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[Bugfix][KV Offload] Fix SWA store reachability during chunked prefill - #54362

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[Bugfix][KV Offload] Fix SWA store reachability during chunked prefill#54362
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Purpose

During chunked prefill, the offloading scheduler used the current step's SWA chunk count as the store-reachability horizon. This treated each intermediate frontier as the prompt's final partial segment and submitted chunks that the load path could never request.

Use the prompt's final offloadable length while prefill remains active. If the request aborts before completing its prompt, reconsider the computed frontier as the final segment and submit any newly reachable SWA tail chunks exactly once.

The unpatched scheduler submitted 152 SWA chunks where the completed-prompt regression expected 150. The first mismatch was chunk 248. The abort regression also caught two missing tail chunks in the earlier PR revision and catches duplicate resubmission of chunks already stored before abort.

Test plan

Exercise the same mixed full-attention/SWA request through three lifecycles:

  • completed chunked prefill;
  • aborted chunked prefill with synchronous scheduling;
  • aborted chunked prefill with asynchronous scheduling.

Each case asserts the complete ordered set of SWA chunks submitted for storage.

.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \
  tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_scheduler.py::TestEagle::test_chunked_prefill_uses_final_swa_store_horizon

Test results

  • Regression: 3 passed.
  • Related SWA reachability and TestEagle selection: 34 passed. The CPU-only environment required disabling the two accelerator cache-cleanup calls during teardown; test behavior was unchanged.
  • Repository pre-commit hooks passed on all three changed files, including Ruff and mypy.
  • git diff --check passed.

Duplicate work

I searched open vLLM PRs for chunked-prefill SWA store reachability, sliding-window store reachability, and offload horizons. I found no matching PR.

Model evaluation

No live GPU serving evaluation was run. This change only changes which SWA chunks are written to the offload tier. It does not change load decisions, model execution, or model output. The scheduler regression asserts the complete store decision across all three request lifecycles.

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GPT-5.6-sol assisted with the implementation, tests, and review. I reviewed every changed line and personally ran the three-case regression; all three cases passed.

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@mergify mergify Bot added bug Something isn't working kv-connector labels Aug 29, 2026
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Whamp force-pushed the fix/swa-offload-horizon branch 2 times, most recently from 13982f0 to f81b55f Compare August 29, 2026 17:45
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Thanks @Whamp !
I'm planning to merge #51886 first, then let's see how we can work on top of it.

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @Whamp.

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Thanks @orozery. #51886 has landed, so I rebased this PR onto current main and adapted the fix to the new reachable_block_mask path.

The updated patch projects the final prompt horizon during chunked prefill, revisits newly reachable SWA tail chunks when a request finishes or aborts, and avoids treating an active decode frontier as final. EAGLE groups retain the behavior from #51886, and DCP uses the already-resolved group block size.

Local validation:

  • tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py: 100 passed
  • tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_scheduler.py: 189 passed
  • pre-commit hooks on all changed files: passed

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved sliding-window attention cache handling for incomplete final segments.
    • Corrected cache offloading horizons for completed, aborted, and actively decoding requests.
    • Prevented duplicate scaling of expanded cache block indices.
    • Improved retention of reachable tail blocks and alignment of final segments.
    • Improved cache scheduling consistency across Eagle and non-Eagle configurations.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for partial segments, Eagle and non-Eagle modes, chunked prefill, decoding, and aborted requests.

Walkthrough

Adds final-segment support to KV cache reachability masks and updates SWA offload scheduling for partial segments. Tests cover completed and aborted requests, active decode, EAGLE behavior, and DCP block indexing.

Changes

SWA offload horizon handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reachability mask contract
vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
reachable_block_mask accepts an optional final segment end block. SlidingWindowManager uses it for non-EAGLE partial final segments. Dense and Mamba policies ignore the value.
Offload horizon scheduling
vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/scheduler.py
The scheduler computes prompt and final-segment horizons, reconsiders aligned SWA tails for finished requests, and reuses precomputed store ranges.
Scheduler and mask regression coverage
tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py, tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/offloading_connector/test_scheduler.py
Tests cover partial-segment reachability, completed and aborted requests, active decode, and DCP-expanded SWA indices.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8d41a

This change makes sliding-window KV offloading retain newly reachable final prompt-tail blocks during chunked prefill while preserving EAGLE behavior. The covered completion, abort, decode, and DCP cases leave no actionable merge-blocking risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OffloadingConnectorScheduler
  participant SlidingWindowManager
  participant StoreJobBuilder
  OffloadingConnectorScheduler->>OffloadingConnectorScheduler: Compute prompt and final-segment horizons
  OffloadingConnectorScheduler->>SlidingWindowManager: Request reachable_block_mask with final segment end
  SlidingWindowManager-->>OffloadingConnectorScheduler: Return reachable block mask
  OffloadingConnectorScheduler->>StoreJobBuilder: Build store ranges and store jobs
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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #87434 for commit 8d41aafc50a5.

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orozery merged commit 569adb5 into vllm-project:main Sep 6, 2026
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Signed-off-by: Will Hampson <whamp@ggl.slmail.me>
Co-authored-by: Will Hampson <whamp@ggl.slmail.me>
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