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feat: model when vLLM's async engine admits, preempts and returns outputs - #683
Async vLLM replays now free blocks and preempt like vLLM, with opt-in launch timing.
Block frees, on by default. On a busy engine, blocks a request frees in pass k first serve pass k+2, on every
attention-DP rank. A CPU-tier connector's finish work moves with the free, as in vLLM, so feat: model vLLM's CPU offloading connectors for agentic replay on several workers #679's offloading_v0_32
and simple_cpu_v0_32 connectors store a finished request's blocks a pass later.
Preemption, on by default. With a CPU tier (kv_cache.host_offload), replay does not preempt a request that the
pass in flight runs.
workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch, opt-in. Measured launch costs set when outputs reach the client and which
pass an arrival joins. Passes do not move. It needs one-GPU aggregated workers with async scheduling, in offline
replay (--stack engine).
fpm_learned.charge_own_launch, opt-in, for FPM fits on Dynamo's vLLM records. Dynamo ends a pass's record when
vLLM processes its output, after the next pass is launched. So the record before an eager pass carries that pass's
launch, a fit spreads it over passes of its kind, and launch would count it a second time. charge_own_launch
moves each launch back to its own record before fitting. The learned trainer applies it with --launch-stall FILE;
a regression's tune_with_fpms takes its output as is.
By default, async vLLM results change only near the KV capacity limit. Telemetry's KV gauges also change: on a busy
engine, they count a finished request's blocks one pass longer. Synchronous vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM replays are
byte-identical to main.
Before / after
Fix, public fixture.tests/e2e/configs/unified_cli/predict/engine/01-synthetic-default.yaml has a tiny model
with fixed 1 ms prefill and decode. The run below gives it 64 concurrent synthetic requests, which overfill 512 G1
blocks.
main (69a49368) and the branch each ran aisimulate predict --stack engine --config before-after.yaml --capture-telemetry. Preemptions are summed from telemetry-samples.jsonl.
With the CPU tier
main
With the fix
Why it moves
Preemptions
98
88
A request needing the in-flight pass's blocks now waits a pass.
Prompt tokens prefilled again after preemption
0
0
Preempted requests reload prompts from the CPU tier.
Requests/s
94.08
98.20
Fewer preempted requests reload and wait for readmission.
TTFT p50 / p90 (ms)
298.9 / 583.9
294.7 / 526.0
Fewer preempted requests wait ahead of new arrivals.
Without the CPU tier
main
With the fix
Why it moves
Preemptions
103
98
Finished requests hold blocks a pass longer, so fewer run at once.
Prompt tokens prefilled again after preemption
78,563
75,394
Fewer preemptions.
Requests/s
102.09
101.79
Waiting requests are admitted a pass later.
TTFT p50 / p90 (ms)
270 / 526
273 / 530
Same reason.
With async_scheduling: false, or with 4,096 G1 blocks, every simulated metric and telemetry sample matches main.
Mean and std TPOT can differ in the 16th digit, as they do between two runs of main.
Fix, replay-parity rows. The aisimulate-replay-parity skill's runner replayed its frozen engine-only configs on
the 5,000-row Mooncake slice. Each revision ran twice, in separate processes, with identical results.
Parity setup
The skill pins the trace slice by SHA-256.
The configs' expected blocks were removed, since they were pinned on an older revision.
Both runners were built without --locked, since the committed runner lockfile does not match main.
Added rows: an async_scheduling: false copy of each vLLM row, a CPU-tier copy of the aggregated vLLM row
(native_host_offload: {num_host_blocks: 24576}, kv_cache_bytes_per_token: 65536), and two copies of that row
with feat: model vLLM's CPU offloading connectors for agentic replay on several workers #679's offloading_v0_32 and simple_cpu_v0_32 connectors.
vLLM with async_scheduling: false: the three vLLM rows
identical
identical
identical
identical
vLLM aggregated
differs
2 → 2
4,910 → 4,911
588,050 → 588,121 (+0.01%)
vLLM aggregated, CPU tier
differs
1 → 1
4,985 → 4,985
576,578 → 576,706 (+0.02%)
vLLM aggregated, CPU tier, offloading_v0_32
differs
1 → 1
4,985 → 4,985
576,248 → 576,402 (+0.03%)
vLLM aggregated, CPU tier, simple_cpu_v0_32
differs
1 → 1
4,982 → 4,982
576,655 → 576,481 (-0.03%)
vLLM disaggregated
differs
0 → 1
4,991 → 4,991
680,738 → 675,071 (-0.8%)
vLLM disaggregated, DP 2/4
differs
7 → 1
4,979 → 4,977
268,335 → 266,355 (-0.7%)
Only async vLLM rows move: near the capacity limit, admissions shift by a pass. Preemptions move by a few either way,
and each run's end by under 1%. Replay wall time per row, the best of 16 interleaved runs, is within 0.98 to 1.03 of main; the SGLang and TensorRT-LLM rows, whose code this does not change, vary as much.
launch, new capability.main has no input for the CPU time of a launch. It returns outputs at the pass end and
admits arrivals by counting passes. This example is from crates/core/tests/replay_vllm_async.rs. A pass with prefill
takes 100 ms, and a decode pass 10 ms. Launches take 2, 20 and 50 ms (decode, piecewise and eager), with a 16-token
graph limit.
Event
main
With launch
Why
A's last decode token, from a pass that ends at 120 ms, followed by an eager pass for B (32 tokens)
120 ms
160 ms
vLLM decided the eager pass at 110 ms; its launch ends at 160 ms.
The same, with eager_queue_fraction: 0.8
120 ms
200 ms
The launch also waits for 0.8 of the 100 ms eager pass.
B, arriving at 10 ms during A's 0-100 ms prefill, is admitted
110 ms
100 ms
vLLM decides the next pass at 20 ms, after A's launch.
C, arriving at 30 ms, is admitted
110 ms
210 ms
C arrived after that decision.
A's last token with a 1 ms detokenizer
121 ms
161 ms
Detokenization starts when vLLM returns the token.
launch, measured. Nemotron 3 Super (NVFP4) ran on one GB200 per worker, with vLLM 43b4aaea, async scheduling
and MTP, under AgentX agentic traffic at 64 to 384 users. A per-step timer in the engine core timed each pass from schedule() entry to the end of sample_tokens().
Pass
Passes timed
Launch (ms)
launch value
Decode
162,938
6.07 + 0.061 per decode request
decode_ms: 6.52, the mean
Prefill, at most 4,096 tokens (piecewise graphs)
1,921
59.56; 73.72 with decode requests
piecewise_ms: 73.72
More than 4,096 tokens (eager)
3,457
169.13; 180.81 with decode requests
eager_ms: 180.81
max_cudagraph_capture_size was 4,096. In 33,864 eager passes whose launch began well before the GPU reached them,
the launch ended 0.382 of the way through the pass: eager_queue_fraction: 0.382.
Three GPU runs on SWE-bench agentic traces check the rule, with the same model, GPU and vLLM at 64, 192 and 320 users.
The rule was replayed over each run's measured pass sequence; this is not a full simulator run. Pass times come from a
regression on #691's FPM features, fitted on other time blocks of the same runs, after charge_own_launch moved each
launch back to its own record.
Interval from the previous pass's outputs to a decode pass's outputs, p50 / p90 / p99 (ms):
Users
GPU
Without launch
With launch
64
18 / 23 / 183
18 / 22 / 26
19 / 23 / 181
192
56 / 98 / 290
53 / 65 / 68
57 / 74 / 216
320
62 / 215 / 351
59 / 62 / 66
60 / 181 / 255
Time to first token, counted from the last pass boundary before the request arrived; median absolute error against
the GPU:
Users
Requests
GPU median
Without launch
With launch
64
28,307
335 ms
33.8 ms
20.8 ms
192
29,900
769 ms
71.4 ms
44.2 ms
320
17,501
23.5 s
266.0 ms
252.2 ms
charge_own_launch, synthetic. A regression is fitted on synthetic one-GPU vLLM records whose wall_time carries
the part of the next pass's launch that its own pass did not hide, as Dynamo records them. It then prices a second
workload with a different pass order: eager prefills follow 12% of decode passes in workload A and 3% in B. Every
number is synthetic.
Fit on workload A
Decode price vs own time, A / B
Total time vs recorded, A / B
Records as written
+131.8% / +131.1%
-1.9% / +41.1%
charge_own_launch first
+0.3% / +0.3%
+0.2% / +0.2%
Script: python launch_stall_probe.py, with this branch's package
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0"""Fit an fpm_regression on synthetic vLLM FPM records whose wall_time carries the next pass's launch, with andwithout charge_own_launch, and predict a second workload with a different pass order. Every number is synthetic.Each pass has its own time: a decode pass 4 + 0.25 x decode requests + 2e-6 x decode KV tokens ms, a prefill pass20 + 0.02 x prefill tokens ms, times 1 + 2% Gaussian noise. Prefill passes over 4,096 tokens run eager. Like aone-GPU vLLM worker under async scheduling, a record carries the part of the next pass's launch its own pass didnot hide (STALL_MS), and the record of that next pass is shorter by as much. Workload A puts an eager prefill after12% of decode passes, workload B after 3%."""importrandomfromaisimulate_core.sdkimportForwardPassPerfModelConfig, RustForwardPassPerfModelfromaisimulate_core.sdk.fpm_learnedimportcharge_own_launchCAPTURE=4096STALL_MS= {"decode": {"piecewise": 50.0, "eager": 180.0}, "prefill": {"piecewise": 10.0, "eager": 190.0}}
defown_ms(p):
ifp["prefill"]:
return (20+0.02*p["prefill"]) *p["noise"]
return (4+0.25*p["decodes"] +2e-6*p["kv"]) *p["noise"]
defkind(p):
ifp["prefill"] >CAPTURE:
return"eager"return"piecewise"ifp["prefill"] else"decode"defworkload(eager_share, passes, seed):
rng=random.Random(seed)
out= []
whilelen(out) <passes:
decodes=rng.randint(8, 48)
noise=1+0.02*rng.gauss(0, 1)
out.append({"prefill": 0, "decodes": decodes, "kv": decodes*rng.randint(20_000, 250_000), "noise": noise})
ifrng.random() <eager_share:
out.append({"prefill": rng.randint(4_200, 12_000), "decodes": 0, "kv": 0, "noise": 1+0.02*rng.gauss(0, 1)})
elifrng.random() <0.05:
out.append({"prefill": rng.randint(512, 4_096), "decodes": 0, "kv": 0, "noise": 1+0.02*rng.gauss(0, 1)})
returnoutdefrecords(passes):
"""One FPM per pass; wall_time = own + the stall this pass carries - the stall its predecessor carried for it."""carried= []
forp, nxtinzip(passes, passes[1:] + [None]):
carrier="prefill"ifp["prefill"] else"decode"carried.append(0.0ifnxtisNoneorkind(nxt) =="decode"elseSTALL_MS[carrier][kind(nxt)])
out= []
fori, pinenumerate(passes):
wall=own_ms(p) +carried[i] - (carried[i-1] ifielse0.0)
sched= {"num_prefill_requests": int(p["prefill"] >0), "sum_prefill_tokens": p["prefill"],
"num_decode_requests": p["decodes"], "sum_decode_kv_tokens": p["kv"]}
out.append([{"version": 1, "worker_id": "w0", "counter_id": i, "wall_time": wall/1000,
"scheduled_requests": sched}])
returnoutdefregression():
unknown=dict.fromkeys(("system", "backend_version", "tp", "pp", "attention_dp"), "unknown")
returnRustForwardPassPerfModel.best_available(ForwardPassPerfModelConfig(
model="Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", backend="vllm", worker_type="aggregated", kv_block_size=16,
estimation_mode="fpm_regression", **unknown))
deffit(iterations):
model=regression()
model.tune_with_fpms(iterations)
returnmodeldefscore(model, passes, iterations):
"""Decode-pass price vs its own time (mean %), and the workload's total predicted vs recorded time (%)."""decode_err, pred_total, wall_total= [], 0.0, 0.0forp, itinzip(passes, iterations):
pred=model.estimate_forward_pass_time_ms(it)
pred_total+=predwall_total+=1000*it[0]["wall_time"]
ifnotp["prefill"]:
decode_err.append(pred/own_ms(p) -1)
return100*sum(decode_err) /len(decode_err), 100* (pred_total/wall_total-1)
a, b=workload(0.12, 6000, 1), workload(0.03, 6000, 2)
ra, rb=records(a), records(b)
print("| fit on workload A | decode price vs own time, A | B | total time vs recorded, A | B |")
print("|---|---|---|---|---|")
forname, trainin (("records as written", ra), ("charge_own_launch", charge_own_launch(ra, STALL_MS, CAPTURE))):
model=fit(train)
da, ta=score(model, a, ra)
db, tb=score(model, b, rb)
print(f"| {name} | {da:+.1f}% | {db:+.1f}% | {ta:+.1f}% | {tb:+.1f}% |")
Review map
Risk level: high (scheduler core, engine contract and the replay step loop).
Start with: schedule_pass, resolve_pass and policy_preempt in crates/core/src/engine/scheduler/vllm/core.rs.
Then read scheduler/rank.rs, replay/components/engine.rs and replay/agg.rs, which hold and release outputs.
The fitting step is charge_own_launch in python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/fpm_learned.py.
Public or serialized contract changed: yes, all additive.
EngineConfig.launch: Option<PassLaunchConfig> (omitted when unset) and the YAML block.
RankEngine::next_emission_ms and take_due_emissions, both defaulted, and their GeneralizedMockerEngine
methods.
RunnerCapabilities.supports_scheduler_launch.
fpm_learned.charge_own_launch and a --launch-stall FILE flag on train and evaluate. With the flag, train
stores the file's contents as the artifact's metadata.launch_stall; no other artifact or snapshot format
changes.
cargo test -p aisim-core --lib --tests: passes, 2,568 library tests and every integration test.
cargo test --manifest-path crates/tests/public-api/Cargo.toml: passes.
pytest -c pytest.ini tests: 6,082 passed. Its 16 failures and 1 error (CI-workflow contracts and qualification,
FPM workflow tests and an HF module) also fail on main on macOS.
cargo fmt --all --check, ruff check and ruff format --check: clean on the changed files.
scripts/ci/check_packaged_legal_files.py, check_copyright.py and check_documentation_links.py: pass.
Fast CI: pending.
Full CI: pending.
CodeRabbit reviewed commit: pending.
Codex reviewed commit: pending.
Negative or boundary cases:
A synchronous engine still frees at once.
Without a CPU tier, the request is still preempted.
An arrival exactly at a busy engine's decision waits.
launch is rejected on more than one GPU, without async scheduling, with ngram speculation, on prefill or decode
workers, and by runners without the capability.
charge_own_launch rejects a repeated (worker_id, counter_id), a record without either, and a stall table
missing a value or holding a negative or NaN one. An explicit 0 moves nothing.
Expected-value derivation: in each replay test's comments and in the launch table above.
v0.30.0 is the first release whose running loop stops instead of preempting such a request (vLLM #49675). v0.28.0,
which feat: model vLLM async-scheduling admission in replay #624 cites, preempts it. These rules are unchanged on vLLM main.
feat: fit FPM regressions to measured MTP rounds #691: its fit.linear.max_cudagraph_capture_size is the same vLLM option as launch.max_cudagraph_capture_size.
Whichever lands second rejects a run that sets them to different values.
With async scheduling vLLM commits pass k+1 before it processes pass k's
outputs, and it frees a finished request's blocks only then, so the
blocks of a request that finishes in pass k first serve pass k+2. With a
CPU tier it also defers freeing the blocks of a request that the pass in
flight runs, so it does not preempt that request; the running request
that needed the blocks waits a pass. A pass with no work lets vLLM
process the pass in flight at once, so replay then decides again at the
same instant.
Every async-scheduling vLLM replay under KV pressure changes. Synchronous
engines, other backends and runs without KV pressure are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shahar Mor <smor@nvidia.com>
…arrivals
workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch takes the CPU cost of launching each
kind of pass, measured on the deployment: decode-only, with prefill
within max_cudagraph_capture_size (piecewise CUDA graphs), and larger
eager passes, whose launch also waits for the CUDA launch queue.
vLLM's engine loop decides and launches pass k+1 before it returns pass
k's outputs, and decides each pass once it has launched the previous
one. With launch, a pass's outputs reach the client once the next pass
is launched instead of at the pass end, and an arrival joins the first
pass decided after it instead of skipping a fixed number of passes. With
zero costs the admission rule reproduces the pass count.
Ranks hold outputs until vLLM would return them; offline replay releases
them, and response detokenization starts then. Passes do not move.
launch needs one-GPU aggregated vLLM workers with async scheduling,
where vLLM runs its uniprocess executor, and offline replay; other
runners reject it.
Opt-in: unset, outputs leave at the pass end and the pass-count rule
applies, as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shahar Mor <smor@nvidia.com>
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Risk: High. The three areas that need the most human attention are async KV-block release and CPU-tier preemption, launch-timed output delivery and admission, and the launch configuration and charge_own_launch contracts.
Changes
Async vLLM scheduling models delayed admission and defers reuse of finished-request KV blocks. With a CPU tier, it retains blocks for requests in the in-flight pass and avoids preempting those requests.
When workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch is configured, offline replay models launch costs, output-emission times, and which pass can admit an arriving request. The setting requires supported aggregated vLLM async scheduling on one-GPU workers.
The change adds PassLaunchConfig, output-emission hooks, replay handling for held outputs, runner capability checks, and --launch-stall FILE for assigning launch stalls to their own records during learned-model fitting.
Evidence and readiness
The merge-base comparison confirms 35 changed files, with 1,498 additions and 56 deletions. The supplied diff and search output confirm the launch configuration, emission hooks, runner capability, and learned-model adjustment implementation.
The PR description reports that Rust core tests passed, public API tests passed, and 5,523 Python SDK unit tests passed. It also reports 4,707 passes, 18 failures, and 18 errors in pytest -c pytest.ini tests; the author says those failures and errors also occur on main on macOS. These results are author-reported and were not independently verified. Fast CI and full CI are pending.
No current review findings were supplied, so review severity counts are unavailable. The reported tests support technical quality but do not constitute review approval. Merge readiness is unconfirmed.
This change adds optional vLLM pass-launch timing to aggregated asynchronous engine replay. It models pass admission decisions, deferred KV-block release, and delayed output emission. It also adds launch-stall adjustment for learned forward-pass data, configuration and compatibility checks, tests, documentation, and provenance notices.
Adds PassLaunchConfig and optional scheduler launch settings. Validation restricts the setting to supported vLLM aggregated-worker configurations. Engine arguments serialize the setting, and runner compatibility checks require launch support and offline execution.
The vLLM core tracks request arrival and pass timing, defers applicable block frees, and calculates output-return timing. Preemption excludes tracked in-flight requests. Scheduler tests cover admission, deferred frees, and CPU-tier behavior.
Held outputs and replay emission crates/core/src/engine/generalized/*, crates/core/src/engine/scheduler/rank.rs, crates/core/src/replay/agg.rs, crates/core/src/replay/components/engine.rs, crates/core/src/replay/engine.rs, crates/core/tests/replay_vllm_async.rs
Ranks can hold pass outputs and release due emissions independently of pass completion. Aggregated replay schedules emission deadlines and processes output payloads. Replay tests cover output timing, admission, and supported topology.
Adds charge_own_launch and the --launch-stall option. When configured, training, holdout, and evaluation inputs receive the adjustment. Documentation describes the timing interpretation and adjustment.
Documentation and provenance THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, python/aisimulate/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, crates/core/README.md, crates/core/src/replay/CLAUDE.md, docs/replay/engine/*, docs/replay/features.md
Documents block reuse, output-return timing, launch limits, and modeled behavior. Adds provenance notices describing upstream sources, licenses, and simulation limits.
ai-dynamo/aisimulate#679: Changes vLLM host-offload block retention, completion handling, and preemption waits. It overlaps with this PR’s KV-block lifecycle and preemption behavior.
ai-dynamo/aisimulate#624: Adds vLLM async-scheduling admission based on pass counts and busy-engine queue state. This PR extends that behavior with launch-time decision boundaries.
ai-dynamo/aisimulate#671: Separates rank scheduling from pass timing resolution. This PR adds held-output deadlines and release effects to that pass lifecycle.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 18bb4
Resolve the replay timing and launch-configuration failures before merging. The opt-in training adjustment can also produce incorrect targets from ambiguous records or an incomplete stall table.
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The new --launch-stall CLI path remains untested. The option is registered in fpm_learned.py:1348-1353; _load_iterations reads the JSON and transforms records for train, evaluate, and additi…
Add CLI tests that invoke both train and evaluate with temporary FPM input and --launch-stall JSON, then verify that transformed wall times affect the result. Also test that omitting the option preserves existing behavior and that mal…
Compatibility Boundaries
Python accepts scheduler.launch with ngram speculation, but the runner disables async scheduling and Rust then rejects the same configuration. In `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/config/engine.py:9…
Reject workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch together with engine.speculation.kind == "ngram" in Python prediction validation. Add a runner guard before it forces async_scheduling=False, with a clear error. Add tests for both typed conf…
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The PR supplies provenance and reproducible outcome evidence. docs/replay/engine/workers.md:247-263, 269-325 explains the scheduling and launch rules and links them to pinned vLLM sources; `THIRD_PA…
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The description gives relevant commands and results, including Rust, Python, formatting, and legal checks. It lists boundary cases and named tests; the cited scheduling, output-timing, one-GPU-gate, a…
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The title names the main change: vLLM async engine behavior for admission, preemption, and output return. The changeset adds block-free timing, CPU-tier preemption rules, and opt-in launch timing in replay, so the title matches the core change. It does not name the opt-in launch cost model or the fpm_learned charge_own_launch addition. The title is specific enough and uses the required feat: prefix.
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The PR supplies provenance and reproducible outcome evidence. docs/replay/engine/workers.md:247-263, 269-325 explains the scheduling and launch rules and links them to pinned vLLM sources; THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md:371 records the upstream revisions. Deterministic integration tests compare baseline and launch-enabled predictions for the same inputs, including output return at 120 vs. 160/200 ms and admissions at 110/110 vs. 100/210 ms (crates/core/tests/replay_vllm_async.rs:157-184, 226-249). The FPM correction has a numeric golden test covering launch reassignment and an idle-counter gap (python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/test_fpm_learned.py:184-204). The PR description also reports before/after results and a held-out GPU comparison with its timing and fitting setup. This is not binary-only validation, and the modeled outputs are not unexplained refreshes.
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The description gives relevant commands and results, including Rust, Python, formatting, and legal checks. It lists boundary cases and named tests; the cited scheduling, output-timing, one-GPU-gate, and FPM tests are present in the changed code. It separates local command results, pinned-trace parity runs, measured GPU results, and explicitly synthetic results. Fast and full CI are marked pending, not reported as hosted successes. No inactive nested workflow is cited as hosted CI evidence.
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The new --launch-stall CLI path remains untested. The option is registered in fpm_learned.py:1348-1353; _load_iterations reads the JSON and transforms records for train, evaluate, and additional holdout FPMs at :1269-1274 and :1281-1287. The only new test calls charge_own_launch directly (test_fpm_learned.py:184-204). Searches of the test trees found no launch_stall or --launch-stall test reference. The existing CLI test invokes train without the option (:458-467). This PR therefore adds an input path whose parser and JSON-to-command behavior are not tested.
Resolution
Add CLI tests that invoke both train and evaluate with temporary FPM input and --launch-stall JSON, then verify that transformed wall times affect the result. Also test that omitting the option preserves existing behavior and that malformed or incomplete stall JSON fails with a clear error.
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Python accepts scheduler.launch with ngram speculation, but the runner disables async scheduling and Rust then rejects the same configuration. In python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/config/engine.py:935-977, launch validation runs before _validate_speculation; _validate_prediction_launch at lines 1357-1378 rejects only explicit async_scheduling=False and does not check ngram speculation. The runner sets async_scheduling=False for ngram at python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/runner.py:1928-1938. The compiler transports launch at python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/compiler.py:777-782. Rust rejects it because max_concurrent_batches() returns one when async scheduling is false (crates/core/src/engine/config.rs:1102-1111), while launch validation requires more than one (1194-1203). The added tests cover launch topology and transport, but not launch with ngram speculation (tests/test_cli_config.py:403-429, tests/test_runner.py:1249-1282). The PR leaves Cargo and Python packaging manifests unchanged, and the existing maturin configuration still builds the Python package with the aisim-core extension (python/aisimulate/pyproject.toml; Cargo.toml; crates/core/Cargo.toml).
Resolution
Reject workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch together with engine.speculation.kind == "ngram" in Python prediction validation. Add a runner guard before it forces async_scheduling=False, with a clear error. Add tests for both typed configuration validation and the runner/native execution-rank path. Keep Rust validation as the final boundary.
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An attention-DP group pass ends when its slowest rank does, but each rank
compared its own pass end with the next pass start. Only the slowest rank
treated its pass as in flight: the others freed finished requests' blocks
before deciding the next pass and dropped the CPU-tier preemption rule, as
main does.
Take the in-flight pass end from the boundary that completes the pass, which
the ranks share.
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When requests arrived after vLLM decided a pass that has nothing else to run,
replay admitted them in that pass while the requests the pass in flight had
finished still held their blocks. An arrival that fit only in those blocks
waited a whole pass, unlike main and vLLM: vLLM's empty step processes the
pass in flight, which frees them, before it decides again.
Stop at such an arrival while a pass is in flight, so the pass stays empty
and replay decides again at the same instant, after freeing those blocks.
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With launch, a pass's outputs are held until the next pass is launched, and
a launch that lasts until its pass ends releases them at that pass's end.
Replay applied the completing pass's outputs first, so a request that
finished in that pass lost its state before its held output arrived, and
the run failed.
Apply the outputs due at an instant before the completions at that instant.
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vLLM runs any batch with more than max_cudagraph_capture_size tokens without
a CUDA graph, decode batches included. launch charged a decode-only pass
decode_ms whatever its size, so a large decode batch, such as an MTP batch,
returned its previous pass's outputs too early.
Classify a pass by its size first: above the capture size it takes eager_ms
and the launch-queue bound, with or without prefill.
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Offline replay looked for held outputs across every worker and rank several
times per drained instant, though only ranks with launch hold any. Skip the
scan unless the engine configuration sets launch, as the internal-deadline
scan does for its own features.
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Check that a launch block in a public prediction config reaches the native
engine's rank configuration, as the existing scheduler-control test does
for the other scheduler fields.
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- Both notices and the pass-launch docs cite the executor choice, the
uniprocess executor and the CUDA-graph dispatch that launch follows.
- The Feature Support Matrix gets an engine-loop launch cost row.
- EngineConfig::launch and the crate README say that the driver must release
held outputs; the README also lists async scheduling's block-free and
preemption rules.
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Release held outputs before immediate pass completions.
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Release held outputs before immediate pass completions.
If a pass produces a held first token and the next pass completes the same request with zero decode duration, drive_ready_workers processes the terminal token before this call releases the first token. Terminal handling removes the request state, so processing the first token then fails with offline replay missing request state. Process newly due emissions after pass-start effects but before handle_engine_effects processes immediate completions. Add a two-token replay test with positive prefill duration and zero decode duration. The rank holds the earlier output until the next pass starts. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the pass-processing order in drive_ready_workers so newly due emissions
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Dynamo delegates engine configuration to AISimulate and materializes the canonical launch config before normalization. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/config.py:37-39][::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/simulation.py:358-374]
Existing replay fixtures expose only max_batched_tokens and max_sequences; none exercise scheduler.launch. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/tests/e2e/configs/unified_cli/predict/dynamo/05-trace-standard-round-robin.yaml:17-22]
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The canonical estimate schema is strict and WorkerSettingsV1 has no scheduler or launch property, so this legacy contract cannot carry the new setting unchanged. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schemas/estimate-request-v1.schema.json:1]
The Dynamo compatibility matrix currently maps vLLM only through version 0.24.0; it has no 0.30.0 entry. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/generator/facts/runtimes/dynamo.yaml:5-17]
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previous_returned_ms from the pass end, using the in-flight flag and the
launch shape that UnpricedPass carries;
- SchedulerRank and the SGLang core take both sides' fields.
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Minor · Reject scheduler.launch when ngram speculation leaves async_scheduling… · engine.py:1358-1359
python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/config/engine.py:1358-1359 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Reject scheduler.launch when ngram speculation leaves async_scheduling unset.
The validator rejects launch only when async_scheduling is explicitly False. With speculation.kind: ngram and async_scheduling unset, vLLM runs with async scheduling off. The rank path sets that value to False (runner.py:1935). The launch contract requires async scheduling, so this combination violates the contract. Reject it at the public boundary.
Where the rank reaches the native engine with async scheduling off, the native check rejects the configuration late (config.rs:1068-1073). The error does not name the public field.
Proposed fix
- if worker.scheduler.async_scheduling is False:+ ngram = engine.speculation is not None and engine.speculation.kind == "ngram"+ if worker.scheduler.async_scheduling is False or (worker.scheduler.async_scheduling is None and ngram):
raise ValueError("workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch requires async_scheduling")
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Update the validator around worker.scheduler.async_scheduling so
scheduler.launch is rejected when async_scheduling is explicitly false or is
unset while ngram speculation is enabled. Preserve acceptance of unset
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- Around line 1358-1359: Update the validator around
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Context: ...ss. A launch never ends after its pass. An engine that was idle decides a pass when a request arrives. ...
Replay engine arguments are normalized after AISimulate materializes the backend launch configuration, so the new launch field must remain compatible with this adapter boundary. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/simulation.py:358-374]
Dynamo tests explicitly treat materialize_engine_launch_config as a public AISimulate contract. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::tests/dependencies/test_aisimulate_namespaces.py:198-202]
Existing replay fixtures cover batching settings but not the new launch timing configuration. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/tests/e2e/test_retune_predict_cli.py:98]
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WorkerSettingsV1 remains a strict topology/configuration model without scheduler-launch fields. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schema.py:85-96]
The canonical schema disallows additional properties, so scheduler.launch cannot be added to this legacy estimate contract unchanged. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schemas/estimate-request-v1.schema.json:1]
The Dynamo compatibility matrix currently maps Dynamo 1.3.0 to vLLM 0.24.0, not 0.30.0. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/generator/facts/runtimes/dynamo.yaml:5-9]
The generator documentation says newer vLLM versions fall back to the older template and only 0.24.0 flags have been validated. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::docs/cli_user_guide.md:749-750]
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274-275: Keep engine output timing separate from client receipt.
This repeats the existing finding. The next launch returns the previous pass's outputs to the engine and starts detokenization; it does not establish client receipt. Replace “reach the client” with “leave the engine,” and apply the same terminology to lines 211-214. The field table already uses the correct “leave” wording, and detokenization is documented as the step before client receipt. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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282-290: Held outputs can strand when a command drains the core.
complete_pass stores outputs in held.latest when the core is still ready. Only a later resolve_pass moves them to held.returned. If a command such as CancelRequest of a different request then empties the core, no further pass runs. next_emission_ms reads only held.returned, so no deadline exists and is_drained stays false.
The current code has no flush for this path. The existing test at Lines 1391-1432 covers only cancellation of the same request. Confirm whether the earlier fix covers the other-request case.
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#691 adds fit.linear.max_cudagraph_capture_size for the same vLLM setting. A deployment needs both equal; if they drift, the FPM prices a pass as graph while launch prices it eager, and nothing checks it. Could both read one engine-level value (or launch take it from the FPM fit)？
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Agreed: the two must match, and nothing checks it. launch can't take the value from the fit alone, since it also runs under polynomial and fixed timing and under fits without eager. I'd keep both and reject a run that sets them to different values, in resolve_role_timing, where the rank parses its timing config next to launch. Whichever of this PR and #691 lands second adds that check with a test. If you'd rather have one value, the rank could carry it and fill the fit's field, the way the runner fills kv_block_size from block_size.
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Do you have the measured launch costs (e.g. from nsys) and the GT TTFT/ITL comparison from the Nemotron runs that motivated this? Could you add them to the PR description?
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Added to the description under Before / after ("launch, measured"). On Nemotron 3 Super (NVFP4) on one GB200, a launch takes 6.52 ms for a decode pass, 73.72 ms for a prefill pass of up to 4,096 tokens, and 180.81 ms for a larger, eager pass. Against three GPU runs at 64, 192 and 320 users, launch brings the p99 decode-pass interval to 181 / 216 / 255 ms; the GPU shows 183 / 290 / 351 ms, and without launch it's 26 / 68 / 66 ms. The check replays the rule over the runs' measured pass sequences; it is not a full simulator run.
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FPM’s pass time is scheduler wall time measured under synchronous scheduling, so it already includes that pass’s launch. launch then delays the previous pass’s outputs by the launch cost while the pass time stays the same, so an async replay may count each launch twice.
cc @tedzhouhk@diffractiongoo WDYT? Should FPM keep the launch inside the pass time (and launch not delay outputs again), or measure the pass without it and let the replay model the launch?
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Currently, the instrumented scheduler supports async scheduling timing and times the delta between two consecutive batches' issue time. Assume a equal CPU overheads per batch, this time should cover e2e for one batch.
I'm working with vllm team to use cuda timing to directly time on GPU use cuda events, which is how sglang and trtllm times today. With this approach, it does not cover the CPU overhead, but it will be overlapped anyway.
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Agreed: with today's Dynamo records, launch counts some launches twice. The mechanism is a bit different from synchronous timing, though. As noted above, Dynamo's InstrumentedScheduler times async scheduling: wall_time is the interval between consecutive update_from_output() calls. In vLLM's async loop, pass k+1 is launched before the engine waits on pass k, so a record carries the next pass's launch, not its own.
That works out only when launches are about equal and hidden behind the GPU, and often they aren't. On the deployment in the description (Nemotron 3 Super NVFP4, one GB200), a decode launch takes 6.5 ms, but a prefill above the 4,096-token capture size runs eager and takes 181 ms. An ~18 ms decode pass followed by such a prefill is recorded at ~181 ms, and the prefill's own record comes out short. A fit spreads those 181 ms over decode passes, and launch adds them again where they happen. At 192 users, the median decode-pass interval is 56.5 ms on the GPU and 75.4 ms with such a fit plus launch. The same launch is why "overlapped anyway" doesn't hold for eager prefills: the GPU's p99 decode-pass interval at 64 users is 183 ms, and that tail is what launch models.
So I'd go with your second option, and the CUDA-event timing in vllm-project/vllm#61690 (with vllm-project/vllm#61691 and vllm-project/vllm#52061) provides it. The interval includes host-submission gaps, so each pass carries its own work plus any wait for its own launch, and nothing of the next pass's. That is what launch assumes, so it would need no change on those records.
Those PRs will take time to land, and the records in use today have the problem. The current head has a stopgap, charge_own_launch (--launch-stall), which moves each launch back before fitting. On the same check it brings that median back to 57.2 ms, but it needs per-deployment values measured by hand, so I don't consider it a general fix, and I haven't found a reasonable one yet.
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An update with numbers. Each check below replays the measured pass order of the three GPU runs in the description; none is a full simulator run.
Size. Median decode-pass interval (ms) with launch on:
Users
64
192
320
GPU
18.5
56.5
62.4
Fit on the records as recorded
22.5
75.4
84.8
Fit after --launch-stall
18.6
57.2
60.5
Fit on sums of 8 records (below)
18.5
57.9
61.3
First tokens. A prefill's own launch sits in the record before it, so a fit on the records as recorded prices prefills short, with or without launch. With launch off, the median first token comes out 66 / 76 / 792 ms early, and 3 ms late / 10 ms late / 129 ms early after --launch-stall. So this comes from the records, not from launch.
A fit that needs no measured values. Fit on sums of 8 consecutive records. Inside a window a launch only moves between neighbouring records, so the sum is right except at the window's two ends. It matches --launch-stall within 1 ms in the table, and with launch on it puts the median first token at 320 users 42 ms early instead of 160. Limits: it fits all pass kinds together in one batch. AISimulate's fpm_regression fits one plane per workload store online from single records, and the learned model is a tree ensemble, so neither can use it as is. Sums of 32 drifted low and were unstable, and this is one model on one deployment.
Suggestion. Remove --launch-stall from this PR. It needs launch values measured for each deployment, the generic fit needs a new fitting mode, and the CUDA-event timing in vllm-project/vllm#61690 removes the need for both. launch stays off by default, and until that timing lands the description will say that launch counts launches twice with fits trained on Dynamo's current vLLM records. If you'd like an interim fix before then, the window-sum fit could come as a separate PR. WDYT?
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With async scheduling on a one-GPU worker, vLLM launches pass k+1 before it
processes pass k's output, and Dynamo's vLLM producer ends pass k's wall_time
when that output arrives. A launch longer than pass k (an eager pass over
max_cudagraph_capture_size tokens) therefore lands in the record of the pass
before it, and a model fitted on such records learns how often each kind of
pass follows another.
charge_own_launch(iterations, stall_ms, max_cudagraph_capture_size) moves that
stall back to its own record: each record gives up what it carries for the next
pass's kind and takes back what its predecessor carried for it. Records follow
each other by worker_id and consecutive counter_id, so a pass after an idle
heartbeat keeps its own launch. The learned trainer applies it with
--launch-stall FILE; a regression's tune_with_fpms takes its output as is.
The docs now describe the vLLM producer's boundary as it is: from the previous
step's output arrival, or from schedule() after an idle step.
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- Around line 590-591: Before building the `position` dictionary used to pair
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Replay passes engine arguments through AISimulate’s public materialize_engine_launch_config contract before normalization. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/simulation.py:358-374]
Dynamo tests explicitly depend on that public contract. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::tests/dependencies/test_aisimulate_namespaces.py:194-202]
Dynamo pins exact AISimulate and aisimulate-core versions, so consuming this feature requires synchronized release/version updates. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::pyproject.toml:17][::ai-dynamo/dynamo::Cargo.toml:67-68]
ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator
The legacy WorkerSettingsV1 has no scheduler or launch field. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schema.py:85-96]
Its strict schema forbids additional properties, so scheduler.launch cannot pass through the frozen v1 estimate contract unchanged. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schemas/estimate-request-v1.schema.json:1]
The repository’s migration documentation still targets legacy AISimulate 0.12.0, confirming it is a compatibility reference rather than a consumer of this new setting. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::docs/aisimulate_migration.md:15-30]
With async scheduling vLLM calls the connector's request_finished from
update_from_output, after it has decided the next pass, and SimpleCPU's
finish store goes out with the step after that. Check that a request
finishing in pass 9 has its last block stored in pass 10 with async
scheduling and in pass 9 without it.
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- Cross-Layer Contract:
Add CLI tests that invoke both `train` and `evaluate` with temporary FPM input
and `--launch-stall` JSON, then verify that transformed wall times affect the
result. Also test that omitting the option preserves existing behavior and that
malformed or incomplete stall JSON fails with a clear error.
- Compatibility Boundaries:
Reject `workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch` together with
`engine.speculation.kind == "ngram"` in Python prediction validation. Add a
runner guard before it forces `async_scheduling=False`, with a clear error. Add
tests for both typed configuration validation and the runner/native
execution-rank path. Keep Rust validation as the final boundary.
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Source excerpt: `core.rs` owns common queue mechanics, KV allocation, state transitions, completion, and event emission.
[info] 1269-1269: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(launch)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
Dynamo’s replay path passes engine arguments through AISimulate’s public materialize_engine_launch_config API, then normalizes the result. Its namespace test also identifies this as the public launch contract. The search found no direct references to the new scheduler.launch setting or emission hooks, so this is the integration boundary to check for transport of the new setting. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::components/src/dynamo/replay/simulation.py:363-374] [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::tests/dependencies/test_aisimulate_namespaces.py:194-202]
Dynamo pins exact AISimulate and aisimulate-core versions. Using this feature downstream therefore requires compatible published versions and coordinated pin updates. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::pyproject.toml:17] [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::Cargo.toml:68]
ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator
The V1 compatibility schema’s _StrictModel forbids extra fields, and WorkerSettingsV1 defines a fixed set of fields with no scheduler-launch field. Passing scheduler.launch through this legacy worker contract would be rejected; treat AIC as a compatibility boundary, not a consumer of the new setting. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schema.py:21-22] [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::src/aiconfigurator/sdk/config_adapter/schema.py:85-93]
Its migration guide identifies AIC 0.12.0 as the compatibility release for moving workflows to AISimulate. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::docs/aisimulate_migration.md:8-16]
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The documentation is updated. The identified schema describes prediction output, and no checked-in engine-config schema or required fixture update is established. The concern does not identify an actionable omission.
…wn_launch
charge_own_launch found each record's next pass through a dict keyed by
(worker_id, counter_id), so a repeated pair, from a worker restart or two
captures of one worker, kept only the last record and moved a stall
between unrelated passes. A missing stall entry became 0.0 and left that
kind's records uncorrected.
It now rejects a record without counter_id or worker_id, a repeated pair,
a stall table without a finite, nonnegative value for each carrier and
next-pass kind, and a capture size that is not a positive integer.
--launch-stall rejects a file without exactly its two keys.
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train with --launch-stall changes every training target but did not say
so in the artifact. Its metadata now holds the file's exact contents
under launch_stall, and has no such key without the option. The file is
read and checked once, before any record is loaded.
A CLI test trains and evaluates with and without --launch-stall on
records where an eager launch lands in the decode record before it, and
checks the decode prediction, the evaluation and the errors for a file
missing a key or a carrier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shahar Mor <smor@nvidia.com>
vLLM turns async scheduling off for ngram drafts, and launch requires
it. Prediction validation accepted the pair, and the runner then turned
async scheduling off and passed launch on to the engine. Both now reject
it with a message that names ngram speculation; the engine's own check
stays as the last guard.
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Why and what changed
Async vLLM replays now free blocks and preempt like vLLM, with opt-in launch timing.
attention-DP rank. A CPU-tier connector's finish work moves with the free, as in vLLM, so feat: model vLLM's CPU offloading connectors for agentic replay on several workers #679's
offloading_v0_32and
simple_cpu_v0_32connectors store a finished request's blocks a pass later.kv_cache.host_offload), replay does not preempt a request that thepass in flight runs.
workers.aggregated.scheduler.launch, opt-in. Measured launch costs set when outputs reach the client and whichpass an arrival joins. Passes do not move. It needs one-GPU aggregated workers with async scheduling, in offline
replay (
--stack engine).fpm_learned.charge_own_launch, opt-in, for FPM fits on Dynamo's vLLM records. Dynamo ends a pass's record whenvLLM processes its output, after the next pass is launched. So the record before an eager pass carries that pass's
launch, a fit spreads it over passes of its kind, and
launchwould count it a second time.charge_own_launchmoves each launch back to its own record before fitting. The learned trainer applies it with
--launch-stall FILE;a regression's
tune_with_fpmstakes its output as is.The rules are in the
vLLM async scheduling
and
vLLM pass launch
sections of
docs/replay/engine/workers.md. After #624, that page still listed these as gaps.By default, async vLLM results change only near the KV capacity limit. Telemetry's KV gauges also change: on a busy
engine, they count a finished request's blocks one pass longer. Synchronous vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM replays are
byte-identical to
main.Before / after
Fix, public fixture.
tests/e2e/configs/unified_cli/predict/engine/01-synthetic-default.yamlhas a tiny modelwith fixed 1 ms prefill and decode. The run below gives it 64 concurrent synthetic requests, which overfill 512 G1
blocks.
main(69a49368) and the branch each ranaisimulate predict --stack engine --config before-after.yaml --capture-telemetry. Preemptions are summed fromtelemetry-samples.jsonl.mainmainWith
async_scheduling: false, or with 4,096 G1 blocks, every simulated metric and telemetry sample matchesmain.Mean and std TPOT can differ in the 16th digit, as they do between two runs of
main.Fix, replay-parity rows. The
aisimulate-replay-parityskill's runner replayed its frozen engine-only configs onthe 5,000-row Mooncake slice. Each revision ran twice, in separate processes, with identical results.
Parity setup
expectedblocks were removed, since they were pinned on an older revision.--locked, since the committed runner lockfile does not matchmain.async_scheduling: falsecopy of each vLLM row, a CPU-tier copy of the aggregated vLLM row(
native_host_offload: {num_host_blocks: 24576},kv_cache_bytes_per_token: 65536), and two copies of that rowwith feat: model vLLM's CPU offloading connectors for agentic replay on several workers #679's
offloading_v0_32andsimple_cpu_v0_32connectors.build_runner.pyrejects the runner's manifest, so both runnerswere built from its sources by hand.
async_scheduling: false: the three vLLM rowsoffloading_v0_32simple_cpu_v0_32Only async vLLM rows move: near the capacity limit, admissions shift by a pass. Preemptions move by a few either way,
and each run's end by under 1%. Replay wall time per row, the best of 16 interleaved runs, is within 0.98 to 1.03 of
main; the SGLang and TensorRT-LLM rows, whose code this does not change, vary as much.launch, new capability.mainhas no input for the CPU time of a launch. It returns outputs at the pass end andadmits arrivals by counting passes. This example is from
crates/core/tests/replay_vllm_async.rs. A pass with prefilltakes 100 ms, and a decode pass 10 ms. Launches take 2, 20 and 50 ms (decode, piecewise and eager), with a 16-token
graph limit.
mainlauncheager_queue_fraction: 0.8launch, measured. Nemotron 3 Super (NVFP4) ran on one GB200 per worker, with vLLM43b4aaea, async schedulingand MTP, under AgentX agentic traffic at 64 to 384 users. A per-step timer in the engine core timed each pass from
schedule()entry to the end ofsample_tokens().launchvaluedecode_ms: 6.52, the meanpiecewise_ms: 73.72eager_ms: 180.81max_cudagraph_capture_sizewas 4,096. In 33,864 eager passes whose launch began well before the GPU reached them,the launch ended 0.382 of the way through the pass:
eager_queue_fraction: 0.382.Three GPU runs on SWE-bench agentic traces check the rule, with the same model, GPU and vLLM at 64, 192 and 320 users.
The rule was replayed over each run's measured pass sequence; this is not a full simulator run. Pass times come from a
regression on #691's FPM features, fitted on other time blocks of the same runs, after
charge_own_launchmoved eachlaunch back to its own record.
Interval from the previous pass's outputs to a decode pass's outputs, p50 / p90 / p99 (ms):
launchlaunchTime to first token, counted from the last pass boundary before the request arrived; median absolute error against
the GPU:
launchlaunchcharge_own_launch, synthetic. A regression is fitted on synthetic one-GPU vLLM records whosewall_timecarriesthe part of the next pass's launch that its own pass did not hide, as Dynamo records them. It then prices a second
workload with a different pass order: eager prefills follow 12% of decode passes in workload A and 3% in B. Every
number is synthetic.
charge_own_launchfirstScript:
python launch_stall_probe.py, with this branch's packageReview map
schedule_pass,resolve_passandpolicy_preemptincrates/core/src/engine/scheduler/vllm/core.rs.Then read
scheduler/rank.rs,replay/components/engine.rsandreplay/agg.rs, which hold and release outputs.The fitting step is
charge_own_launchinpython/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/fpm_learned.py.EngineConfig.launch: Option<PassLaunchConfig>(omitted when unset) and the YAML block.RankEngine::next_emission_msandtake_due_emissions, both defaulted, and theirGeneralizedMockerEnginemethods.
RunnerCapabilities.supports_scheduler_launch.fpm_learned.charge_own_launchand a--launch-stall FILEflag ontrainandevaluate. With the flag,trainstores the file's contents as the artifact's
metadata.launch_stall; no other artifact or snapshot formatchanges.
contract.
limitedfor vLLM, and a note indocs/replay/features.md.async_scheduling: falserestoresmain's frees and preemptions.EngineConfigand implements noRankEngine.frees as on
main.launch.policy_preempt.Evidence
crates/core/tests/replay_vllm_async.rs.async_scheduling_admissioninengine/scheduler/vllm/tests.rsevery_attention_dp_rank_frees_finished_blocks_after_the_next_decisionarrivals_after_the_last_running_request_get_its_blocks_at_oncesimple_cpu_stores_a_finished_request_s_blocks_after_the_next_decisioninscheduler/vllm/host_offload.rsa_pass_outputs_leave_once_the_next_pass_is_launcheda_decode_pass_above_the_graph_limit_launches_eagerheld_outputs_leave_before_those_of_the_pass_that_releases_themdetokenization_starts_when_vllm_returns_the_outputsan_arrival_joins_the_first_pass_decided_after_itlaunch_needs_a_one_gpu_engine;tests/test_cli_config.pylaunchwith ngram speculation is rejected in validation and in the runnertest_ngram_rejects_launch_before_turning_async_scheduling_offintests/test_ngram_cli.pya_cancel_drops_outputs_vllm_has_not_returnedinscheduler/rank.rslaunchchecks, its path from YAML to the engine, the runner gateengine/config.rs,tests/test_cli_config.py,tests/test_runner.pytest_charge_own_launch_moves_the_next_launch_backinpython/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/test_fpm_learned.pycharge_own_launchrejects repeated or unidentified records and an incomplete stall tabletest_charge_own_launch_rejects_ambiguous_records,test_charge_own_launch_needs_every_stall_valuetrainandevaluateapply--launch-stall;trainrecords it; a bad file failstest_cli_launch_stall_moves_launches_for_train_and_evaluatecargo test -p aisim-core --lib --tests: passes, 2,568 library tests and every integration test.cargo test --manifest-path crates/tests/public-api/Cargo.toml: passes.pytest -c pytest.ini tests: 6,082 passed. Its 16 failures and 1 error (CI-workflow contracts and qualification,FPM workflow tests and an HF module) also fail on
mainon macOS.pytest -c python/aisimulate/pytest.ini python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk: 5,544 passed.cargo fmt --all --check,ruff checkandruff format --check: clean on the changed files.scripts/ci/check_packaged_legal_files.py,check_copyright.pyandcheck_documentation_links.py: pass.launchis rejected on more than one GPU, without async scheduling, with ngram speculation, on prefill or decodeworkers, and by runners without the capability.
charge_own_launchrejects a repeated(worker_id, counter_id), a record without either, and a stall tablemissing a value or holding a negative or NaN one. An explicit 0 moves nothing.
launchtable above.Modeling or data provenance
vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:defer_block_free, the running loop's_request_blocks_can_be_freedcheck,and
update_from_output.vllm/v1/engine/core.py:step_with_batch_queue.vllm/config/parallel.pyandvllm/v1/executor/uniproc_executor.py: one GPU gets the uniprocess executor. Itlaunches a pass inside the engine loop.
dispatchinvllm/v1/worker/gpu/cudagraph_utils.py. A pass larger than every captured CUDA graph runs eager.feat: fit FPM regressions to measured MTP rounds #691 cites the same file.
which feat: model vLLM async-scheduling admission in replay #624 cites, preempts it. These rules are unchanged on vLLM main.
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.mdcopies carry the entry, next to feat: model vLLM async-scheduling admission in replay #624's.Tracking
launchrefines its rule.schedule_pass/resolve_passloop. Launch timing is set when a pass ispriced.
cleanup_completed_prefill, which this change defers.simple_cpu_stores_a_finished_request_s_blocks_after_the_next_decisionchecks it with SimpleCPU.fit.linear.max_cudagraph_capture_sizeis the same vLLM option aslaunch.max_cudagraph_capture_size.Whichever lands second rejects a run that sets them to different values.
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