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NcclEP.dispatch now attempts NCCL-window allocation whenever ctx.zerocopy_enabled, including during CUDA graph capture. If the allocator does not return an NCCL window with a valid handle, dispatch keeps using the persistent output buffer. The change is limited to dispatch output selection. The test mocks capture and allocation; actual allocator behavior during graph capture remains a runtime verification point.

QA Engineer Review

The modified unit test parameterizes capture on/off and window availability on/off. It checks the selected output, dispatch writes, and retention of the persistent buffer. The test covers the success and fallback paths. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the mocked selection behavior; actual CUDA graph capture behavior is not exercised.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/communication/nccl_ep.py: Verify that NCCL-window allocation works during capture and that fallback returns the persistent dispatch buffer when no valid window handle is provided.
• tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_communication_factory.py: test_nccl_ep_dispatch_window now covers four mocked capture/window combinations. The file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_rtx_pro_6000.yml and tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml; no manual-QA listing was found.

Summary:

Enable NCCL-EP dispatch to borrow registered receive buffers during CUDA graph capture, extending the existing eager path.

This extracts the dispatch-capture portion of #20631 into a small, independently validated change, allowing the broader PR to be resolved step by step.

Implementation:

• Remove the capture exclusion from pooled dispatch allocation.
• Reuse existing tensor scopes, graph-pool ownership, and allocation fallback.
• Expand the existing regression test to cover window allocation and fallback in eager execution and capture.

Testing:

• PASSED — 125 communicator-factory tests on Pre-Tyche before rebasing; repository hooks passed on the final rebased commit.
• Four-GB200 comparisons with fixed tuning tactics, concurrency 8, and 1024 input / 32 output tokens showed mean TPOT improvements of 0.33% for Qwen3-30B-A3B and 0.32% for Llama 4 Scout. Outputs matched. Qwen completed four pairs; Scout completed three before preemption. Small gains varied across repeats.

Tracking:

• Incrementally addresses #20631 (https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/20631); this change covers dispatch during graph capture.

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Walkthrough

When zero-copy is enabled, NcclEP.dispatch now attempts to use the destination buffer during eager execution and CUDA graph capture. Tests cover capture and window availability combinations.

Changes

NCCL EP dispatch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Zero-copy destination selection and tests tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/communication/nccl_ep.py, tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_communication_factory.py	Dispatch now attempts to borrow the destination buffer during capture as well as eager execution. Parameterized tests verify that dispatch returns the window tensor when a window is available, otherwise returns the persistent tensor, and that the persistent context buffer remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e03a6

Dispatch now uses the pooled receive buffer during CUDA graph capture and falls back to the persistent buffer when no window is available. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found. A real-capture GPU test would be a useful follow-up.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to e03a6

The change reuses existing buffer-lifetime controls and preserves the persistent-buffer fallback. No introduced security concern was established. Residual uncertainty remains because the added tests simulate allocation rather than exercising real multi-rank graph capture and replay.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified exposure is receive-buffer integrity and lifetime within the configured expert-parallel communicator. The changed allocation receives the existing group mapping rather than introducing a new caller-selected group or authority parameter.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The native allocator scopes pooled buffers to communicators and tracks checkout leases. Its capture path can refuse reuse and fall back rather than perform new registration when capture-safe ownership conditions are unavailable.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Existing lifecycle controls retain graph ownership until graph cleanup, protect newer checkouts from stale lease release, quarantine unsuccessful scopes, and synchronize communicator teardown before deregistration and freeing. These are the relevant safeguards against premature reuse of captured addresses.

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes enabling pooled NCCL-EP dispatch during CUDA graph capture and follows the repository’s title format.
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tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_communication_factory.py: 1

443-443: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Add a real capture case for window allocation.

When capturing=True, this test changes a Python predicate but replaces the native allocator with a lambda that always supplies a window for window_available=True. The native pool instead requires a graph-pool owner and an eligible window during capture. This test can pass even if real captures always fall back. Keep the focused selection test. Add a GPU test that preallocates a window, enters the graph-owner scope, captures with the real allocator, and checks the output after replay. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_communication_factory.py at
line 443:
Keep the focused window-selection test, and add a GPU test that preallocates an
eligible window, enters the graph-pool owner scope, and performs capture using
the real native allocator rather than mocking stream-capture detection or
allocator behavior. Replay the graph and verify its output to confirm window
allocation works during a real capture.

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Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_communication_factory.py:
- Line 443: Keep the focused window-selection test, and add a GPU test that
preallocates an eligible window, enters the graph-pool owner scope, and performs
capture using the real native allocator rather than mocking stream-capture
detection or allocator behavior. Replay the graph and verify its output to
confirm window allocation works during a real capture.

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