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This is a port of #18742 to main.

Root cause:

  • On a disagg generation server, KVCacheManagerV2 admits up to 2 * max_batch_size requests (its IndexMapper is doubled so a batch receiving KV can overlap a batch decoding), but the sequence-slot pool was still sized at max_batch_size.
  • So, the server admitted roughly twice what it could seat, and the shortfall only surfaced later when the KV transfer landed and add_slot raised on the executor's event-loop thread - causing a deadlock.

Fix:

  • Size the seat pool with the same coefficient the IndexMapper uses (max(existing, max_batch_size * pp_size * 2) when disagg is on)
  • Add a startup check that fails loudly naming both numbers if the two coefficients ever drift again.

Potential conflicting MR: #18457

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On a disaggregated generation server KVCacheManagerV2 sizes its IndexMapper
at 2 * max_batch_size * pp_size, so a batch still receiving KV can overlap a
batch that is decoding, and the V2 scheduler admits DISAGG_GENERATION_INIT
requests against that capacity rather than against the per-iteration request
budget. The sequence-slot pool was still sized at max_batch_size, so the
generation server could admit roughly twice what it was able to seat.

Nothing detects the shortfall at admission time. The seat is claimed much
later, once the KV transfer lands, in _prepare_disagg_gen_transmission_complete
-> SeqSlotManager.prepare_resources -> add_slot. That runs on the executor's
event-loop thread, so the raise kills the thread, the rank stops joining its
TP collectives, and the peers block until the hang detector aborts the job
300 s later on an unrelated rank.

Mirror the IndexMapper coefficient in compute_max_num_sequences. max() rather
than another multiplication: the disagg factor and the attention-DP overlap
headroom both cover one extra set of in-flight sequences, so they overlap
rather than compose. Aggregated deployments keep their established sizing.

Every seat holder on a generation server necessarily holds an IndexMapper slot
first: KV is allocated during scheduling, the seat at transmission-complete,
and both are released together in the same free_resources fan-out. So a pool
matching the IndexMapper's non-reserved capacity can never come up short.

Three slot-indexed buffers were still keyed to the attention-DP overlap opt-in
rather than to the pool: spec-decode draft_probs via _set_up_spec_metadata and
via the engine runner config, and GuidedDecoder's per-request state. Left
alone, the wider pool would push py_seq_slot past the end of all three. They
now follow max_num_seq_slots, which also closes the same overflow under
pipeline parallelism, where slots already reached max_batch_size * pp_size.

Finally, validate_seq_slot_pool_covers_admission compares the two bounds when
the executor is built, so future drift between the coefficients fails at
startup naming both numbers instead of deadlocking under load. It no-ops for
the V1 manager, which publishes no admission bound.

Exposure is any model running disagg generation with pipeline_parallel_size=1
and enough load to saturate one rank's pool. Attention DP raises the
probability rather than changing the mechanism, since each rank owns a private
pool and router skew concentrates the load on one of them.

test_seq_slot_sizing.py pins this arithmetic but was in no test-db list, so it
ran nowhere. Add it to l0_a10, which already carries the other CPU-only
executor unit tests; these are pure sizing arithmetic over Mapping and Mock.

Signed-off-by: Balaram Buddharaju <169953907+brb-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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Sequence-slot sizing now accounts for disaggregated serving, pipeline parallelism, and overlap headroom. Startup validation checks KV admission limits. Runtime components use the full slot pool. Tests cover sizing and validation rules.

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Sequence-slot capacity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capacity rules and admission validation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py
Centralized disaggregated detection. Extended slot sizing. Added validation against the KV manager admission limit.
Runtime capacity propagation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/seq_slot_manager.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/*
Propagated the full slot pool to runners, guided decoding, speculative metadata, and slot management. Updated related logging and comments.
Capacity and integration coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_seq_slot_sizing.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml
Added coverage for disaggregated sizing, pipeline scaling, overlap behavior, admission limits, validation failures, and A10 pre-merge execution.

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Disaggregated EAGLE3 one-model generation can access undersized rejection-sampling buffers, risking incorrect generation or runtime failure. This should be fixed before merge.

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  participant ExecutorCreator
  participant ModelEngine
  participant KVCacheManagerV2
  participant SeqSlotManager
  ExecutorCreator->>ModelEngine: compute or obtain sequence-slot capacity
  ModelEngine->>KVCacheManagerV2: expose maximum admissible sequences
  ExecutorCreator->>SeqSlotManager: validate capacity and construct manager
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Pass num_seq_slots to Eagle3OneModelSpecMetadata.

_build_spec_metadata() normalizes num_seq_slots, but this EAGLE3 branch drops it. Rejection buffers then use max_num_requests instead of the disaggregated slot pool. A py_seq_slot equal to that bound aliases the dummy row, and a larger slot can index outside the buffer. Pass num_seq_slots=num_seq_slots here. Add a regression test for EAGLE3 one-model rejection sampling with an expanded disaggregated slot.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py` around lines 439 - 455, Pass the
normalized num_seq_slots value into the Eagle3OneModelSpecMetadata construction
within _build_spec_metadata, alongside max_num_requests, so rejection buffers
use the expanded disaggregated slot pool. Add a regression test covering EAGLE3
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_seq_slot_sizing.py`:
- Line 227: Update the sequence-slot sizing tests around
compute_max_num_sequences to obtain the expected admission bound from a minimal
KVCacheManagerV2 fixture, asserting seats >= manager.max_admissible_sequences
for both aggregated and disaggregated pipeline-parallel cases. Keep the existing
mock-based validate_seq_slot_pool_covers_admission tests separate, and remove
the duplicated admission formula.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py`:
- Around line 439-455: Pass the normalized num_seq_slots value into the
Eagle3OneModelSpecMetadata construction within _build_spec_metadata, alongside
max_num_requests, so rejection buffers use the expanded disaggregated slot pool.
Add a regression test covering EAGLE3 one-model rejection sampling with an
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The infra part (adding a test) LGTM, approved.

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Bring PR 18457 in line with the seat-pool sizing in
NVIDIA#18983 so the two can land in
either order:

- compute_max_num_sequences takes 18983's is_disagg term. Disaggregation
  and the attention-DP overlap headroom both cover one extra set of
  in-flight sequences, so they are combined with max() rather than
  multiplied.
- KVCacheManagerV2 publishes max_admissible_sequences, the IndexMapper
  capacity minus the reserved dummy slots, keeping 18457's widened
  coefficient (disagg, or attention DP with overlap on and no PP).
- validate_seq_slot_pool_covers_admission fails at startup when the seat
  pool is smaller than what admission allows, called just before the
  SeqSlotManager is built. Keyed on isinstance(int) rather than
  "is not None" so a Mock cache manager in another module's tests skips
  the check instead of raising TypeError from a comparison.
- Slot-indexed spec-decoding buffers follow model_engine.max_num_seq_slots
  unconditionally, in _set_up_spec_metadata, _initialize_no_kv_cache_runner
  and seat_pool_or_none. The pool already exceeds max_batch_size for three
  independent reasons -- pipeline depth, the overlap headroom and
  disaggregation -- and those buffers cannot tell them apart, so gating on
  one of the three sized them at max_batch_size while py_seq_slot ranged
  over the full pool.
- py_executor_creator's max_num_seq_slots fallback recomputes with the
  disagg term instead of assuming max_batch_size * pp_size.

Also merges main (05838ce) and registers test_seq_slot_sizing.py in
l0_a10.

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Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>
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