout.

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  • Targeted CI LLM/main/L0_MergeRequest_PR #53426 passed on commit 25bb7f1ccea2c432f4455f8757d4b99fa7954cd6; A10-PyTorch-1, A10-PyTorch-2, and A10-PyTorch-3 all succeeded.
  • The two targeted regression cases passed in A10-PyTorch-1:
    • test_worker_publishes_identities_before_backend_construction
    • test_worker_death_before_ready_is_reported_from_registered_identity
  • Together they verify that worker identities reach the parent before weight loading and that a pre-READY death is surfaced even while the MPI future remains pending.
  • Focused local checks passed: Python compilation, file-scoped lint/format checks, and worker-monitor/proxy-health tests (13 passed, 1 platform-skipped).

The validation success criterion is prompt failure propagation to the parent. Reproducing the original GB200 Kimi workload or identifying the SIGKILL cause is outside this PR scope.

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  • Worker identities are published before backend construction and weight loading.
  • The proxy detects worker termination while waiting for READY.
  • Early termination reports the worker rank and PID, even when the MPI future remains pending.
  • READY-time identity registration remains as a compatibility fallback.
  • Monitoring excludes external and remote MPI sessions.
  • worker_main retains an optional identity-signal parameter.
  • Identity delivery failures raise RuntimeError.
  • No configuration or test-list changes were identified.
  • Targeted CI, compilation, lint, formatting, worker-monitor, and proxy-health validation passed.
  • The cause of the worker SIGKILL remains unresolved.

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  • Added regression tests in tests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py.
  • Tests cover worker identity registration, worker death before READY, pending MPI futures, remote worker errors, status acknowledgements, identity publication before backend construction, and identity delivery failures.
  • The test file is covered in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • Verdict: sufficient.

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Executor startup exchanges worker process identities for locally monitorable sessions. The proxy registers identities before readiness, supports legacy READY responses, acknowledges initialization statuses, and detects worker death during initialization.

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Worker readiness monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Worker identity publication
tensorrt_llm/executor/proxy.py, tensorrt_llm/executor/worker.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py
The proxy requests identities for eligible local sessions. The leader publishes gathered identities before executor construction. Tests cover publication order and delivery failures.
Readiness handling and failure detection
tensorrt_llm/executor/proxy.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py
The proxy registers identities, handles separate and legacy identity messages, acknowledges statuses, and reports workers that die before readiness. Tests cover registration, acknowledgements, and early failure detection.

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This change is intended to fail startup promptly when a worker dies before becoming ready, but the current head still risks waiting until the long health timeout in that case. The initialization failure path needs correction or explicit owner acceptance before merge.

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  participant GenerationExecutorProxy
  participant worker_main
  participant InitializationStatusQueue
  participant WorkerProcessMonitor
  GenerationExecutorProxy->>worker_main: provide WORKER_PROCESS_IDENTITIES_SIGNAL
  worker_main->>InitializationStatusQueue: publish worker process identities
  worker_main->>GenerationExecutorProxy: continue initialization
  GenerationExecutorProxy->>InitializationStatusQueue: wait for initialization status
  InitializationStatusQueue-->>GenerationExecutorProxy: identity or READY message
  GenerationExecutorProxy->>WorkerProcessMonitor: register worker identities
  WorkerProcessMonitor-->>GenerationExecutorProxy: report dead worker before READY
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In `@tensorrt_llm/executor/proxy.py`:
- Around line 695-701: Update _wait_for_executor_workers_ready() to call
_check_remote_worker_death() while polling readiness, so remote worker failures
are detected before READY even without local MPI futures or status entries.
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…init-failure path

A rank that dies during initialization leaves its peers wedged in the
init collective still holding their share of the weights. The init wait
loop (NVIDIA#17578) detects the death but never aborts the owned world, and
the runtime checks it reuses mark the engine dead as a side effect of
detection: release_exit_joins() marks the pool dead, which forces
shutdown_abort()'s blocking shutdown() non-blocking and defangs its
MPI_Abort escalation, so an abort added after those checks could never
fire.

Route every initialization failure (worker death and non-ready status)
through a single _fail_initialization helper that aborts the owned
session strictly before marking the engine dead, keep the init loop's
death detection side-effect free, and defer the MPI future done-callback
registration until the world reported ready (on an already-completed
future add_done_callback() runs synchronously and would mark before the
abort). The marking runs even if the abort itself raises, so the
engine-dead bookkeeping and the original initialization error cannot be
lost to a teardown failure. Add regression tests for every path.

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