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MambaHybridModelState.add_request seeds a resumed request's running state block with (num_computed_tokens - 1) // cache_config.block_size. The align block table is laid out in Mamba blocks, MambaSpec.block_size, which the engine core can scale past the scheduler block when it unifies page sizes (unify_kv_cache_spec_page_size, get_kv_cache_groups), and the precopy kernel indexes the table in those units. The seed then lands in another row's column, or past the table at depth (illegal memory access in precopy_mamba_align_fused_kernel). The V1 path in mamba_utils.py already divides by mamba_spec.block_size.

The model state only sees the Mamba spec on the first real batch, after add_request, so it cannot look the size up lazily. Give it the KV cache config when the runner initializes the KV cache (ModelState.set_kv_cache_config, no-op by default), resolve the Mamba groups there, and seed with MambaSpec.block_size.

Replaces the first revision, which cached the size lazily with a scheduler-block fallback. No open PR touches align-mode seeding.

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pytest tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_hybrid_model_state.py tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_utils.py tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner_v2.py - 53 passed. The new case runs add_request with an 880-token Mamba block beside a 16-token scheduler block; it is the guard for the crash, since the two sizes coincide on today's main for the models below.

2x DGX Spark, TP=2, Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 hybrid, --prefix-cache-retention-interval, 133k-token document: fresh, identical resubmit (prefix hit, resumed with computed tokens), new question. On main and on main + this commit the resume completes with 132,800 prefix-hit tokens and the resumed answer equals the fresh one at T=0; no regression. On a lineage with unified KV pages (Mamba block 1568) the same holds with a DFlash2 drafter, 12/12 on the tool-calling suite, unchanged from the previous revision. The illegal memory access itself reproduced on an earlier geometry of that lineage where the Mamba block differed from the attention block.

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dbirks added a commit to dbirks/vllm that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
Base runtime (dev20073+g8e685d198, not on upstream main) ships customized
mamba_hybrid.py/scheduler.py, so the verbatim PR diffs failed to apply.
Re-expressed the semantic fixes against the base's real lines (dumped via
flashnext-base-dump), py_compiled and dry-run --fuzz=0 clean:
  vllm-project#53798 full; vllm-project#54076 hunks 1+2 (block-size source). vllm-project#54076 hunk 3 omitted
  (base has no internal-checkpoint path).

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Measured on GB10 with MTP n=5: this patch alone takes healthy-acceptance turns from 44 % (12 starts) to 14/16; both PRs together 63/72 over 7 starts. Numbers and method in #53142 (comment).

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Correction: the acceptance percentages I quoted were a benchmark artifact (ignore_eos); details in #53142 (comment). The direction stands; corrected numbers follow there.

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…ock units

The seed divided by cache_config.block_size; once page unification no
longer keeps scheduler and mamba block widths equal, a resumed request
seeds its precopy source to a garbage block-table column (silent
neighbour-state corruption at moderate lengths, CUDA illegal access at
~100k+). Use the mamba spec's block width, assert it is resolved before
any computed-token resume, and keep the static helper for the imported
regression tests (7 passed; tests landed with aa774d8).

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LGTM -- Probably somebody else should take a look into this though as well.

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not sure if test file is needed here

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@ptorsten ptorsten changed the title [Bugfix] Seed align-mode mamba state_idx in mamba block units [Bugfix] Seed align-mode Mamba state_idx in Mamba blocks Sep 4, 2026
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved KV-cache configuration handling for hybrid Mamba models.
    • Fixed state indexing when aligned cache blocks are larger than the configured page size.
    • Improved initialization consistency for GPU model states, helping prevent incorrect request-state tracking.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for Mamba state indexing and aligned cache layouts.
    • Updated validation for KV-cache configuration and Mamba group information.

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The model runner now passes KVCacheConfig to ModelState during KV cache initialization. MambaHybridModelState caches Mamba metadata and computes request state indices from Mamba block sizes. Tests cover the new hook and indexing behavior.

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Configuration binding and interface
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/model_states/interface.py, vllm/v1/worker/gpu/model_runner.py
ModelState defines set_kv_cache_config. GPUModelRunner.initialize_kv_cache invokes the hook after attention backend initialization.
Mamba state configuration and indexing
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/model_states/mamba_hybrid.py
MambaHybridModelState caches Mamba group metadata, requires configuration binding before lookup, and seeds request state indices from mamba_spec.block_size.
State binding and indexing tests
tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_hybrid_model_state.py, tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_utils.py, tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner_v2.py
Tests configure Mamba state through the new hook, verify Mamba-block indexing, and update the runner mock with the callback.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b5975

This change corrects resumed align-mode Mamba request state seeding when Mamba blocks differ from scheduler blocks, preventing incorrect table indexing or memory access. The updated behavior is covered by targeted tests, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified.

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  participant MambaHybridModelState
  participant KVCacheConfig
  GPUModelRunner->>MambaHybridModelState: set_kv_cache_config(KVCacheConfig)
  MambaHybridModelState->>KVCacheConfig: read Mamba group metadata
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MambaHybridModelState.add_request seeds a resumed request's running
state block with (num_computed_tokens - 1) // cache_config.block_size.
The align block table is laid out in Mamba blocks (MambaSpec.block_size),
which the engine core can scale past the scheduler block during page
unification, and the precopy kernel indexes the table in those units.
The seed then lands in another row's column, or past the table at depth
(illegal memory access). The V1 path in mamba_utils already divides by
mamba_spec.block_size.

The model state only sees the Mamba spec on the first real batch, after
add_request, so it cannot look the size up lazily. Give it the KV cache
config when the runner initializes the KV cache
(ModelState.set_kv_cache_config, no-op by default), resolve the Mamba
groups there, and seed with MambaSpec.block_size.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrik Torstensson <patrik.torstensson@gmail.com>
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Closing out the correction I promised here on 2026-09-03, and the answer is that I am withdrawing the
number rather than restating it
.

What I posted on 09-02 — "this patch alone takes healthy-acceptance turns from 44 % to 15/16" — used
a healthy/broken per-turn metric that I later found measures the harness, not the patch. Our agent loop
sent ignore_eos: true, max_tokens: 130 while the model's real answer was 30–40 tokens, so every turn
continued past its end-of-turn token into one of two near-tie continuations: a chat-template restart,
which the drafter predicts at ~100 %, or a wall of <|im_start|>, which it never predicts. "Healthy" and
"broken" turns were those two filler modes. The metric is a property of ignore_eos, and it does not
measure the align defect.

Why I am not supplying a replacement effect size. I re-ran the grid EOS-correctly and have a clean
unpatched baseline — acceptance by MTP n = 60 / 58 / 46 / 40 / 37 / 29 / 26 % for n = 2..8, three
starts agreeing, and I have confirmed that arm was genuinely unpatched from the runner's own preflight
gate (it aborts if mamba_state_block_size is present in the scheduler, and it logged OK). But I have
no EOS-correct patched arm to pair it with. So there is no corrected before/after, and "the direction
stands" from my 09-03 note is not something that data supports either. Both figures are withdrawn.

What is unaffected, and is why I still think this PR is right: the defect is a code fact, not a
benchmark result. The align-mode split used the QSA ring capacity as its unit instead of the mamba
state block, so on this configuration every prefix-cache resume continued from a GDN state up to one
mamba block stale — silently, with no error. In an agent loop every turn is a resume. That argument
stands on the code and does not depend on any number I posted.

Offer. This PR has been blocked on conflicts twice in three days with no reviewer, and I would rather
hand a reviewer a real measurement than an anecdote. We have a GB10 (sm_121, TP=1) and the EOS-correct
harness. If you name the cell you want — acceptance, TTFT, or prefix-cache hit rate, patched vs
unpatched, however many starts you consider enough — we will run it and post it with the raw data,
whichever way it comes out.

Apologies for the six-day gap on a correction I said would follow immediately.

AI assistance was used in preparing this comment; the measurements are ours and were reviewed before posting.

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Reviewed af5357c2b locally; traced the invariant through the production
call paths rather than the description.

Invariant. MambaHybridModelState._mamba_state_idx_gpu indexes the
align block table in MambaSpec.block_size units. preprocess_state
advances it using MAMBA_BLOCK_SIZE=mamba_spec.block_size, and the pre-copy
kernel uses it as a block-table column. On main at
8359e15aae32dee9dc1f259a9b2574fb72b5507e, add_request instead seeds it
with (num_computed_tokens - 1) // cache_config.block_size. When these
block sizes differ, that seed can select the wrong column or exceed the
table. V1 already uses mamba_spec.block_size for prev_state_idx; this
PR makes MRV2 use the same unit.

Binding order. GPUModelRunner.initialize_kv_cache calls
set_kv_cache_config after init_attn_backend and before
get_additional_cg_support; requests are added after KV initialization.
All three production callers of _get_mamba_group_info() (add_request,
preprocess_state, prepare_attn) are guarded by align mode, matching the
early return in set_kv_cache_config for non-align modes. These paths
therefore do not reach the new bound-spec assertion in none/all modes.
The existing assertion that Mamba groups share cache scheduling parameters
now runs during KV initialization rather than on the first batch.

Pre-existing semantics preserved. A fresh request (num_computed_tokens == 0) still seeds -1; that is unchanged from main and is the value the
pre-copy kernel fast-exits on (src_col < 0). _ensure_align_ctx still
resolves copy funcs from kv_cache_config independently; unaffected.

Test. test_add_request_seeds_state_idx_in_mamba_blocks constructs the
state with object.__new__, binds an 880-token Mamba block beside a
16-token scheduler block, and checks (107_360 - 1) // 880 == 121. The old
denominator would produce 6709. This CPU test covers the seed calculation;
it does not execute the pre-copy kernel or reproduce the illegal memory
access. The two test_mamba_utils.py edits exercise the new binding step
before the no-argument lookup.

Verification (local).

  • git merge-tree --write-tree 8359e15aae32dee9dc1f259a9b2574fb72b5507e af5357c2b90b37bd2033578bbc97d0ddfa6cc69f
    completed without conflicts. That main snapshot has 52 commits absent
    from the PR head. The test result below is for the PR head, not the
    merged tree.
  • pytest tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_hybrid_model_state.py tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_utils.py tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner_v2.py
    at af5357c2b on a GB10 (sm_121, CUDA tests included): 56 passed in 9.2 s.

Scope note, not a blocker. This fixes the worker-side seed. The
scheduler-side chunk grid for unequal geometries is #54076's concern; the
two are independent layers and this PR does not depend on it.

GeorgeMA-Strong pushed a commit to GeorgeMA-Strong/vllm-rdna that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
Adapt vLLM vllm-project#53945/vllm-project#54713 replay retention, vllm-project#54076 state-grid selection and vllm-project#53798 worker resume geometry. Preserve other hybrid models TP>2 workaround. Qualify identical and extended conversations on four V620s, and include a bounded HTTP reproducer.

Co-authored-by: tobymao <toby.mao@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrik Torstensson <patrik.torstensson@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wickist <261605936+wickist@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: wzhao18 <wzhao18.sz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Shaver <ashaver@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: George Muravei-Alkhavoi <georgezagraid@gmail.com>
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Following up on the review: here is a two-commit, test-only addition atop af5357c2b, through bb9d7569d: diff. Both commits are DCO-signed and touch only tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_hybrid_model_state.py.

Model-free conv/SSM pools with synthetic padding exercise real set_kv_cache_config → add_request → preprocess_state and both Triton kernels. With M=1648/global=816, admission at 3M, one scheduled token, a nonidentity table and slot 1, the byte oracle requires column 2 restored into column 3, preserving other blocks and padding. The old divisor seeds column 6 and fails on contents; the equal-geometry control passes. Suppressed/misdirected-copy controls check the oracle. GB10 runs passed all 10 tests before and after trimming; the original commit also received an independent rerun. AI assistance was used.

This covers worker restore fidelity, not scheduler publication or model outputs. If useful, cherry-pick ca1d410ae then bb9d7569d; otherwise no action needed.

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
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