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[Bugfix][Frontend] Stop accepting gRPC connections when shutdown starts - #65163

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Overview

Fixes #65155 along with #65156. tonic holds on to the listener passed to serve_with_incoming_shutdown until every connection has drained. So if a gRPC call was still open during a --shutdown-timeout drain, new gRPC clients could still connect but never got a response. Now the incoming stream drops the listener as soon as shutdown starts, like the HTTP server already does, and tonic still drains the open connections.

Claims

  • After shutdown starts, new gRPC connections are refused, even while other gRPC calls are running.
  • Calls that are already open still finish.

Validation

Same setup as #65156: VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 vllm serve ... --grpc-port 50052 --shutdown-timeout 40 on vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest (0.33.0). This time a GenerateStream was running at SIGTERM. For the last row I built vllm-rs from v0.33.0 with this change and applied #65156.

New gRPC client New HTTP client Running stream
Before Health.Check times out after 5s no reply after 5s finishes
#65156 only Health.Check times out after 5s refused finishes
#65156 + this PR refused refused finishes

The new test, shutdown_refuses_new_connections_while_streams_drain, keeps a stream open, starts shutdown, checks that new connections get refused, then lets the stream finish and checks that the server stops. Without the fix, new connections keep going through and the test times out.

cargo test -p vllm-server --lib    # 553 passed
cargo clippy -p vllm-server --all-targets -- -D warnings

Details

stop is the signal HealthMonitor::serve gives once the health services report NOT_SERVING (#63870), so the listener now closes right after that instead of when the drain ends. tonic gets std::future::pending() as its own shutdown signal, so the drain starts when the incoming stream ends. If tonic also got stop, its select! could pick it first and stop polling the stream, leaving the listener open. start_grpc_test_server gets the same change so it still matches serve.

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @theminjunchoi.

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tonic keeps the listener passed to serve_with_incoming_shutdown until every
connection has drained, so during a --shutdown-timeout drain new gRPC
clients were accepted and never answered. The incoming stream now drops the
listener when shutdown starts, as the HTTP server already does.

Signed-off-by: MinJun Choi <mj04300017@gmail.com>
@theminjunchoi
theminjunchoi force-pushed the rust-grpc-drop-listener-on-shutdown branch from 4c97ec4 to 6c8db62 Compare November 2, 2026 15:34
@mergify mergify Bot removed the needs-rebase label Nov 2, 2026
@theminjunchoi theminjunchoi changed the title [Bugfix][Rust Frontend] Stop accepting gRPC connections when shutdown starts [Bugfix][Frontend] Stop accepting gRPC connections when shutdown starts Nov 3, 2026

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[Bug]: Rust frontend: clients that connect during --shutdown-timeout hang instead of being refused

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