[Bugfix] Fix sliding-window KV allocation scaling

[XFWang522]

Purpose

Fixes #55800.

Sliding-window KV groups currently scale both admission and execution allocation with the full sequence length. For long prompts this can permanently block admission, or exhaust the unified block pool during chunked prefill.

This change:

• uses SlidingWindowSpec.max_admission_blocks_per_request as the physical block bound for admission, pool sizing, prediction, and execution allocation;
• counts only non-null blocks as physically allocated for sliding-window groups;
• preserves the full logical block-table length by padding positions outside the retained window with null blocks; and
• keeps extra_retained_tokens in the bound for multi-module speculative decoding.

This avoids the full-sequence allocation growth while preserving absolute block-table positions expected by the worker.

Test Plan

VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu python -m pytest -q \
  tests/v1/core/test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_swa_inflight_window_free.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py

ruff check \
  vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py \
  vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_swa_inflight_window_free.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py

ruff format --check \
  vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py \
  vllm/v1/kv_cache_interface.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_swa_inflight_window_free.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py

Test Result

• 127 passed
• Ruff lint passed
• Ruff format check passed

The issue reporter additionally validated the underlying window-bound allocation on DFlash2 with prompts up to 256,388 tokens. I did not independently repeat the GPU E2E reproduction.

AI assistance was used to investigate, implement, and test this change. The submitter reviewed the resulting diff and test results.

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