feat(ais): migrate perf-model consumers to canonical configuration

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Summary

Migrate Dynamo's perf-model consumers to AISimulate's canonical best_available(config) interface and use the matching published Python wheel and Rust crate. The nightly publication prerequisite is satisfied.

• Carry complete canonical configurations through Planner roles, Router/Frontend, Mocker, Replay, Profiler and related CLI consumers. Preserve role identity, ordered data roots, nested estimator controls, and the estimation_mode=auto / fallback_policy=deny defaults.

• Use ais for Dynamo's perf-model SDK and saved configuration; retain necessary legacy CLI spellings at parsing boundaries. Retire the old perf-model constructors and config adapters. Document the canonical interface as the required path for future features.

• Preserve aic in serialized worker cards during the N-2 compatibility window; accept both aic and ais at the wire and Rust environment-parsing boundaries while retaining Ais internally and ais for display. Versioned TODOs separate the v1.8 writer transition from the earliest v1.10 read-alias removal.

• Migrate Python imports and resource lookup to the published aisimulate / aisimulate_core namespaces, including the capacity helper. The upstream aiconfigurator executable and upstream-owned wire fields retain their supported names.

• Integrate current main's Replay telemetry and Router plugin interfaces. Adapt synthetic trace initialization to the published crate, and correct two test assumptions: decode-worker pass timing and prefill-produced first tokens.

• Harden CLI config-file errors and environment defaults, preserve explicit Planner model aliases, and align image-local Replay tests and Operator golden manifests with the canonical interface.

• Reject unsupported pipeline-parallel Mocker/Replay configs (pp != 1) at the shared normalization boundary. Preserve external FPM parquet paths in Router prediction configs and reject conflicting path declarations.

• Python clients now wait for discovery membership to reach the routing snapshot before reporting workers ready. The Rust discovery-only wait remains available to its existing callers.

• CI deploy tests reject empty runtime image tags before accessing the cluster and use the version already encoded by the image-copy workflow. Cold vLLM/frontend multi-architecture image jobs have a 90-minute budget covering compilation and subsequent compliance/test-image stages.

Published dependency

Artifact	Pinned version
Python wheel	aisimulate==0.13.0.dev202609270000000058
Rust crate	aisimulate-core = "=0.13.0-dev.202609270000000058"

Both artifacts come from AISimulate source 9f140b71b75e43147e88ac76a8c72371077c2bee, published by the September 27 nightly. This source includes the canonical API merge d9f1580 from AISimulate #242. The September 28 schedule skipped publication because its source was unchanged.

Verified downloaded artifact SHA256 values against release provenance/registry metadata:

• x86_64 wheel: 8d2d98149d5cf205ff8368510fe1db7e227f946e0b1a2c5fed524333f1d6a960
• aarch64 wheel: 045681584c9dc8a4dc48315ad7b48170b202c335eedc03644ef9998297521013
• Rust crate: 99962e31b088bcf6c8cce4cb71a55facadafc08f6e50d6fee3f76bd7d738cbec

Validation

Current CI repair in 7110a910d1 cherry-picks the already-merged #15380: both architectures failed the same two malformed-multimodal-request tests because vLLM 0.30 validates the native request earlier and raises Pydantic ValidationError. The source fix changes one test file; production behavior is unchanged. Upstream amd64/arm64 CI each passed 2,050 CPU tests, including the two failures. Pre-commit passes locally; the local vLLM 0.24 environment still raises the older TypeError, and expired AWS SSO prevents a same-image local reproduction. Current-head hosted validation is required.

On 8dbdbf3de7, all eight framework deployment jobs and DGDR deployment checks passed. The remaining Rust GPU and Planner arm64 compliance cancellations occurred after approximately 29 minutes of container startup and 13 minutes stalled in remote BuildKit, respectively; neither log reports a source failure. The new run retries these checks with their existing timeouts.

Deploy-input validation on 8dbdbf3de7: deployment helper tests 16 passed, pre-commit passed, and the exact workflow guard rejected empty/whitespace tags while accepting versioned vLLM/SGLang/TensorRT-LLM CI tags. The unnecessary source-version override flag, helper, and tests have been removed; cluster deployment remains validated by hosted CI.

Worker-card compatibility validation: the new regression rejects legacy input before the fix and passes afterward. The full KV-router library suite passes (1,017 passed, 2 ignored), including a frozen v1.5 enum reader and both Rust environment spellings. The full worker-card regression passes for KV/round-robin modes, both input spellings, canonical reserialization, and equal mdcsum values. Clippy for both crates (including tests, -D warnings), formatting, and pre-commit pass.

Validated the runtime/CI fixes after merging main 8e41fd80f4cab187f60116c3dae1f74415d6c69e, including the upstream forked-test teardown repair:

• A deterministic regression reproduces the discovery/routing publication race before the fix and passes afterward. The original discovery-only Rust wait retains its contract.
• Rust runtime: 826 passed, 2 ignored, combining the full suite with an isolated rerun of one self-executing test affected by a concurrent local rebuild.
• Rebuilt and installed the Python runtime wheel; unary TCP/cancellation and hello-world integration: 4 passed. Planner configuration, standalone Router, and deployment helper checks: 74 passed. AIS configuration, native estimator, Replay and capacity regression: 105 passed against the pinned published nightly.
• Pre-commit (including marker validation) and Rust formatting pass. Current-head arm64, container and Kubernetes/GPU checks must still pass in hosted CI.

The release qualification below was run on 1f107f62, using the published nightly and rebuilt optimized Dynamo bindings. Removed Python namespaces are explicitly blocked during tests so older packages in the development environment cannot mask missing migrations.

• Planner/Profiler and namespace contracts: 1,469 passed, including optimizer smokes and vLLM/SGLang parity with original tolerances/timeouts.
• Mocker/Replay/Router/shared configuration consumers: 313 passed, 2 expected skips; Python bindings, native Replay/capacity and telemetry: 173 passed, 8 expected skips.
• Public CLI prediction/recommendation/save-reload round trips: 19 passed.
• Rust Mocker: 219 passed; Rust bindings: 61 passed; bindings and multiturn benchmark Clippy with -D warnings passed.
• Installed-wheel Frontend → Router/Mocker AIS callback smoke, canonical estimator/data-resource smoke, and all 8 published-dependency/namespace checks passed.
• Binary-only staging from the NVIDIA index succeeds for both amd64 and arm64; all three Cargo lockfiles use the matching published crate checksum. Temporary Git pins are removed.
• Pre-commit, formatting, strict CODEOWNERS, changed-document lint and Fern configuration passed. Fern's link checker still reports the existing untouched deepseek-v4-pro-0813.mdx:254 link.

Some focused suites overlap. Local runtime execution is x86_64; the Dynamo host wheel targets manylinux 2.39. Arm64 execution, production container images and GPU serving remain covered by hosted CI rather than these local results. The previously reproduced, unchanged local vLLM frontend-unit API mismatch remains outside this local selection. Required current-head GitHub CI must pass before merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added AISimulate-based performance modeling across routing, planning, profiling, replay, and Mocker workflows, with shared configuration and worker-role validation.
  • Added an AIS concurrency benchmark and an offline router smoke test.
  • Legacy --aic-* CLI spellings remain available as aliases for corresponding AIS options.

• Updates

  • Updated AISimulate integration and configuration guidance, including model selection, fallback behavior, and role-specific settings.
  • Replaced the prefill load-model choice aic with ais across supported router configuration.

Review/CI follow-up in 1750335a04: 250 related tests passed (2 missing-backend skips), 77 focused tests passed (overlapping), and the isolated CI-layout live-file tests passed without a parent conftest. All 17 golden worker argument lists match the published-wheel Profiler generator; Go golden-helper tests pass. Focused Mocker mypy and the complete bindings mypy pass. Full local component mypy still encounters six missing Redis/native-submodule typing errors specific to the development environment; the hosted failure was the single spellings annotation error fixed here. Pre-commit and changed-doc checks pass.

The previous hosted failures were a missing Mocker type annotation, Replay collection depending on fixtures not copied into the Planner test image, and three Operator golden fixtures retaining old flags/version aliases/dense MoE sentinels. The profiler Jobs themselves succeeded. These source/test issues are fixed; current-head hosted CI is required before merge. Four CodeRabbit findings were fixed and one unsupported speculation-kind report was resolved with published-API reproduction evidence.

P2 follow-up in 08f91e5443: Mocker/Replay now rejects unsupported pp != 1 through the common native normalization path; default/explicit pp=1 remains valid. Router prediction configs retain external FPM parquet paths, preserve other controls/roots, and reject conflicting paths. With a rebuilt optimized native wheel, validation passed: Rust Mocker 221, Python binding/Replay/capacity 178 (8 expected skips), Router 24, and public CLI roundtrips 19. Direct offline/online/SDK probes verify PP rejection and unchanged single-stage execution. The same valid external FPM dataset now produces 22.0 ms in both worker and Router estimators. Mocker Clippy, scoped Router typing, pre-commit and independent review passed.

Ops review follow-up in 8750e4ca39: retired DYN_AIC_* variables now fail clearly when constructing AIS configuration; repeated identical CLI spellings retain last-value-wins semantics. All three lockfiles now differ from main only in the AISimulate package entry, and stale PyPI placeholder comments are removed. Validation: 304 passed, 2 expected skips, scoped typing, pre-commit, all three locked dependency resolutions, and locked Mocker/Python-binding builds passed. Real-wheel TP control probes retain 222.433 ms at TP=2 and 402.234 ms at default TP=1. Current main has no textual merge conflict; #14355 remains a separate change.

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Changes

The pull request migrates performance-model integration from AIC to AISimulate. It adds canonical AIS configuration and role-based Planner models, updates Router, Mocker, Replay, Python bindings, and Rust callbacks, upgrades AISimulate dependencies, replaces benchmarks and smoke tests, and updates documentation and CI wiring.

AIS configuration and Planner — components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/*, components/src/dynamo/planner/*, components/src/dynamo/profiler/*
CLI and environment parsing now produce canonical AIS configurations. Planner models use role-indexed ais_perf_model.roles and AISimulate validation and selection APIs.

Router, Mocker, and Replay — components/src/dynamo/router/*, components/src/dynamo/mocker/*, components/src/dynamo/replay/*, lib/mocker/*, lib/kv-router/*
Router selection changes from aic to ais. Mocker and Replay carry ais_perf_config, canonicalize configuration, estimate capacity, and validate worker roles and topology.

Python and Rust bindings — lib/bindings/python/*
AIC sessions and callbacks are replaced with AisSession, AisPerfConfig, AIS callbacks, and AIS forward-pass feature names. Replay and router binding signatures use AIS configuration.

Dependencies, tests, benchmarks, and documentation — Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, tests/*, benchmarks/*, docs/*, .github/*
AISimulate is pinned to 0.13.0-dev.202609270000000058. Tests, benchmarks, smoke paths, ownership rules, workflows, and documentation use the AISimulate integration.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1f107

Simulated decode timing is wrong for MTP and Eagle speculative decoding, so planner and replay estimates can be inaccurate. An explicit planner model name is replaced during profiling. A bad AIS config file path fails with a stack trace instead of a clear error. Fix the speculation depth handling before merging.

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components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py (1)

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Move required imports out of function bodies. Several required, non-optional imports were added inside functions. The path instructions say to "Always flag imports inside functions, methods, or classes … except for optional dependencies with a fallback, test collection skips, and version-dependent stdlib modules." None of these imports qualify for an exception.

• components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py#L42-L44: move import yaml to the module imports.
• components/src/dynamo/mocker/args.py#L430-L431: move from dynamo.common.configuration.groups.ais_perf_args import parse_ais_perf_config to the module imports.
• components/src/dynamo/mocker/args.py#L664-L665: move import sys to the module imports.

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Move the required imports out of function bodies and into module-level imports:
move yaml in parse_ais_perf_config at
components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py lines 42-44,
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Review comments at
@components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py:
- Around line 39-47: Update parse_ais_perf_config to convert missing or
unreadable YAML config files and yaml.YAMLError failures into ValueError with
context identifying the config value, so argparse reports them as CLI errors
instead of tracebacks. Preserve the existing JSON parsing and dictionary
validation behavior.

Review comments at @components/src/dynamo/profiler/utils/dgd_generation.py:
- Around line 687-688: Update _build_planner_config to preserve an explicitly
configured planner_cfg.model_name and use dgdr.model only as the fallback when
model_name is unset or empty, consistent with how ttft_ms and itl_ms are
handled.

Review comments at
@docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/planner/planner-guide.md:
- Around line 97-101: Replace the retired AIC and aiconfigurator_core
descriptions with the current AISimulate model terminology so these docs
consistently describe SLA and identity behavior. In
docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/planner/planner-guide.md,
update the optimization_target table’s SLA description to name the AISimulate
performance model. In
docs/fern/pages/reference/kubernetes-api/dynamo-graph-deployment-request.mdx,
update optimization_target to describe the AISimulate
RustForwardPassPerfModel.best_available model. In
docs/fern/translations/zh-CN/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/planner/planner-guide.md,
update the SLA description and “原生 AIC” wording to reflect the current
AISimulate model. In
docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/profiler/profiler-guide.md,
replace the native AIC identity descriptions with ais_perf_model.roles and
native AIS estimates.

Review comments at @lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_internal/ais.py:
- Around line 134-139: Update AisSession’s `_nextn` initialization to derive the
value from `speculation.params.num_speculative_tokens` whenever the canonical
speculation block is present, regardless of its kind; use the top-level `nextn`
only when that block is absent.

Review comments at @tests/frontend/router_ais_image_smoke.py:
- Around line 13-14: Update the offline-resource comment in the smoke test to
name aisimulate-core as the package shipping the model config and performance
database.

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@components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py:
- Around line 42-44: Move the required imports out of function bodies and into
module-level imports: move yaml in parse_ais_perf_config at
components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py lines 42-44,
parse_ais_perf_config’s import at components/src/dynamo/mocker/args.py lines
430-431, and sys at components/src/dynamo/mocker/args.py lines 664-665. Keep the
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• lib/bindings/python/tests/test_aic_capacity.py
• lib/bindings/python/tests/test_ais_capacity.py
• lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/sequences/multi_worker.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/sequences/prefill_tracker.rs
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• lib/mocker/src/common/protocols.rs
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• components/src/dynamo/mocker/aic_session.py
• lib/bindings/python/tests/replay/test_replay_aic_capacity.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/aic_perf_args.py
• benchmarks/mocker/bench_aic_rust_callback.py
• tests/frontend/router_aic_image_smoke.py
• lib/bindings/python/tests/replay/test_replay_aic_integration.py
• lib/bindings/python/tests/test_aic_capacity.py
• benchmarks/mocker/bench_aic_concurrency.py
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/aic_callback.rs
• lib/mocker/src/common/speculative.rs
• lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_internal/aic.py

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[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at 08f91e5443. I found one P2 and three P3 items, and none of them blocks the merge.

• [P2] components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py:65: the head ignores the eleven DYN_AIC_* variables and gives no error. If one of them is set, please make the AIS path fail. The thread has a tested suggestion.
• [P3] components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/ais_perf_args.py:56: a flag that a user repeats with one spelling now fails. Please raise the error only for two different spellings.
• [P3] Cargo.lock:144, with the two binding locks: 34 windows-sys and 2 heck version references move away from main. Please regenerate the three locks from the copies on main.
• [P3] tests/wheels/smoke_install.py:274: the claim about a placeholder sdist is false for the new pin. Please correct the comment or remove it.

What I read in full, what I read only at the interface, and what I tested.

I read these files in full:

• The pin files pyproject.toml, benchmarks/pyproject.toml, container/deps/requirements.aisimulate.txt, Cargo.toml and lib/bindings/python/Cargo.toml.
• The three Cargo.lock files.
• The build and CI files container/templates/wheel_builder.Dockerfile, .github/filters.yaml, .github/workflows/pr.yaml and .github/workflows/pre-merge.yml.
• The ownership files .github/codeowners/areas.yaml and CODEOWNERS, and the wheel smoke test tests/wheels/smoke_install.py.

My approval covers the files that dynamo-ops-codeowners owns.

In the other files, I read the public interfaces that change: CLI flags, environment variables, configuration keys, and Python and Rust names. I did not read their full logic, so their code owners must review it.

At this head, I tested these items:

• The five pin files and the three locks name the same aisimulate / aisimulate-core build. PyPI and the NVIDIA index serve the two wheels with the SHA-256 values in the description. crates.io serves the crate with the checksum in the locks.
• The --aic-* flags and --router-prefill-load-model aic still work, and so does DYN_ROUTER_PREFILL_LOAD_MODEL=aic in the Python frontend. The mocker arguments in the operator golden files on main also still work.
• The retired Planner key aic_perf_model fails with a clear message. Old aic_* keys in mocker engine JSON fail as unknown fields.
• Six Python mutations and one Rust mutation of migration lines each fail at least one test. CI runs those tests on this head.
• #14355 conflicts with this PR in 30 files, in both merge orders. The Weka loader that #14355 calls is the same in this pin. Neither PR breaks the AISimulate calls of the other, but the second PR to merge needs a rebase.

When I posted, three sidecar E2E jobs were still running. My findings do not depend on them.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at 8750e4ca39. The fixes for my four findings hold, and this commit adds no new problem. No finding of mine is open.

• ais_perf_args.py: the AIS path now stops on the old DYN_AIC_* variables and names them. A repeated flag with one spelling takes the last value again. These two changes use my own suggestion text, so this part of the approval reviews my own code.
• The three Cargo.lock files: each one differs from main only in the aisimulate-core entry.
• smoke_install.py and wheel_builder.Dockerfile: the claim about PyPI is gone.

What I tested at this head, and the CI jobs that had not finished at the time of this post.

This commit changes seven files, and I read all of them. The scope of my first review at 08f91e5443 does not change: my approval covers the files that dynamo-ops-codeowners owns.

On the GPU box, I built _core from this head with the ais-forward-pass feature. The 12 migration test files pass (343 tests). I also merged main at 85c8b737cc into this head without a conflict. With _core built from that merge, the same 343 tests pass.

I removed each fix in turn, and each time a new test failed. The replies on the four threads give the measurements.

isort, black, and ruff pass on the three changed Python files with the hook settings.

When I posted, the PR workflow on this head was still running. dynamo-runtime / test / sequential cuda13.0, amd64 and its arm64 twin collect test_ais_perf_args.py, and they had not finished. My approval does not depend on them.

[jthomson04]

Source review of frontend plumbing at 8750e4c. One P2 finding below. Tests and CI were not checked.

[jthomson04]

Approved based on the source review, with focus on frontend plumbing. The P2 comment about worker-card wire compatibility remains open. Tests and CI were not checked.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving at 08f5cd70f2. The worker-card P2 is fixed, and the merge of main, a9ccb22e18, and 4e21b537c7 add no blocking problem. One new P3 is inline.

• [P2, fixed] lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs:480: a v1.5.0 frontend and this head now read the worker cards of each other. The fix is my suggestion from the thread, so this part of the approval reviews my own code. The thread reply has the measurements.
• [P3, open] .github/workflows/shared-deploy-test.yml:90: CI images do not need --runtime-version-from-source, and the flag lets a deploy test with no image pass admission.

What I tested in the four new commits, and one CI job that did not run before this post.

The merge 95822af540 has no conflict and no hand edit. git merge-tree gives the committed tree exactly. The added and removed lines of this PR are the same before and after the merge in every file of the PR. No line that main added uses a retired AIC name.

a9ccb22e18: the Python Client.wait_for_instances() now returns only after the routing view also lists the worker. Before, it returned as soon as discovery listed the worker. The routing view did not always list that worker yet. On the GPU box, I tested these cases:

• If I make the new wait accept every discovered worker, the new test fails.
• When the router marks every worker down after a failure, the wait lasts until the next reconcile pass: 400 ms with a 400 ms interval. The default interval is 5 s. With an interval of 0, the wait returns at once.
• If the monitor task of the client stops, the wait has no limit. For endpoint.client(), that task stops only at shutdown. The callers outside tests wait once, at startup or before a first request.

4e21b537c7: actionlint gives the same 99 findings as main, and it reports both defects that I planted in the changed lines. The new test in tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py passes 8 cases. If I remove the override call, 4 cases fail. The two builds that now get 90 minutes, vLLM and frontend, stopped at about 60 minutes at 8750e4ca39.

Main is now at 4dc45f7823. A merge of this head with it has no conflict, and the regenerated CODEOWNERS matches the merged file.

dynamo-runtime / test / sequential cuda13.0, arm64 collects the arm64 test that failed with "No workers available". It was cancelled at 4e21b537c7, and at 08f5cd70f2 it did not run before this post. My approval does not depend on it.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this pull request at 8dbdbf3de7. The new commit fixes my last open P3, and it adds no new problem. No finding of mine is open.

• [P3, fixed] .github/workflows/shared-deploy-test.yml:47: a deploy job with an empty image tag now stops at its first step. CI tags pass admission without an override. The thread reply has the measurements.

What else I tested at 8dbdbf3de7.

The commit changes four files. The three files under tests/deploy/ now match main, so the only change left in these four files is the 9-line step in shared-deploy-test.yml.

actionlint 1.7.12 gives the same 99 findings on the merge base 8e41fd80f4, on 08f5cd70f2, and on this head. It reports both defects that I planted in the new step.

A merge of this head with main at 6822babc5c has no conflict, and the regenerated CODEOWNERS matches the merged file.

My last approval said that dynamo-runtime / test / sequential cuda13.0, arm64 did not run before it. At this head, that job gives 4144 passed, 151 skipped, and no failure.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

I approve this pull request again at 7110a910d1. The new commit is the same change as 56ed26a5bd (#15380) on main, and it adds no new problem. No finding of mine is open.

• vllm-runtime / Test cuda13.0, arm64 passes both cases of test_tito_adapter_rejects_asymmetric_image_feature_objects at this head. vllm-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64 did not finish before this review.
• Earlier fixes in ais_perf_args.py and lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs use my suggestion text. That part of this approval reviews my own code.

What I tested at 7110a910d1.

The new commit changes one test file and no production code. Its git patch-id --stable matches 56ed26a5bd. The test file is now the same blob as the file on main at 0ce693b3b0.

At 8dbdbf3de7, engine_generate.py:230 gave both cases to the GenerateRequest of vLLM 0.30.0. It raised a pydantic ValidationError, but the old test expected a TypeError. Both vLLM Test jobs gave 2 failed, 2048 passed. This pull request does not change the vLLM pin, ==0.30.0.

At this head, the arm64 job gives 2050 passed, 10 skipped. The same test file passed on amd64 and on arm64 in the CI of #15380, with 2050 passed on each.

A merge of this head with main at 0ce693b3b0 has no conflict.