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feat: simulate grouped prefix caching in the vLLM scheduler and plan it from probe evidence - #781
Before this PR, Rust and Python refused prefix caching for a grouped FPM cache, so a grouped profile replayed only cold. Predictions for hybrid-attention models, such as GLM-5.3-Flash, then showed no reuse of shared prompt prefixes. With runtime probe evidence, this PR turns grouped prefix caching on. It uses the group markers of #779 and the coordinator of #780.
Rust gate. EngineConfig gains the optional vllm_version. A rank with kv_cache_groups and enable_prefix_caching must pass a new gate, which includes vLLM's startup capacity check. Its pool then runs in block mode.
Admission follows vLLM's waiting path. The scheduler looks up the hit once per waiting candidate. The whole prompt must fit, and cached blocks that no request holds count as room. Then the first chunk must fit, without the window cap. A request that fails either test waits, preempts nothing and leaves its hit blocks in place in the LRU. Without chunked prefill, only the tokens after the hit count against the step budget. After the rebase onto main, the G1 prefix-cache lookup count of main (g1_prefix_cache_lookup) records that grouped hit at each lookup.
Replay rejects only a prompt that does not fit the empty pool. A request whose hit needs more blocks than the pool holds waits, because running requests can evict its hit blocks.
The prefill split follows the rule table of the version. The last commit limits it to a rank with a prefix-cacheable Mamba state group, as in vLLM.
Block mode reports kv_cache_cached_bytes. The cached blocks count as inactive blocks and in the physical cache usage, and the active usage leaves them out. The doc comment of active_cache_usage in crates/core/src/replay/telemetry.rs states that split. The replay dashboard adds the cached bytes to the used bytes of a grouped rank, so its resident cache keeps the retained prefixes, as the physical cache usage of a linear rank does.
Python. grouped_prefix_caching_requirements in config/engine.py holds one rule for prediction, the sweeper and the onboarding plan. The evidence is a probe that ran with enable_prefix_caching: true and recorded hash_block_size_tokens. Both gates refuse a convolution group with prefix caching on. If the deployment passes the whole rule, the plan turns prefix caching on. Otherwise it plans a cold replay.
validate-fpm keeps its replay cold, because it tests FPM timing. It also drops an explicit prefix_match_unit from that replay. This is hardening of the derived configuration. onboard validate-fpm cannot reach that state today, because the plan never writes the unit and check_plan refuses a changed pilot.
vllm_backend.rs, policy.rs and config.rs adapt rules of vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0. Their headers name both revisions, and the notice entry names the rule that each one adapts.
Without the evidence, a grouped profile keeps the cold-replay refusal. Every path with prefix caching off, and every linear path, keeps its results. The consumers are users who predict or recommend hybrid-attention deployments from an FPM profile. The docs still say that grouped replay needs prefix_caching: false until #782 updates them, so this PR merges together with #782.
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Risk level: high. The scheduler path of grouped ranks changes, generated plans turn prefix caching on with probe evidence, and Rust and Python gain public fields.
Start with: crates/core/src/engine/config.rs (validate_grouped_prefix_caching), then scheduler/vllm/policy.rs (decide_grouped_waiting_admission), scheduler/vllm/core.rs and kv_manager/vllm_backend.rs (allocate_lease, finalize_computed_prefix). In Python, start with config/engine.py, support/plan.py and support/validation.py.
Public or serialized contract changed: yes, additive.
EngineConfig.vllm_version: Option<String>, Metrics.kv_cache_cached_bytes: Option<u64> and ReplaySchedulerMetricsSnapshot.kv_cache_cached_bytes: Option<u64>. All are optional. If vllm_version or the snapshot field is absent, JSON leaves it out.
With the evidence, generated configurations of a grouped profile set kv_cache.prefix_caching: true. The compiler and sweeper/deploy.py then give its native ranks prefix_match_unit (the probe's hash block), vllm_version and max_model_len.
New Rust texts, after kv_cache_groups with enable_prefix_caching=true: require every group to declare prefix_cacheable, require equal page_size_bytes across groups, require prefix_match_unit, require vllm_version 0.31.0 or 0.32.0, require max_model_len and need capacity for the full prompt of max_model_len plus the state blocks of one request. Also vllm_version requires kv_cache_groups and prefix_match_unit on kv_cache_groups requires enable_prefix_caching=true. The rule-table texts of feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780 reach users through this gate.
New Python texts, after grouped FPM cache prefix caching: requires every cache group to declare prefix_cacheable; re-import the runtime probe, requires mamba_cache_mode=align for a prefix-cacheable state group, is modeled for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 only and requires equal page_size_bytes across cache groups. Also kv_cache.prefix_match_unit must equal the profile's hash_block_size_tokens for a grouped FPM cache, GLM-5.3-Flash prefix caching requires prefix_match_unit and max_batched_tokens that are multiples of 4, and the convolution text of feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780.
Changed Rust texts: the refusal kv_cache_groups currently require enable_prefix_caching=false is gone. prefix_match_unit currently requires state_cache now reads prefix_match_unit currently requires state_cache or kv_cache_groups.
Compatibility or rollback concern: earlier code refuses a native rank with vllm_version and a grouped plan with prefix_caching: true, so a rollback needs new plans. In the Dynamo adapter (ai-dynamo/dynamo at b0280f7d), all 10 EngineConfig literals end with ..EngineConfig::default(), and all 5 Metrics literals with ..Metrics::default(). So the new fields need no Dynamo change.
Planning runs only the Python rule. The Rust rule table and the capacity rule run at replay. So a profile that fails only a Rust check plans prefix caching on and is refused at replay. An example is a vLLM 0.32.0 profile whose prefix-cacheable state groups lack prefill_checkpoint_blocks. Today's import always writes that field. Follow-up AISIM-2347 holds this check, with the sweeper's profile reload per candidate.
Replay keys blocks of prompt tokens only. If every prefix-cacheable group is full attention, a next turn that repeats output tokens hits fewer tokens than in vLLM. Convolution groups replay only cold. Follow-up AISIM-2349 holds both.
If a request's hit needs more blocks than the pool holds and no other request runs, vLLM keeps it waiting forever. Replay then stops with its generic error replay invariant violated: offline replay detected an effect-free zero-duration pass.
Evidence
Tests: at d23b71f3f, cargo check --locked -p aisim-core --all-targets finished with two dead-code warnings, is_leaf and slot_layouts, which main also has, and cargo test --locked -p aisim-core --lib grouped gave 77 passed. tests/test_replay_dashboard.py gives 32 passed there. At ab8816222, an earlier stack head with the same code as the current head, cargo test --locked -p aisim-core passes (lib 3,014, runtime_contract 29). The Python suites there show only the 9 local failures that the base 244a3b174 also has, and test: prove grouped prefix caching on two vLLM versions and document it #782 gives the counts.
Fast CI: passed at d23b71f3f (run 42559971931). A duplicate run, 42559971198, was cancelled by the concurrency group.
Full CI: passed at d23b71f3f (run 42559975353).
CodeRabbit reviewed commit: d23b71f3f (review 5825308109). It posted three comments. The first concerns the version check of a grouped rank with prefix caching off. The second concerns a unit test of the cached-bytes field. The third concerns the KV use row of docs/getting-started/understand-results.md. Each thread has a reply. AISIM-2361 holds the version check. Its first review covered 4352c853d, the head before the rebase onto main.
Codex reviewed commit: 4352c853d. Six local Codex passes ran on this PR. The first five found defects that this PR now covers, one of them a P1, each with a test that failed before. The sixth pass found only three repeats of the items under Known limits. Its patch differs from the pushed head d23b71f3f in the rebase onto main, the replay dashboard, comments, the file headers and the notice text.
test_grouped_prefix_caching_needs_vllm_evidence_with_align_mode covers the Python texts, keeps the cold-replay text without the evidence, and passes 0.32.0. A plan stays cold for a convolution group, a state group outside align mode, vLLM 0.30.0 or 0.25.1, or a probe without the hash block. For GLM, a budget of 8,190 and a hash block of 2,174 are refused, and 8,192 passes. The sweeper refuses an 8,190 candidate before replay.
A 40,000-token prompt is rejected in a 20-block pool. Under contention, a prompt or first chunk that does not fit waits, preempts nothing and keeps its hit blocks in their LRU place. FIFO holds, and eviction takes the oldest cached block first.
On both rows, the split stays off for full attention alone, with a sliding window and with a ring. A GLM rank keeps its split.
Expected-value derivation:
GLM capacity at max_model_len 131,072: cdiv(131072, 2176) + (2 + checkpoint) * 4 + 1 is 61 + 8 + 1 = 70 blocks, or 74 with checkpoint blocks. So 69 and 73 blocks are refused, and 70 and 74 pass.
The GLM multi-turn test runs 0.31.0, 0.32.0, and 0.32.0 with checkpoint blocks, at a budget of 8,192. Turn two (13,000 tokens) hits (9000 - 1) / 2176 * 2176 = 8,704. During its first step, 14 blocks are active: 5 attention blocks (4 pinned, 1 fresh), 1 ring block and 2 per KDA group. With checkpoint blocks the chunk runs to the prompt end: 6 attention blocks, 1 ring block and 3 per KDA group, 19 in all. After the step the 4 hit blocks return to the cache, so 10 or 15 stay active. A request that shares only 2,176 tokens hits 0, because retention 0 keeps no state there. Turn three hits (13000 - 1) / 2176 * 2176 = 10,880.
A hit above the pool: groups of 16-token blocks, hash unit 4, max_model_len 34 and a pool of cdiv(34, 16) + 2 = 5 blocks. A 33-token prompt that repeats a finished 13-token request needs 7 blocks with its 12-token hit, but 4 cold. So it waits. Next to a running request, it starts after that request ends, with 0 reused tokens.
Without chunked prefill, at a budget of 16 with two running decodes, 14 tokens are left. A 15-token prompt with 12 cached tokens needs 3, so it starts with 12 reused, as on the linear core.
After one 9,000-token GLM request ends, 8 blocks stay cached: 4 attention blocks and 4 KDA states at 8,704. Physical usage is 8 / 64 = 0.125, active usage is 0 and the inactive count is 8.
Before/after output: with prefix caching off, nothing changes. The perf-model parity tests passed (389) with no golden refresh after the first Codex fix wave. The three replay parity rows give the same output on main c31fe8101, on the base 244a3b174 and at ab8816222, an earlier stack head with the same code (see test: prove grouped prefix caching on two vLLM versions and document it #782). With the evidence, generated plans set prefix_caching: true, so predictions of such profiles now include prefix reuse.
Modeling or data provenance
The gate and the scheduler follow a static reading of the pinned vLLM trees, 0.31.0 at db9527a4 and 0.32.0 at 5df63a72. The CPU oracle job 1743856 of #780 compared this scheduler with vLLM on both versions. Its GLM-5.3-Flash hits, chunks, blocks and finishes are equal in every row. The GLM-5.3-Flash values come from the Stage 3 probe of #677 on vLLM 0.31.0. At its max_model_len of 1,048,576, the capacity rule needs cdiv(1048576, 2176) + 4 * 2 + 1 = 491 blocks, and its 180,218,332,800-byte cache holds 13,815 blocks. So the gate admits the probed deployment. The 0.32.0 path runs only on test profiles and the oracle trace, because no 0.32.0 probe import exists yet.
Risk: High. The three areas needing the most human attention are: grouped-cache admission, allocation, eviction, and capacity accounting in the Rust scheduler; Rust configuration validation for cache geometry, capacity, and supported vLLM versions; and Python’s use of runtime probe evidence to enable prefix caching.
Changed behavior and contracts
Rust adds grouped prefix caching for supported vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 configurations. Validation checks cache-group geometry, model length, and capacity. The scheduler tracks grouped hits and reports cached-byte telemetry.
Python applies shared grouped-prefix requirements across prediction, sweeping, and planning. When the requirements pass, these flows can enable prefix caching and propagate the match unit and vLLM version. validate-fpm remains cold.
Public contracts add optional vllm_version configuration and optional kv_cache_cached_bytes metrics. Grouped-prefix rule APIs and lease behavior also change.
A runtime-contract test covers a prefix hit larger than the pool that leaves a request waiting and triggers an effect-free zero-duration-pass invariant error.
Some documentation still describes grouped replay as requiring prefix_caching: false. The changed code supports eligible grouped-prefix replay, so this documentation needs reconciliation.
Evidence and merge readiness
The merge-base diff contains 34 files, with 4,299 additions and 1,859 removals.
The diff adds grouped-prefix unit, scheduler, runtime-contract, and Python workflow tests.
The supplied notes report Rust test results at an earlier stack commit and 389 perf-model parity tests after an earlier fix wave. They do not establish completed checks on the current head. The author reported Fast CI and Full CI as pending; exact-current-head CI results are not available.
Current review findings are not available. The bot’s reported comments and check rollup do not establish approval.
Technical quality evidence is limited to the reported earlier-commit checks and the added tests. Merge readiness is not established without exact-head CI results, current review findings, and a decision on the documented capacity edge case and conflicting replay documentation.
The pull request adds grouped prefix caching for grouped KV caches. It adds versioned cache rules and capacity checks, connects cache hits to scheduling and allocation, and propagates configuration and cached-byte metrics through replay and Python workflows.
Grouped-prefix rules calculate startup and admission blocks, align prefill, and estimate allocation. The grouped pool adds block-count queries and test-only peak tracking. Tests cover rules and coordinator behavior; documentation and notices describe grouped-cache requirements and provenance.
Configuration and validation crates/core/src/engine/config.rs, crates/core/src/engine/common/protocols.rs, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/config/engine.py
Rust and Python configuration validate grouped prefix caching, including supported vLLM versions, cache-group declarations and geometry, runtime evidence, and capacity requirements.
Manager and scheduler integration crates/core/src/engine/kv_manager/g1_manager.rs, crates/core/src/engine/kv_manager/vllm_backend.rs, crates/core/src/engine/scheduler/vllm/core.rs, crates/core/src/engine/scheduler/vllm/policy.rs, crates/core/src/engine/scheduler/vllm/grouped_tests.rs
The manager and scheduler use grouped-prefix hits to calculate prefill costs, admit requests, allocate and finalize blocks, and handle capacity limits. Waiting requests do not trigger policy preemption when grouped prefix rules are enabled.
Compiler, planning, validation, and sweeper paths apply grouped-cache requirements and pass prefix-match units, vLLM versions, and model lengths to engine configurations. Workflow tests cover validation, replay, onboarding, and recommendations.
Cached grouped-cache bytes are added to engine and replay metrics. Dashboard utilization includes cached bytes, and runtime tests cover cached-byte reporting and a capacity-related replay invariant.
ai-dynamo/aisimulate#681: Adds vLLM hybrid attention and state prefix-reuse rules; this change also addresses prefix-match-unit behavior for grouped caches.
Merge Risk: Low · up to d23b7
Grouped prefix caching is gated on runtime probe evidence, and the default remains cold replay. Two small gaps remain: a plan that falls back to cold replay does not say why, and a cold grouped config accepts an unsupported vllm_version string. Neither affects replay results today, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness of both follow-ups.
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Cross-Layer Contract
The grouped-cache documentation remains stale. support/plan.py:152-168 now enables prefix caching for eligible grouped profiles, but docs/replay/features.md:24, `docs/replay/engine/kv-cache.md:597…
Update the grouped-cache documentation in the reviewed range to describe the probe evidence and version requirements, enabled prediction and recommendation paths, and cold validate-fpm replay. Remove the contradictory cold-only guidance, …
Compatibility Boundaries
Python and Rust grouped-prefix requirements remain out of sync. The new planner enables prefix caching after the Python checks (support/plan.py:154-168, config/engine.py:1317-1366). Those checks a…
Synchronize Python planning and validation with the Rust version, geometry, and capacity requirements. Add cross-boundary rejection cases. Update the grouped-cache documentation to describe evidence-based prefix caching and the cold `valida…
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Modeling And Data Evidence
The PR supplies pinned vLLM source provenance and reproducible numerical checks. grouped_prefix_tests.rs:1096-1123 ports an upstream split case, and grouped_tests.rs:595-728 checks cold replay, pr…
Review Evidence
The description names commands and results, separates local and parity results from probe and oracle evidence, and marks CI as pending. It describes relevant boundary cases; the diff adds correspondin…
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The description follows the repository template closely. It covers the why and what, the review map with risk level and cross-layer contracts, and a detailed evidence section with exact test commands,…
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The title "feat: simulate grouped prefix caching in the vLLM scheduler and plan it from probe evidence" names the main behavioral change: grouped prefix caching in the vLLM scheduler, gated by probe evidence in the Python planning flow. The changeset matches it: Rust gate and admission logic, block-mode cache accounting, and Python requirements and plan changes. The title is specific and does not use a vague term. It is 91 characters, which is long, but the title requirement does not set a length limit.
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The PR supplies pinned vLLM source provenance and reproducible numerical checks. grouped_prefix_tests.rs:1096-1123 ports an upstream split case, and grouped_tests.rs:595-728 checks cold replay, prefix reuse, block counts, and prefill inputs. The PR description explains the expected values and the prior grouped-cache refusal. No golden files are refreshed. The reported external oracle job was not independently inspected.
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The description names commands and results, separates local and parity results from probe and oracle evidence, and marks CI as pending. It describes relevant boundary cases; the diff adds corresponding validation and replay tests. It does not cite inactive nested workflows or fake-runner results as hosted CI evidence. The oracle artifacts were not independently verified.
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The description follows the repository template closely. It covers the why and what, the review map with risk level and cross-layer contracts, and a detailed evidence section with exact test commands, CI run IDs, and expected-value derivations. It includes a modeling/provenance section and tracking links. The Feature Support Matrix line is not explicitly marked as updated or unaffected, and the Codex reviewed commit is present but tied to an earlier commit (4352c85) than the pushed head (d23b71f). These are minor gaps. The description is mostly complete.
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The grouped-cache documentation remains stale. support/plan.py:152-168 now enables prefix caching for eligible grouped profiles, but docs/replay/features.md:24, docs/replay/engine/kv-cache.md:597-602, and docs/perf-model/fpm-self-service/implementation.md:585,1488,2126 still require cold replay or disabled prefix caching. Users who follow that guidance lose prefix reuse. The prior telemetry concern is addressed: crates/core/src/replay/telemetry.rs:59-64 now distinguishes active and physical usage.
Resolution
Update the grouped-cache documentation in the reviewed range to describe the probe evidence and version requirements, enabled prediction and recommendation paths, and cold validate-fpm replay. Remove the contradictory cold-only guidance, or include the stacked documentation changes in this range.
Full details: Compatibility Boundaries
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Python and Rust grouped-prefix requirements remain out of sync. The new planner enables prefix caching after the Python checks (support/plan.py:154-168, config/engine.py:1317-1366). Those checks accept a vLLM 0.32.0 cacheable state group without prefill_checkpoint_blocks, but Rust rejects it (grouped_prefix.rs:216-220). Python also omits Rust geometry and startup-capacity checks (grouped_prefix.rs:130-165, config.rs:1223-1237). The generated plan can therefore fail at replay. The documentation still says grouped prediction and recommendation must use prefix_caching: false (docs/perf-model/fpm-self-service/implementation.md:2126).
Resolution
Synchronize Python planning and validation with the Rust version, geometry, and capacity requirements. Add cross-boundary rejection cases. Update the grouped-cache documentation to describe evidence-based prefix caching and the cold validate-fpm replay.
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Review comments at @python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/support/plan.py:
- Around line 157-168: Keep the `prefix_caching = False` fallback in the
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Update the grouped-cache documentation and telemetry field descriptions in this
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# Shared vLLM/TRT-LLM Scheduler
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tests/test_fpm_grouped_workflow.py
[info] 154-166: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(
{
"schema_name": "aic_fpm_forward_perf",
"schema_version": 6,
"coordinate_system": "iteration_totals_balanced_v1",
"measurement_policy": "dynamo_native_single_sample_v1",
"system": "h200_sxm",
"backend": "vllm",
"backend_version": version,
"row_count": len(rows),
"parquet_sha256": hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest(),
}
)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
The direct DGD renderer maps agg_enable_prefix_caching into the worker’s KV-cache configuration, so changed recommendation choices can affect deployments. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/aisimulate/output/dgd/renderers/direct/materializer.py:47-55] [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/aisimulate/output/dgd/renderers/direct/materializer.py:157-164]
The circular-buffer warm-up implementation describes the vLLM 0.32.0 ring as non-cacheable and one block per request, consistent with the PR’s ring accounting. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py:5627-5642]
Dynamo pins AISimulate to a specific development version; consuming this change requires a dependency update. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::pyproject.toml:17]
ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator
The FPM collector uses different prefix-caching policies for prefill and decode regimes; decode configuration can explicitly disable it. This matters when selecting runtime evidence for grouped prefix caching. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::collector/fpm_forward/runner.py:75-108]
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crates/core/src/engine/common/protocols.rs: 1
229-232: LGTM!
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8-8: LGTM!
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…ersion
A grouped KV cache rank can now run with enable_prefix_caching on. The
rank names the vLLM release it follows in the new optional field
vllm_version (0.31.0 or 0.32.0), so that the grouped rule table of the
coordinator applies the matching hit, split and retention rules. The
field is a string, so the gate can name a wrong value in its error.
The configuration gate replaces the old refusal of prefix caching with
groups. With groups and prefix caching on it requires prefix_cacheable
on every group, one page size, prefix_match_unit, a supported
vllm_version, a rule table that accepts the groups, and a pool that
holds the full prompt of max_model_len plus the state blocks of one
request, summed per group as vLLM's startup check does. The rule table
refuses a convolution group, so a rank with one runs only with prefix
caching off. A rank without max_model_len bounds no prompt, so the
capacity rule does not apply there. vllm_version without groups and
prefix_match_unit without state_cache or groups are refused. A grouped
rank with prefix_match_unit and with prefix caching off is refused too,
because only prefix caching reads the unit.
The scheduler builds the grouped pool in block mode when prefix caching
is on and keeps byte mode otherwise. Admission searches the hit once per
waiting candidate, stores it on the lease and tests the whole prompt in
blocks, where inactive cached blocks stay evictable. Without chunked
prefill, admission compares the tokens after the hit with the step
budget, as vLLM does. The allocation then tests the blocks of the first
chunk without the window cap, as vLLM's allocate_slots does, before it
pins the hit and takes the fresh blocks. A waiting request that fails
either test waits and preempts no running request, as on vLLM's waiting
path, and its hit blocks keep their place in the LRU. Only a prompt
whose blocks do not fit the empty pool is rejected. A hit inside a block
can need more blocks than the pool holds, because its copy and inactive
blocks count. Such a request waits too, because vLLM searches the hit
again at the next step and running requests can evict the hit blocks.
With no running request, vLLM waits forever and the replay stops with
its livelock error. The align split comes from the rule table of the
version. Finalization publishes the cached blocks and state keys of the
step. Preemption and completion release the request's blocks tail first
and a preempted request searches its hit again. Block mode reports
kv_cache_cached_bytes next to the used bytes, counts the cached blocks
as inactive blocks and includes them in the physical cache usage. The
replay dashboard adds these cached bytes to the used bytes of a grouped
rank, so that its resident cache keeps the retained prefixes, as the
physical cache usage of a linear rank does. Every
path with prefix caching off, and every linear path, is unchanged.
The byte-mode API of the grouped pool now asserts its mode in debug
builds, the dead-code allowances of the two grouped modules go, and the
coordinator tests move to grouped_prefix_tests.rs. The prefix_cacheable
doc comment states the rule the gate enforces, and the block_size_tokens
doc comments say that grouped prefix caching reads the block of a state
group.
vllm_backend.rs, policy.rs and config.rs adapt rules of vLLM 0.31.0
and 0.32.0, so their headers name both revisions, and the notice entry
names the rule that each one adapts.
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Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
The grouped prefix-caching gate refused nothing for a rank without
max_model_len and skipped its capacity rule, and the scheduler then ran
the sliding-window admission cap without a model length. vLLM always
sizes the pool with a model length, and unsupported input fails loudly
in this repository, so the gate now refuses such a rank with
"kv_cache_groups with enable_prefix_caching=true require max_model_len"
and the scheduler always passes the real length to the admission
limits. Prefix caching off and the linear path are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
…p validate-fpm cold
A grouped FPM profile could only replay cold. The Rust scheduler now
models grouped prefix caching for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0, so Python
opens its gate when the profile carries the evidence of a runtime probe
that ran with prefix caching and recorded its hash block.
One helper in config/engine.py, grouped_prefix_caching_requirements,
holds the rule for the prediction, the sweeper and the onboarding plan.
It keeps the old cold-replay text for a profile without that evidence.
It refuses a group without the prefix_cacheable marker, a convolution
group, a prefix-cacheable state group outside mamba_cache_mode=align, a
vLLM version other than 0.31.0 and 0.32.0, unequal pages, and a
prefix_match_unit other than the probe's hash block. For GLM-5.3-Flash
it refuses a hash block or a budget off the 4-token grid of the indexer
cache. It returns the hash block that the rank uses. The convolution
refusal uses the text of the Rust rule table, because neither side
models a convolution group with prefix caching.
The compiler gives a grouped rank with prefix caching that hash block as
prefix_match_unit and the backend version as vllm_version. It already
writes max_model_len for every vLLM rank, which the Rust gate needs.
The sweeper builds its candidate ranks without the compiler, so
sweeper/deploy.py writes the same three keys and checks each candidate
with its own budget before replay. Without that, every candidate of such
a profile failed in the Rust gate with "require prefix_match_unit".
A grouped deployment with prefix caching may set prefix_match_unit
without state_cache. The engine validation checks it, because the cache
configuration does not see the profile. Every other case keeps the text
"prefix_match_unit currently requires state_cache".
The onboarding plan turns prefix caching on only when the deployment
passes grouped_prefix_caching_requirements, so the plan and the gate
share every check. Otherwise it plans a cold replay, as before, and a
profile that fails one requirement does not fail planning. validate-fpm
keeps its replay cold, because it tests FPM timing. It also drops an
explicit prefix_match_unit from that replay, because only prefix caching
reads the unit on a grouped rank. The test profiles with prefix-caching
evidence leave out the fictional convolution group of the grouped
fixture.
The doc comments of the probe's three prefix-caching fields, in Rust and
in Python, now say that grouped prefix caching needs them and that
replay hashes prompts in blocks of hash_block_size_tokens.
With prefix caching off, the payloads and the results do not change.
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Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
vLLM runs the align-mode prefill split only when the cache holds a
MambaSpec layer in align mode (v0.31 sched:354-356, :695-697,
:1127-1129, v0.32 sched:377-379, :724-726, :1173-1175). The grouped
scheduler asked the rule table for a split on every rank with grouped
prefix rules (core.rs:3026-3035). A rank without a Mamba group, such as
full attention with a sliding window, then got prefill chunks that vLLM
never makes: a stop at the last block boundary, a floor to the block, a
stop at the next boundary and a stop at the junction.
align_split now returns the desired tokens unless the rules hold a State
rule. A State rule is a prefix-cacheable Mamba group, which the Python
gate admits only with mamba_cache_mode align (engine.py:1348-1351). The
GLM tail ring is a KpoolTailSpec or a CircularBufferSpec, not a
MambaSpec, and is a Ring rule. GLM keeps its split and its schedules.
The new test runs on both rule rows, with one full-attention group and
with full attention plus a sliding window. The single-group parity test
of the next commit found the defect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
@coderabbitai The telemetry comment was stale and changed in fc32cb093, part of the pushed head d23b71f3f. The other points need no change in this PR, for the reasons below.
On the Cross-Layer Contract check, the stale docs are by construction. #782 updates them, and this PR merges together with #782, as its description says. At the #782 head f9243660d, docs/replay/features.md:24, docs/replay/engine/kv-cache.md:597-625 and docs/perf-model/fpm-self-service/implementation.md:2131 give the evidence rule, the cold validate-fpm replay and the native checks. crates/core/src/replay/telemetry.rs:59-61 now says that active_cache_usage is the active byte usage of a grouped cache. It also says that cached bytes that no request holds count in physical_cache_usage only, as core.rs:1952-1955 computes them. The replay dashboard of this PR adds kv_cache_cached_bytes to the used bytes of a grouped rank (replay/dashboard.py:84-94).
On the Compatibility Boundaries check, the Python and Rust gates still differ, and this PR states that as its first Known limit. Planning runs only the Python rule, and the Rust rule table and the capacity rule run at replay. Item 4 of AISIM-2347 holds the sharing of the Rust checks with planning. #782 replaces the sentence that grouped plans set prefix_caching: false (implementation.md:2131 at f9243660d).
On the Modeling And Data Evidence check, a comment on #780 gives the oracle facts. It also gives the hashes of the inputs and images, and the full row tables. The trace came from an earlier head of this stack. At the #782 head ab8816222, a new export of the trace gave every row byte for byte. Only the commit label in its first line differed. The current #782 head f9243660d changes only the order of two docs sentences.
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@Arsene12358 I agree that the documentation does not need to be duplicated in #781 if #782 is included in the same release.
Telemetry: The comment at d23b71f3f matches the active and physical usage calculations. The dashboard also includes cached bytes.
Documentation:#782 at f9243660d documents the evidence requirements, native checks, and cold validate-fpm replay. Before release, verify that the merged tree includes those changes.
Compatibility: The planning and replay gates still differ as described. A generated plan can therefore fail at replay. The PR records this limit. The Linear lookup was unavailable, so I could not verify item 4 of AISIM-2347. Please share its text and retry verification. If a separate GitHub follow-up would help, would you like one?
Oracle evidence: The #780 comment reports matching rows and provides commands, hashes, and exclusions. I could not independently inspect the trace, scripts, or logs, so reproducibility remains inconclusive. The two cited #782 commit trees differ in only one documentation file; that does not independently verify the trace export. Please make the artifacts available and retry verification.
The PR check rollup lists a successful Full CI result and both successful and failed Fast CI results. Before merge, confirm the applicable exact-head checks, required reviews, and approvals.
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Review comments at @crates/core/src/engine/config.rs:
- Around line 1464-1466: Validate vllm_version independently of
enable_prefix_caching in the configuration validation flow, so malformed or
unsupported versions are rejected even when prefix caching is disabled. Keep
validate_grouped_prefix_caching for its existing grouped-cache checks.
Review comments at @crates/core/src/replay/telemetry.rs:
- Line 924: Add a focused serialization assertion for the telemetry fixture’s
kv_cache_cached_bytes field with a Some value, verifying that the serialized
output includes the field and its value; keep the existing None fixture
unchanged.
Review comments at @docs/getting-started/understand-results.md:
- Line 169: Update the KV use row to state separate grouped-cache formulas:
active_cache_usage is kv_cache_used_bytes divided by kv_cache_capacity_bytes,
while physical_cache_usage includes kv_cache_cached_bytes in the numerator.
Preserve the note that an absent kv_cache_cached_bytes counts as 0.
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Source excerpt: **Tight-spin/livelock extreme:** do not repeatedly report an effect-free, queued-only zero-duration pass as progress at the same virtual timestamp.
The direct DGD renderer passes agg_enable_prefix_caching into the deployed worker configuration, so recommendation changes can affect deployments. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/aisimulate/output/dgd/renderers/direct/materializer.py:47-55] [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/aisimulate/output/dgd/renderers/direct/materializer.py:157-164]
The vLLM 0.32.0 circular-buffer warm-up describes one non-cacheable block per request, consistent with the PR’s ring accounting. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py:5627-5642]
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FPM collection keeps prefix caching on for prefill and warm-KV decode, but disables it for fake-KV decode. The source of runtime evidence therefore matters for the new gate. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::collector/fpm_forward/runner.py:75-108]
836-841: Make the grouped per-pool path consistent with the aggregate fallback.
When kv_cache_used_bytes is not finite, percent returns null. The code does not fall back to physical_cache_usage. That fallback applies only when capacity is missing or zero. This matches the Python aggregate, which returns None if any used value is missing. The behavior is consistent and acceptable. No change needed.
The omitted argument selects aggregated or legacy shared deployments. It does not cause a TypeError or select a prefill or decode deployment. Passing the explicit default would not change the result.
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Why and what changed
Before this PR, Rust and Python refused prefix caching for a grouped FPM cache, so a grouped profile replayed only cold. Predictions for hybrid-attention models, such as GLM-5.3-Flash, then showed no reuse of shared prompt prefixes. With runtime probe evidence, this PR turns grouped prefix caching on. It uses the group markers of #779 and the coordinator of #780.
EngineConfiggains the optionalvllm_version. A rank withkv_cache_groupsandenable_prefix_cachingmust pass a new gate, which includes vLLM's startup capacity check. Its pool then runs in block mode.g1_prefix_cache_lookup) records that grouped hit at each lookup.kv_cache_cached_bytes. The cached blocks count as inactive blocks and in the physical cache usage, and the active usage leaves them out. The doc comment ofactive_cache_usageincrates/core/src/replay/telemetry.rsstates that split. The replay dashboard adds the cached bytes to the used bytes of a grouped rank, so its resident cache keeps the retained prefixes, as the physical cache usage of a linear rank does.grouped_prefix_caching_requirementsinconfig/engine.pyholds one rule for prediction, the sweeper and the onboarding plan. The evidence is a probe that ran withenable_prefix_caching: trueand recordedhash_block_size_tokens. Both gates refuse a convolution group with prefix caching on. If the deployment passes the whole rule, the plan turns prefix caching on. Otherwise it plans a cold replay.validate-fpmkeeps its replay cold, because it tests FPM timing. It also drops an explicitprefix_match_unitfrom that replay. This is hardening of the derived configuration.onboard validate-fpmcannot reach that state today, because the plan never writes the unit andcheck_planrefuses a changed pilot.vllm_backend.rs,policy.rsandconfig.rsadapt rules of vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0. Their headers name both revisions, and the notice entry names the rule that each one adapts.Without the evidence, a grouped profile keeps the cold-replay refusal. Every path with prefix caching off, and every linear path, keeps its results. The consumers are users who predict or recommend hybrid-attention deployments from an FPM profile. The docs still say that grouped replay needs
prefix_caching: falseuntil #782 updates them, so this PR merges together with #782.Review map
crates/core/src/engine/config.rs(validate_grouped_prefix_caching), thenscheduler/vllm/policy.rs(decide_grouped_waiting_admission),scheduler/vllm/core.rsandkv_manager/vllm_backend.rs(allocate_lease,finalize_computed_prefix). In Python, start withconfig/engine.py,support/plan.pyandsupport/validation.py.EngineConfig.vllm_version: Option<String>,Metrics.kv_cache_cached_bytes: Option<u64>andReplaySchedulerMetricsSnapshot.kv_cache_cached_bytes: Option<u64>. All are optional. Ifvllm_versionor the snapshot field is absent, JSON leaves it out.kv_cache.prefix_caching: true. The compiler andsweeper/deploy.pythen give its native ranksprefix_match_unit(the probe's hash block),vllm_versionandmax_model_len.kv_cache_groups with enable_prefix_caching=true:require every group to declare prefix_cacheable,require equal page_size_bytes across groups,require prefix_match_unit,require vllm_version 0.31.0 or 0.32.0,require max_model_lenandneed capacity for the full prompt of max_model_len plus the state blocks of one request. Alsovllm_version requires kv_cache_groupsandprefix_match_unit on kv_cache_groups requires enable_prefix_caching=true. The rule-table texts of feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780 reach users through this gate.grouped FPM cache prefix caching:requires every cache group to declare prefix_cacheable; re-import the runtime probe,requires mamba_cache_mode=align for a prefix-cacheable state group,is modeled for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 onlyandrequires equal page_size_bytes across cache groups. Alsokv_cache.prefix_match_unit must equal the profile's hash_block_size_tokens for a grouped FPM cache,GLM-5.3-Flash prefix caching requires prefix_match_unit and max_batched_tokens that are multiples of 4, and the convolution text of feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780.kv_cache_groups currently require enable_prefix_caching=falseis gone.prefix_match_unit currently requires state_cachenow readsprefix_match_unit currently requires state_cache or kv_cache_groups.vllm_versionand a grouped plan withprefix_caching: true, so a rollback needs new plans. In the Dynamo adapter (ai-dynamo/dynamo atb0280f7d), all 10EngineConfigliterals end with..EngineConfig::default(), and all 5Metricsliterals with..Metrics::default(). So the new fields need no Dynamo change.Known limits
Planning runs only the Python rule. The Rust rule table and the capacity rule run at replay. So a profile that fails only a Rust check plans prefix caching on and is refused at replay. An example is a vLLM 0.32.0 profile whose prefix-cacheable state groups lack
prefill_checkpoint_blocks. Today's import always writes that field. Follow-up AISIM-2347 holds this check, with the sweeper's profile reload per candidate.Replay keys blocks of prompt tokens only. If every prefix-cacheable group is full attention, a next turn that repeats output tokens hits fewer tokens than in vLLM. Convolution groups replay only cold. Follow-up AISIM-2349 holds both.
If a request's hit needs more blocks than the pool holds and no other request runs, vLLM keeps it waiting forever. Replay then stops with its generic error
replay invariant violated: offline replay detected an effect-free zero-duration pass.Evidence
d23b71f3f,cargo check --locked -p aisim-core --all-targetsfinished with two dead-code warnings,is_leafandslot_layouts, which main also has, andcargo test --locked -p aisim-core --lib groupedgave 77 passed.tests/test_replay_dashboard.pygives 32 passed there. Atab8816222, an earlier stack head with the same code as the current head,cargo test --locked -p aisim-corepasses (lib 3,014,runtime_contract29). The Python suites there show only the 9 local failures that the base244a3b174also has, and test: prove grouped prefix caching on two vLLM versions and document it #782 gives the counts.d23b71f3f(run 42559971931). A duplicate run, 42559971198, was cancelled by the concurrency group.d23b71f3f(run 42559975353).d23b71f3f(review 5825308109). It posted three comments. The first concerns the version check of a grouped rank with prefix caching off. The second concerns a unit test of the cached-bytes field. The third concerns the KV use row ofdocs/getting-started/understand-results.md. Each thread has a reply. AISIM-2361 holds the version check. Its first review covered4352c853d, the head before the rebase onto main.4352c853d. Six local Codex passes ran on this PR. The first five found defects that this PR now covers, one of them a P1, each with a test that failed before. The sixth pass found only three repeats of the items under Known limits. Its patch differs from the pushed headd23b71f3fin the rebase onto main, the replay dashboard, comments, the file headers and the notice text.grouped_prefix_caching_validates_its_geometrycovers each new Rust text,vllm_version0.30.0and two checkpoint texts of feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780. Both gates refuse a convolution group, and a cold rank with one still passes the gate.test_grouped_prefix_caching_needs_vllm_evidence_with_align_modecovers the Python texts, keeps the cold-replay text without the evidence, and passes 0.32.0. A plan stays cold for a convolution group, a state group outside align mode, vLLM 0.30.0 or 0.25.1, or a probe without the hash block. For GLM, a budget of 8,190 and a hash block of 2,174 are refused, and 8,192 passes. The sweeper refuses an 8,190 candidate before replay.max_model_len131,072:cdiv(131072, 2176) + (2 + checkpoint) * 4 + 1is 61 + 8 + 1 = 70 blocks, or 74 with checkpoint blocks. So 69 and 73 blocks are refused, and 70 and 74 pass.(9000 - 1) / 2176 * 2176= 8,704. During its first step, 14 blocks are active: 5 attention blocks (4 pinned, 1 fresh), 1 ring block and 2 per KDA group. With checkpoint blocks the chunk runs to the prompt end: 6 attention blocks, 1 ring block and 3 per KDA group, 19 in all. After the step the 4 hit blocks return to the cache, so 10 or 15 stay active. A request that shares only 2,176 tokens hits 0, because retention 0 keeps no state there. Turn three hits(13000 - 1) / 2176 * 2176= 10,880.max_model_len34 and a pool ofcdiv(34, 16) + 2= 5 blocks. A 33-token prompt that repeats a finished 13-token request needs 7 blocks with its 12-token hit, but 4 cold. So it waits. Next to a running request, it starts after that request ends, with 0 reused tokens.c31fe8101, on the base244a3b174and atab8816222, an earlier stack head with the same code (see test: prove grouped prefix caching on two vLLM versions and document it #782). With the evidence, generated plans setprefix_caching: true, so predictions of such profiles now include prefix reuse.Modeling or data provenance
The gate and the scheduler follow a static reading of the pinned vLLM trees, 0.31.0 at
db9527a4and 0.32.0 at5df63a72. The CPU oracle job 1743856 of #780 compared this scheduler with vLLM on both versions. Its GLM-5.3-Flash hits, chunks, blocks and finishes are equal in every row. The GLM-5.3-Flash values come from the Stage 3 probe of #677 on vLLM 0.31.0. At itsmax_model_lenof 1,048,576, the capacity rule needscdiv(1048576, 2176) + 4 * 2 + 1= 491 blocks, and its 180,218,332,800-byte cache holds 13,815 blocks. So the gate admits the probed deployment. The 0.32.0 path runs only on test profiles and the oracle trace, because no 0.32.0 probe import exists yet.Tracking
Closes AISIM-2292
Related PRs or issues: feat: add the grouped prefix cache coordinator and its block pool for vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0 #780 is the base of this PR, and test: prove grouped prefix caching on two vLLM versions and document it #782 stacks on it. feat: mark prefix-cacheable cache groups, transfer bytes and checkpoint blocks in FPM profiles #779, feat: collect GLM-5.3-Flash through FPM self-service onboarding on vLLM 0.33.0 #700, feat: import vLLM 0.33.0 hybrid cache groups through the runtime probe #677, feat: add state cache groups to the FPM profile #657 and fix: unwrap llm_config decoder configurations in FPM onboarding #656 are below it. fix(vllm): admit circular-buffer cache groups in the native KV warm-up dynamo#18315 is the Dynamo adapter PR for grouped cache groups.
AISIM-2347 holds the planning checks and the sweeper cost.
AISIM-2349 holds the output-token blocks and the convolution groups.
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