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refactor(router): refactor random/RR/LL/pow-of-2 as builtin plugins - #17713
--router-mode random, round-robin, least-loaded and power-of-two were bespoke code: algorithms in dynamo-runtime and a mode switch in dynamo-llm's routing host. They're now ordinary plugins in lib/router-plugins, looked up by type name like any other policy, and each algorithm lives only in its plugin. CLI behavior is unchanged.
flowchart LR
REQ(["LLM request,<br/>--router-mode round-robin"]):::host --> RH
OTHER(["Other callers: Python Client,<br/>encoder hop, remote indexer"]):::other --> PR
subgraph LLM["dynamo-llm"]
RH["Routing host"]:::host
end
subgraph RT["dynamo-runtime"]
PR["PushRouter"]
end
subgraph KVR["dynamo-kv-router"]
HWP["HostedWorkerPicker"]
end
subgraph POL["dynamo-router-policies"]
PLUG["round-robin plugin"]
end
RH -->|"1. choose"| HWP
PR -->|"a. choose, via InstanceSelector"| HWP
HWP --> PLUG
RH -->|"2. send"| PR
PR -->|"send"| W([Worker])
classDef host fill:#dbeafe,stroke:#2563eb,color:#1e3a8a
classDef other fill:#ffedd5,stroke:#ea580c,color:#7c2d12
linkStyle 0,2,5 stroke:#2563eb,stroke-width:2px
linkStyle 1,3 stroke:#ea580c,stroke-width:2px
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Two callers, one plugin. Blue: for an LLM request, the routing host chooses a worker with the plugin (looked up by type name at startup), then sends through PushRouter. Orange: callers that use PushRouter directly call round_robin() and friends; PushRouter chooses through the InstanceSelector it was built with, which is the same plugin, then sends.
Code refactor by crate:
Crate (+lines / −lines)
Before (PR 1)
After
dynamo-runtime (+280 / −620)
RoutePicker held all five selection algorithms; BuiltinRoutePicker exposed them to the router; PushRouter had a separate code path per mode
PushRouter picks round-robin, random, least-loaded and power-of-two through an InstanceSelector, a new runtime trait, passed in PushRouterOptions::selectors and resolved when the router is built. round_robin(), random(), power_of_two_choices() and least_loaded() are aliases over one select path. Device-aware weighted keeps its algorithm in the runtime (routing_policy/device_aware.rs). RoutePicker, RoutePolicy and BuiltinRoutePicker are removed.
dynamo-llm (+170 / −185)
BuiltinWorkerSelector mapped --router-mode to a BuiltinRoutePicker
The routing host looks up the mode's plugin by type name and runs it; routing_host/builtin.rs is renamed hosted.rs. push_router_options() passes the plugins to every PushRouterdynamo-llm builds.
dynamo-router-policies (+209 / −1)
Named dynamo-custom-policy-builtin, as on main: the default cost fn, two-tier and ThunderAgent
Renamed dynamo-router-policies, since it holds every policy Dynamo ships. Adds the random, round-robin, least-loaded and power-of-two plugins, which hold the algorithms.
dynamo-kv-router (+61 / −41)
WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted, as on main, was how the routing host ran a built-in mode through BuiltinWorkerSelector. PR 1 added HostedWorkerPicker
WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted is removed: the routing host runs a mode's plugin through HostedWorkerPicker. HostedWorkerPicker also implements the runtime's InstanceSelector, behind the existing runtime-protocols feature. Adds RouterPluginRegistry::resolve_type and WorkerSelectionContext::is_preview.
The crate rename also touches imports in dynamo-mocker, the Python bindings and the inference gateway; the bindings' Client also passes the plugins (+10 / −9).
Line counts are against PR 1, the base of this PR, and exclude tests, docs, comments and blank lines.
Key Changes
Core logic: +730 / −856 lines, net −126 (excluding tests, docs and comments). The first commit is only the crate rename. Most need review:
Router modes as plugins: types random, round-robin, least-loaded and power-of-two, registered in every build.
InstanceSelector: how PushRouter picks an instance for a mode. It's a runtime trait because dynamo-runtime can't depend on dynamo-kv-router; HostedWorkerPicker implements it, so PushRouter runs the same plugin as the routing host.
PushRouterOptions::selectors: the selectors a router uses, resolved once when it's built; dynamo-llm's push_router_options() supplies the plugins.
RouterPluginRegistry::resolve_type(name): builds a policy by type name without a policy file.
WorkerSelectionContext::is_preview(): lets a stateful picker skip advancing on a peek, which keeps round-robin's rotation identical to main. Hidden from the docs until custom pickers can run on the hosted path.
Changed:
Breaking (Rust):dynamo-custom-policy-builtin is renamed to dynamo-router-policies, since it holds every policy Dynamo ships. The custom-catalog crate keeps its name.
Breaking (Rust): a PushRouter whose mode is round-robin, random, least-loaded or power-of-two must be built with PushRouterOptions::selectors, or construction fails; so must one whose round_robin() or random() is called. The mode methods keep their signatures. BuiltinRoutePicker and the old WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted input are removed.
The routing host runs plugins only: BuiltinWorkerSelector is gone, and least-loaded still reserves under the same admission lock.
Not yet: device-aware weighted stays in PushRouter until it becomes a plugin. A policy file can already name a mode type, but under --router-mode kv it runs on the KV path.
Validation
The mode plugins' tests cover each algorithm's choices, tie-breaking and how many samples and loads it reads, matching main's.
Every mode resolves by name and runs without KV state. On the KV path, each picks only eligible workers.
Routing host:
round-robin rotates, and peeks don't advance it;
least-loaded and power-of-two require in-flight counts;
non-plugin modes are rejected.
PushRouter: selectors resolve once per mode and are required for the four modes. Its existing transport, occupancy, fallback and fault-detection tests pass with stand-in selectors.
The existing routing-host tests pass unchanged: occupancy reservations, LoRA, affinity.
cargo fmt --check; cargo clippy --no-deps --all-targets -- -D warnings on dynamo-runtime, dynamo-kv-router, dynamo-router-policies, dynamo-llm, dynamo-mocker, the Python bindings and the runtime examples.
cargo test: dynamo-runtime (library and integration), dynamo-kv-router, dynamo-router-policies, and dynamo-llm's router, discovery and admission tests; doc tests; --locked on every lockfile; cargo machete.
KV-path benchmarks (default_selection, default_lifecycle, worker_selection, selection_core) were within run-to-run noise of the previous PR, with allocation counts unchanged. Later commits don't touch the KV selection path.
Benchmark Results
Router-mode benchmark, release profile (codegen-units = 1, thin LTO), local and not part of this PR. Before is PushRouter's own selection with the algorithm inline, as on main. After is PushRouter running the mode's plugin through InstanceSelector. Routing host runs the plugin through HostedWorkerPicker directly, as RoutingHost does; that path is the same in both runs.
Median time per selection, one thread:
Mode
Workers
Before
After
Change
Routing host
random
8
2.1 ns
32.5 ns
+30.4 ns
39.0 ns
random
64
2.0 ns
32.4 ns
+30.3 ns
39.3 ns
random
1024
1.9 ns
32.2 ns
+30.3 ns
39.0 ns
random
10000
1.9 ns
32.4 ns
+30.5 ns
38.8 ns
round-robin
8
9.6 ns
41.2 ns
+31.6 ns
46.2 ns
round-robin
64
9.6 ns
41.1 ns
+31.5 ns
46.3 ns
round-robin
1024
9.6 ns
41.3 ns
+31.7 ns
46.0 ns
round-robin
10000
9.6 ns
41.1 ns
+31.5 ns
46.3 ns
power-of-two
8
3.8 ns
34.8 ns
+31.0 ns
41.3 ns
power-of-two
64
3.9 ns
35.8 ns
+31.9 ns
40.9 ns
power-of-two
1024
3.8 ns
34.6 ns
+30.7 ns
41.1 ns
power-of-two
10000
4.6 ns
35.2 ns
+30.5 ns
41.3 ns
least-loaded
8
8.1 ns
36.6 ns
+28.4 ns
42.0 ns
least-loaded
64
39.7 ns
115.9 ns
+76.2 ns
110.6 ns
least-loaded
1024
627 ns
1.41 µs
+0.78 µs
1.42 µs
least-loaded
10000
5.85 µs
13.45 µs
+7.60 µs
13.69 µs
Running a mode as a plugin costs about 30 ns per selection. The extra call through InstanceSelector adds nothing measurable: PushRouter's path is a few nanoseconds faster than the routing host's, which builds a request with a 2048-token prompt.
Least-loaded also costs about 0.76 ns per worker, because the plugin reads each in-flight count through a closure it can't inline. Here the counts are a plain array, so the relative cost looks large; a real PushRouter reads them from the occupancy DashMap (about 18 µs per selection at 1024 workers), where the same 0.78 µs is about 4%.
No path allocates per selection.
Concurrent: every thread selects at once against one shared selector and occupancy state, and least-loaded and power-of-two reserve under the admission lock and release right away. Throughput, as selections per second summed over all threads (M = million, G = billion, k = thousand), before → after:
Mode, 1024 workers
1 thread
4 threads
8 threads
12 threads
random
368.7M → 25.7M
378.8M → 69.2M
709.7M → 160.7M
1.71G → 201.0M
round-robin
74.7M → 18.6M
21.2M → 17.1M
21.0M → 17.0M
22.0M → 17.4M
power-of-two
6.1M → 4.6M
1.1M → 954k
545k → 550k
385k → 386k
least-loaded
63k → 60k
43k → 40k
39k → 36k
34k → 30k
At 64 workers the pattern is the same. Random drops by the fixed per-call cost. Round-robin is bound by its shared cursor from 4 threads up. Power-of-two is bound by the admission lock and unchanged. Least-loaded holds the lock about 0.8 µs longer per selection, so it loses up to 12% at 12 threads; with DashMap loads that's about 4%. Every mode stays at least 1000× above a frontend's request rate.
For comparison, jthomson04's measurements of the routing host's path from main to this PR, which this change leaves as is:
Mode
Routing host, main → this PR
PushRouter, before → after
random
9.4 → 30.6 ns (+21 ns)
2 → 32 ns (+30 ns)
round-robin
15.7 → 39.3 ns (+24 ns)
9.6 → 41 ns (+31 ns)
power-of-two
134–138 → 163–169 ns (+25–32 ns)
3.8 → 35 ns (+31 ns)
least-loaded, 1024 workers
18.75 → 19.57 µs (+4.3%)
627 ns → 1.41 µs (+0.78 µs)
PushRouter's callers now pay the same plugin cost the routing host already pays: about 20–30 ns per selection, and about 0.8 µs per least-loaded selection at 1024 workers. The concurrent runs above use up to 12 threads with reservations released immediately, not jthomson04's 64-caller flood with reservations held in flight.
Related: DEP #17607, per-role router policies, which needs every mode to be a registered type.
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New Features
Added random, round-robin, least-loaded, and power-of-two worker-selection modes for hosted routing.
Added shared selection algorithms, including device-aware selection that can prioritize workers with cache hits.
Preview selections can inspect round-robin choices without advancing the selection cursor.
Bug Fixes
Hosted routing modes now resolve through the router policy registry and report errors when a policy cannot be resolved or used for the requested routing mode.
… on the hosted path
Plugins can now be shared across request threads without a lock, and a
picker-only policy can run outside the KV scheduler through a new hosted
entry point. This is the foundation for running the non-KV router modes as
ordinary plugins.
- WorkerFilter::keep, WorkerScorer::score and WorkerPicker::pick take
&self, and the traits require Send + Sync. The default policy keeps its
per-call state in a local and its sampling scratch in a thread-local
buffer, so selection still allocates nothing.
- WorkerSelectionPolicy::into_hosted_picker returns a HostedWorkerPicker
for a picker-only policy that declares at most ACTIVE_REQUESTS and has no
runtime config; HostedWorkerPicker::select picks over a lazy view of the
host's worker IDs with no candidate rows and no lock.
- WorkerInputs::ACTIVE_REQUESTS replaces OCCUPANCY (deprecated alias until
v1.9), with WorkerInputView::active_requests(row), len() and is_empty().
- HostedSelectionRequest carries a hosted selection's request metadata.
BREAKING CHANGE: worker-selection plugin methods take &self instead of
&mut self, and the plugin traits require Send + Sync. A plugin that
mutates state between calls must use atomics or a lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
…er-policies
The crate holds every router policy Dynamo ships, including the routing
modes from the next commit; "custom" no longer described it. Mechanical:
the package name, its dependents' manifests and use paths, and both
lockfiles. The directory stays lib/router-plugins/builtin, and the
custom-catalog crate keeps its documented name.
BREAKING CHANGE: Rust dependents import dynamo_router_policies instead of
dynamo_custom_policy_builtin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
--router-mode random, round-robin, least-loaded and power-of-two now
resolve by type name in the router plugin registry and run as ordinary
worker-selection plugins on the hosted path. Every selection algorithm
lives once, in the new dynamo-routing-algorithms crate.
- dynamo-routing-algorithms (lib/router-plugins/algorithms): random,
round-robin, least-loaded, power-of-two and device-aware selection,
index-based, depending only on fastrand.
- dynamo-router-policies: four &self pickers in router_modes, thin
adapters over the algorithms, registered in default_registry().
- dynamo-runtime: RoutePicker dispatches to the shared algorithms;
BuiltinRoutePicker is removed. PushRouter's API is unchanged.
- dynamo-kv-router: WorkerSelectionContext::is_preview,
HostedSelectionRequest::with_preview and
RouterPluginRegistry::resolve_type; the old WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted
variant is removed.
- dynamo-llm: RoutingPolicy::Hosted(HostedWorkerPicker) replaces
BuiltinWorkerSelector for the main and LoRA selectors; previews do not
advance round-robin.
Device-aware weighted routing keeps its input plumbing in PushRouter for
now; only its algorithm moves.
BREAKING CHANGE: dynamo_runtime::pipeline::BuiltinRoutePicker and
dynamo_kv_router's WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted, into_hosted, hosted() and
HostedSelectionInputs are removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
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refactor(router): refactor random/RR/LL/pow-of-2 as builtin plugins
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This PR adds shared worker-selection algorithms, registers four hosted routing modes in the built-in policy registry, and routes hosted LLM selection through plugin pickers. It adds preview-selection context, delegates runtime picker algorithms to shared code, and renames the built-in policy crate across workspace consumers.
The built-in policy crate is now named dynamo-router-policies. Workspace dependencies, consumer imports, tests, benchmarks, and catalog documentation use the new name.
A new dynamo-routing-algorithms package provides random, round-robin, least-loaded, power-of-two, and device-aware selection. Tests cover empty inputs, sampling, load comparisons, cache hits, and CPU-share boundaries.
Add hosted selection context and lookup lib/kv-router/src/plugins/registry.rs, lib/kv-router/src/plugins/worker_selection/context.rs, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/selector/*
Hosted selection requests pass a preview flag into worker-selection context. WorkerSelectionInput now represents configured inputs only. The plugin registry adds policy-type resolution using empty parameters.
The built-in registry registers random, round-robin, least-loaded, and power-of-two modes. The pickers use shared algorithms and report no eligible worker when selection has no candidate.
Use hosted pickers in LLM routing lib/llm/src/kv_router/routing_host*
RoutingHostBuilder resolves supported modes through the plugin registry and creates hosted pickers. Hosted selection, LoRA routing, occupancy selection, peeking, and related tests use the hosted picker interfaces.
Delegate runtime selection to shared algorithms lib/runtime/Cargo.toml, lib/runtime/src/pipeline.rs, lib/runtime/src/routing_policy/*
RoutePicker delegates selection to the shared algorithms while retaining occupancy admission behavior. The BuiltinRoutePicker wrapper and re-exports are removed. RouteDevice now re-exports the shared Device type.
Router modes now resolve through the plugin registry. Built-in frontends keep working, but custom-registry installs and the standalone EPP selector do not register the new mode providers. Fix both before relying on these modes outside the stock entrypoints.
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Review comments at @deploy/inference-gateway/ext-proc/src/selector.rs:
- Line 116: Update the standalone selector’s registry setup around
with_default_factory to merge built-in routing-mode providers into the supplied
registry while preserving any custom providers, so policies using round-robin or
other new mode types resolve successfully.
Review comments at @lib/llm/src/kv_router/plugins.rs:
- Line 18: Update install_router_plugin_registry to ensure every installed
registry includes the built-in routing providers for random, round-robin,
least-loaded, and power-of-two, even when callers pass an empty or custom-only
registry. Reject collisions between custom provider names and built-in names,
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Split router_modes.rs into router_modes/random.rs, round_robin.rs,
least_loaded.rs and power_of_two.rs. Each file holds its mode's type
name and picker. router_modes.rs keeps the shared helpers and the
registration, and re-exports the four type names, so callers are
unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
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Previously reported defects still present:
Original discussion: The standalone runner still supplies an empty registry by default, and Selector only adds the default factory. Policy files selecting the newly introduced routing-mode types therefore still fail resolution with UnknownType.
Original discussion: Verified still present at the reviewed head: install_router_plugin_registry accepts an empty or custom-only registry and adds only the default factory. RoutingHost construction now resolves random, round-robin, least-loaded, and power-of-two through that registry, so those modes fail with UnknownType for these public API callers.
Original discussion: Verified still present at the reviewed head: install_router_plugin_registry accepts an empty or custom-only registry and adds only the default factory. Subsequent hosted routing-mode construction resolves its provider from that registry and fails with UnknownType when built-in providers are absent.
Original discussion: Verified still present at the reviewed head: standalone EPP starts with an empty registry and Selector adds only the default factory. Policy files selecting the new routing-mode types therefore fail resolution with UnknownType.
Original discussion: Verified still present at the reviewed head: the standalone selector adds only the default factory to its supplied registry. The standard runner supplies an empty registry, so a policy selecting a newly introduced routing-mode type fails resolution with UnknownType.
Original discussion: install_router_plugin_registry still adds only the default factory. Installing an empty or custom-only registry omits the builtin mode providers, causing hosted_picker to fail with UnknownType for random, round-robin, least-loaded, and power-of-two.
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Numbers for the router-mode TBDs under Validation: PR 17712 head (a3d9797f07) vs this PR (9d6c6ce990) on one exclusive Grace node. The base arm runs a copy of BuiltinWorkerSelector, since it is pub(super) in dynamo-llm.
One selection per call (one RoutingHost hosted selection, including the admission lock and reservation for least-loaded and power-of-two; one pinned core; median of 3 interleaved passes):
Mode
Workers
Before
After
Change
random
8 / 64 / 1024
9.4 ns
30.6 ns
+21 ns
round-robin
8 / 64 / 1024
15.7 ns
39.3 ns
+24 ns
power-of-two
8 / 64 / 1024
134–138 ns
163–169 ns
+25–32 ns
least-loaded
8
237 ns
274 ns
+37 ns
least-loaded
64
1.35 µs
1.40 µs
+3.7%
least-loaded
1024
18.75 µs
19.57 µs
+4.3%
0 allocations per call in every cell on both arms. The added cost is fixed per call and doesn't grow with worker count.
Concurrent flood (64 callers on 64 cores sharing one occupancy state and picker; each keeps 64 reservations in flight; aggregate selections/s, median of 3):
Mode
Workers
Before
After
Change
random
64 / 1024
8.7–8.9G
2.3G
−74%
round-robin
64 / 1024
27–31M
21M
−23–32% (two nodes)
power-of-two
64 / 1024
451k
442k
−2% (passes overlap)
least-loaded
64
159k
160k
0%
least-loaded
1024
40.6k
40.6k
0%
No added contention. Random scales 64× in both arms, so its gap is the same fixed per-call cost. The lock-bound modes are unchanged. Round-robin's gap is on the shared cursor at 20M+ selections/s, about 1000× a frontend's request rate. Not blocking.
The flood does show the admission lock was already the bottleneck for the load-based modes before this PR. Power-of-two drops from about 7M selections/s with one caller to about 450k with 64. parking_lot's slow paths take about 60% of cycles, and half of the lock time is spent releasing reservations. Least-loaded at 1024 workers tops out at about 40k/s per host, with 82% of cycles in RoutingOccupancyState::load inside the lock. Suggestions are inline; fine as a follow-up.
PushRouter created its occupancy state only for modes that require it, but
picked with in-flight counts whenever its selector reads them. A catalog that
overrides round-robin or random with such a picker failed every request.
Create the state when the mode or any resolved selector reads the counts, and
book pinned requests whenever the state exists.
Also log why mode_selectors() could not build a router-mode plugin instead of
dropping the error.
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
Add the v1.7.0 release-notes entry for Rust code that builds its own
round-robin, random or least-loaded PushRouter, which now passes the
router-mode plugins.
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
Bring in main as of 94db5c0, the commit before #17712 landed. Keep the
dynamo_router_policies import in the mocker's router_shared.rs alongside
main's new std::borrow::Cow import.
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
Bring in main after #17712 landed. This branch already holds #17712's
changes from the stacked PR 1 commits, so the files both PRs edit keep
this branch's version; the merge adds only main's commits after the squash.
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LGTM on the high level (.toml, .lock files), approving to unblock, but I also will run my agentic review as well, you can address my agent's findings later if any
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No P0 or P1 found. This review read head 067808e8727a5685e1aadf7b3bb9710c7288a368.
Findings, each posted inline:
[P3] The migration note leaves out the power-of-two case and the per-call failure of round_robin() and random(). deprecations.mdx:56.
[P3] No test covers the occupancy fix from 82e1340. push_router.rs:767.
Threads from another reviewer, which the author resolved:
push_router.rs:862, occupancy for a selector that reads in-flight counts. 82e1340 creates the state for that selector, and the test in the second finding passes with it.
hello_world/src/bin/client.rs:28, RouterMode::default() needs selectors. 02a9e66 adds the migration note. As the note says, the example code from main fails on this head with RoundRobin routing needs instance selectors; pass PushRouterOptions::selectors.
What this review measured.
The root Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock change only the crate name. No third-party package changes in any of the four Cargo.lock files, and cargo metadata --locked passes in all four lock roots. cargo deny gives the same results at this head and at the base a0bf0fd4ca.
No file at this head names dynamo-custom-policy-builtin. No CI job, Dockerfile or release script names it, and no release branch has the crate. CODEOWNERS and .github/filters.yaml cover every changed path.
The three merges of main keep every change of main, and the patch of this PR is the same before and after them. A merge with main at f492fcf9a9 has no conflict.
Every PushRouter that the repository builds passes selectors or uses Direct. On this head, Client.round_robin() and Client.random() of the Python bindings work with the same rotation as the base, and the hello_world example runs.
The frontend with four mocker workers, each mode at this head and at the base:
mode
bursts of 32 split 8/8/8/8, head / base
most requests on one worker in a burst, head / base
round-robin
5 of 5 / 5 of 5
8 / 8
least-loaded
5 of 5 / 5 of 5
8 / 8
power-of-two
3 of 5 / 3 of 5
9 / 9
random
0 of 5 / 0 of 5
13 / 12
Round-robin sent 16 sequential requests in ascending worker-ID order on both trees. In 400 requests at concurrency 32, each mode gave each worker 95 to 109 requests on both trees.
Tests on this head: dynamo-router-policies (112 passed), push_router (42 passed) and dynamo-llmkv_router (491 passed). A deliberate break of resolve_selectors, of round-robin previews and of the power-of-two comparison each fails a test of this PR.
CI on this head skips test_mocker_router for every mode, as on main. test_mocker_router_soak passed for round-robin and random. No CI test runs least-loaded with mocker workers.
Bring in main after #17713 landed. This branch already holds #17713's
changes from the stacked PR 2 commits, so the merge adds only main's
commits before the squash.
Signed-off-by: Karen Chung <karenc@nvidia.com>
Absorbs the 95 upstream commits since 464ff29. Each upstream change lands in the crate that owns that code at the stack head; the stack's moves stay intact. Router-touching PRs and where they landed:
- ai-dynamo#17712 host-path routing modes for worker-selection plugins: &self + Send + Sync plugin traits and WorkerInputs::ACTIVE_REQUESTS (deprecated OCCUPANCY alias) in dynamo-worker-selection and dynamo-router-protocol; HostedWorkerPicker and HostedSelectionRequest in dynamo-worker-selection (hosted.rs), reporting SelectionFailure, which the kernel converts into KvSchedulerError; the InstanceSelector adapter in lib/llm (HostedInstanceSelector); the compat test's hosted coverage in kv-router's prelude test.
- ai-dynamo#17713 random/round-robin/least-loaded as builtin plugins: router_modes in dynamo-router-policies (renamed from dynamo-custom-policy-builtin) importing the prelude; RouterPluginRegistry::resolve_type in kv-router; the frontend's hosted path through dynamo_worker_selection::host.
- ai-dynamo#17899 1.7.0 removals: taken whole; the alias and the setter were gone at the head; power-of-two never arrives.
- ai-dynamo#17657 single-source fetch continuations: KvTransferSourceInterval and source_intervals in dynamo-kv-indexer, the bucketed summary in dynamo-kv-hints, the interval filter in the kernel's resolver; tests in the kernel.
- ai-dynamo#17856 KVCR hints in offline replay: mocker and lib/llm bodies; supports_kv_transfer_chain_retention on the flat config; its indexer-vs-config test in kv-router's core host tests.
- ai-dynamo#17794 vLLM partial-tail filter and ai-dynamo#17126 SGLang engine-owned multimodal pads: dynamo-kv-events zmq_wire (mm_exclusion.rs); the codec-plus-indexer tests in dynamo-kv-indexer; the engine_owned_mm_identity worker flag through the kernel's WorkerRequest, kv-router's indexer registry and run config, and the bindings.
- ai-dynamo#17653 SGLang 0.5.23: pad constant docs in dynamo-multimodal.
- ai-dynamo#15333, ai-dynamo#17874, ai-dynamo#17484, ai-dynamo#17688, ai-dynamo#17237, ai-dynamo#17894, ai-dynamo#17958: host-side changes merged in place (bindings, lib/llm, CI).
Lockfiles regenerated; no shim reintroduced.
Signed-off-by: Ishan Dhanani <ishandhanani@gmail.com>
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Overview
--router-mode random,round-robin,least-loadedandpower-of-twowere bespoke code: algorithms indynamo-runtimeand a mode switch indynamo-llm's routing host. They're now ordinary plugins inlib/router-plugins, looked up by type name like any other policy, and each algorithm lives only in its plugin. CLI behavior is unchanged.flowchart LR REQ(["LLM request,<br/>--router-mode round-robin"]):::host --> RH OTHER(["Other callers: Python Client,<br/>encoder hop, remote indexer"]):::other --> PR subgraph LLM["dynamo-llm"] RH["Routing host"]:::host end subgraph RT["dynamo-runtime"] PR["PushRouter"] end subgraph KVR["dynamo-kv-router"] HWP["HostedWorkerPicker"] end subgraph POL["dynamo-router-policies"] PLUG["round-robin plugin"] end RH -->|"1. choose"| HWP PR -->|"a. choose, via InstanceSelector"| HWP HWP --> PLUG RH -->|"2. send"| PR PR -->|"send"| W([Worker]) classDef host fill:#dbeafe,stroke:#2563eb,color:#1e3a8a classDef other fill:#ffedd5,stroke:#ea580c,color:#7c2d12 linkStyle 0,2,5 stroke:#2563eb,stroke-width:2px linkStyle 1,3 stroke:#ea580c,stroke-width:2pxTwo callers, one plugin. Blue: for an LLM request, the routing host chooses a worker with the plugin (looked up by type name at startup), then sends through
PushRouter. Orange: callers that usePushRouterdirectly callround_robin()and friends;PushRouterchooses through theInstanceSelectorit was built with, which is the same plugin, then sends.Code refactor by crate:
dynamo-runtime(+280 / −620)RoutePickerheld all five selection algorithms;BuiltinRoutePickerexposed them to the router;PushRouterhad a separate code path per modePushRouterpicks round-robin, random, least-loaded and power-of-two through anInstanceSelector, a new runtime trait, passed inPushRouterOptions::selectorsand resolved when the router is built.round_robin(),random(),power_of_two_choices()andleast_loaded()are aliases over one select path. Device-aware weighted keeps its algorithm in the runtime (routing_policy/device_aware.rs).RoutePicker,RoutePolicyandBuiltinRoutePickerare removed.dynamo-llm(+170 / −185)BuiltinWorkerSelectormapped--router-modeto aBuiltinRoutePickerrouting_host/builtin.rsis renamedhosted.rs.push_router_options()passes the plugins to everyPushRouterdynamo-llmbuilds.dynamo-router-policies(+209 / −1)dynamo-custom-policy-builtin, as onmain: the default cost fn, two-tier and ThunderAgentdynamo-router-policies, since it holds every policy Dynamo ships. Adds the random, round-robin, least-loaded and power-of-two plugins, which hold the algorithms.dynamo-kv-router(+61 / −41)WorkerSelectionInput::Hosted, as onmain, was how the routing host ran a built-in mode throughBuiltinWorkerSelector. PR 1 addedHostedWorkerPickerWorkerSelectionInput::Hostedis removed: the routing host runs a mode's plugin throughHostedWorkerPicker.HostedWorkerPickeralso implements the runtime'sInstanceSelector, behind the existingruntime-protocolsfeature. AddsRouterPluginRegistry::resolve_typeandWorkerSelectionContext::is_preview.The crate rename also touches imports in
dynamo-mocker, the Python bindings and the inference gateway; the bindings'Clientalso passes the plugins (+10 / −9).Line counts are against PR 1, the base of this PR, and exclude tests, docs, comments and blank lines.
Key Changes
Core logic: +730 / −856 lines, net −126 (excluding tests, docs and comments). The first commit is only the crate rename. Most need review:
routing_host/builder.rs:--router-moderesolves its plugin by type name.router_modes/: the four plugins and their algorithms, one file each.push_router.rs:resolve_selectorsandselect_by, the one path the mode methods share.routing_policy/selector.rsandkv_router/plugins.rs: theInstanceSelectortrait anddynamo-llm's selectors.New:
random,round-robin,least-loadedandpower-of-two, registered in every build.InstanceSelector: howPushRouterpicks an instance for a mode. It's a runtime trait becausedynamo-runtimecan't depend ondynamo-kv-router;HostedWorkerPickerimplements it, soPushRouterruns the same plugin as the routing host.PushRouterOptions::selectors: the selectors a router uses, resolved once when it's built;dynamo-llm'spush_router_options()supplies the plugins.RouterPluginRegistry::resolve_type(name): builds a policy by type name without a policy file.WorkerSelectionContext::is_preview(): lets a stateful picker skip advancing on a peek, which keeps round-robin's rotation identical tomain. Hidden from the docs until custom pickers can run on the hosted path.Changed:
dynamo-custom-policy-builtinis renamed todynamo-router-policies, since it holds every policy Dynamo ships. The custom-catalog crate keeps its name.PushRouterwhose mode is round-robin, random, least-loaded or power-of-two must be built withPushRouterOptions::selectors, or construction fails; so must one whoseround_robin()orrandom()is called. The mode methods keep their signatures.BuiltinRoutePickerand the oldWorkerSelectionInput::Hostedinput are removed.BuiltinWorkerSelectoris gone, and least-loaded still reserves under the same admission lock.Not yet: device-aware weighted stays in
PushRouteruntil it becomes a plugin. A policy file can already name a mode type, but under--router-mode kvit runs on the KV path.Validation
main's.PushRouter: selectors resolve once per mode and are required for the four modes. Its existing transport, occupancy, fallback and fault-detection tests pass with stand-in selectors.cargo fmt --check;cargo clippy --no-deps --all-targets -- -D warningsondynamo-runtime,dynamo-kv-router,dynamo-router-policies,dynamo-llm,dynamo-mocker, the Python bindings and the runtime examples.cargo test:dynamo-runtime(library and integration),dynamo-kv-router,dynamo-router-policies, anddynamo-llm's router, discovery and admission tests; doc tests;--lockedon every lockfile;cargo machete.default_selection,default_lifecycle,worker_selection,selection_core) were within run-to-run noise of the previous PR, with allocation counts unchanged. Later commits don't touch the KV selection path.Benchmark Results
Router-mode benchmark, release profile (
codegen-units = 1, thin LTO), local and not part of this PR. Before isPushRouter's own selection with the algorithm inline, as onmain. After isPushRouterrunning the mode's plugin throughInstanceSelector. Routing host runs the plugin throughHostedWorkerPickerdirectly, asRoutingHostdoes; that path is the same in both runs.Median time per selection, one thread:
InstanceSelectoradds nothing measurable:PushRouter's path is a few nanoseconds faster than the routing host's, which builds a request with a 2048-token prompt.PushRouterreads them from the occupancyDashMap(about 18 µs per selection at 1024 workers), where the same 0.78 µs is about 4%.Concurrent: every thread selects at once against one shared selector and occupancy state, and least-loaded and power-of-two reserve under the admission lock and release right away. Throughput, as selections per second summed over all threads (M = million, G = billion, k = thousand), before → after:
At 64 workers the pattern is the same. Random drops by the fixed per-call cost. Round-robin is bound by its shared cursor from 4 threads up. Power-of-two is bound by the admission lock and unchanged. Least-loaded holds the lock about 0.8 µs longer per selection, so it loses up to 12% at 12 threads; with
DashMaploads that's about 4%. Every mode stays at least 1000× above a frontend's request rate.For comparison, jthomson04's measurements of the routing host's path from
mainto this PR, which this change leaves as is:main→ this PRPushRouter, before → afterPushRouter's callers now pay the same plugin cost the routing host already pays: about 20–30 ns per selection, and about 0.8 µs per least-loaded selection at 1024 workers. The concurrent runs above use up to 12 threads with reservations released immediately, not jthomson04's 64-caller flood with reservations held in flight.Issues and Ongoing Work
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