[sachalmalick]

This connects Planner's batch observation and drain-decision interfaces to lifecycle-owned HTTP and Redis clients. It gives the native environment a bounded, fail-closed actuation path with Redis-time leases, fenced writers, and deterministic retries.

CLOSES: LLM-187

How This Was Implemented

• Add Lua-backed Redis actuation that acquires a writer epoch and applies sequenced leases atomically against Redis server time.
• Reject stale writers, mismatched duplicate retries, expired decisions, and lost-fence state while allowing an identical retry after a lost acknowledgement.
• Compose Gateway, frontend metrics, Async metrics, and Redis clients in an opt-in native provider.
• Publish a startup zero-rate lease, acquire the Kubernetes writer fence before enabling actuation, and close partially initialized resources on failure.
• Add a rejecting no-op provider for disabled configurations and pin the supported Redis client dependency range.

Walkthrough

• environment/batch.py::RedisLeasedDrainLimitActuator owns epoch acquisition, sequencing, lease expiry, duplicate detection, and Redis-time validation.
• environment/batch_runtime.py owns client construction, initialization order, collection, actuation, cleanup, and shutdown pause.
• environment/interface.py and environment/base.py expose batch collection and actuation through the existing environment boundary.
• tests/unit/test_batch_environment.py covers clock skew, stale writers, lost acknowledgements, missing fences, and atomic payload checks.
• tests/unit/test_batch_runtime.py covers startup fencing, initialization failure, cleanup, advisory mode, and disabled behavior.

Validation

• Changed-path Planner tests on the stacked head: 617 passed, including Redis actuation and runtime lifecycle coverage.
• uvx pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD and git diff --check passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added batch scheduling support, including collection of scheduling observations and application of drain-limit decisions.
  • Added leased drain-limit controls that help prevent expired, outdated, or conflicting decisions from taking effect.
  • Added configurable batch scheduling with optional drain-limit actuation; scheduling observations remain available when actuation is disabled.

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[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Reviewed at cf01e4a. The diff base is the stack parent sachalmalick/planner-batch-observations__LLM-186, merge-base bcbc662 — confirmed with gh api repos/ai-dynamo/dynamo/compare/... rather than local ancestry, since my clone is shallow.

Intent, as I read it from the description and the diff: give the Planner an opt-in provider that owns the batch-observation HTTP clients and a Redis client, and publish each drain-limit decision as a versioned llm-d hash plus an absolute PEXPIREAT in one transaction, with a rejecting no-op provider when batch_scheduling.enabled=false.

How I verified

Worktree at the PR head. Everything below ran on AMD64 inside the repo's …-dynamo-runtime-test image with the head tree overlaid on PYTHONPATH (PEP-420 namespace overlay, so dynamo.planner comes from the tree while the compiled dynamo._core still resolves from site-packages), against a real redis:7-alpine.

• Base vs head, same image: base 875 passed, head 892 passed over the full planner unit suite. The only delta is the 17 tests this PR adds. Both trees show one identical failure in test_power_annotation_contract.py, which is my harness not shipping deploy/power-agent — not a PR effect.
• The default path is unchanged. BatchSchedulingConfig().enabled is False; a None batch_provider resolves to NoopBatchSchedulingProvider; and importing planner_factory plus batch_runtime leaves redis out of sys.modules entirely. A deployment that does not opt in behaves as before.
• Shutdown cannot race an actuation. run() puts the tick loop and _shutdown_runtime() in the same coroutine with shutdown in the finally, so no actuation can still be in flight when the zero-rate pause is published, and a positive lease cannot land after it. I tried to build that race and could not — it is closed by construction, which is worth knowing.

Lease lifecycle, measured against real Redis

Transition	Observed
acquire	key written with all five fields, PTTL = the full lease
renew before expiry	fields overwritten, TTL extended; idempotent for a repeated decision
expire mid-flight	the whole hash is deleted — exists=0, pttl=-2, hash={}. Not just the rate: api_version, pool_id and decision_id go with it, and the Planner is not told
late renewal after a lapse	returns normally; HSET silently recreates the key. No lapse signal reaches the caller
two holders on one key	both calls succeed; the later write wins outright, no fencing
ungraceful exit	nothing is published; the last lease stands until its own valid_until and then the key vanishes. Worst-case stall is one drain_lease_duration_seconds

What the consumer does with a missing key is llm-d's behaviour and is outside this repo, so I could not verify that half — flagging it as the boundary of what I checked.

Mutation-testing the new tests

Nine mutations of the lease semantics; eight killed, one survived. Killed: dropping PEXPIREAT from the transaction, transaction=False, dropping the expiry guard, a permissive shutdown lease, skipping the shutdown pause, dropping the single-decision guard, dropping the pool-ownership check, dropping the results[1] check. The survivor is in the batch.py comment below.

Outcome

Two P2 and three P3, none of them a blocker. That is over my approval bar on count, so this is a comment rather than an approval — I am happy to re-review as soon as they are addressed or argued down.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Re-verified at the same head

Head cf01e4a4 has not moved since the last round, and no commit was pushed. All five findings stand, re-measured by execution. I am not raising anything new against this diff.

Two P2 and three P3 remain open, so this stays unapproved. One line of my own batch.py comment is corrected on its thread.

Push shape, base state, and what the merge actually does

The head is the same commit I reviewed. A fresh fetch reported no update at all, so there was no forced update. The range from the base tip to the head is one commit with one parent and no merge commits. Author and committer dates are equal per commit and spread over six separate minutes, so no rebase collapsed them. The issue timeline records one committed event and no head_ref_force_pushed event.

The base is another open pull request, #14196, not main. Its tip is bcbc6628. That commit is an ancestor of this head, so the merge base and the base tip are the same commit. I merged the base tip into the head and got Already up to date with zero conflicting files.

Because the base tip is the merge base, the base branch has gained zero commits since the merge base. The interaction check is therefore empty. For contrast, main has gained 450 commits since this stack forked, and 21 of them touch a file in this diff. Those belong to the bottom of the stack, not to this pull request.

Each finding re-measured, with its control

All five sites are introduced by this commit. batch.py exists at the base tip but has no apply_drain_limit. batch_runtime.py is a new file. Both dependency lines are additions.

batch.py:870, P2. Confirmed against Redis 7.4.11. Details and the correction are on that thread.

pyproject.toml:22, P2. The line is still there, and the lazy import still holds:

after importing planner_factory and batch_runtime: 'redis' in sys.modules = False

batch_runtime.py:102, P3. Confirmed:

from_url #2 returned in 0.00006s -> NO connection attempt
CONTROL empty url -> ValueError redis_url must be non-empty
first apply_drain_limit raised after 0.000s: ConnectionError: Error 61 connecting to 127.0.0.1:6399.

The control matters. from_url does reject what it can reject early, so the silence about a bad address is a gap rather than a general absence of validation.

container/deps/requirements.planner.txt:25, P3. The boundary is exact, and the end-to-end effect is a clean A/B on one variable:

redis 5.0.0   async Redis.aclose = False
redis 5.0.1   async Redis.aclose = True

redis==5.0.0  provider.shutdown() -> RAISED AttributeError: 'Redis' object has no attribute 'aclose'
redis==5.0.1  provider.shutdown() -> OK (no raise)

base.py:88, P3. Confirmed, with a control on the same object:

Noop.apply_drain_limits([])    -> returned None (accepted)
CONTROL Noop([decision])       -> RAISED RuntimeError batch drain actuation is not configured
Native.apply_drain_limits([])  -> RAISED ValueError single-pool batch scheduling requires exactly one drain decision

Which lane runs each new test file, by running the lane expressions

Every new test in this diff is selected by a named lane. I checked this because a file here carries no suite marker, and I wanted to know whether that left it unrun. It does not.

file	tests	lane	selected
test_batch_runtime.py	9	planner-test, pr.yaml:898, pre_merge and planner and gpu_0	9 of 9
test_environment.py	10	same lane	10 of 10
test_batch_environment.py	80	dynamo-pipeline, pr.yaml:953, pre_merge and (parallel or defaulted) and not (vllm or sglang or trtllm) and (gpu_0)	80 of 80

test_batch_environment.py has no module-level markers. The repository root conftest.py adds pre_merge, gpu_0 and defaulted to it, and the second lane selects on defaulted. Under the planner lane expression its 80 tests are all deselected, and under the parallel lane expression the 9 tests of test_batch_runtime.py are all deselected. Neither file runs twice.

I am not raising the missing marker as a finding on this pull request. test_batch_environment.py already exists at the base tip with 1194 lines and no module-level markers. This diff adds 157 lines to it. The marker choice belongs to the base branch, not here.

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The planner adds a batch-scheduling provider interface and environment integration. A native provider collects observations and applies drain-limit decisions through a Redis-backed actuator that uses leases, writer fencing, and sequence checks.

Changes

Batch Scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Environment contract and integration components/src/dynamo/planner/environment/interface.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/environment/base.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_environment.py	The environment defines batch-provider operations, uses a no-op provider by default, delegates collection and actuation, and manages provider startup and shutdown. Tests cover delegation and startup ordering.
Redis leased drain-limit actuator components/src/dynamo/planner/environment/batch.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_batch_environment.py, container/deps/requirements.planner.txt	The actuator bootstraps writer epochs and applies validated decisions through Redis scripts with lease-expiry, writer, and sequence checks. Tests cover retries, fencing, validation, and client ownership. The planner requirements add Redis.
Native provider lifecycle components/src/dynamo/planner/environment/batch_runtime.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_batch_runtime.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_batch_environment.py	The native provider initializes collection sources and optional Redis actuation, guards collection and actuation by lifecycle state, and cleans up resources on failure and shutdown. Tests cover lifecycle behavior and bounded concurrent detail requests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c2afe

The batch runtime is opt-in, and its failure handling defaults to stopping actuation. There are two limitations. Redis Cluster deployments need hash-tagged keys, or the Redis scripts fail. The retry handler can also hide a first failure that is never logged. Both are bounded follow-ups.

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⏹️ Dynamo PR CI cancelled — run 41699833786 (attempt 1) on 4c2c3ec0e3

Gate checks: ✅ backend-status-check · ✅ deploy-status-check · ❌ dynamo-status-check

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Failure details

No job failed outright; 1 job, dynamo-runtime / mypy, was cancelled, and its Run mypy (components) step is marked as failed. That cancellation is why dynamo-status-check failed.

⏹️ dynamo-runtime / mypy: cancelled after `Run mypy (components)` step failed

Job: dynamo-runtime / mypy · Failed step: Run mypy (components) · Logs: gh run view --job 126149921531 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

The Run mypy (components) step ran for about 13 minutes (19:25–19:38 UTC) and the API reports it as failure. The job was then cancelled about 5 minutes later (19:43 UTC, ~20 min after start), and GitHub returned no logs for it, so the mypy errors can't be shown here. No other job in the run failed, so this is not a fail-fast cancel. It looks like a job timeout or a manual cancel. Run pre-commit/mypy on the changed Python files locally, or rerun the job, to see the errors.

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[tedzhouhk]

Approved for the functional end-to-end scope of this batch scheduling stack. Reviewed the native runtime lifecycle and leased Redis control path within the supported deployment scope.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approve at 083cb55871. The new Redis actuation path works on a real server, and our five earlier findings are closed. One P2 is open, on the tests.

• P2, inline: no test runs the two Lua scripts (test_batch_environment.py:1924).
• Open item: this diff needs code from #14194, #14198, #14195 and #14196, and none of that code is on main yet.
• Open item: the PR workflow did not run on this head. The only PR workflow run that contains this commit is the run of #14200 at 05ff3e56b4. Its planner lane passed these tests.

Test, probe, dependency, merge and CI results for this head.

Setup: I used a main runtime test image (1e1a9e4593, Python 3.12.3) with this tree on PYTHONPATH and the planner requirements installed. redis-server 7.4.11 from the public redis:7.4 image ran in the same container.

run	base 3f52ff7122	head 083cb55871
the three changed test files	107 passed	148 passed
planner lane pre_merge and planner and gpu_0, serial	2267 passed, 2 failed	2308 passed, 2 failed

The head adds 41 passing tests, which are the tests of this PR. The same 2 tests fail on both trees. Neither test is in a file that this PR changes, and both depend on the image.

Real Redis, 32 checks, all passed with redis-py 8.1.0 and 6.2.0:

• A stale writer is rejected after a newer bootstrap, and its shutdown pause cannot replace a newer positive lease.
• An expired decision is rejected before any EVAL.
• A reused decision ID with a new payload is rejected locally. A reused sequence with a new payload gets ResponseError and writes nothing. A lower sequence returns 0 and writes nothing.
• After the fence key is deleted, the writer is rejected. A fresh writer gets epoch 1 again, and the old writer, also at epoch 1, stays rejected.
• A proxy dropped one real reply: the apply succeeded, and the script ran twice with the same sequence. When every reply was dropped, the call failed, and a retry of the same decision then succeeded with no new sequence.
• A lost bootstrap reply gives epoch 2, and that writer can apply.
• A reply that never arrives ends in TimeoutError after 4.01 s and two EVAL calls. That is inside the 2 x (connect + socket) budget of the configuration check.

Dependency: redis>=6.2.0,<9.0.0. At 6.2.0, aclose, eval, the from_url options and redis.crc.key_slot all exist. The planner image build for #14200 resolved redis==8.1.0 on Python 3.13.16. PyPI has no 9.x release yet.

Merges with git merge-tree --write-tree: with the base tip 3f52ff7122, the result is the head's own tree. With main at 86b2a65699, the merge is clean (tree 2386e316c2), and it carries the whole stack.

CI on this head: Pre Merge passed (run 37548734330). A second Pre Merge run (37548734153) was cancelled one second after it started, and its pre-merge-status-check failure reports that cancel.

Not measured: Valkey 8.0.10, which the batch-gateway example deploys. Also not measured here: Redis Cluster, and how llm-d reads the key. The planner image uses Python 3.13, and only the CI run of #14200 tested these files on it.

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