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Purpose

A named POSIX shared-memory pool can remain allocated after the vLLM and
LMCache processes terminate. LMCache checked /dev/shm capacity before its L1
allocator removed that exact stale object, so a restart could incorrectly
select pickle transfer even when replacing the configured pool would fit.

This pull request removes only the configured LMCache L1 object before the
capacity measurement and then lets the allocator perform its normal cleanup
and creation sequence.

Status: qualified for named engine-driven shared-memory restarts.

Resulting behavior

  • A configured name is normalized with the allocator's
    lmcache_l1_pool_ prefix.
  • Startup invokes the allocator's existing stale-object cleanup for that exact
    name before reading available tmpfs capacity.
  • No unrelated object in /dev/shm is scanned or removed.
  • If another process still maps the object, unlinking the name does not release
    its pages. Those pages remain charged to tmpfs, so the following capacity
    measurement cannot count live storage as free.
  • Anonymous and non-Linux configurations retain their existing behavior.

Stack and compatibility

Target branch: dev. Merge #49 and then #50 before this PR. The retained commit ancestry carries those dependencies; after they reach dev, the remaining review delta is startup-capacity accounting. Merging this PR must publish to dev, not only to another review branch.

The change does not alter the transfer protocol, cache payload, or configured
L1 size. Deployments that intentionally share one named pool between live
servers remain protected by POSIX shared-memory lifetime accounting: mapped
pages are not reclaimed or reported as available.

Validation

  • Six focused capacity tests passed. They cover bare, allocator-prefixed, and
    slash-prefixed names; invalid nested names remain subject to allocator
    validation; and capacity is measured strictly after cleanup.
  • A 64 GiB named pool left by a terminated process was replaced during restart
    on a 567 GiB tmpfs. All four TP4 workers created
    EngineDrivenContextShm; no pickle fallback occurred.
  • The resulting two-layer GLM-5.3-Flash image completed a 50,027-token
    cold/APC/L1/L2 qualification. APC used 49,152 local-prefix tokens; both RAM
    L1 and native-filesystem L2 restored 49,152 external tokens and recomputed
    875 tokens.
  • A one-million-token qualification restored 999,424 tokens from RAM L1 in
    1.150 seconds and from native-filesystem L2 after a complete process restart
    in 1.261 seconds. Both paths recomputed 576 tokens and reproduced the greedy
    output.

XuTianle0101 and others added 2 commits September 5, 2026 01:24
Signed-off-by: xutianle <xutianle@fudan.edu.cn>
Store ObjectKeys whose flat encoding exceeds NAME_MAX in bounded, reversible path components. The native filesystem adapter and Python filesystem adapter use the same mapping, retain readable flat objects, and use bounded temporary basenames.

Restart inventory decodes the complete model identity and tenant salt from the bounded path, preserving capacity and per-tenant accounting. Native reads, writes, lookup, deletion, O_DIRECT behavior, and atomic publication retain their existing payload contract.

Validated with 161 filesystem, restart-inventory, write-back, atomic-publication, and adapter-factory tests; one optional raw-block test skipped.
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Walkthrough

The server now removes the configured stale L1 shared-memory pool before measuring /dev/shm capacity. Tests cover pool-name normalization, allocator pass-through, and cleanup-before-measurement ordering.

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L1 shared-memory capacity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cleanup and capacity measurement
lmcache/v1/multiprocess/server.py, tests/v1/multiprocess/test_shm_capacity.py
The server normalizes configured pool names, calls _unlink_stale_shm, and reads /dev/shm free bytes after cleanup. Tests cover bare, prefixed, absolute, nested, and backslash-containing names, plus call ordering.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Suggested reviewers: apostac, maobaolong, deng451e

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dcaff

Startup now removes a configured shared-memory pool before checking capacity, but configurations that disable POSIX SHM may remove a pool this server does not replace, disrupting another process using that name. Add the mode guards and restart coverage before merge.

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In `@lmcache/v1/multiprocess/server.py`:
- Line 401: Guard the cleanup call in MPCacheServerContext so
_available_l1_shm_bytes_after_cleanup runs only when POSIX SHM is enabled,
excluding configurations with mem_cfg.use_lazy or a non-empty
mem_cfg.devdax_path. Add restart coverage for both use_lazy=True and a
configured devdax_path, preserving normal SHM cleanup behavior otherwise.

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R26 packaged-integration validation: this pull request is included in voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260905-r26 (sha256:d0592ea9d73cac5aadb151a58bbb43cf7aff03829d46bb4f4ba7396aaef67c68). FP8 and NVFP4 compressed MLA cache completed exact 54.6K-token cold, RAM-L1, and complete-process filesystem-L2 restores through asynchronous engine-driven pinned shared memory. A one-million-token DFlash2 request restored 999,424 tokens after restart, and the CPU-only LMCache sidecar created no CUDA context. The full packaged suite passed 383 tests with 33 unsupported-device skips. The merge sequence is recorded in local-inference-lab/vllm#651.

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R27 integration validation

The change represented by this PR is included in the qualified, source-locked
GLM-5.3-Flash runtime
voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260906-r27
(sha256:a298fe1cd207eaf97bd2ff2686716ed25b7009c09b36650eba732a4a7dc51512).
The packaged LMCache tree is 008ac3e09ae5917aa0849147480d7bd5b9f8b37a
with package tree fe5442fbf258accaa7f26d2bbb00d8b7b5c349ca.

Two TP4/DCP4 cache formats passed the complete engine-driven qualification:

  • FP8 target KV: a 50,026-token request computed cold, reused 49,152 tokens
    through vLLM prefix caching, and restored 49,152 tokens from RAM-L1 and
    filesystem-L2.
  • Packed-NVFP4 target KV with DFlash2 K7: the corresponding 50,027-token test
    produced the same 49,152-token reuse and restore ranges.
  • Both formats restored 12,288 tokens after restarting the LMCache sidecar and
    all vLLM workers.
  • Per-block source and destination checksums matched on all four ranks; the
    DFlash2 case covered seven recurrent groups, target attention, and draft
    attention with disjoint source and destination GPU blocks.
  • The sidecar had an empty CUDA device set and owned no CUDA context; gather and
    scatter ran in the existing vLLM workers through asynchronous pinned shared
    memory.

The exact open-PR merge order and runtime contract are recorded in
local-inference-lab/vllm#651.

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Community integration receipt for #51: this exact PR head is already merged into integration/local-inference-lab through 31cbce51.

The original contributor commits are preserved. Exact head ancestry was verified, not inferred from equivalent file contents. Closing this dev-targeted review because its community integration is complete; this is not a claim that it merged into dev. Further community changes must target integration/local-inference-lab. GitHub cannot retarget an already-contained head because there are no new commits to merge.

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