fix(poc): use the engine token-id format instead of rewriting logprobs#77
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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).
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.
Past the end of enforced_token_ids the tensor builder repeated the final id for every remaining step, so a replay of [a, b, c] with max_tokens=100 produced a, b, c, c, c, ... up to the limit. Unless that last id happens to be EOS the request cannot finish on its own: it holds a batch slot for the remaining steps and returns a sequence that no longer matches the origin. Emitting -1 instead leaves those positions unenforced, which is what the sentinel already means everywhere else in this path, so the request resumes ordinary sampling and terminates normally. Behaviour change, hence a separate PR from the port: replies to a replay request that outlives its enforced sequence differ from what the production implementation returns today.
Upstream calls self.sample(logits, sampling_metadata) without the override; the ported code passed it through. The only caller that supplies an override is the rejection sampler, with processed_logits, so the change lands squarely on the speculative-decoding path. With the override forwarded, sample() takes its processed_logits branch and returns raw logits for greedy rows, while the random path still consults the deployment mode and returns logprobs. One tensor then holds both, and the downstream decision about whether to apply compute_logprobs is made from the deployment mode -- so half the rows are handled wrongly and the client gets logprobs that are silently meaningless. The override still selects the effective mode inside forward(), exactly as upstream intends. need_processed_logprobs remains, and is all the PoC path needs: it asks sample() to additionally produce processed values for the rows that want them, without redefining what the deployment mode means. Behaviour change relative to the production implementation, hence its own PR.
When a replay request omits logprobs_mode, the mode is inferred from the payload by a heuristic. The mode decides what the returned logprobs mean, so getting it wrong makes the comparison fail for reasons unrelated to the node's honesty -- and today that inference leaves no trace, so after the fact there is nothing in the logs to tell a bad heuristic apart from a genuine divergence. Logging only. Whether to keep inferring at all is a contract question, raised separately.
_get_decoded_token had been replaced with return str(token_id) so that a validator could read numeric ids out of top_logprobs. It applied unconditionally, to every endpoint: any request with logprobs=true on /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions or /v1/responses got token: "9906" where it expected "Hello", while the bytes field still carried the real text. It also stranded the return_as_token_id parameter, the decoded_token path, the skip_tokenizer_init error, and left resolve_token_id_placeholder unreachable, since nothing produced the token_id: prefix it parses. vLLM already has this feature. A request with return_tokens_as_token_ids gets token_id:N from format_token_id_placeholder, per request, and that form round trips through resolve_token_id_placeholder. So the replacement was not needed: the ingestion side simply had to read the format the engine already emits. _get_decoded_token is restored verbatim, and the token parser now accepts token_id:N alongside the bare decimals earlier validators send. Two related sharp edges went with it: a string int() would have accepted but a human would not (underscores, non-ASCII digits, whitespace, a sign) is treated as text and tokenized rather than silently reinterpreted as an id; and a text token that resolves to nothing is left unset instead of being mapped to id 0, where it was indistinguishable from a genuine id 0 further down. Validators asking for ids should set return_tokens_as_token_ids on the request. Bare decimals keep working, so nothing has to change at the same time. Verified: parser exercised over both formats, id 0, text, and each of the sharp-edge inputs; ruff clean; the reverted file is byte-identical to release/v0.25.1.
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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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Stacked on #70, #71, #73, #74, #75. This one closes the largest finding from the self-review.
What was wrong
_get_decoded_tokenhad been replaced withreturn str(token_id), so a validator could read numeric ids out oftop_logprobs. It applied unconditionally, to every endpoint: any request withlogprobs=trueon/v1/chat/completions,/v1/completionsor/v1/responsesreceivedtoken: "9906"where it expected"Hello"— while thebytesfield still carried the real text, so the response contradicted itself.It also stranded a chunk of the surrounding machinery: the
return_as_token_idparameter, thedecoded_tokenpath, theskip_tokenizer_initerror, andresolve_token_id_placeholder— which parses thetoken_id:prefix that nothing produced any more.Why it happened, and why the fix is small
The engine already has this feature. A request with
return_tokens_as_token_idsgetstoken_id:Nfromformat_token_id_placeholder, per request, and that form round-trips throughresolve_token_id_placeholder. The replacement was never needed — the ingestion side only had to read the format the engine already emits.Worth noting for the record: the original commit that introduced this hunk said so out loud, that it "breaks the normal OpenAI API logprobs UX" and was acceptable because the image was dedicated to PoC validation. On 0.25 that trade no longer holds, because the placeholder pair now makes it an inconsistency inside vLLM's own round-trip, not just a UX cost.
The change
_get_decoded_tokenrestored verbatim — the file is byte-identical torelease/v0.25.1.token_id:Nalongside the bare decimals earlier validators send, so nothing has to change on both sides at once.int()would accept but a human would not — underscores, non-ASCII digits, whitespace, a sign — is now treated as text and tokenized rather than silently reinterpreted as an id; and a text token that resolves to nothing is left unset instead of being mapped to id 0, where it was indistinguishable from a genuine id 0 downstream.For validators
Set
return_tokens_as_token_ids: trueon the request to get ids. Bare decimals keep working.Verification
Parser exercised over both formats, id 0, plain text, and each sharp-edge input (12 cases).
ruff checkandruff formatclean. The reverted file matches upstream exactly.