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Purpose

Growing a KV cache to a very long sequence in one burst is slow: the resize has
to evict and migrate a large number of pages at once, and today the engine
thread pays that cost inline.

This PR attacks it from two directions:

  1. Make the resize itself cheaper — batch the eviction statistics, cache the
    slot sizes, and replace the per-page descriptor loop in the cold-page codec
    with a batched copier that picks between an LDGSTS kernel and
    cuMemcpyBatchAsync based on the detected CPU-GPU link.
  2. Get it off the critical path — make the KVCM2 public API thread-safe
    without relying on the GIL, so a caller can create, resume and resize a long
    request on a background thread while the engine keeps serving. A read-only
    prefix-match query (probe_reuse) runs concurrently under a shared lock.

The threading work is in service of (2): it is not a general-purpose
"KVCM2 is now thread-safe" claim. See the scope note below.

What changed

Copy path

  • BatchedPageCopier owns both transfer paths and selects one at construction:
    an LDGSTS (cp.async) kernel on coherent NVLink-C2C, or cuMemcpyBatchAsync
    on discrete PCIe where the SM store path loses. Tuned from measurements on
    GH200, GB200 and B200; in-flight bytes per CTA is the parameter that matters,
    and its knees are platform-independent.
  • A third alignment-agnostic kernel handles pool layouts whose page size,
    strides or bases are not multiples of 16, since cold offsets are prefix sums
    of arbitrary per-pool slot sizes.

Eviction / bookkeeping

  • Eviction statistics are accumulated per migration batch rather than per page.
  • Slot sizes are cached and pool-group descriptors deduplicated, cutting
    allocator traffic on the eviction path.

Concurrency

  • One ReentrantSharedMutex per KvCacheManager guards the radix tree, the
    storage manager and the living-KvCache set. Mutating APIs take it
    exclusively, read-only queries take it shared.
  • Re-entrant on the exclusive side, so public APIs can call one another without
    each being split into a locking wrapper plus an unlocked _impl.
  • BlockRadixTree::matchTokenPath() is now genuinely read-only. It used to
    drain the deferred root erases, which erases from mRoots and destroys a
    SharedPtr<RootBlock> whose refcount is non-atomic — two concurrent
    probes could double-erase and double-free. Draining now happens only in
    addOrGetExisting() and clear(), both under the exclusive lock.
  • Bindings that can block on the lock release the GIL first. This is a
    correctness requirement, not just throughput: the manager reacquires the GIL
    under the lock to run the priority callback and the event sink, so a binding
    that blocks while holding the GIL deadlocks against the lock holder.

Scope of the thread-safety guarantee

It covers the API exposed through nanobind and the .pyi stubs, and it protects
state shared between KvCaches — not the fields of an individual one. Each
KvCache is still driven by its owning thread; calling into the same KvCache
from two threads concurrently is unsupported. Introspection APIs are excluded.

The pure-Python backend is deliberately not kept in sync with the C++-only
changes here (the new unconditional preconditions, and thread safety in
general), since it is slated for removal.

Note the two distinct resize() methods. Per-request KvCache::resize() runs
on an ACTIVE cache and evicts/migrates only. Manager-level
KvCacheManager::resize(cache_level, quota) may defragment via _adjustLevel()
and therefore requires every KvCache to be SUSPENDED — that precondition is
now enforced unconditionally rather than only in debug builds. Both take the
lock exclusively, so a concurrent probe waits for their duration. Details in
kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md.

Testing

  • 78 KVCM2 C++ unit tests and 220 python tests pass.
  • New kvCacheManagerV2ConcurrencyTest and test_kv_cache_concurrency.py.
    Both were verified to fail with the corresponding fix reverted — the C++
    ones fail outright with the drain restored, and the python ones hang until the
    faulthandler watchdog fires when a GIL release is removed. (A Python-level
    watchdog cannot work here: the deadlock holds the GIL such a watchdog needs to
    run.) The pre-existing suites pass unchanged with all three bugs present, so
    "tests pass" alone would not have been evidence.
  • The copy kernel was additionally exercised on GH200 and sm_90, covering both
    tiling modes, ragged tails and the unaligned fallback.

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  • Added topology-aware BatchedPageCopier with LDGSTS, cuMemcpyBatchAsync, and unaligned fallback paths.
  • Cached slot sizes and reused pool descriptors to reduce resize overhead.
  • Added manager-wide shared and exclusive locking with GIL release while bindings wait.
  • Aggregated migration and dropped-page statistics per batch.
  • Restricted deferred radix-tree erases to exclusive operations.
  • Added optional NVML PCIe and C2C link queries.
  • Updated shutdown and planned-drop lifetime handling.
  • Removed the legacy ColdPageCopy implementation.
  • No configuration-file or test-list changes were found.
  • Review focus: validate CUDA-version fallbacks, copy alignment checks, lock ordering, manager and cache lifetime rules, error handling, and API documentation consistency.

QA Engineer Review

Test code changed outside tests/integration/test_lists/.

Added C++ tests:

  • kvCacheManagerV2ConcurrencyTest
  • kvCacheManagerV2ReentrantSharedMutexTest
  • Concurrent probing with pending radix-tree erases.
  • Writer progress during exclusive manager operations.
  • Nested exclusive locking and reader/writer exclusion.

Updated C++ tests:

  • kvCacheManagerV2ColdPageCopyTest
  • kvCacheManagerV2ColdPageTest
  • kvCacheManagerV2DefaultColdPageCodecTest
  • kvCacheManagerV2StagingBufferTest

Added Python tests:

  • test_capacity_and_history_length_setters_do_not_deadlock
  • test_dropping_the_last_kv_cache_reference_does_not_deadlock
  • test_dropping_a_planned_drop_handle_does_not_deadlock
  • test_stats_queries_do_not_block_a_concurrent_resize
  • test_probe_reuse_runs_concurrently_with_a_background_resize
  • test_many_threads_probe_reuse_concurrently
  • test_priority_callback_under_the_lock_does_not_deadlock

Updated Python test:

  • test_planned_drop_handle now expects RuntimeError for repeated drops.

No added or updated test functions matched entries in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/, tests/integration/test_lists/qa/, or waives.txt.

Verdict: needs follow-up.

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The PR adds topology-aware batched CUDA page transfers, manager-wide locking, optional GIL release support, updated storage metadata, batch statistics aggregation, shutdown ordering changes, and concurrency tests.

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KV cache transfer and storage integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Batched page-copy implementation
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/batchedPageCopy.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/nvmlWrapper.*
Adds topology-aware batched page copying with CUDA kernel and copy-engine paths, alignment fallbacks, CUDA-version handling, and optional NVML queries.
Storage and codec integration
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/coldPageCodec.*, storageManager.*, storage/config.h, cpp/tests/unit_tests/batch_manager/*ColdPage*, *StagingBufferTest.cu
Routes cold-page transfers through BatchedPageCopier, caches slot-size metadata, exposes pool descriptors, removes host-memory registration, and updates migration tests and contracts.

Manager concurrency and bindings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manager locking and lifecycle state
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/kvCache*, kvCacheManager.*, blockRadixTree.*, utils/*
Adds reentrant shared/exclusive manager locking across cache lifecycle, statistics, planned drops, radix-tree access, resource pools, and cache registries.
Bindings, statistics, and concurrency validation
cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2.cpp, utils/optionalGilRelease.*, tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/*, tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/*, cpp/tests/unit_tests/batch_manager/*ConcurrencyTest.cpp
Releases the GIL around blocking native operations, aggregates statistics per batch, changes shutdown and error handling, documents backend concurrency, and adds deadlock and lock-behavior tests.

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

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e31f5

The KV-cache concurrency changes remain mergeable, but the lock re-entrancy documentation should be corrected to prevent future maintenance changes from applying an unsafe locking assumption.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonBinding
  participant KvCacheManager
  participant ReentrantSharedMutex
  participant KvCache
  participant Statistics
  PythonBinding->>KvCacheManager: invoke resize or statistics API
  KvCacheManager->>ReentrantSharedMutex: acquire shared or exclusive lock
  KvCacheManager->>KvCache: validate lifecycle and cache state
  KvCacheManager->>Statistics: read, update, or reset statistics
  ReentrantSharedMutex-->>PythonBinding: release lock and return result
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cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/storageManager.cpp (1)

668-668: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Declare staging as const.

staging is not reassigned after acquire(). Declare it const.

As per coding guidelines: “declare unmodified variables as const.”

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/storageManager.cpp` at
line 668, In the storage manager code, declare the local staging result from
mPageStagingManager->acquire(...) as const, since the staging variable is not
reassigned.

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cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/utils/optionalGilRelease.h (1)

20-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Keep <Python.h> out of the KVCM2 core.

optionalGilRelease.h directly includes <Python.h>, and kvCache.cpp uses Python C-API symbols. This violates the KVCM2 requirement to remain independent of Python. The build already links the batch-manager target publicly with Python3::Python, so the claimed new standalone-test linker failure is not established. Move the GIL probe behind a callback installed by the nanobind layer.

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In
`@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/utils/optionalGilRelease.h`
at line 20, Remove the direct Python.h dependency and Python C-API usage from
optionalGilRelease.h and kvCache.cpp. Expose the GIL probe through a callback or
equivalent abstraction owned by the KVCM2 core, then install that callback from
the nanobind integration layer so the core remains Python-independent while
preserving optional GIL-release behavior.

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cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md (1)

252-258: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify which nested acquisitions are supported.

The text states that a nested exclusive acquisition is a no-op and that "The shared side is NOT re-entrant". ReentrantSharedMutex::Guard checks mOwnerThread before it inspects mExclusive, so a nested shared acquisition on a thread that already holds the lock exclusively is also a no-op. adjust() depends on this: it holds the exclusive lock and calls getQuota(), which takes the shared lock.

State the three cases separately so a maintainer does not read the current wording as forbidding that pattern.

📝 Proposed wording
-  `ReentrantSharedMutex` makes a nested *exclusive* acquisition on the
-  owning thread a no-op, so internal call sites need no annotation. The shared
-  side is NOT re-entrant, and a shared -> exclusive upgrade on one thread cannot
-  work. Neither is checked -- a violation is a hang, not a diagnostic -- so both
-  have to be respected by construction.
+  `ReentrantSharedMutex` compares the owning thread first, so on a thread that
+  already holds the lock exclusively BOTH a nested exclusive and a nested shared
+  acquisition are no-ops; internal call sites need no annotation (`adjust()` ->
+  `getQuota()` relies on this). What does NOT work: nesting inside a *shared*
+  acquisition, and any shared -> exclusive upgrade on one thread. Neither is
+  checked -- a violation is a hang, not a diagnostic -- so both have to be
+  respected by construction.
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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md` around lines
252 - 258, Revise the locking guidance around ReentrantSharedMutex::Guard to
distinguish three cases: nested exclusive acquisition by the owning thread is a
no-op, nested shared acquisition while that thread owns the lock exclusively is
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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/kvCache.cpp`:
- Line 1838: Update PlannedDropHandle to store mManager as a std::weak_ptr, then
lock it in drop() before dereferencing; when the manager no longer exists, clear
mPageRefs and return safely. Preserve the existing drop behavior when the
manager is available.

Apply the same fix in
`@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/kvCache.h` at line 150.
- Line 2453: Update getSsmBlockBaseIndex and the related public nanobind cache
accessors to preserve suspended-cache behavior: do not reject SUSPENDED or
CLOSED states when callers expect BAD_PAGE_INDEX or None, or ensure callers
resume the cache before access. Keep the existing ACTIVE validation only where
required by the API contract.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 252-258: Revise the locking guidance around
ReentrantSharedMutex::Guard to distinguish three cases: nested exclusive
acquisition by the owning thread is a no-op, nested shared acquisition while
that thread owns the lock exclusively is also a no-op, and shared acquisition is
otherwise non-reentrant; explicitly note that shared-to-exclusive upgrades
remain unsupported. Mention the adjust() to getQuota() call path as a valid
example of the exclusive-then-shared case.

In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/storageManager.cpp`:
- Line 668: In the storage manager code, declare the local staging result from
mPageStagingManager->acquire(...) as const, since the staging variable is not
reassigned.

In
`@cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kv_cache_manager_v2/utils/optionalGilRelease.h`:
- Line 20: Remove the direct Python.h dependency and Python C-API usage from
optionalGilRelease.h and kvCache.cpp. Expose the GIL probe through a callback or
equivalent abstraction owned by the KVCM2 core, then install that callback from
the nanobind integration layer so the core remains Python-independent while
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Pushed 04d86051d6, rebased onto 3fed8e7103. Review feedback addressed:

PlannedDropHandle lifetime (@liji-nv, and CodeRabbit's weak_ptr comment) — now holds a shared_ptr<KvCacheManager>. Replied on both threads.

<Python.h> in the KVCM2 core — removed. OptionalGilRelease still has to release the GIL from destructors, where nb::call_guard has no hook, but it now calls through a GilHooks function table that the nanobind layer installs at module init. With no bindings loaded the hooks stay null and the class is a no-op, so the core no longer touches the Python C API at all — which also moots the standalone-test linking question.

One wrinkle worth recording: the storage for that table cannot be an inline variable in the header. Each shared library gets its own copy, so the installer in the bindings module wrote one object while the core read another that stayed null — turning OptionalGilRelease into a silent no-op and deadlocking the very destructor path it protects. test_dropping_the_last_kv_cache_reference_does_not_deadlock caught it. The storage now lives in optionalGilRelease.cpp.

ReentrantSharedMutex nesting wording — corrected in AGENTS.md and in the header it points at. The old text said "the shared side is NOT re-entrant" without qualification, which reads as forbidding a pattern the code depends on: the guard compares the owning thread before the requested mode, so asking for the lock shared while already holding it exclusively is a no-op, and adjust() -> getQuota() relies on exactly that. Only nesting inside a shared acquisition is unsupported.

const staging — done.

Suspended-cache accessors — no change; the ACTIVE precondition is intentional, as discussed on that thread.

Also carried forward during the rebase: #18694's CU_MEMCPY_FLAG_PREFER_OVERLAP_WITH_COMPUTE fix (nvbugs/6674826). It landed in coldPageCopy.cu, which this PR deletes after folding copyPageIndicesToDevice into batchedPageCopy.cu, so taking the delete would have silently reverted it. The fix is applied at the page-index-copy site only; launchCopyEngine pairs the flag with SRC_ACCESS_ORDER_STREAM, which the fix's rationale does not cover.

One behaviour change to flag: double-dropping a PlannedDropHandle now raises RuntimeError rather than ValueError, since the check moved to TLLM_CHECK_WITH_INFO. Header contract, test and Python backend updated to match.

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KvCache::_recordMigratedSlots and _recordDroppedPages committed statistics once
per page. Every commitStats() call re-samples the peak block statistics via
_updateIterationPeakNumBlocks() -> _currentBlockStatsByCacheLevel(), which is
O(cache levels x pool groups), so evicting a long sequence performed thousands
of redundant full scans.

Both recorders are invoked once per migration batch with a whole page vector,
every page in a batch moves between the same pair of cache levels, and the
storage is not mutated inside the loop -- so the per-page samples are identical
and the counters accumulate additively. Aggregate the per-life-cycle deltas
across the batch and commit once. The reported statistics are unchanged.

Measured on H100 PCIe with a 200K-token disaggregated decode-side request
(32 tokens/page, one SWA plus one full-attention life cycle, 6380 pages,
GPU tier full so every page is offloaded to the host tier). Median of 10
resize() calls, comparing two builds of the same tree:

                     enable_stats=True   enable_stats=False   stats overhead
  before                    18.56 ms             13.96 ms      4.60 ms (25%)
  after                     14.89 ms             14.04 ms      0.85 ms (6%)

That is ~20% off the blocking resize() call on the eviction path, removing
~80% of the statistics overhead. The enable_stats=False columns agree across
both builds, confirming the two libraries are otherwise identical. The path
without eviction is unaffected (1.49 ms). Both builds report identical
counters (6380 offloaded pages / 99.69 MiB per iteration).

Keeps the Python backend in sync with the C++ implementation.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
StorageManager::slotSize() rebuilt a vector on every call: it forwarded to
SlotDesc::slotSizeList(), which in turn calls SlotDescVariant::slotSizeList(),
each returning a fresh TypedVec by value. The statistics recorders call it once
per migrated or dropped page through sumSlotBytes(), so a long-sequence eviction
spent thousands of allocations recomputing static configuration data -- slot
sizes derive from the slot descriptors and never change after construction.

Serve slotSize() from a table built alongside the slot descriptors and return it
by reference. The Python backend needs no equivalent change: its slot_size()
already returns a stored attribute, so this was a porting artifact rather than a
behavioral difference.

Slot descriptors are now registered through appendLevelSlotDescList(), the only
mutator of both the descriptor lists and the derived slot sizes, so the two
cannot go out of sync. It returns the appended cache level, letting the caller
assert the construction order: the hot tier is registered up front, the cold
tiers only after the cold-page codec has been queried. Previously the cold levels
were pre-filled with the hot tier's descriptors and overwritten later, so an
early read of a cold level would silently see plausible but wrong data; now it
fails loudly.

While here, drop the copy of the pool-group descriptor construction. The
StorageManager constructor and KvCacheManager::poolGroupDescs() built the same
TypedVec<PoolGroupIndex, PoolGroupDesc> by identical means -- the base address,
slot count, slot descriptor and loop bound all resolve to the same expressions.
StorageManager now owns the single implementation, since the constructor needs it
before any KvCacheManager exists, and KvCacheManager delegates.

Measured on H100 PCIe with a 200K-token disaggregated decode-side request
(32 tokens/page, one SWA plus one full-attention life cycle, 6380 pages, GPU tier
full so every page is offloaded to the host tier):

  allocations per resize()    56122 -> 43360   (8.80 -> 6.80 per page, -22.7%)
  resize() median             -0.76 ms +/- 0.62 (95% CI) vs no caching

The timing gain is small and consistent with the allocator being ~2 ms of the
~15 ms eviction path; the allocation count reduction is exact. Both are medians
over paired trials that alternate builds to cancel machine drift.

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… storage config

Mark the accessors on CoalescedBuffer, SlotDescVariant and SlotDesc [[nodiscard]]
(modernize-use-nodiscard), and rename the ConcatKvCacheColdPageCodec dispatch
template parameter Encode to isEncode so it reads as the boolean it is.

No behavior change.

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Add nvmlDeviceGetFieldValues, nvmlDeviceGetMaxPcieLinkGeneration and
nvmlDeviceGetMaxPcieLinkWidth to NVMLWrapper. These are needed to detect the
CPU-GPU link (C2C link count and per-link bandwidth, or PCIe generation and
width).

TensorRT-LLM never links NVML; it dlopens libnvidia-ml.so.1 and resolves
symbols at runtime, because the only build-time library available is the CUDA
stub and linking it would turn a soft runtime dependency into a hard
DT_NEEDED. New entry points therefore have to go through the wrapper.

All three are loaded with loadSym rather than loadRequired, so a driver that
lacks them yields NVML_ERROR_FUNCTION_NOT_FOUND instead of throwing from the
singleton constructor and taking down unrelated NVML users. Callers are
expected to fall back to a conservative estimate.

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Replace the per-page descriptor loop in the default cold-page codec with
BatchedPageCopier, which owns both transfer paths and selects one at
construction from the detected CPU-GPU link:

  * an LDGSTS (cp.async) kernel on coherent NVLink-C2C links, or when the
    HostMem 2 GiB registration-chunking workaround is active (the copy engine
    would otherwise have to split every page straddling a chunk boundary);
  * cuMemcpyBatchAsync on discrete PCIe, where the SM store path loses.

The kernel is tuned from measurements on GH200, GB200 and B200. In-flight
bytes per CTA is the only parameter that matters and its knees are
platform-independent (32 KiB offload, 64 KiB onboard); CTA count is sized from
link bandwidth via Little's Law and rounded to an even value so the grid
occupies whole SM pairs. Thread count is deliberately held at 128 so copy CTAs
can co-reside with inference kernels.

Two tiling modes share one pipeline: tiles cover part of a page for large
pages, and whole pages are packed into a tile for small ones. A third,
alignment-agnostic kernel handles pool layouts whose page size, strides or
bases are not multiples of 16, since cold offsets are prefix sums of arbitrary
per-pool slot sizes and are not obliged to be aligned.

The batch-copy staging buffer is now acquired with 16-byte alignment so the
common case stays on the tuned path.

coldPageCopy.{h,cu} is folded into batchedPageCopy.{h,cu}: all that remained
was copyPageIndicesToDevice, which exists precisely because
pageIndexLocation() may require the index array in device memory, so it
belongs beside the copier that imposes that requirement.

Tests: 213 KVCM2 python tests and the KVCM2 C++ unit tests pass. The kernel
path was additionally exercised on sm_90 by forcing selection, covering both
mappers, ragged tails and the unaligned fallback.

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Three changes to the LDGSTS copy kernel, measured on GH200 (10 C2C links,
447 GB/s) at 1 CTA, 1 MiB pages, NUMA-local, release build:

  * Keep the page-range test off the page-base load's address computation.
    pageBasesFor() indexes pairs[page] directly and callers guarantee the
    range; advance() checks it once per page boundary instead. An earlier
    attempt that clamped the index inline measured -29%, because the select
    lands in the dependency chain of the only global load on the address path.

  * Split the tile loop into a branch-free steady state plus an epilogue. The
    last Stages tiles have no successor to prefetch, so hoisting that case out
    makes both the wait depth and the issue unconditional in the hot loop.

  * Raise kPerCtaGBs 30 -> 43 and kOnboardGridMult 1.25 -> 1.45. Offload now
    sustains 40.15 GiB/s per CTA and onboard 44.10; fitting the offload sweep
    to X = min(N*lambda, Xmax) gives 0.78% RMS. On GH200 this selects 8 and 12
    CTAs at 97% and 94% of plateau -- two SMs cheaper per direction than the
    values it replaces.

Together these bring the paged kernel to within 1% of a plain contiguous copy
at every working-set size, which had been the open optimization target.

Also add debug-only asserts on the page index (range and sign) now that the
range test has moved out of pageBasesFor, and document why the codec rejects a
null stream rather than defaulting it: cuMemcpyBatchAsync specifies "must not
be legacy NULL stream" and fails both 0 and CU_STREAM_LEGACY.

Tests: KVCM2 C++ unit tests and 213 python tests pass. The kernel path was
additionally exercised on GH200 and on sm_90 with asserts enabled, covering
both mappers, ragged tails and the unaligned fallback.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
…migration stream

ColdGpuTierSupportsSingleSlotRoundTrip poisons the hot page between the two
copySlotData() calls to prove the restore actually writes it back, but it issued
that poison with cudaMemset(). cudaMemset() runs on the legacy NULL stream and is
asynchronous with respect to the host for device memory, and the test's stream is
created with cudaStreamNonBlocking, which is exempt from the legacy stream's
implicit synchronization. Nothing ordered the two, so the poison was free to land
after the restore that was supposed to overwrite it and zero part of the page.

Issue both memsets on the test's stream instead, which orders them against the
migrations without a device-wide barrier and lets the two intermediate syncs go.

The race is decided by how long the restore takes, so the test passed while the
default codec used a per-page descriptor loop and started failing once
BatchedPageCopier made the copy fast enough to lose. Confirmed by flipping only
the stream flag to cudaStreamDefault: with the original body otherwise untouched,
the legacy stream's implicit ordering makes it pass 15/15. No product code is
involved.

Tests: kvCacheManagerV2ColdPageTest 14/14 (20/20 on the repaired case alone), the
KVCM2 C++ unit tests, and 213 KVCM2 python tests pass.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
The growth path in KvCache::resize() computes its own per-lifecycle slot counts
inline, so nothing has called _increaseCapacity() for some time. It has no
callers in the library or the tests.

Removing it also drops the only route to _recordMigratedSlots() and
_recordDroppedPages() that did not run under KvCacheManager's exclusive lock,
which matters for the locking work that follows. Every other helper it used --
_getStaleRange, _resizePageIndexBuffers, _recordMigratedSlots,
_recordDroppedPages, newGpuSlots -- still has live callers.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
…nconditionally

resume() already required a stream to be set by then, but checked it with
TLLM_CHECK_DEBUG_WITH_INFO, which is gated on DebugConfig::isCheckDebugEnabled()
and so does not run in a normal build. Without a stream, mFinishEvent is never
constructed; the violation then surfaces several calls later as a
std::bad_optional_access thrown out of ~SharedPageLock during suspend(). Throwing
from a destructor terminates, so the user sees a bare core dump with no
indication that the actual mistake was at resume().

Promote the check to TLLM_CHECK_WITH_INFO so it reports the real error at the
real place. A stream may be supplied either as the argument or beforehand via the
cuda_stream property, so the check tests mCudaStream rather than the argument.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Guard the state shared between KvCaches with one per-manager reader-writer lock,
so a slow resize() can run on a background thread while probe_reuse() serves
prefix-match queries from another.

The lock is a ReentrantSharedMutex: a nested exclusive acquisition on the owning
thread is a no-op, so public APIs may call one another without splitting each
into a locking wrapper plus an unlocked _impl. A shared -> exclusive upgrade
deadlocks on std::shared_mutex, so it is rejected rather than left to hang.

The guarantee covers the surface exposed through nanobind and the .pyi stubs.
The lock protects state shared *between* KvCaches, not the fields of one: each
KvCache is driven by its owning thread, and calling into the same KvCache from
two threads remains unsupported. Introspection APIs are excluded.

Two properties the locking depends on:

  * BlockRadixTree::matchTokenPath() must be read-only, since probe_reuse() runs
    it under a shared lock. It no longer drains the pending root erases: that
    erases from mRoots and destroys a SharedPtr<RootBlock> whose refcount is
    non-atomic, so two concurrent probes could double-erase and double-free.
    addOrGetExisting() and clear() still drain, both under the exclusive lock.

  * A binding that can block on the lock must release the GIL first.
    KvCacheManager reacquires the GIL under the lock to run the priority
    callback and the event sink, so a binding that blocks while holding it
    deadlocks against the lock holder. Where the lambda builds its own result,
    the release is scoped to the C++ call alone; nb::call_guard would cover the
    Python-object construction too.

PlannedDropHandle takes the exclusive lock in its constructor and in drop(): it
mutates the shared eviction list and non-atomic refcounts, its binding releases
the GIL, and its destructor can fire on any thread CPython collects on.

Two nanobind wrappers that only forwarded to nb::cast() are gone, letting
get_committed_stats and commit_pending_stats bind the C++ method directly under
a call_guard -- nanobind converts the result after destroying the guard.

Tests: kvCacheManagerV2ConcurrencyTest and test_kv_cache_concurrency.py are new,
and each was verified to fail with the corresponding fix reverted: the C++ ones
fail outright with the drain restored, and the Python ones hang until the
faulthandler watchdog fires when a GIL release is removed. A Python-level
watchdog cannot work here, because the deadlock holds the GIL that one needs to
run. 76 KVCM2 C++ tests and 217 python tests pass.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Review follow-up to "Make KVCM2 public APIs thread-safe without the GIL".
That change established the rule that a binding which can block on the API
lock must release the GIL first, but three paths still violated it, and all
three deadlock against a lock holder waiting on gil_scoped_acquire to run the
priority callback:

  * The capacity / history_length property setters reach KvCache::resize(),
    which takes the exclusive lock. def_prop_rw has no call_guard unless one
    is written by hand.
  * ~KvCache() calls close(), and ~PlannedDropHandle() applies its plan --
    both take the exclusive lock, and nanobind runs them from tp_dealloc with
    the GIL held. A destructor has no call_guard hook at all, so introduce
    OptionalGilRelease, which drops the GIL for the scope only when the
    calling thread actually holds it. These objects are also destroyed on
    pure-C++ paths where there may be no interpreter, hence the runtime probe
    rather than an unconditional nb::gil_scoped_release.

Also drop the outstanding conversation drop plans before shutting the manager
down: discarding a PlannedDropHandle applies its plan, which mutates manager
state, so it has to happen while the manager is still up.

Remove ReentrantSharedMutex::sSharedDepth and the two assertions reading it.
The counter was per-thread but not per-mutex, so it described "shared locks
held on any instance", which is not the question the assertions asked; it
reported a false positive for a thread legitimately holding one manager's
lock while taking another's. Making it per-mutex is more machinery than a
diagnostic warrants, so the constraints are documented as unchecked rules
instead. This also takes two thread-local ops off the shared-lock path.

Add concurrency regression tests for the three deadlocks. Each was verified
to hang on a build without the corresponding fix. Two details matter for them
to bite: the main loop must wait until the antagonist thread is actually
cycling through the lock, and the antagonist needs fresh tokens per iteration
so it keeps committing and re-entering Python under the lock. The suite also
gains the requires-C++-backend gate its sibling uses; the pure-Python backend
has no API lock, so these tests would race against it.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Two independent defects found while reviewing the cold-page copy path.

1. queryNvmlLink() conflated "NVML answered something" with "the topology is
known", and treated its PCIe branch as a catch-all rather than a positive
determination. Two ways that misfired, both silently reporting a Grace system
as discrete PCIe and so disabling the LDGSTS kernel on the platform it was
written for:

  * NVML_FI_DEV_C2C_LINK_COUNT succeeds but NVML_FI_DEV_C2C_LINK_GET_MAX_BW
    does not. The max-BW field reports the speed of *active* links -- hence the
    separate LINK_GET_STATUS field -- so it is state-dependent where the count
    is pure topology, and nvmlDeviceGetFieldValues() is documented to return
    NVML_SUCCESS when any requested field was populated, with a per-field
    nvmlReturn that must be checked separately.
  * nvmlDeviceGetFieldValues() answers no C2C field at all -- an older driver
    branch, or a virtualized or permission-restricted environment. The PCIe
    estimate then succeeded and the function returned true, suppressing the
    CUDA fallback entirely.

The second is not hypothetical: on an H100 PCIe host with driver 580.126.09
all three C2C fields return NVML_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED rather than a count of 0,
so "link count unknown" is the ordinary state on non-C2C hardware. The old
PCIe branch therefore never established anything; it only defaulted, and would
have defaulted the same way on a Grace host whose driver did not serve the
field.

Split detection into the two properties the copier actually consumes.
`coherent` selects the copy path and comes from
cudaDevAttrPageableMemoryAccessUsesHostPageTables, which cannot partially fail;
an NVML C2C link count can only raise it, never clear it. (HMM does not
false-positive: it sets cudaDevAttrPageableMemoryAccess instead, confirmed on
the same host reporting pageableMemoryAccess=1 and usesHostPageTables=0.)
`bandwidthGBs` only feeds the CTA count and is always resolved, falling back to
a conservative default when NVML cannot supply one. C2C and PCIe bandwidth stay
separate inside the detection so a PCIe reading is never applied to a coherent
link, but the PCIe value is read whenever no C2C bandwidth was obtained: gating
it on a link count of 0 would skip it on every host where the C2C fields are
NOT_SUPPORTED, which is precisely where it is the only real reading available.
Also drop Topology::c2cLinkCount, which was only ever written.

2. The negative-page-index guard in the cold-page codec was gated twice: by
#ifndef NDEBUG and, inside it, by TLLM_CHECK_DEBUG. The latter is runtime-gated
rather than compiled out, so the outer guard made the check dead in exactly the
builds that ship. Its comment claimed the copy path carries matching
assertions, but those are device-side assert(), which CUDA also compiles out
under NDEBUG -- so nothing checked a negative index in a release build, and one
sign-extends into a wild device address rather than faulting cleanly. Drop the
NDEBUG gate and collapse the per-page loop into a single std::all_of, which
also means TLLM_CHECK_DEBUG evaluates its runtime gate once per dispatch
instead of once per page.

Verified on the H100 PCIe host: detection is unchanged at non-coherent,
32.0 GB/s (Gen4 x16) rather than the 64.0 GB/s fallback constant, and the
cold-page and codec suites (25 tests) pass under both TLLM_DEBUG_MODE=1 and the
default, exercising the newly reachable check.

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SimplePool::get()/put() mutate a std::deque and a plain int with no
synchronization. Before the API lock landed the GIL serialized every caller, so
this was safe by accident; it no longer is.

The API lock cannot cover it. CudaEventPool and CudaStreamPool are process-wide
singletons shared by every KvCacheManager, so per-manager locks do not serialize
them. Nor is the exposure limited to paths that take the lock: put() runs from
the PoolItem destructor, and CachedCudaEvent is a bound type handed to Python by
_KVCache.finish_event, so any thread dropping the last reference -- including
Python's GC -- can push to the deque while the engine thread pops from it.
_KVCache.cuda_stream is one instance of this: its setter builds a CachedCudaEvent
on an ACTIVE cache, touching only per-KvCache state plus the shared pool.

Guard every SimplePool method with a mutex. Measured on H100/x86, an uncontended
lock/unlock is ~6ns against the ~160ns of make_shared plus cuEventRecord that
every get() already pays, and the pools are touched per resize, migration and
suspend/resume rather than per page. Neither create nor destroy callback
re-enters its pool, so holding the lock across them cannot deadlock.

The comment records the upgrade path should this ever show up in a profile: a
thread_local pool per thread, a depleted pool stealing a batch from another
thread's pool, and the mutex confined to the steal path.

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…o KVCM2 contracts

Review follow-ups, all in kv_cache_manager_v2.

ReentrantSharedMutex::mOwnerThread was default-initialized. std::atomic's
default constructor does not initialize the value before C++20 and this target
builds as C++17, so the id started out indeterminate; a value that happened to
match a live thread's id would make every lock acquisition on that thread a
silent no-op, corrupting state with no diagnostic. Initialize it explicitly.

Document the page-index contract on PageIndexPair and on IKvCacheColdPageCodec's
encode()/decode(): indices are non-negative and in range by construction, since
KVCM2 derives them from concrete allocated pages, and implementations may use
them unchecked. Validation is not merely expensive -- an O(numBasePages) scan on
the eviction critical path -- but impossible once the array lives in device
memory. This states what the codec already assumes; the surviving host-path
check is a debug-only sanity check, not the contract.

Drop BatchedPageCopier's device parameter. computeConfigs() calls
cudaFuncSetAttribute, which applies to the current device, so a copier
constructed for some other device would describe one device in its topology and
set kernel attributes on another. Only the current device was ever passed;
removing the parameter makes that the documented rule instead of a latent
inconsistency.

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…checks

The doc still said a shared -> exclusive upgrade "is asserted in debug builds".
That assertion, and the shared-nesting one beside it, were removed along with
the process-wide sSharedDepth counter they depended on: it was per-thread but
not per-mutex, so it answered a different question than the assertions asked.
Both constraints are now unchecked rules, which the header says but the doc
did not -- a reader trusting the doc would expect a diagnostic where the actual
failure mode is a silent hang.

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PlannedDropHandle held a raw KvCacheManager*, which the nanobind binding lets
outlive the manager:

    handle = cache.plan_committed_block_drop()
    cache.close(); del cache
    manager.shutdown(); del manager
    del handle          # ~PlannedDropHandle dereferenced a dangling manager

Hold a shared_ptr instead, obtained the same way KvCache already obtains one.
The handle takes the manager's API lock in its constructor, in drop() and in
the destructor, so the manager has to still exist at each of those points.

Keep <Python.h> out of the KVCM2 core. OptionalGilRelease has to release the
GIL from destructors, where nb::call_guard has no hook, but the core must not
depend on the Python C API. It now calls through a GilHooks function table the
nanobind layer installs at module init; with no bindings loaded the hooks stay
null and the class is a no-op.

The hook storage lives in optionalGilRelease.cpp, not in an inline variable in
the header. Each shared library gets its own copy of an inline variable, so the
installer in the bindings module wrote one object while the core read another
that stayed null -- which turns OptionalGilRelease into a silent no-op and
deadlocks the very destructor path it exists to protect.
test_dropping_the_last_kv_cache_reference_does_not_deadlock catches this.

Report double-drop through TLLM_CHECK_WITH_INFO rather than
std::invalid_argument. This changes the Python exception from ValueError to
RuntimeError; the header contract, the test and the Python backend are updated
to match.

Clarify the ReentrantSharedMutex nesting rules in AGENTS.md and the header it
points at. Both said "the shared side is NOT re-entrant" without qualification,
which reads as forbidding a pattern the code relies on: the guard compares the
owning thread before the requested mode, so asking for it shared while already
holding it exclusively is a no-op, and adjust() -> getQuota() depends on that.
Only nesting inside a shared acquisition is unsupported.

Also declare the migration staging buffer const.

Tests: 78 KVCM2 C++ tests and 223 python tests pass.
Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
…urrency tests

BatchedPageCopier kept the copy-engine descriptor vectors as members, so two
threads submitting migrations through the same codec could overwrite each
other's descriptors. Nothing does that today -- submitMigrationBatch runs under
the manager's exclusive lock -- but the safety depended on a lock two layers up
rather than on the copier itself.

Move the scratch into thread-local storage in launchCopyEngine(). The
allocation is still reused across calls, which is all the members were buying;
page identities change every eviction, so the contents never survived anyway.
The copier is now fixed at construction, launch() and launchCopyEngine() are
const, and ConcatKvCacheColdPageCodec::mCopier no longer needs to be mutable.

Replace scheduling delays in the concurrency tests with explicit
synchronisation. Two of them slept and then asserted that a contending thread
had not entered the lock, which passes just as well when that thread was never
scheduled -- a defective mutex would not have been caught. The contender now
signals immediately before it attempts acquisition, and the assertion waits for
that signal first.

SharedLocksAreConcurrent releases its readers from a common start barrier and
holds each one until every reader is inside, rather than sleeping and checking a
high-water mark; that both removes the flake where the first reader finished
before the last was scheduled and strengthens the claim from "two overlapped" to
"all of them did". ProbeReuseInterleavesWithExclusiveWork waits for the prober
to run before starting the writer and counts only the probes completed after
that, so the writer can no longer satisfy it by finishing first.

Every wait is bounded, so a regression fails the test instead of hanging CI.
Verified by making lockShared() return an exclusive guard:
SharedLocksAreConcurrent fails with "readers serialised" instead of passing.

Tests: 84 KVCM2 C++ tests and 230 python tests pass.
Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
…ure modes

Three problems in the tests added earlier in this PR, all of which made them
look stronger than they were.

Fatal assertions ran while worker threads were still joinable. ASSERT_* returns
from the function immediately, so a firing assertion would have destroyed a
joinable std::thread and terminated the process instead of reporting which check
failed. The three sites now use EXPECT_* and guard the dependent checks, so the
join always runs.

ProbeReuseInterleavesWithExclusiveWork evaluated its loop condition before the
first iteration, so if the prober had already cleared kMinProbes between
sampling the baseline and the check, the writer performed no exclusive work at
all and the test passed having exercised no interleaving. It is now a do/while,
so at least one exclusive mutation always happens.

The same test could also hang. glibc's rwlock prefers readers, so a continuous
stream of probeReuse() shared acquisitions can starve the writer, and
getAndResetIterationStats() would then block with no bound. The prober now stops
on its own deadline and yields between probes, so starvation ends the run and
fails the assertion rather than hanging CI.

Tests: 84 KVCM2 C++ tests and 230 python tests pass; both concurrency binaries
run 5x without flaking.

Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>

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ConcurrentProbeReuseIsSafe started each worker probing the moment it was
constructed, so the scheduler was free to run the eight loops one after another.
The test would then pass without ever having two probes in flight, which is the
only thing it exists to check.

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have arrived. Both waits are bounded and the release is unconditional, so a
worker that never starts fails the readiness check instead of leaving the others
parked on a barrier that never opens.

Tests: 84 KVCM2 C++ tests pass; the concurrency binary runs 5x without flaking.
The change is confined to test sources, so the python suite is unaffected.

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