[Elastic EP] Support Model Runner V2 - #53934
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Elastic EP forced a fallback to Model Runner V1, so `--enable-elastic-ep` silently ran on V1 and `VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1` raised. Three places in the scaling executor and the V2 runner assumed V1 internals. `warm_and_capture` saved, cleared and restored `model_runner.input_batch.block_table` so the dummy MoE forward could not write dummy slot mappings into live KV blocks. MRV2 keeps no persistent input batch, and its dummy runs reach `prepare_dummy_attn()`, which only touches `BlockTables.input_block_tables`, the per-step gather destination. The persistent per-request block ids are never read or written, so the guard is skipped rather than ported. `_release_cuda_graphs` branched on `CUDAGraphWrapper` and `UBatchWrapper`. MRV2 captures through `CudaGraphManager`, so neither branch fired and no graph was dropped before the MoE workspace was reallocated, leaving captures pointing into the freed buffer. Adds `CudaGraphManager.release_graphs()`, which clears the captured graphs and marks the manager uncaptured while keeping `_capture_descs` so `needs_capture()` still reports the work to redo. `GPUModelRunner` and `CudaGraphManager` copied `dp_size` and `dp_rank` out of `parallel_config` at construction. Elastic EP rewrites those fields in place on every reconfigure, so after a scale the ranks sized their DP all-reduce for the old world and the collective mismatched. Both now read through `parallel_config`, matching how V1's `coordinate_batch_across_dp` resolves it. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
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Thanks @almogtavor, the changes look good to me!
I think @itayalroy is also planning to review.
Also cc @fangyuchu @tzulingk
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Hey @almogtavor, overall the changes look good, but I ran test_elastic_ep.py on your PR and all scale-up cases timed out. MRV2 seems to be missing the async EPLB changes we did for MRV1 in 6dd44b7 to prepare EPLB communicator during preparation. Therefore, during preparation with MRV2 new workers skip EPLB registration and never join NIXL communicator initialization, causing preparation to hang.
I think we should mirror the MRV1 behavior by:
- Registering EPLB during Elastic EP dummy loading without starting the async loop.
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setup_from_mapping()to update the existing state withstate.update_mapping()instead of rebuilding it withEplbState.from_mapping()which creates another communicator.
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@itayalroy thanks! great catch I'll try to reproduce it today/ tomorrow as well and I'll resolve it as you mentioned |
WalkthroughElastic EP support now uses current parallel configuration values, releases CUDA graphs through the model runner manager, updates EPLB state during scaling, and skips legacy block-table and request warmup handling for the V2 model runner. ChangesElastic EP support
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participant ElasticEP
participant ParallelConfig
participant GPUModelRunner
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participant GPUWorker
ElasticEP->>ParallelConfig: Rewrite data-parallel configuration
GPUModelRunner->>ParallelConfig: Read current size and rank
ElasticEP->>GPUModelRunner: Request CUDA graph release
GPUModelRunner->>CudaGraphManager: Call release_graphs()
ElasticEP->>GPUWorker: Call compile_or_warm_up_model(skip_request_warmup=True)
GPUWorker-->>ElasticEP: Complete V2 warmup without request warmup
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…icator EPLBController.maybe_register_model() returned early on load_dummy_weights, so a scaling-up worker never reached EplbState.add_model() and never joined the collective in create_eplb_communicator(). Existing workers blocked in prepare_reconfiguration() at _prepare_eplb_communicator(get_standby_eplb_group()) waiting for ranks that were themselves blocked one step earlier in prepare_new_worker(), at the tcp_store broadcast that transfer_weights() only reaches after that collective. The existing side then died with DistStoreError: wait timeout after 300000ms, keys: /eep_async/prepare_reconfiguration/0/0. Register unconditionally and gate only start_async_loop() on load_dummy_weights, matching MRV1. setup_from_mapping() now calls state.update_mapping() instead of building a fresh EplbState, which would have created a second communicator over a group the other ranks have already left. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
warm_and_capture() calls compile_or_warm_up_model(), which on MRV2 runs warmup_kernels(). That pushes synthetic requests through the persistent request pool and allocates KV blocks from 1 up. The pool is empty at startup but holds live requests during a scale, so add_request() hit "AssertionError: No free indices" in gpu/states.py whenever traffic was in flight. MRV1 has no req_states and never runs this path. The workspace that warmup would have grown is already grown by the _dummy_run on the preceding line, so skip it here. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
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Hey @itayalroy @njhill I fixed the 2 bugs: first I'm behaving like MRV1 by always registering the model while conditionally starting the asynchronous EPLB loop and updating the existing EplbState, and second, I found that the synthetic requests of MRV2 (the warmup requests) can exhaust the request state and cause "AssertionError: No free indices", so I'm skipping unnecessary warmup (because the preceding dummy run already prepared the required workspace). With both fixes the entire five-test MRV2 elastic-EP suite passes. I also ran it on 4xH100 with DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat and VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1. |
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- Around line 516-518: Update RoutedExpertsCapturer.capture() to read the
current parallel_config.data_parallel_rank via the dp_rank property after
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check_ep_faultafter Elastic EP reconfiguration.Line 242 evaluates this flag only during runner construction. If a worker starts with DP size 1 and then scales up,
parallel_config.data_parallel_sizechanges but this flag staysFalse.AsyncOutputthen skips the FT-capable EP all-to-all fault check and can return corrupted output after a peer fault. Recompute the flag afterswitch_and_prepare()updates the topology, or derive it from the current parallel configuration.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 242-243: Update the Elastic EP reconfiguration flow after
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The EPLB fix looks good, but I’m not convinced we can skip I do get the issue of running |
Existing ranks skipped warmup_kernels() during re-warm because its synthetic requests claim request slots and write KV through block ids live requests hold. Run the real warmup instead and isolate what it mutates: cap the batch to the free request slots, agreed across the DP group so every rank runs the same number of steps, point every warmup block id at the null block, and restore the request slot bookkeeping afterwards. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
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@itayalroy I replayed the reduced warmup-state patch onto the current
For MRv1 specifically, I moved the old block-table save/clear/restore logic out of For MRv2, warmup uses reserved request rows or the drained full pool, and |
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It is not so clean after the latest changes :-/ I would like to see if we can refine things a bit.
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| self._elastic_ep_lock = asyncio.Lock() | ||
| self._admission_lock = asyncio.Lock() |
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I am not sure about this. In particular I don't think it would work in the multi-api-server process case (or maybe we already restrict that when elastic-ep is enabled).
Multiple api server processes can be quite important for performance though, unless you are using the rust frontend, which prompts another question which is whether we support elastic ep with the rust frontend yet.
Also it could introduce blocking/contention between requests since the synchronized blocks below are nontrivial. At minimum the lock should be disabled when elastic ep is not enabled.
And I don't like the additional complexity it adds in this file tbh (for a niche feature), which we've tried to keep very clean.
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Thanks. I dropped the lock entirely. The scaling check now lives in check_admission which runs with no await before the output processor registration so a scale cannot slip in between and the only real window was n>1 fan-out so all children now register before the first engine send. elastic EP is already capped to one api server in serve.py and the Rust frontend has no scale route yet (#45154 tracks that).
The lock-free version passes the focused CPU suite in test_admission_control.py (52 passed including a new test that blocks the first child send and checks all n children are registered) and the 4 GPU elastic EP run will follow once I have cluster access again.
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…ren before the first engine send The lock serialized every add_request even with elastic EP off. The scaling check and the output processor registration already run with no await between them, so a scale cannot start in between for a single request or a streaming continuation. The one remaining window was n>1 fan-out, where a drain could see an empty pool between one child finishing and the next child registering. Registering all children before the first engine send closes it without a lock. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
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| def preserve_serving_state(self, runner: "GPUModelRunner") -> Iterator[None]: | ||
| """Keep the elastic EP warmup out of the EPLB stats and the KV cache.""" | ||
| req_states = runner.req_states |
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This layering seems wrong, why does EPLB reach into model-runner internals such as req_states, block_tables, _remove_request and kv_block_zeroer?
IIUC it seems like 2 separate issues are mixed here:
- The model runner must isolate its request state and KV block tables from warmup requests. This belongs in
GPUModelRunner.preserve_serving_state(). - EPLB must prevent dummy forwards from affecting its load statistics. This is an existing issue in EEP that also affects MRV1 and not related to this PR, let's try to keep this PR in scope, we can address EPLB stats in a separate PR
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Regarding 1 then no problem it'll be fairly easy to do. Regarding 2 so yeah it would be cleaner to move that to a separate PR. I'll remove it from this one
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@itayalroy done. I don't think MRv1 has the load staticstics poisoning issue. I opened #56716 anyway to deal with it in MRv2 separately.
Existing NIXL EP ranks keep their CUDA graphs across a reconfigure after vllm-project#54985 and no longer re-warm at commit, so MRV2 only drains when the backend re-warms. warm_and_capture keeps the NIXL warmup contexts and the runner serving state context manager in one with statement. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
The warmup context manager only touches runner state, so it now lives on GPUModelRunner instead of EPLBController. Neither runner suppresses EPLB stepping during the re-warm anymore, that is a separate change. Signed-off-by: almogtavor <almogtavor@gmail.com>
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Summary
Support Elastic Expert Parallel scaling with Model Runner V2.
MRV2 now uses a correctness-first scaling sequence:
The implementation:
check_admissionwhile scaling and registers every parallel-sampling child before the first engine send so a drain sees the whole fanout; existing streaming continuations may finish during drain.Validation
52 passed.55 passed.EPLBController:3 passed./workspacePVC quota (Errno 122: Disk quota exceeded), after the initial Ray PATH issue was resolved.Scope
This PR intentionally does not add commit retries or recovery semantics after a potentially partial distributed topology mutation. The existing Elastic EP fault-tolerance behavior is unchanged.
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