test(trtllm): enable fault tolerance coverage

[tanmayv25]

Summary

• Enable 10 previously skipped TensorRT-LLM fault-tolerance cases across cancellation, aggregate migration, decode migration, and KV re-transfer.
• Replace the 384-row Cartesian migration collection with 10 focused active cases covering migration policy, request API, streaming mode, fault type, and NATS/TCP request planes. Unsupported graceful-shutdown placeholders are no longer collected; two focused prefill-migration contracts remain explicitly skipped as visible coverage debt.
• Strengthen terminal-response, request-ID, replacement-worker, process-lifecycle, Prometheus-delta, and KV-transfer assertions, and normalize forced-generation fields for TensorRT-LLM.
• Keep two prefill cancellation cases explicitly skipped because cancellation does not reach TensorRT-LLM before prefill completes.

The KV-transfer cancellation coverage validates Dynamo's deferred-abort workaround and end-to-end liveness. It does not prove that upstream TensorRT-LLM fixed abort-during-live-transfer: Dynamo's _DeferredAbort intentionally delays the engine abort until the first result/KV handoff completes.

Known limitation

• The TCP/completions KV-migration case reproducibly changes generated output after handoff with TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc25, following three byte-identical fault-free baselines. The failure is an output-continuity defect in the Dynamo + TensorRT-LLM path; it is not yet isolated to TensorRT-LLM itself.
• Keep that case executable with a narrow, strict xfail that accepts only OutputContinuityError. Timeouts, request identity, migration, replacement completion, frontend metrics, and KV-transfer failures remain hard failures. A continuity fix becomes a hard XPASS failure so the quarantine must be removed.

Validation

• Built source-matched runtime and test images from this branch for TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc25, vLLM 0.28.0, and SGLang 0.5.19.
• TensorRT-LLM cancellation matrix: 6 passed, 2 expected skips.
• TensorRT-LLM aggregate migration matrix: 4 passed.
• TensorRT-LLM decode migration matrix: 4 passed.
• TensorRT-LLM KV migration over NATS/chat: passed with exact output continuity.
• TensorRT-LLM TCP/completions KV migration: expected OutputContinuityError XFAIL on Prenyx with TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc25; all preceding structural and KV-transfer checks passed.
• TensorRT-LLM request-normalization unit test: 1 passed.
• Managed-process teardown regression module: 8 passed after allowing the existing 8-second graceful process-group cleanup window.
• NVML peak profiles: aggregate 7.2 GiB, KV re-transfer 10.4 GiB, decode 12.6 GiB.
• Representative vLLM shared-helper regressions: cancellation and streaming migration, 2 passed.
• Representative SGLang shared-helper regression: streaming migration, 1 passed.
• ruff check, black --check, python -m py_compile, and git diff --check passed for the final fix files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Requests now consistently recognize top-level min_tokens and ignore_eos settings within stop conditions while preserving existing nested values.
  • Streaming response handling now validates completion markers and JSON payloads, rejects error events, and enforces overall time limits.
  • Cancellation and migration scenarios now clean up temporary resources more reliably and verify continued worker availability.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for streaming cancellation, worker migration, replacement-worker behavior, KV transfer, metrics, and response completion details.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Request normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Request normalization contract and implementation components/src/dynamo/trtllm/request_handlers/handler_base.py, components/src/dynamo/trtllm/tests/test_trtllm_handler_base.py	_normalize_request_format now migrates legacy stop and sampling fields into nested options and preserves existing nested values. Tests cover the behavior.

Streaming cancellation tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Streaming response validation tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py, tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_vllm.py	Streaming validation now parses SSE and JSON payloads, checks terminal state, supports draining, and enforces an absolute deadline.
TRT-LLM cancellation integration tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_trtllm.py	TRT-LLM cancellation tests use temporary resources, bounded waits, version-specific skips, and post-cancellation health checks.

TRT-LLM migration tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Migration runtime contracts and process control tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py	Migration requests now return structured response state. Concurrent worker startup handles cancellation and cleanup.
Worker observation and migration verification tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py	Migration utilities track log offsets, response metadata, token counts, worker metrics, and replacement-worker completion.
Aggregated, decode, and KV-transfer scenarios tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_trtllm.py	Migration tests use explicit case matrices, configurable workers, temporary logs, bounded requests, and KV-transfer validation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

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tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py (1)

380-380: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use deferred formatting for the new log messages.

These f-strings are formatted before logger.info checks the active log level.

Proposed change

-logger.info(f"Successfully read {response_count} responses")
+logger.info("Successfully read %s responses", response_count)

-logger.info(f"Successfully drained {response_count} responses")
+logger.info("Successfully drained %s responses", response_count)

As per path instructions: “avoid ... eagerly formatted log messages.”

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In `@tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py` at line 380, Update the
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logging argument formatting instead of f-strings, including the message at the
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In `@tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py`:
- Line 380: Update the logger.info calls around the successful response messages
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• components/src/dynamo/trtllm/request_handlers/handler_base.py
• components/src/dynamo/trtllm/tests/test_trtllm_handler_base.py
• tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_trtllm.py
• tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/test_vllm.py
• tests/fault_tolerance/cancellation/utils.py
• tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_trtllm.py
• tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py

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[keivenchang]

approved — thanks Tanmay, the observability follow-ups landed and the latest checks are green.

[kthui]

Migration test coverage

Old coverage — every combination of these dimensions was represented in the test definitions, including skipped cases:

• Test family: aggregated / prefill / KV-transfer / decode
• Migration: enabled / disabled
• Migration cap: no cap / within cap / cap exceeded
• Worker termination: abrupt kill / graceful shutdown
• API: chat / completion
• Response: stream / unary
• Request plane: TCP / NATS

New coverage — these values remain, but only selected combinations are represented:

• Test family: aggregated / KV-transfer / decode — prefill removed
• Migration: enabled / disabled — disabled appears only in aggregated/decode, with no cap
• Migration cap: no cap / within cap / cap exceeded — KV-transfer covers only enabled migration with no cap
• Worker termination: abrupt kill — graceful shutdown removed
• API: chat / completion — aggregated streaming-chat combinations are absent
• Response: stream / unary — unary appears only in aggregated tests
• Request plane: TCP / NATS — aggregated/decode successful-recovery cases use only NATS; disabled/cap-exceeded cases use only TCP

We should retain the prefill migration scenarios. The updated KV-transfer test kills a decode worker after generation has started; it does not exercise prefill-worker failure or migration to a replacement prefill worker. Removing the dedicated prefill family drops that scenario from the represented test matrix.

As a non-blocking follow-up, we may also retain at least one successful-migration case and one expected-request-failure case for each of the four API × response combinations.

All four API × response combinations remain represented somewhere in the suite, but they do not each cover both outcomes:

API × response	Successful migration case	Expected request-failure case
Chat × streaming	Yes — decode/KV	Yes — decode, cap exceeded
Chat × unary	Missing	Yes — aggregated, migration disabled
Completion × streaming	Yes — aggregated/decode	Yes — aggregated, cap exceeded; decode, migration disabled
Completion × unary	Yes — aggregated, within cap	Missing

Here, “expected request failure” means the request should fail because migration is disabled or the migration sequence-length cap is exceeded.

The remaining gaps are successful migration for chat unary requests and expected request failure for completion unary requests. Both combinations were represented in the old matrix.

This suite has previously caught regressions in how the frontend reports or propagates errors. Preserving both outcomes for each API × response combination would help retain that protection.

Cancellation test coverage: The existing cancellation scenarios are retained

[kthui]

The main issue is the dropped Prefill migration scenarios, otherwise looks good to me!

[kthui]

Thanks for restoring the prefill migration scenarios and the two missing unary outcome cases. This addresses my review concerns. LGTM.