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[None][fix] serve: make multi-frontend metrics, profiling and liveness launcher-owned - #19394
Fixes for trtllm-serve multi-frontend mode (num_serve_frontends > 1, #16523) that #19379 (default 8) would otherwise expose to every user. Independent of #19379; meant to land first.
With K frontends behind one SO_REUSEPORT port a client cannot choose which process answers, so anything with exactly one owner per server must live in the launcher (frontend 0) and be reachable from every frontend. Measured before this PR (K=8, return_perf_metrics + enable_iter_perf_stats): each frontend ran its own iteration-stats collector, so GET /metrics returned [0,1,0,0,0,0,18,19,0,…] over 16 polls and /prometheus/metrics showed a different trtllm_request_success_total (6/7/8/10 for 64 requests) depending on the answering frontend.
What changes
Launcher-owned routes are forwarded. The launcher's uvicorn additionally listens on a Unix socket inside the multi-frontend ipc dir (launcher.sock, passed to the children in the attach info). Attached frontends register forwarding routes ahead of the local handlers for GET /metrics, POST /kv_cache_events, POST /start_profile, POST /stop_profile and the Anthropic /v1/messages/batches* family (tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py: LauncherForwarder, aiohttp UnixConnector). Requests are replayed verbatim; a dead launcher yields 503 instead of a hang or an AttributeError 500 (/start_profile on GenerationExecutorFrontendProxy).
Single consumer of iteration stats / KV events. Attached frontends no longer start the iteration-stats collector loop; the launcher's loop additionally wakes every 1 s in multi-frontend mode, because requests finishing on attached frontends never set its wake-up event.
Shared Prometheus registry. The launcher calls set_prometheus_multiproc_dir()before spawning the children (when return_perf_metrics or perf_metrics_output_dir is set), so all frontends write their .db files into one PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIR and MultiProcessCollector in any frontend sums request counters/histograms across all of them; iteration-derived series come from the launcher only.
Attached-frontend watchdog. An attached frontend now notices a lost launcher (getppid() check every 1 s) or a dead engine (launcher /health ≠ 200 three times, probed every 5 s over the Unix socket) and does what the launcher's own health handler does: records the fatal error on its executor so in-flight/new requests raise EngineDeadError, then raises SIGINT for a graceful shutdown. Before, 7 of 8 frontends kept answering /health 200 with no engine, and a SIGKILLed/OOM-killed launcher left them holding the port.
Hub-id models with tp>1.CachedModelLoader._submit_to_all_workers no longer dereferences a missing MPI session; an attached frontend runs the task locally (the launcher already populated the HF cache). Before, trtllm-serve <hub-id> --tp_size 2 --num_serve_frontends 2 crashed every attached frontend with None.submit_sync.
Unchanged: /perf_metrics (per-request records, use perf_metrics_output_dir JSONL across processes), /health (per frontend, by design), the disaggregated /steady_clock_offset handshake (still calibrates the answering frontend only).
Verification
Container gb300-917ad7b3e9 (1.3.0rc26 + this patch applied to the touched files), 1× GB300, Qwen3-0.6B, srun --mpi=pmix … trtllm-llmapi-launch trtllm-serve … --num_serve_frontends 8 --config metrics.yaml (return_perf_metrics + enable_iter_perf_stats), 8 frontends / 8 listeners on the port, 64/64 requests:
8 pids in one shared dir (counter/histogram from all, gauge from the launcher only)
POST /kv_cache_events from 8 random frontends
drained per frontend
8/8 → 200 via the launcher
POST /start_profile / /stop_profile, /v1/messages/batches*
AttributeError 500 / per-process store
forwarded (this container predates those routes, so they return the launcher's 404 — no 500)
launcher kill -9
7 attached frontends keep the port, /health 200 forever
every attached frontend logs Attached frontend lost its engine: launcher frontend (pid …) exited, records the fatal error and exits; 0 listeners / 0 processes after 4–6 s
launcher frozen (kill -STOP; stands in for a dead engine, which cannot be SIGKILLed under srun --mpi=pmix without aborting the whole step)
health probes over the Unix socket fail 3× → attached frontends record the fatal error and exit: 8 → 3 processes at 24 s, only the frozen launcher left at 32 s
The 4 new CPU tests pass in the same container (pytest 9.1). Iteration-stat drain-on-read semantics are unchanged: the first poll returns everything accumulated since the previous one.
Additional runs in the same container:
Single-frontend regression (K=1, metrics on): 1 listener, no multi-frontend log lines, one collector task, 16/16 requests, /metrics[10,0,…], /prometheus/metrics 32/32 identical (request_success_total=16), 1 config-info series — unchanged behaviour.
Disaggregated cluster (1 ctx + 1 gen worker, 4 frontends each, trtllm-serve disaggregated orchestrator, cache_transceiver_config.backend: DEFAULT): 32/32 completions through the orchestrator; ctx /metrics[11,0,…], gen [68,0,…] (complete single drains); /prometheus/metricsrequest_success_total=32 on both workers in 16/16 scrapes; /kv_cache_events 4/4 → 200 on both. (The orchestrator's /perf_metrics returned 404 in this container base, which predates that route; orchestrator code is untouched here.)
Existing CPU tests, stock vs patched (apps/test_openai_server_iteration_stats.py, test_serve_report_addr.py, test_disagg_telemetry_launcher.py, test_config_database.py, run from origin/main against the Aug-31 container): identical results in both arms — 744 passed / 322 failed with byte-identical failure sets (all container-vs-main drift: config-database fields unknown to the old LlmArgs, async def tests without pytest-asyncio, disaggregated telemetry launcher changes). The patch introduces no new failure.
Verification on the production agentic pipeline (DeepSeek-V4-Pro disaggregated, GB300)
Real trtllm-serve disaggregated deployment driven by the aiperf agentic client on the semianalysis_cc_traces_weka_062126 traces: 1 ctx worker (TP8 / attention-DP, 8 frontends) + 1 gen worker (TP8 / attention-DP, MTP3, 4 frontends) on 4 GB300 nodes, concurrency 128, enable_iter_perf_stats + return_perf_metrics on, the harness polling every worker's GET /metrics once per second (AGENTX_POLL_ITER=1). Same Aug-31 image with this PR's four files bind-mounted over the installed package.
Both workers came up with the expected topology (ctx: 7 attached frontends, gen: 3; one shared PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIR and one iteration-stats collector per worker; the launcher's access log shows the poller's /metrics hits arriving both directly and, with an empty client address, forwarded over the Unix socket).
Client: 2,363 warm-up + 4,948 measured requests, 0 errors (7.7 req/s, TTFT p50 2.2 s / p90 14.3 s at this small config — a smoke, not a headline).
Iteration-stats completeness from the per-worker poller: ctx 3,378 distinct iterations captured over ids 0..3377 (100%, every one with all 8 rank records), gen 20,247 distinct over ids 254..20500 (100%, rank-0 log reached iter 20,502). Before this PR the same poller against 8/4 frontends received a random ~1/K slice per poll (measured 1/8 shards in the container run above).
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py (new, CPU, l0_cpu.yml): forwarder replays forwarded routes over a Unix socket and leaves other routes local; 503 when the launcher socket is missing; watchdog fires once on consecutive health failures and on parent-pid change.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py (new, CPU, l0_cpu.yml): route-ownership gate. Enumerates every route the LLM OpenAIServer registers and requires each to be either in FORWARDED_ROUTES (launcher-owned) or in an explicit per-frontend-safe allowlist with a stated reason; also fails on dangling forwarding templates and stale allowlist entries. A new endpoint that touches server-wide state can no longer slip in as a silent per-process copy — the author has to classify it. (Evaluated against main's 30 routes: all classified. In the Aug-31 container it reports exactly the routes that container predates, /start_profile, /stop_profile, /v1/messages*.)
Container e2e below.
PR Checklist
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Tests added
No LLM args / API-stability surface changed (OpenAIServer.__init__ gains an optional keyword)
Dev Engineer Review
Launcher-owned routes now forward through a Unix-domain socket when attached frontends serve requests. The forwarding list includes GET /metrics, POST /kv_cache_events, profiling routes, POST /steady_clock_offset, and the Anthropic batch route family. Attached frontends skip server registration, and the launcher handles shared iteration statistics and clock-offset publication.
QA should verify route forwarding and local-route behavior, shared Prometheus metrics, launcher and engine failure handling, and single-frontend behavior. These changes add socket and background-task lifecycle paths. The author reports container and production smoke results; those results were not independently verified here. Current review severity counts are unavailable.
QA Engineer Review
Two CPU test files were added and listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. The helper file adds tests for forwarding, error handling, watchdogs, clock sharing, launcher-loss behavior, and registration. The route-gate file checks that registered routes are classified as forwarded or per-frontend-safe, and that both lists remain current. Coverage verdict: sufficient for these helper and route-classification behaviors. The author reports that four new CPU tests passed; this result was not independently verified here.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py: Verify launcher Unix-socket setup and cleanup, shared Prometheus directory behavior, and multi-frontend startup.
tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py: Verify the forwarding route list, request replay, error responses, clock-offset updates, and watchdog behavior.
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Verify launcher-only registration and iteration-stat collection, attached-frontend forwarding and monitoring, and unchanged single-frontend behavior.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py: Covers forwarding, watchdog, clock sharing, launcher-loss handling, and registration. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py: Checks route classification and stale or unmatched entries. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds both multi-frontend test files to the CPU CI list.
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The PR adds Unix-socket forwarding for launcher-owned routes in multi-frontend serving. Attached frontends monitor launcher health and follow shared clock offsets. The launcher handles server registration and iteration-stat collection. CPU tests cover forwarding, launcher loss, and route ownership.
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Forwarding and launcher monitoring tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py
Adds frontend role data, launcher-owned route definitions, request forwarding over a Unix socket, shared clock-offset publication and polling, and launcher health monitoring. Tests cover forwarding, errors, clock updates, and watchdog behavior.
The serve command binds and serves a launcher Unix socket, passes its path to attached frontends, configures a shared Prometheus multiprocess directory when applicable, and closes and unlinks the socket during cleanup.
OpenAI server integration tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py
OpenAIServer registers forwarding routes on attached frontends, manages forwarding and monitoring lifecycles, and handles launcher loss. The launcher registers with metadata services and collects iteration statistics; attached frontends do not collect stats locally.
Tests check route classification, forwarding-template matches, and stale safe-route entries. The CPU test list includes both multi-frontend test modules.
The remaining risks are an intermittently timing out CPU test and inconsistent frontend metric timestamps after a clock-update failure. Both are bounded, but should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py`:
- Around line 827-829: Capture the Unix-socket path from launcher_uds_sock
before calling close(), then use the saved path for os.unlink() in the cleanup
block. Update the launcher_uds_sock cleanup flow while preserving the existing
OSError handling.
In `@tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_utils.py`:
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forwarded MessagePack POST requests retain the protocol selector, and add a
regression test sending a MessagePack body through an attached frontend.
In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py`:
- Around line 1733-1737: Add CPU unit coverage for the watchdog’s
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- Around line 954-961: Add a production-path multi-frontend forwarding test
covering the attached OpenAIServer flow: at
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Cover the resource-governor and Prometheus mount routes in the gate.
_llm_server_routes() disables the resource governor, so the gate never sees its three registered routes. Enable or stub that registration, then classify each route.
The performance-metrics concern is narrower than stated. GET /metrics is always registered and is already in FORWARDED_ROUTES. However, return_perf_metrics=True adds a /prometheus/metricsMount, and _llm_server_routes() ignores mounts because they have no methods. Include that mount in the route enumeration and classify it.
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Update the route gate test and `_llm_server_routes()` to include routes
registered when the resource governor is enabled, classifying each of its three
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- Around line 235-240: Update the fake health handler in `_FakeLauncher` to
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The fake launcher increments health_hits before it reads health_status. The test also waits on health_hits >= 4 after it sets 200. A fourth probe can arrive before the switch to 200. The test then sets 503 again. launcher_answered stays false, and asyncio.wait_for(task, timeout=10) times out. The same ordering defect affects the test at lines 204-207. If the first probe sees 503, that test also hangs.
Record the status that each probe served. Wait for a 200 in that record.
Initialize self.served = [] in _FakeLauncher.__init__. At line 204, use _wait_for(lambda: 200 in launcher.served).
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Update _FakeLauncher’s health handler to record the status each probe serves
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…s launcher-owned
With num_serve_frontends > 1 every frontend drained the engine's iteration
stats and kept its own Prometheus registry, so /metrics and
/prometheus/metrics reported a random frontend's share; /start_profile
returned 500 on attached frontends; the Anthropic batch store was
per-process; and attached frontends never noticed a dead launcher or engine
and kept answering /health 200.
- The launcher's uvicorn also listens on a Unix socket in the
multi-frontend ipc dir, whose path reaches the attached frontends through
the spawn environment; they forward /metrics, /kv_cache_events,
/start_profile, /stop_profile and /v1/messages/batches* to it
(tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py).
- Only the launcher runs the iteration-stats collector; it also polls on
a 1 s cadence (off the event loop) since attached-frontend requests
never wake it.
- The launcher exports one PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIR before spawning the
children so request counters/histograms aggregate across frontends;
config-info gauges are logged by the launcher only.
- An attached-frontend watchdog turns a vanished parent or failing
launcher /health into a fatal executor error plus graceful shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
Every route the LLM OpenAIServer registers must be either launcher-owned
(FORWARDED_ROUTES, forwarded by attached frontends) or explicitly listed as
safe to serve from whichever frontend accepted the connection, with the
reason. A new endpoint backed by per-process state that should be
server-wide now fails the test instead of silently shipping K copies. Also
catches forwarding templates that no longer match a route and stale
allowlist entries.
Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
…utes
- Forward every end-to-end request header to the launcher, dropping only
hop-by-hop and framing headers. The allowlist dropped x-trtllm-msgpack,
so a MessagePack body replayed verbatim was decoded as JSON, and auth
headers a --middleware on the launcher checks again.
- Count launcher /health failures only once the launcher has answered.
The launcher starts listening after its attached frontends are ready
and its own server is built, so a slow start (more than ~15 s) used to
make every attached frontend shut itself down and leave one frontend.
- Register the forwarding routes through
OpenAIServer._register_launcher_forwarding_routes() and test their
order against the real register_routes(); test _on_launcher_lost with
and without a shutdown in progress, header forwarding, and a starting
launcher.
- Route gate: classify main's runtime-control routes and FastAPI's
generated docs routes, and enumerate runtime-control routes too. The
forwarding app no longer carries its own docs routes (they made the
server's docs routes look forwarded), and each forwarding template is
matched against the registered routes of its method (the fixed
"x/cancel" probe matched no GET or DELETE route).
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…on launcher-owned
Two more pieces of server-wide state that multi-frontend serving kept once
per process:
- POST /steady_clock_offset: the disaggregated server calibrates a server
once, so the offset reached a single frontend while every frontend stamps
its own requests' perf metrics; across hosts, the other frontends' records
stayed in the worker's own clock domain. The route is now launcher-owned:
attached frontends forward it, the launcher publishes the offset in the
multi-frontend ipc dir, and attached frontends apply it within 0.25 s
(SharedClockOffset / follow_clock_offset). The request path never reads it.
- Metadata-server and disagg-cluster registration: every frontend registered
the server under its own process identity (llm_id, DisaggClusterWorker
id), listing one server once per frontend -- a K-fold weight in the
metadata router's server list and a prematurely satisfied
minimal_instances in the disagg cluster. Only the launcher registers now;
it reaches uvicorn after its attached frontends, so a registered server
serves on every frontend.
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Main now keeps /metrics stats reads off the default executor (NVIDIA#20698), on a
dedicated metrics thread. The multi-frontend launcher's 1 s idle poll of the
engine stats queue used asyncio.to_thread, i.e. that same default executor;
run it on the metrics thread instead, which is idle while the collector loop
owns the queue (/metrics then serves from the collector's buffer).
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Merge overlapping multi-frontend unit tests, drop ones that only
restated an implementation detail, and shorten comments and
docstrings in the multi-frontend code. No behavior change.
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Access attributes that are always set directly: LLM._executor and
LLM.args, BaseLlmArgs perf-metrics fields, the GenerationExecutor
fatal-error and shutdown state, and OpenAIServer's own multi-frontend
attributes. _set_fatal_error already keeps only the first error, and
the stats collector only runs with enable_iter_perf_stats, so those
checks were redundant. No behavior change.
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The launcher only watched its attached frontends during startup. If one
died later, the kernel dropped its socket from the shared port and the
server kept serving on the others, with nothing reporting the lost
frontend or the requests it was handling.
A daemon thread now polls the children every second and logs an error
with the frontend id, pid, exit code or signal and how many frontends
remain; a clean exit (e.g. Ctrl-C reaching the process group) is logged
at info. The launcher stops the watch before it terminates the group.
Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
The launcher socket file lives in the multi-frontend ipc dir, which the
executor proxy removes as a whole when it shuts down, so drop its
separate unlink. The socket itself is still closed when the server
exits. No behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Lance Liao <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>
Automatically added "ci: full pre-merge approved" because this PR has satisfied the required GitHub review approvals. Unresolved review conversations and other required checks remain independent merge requirements.
NVIDIA#19394: attached frontends get the launcher UDS, the watchdog and our affinity socket together.
NVIDIA#19394: the stats collector keeps main's launcher poll; both fetches run on the metrics thread.
NVIDIA#19394: test_serve_frontend_affinity gives the mocked launcher an ipc dir for its UDS.
Signed-off-by: Zhenhuan Chen <zhenhuanc@nvidia.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).
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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.
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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).
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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>
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Description
Fixes for
trtllm-servemulti-frontend mode (num_serve_frontends > 1, #16523) that #19379 (default 8) would otherwise expose to every user. Independent of #19379; meant to land first.With K frontends behind one
SO_REUSEPORTport a client cannot choose which process answers, so anything with exactly one owner per server must live in the launcher (frontend 0) and be reachable from every frontend. Measured before this PR (K=8,return_perf_metrics+enable_iter_perf_stats): each frontend ran its own iteration-stats collector, soGET /metricsreturned[0,1,0,0,0,0,18,19,0,…]over 16 polls and/prometheus/metricsshowed a differenttrtllm_request_success_total(6/7/8/10 for 64 requests) depending on the answering frontend.What changes
launcher.sock, passed to the children in the attach info). Attached frontends register forwarding routes ahead of the local handlers forGET /metrics,POST /kv_cache_events,POST /start_profile,POST /stop_profileand the Anthropic/v1/messages/batches*family (tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py: LauncherForwarder, aiohttpUnixConnector). Requests are replayed verbatim; a dead launcher yields 503 instead of a hang or anAttributeError500 (/start_profileonGenerationExecutorFrontendProxy).set_prometheus_multiproc_dir()before spawning the children (whenreturn_perf_metricsorperf_metrics_output_diris set), so all frontends write their.dbfiles into onePROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIRandMultiProcessCollectorin any frontend sums request counters/histograms across all of them; iteration-derived series come from the launcher only.getppid()check every 1 s) or a dead engine (launcher/health≠ 200 three times, probed every 5 s over the Unix socket) and does what the launcher's own health handler does: records the fatal error on its executor so in-flight/new requests raiseEngineDeadError, then raises SIGINT for a graceful shutdown. Before, 7 of 8 frontends kept answering/health200 with no engine, and a SIGKILLed/OOM-killed launcher left them holding the port.CachedModelLoader._submit_to_all_workersno longer dereferences a missing MPI session; an attached frontend runs the task locally (the launcher already populated the HF cache). Before,trtllm-serve <hub-id> --tp_size 2 --num_serve_frontends 2crashed every attached frontend withNone.submit_sync.Unchanged:
/perf_metrics(per-request records, useperf_metrics_output_dirJSONL across processes),/health(per frontend, by design), the disaggregated/steady_clock_offsethandshake (still calibrates the answering frontend only).Verification
Container
gb300-917ad7b3e9(1.3.0rc26 + this patch applied to the touched files), 1× GB300, Qwen3-0.6B,srun --mpi=pmix … trtllm-llmapi-launch trtllm-serve … --num_serve_frontends 8 --config metrics.yaml(return_perf_metrics+enable_iter_perf_stats), 8 frontends / 8 listeners on the port, 64/64 requests:GET /metricsover 16 polls (iteration stats returned)[0,1,0,0,0,0,18,19,0,…](per-frontend shards)[10,0,0,…]— one complete drain, same shape as a single frontend/prometheus/metrics× 32 scrapes,trtllm_request_success_total64;trtllm_num_requests_completed_total64trtllm_model_config_infoseries per scrape.dbfilescounter/histogramfrom all,gaugefrom the launcher only)POST /kv_cache_eventsfrom 8 random frontendsPOST /start_profile//stop_profile,/v1/messages/batches*AttributeError500 / per-process storekill -9/health200 foreverAttached frontend lost its engine: launcher frontend (pid …) exited, records the fatal error and exits; 0 listeners / 0 processes after 4–6 skill -STOP; stands in for a dead engine, which cannot be SIGKILLed undersrun --mpi=pmixwithout aborting the whole step)/health200 foreverThe 4 new CPU tests pass in the same container (pytest 9.1). Iteration-stat drain-on-read semantics are unchanged: the first poll returns everything accumulated since the previous one.
Additional runs in the same container:
/metrics[10,0,…],/prometheus/metrics32/32 identical (request_success_total=16), 1 config-info series — unchanged behaviour.trtllm-serve disaggregatedorchestrator,cache_transceiver_config.backend: DEFAULT): 32/32 completions through the orchestrator; ctx/metrics[11,0,…], gen[68,0,…](complete single drains);/prometheus/metricsrequest_success_total=32on both workers in 16/16 scrapes;/kv_cache_events4/4 → 200 on both. (The orchestrator's/perf_metricsreturned 404 in this container base, which predates that route; orchestrator code is untouched here.)apps/test_openai_server_iteration_stats.py,test_serve_report_addr.py,test_disagg_telemetry_launcher.py,test_config_database.py, run fromorigin/mainagainst the Aug-31 container): identical results in both arms — 744 passed / 322 failed with byte-identical failure sets (all container-vs-maindrift: config-database fields unknown to the old LlmArgs,async deftests without pytest-asyncio, disaggregated telemetry launcher changes). The patch introduces no new failure.Verification on the production agentic pipeline (DeepSeek-V4-Pro disaggregated, GB300)
Real
trtllm-serve disaggregateddeployment driven by the aiperf agentic client on thesemianalysis_cc_traces_weka_062126traces: 1 ctx worker (TP8 / attention-DP, 8 frontends) + 1 gen worker (TP8 / attention-DP, MTP3, 4 frontends) on 4 GB300 nodes, concurrency 128,enable_iter_perf_stats+return_perf_metricson, the harness polling every worker'sGET /metricsonce per second (AGENTX_POLL_ITER=1). Same Aug-31 image with this PR's four files bind-mounted over the installed package.PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIRand one iteration-stats collector per worker; the launcher's access log shows the poller's/metricshits arriving both directly and, with an empty client address, forwarded over the Unix socket).Test Coverage
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py(new, CPU,l0_cpu.yml): forwarder replays forwarded routes over a Unix socket and leaves other routes local; 503 when the launcher socket is missing; watchdog fires once on consecutive health failures and on parent-pid change.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py(new, CPU,l0_cpu.yml): route-ownership gate. Enumerates every route the LLMOpenAIServerregisters and requires each to be either inFORWARDED_ROUTES(launcher-owned) or in an explicit per-frontend-safe allowlist with a stated reason; also fails on dangling forwarding templates and stale allowlist entries. A new endpoint that touches server-wide state can no longer slip in as a silent per-process copy — the author has to classify it. (Evaluated againstmain's 30 routes: all classified. In the Aug-31 container it reports exactly the routes that container predates,/start_profile,/stop_profile,/v1/messages*.)PR Checklist
[None][fix] ...OpenAIServer.__init__gains an optional keyword)Dev Engineer Review
Launcher-owned routes now forward through a Unix-domain socket when attached frontends serve requests. The forwarding list includes
GET /metrics,POST /kv_cache_events, profiling routes,POST /steady_clock_offset, and the Anthropic batch route family. Attached frontends skip server registration, and the launcher handles shared iteration statistics and clock-offset publication.QA should verify route forwarding and local-route behavior, shared Prometheus metrics, launcher and engine failure handling, and single-frontend behavior. These changes add socket and background-task lifecycle paths. The author reports container and production smoke results; those results were not independently verified here. Current review severity counts are unavailable.
QA Engineer Review
Two CPU test files were added and listed in
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. The helper file adds tests for forwarding, error handling, watchdogs, clock sharing, launcher-loss behavior, and registration. The route-gate file checks that registered routes are classified as forwarded or per-frontend-safe, and that both lists remain current. Coverage verdict: sufficient for these helper and route-classification behaviors. The author reports that four new CPU tests passed; this result was not independently verified here.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py: Verify launcher Unix-socket setup and cleanup, shared Prometheus directory behavior, and multi-frontend startup.tensorrt_llm/serve/multi_frontend.py: Verify the forwarding route list, request replay, error responses, clock-offset updates, and watchdog behavior.tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Verify launcher-only registration and iteration-stat collection, attached-frontend forwarding and monitoring, and unchanged single-frontend behavior.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py: Covers forwarding, watchdog, clock sharing, launcher-loss handling, and registration. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py: Checks route classification and stale or unmatched entries. Listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds both multi-frontend test files to the CPU CI list.