fix(glm5next): align split cache blocks to retention

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Summary

• Resolve GLM-5.3-Flash split-cache target geometry automatically from the
  retention interval, scheduler capacity, and DCP degree.
• Select 1024-token local pages for the qualified 4096-token DCP4 profile.
• Preserve explicit numeric overrides and validate incompatible inputs.
• Cover DCP1/DCP2/DCP4/DCP8 and FP8/NVFP4 capacity behavior.

The branch is current with dev/jovian-judgement and includes the missing
Platform test import identified in review.

Validation

• Eight installed-package auto-geometry tests passed, including the DCP8
  fallback to 512-token local pages.
• Changed-file Ruff and format checks pass.
• Exact r15 runtime qualification passed cold/APC/L1/restart-L2 content checks
  on TP4 for DCP1, DCP2, and DCP4 with fp8_ds_mla and nvfp4_ds_mla.
• DCP4 NVFP4 resolved [1024,1024,1024,1024,4096] and exposed 12,518,300
  usable KV tokens at GMU 0.93. A field run of the same geometry reported
  12,636,027 tokens.
• TP8 source paths are audited; physical TP8 execution remains pending because
  an eight-GPU host was unavailable.

Integration

Apply after vLLM PR #549. Use the matching B12X PR #266 and pin the tested
LMCache integration source documented in the r15/r16 integration handbook.

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Changes

GLM-5.3 split-cache alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Automatic block-size resolution vllm/platforms/interface.py	VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_TARGET_BLOCK_SIZE accepts auto. The platform derives block sizes from retention or scheduler tokens divided by DCP size. It validates the resolved values and assigns the Mamba block size.
Alignment and capacity validation tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py, tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py	Tests cover automatic alignment, scheduler-budget fallback, invalid DCP divisibility, cache layout geometry, and NVFP4 capacity calculations.
Slot and indexer contracts tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py	Tests separate CKV layout checks from physical-slot stride checks and verify DSA indexer output and bind arguments.
Supporting test update tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py	An unchanged layer-count lambda is reformatted.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46dca

The PR changes GLM-5.3 cache allocation geometry and may affect startup across distributed GPU deployments; real multi-rank and LMCache qualification is still pending. One added regression test also appears able to fail before checking its intended condition, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Platform
  participant CacheConfig
  participant SchedulerConfig
  Platform->>CacheConfig: read retention interval and DCP size
  Platform->>SchedulerConfig: read scheduler token budget when retention is unset or zero
  Platform->>Platform: resolve target and Mamba block sizes
  Platform->>CacheConfig: assign resolved cache geometry

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