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[None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers and a balanced DWDP expert partition - #21012
This change adds opt-in dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context workers in attached expert-DWDP and standalone attention-DP modes. It adds dense-weight layout, storage, transfer, runtime, and executor integration. It also adds balanced and strided expert partitions, collective setup checks, memory checks, and an environment-controlled shutdown option that can drop in-flight requests when its eligibility conditions are met.
Verify collective setup and rollback, asynchronous copy/read ordering, and tensor-binding repointing. Dense-sharded models reject weight reloads and updates. The change removes compute_peer_ranges and DWDPTransport.get_peer_ranges and changes setup APIs. Downstream callers must use the replacement interfaces. CUDA graphs, torch.compile, LoRA, speculative decoding, and sleep are outside the stated dense-DWDP scope.
Reported validation includes 259 passed tests and 21 passed subtests for the DWDP module directory and MoE fixup test on four GPUs; 875 passed tests and 21 passed subtests in the listed CPU-only coverage; and 65 passed, 15 skipped Kimi modeling tests on one GPU. Schema, manifest, and pre-commit checks passed. SM107 GPU validation and serving runs were internal. GSM8K did not cover the cached-prefix context path. The reported DEBUG=2 watchdog did check slot contents on that path. No current review findings or severity counts were supplied.
QA Engineer Review
Tests add coverage for dense configuration and launch gates, Kimi hooks, layout and setup, storage, copy planning, runtime protocol, manager lifecycle, expert partitioning, shutdown, and weight-update guards. The CPU CI list adds test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py. The changed DWDP accuracy tests are listed in test-db/l0_gb200_multi_gpus.yml. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up for cached-prefix accuracy and external GPU-serving validation.
Per-File QA Perspective
Source and documentation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k25.py — Verify that weight loading fails only when dense DWDP is active.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/store.py — Verify FABRIC allocation, peer mapping, and cleanup after partial failures.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/types.py — Verify layout sizing, digest stability, and slot allocation.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/watchdog.py — Verify checksum mismatch reporting and behavior after release.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/page_pool.py — Verify partial allocation failures release allocated handles without masking the original error.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/setup.py — Verify partition agreement, reserved-storage rejection, and expert-scalar reconstruction.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/specs.py — Verify balanced and strided boundaries, overlap ownership, and handle geometry; compute_peer_ranges is removed.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/transport.py — Verify collective export/import failure handling and variable-sized peer mappings; the create API changes and get_peer_ranges is removed.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/weight_buffer.py — Verify the memory check precedes allocation and reports required and available memory.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/weight_manager.py — Verify supplied copy streams use the buffer’s device and transfer settings remain consistent.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md — Verify documented attached and standalone priming flows match the implementation.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/interface.py — Verify local expert loading and global assignments use the selected partition.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py — Verify the optional dense manager reaches the executor without disrupting existing callers.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py to CPU CI.
Test-code files
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_dwdp_disaggregated_serving.py — Comment-only update; its three DWDP accuracy cases are listed in test-db/l0_gb200_multi_gpus.yml.
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py — Covers drop-inflight conditions, connector handling, and cleanup order; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py — Updates the shutdown fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pp_mpi_progress_thread.py — Updates the executor test double for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_py_executor.py — Updates the shutdown fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_config.py — Covers environment defaults and invalid segment lists; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_executor.py — Covers manager validation, priming, shutdown, and standalone MPI grouping; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_gate.py — Covers accepted and rejected attached and standalone launch configurations; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_guards.py — Covers reload and update rejection before mapper calls; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_kimi_hooks.py — Covers Kimi-Linear priming, layer hooks, and load guards; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_layout.py — Covers binding collection, storage aliases, exclusions, and watchdog checks; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_protocol.py — Covers copy/read ordering, abort recovery, consume events, and WAR fencing; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_setup.py — Covers multirank setup agreement, injected failures, rollback, and resource release; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_store.py — Covers store allocation, peer imports, release, and failure cleanup; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_creator.py — Covers manager ownership and KV-cache setup order across launch modes; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_manager.py — Covers partition selection, manager lifecycle, setup ordering, priming, and teardown; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_mapping.py — Documentation-only test update; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_peer_ranges.py — Covers balanced, strided, overlapping, and invalid partitions plus handle geometry; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py — Covers copy-stream device validation and prefetch event ordering; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py — Covers reserved-storage rejection, memory failure, and page-pool cleanup; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_setup_protocol.py — Covers multirank transport agreement, failure reporting, and resource release; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_prefetch_copy_plan.py — Covers copy plans for uneven balanced partitions and compares peer-group, batched, and gather plans; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py — Covers scalar collection, backend fixup, overlap reconstruction, and consistent malformed-report errors; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.py — Updates the executor fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py — Covers timeout parsing, Uvicorn configuration, and bounded shutdown; listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py — Covers partition schema validation; no specific test-list entry is established.
Description
Summary
Kimi-K3 context servers can run DWDP (Distributed Weight Data Parallelism, tech blog) for their routed experts: each rank of a DWDP group stores a slice of the experts and prefetches the others from its peers before each MoE layer. Every other weight of the MoE decoder layers is still replicated on every rank. This PR adds dense DWDP: each rank keeps a 1/N row shard of those dense weights (attention, shared expert, latent projections and norm, router), and a layer's full weights are gathered from the peers two layers before it runs, into a few staging slots. The memory of the replicated copies goes to the KV cache, or to a larger max_num_tokens.
Opt-in, environment only.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1 on the context workers. No llm_args field is added.
Two modes, chosen from the launch by a gate that runs before the weights load:
attached to expert DWDP (dwdp_config with dwdp_size > 1 and tp_size == 1): the DWDP group and the expert DWDP copy stream;
standalone, without dwdp_config, on an attention-DP instance with tp_size > 1 (for example a DEP16 context server): the attention-DP group and a copy stream of its own.
Scope. Kimi-K3, the only model whose decoder layers declare dense roots. Eager context servers: no CUDA graphs, torch.compile, LoRA, speculative decoding or sleep. FABRIC peer handles.
Checked before it commits. Setup compares every rank's layout and weights, gathers every layer and checks the bytes against the originals before and after it repoints the module tensors, and only then drops the replicated copies; every rank reaches the same verdict. During the forward every dependency is a stream event: the host does not wait (outside the DEBUG=2 watchdog).
It builds on main's VMM-backed DWDP lifecycle (#18644), on the DWDP fabric gather and store rendezvous (#20576), and on the cross-step expert prefetch with configurable slots (#20941). The PR also carries:
three fixes to the DWDP executor wiring on the path dense DWDP takes (commits 4-6); two of them also change expert DWDP without dense DWDP;
a balanced partition of the routed experts for expert DWDP when dwdp_size does not divide the expert count (commit 8);
an opt-in bound on the shutdown of context-only servers (commit 1);
a fix to a generation-server crash with KV cache manager V2, attention DP and a separate draft KV cache, which this PR's end-to-end validation hit (commit 9).
Impact when the new variables are not set
Dense DWDP and the shutdown bound do nothing unless their variables are set. These changes apply without them, to expert DWDP and, for commit 9, to generation servers:
With KV-cache estimation off, the only executor now gets the DwdpManager: it starts each forward through it (start_forward), drops the expert prefetch after a control action and tears DWDP down at shutdown (commit 4). Like the final executor with the estimation on, it now refuses expert DWDP with the overlap scheduler on.
An expert prefetch ring (the page pool of the num_prefetch_slots slots) larger than the free memory raises PrefetchRingMemoryError before any page is allocated, and a failed page allocation releases each handle once (commit 5).
DwdpConfig with both partition fields at 0, their defaults, now means the balanced partition; before, it failed while the model was built or in setup. One field set, or a negative value, is rejected when the config is parsed, and the serve schemas flag it too (commit 8).
Expert DWDP setup agrees on the partition in a handshake and ends with one vote, so a failure on one rank between the two raises on every rank instead of leaving the others blocked (commit 8). Explicit size/stride configs keep their ranges and bytes.
pyexecutor/dwdp.py logs cleanup errors with logger.error and the traceback. Main calls logger.exception, which the TensorRT-LLM logger does not have (commit 2).
l0_cpu now collects two existing DWDP test files that lacked the cpu_only marker (commits 2 and 5).
With KV cache manager V2, attention DP and a separate draft KV cache, rolling the attention-DP dummy back after a skipped iteration also frees its draft KV mirror (commit 9).
Why one PR
Most of the size is new code behind the switch: the tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense package (6.9k lines) and tests (6.0k of the 15.4k added lines). The commits are one feature plus what its validation needed:
Commits 2 and 3 add dense DWDP, and commit 7 updates its copy-mode guidance. Commits 4-6 fix the executor wiring on the path dense DWDP takes: without commit 5 an attached DWDP8 context server runs out of memory at startup, and without commit 6 the freed memory does not reach the KV cache when the KV-cache estimation is off. Commit 4 fixes the same creator code for expert DWDP, and commit 6's tests build on its harness.
Commit 8 (balanced partition) reworks the expert DWDP setup that DwdpManager.setup runs right after dense DWDP, on top of commit 5's changes to the same files (dwdp/setup.py, weight_buffer.py, page_pool.py, weight_manager.py, pyexecutor/dwdp.py); as a separate PR it would have to stack on this one. The Kimi-K3 DWDP12 configuration of the dense DWDP validation stored 88 experts twice per MoE layer without it.
Commit 1 (the context-only shutdown bound) does not depend on the rest. It is here because it was found while validating dense DWDP context-only serving (benchmark jobs hung at teardown), it changes executor and server code with the same code owners as dense DWDP's executor changes, and it is opt-in. It can move to its own PR if reviewers prefer.
Commit 9 fixes a generation-server crash on main that this PR's end-to-end validation on main hit: with KV cache manager V2, attention DP and a separate draft KV cache (DSpark), the attention-DP dummy's draft KV mirror outlived a skipped iteration, and the next update raised "History length cannot exceed capacity". It does not depend on the rest and can move to its own PR as well.
Each commit has a message that explains it and tests of its own, so the PR can be reviewed one commit at a time.
Commits
[None][fix] Bound the context-only server shutdown: drop in-flight requests and time out the graceful stop (opt-in) (+603/-3, tests +448)
[None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers (env form): the dense package, the launch gate, attached mode in DwdpManager, the Kimi-K3 hooks and load guards, the ModelLoader guards (+9,734/-18, tests +3,255/-3)
[None][feat] Dense DWDP without expert DWDP: standalone on attention-DP instances (env form): DenseDwdpManager, the two-mode gate, standalone setup and copies, executor priming (+2,132/-449, tests +816/-129)
[None][fix] DWDP: the only executor gets the DwdpManager when KV-cache estimation is off (+142/-1, tests +139)
[None][fix] DWDP: commit attached dense DWDP before the expert prefetch ring is allocated (+702/-98, tests +309/-28)
[None][fix] DWDP: set attached dense DWDP up before the final KV cache when KV-cache estimation is off (+69/-24, tests +50/-9)
[None][chore] Dense DWDP standalone: copy-mode guidance from the DEP16 validation (+81/-8, tests +70/-1)
[None][feat] Expert DWDP: a balanced expert partition when dwdp_size does not divide the experts (+2,234/-1,223, tests +821/-296)
[None][fix] Release the attention-DP dummy's draft KV mirror when a skipped iteration rolls it back (+229, tests +218)
How dense DWDP works
What moves. For each MoE decoder layer l of Kimi-K3 (layers 1-92; layer 0 has a dense MLP and stays replicated), two blobs: the attention weights A(l) (KDA or MLA) and the MoE-dense weights D(l) (router, shared expert, latent projections and norm). Each decoder layer names its roots (dense_dwdp_roots) and two tables of attribute names: the plain tensor attributes under the roots that may move (such as the fused KDA projections and the weight-scale copies the FP8 block-scale linears keep for the low-M GEMM), and the names that never move (scratch tensors and the routing bias). The routed experts stay with expert DWDP, and storages under 1 MiB stay replicated.
Where it lives. Each blob is cut into N rows, one per rank of the group. A rank keeps its rows in a row store of CUDA VMM memory exported as FABRIC handles, and maps every peer's rows read-only.
When it is gathered. Each rank has a ring of 2 attention slots and a ring of 3 MoE-dense slots. Once a layer's attention or MoE block has closed its read window, the next layers whose slots are free are copied, in layer order, from every rank's row store, this rank's included, into this rank's slots on a copy stream: within a forward, the rows of layer l + 2 after the attention call of layer l. Attached, the gather goes on at the end of a forward into the first two layers of the next one, as main's expert prefetch schedule does with its last MoE layers, so a completed forward leaves the next one primed. Below, L(l) is this gather of layer l's dense weights and E(l) is expert DWDP's prefetch of layer l's remote experts. The module tensors are repointed into the slots once, at setup, so the model reads its weights through its usual attributes.
Ordering. Four hooks, in modeling_kimi_linear.py:
Hook
Where
What
H0
KimiLinearModel.forward entry
after an aborted forward, a write-after-read barrier; the first two layers unless they are enqueued already (by the previous forward's end or the executor loop); attached, then the start of the expert prefetch
H1
decoder layer entry
compute waits for the layer's slots (read after write)
H2
after the attention call
close the attention read window; enqueue the next layers whose slots are free (L(l + 2) within a forward)
H3
after the MoE block
close the MoE-dense read window; the same fill
All reads of A(l) happen between H1 and H2, all reads of D(l) between H1 and H3, and a copy into a slot waits for the end of the read window of the layer that held it. Every dependency is an event on a stream; between setup and teardown the host never synchronizes (except for the DEBUG=2 watchdog). Attached, the copies share the expert copy stream. With main's default of two expert prefetch slots it runs ... E(l+1), L(l+2), E(l+2), L(l+3) ... within a forward; at the Kimi-K3 forward boundary the next forward's copies are E(1), L(1), E(2), L(2) (layers 91 and 92 read the MoE-dense slots of layers 1 and 2 until H3), and they are read only after the gap between executor steps. With more expert prefetch slots each expert copy is issued ahead of its layer's dense copy, and DwdpManager.setup logs that at INFO.
Setup runs once per context worker after the weights are loaded, in phases P1-P6 over five fixed collectives, so every rank reaches the same verdict:
P1 collects the layout, its digest and per-blob checksums and compares them across ranks, which catches a rank with other switches or other weights (a tensor-parallel shard, for example), and checks that the free memory covers the store and the slots;
P2 allocates the store and the slots and writes this rank's rows; P3 maps the peers' rows and builds the copy plans;
P4 gathers every layer and checks the slot bytes against the originals; P5 repoints the module tensors and checks every layer again;
P6 (local) drops the originals and logs the bytes moved, stored and freed and the leak count.
A failure on any rank abandons on every rank and restores the original tensors. Then, with TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED on (the default), every rank raises; with it off, every rank serves on with its replicated dense weights.
Guards.ModelLoader's weight reload and incremental weight updates, and the Kimi load_weights methods, refuse a model whose dense weights dense DWDP has moved.
Modes and how to enable them
Attached
Standalone
Launch
dwdp_config with dwdp_size > 1, tp_size == 1, overlap scheduler off (as expert DWDP requires)
no dwdp_config, enable_attention_dp, tp_size > 1; the overlap scheduler may be on; MPI backend
Dense group
the DWDP group (MPI sub-communicator or the store rendezvous)
the attention-DP (tp) group, as an MPI sub-communicator with its own tag
Owner
DwdpManager creates a DenseDwdpManager, sets dense DWDP up before the expert setup and attaches it
the executor creator creates a DenseDwdpManager before the model is built; it sets itself up
Copies
the expert DWDP copy stream and transfer
the manager's own copy stream; TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY
First layers of a forward
gathered at the end of the previous forward, beside the expert prefetch; start_forward enqueues L(first), L(second) and starts the expert prefetch when they are not (the first forward, after an aborted one)
L(first), L(second) before every forward
Set the switches on the context workers only, the same on every rank of the group; generation servers are unchanged.
Variable
Default
Meaning
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE
off
Turn dense DWDP on; the launch decides the mode.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY
batched
Standalone only: batched, per_slice or gather (see Copy modes). The gate rejects any other value; attached mode ignores the variable with a warning.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED
on
On: a failed setup raises on every rank. Off: every rank keeps its replicated dense weights and serves on.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_SEGMENTS
attn,moe
attn moves the attention weights only.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_MIN_BYTES
1 MiB
Smaller storages stay replicated.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STORE_CHUNK_MB
0
0: one store handle; more: whole layers per handle of about this many MiB.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT
off
Turn demand fetches, leaks, unknown large attributes, shared storages and watchdog mismatches into errors.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUG
0
For validation: 1 fills the slots with NaN at commit and names leaked holders; 2 also runs a per-layer slot checksum watchdog (slow).
The parts of a context server's configuration the gate checks, attached (one GPU per worker, DWDP group of 16):
export TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1
export TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY=gather TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL=tma # the validated transfer
Copy modes
Attached: the dense copies use the expert DWDP transfer: the SM fabric gather (trtllm::dwdp_fabric_gather) with TRTLLM_DWDP_PREFETCH_GATHER=1 (kernel set by TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL), else one batched copy per layer with dwdp_config.contention_opt, else one copy per slice. The attached validation used the SM gather with the TMA kernel, as the routed experts did.
Standalone:TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY picks the transfer on the dense manager's own copy stream: batched (the default; one cudaMemcpyBatchAsync per layer on the copy engines), per_slice (one copy per descriptor) or gather (the SM fabric gather, which holds SMs next to the MoE all-to-all). It was validated with gather, TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL=tma and TLLM_ROUTING_DISABLE_COOP_LAUNCH=1. With gather, setup applies the gather's compute-side defaults, that variable included, unless they are set: cooperative MoE routing waits for the SMs the gather holds. batched stays the default and logs nothing; a standalone gather launch logs one warning that names the validated settings.
Setup order and the fixes in commits 4-6
The executor creator now runs, in this order:
The dense DWDP gate (dense/gate.py), before any DWDP manager and the model are built. It rejects a launch dense DWDP cannot serve, naming the first requirement it breaks, and picks the mode.
The managers, before the model is built, because the decoder layers capture the dense manager when they are constructed: DwdpManager, which creates and registers the attached DenseDwdpManager, or a standalone DenseDwdpManager.
The model load.
DWDP setup. DwdpManager.setup sets dense DWDP up and commits it first, so the replicated dense weights go back to the allocator; then the expert setup (transport, prefetch ring, weight manager, MoE backend fixup), whose weight manager adopts dense DWDP's copy stream; then it attaches the dense runtime. With the KV-cache estimation on (the default), setup runs before the estimation forward measures the memory, as before. With it off, a dense owner is now set up before build_managers sizes the final KV cache; expert DWDP without dense DWDP keeps its place after it.
The final executor gets the manager, starts each forward of the non-overlap loop through it (DwdpManager.start_forward, or the standalone manager's prefetch_first_layers), and exits it at shutdown. In the overlap loop (standalone only), H0 primes.
The fixes:
Commit 4. With the KV-cache estimation off (TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION=1, context parallelism, VANILLA attention, an encoder-decoder model or a model without a KV cache), the first executor is the final one, and on main it does not get the DwdpManager. So it never starts its forwards through the manager: the first forward, and the first after a forward that stopped inside the expert sequence, issue their first expert copies only when they bind them instead of ahead of time; after a control action it does not drop the expert prefetch (invalidate_prefetch), so the copies issued for the next forward keep the expert weights from before the action; and it never tears DWDP down at shutdown. It now gets the manager.
Commit 5. As commit 2 added it, DwdpManager.setup ran the expert setup first, so the expert prefetch ring (the page pool of the expert prefetch slots) was allocated while the replicated dense weights were still resident, and an attached DWDP8 context server (112 experts per rank) ran out of memory at startup on every rank. Dense DWDP now commits first: the setup peak is the larger of the two phases instead of their sum, and the state after setup is unchanged. For expert DWDP in general, WeightBuffer.create checks the ring against the free memory before it allocates a page and raises PrefetchRingMemoryError, naming the sizes and the remedies, instead of failing in cuMemCreate partway through; and PagePool no longer releases its handles twice when a page allocation fails.
Commit 6. With the estimation off, attached dense DWDP (commit 2) was set up after the final KV cache was sized, so the memory it frees never reached the KV cache, and DWDP8 at the default free_gpu_memory_fraction 0.9 could not start. It is now set up before build_managers, as standalone dense DWDP already was.
Limitations
Kimi-K3 only. With TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1, a model whose decoder layers do not provide dense_dwdp_roots is refused (an error, or, with TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED=0, a logged error and replicated weights).
Context servers in eager mode: the gate rejects cuda_graph_config, torch_compile_config, prefill CUDA graphs, sleep_config, lora_config, speculative_config, enable_locality_domains, pp_size or cp_size above 1, and hosts without FABRIC handles.
Attached mode needs tp_size == 1 and the overlap scheduler off. Expert DWDP on an attention-DP instance (dwdp_config with tp_size > 1, as in main's aggregated DWDP tests) is neither mode, and the gate rejects it when TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE is set.
Attached, with more than two expert prefetch slots (DwdpConfig.num_prefetch_slots > 2), each expert copy runs ahead of its layer's dense copy on the shared copy stream. The protocol tests cover 2 to 4 slots and the GPU test 2 and 3; the serving runs used the default 2.
Standalone mode needs the MPI backend. It is meant for context-only servers, but the gate does not check the server role: an aggregated or generation attention-DP launch with TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1 passes the gate and pays the per-layer gather in every step.
The switches must be the same on every rank of a group. A difference is caught at setup's first collective, except that a rank whose launch the gate rejects fails before the group exists, and its peers then wait until TRTLLM_DWDP_RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT_S (store rendezvous) or indefinitely (MPI). Standalone, ranks that set TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE wait in the group creation for a rank that did not.
Weights cannot be reloaded or updated on a model dense DWDP has sharded, also after its teardown.
No llm_args field: the switches are environment variables only.
Expert DWDP (commit 8): with the store rendezvous, a rank that dies, or fails before the handshake, leaves the others waiting in their next collective until it times out (TRTLLM_DWDP_RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT_S, 1800 s by default). The MoE backend fixup after the vote is local, so a failure there raises on that rank only. Ranks running different versions of this code in one DWDP group are not supported.
Not new, and now also true of the balanced and capped tables: a MoE layer that DWDP does not manage is shrunk to the rank's range as well and computes with that rank's experts only. DeepSeek NVFP4 with MTP on a DWDP context server is affected: its MTP MoE layer is not DWDP-managed, so the context server's draft tokens are wrong and the generation server rejects them; final outputs are unaffected. Kimi-K3 is not affected: DWDP manages all its MoE layers.
Balanced expert partition (commit 8)
Expert DWDP gives each rank one contiguous range of routed experts, set by DwdpConfig.num_experts_per_worker (the size) and num_prefetch_experts (the stride). Main requires (dwdp_size - 1) * stride + size == num_experts with 0 < stride <= size, so when dwdp_size does not divide the expert count only overlapping ranges fit: Kimi-K3 (896 experts) on DWDP12 used 82/74 and stored 88 experts twice in every MoE layer. Nothing in the VMM needs equal ranges (a handle is mapped whole, whatever its size). The code assumed them in four places: the range formula, the MoE backends' row allocation, every peer's handle size and view rows (taken from this rank's), and the fixup's rule for which small parameters to allgather.
ExpertPartition (dwdp/specs.py) is now the one table of every rank's [start, end). Every rank computes it from DwdpConfig, dwdp_size and the expert count N, and it is the only source of a rank's range for DwdpManager, MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layout, setup_dwdp and the transport.
num_experts_per_worker, num_prefetch_experts
Kind
Rank r stores
0, 0 (the defaults)
balanced
with divmod(N, dwdp_size) == (base, rem): base + 1 experts on the ranks below rem, base on the others, as _compute_ep_partition splits EP ranks; needs N >= dwdp_size. Kimi-K3 on DWDP12: 8 x 75 + 4 x 74
[r * size, min((r + 1) * size, N)): the last rank allocates only the experts left
Any other pair raises ValueError while the model is built, before any weight is created; DwdpConfig already rejects one field set or a negative value when the config is parsed, and the serve schemas reject them as well.
dwdp_config:
dwdp_size: 12num_experts_per_worker: 0# both 0: balancednum_prefetch_experts: 0
What else changes:
MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layout sizes each MoE backend with exactly its rank's rows. The transport allocates each rank's handle for that rank's range, maps every peer's handle whole with that peer's size and offset, and gives each peer view that peer's rows.
From the handshake to the vote, setup_dwdp collects first and decides the same way on every rank: one handshake allgather (every rank's range, granularity, and the rows, shape and dtype of its expert chunks; the error names the ranks that differ), a status in each Phase 1 handle allgather, an allgather(status) in place of Phase 3's barrier, and the fixup's single collective, _exchange_expert_scalars, as the vote. A failure on one rank in that span raises on every rank after the same collective, instead of leaving the others blocked in the next one.
That exchange replaces the fixup's per-parameter allgathers (184 on Kimi-K3) and requires overlapping copies and per-layer scales to be bitwise equal on every rank.
Removed, with nothing left reading them: _validate_partition_config, _allgather_e_score_correction_bias, _allgather_expert_scales, _get_first_spec, WeightBuffer.compute_peer_data_offset, compute_peer_ranges, DWDPTransport.get_peer_ranges, and DwdpManager.start_expert_id and end_expert_id.
Compatibility: explicit size/stride configs keep the same ranges, rows, handle sizes and offsets, peer views, ring pages, copy plans and fixup results, byte for byte, so the DeepSeek-V3-Lite DWDP accuracy configs and the Kimi-K3 perf-sanity configs (56/56) stay valid. For them, only these change: fewer collectives (15 instead of 19 per rank on a 3-layer model), the log wording, a config error raised while the model is built instead of in setup, and initial_global_assignments before the fixup (range(N); only a load balancer reads it, and DWDP excludes one). No config field is added. Both fields become NonNegativeInt, which the golden manifest still records as int, so the manifest and the API references do not change; their descriptions change, and the serve schemas gain minimum: 0 for both. Through an adaptation in scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py, the serve schemas also accept only both fields 0 (or absent) or both positive, so they reject one field set alone or with the other at 0, as DwdpConfig does.
Context-only server shutdown bound (commit 1)
Context-only benchmark jobs can finish the benchmark and then hang at teardown: requests orphaned on the context ranks meet three unbounded waits on the stop path (uvicorn waiting for request handlers, a handler's aresult() without a timeout, PyExecutor draining every request). Two variables bound it; with neither set, nothing changes.
TRTLLM_EXECUTOR_SHUTDOWN_DROP_INFLIGHT=1: once shutdown is requested, the executor loop stops with requests still active or queued instead of draining them, but still waits for a pending KV connector load or transfer. After the loop's last collective, the dropped requests are released through the normal termination path; a request whose KV cache the transfer fabric may still read keeps it, as on cancellation, and the KV cache manager closes it at its own shutdown. It takes effect only with pp_size == 1 and the overlap scheduler disabled, and each executor logs the effective value when it starts. Meant for context-only servers: do not set it on generation servers.
TRTLLM_SERVE_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_S=<seconds>: passed to uvicorn as timeout_graceful_shutdown, so request handlers still running after that many seconds are cancelled and the lifespan shutdown, which stops the engine, still runs. launch_server and launch_visual_gen_server parse it first, the latter before any rank builds VisualGen, so a malformed value fails before the model loads.
Validation
Serving runs on Rubin (SM107): Kimi-K3 NVFP4 in disaggregated serving, with context-only servers and a separate generation server. The runs with an NVFP4 KV cache below used earlier versions of this series on an earlier base, before the port to main. On main, which has no Kimi-K3 NVFP4 KV cache yet, the series also ran end to end with an FP8 KV cache (the last item); the tests under Test Coverage ran on this branch.
Attached, DWDP16 (16 one-GPU context workers): all ranks committed dense DWDP with one layout digest and no leaked storage. Under serving load with TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUG=2, the slot watchdog made about 3.95 M checks with 0 mismatches, and there was no demand fetch, error or failed request.
GSM8K (1,319 questions, attached DWDP16): 96.13% and 96.21% with dense DWDP off; 97.35% with it on (DEBUG=1) and 96.13% with DEBUG=2 (138,736 watchdog checks, 0 mismatches). Dense on and off differ in 38-50 answers, fewer than the 54 that differ between the two dense-off runs: no accuracy loss.
Standalone, one DEP16 instance (tp16, attention DP, EP16): the gate chose standalone on all 16 ranks, the layout digest equals DWDP16's, and there were no leaks, fence fallbacks, WAR barriers or errors with batched or with gather. A run with the KV-cache estimation off sized the KV cache once, after the dense commit, and released dense DWDP at shutdown (527,344 watchdog checks, 0 mismatches). GSM8K: 96.74%.
Setup order (commit 5): the attached DWDP8 context server that ran out of memory at startup now starts and serves without a failed request; DWDP16 serves as before. Commits 4 and 6, which matter only for expert DWDP with the KV-cache estimation off, are covered by the CPU tests only.
Balanced partition (commit 8), DWDP12 with attached dense DWDP: every rank logs balanced, 8 x 75 + 4 x 74 of 896 and all 12 ranks committed dense DWDP with one layout digest. GSM8K is 96.51%: against the dense-off runs it changes as many answers as those runs change among themselves. End-to-end runs had no failed request.
Not covered: GSM8K does not reach Kimi-K3's context path for requests with a cached prefix, so no accuracy run covers dense DWDP there. The DEBUG=2 serving run went through that path: its watchdog shows that each layer's slots held the right bytes when the layer started. That the path reads its weights only inside the read window rests on the code: it reads kv_b_proj inside self_attn.
On main, with an FP8 KV cache (64-token pages): one attached DWDP16 context server and a DEP16 generation server with DSpark, the long-context workload at concurrency 623 for 3600 s. Before the rebase onto [None][perf] Kimi-K3 KDA prefill grid sizing and MTP-verify kernels; DWDP cross-step expert prefetch with configurable slots #20941 (main 8786940): 12,877 requests, no error. This head's code on main 5be3334, with the default two expert prefetch slots and TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUG=2 and TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT=1 on the context servers: 12,945 requests, no error; all 16 ranks committed dense DWDP with one layout digest and no leaked storage; 3.5 M watchdog checks with 0 mismatches; no demand fetch, fence fallback or restart of the expert prefetch sequence.
Performance, qualitatively: attached, the freed memory pays off through a larger max_num_tokens; at the same max_num_tokens, the larger KV cache alone did not raise throughput. At the one standalone point measured, the larger KV cache did not raise throughput either (that instance was not short of KV cache).
Setup: Kimi-K3 NVFP4, NVFP4 KV cache (128 tokens per block), disaggregated serving, a long-context workload with about 95% realized prefix reuse, 3600 s per run, request rate and TTFT from aiperf. "Uncached prefill tokens/s/GPU" is prefill tokens/s/GPU x (1 - realized prefix reuse): the prompt tokens actually computed.
Attached, context-only. DWDP16 context server (16 one-GPU workers), one helix8 generation server, concurrency 128.
Comparison
Result
Dense DWDP off, base vs this series, max_num_tokens 16384
12.73 vs 13.25 req/s; 6,495 vs 6,765 uncached prefill tokens/s/GPU; TTFT p50 11.1 vs 10.7 s: no regression
Dense DWDP on, max_num_tokens 16384
each rank moves 58.3 GB and frees 56.6 GB; KV cache 56.0 to 92.8-93.1 GiB per rank (+36.9 GiB = 0.70 x freed); 13.25 req/s, as with dense off
Best points, same period: dense on at max_num_tokens 32768 (fraction 0.70) vs dense off at 24576 (fraction 0.65) vs dense off at 16384 (fraction 0.70)
14.02 vs 13.67 vs 13.30 req/s (+2.6%, +5.4%); uncached prefill 7,150 vs 6,931 vs 6,702 tokens/s/GPU (+3.2%, +6.7%); TTFT p90 33.0 vs 34.2 vs 36.5 s (-3.6%, -9.6%); KV cache 84.8 vs 48.2 vs 56.1 GiB per rank; no failed request. Dense off at 32768 (fraction 0.65) ran out of memory
Attached, end to end. One DWDP16 context server, a DEP16 generation server (batch 8, DSpark), concurrency 321; this point is generation-bound. Dense on at max_num_tokens 32768 vs dense off at 16384: total tokens/s per GPU +1.5%, TTFT p90 -15% (8.7 vs 10.3 s), p99 -17% (39.5 vs 47.6 s). Dense on at 16384: no difference from dense off. A DWDP12 context server with dense DWDP at max_num_tokens 32768 (82/74, 28 GPUs instead of 32), against the same dense-off arm: +10.4% total tokens/s per GPU, TTFT p90 +35%.
Setup order (commit 5). DWDP8 (112 experts per rank, max_num_tokens 16384). Before: the expert prefetch ring (two slots of 871-872 pages of 16 MiB, 27.2 GiB) met 16.09 GiB of free memory, and every rank ran out of memory at startup. After: dense DWDP commits first (58.30 GB moved, 7.29 GB store); 64.0 GiB are free before the expert setup and 38.1-38.3 GiB after its ring; the KV cache is 29.5 GiB per rank; concurrency 64 runs at 5.74 req/s with no failed request. DWDP16 at max_num_tokens 32768 after the change: 14.38 req/s (14.02-14.24 in three earlier runs), KV cache 84.5-84.8 GiB per rank (84.6-84.9 before), profiling peak 174.08 GiB (174.02 before).
Balanced partition (commit 8). DWDP12 context server with attached dense DWDP (max_num_tokens 32768, fraction 0.70), balanced 8 x 75 + 4 x 74 against 82/74 at the same settings: model weights 193.69 GiB (ranks 0-7) and 192.10 GiB (ranks 8-11) against 204.83 GiB; profiling peak 203.55-205.54 against 215.76-216.25 GiB (10.64-12.42 GiB lower per rank); KV cache 62.82-64.22 against 55.33-55.68 GiB (7.45-8.70 GiB more per rank). End to end at concurrency 383 against a dense-off DWDP16 context server (32 GPUs), two balanced dense DWDP12 arms (28 GPUs; max_num_tokens 32768 and 16384) give +11.1% / +10.6% output and +10.4% / +9.6% total tokens/s per GPU at 2.6-3.1% fewer requests/s, with TTFT p90 +27% / +34%: context requests queue behind long prefills on fewer context workers.
Test Coverage
Every file in the lists below carries pytest.mark.cpu_only, so the l0_cpu stage collects it, except the two GPU tests named as such. That stage collects with -m cpu_only and lists unittest/_torch/modules, unittest/_torch/moe and unittest/_torch/executor as directories; the other files are listed one by one.
Dense DWDP (tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/, new files):
test_dense_config.py: the switches: TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED is on by default and stays on for a value it cannot read; a TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_SEGMENTS list without attn is rejected.
test_dense_layout.py: the collector and the blob layout on a Kimi-K3-like toy decoder (KDA and MLA layers; row views, aliases, pad rows, excluded scratch names, the low-M GEMM's scale copy); a storage shared across layers stays replicated; a module whose weights are not yet transformed is refused; the DEBUG=2 watchdog accepts exactly the slots a correct gather leaves.
test_dense_store.py: the FABRIC row store over a fake VMM, with one store handle and with several, including the release after a failure partway through the allocation or the import.
test_dense_protocol.py: the runtime protocol over a recording fake of the CUDA calls, beside the real DWDPWeightManager and main's prefetch schedule, driven like the executor loop, the model and ConfigurableMoE; every dense and expert read is checked with vector clocks. The fill at H2 and H3, into the next forward included, for both segment sets; the copy order (a cold start, within a forward, at the Kimi-K3 forward boundary), with two sensitivity checks; 1 to 5 and 92 layers with 2, 3 and 4 expert slots: race-free, with no fence, demand fetch or host synchronization, and primed after every forward; a forward aborted before H1, before H2, between the expert bind and finish, and before H3, at the first, second, middle and last two layers, recovered with and without the executor's start; invalidate_prefetch; a prefetch into a slot whose read window is still open takes the fence; 200 random sequences of aborts, failed starts and invalidations; standalone keeps one schedule per forward.
test_dense_attached_gpu.py (GPU, registered in l0_b200 and l0_gb300_multi_gpus): the real runtime and weight manager on one copy stream with a read kernel in every read window, checking every read's bytes: 4 and 5 layers with 2 and 3 expert slots, slow reads or slow copies, both segment sets, a warmup forward, every abort point with its recovery and new expert weights, 92 layers at the Kimi-K3 boundary, a release with the next forward's copies in flight; a missing consume record at H2 is detected.
test_dense_setup.py: setup on N rank threads over fake devices. Ranks that disagree on TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE all raise; ranks that disagree on TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT, the layout or the weights, and a failure on one rank in any of the phases P1-P5, abandon on every rank and restore every module tensor; an original that something still holds after the commit point is reported, with its holders under DEBUG=1, and with STRICT only that rank raises; only attached setup gathers into the next forward.
test_dense_gate.py: both modes are accepted; a launch that fits neither, or breaks any one requirement, is rejected with that requirement named; TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY is validated standalone and ignored with one warning attached; a standalone gather launch logs one warning naming the validated settings.
test_dense_executor.py: the tagged standalone MPI group; the executor priming a standalone manager and accepting it with either loop; expert DWDP still refusing the overlap scheduler; shutdown exiting the manager in both modes; the standalone SM reserve from registration to exit (with the gather, and with a pinned TRTLLM_CUTEDSL_SM_RESERVE with every transfer), dropped by a setup that commits nothing.
test_dense_kimi_hooks.py: the hook placement (H0-H3) on a real Kimi-K3 model of a tiny config with KDA and MLA layers, with and without dense DWDP, that the model and each decoder layer keep the dense DWDP manager registered when they are built (or None), the KimiLinearForCausalLM.load_weights guard, and the dense layout of the model's real layers: in strict mode with a 1-byte threshold, the collector moves exactly the tensors under the attention root and the five MoE-dense roots of each MoE layer (the allowed attributes and their aliases included, the excluded names not) and nothing of layer 0.
test_dense_guards.py: ModelLoader.reload and ModelLoader.begin_update_weights refuse a model dense DWDP has sharded before they change anything, with the mark on the model or on its decoder, for a causal LM and for a VL-style wrapper.
Executor wiring and setup order (commits 4-6):
test_dwdp_creator.py: the creator runs to its end over stand-ins for expert-only, attached and standalone DWDP, with the KV-cache estimation on and off and for a model without a KV cache. The manager is set up once, and only the executor that serves gets it and starts its forwards through it: with the estimation off, the only executor; with it on, the final one, as before. Without the estimation, dense setup (attached and standalone) comes before build_managers and expert-only setup after it. When construction fails, a standalone dense manager registered during it is exited, and one registered before it is left alone.
test_dwdp_manager.py: dense setup before the expert setup; the copy stream, the slot storages and the slot count handed to the expert setup; a weight manager on another copy stream or with other transfer flags refused; the rollback when the expert setup fails; on a model without dense roots, no dense collective, and TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1 refused unless TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED=0; the INFO line for more than two expert slots; a golden trace of the attached lifecycle, the executor's start, H0 and the recovery after an aborted forward.
test_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py, test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py: the adopted copy stream (one on another device is refused); an expert weight inside a dense slot is refused; a ring larger than the free memory is refused before any allocation, with two and with three slots; a page pool whose allocation fails releases each handle once.
test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py, test_pp_mpi_progress_thread.py, test_py_executor.py, tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py and tests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.py set dense_dwdp_manager = None where they build a PyExecutor without __init__.
Balanced expert partition (commit 8):
test_dwdp_peer_ranges.py: the balanced table equals _compute_ep_partition. On a grid of 60,836 configs, a strided table is accepted exactly when main's validator accepted it, or when it is capped.
test_dwdp_manager.py, test_prefetch_copy_plan.py: DwdpConfig validation; 0/0 resolved per expert count; backend rows (74 on a balanced rank, 71 on the capped last rank, 82 on a redundant one); copy plans with peers of 75/74, 45/44 and 38/37 experts.
tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py: the fixup over the exchange, also with a backend set up by the real NVFP4CuteDslFusedMoEMethod.setup_quant_scales; reports that do not fit raise the same error on every rank.
test_dwdp_setup_protocol.py (new): the real setup_dwdp, one thread per rank, over StoreDwdpGroup on a HashStore with a fake VMM that maps handles only whole. Every peer is mapped with its own size and rows for all four kinds; a failure on one rank (a handshake mismatch, an export, an access grant, the ring) raises on every rank after the same collective, and nothing leaks.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py: the serve schema accepts 0/0, and both serve schemas reject a negative value. test_dwdp_expert_partition_matches_runtime checks that both schemas, the disaggregated one also under context_servers and generation_servers, accept and reject the same partitions as DwdpConfig: both fields absent, 0/0, 1/1 and 2/1 pass; one field at 1 with the other absent or 0 fails.
Shutdown bound (commit 1):
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py: the gate, should_stop_processing with and without pending connector loads and transfers, and the release of the dropped requests through the termination path after the loop's last collective.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py: the uvicorn keywords for set, unset and malformed values; a malformed value rejected before the VisualGen launcher constructs VisualGen, on rank 0 and on a worker rank; and an interrupted child server whose hung handler is cancelled at the bound, after which the lifespan shutdown still runs. Added to l0_cpu.yml, which lists that directory file by file.
Generation-server fix (commit 9):
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_adp_dummy_draft_rollback.py: with stand-in managers, a rolled-back dummy releases its draft mirror and a queued dummy keeps it (CPU); with real V2 target and draft pools and the V2 scheduler, a skipped iteration followed by the deferred previous batch no longer raises (GPU, registered in l0_a10).
Apart from those two GPU tests, the GPU validation on SM107 (dense DWDP on real Kimi-K3 modules, and the balanced expert partition) was run internally and is not part of CI. The DWDP accuracy tests on DeepSeek-V3-Lite (uniform, redundant and contention_opt configs, pre-merge in l0_gb200_multi_gpus) run expert DWDP through this PR's setup changes; they were not run locally.
Results. This head, on main 5be3334, in the CI development image main used before #19760 with the Python requirements of 55649d1, which differ from 5be3334's only in XGrammar (0.1.32 instead of 0.2.8), on 4 Rubin (SM107) GPUs per node. The C++ libraries are a build from source of main 5be3334 (CUDA arch 107); this PR changes no C++.
Suite
Result
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp (whole directory) and tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py, 4 GPUs
613 passed, 1 skipped, 26 subtests passed
CPU (-m cpu_only), with and without a visible GPU: the dwdp directory, the dwdp fixup test, _torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py, llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py, llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py, the four executor tests above and _torch/executor/test_py_executor_creator_mla_cache_reuse_sync.py, whose stand-ins test_dwdp_creator.py uses
1,205 passed, 1 skipped (1,204 and 2 without a GPU), 26 subtests passed, 0 failed
127 passed, 9 failed: the same 9 fail on main 5be3334 without this PR (test_batch_start_combines_readiness_with_status, test_idle_fleet_polls_saves_without_new_traffic, test_control_drain_keeps_owner_collectives_aligned)
65 passed, 15 skipped (no Kimi-K2.5 checkpoint here)
test_kimi_k3_helix_a2a.py and test_kimi_linear_helix_mappings.py, which run the decoder layer the dense hooks sit in
21 passed
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.py and test_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py (main #19394, next to this PR's serve.py change), CPU
14 passed
Each commit's own test files, on that commit's product code
passed, apart from those 9 test_connector_adp.py failures of main
scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py --check and scripts/generate_llm_args_golden_manifest.py --check
passed; the manifest is unchanged
pre-commit on every changed file
all hooks pass
Before the PR's tests were trimmed and the branch was rebased: on main 14765c7 with #21011 applied, and with this PR's product code differing from this head's only in one docstring:
2 in tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_hang_detector_kill.py (the real-MPI cases): srun is not available in the test container.
1 in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgs::test_model_kwargs_with_num_hidden_layers: the Qwen3-0.6B checkpoint is not under LLM_MODELS_ROOT in this environment.
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The pull request adds dense DWDP configuration, storage, setup, runtime hooks, and executor integration. It also revises expert partitioning and transport, adds executor shutdown request dropping, and configures server graceful-shutdown timeouts.
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Dense DWDP
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Dense configuration, layout, storage, and copy planning tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/*, tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_layout.py, tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_store.py
Adds dense launch configuration, tensor layout and checksums, slot-backed bindings, copy plans, shard stores, and watchdog checks.
Dense setup, runtime, and model integration tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/*, tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_*.py
Coordinates dense setup across ranks and integrates attached and standalone managers with executor construction, Kimi model hooks, priming, cleanup, and weight-update guards.
Expert partitioning and transport
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Partition contracts and configuration tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/specs.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/schemas/*, scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py
Adds balanced and strided expert partitions. Runtime validation and serving schemas require paired zero or positive partition fields.
Transport and setup tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/{setup.py,transport.py,weight_buffer.py,page_pool.py}
Derives transport ranges and handle geometry from partitions. Adds rank-wide status exchange, reserved-storage checks, and allocation cleanup.
Expert manager and backend fixup tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/dwdp.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/weight_manager.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/interface.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/setup.py, tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py
Uses partition-derived expert ranges and shared copy-stream settings. Exchanges small expert scalars before backend fixup and checks duplicate values for overlapping ranges.
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participant PyExecutorCreator
participant DenseDwdpManager
participant DenseSetup
participant DenseDWDP
participant KimiLinearModel
PyExecutorCreator->>DenseDwdpManager: Select dense DWDP mode and create manager
DenseDwdpManager->>DenseSetup: Build layout and coordinate setup
DenseSetup->>DenseDWDP: Commit runtime, bindings, and copy launcher
KimiLinearModel->>DenseDwdpManager: Prime dense slots before forward
KimiLinearModel->>DenseDWDP: Wait for staged weights and close read windows
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Update the shutdown-duration assertion for lifespan_shutdown_after to enforce a
generous upper bound measured from SIGINT, while retaining the existing
lower-bound check, so the test detects an ineffective timeout without relying on
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create_py_executor exits a newly registered dense manager when construction fails. The existing rollback test covers only the expert DwdpManager; the parameterized standalone test covers successful construction, not this error path.
Add a case in tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_creator.py using set_global_dense_dwdp_manager that verifies:
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Add standalone dense-DWDP rollback coverage for create_py_executor in the DWDP
creator tests: verify a manager registered during construction receives
__exit__(None, None, None), a pre-existing manager is left untouched, and an
exception from rollback is logged while the original construction error
propagates.
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- Line 545: Validate the graceful-shutdown timeout at the VisualGen launcher
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- Around line 1437-1445: Add standalone dense-DWDP rollback coverage for
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construction receives __exit__(None, None, None), a pre-existing manager is left
untouched, and an exception from rollback is logged while the original
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Validate the timeout before VisualGen initialization.
If VisualGen is selected, serve bypasses launch_server. It constructs VisualGen before OpenAIServer.__call__ checks a malformed timeout. An invalid value can therefore fail only after expensive model initialization. Validate the value at the VisualGen launcher entry point too. Add a test that supplies an invalid value and confirms that VisualGen is not constructed. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Validate the graceful-shutdown timeout at the VisualGen launcher entry point
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Confirmed: with VisualGen selected, serve calls launch_visual_gen_server, which constructed VisualGen before OpenAIServer.__call__ read the variable. Fixed in 686f56f: launch_visual_gen_server now reads TRTLLM_SERVE_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_S first, before its worker-rank branch, so no rank builds VisualGen with a malformed value. The new CPU test test_malformed_timeout_fails_before_visual_gen_is_constructed sets a malformed value and fails if the VisualGen constructor is reached, both without an external launcher and on a worker rank.
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Test and enforce the paired DWDP field constraint.
DwdpConfig rejects (0, 1) and (1, 0), but the generated schema constrains each field independently and accepts both pairs. The new cases cannot detect this editor-versus-runtime mismatch. Add rejected cases for both pairs. Update the schema generator’s DWDP adaptation so those cases pass against regenerated snapshots. (raw.githubusercontent.com) As per path instructions, flag “Missing, incorrect, overly weak, or non-observable assertions.”
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Update the DWDP schema adaptation used by generator.SERVE_SCHEMA to enforce the
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Confirmed: the generated schemas constrained the two fields separately, so they accepted (0, 1), (1, 0) and either field positive with the other absent, all of which DwdpConfig rejects. Fixed in 10c642c: generate_serve_schema() now mirrors DwdpConfig._validate_expert_partition() in the DwdpConfig definition (both fields 0 or absent, or both positive), and the regenerated serve and disaggregated schemas reject those cases. The new test_dwdp_expert_partition_matches_runtime checks them and the accepted ones (both absent, 0/0, 1/1, 2/1) against DwdpConfig itself and both schemas, the disaggregated one at the top level and under context_servers and generation_servers.
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Assert that shutdown finishes near the configured bound.
If lifespan shutdown starts 30 seconds after SIGINT, this assertion still passes for a one-second bound. Add a generous upper bound to detect a shutdown that cancels the handler too late without making the test sensitive to small CI delays. As per path instructions, flag “assertions that would pass despite a plausible regression.”
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Update the lifespan_shutdown_after assertion to enforce a generous upper limit
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Agreed: a shutdown that cancels the handler long after the bound would still have passed. Fixed in ce104a3: the test now asserts _BOUND_S <= lifespan_shutdown_after < _BOUND_S + _SLACK_S, with _SLACK_S = 10 seconds. That leaves room for a loaded CI host and still fails a shutdown that cancels the handler well past the 1-second bound.
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- Around line 1458-1462: Add a creator-level failure test for standalone
`DenseDwdpManager` rollback in `create_py_executor`: verify the newly registered
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- creator failure tests ---'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_creator.py | sed -n '1,190p'printf'%s\n''--- dense references in DWDP tests ---'
rg -n -C 3 -e 'DenseDwdpManager' -e 'get_global_dense_dwdp_manager' -e 'set_global_dense_dwdp_manager' -e 'dense_manager' tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp
printf'%s\n''--- production rollback context ---'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py | sed -n '1418,1472p'
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Add a standalone dense-manager rollback test.
When standalone construction registers a DenseDwdpManager and then fails, create_py_executor must call __exit__(None, None, None) on that manager. Add a creator-level test that checks the exit call, confirms the global registration is cleared, and confirms a pre-existing dense manager is not exited.
The existing creator failure tests cover only expert DwdpManager rollback. The standalone creator tests cover successful setup, not construction failure. Manager-level and executor-shutdown tests do not cover this path.
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Add a creator-level failure test for standalone `DenseDwdpManager` rollback in
`create_py_executor`: verify the newly registered manager receives
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Agreed, the standalone rollback branch had no test. Added in 10ef5eb, next to the expert DwdpManager rollback tests in test_dwdp_creator.py:
test_create_py_executor_rolls_back_a_new_standalone_dense_manager_on_error: a dense manager registered by the failing construction is exited once with (None, None, None), and the registration is cleared.
test_create_py_executor_leaves_a_pre_existing_dense_manager_alone: a dense manager registered before the call is neither exited nor unregistered.
With the dense rollback branch removed from create_py_executor, the first test fails.
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- Around line 2282-2287: Add a dense-layout test using the existing Kimi fixture
layers with collect_dense_layout: assert the exact attention and five MoE-dense
root bindings and their allowed attributes for the KDA and MLA MoE layers,
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- Kimi definitions and root provider ---'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py | sed -n '2070,2165p;2245,2295p'printf'%s\n''--- collector implementation ---'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/layout.py | sed -n '100,235p'printf'%s\n''--- current Kimi test setup and assertions ---'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_kimi_hooks.py | sed -n '1,70p;175,270p'printf'%s\n''--- existing layout fixture and assertions ---'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_layout.py | sed -n '200,300p'
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Assert the collected bindings, not only root selection.
The current Kimi fixture contains a non-MoE KDA layer, a KDA MoE layer, and an MLA MoE layer, but its test only checks hook behavior. Add a layout case that passes these actual layers to collect_dense_layout.
Assert the exact expected binding or anchor-path set for the KDA and MLA MoE layers. Include the expected attention and five MoE-dense roots and their allowed attributes. The exact-set assertion must exclude routed_experts. Also assert that the non-MoE layer has no dense-layout entries. This detects an omitted root, an omitted DWDP_DENSE_ATTR_ALLOW entry, incorrect routed-expert selection, and incorrect non-MoE selection.
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Add a dense-layout test using the existing Kimi fixture layers with
collect_dense_layout: assert the exact attention and five MoE-dense root
bindings and their allowed attributes for the KDA and MLA MoE layers, excluding
routed_experts, and assert the non-MoE KDA layer produces no entries. Cover
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Added test_the_collector_moves_every_root_tensor_of_the_moe_layers_and_nothing_else to test_dense_kimi_hooks.py in 10ef5eb. It uses the file's real model:
It first finishes loading the way the loader does: post_load_weights on each Linear, plus the fused KDA projections and decode constants that finalize_decode_weights builds on GPU.
It runs collect_dense_layout over all layers in strict mode with a 1-byte threshold. Only the three MoE layers are covered, so the dense-MLP layer 0 has no entries.
For each covered layer, the roots must be exactly the attention module and the five _DENSE_DWDP_MOE_ROOTS, so routed_experts is never a root.
Per segment, the bound names must equal every parameter, buffer and DWDP_DENSE_ATTR_ALLOW attribute under those roots that DWDP_DENSE_EXCLUDE does not name, plus their aliases. This catches an omitted root and the routing-bias exclusion.
Strict mode also fails on any plain tensor attribute that the two tables do not account for. Dropping _A_log_f32 from DWDP_DENSE_ATTR_ALLOW makes the test fail.
The hook test builds the model with no global manager, then assigns model._dense_dwdp and every layer._dense_dwdp manually. It therefore does not catch a regression in either constructor’s manager capture. Add a focused test for both a registered manager and None.
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+@pytest.mark.parametrize("registered", [False, True])+def test_model_and_layers_capture_the_global_dense_manager(registered):+ manager = object() if registered else None+ set_global_dense_dwdp_manager(manager)+ model = mkl.KimiLinearModel(_model_config(_kimi_config()))+ assert model._dense_dwdp is manager+ assert all(layer._dense_dwdp is manager for layer in model.layers)++
@pytest.mark.parametrize("state", ["dense", "no_dense", "no_manager"])
def test_the_model_primes_first_and_brackets_the_reads_of_covered_layers(state):
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Add a focused test for KimiLinearModel manager capture before any manual
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…quests and time out the graceful stop (opt-in)
Context-only benchmark jobs can finish the benchmark and then hang at teardown: requests orphaned on
the context ranks meet three unbounded waits on the stop path (uvicorn waiting for handlers, a handler's
aresult() with no timeout, PyExecutor draining every request). Both changes are off unless their
variable is set, and behave as before when it is not.
- TRTLLM_EXECUTOR_SHUTDOWN_DROP_INFLIGHT=1 (py_executor.py): once shutdown is requested, the executor
stops with requests still active or queued instead of draining them. A pending KV connector load or
transfer (_has_pending_connector_transfers) is still waited for, since it reads the KV pools that
shutdown frees next. After the loop ends normally, after its last collective, the dropped requests
are released through the existing termination path; a request whose KV cache the transfer fabric may
still read keeps it, as on cancellation, and the KV cache manager closes that cache at its own
shutdown. The release is gated on the loop's completion mark, so the loop-ending break still directly
follows the mark and the insufficient-KV benchmark exit releases nothing. Effective only with
pp_size == 1 and the overlap scheduler disabled; the effective value is logged once. Meant for
context-only servers: do not set it on generation servers.
- TRTLLM_SERVE_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_S=<seconds> (openai_server.py): passes uvicorn's
timeout_graceful_shutdown, so handlers that never finish are cancelled and the lifespan shutdown
(which sends the engine its quit sentinel) still runs. launch_server and launch_visual_gen_server
read it first, the latter before any rank builds VisualGen, so a malformed value fails before the
model loads.
Tests (CPU):
- test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py: the gate (one pipeline stage, no overlap scheduler, logged
once), should_stop_processing set and unset, with and without pending connector transfers, the
release through the termination path, and the executor loop releasing after its last collective.
- test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py: the uvicorn.Config keywords for set, unset and malformed
values; a malformed value rejected before the VisualGen launcher constructs VisualGen, on rank 0
and on a worker rank; and a SIGINT child server whose hung handler is cancelled at the bound.
Registered in l0_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Zongfei Jing <20381269+zongfeijing@users.noreply.github.com>
Dense DWDP row-shards the replicated dense weights of Kimi-K3's MoE decoder layers (attention, shared
expert, latent projections and norm, router; layer 0 stays replicated) over the DWDP group, and gathers
each layer's shard set two layers ahead on the expert DWDP copy stream into small staging slots. On a
context-only rank this frees about 56 GB for the KV cache. It is opt-in through environment switches
(TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE, _SEGMENTS, _REQUIRED, _MIN_BYTES, _STORE_CHUNK_MB, _DEBUG, _STRICT), and its copies
use the expert transfer: trtllm::dwdp_fabric_gather when TRTLLM_DWDP_PREFETCH_GATHER is on (kernel
chosen by TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL), otherwise the copy engines.
- modules/dwdp/dense (new): the switches, the collector and blob layout, the row store (FABRIC handles,
plus an in-process loopback for tests), the per-layer copy plans and launcher, repointing of the
module tensors into the slots, the runtime (slot rings, RAW/WAR events, demand fetch and fences, the
WAR barrier after an aborted forward), the DEBUG=2 slot watchdog, and setup: phases P1-P6 over five
fixed collectives, so every rank reaches the same verdict, with REQUIRED deciding between raising
everywhere and keeping the weights replicated.
- The runtime's copy schedule. Once a layer's attention (H2) or MoE block (H3) has closed its read
window, the runtime enqueues, in layer order, each next layer whose staging slots are free (empty,
or their holder's window closed), so these copies never need the fence. Within a forward that is
L(l+2) at H2 of layer l. At the end of a forward it goes on into the first two layers of the next
one, as the expert prefetch schedule does with its last MoE layers, so a completed forward leaves
the next one primed. With two expert prefetch slots each L(l) is enqueued right before E(l): H2 of
layer l-2 enqueues L(l) before that layer's MoE finishes and issues E(l). For Kimi-K3 the
MoE-dense slots of layers 1 and 2 are read by layers 91 and 92 until H3, so the next forward's
copies are E(1), L(1), E(2), L(2) (L before E with the attention segment alone); it reads them
only after the gap between executor steps. With more expert prefetch slots each expert copy is
issued earlier, ahead of its layer's dense copy; DwdpManager.setup says so at INFO.
- dense/gate.py: the launch gate py_executor_creator runs before the DWDP manager and the model are
built. It needs dwdp_config with dwdp_size > 1, eager single-stream execution (no CUDA graphs,
torch.compile or prefill graphs), no sleep, LoRA or speculative config, locality domains off
(Linear and MLA keep _locality_domain_* shard copies dense DWDP does not move), the overlap
scheduler off, tp/pp/cp size 1 and FABRIC peer handles.
- pyexecutor/dwdp.py: DwdpManager sets dense DWDP up after the expert setup on a model with dense
roots (on every rank, so ranks that disagree on TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE stop at the first collective),
exposes the runtime as `dense`, and releases dense DWDP before the expert teardown.
- start_forward (the executor loop) enqueues L(first), L(second) unless they are enqueued already,
then starts the expert prefetch (DWDPWeightManager.start_forward). While a forward is still open,
i.e. the previous one aborted, it enqueues nothing and leaves both to the model.
- ensure_primed (H0, at the model's forward entry, on the execution stream) runs the dense WAR
barrier after an aborted forward, enqueues L(first), L(second) unless already primed, then starts
the expert prefetch, which enqueues nothing when the first MoE layers are in flight and otherwise
restarts its sequence, synchronizing the device first if the aborted forward left a MoE layer
bound. So L(first), L(second), E(first), E(second) is also the order after an abort that
restarts the expert sequence.
With a store rendezvous, mark_setup_done stays the last step of setup, after the dense collectives
that also run over the store. Cleanup errors are logged with logger.error and the traceback, since
the logger has no exception() method.
- modeling_kimi_linear.py: the dense roots and the allow/exclude tables of each decoder layer, the
read-window hooks H1-H3 in the decoder layer, H0 priming at the model's forward entry, and a
load_weights guard. modeling_kimi_k25.py: the same load guard.
- model_loader.py: reload and begin_update_weights refuse a model dense DWDP sharded.
- weight_manager.py: copy_stream, use_gather and use_batched_prefetch properties for dense setup.
- MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md: how dense DWDP relates to the expert DWDP protocol.
Tests (cpu_only): the switches, the collector and the DEBUG=2 watchdog on a K3-like toy decoder,
setup on N rank threads over the loopback store and fake devices (disagreeing ranks and failures in
every phase abandon everywhere; an original still alive after the commit point is reported), the FABRIC
store over a fake VMM, the Kimi-K3 hook placement and load guard on a real model of a tiny config, the
ModelLoader guards, dense setup inside DwdpManager (with its INFO line for more than two expert
prefetch slots), and the gate.
test_dense_protocol.py runs the runtime over a recording fake of the CUDA seam beside the real
DWDPWeightManager and its prefetch schedule, driven like the executor loop, the model and
ConfigurableMoE, and checks every dense and expert read with vector clocks over the log:
- where H2 and H3 record and what their fill enqueues, into the next forward included, for both
segment sets; the copy order (cold start L(1), L(2), E(1), E(2); L(l) right before E(l) within a
forward; E(1), L(1), E(2), L(2) at the K3 boundary; nothing at the next start), with two
sensitivity checks (no fill at H2; the expert prefetch started before the dense priming);
- 1 to 5 and 92 layers with 2, 3 and 4 expert slots: race-free, no fence, demand fetch or host
synchronization, primed after every forward;
- a forward aborted before H1, before H2, between the expert bind and finish, and before H3, at the
first, second, middle and last two layers, recovered with and without the executor's start: the
barrier on the execution stream, L(1), L(2) before the expert restart, a device synchronization
only after an abandoned bind;
- invalidate_prefetch regathers E(1), E(2) only; the fence and the WAR barrier after an abort; 200
random sequences of aborts (also inside a fill and inside H0's priming), starts whose forward fails
before the model and invalidations.
test_dense_attached_gpu.py (GPU, registered in l0_b200 and l0_gb300_multi_gpus) runs the real runtime
and weight manager on one copy stream with a read kernel in every read window and checks every read's
bytes: 4 and 5 layers with 2 and 3 expert slots, slow reads or slow copies, both segment sets, a
warmup forward, steps, every abort point with its recovery and new expert weights; 92 layers at the
K3 boundary; a release right after a forward, with the next forward's copies in flight; skipping
H2's consume record is detected.
test_dwdp_creator.py gets the cpu_only marker, without which the CPU stage skips the file.
test_dwdp_prefetch_gpu.py's stand-in DwdpManager has no dense runtime.
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…DP instances (env form)
Dense DWDP no longer needs expert DWDP. With TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1 it runs in one of two modes:
- Attached (dwdp_config with dwdp_size > 1, tp_size 1, overlap scheduler off): the behaviour of the
previous commit. DwdpManager attaches the dense runtime to an attached DenseDwdpManager, which keeps
the copy schedule on the expert copy stream (the next forward's first layers gathered at the end
of a forward, the dense priming before the expert prefetch starts) and the teardown order (dense
first).
- Standalone (no dwdp_config, enable_attention_dp, tp_size > 1, e.g. a DEP16 context server): the
dense group is the instance's tp group, created as an MPI sub-communicator with its own tag (0x4457),
so a rank that disagrees on TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE waits in Create_group instead of pairing with
MPIDist.tp_comm's tag-0 group. The new DenseDwdpManager owns the runtime and a lazily created copy
stream of its own. TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY picks the transfer: batched (default; one
cudaMemcpyBatchAsync per layer on the copy engines), per_slice, or gather (the SM fabric gather; it
holds SMs next to the MoE all-to-all). The overlap scheduler is allowed: the non-overlap executor
loop primes the first layers, otherwise the forward entry (H0) does. The runtime does not gather
the next forward's first layers at the end of a forward: no expert copies share its stream, and
every forward is primed. With the gather, the manager keeps the gather's resident SMs out of the
persistent compute grids from its registration, before the model is built, to its exit, as
DwdpManager does for the expert gather. As with DwdpManager, a count pinned with
TRTLLM_CUTEDSL_SM_RESERVE is reserved with every transfer, the copy engines included. A setup that
commits nothing drops the reserve. Standalone is meant for context-only servers; the gate does not
check the server role.
Expert DWDP over an attention-DP instance (dwdp_config with tp_size > 1) is not a dense DWDP mode:
the gate rejects that launch with a message naming both modes.
Changes:
- dense/manager.py (new): DenseDwdpManager for both modes, standalone_group, StandaloneTransfer and
get_global_dense_dwdp_manager. prefetch_first_layers enqueues L(first), L(second) unless primed
or a forward is open; ensure_primed (H0) runs the dense WAR barrier after an aborted forward,
primes, and attached then starts the expert prefetch (the weight manager's start_forward).
- dense/gate.py: the two modes and their checks. Common to both: locality domains off, pp_size 1,
cp_size 1. Standalone also needs the MPI backend and refuses an invalid TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY; with
expert DWDP that variable is ignored with a warning.
- dense/config.py, setup.py, runtime.py, plan.py, types.py, __init__.py: mode-aware setup and copy
launcher; standalone does not depend on the expert weight manager. DenseDWDP takes a required
prefetch_next_pass, which setup turns on when it gets the expert MoE layers. In both modes setup
also compares TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT at collective NVIDIA#1: STRICT decides a raise after the commit
point, so ranks that differ on it abandon there instead of raising on some ranks only.
- fabric_gather.resident_sms takes the caller's transport choice (gather=None keeps the expert one).
- pyexecutor/dwdp.py: DwdpManager creates and registers an attached DenseDwdpManager and hands it the
runtime instead of owning it. start_forward has the dense manager prime, then starts the expert
prefetch, and still leaves an open forward to H0. __enter__ registers both managers, then sets the
SM reserve; a failure unregisters both and frees the group.
- py_executor_creator.py, py_executor.py, _util.py: create and register the standalone manager before
the model is built, hand it to the final executor only, and prime from the non-overlap loop
(PyExecutor._prime_dwdp: DwdpManager.start_forward with expert DWDP, else the standalone manager's
prefetch_first_layers); PyExecutor validates the two managers together. With KV-cache estimation
off, standalone setup runs before the final KV cache is sized, so the freed memory reaches it.
- modeling_kimi_linear.py: the K3 hooks read the dense manager (_dense_dwdp) in both modes.
- MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md: ConfigurableMoE is unaware of dense DWDP.
Tests:
- New: test_dense_gate (the two modes are accepted; a launch that fits neither is refused with what
it found; the copy switch is validated standalone and ignored with one warning attached) and
test_dense_executor (who primes, either executor loop, expert DWDP still refusing the overlap
scheduler, both managers refused, shutdown after the model is dropped, the tagged standalone
group; the standalone gather's SM reserve from registration to exit, none for the copy engines or
an attached manager, a pinned TRTLLM_CUTEDSL_SM_RESERVE with every transfer, and dropped by a
setup that commits nothing).
- Updated: test_dense_protocol (the driver goes through the real attached DenseDwdpManager; two
standalone K3 forwards keep the per-forward schedule, L(1), L(2) at the start, L(l+2) at H2 and
nothing at H3, and recover from an abort at H1, H2 or H3; the random sequences include
standalone), test_dense_kimi_hooks (both modes), test_dense_setup (ranks that differ on
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE or on TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT stop at the first collective; only attached setup
turns prefetch_next_pass on), test_fabric_gather (resident_sms with the caller's choice),
test_dwdp_creator, test_dwdp_manager, and the stand-in DwdpManager of test_dwdp_prefetch_gpu and
test_dense_attached_gpu (an attached DenseDwdpManager).
- The executor tests that assemble a PyExecutor without __init__ and reach the DWDP managers
(shutdown, the executor loop) set dense_dwdp_manager as they set dwdp_manager.
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…e estimation is off
With KV-cache estimation off, the first PyExecutor the creator builds is the final one. That happens
with TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION=1; with context parallelism, VANILLA attention or an
encoder-decoder model; and with a model without a KV cache. Only the second, post-estimation executor
got dwdp_manager. So with expert DWDP, whether or not dense DWDP is attached, the final executor:
- did not start its forwards through the manager: _prime_dwdp found none, so the non-overlap loop
never called DwdpManager.start_forward. The first forward, and the first after a forward that
stopped inside the expert sequence, issued their first expert copies only at their first bind
instead of ahead of it; every other forward bound the copies the previous forward's last MoE
layers had issued. With dense DWDP committed, the model's forward entry (H0) starts the dense and
the expert prefetch itself.
- did not drop the prefetch after a control action: the executor calls invalidate_prefetch on the
manager it holds, so the copies the last forward had issued for the next one kept the expert
weights from before the action.
- never exited the manager at shutdown. Dense DWDP was not released, expert DWDP was not torn down and
the DWDP group was not freed. Both managers stayed registered, so the process refused a later
DwdpManager.
The first executor now gets dwdp_manager=dwdp_manager if not estimating_kv_cache else None, as it
already gets the standalone dense manager.
- With the estimation on, nothing changes: the estimation executor still gets None, so its shutdown in
configure_kv_cache_capacity exits nothing.
- With it off, the only executor starts every forward through the manager (_prime_dwdp ->
start_forward), drops its prefetch after a control action and exits it once at shutdown.
- Behaviour change with it off: like the final executor with the estimation on, the only executor now
refuses expert DWDP with the overlap scheduler on (a ValueError at construction, rolled back). Before,
it was built without the manager.
- A construction error after the executor got the manager is still rolled back once by
create_py_executor.
Unchanged: with the estimation off, expert DWDP setup still runs after the final KV cache is sized.
Tests (test_dwdp_creator.py): _create_py_executor_impl runs to its end over the stand-ins of
test_py_executor_creator_mla_cache_reuse_sync.py, with stand-in DWDP managers and PyExecutors built
without __init__, for expert-only and attached DWDP, with the estimation on and off and for a model
without a KV cache. The manager is set up once.
- Estimation off, or no KV cache: the only executor gets the DwdpManager and starts its forwards
through it (_prime_dwdp -> start_forward).
- Estimation on: unchanged, only the final executor gets the manager and starts its forwards through
it; the estimation executor gets none, so its shutdown exits none.
That an executor's shutdown exits the manager it holds is tested in test_dense_executor.py.
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…ch ring is allocated
A DWDP8 context-only run (112 resident experts per rank, attached dense DWDP) died at startup on every
rank: "Failed to allocate page 158 in slot 1: CUDA_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY" in PagePool.create.
DwdpManager.setup ran the whole expert setup first, so the expert prefetch ring (two slots of 871-872
pages of 16 MiB, 27.2 GiB) was allocated while the replicated dense weights were still resident:
16.09 GiB was free after the transport. Dense DWDP, which frees them, ran only after.
DwdpManager.setup now sets dense DWDP up first:
- setup_dense_dwdp runs before setup_dwdp, on every rank of a model with dense roots, over the same
group, ranks, device and MoE layers. One INFO line precedes it: its collective NVIDIA#1 is now the group's
first collective of the setup and waits for every rank. Its transfer is an _AttachedTransfer: a copy
stream made on the first read (new_expert_copy_stream, in P2), and use_gather/use_batched_prefetch
computed as DWDPWeightManager computes them. Dense setup needs nothing else from the expert setup:
the dense roots never reach the routed experts, and the transport, the ring and the backend fixup do
not change what dense DWDP collects.
- setup_dwdp and DWDPWeightManager take an optional copy_stream: the weight manager adopts the stream
dense DWDP already runs on, so the dense and the expert copies still share one copy stream. A check
refuses a weight manager on another stream or with other transfer flags, and, on a repeated setup
where dense DWDP ran on the weight manager itself, any other weight manager.
- setup_dwdp also gets the committed runtime's slot storages (reserved_storages) and refuses an expert
weight in one of them before the transport. In the new order a dense root that reached a
routed-expert weight would otherwise make the transport copy a slot as the experts and free it under
the dense runtime.
- attach(runtime, expert=weight_manager) comes last, as before. If the expert setup or a check fails
after the commit, the unattached runtime is released and the error propagates.
- On a model without dense roots, the refusal of a TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE request stays after the expert
setup. A repeated setup for the same model after dense DWDP stayed off runs dense setup on the
weight manager, as before.
- With a store rendezvous, mark_setup_done stays the last step of setup, after the dense and the
expert collectives.
The setup peak becomes the larger of (replicated dense + dense store + slots) and (dense shard + ring)
instead of their sum. The state after setup, and so the KV-cache estimate, is unchanged.
Also:
- WeightBuffer.create compares the ring, the page pool of the expert prefetch slots
(DwdpConfig.num_prefetch_slots, two by default), with the free memory (mem_get_info after
empty_cache) before PagePool allocates a page, and raises PrefetchRingMemoryError, a picklable
RuntimeError naming the sizes of every slot and the remedies (dense DWDP for models with dense
roots; fewer prefetch slots when there are more than two), instead of failing in cuMemCreate
partway through. A ring that fits is allocated as before. This applies with expert DWDP alone too.
"[WeightBuffer] Created" now names the ring, and a new "[DWDP Setup] ... memory after weight buffer"
line gives the free memory after it.
- PagePool no longer releases its handles twice when a page allocation fails: its failure path released
them and left them in place for __del__ to release again. It now releases them once, through
release(), which logs a handle that fails to release and goes on, so no other handle leaks and the
allocation error stays the one raised.
Unchanged: the forward-time schedule and events, the teardown order (dense first), the dense verdicts,
both KV-estimation flows, expert-only (a dense setup that is off creates no stream, so the weight
manager makes its own) and standalone. Changed, attached on a model with dense roots: the dense
collectives run before the expert ones; a REQUIRED=1 dense failure raises before any expert setup; the
[DWDP Dense] lines come before "[DWDP Setup] ... memory before setup".
Tests:
- test_dwdp_manager.py: dense setup runs on the attached transfer before the expert setup and before
the model reference is kept, and setup_dwdp gets no copy stream when dense DWDP stays off. The expert
setup gets the copy stream dense setup created and the committed slots' storages as
reserved_storages; when it then fails (PrefetchRingMemoryError), the unattached runtime is released
and the same error propagates; it also gets num_prefetch_slots and the repeated layers. A weight
manager on another copy stream, or with another use_batched_prefetch, is refused, and the
unattached runtime is released. A golden trace covers the attached lifecycle from setup through
the executor's start and H0, and the recovery after an aborted forward, to teardown.
- test_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py: a given copy stream is used and none is created; a copy stream on
another device is refused.
- test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py: an expert weight in a reserved storage is refused before the
transport; a ring larger than the free memory is refused before any allocation, with two and with
three slots; a page pool whose allocation fails releases every handle once.
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…e when KV-cache estimation is off
With KV-cache estimation off (TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION=1, among other cases), build_managers
sizes the final KV cache from the device memory free when it runs. Standalone dense DWDP was already
set up before it. Attached dense DWDP was not: it is set up inside DwdpManager.setup, which ran after
the final KV cache was sized, so the replicated dense weights it frees never reached the KV cache. On
DWDP16 at free_gpu_memory_fraction 0.7 that is about 14 GiB less KV per rank; on DWDP8 at the default
fraction 0.9 the launch fails, because too little memory is left for dense setup.
When the gate chose a dense mode and the estimation is off, the creator now sets the dense owner up
right after try_prepare_estimation() and before build_managers: DwdpManager.setup attached (dense DWDP,
then the expert setup), DenseDwdpManager.setup standalone. dwdp_set_up replaces dense_dwdp_set_up and
skips the later setup. Unchanged: with the estimation on, the manager is still set up before the
estimation run measures the memory; expert DWDP without a dense request keeps its place after the
final KV cache, so its prefetch ring still does not count against the KV cache.
Tests (test_dwdp_creator.py): with the estimation off, the only executor's DwdpManager is set up before
build_managers with dense DWDP attached, and after it with expert DWDP alone. The standalone manager is
set up once: before build_managers without the estimation, before the estimation run with it; only
the final executor gets it, and starts its forwards with prefetch_first_layers. With
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY=gather, the real standalone manager's SM reserve is in place when the model is
built, before its setup, and is dropped when it exits.
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…6 validation
A DEP16 context-only validation of standalone dense DWDP, with one 16-rank attention-DP instance,
exercised both copy modes. The SM gather (TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY=gather) ran without stalls or protocol
trouble with TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL=tma and TLLM_ROUTING_DISABLE_COOP_LAUNCH=1.
The gather's texts now say so. The default stays batched and gets no warning. Every accept or reject
decision stays the same.
- A standalone gather launch's warning no longer calls the gather experimental. It names the settings
the gather was validated with, says that setup applies TLLM_ROUTING_DISABLE_COOP_LAUNCH=1 unless it
is set (fabric_gather.apply_compute_side_defaults), and why cooperative routing matters.
- The TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY entry in dense/config.py names the validated settings too, and the
gate's docstring says that the warning names them.
Tests (test_dense_gate.py): a launch that breaks one of the gate's requirements is rejected with that
requirement named, one launch per requirement. Those of both modes, alternating between the modes:
no CUDA graphs, torch_compile_config, prefill CUDA graphs, sleep_config, lora_config or
speculative_config; locality domains off; pp_size 1 and cp_size 1; FABRIC peer handles. Attached
also: tp_size 1 and the overlap scheduler off. Standalone also: the MPI backend and, for
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPY=gather, the gather op. A standalone gather launch passes with one warning,
which names the settings the gather was validated with.
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…does not divide the experts
Expert DWDP gives every rank one contiguous range of routed experts, set by two DwdpConfig scalars,
num_experts_per_worker (size) and num_prefetch_experts (stride). Setup required
(dwdp_size - 1) * stride + size == num_experts with stride <= size, so when dwdp_size does not
divide the expert count only overlapping configs passed. Kimi-K3 DWDP12 runs 82/74 and stores 88
duplicate experts per layer. On a K3 DWDP12 context server (attached dense DWDP, max_num_tokens
32768, KV cache fraction 0.70), the balanced partition below lowers each rank's profiling peak by
10.64-12.42 GiB and raises its KV cache by 7.45-8.70 GiB against 82/74. The VMM does not need equal
ranges: a handle maps only whole, whatever its size. The software assumed equal ranges in these
places:
- the range formula, computed four times;
- each MoE backend, which allocated num_experts_per_worker rows;
- every peer's handle size and view rows, taken from this rank's;
- the fixup, which allgathered a small parameter only when its first dimension was
num_experts_per_worker, so with unequal counts some ranks would skip a collective.
ExpertPartition (dwdp/specs.py) is one table of every rank's [start, end). Every rank computes it
from DwdpConfig, dwdp_size and the model's expert count N. It is the only source of any rank's
range for DwdpManager, MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layout, setup_dwdp and the transport.
- Both fields 0: balanced. With divmod(N, dwdp_size) == (base, rem), the ranks below rem store
base + 1 experts and the others base, as _compute_ep_partition splits EP ranks (K3 DWDP12:
8 x 75 + 4 x 74). Needs N >= dwdp_size.
- Both positive: strided, where rank r stores [r * stride, min(r * stride + size, N)). Accepted:
- uniform: stride == size and dwdp_size * size == N;
- redundant: stride < size and (dwdp_size - 1) * stride + size == N; the lowest rank storing an
expert serves it;
- capped: stride == size and (dwdp_size - 1) * size < N < dwdp_size * size; the last rank
allocates only the experts left, with no padding.
- Anything else raises ValueError: one field set or a negative value (DwdpConfig also rejects
these when the config is parsed), a stride larger than the size, ranges that end before N,
overlap past N, or an empty last rank.
No config field is added. Both fields become NonNegativeInt, which the golden manifest records as
int, so the manifest and the API references are unchanged. The two field descriptions change, and
the serve JSON schemas (tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json and
trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json, regenerated with scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py)
gain minimum 0 for both. Annotations cannot express the pairing, so generate_serve_schema() mirrors
DwdpConfig._validate_expert_partition in the DwdpConfig definition: both fields 0 (or absent), or
both positive. Both schemas thus reject one field set alone or with the other at 0, as DwdpConfig
does when the config is parsed.
What reads the table:
- DwdpManager.expert_partition(N), cached per N with no collective, and local_expert_range(N).
MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layout sizes each backend with exactly its rank's rows, so an invalid
config raises at model construction, before create_weights. initial_global_assignments is
range(N) for every partition: only a load balancer reads it, and DWDP excludes one.
- DWDPTransport.create takes the ExpertPartition. The transport allocates
handle_geometry(expert_bytes, start, end, granularity) for the rank's range. It maps every peer's
handle whole, with that peer's size and offset, and gives each peer view that peer's rows.
- From the handshake to the vote, setup_dwdp collects first, then decides the same way on every
rank. A failure on one rank in that span thus raises on every rank after the same collective,
instead of leaving its peers blocked in the next one.
- _agree_on_partition makes one allgather: N, every rank's range, the kind, the granularity, and
for each (layer, weight) expert chunk its rows, per-expert shape and dtype. Each rank is
compared with the most common report, so the error names the ranks that differ, rank 0
included (it lists at most 8 problems); a rank that sends no handshake is named too.
- Each Phase-1 handle allgather carries (status, payload), and every rank checks the statuses
before any import. The handles need no geometry check: every rank computes each handle's size
and data offset with handle_geometry from what the handshake agreed on. Phase 3's Barrier
becomes allgather(status). On POSIX_FD, Phase 2 opens each peer's pidfd inside the import, so
that failure is reported in Phase 3 as well; a failed map or access grant releases its VA
before the error is reported.
- Steps 5-7 (the weight buffer and ring, the edge bytes, the weight manager) only record a local
error. The fixup's one collective, _exchange_expert_scalars, is the group's vote. If any rank
failed, that rank raises its own error and the others raise a RuntimeError naming it.
Otherwise it assembles the per-expert alphas (and a per-expert gate bias) along the partition.
It also requires overlapping copies, and per-layer parameters such as fc31_input_scale, to be
bitwise equal on every rank. fixup_moe_backends makes no collective, so K3's 184 fixup
allgathers become one.
- If a verdict collective itself fails (a peer died, the store timed out), a rank that had
failed raises its own error, with the collective's error as its context.
The backend fixup after the vote is local: it re-materializes the activation constants
(install_activation_params) for the full expert count, installs the exchanged tensors, and a
failure there raises on that rank only. A rank that dies, or fails before the handshake, leaves
its peers waiting until the rendezvous times out.
- Removed: _validate_partition_config, _allgather_e_score_correction_bias,
_allgather_expert_scales, _get_first_spec, WeightBuffer.compute_peer_data_offset,
compute_peer_ranges, DWDPTransport.get_peer_ranges, and DwdpManager's start_expert_id and
end_expert_id. Stale comments are fixed: ring pages are local NONE handles, the whole-handle rule
applies to every VMM handle, the mapping limit, the composite-VA padding, and the edge bytes.
Compatibility: explicit size/stride configs keep the same ranges, rows, handle sizes and offsets,
peer views, ring pages, copy plans and fixup results, byte for byte. ExpertPartition.strided
accepts exactly the old validator's configs plus capped tables, so the uniform and redundant
configs of test_dwdp_aggregated.py, test_dwdp_disaggregated_serving.py and the Kimi-K3
perf-sanity configs (56/56) stay valid. For these configs only the following change: the
collectives (19 -> 15 per rank on a 3-layer model), the log wording, the point where a config
error is raised, and initial_global_assignments before the fixup (range(N), where a redundant
config had a round-robin list); ranks that disagree now raise together. 0/0, which was rejected
before (Kimi-K3 while the model is built, with an IndexError; DeepSeek-V3 in setup, after loading),
now means balanced.
Tests:
- test_dwdp_peer_ranges.py: balanced equals _compute_ep_partition. On a 60,836-config grid,
strided accepts exactly the configs whose ranges end at N (the old validator's set) plus capped
tables, with the strided ranges. Also covers from_config accept and reject cases, invalid
tables, and handle_geometry equal to PageAlignedLayout.
- test_dwdp_manager.py: DwdpConfig validation; 0/0 resolved and cached per expert count; backend
rows from _init_dwdp_expert_layout (74 on a balanced rank, 71 on the capped last rank, 82 on a
redundant one); a config that does not fit raises at layout time. The existing range checks
read local_expert_range and expert_partition instead of the removed start_expert_id and
end_expert_id.
- test_prefetch_copy_plan.py: with peers of 75/74, 45/44 and 38/37 experts, every descriptor reads
its owner's rows, the remote experts are covered once, the batched plan moves the same bytes, and
the gather plan has one row per peer group with all of the group's bytes.
- tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py: ported to the exchange. Every rank
makes one allgather, and every inconsistency raises on every rank. A ConfigurableMoE-shaped
wrapper around a backend set up by the real NVFP4CuteDslFusedMoEMethod.setup_quant_scales, on a
4 + 3 split: after the fixup both see every expert, quant_scales holds the full alphas, and a
full-sized gate bias stays as it is.
- test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py: patches the handshake, the granularity query and the vote.
- test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py: the serve schema accepts 0/0 and rejects a negative
num_experts_per_worker or num_prefetch_experts; the disaggregated schema rejects a negative one
under context_servers. test_dwdp_expert_partition_matches_runtime checks eight cases against
DwdpConfig and both schemas, the disaggregated one at the top level and under context_servers and
generation_servers: both absent, 0/0, 1/1 and 2/1 are accepted; one field at 1 with the other
absent or 0 is rejected.
- New test_dwdp_setup_protocol.py (cpu_only): one thread per rank runs the real setup_dwdp over
StoreDwdpGroup on a HashStore, with a fake VMM that maps handles only whole. The weight buffer,
edge-byte fill and weight manager are stand-ins; those of the buffer and the manager record
their arguments.
- Every peer is mapped with its own size and rows (balanced, capped, uniform, redundant),
steps 5-7 get the partition's local range and peer ranges, and the exchange gives every rank
the full fc31_alpha (from 75/74 shards on the balanced DWDP12).
- A failure on one rank raises on every rank after the same collective, and nothing leaks.
Covered failures: the handshake (rows, partition, dtype), an export, the access grant of an
imported handle, and the ring.
- When rank 0 alone computed another partition, the handshake error names rank 0.
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…kipped iteration rolls it back
With KV cache manager V2, a separate draft KV cache and attention DP, KVCacheV2Scheduler admits the
draft pool's mirror while it schedules the attention-DP pad dummy (_admit_unpaired_draft ->
admit_mirror): a fresh, empty draft cache under the reused ATTENTION_DP_DUMMY_REQUEST_ID. When a peer
rank schedules nothing, the iteration is not queued and _finalize_adp_dummy_allocation rolls the dummy
back before prepare_resources. It freed the dummy in the KV cache manager and the speculative resource
manager, but not in the draft KV cache manager, so the empty mirror outlived the dummy. On the next
queued iteration, the deferred previous batch, which still holds the earlier, finished dummy with the
same ID, reaches the draft pool's update_resources, which resizes that empty cache to the old dummy's
history and raises "History length cannot exceed capacity". A disaggregated DSpark generation server
(overlap scheduler, attention DP) crashed this way one iteration after a skipped one.
The rollback now also frees the dummy in the draft KV cache manager when KV cache manager V2 is used.
Tests:
- test_kv_cache_v2_adp_dummy_draft_rollback.py: with stand-in managers, a rolled-back dummy releases its
draft mirror and a queued dummy keeps it (CPU); with real V2 target and draft pools and the V2
scheduler, a skipped iteration followed by the deferred previous batch no longer raises (GPU,
registered in l0_a10).
Signed-off-by: Zongfei Jing <20381269+zongfeijing@users.noreply.github.com>
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Dev Engineer Review
This change adds opt-in dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context workers in attached expert-DWDP and standalone attention-DP modes. It adds dense-weight layout, storage, transfer, runtime, and executor integration. It also adds balanced and strided expert partitions, collective setup checks, memory checks, and an environment-controlled shutdown option that can drop in-flight requests when its eligibility conditions are met.
Verify collective setup and rollback, asynchronous copy/read ordering, and tensor-binding repointing. Dense-sharded models reject weight reloads and updates. The change removes
compute_peer_rangesandDWDPTransport.get_peer_rangesand changes setup APIs. Downstream callers must use the replacement interfaces. CUDA graphs,torch.compile, LoRA, speculative decoding, and sleep are outside the stated dense-DWDP scope.Reported validation includes 259 passed tests and 21 passed subtests for the DWDP module directory and MoE fixup test on four GPUs; 875 passed tests and 21 passed subtests in the listed CPU-only coverage; and 65 passed, 15 skipped Kimi modeling tests on one GPU. Schema, manifest, and pre-commit checks passed. SM107 GPU validation and serving runs were internal. GSM8K did not cover the cached-prefix context path. The reported
DEBUG=2watchdog did check slot contents on that path. No current review findings or severity counts were supplied.QA Engineer Review
Tests add coverage for dense configuration and launch gates, Kimi hooks, layout and setup, storage, copy planning, runtime protocol, manager lifecycle, expert partitioning, shutdown, and weight-update guards. The CPU CI list adds
test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py. The changed DWDP accuracy tests are listed intest-db/l0_gb200_multi_gpus.yml. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up for cached-prefix accuracy and external GPU-serving validation.Per-File QA Perspective
Source and documentation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k25.py— Verify that weight loading fails only when dense DWDP is active.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py— Verify dense-root collection, forward priming, and attention/MoE read-window hooks.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/__init__.py— Verify lazy exports and update callers of the removedcompute_peer_rangesexport.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/__init__.py— Documentation-only change; no runtime behavior is reported.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/config.py— Verify environment defaults, invalid-value handling, segment parsing, and copy-mode selection.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/gate.py— Verify attached and standalone launch requirements and rejection before model construction.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/layout.py— Verify tensor eligibility, shared-storage handling, layout construction, and checksums.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/manager.py— Verify manager ownership, MPI-group cleanup, priming, and recovery order.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/plan.py— Verify copy-plan bounds, alignment, mode selection, and transfer failure handling.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/repoint.py— Verify binding metadata and rollback, commit, and teardown behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/runtime.py— Verify eager-mode enforcement, slot readiness, read-window fencing, and interrupted-forward recovery.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/setup.py— Verify collective agreement, failure propagation, memory checks, and failure cleanup.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/store.py— Verify FABRIC allocation, peer mapping, and cleanup after partial failures.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/types.py— Verify layout sizing, digest stability, and slot allocation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/dense/watchdog.py— Verify checksum mismatch reporting and behavior after release.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/page_pool.py— Verify partial allocation failures release allocated handles without masking the original error.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/setup.py— Verify partition agreement, reserved-storage rejection, and expert-scalar reconstruction.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/specs.py— Verify balanced and strided boundaries, overlap ownership, and handle geometry;compute_peer_rangesis removed.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/transport.py— Verify collective export/import failure handling and variable-sized peer mappings; thecreateAPI changes andget_peer_rangesis removed.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/weight_buffer.py— Verify the memory check precedes allocation and reports required and available memory.tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/weight_manager.py— Verify supplied copy streams use the buffer’s device and transfer settings remain consistent.tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md— Verify documented attached and standalone priming flows match the implementation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/interface.py— Verify local expert loading and global assignments use the selected partition.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py— Verify the optional dense manager reaches the executor without disrupting existing callers.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/dwdp.py— Verify stream sharing, reserved storage, partition resolution, and cleanup order.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py— Verify reload and update guards run before weight-mapper operations.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py— Verify dense-manager priming and shutdown, including drop-inflight conditions and connector transfers.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py— Verify launch validation, KV-cache setup order, and cleanup after construction failures.tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py— Verify malformed shutdown-timeout settings fail before model construction.tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py— Verify zero selects balanced partitions and negative or one-sided settings are rejected.tensorrt_llm/mapping.py— Documentation and copyright changes only; verify partition comments remain accurate.tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py— Verify an unset timeout preserves Uvicorn defaults and valid values reach its shutdown setting.Configuration and test-list files
tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json— Verify the schema accepts zero partition values and rejects negative values.tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json— Verify the disaggregated schema applies the same partition constraints.scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py— Verify generated schema constraints remain consistent with runtime validation.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml— Addstest_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.pyto CPU CI.Test-code files
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_dwdp_disaggregated_serving.py— Comment-only update; its three DWDP accuracy cases are listed intest-db/l0_gb200_multi_gpus.yml.tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py— Covers drop-inflight conditions, connector handling, and cleanup order; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py— Updates the shutdown fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pp_mpi_progress_thread.py— Updates the executor test double for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_py_executor.py— Updates the shutdown fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_config.py— Covers environment defaults and invalid segment lists; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_executor.py— Covers manager validation, priming, shutdown, and standalone MPI grouping; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_gate.py— Covers accepted and rejected attached and standalone launch configurations; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_guards.py— Covers reload and update rejection before mapper calls; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_kimi_hooks.py— Covers Kimi-Linear priming, layer hooks, and load guards; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_layout.py— Covers binding collection, storage aliases, exclusions, and watchdog checks; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_protocol.py— Covers copy/read ordering, abort recovery, consume events, and WAR fencing; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_setup.py— Covers multirank setup agreement, injected failures, rollback, and resource release; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dense_store.py— Covers store allocation, peer imports, release, and failure cleanup; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_creator.py— Covers manager ownership and KV-cache setup order across launch modes; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_manager.py— Covers partition selection, manager lifecycle, setup ordering, priming, and teardown; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_mapping.py— Documentation-only test update; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_peer_ranges.py— Covers balanced, strided, overlapping, and invalid partitions plus handle geometry; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py— Covers copy-stream device validation and prefetch event ordering; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py— Covers reserved-storage rejection, memory failure, and page-pool cleanup; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_dwdp_setup_protocol.py— Covers multirank transport agreement, failure reporting, and resource release; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/test_prefetch_copy_plan.py— Covers copy plans for uneven balanced partitions and compares peer-group, batched, and gather plans; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py— Covers scalar collection, backend fixup, overlap reconstruction, and consistent malformed-report errors; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.py— Updates the executor fixture for the dense manager; no specific test-list entry is established.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py— Covers timeout parsing, Uvicorn configuration, and bounded shutdown; listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py— Covers partition schema validation; no specific test-list entry is established.Description
Summary
Kimi-K3 context servers can run DWDP (Distributed Weight Data Parallelism, tech blog) for their routed experts: each rank of a DWDP group stores a slice of the experts and prefetches the others from its peers before each MoE layer. Every other weight of the MoE decoder layers is still replicated on every rank. This PR adds dense DWDP: each rank keeps a 1/N row shard of those dense weights (attention, shared expert, latent projections and norm, router), and a layer's full weights are gathered from the peers two layers before it runs, into a few staging slots. The memory of the replicated copies goes to the KV cache, or to a larger
max_num_tokens.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1on the context workers. Nollm_argsfield is added.dwdp_configwithdwdp_size > 1andtp_size == 1): the DWDP group and the expert DWDP copy stream;dwdp_config, on an attention-DP instance withtp_size > 1(for example a DEP16 context server): the attention-DP group and a copy stream of its own.torch.compile, LoRA, speculative decoding or sleep. FABRIC peer handles.DEBUG=2watchdog).It builds on main's VMM-backed DWDP lifecycle (#18644), on the DWDP fabric gather and store rendezvous (#20576), and on the cross-step expert prefetch with configurable slots (#20941). The PR also carries:
dwdp_sizedoes not divide the expert count (commit 8);Impact when the new variables are not set
Dense DWDP and the shutdown bound do nothing unless their variables are set. These changes apply without them, to expert DWDP and, for commit 9, to generation servers:
DwdpManager: it starts each forward through it (start_forward), drops the expert prefetch after a control action and tears DWDP down at shutdown (commit 4). Like the final executor with the estimation on, it now refuses expert DWDP with the overlap scheduler on.num_prefetch_slotsslots) larger than the free memory raisesPrefetchRingMemoryErrorbefore any page is allocated, and a failed page allocation releases each handle once (commit 5).DwdpConfigwith both partition fields at 0, their defaults, now means the balanced partition; before, it failed while the model was built or in setup. One field set, or a negative value, is rejected when the config is parsed, and the serve schemas flag it too (commit 8).pyexecutor/dwdp.pylogs cleanup errors withlogger.errorand the traceback. Main callslogger.exception, which the TensorRT-LLM logger does not have (commit 2).cpu_onlymarker (commits 2 and 5).Why one PR
Most of the size is new code behind the switch: the
tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/dwdp/densepackage (6.9k lines) and tests (6.0k of the 15.4k added lines). The commits are one feature plus what its validation needed:DwdpManager.setupruns right after dense DWDP, on top of commit 5's changes to the same files (dwdp/setup.py,weight_buffer.py,page_pool.py,weight_manager.py,pyexecutor/dwdp.py); as a separate PR it would have to stack on this one. The Kimi-K3 DWDP12 configuration of the dense DWDP validation stored 88 experts twice per MoE layer without it.Each commit has a message that explains it and tests of its own, so the PR can be reviewed one commit at a time.
Commits
[None][fix] Bound the context-only server shutdown: drop in-flight requests and time out the graceful stop (opt-in)(+603/-3, tests +448)[None][feat] Dense DWDP for Kimi-K3 context servers (env form): thedensepackage, the launch gate, attached mode inDwdpManager, the Kimi-K3 hooks and load guards, theModelLoaderguards (+9,734/-18, tests +3,255/-3)[None][feat] Dense DWDP without expert DWDP: standalone on attention-DP instances (env form):DenseDwdpManager, the two-mode gate, standalone setup and copies, executor priming (+2,132/-449, tests +816/-129)[None][fix] DWDP: the only executor gets the DwdpManager when KV-cache estimation is off(+142/-1, tests +139)[None][fix] DWDP: commit attached dense DWDP before the expert prefetch ring is allocated(+702/-98, tests +309/-28)[None][fix] DWDP: set attached dense DWDP up before the final KV cache when KV-cache estimation is off(+69/-24, tests +50/-9)[None][chore] Dense DWDP standalone: copy-mode guidance from the DEP16 validation(+81/-8, tests +70/-1)[None][feat] Expert DWDP: a balanced expert partition when dwdp_size does not divide the experts(+2,234/-1,223, tests +821/-296)[None][fix] Release the attention-DP dummy's draft KV mirror when a skipped iteration rolls it back(+229, tests +218)How dense DWDP works
What moves. For each MoE decoder layer
lof Kimi-K3 (layers 1-92; layer 0 has a dense MLP and stays replicated), two blobs: the attention weightsA(l)(KDA or MLA) and the MoE-dense weightsD(l)(router, shared expert, latent projections and norm). Each decoder layer names its roots (dense_dwdp_roots) and two tables of attribute names: the plain tensor attributes under the roots that may move (such as the fused KDA projections and the weight-scale copies the FP8 block-scale linears keep for the low-M GEMM), and the names that never move (scratch tensors and the routing bias). The routed experts stay with expert DWDP, and storages under 1 MiB stay replicated.Where it lives. Each blob is cut into N rows, one per rank of the group. A rank keeps its rows in a row store of CUDA VMM memory exported as FABRIC handles, and maps every peer's rows read-only.
When it is gathered. Each rank has a ring of 2 attention slots and a ring of 3 MoE-dense slots. Once a layer's attention or MoE block has closed its read window, the next layers whose slots are free are copied, in layer order, from every rank's row store, this rank's included, into this rank's slots on a copy stream: within a forward, the rows of layer
l + 2after the attention call of layerl. Attached, the gather goes on at the end of a forward into the first two layers of the next one, as main's expert prefetch schedule does with its last MoE layers, so a completed forward leaves the next one primed. Below,L(l)is this gather of layerl's dense weights andE(l)is expert DWDP's prefetch of layerl's remote experts. The module tensors are repointed into the slots once, at setup, so the model reads its weights through its usual attributes.Ordering. Four hooks, in
modeling_kimi_linear.py:KimiLinearModel.forwardentryL(l + 2)within a forward)All reads of
A(l)happen between H1 and H2, all reads ofD(l)between H1 and H3, and a copy into a slot waits for the end of the read window of the layer that held it. Every dependency is an event on a stream; between setup and teardown the host never synchronizes (except for theDEBUG=2watchdog). Attached, the copies share the expert copy stream. With main's default of two expert prefetch slots it runs... E(l+1), L(l+2), E(l+2), L(l+3) ...within a forward; at the Kimi-K3 forward boundary the next forward's copies areE(1), L(1), E(2), L(2)(layers 91 and 92 read the MoE-dense slots of layers 1 and 2 until H3), and they are read only after the gap between executor steps. With more expert prefetch slots each expert copy is issued ahead of its layer's dense copy, andDwdpManager.setuplogs that at INFO.Setup runs once per context worker after the weights are loaded, in phases P1-P6 over five fixed collectives, so every rank reaches the same verdict:
A failure on any rank abandons on every rank and restores the original tensors. Then, with
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIREDon (the default), every rank raises; with it off, every rank serves on with its replicated dense weights.Guards.
ModelLoader's weight reload and incremental weight updates, and the Kimiload_weightsmethods, refuse a model whose dense weights dense DWDP has moved.Modes and how to enable them
dwdp_configwithdwdp_size > 1,tp_size == 1, overlap scheduler off (as expert DWDP requires)dwdp_config,enable_attention_dp,tp_size > 1; the overlap scheduler may be on; MPI backendDwdpManagercreates aDenseDwdpManager, sets dense DWDP up before the expert setup and attaches itDenseDwdpManagerbefore the model is built; it sets itself upTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPYstart_forwardenqueuesL(first), L(second)and starts the expert prefetch when they are not (the first forward, after an aborted one)L(first), L(second)before every forwardSet the switches on the context workers only, the same on every rank of the group; generation servers are unchanged.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSETRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPYbatchedbatched,per_sliceorgather(see Copy modes). The gate rejects any other value; attached mode ignores the variable with a warning.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIREDTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_SEGMENTSattn,moeattnmoves the attention weights only.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_MIN_BYTESTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STORE_CHUNK_MBTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICTTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUGThe parts of a context server's configuration the gate checks, attached (one GPU per worker, DWDP group of 16):
Standalone (one DEP16 context instance):
Copy modes
trtllm::dwdp_fabric_gather) withTRTLLM_DWDP_PREFETCH_GATHER=1(kernel set byTRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL), else one batched copy per layer withdwdp_config.contention_opt, else one copy per slice. The attached validation used the SM gather with the TMA kernel, as the routed experts did.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPYpicks the transfer on the dense manager's own copy stream:batched(the default; onecudaMemcpyBatchAsyncper layer on the copy engines),per_slice(one copy per descriptor) orgather(the SM fabric gather, which holds SMs next to the MoE all-to-all). It was validated withgather,TRTLLM_DWDP_GATHER_KERNEL=tmaandTLLM_ROUTING_DISABLE_COOP_LAUNCH=1. Withgather, setup applies the gather's compute-side defaults, that variable included, unless they are set: cooperative MoE routing waits for the SMs the gather holds.batchedstays the default and logs nothing; a standalonegatherlaunch logs one warning that names the validated settings.Setup order and the fixes in commits 4-6
The executor creator now runs, in this order:
dense/gate.py), before any DWDP manager and the model are built. It rejects a launch dense DWDP cannot serve, naming the first requirement it breaks, and picks the mode.DwdpManager, which creates and registers the attachedDenseDwdpManager, or a standaloneDenseDwdpManager.DwdpManager.setupsets dense DWDP up and commits it first, so the replicated dense weights go back to the allocator; then the expert setup (transport, prefetch ring, weight manager, MoE backend fixup), whose weight manager adopts dense DWDP's copy stream; then it attaches the dense runtime. With the KV-cache estimation on (the default), setup runs before the estimation forward measures the memory, as before. With it off, a dense owner is now set up beforebuild_managerssizes the final KV cache; expert DWDP without dense DWDP keeps its place after it.DwdpManager.start_forward, or the standalone manager'sprefetch_first_layers), and exits it at shutdown. In the overlap loop (standalone only), H0 primes.The fixes:
TRTLLM_SKIP_KV_CACHE_ESTIMATION=1, context parallelism, VANILLA attention, an encoder-decoder model or a model without a KV cache), the first executor is the final one, and on main it does not get theDwdpManager. So it never starts its forwards through the manager: the first forward, and the first after a forward that stopped inside the expert sequence, issue their first expert copies only when they bind them instead of ahead of time; after a control action it does not drop the expert prefetch (invalidate_prefetch), so the copies issued for the next forward keep the expert weights from before the action; and it never tears DWDP down at shutdown. It now gets the manager.DwdpManager.setupran the expert setup first, so the expert prefetch ring (the page pool of the expert prefetch slots) was allocated while the replicated dense weights were still resident, and an attached DWDP8 context server (112 experts per rank) ran out of memory at startup on every rank. Dense DWDP now commits first: the setup peak is the larger of the two phases instead of their sum, and the state after setup is unchanged. For expert DWDP in general,WeightBuffer.createchecks the ring against the free memory before it allocates a page and raisesPrefetchRingMemoryError, naming the sizes and the remedies, instead of failing incuMemCreatepartway through; andPagePoolno longer releases its handles twice when a page allocation fails.free_gpu_memory_fraction0.9 could not start. It is now set up beforebuild_managers, as standalone dense DWDP already was.Limitations
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1, a model whose decoder layers do not providedense_dwdp_rootsis refused (an error, or, withTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED=0, a logged error and replicated weights).cuda_graph_config,torch_compile_config, prefill CUDA graphs,sleep_config,lora_config,speculative_config,enable_locality_domains,pp_sizeorcp_sizeabove 1, and hosts without FABRIC handles.tp_size == 1and the overlap scheduler off. Expert DWDP on an attention-DP instance (dwdp_configwithtp_size > 1, as in main's aggregated DWDP tests) is neither mode, and the gate rejects it whenTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSEis set.DwdpConfig.num_prefetch_slots > 2), each expert copy runs ahead of its layer's dense copy on the shared copy stream. The protocol tests cover 2 to 4 slots and the GPU test 2 and 3; the serving runs used the default 2.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1passes the gate and pays the per-layer gather in every step.TRTLLM_DWDP_RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT_S(store rendezvous) or indefinitely (MPI). Standalone, ranks that setTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSEwait in the group creation for a rank that did not.llm_argsfield: the switches are environment variables only.TRTLLM_DWDP_RENDEZVOUS_TIMEOUT_S, 1800 s by default). The MoE backend fixup after the vote is local, so a failure there raises on that rank only. Ranks running different versions of this code in one DWDP group are not supported.Balanced expert partition (commit 8)
Expert DWDP gives each rank one contiguous range of routed experts, set by
DwdpConfig.num_experts_per_worker(the size) andnum_prefetch_experts(the stride). Main requires(dwdp_size - 1) * stride + size == num_expertswith0 < stride <= size, so whendwdp_sizedoes not divide the expert count only overlapping ranges fit: Kimi-K3 (896 experts) on DWDP12 used 82/74 and stored 88 experts twice in every MoE layer. Nothing in the VMM needs equal ranges (a handle is mapped whole, whatever its size). The code assumed them in four places: the range formula, the MoE backends' row allocation, every peer's handle size and view rows (taken from this rank's), and the fixup's rule for which small parameters to allgather.ExpertPartition(dwdp/specs.py) is now the one table of every rank's[start, end). Every rank computes it fromDwdpConfig,dwdp_sizeand the expert count N, and it is the only source of a rank's range forDwdpManager,MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layout,setup_dwdpand the transport.num_experts_per_worker,num_prefetch_expertsrstoresdivmod(N, dwdp_size) == (base, rem):base + 1experts on the ranks belowrem,baseon the others, as_compute_ep_partitionsplits EP ranks; needsN >= dwdp_size. Kimi-K3 on DWDP12: 8 x 75 + 4 x 74dwdp_size * size == N[r * size, (r + 1) * size), unchanged(dwdp_size - 1) * stride + size == N[r * stride, r * stride + size), unchanged; the lowest rank storing an expert serves it(dwdp_size - 1) * size < N < dwdp_size * size[r * size, min((r + 1) * size, N)): the last rank allocates only the experts leftAny other pair raises
ValueErrorwhile the model is built, before any weight is created;DwdpConfigalready rejects one field set or a negative value when the config is parsed, and the serve schemas reject them as well.What else changes:
MoE._init_dwdp_expert_layoutsizes each MoE backend with exactly its rank's rows. The transport allocates each rank's handle for that rank's range, maps every peer's handle whole with that peer's size and offset, and gives each peer view that peer's rows.setup_dwdpcollects first and decides the same way on every rank: one handshake allgather (every rank's range, granularity, and the rows, shape and dtype of its expert chunks; the error names the ranks that differ), a status in each Phase 1 handle allgather, anallgather(status)in place of Phase 3's barrier, and the fixup's single collective,_exchange_expert_scalars, as the vote. A failure on one rank in that span raises on every rank after the same collective, instead of leaving the others blocked in the next one._validate_partition_config,_allgather_e_score_correction_bias,_allgather_expert_scales,_get_first_spec,WeightBuffer.compute_peer_data_offset,compute_peer_ranges,DWDPTransport.get_peer_ranges, andDwdpManager.start_expert_idandend_expert_id.Compatibility: explicit size/stride configs keep the same ranges, rows, handle sizes and offsets, peer views, ring pages, copy plans and fixup results, byte for byte, so the DeepSeek-V3-Lite DWDP accuracy configs and the Kimi-K3 perf-sanity configs (56/56) stay valid. For them, only these change: fewer collectives (15 instead of 19 per rank on a 3-layer model), the log wording, a config error raised while the model is built instead of in setup, and
initial_global_assignmentsbefore the fixup (range(N); only a load balancer reads it, and DWDP excludes one). No config field is added. Both fields becomeNonNegativeInt, which the golden manifest still records asint, so the manifest and the API references do not change; their descriptions change, and the serve schemas gainminimum: 0for both. Through an adaptation inscripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py, the serve schemas also accept only both fields 0 (or absent) or both positive, so they reject one field set alone or with the other at 0, asDwdpConfigdoes.Context-only server shutdown bound (commit 1)
Context-only benchmark jobs can finish the benchmark and then hang at teardown: requests orphaned on the context ranks meet three unbounded waits on the stop path (uvicorn waiting for request handlers, a handler's
aresult()without a timeout,PyExecutordraining every request). Two variables bound it; with neither set, nothing changes.TRTLLM_EXECUTOR_SHUTDOWN_DROP_INFLIGHT=1: once shutdown is requested, the executor loop stops with requests still active or queued instead of draining them, but still waits for a pending KV connector load or transfer. After the loop's last collective, the dropped requests are released through the normal termination path; a request whose KV cache the transfer fabric may still read keeps it, as on cancellation, and the KV cache manager closes it at its own shutdown. It takes effect only withpp_size == 1and the overlap scheduler disabled, and each executor logs the effective value when it starts. Meant for context-only servers: do not set it on generation servers.TRTLLM_SERVE_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_S=<seconds>: passed to uvicorn astimeout_graceful_shutdown, so request handlers still running after that many seconds are cancelled and the lifespan shutdown, which stops the engine, still runs.launch_serverandlaunch_visual_gen_serverparse it first, the latter before any rank buildsVisualGen, so a malformed value fails before the model loads.Validation
Serving runs on Rubin (SM107): Kimi-K3 NVFP4 in disaggregated serving, with context-only servers and a separate generation server. The runs with an NVFP4 KV cache below used earlier versions of this series on an earlier base, before the port to main. On main, which has no Kimi-K3 NVFP4 KV cache yet, the series also ran end to end with an FP8 KV cache (the last item); the tests under Test Coverage ran on this branch.
TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUG=2, the slot watchdog made about 3.95 M checks with 0 mismatches, and there was no demand fetch, error or failed request.DEBUG=1) and 96.13% withDEBUG=2(138,736 watchdog checks, 0 mismatches). Dense on and off differ in 38-50 answers, fewer than the 54 that differ between the two dense-off runs: no accuracy loss.batchedor withgather. A run with the KV-cache estimation off sized the KV cache once, after the dense commit, and released dense DWDP at shutdown (527,344 watchdog checks, 0 mismatches). GSM8K: 96.74%.balanced, 8 x 75 + 4 x 74 of 896and all 12 ranks committed dense DWDP with one layout digest. GSM8K is 96.51%: against the dense-off runs it changes as many answers as those runs change among themselves. End-to-end runs had no failed request.DEBUG=2serving run went through that path: its watchdog shows that each layer's slots held the right bytes when the layer started. That the path reads its weights only inside the read window rests on the code: it readskv_b_projinsideself_attn.TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_DEBUG=2andTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT=1on the context servers: 12,945 requests, no error; all 16 ranks committed dense DWDP with one layout digest and no leaked storage; 3.5 M watchdog checks with 0 mismatches; no demand fetch, fence fallback or restart of the expert prefetch sequence.Performance, qualitatively: attached, the freed memory pays off through a larger
max_num_tokens; at the samemax_num_tokens, the larger KV cache alone did not raise throughput. At the one standalone point measured, the larger KV cache did not raise throughput either (that instance was not short of KV cache).Setup: Kimi-K3 NVFP4, NVFP4 KV cache (128 tokens per block), disaggregated serving, a long-context workload with about 95% realized prefix reuse, 3600 s per run, request rate and TTFT from aiperf. "Uncached prefill tokens/s/GPU" is prefill tokens/s/GPU x (1 - realized prefix reuse): the prompt tokens actually computed.
Attached, context-only. DWDP16 context server (16 one-GPU workers), one helix8 generation server, concurrency 128.
Attached, end to end. One DWDP16 context server, a DEP16 generation server (batch 8, DSpark), concurrency 321; this point is generation-bound. Dense on at max_num_tokens 32768 vs dense off at 16384: total tokens/s per GPU +1.5%, TTFT p90 -15% (8.7 vs 10.3 s), p99 -17% (39.5 vs 47.6 s). Dense on at 16384: no difference from dense off. A DWDP12 context server with dense DWDP at max_num_tokens 32768 (82/74, 28 GPUs instead of 32), against the same dense-off arm: +10.4% total tokens/s per GPU, TTFT p90 +35%.
Setup order (commit 5). DWDP8 (112 experts per rank, max_num_tokens 16384). Before: the expert prefetch ring (two slots of 871-872 pages of 16 MiB, 27.2 GiB) met 16.09 GiB of free memory, and every rank ran out of memory at startup. After: dense DWDP commits first (58.30 GB moved, 7.29 GB store); 64.0 GiB are free before the expert setup and 38.1-38.3 GiB after its ring; the KV cache is 29.5 GiB per rank; concurrency 64 runs at 5.74 req/s with no failed request. DWDP16 at max_num_tokens 32768 after the change: 14.38 req/s (14.02-14.24 in three earlier runs), KV cache 84.5-84.8 GiB per rank (84.6-84.9 before), profiling peak 174.08 GiB (174.02 before).
Balanced partition (commit 8). DWDP12 context server with attached dense DWDP (max_num_tokens 32768, fraction 0.70), balanced 8 x 75 + 4 x 74 against 82/74 at the same settings: model weights 193.69 GiB (ranks 0-7) and 192.10 GiB (ranks 8-11) against 204.83 GiB; profiling peak 203.55-205.54 against 215.76-216.25 GiB (10.64-12.42 GiB lower per rank); KV cache 62.82-64.22 against 55.33-55.68 GiB (7.45-8.70 GiB more per rank). End to end at concurrency 383 against a dense-off DWDP16 context server (32 GPUs), two balanced dense DWDP12 arms (28 GPUs; max_num_tokens 32768 and 16384) give +11.1% / +10.6% output and +10.4% / +9.6% total tokens/s per GPU at 2.6-3.1% fewer requests/s, with TTFT p90 +27% / +34%: context requests queue behind long prefills on fewer context workers.
Test Coverage
Every file in the lists below carries
pytest.mark.cpu_only, so the l0_cpu stage collects it, except the two GPU tests named as such. That stage collects with-m cpu_onlyand listsunittest/_torch/modules,unittest/_torch/moeandunittest/_torch/executoras directories; the other files are listed one by one.Dense DWDP (
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp/, new files):test_dense_config.py: the switches:TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIREDis on by default and stays on for a value it cannot read; aTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_SEGMENTSlist withoutattnis rejected.test_dense_layout.py: the collector and the blob layout on a Kimi-K3-like toy decoder (KDA and MLA layers; row views, aliases, pad rows, excluded scratch names, the low-M GEMM's scale copy); a storage shared across layers stays replicated; a module whose weights are not yet transformed is refused; theDEBUG=2watchdog accepts exactly the slots a correct gather leaves.test_dense_store.py: the FABRIC row store over a fake VMM, with one store handle and with several, including the release after a failure partway through the allocation or the import.test_dense_protocol.py: the runtime protocol over a recording fake of the CUDA calls, beside the realDWDPWeightManagerand main's prefetch schedule, driven like the executor loop, the model andConfigurableMoE; every dense and expert read is checked with vector clocks. The fill at H2 and H3, into the next forward included, for both segment sets; the copy order (a cold start, within a forward, at the Kimi-K3 forward boundary), with two sensitivity checks; 1 to 5 and 92 layers with 2, 3 and 4 expert slots: race-free, with no fence, demand fetch or host synchronization, and primed after every forward; a forward aborted before H1, before H2, between the expert bind and finish, and before H3, at the first, second, middle and last two layers, recovered with and without the executor's start;invalidate_prefetch; a prefetch into a slot whose read window is still open takes the fence; 200 random sequences of aborts, failed starts and invalidations; standalone keeps one schedule per forward.test_dense_attached_gpu.py(GPU, registered in l0_b200 and l0_gb300_multi_gpus): the real runtime and weight manager on one copy stream with a read kernel in every read window, checking every read's bytes: 4 and 5 layers with 2 and 3 expert slots, slow reads or slow copies, both segment sets, a warmup forward, every abort point with its recovery and new expert weights, 92 layers at the Kimi-K3 boundary, a release with the next forward's copies in flight; a missing consume record at H2 is detected.test_dense_setup.py: setup on N rank threads over fake devices. Ranks that disagree onTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSEall raise; ranks that disagree onTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_STRICT, the layout or the weights, and a failure on one rank in any of the phases P1-P5, abandon on every rank and restore every module tensor; an original that something still holds after the commit point is reported, with its holders underDEBUG=1, and withSTRICTonly that rank raises; only attached setup gathers into the next forward.test_dense_gate.py: both modes are accepted; a launch that fits neither, or breaks any one requirement, is rejected with that requirement named;TRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_COPYis validated standalone and ignored with one warning attached; a standalonegatherlaunch logs one warning naming the validated settings.test_dense_executor.py: the tagged standalone MPI group; the executor priming a standalone manager and accepting it with either loop; expert DWDP still refusing the overlap scheduler; shutdown exiting the manager in both modes; the standalone SM reserve from registration to exit (with the gather, and with a pinnedTRTLLM_CUTEDSL_SM_RESERVEwith every transfer), dropped by a setup that commits nothing.test_dense_kimi_hooks.py: the hook placement (H0-H3) on a real Kimi-K3 model of a tiny config with KDA and MLA layers, with and without dense DWDP, that the model and each decoder layer keep the dense DWDP manager registered when they are built (or None), theKimiLinearForCausalLM.load_weightsguard, and the dense layout of the model's real layers: in strict mode with a 1-byte threshold, the collector moves exactly the tensors under the attention root and the five MoE-dense roots of each MoE layer (the allowed attributes and their aliases included, the excluded names not) and nothing of layer 0.test_dense_guards.py:ModelLoader.reloadandModelLoader.begin_update_weightsrefuse a model dense DWDP has sharded before they change anything, with the mark on the model or on its decoder, for a causal LM and for a VL-style wrapper.Executor wiring and setup order (commits 4-6):
test_dwdp_creator.py: the creator runs to its end over stand-ins for expert-only, attached and standalone DWDP, with the KV-cache estimation on and off and for a model without a KV cache. The manager is set up once, and only the executor that serves gets it and starts its forwards through it: with the estimation off, the only executor; with it on, the final one, as before. Without the estimation, dense setup (attached and standalone) comes beforebuild_managersand expert-only setup after it. When construction fails, a standalone dense manager registered during it is exited, and one registered before it is left alone.test_dwdp_manager.py: dense setup before the expert setup; the copy stream, the slot storages and the slot count handed to the expert setup; a weight manager on another copy stream or with other transfer flags refused; the rollback when the expert setup fails; on a model without dense roots, no dense collective, andTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE=1refused unlessTRTLLM_DWDP_DENSE_REQUIRED=0; the INFO line for more than two expert slots; a golden trace of the attached lifecycle, the executor's start, H0 and the recovery after an aborted forward.test_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py,test_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.py: the adopted copy stream (one on another device is refused); an expert weight inside a dense slot is refused; a ring larger than the free memory is refused before any allocation, with two and with three slots; a page pool whose allocation fails releases each handle once.test_dwdp_creator.pyandtest_dwdp_setup_lifecycle.pyget thecpu_onlymarker (main [None][perf] Kimi-K3 KDA prefill grid sizing and MTP-verify kernels; DWDP cross-step expert prefetch with configurable slots #20941 added it totest_dwdp_prefetch_pipeline.py). Without it, l0_cpu skipped these files, main's own tests in them included.test_kv_connector_executor_lifetime.py,test_pp_mpi_progress_thread.py,test_py_executor.py,tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.pyandtests/unittest/executor/test_forward_error_survival.pysetdense_dwdp_manager = Nonewhere they build aPyExecutorwithout__init__.Balanced expert partition (commit 8):
test_dwdp_peer_ranges.py: the balanced table equals_compute_ep_partition. On a grid of 60,836 configs, a strided table is accepted exactly when main's validator accepted it, or when it is capped.test_dwdp_manager.py,test_prefetch_copy_plan.py:DwdpConfigvalidation; 0/0 resolved per expert count; backend rows (74 on a balanced rank, 71 on the capped last rank, 82 on a redundant one); copy plans with peers of 75/74, 45/44 and 38/37 experts.tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py: the fixup over the exchange, also with a backend set up by the realNVFP4CuteDslFusedMoEMethod.setup_quant_scales; reports that do not fit raise the same error on every rank.test_dwdp_setup_protocol.py(new): the realsetup_dwdp, one thread per rank, overStoreDwdpGroupon aHashStorewith a fake VMM that maps handles only whole. Every peer is mapped with its own size and rows for all four kinds; a failure on one rank (a handshake mismatch, an export, an access grant, the ring) raises on every rank after the same collective, and nothing leaks.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py: the serve schema accepts 0/0, and both serve schemas reject a negative value.test_dwdp_expert_partition_matches_runtimechecks that both schemas, the disaggregated one also undercontext_serversandgeneration_servers, accept and reject the same partitions asDwdpConfig: both fields absent, 0/0, 1/1 and 2/1 pass; one field at 1 with the other absent or 0 fails.Shutdown bound (commit 1):
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py: the gate,should_stop_processingwith and without pending connector loads and transfers, and the release of the dropped requests through the termination path after the loop's last collective.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py: the uvicorn keywords for set, unset and malformed values; a malformed value rejected before the VisualGen launcher constructsVisualGen, on rank 0 and on a worker rank; and an interrupted child server whose hung handler is cancelled at the bound, after which the lifespan shutdown still runs. Added tol0_cpu.yml, which lists that directory file by file.Generation-server fix (commit 9):
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_adp_dummy_draft_rollback.py: with stand-in managers, a rolled-back dummy releases its draft mirror and a queued dummy keeps it (CPU); with real V2 target and draft pools and the V2 scheduler, a skipped iteration followed by the deferred previous batch no longer raises (GPU, registered in l0_a10).Apart from those two GPU tests, the GPU validation on SM107 (dense DWDP on real Kimi-K3 modules, and the balanced expert partition) was run internally and is not part of CI. The DWDP accuracy tests on DeepSeek-V3-Lite (uniform, redundant and
contention_optconfigs, pre-merge inl0_gb200_multi_gpus) run expert DWDP through this PR's setup changes; they were not run locally.Results. This head, on main 5be3334, in the CI development image main used before #19760 with the Python requirements of 55649d1, which differ from 5be3334's only in XGrammar (0.1.32 instead of 0.2.8), on 4 Rubin (SM107) GPUs per node. The C++ libraries are a build from source of main 5be3334 (CUDA arch 107); this PR changes no C++.
tests/unittest/_torch/modules/dwdp(whole directory) andtests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_dwdp_fixup_moe_backends.py, 4 GPUs-m cpu_only), with and without a visible GPU: the dwdp directory, the dwdp fixup test,_torch/executor/test_executor_shutdown_drop_inflight.py,llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py,llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py, the four executor tests above and_torch/executor/test_py_executor_creator_mla_cache_reuse_sync.py, whose stand-instest_dwdp_creator.pyusestests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_adp_dummy_draft_rollback.py(commit 9), 1 GPUtests/unittest/_torch/test_connector_adp.py, CPUtest_batch_start_combines_readiness_with_status,test_idle_fleet_polls_saves_without_new_traffic,test_control_drain_keeps_owner_collectives_aligned)test_kimi_linear_modeling.py,test_kimi_k3_checkpoint.py,test_kimi_k3_mla.py,test_modeling_kimi_k25.py, 1 GPUtest_kimi_k3_helix_a2a.pyandtest_kimi_linear_helix_mappings.py, which run the decoder layer the dense hooks sit intests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_multi_frontend_helpers.pyandtest_serve_multi_frontend_route_gate.py(main #19394, next to this PR'sserve.pychange), CPUtest_connector_adp.pyfailures of mainscripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py --checkandscripts/generate_llm_args_golden_manifest.py --checkBefore the PR's tests were trimmed and the branch was rebased: on main 14765c7 with #21011 applied, and with this PR's product code differing from this head's only in one docstring:
test_kimi_linear_modeling.py,test_kimi_k3_checkpoint.py,test_kimi_k3_mla.py,test_modeling_kimi_k25.py, 1 GPUtests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py-m cpu_only): the dwdp directory, the dwdp fixup test,_torch/executor,_torch/disaggregation,executor/test_forward_error_survival.py,llmapi/apps/test_openai_server_graceful_shutdown.py,llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py,llmapi/test_llm_args.py,others/test_mapping.py,usage/test_llmapi_config_telemetry_docs.py,api_stabilityThe 14 CPU failures do not come from this PR:
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_vocab_size.py: main's_create_kv_cache_managerreadsmodel_engine.max_cuda_graph_batch_size(since [TRTLLM-15763][refactor] Narrow the runner surface, slim engine state, and make the engine's executor interface explicit #20270), which the test's stand-in engine lacks. This PR touches neither the test nor that code.tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_hang_detector_kill.py(the real-MPI cases):srunis not available in the test container.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgs::test_model_kwargs_with_num_hidden_layers: the Qwen3-0.6B checkpoint is not underLLM_MODELS_ROOTin this environment.PR Checklist
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