[maheshrbapatu]

Overview

SGLang builds containing sgl-project/sglang#43043 use four wide multimodal pad values that no longer match Dynamo's request-side routing tokens. Kimi K2.5/K3 also reject caller-provided image identities. This implements Stage 1 of DEP #17044: ordinary Kimi requests omit rejected hash overrides, wide-token event batches decode, and routing retains the text prefix before unsupported image/video blocks.

Image- and video-aware routing on the new format remains a separate change in #17082 with sgl-project/sglang#45737. The fallback applies to both URL passthrough and frontend decoding. SGLang continues to decide its own cache reuse.

Key Changes

Approximately 350 added production-code lines, excluding tests, documentation, and comments. No new dependencies or frontend preprocessing logic are introduced.

• Capability detection: separate the processor's caller-hash capability from the event format. Kimi's inherited uses_wide_image_identity disables overrides; other processors retain supported mm_hashes forwarding but still require wide-token exclusion.
• Event normalization: decode wide IDs, exclude the first unsupported media block and its descendants, and preserve preceding text, removals, and clears. Leave malformed duplicate-ID stores unchanged so conversion rejects them with its existing warning. Fully excluded stores become empty removals to preserve event sequencing.
• Source configuration and documentation: carry the flag through Python publishers, HiCache state-agent attachments, standalone registration, and selector worker records. Document build detection, defaults, registration updates, and sidecar/discovery limits.

Review mm_exclusion.rs and its tests first, followed by _compat.py. Exclusion uses the same hash windows as conversion, including Eagle's overlap token. Omitted and explicit-false source flags retain the same listener; changing the effective flag resets its indexed state.

Validation

Behavior	Evidence
Kimi rejects external identities while other processors may accept them	Focused Python tests and an actual Kimi-subclass CPU probe verified inherited capability detection and omission of the rejected override. An intentionally inverted predicate failed the direct capability test.
Wide-token media exclusion	Rust coverage checks boundaries, later descendants, both source modes, Eagle windows, and worker/rank/tier isolation.
Eviction and overflow	Real-index tests check removals after excluded stores, malformed duplicate-ID protection, and relay-safe overflow. Previously indexed text evictions continue to apply.
Source propagation	CPU tests cover publisher/HiCache attachment and standalone/selector wiring. Python bindings compile with the new publisher argument and CLI flag.
Documentation	The merge retains both the compatibility caveat and main's video-validation guidance. Documentation regressions, lint, Fern configuration/link checks, and applicable pre-commit hooks passed; the earlier documentation update also passed its 226-test suite.

The merge with main also preserves its partial-block filtering alongside multimodal exclusion. The latest local checks passed 73 wire-event tests, five focused Python compatibility tests, and 39 documentation regressions. Reinstating the old silent duplicate rejection fails the malformed-store regression. The exclusion tests were consolidated from 13 tests / 760 lines to seven tests / 523 lines, retaining decoder, real-index, relay, and eviction coverage.

The previous merge preserved main's KVCR linker support and this PR's wide-token capability across aggregated, prefill, and decode workers. The focused SGLang checks passed 98 tests: 97 in the suite and the metrics-fanout case separately with a shorter temporary path after the original path exceeded Unix's socket-name limit. An in-memory inversion of the capability flag failed all six linker descriptor cases.

The earlier code update passed 70 focused Python tests, 76 Rust wire/selection tests, and 126 Rust publisher tests. The publisher suite passed serially; an existing recovery test hit its one-second deadline in a parallel run and passed alone. Full hosted CI passed on code commit c03cd62328 (run 41122766185, attempt 2); that earlier run does not establish CI completion for the latest merge.

GPU inference was not rerun. The HiCache combination is covered through source wiring and CPU normalization tests, not an end-to-end inventory deployment. Kimi preprocessed/EPD serving paths are not newly qualified. No throughput or latency benchmark is claimed.

Limits

• The minimum Dynamo release for this support will be recorded when it ships; the versioned guide currently identifies the required source capability.
• Exclusion tracking holds up to 2^20 block IDs per normalizer across cache tiers. At capacity, the affected worker/rank accepts only stores with no parent until AllBlocksCleared; evictions still apply. This may miss additional text-prefix hits. A warning identifies each worker/rank entering this fallback; no exclusion counters are exported.
• The SGLang sidecar cannot inspect the engine build and remains unflagged. It excludes values that do not fit in u32, but does not provide full wide-format media exclusion or media-aware routing.
• Direct sources need explicit registration configuration. The Kubernetes EPP adapter currently leaves the flag unset; custom discovery sources must populate it.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Part of [BUG]: SGLang after sglang#43043 breaks multimodal routing for Kimi #16975.
• Part of DEP: Multimodal KV routing with engine-owned item identity for SGLang #17044.
• feat(mm-routing): restore SGLang multimodal KV routing with routing-label spans #17082 and [Feat] kv-events: Report caller multimodal routing labels as block spans sgl-project/sglang#45737 restore multimodal routing separately.

Pull Request Checklist

• I used Dynamo's /pr-checklist skill, including independent review.
• Documentation describes availability, configuration, and compatibility limits.
• CPU regressions cover the changed behavior.
• Current revision qualified with end-to-end GPU serving.

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Walkthrough

The change adds SGLang detection and environment configuration for engine-owned multimodal identity. KV event decoding now preserves wide token IDs until narrowing, and normalization filters multimodal blocks and descendants. Empty removal events now succeed without worker validation.

Changes

Multimodal KV event handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Identity mode and wide-token wire contract components/src/dynamo/sglang/_compat.py, components/src/dynamo/sglang/publisher.py, components/src/dynamo/sglang/tests/test_sglang_unit.py, lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/types.rs, lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/deserialize.rs, lib/kv-router/src/services/indexer/listener.rs, lib/llm/src/kv_router/publisher/zmq_listener.rs, lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs	SGLang compatibility checks detect engine-owned multimodal identity and set the environment flag when applicable. Rust listeners pass the parsed mode to the normalizer. Wire token IDs use u64 before narrowing to u32 or the wide-token sentinel.
Stateful multimodal event normalization lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs, lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mm_labels.rs, lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mm_labels_tests.rs, lib/kv-router/src/indexer/concurrent_radix_tree_compressed/remove.rs	The normalizer excludes multimodal blocks and descendants, filters removals, and clears exclusions on cache-clear events. The fallback path truncates stores at wide-token sentinels. Empty removals succeed without worker validation. Tests cover normalization and index behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 911d6

Fix empty-removal handling and identity detection before merging. Otherwise some valid events are rejected, and an import failure can restore the multimodal request failures this change aims to prevent.

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/ok to test 42757c4

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[maheshrbapatu]

@harryskim, I’ve addressed the docs points in your review. The sidecar and discovery limits, build check, and capacity warning are documented. I also renamed the section to cover images and video, updated its links, restored the overview’s reassurance that requests still run, and kept the caller-hash explanation in the canonical guide.

I replaced the PR-as-version note with the required Dynamo capabilities; the PR tracks adding the minimum release when it’s known. I kept the cutoff tied to each block’s hashed tokens so the description also covers Eagle’s lookahead. Docs lint, Fern configuration/link checks, and all 39 docs regression tests pass.

[krishung5]

/ok to test 371cf69

[harryskim]

approved

[jthomson04]

A few small comments, nothing blocking.

[krishung5]

/ok to test 9f3fae2

[jthomson04]

Thanks, all my comments are addressed.