fix(router): preserve per-rank DP capacity [DYN-4273]

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Summary

• normalize aggregate native-vLLM KV capacity to Dynamo's per-rank MDC contract and initialize every Python vLLM DP logger, including snapshot-restored engines
• preserve rank-scoped load updates through worker-metrics debouncing and reconcile overload/admission state against the authoritative MDC-declared rank range
• subscribe to every pure-DP SGLang KV-event port and divide max_running_requests only for attention DP in both Python and the native sidecar
• reject zero data-parallel rank counts at model publication and ignore malformed zero-rank cards at runtime-config discovery

Item 6 from the audit (TRT-LLM rank-0 occupancy) is intentionally deferred because it requires upstream support. Item 7 needs no patch here: current main already contains the DP-rank-aware ThunderAgent fix from #14000.

Where should the reviewer start?

• lib/llm/src/discovery/worker_monitor.rs and lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/worker_metrics.rs for rank reconciliation and rank-scoped load publication
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/publisher.py, components/src/dynamo/sglang/capacity.py, and the two native sidecar model/engine adapters for backend capacity wiring
• lib/llm/src/local_model/runtime_config.rs and lib/llm/src/discovery/runtime_configs.rs for zero-rank validation and compatibility handling

Related Issues

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Validation

• cargo test -p dynamo-vllm-sidecar --lib — 25 passed
• cargo test -p dynamo-sglang-sidecar --lib — 32 passed
• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features discovery::worker_monitor::tests — 29 passed
• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features publish_debounces_updates_independently_per_rank — passed
• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features local_model::runtime_config::tests — 27 passed
• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features discovery::runtime_configs::tests — 4 passed
• .venv/bin/python -m pytest -xq components/src/dynamo/sglang/tests/test_sglang_local_dp_ranks.py components/src/dynamo/thunderagent_router/tests/test_capacity.py — 19 passed
• cargo clippy --no-default-features -- -D warnings and cargo fmt passed in lib/llm, lib/sidecar/sglang, and lib/sidecar/vllm
• Python Ruff checks and py_compile passed; commit-time isort, Black, flake8, Ruff, whitespace, conflict, and instruction-pair hooks passed
• git diff --check passed

The broader cargo test -p dynamo-llm --lib --no-default-features run passed 2,361 tests with 3 ignored and one failure in the unchanged http::service::service_v2::tests::test_oversized_body_returns_json_413; an isolated rerun reproduced the same reqwest connection-decode failure. The vLLM and SGLang publisher pytest modules cannot collect in this macOS worktree because those optional backend packages are not installed; a local vLLM source attempt additionally lacks PyTorch.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected pure data-parallel capacity and request-limit reporting so aggregate limits are preserved where appropriate.
  • Improved KV-cache capacity reporting with per-rank values and conservative handling of uneven capacity.
  • Fixed worker load tracking when data-parallel ranks are added, removed, or reconfigured.
  • Rejected invalid runtime configurations with zero data-parallel size.
  • Ensured metrics and KV-cache events are published independently and consistently for every data-parallel rank.

• Reliability

  • Improved snapshot-based worker startup so metrics remain connected and correctly initialized across runtime transitions.

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Walkthrough

The change updates data-parallel capacity and rank handling across SGLang, vLLM, worker discovery, metric publication, snapshot setup, and sidecar registration. Tests cover pure DP, DP attention, deferred logger binding, runtime rank reconciliation, per-rank debouncing, and KV-cache capacity reporting.

Changes

SGLang rank capacity and KV events

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capacity rules and request limits components/src/dynamo/sglang/capacity.py, components/src/dynamo/sglang/tests/test_sglang_local_dp_ranks.py	Pure DP exposes all local ranks and preserves the configured request limit. DP attention retains per-rank slicing and division.
KV-event subscriptions components/src/dynamo/sglang/publisher.py, components/src/dynamo/sglang/tests/test_sglang_publisher.py	Documentation and logging cover pure DP and DP attention subscriptions. Obsolete pure-DP rank-range coverage was removed.

vLLM snapshot logger reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Multi-rank logger lifecycle components/src/dynamo/vllm/publisher.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_publisher.py	The factory tracks every data-parallel logger. Endpoint binding, GPU-block updates, and initial publication apply to all loggers.
Snapshot engine setup components/src/dynamo/vllm/snapshot.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_snapshot.py	Snapshot preparation creates and passes a StatLoggerFactory, then stores it with the engine.
Worker integration components/src/dynamo/vllm/worker_factory.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_worker_factory.py	Snapshot workers reuse and rebind the supplied factory. Prefill workers initialize per-rank metrics and publishing.

Worker state and metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime rank reconciliation lib/llm/src/discovery/worker_monitor.rs	Worker state follows declared DP ranks, rejects out-of-range observations, evaluates unobserved ranks, and removes stale state.
Per-rank metric publication lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/worker_metrics.rs, lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/tests.rs	Metric storage and debouncing operate independently per DP rank through an injectable sink.

Sidecar capacity reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SGLang engine rank registration lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs	Pure DP and attention DP register all configured ranks.
vLLM KV-cache capacity lib/sidecar/vllm/src/model.rs, lib/sidecar/vllm/src/tests.rs, components/src/dynamo/vllm/capacity.py	KV-cache blocks are converted to estimated per-rank capacity before registration. Related code documents capacity provenance and future rank-aware handling.

Runtime configuration validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Data-parallel configuration guards lib/llm/src/discovery/runtime_configs.rs, lib/llm/src/local_model/runtime_config.rs	Zero-sized data-parallel configurations are rejected or ignored, with regression tests for both paths.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 349e8

The change improves DP rank registration and capacity reporting, but several paths can still treat shared, rank-0, or estimated capacity as authoritative per-rank capacity. This may over-admit requests or approve an infeasible scale-down in heterogeneous DP deployments, so the capacity contracts should be resolved before merge.

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lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/tests.rs (1)

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Add a staggered-time case for deadline selection.

tokio::spawn does not poll the task before the test reaches its first .await, so the watch receiver observes only {0: 300, 1: 200}. The test invokes next_deadline and take_due, but both ranks have the same deadline; it does not verify minimum-deadline selection or partial draining. Use paused time and advance it between publishes.

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In `@lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/tests.rs` around lines 2161 - 2173, Update
the test around the publisher.publish calls and next_deadline/take_due
assertions to use paused Tokio time, advancing the clock between publishes so
ranks receive distinct deadlines. Verify that next_deadline selects the earliest
deadline and take_due drains only entries due at the current time before later
advancement; retain assertions for both published metrics.

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In `@lib/llm/src/discovery/worker_monitor.rs`:
- Around line 272-273: Validate data_parallel_size at the runtime configuration
boundary before publishing through runtime_config_watch, rejecting explicit zero
or consistently normalizing it to one rank starting at data_parallel_start_rank.
Ensure reconcile_runtime_config never builds an empty declared_dp_ranks set,
preserving valid nonzero configurations.

In `@lib/sidecar/vllm/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 171-177: In lib/sidecar/vllm/src/model.rs lines 171-177, update
the per-rank capacity logic in the model metadata calculation so per_rank == 0
returns no capacity instead of Some(1). In lib/sidecar/vllm/src/tests.rs lines
893-910, update the one-aggregate-block test expectation to assert no capacity.

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In `@lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/tests.rs`:
- Around line 2161-2173: Update the test around the publisher.publish calls and
next_deadline/take_due assertions to use paused Tokio time, advancing the clock
between publishes so ranks receive distinct deadlines. Verify that next_deadline
selects the earliest deadline and take_due drains only entries due at the
current time before later advancement; retain assertions for both published
metrics.

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• components/src/dynamo/sglang/capacity.py
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• components/src/dynamo/vllm/snapshot.py
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• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_worker_factory.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/worker_factory.py
• lib/llm/src/discovery/worker_monitor.rs
• lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/tests.rs
• lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/worker_metrics.rs
• lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs
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In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/connectors/mdc.py`:
- Around line 148-150: Update the MDC capacity flow around per_rank_kv_blocks,
total_kv_blocks_per_rank, and WorkerInfo.total_kv_blocks so aggregate DP
estimates are not used as exact capacity in Planner hard scale-down feasibility
checks. Propagate whether the value is approximate and exclude it from hard
checks, or replace it with a conservative per-rank minimum; preserve exact
capacity behavior where available.

In `@components/src/dynamo/sglang/register.py`:
- Around line 517-519: Update get_runtime_config and ModelRuntimeConfig so
capacity metadata is rank-aware before model_card_dp_rank_bounds advertises DP
ranks: collect and validate total_kv_blocks and related capacity values for
every scheduler rank, then publish one atomic per-rank snapshot for the Rust
router, or explicitly enforce homogeneous capacities with tests before
registration.

In `@components/src/dynamo/thunderagent_router/capacity.py`:
- Around line 138-140: Update get_native_offloading_capacity_tokens() and
snapshot() so native-offload capacity has an explicit per-rank versus
worker-shared unit before admission. For worker-shared capacity, keep it
worker-scoped or divide it appropriately rather than copying the same
total_tokens into every (worker_id, dp_rank); preserve per-rank values as
rank-specific when available.

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• lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/types.rs
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• lib/llm/src/kv_dc_relay/load.rs
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