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PyExecutor._release_execution_resources() now prepares the transceiver, shuts down resource managers, then completes transceiver shutdown. This changes teardown order for profiling and terminal release so pools are unmapped before NIXL deregistration.

KvCacheTransceiver.prepare_shutdown() defaults to full shutdown. Backends using this default must stop cache access before resource managers release pools. KvCacheTransceiverV2 retains registrations during preparation and leaves shutdown retryable when session closure or worker shutdown fails.

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Two unit test files changed. tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_executor_resource_rebind.py updates teardown-order and drain-failure tests, and adds a parameterized test for profiling and terminal release ordering. tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_profiling_cache_release.py adds CPU-only tests for registration retention, drain and session refusal, partial shutdown failure, and retry behavior.

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• tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/kv_cache_transceiver.py: Adds prepare_shutdown(), which defaults to full shutdown. Verify that backends using this method stop cache access before resource managers release pools.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py: Separates transfer preparation from registration release. Verify idempotency and retries after preparation or final-shutdown failures.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py: Adds session closure and worker preparation before pool release. Verify that refused session closure preserves state and retries complete shutdown after transfers drain.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py: Changes profiling and terminal teardown to prepare transfers, shut down resource managers, then complete transceiver shutdown. Verify this order on both paths.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_executor_resource_rebind.py: Covers release order, both release paths, and cache retention after drain failure. No integration-list entry applies.
• tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_profiling_cache_release.py: Adds CPU-only tests for worker and transceiver preparation, registration retention, refusal paths, and retry behavior. No integration-list entry applies.

Description

Fix the profiling-to-final KV cache OOM in NVBug 7023112, introduced by the executor resource transition in #20359. With MPI and NIXL sharing UCX's GDRCopy registration cache, deregistering NIXL memory before unmapping the profiling pool can leave its physical pages pinned on UCX's deferred-GC list. The final KV allocation then competes with the old pool, even though CUDA allocation handles have been released.

Split transceiver teardown into two phases for profiling cache replacement: retire sessions and stop transfer workers while retaining registrations, shut down the resource managers to unmap the pools, then deregister NIXL memory. Dropping the last registration reference after unmapping releases the pinned pages immediately. Keep executor/model reuse and the existing terminal-shutdown order. A refused transfer drain still prevents cache destruction.

Update existing executor resource-rebind tests to assert drain → pool release → deregistration and preserve cache ownership when draining fails. This PR adds no test files, test cases, or CI test-list entries. Existing test waives remain unchanged pending platform CI qualification.

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• Passed on the latest revision: all 13 existing tests in tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_executor_resource_rebind.py. Only existing fixtures/assertions are adjusted; no extra CI test cases are introduced.
• Passed: 21 existing shutdown tests selected with -k 'shutdown and not openmpi' from the QA revision's test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py, test_lifecycle_binding.py, test_retirement_deadline.py, and test_kv_transfer_fail_stop.py.
• Passed on 4 B200 GPUs: the original accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestGPTOSS::test_kv_cache_v2_nixl_python[cache_mgr_v2] with the final two-phase methods at 6d16542. The subsequent test-only reduction leaves production code unchanged. Full 1,319-sample GSM8K evaluation: 90.2957%, 1 passed in 414.67 seconds, exit code 0. Both workers successfully construct their final KV caches. Source SHA256 values match the PR, and the reused test container was checked for the two-phase implementation. The initial attempt was blocked before model loading by MPI selecting unavailable srun; the successful retry explicitly uses PRTE_MCA_plm=ssh with the image's /opt/hpcx/ompi5 prefixes.
• Passed: applicable pre-commit hooks on the production changes and the updated existing test file. The configured mypy hook selects none of these files.
• Root-cause evidence on B200: the unmodified QA wheel reproduces the OOM. A separate two-rank MPI/native-NIXL trace shows 512 pins and zero unpins after the faulty teardown versus 512 pins and 512 unpins with unmap-before-deregister, per 2 GiB pool.

Validation reuses the reproducing 1.4.0rc3 QA wheel's native artifacts (e3e0b12d2b5c) and overlays the changed Python methods. The full-model test uses QA test sources at 54da997a. This is not a fresh native build of current main. Broader current-main lifecycle tests are incompatible with that older wheel's interfaces; attempting the full current Python package also requires newer native bindings (ReusePolicy). Those attempts are not counted as passing coverage. GB200/GB300 qualification has not been run locally.

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Walkthrough

The transceiver and transfer worker now separate transfer draining from final resource release. The executor prepares the transceiver before shutting down resource managers, then completes transceiver shutdown. Tests cover release ordering, refusal, and retry behavior.

Changes

Staged KV cache shutdown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transfer preparation and final cleanup tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/kv_cache_transceiver.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py	The base transceiver adds prepare_shutdown(), which delegates to shutdown(). TransferWorker separates draining and listener shutdown from memory deregistration and agent shutdown.
Transceiver session preparation tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_profiling_cache_release.py	KvCacheTransceiverV2.prepare_shutdown() closes sessions and prepares the worker without deregistering KV pools. Full shutdown records completion only after worker shutdown succeeds. CPU-only tests cover refusal, retry, retained registrations, and legacy behavior.
Executor cache-release ordering tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_executor_resource_rebind.py	The executor prepares the transceiver before resource-manager shutdown, then completes transceiver shutdown. Tests check release order and verify that preparation failure prevents cache shutdown and unregister.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PyExecutor
  participant KvCacheTransceiverV2
  participant TransferWorker
  participant ResourceManagers
  PyExecutor->>KvCacheTransceiverV2: prepare_shutdown()
  KvCacheTransceiverV2->>TransferWorker: prepare_shutdown()
  PyExecutor->>ResourceManagers: shut down for cache release
  PyExecutor->>KvCacheTransceiverV2: shutdown()
  KvCacheTransceiverV2->>TransferWorker: shutdown()

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Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20943: Changes receive-session retirement rules that affect whether shutdown can confirm transfers have retired.
• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21079: Changes generation-side receive retirement to use group consensus, which affects when shutdown can confirm receives have retired.
• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21491: Separates cancellation from physical receive retirement and retains receive resources until retirement.

Suggested labels: api-compatible, human-review

Suggested reviewers: chienchunhung

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2eaab

Profiling cache release drains transfers before unmapping pools and deregistering memory. No merge-blocking issue was established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2eaab

The inspected paths preserve transfer-retirement checks before GPU memory is released. No introduced security issue was established, but hardware-dependent cleanup and recovery behavior are not fully verified.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The concrete changed scope is cleanup of an executor's GPU cache resources and existing transfer registrations. The routed public-entrypoint symbol is a CPU unit test asserting teardown order; it does not itself add a remotely callable production entrypoint or grant authority over additional resources.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — V2 preparation and final shutdown share a shutdown lock. For ownership-enabled sessions, missing or negative physical-drain evidence blocks retirement; session-close refusal also raises. Session maps are cleared only after closure succeeds, and shutdown completion is recorded only after worker shutdown returns.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Deregistration and agent-shutdown exceptions remain log-only, with descriptors discarded and the worker marked shut down. This cleanup limitation predates the PR: the base likewise returned from worker shutdown and proceeded to manager cleanup after such errors. The comparison therefore does not support treating this existing limitation as an introduced or worsened security finding; external cleanup consequences remain unverified.

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py: 1

4659-4686: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Test retry after receiver shutdown refuses.

Receiver.shutdown() can refuse after the sender has shut down. The current retry test fails before that point, so it cannot detect a regression in partial-shutdown recovery.

In test_profiling_cache_release.py, add a test with a receiver that refuses once. Use the real sender shutdown behavior, then retry and assert that preparation completes without deregistering memory.

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Thanks for tracking this down. The two-phase split (drain with registrations kept, unmap the pools, then deregister) matches the root cause in the description, a refused drain still leaves the cache owned, and the terminal order is unchanged. Summary: 0 blockers, 1 possibly blocking, 3 required, 7 nice to have.

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Overall LGTM; 2 non-blocking follow-ups:

• Direct preparation tests: The executor fixture mocks both teardown phases. Please test the real preparation methods for registration retention, ownership preservation after refusal, and deregistration during final shutdown. Existing shutdown tests cover refusal indirectly, but do not detect early deregistration during successful preparation.
• Integration with #20862: Its profiling wrapper would inherit the new base prepare_shutdown(), bypassing __getattr__ delegation and shutting down NIXL before pool release. When combining these PRs, add explicit preparation forwarding and an ordering test.

When integrating #21491, place its cancelled-receive fence check in the shared shutdown helper. Both preparation and final shutdown must enforce that check before cache destruction.

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@chienchunhung Following up on #21784 (review):

The current head includes five direct preparation/shutdown tests in tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_profiling_cache_release.py. These execute the real TransferWorker and KvCacheTransceiverV2 methods (and real Sender.shutdown() in the partial-stop retry case), checking registration retention during successful preparation, ownership/session preservation after refusal, retry behavior, and deregistration during final shutdown. All five passed; together with test_executor_resource_rebind.py, the result was 22 passed on the source corresponding to 2eaab75. This did not reproduce an early-deregistration or ownership-loss defect. Native dependencies were reused from the existing test container; agent/transport dependencies are mocked in these CPU contract tests, so this is not fresh-build or GPU/NIXL integration qualification.

Both #20862 and #21491 are still open and unmerged. Their integration requirements remain pending: explicitly forward prepare_shutdown() through the profiling wrapper and add an ordering test when combining #20862; place the cancelled-receive fence check in the shared shutdown helper so both phases enforce it when combining #21491.

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