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fix(fpm kvwarm): hybrid (KDA/Mamba) fixes for the real-KV decode warm-up, validated on GLM-5.3-Flash - #14614

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Follow-up to #14029 (real-KV seeding), #14728 (attention-DP stage round) and #14900 (random KDA state). The stall
guard of the earlier draft is dropped: #14728's soft timeout and group-level stage failure cover it.
Collected and validated on GLM-5.3-Flash (34 KDA + 11 DSA layers, 288-expert MoE) on 8x H20-3e with vLLM
0.1.dev20051, tep4 (TP4+EP4) and dep4 (DP4+EP4).

What was wrong on a hybrid model

  1. K-pool tail group (KpoolTailManager, block_size == index_kpool == 4, one circularly reused block per request):
    shadow registration walked ctx // 4 positions and raised chain too shallow ... needs 65 blocks, has 1;
    decode accounting counted ceil(ctx/4) blocks for it. Both the default and the random-KDA path fail at the first
    shadow on GLM-5.3-Flash. Fix: honour _max_admission_blocks_per_request (accounting, registration, pool-shortfall
    mirror, shadow reserve).
  2. Stage slot budget: a stage parks batch chains and injects batch shadows, so 2*batch request slots must exist;
    vLLM caps max_num_seqs by Mamba state capacity (384 @TP4, 96/rank @TP1), and rungs above half of it asserted
    "No free indices". Fix: drop those rungs from the plan (they fall back to fake KV as before).
  3. Chain footprint / shadow reserve made every large rung fall back to fake KV: the worst-case reserve of two blocks
    per KV group (7 groups here) plus a 2-block resident Mamba estimate never fit 128 or 192 chains, while the same
    stages built fine in practice. Fix: reserve the tails the rung's own points take (exact per-group arithmetic);
    resident chains hold only the live state below one block and grow with the measured retention law past it;
    plan against a 0.95 (0.85 under attention-DP) margin for the depth trim, decide the fit against the full pool.
  4. Stale recurrent state: a shadow forked from a chain block below its live block read a pruned align-mode
    checkpoint; hidden states degenerated, routing collapsed, decode steps measured 2-3x too fast. feat(vllm): benchmark hybrid caches with random KDA state #14900 answers this
    with private random states behind --benchmark-randomize-kda-state (and otherwise skips hybrids). This PR adds
    the opt-in alternative --benchmark-hybrid-live-state: fork the recurrent tail from the chain's LIVE block
    (attention KV is the real prefix, recurrent state is a valid deeper-context state). Mutually exclusive with the
    random mode; the upstream default (skip) is unchanged.
  5. Attention-DP: fake injection is not rank-consistent on small per-rank pools (TP1: 529 blocks) and timed out the
    group barrier; keep the decode grid real-KV only under DP (ids renumbered).
  6. Giant-KV fake points measured one batch short of the planned coordinate; record them at the measured coordinate.
  7. Prefill grid on hybrids: align mode splits any chunk crossing a block boundary, so cudagraph-axis totals with
    more than one block of new tokens per request were all infeasible and dropped; small-batch prefill with a long
    chunk (exactly what a served long prompt produces) was never collected. Add block-multiple totals for the
    small-batch presets (align mode only).

Validation (GLM-5.3-Flash tep4, GPU-event ground truth from plain vLLM)

point ground truth live-state random-KDA
bs192 @ ctx256 95.7 ms 95.8 (1.001) 89.4 (0.934)
bs128 @ ctx256 (shallow point on a 4100-deep chain) 86.5 83.9 (0.970) 78.8 (0.911)
bs1 @ ctx256 7.75 7.80 (1.006) 7.75 (1.000)
bs128 @ ctx1024 (shallow) 88.7 85.5 (0.963) 80.6 (0.908)
bs128 @ ctx4096 (consistent state) 89.3 (earlier consistent-state run) 89.0 82.5 (0.924 vs 89.3)

Upstream unit tests: 286 passed (test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py, test_benchmark_points.py,
test_vllm_benchmark_worker.py); one test adapted to the exact shadow reserve.

Both modes share fixes 1-3 and 5-7; without fix 1 neither mode gets past the first shadow on GLM-5.3-Flash. The random
recurrent state reads 7-9% fast at batch >= 128 even at a consistent depth (the synthetic state changes the DSA
indexer / MoE routing work); the live-state fork matches ground truth within 1% at consistent depth and reads 3-4% fast
for shallow points measured on a deep chain. Live-state is therefore the mode we collect with; random stays available.

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  • New Features

    • Added hybrid live-state benchmarking support through configuration and command-line options.
    • Improved benchmark planning for recurrent state, KV-cache warm-up, request limits, admission caps, and hybrid alignment.
    • Added validation to prevent incompatible hybrid live-state and randomized KDA modes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of valid measurement points with one-token-per-request coordinate differences.
    • Refined capacity calculations and fallback behavior for decode and attention-DP scenarios.
  • Tests

    • Updated KV warm-up capacity regression coverage for revised shadow-tail usage.

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The PR adds hybrid live-state benchmark configuration and validation. It updates prefill and recurrent-chain planning, KV warm-up capacity calculations, shadow registration, repeated decode feasibility, giant fake-KV normalization, and related capacity tests.

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Configuration and validation
components/src/dynamo/vllm/backend_args.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py
Adds the hybrid live-state option, serializes it, and rejects simultaneous randomized KDA state.
Prefill and resident-chain planning
components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py
Adds block-aligned prefill totals and resident-chain footprint calculations. Recurrent KV warm-up is enabled when hybrid live-state mode is active.
KV warm-up and shadow registration
components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py
Adds context-aware capacity planning, shadow-tail calculations, request-slot limits, admission-cap handling, and hybrid live-state shadow registration. Updates capacity expectations in the regression test.
Decode feasibility and FPM validation
components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py
Applies admission caps to repeated decode estimates and accepts bounded giant fake-KV coordinate differences by normalizing measured totals.

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🟡 Minor · Require decode or aggregate benchmark mode. · backend_args.py:709-720

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Require decode or aggregate benchmark mode.

benchmark_hybrid_live_state=True passes validation when benchmark_mode is None or "prefill". Without a benchmark mode, args.py does not serialize the benchmark configuration, so the option is a silent no-op. In "prefill" mode, the scheduler does not enable the decode KV warm-up that consumes the hybrid live-state setting.

Add the same decode-or-aggregate requirement used for benchmark_randomize_kda_state.

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         if self.benchmark_hybrid_live_state and self.benchmark_randomize_kda_state:
             raise ValueError(
                 "--benchmark-hybrid-live-state and --benchmark-randomize-kda-state are mutually exclusive"
             )
+        if self.benchmark_hybrid_live_state and self.benchmark_mode not in (
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+            "agg",
+        ):
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+                "--benchmark-hybrid-live-state requires --benchmark-mode decode or agg"
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In `@components/src/dynamo/vllm/backend_args.py` around lines 709 - 720, Update
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In `@components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py`:
- Around line 5302-5315: Prevent attention-DP benchmarks from re-enabling fake
decode after a stage failure. Update _kvwarm_stage_settle or the subsequent
scheduling path so points whose retained rung depth becomes zero are removed
consistently on every rank, or abort the benchmark; ensure _bench_step_decode
cannot apply fake injection for those points.
- Around line 6355-6365: Update the normalization logic around measured and
rank_results to collect sum_decode_kv_tokens from every rank result, reject the
point when the measured totals disagree, and apply the common
total_kv_read_tokens value to every rank when they agree. Preserve the existing
positive-value validation and sample-reason tracking for accepted corrections.
- Line 5315: Update the `_bench_expected_points` calculation to count only
points whose `sample_reasons` do not include `EAGER_WARMUP_REASON`, matching the
filtering performed by `_bench_save_current_point()` while preserving the
existing `renumbered` point flow.

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- Around line 709-720: Update the benchmark validation around
benchmark_hybrid_live_state to require benchmark_mode to be either "decode" or
"agg", matching the existing benchmark_randomize_kda_state validation; raise a
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Requesting changes for four functional blockers: positional sliding-window block tables are truncated, live Mamba state misses the recurrent read slot at block boundaries, attention-DP filtering counts discarded eager replicas as results, and the same filter removes explicitly requested manifest points while reporting a complete run. Each inline comment includes a triggering example, expected versus observed behavior, and the required fix.

Reviewed head fc2cf444186c74b4a61eae43f4902c650f74df2c against merge base 5593e8857c508bebce7259e107a85c57cd142fd8. Validation used CPU fixtures executing unchanged production method bodies, with controlled scheduler/cache state and successful synthetic FPMs for artifact tests. The sliding-window reproduction also executes the pinned vLLM 0.29.0 allocation/recycling/copy methods; the Mamba reproduction executes its metadata index calculation. The artifact and explicit-manifest assertions pass at base and fail at head; the sliding-window case succeeds at base and asserts at head. The live-state finding concerns the newly enabled opt-in path. The existing test_benchmark_points.py suite passes all 18 tests. GPU execution and timing were not rerun.

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Thanks for the review -- all four P1 items plus the three CodeRabbit majors are addressed in 4532b36 (unit tests: 291 passed).

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P1 positional sliding-window tables truncated Compact fixed-length handling is now limited to circular tables: admission-capped and participates_in_prefix_caching is False (GLM5-Next k-pool tail). Sliding-window / chunked-local groups keep their positional tables and the upstream depth check. Tests: ..._keeps_positional_table_for_sliding_window, ..._forks_circular_tail_table.
P1 live-state misses the recurrent read slot at block boundaries Live-state groups fork the whole recurrent_shadow_range(ctx, headroom, bs) span (read slot ceil(ctx/bs)-1 included) from the chain's live block; the per-context reserve, the worst-case reserve and the pool-shortfall mirror use the same geometry. Test: ..._forks_the_recurrent_read_slot_at_a_boundary (ctx=32, bs=16 -> positions 1..2).
P1 eager replicas counted in the filtered expected count _bench_expected_points = sum(EAGER_WARMUP_REASON not in p.sample_reasons ...) after the DP filter. Test: ..._counts_only_real_points.
P1 explicit manifest points silently dropped under DP Explicit points the warm plan cannot cover raise with their coordinates and the capacity reason before any filtering. Test: ..._rejects_uncovered_explicit_points.
CR fake decode re-enabled after a DP stage failure A point that lost coverage after planning is recorded as stage_failed_under_attention_dp (group verdict, so every rank skips the same point) instead of taking the rank-inconsistent fake path; explicit points raise there.
CR giant coordinate per rank The measured total is derived from every rank; ranks that disagree skip the point as giant_measured_coordinate_mismatch; otherwise all ranks record the same coordinate.
CR minor: mode requirement --benchmark-hybrid-live-state now requires `--benchmark-mode decode

The stall guard mentioned in the original description was already dropped (covered by #14728's soft timeout).

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I ran ReviewGate (an AI review tool I am building) over this PR and checked the result by hand against the current head (bf7f03ff). One point seemed worth raising, with the vLLM 0.30.0 upgrade (#15182) open.

The live-state fork is keyed on exact manager class names (components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py:5435)

_kvwarm_live_state_manager() recognises recurrent-state groups by type(manager).__name__ in ("MambaManager", "KpoolTailManager"). The rest of this path identifies them differently: the eligibility gate finds recurrent groups by spec name ("Mamba" in spec_name, :4864, used at :4978-4982), and the sibling _kvwarm_random_state_manager() checks isinstance(..., MambaSpec) (:5438-5441).

If vLLM renames or subclasses one of these managers, a hybrid model in live-state mode is still admitted by the gate, but its recurrent groups fall through to the positional path, both in the shadow fork (:5908-5919) and in the reserve (:5472-5476, :5999-6003), with no error. That brings back the block-boundary case this PR fixes, where the read slot is the last shared entry and may be a pruned or null checkpoint.

Keying the check on the spec, as the random-state path does, or failing loudly when an admitted recurrent group matches neither predicate, would keep a vLLM upgrade from silently undoing the fix.


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Good catch, agreed. Fixed in 638fb3a: _kvwarm_live_state_manager() is now keyed on the group's KV-cache spec (isinstance(spec, MambaSpec) or "Mamba" in type(spec).__name__), the same key the eligibility gate and the random-state path use, and no longer lists manager class names. The k-pool tail is not a recurrent state table and is served by the circular-table predicate (admission-capped and excluded from prefix caching), so it dropped out of this check entirely. The live-state tests build their fake manager with a *MambaSpec spec accordingly; 292 tests pass.

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Reviewed at 638fb3a against the Kimi K3 random-KDA work in #14900. The worker initialization/zeroing and restoration paths remain intact, but I reproduced two regressions in the shared warmup planner, detailed inline. Validation: 292 existing scheduler/benchmark-point/benchmark-worker CPU tests passed in the local vLLM development environment; additional probes compare the unchanged base/PR scheduler methods and selected unchanged allocator methods from the pinned vLLM v0.29.0 source. These probes do not constitute a full Kimi/GLM GPU run.

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Reviewed at 638fb3a, including compatibility with #14900. Approving with two outstanding P2 findings recorded inline: the generic recurrent-state retention estimate reduces Kimi real-KV coverage, and the per-context shadow reserve can undercount at an admission boundary. Please address those findings and add the corresponding regressions; this approval does not mark either issue as resolved.

Validation: 292 existing focused CPU tests passed, with additional base/head planner and vLLM v0.29.0 allocator-method probes reproducing the two findings. No new Kimi/GLM GPU validation was performed.

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Re-reviewed at c7f67f9f538d32c2dd39684e0976985ea5411404. All five blockers raised in my earlier reviews are addressed, with no remaining merge blocker found in this follow-up.

The batch-1/context-256 live K-pool example now schedules successfully with one private block and one state copy. The original four regression examples still pass. I also verified the latest long-context footprint and admission-context reservation fixes, including the allocator behavior in vLLM 0.30.

Validation: CPU reproductions executing production method bodies, eight targeted author test bodies, and 19 benchmark-point tests passed. Black, DCO, and the pre-merge checks pass. This verification did not include a GPU performance run.

Thanks for addressing the findings and adding the regression coverage.

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Source review of 35f08f4: three P2 findings and five P3 cleanup suggestions. Tests and CI were not checked.

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Follow-up source review at fbf8d14: the eight earlier comments are addressed. Two further findings are recorded below. Tests and CI were not checked.

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Reviewed at 39d9c26. All ten of my earlier comments are addressed, and I found no new actionable issues. Both save paths now mark recorded steady samples while admission-only samples remain rejected; the K-pool fixture description is also corrected.

This was a source review, including inspection of the added regression tests. Tests were not run and CI was not checked.

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…-up, validated on GLM-5.3-Flash

On top of #14029 (real-KV seeding), #14728 (attention-DP stage round) and #14900 (random KDA state):

- admission-capped KV groups (GLM5-Next k-pool tail: one block per request, block_size == index_kpool): honour
  _max_admission_blocks_per_request in shadow registration, the pool-shortfall mirror and the shadow reserve;
  both the default and the random-KDA path otherwise fail at the first shadow ('chain too shallow ... has 1')
- stage slot budget: 2 * batch <= max_num_running_reqs (chains + shadows), rungs above fall back to fake KV
- planner: reserve the tails the rung's own points take (exact per-group arithmetic) instead of two blocks per
  group; a resident chain below one cache block holds only its live state, past it the align pair plus the
  measured retention law (~1 checkpoint per 7680 tokens); trim depth against a 0.95 (0.85 under DP) margin,
  decide the fit against the full pool. Without this every 128/192-chain stage on GLM-5.3-Flash fell back to fake.
- attention-DP: keep the decode grid real-KV only (fake injection is not rank-consistent on small per-rank pools)
- giant-KV fake points: record at the measured coordinate (they run one batch short of the plan)
- new opt-in --benchmark-hybrid-live-state: fork the recurrent tail from the parked chain's live block instead of
  skipping hybrids; mutually exclusive with --benchmark-randomize-kda-state. Validated vs GPU ground truth on
  GLM-5.3-Flash tep4: live-state 1.00/0.97/1.01/0.96 of GT (bs192, bs128 shallow, bs1, bs128@1k), random 0.93/0.91/1.00/0.91
- prefill grid: block-multiple new-token totals for the small-batch presets under hybrid align mode (single-request
  chunks above one block were never collectable)

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…stead of aborting the sweep

A giant fake-fallback decode point whose first pass outlasts the point
deadline (observed on B200: benchmark_id=1741, batch=929, kv=1069693;
fine on Hopper) reached _bench_save_current_point with an empty FPM
list, and the exactly-one-FPM validator aborted the whole sweep at
1108/1825 points. The deadline contract documented at the steady-step
fallback is a group-synchronized skip, not an abort; funnel the
zero-FPM case through the same validation_failure channel as an
admission-only shape mismatch, recorded as no_fpm_before_deadline.

Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…s independently of engine limits

The decode batch-size axis tops out at the engine's max_num_running_reqs,
so the only way to avoid sweeping large batches was to lower
--max-num-seqs, which changes the measured configuration itself
(cudagraph capture list, scheduler ceiling, KV pool) and halves real-KV
warm coverage (a warmed rung parks batch chains plus batch shadows).

--benchmark-max-batch-size caps the generated axis only: points above
the cap are never emitted, the engine keeps its deployment concurrency,
and setting max-num-seqs to at least twice the cap keeps every swept
rung warmable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…PMs still abort

Split test_benchmark_point_rejects_non_single_fpm_count: the zero-count branch follows the
no_fpm_before_deadline skip introduced in b8efcc0; the two-count branch keeps the abort.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…slot, DP accounting

- shadow registration: compact fixed-length handling only for circular tables (k-pool tail: admission-capped AND
  excluded from prefix caching); sliding-window / chunked-local groups keep their positional tables
- hybrid live-state: fork the whole recurrent_shadow_range span (read slot ceil(ctx/bs)-1 included) from the
  chain's live block; per-context reserve, worst-case reserve and pool-shortfall mirror use the same geometry
- attention-DP real-KV-only filter: explicit manifest points that the warm plan cannot cover fail with their
  coordinates instead of being dropped; expected_points counts only non-replica points
- attention-DP: a point whose stage failed after planning is recorded as skipped (stage_failed_under_attention_dp)
  instead of re-entering the rank-inconsistent fake-injection path
- giant fake-KV normalization derives the measured coordinate from every rank and skips the point when ranks
  disagree (giant_measured_coordinate_mismatch)
- --benchmark-hybrid-live-state requires --benchmark-mode decode or agg
- tests: positional sliding-window table, circular tail table, live-state boundary read slot, DP explicit
  rejection, DP replica-free count

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Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…black formatting

- the k-pool tail manager matches both the live-state type check and the circular-table predicate;
  registration, the per-context reserve, the pool-shortfall mirror and the worst-case reserve now apply
  the circular (fixed ring) geometry first and the live-state span only to positional recurrent groups
- regression test: KpoolTailManager with live-state enabled forks its single block at ctx 255
- wrap comments/docstrings/strings to the 88-column limit and run black (pre-commit CI)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…ache spec

Match the eligibility gate and the random-state path ("Mamba" in the spec name /
isinstance(spec, MambaSpec)) instead of manager class names, so a vLLM rename or
subclass cannot silently route a recurrent group to the positional path. The k-pool
tail is served by the circular-table predicate and is no longer listed here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
…e at the admission geometry

Address the two P2 review findings on the kvwarm planner:

* Resident-chain footprint: drop the GLM-measured `1 + ceil(tokens/7680)`
  retention term. The v0.29 align-mode allocator nulls and frees old
  recurrent states, so a parked chain past its first boundary costs the
  align pair plus prefill checkpoints regardless of depth. Keep only the
  "below one block -> live state only" case. The global estimate demoted
  Kimi K3 long-context rungs (1M ctx, batch 8, 2144 blocks) to fake KV.

* Per-rung shadow reserve: the shadow is admitted at `ctx - 1` with
  `repeats` steady steps, so compute the exact reserve at
  `(max(1, ctx - 1), repeats)` instead of `(ctx, 1 + repeats)`; at a block
  boundary the recurrent read slot moves down one block and the old
  geometry under-reserved by one block per recurrent group.

Regressions: Kimi long-context coverage (plan depth 1,000,004 kept, 91
blocks/req) and the planner-to-injection boundary (block 16, ctx 33 ->
admission 32 needs 3 private blocks; usable 33 / batch 4 no longer admits).

Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
… and DP decode bookkeeping

Address the source review of the kvwarm changes (three P2, five P3):

* Giant fake-KV off-by-batch correction: the admission FPM also measures
  `declared - batch`, so a point that hit its deadline with the admission
  sample alone was relabeled as a steady measurement. Accept the
  correction only for the steady-step median sample
  (`kvwarm_giant_median_of`); admission-only stays a validation skip.
* Prefill grid: build the block-aligned candidates before applying
  `prefill_max_new_token_samples`, so the hybrid align-mode axis cannot
  exceed the configured sample count.
* Attention-DP real-only filter: when the plan covers no decode point,
  record the decode phase as missing so the artifact cannot report a
  complete, usable run without decode measurements.
* Cleanups: generate the block multiples once; drop the intermediate
  point renumbering (`_bench_build_grid` numbers the final order);
  `_kvwarm_shadow_pool_shortfall` reuses `_kvwarm_shadow_tail_blocks_for`;
  comments focus on the current allocation rule and the measured
  coordinate; `pool_margin`, `is_circular`, `is_live_state` names.

Regressions: admission-only giant sample is rejected while the median is
accepted; aligned prefill axis honours the sample limit; DP filter that
empties the decode phase marks it missing.

Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
The giant off-by-batch correction keyed on `kvwarm_giant_median_of`, which
`_bench_save_current_point` sets only on the median path (expected_fpms > 2).
A giant fake point reduced to admission plus one steady step (pool or
model-length limit, `DYN_BENCH_GIANT_KV_REPEATS=1`) kept its steady sample
without the marker and was skipped as `measured_decode_context_mismatch`,
making the artifact unusable.

Both save paths now mark the sample they keep with `kvwarm_steady_sample`,
and the correction requires that marker; admission-only samples are still
rejected. Also describe the K-pool test fixture by the predicate it matches.

Regressions: the two-FPM path saves a giant off-by-batch point at the
measured coordinate with the marker set, and skips an admission-only sample.

Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
`--benchmark-hybrid-live-state` and `--benchmark-max-batch-size` are
forwarded into the scheduler benchmark config; the expected config dict and
the SimpleNamespace dynamo-config fixture in test_vllm_unit.py did not carry
them (full CI: test_benchmark_operational_controls_reach_scheduler_config,
test_benchmark_does_not_reapply_trace_scheduler).

Signed-off-by: tianhaox <tianhaox@nvidia.com>
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Arsene12358 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
Merges origin/main at 938d89b. Two main commits conflicted:

- 938d89b (#14614), instrumented_scheduler.py class attributes: kept
  main's _bench_hybrid_live_state next to _bench_random_kda, followed by
  this branch's six benchmark evidence attributes.
- 938d89b (#14614), instrumented_scheduler.py two-step save path: the
  kept steady sample is main's copy marked kvwarm_steady_sample, as on the
  median path, and this branch's last_step reduction, raw sample index and
  benchmark_measurement block still apply to it. The marker stays on the
  retained FPM and never enters raw_fpms (deep-copied before reduction).
- 9ae086b (#14676), test_vllm_worker_factory.py imports: both
  _register_request_cache_metrics and _restore_benchmark_workers.

Main's giant off-by-batch correction records a point at its measured
coordinate after every rank has keyed its benchmark_measurement at the
declared one, so the merger would reject the artifact with a measurement
identity mismatch. The correction now re-keys every rank's evidence to
the recorded point. Main's test_save_records_only_the_steady_fpm now
allows for the evidence block on the copied sample; one new test covers
the re-key on an attention-DP follower, and the evidence test checks
where the steady marker goes.

Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hybrid layouts with recurrent-state groups fell back to random state or
skipped the warm-up, and #14614's live-state mode borrows a deeper
chain's state. Native exact-context prefill computes the state exactly
and needs no shadows, so admit Mamba/KDA groups next to full attention
and finite windows when random-KDA is off. Native takes precedence over
--benchmark-hybrid-live-state, which is logged as unused.

Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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