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[TRTLLM-17271][refactor] Create commands/serve_cli with one bind helper for every trtllm-serve listener - #21967

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Shared listener utilities now reside in tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py. Serving listeners use the shared bind helper or address-family selector while retaining listener-specific policies. The helper supports "auto", "ipv4", and "first" policies, binding options, failure cleanup, diagnostics, and bound-address publication.

The HTTP launcher retains its port lock and conditional SO_REUSEPORT behavior. It reads the kernel-assigned port after binding port 0. OpenEngine uses the "first" policy for its trial bind and retains socket.create_server. CI, build, and test results are not available.

QA Engineer Review

Added test_serve_cli_net.py and test_serve_cli_wiring.py. Modified test_serve_report_addr.py. The network tests cover address-family policies, socket options, bind failures and cleanup, listener policies, port-0 publication, and port-lock ordering. The wiring tests cover CLI routing for serve, sleep mode, the default subcommand, VisualGen, multimodal embedding, and embeddings. All three test modules are listed in the CPU test list. No matching manual-QA entries are indicated by the available test-list search.

Coverage verdict: sufficient.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • .github/CODEOWNERS: Assigns the serve_cli package to the runtime team for review.
  • .pre-commit-config.yaml: Adds _net.py to common and legacy file selections.
  • legacy-files.txt: Adds _net.py to the legacy file inventory.
  • pyproject.toml: Excludes _net.py from Ruff formatting.
  • ruff-legacy.toml: Includes _net.py in legacy Ruff checks.
  • tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py: Routes listeners through shared utilities while retaining listener-specific address-family policies and reuse behavior. Verify bind errors, port-0 publication, and multi-frontend port-lock ordering.
  • tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/__init__.py: Adds package documentation; no runtime behavior change is indicated.
  • tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py: Adds address-family selection, binding, error diagnostics, and bound-address publication. Verify policy behavior, socket cleanup on failure, and error reporting.
  • tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/server.py: Uses the shared "first" policy for the trial bind and retains socket.create_server.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the network and CLI-wiring tests and retains the report-address test in the CPU test list.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py: Tests address-family policies, bind options and cleanup, listener policies, port publication, and port-lock ordering. Listed in the CPU test list.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_wiring.py: Tests CLI option wiring and launcher routing for the listed serving modes. Listed in the CPU test list.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_report_addr.py: Updates helper imports and patches while retaining address-reporting and bind-failure coverage. Listed in the CPU test list.

Description

Every listener that trtllm-serve binds chose its address family and set up its socket in its own copy of the same code: the OpenAI HTTP server and the VisualGen server resolved the host and picked IPv6 only when nothing else came back, the disaggregated server, its coordinator and its fleet workers always bound IPv4, and OpenEngine's pre-start trial bind took the first getaddrinfo result. This PR creates the package tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/, which the trtllm-serve command line moves into over the next PRs, and gives it a first module, _net.py: the four private listener helpers of commands/serve.py (_publish_bound_address, _diagnose_port_in_use, _bind_failure, _listener_address_family) move there unchanged, _listener_address_family gains a policy parameter that names the three policies above ("auto", "ipv4", "first") with the reason for the fixed IPv4 family written in its docstring, and a new _bind_listener replaces the four copies of "create the socket, set SO_REUSEADDR (and SO_REUSEPORT), bind, report a failure". The address-family policy and its reasons now live in one place; making the policies one would be a behavior change and is deliberately not done here.

Part of the trtllm-serve refactor (epic TRTLLM-17056, task TRTLLM-17271: CLI and config). Builds on "Cherry-pick #20230: Use node IPs for perf-sanity disagg servers and report unresolvable bind hosts" (#20556), which introduced _bind_failure and _listener_address_family.

Behavior

No behavior change. Each of the six listeners keeps its address-family policy, its SO_REUSEPORT choice, its error text and its socket lifetime:

Listener Address family SO_REUSEPORT Before After
OpenAI HTTP server (launch_server) resolve; IPv6 only if every result is IPv6 ("auto") when it is the launcher of several frontends or an attached frontend inline socket, options, bind, _bind_failure _listener_address_family("server", …) then with port_lock, _bind_listener("server", …, reuse_port=…) as s
VisualGen server (launch_visual_gen_server) "auto" no inline _bind_listener("VisualGen server", …)
single disaggregated server (disaggregated) always IPv4 ("ipv4") no inline, AF_INET _listener_address_family(…, policy="ipv4"), _bind_listener("disaggregated server", …)
coordinator (_serve_coordinator_and_fleet) "ipv4" no inline, AF_INET, close() on failure _bind_listener("coordinator", …, family=_listener_address_family(…, policy="ipv4"))
fleet worker (_run_fleet_worker_impl) "ipv4" always inline, AF_INET only the family comes from _listener_address_family(…, policy="ipv4"); its own options, bind and RuntimeError stay
OpenEngine trial bind (grpc/openengine/server.py) first getaddrinfo result ("first") no inline getaddrinfo(...)[0][0] _listener_address_family("OpenEngine server", …, policy="first"); socket.create_server stays

Why the last two keep their own bind: through the helper the fleet worker would gain a port-holder diagnosis and an error log and its message would change; OpenEngine's socket.create_server sets IPV6_V6ONLY and calls listen(), so a trial bind through the helper would detect conflicts differently.

Differences that are not observable: in launch_server the port assertion runs before the socket is created instead of after, and therefore also before _reserve_multi_frontend_port (both after the host lookup, so an unresolvable host with port 0 still reports the lookup failure first; the assertion cannot fail while the launcher reserves the port, because the port == 0 or report_addr with several frontends guard raises click.BadParameter before the lookup); getsockname() moved out of the try that catches bind errors (it does not raise on a bound socket); the coordinator diagnoses the port holder before closing the failed socket instead of after (a socket whose bind failed holds no port); when setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR) fails on the coordinator socket the helper closes the socket, where the explicit socket used to be leaked (the OSError propagates unchanged in both cases; on a fresh TCP socket this option cannot fail on Linux); the SO_REUSEADDR comments of three sites are replaced by the helper's docstring. The reason for the fixed IPv4 family (a hostname whose AAAA record is link-local resolves to fe80:: with scope id 0, which the kernel rejects; first recorded in "disagg: bind the coordinator with AF_INET" #19544, nvbugs/6812588) is now the "ipv4" paragraph of _listener_address_family's docstring.

Layering: grpc/openengine/server.py imports a private helper from tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py. The module is a leaf (os, socket, tempfile, contextlib, the TRT-LLM logger; nothing from the CLI or from tensorrt_llm.serve), grpc/smg/server.py already imports from tensorrt_llm.commands.serve, and grpc/openengine/README.md says internal APIs carry no compatibility guarantee for the adapter. If the OpenEngine owners prefer to keep the trial bind as it was, that one line is dropped and the rest stands.

Not touched here: the copies of the "auto" policy in tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py (reserve_multi_frontend_port, reserve_mpi_worker_port), which mirror the HTTP server's family choice to reserve ports; _reserve_multi_frontend_port (the launcher's port probe) and _bind_launcher_uds (a Unix socket), which are not listeners.

Open PRs that edit the same lines, and what each does after this lands:

Moves

Pure-move check
## Move spec

```yaml
moves:
- from: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py
  to: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py
  group: B
  symbols:
  - _publish_bound_address
  - _diagnose_port_in_use
  - _bind_failure
  - _listener_address_family
added:
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py::AddressFamilyPolicy
  reason: Literal type of the policy parameter
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py::_bind_listener
  reason: the bind helper shared by the HTTP server, the VisualGen server, the single
    disaggregated server and the coordinator listener
changed_in_move:
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py::_listener_address_family
  reason: 'policy parameter: auto (unchanged body), ipv4, first; the docstring carries
    the reason of #19544 for the fixed IPv4 family'
modified:
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py::launch_server
  reason: the HTTP server listener binds through _bind_listener; same address-family
    policy and SO_REUSEPORT choice
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py::launch_visual_gen_server
  reason: the VisualGen listener binds through _bind_listener; same address-family
    policy
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py::disaggregated
  reason: the single disaggregated server binds through _bind_listener with the fixed
    IPv4 policy
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py::_serve_coordinator_and_fleet
  reason: the coordinator listener binds through _bind_listener with the fixed IPv4
    policy
- symbol: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py::_run_fleet_worker_impl
  reason: the fleet worker takes its address family from the shared policy function
    and keeps its own bind
rewrite_internal_imports: true
```

Pure-move check: base cd083ff7de7b, head 19c3bf510bdd, tools dbe72ce65eef

| Symbol | From | To | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| `_run_fleet_worker_impl` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | modified (declared) |
| `_serve_coordinator_and_fleet` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | modified (declared) |
| `disaggregated` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | modified (declared) |
| `launch_server` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | modified (declared) |
| `launch_visual_gen_server` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | modified (declared) |
| `_bind_failure` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | verbatim |
| `_diagnose_port_in_use` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | verbatim |
| `_listener_address_family` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | changed in move (declared) |
| `_publish_bound_address` | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | verbatim |
| `AddressFamilyPolicy` | — | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | added |
| `_bind_listener` | — | tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py | added |

## Added

- `AddressFamilyPolicy`: Literal type of the policy parameter
- `_bind_listener`: the bind helper shared by the HTTP server, the VisualGen server, the single disaggregated server and the coordinator listener

## Changed in move (declared)

- `_listener_address_family`: policy parameter: auto (unchanged body), ipv4, first; the docstring carries the reason of #19544 for the fixed IPv4 family
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
  -def _listener_address_family(kind: str, host: str, port: int) -> socket.AddressFamily:
  -    """The family to bind ``host`` with: IPv6 only if it resolves to nothing else."""
  +def _listener_address_family(kind: str, host: str, port: int, policy: AddressFamilyPolicy='auto') -> socket.AddressFamily:
  +    """The address family a trtllm-serve listener binds ``host`` with.
  +
  +    The three policies differ on purpose; making them one is a behavior
  +    change decided on its own:
  +
  +    - ``"auto"`` (the OpenAI HTTP server, the VisualGen server): IPv6 only if
  +      ``host`` resolves to IPv6 addresses only, otherwise IPv4, so a
  +      dual-stack host binds IPv4. A failed lookup is reported through
  +      _bind_failure().
  +    - ``"ipv4"`` (the disaggregated server, its coordinator, its fleet
  +      workers): always IPv4, without a lookup. When a hostname's AAAA record
  +      is link-local it resolves to fe80:: with scope id 0, which the kernel
  +      rejects with "invalid argument", because the scope can only come from
  +      an interface name.
  +    - ``"first"`` (OpenEngine's pre-start trial bind): the family of the
  +      first getaddrinfo() result; a failed lookup raises socket.gaierror.
  +    """
  +    if policy == 'ipv4':
  +        return socket.AF_INET
  +    if policy == 'first':
  +        return socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, type=socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0][0]
  +    if policy != 'auto':
  +        raise ValueError(f'Unknown address-family policy {policy!r}')
       try:
           addr_info = socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
       except socket.gaierror as e:

## Modified (declared)

- `launch_server`: the HTTP server listener binds through _bind_listener; same address-family policy and SO_REUSEPORT choice
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -19,18 +19,12 @@
               logger.warning('num_serve_frontends > 1: stateful Responses API storage (store/previous_response_id) is disabled; the per-frontend in-memory store cannot be shared across frontends. Pass --num_serve_frontends 1 to keep it.')
           os.environ['TRTLLM_RESPONSES_API_DISABLE_STORE'] = '1'
       address_family = _listener_address_family('server', host, port)
  +    assert port > 0 or disagg_cluster_config is not None or report_addr, 'Port must be specified unless disagg cluster config or --report_addr is provided'
       port_lock = _reserve_multi_frontend_port(host, port, address_family) if multi_frontend.is_launcher else contextlib.nullcontext()
  -    with port_lock, socket.socket(address_family, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
  -        assert port > 0 or disagg_cluster_config is not None or report_addr, 'Port must be specified unless disagg cluster config or --report_addr is provided'
  -        s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
  -        if multi_frontend.is_launcher or multi_frontend.is_attached_frontend:
  -            s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEPORT, 1)
  -        try:
  -            s.bind((host, port))
  -            if port == 0:
  -                port = s.getsockname()[1]
  -        except OSError as e:
  -            raise _bind_failure('server', host, port, e) from e
  +    reuse_port = multi_frontend.is_launcher or multi_frontend.is_attached_frontend
  +    with port_lock, _bind_listener('server', host, port, family=address_family, reuse_port=reuse_port) as s:
  +        if port == 0:
  +            port = s.getsockname()[1]
           _publish_bound_address(report_addr, host, port)
           with _frontend_affinity_sockets(host, port, address_family, multi_frontend, llm_args.get('serve_frontend_affinity_port_stride'), _diagnose_port_in_use) as (affinity_socket, attached_affinity_sockets), _provision_kv_cache_pool(llm_args, owns_engine=not multi_frontend.is_attached_frontend):
               if backend == 'pytorch':
- `launch_visual_gen_server`: the VisualGen listener binds through _bind_listener; same address-family policy
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -15,12 +15,7 @@
           VisualGen(model=model, args=visual_gen_args)
           return
       address_family = _listener_address_family('VisualGen server', host, port)
  -    with socket.socket(address_family, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
  -        s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
  -        try:
  -            s.bind((host, port))
  -        except OSError as e:
  -            raise _bind_failure('VisualGen server', host, port, e) from e
  +    with _bind_listener('VisualGen server', host, port, family=address_family) as s:
           logger.info(f'Initializing VisualGen ({model})')
           previous_sigterm_handler = signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, _terminate_visual_gen_startup)
           visual_gen_model = None
- `disaggregated`: the single disaggregated server binds through _bind_listener with the fixed IPv4 policy
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -37,14 +37,10 @@
           _serve_coordinator_and_fleet(disagg_cfg, config_file, metadata_server_config_file, metadata_server_cfg, request_timeout, server_start_timeout, num_workers)
           return
       os.environ[DisaggLauncherEnvs.TLLM_DISAGG_ROLE] = 'server_coordinator'
  -    with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
  -        s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
  -        try:
  -            s.bind((disagg_cfg.hostname, disagg_cfg.port))
  -            if disagg_cfg.port == 0:
  -                disagg_cfg.port = s.getsockname()[1]
  -        except OSError as e:
  -            raise _bind_failure('disaggregated server', disagg_cfg.hostname, disagg_cfg.port, e) from e
  +    address_family = _listener_address_family('disaggregated server', disagg_cfg.hostname, disagg_cfg.port, policy='ipv4')
  +    with _bind_listener('disaggregated server', disagg_cfg.hostname, disagg_cfg.port, family=address_family) as s:
  +        if disagg_cfg.port == 0:
  +            disagg_cfg.port = s.getsockname()[1]
           _publish_bound_address(report_addr, disagg_cfg.hostname, disagg_cfg.port)
           server = OpenAIDisaggServer(config=disagg_cfg, req_timeout_secs=request_timeout, server_start_timeout_secs=server_start_timeout, metadata_server_cfg=metadata_server_cfg, metrics_interval_secs=metrics_log_interval)
           if os.getenv('TRTLLM_DISAGG_SERVER_DISABLE_GC', '1') == '1':
- `_serve_coordinator_and_fleet`: the coordinator listener binds through _bind_listener with the fixed IPv4 policy
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -12,13 +12,7 @@
       use_uds = os.environ.get(DisaggWorkerEnvs.TLLM_DISAGG_COORDINATOR_UDS, '1') == '1'
       coord_uds = f'/tmp/trtllm_disagg_coord_{public_port}.sock' if use_uds else None
       coord_url = f'unix:{coord_uds}' if coord_uds else f'http://{public_host}:{coord_port}'
  -    coord_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  -    coord_socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
  -    try:
  -        coord_socket.bind((public_host, coord_port))
  -    except OSError as e:
  -        coord_socket.close()
  -        raise _bind_failure('coordinator', public_host, coord_port, e) from e
  +    coord_socket = _bind_listener('coordinator', public_host, coord_port, family=_listener_address_family('coordinator', public_host, coord_port, policy='ipv4'))
       fleet = _launch_disagg_fleet(disagg_cfg, config_file, metadata_server_config_file, request_timeout, server_start_timeout, num_workers, coord_url)
   
       def _client_factory(router, role, max_retries=1):
- `_run_fleet_worker_impl`: the fleet worker takes its address family from the shared policy function and keeps its own bind
  --- base
  +++ head
  @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
       _init_fleet_worker_process()
       server = _build_disagg_server_from_env()
       host, port = (server._config.hostname, server._config.port)
  -    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  +    s = socket.socket(_listener_address_family('fleet worker', host, port, policy='ipv4'), socket.SOCK_STREAM)
       s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
       s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEPORT, 1)
       try:

3 definitions moved verbatim; 0 differences; 1 changed in move (declared); 2 added; 5 modified (declared); shim exports 0 names

No kept shim and no release-notes entry: the four moved names are private, and private names are never re-exported. commands/serve.py imports back _publish_bound_address and _listener_address_family, which its listeners still call, _diagnose_port_in_use, which no listener calls but _reserve_multi_frontend_port uses and launch_server hands to _frontend_affinity_sockets, and the new _bind_listener; a test that imported _bind_failure or _diagnose_port_in_use from tensorrt_llm.commands.serve, or patched them there, now fails loudly instead of patching nothing, and tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_report_addr.py is retargeted to tensorrt_llm.commands.serve_cli._net. History: git blame -C -C tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py.

CI bookkeeping

  • Multi-GPU table: none (no entry under tensorrt_llm/commands/ or tensorrt_llm/grpc/; none added).
  • CODEOWNERS: /tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli @NVIDIA/trt-llm-runtime-devs added after /tensorrt_llm/commands/utils.py.
  • legacy-files.txt: tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py (Group B, like commands/serve.py it comes from); derived configs regenerated with scripts/legacy_utils.py gen-configs; ruff-legacy-baseline.json: none (no recorded violation moves). commands/serve_cli/__init__.py stays with the main ruff hooks.
  • Test lists: unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py and unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_wiring.py in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml, next to unittest/llmapi/test_serve_report_addr.py.

Test Coverage

New (both cpu_only, registered in l0_cpu.yml):

  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py (22 tests): the three policies and the lookup they make (or must not make); _bind_listener's options, bind, failure report and close-on-failure with fake sockets; test_every_listener_keeps_its_policy, eight cases over the six listeners (the HTTP server with one frontend, as the launcher of two, as an attached frontend; the VisualGen server; the single disaggregated server; the coordinator; a fleet worker; OpenEngine's trial bind) asserting the policy each asks for and its SO_REUSEPORT choice; the port-0 readback of the HTTP server and of the single disaggregated server (the kernel-assigned port is what gets published and, for the disaggregated server, written back into its config); and the launcher's port lock being held across the listener bind. Planted defects that these three catch, each by the named test: the readback dropped at either site, and the lock released before the bind.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_wiring.py (6 tests): trtllm-serve serve (every server-side option with a distinct value, sleep mode, the default subcommand, the VisualGen route), mm_embedding_serve and embeddings driven through their click entry points, with the launcher replaced by a recorder and every value checked by parameter name.

Run on a CPU-only host against this branch (no GPU; GPU end-to-end tests are left to CI):

  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_wiring.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_report_addr.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_sleep_mode.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_visual_gen_startup_shutdown.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_disagg_leader_lifecycle.py -q: 67 passed, 8 failed; the 8 are every case of test_disagg_leader_lifecycle.py::test_disaggregated_leader_reclaims_proxy_and_descendant, and they fail identically on the unchanged base commit on this host (the test's child interpreters import tensorrt_llm against compiled artifacts older than main), so they are left to CI.
  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/llmapi/test_disagg_telemetry_launcher.py -q: 13 passed.
  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/grpc/openengine -q: 437 passed, 15 failed; the 15 are the eight test_frontend_lifecycle.py::test_frontend_group_cleanup cases and the seven test_metrics.py::test_prometheus_contract cases, which start child interpreters; the same 15 node ids fail on the unchanged base commit on this host (compiled artifacts older than main), so they are left to CI.
  • pytest tests/unittest/grpc/test_grpc_optional.py -q: 16 passed, 2 failed (test_protobuf_warning_in_fresh_process[python|upb], a fresh interpreter); the same 2 fail on the unchanged base; left to CI.
  • pytest tests/unittest/api_stability -q: 64 passed (includes test_serve_cli.py).
  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_num_frontends_default.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_context_only_settings.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_config_database.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_frontend_affinity.py tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_port_reservation.py -q: 1274 passed, 62 failed; all 62 are test_config_database.py checks of the curated YAMLs (default-valued leaves, KV cache block reuse), unrelated to this change, and the same 62 node ids fail on the unchanged base; every test of the other five files passes (test_serve_context_only_settings.py binds real sockets through the new helper).
  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/disaggregated -q: 1791 passed, 5 skipped, 2 xfailed, 4 failed; the 4 are test_kv_transfer_fail_stop.py cases whose child interpreters hit the compiled-op import error, and the same 4 fail on the unchanged base; left to CI.
  • pytest -m cpu_only tests/unittest/llmapi/apps -q: 2602 passed, 8 failed (test_serve_lazy_import.py ×3, test_render_standalone.py ×4, test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py::test_bounded_shutdown_cancels_handler_then_runs_lifespan_shutdown), all tests that start a fresh interpreter, which hits the compiled-op import error on this host; the same 8 node ids fail on the unchanged base commit, so they are left to CI.
  • Patch interception: with _net._diagnose_port_in_use temporarily raising, test_serve_report_addr.py and test_serve_cli_net.py still pass (45 tests), so every test patch of the diagnosis reaches the moved code; reverted.
  • Five CI-registered files after the rebase onto the latest main (test_serve_cli_net.py, test_serve_cli_wiring.py, test_serve_report_addr.py, test_disagg_telemetry_launcher.py, test_serve_context_only_settings.py, -m cpu_only): 93 passed.
  • Pure-move check on the head commit: exit 0; 3 definitions moved verbatim; 0 differences; 1 changed in move (declared); 2 added; 5 modified (declared); shim exports 0 names; the three verbatim definitions are also byte-identical between the base serve.py and _net.py.
  • Property check of _listener_address_family and _bind_listener (Hypothesis, 200 generated inputs per property, lookup and socket constructor replaced per example): 9 properties hold, among them "the auto policy agrees with the definition it replaces, taken from the base commit"; a mutation gate planted 13 bugs in a copy of the module and every one was caught.
  • pre-commit run --files <every changed file>, twice: clean both times.
  • python scripts/legacy_utils.py check-configs: All generated configs are up to date.; grep -c '^tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/' legacy-files.txt → 1.
  • python scripts/test_to_stage_mapping.py --tests unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py (and _wiring.py): CPU-Generic-x86-1, CPU-Generic-x86-2, CPU-Generic-arm-2.
  • git grep -n "socket.socket(" -- tensorrt_llm/commands/: the fleet worker, _net.py's helper, and the three non-listener sockets of _reserve_multi_frontend_port and _bind_launcher_uds.
  • Optional GPU smoke (trtllm-serve <model> --port 0 --report_addr …, trtllm-serve disaggregated -c <num_workers: 2>): not run here (no GPU); covered by the existing GPU e2e tests in CI.

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…th the formatters and CODEOWNERS

Create the package tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/, which the trtllm-serve
command line moves into. Its first module, _net.py, receives code from
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py, so it is listed with the files the legacy
formatters (yapf, isort, autoflake) keep formatting and the derived lint
configs are regenerated. The package belongs to the runtime team in
CODEOWNERS, like commands/serve.py.

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…to commands/serve_cli/_net.py

Move _publish_bound_address, _diagnose_port_in_use, _bind_failure and
_listener_address_family from tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py into
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py unchanged. serve.py imports the
four names back because its listeners still call them; nothing re-exports
them (all four are private). The report-addr test imports the two it uses
from the new module.

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… helper with its policy kept

_listener_address_family takes a policy parameter with the three policies
the listeners use today: auto (IPv6 only if the host resolves to IPv6
addresses only; the OpenAI HTTP server and the VisualGen server), ipv4
(always IPv4 without a lookup; the disaggregated server, its coordinator
and its fleet workers, whose reason -- a link-local AAAA record resolves to
fe80:: with scope id 0, which the kernel rejects -- now lives in the
function's docstring) and first (the family of the first getaddrinfo()
result; OpenEngine's pre-start trial bind).

_bind_listener creates the socket, sets SO_REUSEADDR (and SO_REUSEPORT
when several processes serve one port), binds it, and reports a failure
through _bind_failure, closing the socket. The OpenAI HTTP server, the
VisualGen server, the single disaggregated server and the coordinator bind
through it; the fleet worker keeps its own bind (routing it through the
helper would add a port-holder diagnosis and an error log and change its
message) and OpenEngine keeps socket.create_server (it sets IPV6_V6ONLY
and listens, so a trial bind through the helper would detect conflicts
differently). Both take their family from the policy function.

The report-addr test patches the port-holder diagnosis where _bind_failure
looks it up, in the new module.

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…d the wiring of the LLM subcommands

test_serve_cli_net.py checks the three address-family policies and the bind
helper with fake sockets, and, for each of the eight listener cases (the
OpenAI HTTP server with one frontend, as the launcher of two and as an
attached frontend; the VisualGen server; the single disaggregated server;
the coordinator; a fleet worker; OpenEngine's trial bind), that the
listener asks for the policy it has today and makes the SO_REUSEPORT choice
it makes today.

test_serve_cli_wiring.py drives trtllm-serve serve, mm_embedding_serve and
embeddings through their click entry points with a distinct value for every
server-side option and checks, by parameter name, what reaches the
launcher, so an option wired to the wrong parameter or a shifted positional
argument fails by name.

Both files run in the CPU stage.

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…rt-lock order of the HTTP listener

Three listener tests: a port-0 bind of the OpenAI HTTP server and of the
single disaggregated server publishes the port read back from the bound
socket, not the requested 0; the launcher's port lock is reserved and
entered before the listener bind and left after it, also when the bind
fails. Each pins a line this change moved or re-arranged.

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The change adds shared utilities for listener address selection, binding, error diagnostics, and bound-address reporting. Serving and OpenEngine listener paths use these utilities. New tests cover network behavior and CLI launcher argument wiring.

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Serve CLI listener networking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared listener utilities
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py, tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/__init__.py, .github/CODEOWNERS, .pre-commit-config.yaml, legacy-files.txt, pyproject.toml, ruff-legacy.toml
Adds address-family selection, listener binding, bind diagnostics, and bound-address publishing. Repository ownership and tooling entries include the new module.
Serving and OpenEngine listener integration
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py, tensorrt_llm/grpc/openengine/server.py
Migrates serving and OpenEngine listener paths to the shared utilities. Serving paths use their configured address-family policies and listener binding options.
Listener and CLI validation
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_net.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_cli_wiring.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_report_addr.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml
Adds CPU-only tests for network helpers, listener policies, port reporting, lock behavior, and CLI launcher arguments. The CPU test list includes the new test modules.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Possibly related issues

  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM issue 21032 — The listener-binding changes relate to listener setup, but this PR does not add the requested HTTP metrics endpoint or advertise its address.

Suggested reviewers: chzblych, juney-nvidia

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 128c6

This refactor centralizes listener socket setup while keeping each listener's address-family policy, reuse-port behavior, and cleanup. No unresolved merge-blocking issue was found. Confirm that CI passes, including GPU end-to-end runs, before merging.

Architecture risk: Medium · up to 128c6

The change affects 5 systems.

Changed systems: tensorrt_llm, tests, legacy-files.txt, pyproject.toml, ruff-legacy.toml

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  • observed — tensorrt_llm (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — tests (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — legacy-files.txt (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — pyproject.toml (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in legacy-files.txt: Added tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py to the listed paths.
  • observed — Modified behavior in pyproject.toml: Adds tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py to the Ruff formatter’s generated exclusion list.
  • observed — Modified behavior in ruff-legacy.toml: Adds tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/_net.py to the legacy Ruff include list.
  • observed — Modified behavior in tensorrt_llm/commands/serve_cli/init.py: Added the copyright and Apache 2.0 license notice and a module docstring describing the CLI implementation and identifying its entry point.

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  • inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for tensorrt_llm: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1
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Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the refactor and its main change: creating serve_cli with a shared bind helper for trtllm-serve listeners.
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The disaggregated CLI callback sets the level of the process-wide TRT-LLM
logger and the context of a live usage session before it reaches its
listener. The two tests that run it left the logger at "info" and a live
session's context at "disaggregated" for every later test in the process.
The shared restored_environment fixture now stubs both calls, Logger.set_level
on the class so the undo leaves no attribute on the logger instance, and
set_usage_context in the module that holds the callback; the tests still
exercise only the listener behavior.

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Resolved tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py: kept main's try/finally structure of
_serve_coordinator_and_fleet (owner-only coordinator UDS directory) and bound
the coordinator's TCP socket through _bind_listener with the ipv4 policy, as
this branch does.

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