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Summary

When the Python vLLM frontend matches a string stop, it ignores OutputProcessor.reqs_to_abort and keeps reading the backend stream after its choices finish. This can discard terminal usage and count late tokens from stopped choices.

Emit the terminal response and release the routed stream once all choices belonging to this request finish. Count tokens while choices are active and retain the latest backend prompt/cache metadata when correcting terminal totals. Sibling choices and unrelated requests sharing the output processor remain active.

Details

  • Track request-local completion without cancelling the parent HTTP context.
  • Preserve backend prompt-token/cache details even when a sibling finishes before the final local stop, and recompute completion/total tokens from active choices.
  • Cover split stops, parallel choices, unrelated requests, late tokens, and both orderings of backend usage. The HTTP regression checks terminal usage and [DONE] across two consecutive requests.
  • Rebase on current main (abc1952924), preserving its chat logprobs and multimodal error-envelope behavior.

Where should the reviewer start?

components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py::_generate_and_stream and the local-stop cases in test_vllm_processor_unit.py.

Validation

Current follow-up (2026-10-15), with vLLM 0.31.0 and Rust/Python bindings built from this checkout (abc1952924 baseline); both Python packages are installed from source at version 1.6.0:

  • python -m pytest components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py -q: 225 passed.
  • python -m pytest tests/frontend/test_vllm_prepost_integration.py -k local_stop_preserves_stream_terminal --models-dir=<local-tokenizer-cache> --durations=0 -q: 1 passed in 15.46 seconds, including both HTTP requests and teardown under the 90-second test timeout. This exercises real HTTP/etcd/TCP/ZMQ with the token worker and loads no GPU inference model. NIXL transport is not exercised; the native build uses its default stub fallback for the unavailable NIXL library.
  • Applicable changed-file pre-commit and DCO hooks: passed.
  • Current-main comparisons with production sources unchanged reproduce all 5 local-stop processor failures and the missing terminal HTTP usage.

Per-choice backend cancellation while other choices remain active is outside this change. The shared routed stream is released when all request choices finish.

Related Issues

Closes #15861

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The stream processor now handles local stop completion across parallel choices, preserves unrelated requests, synthesizes missing usage, and terminates after the final envelope. Unit and integration tests cover routed-engine behavior and TCP/ZMQ event planes.

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Local stop completion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Local completion control
components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py
The stream tracks local completion, waits for all registered choices to exit, synthesizes usage when backend usage is absent, emits the final envelope, and terminates iteration.
Local stop regression coverage
components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py, tests/frontend/test_vllm_prepost_integration.py
Tests cover split stop-token handling, choice-specific termination, concurrent requests, terminal metadata, reasoning suppression, token counts, and TCP/ZMQ runs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3cd20

This change completes locally stopped vLLM streams with terminal usage while preserving parallel and unrelated requests. The remaining risk is limited to test imports that should be moved to module scope for consistency and dependency visibility.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py`:
- Line 1470: Move the vllm_processor import from the test function to the
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Pre Merge passed for current head ca59ae1a2. Full CI has not run for this commit, and the upstream pull-request/14325 branch has not been created, so the required backend-status-check, dynamo-status-check, and deploy-status-check results are still unreported.

Could a maintainer authorize this revision with /ok to test ca59ae1a2? Code-owner review is also still outstanding.

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Rebased onto current main (7d4c346) and resolved the frontend integration conflict; new head is 186eacb. Validation: cargo fmt --all -- --check passed, and the focused local-stop/terminal-stream tests passed (5 passed, 165 deselected). All rewritten commits are DCO-signed and GitHub-verified; fresh checks are running.

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Follow-up: the first refreshed pre-commit run found only Black spacing in the newly added integration test. Fixed in verified/DCO commit f54f9c5; Black 23.1.0 now reports the file unchanged and the focused test set still passes (5 passed). Fresh checks are running.

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Two findings from local review. All 169 processor unit tests pass with vLLM 0.28.0; an additional cache-metadata regression check passes on the base revision and fails on this head.

if usage := engine_response.get("completion_usage"):
usage = engine_response.get("completion_usage")
if has_local_stop and (usage or locally_finished):
usage = dict(usage or {})

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[P2] Preserve earlier backend usage metadata when synthesizing terminal usage. With n=2, one choice can finish naturally and report prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens=64, then the remaining choice can hit a local string stop without completion_usage on that chunk. Starting from {} here discards the earlier cache metadata; the non-streaming DeltaAggregator then replaces its previous usage with this incomplete object. Reproduced with the real vLLM 0.28.0 output processor: the base retains cached_tokens=64, while this head's final usage omits prompt_tokens_details. Retain the latest backend usage per request and use it as the basis for corrected terminal totals, with coverage for natural-finish-before-local-stop ordering.

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Fixed in da32008. The request now retains its latest backend usage before processing choices and copies it when synthesizing terminal totals. Added the natural-finish-before-local-stop ordering with real vLLM 0.28.0: it fails on the previous head and now preserves cached_tokens=64 and backend prompt_tokens=128 while correcting completion/total tokens. All 170 frontend unit tests pass, as do the focused HTTP/etcd/TCP/ZMQ integration test and applicable pre-commit hooks.

Update (2026-10-15, 75f94e8d79 on abc1952924): the earlier-backend-usage regression still preserves cached_tokens=64 and backend prompt_tokens=128 while correcting completion/total tokens. All 225 processor tests pass with vLLM 0.31.0 and bindings built from the current checkout. The same production comparison against current main fails all five local-stop cases; the real HTTP/etcd/TCP/ZMQ test preserves terminal usage and [DONE] across both requests.


@pytest.mark.parametrize("request_plane", ["tcp"], indirect=True)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_plane", ["zmq"], indirect=True)
def test_vllm_chat_processor_local_stop_preserves_stream_terminal(

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[P3] Add a test-level timeout. This new pre-merge integration test launches subprocesses, waits for service readiness, and consumes two HTTP streams, but has no pytest.mark.timeout or module-level equivalent. requests.post(timeout=60) limits socket inactivity, not total test duration or fixture teardown. Add an explicit pytest timeout based on the measured runtime, as required by .ai/pytest-guidelines.md for network/subprocess tests.

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Added pytest.mark.timeout(90) in da32008. The measured setup/call/teardown totals were 24.92s on the first successful run and 14.77s on the warm rerun; 90s gives roughly 3x the cold run, rounded up. The integration test passes with this timeout, including both HTTP requests and fixture teardown.

Update (2026-10-15, 75f94e8d79): pytest.mark.timeout(90) remains in place. With current source-built bindings, both HTTP requests and fixture teardown pass in 15.46s (9.13s setup, 0.44s call, 1.84s teardown). The token worker loads no GPU inference model.

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The two review points are addressed in current head da320087c and I replied in their threads with the validation details. Pre Merge passed for this head. The earlier /ok to test f54f9c5 authorized the previous revision; full CI has not run for da320087c. Could a maintainer authorize the current revision with /ok to test da320087c and re-review the two threads?

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Rebased onto current main (b53cb43f75), preserving its chat logprobs handling and adapting the regression to data.llm_metrics. New head: c404e47723. Linked #15861 to track the existing fix.

With vLLM 0.31.0 and freshly rebuilt native bindings, all 214 processor unit tests, the HTTP/etcd/TCP/ZMQ regression (two consecutive requests), and applicable pre-commit hooks pass. Current-main comparisons reproduce the five processor failures and missing terminal HTTP usage. The integration uses the existing token worker without loading a GPU inference model.

Could a maintainer authorize full CI for this revision with /ok to test c404e47723?

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Rebased onto main (abc1952924) in 75f94e8d79, retaining upstream chat logprobs and multimodal error-envelope handling. With bindings freshly built from this checkout and vLLM 0.31.0, all 225 processor unit tests and the two-request HTTP/etcd/TCP/ZMQ regression pass (15.46s under the 90s timeout). Current-main production comparisons reproduce all five processor failures and missing terminal HTTP usage. Changed-file pre-commit hooks pass. The HTTP test uses a token worker without a GPU inference model; NIXL transport is not exercised. Full CI has not yet been observed for this head.

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