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The standalone DSpark/DFlash drafter kept its context KV in a private arena: dense in max_seq_len, allocated after the KV pool was carved (so free_gpu_memory_fraction never bounded it), and sized from max_position_embeddings (1048576 for K3). This pages it through the draft KV cache manager's per-request block tables instead.

before after
drafter KV private arena, dense in max_seq_len paged through the draft KV manager
sized from max_position_embeddings runtime max_seq_len
K3 @ 997696, batch 8 21.4 GiB/rank, cannot start inside the pool budget

Three gates kept an external drafter off that path, each written for a mode it does not describe:

gate written for carve-out
_util.py attention-DP bail MTP, whose draft layers are target-shaped and appendable DFLASH/DSPARK only; PARD and DRAFT_TARGET_ONE_MODEL unchanged
py_executor_creator.py nvbugs/5807902 WAR Eagle3 disagg RMSNorm crash blanket disable stays (default is True); standalone drafters exempt
dflash.py slot assignment aggregated prefill disagg generation workers get slots; release_index_slot mirrored to the draft manager

V1 get_buffers() returns a per-layer strided slice, V2 a dense view over interleaved pages, so the block-table divisor is derived from stride(0). Guessing wrong is silent: ~20% acceptance, no error.

Test Coverage

TestKimiK3DSpark::test_gsm8k_tep8, on the 2x4 GB300 post-merge stage from #18363 (l0_gb300_multi_nodes_node2_gpu8.yml). Its 1_NVLink_Domain name forces --segment=2; straddling two NVL domains dies in symm_mem.rendezvous.

Spec dec is lossless, so accuracy cannot detect a broken drafter — hence the AL assertion. That is how the slot collapse was found:

K3 DSpark disagg, GSM8K 1319, TEP16 AL decode steps output tokens
before 1.087 123860 134575
after 3.441 39072 134463

Measured on this branch, 8x GB300, 1319 samples, three runs. Target is the NVFP4 requant (nothing else covers K3 NVFP4 end to end), which also fixes the MoE backend: trtllm-gen ships SiTu cubins only for W4A8_MXFP4_MXFP8.

recipe (same weights, same drafter) GSM8K AL
MEGAMOE_CUTEDSL, NVFP4 (this test) 95.07 / 95.15 / 95.30 4.318 / 4.323 / 4.337
CUTLASS, NVFP4 96.209 4.349
TRTLLM, MXFP4 96.361 4.355

Not about this change, but this is the first real-model accuracy data on MEGAMOE_CUTEDSL: it lands ~1.0 pt below CUTLASS on identical weights and is not reproducible across greedy runs (0.23 pt spread). AL is flat at 4.32-4.36 across all three, which is what this PR guards. The gsm8k reference stays at 96.5 so the kernel gap is not baked in; the hypothesis-testing threshold (93.297) absorbs it.

min_al 4.0: a collapse scores 1.09 with every accuracy gate green. AL figures of 5.2-5.9 quoted elsewhere are --apply_chat_template runs (3.81 plain vs 5.52-5.88 chat, same drafter and samples).

Also green on the embedded DSpark path (DeepSeek-V4-Pro DEP4 cutedsl, AL 4.436) — different drafter shape, same shared kv_cache_manager_v2 / py_executor code.

Depends on llm-models!596 (renames the drafter to RadixArk-Kimi-K3-DSpark, adds Inferact-Kimi-K3-DSpark); it must merge first or this test fails at LLM().

Not covered: the VANILLA drafter attention backend still uses contiguous flash_attn_with_kvcache.

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  • DFlash uses managed draft KV cache pools with per-request block tables.
  • The implementation supports V1 and V2 cache managers.
  • Runtime max_seq_len determines drafter storage size.
  • Draft mirrors support context, generation, attention-DP dummy, and disaggregated-generation requests.
  • Slot release handles both primary and draft KV cache managers.
  • DFlash validates cache layout, stride, and sequence capacity.
  • Context overflow recycles the affected request instead of truncating data.
  • Incompatible cache pools use private allocation as a fallback.
  • The implementation preserves the nvbugs/5807902 workaround.
  • The VANILLA attention backend remains unchanged.
  • No public API declarations changed.
  • Configuration values and the GB300 test-list entry match the Kimi K3 DSpark validation scope.
  • No correctness, performance, error-handling, configuration, or test-list issue was identified.

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  • Added TestKimiK3DSpark.test_gsm8k_tep8.
  • The test checks Kimi K3 NVFP4 GSM8K accuracy, MIXED_PRECISION quantization, DSpark statistics, and minimum acceptance length.
  • The test is covered by tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gb300_multi_nodes_node2_gpu8.yml.
  • Added GSM8K accuracy references in tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/gsm8k.yaml.
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Annotate the new helper signatures.

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DSPARK_MODEL_PATH = f"{llm_models_root()}/RadixArk-Kimi-K3-DSpark"

@pytest.mark.skip_less_mpi_world_size(8)
def test_gsm8k_tep8(self):

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Add the required return type annotation.

test_gsm8k_tep8 must declare -> None.

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+    def test_gsm8k_tep8(self) -> None:

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316-316: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Annotate the new helper signatures.

_check_ctx_arena_fits has no parameter or return annotations. The same applies to _managed_ctx_pool (Line 357), _lazy_init_ctx_buffers (Line 479), _ctx_paged_index_args (Line 646), and _assign_slot (Line 663), and _init_ctx_block_tables (Line 399) annotates only its return type.

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-    def _check_ctx_arena_fits(self, capacity, num_slots, L, nkv, hd, dtype):
+    def _check_ctx_arena_fits(
+        self,
+        capacity: int,
+        num_slots: int,
+        L: int,
+        nkv: int,
+        hd: int,
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+    ) -> None:
-    def _managed_ctx_pool(self, draft_kv_cache_manager, L, nkv, hd, dtype):
+    def _managed_ctx_pool(
+        self,
+        draft_kv_cache_manager: Optional[BaseResourceManager],
+        L: int,
+        nkv: int,
+        hd: int,
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+    ) -> Optional[List[torch.Tensor]]:
-    def _assign_slot(self, req_id: int, reset: bool = False):
+    def _assign_slot(self, req_id: int, reset: bool = False) -> Optional[int]:
-    def _ctx_paged_index_args(self):
+    def _ctx_paged_index_args(self) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:

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- Around line 582-583: Update the page-size handling around _ctx_page_size and
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against the supported sizes 16, 32, and 64. If validation rejects the pool page
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py`:
- Line 316: Annotate the helper signatures for _check_ctx_arena_fits,
_managed_ctx_pool, _lazy_init_ctx_buffers, _ctx_paged_index_args, _assign_slot,
and _init_ctx_block_tables with parameter and return types. Use None for
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Non-blocking nits below; deferring to the open thread on disaggregated test coverage.

# WAR for https://nvbugs/5807902 (Eagle3 disagg RMSNorm crash, closed
# will-not-fix). Keep the blanket disable; carve out only the standalone
# drafters, which it stranded on their private max_seq_len-dense arena.
is_standalone_drafter = (spec_config.spec_dec_mode.is_dflash()

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The same is_dflash() or is_dspark() predicate is spelled out here and again in _util.py:1444; the two gates have to stay in lockstep or a drafter silently ends up back on the private arena. SpeculativeDecodingMode already hosts this family (is_parallel_draft() at interface.py:315) — could this be a single is_standalone_drafter() method that both call sites use?

the KV cache blocks are still being transferred via NIXL/UCX.
"""
kv_cache = self.kv_cache_map.get(request_id)
if self.is_draft and (kv_cache is None or request_id in self._early_freed_index_requests):

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The request_id in self._early_freed_index_requests half of this guard describes a double-release, which the comment attributes to the target ("the target may release the same request twice") — but the target takes the unguarded path and would then call index_mapper.remove_sequence() twice for the same id. Should the already-released check sit outside the is_draft condition, leaving only kv_cache is None as draft-specific?

continue

slot = self._req_to_slot[req_id]
cur = int(self._ctx_len[slot].item())

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Nothing marks the request as poisoned here, so the generation-side assigner added at L137-147 (or the next chunk, which takes reset=False) hands it a fresh _ctx_len == 0 slot and it drafts from a misaligned prefix rather than "drafting nothing". Given the new _max_ctx < runtime_max check makes _max_ctx == max_seq_len, is this branch reachable at all — and if not, would an assert be clearer than a partial recovery?

self._validate_draft_attention_backend(draft_model)

def _lazy_init_ctx_buffers(self, draft_model, spec_metadata, attn_metadata):
def _check_ctx_arena_fits(self, capacity, num_slots, L, nkv, hd, dtype):

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_check_..._fits reads as a boolean query but returns None and raises; _init_ctx_block_tables/_refresh_ctx_block_tables in this same file signal failure by return value. Consider _require_ctx_arena_fits so the call site's missing if is obviously intentional.

acceptance_length)


# 3600s to match the test-db TIMEOUT (60) budget; measured 25m30s.

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This comment says "measured 25m30s" while the test-db entry says "Measured 25m45s" for the same run. Keep the measurement in one place (the test-db entry) and reference it here.

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Approve with nits.

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…he manager

The standalone drafter kept a private context arena, dense in max_seq_len and
allocated after the KV pool had been carved, so free_gpu_memory_fraction never
bounded it: at max_seq_len 997696 with max_batch 8 it wants 21.4 GiB/rank and
the worker cannot start. Read the already-funded draft pool through the
manager's per-request block tables instead, so the footprint follows the
sequences served, and size what remains from max_seq_len rather than the
drafter's advertised max_position_embeddings (1048576 for K3, hundreds of GiB
on its own). The pool index space differs between the V1 and V2 managers, so
the block-table divisor is derived from stride(0) rather than assumed.

Three gates kept an external drafter off that path, each written for a mode it
does not describe:

- attention DP: the bail suits MTP, whose draft layers are target-shaped and
  appendable to the target pool. An external drafter has its own architecture,
  so nothing is appended and it stayed on the arena -- which under attention DP
  is sized with KV heads unsharded (20480 vs 2560 B/token for K3).
- disaggregation: nvbugs/5807902 reported an Eagle3 RMSNorm failure and was
  worked around by disabling the separate draft KV cache for every speculative
  mode. Keep the workaround where it was reported.
- disagg slot allocation: _store_prefill_context was the only place that
  assigned a drafter slot, so a generation worker -- which receives prompt KV
  instead of prefilling -- collapsed every concurrent request onto the single
  dummy slot. A context-only worker also releases the target's IndexMapper slot
  after prefill; the draft mirror never got that call and saturated.

Accuracy cannot detect a broken drafter: speculative decoding is lossless, so
one producing garbage scores the same and only runs slower. The added test
therefore asserts on acceptance length. That is not hypothetical -- the slot
collapse showed up as AL 1.087 vs 3.441 (decode steps 123860 -> 39072 for the
same output length) while every accuracy gate passed.

Signed-off-by: Zhenhuan Chen <zhenhuanc@nvidia.com>
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# A disagg generation worker receives prompt KV instead of
# prefilling, so _store_prefill_context -- the only other assigner --
# never runs and every request would land on the dummy slot.
num_contexts = max(0, len(self.request_ids) - self.num_generations)

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On a disaggregated generation worker nothing ever writes the prompt into this slot, so acceptance stays near one; please seed it or state that disagg is out of scope here.

self.MODEL_PATH,
tensor_parallel_size=8,
moe_expert_parallel_size=8,
enable_attention_dp=False,

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This lifts the disagg workaround and the attention DP bail, but the only new test is aggregated, attention DP off, and post merge, so please add a disaggregated acceptance case.

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