fix(dflash): replicate draft KV under DCP - #513
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes cache geometry so replicated draft groups use DCP1 while target groups remain sharded. Several less-common cache-spec merge paths can drop or inconsistently select the replication mode, potentially causing incorrect cache sizing or addressing and request failures when those specification types are used; merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Generalize the speculative-decoding DCP capability beyond MTP and advertise it for FlashInfer and B12X. Build non-causal DFlash metadata through the DCP-aware FlashInfer prefill wrapper and preserve virtual-to-local slot mapping for multi-token draft queries. Keep sparse-MLA cache canonicalization local to each target layer so a later generic-attention draft does not inherit fp8_ds_mla. Support sliding-window cache groups under DCP by using the effective sharded page span consistently for admission, prefix lookup, retention, and hybrid coordination. Cover capability gating, causal and non-causal DCP reorder metadata, slot mapping, DCP recycling-capacity bounds, and hybrid DCP4 sliding-window prefix reuse. Signed-off-by: Derek Yates <yatesdr@users.noreply.github.com>
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DFlash draft attention owns TP-local KV heads and does not perform a cross-rank attention/LSE reduction. Sequence-sharding that cache with the target model DCP topology therefore changes the draft proposal distribution and materially lowers speculative acceptance. Mark DFlash attention groups as DCP-replicated while preserving their backend-selected sliding-window geometry. Propagate that distinction through KV grouping, memory sizing, scheduling, cache admission, block tables, slot mapping, attention metadata, and the DFlash input path. Replicated groups execute as local DCP1 attention; target groups remain sequence-sharded at the configured DCP size. This is safe because every DCP rank retains a complete sequence for its own TP-local draft heads, so the draft cache is opaque and rank-namespaced by the existing TP execution. No cross-rank KV or LSE reconstruction is required. Bounds checks and stale-tail clearing keep mixed sharded/replicated block tables well-defined across reuse and sleep/wake. Add focused coverage for DFlash spec tagging, backend-native sliding-window block selection, DCP1 behavior, scheduler/table geometry, cache grouping, attention CP mutation, and mixed-group GPU slot mapping.
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dcp_replicatedin the custom merge methods.
MLAAttentionSpec.mergeuses the inherited defaultFalse, andRSWASpec.mergedropsbase.dcp_replicatedwhen reconstructing the subclass.SinkFullAttentionSpec.mergeselects the first replication mode without checking that all inputs match. These values control DCP block-table sizing and cache allocation.Pass the preserved value through each merge and reject mixed replication modes.
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In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py`:
- Line 315: Update the docstrings for BatchDCPPrefillWrapper.plan() and
_get_dcp_local_kv_page_metadata() to use Google style: document the causal
argument in plan(), and add appropriate Args: and Returns: sections to
_get_dcp_local_kv_page_metadata().
Apply the same fix in `@vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py` around lines 688 - 713:
Document the effective block-size parameter and mask-or-None return contract.
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In `@vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py`:
- Around line 608-624: Update MLAAttentionSpec.merge, RSWASpec.merge, and
SinkFullAttentionSpec.merge in vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py (anchor lines
608-624; sibling lines 664-680 and 974-989) to preserve dcp_replicated when
reconstructing merged specs. Validate that all inputs share the same replication
mode and reject mixed values; use the preserved value rather than the inherited
default, base omission, or unchecked first value.
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Document the changed interfaces with Google-style docstrings.
Add Args: and Returns: sections for the new or changed parameters and return contracts in BatchDCPPrefillWrapper.plan(), _get_dcp_local_kv_page_metadata(), the cache admission helpers, and get_swa_token_mask(). Document parameters including causal, kv_shard_count, and effective_block_size.
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In `@vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py` at line 315, Update the docstrings
for BatchDCPPrefillWrapper.plan() and _get_dcp_local_kv_page_metadata() to use
Google style: document the causal argument in plan(), and add appropriate Args:
and Returns: sections to _get_dcp_local_kv_page_metadata().
Apply the same fix in `@vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py` around lines 688 - 713:
Document the effective block-size parameter and mask-or-None return contract.
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GLM-5.3-Flash TP4/DCP4 qualification found one cache-grouping gap in this revision. A replicated DFlash draft cache must be grouped independently from the sharded target before page-size unification. Without that separation, an MLA-plus-Mamba target and an incompatible replicated sliding-window draft page raise #519 is stacked on this pull request at Validation for the composed stack: 113 focused tests passed; a source-locked GLM-5.3-Flash image completed DCP4 KV allocation, B12X warmup, and target plus DFlash2 CUDA graph capture on four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. |
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Closing as superseded by the current Jovian implementation. The base now contains replicated DFlash cache geometry and later hardening, including 74c8c0b (aligned DFlash cache geometry), cc0ea2f (replicated DFlash handling), and f44a353 (incompatible replicated-group rejection). Rebasing this older branch produces ten semantic conflicts and would duplicate already-integrated behavior rather than add a missing capability. |
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Summary
Make external DFlash2 draft attention correct under decode context parallelism.
The target model continues to sequence-shard its KV cache across DCP ranks. DFlash draft layers instead keep a complete, window-bounded draft sequence on every rank and execute draft attention with effective DCP1 geometry. This is required because DFlash owns TP-local KV heads and has no cross-rank attention/LSE reduction that could reconstruct a sequence-sharded proposal distribution.
The prior sequence-sharded implementation served valid text, but materially changed the draft distribution: matched-corpus token acceptance fell from the DCP1 control's 35.31% to 26.65% under DCP4. The exact-head replicated implementation restores acceptance to 35.30%.
Changes
dcp_replicatedproperty to full and sliding-window attention specs and keep replicated and sharded layers in separate cache groups;Why replicated draft pages are safe
Each DCP rank holds the complete token sequence for its own TP-local draft KV heads. The draft attention kernel therefore sees the same sequence geometry it sees at DCP1, while the existing TP execution still owns head partitioning and downstream collectives. The scheduler and block manager treat draft pages as an opaque replicated group; target KV pages remain sequence-sharded. No cross-rank KV gather or draft LSE reconstruction is required.
Validation
Base:
local-inference-lab/vllm:dev/jovian-judgementat766acf0e218a075432e6c45755cd561ab765ec2d.Validated commit:
e5e7bf99182833c6ce25042c29252bbb4107539c.Exact-head local validation image ID:
sha256:b8c7e789613d6beed5ced80f89d665bf2b0330e1d4335c7d9852cc52aa98ef37. This image was built from an archive of validated commite5e7bf99182833c6ce25042c29252bbb4107539c; it was not published as a community image.Runtime configuration:
Test evidence:
5 passedagainst the corrected embedded image source;9 passed;5 passed, 4 deselected;12 passed, 1 skipped;git diff --check: passed; andpre-commit run --filesacross all 14 changed source/test files: passed, including Ruff check/format, mypy, typos, SPDX, forbidden imports, CUDA API checks, and configuration validation.Runtime evidence:
Hello, AI world!;Known limitations / separate integrations