feat(sglang): relay node-local KV events from headless sidecars

[jain-ria]

Summary

Enable externally managed SGLang sidecars to publish node-local KV events for a multinode engine. The sidecar reads GetServerInfo to select its role automatically: the leader serves inference, while followers relay local KV events without registering inference endpoints.

Depends on SGLang #39659, which exposes follower metadata RPCs and node-local KV sources. That upstream PR remains open; Dynamo's SGLang package/image pin is unchanged. The multinode examples require an SGLang build containing those changes.

Behavior

• The leader registers the full global DP range and subscribes only to its node-local KV sources.
• Followers discover the matching leader using the shared rendezvous address and publish events directly to Dynamo under the leader's routable worker ID and each source's global DP rank. Each follower retains its own runtime/publisher identity.
• Engine metadata determines local publisher endpoints and aggregated, prefill, or decode role. Explicit empty source lists remain authoritative; older leader metadata retains its legacy behavior and multinode restrictions.
• Leader discovery uses the existing --grpc-startup-deadline-secs setting (default 1,800 seconds). There is no separate leader-discovery timeout flag. Startup phases have separate waits rather than one launch-wide deadline.
• Rendezvous DNS resolution runs off the async polling thread. Its wait is deadline-bounded, and follower shutdown can interrupt it without waiting for the operating system's resolver to finish.
• Followers monitor local engine metadata and leader registration, exiting on loss or incompatible changes. Coordinated engine/sidecar restart is required; independent restart and KV-event replay recovery are not provided.
• The Rust executable and Python sidecar entry point share automatic mode selection. Invalid encoder-routing configuration is rejected before discovery.
• Aggregated and disaggregated launch examples cover one multinode SGLang engine using attention DP. Ordinary non-attention DP spread across independent single-node engines is a different topology.

Validation

Current revision

At 4da4ccbe938d3cc3722a2063570c256350134a59, CI is green: the multi-architecture sidecar image build, pre-merge, backend, Dynamo, deploy status gates, and DCO passed. Earlier image-build failures passed on rerun without a Dockerfile or workflow workaround; their suspected cache cause was not conclusively established.

The DNS/test-cleanup commit a9d386e3286c37d88fa5838786a9667163378374 passed 110 local SGLang-sidecar tests, formatting, and strict Clippy. Coverage includes blocked DNS timing out, cancellation without delaying runtime shutdown, resolver errors, metadata validation, and follower KV-event identity/lifecycle. The reviewer's exact native SIGTERM probe was not rerun.

Earlier real-GPU functional validation

September 18 validation used Dynamo runtime source 9ab50011f8bf1400759d856a40dcb0414b77a163 with the then-staged launcher/test changes, and SGLang 8eaffcf88daca77eef9046fd878bcfe414752e09. The tested disaggregated launcher was committed in e47072982c968f76189cb89854e0c6ce49cefa12.

• Aggregated: two physical H100 nodes, one GPU each, TP=2 / attention DP=2, Qwen3-0.6B. All 27 requests passed. Both ranks emitted real KV events with distinct publisher identities and the same serving worker ID; all 20 unpinned affinity replays returned to the warmed rank with cache reuse.
• Disaggregated: four physical H100 nodes, two per role, TP=2 / attention DP=2 per role, NIXL transfer. All 39 requests passed, including all four prefill/decode rank pairs, streaming, and concurrent requests. All 20 unpinned affinity replays selected the warmed prefill rank.
• Both runs verified leader-only inference registration, node-local publisher metadata, and follower rejection of inference RPCs.

These runs used a source-built SGLang dependency and Qwen3-0.6B, not the default 32B model or an unmodified released package. The successful disaggregated run required RUST_MIN_STACK=33554432 for the debug-built frontend after an initial segfault; the stack-size diagnosis was not confirmed by a core backtrace. They establish functional behavior on those recorded revisions, not a fresh multinode GPU validation of the current merged head, production performance, larger topologies, or recovery under load.

Review order

1. lib/sidecar/sglang/src/lib.rs and lib/sidecar/common/src/run.rs: shared startup lifecycle and role dispatch.
2. lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs: metadata parsing, rendezvous identity, and bounded DNS resolution.
3. lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs: leader registration and local KV-source selection.
4. lib/sidecar/sglang/src/headless.rs: follower leader discovery, publishing, and lifecycle.
5. Multinode launch scripts and README: deployment examples and upstream requirements.

Related design context: #14260. Metrics/FPM, scheduler-load publishing, SGLang-managed follower launching, and early-prefill-handoff changes are outside this PR's scope.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The change adds telemetry-only SGLang follower sidecars. It centralizes node metadata discovery, validates local KV sources, relays KV events, adds multinode launch support, and unifies sidecar startup and error handling.

Changes

SGLang sidecar lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata contracts and discovery lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs	Adds node metadata and local KV source parsing, validation, endpoint normalization, registration checks, worker-group derivation, and disaggregation-mode detection.
Mode dispatch and startup errors lib/sidecar/sglang/src/args.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/src/lib.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/src/main.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/backend.rs, lib/sidecar/sglang/tests/executable.rs	Adds telemetry-only CLI handling. The native runner now selects full or telemetry-only execution and maps startup errors for Rust and Python callers.
Full-sidecar KV discovery lib/sidecar/sglang/src/engine.rs	Uses shared discovery-mode handling and validates local KV metadata before recording worker-group and KV runtime data.
Telemetry-only follower lifecycle lib/sidecar/sglang/src/headless.rs	Adds HeadlessSidecar, which validates follower metadata, finds the matching leader, creates local KV publishers, monitors metadata changes, and avoids inference-worker registration.
Multinode launcher and documentation lib/sidecar/sglang/launch/multinode_kv_router.sh, lib/sidecar/sglang/Cargo.toml, lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md	Adds multinode topology validation, role-specific SGLang and sidecar startup, telemetry-only follower configuration, required dependencies, and operating guidance.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4d35a

Telemetry followers may fail to discover their leader, while reachable network clients may access KV event data. Resolve these issues before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Qualify the stock SGLang image guidance. · README.md:92-95

lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md:92-95
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Qualify the stock SGLang image guidance.

The multinode section already requires node-local GetServerInfo.kv_event_sources, but this note says that KV-routing examples use stock lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.19 without stating whether that image meets the multinode requirement. Separate the stock-image guidance from the multinode flow and document the exact supported SGLang build for that flow. Do not state that stock v0.5.19 fails unless the image contents are established.

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In `@lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md` around lines 92 - 95, The README’s stock SGLang
image note must distinguish general gRPC/KV-routing support from the multinode
flow. Update the multinode documentation to state the exact supported SGLang
build that provides node-local GetServerInfo.kv_event_sources, while keeping the
stock v0.5.19 guidance separate and avoiding any unsupported claim about its
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/sidecar/sglang/launch/multinode_kv_router.sh`:
- Line 108: Document and enforce a deployment prerequisite for the KV-event
publisher configured in the launcher’s --kv-events-config: require an explicit
host firewall, security group, or Kubernetes NetworkPolicy restricting
SGLANG_KV_EVENT_PORT to the intended sidecar or event consumer. Preserve the
wildcard endpoint and GetServerInfo connectivity contract, and apply the
access-control requirement consistently to every deployment using the launcher.

In `@lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 146-150: Update the address resolution flow in worker_group_id to
sort the results from socket_addrs(|| None) before selecting the first address,
ensuring identical hostname inputs produce a resolver-order-independent key
while preserving the existing empty-result error and dist_init formatting.

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In `@lib/sidecar/sglang/README.md`:
- Around line 92-95: The README’s stock SGLang image note must distinguish
general gRPC/KV-routing support from the multinode flow. Update the multinode
documentation to state the exact supported SGLang build that provides node-local
GetServerInfo.kv_event_sources, while keeping the stock v0.5.19 guidance
separate and avoiding any unsupported claim about its contents.

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The launcher still binds the KV-event publisher to tcp://*:${SGLANG_KV_EVENT_PORT} without documenting or enforcing deployment-level access controls for that unauthenticated event stream.
• Original discussion: The multinode launcher still binds the KV-event publisher to tcp://*:${SGLANG_KV_EVENT_PORT} without a launcher-level prerequisite or enforcement for restricting that unauthenticated ZMQ port to the intended sidecar or event consumer.
• Original discussion: The new launcher still binds the unauthenticated ZMQ KV publisher to tcp://*, exposing the relay port on every reachable interface without restricting subscribers to the local sidecar.
• Original discussion: Verified: worker_group_id still selects the first resolver result at client.rs:146-150. Leader and follower processes resolving the same hostname in different orders can publish different group keys, preventing the follower from finding its leader.
• Original discussion: Verified: hostname-based dist_init_addr values can resolve in different orders on the leader and follower, while worker_group_id selects the first result. That produces different group keys and prevents the follower from finding its leader. The resolved addresses still need deterministic ordering before selecting one.
• Original discussion: Verified: the new standalone multinode launcher still binds unauthenticated KV events to tcp://*:$SGLANG_KV_EVENT_PORT with an empty topic and neither enforces nor documents an access-control prerequisite for this deployment path. Reachable network peers can subscribe to KV event payloads unless operators independently restrict the port.
• Original discussion: worker_group_id still selects the first DNS result for dist_init_addr; leader and follower can resolve the same hostname in different orders and fail to match, leaving follower KV relays undiscovered.
• Original discussion: worker_group_id still selects the first socket_addrs result without sorting, so leader and follower keys can differ when hostname resolution returns the same addresses in different orders.
• Original discussion: worker_group_id still uses the first address returned by socket_addrs without sorting, so identical hostname inputs can produce resolver-order-dependent group keys and prevent follower leader matching.

[jain-ria]

Addressed the outside-diff README request, "Qualify the stock SGLang image guidance", in 8866697.

The multinode section now names SGLang commit c50b251da8e455dfbb594f8c3b7ccae6eca72129 for node-local KV source discovery and explicit publisher binding. It separately scopes the stock v0.5.19 image guidance to the single-node examples.

For this four-file cleanup, launcher syntax/help, formatting of the touched Rust files, and diff whitespace checks passed. No new GPU inference validation is claimed. The dedicated multinode disaggregated example is excluded from this push and remains pending.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Review: node-local KV relay from headless SGLang sidecars

Verified by execution on macOS ARM64. Two P3 comments, no blockers.

What I proved, joint by joint

I ran the whole chain in headless::tests::local_zmq_events_keep_global_rank_and_leader_identity_without_serving with a real ZMQ publisher, the real event plane, and real discovery.

Joint	Proof
Origin	SGLang binds the PUB socket (launch/multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh:109, "bind":true). Dynamo's subscriber calls connect (lib/llm/src/utils/zmq.rs:59). PUB binds, SUB connects, so messages flow.
Wire format	3 frames: topic, 8-byte big-endian sequence, msgpack batch. The test sends exactly what decode_zmq_kv_batch reads.
Transport	Event plane ZMQ PUB registered in discovery, subscriber connected (captured in the debug log).
Consumer parse	EventSubscriber::typed::<Vec<RouterEvent>> decoded the batch. worker_id == 42 (the leader's routable ID) and event.dp_rank == 4 (the global rank).
Leader metadata	EngineConfig.runtime_data is copied verbatim into ModelRuntimeConfig.runtime_data at lib/backend-common/src/worker.rs:2112, so the leader's group key and KV metadata reach the follower's watch.

The test fails on my Mac with a timeout. That is my box, not the code: the publisher advertises the LAN IP and the local firewall drops the connection. Two untouched event-plane tests in dynamo-runtime fail the same way. With DYN_EVENT_PLANE_HOST=127.0.0.1 all 54 tests pass, and rust-tests (.) is green on the head commit.

control  : 54 passed; 0 failed

Mutation results, with the control that moved

Every mutation below was applied to the head tree and reverted after the run. The clean control is 54 passed.

Mutation	Result	Control test
validate_leader drops the leader-overlap guard	52 passed, 2 failed	rejects_incompatible_or_duplicate_rank_ownership
worker_group_id_from_addresses drops the sort	52 passed, 2 failed	worker_group_id_is_independent_of_dns_answer_order
follower_metadata accepts empty local sources	52 passed, 2 failed	telemetry_requires_follower_metadata_and_local_sources
matching_leader ignores the group key	51 passed, 3 failed	matches_exact_group_not_arbitrary_worker
start_publishers passes None instead of the leader worker ID	53 passed, 1 failed	the ZMQ relay test
start_publishers passes 0 instead of source.dp_rank	54 passed, 0 failed	none, see the P3 below

Lane: cargo test --locked --all-targets at the repository root, job rust-tests (.) in .github/workflows/pre-merge.yml:437. It covers this crate. Status on d088cda: SUCCESS.

Failure, scoping and ordering answers

If the relay cannot start. Startup is bounded. The gRPC connect uses the 30 minute startup deadline, and leader discovery uses --leader-discovery-timeout-secs (default 1800). Both end in an error that names what to check, and the process exits. Nothing retries forever.

If the relay stops. supervise_zmq_listener logs an error, cancels the publisher, and the discovery source is unregistered, so the router stops expecting that node. The follower process stays alive and stays Ready. That is the open thread on headless.rs:310, and I replied there with my own measurement. I agree with deferring it.

Node scoping. The group key is the rendezvous address, so it names the engine group, not the node. The discriminator between relays is the global DP rank. validate_leader rejects a rank the leader already publishes, and matching_leader rejects more than one leader in a group, so an event cannot be attributed to a different worker group.

I did prove one collision, and it needs operator error rather than a code defect: two telemetry sidecars pointed at one engine read the same kv_event_sources and both register. My probe measured 2 advertised sources for one node, each with its own event ID sequence from 0. The launcher starts one sidecar per node, so I am not filing this.

Ordering and loss. Order is preserved per source. One SUB socket feeds one unbounded channel, and each rank has its own publisher, so the leader and the followers never interleave inside one (worker_id, dp_rank) stream. The engine sequence number is decoded as source_cursor but is not used for gap detection. That is the shared path the full sidecar already uses, so it is not new here.

Where verification stopped

I did not run two real nodes or a GPU. The GPU evidence in the description is the author's. I did not verify SGLang's "bind": true option or the SGLANG_KV_EVENT_PORT + dp_rank port rule, because both live in the unmerged upstream change. I did not verify the operator or Kubernetes path, which this PR does not touch.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving. Zero P0 and zero P1. Three open items: two P3 comments in this review, and the P2 readiness thread on headless.rs:310, which the author deferred to the shared publisher path with a rationale I agree with.

What I verified by running it: the full relay chain end to end, with a real ZMQ publisher, the real event plane and real discovery. The events arrive with the leader's routable worker ID and the source's global DP rank, no inference worker is registered, and dropping the relay unregisters only its own source. I also ran six mutations of the relay and named the control test that moved for each. The details are in the review body.

Two things I am deferring on purpose rather than by oversight. The dp_rank that reaches the advertised source is still unasserted, which is the first P3. Follower readiness does not depend on the event plane, which is the P2 thread.

One process note, not a finding: the description asks for this to stay a draft until SGLang #39659 lands, and the PR is open. The Dynamo side is backward compatible, because an engine without kv_event_sources keeps the legacy path, so this is a merge-timing decision for you and the maintainer.

What I did not check: two real nodes, a GPU, the SGLang "bind": true option, and the per-rank port rule. The GPU evidence in the description is yours, not mine.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Re-approved at 9ab50011f

My earlier approval covered d088cdab3. Two commits landed after it, so I read them both and ran the checks again. Nothing blocks.

How the branch moved, and what the two commits change

The branch appended two commits and nobody rewrote history. d088cdab3 is still an ancestor of 9ab50011f, the compare endpoint reports ahead 2 and behind 0 with d088cdab3 as the merge base, the branch carries no merge commits, the two committer dates stay 71 minutes apart instead of collapsing to one instant, and the timeline records no head_ref_force_pushed event.

abcc0655d2 applies the crate header fix.

9ab50011f8 removes the --telemetry-only flag and reads the mode from GetServerInfo.node_rank instead. run() at lib.rs:41 now calls client::bootstrap_discover first and dispatches on StartupDiscovery. from_parsed does the same and gains from_discovery. multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh stops passing the flag, the README describes the automatic choice, startup_selects_mode_from_server_info is added, and telemetry_uses_headless_validation_before_grpc is deleted.

What I ran, and where I stopped

The merge base did not move. It is 9fcc771559 for both the approved commit and the live head, and main is 94 commits ahead of it.

The crate is green on both trees. The library target reports 54 passed at the head, and 57 passed after I merged main 81fa669fc into the head myself and resolved the two conflicts. cargo test --locked -p dynamo-sglang-sidecar --lib -- --list reports 57 tests, 0 benchmarks, 9 of them under headless::. The lane is rust-tests in .github/workflows/pre-merge.yml, which runs cargo test --locked --all-targets when changed-files.outputs.rust is true.

No lane exercises the relay against a real event plane. The one relay test builds its runtime with DistributedConfig::process_local() and a local ZMQ socket, and tests/serve/test_sidecar.py on main covers agg.sh only, not multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh.

The interaction check turned up one thing worth knowing early. Main gained connect(uri, cfg, deadline, bootstrap) in #14508, where bootstrap selects eprintln! over tracing because events emitted before the subscriber is installed are dropped. This PR adds two new connect call sites and they need opposite values. bootstrap_discover in client.rs runs before logging::init(), so it needs true. headless.rs:107 runs after logging::init() at headless.rs:60, so it needs false. With those two values the merged crate compiles and all 57 tests pass.

I did not run against a real SGLang engine, so I did not confirm what a follower answers for GetServerInfo on a build that does not report node_rank.

Open items, none blocking. One P2 that we agreed to defer, the early readiness at headless.rs:310. Two P3 items, the unasserted source rank at headless.rs:681 and the argument order at lib.rs:44.

The branch moved twice after this approval, so it pointed at a tree nobody had read. A P1 also stands now: the new StartupDiscovery enum at lib/sidecar/sglang/src/client.rs:205 fails the repository clippy gate. The measurements are in the review I am posting at 24579affda.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Holding at 24579affda

I dismissed my approval at 9ab50011f. One P1 stands: the new StartupDiscovery enum fails the repository clippy gate, and no CI run has covered it yet. The rest of the new work measures clean, and the source-rank P3 is now fixed.

How the branch moved, proved four ways

Two plain fast-forwards since my last read, no rewrite. 9ab50011f to e47072982 to 24579affda.

1. The issue timeline holds no head_ref_force_pushed event at all, across the full branch history.
2. The compare endpoint reports status: ahead, ahead_by: 1, behind_by: 0 for each step.
3. Local ancestry on a clone I proved is not shallow, with git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository returning false and no .git/shallow file: each old head is the direct parent of the next, and git log HEAD..<old head> is empty both times.
4. git patch-id --stable over the whole branch: all thirteen earlier identifiers stay byte-identical and in the same order, with be85980c77 and then e678966140 appended.

The merge base did not move. It is 9fcc771559 for all three commits, and main is now 95 commits ahead of it.

What the two new commits change, and what I measured

e47072982 adds launch/multinode_disagg_kv_router_sidecar.sh and eleven README lines. The script takes prefill or decode, exports ROLE, and hands off to the existing multinode launcher with exec. I ran all four documented node commands against stubbed engine and sidecar binaries and read back the arguments each one builds. Every role produced the right --disaggregation-mode, the right --node-rank, and the right rendezvous address. --help and -h exit 0, a missing first argument and a wrong one both print the guidance and exit 1, and prefill node zero without SGLANG_BOOTSTRAP_HOST stops at multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh:83 with the intended message. The delegate reads ROLE="${ROLE:-aggregated}", so the exported value wins. The file is mode 100755 with a shebang, has no trailing whitespace, no tabs, no carriage returns, a final newline, and passes bash -n. Its SPDX year satisfies copyright-check.ps1, which needs the header year to be at least the year of the last commit that touched the file. who_owns.py resolves the new path to the sglang backend owners, so no areas.yaml change is needed. --router-mode kv in the new README text is a real value, set at components/src/dynamo/frontend/frontend_args.py:111.

24579affda strengthens the relay test. I verified it by mutation. Details are on the headless.rs thread.

Base drift is real and it is not mine to fix, but I checked past it. I merged main 9d3ce5d89 into the head myself. client.rs and engine.rs conflict, and after resolving them the crate reports 57 passed and 0 failed, with fmt clean. The P1 does not depend on that resolution: it reproduces on the untouched head, where the tree is clean and nothing was merged.

Where I stopped. I did not run a multinode or a disaggregated deployment, so the four-node run in your comment is your evidence, not mine. I did not build the rest of the workspace, only this crate.

One candidate finding I dropped after measuring

multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh:13 resolves its two source lines through $DYNAMO_HOME. Main changed the three agg.sh launchers away from that pattern on 2026-09-18, in e0a996bc6b, with a comment saying a baked DYNAMO_HOME breaks the sourcing. I reproduced that: with DYNAMO_HOME pointing at a directory that has no examples/, your launcher stops at line 15, while main's agg.sh under the same override sources fine and prints its banner.

I am not filing it. On main the change reached only the three agg.sh files, the ones the new launch-script end-to-end test runs inside images. The other eleven launchers under lib/sidecar/*/launch/ still use $DYNAMO_HOME, so your file follows the majority convention rather than a retired one. That makes it a repository-wide question, not something this pull request introduces or makes worse.

Open items: one P1 at client.rs:205, one P2 that we agreed to defer at headless.rs:310, and one P3 at lib.rs:44.

Dismissing: the head has moved and a P1 stands on the current tree. This approval pointed at an earlier commit, so it no longer describes what is on the branch.

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❌ Dynamo PR CI failed — run 37405263173 (attempt 2) on 4da4ccbe93

Gate checks: ❌ backend-status-check · ✅ deploy-status-check · ✅ dynamo-status-check

Other	Jobs
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Failure details

1 job failed: the dynamo-sglang-sidecar crate does not compile because dynamo_sidecar_common::run_task does not exist.

❌ dynamo-sidecar / Build multi-arch cpu: error[E0425] cannot find function `run_task` in `dynamo_sidecar_common`

Job: dynamo-sidecar / Build multi-arch cpu · Failed step: Build and Push Image · Logs: gh run view --job 112144758819 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

#36 [linux/amd64 sglang-builder 1/1] RUN ... cargo build --release --locked -p dynamo-sglang-sidecar ...
#36 1.660    Compiling dynamo-sglang-sidecar v1.6.0 (/src/lib/sidecar/sglang)
#36 2.245 error[E0425]: cannot find function `run_task` in crate `dynamo_sidecar_common`
#36 2.245   --> lib/sidecar/sglang/src/lib.rs:44:28
#36 2.245    |
#36 2.245 44 |     dynamo_sidecar_common::run_task(|runtime, shutdown| async move {
#36 2.245    |                            ^^^^^^^^ not found in `dynamo_sidecar_common`
#36 3.527 error: could not compile `dynamo-sglang-sidecar` (lib) due to 1 previous error
#36 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c cargo build --release --locked -p dynamo-sglang-sidecar ..." did not complete successfully: exit code: 101

The multi-arch sidecar image build fails in the linux/amd64 sglang-builder stage: lib/sidecar/sglang/src/lib.rs:44 calls dynamo_sidecar_common::run_task, which the dynamo_sidecar_common crate does not export. Buildkit then cancelled the other builder stages (e.g. vllm-builder).

For agents

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_{Posted automatically by Devin for run 37405263173. Updated on every full-CI run of this PR.}

[jthomson04]

Reviewed 4da4ccb. No new blocking findings. Two optional P3 comments on unnecessary copies. The prior DNS cancellation and advertised-rank findings are addressed in the source; publisher readiness remains an agreed follow-up.

Source review only; I did not run tests or inspect CI.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approved at 4da4ccbe93

Our P1 and P3 from 2026-09-18 are fixed. I measured both, and the evidence is on each thread. The bar holds: no P0 or P1, one P2 that we deferred by agreement, and no P3 of ours.

Open items:

• [P2, deferred by agreement] Follower readiness does not show whether the relay works, headless.rs:294. The merge widened it. The measurement is on that thread.
• Two optional P3 threads from jthomson04, at client.rs:61 and headless.rs:218. I did not grade them. main requires resolved threads, so they block the merge until someone resolves them.
• The multinode examples depend on sgl-project/sglang#39659, which is still open at 047eb45dfb3b.

Disclosure: commit abcc0655d2 applies our suggestion for the crate header, so a few lines of this diff are our text.

What I ran on the head, and the controls.

All runs used x86_64 Linux with toolchain 1.96.1.

run	result
cargo clippy --no-deps --all-targets -- -D warnings in the workspace root	exit 0
the same lint on dynamo-sglang-sidecar at 24579affda, control	exit 101, large size difference between variants
cargo test --locked --no-fail-fast -p dynamo-sglang-sidecar -p dynamo-sidecar-common --all-targets	127 passed, 0 failed
the same tests after a merge with main 224d929044	129 passed, 0 failed
cargo clippy --no-deps --all-targets -- -D warnings in lib/bindings/python	exit 0
the same with --locked --no-default-features	exit 0
cargo fmt -- --check in the workspace and in the bindings	exit 0
cargo tree --locked in the workspace and in the bindings, on base 4252431046, main 224d929044, head and merge	exit 0, all eight
cargo tree --locked after I added an unlocked dependency, control	exit 101
shellcheck 0.10.0 on both launch scripts	no findings
shellcheck on a planted SC2086, control	SC2086 reported

The sglang sidecar runs 110 tests at the head, as the description says: 106 in the library, 3 in tests/executable.rs and 1 in tests/proto_contract.rs. The common crate runs 17.

I mutated the two new fixes. Each restored file matched its SHA-256.

mutation	result
delete the validate_args call at lib.rs:43	invalid_arguments_fail_before_runtime_configuration fails
move the DNS lookup onto the blocking pool of Tokio	cancelling_dns_does_not_hold_up_runtime_shutdown fails
run the DNS lookup inline	two DNS tests fail

Merges, dependencies and launch scripts.

4da4ccbe93 is a clean "Update branch" merge. Its tree 1721f1715e equals the automatic merge of a9d386e328 and 4252431046.

e8d68587a9 had conflicts in six files: backend.rs, the sglang Cargo.toml, client.rs, engine.rs, main.rs and tests/executable.rs. Four other files changed by hand, and I read each one as new code. common/src/lib.rs and common/src/run.rs add run_task. sglang/src/lib.rs rejects bad arguments first, and then it starts the runtime before discovery. headless.rs removes the separate runtime and signal loop that the follower had.

The head merges cleanly with main 224d929044, where I ran the tests, and with the newer a4adcfe923. The four commits between them touch neither lock file nor the sidecar crates.

Neither lock file adds or moves a package. The name, version, source and checksum of every package match the base: 1052 packages in Cargo.lock and 945 in lib/bindings/python/Cargo.lock. The diff only adds dependency edges to the dynamo-sglang-sidecar entry, and each edge points to a package that the lock already holds. Cargo.lock adds edges to dynamo-llm and dynamo-kv-router from this workspace, and to serde 1.0.228, rmp-serde 1.3.1, tempfile 3.27.0 and tmq 0.5.0 from crates.io. The bindings lock adds only dynamo-llm and serde.

multinode_kv_router_sidecar.sh needs NODE_RANK and DIST_INIT_ADDR. It rejects a bad topology or role, starts SGLang with a loopback KV-event publisher, and starts the Python sidecar. It gives extra arguments to SGLang only. multinode_disagg_kv_router_sidecar.sh takes prefill or decode, exports ROLE, and runs the first script with exec. Neither file changed since 24579affda, where our last round ran all four documented node commands against stubs.

What I read in full, what I sampled, and where I stopped.

Read in full:

• Both lock-file diffs, lib/sidecar/sglang/Cargo.toml, both launch scripts and the README diff.
• common/src/lib.rs, common/src/run.rs, sglang/src/lib.rs, main.rs, args.rs, backend.rs and tests/executable.rs.
• The diffs of 551cbf2540 and a9d386e328.

Sampled: client.rs, engine.rs and headless.rs.

I did not run a multinode SGLang engine, so this round adds no GPU evidence. I did not run the native SIGTERM probe from the DNS thread again. Instead, the two DNS mutations above show that the new tests catch a lookup that holds up shutdown. The README pins SGLang commit c50b251. It is an ancestor of the open upstream head. The metadata structs that the sidecar parses are byte-identical to the commit of the September GPU run. I did not compare field names with the newer upstream head.