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This pull request introduces several important improvements to the peer-to-peer transfer and cancellation logic in the tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py module. The main focus is on making peer lifetime tracking more robust, preventing resource leaks from dead workers or lost results, and ensuring thread safety when using ZMQ sockets. The changes also improve how session and task state are managed, especially during cancellation and error conditions.

The most important changes are:

Peer Lifetime and Progress Tracking:

  • Added a _PEER_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S inactivity budget to prevent KV pages from being pinned forever if a peer becomes unresponsive. Peer progress is now tracked with monotonic timestamps, and session draining is based on actual peer activity. [1] [2]
  • Each task now tracks which peers are pending (actively reading from its source addresses) with a pending_peers set, and the session tracks which peers have responded with terminal results, preventing premature cleanup. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Thread Safety and ZMQ Socket Management:

  • Introduced _dealers_lock and the _send_via_dealer helper to serialize access to ZMQ DEALER sockets, which are not thread-safe. All socket sends are now guarded by this lock to prevent multipart frame corruption. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Session and Task State Management:

  • Improved cancellation handling: sessions now use a _cancel_notified flag to prevent duplicate notifications, and cancellation logic is more robust.
  • The logic for determining whether a session has active transfers (has_transferring_tasks) now checks for any pending peers, not just TRANSFERRING status, ensuring resources are only released when all peers are resolved.

Error Handling and Logging:

  • Enhanced error handling during task dispatch and result processing, including logging and preventing duplicate result handling from the same peer. [1] [2] [3]

Code Consistency and Minor Fixes:

  • Minor refactoring for code clarity, such as using self._get_or_connect_thread_dealer in more places and improving docstrings. [1] [2] [3]

These changes collectively make the transfer system more robust, especially in distributed or failure-prone environments.

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  • Updated KV transfer lifetime tracking and peer-drain timeout handling.
  • Prevented premature KV release while peers remain active or unresolved.
  • Serialized shared ZMQ DEALER access.
  • Improved cancellation, teardown, dispatch failure, duplicate-result, and compatibility-error handling.
  • Added TransferWorkerConfig.tx_overall_timeout_s.
  • Updated transceiver session retention, cleanup, consensus, and error propagation.
  • Added unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py to tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml.
  • Review focus: timeout defaults, session-state transitions, ZMQ synchronization, shutdown behavior, API compatibility, and test-list validity.

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  • Added and expanded tests for peer tracking, result handling, inactivity deadlines, partial dispatch failures, auxiliary and bounced transfers, cancellation, dispatch rejection, busy outcomes, consensus state, registration failures, generation post-processing failures, and peer-failure propagation.
  • The peer-drain test is covered by tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml.
  • Coverage for test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ or qa/ could not be confirmed.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up.

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The transfer layer tracks queued, active, unresolved, and timed-out peer operations. DEALER access is serialized. The transceiver defers cancellation and cleanup while transfers remain busy. Tests cover peer draining, duplicate results, timeout handling, consensus, cancellation ordering, and post-processing failures.

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Peer drain and consensus lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sender peer tracking and serialized transport
tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py
Sender tasks track pending peer writes. DEALER sends, cancellation notifications, and shutdown cleanup use serialized access. Transfer liveness includes queued and active peer ownership.
Receiver peer registration and drain
tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py
Receiver dispatch registers peers individually, tracks responders and progress, ignores duplicate results, handles partial dispatch failures, and releases unresolved work after the drain timeout. Tests cover auxiliary and bounced transfers.
Busy consensus and deferred session cleanup
tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py
Consensus exchanges busy request IDs with terminal outcomes. Failed, cancelled, and receive sessions remain until transferring tasks stop. Generation post-processing synchronizes per-request failures and removes failed requests from completed results.
Consensus and lifecycle regression coverage
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
Tests cover busy consensus, cancellation before closure, registration before dispatch failures, generation post-processing failures, and H100 test-list integration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe720

Cancellation can race with peer registration, leaving receiver tracking state inconsistent and causing later status polling failures such as a KeyError. This is a concrete correctness risk in cancellation flows, so the PR needs owner attention before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Transceiver
  participant RxSession
  participant PeerWorkers
  participant Consensus
  Transceiver->>RxSession: cancel matching session
  RxSession->>PeerWorkers: send cancellation
  PeerWorkers-->>RxSession: return peer results
  RxSession->>RxSession: drain unresolved peers
  Transceiver->>Consensus: exchange busy and terminal request IDs
  Consensus-->>Transceiver: return aggregated outcomes
  Transceiver->>RxSession: close after tasks stop
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  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#17948: Related changes in shared transfer and transceiver handling, including peer-result signaling and session cleanup.

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py (1)

987-1005: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the cancel_request docstring to match the new contract.

The docstring still says the method returns False if any task is mid-write and True when it is safe to free KV memory. The new body returns False whenever a session exists for the rid, regardless of drain state, because teardown moved to status polling. The caller therefore keeps retrying until check_context_transfer_status() or check_gen_transfer_status() deletes the session.

That retry loop terminates for receive sessions, because RxSession.has_transferring_tasks() is bounded by _PEER_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S. TxSession.has_transferring_tasks() has no equivalent deadline (see my comment on tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py Lines 447-450), so a send session whose pending_peers never clears keeps cancel_request() returning False indefinitely. State the new contract in the docstring, and confirm the caller tolerates repeated False returns.

📝 Proposed docstring update
     def cancel_request(self, req: LlmRequest) -> bool:
         """Cancel the transfer for the given request.
 
-        Returns False if any task is mid-write (TRANSFERRING); caller must
-        retry next iteration. Returns True when safe to free KV memory.
+        Returns True only when no session exists for this request, which means
+        the KV memory is safe to free. Returns False while a session is still
+        registered: teardown is deferred to check_context_transfer_status() /
+        check_gen_transfer_status(), so the caller must retry each iteration.
         """
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py` around lines 987 - 1005,
Update the cancel_request docstring to state that it returns False whenever a
send or receive session exists for the request and cancellation teardown remains
pending, requiring the caller to retry until check_context_transfer_status() or
check_gen_transfer_status() removes the session; return True only when no
session exists and KV memory can be freed. Verify the caller tolerates repeated
False returns.
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tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py (3)

405-407: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Prefix the unused unpacked values with an underscore.

Ruff reports RUF059 for failed and completed on Line 405. The test asserts only cancelled and busy.

🧹 Proposed fix
-    cancelled, failed, completed, busy = transceiver._consensus_outcome(
+    cancelled, _failed, _completed, busy = transceiver._consensus_outcome(
         [5], [5], [], [], [], fake_allgather, True
     )
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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py` around
lines 405 - 407, Update the _consensus_outcome unpacking in the affected test so
the unused failed and completed values use underscore-prefixed names, while
preserving the assertions and behavior for cancelled and busy.

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1035-1047: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the call order, not just that both calls happened.

The comment states the requirement precisely: cancel() must run before close(), because close() unregisters buffers a backlogged sender may still write into. The assertions on Lines 1045-1046 pass even if _close_failed_sessions calls close() first. Record the sequence in the fake so the test detects a regression in the order.

💚 Proposed fix
     def cancel(self) -> None:
         self.cancelled = True
+        self.calls.append("cancel")
 
     def close(self) -> None:
         self.closed = True
         self.aux_slot = None
+        self.calls.append("close")

Initialize self.calls: list[str] = [] in _FakeSession.__init__, then assert in the test:

-    assert session.cancelled is True
-    assert session.closed is True
+    assert session.calls == ["cancel", "close"]
     assert req.state == LlmRequestState.DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR
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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py` around
lines 1035 - 1047, Update _FakeSession to record cancel/close invocation order
in a calls list, append each operation when invoked, and change
test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed to assert the sequence is
cancel followed by close while retaining the existing state assertions.

103-123: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test coverage summary (as required for tests/**).

  1. Test functions added: test_consensus_outcome_defers_a_terminal_rid_that_is_busy_on_a_peer, test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed. Test functions modified: test_consensus_outcome_uses_single_batched_allgather (now exchanges four outcome lists), test_ctx_tp_consensus_does_not_complete_when_peer_times_out and test_ctx_pp_consensus_does_not_complete_when_peer_times_out (busy argument added). Test helpers modified: _FakeSession (has_transferring_tasks, cancel), _FakeTask (pending_peers), _make_transceiver (consensus lambda arity). No tests removed.
  2. Test-list registration: this file already exists, so its existing CI selection under tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ continues to apply. No new list entry is needed.
  3. Verdict: needs follow-up. Busy-consensus and cancel-before-close are covered. Two changed behaviors are not: TxSession.has_transferring_tasks() reading pending_peers (_FakeTask.pending_peers is added but stays empty in every case, so the non-empty branch is untested), and the retain path in request_and_receive_sync at tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py Lines 722-735. Add a case where pending_peers is non-empty and the session must report busy, and a case where the blocking receive fails while the session still reports transferring tasks.

Run the suite with pytest tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py.

As per path instructions: "Always produce a test coverage summary, even if no issues are found" and the summary must list changed test functions, list-file registration, and a coverage verdict.

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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py` around
lines 103 - 123, Add coverage in the existing transceiver tests for
TxSession.has_transferring_tasks when a _FakeTask.pending_peers set is
non-empty, asserting the session reports busy. Also add a
request_and_receive_sync case where the blocking receive fails while the session
still has transferring tasks, verifying the retain path preserves the session as
required. Use the existing _FakeTask and session helpers without changing
unrelated test behavior.

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tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py (1)

84-118: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider guarding _make_session against attribute drift.

_make_session reproduces RxSession.__init__ attribute by attribute after object.__new__. When a future change adds a field that has_transferring_tasks() or process_kv_agent_result() reads, these tests fail with AttributeError instead of a clear signal, or they keep passing against a session shape that no longer exists.

A cheap guard is to assert that the constructed instance carries every attribute the predicate path reads, or to add a comment in RxSession.__init__ that points at this factory.

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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py` around lines 84 - 118,
Guard the hand-built session in _make_session against RxSession attribute drift
by asserting that all attributes accessed by has_transferring_tasks() and
process_kv_agent_result() are present, or add a focused comment in
RxSession.__init__ linking those required fields to this factory. Keep the guard
limited to the predicate paths exercised by these tests.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py (1)

2141-2171: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the aux check out of the per-task loop.

_has_unresolved_peers_locked() evaluates the aux condition inside the loop over self._kv_tasks. Aux is session-level, as the docstring in process_aux_agent_result() states. The current form skips the aux check when no task is dispatched, and repeats it once per dispatched task otherwise. The result is the same, but the intent is clearer with one check after the loop.

♻️ Proposed refactor
     def _has_unresolved_peers_locked(self) -> bool:
+        dispatched_tasks = [task for task in self._kv_tasks if task.dispatched]
-        for task in self._kv_tasks:
-            if not task.dispatched:
-                continue
+        for task in dispatched_tasks:
             # Two distinct windows: a peer that has not replied yet, and (bounce
             # path only) replies all in but the scatter into the KV pages still
             # queued -- complete() runs in the scatter's on_done, not here.
             if len(task.responded_peer_ranks) < task.expected_transfers:
                 return True
             if task.status == TaskStatus.TRANSFERRING:
                 return True
-            if self._need_aux and len(self._aux_responded_peer_ranks) < task.expected_transfers:
-                return True
+        if self._need_aux and dispatched_tasks:
+            expected = dispatched_tasks[0].expected_transfers
+            if len(self._aux_responded_peer_ranks) < expected:
+                return True
         return False
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py` around lines 2141 -
2171, Update _has_unresolved_peers_locked() so the per-task loop checks only
task-specific response and TRANSFERRING conditions, then perform the _need_aux
and _aux_responded_peer_ranks session-level check once after the loop. Preserve
the existing unresolved result and return false only when both task-level and
auxiliary work are resolved.
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Inline comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py`:
- Around line 323-324: Protect all `_dealers` iteration, mutation, and cleanup
in `Sender.shutdown()` and `Receiver.shutdown()` with their respective
`_dealers_lock`, coordinating shutdown with `_send_via_dealer()` to prevent
concurrent modification and socket recreation. Update `_send_via_dealer()` to
return without creating or using a dealer once `self._shutdown` is set, while
preserving normal sending before shutdown.
- Around line 1852-1875: Update request_and_receive_async() so the receive
request is registered in _recv_reqs[rid] before calling session.receive(). If
receive setup raises, remove the session from _recv_sessions and remove both the
session and request entries from their maps before propagating the exception,
keeping failed receive sessions consistent for subsequent status checks.
- Around line 447-450: Update _enqueue() to reject calls after shutdown has
begun, checking the shutdown state before adding write_meta.peer_rank to
pending_peers. Ensure rejected late enqueues do not claim the peer lifetime or
enter the worker queue, while preserving normal enqueue behavior before
shutdown.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py`:
- Around line 716-735: Track whether the receive operation raised an exception
alongside completed in the surrounding method, set that flag in the except
Exception path, and only retain the session and assign
DISAGG_GENERATION_TRANS_IN_PROGRESS in finally when no exception occurred.
Continue calling session.cancel() for transferring tasks, but preserve
DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR and normal cleanup when an exception is being propagated.

In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py`:
- Around line 201-214: Widen the timing margin in
test_progress_rearms_the_drain_deadline by increasing the drain timeout relative
to each sleep, while keeping each sleep below the inactivity budget and
preserving the cumulative-over-budget scenario. Leave the progress assertions
and _kv_result sequence unchanged.
- Around line 1-42: Extend the regression tests around RxSession cancellation to
cover cancel() idempotence and mark_peer_dispatched() after cancellation. Verify
repeated cancellation remains safe and that mark_peer_dispatched() returns False
once the session has been cancelled, while preserving the existing tests and
setup.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py`:
- Around line 987-1005: Update the cancel_request docstring to state that it
returns False whenever a send or receive session exists for the request and
cancellation teardown remains pending, requiring the caller to retry until
check_context_transfer_status() or check_gen_transfer_status() removes the
session; return True only when no session exists and KV memory can be freed.
Verify the caller tolerates repeated False returns.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py`:
- Around line 2141-2171: Update _has_unresolved_peers_locked() so the per-task
loop checks only task-specific response and TRANSFERRING conditions, then
perform the _need_aux and _aux_responded_peer_ranks session-level check once
after the loop. Preserve the existing unresolved result and return false only
when both task-level and auxiliary work are resolved.

In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rx_peer_drain.py`:
- Around line 84-118: Guard the hand-built session in _make_session against
RxSession attribute drift by asserting that all attributes accessed by
has_transferring_tasks() and process_kv_agent_result() are present, or add a
focused comment in RxSession.__init__ linking those required fields to this
factory. Keep the guard limited to the predicate paths exercised by these tests.

In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py`:
- Around line 405-407: Update the _consensus_outcome unpacking in the affected
test so the unused failed and completed values use underscore-prefixed names,
while preserving the assertions and behavior for cancelled and busy.
- Around line 1035-1047: Update _FakeSession to record cancel/close invocation
order in a calls list, append each operation when invoked, and change
test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed to assert the sequence is
cancel followed by close while retaining the existing state assertions.
- Around line 103-123: Add coverage in the existing transceiver tests for
TxSession.has_transferring_tasks when a _FakeTask.pending_peers set is
non-empty, asserting the session reports busy. Also add a
request_and_receive_sync case where the blocking receive fails while the session
still has transferring tasks, verifying the retain path preserves the session as
required. Use the existing _FakeTask and session helpers without changing
unrelated test behavior.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py (1)

1026-1044: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the cancellation docstring and bound sender-side draining.

cancel_request() returns False while any session exists, not only while a task is TRANSFERRING.

A cancelled sender can remain busy indefinitely because status.wait() has no timeout and pending_peers is cleared only after it returns. Add a finite sender-side drain deadline.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py` around lines 1026 - 1044,
The cancel_request docstring must state that it returns False while any send or
receive session exists, and True only after sessions are absent. Update
sender-side draining in the relevant status-wait logic so status.wait() uses a
finite deadline and pending_peers is cleared when that deadline expires,
preventing cancelled senders from remaining busy indefinitely.

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tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py (2)

1046-1058: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The test does not assert the call order it describes.

The test name and the comment state that cancel() must run before close(). The assertions check only that both flags are set. If a change reordered the two calls, this test would still pass. Record the call order in the fake and assert it.

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Add an ordered log to _FakeSession:

         self.closed = False
         self.cancelled = False
+        self.lifecycle_calls: list[str] = []
     def cancel(self) -> None:
         self.cancelled = True
+        self.lifecycle_calls.append("cancel")

     def close(self) -> None:
         self.closed = True
+        self.lifecycle_calls.append("close")
         self.aux_slot = None

Then assert the order in the test:

-    assert session.cancelled is True
-    assert session.closed is True
+    assert session.lifecycle_calls == ["cancel", "close"]
     assert req.state == LlmRequestState.DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR
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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py` around
lines 1046 - 1058, Update _FakeSession to record cancel() and close() invocation
order, then change test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed to
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1046-1151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test coverage summary.

Added test functions:

  • test_consensus_outcome_defers_a_terminal_rid_that_is_busy_on_a_peer (lines 407-421)
  • test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed (lines 1046-1058)
  • test_recv_request_is_registered_before_dispatch_can_raise (lines 1061-1096)
  • test_gen_postprocess_failure_does_not_strand_later_requests (lines 1125-1138)
  • test_gen_postprocess_failure_on_a_peer_rank_is_not_completed_locally (lines 1141-1151)

Modified test functions and helpers:

  • _FakeRequest, _FakeSession, _FakeTask gained the fields and methods the changed production code calls.
  • _make_transceiver (line 164), test_consensus_outcome_uses_single_batched_allgather (lines 382-404), test_ctx_tp_consensus_does_not_complete_when_peer_times_out (lines 424-436), and test_ctx_pp_consensus_does_not_complete_when_peer_times_out (lines 439-453) were updated for the new busy argument.
  • _make_gen_postprocess_transceiver (lines 1099-1122) was added as a fixture helper.

Removed test functions: none.

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Coverage gaps in the changed production paths:

  1. _busy_rids (transceiver.py lines 608-611) has no direct test, and every fixture stubs it out. Add a test that calls it with a mixed set of busy and idle sessions.
  2. No test drives check_gen_transfer_status or check_context_transfer_status with a session whose has_transferring_tasks() returns True. The end-to-end deferral of a cancelled or failed rid is therefore unverified.
  3. _FakeSession.has_transferring_tasks() returns a fixed flag, so no test covers the release of a deferred session on a later poll after the drain finishes. Make the flag mutable, or return values from a queue.
  4. The request_and_receive_sync retain path (transceiver.py lines 725-738) has no test.
  5. cancel_request deferred teardown (transceiver.py lines 1037-1044) has no test for the matched return value or for the absence of session removal.

Verdict: insufficient. Gaps 2 and 3 cover the central behavior of this cohort.

Run pytest tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py for the changed tests.

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In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py` around
lines 1046 - 1151, Add focused tests for deferred cleanup when
has_transferring_tasks() is true in check_gen_transfer_status and
check_context_transfer_status, including a later poll where the mutable transfer
flag clears and the session is released. Also cover _busy_rids with mixed busy
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Inline comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py`:
- Around line 907-932: Update the postprocessing loop in the completed request
handling around _recv_reqs and _recv_sessions so req.set_kv_cache_size only
applies py_kv_cache_xfer_bytes when the session did not already report a
non-zero KV cache size; preserve the session-reported value otherwise.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py`:
- Around line 1026-1044: The cancel_request docstring must state that it returns
False while any send or receive session exists, and True only after sessions are
absent. Update sender-side draining in the relevant status-wait logic so
status.wait() uses a finite deadline and pending_peers is cleared when that
deadline expires, preventing cancelled senders from remaining busy indefinitely.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py`:
- Around line 1046-1058: Update _FakeSession to record cancel() and close()
invocation order, then change
test_failed_session_is_cancelled_before_it_is_closed to assert that cancel() is
recorded before close(), while retaining the existing final-state assertions.
- Around line 1046-1151: Add focused tests for deferred cleanup when
has_transferring_tasks() is true in check_gen_transfer_status and
check_context_transfer_status, including a later poll where the mutable transfer
flag clears and the session is released. Also cover _busy_rids with mixed busy
and idle sessions, request_and_receive_sync’s retain path, and cancel_request’s
deferred teardown, asserting its matched result and that the session remains
registered.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py (1)

446-455: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make sender shutdown admission atomic.

Line 446 checks _shutdown before it claims pending_peers and queues write_meta. Sender.shutdown() can set _shutdown and insert a queue sentinel between these operations. The worker can then exit before this item reaches its queue. pending_peers remains set, so the session can remain busy indefinitely.

Use one admission lock for the shutdown check, peer claim, queue insertion, shutdown flag, and sentinel insertion. Work admitted before shutdown must precede its sentinel. Work admitted after shutdown must fail.

Proposed fix
+        self._enqueue_lock = threading.Lock()

     def _enqueue(self, write_meta: WriteMeta):
-        if self._shutdown:
-            raise RuntimeError(...)
         thread_idx = hash((write_meta.unique_rid, write_meta.peer_rank)) % self._num_threads
-        write_meta.task.pending_peers.add(write_meta.peer_rank)
-        self._send_task_queues[thread_idx].put(write_meta)
+        with self._enqueue_lock:
+            if self._shutdown:
+                raise RuntimeError(...)
+            write_meta.task.pending_peers.add(write_meta.peer_rank)
+            self._send_task_queues[thread_idx].put(write_meta)

     def shutdown(self):
-        if self._shutdown:
-            return
-        self._shutdown = True
+        with self._enqueue_lock:
+            if self._shutdown:
+                return
+            self._shutdown = True
+            for q in self._send_task_queues:
+                q.put(None)
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py` around lines 446 -
455, Make sender admission atomic by using a shared admission lock around the
`_shutdown` check, `pending_peers.add`, and `_send_task_queues[thread_idx].put`
in the send path, and around setting `_shutdown` plus inserting worker sentinels
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py`:
- Around line 446-455: Make sender admission atomic by using a shared admission
lock around the `_shutdown` check, `pending_peers.add`, and
`_send_task_queues[thread_idx].put` in the send path, and around setting
`_shutdown` plus inserting worker sentinels in `Sender.shutdown()`. Ensure
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has_transferring_tasks() decides when it is safe to free the KV pages a
disaggregated transfer is reading from or writing into. Deriving it from
per-task TaskStatus is wrong once more than one peer participates: the
first peer to report FAILED flips the task terminal while the others are
still writing, and the executor then frees blocks under a live RDMA
write. That is silent KV corruption on the default path.

Receiver: wait on responders, bounded by expected_transfers. Under
attention-DP the request is broadcast to every DP group but only the
owning group replies, and that group's size is exactly
expected_transfers, so the non-selected peers are never waited on. On
non-ADP topologies the dispatched set equals the expected set, so the
predicate degrades to "wait for everyone we contacted".

A satisfied responder count does not mean the data landed: on the bounce
path a SUCCESS result only says the payload reached the bounce arena,
and the scatter into the KV pages is still queued -- task.complete() runs
in the scatter worker's on_done. So the predicate also stays true while
the task is TRANSFERRING. The two conditions are complementary: the
responder count covers peers that have not replied, TRANSFERRING covers
replies that have not landed.

The responder half is driven by remote input, so it carries an
inactivity deadline (TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_PEER_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S, default
300s, rearmed by every dispatch and every result). Without it a killed
CTX worker or a dropped result pins the request forever and, because the
transceiver feeds this into a cross-rank consensus, one stuck rank would
stall the whole polling batch. Partial dispatch failures deliberately
fall back to the same deadline rather than growing a bespoke unwind path.

Sender: claim the source-address lifetime on the task from _enqueue until
the worker's finally, unconditionally, so the two sides stay symmetric
even for an already-cancelled session. This side is purely local and
self-healing, so it needs no deadline.

Transceiver: every teardown path must respect the predicate, not just
cancel_request(). Status polling no longer closes a failed or cancelled
session that is still mid-write; the blocking receive path retains a
session whose wait ended while a peer was writing; cancel_request()
defers teardown so a locally drained rank keeps voting in the cross-rank
busy set; and the failed path cancels before closing, because close()
never notifies the peers and a drain deadline can expire before a
backlogged sender has even started writing. Requests are registered
before dispatch, since dispatch can raise once earlier peers were already
contacted and the session is then reported busy for the whole drain --
status polling has to find the matching request.

Gen-side post-transfer work (_apply_aux, _assert_disagg_history_declared)
is local and can raise. Letting it escape skipped the remaining rids,
left their sessions registered, and dropped the rank out of the next
collective so the others hung. Finish the batch, then agree on which rids
failed postprocess, so a rank that succeeded locally does not publish
TRANS_COMPLETE for a rid another rank failed.

Also fixes a pre-existing thread-safety bug the predicate depends on: ZMQ
sockets are not thread-safe, but Sender._dealers and Receiver._dealers
are reached from the listener thread, the worker threads and the executor
thread. NVIDIA#15618 moved the KV-result fast path to a thread-local dealer but
left the two abort paths in the same function on the shared one, and a
later change copied that usage. A torn multipart frame makes the receiver
drop the result, which is exactly the terminal result the predicate waits
for. Worker paths now use the thread-local dealer, and the remaining
shared uses go through _send_via_dealer, which holds a lock across
connect and send.

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Six review findings, all verified against the current code first.

Sender/Receiver shutdown now take _dealers_lock before draining the dealer
map, and _send_via_dealer returns early once _shutdown is set. Without
this the executor thread could mutate _dealers while shutdown iterates it,
and could recreate a socket after the cleanup loop had already run.

_enqueue refuses new work once _shutdown is set. The workers may already
have consumed their queue sentinel, in which case nothing would run the
finally that releases task.pending_peers -- and unlike the receiver this
side has no drain deadline, so the claim would never clear. This closes
the one gap in "the sender side is purely local and self-healing".

request_and_receive_sync no longer lets the finally block overwrite
DISAGG_TRANS_ERROR with DISAGG_GENERATION_TRANS_IN_PROGRESS when it is
propagating an exception; the caller sees an error, so the request state
has to agree. The session is still cancelled and left to drain.

check_gen_transfer_status only falls back to the dispatch-time estimate
py_kv_cache_xfer_bytes when the session reported no byte count of its own.
This one is pre-existing rather than introduced here, but it sits in the
loop this change already restructures.

Tests: cover cancel() idempotence and that mark_peer_dispatched refuses
once the session is cancelled. test_progress_rearms_the_drain_deadline
went from a 1.33x to a 6.7x margin between the budget and each sleep, so
a GC pause on a loaded CI machine cannot trip the deadline.

One finding was not actioned: the receive-session map ordering in
request_and_receive_async was already fixed in the preceding commit.

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results-sub-unittests-unittest-disaggregated.xml reports 488 tests with
skipped=0 errors=0 and no testcase from this file -- so it was never
collected rather than collected and skipped.

The l0_cpu.yml directory entry `unittest/disaggregated` does not pick it
up: every disaggregated file that l0_h100.yml lists explicitly is absent
from that CPU shard's results, and the new file is in neither list.
Register it next to test_transceiver_bounded_polling.py, which covers the
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Did a first-round review; will re-review later.

By the way, #17720 is highly related.

if not self._has_unresolved_peers_locked():
return False
last = self._last_peer_progress
if last is not None and time.monotonic() - last > _PEER_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S:

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_PEER_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S is an inactivity timer, not evidence that the peer’s NIXL write or a queued bounce scatter has quiesced. Once this returns False, the transceiver may close the session and let PyExecutor recycle the KV pages, while cancel() does not wait for an already-running sender operation to terminate.

We should retain the ownership until a terminal result, scatter completion, or explicit transport/peer teardown proves quiescence. The timeout can fail or escalate the request, but it must not authorize buffer reuse.

Comment on lines +446 to +449
if self._shutdown:
# The workers may already have consumed their sentinel, so nothing
# would ever release the claim below and this side has no deadline.
raise RuntimeError(f"Sender is shutting down; refusing rid={write_meta.unique_rid}")

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the _shutdown check is not atomic with pending_peers.add() and queue insertion. shutdown() can set the flag and enqueue the sentinel between these operations, so the worker exits before processing write_meta and the peer claim never clears.

Please use one admission lock for the shutdown check, peer claim, queue insertion, shutdown flag, and sentinel insertion.

transfer_size: int = 0,
):
with self.lock:
self.kv_cache_size_bytes += transfer_size

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kv_cache_size_bytes is updated before the duplicate-result check below, so a duplicate KV result still inflates the final request size.

We should move the accounting after the duplicate guard and extend the duplicate-result test to verify the byte count.

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