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[#21826][fix] Name the context that can never fit in the V2 deadlock error - #21827
Refs #21826. Scope reduced after review: this PR now only fixes the deadlock diagnostic. The scheduler fix for the deadlock itself waits on the design question in this comment.
Recompute-pause replays the prompt plus every generated token as one context. With chunked prefill off, a replay longer than max_num_tokens can never be scheduled, and _detect_deadlock eventually raises with a nearly empty pool, saying "The KV cache pool is likely exhausted".
The deadlock error now:
names each pending context request that no iteration can schedule: chunked prefill off, and its uncached prompt plus draft tokens exceed max_num_tokens. The length is net of reusable cached blocks (_uncached_tokens, the reuse probe the scheduler already uses), so a request that a prefix hit would make fit is not named. Encoder requests are budgeted by their encoder output and are not counted;
keeps the existing pool remedy and appends "enable chunked prefill or increase max_num_tokens" for those requests;
includes the cause in the warning logged before the raise as well.
Removed after review: the recompute-pause victim filter and the admission reservation from the first revision. The reservation re-derived the KV manager's allocation rules (pool groups, sliding window, helix ledger blocks, spec-dec and beam tails, prefix sharing) and got several of them wrong. The victim filter alone leaves the deadlock reachable once a host tier fills.
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New tests in TestDeadlockDetection (tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py):
test_names_a_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking: drives schedule_request to the deadlock with a GPU-only pool and checks that the message names the request, adds chunked prefill and keeps the pool remedy;
test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named: 1200 prompt tokens with 400 reusable fit max_num_tokens=1000, so the message stays "pool exhausted";
test_only_unchunked_context_init_requests_are_counted: encoder requests and chunked prefill are excluded.
Results (CPU, this branch's scheduler_v2.py loaded on the 1.4.0rc3 runtime): 376 passed (373 existing + 3 new). Against the base scheduler, the two tests of the new message fail as expected. The reuse test passes on both, since it guards against false positives. pre-commit passes on both files.
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The scheduler now identifies pending context requests that exceed max_num_tokens when chunked prefill is disabled. The diagnostic names up to eight request IDs and recommends enabling chunked prefill or increasing the token limit. It excludes encoder requests and contexts that fit after prefix reuse. This change improves diagnosis; it does not prevent the scheduler deadlock or implement the scheduling remedies from issue #21826. No public API changes are reported.
QA Engineer Review
The modified unit-test file adds three tests under TestDeadlockDetection: test_names_a_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking, test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named, and test_only_unchunked_context_init_requests_are_counted. They cover the deadlock message, prefix-reuse accounting, and exclusions for chunked prefill and encoder requests. The test file has other tests in test-db/l0_b200.yml and test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml; the new unit tests are not listed there. Test execution status is not available. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the diagnostic behavior covered by these tests.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify that the diagnostic names only pending, unchunked context-init requests whose uncached tokens plus draft tokens exceed max_num_tokens. Verify that the existing cache-pool remedy remains and that the new hint appears in both the warning and raised error.
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: The three new unit tests cover oversized-context reporting, prefix reuse, and exclusions. The file has other tests listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml and l0_dgx_b200.yml; the new unit tests are not listed as integration tests.
The V2 scheduler now identifies unchunked context requests that exceed max_num_tokens and includes their IDs in deadlock diagnostics. It recommends enabling chunked prefill or increasing the token limit. Other deadlocks retain the KV-pool-exhaustion cause.
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Context deadlock reporting and validation tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py
Deadlock reporting identifies unchunked context requests that exceed the token budget after accounting for reusable and draft tokens. It excludes encoder requests and retains the generic KV-pool-exhaustion cause for other deadlocks. Tests cover over-budget requests, reusable tokens, and chunked configurations.
Some stalled requests may still receive the generic pool-exhaustion explanation rather than the targeted token-limit guidance. The remaining risk is bounded to diagnostics and test coverage; the PR is mergeable with owner awareness.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 3f84c
The change improves error details rather than execution behavior. Those details can reach waiting callers and include request identifiers. Disclosure to unrelated users was not established, and depends on how the application is hosted.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — The existing single-process failure broadcaster copies the event-loop error text into every pending result queue. Consequently, delivery of the new identifier list is not restricted to the request IDs named in that list. Whether those callers represent different trust domains is unknown.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The response boundary preserves the original error text rather than redacting its fields. Single-process caller reachability is supported; the broadcaster explicitly does not establish equivalent client delivery on IPC/proxy paths.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The PR changes the cause and remedy text at an existing failure point, not the exception type or caller. The existing event-loop wrapper continues to record and re-raise the failure; the change does not create the worker-wide failure propagation behavior.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — If one instance serves mutually untrusted clients, consider retaining detailed request identifiers in operator-only diagnostics and returning a caller-scoped error. This is conditional hardening, not a verified cross-tenant disclosure finding.
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[#21826] The issue has three proposed scheduler remedies: A (do not pause victims whose replay cannot fit), B (reserve KV capacity for admitted contexts when no lower cache tier exists), and E (name u…
Implement the scheduler-side remedies in scheduler_v2.py that the issue requires: (A) exclude recompute-pause victims whose replay exceeds max_num_tokens when chunked prefill is off, and (B) when no cache tier exists below GPU, gate context…
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[#21826] Every changed hunk relates to the deadlock diagnostic that the issue requests (E). The scheduler change adds _contexts_over_token_budget, which counts only pending contexts in CONTEXT_INIT st…
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[#21826] Every changed hunk relates to the deadlock diagnostic that the issue requests (E). The scheduler change adds _contexts_over_token_budget, which counts only pending contexts in CONTEXT_INIT state when chunked prefill is off. It excludes encoder requests and uses _uncached_tokens plus draft length. The cause and remedy text is added to both the warning and the RuntimeError. The three new tests in TestDeadlockDetection exercise this helper and message. No unrelated files or hunks appear in the whole-PR diff. The PR description states the scope reduction, and the diff matches that statement. The absence of the A and B changes is a requirement gap, and it is reported under linkedIssuesAssessment, not here.
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[#21826] The issue has three proposed scheduler remedies: A (do not pause victims whose replay cannot fit), B (reserve KV capacity for admitted contexts when no lower cache tier exists), and E (name unfit pending contexts in the deadlock error and suggest chunked prefill). The whole-PR diff (merge base 6f6fb34 to head 3f84c40) implements only E. In scheduler_v2.py, _contexts_over_token_budget and the new cause/remedy text in the deadlock path add that diagnostic. The victim filter (A) and the admission reservation (B) are absent. The PR description and the linked issue state that the deadlock fix is deferred. The issue's expected behavior is that all requests complete with preemptions. Under the reproduction conditions, the scheduler still deadlocks and fails the affected requests. The diagnostic requirement (E) is met. The completion requirement is not met. Tests cover only the diagnostic: test_names_a_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking, test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named and test_only_unchunked_context_init_requests_are_counted.
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Implement the scheduler-side remedies in scheduler_v2.py that the issue requires: (A) exclude recompute-pause victims whose replay exceeds max_num_tokens when chunked prefill is off, and (B) when no cache tier exists below GPU, gate context admission so that worst-case pages of contexts that may outgrow their replay, plus current pages of other requests, fit the pool. Add unit tests that show pending contexts complete under GPU-only pool pressure with chunked prefill off. Alternatively, the issue owner must formally narrow #21826 to the diagnostic only, so that the completion requirement is removed from its scope. Until then, the linked issue remains unresolved and this PR should not close it.
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Test reservations for existing caches through the scheduling path.
The admission tests call _replay_reservation_blocks with an empty cache map. They can pass if existing cache capacity or worst-case reservations are ignored. They also do not test the per-pass reset or the STOP behavior.
Add a schedule_request test with an active outgrowing request and two small queued contexts. Set the pool so the active reservation and first context fit, but the second does not. Assert that the second waits, then remove the first and assert that the second schedules on the next pass. Add a case for current-capacity accounting and constrained-pool cases for the admission bypasses.
Coverage summary: The modified scheduler test file adds victim-selection, admission, bypass, and deadlock-message tests. The CPU list selects its parent directory. Coverage is insufficient for existing-cache accounting and reservation lifecycle behavior.
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Extend the admission tests around _admits_within_replay_reservation with
schedule_request coverage using an active outgrowing request and two queued
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consume the constrained pool, then schedules on the next pass after the first is
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py:
- Line 2573: Track the replay reservation charged during each admission in the
scheduler path that updates `_replay_reserved_blocks`, and release that amount
when allocation returns `SKIP` and first-chunk cleanup frees the caches.
Preserve reservations for successful admissions, and add a regression test
proving a later context can be admitted after the failed context’s reservation
is released.
- Around line 2395-2411: Update the `too_long` diagnosis for `pending_ctx` to
use the same effective scheduling cost as the scheduler, accounting for cached
prefixes and using `encoder_output_len` for encoder requests; only classify
requests whose effective cost exceeds `max_num_tokens` as impossible. Ensure the
warning reports this corrected cause without replacing the KV-pool remedy for
requests that may still fit.
- Around line 2537-2541: Update the replay reservation calculation around
_may_outgrow_replay and _worst_case_blocks to track demand and capacity
separately for each GPU pool group, including every life cycle’s slot
requirement. Compare each group’s total reserved demand with that group’s
capacity instead of counting logical token blocks once per request; preserve the
existing replay-growth handling while using the scheduler’s established
pool-group and life-cycle data.
- Around line 2566-2572: Update the reservation check in the scheduler path
using _may_outgrow_replay, _worst_case_blocks, and _replay_reserved_blocks so a
request whose prompt fits can run even when its worst-case generation
reservation exceeds max_num_blocks. Ensure actual KV-cache allocation remains
bounded by the pool and handle later exhaustion safely without triggering a
scheduler deadlock; add a regression test for a lone request with this
prompt/reservation mismatch.
- Around line 2519-2520: Update `_replay_fits` to include any pending
non-terminal overlap token when checking whether a replay fits within
`self.max_num_tokens`, so selecting a victim cannot produce an oversized replay.
Add an overlap regression test that selects a victim at the token limit while
such a token is pending and verifies the replay remains schedulable.
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@tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py:
- Around line 2525-2548: Extend the admission tests around
_admits_within_replay_reservation with schedule_request coverage using an active
outgrowing request and two queued contexts: verify the second waits while the
active reservation and first context consume the constrained pool, then
schedules on the next pass after the first is removed. Exercise existing-cache
current-capacity accounting with a populated cache map, and verify reservation
state resets per pass and STOP behavior. Add constrained-pool cases for the
admission bypasses while preserving their expected outcomes.
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Base the deadlock diagnosis on the effective scheduling cost.
If an earlier request stops on KV allocation, a later request may never reach prefix preparation. Its cached prefix could make it fit, but this filter reports that it can never be scheduled and replaces the pool remedy. Encoder requests also use encoder_output_len, not context_remaining_length, for scheduling.
Only report requests as impossible when their effective scheduling cost establishes that conclusion. Include the corrected cause in the warning as well.
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around lines 2395 - 2411:
Update the `too_long` diagnosis for `pending_ctx` to use the same effective
scheduling cost as the scheduler, accounting for cached prefixes and using
`encoder_output_len` for encoder requests; only classify requests whose
effective cost exceeds `max_num_tokens` as impossible. Ensure the warning
reports this corrected cause without replacing the KV-pool remedy for requests
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Fixed in 3f84c40. The classification uses the scheduler's effective cost (_uncached_tokens, net of the reusable cached prefix, plus draft tokens), skips encoder requests, keeps the pool remedy with the chunked-prefill hint appended, and puts the cause in the warning too. test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named covers the prefix case.
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Account for pending overlap tokens before selecting a replay victim.
With overlap enabled, a victim can pass _replay_fits at max_num_tokens before the previous batch appends a token. The resulting replay can exceed the limit and block queued contexts.
Add an overlap regression test that selects a victim at the limit with a pending non-terminal token. Check that its replay remains schedulable.
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around lines 2519 - 2520:
Update `_replay_fits` to include any pending non-terminal overlap token when
checking whether a replay fits within `self.max_num_tokens`, so selecting a
victim cannot produce an oversized replay. Add an overlap regression test that
selects a victim at the token limit while such a token is pending and verifies
the replay remains schedulable.
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Account for each pool group in the replay reservation.
The reservation counts logical token blocks once per request, but max_num_blocks sums slots across GPU pool groups. With multiple life cycles, the check can admit requests whose combined growth exceeds a required group’s capacity. If those requests outgrow their replay limit, generation can stall because they cannot be recompute-paused.
Calculate demand and capacity per pool group, including each life cycle’s slot requirement.
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around lines 2537 - 2541:
Update the replay reservation calculation around _may_outgrow_replay and
_worst_case_blocks to track demand and capacity separately for each GPU pool
group, including every life cycle’s slot requirement. Compare each group’s total
reserved demand with that group’s capacity instead of counting logical token
blocks once per request; preserve the existing replay-growth handling while
using the scheduler’s established pool-group and life-cycle data.
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Handle requests whose worst-case reservation exceeds the pool.
With chunked prefill off and a GPU-only pool, a request can have a prompt that fits but a max_new_tokens reservation that exceeds the entire pool. The scheduler rejects it on every pass, even if generation would end at EOS before the pool fills. It can then raise V2 scheduler deadlock and report that the pool is likely exhausted.
Allow such requests to run when their actual allocation fits, while handling later pool exhaustion safely. Add a regression test for a lone request whose prompt fits but whose worst-case reservation exceeds the pool.
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around lines 2566 - 2572:
Update the reservation check in the scheduler path using _may_outgrow_replay,
_worst_case_blocks, and _replay_reserved_blocks so a request whose prompt fits
can run even when its worst-case generation reservation exceeds max_num_blocks.
Ensure actual KV-cache allocation remains bounded by the pool and handle later
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Release replay reservations after failed admission.
When allocation returns SKIP, the first-chunk cleanup frees the caches but leaves the replay reservation charged. A later context can then receive STOP despite having enough capacity. Repeated failures can block that context across passes.
Track the reservation charged to each admission and release it when that admission fails. Add a regression test where the first context fails allocation and a later context fits only after its reservation is released.
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line 2573:
Track the replay reservation charged during each admission in the scheduler path
that updates `_replay_reserved_blocks`, and release that amount when allocation
returns `SKIP` and first-chunk cleanup frees the caches. Preserve reservations
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Convert Helix reservations using the ledger block size
With chunked prefill disabled and a GPU-only Helix cache, request lengths and _KVCache.capacity are global-token counts, but KVCacheManagerV2 configures the native cache with _ledger_tokens_per_block = tokens_per_block * cp_size; its storage statistics report rank-local pages. Dividing by the physical kernel page width here therefore overestimates the required pages, as do the equivalent divisions for existing caches and new admissions. A request whose complete generation fits in the distributed cache can consequently be rejected on every pass even when the pool is empty, eventually triggering deadlock detection. Use the manager's ledger block width consistently for these conversions.
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Bound sliding-window reservations by retained physical pages
For an unchunked, GPU-only pure sliding-window cache, a long output does not require retaining its entire history: AttnLifeCycle::getStaleRange and KvCache::_unlockStaleBlocks release pages outside the attention window. Nevertheless, this admission path reserves the full prompt-plus-output length through _worst_case_blocks. For example, a 200-token prompt with 2,000 requested output tokens, a 256-token window, max_num_tokens=256, and 64-token pages is charged 35 blocks and rejected by a 16-page pool, although its prefill and bounded-window decoding fit. Because rejection happens before allocation, the request never starts and eventually produces a deadlock error. Derive a window-aware physical-page bound instead of reserving the full logical history.
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Preserve prompt-only recompute eligibility for beam search
With beam width greater than one and chunked prefill disabled, GenericLlmRequest::pause in cpp/include/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/llmRequest.h truncates every beam to mPromptLen; it does not replay the generated-token history. Checking the current get_num_tokens(0) therefore excludes replayable beam-search victims once decoding crosses max_num_tokens. This introduces a deadlock under GPU-only cache pressure: a source-level scheduler simulation with two four-beam requests, 64-token prompts, 256 requested output tokens, a 128-token budget, and twenty 64-token pages completes both requests in the parent but stalls both at 193 tokens after this change. Apply the replay limit to the original prompt for the native beam-search pause branch.
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Thanks for the detailed write-up and the repro: the unschedulable recompute replay without chunked prefill is a real problem. As written, though, the admission reservation adds new hangs and a pre-merge CI failure, and the victim filter still leaves the deadlock reachable in several supported setups. Counts: 9 blockers, 4 possibly blocking, 2 required, 3 nice to have. Where a point extends an existing bot thread, it is listed below rather than repeated inline.
[Blocker] +1 to coderabbitai's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2572 (a request whose worst case exceeds the pool is never admitted). This is the common case, not an edge one. OpenAI requests without max_tokens get max_new_tokens = max_seq_len - prompt_len (executor/base_worker.py:487-501), and the executor keeps the model's max_seq_len (py_executor_creator.py:1395; only the KV manager's own copy is clamped, kv_cache_manager_v2.py:2650-2661). With a GPU-only pool smaller than max_seq_len (host_cache_size=0 or a page-registering KV connector), such a request gets STOP on every pass, even with an empty pool, and blocks every context behind it. After 1000 passes _detect_deadlock raises out of the event loop (py_executor.py:1945-1976), failing every in-flight request with a message that says the pool is exhausted. Even when max_seq_len equals the pool's token count, the +1 in _worst_case_blocks overshoots it by one block.
[Blocker] +1 to coderabbitai's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2520 (overlap off-by-one). In _executor_loop_overlap the order is: schedule (py_executor.py:7248), then terminate (7273), then _update_requests(previous_batch) appends the victim's pending token (7400), then _pause_recompute_paused_requests (7430). _add_inflight_ids only runs in the PP loop, so the victim is not excluded. A victim accepted at get_num_tokens(0) == max_num_tokens therefore replays max_num_tokens + 1 tokens and gets STOP forever unless prefix blocks are reused; this is deterministic with enable_block_reuse=False or enable_prefix_aware_scheduling=False. The new test asserts exactly that boundary as a valid victim (test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py:2511-2514).
[Blocker] +1 to chatgpt-codex-connector's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2520 (beam search). For beam width > 1, GenericLlmRequest::pause truncates every beam back to the original prompt (llmRequest.h:689-697), so the replay always fits, but _replay_fits checks get_num_tokens(0). Using the prompt length when req.py_beam_width > 1 keeps these requests preemptible.
[Blocker] +1 to coderabbitai's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2541 (pool groups). max_num_blocks is sum(stat.total) over all GPU pool groups (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:6916), but each request is counted once. VSWA, multi-life-cycle and Mamba-hybrid layouts can therefore over-admit non-preemptible requests, so the deadlock is still reachable. The manager's own clampMaxSeqLenForMem already accounts per pool group.
[Blocker] +1 to chatgpt-codex-connector's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2567 (sliding window). V2 frees out-of-window pages, but the reservation counts the full history. With max_attention_window set, concurrency collapses: window 4096, max_seq_len 32768 and a 1700-block pool admit one request without max_tokens at a time instead of about 13. The SWA path does not clamp max_seq_len, so a lone request can also be rejected forever.
[Blocker] +1 to chatgpt-codex-connector's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2528 (helix ledger units). In production, aggregated helix requires chunked prefill (_util.py:1077-1083), so this does not hit serving, but it breaks pre-merge CI. test_helix_agg_preemption.py::test_agg_helix_preempts_identically_and_re_prefills_correctly[decode_pressure] builds real managers with chunking off, host_cache_size=0, CP=2 and an 8-page pool. Dividing by the 32-token physical page instead of the 64-token ledger block, the first pass admits only two of the four prefills (4 + 3 + 3 = 10 > 8). The pool never fills, and assert preempted_at_tokens (line 338) fails. The file is listed pre-merge in l0_a10.yml and, through unittest/_torch/pyexecutor, in l0_h100.yml. CI has not run on this PR yet, and the CPU-only results in the description do not cover this GPU test.
[Possibly blocking] +1 to coderabbitai's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2573: charge the reservation only once the context is actually allocated, or give it back on SKIP.
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[Nice to have] +1 to coderabbitai's thread on scheduler_v2.py:2411. Append the too-long hint to the existing remedy instead of replacing it, and compute it from the post-reuse length. Also add a separate message for contexts rejected by the reservation: an empty-pool rejection currently reports "The KV cache pool is likely exhausted."
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[Blocker] This reservation also runs when recompute-pause is disabled, where its premise does not hold. _util.py:4782 builds the scheduler with enable_recompute_pause=not is_disagg. With it off, _try_preempt_for_pages (2200-2201) and _try_recompute_pause_for_gen (2665-2666) return immediately, so on a disaggregated server nothing is ever recompute-paused. The replay deadlock this PR fixes cannot happen there, and the docstring's "a growing request can always get pages by preempting the preemptible ones" does not hold. The early returns here never look at enable_recompute_pause, though. On a GPU-only disagg server with chunked prefill off (for example the mooncake-store role: both context-server setup from docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md, which forces the host and disk tiers to 0):
context admission now gets STOP from this gate, where a failed allocation used to SKIP (1395-1397), and with block reuse the shared prefix is charged once per request (see my comment on 2537);
with conditional disagg, generation-only requests enter through _try_schedule_disagg_gen_init (596-629) without this check, yet _replay_reservation_blocks still counts them at their worst case (about max_seq_len tokens for a request without max_tokens). Local prefills on the generation server can then get STOP on every pass for as long as decode traffic continues, and the deadlock detector never fires because the decodes make progress.
Please add or not self.enable_recompute_pause to this first early return, and add a test with enable_recompute_pause=False, no lower tier and a small max_num_blocks.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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[Blocker]_worst_case_blocks under-counts what a non-preemptible request can actually allocate, so the guarantee the reservation is meant to give ("a growing request can always get pages") fails with speculative decoding or beam search:
One-model MTP/Eagle3: the context allocates P + _kv_alloc_extra_tokens (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:5502; max_draft_len - 1 extra tokens), and each generation step grows capacity by 1 + draft_slots (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:5010). Under the overlap scheduler, step N+1 is allocated before step N is rewound. The peak is therefore about P + M - 1 + E + D (more with overlap), against P + M + 1 here.
Beam search: V2 allocates the generation tail once per beam (kvCache.cpp:1693,1708, * mBeamWidth.value()), and nothing here multiplies by the beam width.
_may_outgrow_replay is evaluated at admission with draft length 0 (draft tokens are only set once the request is GENERATION_IN_PROGRESS), but _replay_fits sees K drafts during decode. A request with P + M - 1 <= max_num_tokens < P + M - 1 + K is admitted with only its prompt reserved, and later stops being preemptible.
With a GPU-only pool and chunked prefill off, several such requests can reach their peak together. A generation request then has no page, no replayable victim and nowhere to suspend to, and after 1000 passes the scheduler raises the "V2 scheduler deadlock" RuntimeError, which is the failure this PR targets.
Suggested fix: base the worst case on what the manager allocates. Include _kv_alloc_extra_tokens, the configured max draft width (not the current draft list) and one in-flight overlap step, multiply the generation tail by the beam width, and evaluate _may_outgrow_replay with the configured draft length so that admission and decode agree.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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[Blocker] Gating the reservation on whether a lower tier exists leaves the case it guards against reachable in the default configuration.
The victim filter (_replay_fits in _is_recompute_pause_candidate) applies whenever chunked prefill is off, which is the default, with or without a host tier.
This reservation switches off as soon as has_cache_tier_below_gpu is true. V2 auto-provisions a host tier sized to the GPU quota (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:2440-2484).
Once that tier is full, suspending frees no GPU pages either; the comment at 2217-2221 says the same. This is exactly the "suspending frees nothing" case from the PR description.
Example: a long-output batch workload where every running request is past max_num_tokens and both the GPU and host tiers are full. A generation request that needs a page finds no replayable victim (2670-2698), self-suspends and returns STOP (2082-2104). The scheduler stalls until the deadlock RuntimeError.
Before this change those requests were still recompute-pause victims. With prefix-aware scheduling and block reuse (both on by default), their replay could reuse whatever DROPPABLE prefix blocks survived. I have not reproduced this; a run with a small host_cache_size and outputs that push every request past max_num_tokens would confirm it.
Suggested fix: gate on whether suspension can free pages now (a lower tier with room), not on whether a tier exists. Alternatively, keep long requests preemptible when their replay can be served from cached prefix blocks. Please add a test where a small host tier fills up while every running request is past max_num_tokens.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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[Possibly blocking] Reserving the full max_new_tokens worst case for every request that may outgrow its replay collapses concurrency on GPU-only pools.
OpenAI requests that omit max_tokens get max_new_tokens = max_seq_len - prompt_len (executor/base_worker.py:487-501). With the default max_num_tokens=8192, every such request may outgrow its replay and holds ceil((max_seq_len + 1) / tokens_per_block) reserved blocks for its whole life (2539-2540).
Example: Llama-3.1-8B (max_seq_len 131072, tokens_per_block 32) on an H100 with about 13k blocks can then run about 3 such requests at once, against hundreds before.
A rejection returns STOP (1363-1364), which ends phase 2 (872-874), so short requests queued behind it wait too. Nothing is logged.
This applies with chunked prefill off (the default) and no tier below GPU: host_cache_size=0, or any page-registering KV connector, which drops the automatic host tier (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:2419-2431).
Measurement that decides it: trtllm-serve Llama-3.1-8B on one H100 with V2, enable_chunked_prefill=False and host_cache_size=0 (and once more with a page-registering connector). Send chat requests without max_tokens, ISL about 1k and actual OSL about 1k, at concurrency 64 and 256. Compare output throughput, TTFT and running requests per iteration before and after this PR. A throughput drop above 5%, or running requests capped near pool_blocks / ceil((max_seq_len + 1) / tokens_per_block), makes it a blocker.
Suggested fix: instead of every request's full worst case, reserve only what guarantees the non-preemptible requests can finish (for example the largest remaining growth among them). Return SKIP rather than STOP when a request is rejected only because of other requests' reservations.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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[Possibly blocking] The reservation sums logical lengths, so blocks shared through block reuse are charged once per sharer.
kv_cache.capacity includes the reused prefix (kvCache.cpp:3040 sets mCapacity = numTokens on a reuse hit).
The new request's need (2569) is its full prompt, computed before _prepare_context_pair (1368) matches the cached prefix.
With block reuse on (the default, and required by KV connectors), N requests sharing an S-token system prompt over-reserve by about N·S/tokens_per_block blocks.
Example: a 4000-block pool, a shared 7000-token prefix, a 200-token unique suffix and max_tokens=300. Each request is charged about 225-235 blocks, so the 18th context gets STOP while only about 490 blocks (about 12% of the pool) are actually in use.
Measurement that decides it: GPU-only V2 with chunked prefill off and block reuse on. Run 256 concurrent chat requests that share a 4k-8k-token system prompt, with 128-256-token suffixes and max_tokens 256. Compare running requests per iteration and output throughput before and after. A throughput loss above 5% makes it a blocker.
Suggested fix: count each request's physical (unshared) pages from the KV manager, or apply the check after _prepare_context_pair so that need covers only the uncached part.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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[Possibly blocking] This adds per-pass cost on the scheduling hot path:
get_kv_cache_stats() (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:6913-6942) makes about five nanobind calls and builds stats objects per pool group and window. Here it runs once for every first-chunk context that passes the reservation, only to read max_num_blocks, which changes only on a pool rebalance. get_primary_block_counts() returns the total in one call and can be read once per pass.
_replay_reservation_requests (504) is rebuilt from all active_requests on every pass. That includes the configurations where the reservation can never run (chunked prefill on, or a host tier present), and the map keeps the previous pass's requests referenced until the next pass. This contradicts the description's "costs nothing when a host tier exists".
has_cache_tier_below_gpu (2559) rebuilds cache_tier_list on every call, although it is fixed for the scheduler's lifetime.
Measurement that decides it: per-iteration CPU time of schedule_request at max_batch_size 2048 with 1000+ active requests, measured before and after this PR. Run it once with chunked prefill on (dict build only), and once GPU-only with chunked prefill off and a burst of 256 short contexts. An end-to-end TPOT or throughput difference above 1% at concurrency 1024 makes it a blocker.
Suggested fix: build the request map lazily inside _replay_reservation_blocks, read the pool size once per pass with get_primary_block_counts(), and resolve has_cache_tier_below_gpu once in __init__, as _prefix_skip_enabled is.
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Thanks. Resolved by removal: 3f84c40 drops the admission reservation and the victim filter entirely, so this code path is gone. The replacement direction is the design question here.
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Please describe what the tests pin instead, e.g. "Without chunked prefill a recompute replay must fit in max_num_tokens, so a request that could not replay is not a pause victim, and admission reserves pages for requests that may outgrow their replay."
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Done: that test class went with the reservation. The new tests in TestDeadlockDetection have docstrings that say what they pin (e.g. "Without chunked prefill a context longer than max_num_tokens never fits, so the error names it and adds chunked prefill to the pool remedy"), not the history.
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[Nice to have] The reservation re-derives the KV manager's allocation rules inside the scheduler: pool groups, sliding-window release, helix ledger blocks, spec-dec extra and draft tokens, per-beam tails and prefix sharing. Most of the problems raised on this PR are places where that copy disagrees with the manager.
Your description already names the alternative: when the attention backend supports chunked context, send recompute replays (and only them) through the chunked path, even with enable_chunked_prefill=False. That removes the unschedulable replay at its source, and makes both the victim filter and this reservation unnecessary there. If a reservation stays for backends that cannot chunk, take per-pool-group demand and capacity from the manager (as clampMaxSeqLenForMem does) instead of recomputing them here.
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Agreed. I've removed the reservation rather than move it onto the manager's numbers. Before building the chunked-replay path, I found one engine-side prerequisite I'd like your view on: partial context chunks with chunked prefill off (resource_manager.py:1159, and the attn_runtime_features.chunked_prefill consumers). The details and two options are here.
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[Nice to have] These tests call the private helpers directly with an empty kv_cache_map, so the loop in _replay_reservation_blocks never runs. No test drives schedule_request through the #21826 scenario, and each of these changes leaves every test green:
removing the call at scheduler_v2.py:1363-1364;
removing the per-pass reset at 502-504;
removing the worst-case term at 2539-2540.
In addition:
test_deadlock_names_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking uses the default host tier and a non-first chunk, so neither the victim filter nor the reservation is involved.
The shared mock's max_num_blocks=1 << 30 and capacity=0 keep the reservation inert in every existing GPU-only test.
Please add multi-pass schedule_request tests with a realistic pool:
a request that grows past max_num_tokens with chunking off and no lower tier while contexts queue behind it (it deadlocks on main and completes here);
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Taken on board for what remains: the new diagnostic tests drive schedule_request to the actual deadlock, with a GPU-only pool, rather than calling helpers with an empty map. One checks that a first-chunk request whose cached prefix makes it fit is not named. Against the base scheduler, the two tests of the new message fail. I'll add the multi-pass #21826 scenario tests you list (the growing request with contexts queued behind it, and the lone over-pool request) with whichever replay design you pick.
…dlock error
Without chunked prefill a context runs whole, so one whose uncached prompt
plus draft tokens exceeds max_num_tokens can never be scheduled. A
recompute-pause replay (prompt plus every generated token) is the common
way to get one, and the deadlock error then blamed an exhausted pool.
The error now names such contexts, sized net of reusable cached blocks
as the scheduler sizes them, and adds chunked prefill to the pool remedy.
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Thanks for the thorough review. I agree with the direction: the reservation re-derived too much of the KV manager. I've force-pushed 3f84c40, which:
removes the admission reservation and the victim filter. All of the blocker threads were on those two, and the victim filter alone leaves the deadlock reachable once a host tier fills, as you showed;
keeps only the diagnostic, fixed as suggested. The too-long hint is appended to the existing remedy, the length is post-reuse (_uncached_tokens), encoder requests are skipped, and the cause is in the warning too. There are new schedule_request-level tests;
drops the Co-Authored-By trailer. The commit carries only the DCO sign-off.
I've retitled the PR to match, so it no longer claims to fix #21826.
On sending recompute replays through the chunked path: before I build it, I'd like your view on one prerequisite. With enable_chunked_prefill=False, the engine doesn't look set up for a partial (non-last) context chunk:
attn_runtime_features.chunked_prefill is set from enable_chunked_prefill (py_executor_creator.py:841). It drives the MLA chunked loop and kernel choice (trtllm.py:1594, :3095, mla.py:1766), the FP4-MLA and DSA chunk buffers, the MLA workspace reserve (_util.py:674), and the KV manager's batch trimming and spec recompute tail.
For non-MLA models with block reuse on, use_paged_context_fmha is already true through cache_reuse (trtllm.py:421-425), so a later replay chunk should look like a prefix-reuse hit to the attention path. That is the case I'd expect to work as-is.
So, which would you prefer?
Turn the chunked-context runtime features on whenever V2 recompute-pause is active and the backend/SM supports chunked prefill, even with enable_chunked_prefill=False, and have the scheduler chunk only replays. This covers every model, but it changes the MLA/FP4 paths and workspace sizing for all chunk-off deployments, including requests that are never replayed.
Chunk replays only where the attention path already handles a cached prefix (block reuse on, non-MLA, no FP8-KV chunk buffers needed), and keep today's behaviour plus the new diagnostic elsewhere. This is smaller, but needs a precise capability check that I'd want your input on.
Something else, e.g. making V2 recompute-pause imply chunked context.
I can build and test 1 or 2 here (RTX 5090: non-MLA, FP8 KV) once you pick one. I can't cover the MLA/B200 paths locally.
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[#21826][fix] Keep V2 recompute-pause replays schedulable without chunked prefill
[#21826][fix] Name the context that can never fit in the V2 deadlock error
Nov 7, 2026
The positive test uses a non-first chunk. If the detector skips first chunks, both tests can pass. Clear the cached probe and check that the same first chunk is over budget without reuse.
Proposed test addition
message = self._deadlock_message(sched, [make_ctx_request(7, 1200)])
assert "The KV cache pool is likely exhausted." in message
assert "enable_chunked_prefill" not in message
+ # Without reuse the same request is over budget.+ mgr.probe_context_reuse.side_effect = lambda req: None+ sched._reuse_probes.clear()+ assert sched._contexts_over_token_budget([make_ctx_request(7, 1200)]) == [7]
Test coverage summary:test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py adds three deadlock-diagnostic cases and a helper. They cover over-budget contexts, reuse, encoder exclusion, and chunking. First-chunk detection without reuse needs coverage. Test-list scope is not established. Verdict: insufficient.
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The Blockers from my review of 2026-11-07 are resolved or answered at 3f84c40:
Admission reservation removed in 3f84c40; scheduler_v2.py:1332_try_schedule_context_full admits by allocation as on main, so disagg servers are no longer gated.
_worst_case_blocks/_may_outgrow_replay removed in 3f84c40, so the spec-dec/beam under-count no longer exists in this PR.
Victim filter and tier-existence gate removed in 3f84c40; scheduler_v2.py:2490-2506_is_recompute_pause_candidate is identical to main.
Reservation removed in 3f84c40: a request whose worst case exceeds the pool is admitted by allocation again (scheduler_v2.py:1379).
_replay_fits and its boundary test removed in 3f84c40, so the overlap off-by-one is gone.
Victim filter removed in 3f84c40; beam-search requests stay preemptible (scheduler_v2.py:2506).
Reservation removed in 3f84c40; no summed max_num_blocks check remains.
Reservation removed in 3f84c40; SWA admission is back on main's allocation-based path.
Reservation removed in 3f84c40; helix admission is unchanged from main, so test_helix_agg_preemption.py[decode_pressure] is no longer affected.
Does not fix #21826: with chunked prefill off, a recompute replay longer than max_num_tokens still stalls as on main; only the error now names it.
The new CPU-only tests (pre-merge via l0_cpu unittest/_torch/pyexecutor) were checked by reading only; no CI result for 3f84c40 was available.
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Your change gives operators a more accurate explanation and useful configuration guidance, with tests for prefix reuse and excluded request types. The demonstrated benefit remains limited to reporting an existing failure: affected requests still deadlock and raise the same exception, without restored scheduling or recovery.
Based on the assessment above, we're giving this PR lower review priority for now and adding waiting for feedback and stale.
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@sunnyqgg thanks for the re-review and the approval.
The triage bot is right that this PR only names the failure; the diagnostic is meant as the first step. I'd like to fix #21826 itself next, and the open question from my earlier comment decides how. With enable_chunked_prefill=False, a recompute replay longer than max_num_tokens can only be scheduled if it is split, and the engine isn't set up for a partial context chunk in that mode. The options:
Turn on the chunked-context runtime features whenever V2 recompute-pause is active (and the backend/SM supports chunked prefill), and have the scheduler chunk only replays. This covers every model, but changes the MLA/FP4 paths and workspace sizing for all chunk-off deployments.
Chunk replays only where attention already handles a cached prefix: non-MLA with block reuse on, where a later replay chunk looks like a prefix-reuse hit. This is smaller, but needs a precise capability check; elsewhere it keeps today's behaviour plus the new diagnostic.
Which would you prefer, or is there a direction I haven't listed? I can build and test either on an RTX 5090 (non-MLA, FP8 KV), as this PR or a separate one, whichever you'd rather review.
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Refs #21826. Scope reduced after review: this PR now only fixes the deadlock diagnostic. The scheduler fix for the deadlock itself waits on the design question in this comment.
Recompute-pause replays the prompt plus every generated token as one context. With chunked prefill off, a replay longer than
max_num_tokenscan never be scheduled, and_detect_deadlockeventually raises with a nearly empty pool, saying "The KV cache pool is likely exhausted".The deadlock error now:
max_num_tokens. The length is net of reusable cached blocks (_uncached_tokens, the reuse probe the scheduler already uses), so a request that a prefix hit would make fit is not named. Encoder requests are budgeted by their encoder output and are not counted;max_num_tokens" for those requests;Removed after review: the recompute-pause victim filter and the admission reservation from the first revision. The reservation re-derived the KV manager's allocation rules (pool groups, sliding window, helix ledger blocks, spec-dec and beam tails, prefix sharing) and got several of them wrong. The victim filter alone leaves the deadlock reachable once a host tier fills.
Test Coverage
New tests in
TestDeadlockDetection(tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py):test_names_a_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking: drivesschedule_requestto the deadlock with a GPU-only pool and checks that the message names the request, adds chunked prefill and keeps the pool remedy;test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named: 1200 prompt tokens with 400 reusable fitmax_num_tokens=1000, so the message stays "pool exhausted";test_only_unchunked_context_init_requests_are_counted: encoder requests and chunked prefill are excluded.Results (CPU, this branch's
scheduler_v2.pyloaded on the 1.4.0rc3 runtime): 376 passed (373 existing + 3 new). Against the base scheduler, the two tests of the new message fail as expected. The reuse test passes on both, since it guards against false positives.pre-commitpasses on both files.PR Checklist
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Dev Engineer Review
The scheduler now identifies pending context requests that exceed
max_num_tokenswhen chunked prefill is disabled. The diagnostic names up to eight request IDs and recommends enabling chunked prefill or increasing the token limit. It excludes encoder requests and contexts that fit after prefix reuse. This change improves diagnosis; it does not prevent the scheduler deadlock or implement the scheduling remedies from issue#21826. No public API changes are reported.QA Engineer Review
The modified unit-test file adds three tests under
TestDeadlockDetection:test_names_a_context_that_cannot_fit_without_chunking,test_a_context_that_fits_after_prefix_reuse_is_not_named, andtest_only_unchunked_context_init_requests_are_counted. They cover the deadlock message, prefix-reuse accounting, and exclusions for chunked prefill and encoder requests. The test file has other tests intest-db/l0_b200.ymlandtest-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml; the new unit tests are not listed there. Test execution status is not available. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the diagnostic behavior covered by these tests.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify that the diagnostic names only pending, unchunked context-init requests whose uncached tokens plus draft tokens exceedmax_num_tokens. Verify that the existing cache-pool remedy remains and that the new hint appears in both the warning and raised error.tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: The three new unit tests cover oversized-context reporting, prefix reuse, and exclusions. The file has other tests listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.ymlandl0_dgx_b200.yml; the new unit tests are not listed as integration tests.