Backport engine-driven async-copy lifetime synchronization - #55
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…MCache#4830) * fix(mp): complete async copies before their buffers are reused Two places in the engine-driven path launch async copies and then hand the buffers to something that reads them, without waiting. Both fail silently: the KV is already committed or already scattered, so the only symptom is corrupted content much later. Found while running the engine-driven pickle transport on 8xH100, where it showed up as a gsm8k score dropping from 0.80 to 0.00 with no error anywhere. scatter_cpu_to_paged_kv pins unpinned chunks into temporaries and launches async H2D reads on them through raw pointers, which torch's stream tracking cannot see. Returning drops the last reference, so the caching host allocator can hand that memory to the next caller while the copies are still in flight and the next pin_memory() overwrites the bytes mid-transfer. The caller-side synchronize the function documents cannot cover this: by then the temporaries are already gone. Sync before returning, but only when we pinned them -- caller-owned pinned chunks keep the existing fast path. submit_store synchronized only when out_buffers was given, i.e. the SHM path. Gather issues async device->CPU copies on both transports, and the pickle transport serializes the buffers immediately in commit_store, so the pickle path was serializing a buffer still being written. Make it unconditional. Both tests run without a GPU so they hold in the CPU-only unit CI, and both fail without the corresponding fix. The pickle one asserts a sync falls between gather and commit rather than merely occurring: submit_store also syncs before prepare_store, and that earlier call is why guarding the second on out_buffers went unnoticed. Signed-off-by: Divy <divy@coralbricks.ai> * test(mp): satisfy mypy in the async-copy lifetime tests commit_store's side effect used `order.append(...) or True`, and append returns None, so mypy rejected it as func-returns-value. Replaced with a typed function. The scatter test passes MagicMock chunks on purpose (pin_memory needs an accelerator, so the ptr-only branch cannot execute on the CPU-only CI), so the call now casts them explicitly. Signed-off-by: Divy <divy@coralbricks.ai> --------- Signed-off-by: Divy <divy@coralbricks.ai>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe transfer paths now synchronize asynchronous copies before temporary pinned buffers are released and before gathered buffers are committed. CPU-only tests verify both ordering contracts. ChangesAsync copy lifetime fixes
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change synchronizes async transfer buffers before commit or release. The intended failed-gather cleanup behavior is implemented, but pickle-mode failure cleanup lacks a focused regression test, leaving a bounded coverage risk before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@lmcache/v1/multiprocess/transfer_context/base.py`:
- Around line 910-920: Update the multi_layer_block_kv_transfer flow to track
whether any H2D launch was attempted, and synchronize torch_dev in a finally
block whenever dynamically pinned temporaries may still back in-flight copies.
Ensure this cleanup runs on both successful and exceptional batch processing
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Validated this backport on the GLM engine-driven asynchronous shared-memory stack, with Divy's original authorship retained. Both copy-lifetime ordering tests passed. The combined filesystem/restart/asynchronous-transfer suite passed all 100 selected tests with rebuilt CPU-native extensions. The existing asynchronous SHM completion path remains intact. The additional synchronous-store barrier protects the pickle path, and the retrieve barrier is conditional on owning temporary pinned buffers. GPU serving qualification for this composition is still pending. |
Drain attempted raw-pointer H2D copies in a finally block before releasing locally pinned source tensors. A native batch may enqueue work before raising, so ownership cleanup also covers the first failed launch. Caller-owned pinned buffers and entirely skipped transfers do not gain synchronization. Validation: 108 CPU engine-driven transfer tests passed, including nine copy-lifetime cases. Changed-file pre-commit checks passed, including mypy; Rust hooks explicitly skipped because no Rust files changed.
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147-199: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover failed pickle gathers before merge.
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gather_paged_kv_to_cpu→ synchronize →commit_storepath. The store contract also requires cleanup when a gather raises after enqueueing a copy. Add a failure case that records a launched gather, raises from the gather helper, and verifiestorch_dev.synchronize()runs before staging buffers are released andcommit_storeis not called.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/v1/multiprocess/test_engine_driven_async_copy_lifetime.py`:
- Around line 147-199: Add a failure-path test alongside
test_pickle_store_syncs_before_commit_serializes using the same mocked transfer
context and ordering tracker: make gather_paged_kv_to_cpu record that a copy was
launched, then raise; verify torch_dev.synchronize() occurs before staged
buffers are released, and assert commit_store is never called. Update the
implementation path identified by submit_store to synchronize and clean up
staged buffers when gathering fails.
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Status
Implemented. CPU copy-order and engine-driven transfer contracts are qualified. GLM serving qualification of the composed image is pending.
Behavior
Engine-driven stores wait for device-to-host copies before publishing or serializing CPU buffers. Retrieves retain locally pinned temporary buffers until raw-pointer host-to-device copies finish, including when a transfer batch raises.
The store and normal retrieve fixes retain Divy's authorship from upstream LMCache #4830. Exception-safe retrieve cleanup extends that backport.
Validation
55f50e08, passed DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 TP2 shared-memory restore: 143,360 external tokens from a 144,028-token prompt, with all eight KV groups identical byte-for-byte on both ranks. That hardware result does not qualify the GLM composed image.Compatibility
No cache-key, KV-layout, eviction, or transport-selection changes. No additional synchronization on caller-owned pinned shared-memory transfers.
Development disclosure
Backport, cleanup, and validation completed with OpenAI Codex assistance under human direction.
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