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[None][fix] Runtime fixes found while bringing up Mistral Large 4 - #21788
Runtime fixes found while bringing up Mistral Large 4 that hold on main without it. They are split out of the Mistral Large 4 merge-back, #21693, so they can be reviewed and land on their own; #21693 will rebase onto this PR and drop them. One fix per commit; each section below lists the symptom, the cause, the fix, the test, and the models or configurations on main that hit it.
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FlashMLA: release the GIL in the pybind launch wrappers
3rdparty (FetchContent patch)
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Attention DP: give the padding dummy a cache in the paired draft KV pool
PyExecutor
3
Decoder warmup: run the context warmup beside a capturable guided decoder
Decoder warmup
4
Attention DP: report each rank's own speculative-decoding stats
Iteration stats
1. FlashMLA: release the GIL in the pybind launch wrappers
Symptom: a rank deadlocks under serving load: an eager step blocks inside a FlashMLA call, and a host function queued on the same stream never runs.
Cause: FlashMLA's pybind module binds its forward functions with plain m.def, so a call keeps the GIL while it blocks in a kernel launch. Once the launch queue is full, the launch waits for a host function queued ahead of it on the stream, and that host function waits for the GIL. The capturable guided decoder queues such host functions (they take the GIL in cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/runtime/hostfunc.cpp).
Fix: a FetchContent patch (3rdparty/patches/flashmla_release_gil.patch, listed as the patch_file of flashmla in 3rdparty/fetch_content.json) adds pybind11::call_guard<pybind11::gil_scoped_release> to the five bindings. Their arguments and results are tensors and scalars, converted before the GIL is released and after it is reacquired. FlashMLA is a FetchContent dependency, so the patch follows the patch_file convention of DeepGEMM and DeepEP, not the vendored-source lock.
Who hits it on main: the FlashMLA users (the DSA sparse MLA backend of DeepSeek-V3.2 and the GLM models built on it, DeepSeek-V4, CSA2, the GLM K-pool backend) served with guided decoding and MTP or another one-model drafter.
Test:tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py (SM100 family) queues a GIL-taking host function behind GPU work and fills the launch queue with sparse_prefill_fwd calls in a subprocess; it deadlocks without the patch.
2. Attention DP: give the padding dummy a cache in the paired draft KV pool
Symptom: with a DFlash or DSpark drafter under attention DP, the whole attention-DP group stops making progress as soon as one rank goes idle. Bringing up Mistral Large 4 with its DSpark drafter at DEP4 and DEP8, the first request never completed while the other ranks idled; the same configuration ran to completion with this fix. From the code, the empty-batch padding path has a second failure: a short draft pool raises in the draft manager's prepare_resources and takes down the executor loop (not observed in a run).
Cause: with joint KV cache reuse, KVCacheV2Scheduler._try_allocate_generation admits every generation request in the target and the draft pool together. The attention-DP padding dummy was created with a target cache only, so its draft admission failed, the target growth was reverted and the dummy was never scheduled. The idle rank scheduled an empty batch, _can_queue vetoed the forward on every rank, and the live dummy kept the empty-batch padding from stepping in. The empty-batch path, which bypasses the scheduler, left the draft cache to the draft manager's mirror, which raises when the pool is short.
Fix: every padding path passes the paired draft manager to add_dummy_requests, so the dummy is created in both pools or in neither. A vetoed iteration already frees the draft pool's cache in _finalize_adp_dummy_allocation ([None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers and a balanced DWDP expert partition #21012); a speculative resource manager without a free slot now frees it as well. The non-transactional path now also rolls back on NoFreeSlotsError, as the other two paths already did. [None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers and a balanced DWDP expert partition #21012's KVCacheV2Scheduler._admit_unpaired_draft covers only an unpaired draft pool; a paired pool still refuses a dummy that has no draft cache. add_dummy_requests reserves the dummy's whole forward in both pools, and the empty-batch dummy joins the batch after the scheduler, so it carries no scheduler allocation record: the draft manager's prepare_resources now takes a paired pool's existing dummy cache as already sized instead of growing it by another generation step (with a draft length of 8 that step would take the 24-token cache to 33 tokens, a second 32-token page, after the ranks have agreed to run the batch). An unpaired draft pool is not handed to add_dummy_requests; the mirror the scheduler admits for its dummy is empty and still grows in prepare_resources.
Who hits it on main: a one-model DFlash or DSpark drafter with its own draft pool under attention DP, with KV cache manager V2 and block reuse (the conditions for joint reuse).
Test:test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kv in tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py (GPU) builds real target and draft KVCacheManagerV2 pools with joint reuse and a KVCacheV2Scheduler, and checks for the plain, transactional and empty-batch padding paths that the dummy holds a cache in both pools, is scheduled, keeps its capacity through prepare_resources, and is released from both on a vetoed iteration. test_adp_dummy_grows_unpaired_draft_mirror (GPU) runs the same paths over unpaired pools for two queued iterations and checks that the mirror grows by one generation step and takes the previous dummy's deferred update. test_draft_mirror_preserves_preallocated_dummy_capacity (CPU) pins which mirrors grow. The stub executors in test_py_executor.py, test_benchmark_disagg.py and test_connector_adp.py carry the new attribute (off).
3. Decoder warmup: run the context warmup beside a capturable guided decoder
Symptom: memory profiling ran out of memory during warmup (Mistral Large 4 NVFP4 DEP4 at 1M context, with the DSpark draft and xgrammar): rank 0 ran out of memory in the autotuner's max-token step, and the other ranks failed to allocate NCCL memory through cuMem.
Cause: a capturable guided decoder turned the whole general warmup off, though it rules out only the warmup's generation requests (the autotuner already runs its context step with the decoder installed). Without the general warmup, the autotuner's max-token step became the engine's first forward. What a first forward creates lazily, including the attention-DP group's NCCL communicator (allocated through cuMem, outside the torch caching allocator), then came in the middle of the autotuner's exploration with torch's cache full.
Fix: the general warmup runs its context requests in that case, followed by the same MoE-workspace and cache release, so the first forward and the release come ahead of the autotuner as they do without guided decoding. In that order, the same configuration without guided decoding profiles at a peak of 238.6 GiB per rank. The general warmup skips a shape that runs a single rank out of memory and goes on to a smaller one; with the decoder installed, input preparation has already queued that shape's batch for the decoder's host functions, so the abandoned batch would stay at the head of the queue and every later forward, the first real guided request included, would be served the batch before its own. The recovery now waits for the decoder's stream and drops the queued batches and both request snapshots (CapturableGuidedDecoder.reset_warmup_state). A failed reset stops the warmup, and a distributed forward still re-raises the out-of-memory error.
Who hits it on main: guided decoding together with one-model speculative decoding (MTP, Eagle3 one-model, the external drafters such as DFlash and DSpark, or SA), which is what installs the capturable guided decoder.
Test:test_guided_decoder_runs_the_context_warmup_before_the_autotuner in tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py checks that the general warmup runs with context-only shapes (including the max-token one), followed by the MoE workspace release, the cache release and then the autotuner. test_general_warmup_oom_restores_guided_batch_queue fails a shape before and after its host function is submitted and checks that the next guided request is served its own batch; test_general_warmup_oom_policy and test_general_warmup_aborts_if_guided_state_cannot_be_reset cover when the reset runs and that its failure stops the warmup.
4. Attention DP: report each rank's own speculative-decoding stats
Cause:specdec_stats was among the nested objects _make_rank_iter_stats copies from rank 0; the per-rank payload carried no speculative-decoding counters.
Fix: each rank snapshots its draft tokens, accepted tokens and requests with draft tokens (RankSpecDecodingStats) into its rank-state payload, and the fanout rebuilds the row's SpecDecodingStats from them, deriving the acceptance length from the rank's own counters. The draft timings stay rank 0's, like the row's other timings; a placeholder rank gets none. The snapshot frame gains a third presence flag, so its version moves from -1 to -2 and its header from four to five fields. All ranks of a job run the same build, so they agree on the version; any other version fails the header check rather than being misread.
Who hits it on main: attention DP with speculative decoding (for example DeepSeek-R1 DEP with MTP) and iteration stats enabled, through LLM.get_stats() and the JSON iteration stats of trtllm-serve's /metrics. The Prometheus metrics (/prometheus/metrics) read spec-decoding stats from rank 0's row only and do not change. The acceptance-length gates of the accuracy tests sum every row (acceptance_length_from_iteration_stats), so under attention DP they measured rank 0's acceptance alone and could not see a drafting regression on the other ranks; with this fix they measure the whole group.
Test:test_adp_router.py pins the wire schema and round-trips the snapshot with and without KV snapshots and load fields; test_iter_stats_populate.py fans out asymmetric work on two ranks (rank 0 busy or idle, dummies excluded) and checks each row's counts and acceptance length, the group total, and that a placeholder rank does not inherit rank 0's drafting.
Not included
Changes from the merge-back that were considered and left in #21693, because on main only Mistral Large 4 reaches them or because they change behavior:
Streaming forced tool calls keeping several argument deltas of the first call from one chunk: on main only kimi_k3 extracts forced calls with its parser, and it emits each call whole.
evaluate/interface.py dumping token-id prompts: every built-in evaluator on main submits text prompts.
Tool-call argument coercion in serve/chat_utils.py: enabled for mistral_large_4 only.
DFlash's project_target_hidden check: every drafter on main has both fc and hidden_norm, so the two checks agree.
Rejecting max_completion_tokens above max_seq_len: the worker deliberately clamps the output budget on main; the merge-back keeps this check in the Mistral Large 4 serving extension.
Opening a streamed tool call that the model left unnamed (name == ""): on main only a model emitting an empty function name reaches it, and the non-streaming path of the parse_base_json parsers drops such a call; it stays with the Mistral Large 4 parser, which keeps unnamed calls.
A top-level continue_final_message request field: an API addition rather than a runtime fix, and the native DeepSeek V3.2/V4/V4.1 renderers ignore the flag even with add_generation_prompt=false, so a main-wide fix needs renderer support; it stays with the Mistral Large 4 renderer, which reads the flag.
Test Coverage
Run on B200 (SM100, 100-real build of this branch at 75af69f5de, based on c36b7b59f9):
789 passed, 1 failed (also on the base, see below)
CPU (-m cpu_only, no GPU visible): speculative/hw_agnostic/, the guided-decoder tests, and the CPU tests of the files above
2051 passed
GPU: attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py
passed
GPU: attention/sparse/test_sparse_mla_forward.py
50 passed
The 7 failures are in tests this PR does not change, and they fail the same way with the base's sources for the files this PR touches: six cases of disaggregation/test_disagg_idle_cancellation.py, whose batch-state stubs have no guided_failures (waived by [https://nvbugs/7071872][infra] Waive 6 failed case(s) on CPU #21958, nvbugs/7071872), and misc/test_guided_decoder_errors.py::test_executor_loop_fails_the_request_once_its_batch_is_synchronized, whose stub executor has no dense_dwdp_manager.
On the first posted version (base cd31578cb8), each of the four original regression tests failed against the base sources for the reason it targets: the ADP dummy is never scheduled (or has no draft cache on the empty-batch path), the general warmup never runs, and every rank's row carries rank 0's draft counts.
Dummy capacity: against a prepare_resources that takes every existing dummy cache as sized, paired or not, the unpaired-dummy-admitted-empty case of test_draft_mirror_preserves_preallocated_dummy_capacity fails; on real unpaired pools that variant leaves the scheduler-admitted mirror at capacity 0, and the previous dummy's deferred update raises History length cannot exceed capacity.
FlashMLA (measured on the first posted version): with an extension built from the same FlashMLA pin without the patch, the workload of test_flash_mla_gil.py deadlocks (the child is killed at the 120 s timeout), and a Python thread stalls for 1.5 s while one FlashMLA launch blocks on a full launch queue; with the patch the workload completes and the longest stall is about 1 ms.
Not run on this head: a multi-rank attention-DP serving run, a natural CUDA out-of-memory in the guided warmup (the tests simulate the host-function dispatch), and the Mistral Large 4 memory profile (the figures in section 3 are from the bring-up).
PR Checklist
PR description clearly explains what and why.
One fix per commit; each commit message carries the cause and the original change it was split from.
Regression tests added; none needs Mistral Large 4 weights.
New tests live in files or directories already on CI lists.
Dev Engineer Review
The changes cover four runtime fixes: FlashMLA bindings release the GIL; attention-DP dummy requests receive paired draft-cache resources with rollback handling; guided-decoder warmup supports context-only general warmup and resets queued state after OOM; and attention-DP iteration stats include rank-local speculative-decoding counters.
The snapshot wire format advances from version -1 to -2. Confirm that all readers and writers use the same framing.
The new guided-decoder reset API is intended for warmup without live requests or graph capture. Verify that callers preserve this constraint.
Test fixtures in three files now explicitly set enable_joint_kv_cache_reuse to False. No other configuration files changed.
QA Engineer Review
The PR adds one test file and modifies six test files. The tests cover GIL release, paired and unpaired draft-cache allocation, dummy padding paths, guided-decoder warmup and OOM recovery, snapshot serialization, and per-rank speculative-decoding stats.
test_kvcm2_integration.py is already included in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml. The other changed unit-test files were not found in the CI or manual-QA lists. No test-list files changed.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The new tests cover the described code paths, but the supplied results do not establish completed checks on this PR head. Confirm runtime and multi-rank behavior in CI.
Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/fetch_content.json — FlashMLA now applies a local patch. Verify that dependency fetching applies the patch to the expected source revision.
3rdparty/patches/flashmla_release_gil.patch — Five FlashMLA bindings release the GIL during calls. Verify that Python threads progress while GPU work is pending.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/adp_iter_stats.py — Attention-DP stat fanout now carries rank-local speculative-decoding counters. Verify acceptance-length calculation and zero-request behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/warmup.py — Warmup can run context-only general shapes with a capturable guided decoder and resets guided state after a single-rank OOM. Verify rank agreement and recovery behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/guided_decoder.py — Adds reset_warmup_state(), which synchronizes and clears queued warmup state. Verify that it is called only when no live requests or graph capture exist.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py — Attention-DP dummy allocation now includes the draft manager when joint reuse is enabled and rolls back target and draft resources on allocation failure. Verify rollback across padding paths.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/rank_state.py — Adds speculative-decoding snapshot data and changes snapshot framing to version -2. Verify compatibility across all communicating ranks.
tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py — Adds a CUDA SM100 subprocess test for GIL release during sparse-prefill calls. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py — Sets the mock executor’s joint-cache-reuse default to False. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py — Adds warmup cleanup, OOM recovery, queue restoration, and reset-failure tests. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py — Adds attention-DP paired-cache, rollback-related padding, and resource-growth coverage. The test file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_adp_router.py — Extends snapshot wire-format and roundtrip coverage for speculative-decoding stats. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_iter_stats_populate.py — Adds per-rank speculative-decoding stat fanout coverage, including idle and explicit-zero ranks. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor.py — Sets the stub executor’s joint-cache-reuse default to False. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py — Sets the recovery-control test executor’s joint-cache-reuse default to False. The test file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
FlashMLA's pybind module binds its forward functions with plain m.def, so
a call keeps the GIL while it blocks in a kernel launch. A CUDA host
function that takes the GIL and sits ahead of those kernels on the stream
then deadlocks the rank: the launch waits on the host function, and the
host function waits on the GIL. The capturable guided decoder is such a
host function (guided decoding beside one-model speculative decoding);
its callbacks run on the stream and acquire the GIL in
cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/runtime/hostfunc.cpp. Under serving load the
launch queue fills and an eager step that calls FlashMLA hangs.
On main, FlashMLA serves the DSA sparse MLA backend (DeepSeek-V3.2 and the
GLM models built on it), DeepSeek-V4, CSA2 and the GLM K-pool backend, so
any of these with guided decoding and MTP or another one-model drafter can
hit it. Found while bringing up Mistral Large 4 (xgrammar beside the
DSpark drafter), where eager context steps deadlocked under load.
A FetchContent patch adds pybind11::call_guard<pybind11::gil_scoped_release>
to the five bindings. Their arguments and results are tensors and scalars,
converted before the GIL is released and after it is reacquired. FlashMLA
is a FetchContent dependency (3rdparty/fetch_content.json), so the patch
follows the patch_file convention of DeepGEMM and DeepEP rather than the
vendored-source lock.
Test: test_flash_mla_gil.py queues a GIL-taking host function behind GPU
work and fills the launch queue with sparse_prefill_fwd calls in a
subprocess; it deadlocks without the patch.
Split out of NVIDIA#21693 (Mistral Large 4 merge-back); originally GitLab
876a93ccd7.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zhang <187001205+yizhang-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
…d draft KV pool
With joint KV cache reuse the KV cache manager V2 scheduler admits every
generation request in the target and the draft pool together
(KVCacheV2Scheduler._try_allocate_generation). The attention-DP padding
dummy was created with a target cache only, so its draft admission found
no cache, the target growth was reverted, and the dummy was never
scheduled. The idle rank then scheduled an empty batch, _can_queue vetoed
the forward on every rank, and the live dummy kept the empty-batch padding
from stepping in: the whole attention-DP group stopped making progress as
soon as one rank went idle.
The empty-batch padding path, which bypasses the scheduler, instead left
the draft cache to the draft manager's prepare_resources mirror. That
mirror raises when the draft pool is short, which takes down the executor
loop; this follows from the code and was not observed in a run.
Joint reuse is on for a one-model DFlash or DSpark drafter with its own
draft KV pool, KV cache manager V2 and block reuse; attention DP keeps the
separate draft pool for these standalone drafters. Found while bringing up
Mistral Large 4 with its DSpark drafter: at DEP4 and DEP8 the first
request never completed while the other ranks idled, and the same
configuration ran to completion with this change.
Every padding path now passes the paired draft manager to
add_dummy_requests, so the dummy is created in both pools or in neither.
A vetoed iteration already frees the draft pool's cache in
_finalize_adp_dummy_allocation; a spec resource manager without a free
slot now frees it as well. The non-transactional path also rolls back
when the spec resource manager has no free slot, as the other two paths
already did, instead of propagating NoFreeSlotsError with the KV
allocated.
add_dummy_requests reserves the dummy's whole forward in both pools, and
the empty-batch dummy joins the batch after the scheduler, so it carries
no scheduler allocation record. The draft manager's prepare_resources
therefore takes a paired pool's existing dummy cache as already sized
instead of growing it by another generation step: with a draft length of
8 that step would take the 24-token cache to 33 tokens, a second 32-token
page, after the ranks have agreed to run the batch. An unpaired draft pool
is not handed to add_dummy_requests; the mirror the scheduler admits for
its dummy is empty and still grows in prepare_resources.
Tests: test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kv builds real target and draft
KVCacheManagerV2 pools with joint reuse and a KVCacheV2Scheduler, and
checks for the plain, transactional and empty-batch padding paths that
the dummy holds a cache in both pools, is scheduled, keeps its capacity
through prepare_resources, and is released from both on a vetoed
iteration. test_adp_dummy_grows_unpaired_draft_mirror runs the same paths
over unpaired pools for two queued iterations and checks that the mirror
grows by one generation step and takes the previous dummy's deferred
update. test_draft_mirror_preserves_preallocated_dummy_capacity (CPU)
pins which mirrors grow. The stub executors of test_py_executor.py,
test_benchmark_disagg.py and test_connector_adp.py carry the new
attribute (off).
Split out of NVIDIA#21693 (Mistral Large 4 merge-back); originally GitLab
4932efdc24 ("Add native DSpark to StoneWillow Staircase
specializations").
Signed-off-by: Yi Zhang <187001205+yizhang-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
…e guided decoder
A capturable guided decoder (guided decoding together with one-model
speculative decoding: MTP, Eagle3 one-model, the external drafters such as
DFlash and DSpark, or SA) turned the whole general warmup off, though it
rules out only the warmup's generation requests: the autotuner already
runs its context step with the decoder installed. Without the general
warmup, the autotuner's max-token step was the engine's first forward.
What a first forward creates lazily, including the attention-DP group's
NCCL communicator (allocated through cuMem, outside the torch caching
allocator, so it cannot reclaim the cache), then came in the middle of the
autotuner's exploration with torch's cache full.
Any model served with guided decoding and one of those drafters takes
this path. It ran memory profiling out of memory while bringing up
Mistral Large 4 (NVFP4 DEP4 at 1M context with the DSpark draft and
xgrammar): rank 0 ran out of memory in the autotuner's max-token step,
and the other ranks failed to allocate NCCL memory through cuMem. Without
guided decoding, where the general warmup and its release run ahead of
the autotuner, the same configuration profiles at a peak of 238.6 GiB per
rank.
The general warmup now runs its context requests in that case, followed
by the same release as before, so the first forward and the release come
ahead of the autotuner, as they do without guided decoding. The extra
phase decision is agreed across ranks like can_run_general_warmup, which
is already rank-uniform when it is taken.
The general warmup skips a shape that runs a single rank out of memory
and goes on to a smaller one. With the decoder installed, input
preparation has already queued that shape's batch for the decoder's host
functions, so the abandoned batch would stay at the head of the queue and
every later forward, the first real guided request included, would be
served the batch before its own. The recovery now waits for the decoder's
stream, so that no host function of the failed forward is still pending,
and drops the queued batches and both request snapshots
(CapturableGuidedDecoder.reset_warmup_state). A failed reset stops the
warmup, and a distributed forward still re-raises the out-of-memory error.
Tests: test_guided_decoder_runs_the_context_warmup_before_the_autotuner
installs a guided decoder and checks that the general warmup runs with
context-only shapes (including the max-token one), followed by the MoE
workspace release, the cache release and then the autotuner.
test_general_warmup_oom_restores_guided_batch_queue fails a shape before
and after its host function is submitted and checks that the next guided
request is served its own batch. test_general_warmup_oom_policy and
test_general_warmup_aborts_if_guided_state_cannot_be_reset cover when the
reset runs and that its failure stops the warmup.
Split out of NVIDIA#21693 (Mistral Large 4 merge-back); originally GitLab
a2d3872e7b, rebased onto main's warmup after NVIDIA#21343.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zhang <187001205+yizhang-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
… stats
Attention-DP iteration stats fan out one row per rank (NVIDIA#21131): the
scheduling and KV fields of each row come from that rank's payload on the
ADP rank-state allgather, but specdec_stats was in the list of nested
objects copied from rank 0. Every rank's row therefore reported rank 0's
draft and accepted token counts and acceptance length, so per-rank
acceptance could not be told apart, an idle rank 0 showed zero acceptance
for the whole group, and summing the rows multiplied rank 0's numbers by
the number of ranks.
Any attention-DP deployment with speculative decoding (for example
DeepSeek-R1 DEP with MTP) and iteration stats enabled reports these rows,
through LLM.get_stats() and the JSON iteration stats of trtllm-serve's
/metrics; the Prometheus metrics (/prometheus/metrics) read spec-decoding
stats from rank 0's row only and do not change. The acceptance-length
gates of the accuracy tests sum every row
(acceptance_length_from_iteration_stats), so under attention DP they
measured rank 0's acceptance alone and could not see a drafting
regression on the other ranks. Found while checking Mistral Large 4 DEP4
acceptance with its DSpark drafter.
Each rank now snapshots its draft tokens, accepted tokens and requests
with draft tokens (RankSpecDecodingStats) into its payload, and the fanout
rebuilds the row's SpecDecodingStats from them, deriving the acceptance
length from the rank's own counters. The draft timings stay rank 0's, like
the row's other timings. A rank with no snapshot (an explicit zero
placeholder) gets no spec-decoding stats rather than rank 0's.
The snapshot frame gains a third presence flag, so its version moves from
-1 to -2 and its header from four to five fields. Every rank of a job runs
the same build, so all ranks write and read the same version; a payload
with another version fails the header check instead of being misread.
Tests: test_adp_router.py pins the new wire schema and round-trips the
snapshot with and without KV snapshots and load fields, keeping zero
counters distinct from an absent snapshot. test_iter_stats_populate.py
fans out asymmetric work on two ranks (with rank 0 busy or idle, and the
padding and CUDA-graph dummies excluded) and checks each row's counts and
acceptance length, that the rows add up to the group's acceptance, and
that a placeholder rank does not inherit rank 0's drafting.
Split out of NVIDIA#21693 (Mistral Large 4 merge-back); originally GitLab
4932efdc24 ("Add native DSpark to StoneWillow Staircase
specializations"), rebased onto the versioned snapshot frame of NVIDIA#21131.
Signed-off-by: Yi Zhang <187001205+yizhang-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
The pull request updates FlashMLA Python bindings, Attention-DP speculative-decoding statistics, guided-decoder warmup behavior, and draft KV-cache dummy allocation. It also adds tests for these changes and updates test fixtures for joint KV-cache reuse.
Changes
FlashMLA GIL release
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Apply and test GIL release 3rdparty/fetch_content.json, 3rdparty/patches/flashmla_release_gil.patch, tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py
The FlashMLA dependency applies a patch that releases the Python GIL in five bindings. A CUDA subprocess test issues repeated sparse-prefill calls and checks the queued callback count.
Payload creation captures each rank’s counters, and fanout restores them with acceptance length. Tests cover idle ranks, dummy requests, and explicit zero payloads.
When general warmup is unavailable because a guided decoder is installed, ranks can agree to run context-only shapes. Tests check shape filtering and cleanup order.
Reset guided state after recoverable OOM tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/guided_decoder.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/warmup.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py
The decoder adds a warmup-state reset that synchronizes its stream and clears queued batches and request snapshots. Recoverable OOM handling invokes it; tests cover queued callbacks and reset failures.
Draft KV-cache dummy allocation
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Allocate and roll back paired dummy caches tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py, tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py
Dummy allocation passes the draft cache manager when joint reuse is enabled and frees paired resources on allocation failure. Integration tests cover allocation and rollback paths; test fixtures set joint reuse explicitly.
Prepare draft resources without duplicate growth tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py
Resource preparation skips later resizing for paired generation dummies that already have draft-cache capacity. Tests cover paired and unpaired mirror growth.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21731 — This change adds rank-local speculative-decoding counters to iteration stats, but does not add the exporter metrics described in the issue.
Suggested reviewers: schetlur-nv
Merge Risk: Low · up to 75af6
The runtime changes look sound. Some new behaviors (non-sparse FlashMLA GIL guards, Mamba and multi-rank warmup gating, draft-cache rollback on allocation failure) are not covered by tests, so a regression there could go unnoticed. This is a bounded follow-up and does not block merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 75af6
No introduced security weakness was established in the reviewed paths. Ownership and recovery controls remain evident, but native concurrency and compatibility during coordinated upgrades are only partially verified.
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No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — Availability failures in these paths can affect the participating rank group rather than only one dummy request: allocation failure can veto a fleet-wide forward, and distributed warmup cannot safely use a rank-local OOM retry.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The inspected warmup factory obtains dummies from the cache allocator without guidance parameters. Those parameters default to absent, and matcher processing filters out requests without them. This counters the suspected path from ordinary context-warmup dummies into retained grammar-failure records.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Warmup reset synchronizes the decoder stream before replacing its pending queue and clearing both request snapshots. A synchronization failure propagates rather than allowing the recoverable OOM path to continue with uncertain callback ownership.
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Test case modified: test_general_warmup_oom_policy, which gains a has_guided_decoder parameter.
Covered behaviors:
Context-only shapes run with a guided decoder, in the correct order relative to the autotuner.
A fatal OOM does not reset guided state.
A recoverable OOM resets guided state once.
Queue recovery works with and without a pending callback.
An error from the reset propagates.
Test lists: I could not check from the provided context whether this file is in a CI list under tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/. The new tests are CPU-only or use the existing _warmup_and_resources fixture. They are probably covered if the file or its parent directory is already listed.
Verdict: needs follow-up.
Two parts of the new can_run_context_warmup logic in warmup.py have no test:
A MambaHybridCacheManager with a guided decoder must not run _general_warmup. If this check regresses, the guided decoder would run general warmup on a Mamba hybrid cache.
The decision must be agreed across ranks. The guided decoder exists only on the last PP rank, so a rank-local decision could diverge and strand peers in collectives.
Suggested tests, in TestWarmupCleanup next to this test:
Use _warmup_and_resources with the guided decoder set and the cache manager patched to a MambaHybridCacheManager stub. Assert that "general_warmup" is not in calls.
Use an engine built with _engine(world_size=2). Set the guided decoder on one agreement view only. Assert that agree_flag is called for the context-warmup decision and that every rank gets the same _general_warmup shape list.
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lines 1004 - 1024:
Add coverage in TestWarmupCleanup for both missing can_run_context_warmup cases:
with a guided decoder and a MambaHybridCacheManager, assert _general_warmup does
not run; with a two-rank engine from _engine, configure the guided decoder on
only one agreement view and verify the context-warmup decision uses agree_flag
and all ranks receive the same _general_warmup shape list.
Add a test for the draft-pool free on NoFreeSlotsError.
All three dummy-allocation paths now call draft_kv_cache_manager.free_resources(...) when spec_resource_manager.add_dummy_requests raises NoFreeSlotsError. The legacy path (Lines 9608-9614) is also new: it used to let the error propagate, and now it frees both pools and returns.
I found no test that reaches these branches. In test_kvcm2_integration.py, _adp_dummy_executor builds ResourceManager with only the two KV managers. get_resource_manager(SPEC_RESOURCE_MANAGER) therefore returns None, and the spec branch never runs. In test_py_executor.py and test_benchmark_disagg.py, the stubs set enable_joint_kv_cache_reuse = False, so draft_kv_cache_manager is None.
If a branch dropped the draft free, the draft cache would stay under the singleton ATTENTION_DP_DUMMY_REQUEST_ID. The next padding attempt would then fail or reuse stale state. No existing test would catch this.
Add a case to test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kv in tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py:
Register a stub spec resource manager whose add_dummy_requests raises NoFreeSlotsError.
For each of the plain, transactional and empty_batch paths, run the padding call.
Assert that the dummy ID is absent from both kv_cache_map dicts, and that active_requests is empty.
As per path instructions for tensorrt_llm/**: "A new or changed validation rule, error path, fallback ... with no meaningful test."
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9608 - 9614:
Add a NoFreeSlotsError case to test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kv that
registers a stub spec resource manager whose add_dummy_requests raises the
error, then exercises the plain, transactional, and empty_batch padding paths.
Verify after each path that the dummy request ID is absent from both KV cache
maps and active_requests is empty.
1-51: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Cover the other FlashMLA GIL guards.
The test exercises only sparse_prefill_fwd. It can pass if a guard is removed from sparse_decode_fwd, dense_decode_fwd, dense_prefill_fwd, or dense_prefill_bwd. Add GIL-release regression cases for those bindings.
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Added: test_flash_mla_gil.py, covering sparse-prefill GIL release.
Modified: warmup, KV-cache, ADP-router, iteration-stats, executor, disaggregation, and connector tests. The changed cases cover guided warmup recovery, dummy cache allocation, and rank-local speculative-decoding stats.
CI: l0_b200.yml selects the new test through its attention-directory entry.
Verdict: insufficient for the four other FlashMLA guards.
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Extend test_sparse_prefill_does_not_hold_the_gil_while_launching to add
equivalent GIL-release regression cases for sparse_decode_fwd, dense_decode_fwd,
dense_prefill_fwd, and dense_prefill_bwd. Ensure each binding is exercised
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- Around line 32-37: Measure the elapsed time around the `sparse_prefill_fwd`
launch loop and assert it exceeds the device sleep duration, so the test
verifies that queue saturation caused a blocking call; establish the sleep
duration in a way that accounts for GPU clock variability while preserving the
existing `timeout=120` failure path.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:
- Around line 9608-9614: Add a NoFreeSlotsError case to
test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kv that registers a stub spec resource manager
whose add_dummy_requests raises the error, then exercises the plain,
transactional, and empty_batch padding paths. Verify after each path that the
dummy request ID is absent from both KV cache maps and active_requests is empty.
Review comments at
@tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py:
- Around line 1-51: Extend
test_sparse_prefill_does_not_hold_the_gil_while_launching to add equivalent
GIL-release regression cases for sparse_decode_fwd, dense_decode_fwd,
dense_prefill_fwd, and dense_prefill_bwd. Ensure each binding is exercised
independently so the test detects removal of any individual GIL-release guard.
Review comments at
@tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py:
- Around line 1004-1024: Add coverage in TestWarmupCleanup for both missing
can_run_context_warmup cases: with a guided decoder and a
MambaHybridCacheManager, assert _general_warmup does not run; with a two-rank
engine from _engine, configure the guided decoder on only one agreement view and
verify the context-warmup decision uses agree_flag and all ranks receive the
same _general_warmup shape list.
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The test timing depends on the GPU and can pass without the fix.
The test sleeps with torch.cuda._sleep(int(3e9)). This is a cycle count. Its duration depends on the GPU clock. The test only proves the queue fills if 20000 launches exceed the launch queue capacity before the sleep ends. If the queue does not fill, the call returns without blocking and the test passes without the patch.
The assertion checks only that the host function ran once. Add a check that the call would have deadlocked without the patch. A bounded-timeout failure path is already present through timeout=120. Consider measuring the elapsed time of the launch loop and asserting that it exceeds the sleep time. This shows the queue blocked.
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Review comment at @tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py
around lines 32 - 37:
Measure the elapsed time around the `sparse_prefill_fwd` launch loop and assert
it exceeds the device sleep duration, so the test verifies that queue saturation
caused a blocking call; establish the sleep duration in a way that accounts for
GPU clock variability while preserving the existing `timeout=120` failure path.
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8 points — Review requires deep reasoning about host-callback/GIL ordering and paired versus unpaired draft-cache admission, capacity, and rollback. Visible tests exercise multiple lifecycle paths, but essential executor changes are absent. The supplied changes fix existing runtime behavior and introduce no model architecture.
Importance
Important — Sensitive concurrency and cache-capacity changes: five FlashMLA bindings release the GIL during execution, and paired generation dummies bypass further cache growth. Correctness depends on binding thread safety and sufficient preallocated capacity across scheduler and executor paths.
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Runtime fixes found while bringing up Mistral Large 4 that hold on
mainwithout it. They are split out of the Mistral Large 4 merge-back, #21693, so they can be reviewed and land on their own; #21693 will rebase onto this PR and drop them. One fix per commit; each section below lists the symptom, the cause, the fix, the test, and the models or configurations onmainthat hit it.1. FlashMLA: release the GIL in the pybind launch wrappers
m.def, so a call keeps the GIL while it blocks in a kernel launch. Once the launch queue is full, the launch waits for a host function queued ahead of it on the stream, and that host function waits for the GIL. The capturable guided decoder queues such host functions (they take the GIL incpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/runtime/hostfunc.cpp).3rdparty/patches/flashmla_release_gil.patch, listed as thepatch_fileofflashmlain3rdparty/fetch_content.json) addspybind11::call_guard<pybind11::gil_scoped_release>to the five bindings. Their arguments and results are tensors and scalars, converted before the GIL is released and after it is reacquired. FlashMLA is a FetchContent dependency, so the patch follows thepatch_fileconvention of DeepGEMM and DeepEP, not the vendored-source lock.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py(SM100 family) queues a GIL-taking host function behind GPU work and fills the launch queue withsparse_prefill_fwdcalls in a subprocess; it deadlocks without the patch.2. Attention DP: give the padding dummy a cache in the paired draft KV pool
prepare_resourcesand takes down the executor loop (not observed in a run).KVCacheV2Scheduler._try_allocate_generationadmits every generation request in the target and the draft pool together. The attention-DP padding dummy was created with a target cache only, so its draft admission failed, the target growth was reverted and the dummy was never scheduled. The idle rank scheduled an empty batch,_can_queuevetoed the forward on every rank, and the live dummy kept the empty-batch padding from stepping in. The empty-batch path, which bypasses the scheduler, left the draft cache to the draft manager's mirror, which raises when the pool is short.add_dummy_requests, so the dummy is created in both pools or in neither. A vetoed iteration already frees the draft pool's cache in_finalize_adp_dummy_allocation([None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers and a balanced DWDP expert partition #21012); a speculative resource manager without a free slot now frees it as well. The non-transactional path now also rolls back onNoFreeSlotsError, as the other two paths already did. [None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers and a balanced DWDP expert partition #21012'sKVCacheV2Scheduler._admit_unpaired_draftcovers only an unpaired draft pool; a paired pool still refuses a dummy that has no draft cache.add_dummy_requestsreserves the dummy's whole forward in both pools, and the empty-batch dummy joins the batch after the scheduler, so it carries no scheduler allocation record: the draft manager'sprepare_resourcesnow takes a paired pool's existing dummy cache as already sized instead of growing it by another generation step (with a draft length of 8 that step would take the 24-token cache to 33 tokens, a second 32-token page, after the ranks have agreed to run the batch). An unpaired draft pool is not handed toadd_dummy_requests; the mirror the scheduler admits for its dummy is empty and still grows inprepare_resources.test_adp_dummy_holds_paired_draft_kvintests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py(GPU) builds real target and draftKVCacheManagerV2pools with joint reuse and aKVCacheV2Scheduler, and checks for the plain, transactional and empty-batch padding paths that the dummy holds a cache in both pools, is scheduled, keeps its capacity throughprepare_resources, and is released from both on a vetoed iteration.test_adp_dummy_grows_unpaired_draft_mirror(GPU) runs the same paths over unpaired pools for two queued iterations and checks that the mirror grows by one generation step and takes the previous dummy's deferred update.test_draft_mirror_preserves_preallocated_dummy_capacity(CPU) pins which mirrors grow. The stub executors intest_py_executor.py,test_benchmark_disagg.pyandtest_connector_adp.pycarry the new attribute (off).3. Decoder warmup: run the context warmup beside a capturable guided decoder
CapturableGuidedDecoder.reset_warmup_state). A failed reset stops the warmup, and a distributed forward still re-raises the out-of-memory error.test_guided_decoder_runs_the_context_warmup_before_the_autotunerintests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.pychecks that the general warmup runs with context-only shapes (including the max-token one), followed by the MoE workspace release, the cache release and then the autotuner.test_general_warmup_oom_restores_guided_batch_queuefails a shape before and after its host function is submitted and checks that the next guided request is served its own batch;test_general_warmup_oom_policyandtest_general_warmup_aborts_if_guided_state_cannot_be_resetcover when the reset runs and that its failure stops the warmup.4. Attention DP: report each rank's own speculative-decoding stats
specdec_statswas among the nested objects_make_rank_iter_statscopies from rank 0; the per-rank payload carried no speculative-decoding counters.RankSpecDecodingStats) into its rank-state payload, and the fanout rebuilds the row'sSpecDecodingStatsfrom them, deriving the acceptance length from the rank's own counters. The draft timings stay rank 0's, like the row's other timings; a placeholder rank gets none. The snapshot frame gains a third presence flag, so its version moves from -1 to -2 and its header from four to five fields. All ranks of a job run the same build, so they agree on the version; any other version fails the header check rather than being misread.LLM.get_stats()and the JSON iteration stats oftrtllm-serve's/metrics. The Prometheus metrics (/prometheus/metrics) read spec-decoding stats from rank 0's row only and do not change. The acceptance-length gates of the accuracy tests sum every row (acceptance_length_from_iteration_stats), so under attention DP they measured rank 0's acceptance alone and could not see a drafting regression on the other ranks; with this fix they measure the whole group.test_adp_router.pypins the wire schema and round-trips the snapshot with and without KV snapshots and load fields;test_iter_stats_populate.pyfans out asymmetric work on two ranks (rank 0 busy or idle, dummies excluded) and checks each row's counts and acceptance length, the group total, and that a placeholder rank does not inherit rank 0's drafting.Not included
Changes from the merge-back that were considered and left in #21693, because on
mainonly Mistral Large 4 reaches them or because they change behavior:mainonlykimi_k3extracts forced calls with its parser, and it emits each call whole.evaluate/interface.pydumping token-id prompts: every built-in evaluator onmainsubmits text prompts.serve/chat_utils.py: enabled formistral_large_4only.project_target_hiddencheck: every drafter onmainhas bothfcandhidden_norm, so the two checks agree.max_completion_tokensabovemax_seq_len: the worker deliberately clamps the output budget onmain; the merge-back keeps this check in the Mistral Large 4 serving extension.name == ""): onmainonly a model emitting an empty function name reaches it, and the non-streaming path of theparse_base_jsonparsers drops such a call; it stays with the Mistral Large 4 parser, which keeps unnamed calls.continue_final_messagerequest field: an API addition rather than a runtime fix, and the native DeepSeek V3.2/V4/V4.1 renderers ignore the flag even withadd_generation_prompt=false, so amain-wide fix needs renderer support; it stays with the Mistral Large 4 renderer, which reads the flag.Test Coverage
Run on B200 (SM100,
100-realbuild of this branch at75af69f5de, based onc36b7b59f9):test_adp_router.py,test_iter_stats_populate.py,test_py_executor.py,test_connector_adp.py,disaggregation/test_{benchmark_disagg,disagg_idle_cancellation,disagg_loop_transcript}.py,executor/test_forward_error_survival.py,kv_cache/test_kv_pool_rebalance.pykv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py,engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py,kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_adp_dummy_draft_rollback.py,kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py,speculative/hw_agnostic/test_draft_kv_resume_pressure.py,misc/test_guided_decoder_{bitmask,errors}.py-m cpu_only, no GPU visible):speculative/hw_agnostic/, the guided-decoder tests, and the CPU tests of the files aboveattention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.pyattention/sparse/test_sparse_mla_forward.pydisaggregation/test_disagg_idle_cancellation.py, whose batch-state stubs have noguided_failures(waived by [https://nvbugs/7071872][infra] Waive 6 failed case(s) on CPU #21958, nvbugs/7071872), andmisc/test_guided_decoder_errors.py::test_executor_loop_fails_the_request_once_its_batch_is_synchronized, whose stub executor has nodense_dwdp_manager.cd31578cb8), each of the four original regression tests failed against the base sources for the reason it targets: the ADP dummy is never scheduled (or has no draft cache on the empty-batch path), the general warmup never runs, and every rank's row carries rank 0's draft counts.prepare_resourcesthat takes every existing dummy cache as sized, paired or not, theunpaired-dummy-admitted-emptycase oftest_draft_mirror_preserves_preallocated_dummy_capacityfails; on real unpaired pools that variant leaves the scheduler-admitted mirror at capacity 0, and the previous dummy's deferred update raisesHistory length cannot exceed capacity.test_flash_mla_gil.pydeadlocks (the child is killed at the 120 s timeout), and a Python thread stalls for 1.5 s while one FlashMLA launch blocks on a full launch queue; with the patch the workload completes and the longest stall is about 1 ms.PR Checklist
Dev Engineer Review
-1to-2. Confirm that all readers and writers use the same framing.enable_joint_kv_cache_reusetoFalse. No other configuration files changed.QA Engineer Review
test_kvcm2_integration.pyis already included intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml. The other changed unit-test files were not found in the CI or manual-QA lists. No test-list files changed.Per-File QA Perspective
3rdparty/fetch_content.json— FlashMLA now applies a local patch. Verify that dependency fetching applies the patch to the expected source revision.3rdparty/patches/flashmla_release_gil.patch— Five FlashMLA bindings release the GIL during calls. Verify that Python threads progress while GPU work is pending.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/adp_iter_stats.py— Attention-DP stat fanout now carries rank-local speculative-decoding counters. Verify acceptance-length calculation and zero-request behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/warmup.py— Warmup can run context-only general shapes with a capturable guided decoder and resets guided state after a single-rank OOM. Verify rank agreement and recovery behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/guided_decoder.py— Addsreset_warmup_state(), which synchronizes and clears queued warmup state. Verify that it is called only when no live requests or graph capture exist.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py— Resource preparation avoids growing capacity for paired generation dummies whose cache already exists. Verify paired and unpaired draft-cache capacity behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py— Attention-DP dummy allocation now includes the draft manager when joint reuse is enabled and rolls back target and draft resources on allocation failure. Verify rollback across padding paths.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/rank_state.py— Adds speculative-decoding snapshot data and changes snapshot framing to version-2. Verify compatibility across all communicating ranks.tests/unittest/_torch/attention/sparse/test_flash_mla_gil.py— Adds a CUDA SM100 subprocess test for GIL release during sparse-prefill calls. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/disaggregation/test_benchmark_disagg.py— Sets the mock executor’s joint-cache-reuse default toFalse. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/test_warmup.py— Adds warmup cleanup, OOM recovery, queue restoration, and reset-failure tests. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py— Adds attention-DP paired-cache, rollback-related padding, and resource-growth coverage. The test file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_adp_router.py— Extends snapshot wire-format and roundtrip coverage for speculative-decoding stats. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_iter_stats_populate.py— Adds per-rank speculative-decoding stat fanout coverage, including idle and explicit-zero ranks. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_py_executor.py— Sets the stub executor’s joint-cache-reuse default toFalse. Not found in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py— Sets the recovery-control test executor’s joint-cache-reuse default toFalse. The test file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.