feat(cache): transfer atomic recurrent checkpoint generations over shared memory - #62
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…d memory Authenticate immutable model, layout and token-prefix identities in a bounded durable directory. Publish a generation only after every rank stores its complete payload. Retain SHM leases until copy completion or explicit drained cancellation; unresolved ownership stops admission. Worker-owned background transfers keep tensor payloads out of metadata RPC and require no GPU context in the sidecar. Validation: 42 index, identity and real SHM/RPC storage tests plus 81 engine-driven transfer tests passed. Coverage includes process-restart filesystem retrieval, partial rank failures, capacity rejection, read-lock eviction, late lease and completion replies, and lost-ownership admission shutdown. Pre-commit checks passed. Status: implemented; composed GPU lifetime qualification remains a release gate. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> (cherry picked from commit b7977f4)
Import target, recurrent, auxiliary and draft pages through the atomic vLLM checkpoint allocator. Publish only all-rank successful copies, preserve cancelled request pins until admitted transfers drain, and prevent reused public request IDs from consuming predecessor bookkeeping. CUDA work uses existing model-worker streams and pinned SHM; ordinary aligned transfers remain separate. Validation: eight real allocator/MQ ownership tests passed, including cancellation, reused request IDs, per-rank failure, LoRA namespace isolation and immutable revision requirements. Storage and transfer suites also passed. The GPU checkpoint copier retains the platform CUDA stream/event primitives. Complete-image qualification is pending; status: implemented. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> (cherry picked from commit 427d926)
Propagate the explicit HTTP force flag through the cache server and management module to L1 eviction. Non-forced clearing retains read/write-locked objects; an omitted flag and the argument-free CLEAR RPC retain their forced behavior. No wire identifier or payload changes are required. Validation: two real SHM regressions fail before the correction and pass afterward, covering prefetch before slot exposure, active read leases, pending write leases, unlocked eviction and release. All 94 storage and HTTP tests pass; Python pre-commit checks pass. Concurrent GPU qualification is pending; status: implemented. Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> (cherry picked from commit 6b6074c)
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds recurrent checkpoint publication, storage, transfer, and vLLM connector support. It also adds checkpoint identity helpers, durable indexing, shared-memory lease handling, and force-aware cache clear behavior. Tests cover identity, index, storage, SHM views, HTTP clear forwarding, and vLLM transfer error handling. ChangesRecurrent checkpoint transfer
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Multi-chunk recurrent checkpoints cannot be stored, disabling checkpoint reuse for those requests. Concurrent checkpoint traffic may also experience avoidable admission delays, so these issues should be resolved before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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_lockinpoll_retrievewithout weakening lease ownership.
poll_retrieveholds_lockwhileStorageManager.query_prefetch_status,finish_read_prefetched,unsafe_read, andcheckpoint_page_groupsrun. Repeated all-rank polling can therefore serializeprepare_store,begin_retrieve,finish_store, andreport_statusbehind storage work. Move these operations outside the global lock, but serialize polling per lease, keep the lease registered whileunsafe_readruns, and re-checklease.cancelledunder_lockbefore publishinglease.slots. Cancellation must finish the correct read-locked keys, andfinish_retrievemust not release them before slot publication.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@lmcache/integration/vllm/checkpoint_scheduler.py`:
- Around line 279-287: Update the CHECKPOINT_BEGIN handling in take_tasks to
catch exceptions from pending.begin.result() and treat them as a failed begin
operation. Ensure the existing cleanup path still releases pending.checkpoint,
removes the task from _tasks, and finishes cancelled requests.
In `@lmcache/integration/vllm/recurrent_checkpoint_connector.py`:
- Around line 147-153: Initialize self._rank in __init__ alongside the other
connector state attributes, using an explicit unset value consistent with its
later assignment in bind_boundary_checkpoint_state. Preserve
build_connector_worker_meta’s existing behavior and ensure accessing _rank
before binding produces a clear, intentional failure rather than an
AttributeError caused by the attribute being absent.
- Around line 258-275: The task submission loop around
CheckpointTransferWorker.submit must handle submission exceptions so every task
that is not successfully submitted receives a terminal failed/rejected result.
Catch exceptions from job construction or submit, mark the current task and all
subsequent unsent tasks as failed using the existing completion/result
mechanism, and preserve normal pending handling for successful submissions.
In `@lmcache/v1/multiprocess/checkpoint_index.py`:
- Around line 294-300: Update CheckpointIndex.find so access_order persistence
is batched or deferred instead of synchronously committed while holding
self._lock, keeping CHECKPOINT_FIND responsive. Preserve in-memory LRU ordering,
reconcile all pending recency updates before eviction and shutdown, and ensure
the durable index restores the same recency order across restarts.
In `@lmcache/v1/multiprocess/checkpoint_storage.py`:
- Around line 261-266: Update the exception rollback around the reservation flow
so removing identity from _store_ranks is performed in a finally block, even
when _storage.abort_write or _index.abort raises. Apply the same guaranteed
cleanup to the short-reservation path while preserving the existing rollback and
exception propagation behavior.
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In `@lmcache/v1/multiprocess/checkpoint_storage.py`:
- Around line 381-396: Refactor poll_retrieve to hold _lock only for lease
lookup/state transitions, while serializing polls per lease and keeping the
lease registered throughout storage operations including query_prefetch_status,
finish_read_prefetched, unsafe_read, and checkpoint_page_groups. Re-check
lease.cancelled under _lock before publishing lease.slots; on cancellation,
finish exactly the read-locked keys, and preserve lease ownership so
finish_retrieve cannot release them before slot publication.
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…ases Reject failed begin and copy submissions with terminal ownership results, retain fatal unsafe-copy behavior, and release store admission counters even when rollback raises. Require bound worker state before emitting rank metadata. Successful copy layout, GPU kernels and durable recency semantics are unchanged. Validation: seven fault-injection cases plus 56 existing SHM, identity, index and allocator tests pass; Python pre-commit and mypy pass.
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Review fixes are in 07e557d. Seven focused fault-injection cases and 56 existing allocator, SHM, durable-index and identity tests pass (63 total); Python pre-commit and mypy pass. The serving composition applies the identical change as 338c0d2. GPU copy kernels/layout and successful-path serialization are unchanged; the image rebuild and E2E restore smoke are still pending. @coderabbitai review |
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Give each checkpoint rank/storage pair a separate payload-key namespace. Checkpoint groups use different logical page positions and group-specific hashes, so they are not the aligned rank/group families required by ordinary chunk-coherent LRU eviction. The manifest and complete-payload retrieval own generation atomicity; active SHM copies retain their existing read/write leases. Retry capacity-only store reservations with the storage manager's bounded eviction backpressure, releasing all partial reservations before each retry. Conflicts and invalid generations remain immediate admission failures. Payload keys use the version-2 namespace. Version-1 filesystem objects produce safe cache misses and recomputation, never partial or mixed-generation restores. Model arithmetic, cache-page geometry, and ordinary chunk eviction are unchanged. Validation: global and isolated LRU reproduce zero eviction candidates before the fix. All 55 checkpoint storage/index and chunk-coherent eviction tests pass, including sustained stores beyond pool capacity, pinned SHM bytes, rank-failure cleanup, and filesystem restart. Python pre-commit checks pass; Rust hooks are explicitly skipped because no Rust source changes. (cherry picked from commit 6168170)
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Checkpoint stores now remain evictable when the RAM tier fills. A sustained DFlash2 test exposed an integration defect: a 64 GiB L1 pool reached The fix scopes payload-key namespaces to each rank/storage pair and uses bounded Validation: both LRU policies reproduce the failure before the fix. All 55 Docker validation also passes for storage: TP4/DCP1 DFlash2 with FP8 target KV, TP4/DCP4 response-boundary transfer is byte-exact across all four ranks: 176 The source-locked image at LMCache Packaged TP4/DCP4 validation passes literal cold/APC/RAM/filesystem/restart The independent DFlash sampling study retains both 24-seed cohorts, including The complete-image MTP3/DCP4 control also completed: all 24 seeds per image @coderabbitai review |
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In `@lmcache/integration/vllm/recurrent_checkpoint_connector.py`:
- Line 266: Move the torch_dev.Event() construction and event.record() call into
the existing exception-handling scope in start_load_kv so either CUDA setup
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No blocking issues found. The version-2 rank/group namespaces make each checkpoint payload key evictable without requiring nonexistent ordinary chunk siblings. The checkpoint manifest and complete-payload retrieval path continue to enforce all-rank atomicity. The admission path retries only The tests cover both LRU policies, capacity pressure with a live read lease, and filesystem restart. I also used the existing Full Docker pressure testing remains pending. The unit-test coverage supports the change, but it does not replace that qualification. 🧠 Learnings used
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Return a negative rank completion when CUDA event creation or recording fails before copy submission. Continue draining other tasks so collective pins can be released. Unsafe in-flight copy failures remain fatal. Normal transfer dispatch is unchanged. Validation: both event fault injections fail before this change; 58 checkpoint connector, storage and index tests pass afterward. Python pre-commit hooks pass; Rust hooks are explicitly excluded for these Python-only files. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex (cherry picked from commit 617a1b4)
Signed-off-by: derek <derek.yates@live.com>
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The atomic checkpoint transport now includes Derek Yates’s immutable-payload deduplication from #64, preserving his original signed commit and authorship. Repeated identical boundary manifests are idempotent; complete attention pages can be reused across growing prompt boundaries, while recurrent and auxiliary states retain endpoint-specific identities. All-rank publication and all-or-nothing restore remain mandatory. Validation: 138 checkpoint identity, index, storage and engine-driven CPU tests pass in the source-locked R29 runtime with the composed LMCache source, including the independent pinned block-ID lifetime correction from #50. GPU serving/restart qualification is still pending; these CPU results are not a six-mode serving claim. @coderabbitai review |
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In `@lmcache/integration/vllm/checkpoint_scheduler.py`:
- Around line 289-332: Update _page_content_keys so recurrent groups derive each
key from the corresponding page position rather than assigning num_tokens to
every recurrent boundary. Preserve the existing attention end calculation and
discriminator, ensuring multi-chunk recurrent positions produce distinct keys
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No blocking issues found. The content-addressed version-3 object keys retain rank and storage-group isolation. Attention-page keys use each page boundary. This permits reuse across growing prompt boundaries. Recurrent and auxiliary keys use the checkpoint endpoint and role discriminator. This keeps their identities endpoint-specific.
All-rank publication remains enforced by The focused tests cover duplicate-copy suppression, recurrent and auxiliary key separation, stable generation identity, durable idempotency, and SHM-slot validation. The reported 138 CPU tests support this change. GPU serving and restart qualification remain pending. I used the existing checkpoint payload namespace guidance during this review. ✏️ Learnings added
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Behavior
Store and restore complete recurrent checkpoints as immutable all-rank
generations. A generation includes target attention, recurrent state and the
MTP/DFlash auxiliary state required to resume an exact boundary. It becomes
visible only after every rank commits successfully.
Existing vLLM workers perform asynchronous copies through pinned shared
memory. The LMCache sidecar remains CPU-only. Tensor payloads stay out of
metadata RPC, and read/write leases prevent eviction or reuse before transfer
completion. Non-forced HTTP clear preserves live leases; forced clear requires
an idle service.
A bounded SQLite directory authenticates model/draft/source revisions, layout,
parallelism and token-prefix identity across process restarts. Incompatible
identities miss; incomplete or failed generations never become cache hits.
Cancelled vLLM imports retain private destination pins until copies drain.
Content-derived generation IDs make identical publication idempotent before
SHM reservation or GPU copying. Complete attention pages have authenticated
prefix identities and can be shared by different endpoint manifests; recurrent,
partial-page and auxiliary state remain endpoint-specific. Schema-1 manifests
retain their generation-scoped keys; schema-2 manifests use content keys.
Integration
LMCacheRecurrentCheckpointConnectorrequires vLLM's atomic external-boundaryallocator API. Ordinary aligned LMCache transfer remains separate. This does
not replace the filesystem-key, transfer-workspace and lifetime corrections
reviewed in #49–#51 and #55; the serving composition includes those as well.
The storage and connector are one review boundary because publication,
cancellation and lease ownership must agree across both sides of the protocol.
Contributor history is preserved, including Derek Yates's original signed
deduplication commit from #64. That PR merged into this feature branch; #62
remains the review target for merging the combined transport into dev.
Immutable-payload deduplication validation
Status: implemented; focused CPU and bounded three-mode restore checks qualified.
The tested image is
sha256:78911161c0ee73edd7b9b71c5fa32ef4efdacd416bd2d752b2a9090eb2bdedb7,with LMCache
a3a230c8and vLLMb72ba34a9bf. Its two-layer package passes138 installed LMCache CPU tests. Stock TP4 RTX PRO 6000 Workstation, DCP4,
DFlash2 K7, FP8 target KV, 4096-token scheduler budget and a dedicated
filesystem namespace:
zero recomputation and identical greedy output. Filesystem page cache is warm.
the suffix and adds 40 objects instead of rewriting all 80.
The same image also passes these DFlash2/DCP4 checks:
filesystem and full serving/sidecar restart. External restores recompute
zero prompt tokens. The restart request completes in 0.268 s with warm OS
filesystem cache; this includes answer generation, not only memory copies.
locally, from RAM and after restart. Changing that SYSTEM text misses safely.
across all four ranks with exact GPU/SHM/store/restore hashes.
generations and 21,838,823,424 checked bytes without changing page content
or losing prompt reuse.
The same immutable image also passes GPU/RAM/filesystem replay, identical
greedy output, idempotent publication and suffix-only continuation at
MTP3/DCP1 and no-spec/DCP4. Their C4 byte oracles respectively verify
6,176,636,928 bytes (448 transfers) and 2,628,747,264 bytes (416 transfers)
on all four ranks.
Checksum instrumentation is disabled for timing. A same-quartet R29 versus
this image comparison measures DFlash2/DCP4 prefill 13,294 versus 13,296 tok/s
and verifier 81.04 versus 81.14 steps/s. The short stochastic output cell
decreases 201.73 to 196.47 tok/s with accepted length 2.489 to 2.421; this does
not establish long-run acceptance parity. The corrected-admission image
509a7276repeats the DFlash2/DCP4 deduplication, restart and C4 byte checkswith this same LMCache source. Five matched 4096-output-token Sieve requests,
temperature 1/top-p 0.95, measure median verifier 77.46 → 77.76 steps/s
(+0.39%). Output medians are 256.40 → 336.69 tok/s, but the broad overlapping
ranges (242.57–331.69 and 229.21–415.05) do not establish a repeatable speedup.
The complete evidence is in the
R30 report.
The
historical six-mode, one-million-token measurements below describe a different
image; they are not measurements of the deduplication addition.
Published generation-scoped transport qualification
Status: qualified for the explicitly identified artifact below.
This evidence covers generation-scoped payload storage, before deduplication.
Against
devat7ed4675404a3, 175 tests pass:They exercise real SHM/RPC, restart inventory, partial-rank failure, capacity
rejection, late replies, lost-lease admission shutdown, cancellation, reused
request IDs, LoRA namespace isolation and HTTP clear. Python pre-commit and
type checks pass; Rust hooks are explicitly excluded for this Python-only diff.
Source-locked image
sha256:7af278fa25acd9647943408c1630dac31d35bd57da01044402d8fced6a0b048b,stock TP4 RTX PRO 6000 Workstation quartets, FP8 target KV, budget4096, OMP1,
NCCL16/2MiB, full/piecewise graphs, engine-driven SHM and filesystem L2:
Every restore attributes all one million tokens externally with zero local
computation. Exact 54K answers, shared SYSTEM/different USER requests, C4
all-rank byte comparisons and C8 cancellation/lease-eviction checks pass in
all six arms. The server has no CUDA context. These are API times, not
DMA-only measurements; the OS filesystem page cache was not flushed.
Long-generation acceptance parity and complete-image throughput remain
separate release gates. Correct bytes alone do not establish equal acceptance.
NVFP4 target-KV and Qwen runtime qualification are excluded.
OpenAI Codex assisted with implementation and validation under Martin Vít's
direction. Human review of the cross-process ownership contract is requested.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
--checkpoint-index-path.Bug Fixes
forcesetting, preserving active leases when disabled.Documentation