fix(vllm): isolate multimodal worker ports

[keivenchang]

Overview:

This fixes vLLM multimodal deployments so concurrently scheduled CUDA and XPU tests receive distinct worker ports instead of colliding on host-wide defaults. It affects the multimodal router, P/D, and E/P/D launchers.

Example (before -> after):

before: two E/P/D deployments bind 8083, 20098, and 20099; one waits until pytest timeout
after:  each worker consumes its harness-assigned system, KV-event, and NIXL port; a failed system bind aborts startup

Details:

• Allocate and export complete per-worker port vectors from one test-fixture owner, then reject incomplete managed vectors in launch scripts.
• Apply the contract to the affected CUDA and XPU multimodal launchers and enable their worker readiness checks.
• This narrows the earlier implementation after Alec Flowers found slop tests and comments in PR #14631 and its review discussion.

Verification:

pre-commit run --files <17 changed files>, cargo check -p dynamo-runtime, cargo test -p dynamo-runtime distributed::unit_tests, shell syntax checks, Python compilation, and independent audits passed. The focused pytest could not collect because this host lacks pytest_benchmark and pytest_httpserver.

Where should the reviewer start?

tests/conftest.py, tests/serve/common.py, examples/common/launch_utils.sh, lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs

Related: DYN-4229

Tracking: Linear review

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Walkthrough

The change adds validated dynamic port resolution, exports per-worker KV-event ports, updates CPU and XPU multimodal launch scripts, enables worker health checks, expands port-contract tests, and propagates system status server startup errors.

Changes

Dynamic multimodal port allocation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Port resolution and deployment contract examples/common/launch_utils.sh, tests/utils/port_utils.py, tests/conftest.py, tests/serve/common.py, tests/serve/test_port_contract.py	dyn_port validates managed and standalone ports. Deployment fixtures export indexed service-port vectors and test invalid or missing values.
CPU multimodal launch wiring examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_multimodal_router.sh, examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor.sh, examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_multimodal_epd.sh, examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_multimodal_p_d.sh	CPU launch scripts use dynamic system, NIXL, and KV-event ports for worker startup, readiness checks, and endpoint reporting.
XPU multimodal launch wiring examples/backends/vllm/launch/xpu/*	XPU launch scripts replace fixed and indirect port lookup with dynamic per-worker port resolution.
Multimodal health-check validation tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/vllm.py, tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/vllm_xpu.py, tests/utils/multimodal.py, tests/serve/test_vllm.py	Multimodal profiles enable worker health checks. Generated configurations carry worker counts, and vLLM tests provision three system ports.

Runtime startup error propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
System status server failure handling lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs	DistributedRuntime::new returns contextual system status server startup errors instead of logging and continuing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 78600

A status-server startup failure can leave an exporter task running, and a stale KV-event environment entry can make a managed worker use an unreserved port. Both should be corrected before merge.

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tests/serve/test_port_contract.py (1)

83-84: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use reserved ports for all valid dyn_port test values.

The pytest guidelines require dynamic allocation for literal ports in test code. This applies even though these subprocess tests only validate and print values. Replace 8081, 8082, and 24001 with values from reserved_ports; keep not-a-port and 65536 as invalid-input literals.

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In `@tests/serve/test_port_contract.py` around lines 83 - 84, Update the dyn_port
test cases to use reserved_ports for the valid port values, replacing literals
8081, 8082, and 24001 while preserving not-a-port and 65536 as invalid-input
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs`:
- Line 377: Before returning the system status server startup error in the
DistributedRuntime initialization path, call Runtime::shutdown() to cancel the
exporter and release its GracefulTaskGuard. Preserve the existing contextual
error return after shutdown completes.

In `@tests/serve/common.py`:
- Around line 227-230: Update _prepare_deployment to remove the legacy
DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT alias and clear all existing indexed
DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT variables from merged_env before exporting
ports.kv_event_ports. Validate that the vector length equals
dynamic_system_ports, rejecting mismatches before setting the indexed variables.

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In `@tests/serve/test_port_contract.py`:
- Around line 83-84: Update the dyn_port test cases to use reserved_ports for
the valid port values, replacing literals 8081, 8082, and 24001 while preserving
not-a-port and 65536 as invalid-input literals.

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• examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_multimodal_router.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_multimodal_epd.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_multimodal_p_d.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/xpu/agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor_xpu.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/xpu/agg_multimodal_router_xpu.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/xpu/disagg_multimodal_epd_xpu.sh
• examples/common/launch_utils.sh
• lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs
• tests/conftest.py
• tests/serve/common.py
• tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/vllm.py
• tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/vllm_xpu.py
• tests/serve/test_port_contract.py
• tests/serve/test_vllm.py
• tests/utils/multimodal.py
• tests/utils/port_utils.py

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[krishung5]

I think we would need to apply the same for the agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor.sh script too, LGTM otherwise, approved to unblock.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Verified review. I checked out the PR at 8495ba6bf in a worktree and ran every claim below.

What I verified and found clean:

The dyn_port helper does not select a port. It only reads and validates an environment value. Port selection stays in tests/utils/port_utils.py:allocate_ports, which holds a flock and records each port in a shared registry file. Two concurrent xdist workers are serialized by that lock, so there is no selection race in the new code.

The port ranges are disjoint from the hard-coded defaults that remain. The allocator starts at DynamoPortRange.SERVE = 24000 plus a random offset of 0 to 500 and walks up for at most 100 tries, and NIXL = 25800 the same way. The hard-coded values in these launch scripts are 5600, 8081 to 8083, 9080, 18081, 18083, 20080 to 20082 and 20097 to 20099. None of them fall in the reachable allocator windows, so a managed worker cannot land on a value that another script hard-codes.

tests/serve/test_port_contract.py pins real behavior. I mutation-tested it in both directions on macOS with bash 5.3.15:

1. Head tree: 10 passed.
2. Removed the managed-mode strictness from dyn_port, which restores the pre-PR fallback: test_dyn_port_requires_indexed_values_in_managed_mode FAILED, 9 passed.
3. Restored: 10 passed.
4. Replaced the per-worker KV-event export in tests/serve/common.py with the single pre-PR DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT: test_prepared_environment_exports_complete_worker_port_vectors FAILED, 9 passed.
5. Restored: 10 passed.

The test carries unit, pre_merge and gpu_0, so it runs on the CPU stage rather than being collected and skipped.

cargo check -p dynamo-runtime --no-default-features passes. The runtime change turns a logged system status server startup failure into a returned error from DistributedRuntime::new, which is the single constructor behind from_settings and every Rust and Python worker. That is a repository-wide change of behavior, not a vLLM change. It is the right direction, and python -m dynamo.frontend is not affected, for the reason in the P3 comment below.

Findings are in three inline comments: one P1, one P2 and one P3.

One more item that has no diff line to anchor to. P2: the PR description ends with a tracking link to an internal Linear review. The URL slug spells out the ticket title, so the link on a public repository discloses more than the bare ID does. Please replace it with the bare ID, which is already present one line above.

Not verified: I could not confirm the nightly failures this change is meant to close. I searched the last 12 runs of nightly-ci.yml and the failed-step logs of the most recent completed run for address already in use, EADDRINUSE and System status server startup failed, and found no match. The logs I could reach were empty or expired. The change stands on its own merits, but I cannot cite the failure it closes.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Round 3 review at 6d5c90295. The P1 is fixed and I close it below. I approve.

I compared the pull-request-scoped diff at the previous base against e3f459530f with the pull-request-scoped diff at the current base against 6d5c90295. A head-to-head compare is useless here, because the branch was rebased and every commit has a new identity. The diff of the two diffs is 71 lines and names three real changes:

1. agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor.sh: the readiness loop at line 204 and the summary banner at line 274 now call dyn_port, matching the launch loop at line 177.
2. disagg_multimodal_epd.sh: the duplicate system-port block is gone.
3. disagg_multimodal_p_d.sh: the duplicate NIXL and KV-event block is gone, and the single remaining block keeps the VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT_* and VLLM_ZMQ_PORT_* fallbacks.

A per-file blob comparison over the 18 pull-request files agrees. Between 36109eb90 and 6d5c90295 only disagg_multimodal_p_d.sh changed content. The chat-processor script is byte-identical across those two heads, so the newest commit does not touch the path behind the P1.

The base moved as well. Four commits entered it. None of them touches a file in this pull request. Two of them touch shared test code, conftest.py and tests/utils/managed_process.py, and I read both diffs. The conftest.py change widens an engine-import guard. The managed_process.py change adds an opt-in startup-cancel event that defaults to clear and that no test in this pull request uses. Both are benign here.

The sequence of fixes has converged. The P1 fix is clean, it did not break the unmanaged path, and the newest commit repairs a different file.

Two items stay open, both non-blocking.

P2: the description still carries an internal tracker URL on the "Tracking" line, one line below the bare identifier. That URL spells out the ticket title inside its path, so the link discloses more than the bare identifier it stands next to. Please delete the link and keep the bare identifier.

P3: no test covers the property that failed. tests/serve/test_port_contract.py is byte-identical to the previous head. I ran its 10 tests at 6d5c90295 and all 10 pass. All 10 exercise dyn_port on its own. None compares the port a script passes to a worker against the port the same script later polls, which is why the P1 survived a green run. A test that runs one launch script with a stubbed python and curl and asserts the two sets are equal would have caught it.

P3: one dropped standalone override in disagg_same_gpu.sh. Inline below, with a suggestion.

New count: 0 P0, 0 P1, 1 P2, 2 P3.

Verification boundary: everything above ran on macOS ARM64 with stubbed launchers. I did not run any of these topologies on a GPU, and I did not use the GPU box.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Round 4 review at 7b24d77f5, dated 2026-09-17. I approve again at this commit.

My earlier approval sat on 6d5c90295. The head moved to 7b24d77f5 and the base moved to adfe2aa1b, so that approval covered a tree nobody had read. I re-read the change at the new commit and I re-ran the measurements. Nothing new blocks it.

New count: 0 P0, 0 P1, 1 P2, 1 P3.

What the two new commits changed, from a diff of the two pull-request-scoped diffs

A head-to-head compare is useless here. It reports about 21 commits ahead and 13 behind across 65 files, because the branch was rebased and every commit has a new identity.

I took the pull-request-scoped diff at the old base against 6d5c90295, took the pull-request-scoped diff at adfe2aa1b against 7b24d77f5, and compared the two. The result is 242 lines and names four changes, all of them from the two new commits:

1. examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_same_gpu.sh line 67 now passes the unindexed DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT as the fallback.
2. tests/serve/common.py drops the extra_allocated_ports field, its local list, and the loop that freed it.
3. Ten health_check_worker_count=2 lines are gone from the two multimodal profile files.
4. tests/serve/test_port_contract.py drops the three lines that read the removed field.

The exact set of lines the refactor dropped:

  10  health_check_worker_count=2,
   1  env, extra_ports = _prepare(ports, str(tmp_path))
   1  return dict(prepared.merged_env), list(prepared.extra_allocated_ports)
   1  assert extra_ports == []
   1  KV_PORT_PREFILL=$(dyn_port DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT 1 20081)

A per-file blob comparison over the pull-request-scoped set agrees. The set is 18 files, which matches the count the pull request reports. Comparing the blob identity of each file at the two heads and at the two bases:

files	head 6d5c90295 against head 7b24d77f5	base 18a75aa7f against base adfe2aa1b
13	same	same
4 (disagg_same_gpu.sh, common.py, vllm.py, vllm_xpu.py)	different	same
1 (test_port_contract.py)	different	absent at both bases

No file in this pull request has a different starting point than it had at the old base.

Base movement: eight commits entered, none of them reaches these paths

Eight commits entered the base between 18a75aa7f and adfe2aa1b, touching 65 files. I did not rule them out by filename.

1. All 18 pull-request files are byte-identical at both bases, as the table above shows.
2. I searched the whole 65-file incoming diff for every port name this pull request depends on: DYN_SYSTEM_PORT, DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT, DYN_VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT, DYN_MANAGED_PORTS, dyn_port, and system status. Zero hits.
3. Two commits were still worth reading, because they touch the runtime this pull request changes. lib/runtime/src/worker.rs gains existing_process_runtime(), a read-only accessor that returns None instead of building a runtime. It adds no caller and changes no path. The Python binding change adds an exit hook that waits for live tasks and stops at a fixed deadline. This pull request now calls runtime.shutdown() and returns an error when the system status server fails to start. Cancellation only lowers the live-task count, and the hook stops at its deadline in any case, so the two do not fight.
4. The discovery change for the Qwen3-VL video contract touches the same model family as these test profiles. It cannot reach the worker readiness gate, because that gate polls each worker system port over HTTP and never reads the discovery registry.

Bind against poll at the new head, in both modes, including the banner

The P1 I closed in round 3 was a mismatch between the ports the workers bind and the ports the script polls. I did not assume the refactor preserved it. I ran disagg_same_gpu.sh with a stub python3 and a stub curl, printing each worker environment and each polled URL. I neutralized only the kill 0 in the exit trap, so the run could not kill my shell. Nothing else in the script was changed.

Unmanaged mode:

banner   Frontend:    http://localhost:8000
bind     decode  DYN_SYSTEM_PORT=8081  NIXL=5600
bind     prefill DYN_SYSTEM_PORT=8082  NIXL=20097  endpoint tcp://*:20081
poll     http://localhost:8081/health

Managed mode, with DYN_MANAGED_PORTS=1, ports 30101 and 30102, NIXL 30201 and 30202, KV 30301, HTTP 30001:

banner   Frontend:    http://localhost:30001
bind     decode  DYN_SYSTEM_PORT=30101 NIXL=30201
bind     prefill DYN_SYSTEM_PORT=30102 NIXL=30202  endpoint tcp://*:30301
poll     http://localhost:30101/health
frontend DYN_SYSTEM_PORT=<unset>

The harness polls DYN_SYSTEM_PORT1 and DYN_SYSTEM_PORT2, which are 30101 and 30102. Those are the two ports the workers bind. The banner port matches the frontend port in both modes. The P1 stays closed.

The refactor removes only dead state, proved by execution

extra_allocated_ports is dead. The only remaining allocate_port call in tests/serve/common.py is the disaggregation bootstrap port at line 278, and that port is still freed at line 292. Every KV-event port now comes from the dynamo_dynamic_ports fixture in tests/conftest.py, which collects all of them in all_ports and frees them in a finally block. A search of the whole tree returns zero remaining uses of the field.

The ten removed health_check_worker_count=2 lines are also a no-op. The default is 2 in TopologyConfig at tests/utils/multimodal.py:568 and in EngineConfig at tests/utils/engine_process.py:71. The two topologies that need 3 keep their explicit value. I did not stop at reading. I loaded the old and the new profile modules side by side in one interpreter and compared the resolved pair for every topology:

vllm:     topologies=23  health checks enabled=8   resolved differences={}
vllm_xpu: topologies=13  health checks enabled=4   resolved differences={}

Thirty-six topologies, twelve with worker health checks, zero differences.

P2 open: the description still carries an internal tracker link

Line 28 of the description still holds a Tracking: link to an internal tracker. The bare identifier is on line 26, one line above it. The link path spells out the ticket title, so it discloses more than the bare identifier next to it. Please delete the link and keep the bare identifier. This is the same request as round 3.

P3 open: the test suite still cannot catch this class of defect

tests/serve/test_port_contract.py holds 10 tests. I ran them at 7b24d77f5 and all 10 pass. Nine of them call dyn_port on its own. The tenth checks the prepared environment. None of them runs a launch script, and none compares the port a script gives a worker against the port the same script later polls. That is why the P1 survived a green run in round 2.

The new commit does not close the gap, and the new fix is inside it. I put the pre-fix text back on line 67 and ran the suite again: 10 passed. A revert of the fix keeps the suite green, so the fix pins nothing.

A test that runs one launch script with a stub python3 and a stub curl, then asserts the bound set equals the polled set, closes both items at once.

Items I am not counting, and where verification stopped

The seven env -u DYN_SYSTEM_PORT ... wrapper lines are unchanged and still inert. They are byte-identical at both heads, and all seven are introduced by this pull request. components/src/dynamo/frontend/main.py:372 already removes DYN_SYSTEM_PORT, and nothing in the runtime or the frontend reads the indexed names. We agreed in round 3 to leave them as explicit boundaries, so I am not counting this again.

Everything above ran on macOS ARM64 with stub launchers and stub clients. I did not start a real worker, I did not run any of these topologies on a GPU, and I did not use the GPU box. The bind and poll evidence is therefore about what the script passes and polls, not about what a real vLLM worker does with it.

Three people approved before me. That does not change the bar I applied.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Round 5 re-review at 525d127122, 2026-09-17

Re-approved. The force-push rebased onto c0eb3fcfa and added one commit that reverts the Rust change. The 17 remaining files are byte-identical to the tree I approved at 7b24d77f5. The round 3 P1 stays closed. Two old items stay open, and the revert adds one new item. Three items in total, all P2 or P3.

What the force-push carried: a rebase, plus one revert of the Rust file

I built the pull request diff at the old base and the pull request diff at the new base, then compared the two.

old: git diff adfe2aa1b1..7b24d77f54   18 files, 448 insertions, 97 deletions
new: git diff c0eb3fcfaf..525d127122   17 files, 445 insertions, 95 deletions
diff of the two diffs: 24 lines, all of them one hunk in lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs

The per-file blob comparison says the same thing. For each of the 18 paths I compared the blob hash at 7b24d77f5 against the blob hash at 525d127122:

SAME   17 files (all 8 launch scripts, launch_utils.sh, and all 8 test files)
DIFFER lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs  old=222917c835  new=45e9bed1d0  new base=45e9bed1d0

The new head blob equals the new base blob, so the file is no longer part of the pull request. Commit 525d127122 is a new author commit that restores the original error path. The other 15 commits were replayed with identical trees.

Base movement: none of the 10 incoming commits reach the paths of this pull request

adfe2aa1b1..c0eb3fcfaf is 10 commits. I listed the files of each one and compared them against the 17 paths here. No overlap. Two looked close enough to check on evidence instead of on the file name:

commit	why it looked close	what I found
99dae1f53e	touches components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py, and this pull request passes --kv-events-config	the hunk only adds a worker class guard for random KDA benchmarking. It does not read or write any port.
1dca16f9b7 and 99dae1f53e	both touch tests/report_pytest_markers.py	the change adds stub module names for vllm.v1.worker and aiohttp.test_utils. tests/serve/test_port_contract.py imports neither.

P1 stays closed: bind, poll, and banner give the same port in both modes

I read the three port sites out of each script by line number and evaluated the text of the file, so this tests the file and not my transcription. All three sites collapse to one unique expression per script:

agg_multimodal_router.sh                138/160/189 -> $(dyn_port DYN_SYSTEM_PORT "$i" $((VLLM_SYSTEM_PORT_BASE + (i - 1) * 2)))
agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor.sh 177/204/274 -> same
xpu/agg_multimodal_router_xpu.sh        164/194/227 -> $(dyn_port DYN_SYSTEM_PORT "$i" $((VLLM_SYSTEM_PORT_BASE + ($i - 1) * 2)))
xpu/agg_multimodal_router_chat_processor_xpu.sh 201/232/303 -> same

Evaluated with bash 5.3.15:

mode	site	worker 1	worker 2
unmanaged	launch	18081	18083
unmanaged	poll	18081	18083
unmanaged	banner	18081	18083
managed, DYN_SYSTEM_PORT1=24445 DYN_SYSTEM_PORT2=24446	launch	24445	24446
managed	poll	24445	24446
managed	banner	24445	24446

In disagg_same_gpu.sh the poll at line 89 reads SYSTEM_PORT_DECODE, which is the same variable the worker gets at line 74.

The unindexed KV port override, re-measured in five cases

Line 67 of examples/backends/vllm/launch/disagg_same_gpu.sh, read out of the file and evaluated:

case	environment	result
unindexed honored	DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT=31000	31000
indexed wins	DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT=31000, DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT1=32000	32000
default preserved	neither set	20081
managed unaffected	DYN_MANAGED_PORTS=1, DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT1=33000	33000
managed fails closed	DYN_MANAGED_PORTS=1, only the unindexed name set	Missing or invalid managed port DYN_VLLM_KV_EVENT_PORT1: <unset>

The last case also aborts under set -e. A script that runs the same assignment exits with code 1 and never reaches the next line.

P2 open: the description still carries an internal tracker link

Line 28 of the description still holds a Tracking: link to an internal tracker. The bare identifier is already on line 26. The path of the link spells out the title of the ticket, so the link discloses more than the bare identifier does. Please delete the link and keep the bare identifier. This is the same request as round 3 and round 4.

P2 new: the description states a behavior that commit 525d127 removed

Line 9 of the description ends with "a failed system bind aborts startup". Commit 525d127122 restored the original error path, so that is no longer true at this head.

// lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs:376, at 525d127122
Err(e) => {
    tracing::error!("System status server startup failed: {e}");
}

The process logs the error and keeps running. Line 24 of the description also still names lib/runtime/src/distributed.rs as a file for the reviewer to start with, and that file is no longer in the pull request. Please correct both lines. The code itself is correct, because the file now matches main.

P3 open: the tests still pass when the fix is reverted

tests/serve/test_port_contract.py holds 10 tests. All 10 pass at 525d127122. Nine of them call dyn_port on its own, and the tenth checks the prepared environment. None of them runs a launch script, and none compares the port a script gives a worker against the port the same script later polls.

I repeated the round 4 mutation at this head, twice:

tree	result
525d127122 unchanged	10 passed
line 103 of disagg_same_gpu.sh put back to the pre-fix text	10 passed
the whole of disagg_same_gpu.sh reverted to c0eb3fcfa	10 passed

A full revert of the fix keeps the suite green, so the suite pins nothing. A test that runs one launch script with a stub python3 and a stub curl, then asserts that the set of bound ports equals the set of polled ports, closes this item.

Where verification stopped

Everything above ran on macOS ARM64 with bash 5.3.15 injected on PATH, because the system bash is 3.2 and the version guard in launch_utils.sh rejects it. I started no real worker, I ran no topology on a GPU, and I used no GPU box. The bind and poll evidence is about what the script passes and what it polls, not about what a real vLLM worker does with those values.

Three people approved before me. That did not change the bar I applied.