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fix(kv): allow engine-driven expandable segments - #553

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Summary

Make the expandable-segments validator transfer-mode aware for LMCache MP.

  • lmcache_driven still requires the shareable cuMem allocator
  • engine_driven remains valid with PyTorch expandable segments because vLLM workers own gather/scatter
  • forced/auto mode behavior remains fail-closed

Tests

  • focused validator regression coverage added
  • Ruff/py_compile/diff checks passed in the qualified source lineage
  • exercised in the final GLM-5.3 MTP3 TP4/DCP4 1M deployment

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No open Jovian Judgement PR isolates this validator behavior. This is intentionally separate from the cuMem transport PR.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Enabled compatibility between expandable_segments:True and the LMCache KV connector when using engine-driven transfer mode.
    • Continued validation for unsupported or unspecified transfer modes, which still report configuration errors.
    • Added test coverage to verify accepted and rejected configuration combinations.

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The KV transfer compatibility check now allows LMCacheMPConnector with engine_driven transfer mode when expandable segments are enabled. Tests cover this mode and verify rejection for missing, auto, and lmcache_driven modes.

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LMCache expandable segments compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine-driven compatibility exemption
vllm/config/vllm.py, tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_config.py
_verify_kv_transfer_compat skips the expandable-segments error for engine-driven LMCache MP transfers. Test configuration supports extra connector settings and covers accepted and rejected transfer modes.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b39d5

The validator now allows engine-driven LMCache configurations with PyTorch expandable segments, while continuing to reject other modes. A custom external connector using the same configured name could bypass the allocator compatibility guard and cause KV-transfer corruption or availability failures, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to bind the exemption to a trusted implementation or capability.

Suggested reviewers: mgoin, lucaswilkinson, lukealonso

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R26 packaged-integration validation: this pull request is included in voipmonitor/vllm:jovian-judgement-community-20260905-r26 (sha256:d0592ea9d73cac5aadb151a58bbb43cf7aff03829d46bb4f4ba7396aaef67c68). With expandable CUDA segments enabled, engine-driven LMCache completed exact 54.6K-token cold, RAM-L1, and complete-process filesystem-L2 restores for FP8 and NVFP4 compressed MLA cache. The LMCache sidecar owned no CUDA context. The complete packaged suite passed 383 tests with 33 unsupported-device skips. Merge order and exact source mirrors are recorded in #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 exact vLLM composition is mirrored at
voipmonitor/vllm:integration/glm53-r27-release-20260906,
commit 63a82f8d323e8538cbe6f88ae1812a1c01577a0f.

Qualification used four stock-clock RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
GPUs, TP4, a 4,096-token scheduler budget, 16 NCCL channels, a 2 MiB NCCL
buffer, and full plus piecewise CUDA graphs:

Mode DCP 32K prefill C1 output / steps C8 output / steps
No speculation 1 14,870 tok/s 170.6 tok/s 733.8 tok/s
MTP3 1 14,468 tok/s 276.0 / 109.1 tok/s 901.0 / 371.3 tok/s
MTP3 full CKV 4 12,864 tok/s 247.0 / 97.1 tok/s 876.4 / 346.4 tok/s
DFlash2 K7 full CKV, NVFP4 KV 4 12,633 tok/s 198.0 / 81.2 tok/s 645.5 / 260.8 tok/s

FP8 no-speculation and NVFP4 DFlash2 external-cache configurations also passed
cold compute, vLLM prefix reuse, engine-driven RAM-L1 restore, full-process
filesystem-L2 restore, and block-checksum validation on all four ranks. An exact
81,576-token leading-instruction test reused 81,567 tokens when only the user
continuation changed.

This is an integration and regression gate, not an isolated attribution of the
aggregate throughput to this PR. The complete open-PR merge order and evidence
are recorded in #651.

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Included in dev/jovian-judgement through this PR's individual merge. The reviewed head and its contributor commits remain ancestors; the PR is merged and closed.

Source validation: replaying all 32 R35 review heads on the pinned base exactly reproduces the released Docker's vLLM tree; all 6,870 installed tracked files match. JJ additionally preserves Luke's DS4.1 work and #734. The final composition passed 247 focused checkpoint/scheduler, sampler/warmup and native GPU tests. This is combined-source evidence, not a fresh performance or full-model qualification for this individual PR.

Publication-history clarification: the individual merge linked above is in JJ's first-parent history. It replaces the receipt's archived wrapper-merge reference; GitHub's historical merge SHA may still identify that archive. See #731 for component review order and qualification limits.

voipmonitor added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
Preserve the reviewed source head c6b1530 and its contributor history.
The first parent records the ordered serving-source composition.
Whole-tree equality and installed-artifact verification are publication gates.

Review: #553
Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
Signed-off-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org>
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