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Since the SGLang 0.5.23 bump (#17653), three Post-Merge GPU tests fail on every run on main: test_sglang_deployment[mm_agg_router_qwen2-vl-2b-4], [mm_agg_router_qwen2.5-vl-3b-4] and [mm_agg_router_qwen3-vl-2b-4]. Each run ends with:
AssertionError: router_kv_hit_rate: mean over R2+ (0.043) below required min (0.9). delta_n=2.0, delta_sum=0.087. Router-side block hashes did not match the worker — MM-aware routing degraded silently.
SGLang 0.5.23 gives images "wide" pad values. On such builds the router uses only the text blocks before the first image to choose a worker, by design (#17126, #17653). These prompts have about one text block before the image, out of about 23 blocks, so the router hit rate is about 0.04. The worker still reuses the image KV cache. #17653 relaxed the router hit-rate check for the video case but not for these three image cases. The defect is in the tests, not in the router or the worker.
Reproduction
Without the fix
With the fix
Note
Exact failure on the reported setup
Not run
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Needs the Post-Merge sglang-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64 job on its CI runner; the coding run had one A100 with SGLang installed in the dev venv.
Exact failure on a similar setup
❌ Exact failure
✅ Passed
Live mm_agg_router deployment on one A100 with SGLang 0.5.23 (wide pad), as CI pins. Without the fix, qwen2-vl-2b failed with the CI values. With it, all three image cases passed.
Exact error in a test
❌ Exact error
✅ Passed
The same run: test_sglang_deployment[mm_agg_router_qwen2-vl-2b-4] raised the reported router_kv_hit_rate ... (0.043) below required min (0.9) assertion, and it passed with the fix.
Proposed fix
The three image mm_agg_router cases now use the same wide-pad check as the video case. When the installed SGLang has wide pad values, they drop the router hit-rate floor. They still check that the worker reuses cached tokens on repeated requests, and that the router reports new hit-rate observations for the repeats. On scalar-pad SGLang builds they still require a hit rate of at least 0.9. The video case's check moves into the SGLang multimodal profiles, so both share one definition.
CachedTokensChatPayload in tests/utils/payloads.py gets a require_kv_hit_rate_observations flag, so the observation check no longer depends on the floor. It is on whenever a test sets a floor above 0, so other callers behave as before.
Case
Before
After
Three VL image cases, wide-pad SGLang (0.5.23, CI)
Fail: hit rate about 0.04, below 0.9
Pass; worker KV reuse and router hit-rate observations still checked
Three VL image cases, scalar-pad SGLang (0.5.22)
Require hit rate of at least 0.9
Unchanged
qwen3.5-0.8b image case
Requires hit rate of at least 0.7
Unchanged
Video routing case
Floor dropped on wide-pad builds; no router observation check
Floor dropped on wide-pad builds; router observations still required
Not covered: exact image-aware KV routing on SGLang 0.5.23. It needs an upstream SGLang interface (sgl-project/sglang#45737, still open); #17082 tracks it on the Dynamo side.
Start reviewing at tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py.
Validation
This PR adds no tests. It changes three existing GPU test cases in tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py (mm_agg_router for qwen3-vl-2b, qwen2.5-vl-3b and qwen2-vl-2b) so they use the wide-pad gate. It also moves the video case's gate class from tests/serve/test_sglang.py into that file, so both use one class, and separates the router observation check from the hit-rate floor in tests/utils/payloads.py. These tests run on one GPU against a live SGLang worker and the Dynamo router.
Behavior checked
Checked by
Without the fix
With the fix
On a wide-pad SGLang build, the three image cases drop the router hit-rate floor but still require worker KV reuse
Three changed GPU tests, live run on one A100 with SGLang 0.5.23; also the reproduction above
❌ Exact error (qwen2-vl-2b, 0.043)
✅ Passed; 352, 352 and 272 cached tokens on repeats
On a wide-pad SGLang build, the three image cases still require new router hit-rate observations on the repeats
Three changed GPU tests, live run on one A100 with SGLang 0.5.23, at b1b9f8c98e
Not run
✅ 3 passed; 2 new observations per case (means 0.043, 0.043, 0.056)
On a scalar-pad SGLang build, the three image cases still require a hit rate of at least 0.9
Three changed GPU tests, live run on one A100 with SGLang 0.5.22
Not run
✅ Passed; hit rates 0.957, 0.957, 0.944
Each case gets the right floor for each pad mode
Inline check of every SGLang profile with the wide-pad probe forced on and off
❌ Failed: image cases kept 0.9 on wide-pad
✅ Passed
The video case keeps the same gate after the class move
Same inline check
✅ Passed
✅ Passed; live video run not done here, CI on b1b9f8c98e
qwen3.5-0.8b keeps its 0.7 floor on both builds
Existing GPU test that the change is written to leave alone, live runs on one A100
Not run
✅ Passed; 0.990 on 0.5.22, 0.914 on 0.5.23
Rows that name no commit ran on an earlier revision of this PR, before the observation check was split from the floor. That split does not change what scalar-pad builds check.
SGLang 0.5.23 (ai-dynamo#17653) gives images wide pad values, and Dynamo routes
them by text prefix only, so the three post-merge image agg_router cases
could not reach router_kv_hit_rate 0.9. Share the wide-pad gate that the
video case already used and apply it to the qwen3-vl-2b, qwen2.5-vl-3b and
qwen2-vl-2b image cases. Scalar-pad builds still require 0.9.
Fixes DYN-5379
Signed-off-by: svc-glamr@nvidia.com <svc-glamr@nvidia.com>
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Passed (exit 0)
The four mm_agg_router cases on one A100. With SGLang 0.5.23 (wide pad): the unchanged qwen2-vl-2b case failed with the CI error (0.043 < 0.9), and with the change all four passed. With SGLang 0.5.22 (scalar pad): all four passed with the 0.9 floor active.
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Validation result: pass. With SGLang 0.5.23 (the version CI pins), the unchanged test reproduced the exact CI failure (0.043 < 0.9) on one A100. With the change, all three VL mm_agg_router cases passed with worker KV reuse still checked. On SGLang 0.5.22, the same cases still enforce the 0.9 exact-routing floor and pass.
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The cached-token payload factory now accepts a payload class. Selected SGLang multimodal profiles and a video routing test use a payload class that sets the minimum average KV hit rate to 0.0 when wide multimodal pad values are supported.
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SGLang multimodal routing
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Configurable payload construction and SGLang behavior tests/utils/multimodal.py, tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py
The cached-token payload factory accepts a payload class to instantiate. The new SGLang payload class sets the minimum average KV hit rate to 0.0 when wide multimodal pad values are supported.
Apply the SGLang payload to routing cases tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py, tests/serve/test_sglang.py
Three multimodal model profiles and the video frontend-decoding test use the SGLang payload class. The test module removes its former video-specific subclass.
Wide-pad routing tests can pass without confirming router hit-rate observations. This is a bounded test-coverage gap, so the change is mergeable with a follow-up to restore that check.
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tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py: 1
19-19: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Move the import to module scope without a fallback.
sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values is defined at module level in dynamo.sglang._compat. That module guards its SGLang imports, so importing it does not require SGLang. The import can sit at the top of the file. The function-local import violates the repository rule that imports belong at module scope. The optional-dependency exception does not apply, because no try/except ImportError or None fallback is involved. A None fallback would also break the later call.
🔧 Suggested fix
import pytest
+from dynamo.sglang._compat import sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values
from tests.utils.multimodal import (
MmCase,
MultimodalModelProfile,
@@
class SGLangMmRoutingPayload(CachedTokensChatPayload):
def bind_environment(self, env: dict[str, str]) -> None:
- # Defer the optional backend import until this test runs.- from dynamo.sglang._compat import sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values-
super().bind_environment(env)
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Review comment at @tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py at line 19:
Move the sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values import to module scope in the test
module, and remove the function-local import from
SGLangMmRoutingPayload.bind_environment. Keep the direct import without adding a
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Review comments at @tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py:
- Line 25: Update the wide-pad profile setup around `self.min_avg_kv_hit_rate`
so setting a zero hit-rate floor does not skip metric baseline capture or the
router-observation check. Keep `CachedTokensChatPayload.final_validation()` and
its `cached_tokens` worker-reuse validation unchanged, and require router
hit-rate observations independently of the hit-rate threshold.
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Review comments at @tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py:
- Line 19: Move the sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values import to module scope in the
test module, and remove the function-local import from
SGLangMmRoutingPayload.bind_environment. Keep the direct import without adding a
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factory: About the nitpick in the CodeRabbit review that asks to move the sglang_has_wide_mm_pad_values import in tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py to module scope: I changed nothing.
dynamo.sglang._compat imports sglang at its top level. Its try block re-raises ModuleNotFoundError when the missing module is sglang itself, so importing it fails where SGLang is not installed. tests/serve/test_sglang.py imports this profiles module at collection time. A module-scope import would therefore break test collection in the vLLM and TensorRT-LLM containers. The import stays inside bind_environment, which runs only when an SGLang test starts. The video case on main used the same pattern for the same reason.
All 4 failed jobs reject --router-mode=power-of-two in the same two planner tests; the 2 dynamo-runtime jobs additionally fail the frontend parser environment-isolation test (reject_media_status_code becomes 0 instead of 415).
❌ planner / CPU Test cpu, arm64: --router-mode rejects 'power-of-two'
Job: planner / CPU Test cpu, arm64 · Failed step: Run CPU-only tests (parallelized) · Logs: gh run view --job 126455686406 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] - AssertionError: P4: cannot parse the frontend args: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] - SystemExit: 2
E argparse.ArgumentError: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
E SystemExit: 2
test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] fails its FrontendStartup assertion because the frontend parser rejects power-of-two; test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] hits the same invalid choice in the worker parser and exits with SystemExit: 2. Both tests supply a router mode absent from the logged allowed choices (round-robin, random, kv, direct, least-loaded, device-aware-weighted).
❌ planner / CPU Test cpu, amd64: --router-mode rejects 'power-of-two'
Job: planner / CPU Test cpu, amd64 · Failed step: Run CPU-only tests (parallelized) · Logs: gh run view --job 126455686426 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] - AssertionError: P4: cannot parse the frontend args: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] - SystemExit: 2
E argparse.ArgumentError: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
E SystemExit: 2
test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] fails its FrontendStartup assertion because the frontend parser rejects power-of-two; test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] hits the same invalid choice in the worker parser and exits with SystemExit: 2. Both tests supply a router mode absent from the logged allowed choices (round-robin, random, kv, direct, least-loaded, device-aware-weighted).
FAILED components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_frontend_parser_builder.py::test_no_registered_env_var_is_read_from_os_environ - AssertionError: 0
E {'reject_media_status_code': 0} != {'reject_media_status_code': 415}
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] - AssertionError: P4: cannot parse the frontend args: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] - SystemExit: 2
E argparse.ArgumentError: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
E SystemExit: 2
test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] fails its FrontendStartup assertion because the frontend parser rejects power-of-two; test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] hits the same invalid choice in the worker parser and exits with SystemExit: 2. Both tests supply a router mode absent from the logged allowed choices (round-robin, random, kv, direct, least-loaded, device-aware-weighted). Separately, test_no_registered_env_var_is_read_from_os_environ fails with sentinel 0: parsed reject_media_status_code is 0, not its expected default 415.
FAILED components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_frontend_parser_builder.py::test_no_registered_env_var_is_read_from_os_environ - AssertionError: 0
E {'reject_media_status_code': 0} != {'reject_media_status_code': 415}
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] - AssertionError: P4: cannot parse the frontend args: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
FAILED components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_live_retune_frontend_config.py::test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] - SystemExit: 2
E argparse.ArgumentError: argument --router-mode: invalid choice: 'power-of-two' (choose from 'round-robin', 'random', 'kv', 'direct', 'least-loaded', 'device-aware-weighted')
E SystemExit: 2
test_effective_argv[command7-args7-power_of_two] fails its FrontendStartup assertion because the frontend parser rejects power-of-two; test_worker_router_mode_matches_the_real_worker_parser[args3-env3] hits the same invalid choice in the worker parser and exits with SystemExit: 2. Both tests supply a router mode absent from the logged allowed choices (round-robin, random, kv, direct, least-loaded, device-aware-weighted). Separately, test_no_registered_env_var_is_read_from_os_environ fails with sentinel 0: parsed reject_media_status_code is 0, not its expected default 415.
nursery: I added a docstring to SGLangMmRoutingPayload.bind_environment in commit 711bd7b45382fa019344894890f74e5220dba3a5 to address the documentation finding in the CodeRabbit summary. It explains that wide-pad builds relax the hit-rate floor while still requiring router observations. The observation check itself was already restored in b1b9f8c98e8233af6652dce121afc00308374cd8: validate captures the first-request baseline, and final_validation requires new observations on repeats even when the floor is zero. The worker cached-token check still runs.
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Failure behavior
Since the SGLang 0.5.23 bump (#17653), three Post-Merge GPU tests fail on every run on
main:test_sglang_deployment[mm_agg_router_qwen2-vl-2b-4],[mm_agg_router_qwen2.5-vl-3b-4]and[mm_agg_router_qwen3-vl-2b-4]. Each run ends with:SGLang 0.5.23 gives images "wide" pad values. On such builds the router uses only the text blocks before the first image to choose a worker, by design (#17126, #17653). These prompts have about one text block before the image, out of about 23 blocks, so the router hit rate is about 0.04. The worker still reuses the image KV cache. #17653 relaxed the router hit-rate check for the video case but not for these three image cases. The defect is in the tests, not in the router or the worker.
sglang-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64job on its CI runner; the coding run had one A100 with SGLang installed in the dev venv.mm_agg_routerdeployment on one A100 with SGLang 0.5.23 (wide pad), as CI pins. Without the fix,qwen2-vl-2bfailed with the CI values. With it, all three image cases passed.test_sglang_deployment[mm_agg_router_qwen2-vl-2b-4]raised the reportedrouter_kv_hit_rate ... (0.043) below required min (0.9)assertion, and it passed with the fix.Proposed fix
The three image
mm_agg_routercases now use the same wide-pad check as the video case. When the installed SGLang has wide pad values, they drop the router hit-rate floor. They still check that the worker reuses cached tokens on repeated requests, and that the router reports new hit-rate observations for the repeats. On scalar-pad SGLang builds they still require a hit rate of at least 0.9. The video case's check moves into the SGLang multimodal profiles, so both share one definition.CachedTokensChatPayloadintests/utils/payloads.pygets arequire_kv_hit_rate_observationsflag, so the observation check no longer depends on the floor. It is on whenever a test sets a floor above 0, so other callers behave as before.qwen3.5-0.8bimage caseNot covered: exact image-aware KV routing on SGLang 0.5.23. It needs an upstream SGLang interface (sgl-project/sglang#45737, still open); #17082 tracks it on the Dynamo side.
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tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py.Validation
This PR adds no tests. It changes three existing GPU test cases in
tests/serve/multimodal_profiles/sglang.py(mm_agg_routerforqwen3-vl-2b,qwen2.5-vl-3bandqwen2-vl-2b) so they use the wide-pad gate. It also moves the video case's gate class fromtests/serve/test_sglang.pyinto that file, so both use one class, and separates the router observation check from the hit-rate floor intests/utils/payloads.py. These tests run on one GPU against a live SGLang worker and the Dynamo router.qwen2-vl-2b,0.043)352,352and272cached tokens on repeatsb1b9f8c98e2new observations per case (means0.043,0.043,0.056)0.957,0.957,0.9440.9on wide-padb1b9f8c98eqwen3.5-0.8bkeeps its 0.7 floor on both builds0.990on 0.5.22,0.914on 0.5.23Rows that name no commit ran on an earlier revision of this PR, before the observation check was split from the floor. That split does not change what scalar-pad builds check.
Closes DYN-5379.
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