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Summary

Fixes https://nvbugs/6581063: MegaMoE's NVLink symmetric-memory activation workspaces (empty_strided_p2p, outside PyTorch's caching allocator) leaked across LLMs in reused MPI worker processes. The DG SymmBuffer cache was keyed on id(self._ep_pg) and never evicted, so each new LLM in a reused worker allocated a second workspace beside the first (~40 GiB of 178 GiB gone before the failing test allocated anything), until _alloc_symm_buffer died with CUDA driver error: out of memory.

Supersedes #17529, keeping its verified fix (geometry-only cache key + deterministic eviction from GenerationExecutorWorker.shutdown() before destroy_process_group()) and additionally addressing all of its review feedback:

  • CodeRabbit (Major): shutdown() no longer lets a failing release skip destroy_process_group() and the CUDA cleanup — doing_shutdown is already set on entry, so an escaping exception would leave NCCL communicators alive with no retry possible.
  • brnguyen2: release_symm_buffer_cache() frees buffer-by-buffer and keeps going on failure, instead of sum() over a generator that abandons the remaining (already evicted, hence unreclaimable) buffers on the first exception.
  • brnguyen2: cache entries now record the ProcessGroup TRT-LLM passed at allocation, and stale-hit validation checks that record instead of SymmBuffer.group — a DeepGEMM bump that normalizes the stored group can no longer turn every hit into a false stale that frees a live buffer another layer already holds.
  • brnguyen2: the sys.modules probe string lives in a named constant next to the import block, and the Ray/RPC gap (those worker paths rely on per-LLM process exit for reclamation) is now documented in the release docstring.
  • _free_symm_buffer() tolerates an already-destroyed buffer (no AttributeError on a double free).

Changes

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py: geometry-keyed cache stores (SymmBuffer, ProcessGroup); _take_cached_symm_buffer() validates hits against the recorded group; release_symm_buffer_cache() is exception-safe per buffer; _free_symm_buffer() sweeps the tensor views destroy() leaves behind and tolerates double free.
  • tensorrt_llm/executor/worker.py: release MegaMoE symm buffers on shutdown (before destroy_process_group()), guarded so a failure cannot break the teardown chain; module path extracted to _MEGA_MOE_DEEPGEMM_MODULE.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt: unwaive TestDeepSeekV4ProDSpark::test_gsm8k_dep8_megamoe_deepgemm.

Test plan

  • DGX_B200 pre-merge stage runs the unwaived TestDeepSeekV4ProDSpark::test_gsm8k_dep8_megamoe_deepgemm (l0_dgx_b200.yml); validation requires a pass scheduled after the heavy predecessor sequence in the same shard, with handover memory back at baseline (per https://nvbugs/6581063)

Dev Engineer Review

  • MegaMoE symmetric-memory cache entries now use buffer geometry and expert-parallel size instead of ProcessGroup identity.
  • Each entry records its allocating ProcessGroup.
  • Cache lookup validates the active group and releases stale entries.
  • release_symm_buffer_cache() releases entries individually, clears tensor views, tolerates already-destroyed buffers, and continues after release failures.
  • GenerationExecutorWorker.shutdown() releases the cache before process-group destruction.
  • Teardown continues through process-group destruction and CUDA cleanup when cache release fails.
  • Ray and RPC behavior relies on per-LLM process exit.
  • A named MegaMoE module-path constant replaces the inline probe value.
  • No configuration changes were found.
  • Review focus: confirm cache-key completeness, stale-group validation, idempotent release, logging accuracy, and shutdown ordering.

QA Engineer Review

  • Modified test-list file: tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt.
  • Removed waiver entry accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV4ProDSpark::test_gsm8k_dep8_megamoe_deepgemm.
  • Removed the associated NVBUG 6581063 reference.
  • No test code was changed.
  • The unwaived test is covered by the integration test list.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up because CBTS coverage data is unavailable.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates MegaMoE SymmBuffer caching to track allocating process groups, evict stale buffers, and release cached resources. Worker shutdown invokes cache release before destroying distributed process groups.

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MegaMoE SymmBuffer lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Process-group-aware cache lifecycle
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py
The cache uses EP size and buffer geometry as keys. Entries store their allocating process group. Lookups release mismatched entries. Teardown clears tensor views and continues after individual release failures.

Worker shutdown integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shutdown-time cache release
tensorrt_llm/executor/worker.py
Worker shutdown detects the loaded MegaMoE module and releases its SymmBuffer cache before distributed process-group destruction. Release failures are logged without interrupting teardown.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8dc79

This change releases large GPU workspaces during worker shutdown, but cleanup failures can still leave memory retained or be hidden, increasing the chance of later out-of-memory failures in reused workers. Merge readiness remains moderate until cleanup is guaranteed on exceptions and the shutdown behavior is explicitly verified.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GenerationExecutorWorker
  participant sys.modules
  participant mega_moe_deepgemm
  participant DistributedProcessGroups
  GenerationExecutorWorker->>sys.modules: check MegaMoE module
  GenerationExecutorWorker->>mega_moe_deepgemm: release SymmBuffer cache
  mega_moe_deepgemm-->>GenerationExecutorWorker: return or raise
  GenerationExecutorWorker->>DistributedProcessGroups: destroy process groups
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72-72: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use built-in generic syntax for new cache annotations.

Replace Dict, Tuple, and Optional with built-in generics and | None. Define precise cache key and entry aliases so the cache contract stays consistent across lookup and insertion.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py` at line
72, Update the _MEGA_MOE_SYMM_BUFFER_CACHE annotation and related Optional
usages to use built-in generics and | None, removing Dict, Tuple, and Optional
imports. Define precise aliases for the cache key and entry types, then use
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Add annotations to the new test helpers and tests.

Add parameter annotations and return annotations to every new function. Use object | None for _FakeSymmBuffer.group, list[str] for _tensor_attrs, an iterator type for _isolated_cache, and -> None for test procedures.

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- Around line 87-92: Wrap the tensor-attribute sweep following
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py`:
- Line 72: Update the _MEGA_MOE_SYMM_BUFFER_CACHE annotation and related
Optional usages to use built-in generics and | None, removing Dict, Tuple, and
Optional imports. Define precise aliases for the cache key and entry types, then
use those aliases consistently for cache lookup and insertion.

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- Around line 41-68: Annotate every newly added helper and test function in this
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if cached_pg is ep_pg:
return cached
del _MEGA_MOE_SYMM_BUFFER_CACHE[key]
freed = _free_symm_buffer(cached)

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release_symm_buffer_cache keeps going when a free fails, but this path doesn't. On a reused worker process — exactly what this PR targets — the entry freed here was rendezvoused over an already-destroyed EP group, so destroy() runs against dead peer mappings. If it throws, the exception escapes _alloc_symm_buffer and the next LLM fails to init. Previously this path re-keyed on a fresh id() and allocated (leaking), so a throwing destroy() was survivable.

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freed = _free_symm_buffer(cached)
try:
freed = _free_symm_buffer(cached)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(
f"[MegaMoE] failed to release a stale DG SymmBuffer from a "
f"previous EP group, allocating fresh: {e}")
return None

Worth doing before merge, since it's on the path the fix is meant to make safe.

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Done in 10f31bc -- the stale-path free is now wrapped in try/except and falls through to a fresh allocation on failure, mirroring the per-buffer handling in release_symm_buffer_cache. Agreed this is the path the fix must keep safe: it runs on the next LLM's init, and the pre-fix code never destroyed here, so an escaping exception would have been a regression.

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…le symm buffer raises

The stale-group hit in _take_cached_symm_buffer runs on the next LLM's init
path, and the buffer being freed was rendezvoused over an already-destroyed
EP group, so its destroy() faces dead peer mappings. An escaping exception
there would fail the new LLM's construction -- the exact reused-worker
scenario this fix targets -- whereas the pre-fix code merely leaked and
allocated fresh, so a raising free was survivable. Catch it, log, and fall
through to the fresh allocation, mirroring the per-buffer error handling
release_symm_buffer_cache already has.

Addresses review feedback from Bowen Fu on PR NVIDIA#18182.

Signed-off-by: qgai <qgai@nvidia.com>

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try:
freed = _free_symm_buffer(cached)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(
f"[MegaMoE] failed to release a stale DG SymmBuffer from a "
f"previous EP group, allocating fresh: {e}"
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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The exception related to SymmBuffer.destroy and a destroyed process group in DeepGEMM typically arises during the teardown phase of a distributed model, where the underlying PyTorch distributed process group is closed while the DeepGEMM SymmBuffer object still holds a reference to it [1]. In DeepGEMM, the SymmBuffer class is designed to manage symmetric memory buffers for Mega-MoE operations, which requires a valid torch.distributed.ProcessGroup for the rendezvous mechanism [1][2]. When the SymmBuffer.destroy method is called, it explicitly nullifies its references to the group and internal buffers [1]. However, if this cleanup occurs after the global PyTorch distributed process group has been destroyed (e.g., via dist.destroy_process_group), accessing or interacting with the process group object within the buffer can trigger errors [3]. To resolve or mitigate this issue: 1. Ensure Proper Teardown Order: Ensure that all DeepGEMM model components or buffers are explicitly destroyed before calling dist.destroy_process_group. If your model structure allows, call the.destroy method on your SymmBuffer instances during the model shutdown phase before the distributed backend is torn down. 2. Avoid Premature Cleanup: If you are seeing this error during inference or training loops, verify that your distributed process group is not being re-initialized or closed prematurely. For instance, in frameworks like SGLang, crashes during initialization or warmup are often related to misconfigured distributed settings (e.g., PD disaggregation or NCCL timeouts) [4][5]. 3. Monitor for Underlying Hangs: The error can sometimes be a secondary effect of a hang in the distributed watchdog thread, often caused by CUDA API operations (like event destruction) being blocked [5]. If you suspect a deadlock or timeout, increasing the timeout settings (e.g., --watchdog-timeout) or checking environment variables like TORCH_NCCL_ENABLE_MONITORING=0 may help confirm if the issue is a performance-related stall rather than a pure code logic error [5]. 4. Check for Version Compatibility: DeepGEMM and its dependencies (like vLLM, which also utilizes symmetric memory) have seen significant improvements regarding rendezvous reliability in newer PyTorch versions [6]. Ensure your environment is using up-to-date versions of PyTorch and the DeepGEMM kernel library to benefit from fixes related to symmetric memory allocation and CUDA stream synchronization [7][6].

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The class SymmBuffer is a component found in the DeepGEMM library by deepseek-ai, specifically within the mega module [1]. The destroy method in this class is used to manually release references to the objects held by the SymmBuffer instance, which assists in garbage collection and memory management [1]. Its implementation is as follows: def destroy(self): self.handle = None self.buffer = None self.group = None self.x = None self.x_sf = None By setting these attributes to None, the method clears the references to the CUDA buffer, rendezvous handle, process group, and various tensor views (like self.x and self.x_sf), allowing the associated memory to be freed by Python's garbage collector [1].

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Do not catch every exception from stale-buffer cleanup.

SymmBuffer.destroy() only clears references and does not define a destroyed-process-group exception. Remove this broad handler or catch a concrete recoverable cleanup exception; otherwise, unrelated failures can be swallowed and trigger a fresh allocation.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py` around
lines 120 - 127, Update the stale-buffer cleanup around _free_symm_buffer so it
no longer catches every Exception; remove the handler or restrict it to a
specific recoverable cleanup exception, allowing unrelated failures to propagate
instead of returning None and allocating a fresh buffer.

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…r teardown

The DG SymmBuffer cache was keyed on id(self._ep_pg) and never evicted, so
NVLink symmetric-memory activation workspaces outlived the LLM that allocated
them. A worker process is reused across LLMs (a new executor is built per LLM
while the CUDA context persists) and the EP group is destroyed on executor
shutdown, so the next LLM computed a different key and allocated a second
buffer beside the first instead of reusing it. These come from
empty_strided_p2p, outside PyTorch's caching allocator, so the
torch.cuda.empty_cache() already on the worker shutdown path cannot reclaim
them; ~40 GiB of 178 GiB was gone before the failing test allocated anything
and _alloc_symm_buffer died with "CUDA driver error: out of memory". id() is
also recycled once a group is freed, so a new group could land on a dead
group's id and hit a buffer rendezvoused over a destroyed group.

Key the cache on buffer geometry so a later LLM in a reused worker reuses the
buffer, and release the cache from the worker's shutdown path, just before the
EP group these buffers were rendezvoused over is destroyed. Eviction is
deterministic rather than reachability-based on purpose: SymmBuffer.__init__
keeps a strong reference to its own group, so a weakly-held owner would stay
reachable through the cached buffer and never be collected. Releasing also
clears every remaining tensor attribute, because SymmBuffer.destroy() nulls
only a few of the views sliced out of the allocation and any survivor pins the
whole buffer.

Supersedes PR NVIDIA#17529, additionally addressing its review feedback:
- worker.shutdown() no longer lets a failing release skip
  destroy_process_group() and the CUDA cleanup below it: doing_shutdown is
  already set on entry, so an escaping exception would leave NCCL
  communicators alive with no retry possible.
- release_symm_buffer_cache() frees buffer-by-buffer and keeps going on
  failure, instead of sum() over a generator that abandons the remaining
  buffers (already evicted, hence unreclaimable) on the first exception.
- Cache entries record the ProcessGroup TRT-LLM passed at allocation, and
  stale-hit validation checks that record instead of SymmBuffer.group, so a
  DeepGEMM bump that normalizes the stored group cannot turn every hit into
  a false stale that frees a live buffer another layer already holds.
- The sys.modules probe string lives in a named constant next to the import
  block instead of being buried inline in shutdown().
- _free_symm_buffer() tolerates an already-destroyed buffer.
- Document that the Ray/RPC worker paths rely on per-LLM process exit for
  reclamation and must call the release if they ever reuse processes.

Unwaive the test now that it passes; the DGX_B200 run of
TestDeepSeekV4ProDSpark::test_gsm8k_dep8_megamoe_deepgemm scheduled after the
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…le symm buffer raises

The stale-group hit in _take_cached_symm_buffer runs on the next LLM's init
path, and the buffer being freed was rendezvoused over an already-destroyed
EP group, so its destroy() faces dead peer mappings. An escaping exception
there would fail the new LLM's construction -- the exact reused-worker
scenario this fix targets -- whereas the pre-fix code merely leaked and
allocated fresh, so a raising free was survivable. Catch it, log, and fall
through to the fresh allocation, mirroring the per-buffer error handling
release_symm_buffer_cache already has.

Addresses review feedback from Bowen Fu on PR NVIDIA#18182.

Signed-off-by: qgai <qgai@nvidia.com>
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Resolve semantic conflict from the fused_moe package move
(_torch/modules/fused_moe -> _torch/moe/fused_moe): update
_MEGA_MOE_DEEPGEMM_MODULE in executor/worker.py to the new module path
so the shutdown-time sys.modules probe keeps matching the real module.

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