[https://nvbugs/6621362][fix] Fix disagg gen stall by aborting peer RX slice on failed KV send - #17948
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. WalkthroughKV transfer delivery now reports terminal failures for invalid receiver sessions. Transceiver and request state now track peer waits. PyExecutor adds recompute pause handling, deferred termination, receive-progress polling, and bounded timeout rebasing. Tests and integration settings cover these paths. ChangesKV transfer and recompute lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves failed KV-transfer cleanup and prevents receive-side tasks from remaining unresolved, but the peer-wait timeout can still retain KV pages for nearly an extra transfer timeout, and two new failure paths lack focused regression tests. Confirm the timeout behavior and CI coverage before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PyExecutor
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PyExecutor->>KvCacheTransceiver: check context_transfer_is_waiting_for_peer
KvCacheTransceiver->>GenerationPeer: inspect peer request metadata
GenerationPeer-->>KvCacheTransceiver: return peer-wait status
KvCacheTransceiver-->>PyExecutor: return transfer state
PyExecutor->>LlmRequest: rebase transfer deadline
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1116-1116: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd annotations to the new helper.
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write_metaasWriteMetaand the return type asNone.As per coding guidelines, “Annotate every function.”
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py`:
- Line 1116: Update the _abort_receiver_slice helper signature to annotate
write_meta with WriteMeta and explicitly declare a None return type, preserving
its existing behavior.
- Around line 1135-1139: Update the _abort_receiver_slice exception handling to
catch only zmq.ZMQError, and narrow its try block to dealer lookup and
ZMQMessenger.send(). Keep the existing warning context for send failures while
allowing message construction and other programming errors to propagate.
In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_bounce.py`:
- Around line 224-259: Add focused tests covering the remaining
_abort_receiver_slice branches in Sender._deliver_kv_to_agent: a cancelled/error
session and a build_send_request failure. For each scenario, assert the task
receives a RuntimeError and exactly one terminal KV_AGENT_RESULT frame is sent
with AgentResult.FAILED, matching the existing missing-session test.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py`:
- Around line 6824-6855: The context transfer deadline can be rebased just
before the peer-wait ceiling, allowing an additional full timeout interval after
the ceiling expires. Update the flow using
_context_transfer_peer_wait_is_within_ceiling and flag_if_kv_transfer_timed_out
so that a peer still waiting beyond the ceiling is marked timed out immediately,
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Review summary - CONCERNS
Verdict: The core fix (routing all failed-KV-send exits through _abort_receiver_slice so the peer's RX future resolves and pages free immediately) is sound and tested, so this can merge once the peer-wait ceiling overshoot below is addressed or consciously accepted — it is not a crash, just a bounded deviation from the stated behavior.
Concerns
- [MAJOR]
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:6882- peer-wait ceiling overshoots by one fulltimeout_ms, and the test masks it- What is wrong: While a context send is within the ceiling, the loop rebases
req.py_kv_transfer_start_time = current_timeon every check. On the last check just below the ceiling,start_timeis set to ~now. On the next checkpeer_waitexceeds the ceiling, so_context_transfer_peer_wait_is_within_ceilingreturnsFalseandflag_if_kv_transfer_timed_outruns — butelapsed = current_time - (just-rebased start_time)is near zero, so it is not flagged. - How it fails: With
timeout_ms=60sandceiling=180s, a peer that never sendsREQUEST_DATAkeeps rebasing until t~=180s, then needs another full 60s beforeelapsed > timeout. Pages are actually reclaimed at ~240s, not the ~180s the comment claims ("lands at the router'sreq_timeout_secs=180default, past which no peer will ask"). Between 180s and 240s the KV pages stay pinned with no peer able to ask for them.test_peer_that_never_asks_eventually_times_outpasses only because it constructs a request whosestart_timeis already 120s stale andpeer_waitis past the ceiling in a single call — a state that never co-occurs in the real periodic-check sequence, so the rebase-then-ceiling path is never exercised. - Suggested fix: when
peer_waitexceeds the ceiling, flag immediately rather than relying on the rebasedstart_time:
- What is wrong: While a context send is within the ceiling, the loop rebases
for req in self.async_transfer_manager.requests_in_transfer().values():
if self._context_transfer_peer_wait_is_within_ceiling(
req, current_time, peer_wait_ceiling_ms):
req.py_kv_transfer_start_time = current_time
continue
# ceiling exceeded (or not peer-waiting): measure from the peer-wait
# origin so a never-asking peer is reclaimed at the ceiling, not ceiling+timeout
flag_if_kv_transfer_timed_out(req, "context")Add a test that drives repeated _check_kv_transfer_timeout calls across the ceiling boundary instead of a pre-staled start_time.
Minor notes (non-blocking)
tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py:1135-_abort_receiver_slicecatches bareException; narrow tozmq.ZMQErroraround only the dealer lookup + send so programming errors are not silently swallowed. Also annotate the helper (write_meta: WriteMeta -> None).
QA view
- Test coverage: partial - the session-gone abort exit is covered in
test_bounce.py; the other two exits now routed through_abort_receiver_slice(aborted-session-status,build_send_requestfailure) are not directly unit-tested, and the realistic timeout-ceiling overshoot is uncovered. - SM coverage: architecture-independent (Python transceiver logic and timeout bookkeeping); the unwaived integration test implies fp8-capable hardware but touches no arch-guarded kernel path.
- Test code:
test_peer_that_never_asks_eventually_times_outuses an artificial pre-staledstart_time, so it does not validate the actual ceiling enforcement; unit tests rely onobject.__new__+ hand-set internals (consistent with the file, but brittle). - Test time: significant -
waives.txtre-enablestest_disaggregated_stress_test[input8k-output1k-conc512-qwen3_5_4b_fp8_stress], a 512-concurrency 8K/1K disaggregated stress test. - Needs
/qa-verify: yes - bug fix on a stress path with a newly-unwaived long integration test that should be re-run on the target GPU, plus partial coverage of the timeout ceiling.
Does this actually fix nvbugs/6621362?
Yes for the primary stall: the three failure exits in _deliver_kv_to_agent now all send an is_last_slice=True/AgentResult.FAILED frame via _abort_receiver_slice, so the receiver resolves its RX future and releases pages instead of waiting the full kv_transfer_timeout_ms. The context-side peer-wait accounting is also addressed. Residual: the never-asks reclaim happens ~timeout_ms later than the intended ceiling (see MAJOR), so pages are freed later than the description claims.
Possible new issues
_abort_receiver_slicedepends onself._thread_localand_get_or_connect_thread_dealer, neither shown in the diff. If the thread-local dealer cache is not initialized for the_process_task_queueworker thread, the first abort would raise inside the swallowedexcept, silently drop the FAILED frame, and reintroduce the exact stall this PR fixes.- The single
current_timenow captured once per_check_kv_transfer_timeout(rather than per request) is benign but changes measurement semantics slightly.
What I could not verify
- Existence/initialization of
_get_or_connect_thread_dealerandSender._thread_local(not in the diff). - Runtime behavior of the unwaived stress test on the target GPU.
- Whether
requests_in_transfer()can ever contain a generation-side request with a non-Nonepy_kv_transfer_peer_wait_start(would only matter if peer-wait bookkeeping leaked onto gen requests).
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Review summary - Approve (non-blocking)
Approving so this is not blocked on me. The points raised in my review comment above are non-blocking — please read them and address what you agree with before merging.
Worth doing before this is relied on: Bug fix on a disagg stress path whose newly-unwaived integration test should be re-run on the target GPU; the timeout-ceiling behavior has only partial coverage (overshoot uncovered), and the abort helper depends on thread-local infra not visible in the diff.
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…aths Two independent defects on the disaggregated KV transfer path, both found while investigating the conc512 stress case. Each is fixed at its own error site; neither is a workaround. 1. An idle generation worker with an in-flight receive routed its wait to the context path, which is a no-op for a receive-only worker: check_context_transfer_status() returns on `not _ever_had_send_session` *above* its poll, so it never sleeps. The worker spun the scheduler loop and starved the GIL from the transfer threads that alone complete the receive it was waiting on. An in-flight receive now also votes for the generation wait, which does reach its poll interval. Previously this was reachable only under admission-budget pressure. 2. Of the three failure exits in Sender._deliver_kv_to_agent, the `session is None` exit was the only one that did not send a FAILED last-slice result. A session can be deregistered (cancel_request or the context transfer timeout) while its slice is still queued, so the peer's RX task future stayed unresolved for the full kv_transfer_timeout_ms with its KV pages pinned. All three exits now share _abort_receiver_slice(). The shared helper uses the thread-local DEALER cache: it runs on _process_task_queue worker threads, while self._dealers is unsynchronized and documented as listener-thread-only (the success path already does this). It tolerates a send failure like its sibling _send_failed_result_to_receiver, since the local task is already failed and a dead peer must not become a second, unhandled failure. The reported gate is not fixed by this change and the waiver is left in place: the residual is a prefill capacity ceiling, not a defect. This case is the only ctxtp1/gentp1 stress entry at concurrency 512, and the 5% aiperf gate it fails was itself added after the bug's PASSED commit. Signed-off-by: trtllm-agent <296075020+trtllm-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
…batch DisaggTransferAdmissionController derives its budget from max_tokens_in_buffer, but the two are different quantities. max_tokens_in_buffer is a *per-buffer* arena size -- cacheTransBuffer.cpp:371-374 computes preAllocBufferSize = transferBufferSize * (recvBufferCount + sendBufferCount), so the field sizes ONE buffer and concurrency is a separate multiplicand (1..3 by default). The controller instead divides it by tokens_per_block and spends the quotient as an aggregate pool across all in-flight requests. With this config's 16384 that pool is 16384/32 = 512 blocks, while one 8K-ISL request needs 8192/32 = 256, so exactly 2 of the 512 concurrent requests this test offers can have a generation transfer in flight. The remaining ones queue until the router gives up at req_timeout_secs=180, which is the observed failure: 2362 requests returning code=500 with a blank detail body. Size the budget to the batch the same file already declares (max_batch_size=128 * 8K ISL = 1048576), giving 1048576/32/256 = 128 concurrent transfers. The gate stays enforcing -- it now admits the declared batch instead of 2 -- and the capacity scheduler still applies the real KV limits before admission runs. Raising the value cannot over-allocate any staging arena on this path: tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/ has zero references to max_tokens_in_buffer, and Qwen3_5.get_preferred_transceiver_runtime() returns "PYTHON", so no C++ transfer buffer is sized from this field here. Signed-off-by: trtllm-agent <296075020+trtllm-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
…ransfer only The context-side deadline is stamped right after respond_and_send_async(), which only creates the send session. The KV write cannot start until the generation peer asks for the data, and the session stays in SessionStatus.INIT until every peer rank's request info arrives. At stress concurrency the peer is late for a structural reason -- generation max_batch_size=128 against concurrency=512 -- so tens of seconds of generation-slot queue wait are charged to the transfer. Measured on the qwen3.5 8K/512 stress run, bucketing the reported elapsed times: 627 of 1241 context timeouts fire in the 60-70s bucket, i.e. they trip the deadline the first time it is checked, having spent the entire budget before any bytes could move. Each one fails a request that never got to transfer. Rebase the deadline while the send session is still waiting for its peer, via a new context_transfer_is_waiting_for_peer() hook. It defaults to False on the base transceiver, so the C++ runtime is unaffected; the Python V2 transceiver reports the INIT boundary it already tracks for scheduling. Bound the rebase rather than resetting unconditionally. This deadline is the only path that ends a context transfer whose peer never asks -- check_context_transfer_status sees WaitResult.TIMEOUT but deliberately keeps the request in progress, the session stays in INIT so _collect_done never returns it, and _try_cancel_request declines while the request is still in requests_in_transfer -- so an unbounded rebase would pin its KV pages for the process lifetime. py_kv_transfer_peer_wait_start records the original stamp and is never rebased; once the total peer wait exceeds 3x kv_transfer_timeout_ms the deadline applies again. That ceiling covers the measured peer-wait spread (max 182.7s) and lands at the disaggregated router's own req_timeout_secs=180 default, past which no peer will ask. A transfer that has actually started still times out, and a peer that never asks still expires -- both covered by the accompanying tests, one of which fails if the ceiling is removed. Signed-off-by: trtllm-agent <296075020+trtllm-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
The gpt_oss_120b_eagle_triton_stress entry filed under the same bug id is a different configuration and stays waived. Signed-off-by: trtllm-agent <296075020+trtllm-agent@users.noreply.github.com>
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Sender._deliver_kv_to_agenthad failure exits that gave up on a slice locally without ever telling the peer. In particular, when a send session was deregistered concurrently (request cancellation or a context-sidekv_transfer_timeout_msexpiry) the worker thread logged, failed the local task, and returned with no result frame on the wire, so the generation worker's receive task future stayed unresolved and its KV pages stayed pinned for the full transfer timeout. Under the stress profile that starved the generation worker of cache and turned nearly every request into an HTTP 500, while the context side kept shedding requests because its timeout also counted time spent merely waiting for peer request info to arrive._abort_receiver_slicehelper — using a thread-local DEALER socket because it runs on a_process_task_queueworker thread rather than the listener thread — and routed all three failure exits (deregistered session, aborted session status,build_send_requestfailure) through it, so the receiver always resolves its task future and releases its pages immediately. Added acontext_transfer_is_waiting_for_peerhook on the transceiver interface so the context-side timeout can distinguish "peer has not asked for the data yet" from a genuinely stuck transfer, bounded by an absolute ceiling rather than an unbounded extension. Instrumentation at ~6 minutes into the profiling window shows context timeouts, generation KV errors, and OOMs all at zero, versus hundreds of timeouts pre-fix and 558 generation KV errors with only the budget-side change.pytest tests/integration/defs/disaggregated/test_disaggregated.py::test_disaggregated_stress_test[input8k-output1k-conc512-qwen3_5_4b_fp8_stress] -vTest plan
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