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Purpose

Fix usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens for Completion API requests whose
prompt is a list of multiple prompts.

The production trigger chain is:

Completion request with prompt=[p1, p2]
  -> OpenAIServingCompletion.generate()
  -> one engine_client.generate() per prompt
  -> merge_async_iterators() interleaves RequestOutput results
  -> completion_stream_generator() / request_output_to_completion_response()
  -> prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens

Each prompt has a separate RequestOutput and cache-hit count. The existing serving
code reported only one output's count: the last result in non-streaming responses and
the first result yielded by the interleaved streaming generators. Consequently, the
value depended on prompt order and stream scheduling instead of describing the whole
API request.

This is a real, supported online API case. With --enable-prefix-caching and
--enable-prompt-tokens-details, a warmed multi-prompt request returns an incorrect
usage field while generated text and inference behavior remain correct. For example, in
the A100 experiment below, the two prompt-level cache counts were 176 and 256 (expected
432), while the parent revision returned 176 or 256 depending on order/mode.

This PR aggregates the value once per prompt in both response paths. It deliberately does
not multiply by n, because multiple choices share the same prompt. If any prompt has no
cache statistic, the field remains omitted, preserving the existing fail-closed behavior.

Duplicate-work check

Searches of open vLLM pull requests for cached_tokens, Completion cache aggregation,
and prompt token details found no PR addressing this multi-prompt bug.

In particular,
#52199 adds local/external hit
breakdowns, while this PR fixes aggregation for multiple Completion prompts. Other
matches concern disaggregated prefill or telemetry and do not change this path.

Test Plan

Automated tests

The added unit tests construct prompt-level RequestOutput objects and verify that
cache-hit counts of 2 and 5 aggregate to 7 for both non-streaming and streaming usage
chunks. A partial result containing None verifies that the request-level detail remains
omitted rather than reporting an incomplete sum.

.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_completion_error.py \
  -k 'prompt_tokens_details_sum_multiple_prompts'

.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_completion_error.py

.venv/bin/pre-commit run --files \
  vllm/entrypoints/openai/completion/serving.py \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_completion_error.py

git diff --check

Online reproduction

Run the parent revision and this change in separate fresh server processes with the same
model and options, then warm each prompt independently before sending a list-valued
request:

vllm serve Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 \
  --max-model-len 1024 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.70 \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --enable-prompt-tokens-details

For prompt=[p1, p2] and the reversed order, compare both non-streaming usage and the
final usage event from stream=true with stream_options.include_usage=true. The oracle
is the sum of the two warm single-prompt values. Also check a cold prompt, n=2, token-id
prompts, echo, logprobs, shared prefixes, and prefix caching disabled.

Test Result

On an NVIDIA A100 with Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2, after warming two prompts:

Request	Expected	Parent (ad127d9a0f)	This change
Non-streaming [p1, p2]	432	256	432
Non-streaming [p2, p1]	432	176	432
Streaming [p1, p2]	432	176	432
Streaming [p2, p1]	432	256	432

The prompt, completion, and total token counters were unchanged. Additional checks showed
that n=2 reports the per-prompt sum once (not twice), and disabling prefix caching keeps
cached_tokens at 0. Requests with a missing cache statistic continue to omit the detail.

An additional online run on the current fix branch used alpha and beta prompts with
42 and 52 prompt tokens. Their independent warm cache hits were 32 and 48. The batched
request had 94 prompt tokens and returned cached_tokens: 80 in both prompt orders and
in the final usage chunk for both streaming requests, matching 32 + 48.

This is a serving/metadata correction; generated outputs and model quality are not
changed, so model evaluation is not applicable.

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Changes

Completion cached-token aggregation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Aggregate cached tokens in completion serving vllm/entrypoints/openai/completion/serving.py	Streaming and non-streaming completion paths track cached tokens per prompt, sum the values, and set prompt_tokens_details only when all prompts provide cached-token counts.
Validate multi-prompt aggregation tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_completion_error.py	Tests verify that cached-token counts of 2 and 5 produce an aggregate value of 7 for streaming and non-streaming responses.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Suggested reviewers: noooop

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50362

Multi-prompt completion responses now aggregate cached-token usage, but a streaming prompt whose first cache statistic is unavailable may later be reported as having a complete cached-token total. Add the missing-statistic streaming regression coverage and preserve the first observed value before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

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In `@vllm/entrypoints/openai/completion/serving.py`:
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[waizuichougou]

Hi @chaunceyjiang! When you have the bandwidth, could you please take a look whether this bug is worth fixing? It can lead to an inaccurate cache hit rate calculation for multi-prompt Completion requests. Thank you for your time and patience!