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[https://nvbugs/6706765][fix] Fix TPOT regression direction and gate perf-sanity on host-time metrics - #18741
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WalkthroughThe performance sanity checks now classify TPOT statistics as metrics to minimize. Performance subprocesses receive environments filtered for MPI, PMIx, and Slurm identity variables. ChangesTPOT metric direction
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| # TPOT is "Time per Output Token (ms)" -- benchmark_serving computes it as | ||
| # (e2e_latency - ttft) / (output_len - 1) -- so it is a latency like its | ||
| # ttft/itl/e2el siblings, not a rate (https://nvbugs/6706765). | ||
| "d_mean_tpot", |
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[MAJOR] TPOT direction flip changes gating verdicts, baseline percentile, and reported diff sign
Moving the TPOT trio to the minimize side changes three test-visible behaviors at once for any lane that names a TPOT statistic in its gate: (1) the gate stops being a no-op, so lanes that were structurally incapable of failing on TPOT can now fail; (2) calculate_baseline_metrics switches from P95 to P5 of the smoothed history, i.e. the bar becomes the best observed day rather than the worst, which is strictly tighter and can fail runs that are merely at the historical mean; (3) s_regression_info now prints the opposite sign for d_*_tpot, so any dashboard/regex or triage habit that reads those deltas from the perf report inverts. None of this is wrong — it is the fix — but it is a change in assertion semantics against existing baseline history, so QA should confirm which lanes currently include a TPOT metric in their gate and whether they stay green on first run after merge.
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tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py:?- No regression test covers the repaired failure modes- The diff changes metric gating and the environment of all five subprocess launch paths but adds no focused test. There should be a case where TPOT rises from 6.08 to 15.24 ms and is asserted to produce a regression with the minimize-direction delta, plus parameterized
trtllm_child_envcases proving rank variables are removed while allocation and unrelated MCA variables remain. Without these tests, the original gating no-op and launcher-specific startup regressions can recur undetected.
- The diff changes metric gating and the environment of all five subprocess launch paths but adds no focused test. There should be a case where TPOT rises from 6.08 to 15.24 ms and is asserted to produce a regression with the minimize-direction delta, plus parameterized
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| _MPI_IDENTITY_ENV_PREFIXES = ( | ||
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[MAJOR] PMIx filtering removes non-identity MCA parameters
trtllm_child_env applies startswith to this entry, so OMPI_MCA_pmix removes every PMIx MCA parameter rather than only the component-selection variable described in the comment. For example, a launcher-provided OMPI_MCA_pmix_base_async_modex=0 is silently removed from every aggregated and disaggregated server/client child; on a deployment relying on that PMIx policy, MPI initialization can fail or hang instead of publishing the server address. This contradicts the deliberately narrow identity-only contract. Match OMPI_MCA_pmix and OMPI_MCA_ess exactly, and enumerate only known identity-bearing subkeys as prefixes.
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Approving so this isn't blocked on me — see the comments above; non-blocking, please address what you agree with before merging.
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benchmark_serving computes TPOT at benchmark_serving.py:183 as
latency_minus_ttft / (output_len - 1) and reports it in milliseconds
(:257-259), so it is a latency like its ttft/itl/e2el siblings. All three of
its statistics nevertheless sat in MAXIMIZE_METRICS, and that membership is
read three times in two opposite senses: _calculate_diff picks the sign of
the reported delta, calculate_baseline_metrics keeps P95 (maximize) or P5
(minimize) of the smoothed history, and check_regression picks which side of
the bar counts as a regression. A metric on the wrong list is wrong in all
three at once.
Measured by driving the real prepare_regressive_test_cases with this bug's
own metric table, before and after:
- d_p99_tpot worsened 2.5x (6.08 -> 15.24 ms) and printed diff=+150.66%,
i.e. a 2.5x degradation was reported to a human as a 150% improvement.
- d_mean_tpot worsened 10.09% and printed diff=+10.09%.
- A gate naming either one could never fire: the maximize branch tests
new < baseline*(1 - threshold), which a rising latency never satisfies.
Both now fire on those same inputs.
- With one stall day in history, d_median_tpot's baseline was pinned at
P95 = 7.327 instead of P5 = 5.000, a 1.47x laxer bar.
This strictly strengthens the gate; it does not silence the reported run. The
default gate is d_token_throughput + d_total_token_throughput, which have no
TPOT member, so the reported -16.3% throughput excursion still fires both
before and after this change. That excursion is a genuine measurement whose
shape is medians-flat-or-better with tails blown out (median TPOT was 11%
better, median TTFT flat to 0.00%, p99 TTFT 27x), the case is labelled flaky
by CI with 2 post-merge failures in 30 days, and the assigned engineer's
comment reaches the same reading. Deciding how much margin or what broader
statistic that warrants is an owner call about the shared perf gate, so it is
left to them rather than widened here.
The two direction lists still partition all 22 parsed metrics exactly (5 + 17,
no overlap, no gaps, no orphans), so no metric became silently uncheckable,
and every gated name in REGRESSION_METRICS and GEN_ONLY_REGRESSION_METRICS
remains one check_regression iterates. The README metric table is corrected to
match. Tests go in the existing sibling helper file and grade the verdict, the
reported sign and the baseline percentile through the real pipeline rather
than asserting list membership; all four fail on the pre-fix tree.
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…anity children
The perf-sanity harness handed `copy.deepcopy(os.environ)` straight to every
`subprocess.Popen` it uses to start a `trtllm-serve` server or a benchmark
client. When pytest itself runs under an MPI launcher, that env carries the
launcher's rank identity (`OMPI_COMM_WORLD_*`, `OMPI_MCA_ess*`,
`OMPI_MCA_orte_*`, `PMIX_*`, `SLURM_PROCID`, ...).
`tensorrt_llm/_utils.py` does `from mpi4py import MPI` at module scope, so
`MPI_Init_thread` runs on import, before the child has done anything of its own.
With an inherited identity it tries to (re-)join the launcher's job and aborts on
a NULL communicator. For the server that happens before `launch_server` can bind
its socket and publish `--report_addr`, so the only symptom is an exit code:
RuntimeError: server exited with code 1 before reporting its address
The benchmark client dies the same way, leaving an empty results log.
Add `trtllm_child_env` and apply it at all five sites that `Popen` a child which
imports `tensorrt_llm`: the aggregated server and its client, the disagg ctx/gen
worker, the disagg server, and the disagg benchmark client. (The `lm_eval`
accuracy invocation does not import `tensorrt_llm` and is left alone.)
The strip is deliberately narrower than the library's own `split_mpi_env`, which
drops every `OMPI_MCA_*` and `SLURM_*`. Some of those describe the *allocation*
rather than this process's place in it, and a child that runs its own
`MPI_Comm_spawn` sizes itself through them -- OMPI's Slurm resource allocator
requires `SLURM_NODELIST` and `SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE` by name -- so dropping them
only converts the abort into `MPI_ERR_SPAWN`. Identity and session wire-up go;
the allocation description stays. Two entries look like inert tuning but are not:
`mpirun` exports `OMPI_MCA_ess=^singleton` and
`OMPI_MCA_pmix=^s1,s2,cray,isolated`, negated component lists that forbid exactly
the standalone components a fresh top-level process must select.
This is the discipline the library already applies before `Popen`ing its own
children (`split_mpi_env` at three call sites in
`tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py`, and the `mpi_blacklist` subshell in
`tensorrt_llm/llmapi/trtllm-llmapi-launch`), applied at the harness's own launch
sites.
Scope: this does not change the CI verdict for the reported run. CI already
arrives with a clean env -- `jenkins/scripts/slurm_run.sh` unsets these families
for single-node stages and for the disagg BENCHMARK / DISAGG_SERVER roles, and
multi-node roles reach pytest through `trtllm-llmapi-launch` -- so the strip is a
no-op there, and the -16.3% throughput excursion remains a measurement on a case
CI labels flaky. What it removes is the harness's dependence on one of those two
wrappers having run, which is what makes the lane fail immediately when
reproduced by hand.
Measured: with the server site fixed, the server publishes its address
(`Reported bound address localhost:36655`), selects `MpiPoolSession` rather than
binding to the launcher's world, loads FP8 weights, answers `/health`, and shuts
down cleanly with zero `orte_init` / `MPI_Init_thread` markers -- and the failure
moved to the benchmark client, which is why the client sites are included.
Three tests pin the two halves separately: every identity variable is dropped,
every allocation fact survives, and unrelated variables ride through. Graded A/B
-- the pre-fix behaviour leaks all 17 identity variables, and the library's
broader prefix list drops all 11 allocation facts; only this list satisfies both.
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| Applied to every child this module ``Popen``s that imports ``tensorrt_llm``: | ||
| the servers AND the benchmark client, for the reason given above the two | ||
| constant lists. The library applies the same discipline before ``Popen``ing | ||
| its own children (``split_mpi_env`` in ``tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py``, the | ||
| ``mpi_blacklist`` subshell in ``tensorrt_llm/llmapi/trtllm-llmapi-launch``), | ||
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Filter the connection-warmup child environment too.
When an e2e disaggregated test runs under mpirun or srun, DisaggTestCmds._run_connection_warmup copies os.environ at Line 3297 and launches benchmark_serving at Line 3303. That launch occurs before the filtered measured client. The warmup can therefore inherit the rank identity that this helper removes and fail during MPI initialization. Use trtllm_child_env(os.environ) for the warmup before applying the measured client’s environment. mpi4py normally initializes MPI when its MPI module is imported. (mpi4py.readthedocs.io)
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Summary
MAXIMIZE_METRICSintests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.pylistedd_mean_tpot,d_median_tpot, andd_p99_tpot, but TPOT is a latency —benchmark_servingcomputes it as(e2e_latency - ttft) / (output_len - 1).prepare_regressive_test_casesreads the direction in three places with two opposite senses (_calculate_diffsign, P95-vs-P5 baseline selection incalculate_baseline_metrics, and the pass/fail branch), so the wrong list made TPOT gating a provable no-op — the maximize branch testsnew < baseline*(1-threshold), which a rising latency never satisfies — and reported a 2.5x slowdown (6.08 → 15.24 ms p99) asdiff=+150.66%, an improvement. Separately, the perf-sanity harness Popen'd the server child with a verbatimos.environ, so launcher-side MPI/PMIx rank identity leaked into a fresh top-level process whoseimport tensorrt_llmrunsMPI_Init_thread, aborting on a NULL communicator beforelaunch_servercould bind its socket and publish--report_addr.MAXIMIZE_METRICStoMINIMIZE_METRICSalongside their TTFT/ITL/E2EL siblings, and documented inREADME_test_perf_sanity.mdwhy direction is load-bearing in all three read sites rather than cosmetic. Added a deliberately narrow environment strip for the server/client child spawn — narrower than the library's ownsplit_mpi_env(), keeping allocation-describing vars such asSLURM_TASKS_PER_NODEand theOMPI_MCA_rmaps_*/hwlocplacement policy the child's ownMPI_Comm_spawnneeds to size itself — so only vars asserting this process's rank identity are dropped. The strip is a no-op in CI, which already arrives clean viaslurm_run.sh:83/trtllm-llmapi-launch, and was validated on-node by the server publishingReported bound address localhost:36655, selectingMpiPoolSession, loading FP8 weights, and answering/healthwith zeroorte_init/MPI_Init_threadmarkers (vs 3+ before).pytest tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py::test_e2e[aggr_upload-host_perf_deepseek_v3_lite-v3lite_fp8_bs8_128_256] --output-dir=build/perf_output -vTest plan
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d_mean_tpot,d_median_tpot, andd_p99_tpotmove toMINIMIZE_METRICS. This aligns TPOT deltas and regression gating with its latency semantics.trtllm_child_envremoves inherited MPI/PMIx identity prefixes and listed Slurm rank and step variables. It filters environments for aggregated and disaggregated server, worker, and benchmark-client launches.mpirunorsrunenvironments. Test execution results were not supplied.QA Engineer Review
test_perf_sanity.pychanges TPOT classification and the environments passed to child processes. Itstest_e2ecases appear in test-db CI lists and QA manual-QA lists. No added test functions or test IDs are established by the supplied source excerpts.README_test_perf_sanity.mddocuments the TPOT latency classification and its effect on metric deltas and regression checks.Per-File QA Perspective
tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py: Verify TPOT delta signs and regression verdicts. Verify that filtered child environments retain required allocation and placement variables and allow server, worker, and benchmark-client startup in aggregated and disaggregated modes. The existingtest_e2ecases are present in CI and manual-QA lists.tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md: Verify that the metric counts and TPOT explanation match the implementation.