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[Core] Separate DSpark scheduler input budgets - #52996

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Purpose

Fixes #52922.

The scheduler combined DSpark target tokens and fixed draft-query tokens in one input budget even though they run in separate stages. Track a separate DSpark draft-input budget so each stage can use the configured batch capacity without exceeding it.

This does not duplicate an open PR. Searches for #52922 and for DSpark scheduling found no open PR addressing this accounting bug.

Credit to @slippersss for reporting the bug and providing the minimal scheduling example.

AI assistance was used to investigate, implement, test, and write this change. The human submitter must review every changed line and reproduce the tests before submission.

Test Plan

  • Add a scheduler regression test for two 8-token prefills with a 16-token target budget and four DSpark query tokens per request.
  • Check that the independent draft budget still limits five one-token requests to four admitted requests.
  • Run the full core scheduler test file.
  • Run pre-commit on both changed files.

Test Result

Tested on Linux with Python 3.12.13. The node has eight NVIDIA A40 GPUs, but the scheduler tests used the CPU backend.

  • Regression test without the fix: 1 failed, 1 passed. The second prefill received 2 tokens instead of 8.
  • Focused tests with the fix: 3 passed.
  • tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py: 149 passed.
  • Pre-commit on both changed files: passed.

No DSpark model was loaded, and no GPU end-to-end generation was run. The exact-commit precompiled editable wheel was unavailable, so tests ran from the local source tree with pinned dependencies.


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Track DSpark target inputs and fixed draft-query inputs with separate
scheduler budgets. This lets each execution stage use the configured batch
capacity while retaining an independent limit for the draft stage.

Add scheduler coverage for both target-stage and draft-stage saturation.

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[Bug]: DSpark scheduling using an overly conservative input budget

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