test(sglang): wait for cancellable response readiness

[jain-ria]

Overview:

Fix a race in the shared cancellation-test helper that can make SGLang decode-cancellation coverage fail before the test actually cancels a request.

CancellableRequest.post() performs the HTTP request on a background thread. The test can observe the request in the decode and prefill worker logs and then call get_response() before that background thread has stored the streaming Response. In that timing window, get_response() returns None, and read_streaming_responses() fails with Failed to get streaming response: response is None.

The observed test_request_cancellation_sglang_decode_cancel[nats] failure occurred at this point, before cancel() or any cancellation assertions ran. Its automatic retry passed.

Details:

• Add a threading.Event that is set after the background HTTP request produces either a response or an exception.
• Make get_response() wait for that signal instead of immediately reading a potentially transient None value.
• Bound the wait at 30 seconds so a genuinely stuck request produces a clear timeout instead of hanging indefinitely.

This changes only test synchronization; it does not modify Dynamo or SGLang cancellation behavior.

Where should the reviewer start?

tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py, specifically CancellableRequest.post() and CancellableRequest.get_response().

Validation

• Exercised a delayed mock response and confirmed get_response() waits until it is available.
• Exercised a missing response and confirmed the bounded timeout is raised.
• git diff --check passes.

The full two-GPU SGLang test was not run locally.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of cancellable requests by waiting for request completion before returning results.
  • Added timeout support, including a clear timeout error when a request does not finish within the specified period.
  • Preserved existing cancellation and request-error handling.

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Walkthrough

CancellableRequest now tracks request completion with a threading event. The request thread signals completion after cleanup. get_response accepts a timeout, waits for completion, and raises requests.exceptions.Timeout when the timeout expires.

Changes

Cancellable request timeout handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request completion signaling tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py	CancellableRequest creates a completion event. The request thread signals the event after cleanup.
Timed response retrieval tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py	get_response accepts a timeout and raises requests.exceptions.Timeout when completion does not occur within that timeout. Existing cancellation, exception, and response handling remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f99a6

If response readiness times out, the background request thread may remain blocked and keep the test process alive; canceling the request and ensuring bounded worker cleanup is needed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: making cancellable response retrieval wait for readiness.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the race and synchronization fix, identifies the review starting point, documents validation, and confirms that no related issue exists.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py`:
- Around line 184-189: Update CancellableRequest.get_response so a readiness
timeout first invokes cancel() and performs bounded cleanup by joining the
request worker thread, then raises the existing requests.exceptions.Timeout.
Preserve the current response path when _response_ready is set and ensure
cleanup does not wait indefinitely.

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