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Description

KV capacity profiling uses context requests that need not produce a full batch of logits (profiling requests). An eager serving step can produce many more rows, while the model-dtype LM-head output and its FP32 conversion coexist (LogitsProcessor.forward).

Account for that working set before sizing the KV cache. The row bound respects the token budget, batch size, beam width and speculative tokens per step. Deduct one row when profiling ran, reserve nothing on intermediate pipeline ranks, and avoid counting a conversion copy for FP32 output.

Read ordinary logits metadata from the constructed head. Headless context-handoff processors can report their own per-row footprint: their FP32 sampler storage has no LM-head projection or conversion copy. Resolve producer/head ownership through modern, legacy and compiled wrappers, including a processor on the parent and head on its child. This does not add a fallback for missing vocabulary metadata or require changes to ordinary processor classes. These paths are exercised by test_kv_capacity_reserves_eager_logits below.

This revisits the accounting approach in the closed #20826 rather than changing the workload or lowering a test-specific KV fraction. No new dependencies or public configuration fields are added; the change is limited to Python memory accounting and its CPU tests.

Fixes https://nvbugs/7067295

Test Coverage

Paired verification uses source base 6fc7f47a322d88037ffe9eca6913526f1f05a4fb, four H100 GPUs, BF16, EP4/TP4, and the following existing test IDs in one pytest process per arm:

Test	Before	After
perf/test_perf.py::test_perf[qwen3.5_122b_a10b-bench-pytorch-bfloat16-input_output_len:128,128-ep:4-tp:4-gpus:4]	CUDA OOM at logits.float()	Pass
perf/test_perf.py::test_perf[qwen3.5_122b_a10b-bench-pytorch-bfloat16-input_output_len:500,2000-ep:4-tp:4-gpus:4]	CUDA OOM at logits.float()	Pass
perf/test_perf.py::test_perf[qwen3.5_122b_a10b-bench-pytorch-bfloat16-input_output_len:2000,500-ep:4-tp:4-gpus:4]	Not run	Pass

The commands retain 512 warmup requests, 512 measured requests, maximum batch 512, token budget 2048 and KV fraction 0.9. These cases are selected by tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_perf_core.yml.

CPU coverage, run with CUDA devices hidden:

• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py::test_kv_capacity_reserves_eager_logits: 14 allocation-budget assertions fail on the original estimator; two controls pass before and after; all 16 cases pass after. It exercises real construction, profiling-request preparation and capacity configuration, including beams, speculation, token limits, FP32 output, skipped profiling and wrapper layouts. The retained/pruned pair constructs the real model wrapper over a checkpoint-compute stub, runs its pruning hook, and checks the actual FP32 handoff output before asserting the budget.
• The estimation, dual-pool and Helix-superblock CPU files pass together: 243 baseline tests; 259 after including the 16 new cases. The parent unittest/_torch/pyexecutor entry in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml selects this regression test.

The native wheel uses the checked-in CI image/build options with Hopper SM90 architecture selection. The revised arm uses the same native build with the Python changes overlaid; no second native compilation or numerical throughput comparison is claimed.

PR Checklist

• Description explains the issue and change.
• Relevant new code paths have regression coverage selected by CPU CI.
• Existing workload sizes, warmup and KV-fraction settings are unchanged.
• No public API/configuration changes, new dependencies or ownership changes.
• Coding-guideline and pre-commit checks run; the separate file-list Pyrefly report has no remaining changed-line diagnostics.

Dev Engineer Review

The KV-cache estimator now reserves eager logits memory on the last pipeline-parallel rank. It bounds the row count by token budget, batch size, beam width, and speculative tokens, and subtracts one row when profiling ran. The estimate accounts for model-dtype logits and their FP32 conversion; the context-only processor reports its FP32 row size. This reserve reduces the available KV-cache budget. No public configuration fields or API changes are reported.

QA Engineer Review

Two test files changed. test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py adds the parameterized test_kv_capacity_reserves_eager_logits cases for row limits, dtype, profiling, pipeline rank, and model/head layouts. test_kv_cache_estimation.py updates mock model setup. The described tests cover the main sizing behavior and relevant zero-reserve conditions; coverage verdict: sufficient. Neither test file appears in the test-list search results. The supplied validation report states that all 16 new CPU cases passed, and reports 259 passing tests across the three CPU files; paired H100 verification also reports that the previously OOMing performance cases passed after the change.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_deepseekv41.py: Verify that context-only handoff logits reserve one FP32 row per token. The method reports storage from the vocabulary size.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py: Verify the eager row bound, profiling adjustment, last-rank condition, dtype accounting, and the addition to peak memory before KV-cache sizing.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py: Tests reserve sizing across model and head layouts, speculative decoding, profiling, and pipeline ranks. No matching CI or manual-QA test-list entry appeared in the search results.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py: Updates estimation-test mocks with logits-related fields. No matching CI or manual-QA test-list entry appeared in the search results.

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Walkthrough

The change estimates eager logits working memory and adds a bounded reserve to peak memory before KV-cache capacity is calculated. The reserve applies on the final pipeline-parallel rank. Tests cover row limits, dtype sizing, profiling, and model paths.

Changes

KV-cache capacity sizing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Calculate eager logits reserve tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_deepseekv41.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py	The context-only logits processor reports the memory for one FP32 logits row. The reserve calculation bounds the row count by the token limit and batch, beam, and generation-step limits; it returns zero off the final pipeline rank and accounts for an already-profiled row.
Apply and validate reserve tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py	Capacity configuration adds the reserve to peak memory and logs it when nonzero. Tests cover the reserve calculation and update the expected KV-cache budget to subtract logits memory.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CapacityConfig as configure_kv_cache_capacity
  participant ReserveCalc as _get_eager_logits_memory_reserve
  participant Processor as LogitsProcessor
  CapacityConfig->>ReserveCalc: profiling status
  ReserveCalc->>Processor: request per-token memory estimate
  Processor-->>ReserveCalc: bytes per logits row
  ReserveCalc-->>CapacityConfig: eager logits reserve
  CapacityConfig->>CapacityConfig: add reserve to peak memory

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Suggested reviewers: schetlur-nv, lori-ren

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7e446

The change reserves eager logits memory before KV-cache sizing on the final pipeline rank. No concrete merge-blocking defect was established in the reviewed code or tests.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7e446

The change reserves GPU memory before cache allocation without adding an external interface or privileges. No introduced security issue was established, but incomplete coverage limits assurance across all supported configurations.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant failure domain is GPU-memory availability during executor construction and subsequent serving under its configured capacity. The source establishes rank-aware accounting, but unavailable deployment and co-tenancy information prevents determining the maximum shared-service availability impact.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The production sizing path receives batch, beam, token, and speculative limits from startup configuration and reads logits metadata from the constructed model. The new callback does not introduce an independently request-controlled invocation or change the existing authority of model code.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

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Linked Issues check		The only directly linked issue, #20826, is closed and provides historical context only. No active directly linked issue remains, so no linked-issue coding requirements apply.
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• tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_deepseekv41.py
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py

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[JunyiXu-nv]

Runtime part LGTM: the row bound, the FP32 copy accounting and the wrapper lookup look right (modeling_v2 and VLM wrappers resolve to an LMHead), and it merges cleanly with #21334. One non-blocking question inline about the KV capacity this takes at default settings.

[JunyiXu-nv]

Non-blocking: this reserve now comes out of KV capacity for every deployment, not only where the eager OOM hit. At the default max_batch_size 2048 / max_num_tokens 8192 it is about 1.5 GiB for Llama-3.1 or DeepSeek-V3, and 5.9 GiB for DeepSeek-V3 with MTP-3 (8192 rows x 129280 x 6 B), on the last PP rank. It is added on top of the profiled peak, so it is an upper bound. Is that cost intended?

[sunnyqgg]

Thanks for tracking this OOM down. Summary: 4 blockers, 3 possibly blocking, 4 required, 9 nice-to-have; all inline except the two bullets below. The blockers are places where the new reserve still does not cover the eager logits working set it targets: non-last PP ranks, context-logits / prompt_logprobs steps, an FP32 LM head under TP, and sampler copies for beam search / processed log-probs / vanilla MTP. The possibly-blocking items are KV capacity the reserve takes without need; each names the measurement that decides it.

• [Possibly blocking] +1 to JunyiXu-nv's thread on tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py:1676 about the default-path cost: about 1.3 GiB of KV per GPU for Llama-3.1 and 5.3 GiB for DeepSeek-V3 with MTP-3 at max_batch_size 2048 / max_num_tokens 8192, stacked on a profiled peak whose activations are already freed when the logits are allocated. Two data points would settle it. (1) In the failing Qwen3.5-122B run, compare the profiled "Memory dynamically allocated during inference" with the ~0.71 GiB logits working set: if the transient is larger, a max(0, logits_ws - profiled_transient) bound would not have prevented the OOM, so the logits are not the whole story. (2) Non-hybrid models already run a max_batch_size eager generation step in the final warmup right after the KV pool is allocated (warmup.py:322-330, 513-526), but that warmup is skipped for MambaHybridCacheManager, guided decoding and Helix (warmup.py:401-406), and Qwen3.5 is in that group; gating the reserve to those configurations may be enough. Either way, please add before/after KV GiB (or blocks) for 2-3 default configurations to the description.
• [Required] The auto-generated CodeRabbit section of the description says neither test file appears in a test list, but tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml:96 (unittest/_torch/pyexecutor, pre-merge) runs both files (pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_only). The PR template asks to make sure a CodeRabbit summary makes sense; please delete or correct those paragraphs.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] Non-last PP ranks also materialize these logits, so returning 0 here leaves the same OOM on those ranks. With PP, DecoderModelForCausalLM.__pp_init__ only swaps lm_head.forward for LMHead.skip_forward (modeling_utils.py:760-762), which returns input.new_empty(input.shape[:-1] + (self.num_embeddings,)) (embedding.py:276-277). DecoderModelForCausalLM.forward (modeling_utils.py:952-957) still runs LogitsProcessor.forward, whose logits = logits.float() allocates the FP32 copy, and runner.py:935-938 notes these placeholders are "discarded, but not free". So every eager step on a non-last rank holds rows x vocab x 6 B, and profiling on those ranks also saw only the dummy's single row.

KV capacity is min-synced across ranks (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:2393-2408), so these ranks inherit the last rank's slack only when the last rank sets the minimum. With an uneven layer split (mapping.py:424-426 gives the extra layers to the first ranks), or with a vision tower on rank 0, a non-last rank sets it and can still OOM at logits.float() on a max-batch eager step. The intermediate-pp test case builds lm_head=None, which is not the production layout, and pins the 0.

Fix: either stop materializing the placeholder and its FP32 copy on non-last ranks (skip the LM head and .float() there; the runner already discards their logits), or apply the same reserve on every PP rank (the skip-forwarded LMHead still has num_embeddings). Then update the test to use the real skip-forwarded head.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] This bound misses steps that carry context logits. Any request with prompt_logprobs (turned into return_context_logits at sampling_params.py:704-717) or with return_context_logits sets gather_context_logits (engine/runners/common.py:268-270). runner.py:904 then passes return_context_logits=True, and LogitsProcessor.forward skips the last-token gather and runs the LM head plus .float() on every scheduled token (logits_processor.py:44-56), up to max_num_tokens rows.

At the defaults (max_batch_size 2048, max_num_tokens 8192) this reserves 2047 rows while such a step produces 8192, about 4.4 GiB unreserved for a 128k vocabulary. These requests can still OOM at logits.float(), the failure this PR fixes, while the docstring says a full eager logits batch is reserved. The profiling dummies do not request context logits (_util.py:1523-1529).

Fix: bound the context-logits path too. For example, compute all-token logits in LogitsProcessor in chunks of at most the reserved row count, or reserve max_num_tokens rows when context logits can be requested. At minimum, state the limitation in the docstring and the PR description.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] With lm_head_output_dtype="float32" and TP >= 2 (no attention DP), this undercounts the head's own peak by more than 2x. The target head is COLUMN-parallel with gather_output=True (modeling_utils.py:709-721), and the GEMM writes the FP32 shard directly (embedding.py:264-267). Linear.forward then all-gathers it (linear.py:4788-4794). Inside _allgather (distributed/ops.py:556-589) three buffers are alive together: the local shard (4V/tp), the all-gather output (4V) and the torch.cat result (4V). That is (8 + 4/tp)V bytes per row, against the 4V reserved here, and .float() is a no-op afterwards.

For example, Llama-3.1-70B at TP4 with batch 512 reserves 0.24 GiB against a peak of about 0.55 GiB, so the max-batch eager step can still OOM, now in the all-gather instead of at logits.float(). BF16 heads are fine: at that moment they hold (4 + 2/tp)V <= 6V. The fp32-head test runs at TP=1 and never reaches the gather.

Fix: for a COLUMN-parallel gathered head with tp_size > 1, use max(out_bytes + conversion_bytes, out_bytes * (2 + 1 / tp_size)) per vocab entry, and add a TP>1 FP32-head test case.

[sunnyqgg]

[Blocker] 6 B per row x vocab covers the head output and one FP32 copy. Several supported paths allocate more full-vocab FP32 tensors while those logits are still alive, and none of them is in the profiled peak (the dummies are greedy one-row context requests, _util.py:1523-1529):

• Beam search: logits / temperature, torch.softmax (when probs are returned) and torch.log_softmax over [batch, beam, V] (beam_search.py:424-434), plus the out-of-place masked_fill at beam_search.py:888.
• logprobs_mode=PROCESSED: an FP32 [rows, V] buffer (sampler.py:1954-1957) plus the probabilities from fused_sample_from_logits_with_probs (sampler.py:1894-1897).
• Vanilla MTP (use_mtp_vanilla or multi-layer MTP, with full-vocab draft logits at TP=1 or with attention DP): raw_logits stays alive (mtp.py:426) while each draft step builds shared_head(...).float() (mtp.py:488-490).

Max-batch eager steps with these options can therefore still OOM right after logits.float(), although the startup log says the logits working set is reserved.

Fix: size the bytes per row from the phases the configuration enables (for example, add 8-12 B per vocab entry when max_beam_width > 1 or processed log-probs are possible). Alternatively, measure one max-batch eager generation step during profiling instead of deriving it from a formula. At minimum, list what is covered in the docstring and the log line.

[sunnyqgg]

[Possibly blocking] For NGram, user-provided drafters and save-hidden-states, this subtracts one row from a working set that the profile already contains in full. These modes get a base SpecMetadata whose gather_ids is always set (speculative/utils.py:515-521, inputs.py:2680-2684), so the runner calls the model with return_context_logits=gather_ids is not None or ... (runner.py:901-905). They are not one-engine (interface.py:374-376), so spec_worker stays None and the target runs logits_processor.forward(..., return_context_logits=True) over every token (modeling_speculative.py:2000-2006). With max_concurrency=None, spec decode is on during profiling (drafter.py:52-53), so the profiled max_num_tokens-token dummy already peaked with about max_num_tokens x V x 6 B of logits.

The reserve then adds up to max_num_tokens - 1 rows again. For Llama-3.1-8B with NGram max_draft_len=3 at the defaults, that charges 8191 x 128256 x 6 B (about 5.9 GiB) a second time, leaving about 5.3 GiB less KV per GPU. On the skip-estimation path these modes are under-reserved instead: they produce up to max_num_tokens rows, not max_batch_size x (1 + draft).

Fix: when the target computes all-token logits (a spec config is set and not spec_dec_mode.use_one_engine()), treat max_num_tokens rows as profiled. That means reserving 0 after profiling and max_num_tokens rows when estimation is skipped. Alternatively, subtract the rows the profiling forward actually produced instead of 1.

Measurement that decides it: on one H100-80GB, run Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with NGram max_draft_len=3, default max_batch_size and max_num_tokens, and fraction 0.9. Compare "Estimated max memory in KV cache" before and after, and run trtllm-bench throughput at concurrency 512 on both builds. A KV drop of several GiB with no OOM on the base build makes this a blocker.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] This test and its four fakes would fit better in test_kv_cache_estimation.py, next to the other reserve tests. Here, a module-level V4.1 import that breaks would stop collection of every dual-pool test. Consider these changes:

• import V4.1 lazily inside the context-only branch;
• split the 10-positional-parameter table into row-bound, bytes-per-row and layout tests with keyword parameters and named constants (instead of 7 * 64 * 6 and 48 << 20);
• rename logits_path to model_layout;
• give each fake a one-line docstring naming the production layout it mirrors;
• use Mock(spec=ModelEngine) for the engine.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] py_executor is not None and not self._skip_est now appears three times in this function (also at lines 1958 and 2120-2121). Compute profiled once at the top and reuse it, so the three reserves cannot drift apart.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] This returns bytes per output row (one per sequence; the caller multiplies it by logits rows), not per token. Consider naming it get_logits_bytes_per_row, with a docstring saying that KvCacheCreator multiplies it by the maximum rows per eager step instead of reading the LM head.

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] Please make the docstring say what this returns and covers:

• it returns bytes, and 0 on non-last PP ranks (and why);
• the row bound and the bytes per row;
• the value is stacked on the profiled peak as an upper bound;
• what it does not cover (context-logits steps, sampler copies).

[sunnyqgg]

[Nice to have] Nothing on this path reads model.vocab_size_padded or model_config.lm_head_output_dtype: the reserve reads only lm_head.* and logits_processor, and _cal_max_memory is patched here. The same goes for engine.model.vocab_size_padded in test_dual_pool_kv_cache.py. Keep only the lm_head and logits_processor stubs, so the setup matches the "read from the constructed head" design.