[None][test] Revert the gen_only warmup probe and fix the per-iter device step time metric

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Summary

NVBug 6627789 reported a +19.33 % regression in
d_mean_gen_worker_per_iter_device_step_time on
disagg_upload-gen_only-gb200_deepseek-r1-fp4_8k1k_con1_ctx1_dep4_gen1_tep8_eplb0_mtp3_ccb-NIXL,
bisected to 71f025e9 (parent ec3e1a13) — i.e. #17535.

Since the first version of this PR, the cause has been pinned down further. It is
a conjunction of two merged PRs, and the reported number is partly a
measurement artifact. This PR now does three things:

1. Reverts the automated first attempt, which re-applied
   TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP=1 to the CTX worker in three
   submit.py files. @chienchunhung's CHANGES_REQUESTED was correct.
2. Reverts [None][test] Enable warmup request for gen_only perf sanity lanes #17098, the gen_only warmup probe request, which is the other
   half of the conjunction.
3. Fixes the metric, which mistook one idle iteration for compute and cannot
   express what actually regressed.

Net diff: three files under tests/. No submit.py, no product code.

1. The regression needs BOTH PRs — 2×2, three cells measured

#17098 (merged first) makes the gen_only lane send a warmup probe request
before the measured one, so the CTX worker performs two handovers instead of
one. #17535 (merged second, and the bisect result) removed
TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP=1 from the CTX worker — the
early-return guard on the idle KV-transfer poll, so an idle CTX rank now takes
the blocking _check_disagg_ctx_cache_transfer_status(1) branch.

Neither alone is slow. CTX post-prefill idle iteration host_step_time:

arm	probe (#17098)	CTX flag (#17535)	post-prefill idle
1 — parent ec3e1a13	on	present	202.6 ms
2 — culprit 71f025e9	on	absent	1141.1 ms
3 — culprit + flag restored	on	present	200.4 ms
4 — culprit + --no-test-input	off	absent	141.9 ms

Only the both-present cell stalls. #17535 is therefore a correct bisect result
— #17098 was already in the green parent — but it is not the whole cause, and the
blocking poll is not the whole defect either.

Mechanism. toCompleteIdSet (cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/cacheTransceiver.cpp:1159-1167)
first fills with consensus-ready ids (freq == syncComm->getSize()), then pads
with not-ready futures from mSenderFutures. Each pad entry is then waited on
for kv_transfer_sender_future_timeout_ms, default 1000 ms
(llm_args.py:4269), and times out having freed nothing. On the first handover
mSenderFutures is empty and the pad costs ~0 — which is exactly why the probe
matters: it creates a first handover, so the measured request's handover is the
second one and finds a stale future to pad with.

Corrected from an earlier revision of this description: the warning is one
rank-0 warning per handover (arm 2 = 6, arm 4 = 5), not "[W] [RANK 0] 6× vs
0×". The per-rank picture is now known — the earlier "3/1/1/1 across four ranks"
reading was an artifact of grep | sort | uniq -c spanning two sessions in one
file; the three empty DP ranks take the non-blocking (0) path.

2. Why #17098 is reverted

#17098 exists for a real reason: gen_only forces iterations = 1, so KVCM V2's
lazy connection setup (ZMQ mesh + NIXL metadata registration, ~6 s) landed
entirely on the single measured request and produced a fake −43 %
output-throughput regression on the GLM-5 con1 lane. Its own validation: TTFT
6.9 s → 1.72 s.

Reverting it therefore re-buys that fake regression, and this is a deliberate
trade — stated plainly so the next reader does not have to rediscover it. Arm 4
above reproduces the underlying bug directly: with the probe off, the benchmark
duration rises 3.32 s → 5.48 s, because the probe is the warmup.

The reason to revert anyway: a one-handover test cannot exercise the
toCompleteIdSet pad-wait at all, so the probe is what makes this lane
representative of a real client — and with the probe present, the lane is
measuring a genuine ~940 ms per-handover product-side stall. Removing the probe
makes the number green without fixing that stall, which is the same objection
@chienchunhung raised against re-adding the CTX flag. The stall is being
addressed separately on the product side (do not pad toCompleteIdSet with
not-ready futures; use the 10 ms poll slice on the idle path; move the idle check
after _send_kv_async).

Scope caveat, cutting against the above: the blocking poll only fires when
the CTX worker is idle, so under sustained load it likely does not trigger. The
product impact is low-concurrency and bursty traffic, not "every user".

3. Why the metric has to change anyway

The gated metric is a mean over per-iteration device step times on the GEN
worker. It only "saw" the handover cost by accident: an iteration with
num_scheduled_requests = 0 spends its whole wall time idle, and
prev_device_step_time is reported one iteration late, so that idle wait lands
in the next row's sample. Removing exactly one row per file:

	today (iter >= 5)	+ nsr == 0 successor filter
ec3e1a13 parent	n=512 mean 8.471 median 7.357 std 21.09 max 473.61	n=511 mean 7.561 median 7.357 std 4.63 max 112.07
71f025e9 culprit	n=512 mean 10.109 median 7.294 std 63.72 max 1450.61	n=511 mean 7.290 median 7.294 std 0.115 max 9.22

Decode is flat: −0.90 % tail-free, −0.87 % by median, and the culprit's
std collapses to 0.115 ms. Catching a real regression through a measurement bug
is not a working gate — it fired on iteration bookkeeping, and the effect it
should have reported (handover latency) is invisible to a decode step-time mean.

Changes

• Revert the three submit.py CTX-flag changes (the first attempt on this PR).

• Revert [None][test] Enable warmup request for gen_only perf sanity lanes #17098 (77bc7f01): --no-test-input becomes unconditional again, and
  the warmup client-config field, its b_warmup upload, and the
  gen_only and concurrency == 1 derivation are removed. No dangling references
  remain.

• _scan_gen_worker_device_step_time: skip the row whose predecessor had
  num_scheduled_requests = 0, guarded on iteration adjacency
  (pred_iter == cur_iter - 1), so it degrades to keeping the row on a
  counter reset or an unparseable line. The nsr == 0 row itself is kept — its
  own prev_device_step_time describes an iteration that did real work.
  Predecessor state is keyed per emitting rank (global_rank, read off the
  same line), so ranks interleaved in one file are never read as each other's
  predecessor. That was a review finding (@coderabbitai) and the degradation is
  not symmetric: with one shared slot, a foreign rank's nonzero
  num_scheduled_requests masks the idle iteration, so the exclusion silently
  stops excluding while still looking armed. Latent rather than live —
  py_executor.py logs only rank 0 unless TLLM_PROFILE_LOG_RANKS is set
  (default "0"), no lane in tests/ or jenkins/ sets it, and both artifact
  sets are 518/518 global_rank = 0 — but server_env_var is free-form lane
  YAML.

• Emit five statistics into trtllm-benchmark.<s>.<c>.log instead of one:

  Average Per Iter Device Step Time (ms): 7.29
  Median Per Iter Device Step Time (ms): 7.2940
  Stdev Per Iter Device Step Time (ms): 0.1150
  P75 Per Iter Device Step Time (ms): 7.3480
  P99 Per Iter Device Step Time (ms): 7.4280
  

  All five are uploaded to OpenSearch and added to MINIMIZE_METRICS.

• The mean and the median are both regression-gated (module constant
  GEN_ONLY_REGRESSION_METRICS); d_{std,p75,p99}_... are uploaded for
  diagnosis only. The two are gated together because they fail on different
  shapes of slowdown: the mean catches a cost spread thinly across many
  iterations, the median catches a shift in the typical iteration while ignoring
  outliers. A real slowdown moves both; a single anomalous iteration moves only
  the mean, so the pair is self-diagnosing on the CI report itself.

  d_mean_... keeps its name so existing baseline history is not orphaned
  (baseline keys derive by string surgery, metric[2:]). The median has no
  baseline yet, and check_regression skips any metric whose baseline is absent
  or non-positive (continue), so it is inert until enough runs accrue and
  cannot fail a build before then.

Known limitations, stated deliberately

• The filter is incomplete. In the parent, iter 261 (dt 112.07 ms) survives
  because its predecessor did real work — drained-queue tail bleeding one
  iteration further. That residue is exactly why std/P99 are published: at a
  glance, std = 4.63 means "do not trust this mean" and std = 0.115 means
  "do".
• One-time baseline discontinuity. The filter can only lower a minimize
  metric, so it cannot trip a false regression. It shows up as a one-off ~11 %
  improvement that decays out of the rolling window in 3–5 days.
• Reverting [None][test] Enable warmup request for gen_only perf sanity lanes #17098 re-exposes the KVCM V2 lazy-setup cost on gen_only con1
  lanes (see §2). The right long-term fix is warming that setup up outside the
  measured request, or fixing the pad-wait so one handover is not required to
  hide it.
• The handover regression is still unmeasured. This PR makes the decode gate
  honest; it does not add a metric for the CTX-side idle-poll cost.
• n = 1 per arm. The 2×2 above is single-shot per cell, on distinct
  --output-dirs. The 940 ms effect is ~5× the observed spread, but the arms are
  not replicated.

Test Coverage

tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_sanity_helpers.py — the off-by-one exclusion
using the real iter-258/259/260 line text; the nsr == 0 row surviving; the
adjacency guard releasing on a non-adjacent or unparseable predecessor; the
iter < 5 cutoff; num_generation_tokens mode-bucket selection and its tie
rule; the no-parseable-ngen fallback (nvbugs 6487036/6487040); each of the five
statistics; std == 0.0 at n < 2; cross-worker unweighted averaging; the
retention cap; and a round-trip _append_… → parse_metrics_from_output asserting
all five parse with no regex shadowing.

Two tests pin the per-rank keying in both directions: an interleaved foreign
line must not let the contaminated row survive, and a foreign rank's idle
iteration must not cost a valid row.

Two more pin the new gate specifically: every name in
GEN_ONLY_REGRESSION_METRICS must be emitted into the benchmark log, and
must appear in MINIMIZE_METRICS. check_regression only iterates the maximize
and minimize lists, so a gated name absent from both would look armed while never
being checked.

Both artifact sets were also replayed through the patched helpers directly,
reproducing the table above exactly and confirming one row is dropped per
file.

PR Checklist

• PR title follows [JIRA ticket/NVBugs ID/GitHub issue/None][type] Summary
• Commits signed off (DCO)
• Test coverage added for the new behaviour
• Documentation updated (README_test_perf_sanity.md)

Dev Engineer Review

• Gen-only device-step-time metrics now report mean, median, standard deviation, P75, and P99.
• Mean and median support regression gating. Other statistics remain diagnostic.
• The filter excludes the row after an adjacent zero-request iteration. It retains zero-request rows.
• Predecessor tracking uses global_rank to isolate interleaved rank logs.
• The warmup probe and attempted CTX worker flag changes were reverted.
• The default benchmark uses --no-test-input.
• Review should confirm missing-stat handling, OpenSearch emission, API consistency, and CODING_GUIDELINES.md compliance.
• No configuration or test-list changes were identified.

QA Engineer Review

Changed test files:

• tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md
• tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py
• tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_sanity_helpers.py

Coverage includes:

• Multi-statistic calculation and emission.
• Mean and median regression gating.
• Missing-stat handling.
• Zero-request adjacency filtering.
• Interleaved-rank log handling.
• Per-rank parsing and retention limits.
• Worker aggregation.
• Metric upload and benchmark-log emission.
• Artifact replay.
• Warmup configuration removal.

No changes to tests/integration/test_lists/, test-db/, or qa/ were reported. Coverage mapping is unavailable. Verdict: needs follow-up.

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GEN-only performance sanity checks now compute five device-step-time statistics from rank-aware, filtered generation-worker logs. Mean and median participate in regression checks. Available statistics are uploaded and logged, while missing values are omitted.

Changes

GEN-only device-step distribution metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define device-step statistics and regression contracts tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py	The gen-only metric contract includes mean, median, standard deviation, P75, and P99. Mean and median are regression-gated.
Parse and aggregate rank-aware worker logs tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_sanity_helpers.py	Log parsing tracks predecessors by rank, filters invalid iterations, retains bounded samples, selects modal generation-token values, and computes five statistics.
Publish, log, and validate distribution metrics tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_perf_sanity_helpers.py	The upload and benchmark-log paths emit available statistics. Tests cover missing values, metric classification, round-trip output, and regression gating.
Align benchmark invocation and parsing documentation tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py, tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md	The default benchmark always passes --no-test-input. Warmup configuration is removed. Documentation covers per-rank predecessor tracking.

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This test-only change reverts the warmup probe and corrects performance-metric sampling and gating; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant BenchmarkLogs
  participant RegressionCheck
  GenWorkerLogs->>PerfSanityParser: provide rank-aware worker log rows
  PerfSanityParser->>PerfSanityParser: filter rows and aggregate five statistics
  PerfSanityParser->>MetricUpload: return available numeric metrics
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[chienchunhung]

Could we keep the CTX setting opt-in, or scope it to the measured DeepSeek selector, until the CTX synchronous-transfer liveness work is merged and qualified? #17535 removed this default after a gen_only hang with unreleased KV blocks, and #17564 reproduces another CTX-sync path where completed sender sessions remain pinned. The fix in #17564 only covers single-rank CTX; the multi-rank path is explicitly still unsafe to poll from one idle rank. This change makes every gen_only workload enter that path again, while the affected GPT-OSS test remains waived and no hang-regression run is attached.

Please scope this to the measured configuration, or land and qualify the runtime liveness fix across the intended CTX topologies before changing the launcher default.

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[Repair Bot] NVBug 6647405 appears to have the same root cause as this PR.
No separate PR was opened.

• Comparison: Both repairs target the identical defect introduced by PR [None][chore] Scope TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP to the gen worker in disagg gen_only #17535, which scoped TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP to the GEN worker only and thereby regressed the DeepSeek-R1-FP4 8k1k dep4/tep8 gen_only benchmark (~20% / -27.9%). Both restore the flag on the CTX worker across the same three submit scripts (examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/submit.py, jenkins/scripts/perf/local/submit.py, jenkins/scripts/perf/submit.py) with an env-var opt-out to preserve [None][chore] Scope TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP to the gen worker in disagg gen_only #17535's hang-avoidance behavi

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Keep predecessor state per log rank.

gen_server_{i}.log aggregates output from all ranks, but this code stores only one prev_iter and prev_nsr pair per file. If one rank logs an empty iteration and another rank logs the next iteration, this guard can drop a valid sample. The reverse interleaving can retain an idle-contaminated sample. This can skew all five statistics and the mean/median regression gate.

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[chenfeiz0326]

Thanks — I took the per-rank change (9002c9a) after concluding you were right
on the substance, though the stated premise does not hold today. Recording both
halves since the distinction changes what the fix is for.

The premise is false at present. gen_server_{i}.log does not aggregate
all ranks. py_executor.py:1835 gates the iteration line on
TLLM_PROFILE_LOG_RANKS, which defaults to "0":

log_ranks = ...  # PROFILE_LOG_RANKS_ENV_VAR_NAME, default "0"
if self.print_log and (log_all_ranks or self.dist.rank in log_ranks):

Nothing under tests/ or jenkins/ sets that variable (zero grep hits), and
both artifact sets for nvbug 6627789 are 518/518 global_rank = 0. So there is
no live mis-parse, and the numbers in the PR description are unaffected.

The conclusion holds anyway, because the failure is asymmetric.
server_env_var is a free-form lane-YAML string that reaches the server env, so
a lane can set TLLM_PROFILE_LOG_RANKS=all. My original reasoning was that
the adjacency guard (pred_iter == cur_iter - 1) makes interleaving degrade to
keeping the row — the safe direction. Working through both orders, that is only
half true:

• rank 1's line lands between rank 0's nsr == 0 line and its successor →
  the successor's predecessor now carries a nonzero num_scheduled_requests,
  so the 1450 ms contaminated row survives. The exclusion silently stops
  excluding while still looking armed — and at tep8 that ordering is the common
  case, not the rare one.
• rank 1 goes idle → rank 0 loses one ordinary ~7.3 ms row out of 511. Harmless.

The first direction re-introduces exactly the bug this PR fixes, invisibly. That
is what changed my mind; a shared slot is not merely imprecise, it is
un-diagnosable.

Change. Predecessor state is now Dict[Optional[int], Tuple[...]] keyed on
the emitting rank, read off the same line via global_rank (unambiguous, unlike
the trailing rank = ). A line carrying neither falls into a single None
bucket, reproducing the previous single-rank behaviour exactly — one regex and a
dict, no behavioural change on real data.

Tests, pinning both directions rather than just a value:

• test_interleaved_ranks_do_not_defeat_the_exclusion — the harmful order; the
  1450 ms row must still be dropped.
• test_another_ranks_idle_iteration_does_not_drop_a_valid_row — the benign
  order; rank 0 must keep its sample.

33/33 unit tests pass, and replaying both real artifact sets through the patched
helpers reproduces every statistic unchanged with exactly one row dropped per
file — i.e. provably inert on single-rank data.

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On the duplicate MD040 nit (also raised in the earlier review): declining, same
evidence as the reply to @fredricz-20070104
— there is no .markdownlint*/.mdl* config anywhere in the tree and zero
markdownlint references in .pre-commit-config.yaml, .github/, or
jenkins/, so no lint job enforces it. The two flagged fences are pre-existing
and most of the file's ~17 fences are unlabelled; labelling 2 of 17 would make it
less consistent, not more. Happy to label all of them in a separate docs-only
pass if a maintainer wants it.

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Use built-in generic annotations in the changed helpers. Replace List[...], Dict[...], Tuple[...], and Optional[...] with built-in generics and | None. The package declares Python >=3.10.

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