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fix(worker): keep probing a failed worker so a restart on the same address rejoins - #2468
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…dress rejoins The health state machine treated Failed as terminal: a worker that went NotReady and then Failed was dropped from the probe schedule, and the only way back to Ready was a connect signal that only ZMQ engines send. A gRPC or HTTP worker that died and came back on the same address, which is what a restart looks like in a static fleet, stayed Failed until the gateway itself restarted. The PD topology suite hit it on every engine: a decode worker stopped and restarted under a live gateway was never probed again. Failed now promotes to Ready on the same success threshold as NotReady, and a Failed worker keeps its probe slot unless --remove-unhealthy-workers is set, in which case removal takes over as before. Startup reconcile is unchanged under removal and schedules the probe without it. Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
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WalkthroughThe health-check state machine keeps Failed workers on the probe schedule when removal is disabled. Consecutive successful probes can transition a Failed worker to Ready. Tests and documentation cover this recovery behavior. ChangesFailed worker recovery
Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the worker health-handling change because failed workers can now recover after restarting on the same address without manual re-addition. Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Failed workers can now recover in place when removal is disabled, but the updated configuration guidance can lead static deployments with explicit removal enabled to permanently lose workers after health failures. Clarify or reject that configuration before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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| let launched_status = worker.status(); | ||
| let expected_revision = worker.revision(); | ||
| if launched_status == WorkerStatus::Failed { | ||
| if launched_status == WorkerStatus::Failed && config.remove_unhealthy { |
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🟣 Pre-existing: config.remove_unhealthy isn't sufficient to conclude "removal takes it from here" — submit_removal_job short-circuits on mesh-imported workers via should_remove_failed (line 795). So with --remove-unhealthy-workers on, a Failed mesh worker is dropped from next_check here (and at line 351) but no removal job is ever submitted: it stays registered, Failed, and permanently unprobed — exactly the "never rejoins" bug this PR fixes for local workers.
The doc comment on should_remove_failed even assumes probing continues ("the live CRDT key re-imports the worker on the next reconcile, probes fail again"), which can't happen once the worker leaves the schedule.
This predates the PR, but the PR is introducing the gate, so it's the natural place to make it match reality:
| if launched_status == WorkerStatus::Failed && config.remove_unhealthy { | |
| if launched_status == WorkerStatus::Failed | |
| && config.remove_unhealthy | |
| && should_remove_failed(registry, &worker_id) | |
| { |
The same predicate would apply at line 347 and line 659.
| apply_probe_completion(®istry, completion, job_queue.as_ref()).await, | ||
| ProbeApplyResult::Applied(Some((_, WorkerStatus::Failed))) | ||
| ) { | ||
| ) && config.remove_unhealthy |
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🟡 Nit: Keeping Failed workers on the schedule forever also makes the failure logging unbounded. remove_unhealthy defaults to service_discovery (resolve_worker_auto_recovery in config/types.rs:959), i.e. false for the static fleets this PR targets, so a worker that is genuinely gone for good (decommissioned host, retired port) now emits warn!("Health probe failed") here plus the transport-level warn! in http_health_check/grpc_health_check every check_interval_secs (default 60s) for the lifetime of the gateway. Previously the noise stopped once it reached Failed.
Worth demoting the probe-failure log to debug! when launched_status == WorkerStatus::Failed (the state is already reported via /workers and the health metric), so the recovery probe stays cheap and quiet.
| // A Failed worker may have been dropped from the schedule (removal | ||
| // enabled); a promoted one is serving traffic, so it must be probed | ||
| // again — otherwise a later | ||
| // engine death would leave it Ready with a dead client forever. |
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🟡 Nit: The rewrap left a stub line ("otherwise a later" / "engine death"). Reflow:
| // A Failed worker may have been dropped from the schedule (removal | |
| // enabled); a promoted one is serving traffic, so it must be probed | |
| // again — otherwise a later | |
| // engine death would leave it Ready with a dead client forever. | |
| // A Failed worker may have been dropped from the schedule (removal | |
| // enabled); a promoted one is serving traffic, so it must be probed | |
| // again — otherwise a later engine death would leave it Ready with | |
| // a dead client forever. |
…very The flag's help said a worker that reaches Failed is never probed again without it; that is no longer true. Off, the worker stays registered and probed and rejoins in place; on, removal plus discovery re-registration recovers it, which is why it follows --service-discovery. Signed-off-by: Alex McC <319643551+hello-alexmcc@users.noreply.github.com>
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| #[test] | ||
| fn test_reconcile_from_registry_keeps_failed_workers_probed_without_removal() { |
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🟡 Nit (test coverage): This test pins the schedule_descriptor_at branch, but the change that actually makes a restarted worker rejoin is in queue_due_probes (line 465) — and that function has its own independent Failed check, exercised by exactly one test (test_removal_candidate_strips_dp_rank_suffix, line 1713) which only runs with remove_unhealthy: true.
So the remove_unhealthy: false path through queue_due_probes is untested: someone could revert line 465 to the unconditional next_check.remove(&worker_id); continue; and the whole suite would still pass while the PD failover regression came straight back. Worth a sibling test that calls queue_due_probes on a Failed worker with remove_unhealthy: false and asserts removals.is_empty(), in_flight.contains(&id), and probes.len() == 1.
| /// Recover failed workers by removal: a worker that stays unhealthy | ||
| /// long enough (Failed, ~12 minutes at the default thresholds) is | ||
| /// removed from the registry so service discovery re-registers and | ||
| /// re-probes it once its engine returns. Without this a Failed worker |
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🟡 Nit (doc sync): This push rewrites the Rust-side help for --remove-unhealthy-workers, but the Python CLI's help for the same flag was left on the pre-PR framing — bindings/python/src/smg/router_args.py:1240-1247:
"Let workers recover after prolonged failure: unhealthy workers are removed so service discovery re-registers and re-probes them once their engine returns. Defaults to the service-discovery setting (recovery-by-removal needs discovery to re-add the worker); use the
--no-form to keep it off under discovery"
That text presents removal as the recovery mechanism, which is exactly the assumption this PR invalidates. resolve_worker_auto_recovery makes the flag default off for static (non-discovery) fleets, so the common Python-launcher case is now the recover-in-place path the help never mentions — a user reading it would reasonably conclude that turning the flag off means failed workers never come back, and reach for --service-discovery they don't need.
Worth mirroring the new second sentence there (and in the dataclass comment at router_args.py:139-141, which reads the same way), since the two front ends drive the identical HealthCheckConfig field.
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In `@model_gateway/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 854-857: Clarify the documentation around
resolve_worker_auto_recovery and the corresponding configuration types in
config/types.rs: explicitly state that enabling remove-unhealthy-workers=true
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| /// --service-discovery setting: discovery-managed fleets recover by | ||
| /// removal plus re-registration, while a static fleet has nothing to | ||
| /// re-add a removed worker and recovers in place instead. Pass =false | ||
| /// to keep it off under discovery. |
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🔴 Important — Document the explicit static-fleet override.
resolve_worker_auto_recovery(Some(true), false) enables removal when service discovery is disabled. A static fleet then has no discovery path to re-register a removed worker. The statement that a static fleet “recovers in place instead” is true only when the option remains at its default. State that --remove-unhealthy-workers=true requires service discovery, or reject that combination. Apply the same clarification to model_gateway/src/config/types.rs.
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In `@model_gateway/src/main.rs` around lines 854 - 857, Clarify the documentation
around resolve_worker_auto_recovery and the corresponding configuration types in
config/types.rs: explicitly state that enabling remove-unhealthy-workers=true
requires service discovery, rather than claiming static fleets always recover in
place. Keep the default static-fleet behavior documented as in-place recovery,
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Conflicts: - bindings/python/src/lib.rs, smg/router_args.py, tests/test_arg_parser.py: main appended `pd_admission_wait_secs` (#2466) where this branch appends `worker_mode`; both are kept, with `worker_mode` staying last so the positional RouterArgs constructor contract holds. - model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/context.rs: main's pd_admission import plus this branch's WorkerMode import. - model_gateway/src/worker/manager.rs: main's Failed -> Ready recovery (#2468) merged with this branch's ProbeOutcome-based readiness machine; the recovery test is expressed in ProbeOutcome terms and the doc lists both sets of transitions. Signed-off-by: gongwei-130 <weigong28@gmail.com>
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Description
Problem
The health state machine in
model_gateway/src/worker/manager.rstreatsFailedas terminal. A worker that missesfailure_thresholdprobes goesNotReady, after the liveness threshold it goesFailed, and at that point it is dropped from the probe schedule. The only transition out ofFailedis the connect signal inapply_connect_signal, which only ZMQ engines emit. A gRPC or HTTP worker that dies and comes back on the same address, which is exactly what restarting a worker in a static fleet looks like, is never probed again and stays out of rotation until the gateway restarts or the worker is re-added through the API.The PD topology suite (#2464) hit this on every engine. In run 34189838383, decode worker
grpc://127.0.0.1:46287was stopped at 06:23:30, wentReady → NotReady → Failedby 06:23:33, was restarted and healthy on its own port at 06:25:19, and the gateway logged no further probe for it for the next ten minutes while the test polled/workers; the other three workers were probed every second throughout. The same sequence appears on vLLM and TokenSpeed, and the worker-restart test in #2462 fails the same way on the 1-GPU lanes.Solution
compute_next_status:Failed → Readyonsuccess_thresholdconsecutive successes, the same rule asNotReady. Failures keep itFailed.queue_due_probesand the probe-completion handler: aFailedworker is dropped from the schedule only when--remove-unhealthy-workersis set, where removal takes over as before. Without removal it keeps its probe slot, so a restart is noticed and it rejoins.schedule_descriptor_at: the startup reconcile is unchanged under removal (it must not queue removals) and schedules the probe without it.Changes
model_gateway/src/worker/manager.rs: state machine, scheduling, and comments as above;test_state_machine_failed_is_terminalbecomestest_state_machine_failed_recovers_after_success_threshold; newtest_reconcile_from_registry_keeps_failed_workers_probed_without_removal.Test Plan
cargo +nightly fmt --all,cargo clippy -p smg --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean.cargo test -p smg --lib: passes (34 manager tests including the two above; full lib count in the job log).Checklist
cargo +nightly fmtpassescargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningspasses (-p smg --all-targets; the all-features build needs OpenCV locally)