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I applied this patch to main and it seems to have resolved the token corruption when prefix cache is enabled w/dflash. Intel Arc B70. |
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Ledgero, your capability-bit fix reproduces exactly what we measured on a completely Independent repro (GLM-5.3-Flash, 4× DGX Spark GB10/sm_121, TP4)
Porting your 4 files to our day-0 GB10 branch — a field bonusWe then applied all four files of this PR to our day-0 GB10 branch:
Corroboration that this is a family, not model-specific
EnvironmentvLLM fork build Tested: 69-scenario tool-call suite (seed 42, temp 0): our one-line local exemption 89, Disclosure: post by the fleet operator; text and runtime validation prepared with AI |
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…che block SpeculativeConfig.use_eagle() is a stand-in for "spec decode that reads target hidden states" and returns True for dflash/dspark too. vllm-project#53388's use_eagle_block_drop() inherited that: DFlash/DSpark still got the trailing-block drop unless the new disable flag was set. Redefine use_eagle_block_drop() to compose with the precise capability bit: only eagle-family drafters (eagle/eagle3/mtp) share (and pollute) the target's full-attention KV cache groups; DFlash/DSpark draft from their own KV cache and never write target blocks. The spurious back-off made every prompt shorter than two mamba blocks skip the final block-aligned chunk, so the mamba recurrent state never materialized on a block boundary and the next turn's prefix-cache lookup converged to 0 -> the whole context was recomputed on every reply. use_eagle() keeps its existing semantics (encoder shift, lookahead budget, num_prefill_lookahead); only the prefix-cache last-block drop is scoped precisely, and vllm-project#53388's disable_eagle_block_drop flag still applies to the eagle family. The scheduler warning for a disabled drop is now gated on eagle-family drafters. Tests: - pytest tests/v1/core/test_mamba_align_chunk_split.py -q - pytest tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py -q -k mamba_align Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com> Signed-off-by: ouzq <ouzq@seu.edu.cn>
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Rebase is complete — the branch is up to date with current main and the merge conflicts are resolved; DCO and format checks pass. @kamb-code, could you trigger (Drafted with AI assistance under author review.) |
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… prefix-cache block use_eagle() covers dflash/dspark but only eagle-family drafters pollute target KV groups. Add use_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache() capability bit and feed the KV cache manager's use_eagle from it, so DFlash2 keeps its final boundary state. a-b-a 30k (DFlash2 K=7, block 1648): revisit hit 16 blocks/2.24s -> 18 blocks (29,664)/0.34s TTFT.
PR vllm-project#53388 added SpeculativeConfig.disable_eagle_block_drop and routed every EAGLE trailing prefix-cache block-drop site through a single use_eagle_block_drop() predicate. Adopt that mechanism to make the safe default drafter-method aware: the flag becomes `bool | None = None`, and when unset, use_eagle_block_drop() resolves from the method -- eagle/eagle3/mtp keep the drop (behavior unchanged), dflash/dspark disable it. An explicit user setting always wins, and the experimental warning now fires only on an explicit opt-out. The drop exists because EAGLE-family drafters combine the prefill-lookahead token (one past a chunked-prefill boundary) with the chunk's final hidden state and write the result into the drafter KV cache, so the last block of a prefix-cache hit may hold KV polluted by a continuation the matching request does not share. dflash/dspark drafters structurally cannot cache lookahead-polluted KV: their context KV is projected from target hidden states and positions only (precompute_and_store_context_kv), and the lookahead (anchor) token writes KV only at positions past the chunk end, in a block that is overwritten with clean context KV before it can be completed and hashed. The drop therefore protects nothing for them, while costing one full scheduler block of recompute on every prefix-cache hit. On hybrid mamba models in align mode both gates -- the FullAttn hit drop and the chunk-split last_cache_position backoff -- ride the same predicate, so they move together and the recovered block is actually usable. Behavior matches the previously measured explicit exemption: with a dspark drafter on a hybrid mamba target (32K-token shared prefix, 2K unique suffix, 256 output, temp 0, scheduler block 2192), steady-state cache-hit cached_tokens rise 28,496 -> 30,688 (hit recompute 6,336 -> 4,144 tokens) in every repeat on two GPU generations, cache-hit TTFT improves ~20-22%, decode throughput is flat within run-to-run noise, and acceptance length stays pinned at 3.00 with identical per-position acceptance rates. Hit-vs-miss logit deltas on the reused block sit below the within-hit noise floor and at the same order as the unpatched control's, with the greedy argmax stable. A None default resolves fail-closed: new eagle-family methods keep the drop until their drafter KV provenance is audited. Overlap: open PR vllm-project#54163 (Fixes vllm-project#53477) stops the same dflash/dspark block drop by redefining use_eagle_block_drop() over a method list (use_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache(): eagle, eagle3, mtp) in the same predicate and the same scheduler warning block, reaching the same default outcome. This commit keeps the explicit flag and resolves its None default per method inside use_eagle_block_drop(), so an explicit user setting still wins for every method. Whichever lands first, the other reduces to a rebase. Signed-off-by: Rishi Puri <riship@nvidia.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ters (DFlash2 offload fix) use_eagle_block_drop() was keyed on use_eagle(), which returns True for dflash/dspark, so DFlash2 got the EAGLE volatile trailing-block drop: _mamba_block_aligned_split backed the last cache position off by one mamba block and skipped the final block-aligned chunk for prompts shorter than two mamba blocks. The mamba recurrent state then never materialized at a block boundary, so every prefix-cache lookup (GPU and offload tier) converged to 0 -- the OffloadingConnector stored but never served a hit (kv_offload_cpu_cache_read_usage_perc stuck at 0.0). Gate the drop on the new precise capability bit use_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache() (eagle/eagle3/mtp only): DFlash/DSpark draft from their own KV cache and never write target blocks, so they never needed the drop. All consumers (scheduler split, KVCacheManager, offloading/mooncake fallbacks) read the same bit and are fixed by the redefinition. use_eagle() keeps its existing semantics (encoder shift, lookahead budget, num_prefill_lookahead). Local equivalent of unmerged upstream vllm-project#54163 (fixes vllm-project#53477; defect set of vllm-project#54165, which was closed as superseded by it). Upstream validated the same change with a 24h DFlash2 + hybrid-mamba + connector production run (vllm-project#53505: zero corruption, 96.4% lookup hit rate, 43.3% external prefix hits). Regression tests added per vllm-project#54163. Verified: semantic bit check (dflash/dspark -> block_drop False, eagle/eagle3/mtp -> True); pytest tests/v1/core/test_mamba_align_chunk_split.py (47 passed); pytest tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py -k mamba_align (2 passed).
…ters (DFlash2 offload fix) use_eagle_block_drop() was keyed on use_eagle(), which returns True for dflash/dspark, so DFlash2 got the EAGLE volatile trailing-block drop: _mamba_block_aligned_split backed the last cache position off by one mamba block and skipped the final block-aligned chunk for prompts shorter than two mamba blocks. The mamba recurrent state then never materialized at a block boundary, so every prefix-cache lookup (GPU and offload tier) converged to 0 -- the OffloadingConnector stored but never served a hit (kv_offload_cpu_cache_read_usage_perc stuck at 0.0). Gate the drop on the new precise capability bit use_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache() (eagle/eagle3/mtp only): DFlash/DSpark draft from their own KV cache and never write target blocks, so they never needed the drop. All consumers (scheduler split, KVCacheManager, offloading/mooncake fallbacks) read the same bit and are fixed by the redefinition. use_eagle() keeps its existing semantics (encoder shift, lookahead budget, num_prefill_lookahead). Local equivalent of unmerged upstream vllm-project#54163 (fixes vllm-project#53477; defect set of vllm-project#54165, which was closed as superseded by it). Upstream validated the same change with a 24h DFlash2 + hybrid-mamba + connector production run (vllm-project#53505: zero corruption, 96.4% lookup hit rate, 43.3% external prefix hits). Regression tests added per vllm-project#54163. Verified: semantic bit check (dflash/dspark -> block_drop False, eagle/eagle3/mtp -> True); pytest tests/v1/core/test_mamba_align_chunk_split.py (47 passed); pytest tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py -k mamba_align (2 passed). Signed-off-by: ch2lab <guo2017@guet.edu.cn>
PR: [Bugfix][Spec Decode] DFlash/DSpark no longer drop the last prefix-cache block (mamba align context recompute)
Fixes: #53477
Summary
SpeculativeConfig.use_eagle()is a stand-in for "spec decode that reads targethidden states" and returns
Truefordflash/dsparktoo. The scheduler used it(via #53388's
use_eagle_block_drop()) to backlast_cache_positionoff by onemamba block. But only eagle-family drafters (eagle/eagle3/mtp) actually pollute
the target's last matching full-attention block with the lookahead KV write;
DFlash/DSpark draft via block diffusion from their own KV cache and never write
target blocks. The spurious back-off made every prompt shorter than two mamba
blocks skip the final block-aligned chunk, so the mamba recurrent state never
materialized on a block boundary and the next turn's fixed-point prefix-cache
lookup converged to 0 → the whole context was recomputed on every reply.
Root Cause
SpeculativeConfig.use_eagle()and theuse_eagle_block_drop()built on it in#53388 are stand-ins for "speculative decoding using target model hidden states":
Consequence chain for a prompt shorter than
2 * block_size(block = mamba block,e.g. 560 on Qwen3.5-4B, larger on 27B class models):
last_cache_position == 0→ the whole prompt is one chunk whose end is notblock-aligned.
chunk ends; the prompt-tail state is advanced by decode steps but its running
block is later nulled out (
remove_skipped_blocks), so its hash is neverpublished to the prefix cache.
HybridKVCacheCoordinator.find_longest_cache_hit()fixedpoint pulls the hit length to 0 → full context recompute every turn.
MTP (an eagle-family drafter) was also slightly affected, but the symptom was
masked because the reporter's comparison was "DFlash2 reprocesses vs MTP works".
Changes
vllm/config/speculative.pyuse_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache()→method in ("eagle", "eagle3", "mtp"),in the same style as the existing
use_multi_module_mtp(). This is the precisecapability bit for "the drafter shares (and pollutes) the target's KV cache
groups".
use_eagle_block_drop()(introduced in [Feature][Spec] Support disabling trailing prefix-cache block dropping #53388) to compose with thatbit:
use_eagle_preserves_target_kv_cache() and not disable_eagle_block_drop.[Feature][Spec] Support disabling trailing prefix-cache block dropping #53388's opt-out flag still applies to the eagle family; DFlash/DSpark no
longer drop the trailing block by default.
vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.pyuse_eagle_block_dropwiring (split back-off +KVCacheManager(use_eagle=...)and the offloading/mooncake call sites) nowreceives the precise value through the redefined method.
only, so DFlash/DSpark do not log a misleading warning.
tests/v1/core/test_mamba_align_chunk_split.pytest_dflash_does_not_back_off_last_cache_position.tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.pytest_mamba_align_eagle_schedules_encoder_at_boundarysets theuse_eagle_block_dropattribute.No behavioral change for
eagle/eagle3/mtp/draft_model/ngrampathsbeyond #53388's flag semantics:
use_eagle()(encoder shift, lookahead budget,num_prefill_lookahead) is untouched; only the prefix-cache last-block drop isscoped precisely.
Test commands and results
Local reproduction (2×L40S, vLLM 0.26.0 layout, Qwen3.5-4B hybrid +
Qwen3.5-4B-DFlash draft, 3-turn conversation with a shared 30x system prefix):
cached=[0, 0, 0](full recompute every turn)[0, 560, 560][0, 0, 0][0, 560, 560][0, 1056, 1136]Independent validations since opening:
prefix cache resolved.
prefix hits 0/12,552 → 4,608, TTFT 3.9s → 1.55s; capability bit also fixed an
extra over-truncation on KDA groups (69-scenario tool-call suite 89 → 91).
Why this is not duplicating an existing PR
No open PR addresses #53477. Related work: #53388 (merged the
disable_eagle_block_dropswitch; this PR makes the drop precise instead ofrequiring the flag for DFlash/DSpark), #30877 (align prefix caching, which
introduced the
use_eagleback-off), #42971, #44082 — none touch theDFlash/DSpark misclassification.
AI assistance disclosure
This fix was developed with AI assistance (static analysis, reproduction scripts,
test generation). All changes were reviewed and verified by a human.