[JJ] Bound native filesystem KV offload and revalidate stored blocks - #631
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The fs tier keeps no index of its own -- lookup() is a plain existence check,
so the filesystem is the index -- and consequently has neither a capacity limit
nor eviction. It grows until the filesystem fills.
Add FsGCManager, which uses file mtime as the single source of truth for
recency. touch(), which TieringOffloadingManager already invokes on every
secondary tier, stamps mtime; a background sweep then unlinks in mtime order
once the tree exceeds the configured budget. Keeping recency on disk rather
than in a private index means the ordering survives a restart (fs tier contents
are reusable across runs when PYTHONHASHSEED is pinned), the accounting cannot
drift because every sweep re-measures the tree, and du/find/an external reaper
all observe the same truth.
Both paths stay off the scheduler thread: a key is stamped at most once per
gc_stamp_interval_s, and the utime and unlink syscalls run on a daemon thread.
That matters because the scheduler calls touch() once per request per
scheduling attempt, with up to ~1.9k keys for a 200k-token context.
Unlinking a file that a promotion is about to read is not a correctness
problem -- the failed promotion frees the DRAM block and the tokens are
recomputed -- but it wastes work and silently drops the block from disk, since
load_block() removes any file it fails to read. The sweep therefore skips keys
with in-flight jobs and files used within gc_grace_s, and the constructor
requires gc_grace_s > gc_stamp_interval_s so that every key used within
gc_grace_s - gc_stamp_interval_s is guaranteed a protected mtime.
Those two skip reasons are counted and logged separately, because they mean
different things: keeping a key with a job in flight means protect() is doing
real work and the grace window alone was not enough, while keeping a key
inside the grace window means the working set is at least as large as the cap.
The in-flight count is 0 in practice, which is easy to misread as protect()
being dead code. It is not: blocks are sorted oldest-first and the loop stops
as soon as the tier is under the watermark, so a sweep normally never reaches
the fresh tail where in-flight blocks live. protect() only becomes load-bearing
when a block is *both* among the LRU-oldest and has a job in flight -- a
promotion whose keys were stamped when the scheduler matched them, but whose
read executes more than grace_s later because it is queued behind other reads
on a busy tier. Reproducing that against a live server means winning a race on
purpose, so it is covered in a unit test instead, along with the rest of the GC
contract: eviction follows mtime order down to the low watermark, the grace
window can knowingly leave the tier over its cap, release() is refcounted so
one of two tiers finishing does not unpin a key, touch() stamps mtime and
rate-limits repeat stamps of the same key, and only .bin files are candidates
so an in-progress store_block .tmp and config.json survive.
Two limits of the recency signal, both inherent to where the scheduler calls
touch() rather than to this change:
- _touch() trims sliding-window groups to a trailing window, so only the
full-attention chunks plus a short retained window are refreshed --
measured as 804 of a 200k-token request's 1908 blocks. Blocks outside that
window age by insertion rather than by use, and because prefix caching
needs a contiguous prefix, evicting an early chunk invalidates the whole
context.
- The connector is not consulted when the local GPU prefix cache already
covers a prompt, so a context served entirely from GPU does not refresh
its disk recency.
Measured on DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at TP2 with a 32 GiB DRAM tier and a 24 GiB
disk cap: sweeping 19392 blocks cost 0.4-0.6s on the background thread; an
over-cap tree went 38.91 -> 21.60 GiB; and with 1908 newly written blocks
present, the following sweep drew all 1908 of its evictions from the oldest
mtimes and left every fresh block in place. A GPU-cache reset followed by one
cached request re-stamped 804 files with no change in tree size, isolating the
touch() path from the store path.
Off by default: without gc_max_size_gb the tier behaves exactly as before.
The stamping half of the GC thread's loop is wrapped like the sweep half, so
an unexpected exception (anything beyond the per-key OSError that _stamp
itself absorbs) is logged instead of killing the daemon thread -- which would
silently un-bound the tier again, with no signal beyond the absence of sweep
logs.
Known limitation, documented rather than closed: sweeps emit no removed=True
KV events. With enable_kv_events the tier publishes BlockStored for blocks it
writes, so an external consumer of the event stream can believe a swept block
still exists. Closing it would mean reconstructing OffloadKeys from swept
paths and queueing them across threads to the scheduler-owned events list, and
the stream would remain incomplete anyway: failed-load unlinks, peer instances
sharing root_dir, and external reapers already remove files without emitting
events. MEDIUM_FS presence events are therefore best-effort by contract; this
instance's own scheduler copes by invalidating its cached lookup when a load
fails and recomputing (see the preceding commit).
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A completed secondary-tier store is authoritative over an older existence probe. Advance the lookup generation before recording the positive verdict so a late probe cannot restore a stale miss. Cover pending probes, cached misses, and unknown keys. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Reject nonpositive filesystem capacity, sweep interval, stamp interval, and tracking limits before starting the GC thread. Keep the unbounded mode explicit when no capacity is configured. Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds generation-based protection against stale asynchronous lookup results, introduces filesystem-tier garbage collection with mtime-based eviction, and refreshes lookup state after successful filesystem and object-store writes. ChangesKV offload tiering
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Filesystem GC can remove a newly stored or recently used KV block during a concurrent sweep, causing avoidable cache misses. This race should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FileSystemTierManager
participant FsGCManager
participant Filesystem
FileSystemTierManager->>FsGCManager: touch and protect transfer keys
FsGCManager->>Filesystem: stamp block mtimes
FsGCManager->>Filesystem: scan and unlink eligible .bin files
FsGCManager-->>FileSystemTierManager: report freed bytes
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In `@vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/fs/gc_manager.py`:
- Around line 266-269: Update the filesystem GC sweep so protection and pending
touch/stamp state are revalidated under the same _lock that guards each unlink
decision, rather than relying on the initial protected_paths snapshot; preserve
files protected or queued for stamping during an in-flight store operation. Add
a deterministic regression test covering protect/replace and touch
interleavings, using the existing protect() and _stamp() flows.
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In `@vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/async_lookup.py`:
- Around line 198-210: Add Google-style Args sections to the docstrings for
mark_present in vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/async_lookup.py lines 198-210,
documenting keys; the affected API in vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/fs/manager.py
lines 383-391, documenting keys and req_context; and the API in
vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/fs/manager.py lines 395-401, documenting
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Make the protection decision atomic with deletion.
protected_paths is only a snapshot. A store can call protect(), replace an already-scanned .bin file, and then have this sweep unlink the new file. A touch() queued after this snapshot can also lose a recently used file before _stamp() updates its mtime.
Revalidate in-flight protection and pending stamps under the same lock that covers the unlink decision. Add a deterministic interleaving regression test. vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/fs/manager.py:401 establishes the protection call before in-flight work.
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In `@vllm/v1/kv_offload/tiering/fs/gc_manager.py` around lines 266 - 269, Update
the filesystem GC sweep so protection and pending touch/stamp state are
revalidated under the same _lock that guards each unlink decision, rather than
relying on the initial protected_paths snapshot; preserve files protected or
queued for stamping during an in-flight store operation. Add a deterministic
regression test covering protect/replace and touch interleavings, using the
existing protect() and _stamp() flows.
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Hi @voipmonitor, thank you for referencing our PR and RFC, and for sharing your implementation and validation results. It is great to see another approach to bounded filesystem KV offloading. Your background GC design based on persisted file mtimes, along with the asynchronous lookup revalidation work, provides a useful comparison with our write-time reservation and in-memory LRU approach. I would be happy to keep in touch and exchange findings about capacity enforcement, eviction behavior, cache hit rates, scheduler-path overhead, and long-running serving stability. Hopefully the experience from both implementations can help the broader vLLM KV-offloading work converge on a reliable and maintainable design. Please feel free to share any concerns or observations about our implementation as well. Thanks again, and I look forward to further discussion. |
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Purpose
Enable a bounded native filesystem KV offload tier on
dev/jovian-judgementwhile preserving the branch's batched C I/O, partial-load recovery, and default unbounded behavior.A deployment can set
gc_max_size_gbon anfssecondary tier. The scheduler records block use through persisted file mtimes, and a background worker evicts least-recently-used block files to a configurable low watermark. In-flight stores and promotions are protected from eviction. The feature is disabled whengc_max_size_gbis absent.The same integration makes successful secondary-tier stores authoritative in the asynchronous lookup cache. A per-key generation prevents a late existence probe from overwriting a completed store with a stale absence result.
Technical reason
serve-ds4-flash.shmapsNATIVE_L2_GBto the filesystem tier'sgc_max_size_gbconstructor argument.dev/jovian-judgementdid not implement that argument, so a configured native L2 tier failed during engine construction. An unbounded filesystem tier can also consume all available backing storage.Successful recomputation after a failed promotion creates a second lifecycle edge: an overlapping request can retain the cached miss while the block is stored again. The positive store result must update that state, and any older probe result must be rejected.
Source relationship and duplicate-work check
dev/jovian-judgement. This PR ports only the filesystem capacity and store-revalidation contracts while retaining Jovian Judgement I/O behavior.35faf957d65acdfc0b19f7cd4e4a2d50d7d73a1bis preserved here with original authorship and extended so an authoritative store invalidates an in-flight probe generation.capacity + LRUsubset and does not duplicate that larger policy implementation.Compatibility
gc_max_size_gb: filesystem behavior remains unbounded.Validation
CUDA 13.3 / PyTorch 2.13 release environment:
The full tiering suite covers LRU order, low-watermark eviction, grace windows, in-flight protection, persisted recency, malformed limits, failed-load invalidation, successful-store revalidation, stale generation rejection, and object/filesystem tier lifecycle behavior.
Live DS4 TP2 native-L2 qualification will be added after the source-locked release image is rebuilt from this PR head.
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