feat(vllm): add reproducible FPM inputs and measurement provenance by Arsene12358 · Pull Request #15110 · ai-dynamo/dynamo

Arsene12358 · 2026-09-20T01:41:46Z

Summary

FPM self-benchmark results need enough evidence to distinguish input differences, graph dispatch differences, preparation differences, and measurement noise. Previously, prompt construction could depend on request counters or the grid digest, individual decode timings were discarded during reduction, and worker provenance retained only the first RPC reply.

This PR makes benchmark inputs reproducible and preserves input, timing, execution, preparation, and worker evidence for each point and rank. It keeps the existing scheduler wall-time formulas, admission and warmup flow, and retained latency reductions.

Worker probe fix and sidecar (review round 2). Earlier commits of this branch sent the engine probe to the model workers as a Python callable through collective_rpc; vLLM's engine-core client refuses to serialize a callable unless VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1, so every real run recorded engine.resolution = "probe_failed: TypeError: ...". The probe is now FpmBenchmarkWorkerExtension.fpm_engine_probe, a method of a Dynamo worker extension class (dynamo.vllm.benchmark_worker_extension) that benchmark mode installs through --worker-extension-cls unless you set one (the DYN_FPM_GC_POLICY extension inherits it), called by name with one bounded collective_rpc. Its result no longer rewrites the rank and merged artifacts: it is written once to a sidecar next to the merged artifact (<merged stem>_worker_probe.json, schema dynamo.fpm.benchmark_worker_probe version 1, holding the merged view and one view per DP rank), the merged artifact carries a top-level worker_probe_path, and the artifacts keep their startup engine block with pending_worker_probe. The same extension turns vLLM's cudagraph_metrics back off in the workers before serving when benchmark mode enabled it. With your own --worker-extension-cls, the probe and that reset are skipped, each with one WARNING naming your class, and the sidecar records probe_skipped: ....

Changes

Build prompt content from DYN_BENCH_CONTENT_SEED (default "0"), workload coordinates, DP rank, and request slot. The batch shape enters each slot's seed as one SHA-256 digest computed once per batch, so seed work is linear in batch size. Keep allocation salts separate. Real-KV chains remain consistent and eager warmup tails remain distinct from measured tails. Real-seed slots with zero KV receive fresh cache namespaces, preventing repeated aligned coordinates from reusing an earlier measured prompt while preserving reproducible token content.
Preserve actual injected-prompt hashes, point/rank identity, every raw internal FPM including slow and discarded admission samples, and the indices contributing to each retained estimate.
Record each raw sample's actual timing basis (schedule_to_output or inter_output), process-local monotonic endpoints, and local sample/forward indices. A reduced estimate does not inherit graph evidence from an arbitrary constituent sample.
Enable vLLM's existing cudagraph_metrics option for self-benchmarks when supported and not already on, and turn it back off before serving registration: in the model workers, on every stat logger of the engine client (dropping the observations collected during the benchmark), and on the client's config. An option the user enabled is left on. Record observed dispatch mode and padded/unpadded token counts from the corresponding ModelRunnerOutput.cudagraph_stats. Missing observations remain explicitly unavailable; expected point labels and resolved graph configuration are separate evidence.
Record bounded preparation evidence for global warmup, discarded eager-shape replicas, real-prefix seeding, and same-shape preparation: attempted shape, observed first/last scheduler shapes, forward range/count, completion or failure, and existing shape-validation results. Preserve failures and per-rank histories during merging.
Preserve every reply from the bounded post-collection worker probe, with DP/TP/PCP/PP/worker identity, malformed or duplicate replies, observed differences, and conservative worker coverage. Account for prefill context parallelism. Keep the legacy resolved field as an explicitly labelled representative; a rank artifact cannot claim another DP rank's observation. The result goes to the worker-probe sidecar; the rank and merged artifacts are written once.
When the giant off-by-batch correction from fix(fpm kvwarm): hybrid (KDA/Mamba) fixes for the real-KV decode warm-up, validated on GLM-5.3-Flash #14614 records a point at its measured coordinate, re-key every rank's benchmark_measurement.point_key to that point, so the merge's identity check accepts the corrected point.
Preserve observed decode context-parallel size and full-attention cache-spec window, attention-chunking, and non-causal attributes when the installed vLLM exposes them. This lets consumers distinguish ordinary dense full attention from hybrid or windowed variants; absent attributes remain unknown. Optional introspection remains fail-soft.
Capture startup engine configuration and runtime versions, validate shared protocol and explicit evidence consistency during merging, and preserve per-rank differences. Whole legacy artifact sets remain readable; mixed or contradictory evidence is rejected. The artifact schema stays at version 2 with separately versioned metadata blocks. Optional provenance capture failures remain fail-soft.
Warn about FPM port ranges overlapping the host's ephemeral range and document stream framing, counters, seed configuration, provenance, and evidence scope.

These observations add no GPU synchronization, CUDA-event timing, extra warmups, or per-step RPCs. They do not establish complete graph identity, capture-versus-replay history, the attention kernel used by each sample, or equivalent KV/recurrent tensors and execution history. Decode real-KV chain warmup history remains outside the new warmup ledger. A worker RPC may expose only one DP engine; missing DP observations remain unknown. One launch is one observation, and adjacent decode steps are not independent repetitions.

Validation

Merge with main at vLLM 0.31.0 (f18206c29, main ce45db9c1 merged into the approved head eec2ac5cf). The conflicts were import blocks and appended tests, resolved by keeping both sides; no code change was needed for 0.31.0. The newest dynamo-ci image available to the cluster ships vLLM 0.30.0, so both runs below installed vLLM 0.31.0 (torch 2.13.0, CUDA 13.0) into it and kept the image's Dynamo runtime:

Unit tests on one GB200 node, merged head vs. main ce45db9c1: test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py 360 vs. 285 passed, test_vllm_worker_factory.py 229 vs. 90 (pytest-asyncio 1.3.0), test_benchmark_points.py 19, test_gc_policy.py 10 and test_vllm_benchmark_worker.py 9 on both, and test_vllm_unit.py 183 vs. 163 passed with the same 2 fixture-path failures on both.
Live smoke run of the merged head (the GLM-5.2 NVFP4 decode DP4 setup and 6 points of round 2, with FlashInfer's cubin and JIT-cache packages matched to vLLM 0.31.0's FlashInfer 0.7.0.post1): all four ranks completed 6/6 real_kv points with no tracebacks or errors, and engine.versions records vLLM 0.31.0. The probe, sidecar and restore results repeat round 2: pending_worker_probe in the rank and merged artifacts, worker_probe_path naming the sidecar, worker_probe for DP rank 0 (78 FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE and 21 DEEPSEEK_V32_INDEXER layers, TrtllmRaggedPrefillBackend, FULL_AND_PIECEWISE), worker_probe_partial for the merged view, and the Turned vLLM cudagraph_metrics off after the self-benchmark (...; stat loggers cleared: 4) line. Every raw sample carries observed graph dispatch; on 0.31.0 all 24 per rank were FULL.
An independent review of the merge found nothing blocking. black, isort, flake8, ruff, codespell and mypy 1.18.2 are clean on the changed files.

Review round 2 (vLLM 0.30.0; the runs below used the merge commit 4b000b020, and the head differs from it only by one docs sentence):

Unit tests on the merged head, run on one GB200 node in the dynamo-ci vLLM 0.30.0 image: test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py and test_benchmark_points.py 365 passed; test_vllm_worker_factory.py 202 passed, with pytest-asyncio 1.3.0 as pinned in container/deps/requirements.test.txt; test_vllm_unit.py 182 passed, and its other 2 tests fail the same way on main in that package-only checkout (they read tests/serve/fixtures/custom_template.jinja from the repo root).
Live smoke run of the merged head with its dynamo.vllm and dynamo.common packages installed over the image's: GLM-5.2 NVFP4, decode, DP4 on one GB200 node, 6 explicit points (batch 1/4/16 x KV 128/4096). All four ranks completed 6/6 points with no tracebacks or errors. The rank and merged artifacts keep pending_worker_probe, and the merged artifact's worker_probe_path names the sidecar. The probe reached the model workers by method name: for DP rank 0 the sidecar records 78 FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE and 21 DEEPSEEK_V32_INDEXER layers, TrtllmRaggedPrefillBackend and FULL_AND_PIECEWISE (worker_probe); ranks 1-3 are worker_probe_unobserved and the merged view is worker_probe_partial, because vLLM's internal-LB DP client returns only the first engine's reply. Before registration the restore logged Turned vLLM cudagraph_metrics off after the self-benchmark (model workers: [{'cudagraph_metrics': False}]; stat loggers cleared: 4). The run sets DYN_FPM_GC_POLICY, so both calls went through the GC extension class, which inherits them. Every raw sample carries observed graph dispatch: per rank, the 18 retained steps were FULL and the 6 admission steps PIECEWISE.
black 23.1.0, isort, flake8, ruff 0.5.2, codespell and mypy 1.18.2 (repo config) are clean on the changed files.
Each fix had independent spec and code-quality reviews, followed by a whole-branch review and a review of the merge with main.

Prompt content changed versus earlier commits of this branch: for the same coordinates, zero-KV prefill and fake-decode prompts (and the global warmup, which uses the same fallback salt) now draw different token ids, because the batch shape enters each slot's seed as a fixed-length digest instead of the full shape string. content_seed and content_identity (coordinate_rank_slot_v1) are unchanged, so artifacts collected on earlier commits of this branch carry the same labels but different prompt hashes for those points and are not content-comparable with new ones there; explicit cache and content salts (fake-prefix pairing, real-seed staging) are unchanged.

Earlier rounds (vLLM 0.27.0):

505 targeted tests passed, zero failures or skips, against real vLLM 0.27.0 / ai-dynamo 1.5.0: scheduler, worker-factory and benchmark-point suites plus eight benchmark-only graph-metrics argument cases. All 1,337 frozen source hashes and imported module paths were verified on CPU-only jobs with no GPUs allocated. This includes nine new optional cache-spec/context-parallel provenance cases.
Independent corrective and whole-branch reviews are clean. The full native suite was independently rerun, and a separate final reviewer reran a 21-test native subset. Cross-repository controls exercise the actual producer serialization through AISimulate collection validation. Missing or contradictory full-attention/context-parallel observations stay ineligible.
Configured Black 23.1.0, Ruff and whitespace checks pass. Review independently verified that this follow-up changes only provenance helpers and leaves the InstrumentedScheduler class and timing/reduction logic unchanged. The two redundant comments are removed; the timeout marker, post-merge documentation corrections and all-worker response preservation remain covered.

A broader argument-parser run reproduced 60 baseline failures caused by the absent offline model cache. The new graph-metrics argument behavior is covered by the eight passing focused cases above.

No new GPU performance campaign or instrumentation-overhead measurement was performed for the execution-evidence extension. The checks validate evidence capture, preservation, and unchanged timing/reduction logic, not a causal explanation for existing latency outliers.

Earlier Pilot Evidence

A live DEP8 / GB300 / vLLM 0.27.0 pilot exposed the repeated zero-KV cache collision: each rank measured 2,548 of 2,852 iterations and skipped 304 after finding an earlier measured prefix. The follow-up isolates zero-KV cache namespaces. A subsequent full-prefill GPU sweep completed all 2,852/2,852 measurements on each of eight ranks with zero skips. The pilot-only deployment combines this PR with the separate Inkling convolution-state warm-up work and an image-compatible worker-factory backport; this result applies to that frozen combination.

The GPU-complete sweep encountered an AISimulate false rejection of vLLM's offline Hub-ID-to-snapshot-path rewrite. AISimulate #248 corrects that consumer check; CPU-only reassessment recovered native validity and execution evidence while preserving all 217 original files. The fresh bounded prefill ABBA pilot completed all four launches with native/runtime checks passing and zero recorded comparability failures, then stopped at its numerical limits before decode. Full-grid repeats exceeded 5% CV at 199/2,281 coordinates; subset repeats exceeded it at 2/30; full-grid/subset medians disagreed by more than 5% at 3/30 shared coordinates. One individually stable coordinate still differed by 32.35% between arms. This validates the need to keep recorded identity, execution-history equivalence and numerical stability separate. All raw evidence and valid slow observations are preserved; two observations per arm cannot qualify a campaign. Broader recollection remains gated.

Controlled full-grid/subset comparisons remain necessary before treating the two as equivalent measurements. Repetition, comparability, aggregation, and qualification belong to AISimulate #248.

The per-rank self-benchmark artifact says nothing about the engine that produced it, so two artifacts that differ only by an attention backend, a KV dtype or a quantization kernel are indistinguishable downstream. Capture one engine provenance block at scheduler init and emit it as an optional top-level engine key; schema_version stays 2 and consumers that do not know the key ignore it. Every read is defensive and the whole capture is wrapped, so a provenance gap can never cost a collection its measurements. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The DP ranks of one self-benchmark run must come from one engine configuration; a rank that silently ran a different attention backend or KV dtype would be averaged into the same merged artifact. Fail the merge when two ranks that both captured their engine block successfully disagree, excluding the per-rank DP rank and the probe-filled resolution fields, and carry the block into the merged document with the rank cleared. A rank whose capture failed, or that has no engine block while others do, is excluded from the comparison instead of disabling it for every rank, and is recorded in the merged document's engine.capture_errors with one WARNING; when the reference rank itself is the degraded one, the merged block is reseeded from the first rank that captured cleanly. A run where no rank ever captured an engine block is untouched: no engine key, no warning, nothing raised. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

vLLM picks the attention backend inside the model workers and never writes it back into the engine-core config, so the self-benchmark artifact can only record what was requested; for automatic selection that is null. Ship a one-shot probe to the workers after the benchmark, read the resolved backend names off the attention layers, and record them under engine.resolved in every rank file and in the merged artifact, alongside the worker's DP and TP rank (preferring parallel_config.data_parallel_index over the dense-model data_parallel_rank that vLLM zeroes under DP, and deriving the TP rank from the worker's own global rank rather than ever mislabeling that global rank as the TP rank). The whole path from the RPC call through applying and writing the result is fail-soft end to end: any failure, including a malformed probe result, is recorded as engine.resolution with the exception type named, and never propagates into the launcher or skips worker restore. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The FPM publishers bind base + dp_rank and the benchmark synchronizer binds base + dp_size. When that block falls inside /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range, an unrelated outbound connection can take one of the ports first and the bind fails with 'Address already in use' intermittently and only under load. Log one warning at scheduler construction naming the range and the remedy; stay silent where the proc file does not exist. The default base port is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Consumers that read the ZMQ stream directly had to reverse-engineer the three-frame layout, the meaning of counter_id and the port arithmetic, including the ephemeral-range constraint that makes a bind fail intermittently. Document all four, and document the new optional engine block in the self-benchmark artifact together with the difference between a requested and a resolved attention backend. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… tidy the probe messages and docs Final-review fix wave for AIC-1950 (5593e88..268fb4e): one required fix plus the cheap comment/docs minors. - Drop `max_model_len` from `engine.model`: vLLM's `--max-model-len -1` auto-fit resolves it per rank from each rank's own free GPU memory, so it is rank-varying data that can make two clean ranks fail the provenance merge; it already lives per rank at `limits.max_model_len` (mirrors the existing `num_gpu_blocks` exclusion). - Fan out a `UniformTypeKVCacheSpecs` wrapper group's wrapped specs into a `specs` list instead of recording null `dtype`/`head_size`/`num_kv_heads`. - Make the engine-provenance mismatch message total: fall back to naming the top-level key set instead of indexing into a list that can be empty when every key's `.get()` agrees but the two dicts still differ, which previously raised `IndexError` instead of the descriptive `RuntimeError`. - Fix the inverted `prefill_backend` probe comment: vLLM stores an instance on MLA layers, not a class, and add the instance-branch case to its test. - Reword the scheduler's stale forward-reference comment to point at the worker probe that now exists (`worker_factory._attach_engine_resolved`). - Fix the self-benchmark docs example to values the code can actually produce: `LBHNC` KV cache layout, a real `eplb_config` dict shape, and `FlashAttnPrefillBackend`; note the `UniformTypeKVCacheSpecs` fan-out and that the ephemeral-port check runs once per engine-core process. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The scheduler now captures engine provenance and warns about FPM port overlap with the Linux ephemeral range. Worker processing validates and enriches provenance across ranks. Benchmark artifacts and observability documentation describe the resulting data and failure handling.

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Engine provenance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture engine provenance and inspect FPM ports `components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py`, `components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py`	The scheduler serializes engine configuration, runtime versions, and capture errors into benchmark artifacts. It checks FPM port ranges against the Linux ephemeral range. Tests cover serialization, capture, artifact wiring, and port warnings.
Merge and resolve worker provenance `components/src/dynamo/vllm/worker_factory.py`, `components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_worker_factory.py`	Worker processing normalizes and compares rank provenance, rejects mismatched non-degraded captures, records capture errors, and applies resolved worker data through a bounded probe. Tests cover merge behavior, probe results, failures, timeouts, and ordering.
Document provenance and FPM stream behavior `docs/fern/pages/reference/observability/environment-variables.mdx`, `docs/fern/pages/reference/observability/forward-pass-metrics-traces.mdx`	The documentation describes FPM stream consumption, port behavior, ephemeral-port warnings, and the optional engine provenance artifact schema.

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Decouple benchmark prompt content from grid selection and request counters while preserving per-rank diversity and prefix-cache consistency. Record prompt hashes, preparation metadata, and all internal timings before the existing reduction. Validate shared protocol and point/rank/grid evidence when merging artifacts, preserve legacy-only inputs, and document the scope of the new evidence. Cover content stability, raw outlier preservation, and cross-rank consistency with regression tests. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>

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Deterministic prompts at repeated aligned zero-KV coordinates reused a previous measured prefix under the real-seed chain salt. Give only zero-KV slots per-request cache salts, preserving prompt hashes and positive-KV chain reuse. Exercise the actual vLLM cache manager across repeated coordinates, mixed batches, prompt modes, EAGLE and eviction recovery. Move provenance imports to module scope while retaining best-effort lookups. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>

Register vllm.envs and vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager in the dependency-light pytest marker inventory. Keep native tests and runtime imports unchanged. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com>

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Arsene12358 · 2026-09-28T18:50:55Z

Follow-up in b1028201 removes both redundant comments. The optional provenance capture now also records observed decode context-parallel size and the full-attention cache-spec window/chunk/non-causal attributes when exposed by the installed vLLM. Missing attributes remain unknown. These fields let AISimulate #248 conservatively validate dense synthetic-KV eligibility.

The earlier results[0] issue is already addressed by preserving every worker reply, worker identity, differences and coverage in 92cf45e2; the representative compatibility field is explicitly labelled. The timeout marker and post-merge documentation corrections are also present.

The final candidate passed 505 targeted tests against native vLLM 0.27.0 / ai-dynamo 1.5.0, independently rerun with frozen-source and module-import checks on CPU-only Slurm jobs. Independent review verified that the follow-up changes only provenance helpers and leaves the scheduler class/timing logic unchanged. The independent whole-branch reviews have no open findings.

…eport The marker report stubbed vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager so that test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py could import KVCacheManager at module level. The vLLM 0.30.0 tests added by #15182 use pytest.importorskip("vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager") as their probe for a real vLLM install. With the stub in place that probe passed during the report's stubbed collection, and test_vllm_kv_cache_metadata_compat.py then failed collection on vllm.v1.engine.core, failing pre-commit on the merge with main. Import KVCacheManager inside the realseed_prefix_cache fixture, its only user, and drop the stub, so both new tests are skipped by the report as they are on main. Collection counts for the scheduler, worker-factory and benchmark-points tests are unchanged (326, 156, 19). Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Three CPU/I/O findings against 2c492d5: one P1 and two P2s. The measurements cited inline are CPU-only source-level probes, not GPU end-to-end performance results.

…t seeds The zero-KV prefill fallback and the fake-decode path interpolated the JSON batch shape, which lists all B lengths, into every slot's content salt, so seeding a batch hashed an O(B)-long string B times: O(B^2) seed work in the untimed injection window (review measurement at batch 1024, context 1: 16.69 ms vs 7.61 ms on main, 7.91 ms with one digest per batch). Hash the shape once per batch with SHA-256 and put the 64-character digest in each slot's salt. The content seed, DP rank, slot index and the content-v1 seed format are unchanged, so prompts stay deterministic per coordinate, rank and slot, and explicit cache and content salts are untouched. For the same coordinates these prompts now draw different token ids than on earlier commits of this branch. A spy on hashlib.sha256 pins one shape digest per batch in both paths. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ifacts After the merged artifact was written, the post-collection worker probe re-read every rank artifact, re-applied its result, and rewrote each rank file and then the merged file: a second full pass over the measured artifacts on the event loop before worker restore and serving registration, outside the RPC timeout. Write the probe result to one small JSON sidecar next to the merged artifact instead (<merged stem>_worker_probe.json, schema dynamo.fpm.benchmark_worker_probe version 1). It holds the merged view and each rank's own view, built in memory with the same _apply_engine_resolved semantics, so a rank's view still never claims another DP rank's observation. After the probe no rank or merged artifact is read or rewritten: they keep their startup engine block, and the merged artifact names the sidecar in a top-level worker_probe_path next to merged_output_path, written only when it has an engine block, so the engine block stays free of per-run paths and the cross-rank identity check cannot see it. The in-memory merged document that get_perf_metrics serves still carries the probe result. A stale sidecar from an earlier run is removed with the stale merged file, and the sidecar records run_id. Probe, sidecar and recording failures stay fail-soft: they are logged, never raised, so the launcher always restores the workers. Docs: the engine provenance section describes the sidecar, and two scheduler comments no longer say the probe fills the artifact. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Benchmark mode set vLLM's cudagraph_metrics for the engine's lifetime. After the benchmark vLLM's default stat logger in the launcher kept collecting the per-step CUDA graph dispatch statistics and logging them, and kept them without bound when VLLM_LOG_STATS_INTERVAL<=0 stops Dynamo's periodic do_log_stats. Enable the option only when the engine args do not already have it on, and record that in the benchmark config (cudagraph_metrics_auto_enabled; the scheduler ignores keys BenchmarkConfig does not define). _restore_benchmark_workers, which runs on the success and failure paths before serving registration, now turns an option Dynamo enabled back off in the engine client after the KDA and GC restores: the client's own config flag, and cudagraph_logging on every stat logger (aggregated loggers and per-engine adapters), discarding what they collected. The GC stop still always runs, a failure only logs a WARNING, and an option the user enabled is never touched. The model workers still attach the per-step statistics, which nothing collects any more. The stat loggers are reset before the config flag; each step fails soft. A test pins that the reset runs last, even after a failed step. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…workers The engine client cannot hand vLLM's model workers a Python callable: AsyncLLM.collective_rpc goes through the engine-core client, whose msgpack encoder refuses functions unless VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 (the existing engine probe records exactly that TypeError in default deployments). Reach the workers by method name instead, through vLLM's worker extension mechanism. Add FpmBenchmarkWorkerExtension (dynamo.vllm.benchmark_worker_extension) with fpm_disable_cudagraph_metrics, which clears observability_config.cudagraph_metrics; vLLM's model runner reads it on every step. Benchmark mode sets --worker-extension-cls to it when it enables the option and no extension class is configured; the GC policy's FpmGcWorkerExtension, which replaces it when DYN_FPM_GC_POLICY is set, inherits the method, and a user's own class is kept. The restore calls collective_rpc("fpm_disable_cudagraph_metrics") after the engine-client reset, bounded by CUDAGRAPH_METRICS_RESTORE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (10 s, inside the 30 s restore budget), and only logs a WARNING on failure. The call runs in the restore's finally chain, where the restore's own wait_for no longer bounds it once it has fired, and collective_rpc's timeout only bounds the engine core's wait for the workers, so the call carries its own asyncio.wait_for. The engine-client reset now handles each stat logger on its own, so one that refuses the write no longer leaves the rest collecting, and the success line is logged only when every step worked. - The worker method reads vllm_config directly; the launcher counts any reply but {"cudagraph_metrics": False} as not done (WARNING, no INFO). - Benchmark mode records worker_extension_installed; with a user's own --worker-extension-cls the restore skips the worker call and logs one WARNING naming the class. - The fail-soft excepts that do not re-raise say why. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The post-collection engine probe shipped a Python callable through AsyncLLM.collective_rpc. The engine-core client encodes RPC arguments with msgpack and refuses functions unless VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1, so the probe failed in every default deployment and only ever recorded probe_failed: TypeError. Move the probe into FpmBenchmarkWorkerExtension as fpm_engine_probe and call it as collective_rpc("fpm_engine_probe") under the existing 30 s bound, which keeps its own asyncio.wait_for; _make_engine_probe is removed. The method reports the same observations and labels, and the replies and everything built from them (_worker_probe_responses, _apply_engine_resolved and the sidecar) are unchanged. It reads vLLM's config fields directly, so a worker whose config lacks one fails the call and the launcher records probe_failed instead of the probe guessing a rank; getattr stays only for what differs per layer type. Benchmark mode now sets --worker-extension-cls to the extension in every run without a configured extension class, not only when Dynamo enables cudagraph_metrics. With a user's own class the launcher sends no probe call: it records probe_skipped: worker extension not installed (<class>) in the sidecar and logs one WARNING, using the worker_extension_installed flag the cudagraph_metrics restore already reads. - The two excepts that do not re-raise (the per-layer skip and the RPC guard) say why. - Docs: the worker probe section says how the probe reaches the workers and what happens under a user's own --worker-extension-cls. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Docs: state which two calls a user's extension class makes Dynamo skip. - Docs: replace "launcher" with "covered by the merged artifact". - Tests: hoist two function-local imports to the module top. - Tests: assert exc_info on the failed-recording guard's warning. - Extension: name what the cudagraph_metrics reset call requires. - Probe guard comment: give the fail-soft reason, then why it is broad. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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>

…rompts The giant off-by-batch correction from main records a decode point at its measured coordinate, and the scheduler re-keys point_key to that point, but the prompts were built and hashed at the declared coordinate, whose total_kv_read_tokens exceeds the recorded value by batch_size. Say so where the page describes prompt construction. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@tedzhouhk The three findings are addressed, with a reply in each thread, and main is merged in. The merge needed one fix: the giant off-by-batch correction from #14614 records a point at its measured coordinate, so every rank's benchmark_measurement.point_key is now re-keyed to that point; without it the merge's identity check rejects the corrected point. Validation is in the updated PR description. Could you take a second look?

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Merges origin/main at ce45db9. Four files conflicted, all resolved by keeping both sides: - instrumented_scheduler.py imports: this branch's importlib.metadata version import and main's itertools chain (vLLM 0.31.0 bump, #15643). - worker_factory.py imports from instrumented_scheduler: main's InstrumentedScheduler (#12545) and this branch's benchmark_content_point_key. - test_vllm_worker_factory.py imports: main's Config (#15441), ENV_FPM_WORKER_ID, InstrumentedScheduler and FPM_SET_WORKER_ID_METHOD_NAME (#12545), next to this branch's FpmBenchmarkWorkerExtension, ENV_FPM_BENCHMARK_OUTPUT_PATH, benchmark_content_point_key and the probe and restore timeouts. - test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py: both sides appended tests at the end of the file. This branch's engine provenance and measurement tests come first, then main's FPM worker_id propagation tests (#12545). Main's vLLM 0.31.0 bump deleted test_vllm_kv_cache_metadata_compat.py, which the realseed_prefix_cache fixture's comment named as the importorskip probe that its function-local KVCacheManager import protects. The comment now names test_vllm_dcp_kv_events.py, which still probes vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager. No code change for vLLM 0.31.0: the vLLM interfaces this branch uses (collective_rpc by method name, worker extension mixing, cudagraph_metrics, CUDAGraphStat, the stat loggers, the fields the engine probe and the provenance capture read) are unchanged from 0.30.0. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Merges origin/main at 0f01da1. Two files conflicted, both resolved by keeping both sides: - test_vllm_instrumented_scheduler.py imports: both sides added import torch and a vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import. The result is the union: main's kv_cache_utils module import and sha256 (#15110), this branch's SamplingParams, kv_cache_manager, SlidingWindowSpec and Request, and FullAttentionSpec, KVCacheConfig and KVCacheGroupSpec imported once. - environment-variables.mdx, DYN_BENCH_GIANT_KV_REPEATS: this branch rewrote the paragraph (requested count, model-length cap, native and shared-chain reservations, fallback to one sample for fake-injected points), and main (#15110) added that the adjacent steps share one preparation, are not independent benchmark repetitions, and keep their timings in benchmark_measurement.raw_fpms. The paragraph keeps this branch's text with main's two sentences after the median sentence. Main's new DYN_BENCH_CONTENT_SEED entry follows unchanged. instrumented_scheduler.py and backend_args.py merged without conflicts. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

test_kvwarm_native_grid_numbering_preserves_each_execution runs the real capacity probe and decode dispatch on a stub built with InstrumentedScheduler.__new__. After the merge of main, both paths read state that #15110 added, and the test failed with AttributeError: - the grid-invariants digest now includes _bench_measurement_protocol(), which reads _bench_vocab_size; - _bench_pop_next() opens an eager_shape warmup record for eager replicas, which reads _bench_results. Set both on the stub, as _digest_stub and _benchmark_save_stub already do. No production code changes. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

#15110 hashes the injected prompts of every benchmark point into benchmark_measurement.prompts, in each admission path: _bench_inject_prefill, _bench_inject_fake_decode and _kvwarm_inject_borrowed. Native exact-context points are admitted by _kvwarm_resume_native, which continues the stage's own prefilled requests and recorded nothing. Every native real-KV row therefore reported prompts.status "unavailable", although its prompts are known and reproducible: the slot's chain text, seeded by the content seed and the DP rank, cut to the injected context. Hash the stage prompts when the requests resume. Each request's num_tokens is its prefill length, the injected context ctx - 1. The admission token is a sampled continuation, which the protocol lists as unobserved. Signed-off-by: Yiming Liu <yimingl@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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