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In `@tests/basic_correctness/test_mem.py`:
- Around line 148-150: Update the skipif condition for this pinned host memory
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Status: 🟠 One medium-impact failure of the new pinned-host-memory release option at the pinned PR head. The source-only Ultra run completed; I independently checked this finding and rejected its separate host-statistic claim after consulting PyTorch's host allocator definition.
📝 Walkthrough and change map
This PR adds VLLM_SLEEP_MODE_RELEASE_HOST_MEMORY=1 to return cached pinned weight-backup memory to the OS after a level-1 wake. CuMemBackend records whether weights were backed up and uses that flag to decide when to drain the host cache.
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vllm/device_allocator/sleep_mode_backend.py |
Tracks the weight-backup flag and conditionally drains cached pinned memory. |
vllm/device_allocator/cumem.py |
Keeps already-asleep allocations and their CPU backups across a subsequent sleep; clears a backup when its tag wakes. |
vllm/v1/engine/core.py |
Exposes partial wake and permits a later sleep while other allocations remain asleep. |
tests/basic_correctness/memory/cumem/test_cumem.py |
Tests the ordinary full level-1 sleep/wake, but not this mixed-level transition. |
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| 🟠 Medium | Backend sleep-state assignment | With the release option enabled, level-1 sleep → wake only kv_cache → level-2 sleep → wake weights leaves the weight-sized pinned host block in PyTorch's cache. The level-2 call clears _weights_on_host even though the allocator preserves the already-asleep weight backup. When weights finally wake, the backup is freed but the new cache-drain branch is skipped. Colocated engines can therefore retain the host RAM that this option promises to return. |
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CodeRabbit's cache-drain comment asked to avoid draining on level-2 or partial wakes; the new flag addresses those ordinary cases. This is the opposite mixed-level case: an earlier level-1 backup survives a later level-2 sleep, but the flag no longer records it. The existing platform-test comment concerns a different path.
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The public partial-wake API leaves the scheduler paused until all allocations are awake and does not reject a subsequent sleep. In CuMemBackend, every suspend overwrites _weights_on_host with level == 1. For an allocation already asleep, CuMemAllocator.sleep() keeps its existing cpu_backup_tensor, including on a later level-2 sleep. wake_up() clears that backup when the weights tag is restored. At that point the cache-drain condition is false because the second suspend reset the flag. The pinned allocator's allocated_bytes.current includes active and cached blocks, so the separate metric-based engine candidate is not used here.
Suggested fix: Preserve the presence of an already-asleep weight backup across repeated suspends, or derive the drain decision from backups actually restored by the wake. Add a regression for the four-step level-1 / KV-only wake / level-2 / weight-wake sequence with release enabled, checking that the pinned host cache is returned after the final wake.
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AI-assisted, source-only review at 714acd92478d369d5382271dcc05de72c0f5024e. The private Ultra run completed with an inconclusive whole-review verification decision. I discarded its auto-selected host-statistic claim after checking PyTorch's documented host allocator semantics and independently traced this distinct retained-backup finding through the exact-head source and current discussion. The impact requires that mixed-level sleep sequence with pinned weight backup and the release option enabled. No target code or tests were built or executed.
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🧠 Preserve an existing weight backup across a deeper sleep · 🟠 Medium
Impact: With VLLM_SLEEP_MODE_RELEASE_HOST_MEMORY=1, run level-1 sleep, wake only kv_cache, then level-2 sleep and wake weights. The _weights_on_host = level == 1 assignment at line 165 resets the flag to false on the second sleep while the allocator retains the already-asleep weight backup. Waking weights frees that backup, but the new drain condition stays false, so a weight-sized pinned host block remains cached after the final wake.
Evidence: CuMemAllocator.sleep() skips already-asleep allocations and preserves cpu_backup_tensor even when the new offload_tags no longer include weights (cumem.py:250-263). wake_up(tags=["weights"]) clears the backup (cumem.py:331-360). The public engine accepts partial wake before another sleep (core.py:922-982). The changed CuMemBackend flag is reset here and checked at lines 173-177. This is distinct from CodeRabbit's earlier warning about draining too often: the later sleep causes a needed drain to be skipped.
Fix: Keep track of any weight backup that remains asleep across another suspend, or base the drain decision on which backed-up allocations this wake actually restored. Cover the four-step sequence with release enabled and verify the final pinned cache is released.
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At PR head 714acd92478d369d5382271dcc05de72c0f5024e, trace a level-1 sleep, KV-only wake, level-2 sleep, and weight wake through EngineCore, CuMemBackend, and CuMemAllocator. Check whether an already-asleep weight backup survives the level-2 sleep and whether the new _weights_on_host assignment loses that state. Keep the host-cache drain tied to the restored backup, and add a regression that checks host cache ownership after the final weight wake. Preserve the no-drain behavior for genuine level-2-only and KV-only wakes.
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Confirmed, thanks. I took your second option: the drain decision now comes from the backups the wake actually restored.
MemAllocator.wake_up() returns the bytes it restored from pinned host backups, and CuMemBackend.resume() releases the cache only when that number is not zero. _weights_on_host is gone, so a later suspend cannot clear the state. This covers level-1 sleep → KV-only wake → level-2 sleep → weights wake, and it keeps the no-drain behaviour for level-2-only and KV-only wakes.
Regression test: test_wake_up_host_memory_release_after_level2_sleep in tests/basic_correctness/memory/cumem/test_cumem.py, parametrized on the option, runs your four-step sequence and checks the pinned cache after the final wake. A CPU-only test, test_cumem_resume_drains_host_cache_only_after_host_backup, pins the truth table for the release condition.
Measured on an RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell (48 GB VRAM), 96 GB DDR5, gemma-4 31B NVFP4, level 1:
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The log reports Released 26.15 GiB of pinned host memory after wake-up., which matches the RSS delta.
The cost is the re-pin on the next sleep, about 3 s on this box. Those figures are this rig's and scale with the backup size.
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The default-off host-memory release policy makes sense for deployments under host-memory pressure. The reported measurements also show a wake-time cost, in addition to re-pinning on the next sleep, so both should remain explicit in the tradeoff. One useful follow-up is its interaction with #59160, which adds graph-pool backups at both sleep levels. The current decision based on bytes actually restored seems well suited to that extension. For the combined path, I would check partial wakes with other backups still live, level-2 graph-pool restoration, and repeated cycles with release enabled and disabled. It would also be useful to document that empty_host_cache() acts on the allocator's unused host cache rather than only a weight-specific cache. These are integration checks, not a claim that the current PR frees live backups or is incorrect. |
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@AlanFokCo, Thanks for your comment, I've made some updates:
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Thanks for updating the docs and repeated-cycle tests. The allocator-wide scope and both latency costs are now clear. Agreed that the graph-backed second tag and level-2 case belong with #59160. Our pinned H20 integration run checked KV-first wake while the weight backup was still live, but used |
Thanks for the feedback! For this PR, I ran the end-to-end numbers on my RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell. The unit and CUDA tests cover the release-enabled mixed-level sequence. I found the H20 validation in your #59160 comment. I can link it from this PR with a note that the run used |
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Following up on the earlier release-disabled result: we have now tested the release-enabled combination on H20 as well. The old comment is still valid with its original The 40 model configurations each completed 20 rounds: Qwen3-0.6B TP=1/2/4 covered levels 1/2, release off/on, and weights-first/KV-first wake; Qwen3-32B TP=1/2/4 and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 TP=4 covered level 1 and awake-only controls with release off/on. That is 640 actual sleep/wake cycles plus 160 awake-only rounds. Large-model level 2 was not part of this release-enabled matrix. A separate real-CUDA-graph test covered captured constants, runtime backup, delayed weight restoration and the release call across eight combinations, 20 cycles each. Here are the level-1 large-model results. Memory is idle pinned-host allocator cache per worker after full wake, not GPU memory or logical backup size; 1 GiB = 2^30 bytes. Times are medians of rounds 2–20, in seconds. Wake time sums both selective-wake calls within each round before taking the median.
Same-process OS resident-memory samples also showed the release. The cache clearing is allocator-wide, as documented. The measurements support the option for host-memory-constrained deployments, while also confirming both costs: slower wake and repinning on the next sleep. They are not a throughput benchmark or a claim that these exact costs generalize. Environment: four H20 GPUs, driver 580.126.09, PyTorch 2.13.0+cu130, V2 runner, BF16, fixed offline requests. Generated tokens passed the per-run reference checks; 32B logprobs were not bitwise stable under ordinary scheduling, including awake-only controls. Tests-only follow-up: ac3e48a64a adds the real graph/runtime/partial-wake combination to the existing allocator suite. It poisons new mappings before backup restoration and varies the graph input each cycle; all eight combinations passed 20 cycles each on H20. The commit requires this PR's patch on the pinned main and does not carry another implementation of host-cache release. It is available for adoption into this PR; it is not a claim that the tests-only branch passes on main without that dependency. |
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Level-1 sleep backs the weights up in pinned host memory. wake_up frees the backup tensors, but PyTorch's host caching allocator keeps the pinned blocks for the next sleep, so a process that has slept once holds a weight-sized block of host RAM for the rest of its life. With several engines sharing one GPU and taking turns sleeping, both models' weights stay pinned in RAM permanently (vllm-project#16663). Add VLLM_SLEEP_MODE_RELEASE_HOST_MEMORY (default off) to return the cached blocks to the OS after wake_up via torch.accelerator.empty_host_cache(), the same call cleanup_dist_env_and_memory already makes at shutdown. The default keeps today's behaviour for processes that sleep and wake repeatedly, where reusing the pinned block is the faster choice. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Timotej Fartek <timotej@fartek.si>
CuMemBackend tracked the sleep level in a _weights_on_host flag to decide whether to empty the pinned host cache after wake_up. The allocator keeps the backup of an already-asleep allocation, so a level-1 backup survives a later level-2 sleep, and that suspend reset the flag to False. The wake that then restored the backup skipped the release and left a weight-sized block of host RAM cached, defeating the option. Make wake_up report the bytes it restored from pinned host backups, and release the cache only when that number is non-zero. The allocator's own bookkeeping decides, so the gate cannot desync from what wake_up did, and the flag goes away. Assisted-by: Pi Coding Agent Signed-off-by: Timotej Fartek <timotej@fartek.si>
The release option also slows the wake-up, not only the next sleep, and ``empty_host_cache`` drains the whole host cache of the process instead of just the weight backup. State both in the docs, the env-var comment, and the helper docstring. Add a regression that runs repeated sleep/wake cycles with the option on and off, so a lost release or a leak across cycles fails. Assisted-by: Pi Coding Agent Signed-off-by: Timotej Fartek <timotej@fartek.si>
Exercise real CUDA graph constants and runtime backups across partial wake, both sleep levels, and the pinned-host-cache release option. Poison each new mapping before H2D restoration and change graph inputs every cycle. Check pending weight backups, complete mapping coverage, and release calls. Adds the graph/runtime/partial-wake coverage that vllm-project#59160 does not, since the release gate is driven by the bytes restored from host backups. Validation: H20, driver 580.126.09, PyTorch 2.13.0+cu130; eight parameter combinations, 20 cycles each, selected with: python -m pytest tests/basic_correctness/memory/cumem/test_cumem.py \ -k test_cudagraph_runtime_host_release Full applicable pre-commit checks passed. No model-serving code changed. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex Signed-off-by: AlanFokCo <alanfok2868@gmail.com>
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Purpose
Fixes #16663.
Level-1 sleep copies the weights to pinned host memory.
wake_upfrees the backup tensors, but PyTorch's host caching allocator keeps the pinned blocks. The process then holds a weight-sized block of host RAM for the rest of its life.That is the right default for one engine that sleeps and wakes repeatedly. Pinning tens of GiB again on every sleep costs seconds. It is the wrong default when several engines share one GPU and take turns sleeping, because every engine keeps its weights pinned in RAM while it is awake.
This PR adds
VLLM_SLEEP_MODE_RELEASE_HOST_MEMORY(default0). When you set it, the backend callstorch.accelerator.empty_host_cache()after a wake-up that restored host backups, and logs the amount released. The default keeps today's behaviour, so existing users see no change. A paragraph in the sleep mode docs describes the trade.The release keys off what the allocator actually restored.
MemAllocator.wake_up()now returns the bytes it restored from pinned host backups, and the backend releases the cache only when that number is not zero. An earlier revision tracked the sleep level in a flag on the backend. The allocator keeps the backup of an already-asleep allocation, so a level-1 backup survives a later level-2 sleep, and that suspend cleared the flag. A wake that then restored the backup skipped the release. The flag is now gone, so the decision cannot drift away from the allocator state.The call sits in the backend rather than in the allocator loop, because the last backup tensor's reference only dies when
wake_upreturns.Other sleep-mode work (#57163, #58066, #59160) does not cover host memory release.
Test Plan
End to end on one engine: start it at level 1, then repeat
sleep?level=1/wake_upand readRssShmemfrom/proc/<pid>/statusandShmemfrom/proc/meminfo.Host: RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell (48 GB VRAM), 96 GB DDR5 installed. Idle baseline before the run (
freereports GiB, so the OS-visible total is 92 GiB after firmware reservations):Test Result
Unit tests on CUDA: 4 passed, 13 passed. The new
test_wake_up_host_memory_release_after_level2_sleepcovers the mixed-level sequence.End to end, gemma-4 31B NVFP4, three sleep/wake cycles:
RssShmemawakeRssShmemasleepThe first sleep in both runs takes ~3.6 s, because nothing is pinned yet. The steady state is the row above.
The wake returns the process to its exact pre-sleep footprint, with no drift over three cycles. The log line matches the RSS delta:
Released 26.15 GiB of pinned host memory after wake-up.The control stays at 26.15 GiB after every wake; that is the leak reported in #16663.The cost is the re-pin on the next sleep, about 3 s here. These numbers are this rig's and scale with the weight size.
Independent H20 validation
@AlanFokCo ran the release-enabled combination on four H20 GPUs (driver 580.126.09, PyTorch 2.13.0+cu130), with main's graph-pool and runtime-backup behavior included: 40 configurations × 20 rounds, plus awake-only controls. The idle pinned host cache per worker goes to 0 with the release enabled in every configuration, e.g. 68.73 → 0 GiB for Qwen3-32B TP=1. The re-pin cost is larger than on the rig above, up to about 20 s at Qwen3-32B TP=1. The full table and environment are in this comment.
Large-model level 2 was not part of that release-enabled matrix; the level-2 wake path here is covered by the allocator tests. The graph/runtime/partial-wake test adopted from that work (
test_cudagraph_runtime_host_release, 8 combinations × 20 cycles) passed on the same hardware.No model evaluation: the patch does not touch weights or logits. It empties the host cache after the restore has finished, so it cannot change model output.
mypy, ruff and ruff-format: clean.
AI disclosure: AI coding agents helped draft the analysis, the patch and the tests. I reviewed every line, ran the tests above, and ran the measurements on my own machine. The graph/runtime/partial-wake test (
test_cudagraph_runtime_host_release) was authored by @AlanFokCo and is cherry-picked here with their authorship and sign-off; they validated it on their H20 hardware.