[sandeep-maddipatla]

Overview:

Bump vLLM components in the XPU and CPU targets to vLLM 0.32.0, matching the CUDA build. Meant to follow #16757.

Details:

• Update the XPU and CPU vLLM runtime images to v0.32.0.
• vllm-omni is updated to v0.32.0rc1.
• Drop the XPU and CPU Transformers and tokenizers pins: both 0.32.0 images ship Transformers 5.19.0, which is within Omni v0.32.0rc1's supported range, as CUDA already does.
• Recapture the XPU baseline SBOM for vllm/vllm-openai-xpu:v0.32.0 (vllm-openai-xpu@20509fab) and prune the v0.31.0 baseline.
• vllm.nixl_ref is updated to v1.5.0 for xpu/cpu to match the NIXL version shipped in the cuda vllm-runtime image. (vLLM 0.32.0 pins this version in its requirements.txt for cuda)
• UCX (nixl_ucx_ref) is updated to v1.23.0-rc1 for xpu/cpu. This is the fixed tag closest to the UCX bundled with the cuda NIXL 1.5.0 wheels. (the wheels use 1.23.x branch -a moving target).
• Remove the compatibility code that earlier vLLM bumps added so the XPU and CPU images could stay on older vLLM releases while CUDA moved ahead.

Validation:

• XPU and CPU runtime images build locally with vLLM 0.32.0, vllm-omni 0.32.0rc1, NIXL 1.5.0 and UCX 1.23.0; a NIXL UCX agent starts and the Dynamo vLLM modules import.
• XPU heterogeneous P/D tests pass on a fork CI run that builds both the CUDA and XPU images from this change

Where should the reviewer start?

• Start at container/context.yaml
• Then components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py and components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py

Related Issues

• Closes build: Align XPU and CPU vLLM components with the vLLM 0.32.0 versions used for CUDA #17322

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updates
  • Updated vLLM CPU and XPU runtime images to version 0.32.0, along with related vLLM integrations.
  • The integration now requires APIs available in the current vLLM release; compatibility with older API paths has been removed.
• Bug Fixes
  • Token budget handling now consistently allows total-output overflow while still rejecting prompts that exceed the model’s input limit.

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Walkthrough

The XPU and CPU vLLM references advance to 0.32.0 alongside related NIXL and vLLM Omni updates. The code uses current vLLM module paths, updates token-budget overflow handling, and requires bound listeners for embedding workers.

Changes

vLLM 0.32.0 alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Align runtime references and SBOM container/context.yaml, container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json	The XPU and CPU vLLM tags advance to v0.32.0. The vLLM Omni and NIXL references and the Dynamo NIXL UCX reference also advance. The XPU SBOM record is updated, and the Transformers and tokenizers pins are removed.
Use current vLLM imports and capacity rules components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/capacity.py, tests/report_pytest_markers.py	The code imports chat helpers and protocol types from current vLLM paths. The token budget continues to reject prompt overflow, while total-overflow rejection is always disabled. Dependency stubs reflect the current chat-utils path.
Require bound embedding worker listeners components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_embedding_worker_processes.py	The worker utility requires bind_engine_zmq_listeners and lists only vLLM 0.32.0 as verified. The parent-process test checks listener cleanup.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to f1e3e

The remaining issue is limited to import placement. It can be corrected while preserving optional vLLM loading and does not indicate a runtime failure in the current code.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: updating the XPU and CPU builds to vLLM 0.32.0. It is concise and specific.
Linked Issues check		Issue #17322 coding requirements are met. container/context.yaml sets XPU and CPU vLLM runtime tags to v0.32.0, sets vllm-omni to v0.32.0rc1, sets the vLLM NIXL ref to v1.5.0, and sets UCX to …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files remain within issue #17322. The dependency and SBOM updates implement version alignment. The protocol, capacity, realtime factory, and embedding changes remove the compatibility path…
Description check		The description is mostly complete. It explains the purpose, key changes, validation results, reviewer starting points, and linked issue. It uses ## Details instead of ### Key Changes, omits an ex…

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Issue #17322 coding requirements are met. container/context.yaml sets XPU and CPU vLLM runtime tags to v0.32.0, sets vllm-omni to v0.32.0rc1, sets the vLLM NIXL ref to v1.5.0, and sets UCX to v1.23.0-rc1. It removes the XPU and CPU Transformers and tokenizers pins and updates the XPU baseline SBOM. The compatibility paths are removed from vllm_protocol.py, capacity.py, embedding_worker_processes.py, and realtime chat-template loading. The embedding test now covers bind_engine_zmq_listeners cleanup. The reviewed head verifies the new vLLM 0.32 engine API shape.

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The changed files remain within issue #17322. The dependency and SBOM updates implement version alignment. The protocol, capacity, realtime factory, and embedding changes remove the compatibility paths named by the issue. The test and marker updates support those implementation changes. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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The description is mostly complete. It explains the purpose, key changes, validation results, reviewer starting points, and linked issue. It uses ## Details instead of ### Key Changes, omits an explicit ### Issues and Ongoing Work section, and does not include the pull request checklist.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py: 1

96-96: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Move the direct import to module scope.

Line 96 leaves load_chat_template inside build_realtime_text_factories. Move the import to the top of this module. Preserve optional-vLLM loading if other code imports this module without vLLM installed.

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Review comment at @components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py at line 96:
Move the `load_chat_template` import out of `build_realtime_text_factories` to
module scope, while keeping module importable when vLLM is unavailable by
preserving optional-vLLM loading behavior.

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Review comments at @components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py:
- Line 96: Move the `load_chat_template` import out of
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Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 3032e8a and f1e3e99.

Files selected for processing: 9

• components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/capacity.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_embedding_worker_processes.py
• container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json
• container/compliance/base_sboms/vllm-openai-xpu@20509fab-amd64.cdx.json
• container/context.yaml
• tests/report_pytest_markers.py

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[JulienDarve]

/ok to test f1e3e99

Withdrawing my approval because new commits landed after it. I will review the new commits before I approve again.

[sandeep-maddipatla]

@dmitry-tokarev-nv - I updated the PR to resolve a merge conflict that appeared after #17068 was merged. Nothing else changed in the PR. Please help review and merge.

(cc: @JulienDarve)

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Approving again after the merge of main at ebad592bf0. Compared with that commit, the PR still changes the same 14 files. Its added and removed lines are the same as at 39198f127d, the head that I approved before.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

/ok to test 21e2825

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

[P2] The title limits this PR to the XPU and CPU builds, but container/context.yaml also changes two build arguments of every CUDA image. In the thread on line 72, I wrote that you can ignore the shared UCX change. I measured it again. It also changes CUDA build arguments, so I now suggest that you scope it. The three inline suggestions keep the new NIXL and UCX versions on the vLLM XPU and CPU devices only. The UCX part also needs this template change, because args.Dockerfile reads nixl_ucx_ref only from the shared dynamo section:

--- a/container/templates/args.Dockerfile
+++ b/container/templates/args.Dockerfile
@@ -65,7 +65,11 @@ ARG SCCACHE_BUCKET=""
 ARG SCCACHE_REGION=""
 
 # NIXL configuration
+{% if "nixl_ucx_ref" in context[framework].get(device_key, {}) -%}
+ARG NIXL_UCX_REF={{ context[framework][device_key].nixl_ucx_ref }}
+{% else -%}
 ARG NIXL_UCX_REF={{ context.dynamo.nixl_ucx_ref }}
+{% endif -%}
 {# Resolved most-specific first: per-target, then per-device, then framework. #}
 {% if "nixl_ref" in context[framework].get(target, {}) -%}
 ARG NIXL_REF={{ context[framework][target].nixl_ref }}

Renders on main, on this head, and with the suggestions.

I rendered 39 Dockerfiles with container/render.py: dynamo runtime, frontend and dev, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM and Triton, and the EFA variants, on amd64 and arm64.

• At this head, all 39 renders differ from main at 4cfde0eaed. Each one gets NIXL_UCX_REF=v1.23.0-rc1 instead of v1.22.0. The vLLM CUDA renders also get NIXL_REF=v1.5.0 instead of v1.4.1.
• With the suggestions, the 30 renders outside vLLM XPU and CPU are byte-identical to main. The 9 vLLM XPU and CPU renders are byte-identical to this head.
• At this head, the vLLM CUDA render keeps VLLM_OMNI_REF=v0.32.0rc1, because the CUDA device falls back to the framework value. The suggestion on line 100 keeps a CUDA pin, so a later XPU and CPU change of that value does not reach CUDA.

Packages in the vLLM CUDA runtime image.

I compared two CUDA vLLM runtime images. CI built one for 39198f127d, and the other is the image for main at 4cfde0eaed. The lines that this PR changes in container/ are the same at 39198f127d and at this head.

Package	main	This PR
vllm	0.32.0	0.32.0
vllm-omni	0.32.0rc1	0.32.0rc1
nixl, nixl-cu12, nixl-cu13	1.5.0	1.5.0

Both images have 339 Python packages. Only ai-dynamo, ai-dynamo-runtime and aisimulate differ, and main changed those after this branch point. In both images, /opt/dynamo/nixl links to the nixl-cu13 wheel libraries, and /usr/local/ucx does not exist. So the vLLM CUDA runtime image does not change. The two arguments change what the vLLM CUDA build stages compile. The table in the thread on line 72 lists the images that copy that UCX.

[sandeep-maddipatla]

Also, merged latest main in 2fec2db to resolve merge conflict introduced with merge of #17072

Withdrawing my approval because new commits landed after it. I will review the new commits before I approve again.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

/ok to test 2fec2db

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

No P0 or P1 found. One P3 on the description. This review read head 2fec2dbab15e68272f3f7791fb57bb1c3736d010.

265eeaaeed applies the suggestions of the review on 2026-10-29 byte for byte, so this review partly checks its own suggestions. The four threads of the earlier reviews have replies with measurements, and they are resolved.

Findings:

• [P3] The description says "vllm.nixl_ref is updated to v1.5.0 for xpu/cpu", but at this head vllm.nixl_ref stays v1.4.1. The new values are under vllm.xpu and vllm.cpu, and the Details list does not name the new device lookup in container/templates/args.Dockerfile. Please update the description.

Open items:

• A merge conflict with main at f945f1a8d5, in container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json, on the generated_at line only. Please regenerate this file after the merge, and do not edit it by hand.
• The PR-XPU test jobs did not finish at this head. They passed at 21e2825949 (run 40929848154), where the vLLM XPU runtime Dockerfile is byte-identical to the one at this head.
• No CI lane builds the vLLM CPU image. Only the renders cover the CPU change.

How the repo regenerates the manifest.

main changed generated_at in #17587. The script container/compliance/base_sboms/capture_baseline_sbom.py writes this file, and it sets generated_at to the time of the run. .github/workflows/auto-dep-upgrade-trigger.yml uses the same script for TRT-LLM. For this PR, the call is:

python3 container/compliance/base_sboms/capture_baseline_sbom.py \
  --from vllm/vllm-openai-xpu:v0.32.0 --baseline vllm/vllm-openai-xpu:v0.32.0 \
  --platform linux/amd64 --prune-superseded

This review did not run the call, because the script reads the registry. Only generated_at conflicts. The rows of both sides merge cleanly.

What this review measured, with controls.

• The change since 21e2825949: in 12 of the 15 files, the added and removed lines are the same as before. container/context.yaml and container/templates/args.Dockerfile differ by exactly 265eeaaeed. tests/report_pytest_markers.py no longer adds vllm.renderers.chat_utils, because main now adds it in #17072.
• The merge 2fec2dbab1: a redo with git merge-tree gives the same tree, except for one conflict in tests/report_pytest_markers.py. The commit keeps the lines of both sides.
• Renders of 39 Dockerfiles with container/render.py, at the merge base 58cfd0ae7b and at this head: the 30 renders outside vLLM XPU and CPU are byte-identical. The 9 vLLM XPU and CPU renders are byte-identical to the renders of the suggested change from 2026-10-29, and they change only these lines:
  • RUNTIME_IMAGE_TAG, and for XPU also BASE_IMAGE_TAG: v0.31.0 to v0.32.0.
  • NIXL_UCX_REF: v1.22.0 to v1.23.0-rc1. NIXL_REF: v1.4.1 to v1.5.0.
  • VLLM_OMNI_REF: v0.31.0rc1 to v0.32.0rc1.
  • The steps that pin and test the Transformers and tokenizers versions are removed.
  • XPU runtime only: BASELINE_SBOM_FILE moves from vllm-openai-xpu@95ac8150 to vllm-openai-xpu@20509fab.
• Control: at 21e2825949, all 39 renders differ from its merge base ebad592bf0.
• A merge with main at f945f1a8d5 gives the same result. Over all 130 combinations, 100 renders are byte-identical, and the 30 that change are all vLLM XPU or CPU.
• CI at this head: PR run 41098460475 passed, with the vLLM CUDA builds, tests and four deploy tests. Its vLLM CUDA test job ran the four test files that this PR changes: 48 passed, 0 failed. The SGLang and TRT-LLM dev and EFA builds were skipped, and their renders are byte-identical to main. check-drift passed. lychee failed on two link timeouts in a docs page that this PR does not change.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

The scope creep into GPU has been fixed and other issues addressed.

[rmccorm4]

Needs merge conflicts and CI failures addressed

New commits arrived after this approval. It is withdrawn until the new commits are reviewed.

[sandeep-maddipatla]

Pushed 576bb66 to address merge conflict introduced by merge of #17587

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

/ok to test 576bb66