fix(kv-router): filter vLLM partial-tail KV events instead of warning on block-size mismatch by marckarp · Pull Request #17794 · ai-dynamo/dynamo

marckarp · 2026-11-02T04:29:08Z

Summary

When a vLLM worker runs with --prefix-match-unit N below the physical KV block size, vLLM publishes full blocks at the block size and the trailing partial block of each prompt at the hash-unit size (BlockPool.cache_partial_block). The ZMQ converter rejects that partial block with Block not published. Block size must be <block> tokens to be published. Block size is: <N>. Routing is unaffected, since the router can only index full blocks anyway, but users read the warning as a misconfiguration.

This PR filters those partial-tail events in ZmqEventNormalizer before conversion. The normalizer records, per worker, whether a full-size block has been published. Only blocks that pass group filtering count, and AllBlocksCleared resets the history. Once a worker has published a full block, a smaller BlockStored event from it is a partial tail and is dropped at debug level with a new filter reason partial_block, reported through the existing filtered-event metric. A mismatch on the first event from a worker still reaches conversion and still warns, so a real block-size misconfiguration (for example --router-kv-block-size not matching the engine) stays visible.

The in-process vLLM worker and the vLLM sidecar both feed vLLM's ZMQ stream through this normalizer, so one change covers both.

Validation

cargo test -p dynamo-kv-router: 1140 passed, 0 failed.
New unit tests in lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/tests.rs:
- partial_tail_block_is_filtered_after_a_full_block_from_the_same_worker
- undersized_block_before_any_full_block_still_reaches_conversion_and_warns
- partial_tail_filter_is_tracked_per_worker
- filtered_group_does_not_prove_block_size_for_partial_tail_filter
- all_blocks_cleared_resets_partial_tail_filter_history
cargo clippy -p dynamo-kv-router --tests: clean.
cargo test -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features --lib kv_router::publisher: 124 passed. One unrelated event-plane batch test failed in the batch run and passed on rerun alone (pre-existing flake).
The warning was reproduced on GPU before the change (vllm-runtime:1.6.0, Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B, 528-token block, --prefix-match-unit 48), and router metrics confirmed full blocks were still accepted, which is the event shape this filter targets. Not yet re-tested on GPU with the patch applied; happy to do that if reviewers want it.

Fixes #17793

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Fixes ai-dynamo#17793 Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Karp <mkarp@nvidia.com>

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Record full-block history only after group filtering.
Reset full-block history on AllBlocksCleared.

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Review comments at @lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs:
- Around line 285-286: Move the `full_block_workers` update in the `BlockStored`
handling flow to after `filter_reason` accepts the event. Ensure events rejected
by group filtering do not record full-block history, so they cannot suppress
size-mismatch warnings for later routed events.
- Line 289: In the `RawKvEvent::AllBlocksCleared` handler, remove the current
worker from `full_block_workers` while retaining the existing cache-namespace
cleanup. Add a regression test covering a full block, an `AllBlocksCleared`
event, and then an undersized block, verifying the latter is not filtered as
already validated.

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The ZMQ event normalizer now tracks full-size KV blocks per worker. It filters later undersized blocks from workers with recorded full-size blocks. Tests cover initial undersized blocks, subsequent full blocks, and worker-specific history.

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Partial KV block filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track full blocks and filter partial tails `lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs`, `lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/tests.rs`	The normalizer records workers that emit a full-size block and filters later undersized blocks from those workers with the `PartialBlock` reason. An initial undersized block still proceeds to conversion. Tests cover these cases and confirm that tracking is worker-specific.

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The change correctly stops the misleading partial-tail warning for vLLM workers. In two edge cases, a rejected non-main attention group or a source restart after a clear, the tracked full-block history can hide a real block-size mismatch warning. Resetting or ordering that history correctly before merge would keep the diagnostic reliable. Normal routing of full blocks is unaffected.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: filtering vLLM partial-tail KV events instead of emitting block-size mismatch warnings.
Linked Issues check		Issue [`#17793`] requires suppression of valid vLLM partial-tail warnings while preserving full-block routing and first-event mismatch warnings. `ZmqEventNormalizer` records full-size blocks per worker,…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed production code adds the partial-tail filter and its metric label in `lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs`. The added tests in `lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/tests.rs` verify the issue behavior…
Description check		The description is mostly complete and clearly explains the problem, implementation, behavior, validation, known GPU-validation gap, and linked issue. It uses "## Summary" instead of the template's "O…

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Issue [#17793] requires suppression of valid vLLM partial-tail warnings while preserving full-block routing and first-event mismatch warnings. ZmqEventNormalizer records full-size blocks per worker, filters later smaller BlockStored events with PartialBlock (partial_block), and leaves an undersized first event on the conversion path. The added tests cover filtering, mismatch warning behavior, and per-worker tracking. The full-block path remains unfiltered.

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The changed production code adds the partial-tail filter and its metric label in lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/mod.rs. The added tests in lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/tests.rs verify the issue behavior. These changes directly support issue [#17793], and no unrelated change is shown.

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- Around line 285-286: Move the `full_block_workers` update in the `BlockStored`
handling flow to after `filter_reason` accepts the event. Ensure events rejected
by group filtering do not record full-block history, so they cannot suppress
size-mismatch warnings for later routed events.
- Line 289: In the `RawKvEvent::AllBlocksCleared` handler, remove the current
worker from `full_block_workers` while retaining the existing cache-namespace
cleanup. Add a regression test covering a full block, an `AllBlocksCleared`
event, and then an undersized block, verifying the latter is not filtered as
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…t on clear Address review: a full-size block from a filtered (non-main-attention) group no longer proves the worker's block size, and AllBlocksCleared resets the history so an engine that returns with a different block size still warns. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Karp <mkarp@nvidia.com>

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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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