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Summary

Extend the V2 KV-cache lender with direct access to device KV pages and recurrent state alongside host staging. Transfer integrations borrow native storage while the manager owns its lifetime; row-based leases describe layout, delivery, and safe resume bounds.

Main changes

  • Publish a shared PageLayout with buffers, memory regions, model-layer identities, attention windows, and replica ranks. HOST supports NAMED objects; DEVICE supports NAMED and ALL selections.
  • Integrate page locks into cache free, suspension, eviction, commit, and scheduling. Leases, pending copies, and deferred cleanup retain the storage they access; pool rebalance is disabled while a lender exposes device addresses.
  • Track deliveries per layer group across partial pages, reused prefixes, recurrent checkpoints, and cache replacement. Specify recoverable return errors and cleanup-only failures, with regression coverage.
  • Expose allocation readiness fences, preserve retained-precision head geometry, transfer allocated FP4 sidecars, and prevent deferred commits from publishing overwritten rows.

Rebase and compatibility

  • Rebased onto GitHub main at b7b797a3a as one signed-off commit. Preserve main's prefix-wait snapshot cleanup alongside lender-held pool lifetime, and initialize both scheduler capabilities in the conflicted multimodal test fixture.
  • Update test fixtures for main's lifecycle snapshot field and vectorized Helix token partitioning without changing product behavior.
  • The backend contract and its tests match [TRTLLM-16186][fix] Rows name their slots and regions in the backend contract #20975 at a6fd0e1b6 byte for byte; both merge orders are conflict-free. Blob consumes the same page_ordinals and paired slots/region_indices contract, preserving multi-region payload order and destination validation.
  • Preserve main's 90-minute B300 attention aggregate and the separate PrimTS batch. Static checks confirm unchanged coverage and execution counts for all 118 attention files.

The C++ library and the CSA2/DeepSeek-V4 cache-manager implementations have no changes in this PR. Transfer backends own byte movement and rank coordination.

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CI #66781 tested dbc801526: 101,423 passed, with two failing tests plus one wrapper failure.

  • The Qwen3.5 MXFP8 partial-update test missed its overlap threshold by one token. This rebase inherits main's exact waive from [None][infra] Waive 1 failed cases for main in pre-merge 66630 #21193 / NVBUG 7007647; the threshold is unchanged.
  • DeepSeek-V4-Pro DSpark failed during MegaMoE symmetric-memory allocation (cuMemCreate OOM), before the current model's KV manager was created. Other PRs reproduce the same failure. Its MPI workers had been reused from an earlier R1 MTP test; the passing comparison run followed a different R1 case. Mark this test method private_mpi_session to drain cached pools and use fresh workers, retaining all original parameters and accuracy checks. An eight-GPU rerun is still needed to confirm the OOM outcome.

Validation

  • 3,234 related tests pass after deduplicating targeted reruns; the two DeepSeek parallelism variants also collect under private_mpi_session.
  • Pre-commit passes across all 50 PR files.
  • The final wheel uses official main build fix: fix conflicting test names #3315 (679936e08), whose native/build inputs match this checkout. Its 2,101 Python files, 83 native libraries, and 13,801 RECORD entries were verified, followed by a clean B200 install and binding import smoke test.
  • Full Jenkins validation of the final commit remains pending.

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@Shixiaowei02 Shixiaowei02 changed the title [None][feat] Lend KV cache pages and recurrent state in place [TRTLLM-16186][feat] Lend KV cache pages and recurrent state in place Oct 19, 2026
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Checked 2026-10-22T15:48:02.684836+00:00.

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<tr><th>Components</th><td>runtime/kv-cache/lifecycle (40%); runtime/kv-cache/layout-io (35%); runtime/recurrent-state (5%); runtime/sparse-cache (5%); integration/attention-tests (15%)</td></tr>
<tr><th>Tags</th><td>features:paged-kv (100%)</td></tr>
<tr><th>PR effort</th><td>13 points — The visible API additions and shared layout/lifecycle integration support a feature classification. Reviewing the coupled layout compatibility, lease ownership, commit locking, fetch resumption and recurrent-state contracts warrants substantial architectural reasoning. The 13-point estimate remains provisional because most implementations are hidden.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Importance</th><td>Important — The layout version changes from 2 to 3, host-tier tests adopt MemoryKind/RowSelection, and KV and recurrent managers gain lender-hook imports. Together with the declared block-lock and safe-resume responsibilities, this indicates a broad cache-sharing interface and sensitive lifetime/correctness change.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Affinity (0–1)</th><td>0.541 component/tag match; 0.406 after PIC preference</td></tr>
<tr><th>Outstanding points at selection</th><td>19 → 32 (+13)</td></tr>
<tr><th>Points already reserved on this PR</th><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><th>Effective weight</th><td>1</td></tr>
<tr><th>Completed review points (preceding 168 hours)</th><td>63</td></tr>
<tr><th>Combined points after assignment</th><td>95</td></tr>
<tr><th>Demand-derived target</th><td>85.25 points (soft share)</td></tr>
<tr><th>Additional fair share before assignment</th><td>3.25 points</td></tr>
<tr><th>Share explanation</th><td>Whole PR / qualification or coverage constraint exceeds a soft share; assignment is allowed.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Selection rule</th><td>affinity with 0.3-share guard</td></tr>
<tr><th>Assignment scope (farazkh80)</th><td>all</td></tr>
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Walkthrough

The pull request adds immutable page-layout descriptors and changes KV-cache lending to support host and device leases. It adds page locks, fetch delivery tracking, attention read-window metadata, and lock-aware cache-manager and scheduler behavior.

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KV-cache lending and page lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page layout and lending contracts
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/page_layout.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_types.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_layout.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/resource/page.py
Adds immutable layout descriptors and row-based lending types. Moves shared mapper and geometry types into page_layout.py.
Lease and delivery tracking
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_lender.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_fetch_ledger.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_identity.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_ranges.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_slots.py
Adds host and device leases, readiness events, row returns, delivery records, staging sizing, and window-aware resume bounds.
Lock-aware manager and scheduler integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/_lender_hooks.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_page_locks.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py
Adds lender-mediated commit checks, history caps, deferred cache closure, parked-row handling, scheduler lock checks, and a rebalance pause gate.
Attention-window integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/sharing/_ranges.py
Adds attention read-window declarations for CSA2 and DeepSeek-V4 and uses read windows in layout and range calculations.
Tests and fixtures
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/sharing/*, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_kv_connector_v2_prefix*.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_layer_type_attention_windows.py
Adds coverage for leases, return bounds, page locks, layout validation, attention windows, connectors, scheduler behavior, and cache-page correspondence.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Suggested reviewers: juney-nvidia

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 955cd

This update only fixes a test fixture and is safe. Several minor items from earlier review rounds, mostly in tests plus two small cache-manager edge cases, remain open and warrant owner awareness before or shortly after merge.

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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/_lender_hooks.py:
- Around line 237-243: Update scheduler_holds_page_locks to safely handle draft
managers that do not implement _holds_page_locks: retrieve the draft method
defensively and invoke it only when callable, while preserving the primary
manager check and returning false when no compatible draft method exists.

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- Around line 4228-4231: Update the read-window calculation around the
layer-grouping return expression so every declared window is treated as
effective only when positive and is clamped to kept; use kept for None or
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Took the first review pass and left 2 inline comments. Will take another review pass once the existing comments are addressed.

Btw, at 8b35ddc, the generation-hook tests fail because their fixtures lack _inflight_draft_lens. The capacity-only fixture also lacks max_attention_window. Please update these fixtures, then rerun the affected tests and full CI.

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