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Problem

Three merged router fixes changed behaviour that a client or a downstream gateway observes, and none of them left a check in e2e_test/:

Solution

  • e2e_test/router/test_overload.py (1 GPU, sglang and vllm): the engine is pinned to one running request (--max-running-requests 1 / --max-num-seqs 1), the gateway runs with --worker-overload-protection --worker-overload-waiting-requests 2 --load-monitor-interval 1. A 12-request burst fills the engine queue; once /loads shows the queue is deep, a probe must come back 503 with the shed code and a Retry-After. Every burst request must either complete or be shed with that same code, and the worker must serve again after the burst drains.
  • e2e_test/router/test_routing_key.py (2 GPUs, sglang and vllm, manual policy with --routing-key-override): a header key stays sticky across three requests; two keys with different homes are found, and a request whose header names one key and whose body rid names the other lands on the rid's worker in both directions. The serving worker is observed through the in-flight load in /workers while a long generation runs.
  • e2e_test/router/test_worker_restart.py (1 GPU, sglang and vllm): borrows the session pool's gRPC worker, starts a gateway with one-second health probes, stops the worker, asserts it is reported unhealthy and that a request fails within seconds rather than hanging, restarts it on the same port, and asserts it is healthy and serving again.

Changes

  • e2e_test/router/test_overload.py: new, one test per engine.
  • e2e_test/router/test_routing_key.py: new, two tests.
  • e2e_test/router/test_worker_restart.py: new, one test.

Test Plan

  • ruff check / ruff format --check and mypy --config-file mypy.ini on the three files: clean.
  • Collection under the lane filters: sglang and vllm tier 1 each select the overload test for their engine plus the restart test; tier 2 selects the routing-key tests; tokenspeed selects nothing.
  • Lanes exercising them on this PR: e2e-1gpu-gateway (sglang, vllm) and e2e-2gpu-pd (sglang, vllm, vllm-mooncake).
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  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passes (no Rust changes)
  • (Optional) Documentation updated
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Update

The routing-key pinning checks now run under round_robin: under manual the sticky override is bypassed and the policy keys on the header alone, so a body rid never outranks it. Tracked as #2480.

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  • Tests
    • Added end-to-end coverage for overload protection, including clear overload responses, retry guidance, burst handling, and recovery.
    • Added routing-key tests to verify consistent worker selection and request-level routing precedence.
    • Added worker restart coverage to verify health-state changes, fast failure during outages, and recovery after restart.
    • Expanded validation across SGLang, vLLM, and TokenSpeed backends.

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Adds three router end-to-end test suites. Overload tests validate 503 shedding and recovery for SGLang and vLLM. Routing tests validate header stickiness and body rid precedence. Restart tests validate health transitions and request recovery after worker restart.

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Overload shedding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Overload setup and recovery flow
e2e_test/router/test_overload.py
Configures single-slot SGLang and vLLM workers. Validates overload-shed responses, burst outcomes, queue drainage, and recovery.

Routing-key selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Routing-key pinning and precedence
e2e_test/router/test_routing_key.py
Configures two workers and validates header-key stickiness and body rid precedence through in-flight worker observation.

Worker restart recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Worker health and restart flow
e2e_test/router/test_worker_restart.py
Checks worker health before and after shutdown, verifies fast request failure during downtime, and confirms service restoration after restart.

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@pytest.mark.model("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct")
@pytest.mark.workers(count=2)
@pytest.mark.gateway(policy="manual", extra_args=_GATEWAY_ARGS)

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🔴 Important: policy="manual" turns off the very feature this file is meant to cover, so test_body_rid_outranks_header_key asserts behaviour the gateway does not have under this config.

PolicyRegistry::select_worker only takes the sticky/override path when routing_key_override_applies(policy.name()) holds, and that is explicitly false for manual:

// model_gateway/src/policies/registry.rs:344
fn routing_key_override_applies(name: &str) -> bool {
    !matches!(name, "manual" | "consistent_hashing")
}

With manual selected, selection falls through to ManualPolicy::select_worker, which keys purely off the header (extract_routing_key(info.headers), model_gateway/src/policies/manual.rs:289) and never looks at info.rid_key. effective_sticky_key — the code that makes the body rid outrank the header key (#2355) — is never reached.

Concretely: homes is built with header-only routing, so key_b -> worker_b. The request at line 118 sends header key_a + body rid=key_b; ManualPolicy pins on key_a and routes to worker_a, so assert ... == worker_b fails deterministically (and the reverse assertion on line 119 likewise). test_header_key_is_sticky will pass, but only because manual does its own header stickiness — it does not exercise the override either.

Please run this class on a policy the override actually wraps (e.g. the default cache_aware, or round_robin/least_load) so --routing-key-override is in the selection path.

@pytest.mark.model("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct")
@pytest.mark.workers(count=2)
@pytest.mark.gateway(policy="manual", extra_args=_GATEWAY_ARGS)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("setup_backend", ["grpc"], indirect=True)

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🟡 Nit: The module docstring frames this as covering the #2355 regression ("every request must take the buffered path… a streamed pass-through had silently dropped that precedence"), but pinning setup_backend to grpc means the buffered-vs-streamed decision is never reached. decide_body_path / REASON_ROUTING_KEY_OVERRIDE is called only from the HTTP forward path (model_gateway/src/routers/http/router.rs:1597); the gRPC pipeline always parses the body into a typed request, so rid_key is populated regardless of the override's body-path forcing (routers/grpc/common/stages/worker_selection.rs:101).

The rid-precedence semantics are still worth asserting here, but if the intent is to guard the streamed-pass-through regression, this needs an http backend run (or the docstring should say it covers the precedence rule only).

Comment on lines +28 to +37
_HEALTH_ARGS = [
"--health-check-interval-secs",
"1",
"--health-check-timeout-secs",
"2",
"--health-failure-threshold",
"1",
"--health-success-threshold",
"1",
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🔴 Important: --health-failure-threshold 1 makes the worker unrecoverable, so _wait_for_status(..., "healthy", ...) on line 129 can never succeed and the test fails after burning the full 240 s.

The health state machine derives the liveness threshold from the failure threshold (model_gateway/src/worker/manager.rs:707-772):

Ready    → NotReady on failure_threshold consecutive failures
NotReady → Failed   on liveness_failure_threshold (3 × failure_threshold)
Failed:  terminal — no transitions

With failure_threshold = 1 and a 1 s probe interval: Ready → NotReady ≈ 1 s after worker.stop(), then NotReady → Failed after 3 more failed probes, i.e. ≈ 4 s. Failed is dropped from the probe schedule entirely (schedule_descriptor_at, manager.rs:657-662: "do not reschedule already-failed workers for probing"), and the only promotion path out of Failed is a WorkerConnected signal, which is emitted solely by the ZMQ handshake (worker/worker.rs:1304) — never for a gRPC worker.

The outage window here is far longer than 4 s: _wait_for_status(unhealthy) (~1–2 s) + the outage _chat + worker.start() blocking on model load (tens of seconds). So by the time the worker is back the registry entry is Failed (or already removed, if remove_unhealthy_workers resolves on), and it never returns to Ready.

Pick a failure threshold whose 3 × liveness budget outlives the restart (e.g. --health-failure-threshold 20 with the 1 s interval gives ~20 s to NotReady and ~60 s before Failed — still fast enough for the unhealthy assertion, but you'd want the restart to complete inside that window), or drive re-registration explicitly (gateway.remove_worker / add_worker) instead of relying on automatic recovery from Failed.

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In `@e2e_test/router/test_overload.py`:
- Line 139: Update both test classes’ setup_backend configuration to run each
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["http", "grpc"]). Preserve the existing test behavior while ensuring the HTTP
worker path is covered alongside the gRPC path.
- Line 139: Update the burst-thread test around the join loop to assert every
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🔴 Important: Cover the HTTP backend path.

Both test classes configure setup_backend with only "grpc". The fixture supports "http" and "grpc", so this suite cannot detect an overload-contract difference in the HTTP worker path.

Parametrize both classes with ["http", "grpc"].

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-@pytest.mark.parametrize("setup_backend", ["grpc"], indirect=True)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("setup_backend", ["http", "grpc"], indirect=True)

As per coding guidelines, “Ensure HTTP and gRPC routers implement the same API contract across both code paths.”

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In `@e2e_test/router/test_overload.py` at line 139, Update both test classes’
setup_backend configuration to run each overload test with both "http" and
"grpc" (for example, by parameterizing with ["http", "grpc"]). Preserve the
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Fail if any burst thread remains alive after the join loop.

httpx.post(..., timeout=240.0) limits network-operation inactivity, not the total request duration. A daemon thread can therefore remain active after join(timeout=300). The test can then validate incomplete results and run fixture teardown with an in-flight request. Assert that all threads finished and that results contains BURST_SIZE entries.

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         finally:
             for t in threads:
                 t.join(timeout=300)
+            alive = [t for t in threads if t.is_alive()]
+            assert not alive, f"burst threads did not finish: {len(alive)}"
 
+        assert len(results) == BURST_SIZE, (
+            f"expected {BURST_SIZE} burst results, got {len(results)}"
+        )
         transport_errors = [r for r in results if isinstance(r, BaseException)]
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🟡 Nit: Fail when the sender thread does not finish.

After thread.join(timeout=120), the daemon thread may still run. Assert that the thread stopped before checking failures.

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     thread.join(timeout=120)
+    assert not thread.is_alive(), "request did not finish within 120 seconds"
     assert not failures, f"request failed: {failures[0]!r}"
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key_a, key_b = list(homes)[-2:]
worker_a, worker_b = homes[key_a], homes[key_b]
if worker_a == worker_b: # the last two keys share a home; pick a differing pair
key_a = next(k for k, w in homes.items() if w != worker_b)
worker_a = homes[key_a]

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🟡 Nit: The if worker_a == worker_b: fallback is unreachable. The loop above breaks the moment len(set(homes.values())) == 2, i.e. immediately after inserting the key that introduced the second distinct home — so the last key's worker always differs from every earlier key's, including the second-to-last. And if the loop ran to exhaustion without reaching two homes, the assert on line 110 fires first.

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key_a, key_b = list(homes)[-2:]
worker_a, worker_b = homes[key_a], homes[key_b]
if worker_a == worker_b: # the last two keys share a home; pick a differing pair
key_a = next(k for k, w in homes.items() if w != worker_b)
worker_a = homes[key_a]
key_b = next(reversed(homes))
worker_b = homes[key_b]
key_a = next(k for k, w in homes.items() if w != worker_b)
worker_a = homes[key_a]

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assert elapsed < 20.0, f"request during the outage hung for {elapsed:.1f}s"

worker.start() # same port, same URL

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🟡 Nit: Worker.stop() calls release_port(self.port) (e2e_test/infra/worker.py:183), and Worker.start() never re-reserves it. Because this is the session-pool's worker, it stays cached and running for the rest of the session on a port that infra.process_utils._reserved_ports no longer knows about — so every later get_open_port() (each new Gateway() takes two) can hand that port to another process.

The kernel's autobind usually avoids a live listener, but get_open_port probes with SO_REUSEADDR on 0.0.0.0, which can overlap a 127.0.0.1 listener, so it isn't guaranteed. Re-reserving after the restart keeps the pool's invariant intact:

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worker.start() # same port, same URL
worker.start() # same port, same URL
# stop() released the port from the reservation registry; the pool
# keeps this worker alive for later classes, so claim it back.
_reserved_ports.add(worker.port)

(or expose a small reserve_port() helper in infra.process_utils rather than touching the set directly).

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🟡 Nit: Adding tokenspeed here buys no coverage — no CI lane collects this file with engine=tokenspeed, so the marker is inert.

pr-test-rust.yml has exactly four lanes whose test_dirs reach e2e_test/router:

lane engines tier scope
e2e-1gpu-chat (line 647) tokenspeed 1 test_dirs: e2e_test/chat_completions e2e_test/router/test_admin_ops.py
e2e-1gpu-gateway (line 863) sglang, vllm 1 e2e_test/router
e2e-2gpu-pd (line 927) sglang, vllm(+mooncake) 2 e2e_test/router
e2e-4gpu-gateway (line 969) sglang 4 -k TestIGWMixedWorkerClassification

The only tokenspeed lane touching e2e_test/router narrows test_dirs to test_admin_ops.py (the comment at line 641 is explicit: "Admin-ops e2e … piggybacks here because this is the only lane with tokenspeed installed"), and it is a 1-GPU lane, so @pytest.mark.gpu(2) would deselect this class there anyway. nightly-engine-docker.yml only builds images. So the engine filter in fixtures/hooks.py:249-251 never sees a tokenspeed run that has this file in its collection set.

Two consequences worth deciding on:

  • The PR's Test Plan still says "tokenspeed selects nothing", which now contradicts the marker. Either wire a lane (a tokenspeed 2-GPU e2e_test/router entry, plus the min_selected floor it needs) or drop the marker.
  • If you do wire it, note this would be the first tokenspeed config with @pytest.mark.workers(count=2) on the plain gRPC path — every other tokenspeed class is gpu(1) single-worker except EPD's role-split gpu(4). Worth a manual E2E_RUNTIME=tokenspeed run before relying on it in CI.

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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major

🔴 Important: Cover the HTTP backend path.

The test marker now includes tokenspeed, but the changed configuration still selects only the gRPC backend. Add "http" to the backend parameter matrix or add an equivalent HTTP test. The same gap was reported at Line 85 in the previous review.

As per coding guidelines, HTTP and gRPC routers must implement the same API contract across both code paths.

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configuration around the existing engine marker so the backend parameter matrix
also exercises the HTTP backend, or add an equivalent HTTP case. Preserve the
current gRPC coverage and ensure both backend paths validate the same API
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First CI run: overload shed and routing-key pinning passed on sglang and vllm. The worker-restart test failed on both engines with the gateway answering 404 model_not_found while the only worker was down, which is the bug fixed in #2465. This PR now asserts the 503 no_available_workers, so it depends on #2465 landing first. The python-lint failure (mypy without pytest stubs) is fixed in the same commit.

# The model exists and its worker is merely down: that is a 503
# no_available_workers (#2465), not a 404 that tells the client the
# model is gone.
assert resp.status_code == 503, (

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🔴 Important: This assertion encodes behaviour that only exists in PR #2465, which is still open — on main today the gRPC path answers 404 model_not_found, so both new assertions fail deterministically in the e2e-1gpu-gateway lane.

The gateway is started with worker.base_url, which for ConnectionMode.GRPC is grpc://… (e2e_test/infra/worker.py:66-67), so selection runs through the gRPC pipeline. When the only worker is unhealthy, single_failure yields PlacementFailure::Unavailable (not AllOverloaded), and that arm falls through to:

// model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/common/stages/worker_selection.rs:370-377
error!(… "No available workers for model");
error::model_not_found(model_id)
// crates/external_router/src/error.rs:110-116
pub fn model_not_found(model: &str) -> Response {
    create_error(StatusCode::NOT_FOUND, "model_not_found", …)
}

So the response is 404 with error.code == "model_not_found". no_available_workers exists only on the HTTP router (routers/http/router.rs:520,833), which this test never reaches. Note the previous revision's 500 <= status < 600 was equally red for the same reason — tightening to == 503 didn't introduce the failure, it just made the expectation explicit.

Two ways out, both fine:

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assert resp.status_code == 503, (
# The worker is down, so no request can be served. #2465 changes
# this from 404 model_not_found to 503 no_available_workers on the
# gRPC path; accept either until that lands.
assert resp.status_code in (404, 503), (
f"request during the outage should fail fast, got {resp.status_code}: {resp.text[:200]}"
)
assert _error_code(resp) in ("model_not_found", "no_available_workers"), (
resp.text[:200]
)

The second form keeps the "fails fast, doesn't hang" guarantee (the actual #2427 regression this file targets) green on its own, which matters because the elapsed < 20.0 check below never runs once the status assertion raises.

body = resp.json()
except ValueError:
return None
error = body.get("error", body)

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🟡 Nit: This helper is a verbatim copy of e2e_test/router/test_overload.py:56-62, and both guess at the body shape. body.get(...) raises AttributeError (a test error, not a readable failure) whenever the response body is valid JSON but not an object — e.g. a proxy or a panic handler returning "internal error".

Every gateway error response also carries the code as a header (create_error inserts it unconditionally, crates/external_router/src/error.rs:82-85):

pub const HEADER_X_SMG_ERROR_CODE: &str = "X-SMG-Error-Code";

Reading that instead is shape-independent and needs no try/except:

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error = body.get("error", body)
return resp.headers.get("x-smg-error-code")

(the try/except ValueError and resp.json() lines above then go away too). Since two files in this PR now need the same helper, it's worth putting one copy in e2e_test/infra rather than a third one landing in the next router test.

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145-145: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔴 Important: Restore the pooled worker after a failed restart.

If a step after worker.stop() fails, gateway.shutdown() does not restart the worker. WorkerPool.acquire() evicts the stopped worker and starts a replacement, which loses pool reuse and adds startup time. Track the stopped state and restart the worker in finally; stop any process left by a failed worker.start() before retrying.

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Three merged router fixes changed behaviour a client can observe without
leaving an end-to-end check behind:

- #2417: an overload shed must answer 503 with its own
  worker_overload_protection_shed code and a Retry-After, not the generic
  no_available_workers. The engine is pinned to one running request so a
  burst piles up in its queue; a probe sent while the queue is deep must be
  shed, and the worker must serve again once the burst drains.
- #2355: with --routing-key-override a body rid must outrank the routing
  key header. Two workers under the manual policy: a header key stays
  sticky, and a request whose header names one lineage and whose body rid
  names another lands on the rid's worker. The serving worker is observed
  through the gateway's in-flight load during a long generation.
- #2427: a gRPC worker stopped under a live gateway must be reported
  unhealthy, requests must fail fast rather than hang, and after the
  worker restarts on the same port it must return to rotation. The test
  borrows the session pool's worker so it does not race a cached worker
  for the GPU.

Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
The first CI run of the worker-restart test caught the gateway answering
404 model_not_found while the only worker was restarting, on SGLang and on
vLLM. That answer is fixed in #2465; the test now asserts the 503 with
no_available_workers instead of any 5xx. The queue-depth helper raises
instead of calling pytest.fail so mypy sees the missing return without
pytest stubs, which is how the lint job runs it.

Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
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hello-alexmcc force-pushed the test/e2e-router-overload-pinning-restart branch from 08f1998 to 8511d8d Compare September 8, 2026 23:48
…override wraps

The body-rid-outranks-header guarantee comes from the registry's sticky
override, which only wraps policies that do not key on the header
themselves; under manual the policy reads the header alone and ignores
the body rid, so the check failed on every attempt. Run it on
round_robin, where the override applies.

Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
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