[V0 Deprecation] Deprecate --disable-frontend-multiprocessing

tests/distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py

@@ -319,9 +319,6 @@ def _compare_tp(
         pp_env = {
             "VLLM_USE_RAY_COMPILED_DAG_NCCL_CHANNEL": "1",
         }
-        # Temporary. Currently when zeromq + SPMD is used, it does not properly
-        # terminate because of a Ray Compiled Graph issue.
-        common_args.append("--disable-frontend-multiprocessing")
     elif distributed_backend == "mp":
         pp_env = None
     else:

tests/entrypoints/instrumentator/test_basic.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def server_args(request: pytest.FixtureRequest) -> list[str]:
     >>> @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     >>>     "server_args",
     >>>     [
-    >>>         ["--disable-frontend-multiprocessing"],
+    >>>         ["--max-model-len", "10100"],
     >>>         [
     >>>             "--model=NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B",
     >>>             "--enable-auto-tool-choice",
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def server_args(request: pytest.FixtureRequest) -> list[str]:
     >>>     ...
 
     This will run `test_foo` twice with servers with:
-    - `--disable-frontend-multiprocessing`
+    - `--max-model-len 10100`
     - `--model=NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B --enable-auto-tool-choice`.
 
     """
@@ -79,17 +79,6 @@ async def client(server):
         yield async_client
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "server_args",
-    [
-        pytest.param([], id="default-frontend-multiprocessing"),
-        pytest.param(
-            ["--disable-frontend-multiprocessing"],
-            id="disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
-        ),
-    ],
-    indirect=True,
-)
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_show_version(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
     response = requests.get(server.url_for("version"))
@@ -98,17 +87,6 @@ async def test_show_version(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
     assert response.json() == {"version": VLLM_VERSION}
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "server_args",
-    [
-        pytest.param([], id="default-frontend-multiprocessing"),
-        pytest.param(
-            ["--disable-frontend-multiprocessing"],
-            id="disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
-        ),
-    ],
-    indirect=True,
-)
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_check_health(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
     response = requests.get(server.url_for("health"))
@@ -119,13 +97,7 @@ async def test_check_health(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "server_args",
     [
-        pytest.param(
-            ["--max-model-len", "10100"], id="default-frontend-multiprocessing"
-        ),
-        pytest.param(
-            ["--disable-frontend-multiprocessing", "--max-model-len", "10100"],
-            id="disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
-        ),
+        pytest.param(["--max-model-len", "10100"]),
     ],
     indirect=True,
 )

tests/entrypoints/instrumentator/test_metrics.py

@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ def default_server_args():
     params=[
         "",
         "--enable-chunked-prefill",
-        "--disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
         f"--show-hidden-metrics-for-version={PREV_MINOR_VERSION}",
     ],
 )

tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_completion_with_prompt_embeds.py

@@ -83,11 +83,8 @@ def example_prompt_embeds(hf_runner):
     return [_encode_embeds(item) for item in example_embeddings]
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="module", params=["", "--disable-frontend-multiprocessing"])
-def server_with_prompt_embeds(default_server_args, request):
-    if request.param:
-        default_server_args.append(request.param)
-
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def server_with_prompt_embeds(default_server_args):
     with RemoteOpenAIServer(MODEL_NAME, default_server_args) as remote_server:
         yield remote_server
 

tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_shutdown.py

@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ async def test_shutdown_on_engine_failure():
             "0.05",
             "--max-num-seqs",
             "2",
-            "--disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
         ],
         # ROCm: Disable stdout/stderr pipe capture. Subprocess hangs when
         # stdout/stderr pipes are enabled during ROCm GPU initialization.

tests/v1/entrypoints/openai/test_completion.py

@@ -26,19 +26,12 @@ def default_server_args():
         "128",
         "--enforce-eager",
         "--enable-prompt-tokens-details",
+        "--no-enable-prefix-caching",
     ]
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(
-    scope="module",
-    params=[
-        ["--no-enable-prefix-caching"],
-        ["--no-enable-prefix-caching", "--disable-frontend-multiprocessing"],
-    ],
-)
-def server(default_server_args, request):
-    if request.param:
-        default_server_args = default_server_args + request.param
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def server(default_server_args):
     with RemoteOpenAIServer(MODEL_NAME, default_server_args) as remote_server:
         yield remote_server
 

vllm/benchmarks/throughput.py

@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ async def run_vllm_async(
     n: int,
     engine_args: AsyncEngineArgs,
     do_profile: bool,
-    disable_frontend_multiprocessing: bool = False,
     disable_detokenize: bool = False,
 ) -> float:
     from vllm import SamplingParams
@@ -191,7 +190,6 @@ async def run_vllm_async(
 
     async with build_async_engine_client_from_engine_args(
         engine_args,
-        disable_frontend_multiprocessing=disable_frontend_multiprocessing,
     ) as llm:
         model_config = llm.model_config
         assert all(
@@ -757,12 +755,6 @@ def add_cli_args(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
         default=False,
         help="Use vLLM async engine rather than LLM class.",
     )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--disable-frontend-multiprocessing",
-        action="store_true",
-        default=False,
-        help="Disable decoupled async engine frontend.",
-    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--disable-detokenize",
         action="store_true",
@@ -880,7 +872,6 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
                     requests,
                     args.n,
                     AsyncEngineArgs.from_cli_args(args),
-                    disable_frontend_multiprocessing=args.disable_frontend_multiprocessing,
                     disable_detokenize=args.disable_detokenize,
                     do_profile=args.profile,
                 )

vllm/entrypoints/openai/api_server.py

@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ async def build_async_engine_client(
     args: Namespace,
     *,
     usage_context: UsageContext = UsageContext.OPENAI_API_SERVER,
-    disable_frontend_multiprocessing: bool | None = None,
     client_config: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
 ) -> AsyncIterator[EngineClient]:
     if os.getenv("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD") == "forkserver":
@@ -98,13 +97,9 @@ async def build_async_engine_client(
         engine_args._api_process_count = client_config.get("client_count", 1)
         engine_args._api_process_rank = client_config.get("client_index", 0)
 
-    if disable_frontend_multiprocessing is None:
-        disable_frontend_multiprocessing = bool(args.disable_frontend_multiprocessing)
-
     async with build_async_engine_client_from_engine_args(
         engine_args,
         usage_context=usage_context,
-        disable_frontend_multiprocessing=disable_frontend_multiprocessing,
         client_config=client_config,
     ) as engine:
         yield engine
@@ -115,7 +110,6 @@ async def build_async_engine_client_from_engine_args(
     engine_args: AsyncEngineArgs,
     *,
     usage_context: UsageContext = UsageContext.OPENAI_API_SERVER,
-    disable_frontend_multiprocessing: bool = False,
     client_config: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
 ) -> AsyncIterator[EngineClient]:
     """
@@ -129,9 +123,6 @@ async def build_async_engine_client_from_engine_args(
     # Create the EngineConfig (determines if we can use V1).
     vllm_config = engine_args.create_engine_config(usage_context=usage_context)
 
-    if disable_frontend_multiprocessing:
-        logger.warning("V1 is enabled, but got --disable-frontend-multiprocessing.")
-
     from vllm.v1.engine.async_llm import AsyncLLM
 
     async_llm: AsyncLLM | None = None

vllm/entrypoints/openai/cli_args.py

@@ -105,9 +105,6 @@ class BaseFrontendArgs:
     """When `--max-logprobs` is specified, represents single tokens as
     strings of the form 'token_id:{token_id}' so that tokens that are not
     JSON-encodable can be identified."""
-    disable_frontend_multiprocessing: bool = False
-    """If specified, will run the OpenAI frontend server in the same process as
-    the model serving engine."""
     enable_auto_tool_choice: bool = False
     """Enable auto tool choice for supported models. Use `--tool-call-parser`
     to specify which parser to use."""

vllm/entrypoints/openai/run_batch.py

@@ -823,7 +823,6 @@ async def main(args: Namespace):
     async with build_async_engine_client(
         args,
         usage_context=UsageContext.OPENAI_BATCH_RUNNER,
-        disable_frontend_multiprocessing=False,
     ) as engine_client:
         await run_batch(engine_client, args)