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On a GLM-5.3-Flash 1P/1D MoRIIO READ deployment, registering the sparse-indexer ("kpool") KV cache aborts with Unsupported MoRIIO MLA cache shape for layer …self_attn.indexer. For an MLAAttentionSpec carrying a storage_block_size, create_kv_cache_views hands connectors a kernel-block-split 4-D view whose leading dim counts kernel blocks, not manager blocks (r = block_size / storage_block_size; r = 17 at EP8/TP1). MoRIIO's standardized 4-D branch only accepted r == 1, so it rejected the indexer view. Block ids on the wire are always manager ids, so geometry must be expressed in manager blocks.

This PR teaches get_layer_transfer_geometry (moriio_layout.py) to read kernel-split views in manager blocks:

  • Accept spec.num_states % N == 0, derive r = num_states // N, and report num_blocks = B/r, block_stride = stride[0]*r, block_len = num_states*slot_size.
  • Reject any view that isn't r dense, contiguous kernel pages per block, so a malformed layout errors instead of silently transferring wrong bytes.

Bit-identical for r == 1 (e.g. DeepSeek MLA); no wire-format or metadata change. ~20 lines in one file. (This supersedes the fork's kernel-unit approach — deriving r from the view and spec removes the kbpb/layer_num_blocks protocol additions, since r is a per-layer property identical on both legs.)

Validation

  • Unit: tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_moriio_kv_layout.py on MI300X (vllm-openai-rocm:nightly, against origin/main) — 59 passed. Added tests cover ratio/head equivalence, a real-allocator GLM kpool-indexer case through create_kv_cache_views, and the two rejection paths. Removing the fix reproduces Unsupported MoRIIO MLA cache shape.
  • pre-commit run --from-ref origin/main --to-ref HEAD and mypy pass.
  • E2E ablation (GLM-5.3-Flash-FP8 1P/1D over MoRIIO READ, MI300X): with this change both legs boot, register the hybrid KV caches, and disaggregated NIAH recall is a deterministic 10/10 across seeds 0/1/2 at short context (2K/8K), zero transfer errors. Reverting just this commit makes both engines abort in register_kv_caches → moriio_layout.py with Unsupported MoRIIO MLA cache shape, so the stack never serves — i.e. the fix is required for disaggregated serving. Longer contexts show a multi-seed early-stop variance that is equally present in the non-disaggregated/fork baseline, so it is not introduced here.

Depends on #59412 (page-aligns the indexer's kernel blocks). Not sufficient alone to boot 1P/1D READ — the register_kv_caches per-layer block_len relaxation, hybrid READ with >1 transferable group, and MTP in _validate_hybrid_speculation are tracked separately. Duplicate check: reviewed open/recent MoRIIO PRs (#59441, #59164, #57700, #58585, #57536, #59297) — none change split-4-D handling in get_layer_transfer_geometry.

Checklist

  • I used vLLM's /pr-checklist skill.
  • AI assistance was used during the creation of this PR.
  • Design Fit — one file, no core/scheduler/model-runner changes; reuses the kernel-split convention.
  • Testing and Validation — unit + real-allocator coverage; E2E ablation confirms the fix is required (with-fix boots + short-context recall 10/10; without-fix fails registration).
  • Code Quality and Style — ruff, mypy, typos pass.
  • Pull Request Contents — root cause, trade-off, dependencies, and duplicate check above.

AI assistance: Claude (Claude Code) helped with the investigation, implementation, tests, and this description. I reviewed every changed line and ran the tests above. The commit carries a Co-authored-by: Claude trailer.

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MIR-AMD force-pushed the upstream/moriio-hybrid-kbpb branch from a2bf388 to 9c2096b Compare October 9, 2026 15:44
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…V views

Hybrid-KV models can view a layer's KV cache at a finer kernel block than
the KV cache manager block. GLM-5.3-Flash's kpool sparse-indexer cache is
allocated with kernel_block_size = storage_block_size, so MoRIIO receives a
[num_blocks * r, H, num_states / r, C] view (e.g. (17 * N, 1, 64, 132) at
EP8/TP1), while the scheduler hands out block ids in manager blocks.

get_layer_transfer_geometry only accepted the standardized 4-D view with
N == spec.num_states, so registration of such a layer failed with
"Unsupported MoRIIO MLA cache shape". Treating the view's kernel blocks as
transfer blocks instead would read/write the wrong bytes for every block id
past 0 (the original disaggregated-recall failure on GLM-5.3-Flash).

Accept N dividing num_states and keep the geometry in manager blocks
(num_blocks = B / r, block_stride = stride[0] * r), as the 5-D kernel-split
branches already do. A manager block's kernel blocks are contiguous (the
allocator rejects splitting non-dense pages), so each block is still a
single transfer and block ids need no remapping. Unsplit views are
unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Ravi Gupta <ravgupta@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mir Mustafa Ali <miali@amd.com>
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MIR-AMD force-pushed the upstream/moriio-hybrid-kbpb branch from 9c2096b to 6997a3f Compare October 11, 2026 00:01

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