fix(poc): enforced-tokens ingestion + shm broadcast ring size (2/2)#71
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Minimal in-tree surface the out-of-tree gonka-poc plugin needs on 0.25.1: per-request logprobs_mode + enforced_token_ids, need_processed_logprobs threading, mixed-mode sampling with post-sampling enforced-token override, InputBatch bookkeeping, structured-output graceful degradation, and V1 model-runner containment (vLLM 0.25 ships a parallel V2 runner whose own sampler would bypass this residual). Contract tests pin the private vLLM surfaces the residual depends on so an upstream refactor fails loudly before the next rebase. docker/Dockerfile.gonka-poc composes the full image: this residual + pip install gonka-poc (pinned to tag v0.1.0a0). All PoC compute logic stays in the plugin. Formatted with the repo's own ruff hooks (v0.14.0). PR 1/2 of the split requested in gonka-ai#66 (plugin + vLLM 0.25).
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Moved to draft — self-review before asking for yours found defects, including one unrelated to this PR purpose that I should have caught at split time.
Will un-draft once these are addressed. |
Self-review findings in the residual, before asking for an outside review. fill_bitmask() returned early when grammar enforcement had been disabled for a request. The bitmask tensor is reused across steps, so leaving that row untouched applied whatever mask last occupied it -- in a shared batch, another request's grammar -- and constrained the request to an unrelated token set. It now fills the row with -1 (allow everything), which is how the manager already fills rows for requests that are not grammar-constrained. validate_tokens() had the same gap: after the FSM went out of sync it kept filtering draft tokens against it, so speculative acceptance would collapse to zero while grammar was nominally disabled. It now returns the tokens unchanged. The enforced-token override used a masked assignment guarded by mask.any(). Both the guard and boolean-mask indexing force a device sync, on every decode step, on the shared sampling path. torch.where does the same job without one. The mixed-mode logprobs flag was written into a device tensor element by element in a Python loop -- a separate copy and sync per request, up to max_num_seqs of them per step. Built on the host and transferred once instead. The V2 model runner has its own sampler that reads neither enforced tokens nor per-request logprobs mode, so under V2 such a request returned a plausible completion that enforced nothing -- a validator would treat it as a verified replay. The V2 sampler now rejects those requests. The Dockerfile still selects V1, but as a convenience default rather than the safety net it was standing in for, and its comment says so. Dockerfile: added a base-image version guard (overlaying .py from one minor onto .so from another either fails at import or half-works), dropped a duplicate scipy install, and removed the pip line that could downgrade fastapi and pydantic out from under the base image. Justified the insecure-serialization variable instead of leaving it unexplained. Contract tests rewritten: assertions now read structure and behaviour -- msgspec field sets, signatures, a real SamplingParams round-trip, the validator rejecting an invalid mode -- instead of grepping source text, which passed on comments and broke on reformatting. References an outside reader cannot resolve are gone, and the files carry SPDX headers so pre-commit passes. Same eight tests, none weakened. Verified: ruff check and ruff format clean; every touched file compiles; the structural assertions checked against the working tree with an AST pass.
Two production fixes on top of the sampler residual (PR 1/2): 1. enforced_tokens HTTP ingestion bridge (vllm/validation.py + chat completion protocol/serving + generate serving). Without it a validator's enforced_tokens payload is silently dropped by Pydantic and never reaches SamplingParams — inference validation degrades to a plain generate. Found on the GLM image. 2. shm MessageQueue broadcast rings max_chunks 6 -> 64. Under large-TP MoE load the undersized rings caused EngineDeadError cascades; the larger rings cut engine deaths ~5x on a 4xB300 Kimi fleet. Contract tests added for both surfaces. PR 2/2 of the split requested in gonka-ai#66 (additional fixes).
Self-review before asking for an outside one. Two classes of problem, both in
code that came over from the production PoC implementation.
Replay ids arrive over HTTP and end up in an embedding lookup, where an
out-of-range value is a device-side assert, not a rejected request: it takes
the worker down and every other request on it with it. So a single unvalidated
field was a remote kill switch for the node.
- validate_enforced_token_ids() rejects non-integers and anything outside
[0, vocab_size) before the ids reach the engine; the caller turns that into
a 400. Negatives are rejected wholesale because the sampler reserves -1 as
its "no enforcement here" sentinel, so accepting -1 from a client would
silently disable replay instead of performing it.
- Ceilings on the payload (MAX_ENFORCED_TOKENS, MAX_TOP_TOKENS_PER_POSITION)
so a large body cannot be materialised as an unbounded number of models.
- eos_token_id is only appended when the tokenizer actually has one;
TokenizerLike types it as int but it is None for some models, and None in
the id list crashes inside the worker rather than failing the request.
- get_enforced_token_ids() checks every element, not just the first, and
narrows the type so mypy is satisfied.
The ring-size change was a hardcoded 6/10 -> 64 across four sites. At the
16 MiB default that is roughly a gigabyte per ring, and there are several
rings per engine, so it silently raised the /dev/shm requirement for everyone
including deployments that never hit the starvation case. It is now
VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNKS, defaulting to None so every site keeps its own upstream
default, and the comment states the real arithmetic instead of accounting for
one ring out of four. The Ray executor's ring has the same failure mode and
was previously left out, so the fix could not reach it at all -- it now reads
the same knob.
Contract tests rewritten to assert behaviour (range checks reject, ceilings
exist, the knob defaults to None) instead of grepping source text, which
passed on comments and would have broken on any reformat. Internal references
that an outside reader cannot resolve are gone, and the new files carry SPDX
headers so pre-commit passes.
Verified: ruff check and ruff format clean on every touched file; the range
checker exercised against in-range, out-of-range, negative, sentinel and bool
inputs; the env resolver returns None when unset and the int when set.
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VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNKS defaults to upstream ring sizes so unrelated deployments do not pay the /dev/shm cost. That default is right for the knob and wrong for this image: Kimi-K2.6 died repeatedly under sustained production load on a 4xB300 fleet until the rings were raised, so an image built for that workload has to opt in rather than inherit the conservative default. Sets it in the Dockerfile, where the workload is known, and states the budget (~1.3 GiB of extra /dev/shm per engine; an undersized tmpfs fails as SIGBUS under load, not at startup). Also reworded the executor comment to lead with the observed failure -- a large MoE model dying under load -- rather than the mechanism, and to keep the honest caveat that this is a mitigation: stalls were still seen near idle afterwards.
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Closing in favour of #78 and the series that follows it. These were stacked but each opened against Restructured: #78 carries the production PoC logic to 0.25.1 with no behaviour change, so it can be reviewed as a port. Each defect found while porting then gets its own PR on top, one finding each, so any that turn out to be deliberate design can be rejected without touching the rest. Nothing here is lost — the content of this PR reappears in the series, with its own justification. |
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Second of two PRs splitting #66. Stacked on #70 — review that one first; until it merges, GitHub shows this diff cumulatively. The eight files this PR actually adds are below.
1. Enforced-token HTTP ingestion
vllm/validation.py, chat-completionprotocol.py/serving.py,generate/base/serving.py.Without this bridge a validator's
enforced_tokenspayload is dropped during request parsing and never reachesSamplingParams. Inference validation then degrades into an ordinary generate — no error anywhere, the node simply stops proving what it claims to prove. This was reported on the GLM image.Self-review before asking for yours turned up that the replay ids arrive over HTTP and go straight into an embedding lookup, where an out-of-range value is not a rejected request but a device-side assert that takes the worker down — and every other request on it. A single unvalidated field was effectively a remote kill switch. Fixed here:
validate_enforced_token_ids()rejects non-integers and anything outside[0, vocab_size)before the ids reach the engine; the caller turns that into a 400. Negatives are rejected wholesale, because the sampler reserves-1as its "nothing to enforce here" sentinel — accepting-1from a client would silently disable replay rather than perform it.MAX_ENFORCED_TOKENS,MAX_TOP_TOKENS_PER_POSITION), so a large body cannot be materialised as an unbounded number of models.eos_token_idis appended only when the tokenizer actually has one.TokenizerLiketypes it asint, but it isNonefor some models, and aNonein the id list crashes inside the worker instead of failing the request.get_enforced_token_ids()checks every element rather than only the first, and narrows the type so mypy is satisfied.Still open, deliberately, because they change the API contract rather than harden it:
detect_logprobs_mode()infers the logprobs mode heuristically from client-supplied data even though the request already carries an explicit field, and the numeric-id rendering ingenerate/base/serving.pychangeslogprobsoutput for every endpoint. Both are being handled separately — the second one needs a replacement in the plugin first, otherwise the GLM fix regresses.2. shm broadcast ring size
vllm/envs.py,distributed/parallel_state.py,v1/executor/multiproc_executor.py,v1/executor/ray_executor_v2.py.What this fixes, concretely: Kimi-K2.6 (TP=4) died repeatedly under sustained production load on a 4xB300 fleet. Raising these rings is what stopped it — engine deaths went from roughly every 35 minutes to every 2-3 hours. The mechanism, as far as we could establish it: the writer is EngineCore, a reader that is briefly slow to drain blocks it ("No available shared memory broadcast block"), the step stalls, and the engine is eventually declared dead and restarted, dropping in-flight requests.
Treat it as a mitigation rather than a cure — stalls were still observed near idle afterwards, so something deeper is likely involved. Same change as #58, carried to the 0.25.1 line.
The first version hardcoded 6/10 to 64 at four sites. Each ring costs
max_chunks x (max_chunk_bytes + metadata), so at the 16 MiB default a ring of 64 is about a gigabyte, and an engine has several — roughly 1.3 GiB of extra/dev/shmper engine. Imposing that on deployments that never hit this failure is not defensible, so it is nowVLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNKS, defaulting toNoneand leaving every site on its upstream default.Our own image opts in explicitly (
ENV VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNKS=64indocker/Dockerfile.gonka-poc), which is the right place for it: the workload is known there, and the default stays conservative for everyone else.The Ray executor's ring shares the failure mode and was left out entirely, so the fix could not reach it while the contract test still passed. It reads the same knob now.
Order
enforced_token_idsandlogprobs_modecome from #70, and the ingestion bridge writes into them, so #70 must land first.Verification
ruff checkandruff formatclean on every touched file. The range checker was exercised against in-range, out-of-range, negative, sentinel and boolean inputs; the env resolver returnsNonewhen unset and the integer when set. Contract tests assert behaviour — range checks reject, ceilings exist, the knob defaults toNone, every ring site reads it — instead of grepping source text, which passed on comments and broke on reformatting. New files carry SPDX headers.