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[None][refactor] serve: share one JSONL record writer behind the perf-metrics output - #21803
PerfMetricsJsonlWriter (tensorrt_llm/serve/perf_metrics.py) is today the only code in the
serving apps that appends JSON records to a JSONL file from the event loop without blocking
it: a bounded queue drained by one asyncio task that batches records, serializes them, hands
the blocking append to a worker thread, survives unexpected errors without ending the drain
task (while letting CancelledError through so close() can still cancel a stuck task), and
counts and rate-limits the records it drops. A second record output with the same
requirements is coming (a request trace, in a follow-up PR); rather than duplicate the
mechanism, this PR extracts it first, with no change to what the perf-metrics output writes.
New tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py with JsonlRecordWriter: the queue, the
batching, the drain task, the error containment and the drop accounting, parametrized by
the file-name stem, the subject the log messages name, and the queue size / batch size /
shutdown timeout. A configuration overrides _serialize (how a record becomes one line)
and malformed_record_errors (which exceptions mean "this record cannot be represented"). _write appends one batch's joined lines to the single file; a layout other than one
append-only file (several files, a file per record key) overrides _write_batch and takes
its lines from _serialize_batch, calling it once per group of records that share a file
(it returns lines only), so the malformed-record accounting stays shared; the write-failure
accounting around _write is the override's own. Only what the perf-metrics output needs
today is in the module; the follow-up adds its own options.
PerfMetricsJsonlWriter becomes a thin configuration of it: perf_metrics-<kind> stem,
"performance metrics" in log messages, the module's existing queue/batch/shutdown constants, _jsonl_record as the record shape, and KeyError as a malformed-record error. Its public
name, import path, constructor, start/submit/close, dropped_records, and the file
name pattern perf_metrics-<kind>-<hostname>-<pid>-<timestamp>.jsonl are unchanged; openai_server.py and openai_disagg_server.py need no change.
Behavior change. None in what is written or logged: same file name pattern, same record
bytes, same flush (no fsync) behavior, same drop accounting, same log messages and levels.
Verified by running the existing perf-metrics writer tests unchanged before and after, and by
an A/B probe that drove PerfMetricsJsonlWriter through well-formed, disaggregated,
non-ASCII, malformed, unexpectedly-failing, queue-full, write-error, stuck-close and
unwritable-directory scenarios on both revisions: the normalized reports (file-name match,
sha256 and text of the written bytes, dropped_records, every log message) are identical.
One difference in a test seam: the batch size and the shutdown timeout are now read when the
writer is constructed (the queue size always was), where the old class read _WRITER_BATCH_SIZE on each drain iteration and _WRITER_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS in close(). No production code changes them after construction; a test that overrides tensorrt_llm.serve.perf_metrics._WRITER_* must do so before constructing the writer, as the
one existing such test already does.
The new test for the shared writer lives in tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/ next to the existing
perf-metrics tests because tests/unittest/serve/ does not exist on main yet; the open
drafts create it with their own conftest.py, and this PR must land independently of them.
Once that package is on main, the file can move to tests/unittest/serve/_base/.
Test Coverage
New tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py (cpu_only, 14 tests, registered
in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml), on the shared writer with small inline
records:
records become one compact JSON line each, in submission order; file named <stem>-<hostname>-<pid>-<UTC timestamp>.jsonl; a second start() changes nothing;
queued records are appended in batches of at most batch_size (10 records, batch size 4:
appends of 4, 4, 2);
a full queue drops the newest records, counts them, and logs the first drop only;
a record JSON cannot represent (NaN, a set) is dropped alone, logged once;
a configuration decides the line and which errors are malformed (KeyError refused as
malformed, a serializer bug dropped as unexpected with a traceback, the rest written);
an unexpected write failure costs one batch, not the drain task; the error is logged with
its traceback;
an append the filesystem refuses (OSError) drops the batch and warns once;
unexpected errors are logged first, then every thousandth, per stage;
close() writes every queued record before returning, and a later submit is ignored;
close() cancels a write that outlives the shutdown timeout (CancelledError passes
through the error containment);
a writer without an output directory does nothing; an output directory that cannot be
created disables the writer with an error log.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.py gains TestPerfMetricsJsonlWriterConfiguration (2 tests, registered in l0_cpu.yml), pinning what PerfMetricsJsonlWriter configures: a record without the phases the schema needs is dropped as
malformed (one WARNING "Dropped malformed performance metrics record: 'server'", no ERROR), and
65 queued records are appended as 64 + 1. The 19 existing tests of that file pass unchanged
before and after.
Mutation gate: 25 inverted production behaviors — 17 in the shared writer (dropping the error
containment or widening it to BaseException, uncounted drops, ignored batch size, a close() that cancels instead of draining, malformed records treated as unexpected, removed
rate limits, a changed file name or line format, a writer that stays enabled after a failed mkdir, a submit() that no longer ignores a stopped writer, reordered batches, a
non-idempotent start()) and 8 in the perf-metrics wiring (KeyError no longer malformed,
queue/batch constants swapped or wired to 1, a changed file stem or log subject, a hard-coded
shutdown timeout, the record written raw instead of in the schema shape) — each makes at
least one test in these two files fail (25 of 25 killed).
The GPU end-to-end perf-metrics tests (_test_openai_perf_metrics.py, test_disagg_serving_perf_metrics.py) are left to CI.
Reviewers needed by CODEOWNERS: @NVIDIA/trt-llm-runtime-devs (tensorrt_llm/serve, tests/unittest/llmapi), @NVIDIA/trt-llm-devs and @NVIDIA/trt-llm-infra-devs
(tests/integration/test_lists/test-db).
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The change moves bounded asynchronous JSONL writing into JsonlRecordWriter. PerfMetricsJsonlWriter configures the shared writer and retains its record shaping through _jsonl_record.
The shared writer centralizes queue limits, batching, drop accounting, error logging, and shutdown behavior. The main API risk is that None is used as the stop marker, so submitting None is interpreted as shutdown rather than as a record.
Queue, batch, and shutdown settings are captured at construction. Callers that change the corresponding constants must do so before constructing the writer.
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Added tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py with 14 tests for serialization, naming, ordering, queue overflow, batching, error handling, shutdown, and disabled output.
Added two configuration tests and a log-capture fixture in tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.py. The tests check malformed schema records and 64-record batching.
Updated tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml to list the shared-writer test file and TestPerfMetricsJsonlWriterConfiguration.
Coverage verdict: sufficient for the changed writer behavior described by the tests. Test execution status is not available.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/__init__.py: Adds a package initializer and shared-infrastructure docstring. Verify package imports remain compatible.
tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py: Adds the asynchronous writer, including queueing, batching, error handling, and shutdown paths. Verify None handling, queue-full drops, filesystem failures, and shutdown timeouts.
tensorrt_llm/serve/perf_metrics.py: Replaces the local writer mechanism with a JsonlRecordWriter configuration. Verify file naming, serialized record bytes, logging, and settings captured at construction.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py: Adds 14 tests for shared-writer behavior. The file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.py: Adds two configuration tests and a log-capture fixture. The configuration test class is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the shared-writer test file and the perf-metrics configuration test selector to the CPU CI test list.
…-metrics output
Extract the asynchronous JSONL writing mechanism of PerfMetricsJsonlWriter
(bounded queue, batching, one drain task, blocking append on a worker
thread, error containment that lets CancelledError through, rate-limited
drop accounting) into tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py as
JsonlRecordWriter, so the serving apps' next JSONL record output can reuse
it instead of duplicating it.
PerfMetricsJsonlWriter becomes a configuration of the shared writer: file
stem, log-message subject, its existing queue/batch/shutdown constants, the
record shape, and KeyError as a malformed-record error. Its name, import
path, constructor, methods, drop counter, file name pattern, record bytes
and log messages are unchanged.
The new serve/_base package's __init__.py is byte-identical to the one the
open serve refactor drafts introduce, so they merge cleanly in any order.
Signed-off-by: JunyiXu-nv <219237550+JunyiXu-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds a shared bounded asynchronous JSONL writer. Updates PerfMetricsJsonlWriter to use it and adds CPU tests for the shared writer and performance metrics configuration.
Changes
JSONL Writer
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Writer configuration and lifecycle tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/__init__.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py
Adds writer configuration, directory setup, nonblocking record submission, queue draining, and shutdown with a timeout.
Batch serialization and output tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py
Adds batch serialization and file appends, error accounting, and tests for queue limits, dropped records, logging, and shutdown behavior.
Makes PerfMetricsJsonlWriter a subclass of the shared writer. Adds tests for malformed records and batching, and includes the tests in the CPU test list.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant JsonlRecordWriter
participant DrainTask
participant WorkerThread
participant OutputFile
Caller->>JsonlRecordWriter: submit record
JsonlRecordWriter->>DrainTask: enqueue record
DrainTask->>JsonlRecordWriter: serialize batch
JsonlRecordWriter->>WorkerThread: append batch
WorkerThread->>OutputFile: write JSONL lines
Caller->>JsonlRecordWriter: close
JsonlRecordWriter->>DrainTask: enqueue stop marker and await completion
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 45306
This change moves the asynchronous JSONL writer into a shared module and keeps the performance metrics writer's behavior the same. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified, and the added CPU tests cover the shared writer.
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Description
PerfMetricsJsonlWriter(tensorrt_llm/serve/perf_metrics.py) is today the only code in theserving apps that appends JSON records to a JSONL file from the event loop without blocking
it: a bounded queue drained by one asyncio task that batches records, serializes them, hands
the blocking append to a worker thread, survives unexpected errors without ending the drain
task (while letting
CancelledErrorthrough soclose()can still cancel a stuck task), andcounts and rate-limits the records it drops. A second record output with the same
requirements is coming (a request trace, in a follow-up PR); rather than duplicate the
mechanism, this PR extracts it first, with no change to what the perf-metrics output writes.
tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.pywithJsonlRecordWriter: the queue, thebatching, the drain task, the error containment and the drop accounting, parametrized by
the file-name stem, the subject the log messages name, and the queue size / batch size /
shutdown timeout. A configuration overrides
_serialize(how a record becomes one line)and
malformed_record_errors(which exceptions mean "this record cannot be represented")._writeappends one batch's joined lines to the single file; a layout other than oneappend-only file (several files, a file per record key) overrides
_write_batchand takesits lines from
_serialize_batch, calling it once per group of records that share a file(it returns lines only), so the malformed-record accounting stays shared; the write-failure
accounting around
_writeis the override's own. Only what the perf-metrics output needstoday is in the module; the follow-up adds its own options.
PerfMetricsJsonlWriterbecomes a thin configuration of it:perf_metrics-<kind>stem,"performance metrics" in log messages, the module's existing queue/batch/shutdown constants,
_jsonl_recordas the record shape, andKeyErroras a malformed-record error. Its publicname, import path, constructor,
start/submit/close,dropped_records, and the filename pattern
perf_metrics-<kind>-<hostname>-<pid>-<timestamp>.jsonlare unchanged;openai_server.pyandopenai_disagg_server.pyneed no change.tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/for shared serving infrastructure with no dependencyon endpoint packages. Its
__init__.pyis byte-identical to the one the open serverefactor drafts introduce ([TRTLLM-17262][refactor] Move the disaggregated service types and latency logger out of responses_utils #21510, [TRTLLM-17263][refactor] Converge the three Anthropic orchestrations into one serving class #21551, [TRTLLM-17269][refactor] Extract the shared HTTP app assembly into serve/_base/app_builder.py #21556), so whichever lands first, the others
merge cleanly.
Behavior change. None in what is written or logged: same file name pattern, same record
bytes, same flush (no fsync) behavior, same drop accounting, same log messages and levels.
Verified by running the existing perf-metrics writer tests unchanged before and after, and by
an A/B probe that drove
PerfMetricsJsonlWriterthrough well-formed, disaggregated,non-ASCII, malformed, unexpectedly-failing, queue-full, write-error, stuck-close and
unwritable-directory scenarios on both revisions: the normalized reports (file-name match,
sha256 and text of the written bytes,
dropped_records, every log message) are identical.One difference in a test seam: the batch size and the shutdown timeout are now read when the
writer is constructed (the queue size always was), where the old class read
_WRITER_BATCH_SIZEon each drain iteration and_WRITER_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECONDSinclose(). No production code changes them after construction; a test that overridestensorrt_llm.serve.perf_metrics._WRITER_*must do so before constructing the writer, as theone existing such test already does.
The new test for the shared writer lives in
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/next to the existingperf-metrics tests because
tests/unittest/serve/does not exist onmainyet; the opendrafts create it with their own
conftest.py, and this PR must land independently of them.Once that package is on
main, the file can move totests/unittest/serve/_base/.Test Coverage
New
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py(cpu_only, 14 tests, registeredin
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml), on the shared writer with small inlinerecords:
<stem>-<hostname>-<pid>-<UTC timestamp>.jsonl; a secondstart()changes nothing;batch_size(10 records, batch size 4:appends of 4, 4, 2);
malformed, a serializer bug dropped as unexpected with a traceback, the rest written);
its traceback;
close()writes every queued record before returning, and a latersubmitis ignored;close()cancels a write that outlives the shutdown timeout (CancelledErrorpassesthrough the error containment);
created disables the writer with an error log.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.pygainsTestPerfMetricsJsonlWriterConfiguration(2 tests, registered inl0_cpu.yml), pinning whatPerfMetricsJsonlWriterconfigures: a record without the phases the schema needs is dropped asmalformed (one WARNING "Dropped malformed performance metrics record: 'server'", no ERROR), and
65 queued records are appended as 64 + 1. The 19 existing tests of that file pass unchanged
before and after.
Mutation gate: 25 inverted production behaviors — 17 in the shared writer (dropping the error
containment or widening it to
BaseException, uncounted drops, ignored batch size, aclose()that cancels instead of draining, malformed records treated as unexpected, removedrate limits, a changed file name or line format, a writer that stays enabled after a failed
mkdir, asubmit()that no longer ignores a stopped writer, reordered batches, anon-idempotent
start()) and 8 in the perf-metrics wiring (KeyErrorno longer malformed,queue/batch constants swapped or wired to 1, a changed file stem or log subject, a hard-coded
shutdown timeout, the record written raw instead of in the schema shape) — each makes at
least one test in these two files fail (25 of 25 killed).
The GPU end-to-end perf-metrics tests (
_test_openai_perf_metrics.py,test_disagg_serving_perf_metrics.py) are left to CI.Reviewers needed by CODEOWNERS:
@NVIDIA/trt-llm-runtime-devs(tensorrt_llm/serve,tests/unittest/llmapi),@NVIDIA/trt-llm-devsand@NVIDIA/trt-llm-infra-devs(
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db).PR Checklist
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JsonlRecordWriter.PerfMetricsJsonlWriterconfigures the shared writer and retains its record shaping through_jsonl_record.Noneis used as the stop marker, so submittingNoneis interpreted as shutdown rather than as a record.QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.pywith 14 tests for serialization, naming, ordering, queue overflow, batching, error handling, shutdown, and disabled output.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.py. The tests check malformed schema records and 64-record batching.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.ymlto list the shared-writer test file andTestPerfMetricsJsonlWriterConfiguration.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/__init__.py: Adds a package initializer and shared-infrastructure docstring. Verify package imports remain compatible.tensorrt_llm/serve/_base/jsonl_writer.py: Adds the asynchronous writer, including queueing, batching, error handling, and shutdown paths. VerifyNonehandling, queue-full drops, filesystem failures, and shutdown timeouts.tensorrt_llm/serve/perf_metrics.py: Replaces the local writer mechanism with aJsonlRecordWriterconfiguration. Verify file naming, serialized record bytes, logging, and settings captured at construction.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_jsonl_record_writer.py: Adds 14 tests for shared-writer behavior. The file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_request_metrics.py: Adds two configuration tests and a log-capture fixture. The configuration test class is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the shared-writer test file and the perf-metrics configuration test selector to the CPU CI test list.