[Bugfix] Fix cuda profiler missing bug

[wzhao18]

Purpose

Fix profiler not found in AsyncLLM for profiler types beside torch profiler.

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• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed CUDA profiling so start and stop requests are correctly forwarded to the engine when frontend profiling is enabled.
  • Improved profiler state handling when no local profiler is configured, ensuring more consistent profiling behavior.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying that CUDA profiling requests reach the engine and trigger the expected start and stop actions.

Walkthrough

AsyncLLM now always stores its profiler argument. A new test verifies that CUDA profiler start and stop requests reach EngineCore when the frontend is enabled.

Changes

Async profiler forwarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retain the profiler argument vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py	AsyncLLM always assigns self.profiler and uses a union type annotation for the optional profiler.
Validate CUDA profiler forwarding tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py	The test mocks EngineCoreClient, runs start_profile and stop_profile, and verifies the expected asynchronous calls.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 64e93

This change retains the configured profiler in AsyncLLM and adds coverage for forwarding CUDA profiling requests to EngineCore. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: fixing the CUDA profiler bug in AsyncLLM.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains that the PR fixes the missing profiler issue in AsyncLLM for non-Torch profiler types. It is directly related to the changeset.
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@mgoin A minor bug found when trying to collect nsys trace.

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tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py (1)

102-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for a supplied profiler.

This test only covers profiler=None. A regression that ignores a non-None profiler would still pass. Add a case that passes a MagicMock profiler, asserts engine.profiler is profiler, and verifies its start() and stop() calls.

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In `@tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py` around lines 102 - 103, Add a test case
for a supplied profiler in the async engine setup, using a MagicMock profiler;
assert engine.profiler is that instance and verify its start() and stop() calls,
while preserving the existing None-profiler coverage.

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In `@tests/v1/engine/test_async_llm.py`:
- Around line 102-103: Add a test case for a supplied profiler in the async
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instance and verify its start() and stop() calls, while preserving the existing
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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #87356 for commit 64e9379a518c.

[kosztyua]

Thanks for fixing this. We encountered the same uninitialized
AsyncLLM.profiler bug through the complementary ignored-Torch-frontend
branch while collecting a two-rank profile on DGX Spark.

With profiler="torch" and ignore_frontend=true, POST /start_profile
returned HTTP 500 before any inference request ran:

AttributeError: 'AsyncLLM' object has no attribute 'profiler'
  vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py:1031, in start_profile
RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'AsyncMPClient.profile_async' was never awaited

The warning is secondary: profile_async(...) is constructed, then reading
the missing self.profiler raises before asyncio.gather().

The deployed service reproduced the failure. The isolated fix worktree was
based on f4eccdadefc6, whose constructor had the same defect; its focused
test failed unpatched and passed with the initialization fix. A read-only
audit of current main at a1541f5742a2 still shows the affected branch.

Your self.profiler = profiler implementation subsumes our local emergency
initialization to None and is preferable: the constructor exposes a
profiler argument, so unconditional initialization to None would silently
discard a supplied wrapper.

One complementary regression would cover profiler="torch",
ignore_frontend=True, and a non-None profile_prefix. I also checked
#54322: its no-frontend-profiler test assigns engine.profiler = None on a
preconstructed mock, so it does not exercise this constructor/configuration
branch. This prefix case is separate from the review request for a non-None
constructor profiler.

#51974 separately proposes carrying profile_prefix through the HTTP router.
This test only verifies the already-existing AsyncLLM-to-EngineCore
propagation and does not overlap that router/protocol change. The deployed
failing request itself did not include a prefix; the non-None prefix is an
additional regression assertion.

The existing test_cuda_profiler_requests_reach_engine_core could be renamed
and parameterized with:

• ("cuda", False, None); and
• ("torch", True, "test-prefix").

It would set the profiler kind and ignore_frontend from those parameters,
call start_profile(profile_prefix) and stop_profile(), retain
assert engine.profiler is None, and require:

engine_core.profile_async.assert_has_awaits(
    [call(True, profile_prefix), call(False)]
)

That focused ignored-frontend test passed with only the initialization fix
(1 passed). Ruff lint/format and git diff --check also passed. I can
provide the saved service failure log and complete focused test if useful.

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/ci retry

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✅ Queued 8 failed job(s) for retry in Buildkite CI #87356.

[aijanai]

I've introduced the bug. Thanks for catching it.