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Frontend resolution and validation tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py |
The CLI default is eight frontends. The serving command resolves the effective count after applying configuration overrides. For listed incompatible configurations, an implicit count falls back to one. Explicit values remain subject to configuration validation. |
Documentation and behavior coverage docs/source/commands/trtllm-serve/trtllm-serve.rst, tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_cli.yaml, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_num_frontends_default.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/openai_server.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml |
Documentation and the CLI reference describe the default and constraints. CPU tests cover count resolution and launch behavior. The remote OpenAI test server adds a single-frontend option unless an explicit count is detected. |
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participant CLI
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CLI->>ServeCommand: Provide frontend options
ServeCommand->>Configuration: Apply CLI and configuration overrides
ServeCommand->>ServeCommand: Resolve effective frontend count
ServeCommand->>launch_server: Pass resolved frontend count
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- NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19394: Changes runtime behavior for multiple frontends, including launcher-owned routing and shared metrics handling.
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The current tests cover YAML merging and default fallback separately. They do not pass an explicit YAML value through the --grpc CLI path. If this guard validates only explicit CLI parameters, num_serve_frontends: 8 from YAML would not be rejected. Add a CPU CLI test in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_num_frontends_default.py that supplies this YAML value with --grpc and asserts the --num_serve_frontends must be 1 error.
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Keeping the LlmArgs field at 1 so a bare LLM() never pays for the fan-out is exactly the right split, and the fallback resolution is careful.
What gives me pause is the upgrade path for someone who never types the flag. Per the description, with 8 frontends /metrics and /prometheus/metrics describe only the frontend that answered, so iteration-derived series see ~1/8 of traffic and counters look like they reset between scrapes — with aggregation left as follow-up. The Responses store also silently turns itself off, and the table shows healthy-after going 54 s to 154 s.
Would it be worth holding the default at 1 until the aggregation work lands, so the flip ships with a correct /metrics? The rest of this I'd take happily on its own.
Required for this PR, I think, rather than a nit — it changes what every existing deployment reports.
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Two things need resolving before this can be the default.
CI test helpers don't pin the old default. tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/openai_server.py:54 launches trtllm-serve on a fixed free port with no --num_serve_frontends, so every suite built on RemoteOpenAIServer now runs 8 frontends. That includes L0 pre-merge cases whose semantics this PR's own description says change with >1 frontend: test_openai_responses (l0_h100) exercises previous_response_id, which multi-frontend mode force-disables, and test_openai_prometheus (l0_a10) reads series that become per-frontend. Please pin --num_serve_frontends 1 in the helper (or in those suites) and add explicit coverage for the 8-frontend path, and budget for 8 Python processes × tokenizer per served model on CI hosts.
Tracking + status. The label is api-breaking and the title is [None] — a default flip that changes process topology for every trtllm-serve user warrants a JIRA. Separately, --num_serve_frontends is still declared status="prototype" and the docs call it that; making a prototype the default path for all users is worth an explicit decision — either promote the status or hold the default.
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The fallback list is missing two configurations that are also single-frontend-only in practice: --metadata_server_config_file and a disagg cluster config.
Every frontend (launcher and attached children) constructs its own OpenAIServer and runs its lifespan, and both registration identities are per-process — llm_id is f"{hostname}-{pid}-{timestamp}" (llm.py:542) and DisaggClusterWorker._worker_id embeds os.getpid() (disagg_auto_scaling.py:296). So a default launch with a metadata server now writes 8 trtllm/<id> etcd keys for one host:port, and a disagg-cluster launch registers 8 workers for one worker. Anything that counts workers, waits for N ready, or round-robins over entries sees this worker 8×. Deregistration has the mirror problem: one frontend exiting removes only its own key while the port is still served by the other 7.
Either add metadata_server_cfg is not None and disagg_cluster_config is not None as fallback reasons, or gate the registration in OpenAIServer's lifespan to the launcher process.
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This function has five branches of pure dict/flag logic and no test. Commit 80ee120 on this branch removed tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_num_frontends_default.py (147 lines) with the note that the api_stability gate and e2e runs cover it — neither does:
- The api_stability reference only asserts the declared integer is 8; it never calls this function.
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--report_addr(test_perf_sanity.py:2907), so it now takes the fallback and runs 1 frontend, i.e. the 8-frontend default gets no e2e exercise there either.
Please restore a CPU unit test parametrized over the four fallback reasons plus the two passthrough cases that matter: requested=True (value must survive so the downstream guard still raises) and a YAML num_serve_frontends: 1 (must be honored, not treated as the default). It runs without a GPU and it is the only thing that will catch a regression here.
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Reject explicit multi-frontend counts for registry-backed serving.
When requested is true, this return bypasses the metadata-server and disaggregated-cluster checks. launch_server then spawns attached frontends without rejecting either configuration. Each frontend constructs an OpenAIServer, so an explicit count above one can register one server or worker more than once instead of failing as the CLI help promises. Reject these combinations before spawning children. Add CLI tests for both explicit conflicts; the current tests stop at a mocked launch_server. As per path instructions, flag “a new or changed validation rule, error path ... with no meaningful test.”
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Recognize equals-form config options.
If a test passes --config=PATH with num_serve_frontends: 3, this check misses the YAML value. RemoteOpenAIServer then appends --num_serve_frontends 1, which overrides the test’s requested count. Parse both --config=PATH and --extra_llm_api_options=PATH, and test one of these forms.
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Check the config that the command will use.
If cli_args supplies a config with num_serve_frontends and extra_config supplies a config without it, this call sees the earlier key and omits the single-frontend flag. The constructor appends the extra_config file after cli_args, so the earlier config does not determine the effective count. The server can start eight frontends when the test expects the helper’s single-frontend default. Check the effective config while still honoring explicit CLI and --set values. Add a test with both config sources.
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…tend fallback Make the plain `trtllm-serve` subcommand run 8 HTTP frontend processes against one executor by default (`--num_serve_frontends`, added in NVIDIA#16523). At high concurrency a single serving process is host-bound on its asyncio loop; several SO_REUSEPORT frontends remove that ceiling. - The LlmArgs field default stays 1: a bare LLM() has no HTTP frontends to fan out to and only trtllm-serve can spawn them, so trtllm-bench / eval / Python users do not pay for the multi-frontend IPC topology. Because 8 != 1 the CLI value survives get_llm_args's default filter; a YAML `num_serve_frontends: 1` still overrides the untyped CLI default. - When the count comes from the default and the configuration can only run one frontend (--port 0 / --report_addr, orchestrator_type, enable_resource_governor, --enable_sleep_mode) or serves gRPC, log why and run 1 frontend instead of failing at startup. An explicit --num_serve_frontends > 1 keeps the loud error. - api_stability reference, new CPU tests (l0_cpu), docs section. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
… default The default and its fallback are covered by the api_stability CLI gate and the e2e runs; keep the PR to the behaviour change. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
- Fall back to one frontend by default with --metadata_server_config_file or a disagg cluster: every frontend registers the server under its own process identity (llm_id, DisaggClusterWorker id), which would list one server once per frontend. - Restore tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_num_frontends_default.py (l0_cpu): every fallback reason, explicit counts reaching the guard that rejects them, CLI / YAML / --set precedence down to the arguments launch_server receives, and a YAML count with --grpc being rejected. - RemoteOpenAIServer keeps test servers at one frontend unless the test picks the count (flag, --set, extra_config or YAML). Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
Drop tests that restate main's behavior or are already covered by test_llm_args.py and test_grpc_optional.py, merge the CLI cases into one table, and shorten comments. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
…t with SO_REUSEPORT Every frontend binds the serving port with SO_REUSEPORT, which lets any socket of the same user that also sets it join the port. With several frontends by default, a second trtllm-serve started on a busy port would silently share the first server's traffic instead of failing. The launcher now probes the port with a plain bind (any listener makes it fail; TIME_WAIT leftovers do not) and holds an abstract Unix socket named after the port while it serves, which also covers a second launcher that starts before the first one listens. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
… state With NVIDIA#19394 merged, /metrics, /kv_cache_events, profiling and the Anthropic batches API are answered by the launcher for the whole server, and /prometheus/metrics covers every frontend. /perf_metrics no longer exists (per-request perf metrics go to per-process files). Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
…erver or disagg cluster The default fell back to one frontend with --metadata_server_config_file or a disagg cluster because every frontend registered the server under its own identity. With NVIDIA#19394 merged, only the launcher registers, so that fallback is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
Shorten the port-guard docstring, the default's comment and the --num_serve_frontends help (the fallback list lives in the docs), and drop the disagg-cluster CLI case, which no longer differs from the default. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
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Description
Follow-up to #16523 (
num_serve_frontends): make the plaintrtllm-servesubcommand run 8 HTTP frontend processes by default instead of 1.Motivation
At high concurrency a
trtllm-serveworker is host-bound on its single serving process: one asyncio event loop performs every requestjson.loads+ pydantic validation and every SSE chunk write. #16523 measuredgen_preprocessingp50 54 ms @ c512 → 109 ms @ c1024 → 1520 ms @ c2048 on a DSv4 disagg GEN worker while decode step time stayed flat; running several frontends behind oneSO_REUSEPORTport removes that ceiling. The knob has been the production setting in our agentic disagg configs (8 on CTX, 4 on GEN) since then; this PR makes users get the benefit without knowing the flag.What changes
--num_serve_frontends(serve subcommand) default1 → 8(DEFAULT_NUM_SERVE_FRONTENDSincommands/serve.py).LlmArgs.num_serve_frontendsfield default stays 1. A bareLLM()has no HTTP frontends to fan out to and onlytrtllm-servecan spawn them; keeping the field at 1 meanstrtllm-bench,trtllm-evaland PythonLLM()users do not pay for 8 result lanes / the multi-frontend IPC topology. Because8 != 1, the CLI value survivesget_llm_args's default filter and reaches the executor;num_serve_frontends: 1in the--configYAML still overrides it (YAML wins over an untyped CLI default).--grpc,--port 0/--report_addr,orchestrator_type(rpc/ray),enable_resource_governor—trtllm-servenow logs why and runs 1 frontend instead of failing at startup. An explicit--num_serve_frontends N>1with such a config still raises, as before (_resolve_default_num_serve_frontends). The--grpcguard now checks the resolved value so the fallback applies there too.--num_serve_frontends 1).tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_cli.yaml:serve.num_serve_frontends.default: 8(the gate fails on the stock reference withdefault drift: code=8 vs yaml=1, verified).docs/source/commands/trtllm-serve/trtllm-serve.rst(default, opt-out, fallback rules, per-frontend state caveats).Behaviour users must know (limitations inherited from #16523, now on by default)
store/previous_response_id) is disabled with >1 frontend (per-process in-memory store). Opt out with--num_serve_frontends 1./metrics,/perf_metrics,/healthand/prometheus/metricsare answered by whichever frontend accepted the connection. Withreturn_perf_metricson, every frontend runs its own iteration-stats collector loop, so the engine's iteration stats are drained per frontend (each sees ~1/K of them) and both the JSON/metricsbuffer and the iteration-derived Prometheus series (KV-cache gauges,trtllm_num_requests_completed_total, iteration latency) reflect only the answering frontend's share; request-level Prometheus series (trtllm_request_success_total, TTFT/E2E histograms) live in per-process registries becausePROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIRis created inOpenAIServer.__init__, after the children are spawned. A scraper therefore sees one frontend's share per scrape and counters appear to reset between scrapes. Withoutreturn_perf_metrics,/metricsdrains the engine queue on demand over RPC and the answering frontend returns everything queued, as today. Cross-frontend aggregation (shared multiproc dir set before spawning + gaugemultiprocess_mode, or a single collector in the launcher) is follow-up work;--num_serve_frontends 1restores today's numbers.disaggregated_mpi_worker,disaggregatedfleets),mm_embedding_serveand VisualGen are unaffected (the knob is ignored or absent on those entry points).Verification
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gb300-917ad7b3e9(1.3.0rc26 + this patch applied tocommands/serve.py), 1× GB300, Qwen3-0.6B, launched the way this cluster runs production (srun --mpi=pmix … trtllm-llmapi-launch trtllm-serve …):trtllm-serve <model> --config metrics.yaml… --num_serve_frontends 1 --config metrics.yaml… --config rpc.yaml(orchestrator_type: rpc, no flag)… --num_serve_frontends 8 --config rpc.yamlValueError: num_serve_frontends > 1 requires the default (classic IPC) executor pathThe fallback case logs
num_serve_frontends defaults to 8, but orchestrator_type='rpc' supports a single serving frontend only; running 1 frontend. Pass --num_serve_frontends explicitly to override.and its/prometheus/metricscounters are complete (16/16) like the opt-out case.BaseLlmArgs.model_fields["num_serve_frontends"].default= 1,--helprenders the new text.api_stability/test_serve_cli.pypasses with the updated reference and fails on the stock one with[serve] option --num_serve_frontends field default drift: code=8 vs yaml=1. The fallback resolver was additionally exercised by a throwaway CPU test (every condition → 1, explicit request → unchanged + ValueError) that is not part of the PR.nvidia-smi --query-compute-appslists only the worker (58.7 GiB incl. KV cache) and the launcher (748 MiB) in both cases.GET /metricsreturned[0,1,0,0,0,0,18,19,0,…]iteration stats over 16 polls;GET /prometheus/metricsshowed 5 distincttrtllm_request_success_totalvalues (6 / 7 / 8 / 10) across 32 scrapes, versus a constant 32/32 with one frontend — the per-frontend sampling described above.trtllm-serveprocesses left.