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[Bugfix] Install the weight offloader in the V2 model runner - #51462

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Fixes #50672

set_offloader(create_offloader(...)) is only called from the V1 GPU model runner.
The V2 runner never installs an offloader, so make_layers() gets the process-global
default NoopOffloader and --cpu-offload-gb is silently a no-op.
KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration is in DEFAULT_V2_MODEL_RUNNER_ARCHITECTURES, and
_is_default_v2_model_runner_model() also returns True for any dense model, so this
hits Kimi K3 and most non-MoE models.

The fix mirrors the V1 wiring: create the offloader in __init__ before the model is
built, and call post_init() at the end of load_model(). Nothing else was missing,
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/cudagraph_utils.py already calls get_offloader().sync_prev_onload()
and join_after_forward().

The existing test_cpu_offload only compares outputs with and without offloading, and
not offloading produces identical outputs, so it passed vacuously on V2. Added
test_cpu_offload_is_applied, which asserts the offloader actually ran, parametrized
over both runners.

Tested on 8x A40 (sm_86), driver 560.35.03, built from source against CUDA 12.6 /
torch 2.13.0+cu129, TP=1:

  • test_cpu_offload_is_applied: fails on [1] (V2, NoopOffloader) and passes on [0]
    (V1) without the patch; both pass with it.
  • tests/basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload.py::test_cpu_offload: 4 passed. This now
    runs with real UVA offloading on V2, with and without CUDA graphs, and still matches
    the non-offloaded baseline.
  • tests/v1/streaming_input/test_gpu_model_runner_v2_streaming.py: 2 passed.
  • The patch also switches on the prefetch backend for V2, so I checked it by hand:
    --offload-group-size 2 --offload-num-in-group 1 on V2 with CUDA graphs gives
    byte-identical greedy output to the baseline.
  • pre-commit run --files on both touched files: all hooks pass, mypy included.

Not verified: Kimi K3 itself. It needs sm_90+ FP8 MegaMoE kernels and far more
memory than this box has, so the Kimi K3 part of the diagnosis is from reading
vllm/config/vllm.py and vllm/models/kimi_k3/, not from a run. Also untested here:
multi-GPU / TP / PP / EP, multimodal offload, --cpu-offload-params, and quantized
checkpoints (tests/quantization/test_cpu_offload.py needs FP8 or Marlin, which do
not run on sm_86).

The reporter's issue body was an empty template, so I could not reproduce their exact
run. I reproduced the defect its title describes. Thanks to @ee-redbull for filing it.

AI assistance was used to write this patch.

`set_offloader(create_offloader(...))` is only called from the V1 GPU
model runner. The V2 runner never installs an offloader, so `make_layers`
sees the default `NoopOffloader` and `--cpu-offload-gb` (and the prefetch
offload flags) are silently ignored for every model that runs on V2.

`KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration` is in
DEFAULT_V2_MODEL_RUNNER_ARCHITECTURES, and dense models default to V2 as
well, so this covers Kimi K3 plus most non-MoE models.

Mirror the V1 wiring: create the offloader in `__init__` before the model
is built, and call `post_init()` at the end of `load_model()`. The V2
cudagraph path already calls `get_offloader().sync_prev_onload()` and
`join_after_forward()`, so nothing else was missing.

The existing test only compared outputs with and without offloading, which
cannot fail when nothing is offloaded. Add a test that asserts the
offloader actually ran, on both model runners.

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@mergify mergify Bot added mrv2 Model Runner V2 specific bug Something isn't working labels Aug 7, 2026
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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @guptaishaan.

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Thanks for the work, duplicate with #51413, closing the pr

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