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fix(frontend): render the chat template off the async runtime #15092

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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs
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Expand Up @@ -1380,6 +1380,19 @@ fn parse_embedding_add_special_tokens(value: &str) -> Option<bool> {
parse_bool_opt(value)
}

/// Run CPU-bound preprocessing off the async runtime. On the multi-thread runtime
/// `block_in_place` hands this worker to the blocking pool, so the I/O tasks that
/// share the runtime keep draining sockets while a long conversation renders;
/// under load a synchronous render here can leave request bodies unread for
/// tens of seconds. Falls back to inline on the current-thread runtime, where
/// `block_in_place` is not available.
fn off_runtime<T>(f: impl FnOnce() -> T) -> T {
match tokio::runtime::Handle::try_current().map(|h| h.runtime_flavor()) {
Ok(tokio::runtime::RuntimeFlavor::MultiThread) => tokio::task::block_in_place(f),

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RuntimeFlavor::MultiThread is also reported while a future is running in a Tokio LocalSet, where block_in_place is explicitly disallowed and panics. Since preprocess_request is public and previously rendered inline, callers using a multithread runtime plus LocalSet now crash whenever a chat template is applied.

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Replace this block_in_place path with an async offload that is valid in local tasks, such as owning the render inputs and awaiting spawn_blocking, and add a LocalSet regression test.

_ => f(),
}
}

fn embedding_add_special_tokens_env() -> Result<Option<bool>> {
match std::env::var(EMBEDDING_ADD_SPECIAL_TOKENS_ENV) {
Ok(value) => match parse_embedding_add_special_tokens(&value) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2782,7 +2795,7 @@ impl OpenAIPreprocessor {
let template_start = Instant::now();
let formatted_prompt = {
let _nvtx = dynamo_nvtx_range!("preprocess.template");
self.apply_template(request)
off_runtime(|| self.apply_template(request))

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '1360,1410p' lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs
sed -n '2760,2820p' lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs
rg -n 'pub (async )?fn preprocess_request|struct OpenAIPreprocessor|fn apply_template|off_runtime|spawn_local|LocalSet' lib Cargo.toml
rg -n 'tokio\s*=|tokio =' Cargo.toml lib/*/Cargo.toml

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Use a LocalSet-safe blocking path.

OpenAIPreprocessor::preprocess_request can run from spawn_local on a multi-thread Tokio runtime. In that context, off_runtime selects tokio::task::block_in_place, which Tokio does not support for local tasks and can panic.

Because off_runtime is synchronous and its closure borrows self and request, replace this path with a synchronous fallback that does not call block_in_place, or move the rendering operation into an async helper that owns Send + 'static inputs before using spawn_blocking. A direct spawn_blocking replacement is not implementable at the current call site.

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In `@lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs` at line 2798, Update
OpenAIPreprocessor::preprocess_request around apply_template to avoid
off_runtime and its block_in_place path when invoked from spawn_local; use a
LocalSet-safe synchronous fallback, or refactor through an async helper that
owns Send + 'static inputs before spawn_blocking. Preserve the existing
template-rendering behavior and request/self borrowing semantics.

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.with_context(|| "Failed to apply prompt template")?
};
TEMPLATE_SECONDS.observe(template_start.elapsed().as_secs_f64());
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