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Companion to the shared prefix-cache index stack (#2436#2437#2438) but independent of it: bases on main, adds no dependency on the index crates. It talks to a gateway and to the index service only over HTTP/gRPC at run time, so it reviews and merges on its own.

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Problem

Cache-aware routing changes are hard to evaluate honestly: a real GPU fleet is expensive to hold for hours of fault drills, and a mocked one that ignores prefix-cache economics makes every policy look the same. The index work needed a way to ask "did routing precision and cache hit actually move, and what happens under partition / kill / flap?" on a laptop.

Solution

A no-GPU simulation harness: sim-loadgen (Rust) drives session-shaped traffic (multi-turn agentic conversations with realistic prefix reuse) against N gateways over M mock workers, and scripts/generate_sim (Python) composes scenarios, launches the topology, runs fault drills on a schedule, and scores the run — cache hit, routing precision, TTFT/latency percentiles, request errors — from the gateways' own metrics.

The fault drills are real and validated: kill+relaunch (bootstrapping from a survivor), flap, SIGSTOP hang, replica added under load, and an inter-replica partition through severable TCP proxies, each recording what it did in meta.json (surfaced in the report). A profile or scenario leg that sets a knob the harness does not implement fails at run start, and every committed scenario leg is rendered through that check in the tests — a comparison can never silently have no independent variable.

Changes

  • crates/sim_loadgen/ — session model, arrival process, per-gateway spraying, metrics scrape; deps are tokio/reqwest/serde_json/futures only.
  • scripts/generate_sim/sim.py (topology + lifecycle), scenarios.py (scale-out, partition, wedge, kill+relaunch, flap, replica-added-under-load), failover_bins.py, profiles/ (workload shapes; *.local.json is gitignored for per-machine overrides), test_generate_sim.py (23 unit tests, one pinning the profile schema to the mock worker's flag set).
  • crates/mock_worker/src/engine.rs — reported num_used_tokens / token_usage are the running requests' pinned tokens, not physical KV occupancy (SGLang's definition: used = total − available − evictable). With occupancy reported, a warm radix cache read as 0.85–0.92 on every worker, the gateway's --worker-overload-token-usage 0.9 gate kept removing the follow-up's own worker from the eligible set, and same-worker follow-ups fell from 0.87 to 0.15 over a 100 s run. Regression test included.
  • crates/mock_worker/src/http.rs/generate becomes SGLang-native when the worker runs the realistic engine: it reads input_ids (text stays the fallback) and answers with output_ids + meta_info (cached_tokens, completion_tokens, worker_port), first SSE frame at the first token and the terminal frame at completion. Canned mode keeps the chat-shaped alias the existing rigs use. Without this the load generator's /generate bodies scored zero prompt tokens on every HTTP worker. grpc.rs gains a serve-on-listener entry point for tests that bind port 0.
  • crates/sim_loadgen/src/main.rs — the h2 client keeps its explicit 32 MiB connection window instead of hyper's adaptive window, which overrode it (the profiles now drive the gateways over HTTP/1.1; see the README's transport note for the h2 interop issue this surfaced in the gateway's streaming relay).
  • Profiles: realistic engine with prefill_chunk 320 (the engine's step is max(prefill chunk, decode step); the 2048 default stretched every decode step six-fold under load), decode_base_ms = the former ITL, prefix_cache true.
  • Evaluation support added after the first campaign: index replica CPU/RSS and /metrics sampling; gateway-side lookup latency p50/p90/p99 and service-side apply/query p50/p90/p99 rows (Prometheus histogram deltas over the measurement window); prediction-error bias, exact share, p50/p90/p95/max; a per-minute follow-up cache timeline (drift rows); dump_on_exit (pull every live replica with radix-index-dump and record per-holder divergence, classified: event-fed holders must be identical, placement-fed holders that both replicas hold above capacity differ only by when each ran its capacity cut, and a placement holder differing under capacity is a lost update; converged is true only when nothing a peer should have repaired is left); --only LEG to rerun a subset of a scenario's legs after a fix; gateway_proxy plus drills for worker removal and addition, a single cold gateway restart, a rolling replica restart, and gateway-to-index partitions (all or half the fleet); scenarios eval-matrix (production hash+sticky vs per-gateway event trees vs shared index event feed vs placement feed, × gateways × concurrency), io-shapes, chaos, soak.
  • Workspace member entry.

Suggested reading order: scripts/generate_sim/README.mdscenarios.pycrates/sim_loadgen/src/session.rs.

Test Plan

  • cargo test -p sim-loadgen (11), python -m unittest discover -s scripts/generate_sim -p 'test_*.py' (22, 1 skipped without committed results): profile invariants, scenario construction, drill validation over every committed leg, the partition proxy (sever cuts live and new connections, heal restores), the steady-state sample window, the failover binning script, seed aggregation; CI-exact clippy and ruff clean.
  • Used to produce the numbers quoted in feat(radix-index): shared prefix-cache index service #2437 / feat(router): query and feed the shared prefix-cache index from the policy layer #2438: follow-up cache hit 0.95 flat from 1→8 gateways with the shared index vs. 0.94→0.66 with per-gateway state; six fault drills with zero request errors.

Validation (2026-09-08)

  • 23 harness unit tests (one pins the profile schema to the mock worker's accepted flags), 11 sim-loadgen tests, 12 mock-worker tests (two new: native /generate framing, reported usage excludes evictable cache).
  • The harness ran the full campaign behind feat(radix-tree): chain-native prefix-membership index #2436feat(router): query and feed the shared prefix-cache index from the policy layer #2438: 16-leg gateway scale-out (1/2/4/8 gateways × 4 sharing regimes), worker-count and concurrency sweeps, and the fault drills (failover, replica join, flap, partition, hang, staleness ×4, router restart) — 68,392 requests per leg at 120 workers, 163,958 at 240, with zero request errors in every valid leg. The numbers are in the sibling PRs; this PR's job was to make them trustworthy:
  • Drill validity checks exercised for real: the failover drill's kill/relaunch timestamps and failover_bins.py binning, the partition proxies, the deferred third replica's bootstrap, the flap cycles, the injected staleness lag, and the gateway-restart readiness recheck.

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  • New Features
    • Added a configurable simulation load generator for concurrent, multi-turn, streaming, JSON, HTTP/2, and multimodal workloads.
    • Added orchestration for mock services, readiness monitoring, metrics, fault drills, and JSON/Markdown reports.
    • Added reusable workload profiles, scenario comparisons with confidence intervals, and failover cache analysis.
    • Added realistic native request and response handling for simulated model workloads.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, configuration, scaling, troubleshooting, and reporting guidance.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for profile validation, scenario behavior, metric aggregation, failover analysis, and report generation.

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The PR adds a Rust asynchronous load generator, native mock-worker generation, and a Python harness for local simulation orchestration. It also adds workload profiles, scenario comparisons, failover analysis, reporting, documentation, and tests.

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Simulation tooling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Load-generator configuration and distributions
Cargo.toml, crates/sim_loadgen/...
Adds validated CLI configuration, deterministic sampling, CDF distributions, token IDs, and payload generation.
Session execution and request transport
crates/sim_loadgen/src/main.rs, crates/sim_loadgen/src/session.rs
Adds Poisson arrivals, multi-turn requests, concurrency limits, JSON/SSE handling, HTTP/2 clients, and progress reporting.
Request records and run summaries
crates/sim_loadgen/src/report.rs
Adds JSONL records and summaries for latency, cache behavior, routing, worker distribution, turn affinity, throughput, and errors.
Native mock-worker generation contract
crates/mock_worker/src/http.rs
Adds native token/text inputs, native generation limits, JSON/SSE responses, token accounting, and terminal output metadata.
Local simulation orchestration and profiles
scripts/generate_sim/sim.py, scripts/generate_sim/README.md, scripts/generate_sim/profiles/*, .gitignore
Adds profile validation, service lifecycle management, readiness checks, fault drills, metric sampling, report generation, simulation profiles, documentation, and local profile-file exclusion.
Scenario comparison and failover analysis
scripts/generate_sim/scenarios.py, scripts/generate_sim/failover_bins.py, scripts/generate_sim/test_generate_sim.py
Adds seeded scenario comparisons, failover-bin analysis, confidence intervals, and harness validation tests.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SimulationHarness
  participant SMGs
  participant LoadGenerator
  participant MockWorker
  participant ReportGenerator
  SimulationHarness->>SMGs: launch services and wait for readiness
  SimulationHarness->>LoadGenerator: start configured sessions
  LoadGenerator->>SMGs: send multi-turn generate requests
  SMGs->>MockWorker: forward native generation request
  MockWorker-->>LoadGenerator: return JSON or SSE responses
  LoadGenerator->>ReportGenerator: write request records and summary
  SimulationHarness->>ReportGenerator: analyze metrics and write reports
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- Line 210: Update the `--max-turns` parsing branch in the argument
configuration flow to reject values below 1, returning a validation error
instead of accepting zero or silently substituting a default; preserve valid
positive values in `cfg.max_turns`.
- Line 240: Update the argument validation for the “--system-prefix-pool” option
to reject values below 1 and fail loudly instead of allowing zero to proceed.
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- Line 354: Update the cumulative-value validation in the anchor parser to
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- Line 111: Update the sim-loadgen configuration serialization to include the
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In `@crates/sim_loadgen/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 74-79: The collector currently swallows JSONL write errors and
still reports success. Propagate the collector’s write status from the
records-receiving loop in main, then treat write_failed as a run failure at the
exit path so the process does not return ExitCode::SUCCESS after a truncated
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In `@crates/sim_loadgen/src/session.rs`:
- Around line 297-308: The non-streaming response handling currently leaves
successful status intact when JSON parsing fails. Update the
serde_json::from_slice failure path in the response-processing match to set
status = 0, matching the existing transport-error branch, while preserving
successful parsing and response extraction behavior.

In `@scripts/generate_sim/failover_bins.py`:
- Around line 37-38: Update the kill_index_replica execution path to record
index_killed_at_ms at the moment the replica is killed, using Unix-epoch
milliseconds consistent with start_ms. Ensure the recorded value is written to
the scenario or event record consumed by failover_bins.py so it is not None and
seeds are processed.

In `@scripts/generate_sim/README.md`:
- Around line 68-69: Update the harness command documentation to use the
supported `--out` option instead of `--out-dir`, while preserving the existing
run-directory description for where `requests.jsonl` and `summary.json` are
written.

In `@scripts/generate_sim/scenarios.py`:
- Line 883: Update the revision-ab scenario’s built-state handling near
run_profile so built becomes true only when a run actually builds the gateway
(smg), not merely after the first leg using a prebuilt slot-specific binary.
Ensure the later slot-None leg still performs the gateway build when no existing
target/release/smg is available.
- Around line 947-948: Update the value-selection logic around the else branch
so metrics with mixed numeric and None seed values are explicitly marked invalid
rather than returning vals[0]. Preserve the existing behavior for consistently
populated values, and ensure _scaleout_legs can observe the invalid gap when
evaluating validity rows such as "index remote_hit share".

In `@scripts/generate_sim/sim.py`:
- Around line 460-462: Update wait_ready so a readiness timeout fails the run
instead of returning partial counts; propagate an explicit failure through
run_profile and prevent build_report from producing a valid report unless all
workers are routable, or record the shortfall in meta and mark the report
invalid. Preserve normal behavior when readiness succeeds and ensure the
imbalance calculations are not presented as valid for incomplete fleets.
- Line 778: Update the steady-state window configuration around sampler_loop so
its start offset is zero, since elapsed_s begins when sampling starts after
warmup; retain profile["duration_secs"] as the window end.
- Around line 1081-1082: Synchronize the daemon restart path around launch and
child-list updates using the existing lifecycle lock: check stop before and
after launch_smgs, only extend children while shutdown has not started, and tear
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320-322: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔴 Important: except TimeoutError does not catch socket.timeout before Python 3.10.

The comment on Line 321 states the distinction, but the handler does not act on it. On Python 3.9 and earlier, the accept timeout raises socket.timeout, which falls through to except OSError and stops the accept loop. That silently disables the partition drill proxies.

If the repository targets Python 3.10 or later, remove the misleading comment instead.

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             try:
                 client, _ = self._server.accept()
-            except TimeoutError:
-                # socket.timeout is a distinct class before Python 3.10.
+            except socket.timeout:
+                # socket.timeout aliases TimeoutError from Python 3.10 on.
                 continue
             except OSError:
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In `@scripts/generate_sim/sim.py` around lines 320 - 322, Update the accept loop’s
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Handle bare flags before replacing their values

When a supplied profile contains a targeted flag without a value, out[idx + 1] is the next flag. The assignment can overwrite that flag and silently change the scenario configuration. Insert the value when the next token is another flag:

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         if flag in out:
             idx = out.index(flag)
             if value is None:
                 continue
-            out[idx + 1] = str(value)
+            has_value = idx + 1 < len(out) and not out[idx + 1].startswith("--")
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+                out[idx + 1] = str(value)
+            else:
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In `@scripts/generate_sim/scenarios.py` around lines 88 - 92, Update the flag
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In `@scripts/generate_sim/sim.py`:
- Around line 320-322: Update the accept loop’s timeout handling so it catches
socket.timeout on Python versions before 3.10 as well as TimeoutError,
preserving the continue behavior and preventing the loop from falling through to
OSError; alternatively, if the repository requires Python 3.10+, remove the
misleading compatibility comment.

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Force-pushed a correction found by the end-to-end campaign, not by review: the profiles asked `mock-worker` for `--engine sim`, an engine that only ever existed on the branch this harness was developed on. `main` has the realistic engine from #1713, whose `/generate` was a chat-shaped alias that ignored `input_ids` — so on `main` every mock worker exited at launch, and had it started, every HTTP leg would have scored zero prompt tokens.

Fixed in this PR: `/generate` is now SGLang-native in realistic mode (`input_ids`, `meta_info`, `output_ids`), the six profiles use the realistic engine's flags (`decode_base_ms` = the old ITL, `decode_per_req_ms` 0, `prefix_cache` true; image params dropped — image bytes are payload only), and a unit test pins the profile schema to the mock's accepted flag set so this cannot drift again. Validated on a `main`-based tree: HTTP smoke follow-up cached 0.946 / same-worker 1.0; the gRPC + shared-index leg reports 99.9% remote hits with zero prediction error.

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320-322: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔴 Important: The comment states a case that the handler does not cover.

Line 321 says socket.timeout is a distinct class before Python 3.10. Line 320 catches only TimeoutError. On Python 3.9 and earlier, self._server.accept() raises socket.timeout after the 0.5 s timeout. except TimeoutError does not match it, so control falls to except OSError at Line 323 and returns. The accept loop then stops, and partitionable runs plus partition_drill silently measure a proxy that accepts nothing.

If the repository targets Python 3.10 or later, remove the stale comment. Otherwise catch both classes.

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-            except TimeoutError:
-                # socket.timeout is a distinct class before Python 3.10.
+            except (socket.timeout, TimeoutError):
+                # socket.timeout is a distinct class before Python 3.10.
                 continue
#!/bin/bash
# Resolve the declared minimum Python version for this repository.
fd -H -t f '^(\.python-version|pyproject\.toml|setup\.cfg|tox\.ini|\.tool-versions|ruff\.toml)$' . --exec sh -c 'echo "== $1"; cat "$1"' _ {}
rg -n -i 'requires-python|python-version|target-version' -g '*.toml' -g '*.cfg' -g '*.yml' -g '*.yaml' .
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In `@scripts/generate_sim/sim.py` around lines 320 - 322, Update the accept loop’s
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In `@crates/mock_worker/src/http.rs`:
- Around line 615-627: Update extract_input_ids to distinguish a missing
input_ids field from a present invalid value: return the parsed non-empty token
list only when every element is numeric and fits u32, and return an error for
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fn extract_input_ids(v: &Value) -> Option<Vec<u32>> {
let ids = v.get("input_ids")?.as_array()?;
let seq = match ids.first() {
Some(Value::Array(inner)) => inner,
_ => ids,
};
Some(
seq.iter()
.filter_map(Value::as_u64)
.map(|id| id as u32)
.collect(),
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject empty or malformed input_ids instead of treating them as absent.

Payload::Ids sends input_ids directly, and the native /generate contract requires a non-empty valid token list. Only a missing input_ids field should select the text fallback. The current filter_map silently shortens malformed input before NewRequest; the engine then measures the shortened prompt and cache prefix. An Option<Vec<u32>> collection would instead route malformed input to the text fallback, so return a client error for present empty, non-numeric, or non-u32 values.

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fn extract_input_ids(v: &Value) -> Option<Vec<u32>> {
let ids = v.get("input_ids")?.as_array()?;
let seq = match ids.first() {
Some(Value::Array(inner)) => inner,
_ => ids,
};
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seq.iter()
.filter_map(Value::as_u64)
.map(|id| id as u32)
.collect(),
)
}
fn extract_input_ids(v: &Value) -> Option<Vec<u32>> {
let ids = v.get("input_ids")?.as_array()?;
let seq = match ids.first() {
Some(Value::Array(inner)) => inner,
_ => ids,
};
if seq.is_empty() {
return None;
}
seq.iter()
.map(|id| id.as_u64().map(|id| id as u32))
.collect()
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# socket.timeout is a distinct class before Python 3.10.
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Catch socket.timeout in TcpProxy._accept_loop. The repository supports Python 3.9. On Python 3.9, accept() raises socket.timeout after the 0.5-second timeout. The loop does not match TimeoutError, and the following except OSError returns from the thread. Since heal() only sets _open, the partition drill cannot accept new inter-replica connections after the thread exits. Catch both timeout types.

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Second force-push from the end-to-end campaign, three findings while calibrating the harness against `main`'s realistic mock engine:

  1. Mock usage semantics (fixed here). The engine reported physical KV occupancy as `token_usage`. A warm radix cache keeps KV at 0.85–0.92 on every worker, so the gateway's `--worker-overload-token-usage 0.9` gate (in the production-equivalent flag set) kept removing the follow-up's own worker from the eligible set; same-worker follow-ups fell from 0.87 to 0.15 over a 100 s run, on the shared index and on the local event tree alike. SGLang reports used = total − available − evictable, so the mock now reports the running requests' pinned tokens. Regression test added. A/B on the placement-fed leg (1 gateway, 120 workers, 100 s): follow-up cached 0.52 → 0.82, same-worker 0.49 → 0.87.
  2. Prefill chunk. The engine's step time is max(prefill chunk, decode step). At the 2048 default and 80k tok/s, every decode step stretched to 25.6 ms while any prompt was prefilling (e2e p50 36 s, caches expiring before turn 2). Profiles set `prefill_chunk` 320, one decode step's worth of prefill: TTFT p50 125 ms, e2e p50 3.2 s.
  3. h2 streaming relay (gateway, not fixed here). Every streamed `/generate` response the gateway relays over h2 ends with a zero-length non-END_STREAM DATA frame (the upstream chunked terminator forwarded as an empty chunk). h2 ≥ 0.4.16 clients — `main`'s lockfile is on 0.4.19 — count those per connection and close it with ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM `too_many_data_frames` at 101, i.e. after ~100 streamed responses per connection. Under load that was a 60% status-0 error rate in the load generator; a raw h2 probe shows frames `(168, 424, 14, 0, 0+EOS)` per response. The profiles measure over HTTP/1.1 until the relay skips empty chunks; I'll open that as a separate one-line PR.

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## Load generator transport

The profiles drive the gateways over HTTP/1.1 (`loadgen.http2: false`).

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🔴 Important: this push flips every profile to http2: false, but the full-profile sizing section still tells you the opposite — and at the full template's own documented concurrency, h1 does not fit the host budget it publishes.

"Full-profile host sizing" (unchanged by this push, ~line 170) reads:

Concurrent client h2 streams ≈ R × L — run the loadgen with http2: true and size conns_per_origin; h1 would need one socket per stream.

full.template.json now sets "http2": false, so a reader following that section either "fixes" the template back to true (into the 60% status-0 failure this section documents) or runs h1 at a socket count nothing in the README budgets:

  • test_full_profile_supports_production_concurrency (test_generate_sim.py:66) pins max_inflight ≥ 534_000 off R × L, and the template now carries 700000.
  • One socket per stream over smg_count: 8 loopback origins is ~67k concurrent connections per gateway port. Linux's default ip_local_port_range gives ~28k ephemeral ports per destination 4-tuple, so connect() starts returning EADDRNOTAVAIL around 224k total — well under 534k. That surfaces as status-0 errors indistinguishable from the h2 failure this section replaced.
  • The fd budget two sections up still says "the full profile needs ≥200k fds system-wide", which was computed for multiplexed h2 client conns (~1 h2c conn per worker + client conns). h1 at 534k streams is >1M fds counting both ends.

The local-* profiles are fine (max_inflight 100k over 8 origins, and they are what the PR actually measured with). The gap is that full.template.json is now committed in a configuration the README's own arithmetic says will not run. Either keep the full template on http2: true with a pointer to this section's caveat, or update "Full-profile host sizing" and the fd budget for h1 — including the ephemeral-port ceiling, which is the binding limit before fds.


fn snapshot(&self, p: &EngineParams) -> LoadSnapshot {
let used = self.used_tokens(p);
let used = self.pinned_tokens().min(p.kv_capacity_tokens);

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🟡 Nit: pinned_tokens sums per request, so a prefix shared by concurrent requests is counted once per request — not once, as the SGLang formula quoted in the doc comment does. The over-report scales with max_running and lands on the same 0.9 gate this change exists to get off.

In SGLang, used = total − available − evictable where the non-evictable set is the union of radix nodes with lock_ref > 0. A block held by 80 running requests is one ref-counted node counted once. pinned_tokens walks self.running and adds prompt_tokens + generated for each, so every shared block is multiplied by the number of requests holding it.

Failure scenario, with the committed local-medium.json numbers (system_prefix_tokens: 2048, max_running: 80, kv_tokens: 1200000, --worker-overload-token-usage 0.9): every session prepends the same 2048-token system prefix, so at full batch width pinned_tokens charges 80 × 2048 ≈ 164k tokens for KV that physically holds 2048 — 13.7 points of token_usage on a 1.2M pool. Mean prompt over prompt_cdf is ~13.5k, so a full batch is already ~0.8 correctly accounted; the double count pushes it past 0.9 and re-trips the overload gate on exactly the warm, high-concurrency workers. Turn-2 requests make it worse: turn2_ingress: "same" routes the follow-up to the worker already holding the turn-1 prefix, so the requests most likely to be concurrent on one worker are the ones sharing the most tokens.

The .min(p.kv_capacity_tokens) clamp on this line hides it rather than bounding it — token_usage reads a flat 1.0 once the sum crosses capacity, with no signal that it is a counting artifact rather than real pressure.

used_tokens's prefix-cache branch already computes the union (cache.len() * block_size + pending tails); the reportable quantity is that same union restricted to blocks a running request references. If tracking per-request refcounts is more machinery than the harness wants, subtracting each request's cached_tokens (already stored on RunningReq) and adding the matched prefix once would remove the bulk of the double count, since the shared prefix is what cached_tokens measures.

Two properties of `crates/mock_worker`'s realistic engine decide whether a
cache-aware result means anything, and both are set by this harness:

- `prefill_chunk` 320 (see the compression note below): the engine's step

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🟡 Nit: "see the compression note below" points backwards — the compression note is at line 110 (Aggregate request rps = …), above this section — and this bullet restates that note's second half verbatim ("the engine's step time is max(prefill chunk, decode)… a larger chunk stretches every decode step while any prompt is prefilling").

Two copies of the same rationale drift apart on the next edit. Keeping the mechanism here (this is the "engine fidelity" section) and leaving the compression note to state only the compression factor reads better:

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- `prefill_chunk` 320 (see the compression note below): the engine's step
- `prefill_chunk` 320 (see the compression note above): the engine's step
time is max(prefill chunk, decode step), so a large chunk stretches every
decode step while any prompt is prefilling.

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streamed `/generate` response relayed by the gateway ends with one (the
upstream chunked terminator is forwarded as an empty chunk). Under load
that is a dead connection every ~100 responses and a 60% status-0 error
rate that has nothing to do with routing. Until the relay drops empty

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🟡 Nit: this push rebases onto a main that already contains the empty-chunk fix, so the stated precondition for HTTP/1.1 is now satisfied — but every profile still ships http2: false and the note still reads as forward-looking.

The base of this push is a5901cb5 "fix(http): do not relay empty upstream chunks as empty h2 DATA frames (#2488)", which adds Some(Ok(bytes)) if bytes.is_empty() => {} to both streaming relays in model_gateway/src/routers/http/router.rs:967,1218. The condition "Until the relay drops empty chunks, measure over HTTP/1.1" is no longer pending — it's in the tree this branch now builds against, and the PR description already says the 240-worker matrix ran over h2 with #2488 applied and had zero transport errors.

Left as-is, a reader on this base measures over h1 for a bug that cannot occur, which the README's own sizing section (line 169) says does not fit the published host budget: "h1 would need one socket per stream."

Suggest recasting the note as history and flipping the committed default:

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rate that has nothing to do with routing. Until the relay drops empty
rate that has nothing to do with routing. #2488 (in this branch's base)
drops empty chunks in both streaming relays, so h2 is safe again and the
profiles set `loadgen.http2: true`; on a gateway build older than #2488,
set `http2: false` — the h1 pool is sized (4096 idle per

(If the h1 default is deliberate for some other reason, saying so here would keep it from reading as a stale workaround.)

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merged = part
else:
for k, v in part.items():
if isinstance(v, int) and not isinstance(v, bool):
merged[k] = max(merged[k], v)
elif isinstance(v, bool):
merged[k] = merged[k] and v
summary["holders_compared"] = len(good[base_r]["holders"])

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🔴 Important: merging the pairwise comparisons with max undercounts divergence with 3+ replicas, and makes the reported total inconsistent with its own breakdown.

The code this replaces accumulated differing / only_in_one across every base vs r pass and de-duplicated with set(...), i.e. a union over holders. The new loop compares counts, not holder sets:

  • base vs B differs on {w1}, base vs C differs on {w2} → the union is 2 divergent holders, but max(1, 1) reports 1. The deferred-third-replica and rolling-restart drills run 3 replicas, so this is reachable in the committed scenarios.
  • The four counters are maxed independently, so holders_differing is no longer the sum of its parts: B contributes event_fed=2, in_band=0, C contributes event_fed=0, in_band=3 → the report shows total 3 next to a breakdown of 2 + 3 + 0 = 5. scenarios.py:1109-1118 renders all four as sibling rows in the compare table, so the inconsistency is visible in the output.

converged is unaffected (the and-fold is correct), but the counts are what the new rows exist to show.

Suggest returning holder key sets from classify_divergence and unioning them, deriving the counts once at the end:

part = classify_divergence(good[base_r]["holders"], d["holders"], capacity)
for k in ("event_fed", "in_band", "out_of_band", "only_in_one"):
    keys[k] |= part[k]

then holders_differing = len(event_fed | in_band | out_of_band). That also drops the isinstance(v, int) and not isinstance(v, bool) dance, which currently has to special-case bool being an int and silently skips capacity_blocks when it is None.

continue
if a.get("event_fed") or b.get("event_fed"):
differing_event.append(key)
elif capacity_blocks is not None and min(a["blocks"], b["blocks"]) >= capacity_blocks:

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🟡 Nit: the "capacity band" has a floor but no ceiling, so the failure this classification exists to catch can still land in the benign bucket.

The docstring one line up names "the 1x-2x hysteresis band" and the README calls the bucket in capacity band (cut timing), but the predicate is only min(...) >= capacity_blocks. A placement holder that grew to 10× capacity on one replica because its cut never ran — exactly a lost/dropped placement update — satisfies min(a, b) >= capacity_blocks as long as the other side is also over 1×, so it is counted as in_band and converged stays True. Nothing in the run would flag it.

Bounding the band to what the docstring describes keeps the cut-timing case benign while letting a runaway holder fall through to out_of_band:

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elif capacity_blocks is not None and min(a["blocks"], b["blocks"]) >= capacity_blocks:
elif (
capacity_blocks is not None
and min(a["blocks"], b["blocks"]) >= capacity_blocks
and max(a["blocks"], b["blocks"]) <= 2 * capacity_blocks
):

test_placement_difference_above_capacity_on_both_sides_is_cut_timing (190/101 against CAP = 100) still passes; worth adding a case at, say, 900/101 asserting out_of_band.

a, b = base[key], other[key]
if a["digest"] == b["digest"]:
continue
if a.get("event_fed") or b.get("event_fed"):

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🟡 Nit: event_fed is read with .get() while blocks is read with [], and the two failure modes are not equally safe.

radix-index-dump and its holder schema live in the sibling index PRs (#2436#2438), not in this tree — nothing here pins the field names. If the dump ever emits the flag under a different key (or omits it for a holder), a.get("event_fed") is falsy, every event-fed holder is reclassified as placement-fed, and a genuine event-tree divergence between replicas is silently counted as in_band cut timing with converged: True. a["blocks"] on the next line would at least KeyError and fail the run loudly.

Since this is the harness's headline correctness verdict for the index, it's worth failing loudly on a schema mismatch instead of defaulting toward "converged" — e.g. a["event_fed"], or an explicit check that the key is present on every holder before classifying.

block_size = mock.get("block_size")
if not kv_tokens or not block_size:
return None
return -(-int(kv_tokens) // int(block_size))

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🟡 Nit: this rounds the capacity up, and every committed profile lands on the fractional case, so the new in_band bucket may be unreachable in practice.

All six profiles ship kv_tokens: 1200000 / block_size: 256 → 4687.5. -(-1200000 // 256) yields 4688, but a worker can only hold 4687 whole blocks (prompt_blocks in crates/mock_worker/src/engine.rs:809 explicitly never counts the trailing partial block). If the gateway publishes the floor as the capacity it feeds to placement holders, and the index cuts to that number, then min(a["blocks"], b["blocks"]) >= 4688 is never satisfied — every placement divergence falls through to out_of_band ("lost update") and converged reads False on runs that are actually fine, which is the inverse of the classification's purpose.

Floor matches the block accounting on both sides:

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return -(-int(kv_tokens) // int(block_size))
return int(kv_tokens) // int(block_size)

test_capacity_comes_from_the_mock_kv_budget pins the 4688 expectation, so it would need updating to 4687 alongside. Worth confirming against what the index actually publishes before changing — but the ceil is at minimum an unexplained mismatch with the mock's own whole-block rule.

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/// cumulative-prefix content key, the rolling hash after all tokens, and the
/// trailing partial block. The partial (< block_size) tail is never a block —
/// matching real engines, which only cache full pages.
fn lcm(a: usize, b: usize) -> usize {

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🟡 Nit: lcm was inserted between prompt_blocks' doc comment and prompt_blocks, so the comment now documents lcm — and prompt_blocks is undocumented.

Lines 1134-1137 describe "Chunk ids into block_size-token blocks, returning each full block's cumulative-prefix content key, the rolling hash after all tokens, and the trailing partial block" — that is prompt_blocks' three-tuple return, not lcm's single usize. cargo doc and any IDE hover will now attribute the block-chunking contract to a gcd helper, and the "partial tail is never a block" invariant — which cached_units' limit calculation depends on — loses its only written home.

Moving lcm above the doc comment keeps both attached to the right item:

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fn lcm(a: usize, b: usize) -> usize {
fn lcm(a: usize, b: usize) -> usize {
fn gcd(mut a: usize, mut b: usize) -> usize {
while b != 0 {
let t = a % b;
a = b;
b = t;
}
a
}
a / gcd(a, b) * b
}
/// Chunk `ids` into `block_size`-token blocks, returning each full block's
/// cumulative-prefix content key, the rolling hash after all tokens, and the
/// trailing partial block. The partial (< block_size) tail is never a block —
/// matching real engines, which only cache full pages.

(and drop the now-duplicated doc comment at lines 1134-1137 above.)

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/// Engine blocks (units) per lane block.
fn lane_units(spec: &LaneSpec, p: &EngineParams) -> usize {
(spec.block_tokens / p.block_size.max(1)).max(1) as usize

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🟡 Nit: block_tokens "must be a multiple of the engine block" (line 80) is never checked — this division silently truncates instead, and the resulting lane mis-reports its block size on the wire and over-counts its own occupancy.

LaneSpec::parse can't check it (it never sees block_size), and nothing does afterwards: config.rs parses --kv-lanes and --block-size into cfg.engine independently, and SchedulerState::with_lanes just clones the specs. So --block-size 4 --kv-lanes mamba:6 yields lane_units = 6/4 = 1 and the lane becomes a per-engine-block lane, while:

  • stored_event is handed spec.block_tokens as the event's block_size (line 1078), so the block announces block_size: 6 with 4 token_ids — a consumer deriving positions from block_size is off by 50% per block, exactly the group-aware path the shared index is supposed to exercise;
  • lane_tokens() (line 911) and the eviction ranking (line 856) both charge block_tokens per resident block, so a 4-token block counts as 6 and the lane evicts at ~0.67× of the intended watermark.

Since the invariant is only violable by misconfiguration, rejecting it at start-up matches the harness's stated rule that an unimplementable knob fails at run start rather than quietly measuring something else. EngineParams is where both values first meet — e.g. a check in with_lanes (or a Config post-parse step) that spec.block_tokens % p.block_size == 0.

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break;
}
let block_key = history[end_unit - 1].0;
let needed = self.running.iter().any(|r| {

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🟡 Nit: the max_running-wide scan runs before the cheap present test, so window eviction is quadratic in prompt length and the mock worker's own step time — the thing the harness measures TTFT with — grows with it.

The candidate loop (line 1035) walks every lane block from the start of the request down to cut = context - window and only breaks on end_tokens > cut. Already-evicted blocks are re-visited on every subsequent commit, and for each one this any() scans all running requests and does an unit_history.get + key compare. With the committed hybrid lanes (sliding_window:256:1024, block_size 256 → k = 1, window = 4 units) and max_running: 80 from the profiles, a request at j units costs ~80 × (j - 4) per committed block; admit commits every prompt block in one call, so one admission is ~80 × j²/2 — for a 128-block prompt that's ~650k get/compare per admitted request, on the single-threaded actor loop that also has to hold the decode cadence.

Swapping the two conditions makes the cost proportional to blocks actually evicted (every already-freed block short-circuits on a single hash lookup) and is behaviour-preserving, since needed has no side effects:

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let needed = self.running.iter().any(|r| {
let block_key = history[end_unit - 1].0;
if !self.lanes[i].cache.present.contains(&block_key) {
continue;
}
let needed = self.running.iter().any(|r| {
r.unit_history
.get(end_unit - 1)
.is_some_and(|(k2, _)| *k2 == block_key)
&& end_tokens > (r.unit_history.len() * unit).saturating_sub(window)
});
if !needed {

(the let block_key = ... line above at 1040 then becomes redundant.)

Comment thread scripts/generate_sim/scenarios.py Outdated
SCENARIOS["hybrid"] = [
(
f"{regime}-hybrid",
_regime(regime, 8, {"mock.kv_lanes": HYBRID_LANES}),

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🟡 Nit: mock.kv_lanes is the first mock.* key any scenario sets, and it slips past both of the harness's "the leg would measure nothing" guards — a typo here kills the whole fleet at launch with no earlier signal.

The two checks that exist for mock keys are both blind to this leg:

  • test_mock_blocks_use_only_flags_the_mock_worker_accepts (test_generate_sim.py:44) asserts set(mock) <= accepted — but only over PROFILES.glob("*.json"), and kv_lanes is a scenario override, not a committed profile key. The accepted set (lines 48-58) also wasn't extended with kv_lanes in this push, so the pin is now stale against config.rs' actual flag list.
  • validate_profile (sim.py:213) only covers index_service and drill keys; there is no mock arm.

So the path is apply_overrideflags_from--kv-lanes, and the first thing that notices a bad key is config.rs' other => return Err(format!("unknown flag: {other}")), i.e. all 120 workers exit at spawn. That's the same failure shape as the index_service keys that got SUPPORTED_INDEX_KEYS.

Cheapest fix that closes both: add kv_lanes to accepted, and have the profile-schema test also render each scenario's mock.* overrides through it (the ttl/radix tests at lines 82-115 already show the render-the-leg pattern). A LaneSpec-shaped format check on the value would also catch full:256,sliding-window:256:1024, which is a plausible typo given every other knob here is kebab-cased.

…shared index

A benchmark + fault-injection harness that runs a mock fleet, one or
more gateways, an optional shared prefix-cache index, and a load
generator on a single box — no GPUs — so routing quality, multi-gateway
scale-out, write scaling, and fault tolerance can be measured and
compared, with a validity gate that refuses to report a leg that never
actually consulted the index.

- scripts/generate_sim: scenario legs (remote-index matrix, gw-scaleout
  across 1/2/4/8 gateways with sessions sprayed so follow-ups land on
  other gateways, staleness, capacity, failover, partition, scale-up
  flap, idx-smoke), realistic workloads (a population of shared system
  prompts; agentic and conversational profiles), fault injection
  (severable TCP proxies on inter-replica links, SIGSTOP/SIGCONT wedge,
  kill -> relaunch-with-bootstrap, deferred replica scale-up, per-replica
  admin-metrics timeline), compressed-clock flags, and a compare step
  that asserts binary identity across legs.
- crates/sim_loadgen: the load generator; records the gateway's
  x-smg-index-source / x-smg-index-predicted-tokens echo per request,
  which is what makes the index-validity gate possible.

Depends on the index service and gateway flags only at RUNTIME (the
radix-index legs need those PRs merged to run); nothing here links
them, so this reviews independently. Results are produced into
gitignored local paths and are never committed.

Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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slin1237 force-pushed the feat/sim-harness-on-main branch from 5f453b6 to 287a127 Compare September 15, 2026 15:40
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slin1237 changed the base branch from feat/kv-events-cache-group to main September 15, 2026 15:40
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