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WalkthroughThe change adds a Redis protocol for multimodal jobs, a Redis-backed worker processor, and a GPU-free vLLM sidecar. It also adds tests, documentation, optional dependencies, and workflow coverage. ChangesRedis multimodal processing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Servicer
participant RedisMediaProcessor
participant Redis
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Servicer->>RedisMediaProcessor: process media with request_id
RedisMediaProcessor->>Redis: enqueue encoded Job
VllmSidecar->>Redis: consume Job
VllmSidecar->>VllmRenderer: fetch media and process prompt
VllmSidecar->>Redis: publish encoded JobResult
Redis-->>RedisMediaProcessor: return JobResult
RedisMediaProcessor-->>Servicer: return reconstructed engine input
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grpc_servicer/tests/test_vllm_mm_sidecar.py (1)
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Sidecar.handlerejection paths.No test calls the real
Sidecar.handlefor an expired deadline, fingerprint mismatch, or rejected URL scheme. The worker tests replacehandle, and the processor tests inject protocol results. Add the proposed tests to assert the exact client-visible error codes.💚 Proposed tests
class TestHandleRejections: def test_expired_job(self): s = sidecar(FakeRedis()) j = job() j.deadline_ms = 0 result = run(s.handle(j)) assert not result.ok and result.code == "expired" def test_fingerprint_mismatch(self): s = sidecar(FakeRedis()) j = job() j.fingerprint = proto.Fingerprint(**{**fingerprint().__dict__, "dtype": "torch.float16"}) result = run(s.handle(j)) assert not result.ok and result.code == "fingerprint_mismatch" def test_scheme_not_accepted(self): s = sidecar(FakeRedis()) j = job() j.items = [proto.JobItem(modality="image", url="file:///etc/passwd")] result = run(s.handle(j)) assert not result.ok and result.code == "scheme_not_accepted"Adjust field construction if
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In `@grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_processor.py`:
- Line 534: Update the Redis access flow around _redis_client and the hgetall,
llen, and lpush call sites to wrap only those non-blocking awaits in
asyncio.wait_for with the required bounded timeout. Do not add socket_timeout to
the client, and leave BRPOP governed solely by _timeout_ms.
In `@grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_sidecar.py`:
- Around line 71-76: Update classify_process_error so RuntimeError maps to
placeholder_mismatch only when its message contains “placeholder”
case-insensitively; otherwise allow it to follow the generic processor error
handling. Preserve the existing ValueError classifications.
- Line 164: In the catch-all exception path of Sidecar._worker, replace the
serialized repr(e) passed to failure with the fixed message "internal sidecar
error"; keep the preceding logger.exception call unchanged so detailed
diagnostics remain server-side.
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In `@grpc_servicer/tests/test_vllm_mm_sidecar.py`:
- Around line 274-309: Add a TestHandleRejections suite that invokes the real
Sidecar.handle for expired deadlines, fingerprint mismatches, and disallowed URL
schemes, asserting the client-visible codes expired, fingerprint_mismatch, and
scheme_not_accepted; construct modified protocol fields using the project’s
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In redis-py, the interaction between the client's socket_timeout and blocking commands like BRPOP has historically been a source of premature redis.exceptions.TimeoutError exceptions [1][2]. Historically, when a blocking command (e.g., BRPOP) was issued with a timeout longer than the client's configured socket_timeout, the underlying socket read operation would time out and raise an exception before the Redis server's own blocking timeout could elapse [3][1]. This occurred because the socket_timeout was applied to the socket read operation regardless of whether the command was intended to block for a longer duration [3][4]. Recent updates to redis-py have addressed this by introducing a mechanism to handle blocking commands differently [3][4]. Specifically: 1. Mechanism: Blocking commands (such as BLPOP, BRPOP, BLMOVE, BLMPOP, etc.) now pass a special option (often referred to as BLOCKING_READ or _blocking_timeout) to the client's parse_response method [3][4]. 2. Behavior: When this option is detected, the client bypasses the standard socket_timeout for that specific read operation, typically by setting the read timeout to infinity (math.inf) or the command's specific blocking timeout [3][4]. This allows the Redis server to control the actual blocking duration without the client prematurely aborting the connection [3]. If you are encountering TimeoutError issues with blocking commands in your environment: - Ensure you are using a recent version of redis-py, as these fixes were implemented to resolve the long-standing issue where socket_timeout incorrectly aborted blocking operations [3][4]. - If you are on an older version or experiencing issues, a common workaround is to explicitly set a higher socket_timeout when instantiating the Redis client, or to use asyncio.wait_for (for async clients) to manage the timeout at the application level rather than relying on the low-level socket timeout [5][6]. - Note that socket_timeout remains a critical setting for non-blocking commands to prevent your application from hanging indefinitely due to network issues [7][8].
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Citations:
- 1: GitHub issue 2807 in redis/redis-py (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: https://github.com/redis/redis-py/releases/tag/v8.0.0
- 3: GitHub pull request 4172 in redis/redis-py (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub pull request 4143 in redis/redis-py (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: GitHub issue 4125 in redis/redis-py (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/redis-py/async/
- 7: GitHub issue 1232 in redis/redis-py (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/clients/redis-py/produsage/
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Bound non-blocking Redis reads without shortening BRPOP.
_redis_client configures socket_connect_timeout=1.0 but no read timeout. The non-blocking hgetall, llen, and lpush awaits can remain pending after connection establishment. Generate awaits these operations while holding _mm_inflight, and GetServerInfo awaits probe().
Do not add socket_timeout=5.0 directly to this client. The existing BRPOP timeout can be longer than five seconds, and redis-py versions allowed by redis>=5.0 can apply socket_timeout to that blocking read. Wrap only hgetall, llen, and lpush in a bounded asyncio.wait_for, and keep BRPOP governed by _timeout_ms.
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In `@grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_processor.py` at line 534, Update the
Redis access flow around _redis_client and the hgetall, llen, and lpush call
sites to wrap only those non-blocking awaits in asyncio.wait_for with the
required bounded timeout. Do not add socket_timeout to the client, and leave
BRPOP governed solely by _timeout_ms.
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| return "limit_exceeded" if "at most" in str(exc).lower() else "decode_failed" | ||
| return "processor_error" |
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🔴 Important: Do not map every RuntimeError to placeholder_mismatch.
process_for_engine_async sends every RuntimeError to placeholder_mismatch. That code is a client error, so _submit_and_wait raises ValueError instead of MmProcessorUnavailable. The router therefore cannot retry the job elsewhere. Match the placeholder wording before returning this code.
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In `@grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_sidecar.py` around lines 71 - 76,
Update classify_process_error so RuntimeError maps to placeholder_mismatch only
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| result = await self.handle(job) | ||
| except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001 - one bad job must not kill the worker | ||
| logger.exception("worker %d: job %s failed", index, job.job_id) | ||
| result = failure(job.job_id, "processor_error", repr(e)) |
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🟡 Nit: Do not expose raw exception text from the catch-all worker path.
Sidecar._worker serializes repr(e) into JobResult.message. RedisMediaProcessor._submit_and_wait includes that message in MmProcessorUnavailable, and Generate sends str(e) in the gRPC UNAVAILABLE details. Use a fixed message for unexpected failures. The preceding logger.exception call retains the full details in server logs.
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Add SMG_VLLM_MM_PROCESSOR=redis: the servicer hands each media_refs request
to a sidecar over Redis lists and rebuilds the sidecar's full-tensor result
into the same pre-rendered engine input the preprocessed path uses, so
vLLM's processor caches are never relied on (no inject_into_mm_cache, no
data=None).
Protocol (engine-free, smg_grpc_servicer/mm_sidecar_protocol.py): keys under
smg:mm:v1:{namespace} with namespace derived from (model, vLLM version,
dtype); a hello HASH the sidecar refreshes every 5 s (TTL 15 s) carrying its
fingerprint and accepted URL schemes; a jobs LIST (LLEN fast-fail above
SMG_VLLM_MM_SIDECAR_MAX_QUEUE); per-attempt res:{job_id} LISTs with a
120 s TTL. Jobs carry unexpanded prompt ids, URLs and a deadline; results
carry expanded ids, vLLM's mm_hashes, placeholders with is_embed masks and
MultiModalKwargsItem blobs from vLLM's MsgpackEncoder. Client-caused
failure codes map to INVALID_ARGUMENT, everything else to UNAVAILABLE.
The worker advertises mm_processor=redis only while probe() finds a live
hello whose fingerprint matches, and rejects results whose fingerprint
differs. The reference sidecar (python -m smg_grpc_servicer.vllm.mm_sidecar)
builds a GPU-free renderer the way vllm launch render does, fetches with
vLLM's MediaConnector and runs process_for_engine_async(skip_mm_cache=True).
Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…ar by fingerprint Review fixes for the Redis media-processing backend: - The sidecar worker loop guards handle(): a failing job is answered with processor_error and the loop keeps serving instead of taking the whole sidecar down through the fail-fast gather. - Hello refresh and result push are single MULTI/EXEC transactions, so a crash between the write and its EXPIRE can no longer leave a TTL-less hello advertising a dead sidecar, or an unbounded result key. - The key namespace hashes every fingerprint field, so fleets that differ in video backend or media/processor kwargs never share a hello key or a jobs list. - Fetch and processing failures are classified by exception type in two pure helpers; the two remaining message substrings are pinned by tests. - The sidecar reuses media_refs.url_scheme, and the Redis backend reuses BASE_SCHEMES/parse_scheme_list, so both ends classify URLs identically. - A missing redis client fails with the install hint for the vllm-redis extra instead of a bare ModuleNotFoundError. - First unit tests for the sidecar loop (guard, transactions, heartbeat). Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…r result decoding - Fingerprint gains limit_per_prompt: on the redis path the sidecar's limit is the only one applied, so a worker/sidecar skew is now a startup-visible "not advertised" instead of a runtime 400 storm - an undecodable or foreign-schema result is retryable (UNAVAILABLE), not an INTERNAL abort - the no-hello probe message carries the worker fingerprint so a namespace disagreement is diffable against the sidecar's startup line - the redis backend enforces SMG_VLLM_MM_MAX_ITEMS before queueing Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…otocol check in probe - engine_fingerprint and the sidecar's config_fingerprint share fingerprint_from_model_config, pinned by a test feeding one fake config through both entry points - limit_per_prompt is resolved per modality through vLLM's accessor before hashing, so equivalent spellings share a namespace - probe() rejects a hello whose protocol schema is not the worker's, so protocol skew is a startup-visible "not advertised" instead of a per-request UNAVAILABLE Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
… options resolved_mm_limits carries the effective count from get_limit_per_prompt plus every non-default sibling option, over the standard modalities and any configured key, so equivalent --limit-mm-per-prompt spellings still match while a skewed num_frames/width or an extra modality fails closed. A vllm-gated test pins the derivation against the real MultiModalConfig. Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…own option shapes resolved_mm_limits records the unset default once and only the configured modalities whose effective count or sibling options differ from it, so an explicitly spelled default matches an omitted flag for every modality. Unknown option shapes are hashed by their attributes (or rejected), never reduced to a count; a pydantic-dataclass test runs the validated-value path without vLLM. Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…lies on The vLLM-gated test now asserts that every standard modality and an unknown key resolve to the same unset default, and that spelling that default out for any modality matches omitting it. Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
The CPU unit-test job has no vLLM, so every importorskip("vllm") test in
grpc_servicer/tests was a permanent skip; the vLLM e2e job installs vLLM
and the servicer from source, so it runs the suite once before the e2e
cases.
Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
The step is opted into by the vLLM row of e2e-1gpu-chat instead of every vLLM lane, checks the vllm and msgspec import gates first so the gated tests cannot silently skip, and prints skip reasons. Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
The CPU job never had msgspec, so the sidecar protocol and fake-redis
test modules skipped silently; the vLLM lane keeps only the
importorskip("vllm") cases to itself.
Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
…pydantic pyzmq would un-skip test_tokenspeed_dp_rank_pin.py, which then imports the TokenSpeed servicer and fails collection without torch, so the zmq-gated modules stay skipped and the comment says so; pydantic lets this PR's limit-options test run here. Signed-off-by: Chang Su <8605658+CatherineSue@users.noreply.github.com>
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Description
Problem
With
media_refsin place, a vLLM gRPC worker can process media in process, but that puts URL fetching and HF processing on the vLLM API-server process. The intended deployment runs a Redis-backed sidecar next to the worker that does that work and hands back the processor results; the servicer has no backend for it and there is no executable contract for a platform team to implement.Solution
Part 3 of the media-refs stack (stacked on the proto + servicer PR; independent of the router PR).
SMG_VLLM_MM_PROCESSOR=redisselectsRedisMediaProcessor: it queues a job with the unexpanded prompt ids and the media URLs, waits for the result with a timeout, and rebuilds the result into the same pre-renderedmm_input(...)the preprocessed path uses. Results always carry full tensors, so vLLM's processor caches are never relied on (noinject_into_mm_cache, neverdata=None), which is the invariant that keeps this correct under mixed traffic,kv_bothandn>1.smg_grpc_servicer/mm_sidecar_protocol.py, engine-free): keys undersmg:mm:v1:{namespace}, namespace derived from model, vLLM version and dtype (overridable); ahelloHASH refreshed every 5 s (TTL 15 s) with the sidecar fingerprint and accepted URL schemes; ajobsLIST with LLEN fast-fail; per-attemptres:{job_id}LISTs with a 120 s TTL. Job ids are minted per attempt, never the request id (shared by both PD legs and reused across retries). Client-caused failure codes map toINVALID_ARGUMENT;expired/processor_error/fingerprint_mismatchand transport failures map toUNAVAILABLE.GetServerInforeportsmm_processor=redisonly whileprobe()finds a live hello whose fingerprint (model, vLLM version, dtype, video backend, media/processor kwargs) matches; the router'sautomode therefore keeps a model on the router path until its sidecars are up.python -m smg_grpc_servicer.vllm.mm_sidecar: GPU-free, built the wayvllm launch renderbuilds its renderer (create_model_config()+ cleared quantization +VllmConfig(model_config=...)+renderer_from_config), fetches with vLLM'sMediaConnectorand runsprocess_for_engine_async(skip_mm_cache=True); serializes eachMultiModalKwargsItemwith vLLM'sMsgpackEncoder(size_threshold=2**62). Deployable as a container beside the worker, or one per (model, vLLM version, dtype).Changes
grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/mm_sidecar_protocol.py(new): fingerprint, keys, job/result structs (msgspec), error-code classes.grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_processor.py:RedisMediaProcessor,engine_fingerprint, dtype re-cast on rebuild,build_mm_processorredis branch;request_idthreaded intoprocess().grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/mm_sidecar.py(new): reference sidecar CLI.grpc_servicer/smg_grpc_servicer/vllm/servicer.py: passrequest_idto the backend.grpc_servicer/pyproject.toml: 0.11.0; new extravllm-redis = ["redis>=5.0", "msgspec>=0.18.0"].Test Plan
Not run here: a real Redis, and the sidecar against a real vLLM (needs a GPU worker plus a CPU host with the same vLLM build). The
_rebuildpath (msgpack decode, dtype re-cast,PlaceholderRangemasks) is exercised only by the e2e lane in the next PR.Checklist
cargo +nightly fmtpasses (no Rust changes)cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningspasses (no Rust changes)