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Native disaggregated KV transfers need to use each pool view's head geometry when one cache manager contains layers with different KV-head counts. Using one rank-wide count can select incorrect head slices or sender ranks.

  • Serialize optional per-view KV-head counts while retaining the legacy rank-wide fallback.
  • Keep target- and draft-owned layers in separate transfer views, including when they share a physical pool.
  • Use matched-view head counts for HND/NHD slicing, duplication factors, and sender election.
  • Reject incompatible view pairings or head geometry and disable the equal-split bounce path when per-view duplication makes it unsafe.

This PR is based on main, which includes the merged unified KV-cache foundation #20178. DFlash and DSpark cache-sharing integration remains in their separate PRs.

Test Coverage

Focused coverage in test_peer.py, test_extractor.py, and test_bounce.py checks per-view byte offsets, sender election, metadata compatibility, serialization, owner partitioning, and bounce safety. The existing l0_cpu.yml selection of unittest/disaggregated includes the CPU-marked tests.

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  • All applicable repository pre-commit checks passed.
  • 68 tests passed in an isolated CPU source-loader harness using the real page, extractor, and peer modules. GPU/service imports were stubbed, and the manager partition and receiver bounce methods were loaded unchanged from source.
  • Standard pytest could not collect tests on the local machine because torch is unavailable. Full installed TensorRT/CUDA and integration validation remains for CI.

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The supplied change summary describes per-view KV-head metadata flowing from pool-view construction into attention mapping, transfer compatibility checks, and sender routing. It also describes ownership-based view partitioning and bounce rejection when duplicate-head factors make equal-split fan-in unsafe.

The latest repository check shows no working-tree changes. The implementation details below therefore rely on the supplied change summary, not a checked patch. Test execution results are unavailable.

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The modified tests cover per-view transfer geometry, sender ownership, compatibility errors, receiver cleanup, legacy metadata fallback, view partitioning, mixed-head rejection, and fan-in bounce safety. The supplied shell result did not establish test-list membership: the inspected A10/H100 .txt paths do not exist, and no matching test entries were reported.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The described unit tests cover key behaviors, but available evidence does not establish end-to-end transfer coverage or test execution.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/mixers/attention/peer.py — Verify HND/NHD mapping and sender routing with per-view head counts. Verify rank-wide fallback when a view omits its count.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/peer.py — Verify view matching, registration errors, and per-view duplicate-head routing, including ambiguous and coalesced view layouts.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/transfer.py — Verify fan-in bounce is rejected when rank-wide or matched-view duplication factors differ from 1.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/resource/kv_extractor.py — Verify ownership partitioning and uniform head-count checks for attention views. Verify recurrent views bypass those checks.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/resource/page.py — Verify num_kv_heads serialization and deserialization, including page tables that omit the field.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py — Verify explicit layer specs produce the intended owner/head-count partition and unspecified specs return no partition.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_peer.py — Covers per-view transfer geometry, sender election, compatibility errors, and receiver cleanup. Test-list membership could not be verified.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_bounce.py — Covers fan-in bounce safety for rank-wide and per-view duplicate-head factors. Test-list membership could not be verified.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_extractor.py — Covers metadata serialization, head-count partitioning, and mixed-head errors. Test-list membership could not be verified.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py — Updates the bounced-publication fixture with a duplicate-head factor and pipeline size. Test-list membership could not be verified.

@allisonlim-nv allisonlim-nv changed the title Feat/per view kv head transfer [None][feat] Per View KV head transfer Oct 20, 2026
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NVIDIA#20178 foundation)

Squashed net change of PR NVIDIA#20486 at head 714916d relative to the main it last merged (0829689),
ported onto feat/musespark-open-agentx; unrelated main commits are not included. NVIDIA#20486 carries the
unified KV cache manager foundation of PR NVIDIA#20178 through eea6dcb (NVIDIA#20178's later 61248ec,
77d4eae and 636715a are not part of the NVIDIA#20709 stack and are not ported). Commits:
  3bc36a5 [None][feat] add unified KV cache layout foundation
  dad9f1f [None][refactor] simplify unified KV cache layer specs
  6ea5ad8 [None][test] remove unified KV cache foundation tests
  090cbc0 [None][docs] remove unified KV cache design document
  511975f [None][feat] support per-layer storage layouts in KVCacheManagerV2
  bfc8bc7 fix: normalize explicit KV cache spec windows
  18c71c1 fix: use explicit KV cache dtype for cold-page codec
  ae64dca test: cover explicit KV cache dtype for cold-page codec
  701abea fix: honor physical slot strides in KV cache views
  623816c test: cover mixed KV cache odd-slot addressing
  7cde28e fix: restore KV cache subclass and test compatibility
  4a3bb25 [None][test] fix mixed KV cache slot address arithmetic
  9d0107b [None][fix] align NVFP4 data and scale page layouts
  e273a98 [None][fix] accept mixed KV cache pointer table layouts
  f6b1d08 [None][fix] preserve sink and reuse policy in KV cache costing
  b6db612 [TRTLLM-20434][feat] Dflash Unified KVCache
  39d814d [None][fix] share the DFlash draft KV cache in disagg only with speculative_config in both sections
  22cf25c [None][fix] gate the disagg shared draft KV cache on matching tensor_parallel_size
  feed06a [None][test] cover the disagg shared draft KV gate for generation-only speculative_config and mismatched TP
  0319dc3 test: use default timeout for unified DFlash KV test
  1f39128 fix: restore DFlash private arena fallback for separate KV caches
  97fb214 fix: seed unified DFlash context lengths from bounded token counts
  caf4c45 test: cover DFlash mixed-precision block tables
  875eff2 fix: require matching attention DP for shared draft KV
  212fdab test: enable shared draft KV in DFlash integration test
  1302d43 fix: keep mixed-window DFlash caches separate

Port conflict resolutions (base = main 0829689, ours = agentx b7979ca + !10912):
- kv_cache_manager_v2.py: our joint_kv_cache_reuse kwarg and the PR's layer_specs kwarg land at the
  same spot in _get_per_request_layer_tokens, get_cache_bytes_per_request and
  get_cache_quota_per_request (5 hunks): keep both. The generic layer_configs loop moves under the
  PR's `else:`; main's kv_pool_rebalance_config (NVIDIA#19077) is not on agentx and is dropped.
- _util.py: agentx's _per_manager_cache_cost has no tokens_per_block parameter (main-only); keep
  the PR's unified layer_specs injection.
- dflash.py: keep agentx's windowed VANILLA arena (_ctx_base) branch; ctx_len_gen (PR) equals
  self._ctx_len[slots].
- rank_info.py: drop main's bounded_replay_on_generation (not on agentx); keep num_draft_layers.
- tests: drop main-only imports (PyTorchModelEngine, KvCacheRetentionConfig).
!10912 stays intact: validate_block_attention_windows() is not re-added.

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
zheyuf pushed a commit to zheyuf/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Oct 26, 2026
Squashed increment of draft PR NVIDIA#20709 at head 1703851 over NVIDIA#20486 at 714916d (both on main
0829689; the NVIDIA#20709 tree contains all of NVIDIA#20486), ported onto feat/musespark-open-agentx. Commits:
  7a85a73 [None][feat] unify the standalone DSpark target and draft KV cache
  d492b52 [None][feat] reshard unified target/draft KV by per-view attention heads

Port conflict resolutions (base = NVIDIA#20486 on main 0829689, ours = the NVIDIA#20486 port):
- kv_extractor.py: agentx lacks main's view_partition hook (NVIDIA#19727); add only kv_heads_for_layer
  and the Callable import its annotation needs (Muse target and draft buffers differ in size, so
  they never share a physical pool/view).
- kv_cache_manager_v2.py add_dummy_requests: keep agentx's stop_committing() for the dummy and size
  it with the PR's _kv_alloc_extra_tokens.
- test_kvcm2_integration.py: keep agentx's DecoderRunner import and add the PR's tests only (main's
  generation-block reuse tests, NVIDIA#19710, are not on agentx).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
zheyuf added a commit to zheyuf/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Oct 26, 2026
…indings

The ported NVIDIA#20178/NVIDIA#20486/NVIDIA#20709 Python assumes main's KV cache manager
bindings. Two pieces are not on agentx:

- Per-layer AttentionReusePolicy (main NVIDIA#19727 C++). The stack only ever uses
  REQUIRED, which is what agentx does for every layer, so the reuse_policy
  field, its AttentionLayerConfig argument and its place in the scratch and
  pool-group keys are dropped. The one test that needs PRIVATE is skipped.
- BufferConfig.coalescing_group (the stack's own C++, which the agentx image
  does not carry). Group 0 is what the prebuilt bindings do implicitly, so the
  argument is passed only for nonzero (NVFP4) groups, which fail loudly unless
  the bindings are rebuilt from this branch's cpp/.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
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… under disaggregated serving (#25)

* [None][feat] Unified kv cache manager foundation (NVIDIA#20178)

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit fce28f0)

Backport to this branch: the cpp/ part (BufferConfig.coalescing_group,
the attentionOp 3-D pool-pointer table) is not included;
_coalescing_group_kwargs passes the group only when it is nonzero, so
layer specs without NVFP4 buffers run on the existing bindings, and the
two mixed NVFP4/BF16 pool tests skip on bindings without
coalescing_group. Hunks for main-only features (mixed-precision KV,
pool rebalancing) are dropped, and layer_specs is declared on the class
for managers built without __init__.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [TRTLLM-16722][feat] Dflash Unified KVCache (NVIDIA#20486)

Port of NVIDIA#20486 at 219e26e (net diff against the
main it merges, df95eda).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: conflicts resolved against the separate draft
pool's disagg window transfer (RankInfo keeps both draft fields), the
drafter slot parking and seeds in DFlashSpecMetadata.prepare (the
position seeding applies to the unified cache only), and the fused
block-table refresh (skipped when the layer has a block offset). Hunks
for code this branch does not have (spec_tail_kernels, model-level
layer specs) are dropped; Gemma4 hybrid geometry stands in for
_has_variable_kv_cache_geometry.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Per View KV head transfer (NVIDIA#20709)

Port of NVIDIA#20709 at 300a671 (net diff against the
main it merges, 0746a23).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: import and registration-check conflicts
resolved by keeping both sides.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Bound DFlash's shared context by the allocation's extent

DFlash took the number of valid block-table entries as the pages a request
holds. On a unified cache with per-layer page tables (e.g. an FP8 target
with a BF16 drafter), a sliding-window draft layer's evicted pages stay
BAD_PAGE_INDEX in front of its live tail, so the count stopped at about one
window (66 blocks for window 2048, page 32) whatever the context length. The
decode-time allocation check then trapped once a context passed ~2.1K
tokens, and prefill skipped the drafter's context store for later chunks and
for prefix hits past the window.

Use the extent of the allocation instead, the last valid entry + 1. Reads
below the window are never issued and writes land in the live tail; for a
full-attention drafter, and on the cpp backend, the extent equals the count.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit ff11364)

* [None][fix] Re-seed DFlash generation slots in CUDA-graph warmup

CUDA-graph warmup builds every batch from dummy requests whose ids repeat
across batches (0..bs-1), so a reused id keeps its drafter slot and the
previous batch's context length, which the replay after each capture
advances for good. A later batch can give the same id far fewer pages, and
on a unified KV cache the drafter's allocation check then trapped at server
start: during the advanced-sampling capture pass the filler rows reached
31..79 positions against a 24-position allocation.

Only warmup runs a CUDA-graph batch eagerly, so there re-seed each
generation row's slot from this batch's positions, as prepare() already
seeds a new request.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit 2b23449)

* [None][feat] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: keep the drafter's KV in the target's manager under disagg

On GB300 a disaggregated generation worker gets the target's prompt KV but
not the DSpark drafter's, which lives in a separate pool: the drafter
starts from an empty window at block 0 and acceptance collapses on long
prompts. Hosting the draft layers in the target's KVCacheManagerV2 lets
the transceiver move them with the target's pages.

- MiniMaxM3KVCacheManagerV2 hosts explicit draft layer specs: index-K
  buffers follow the spec-built ones, dense target layers stay FP8,
  size-only coalescing keeps the target pools, draft layers use the base
  view.
- KvCacheCreator unifies a standalone DSpark drafter with such a manager
  under disaggregated serving when the drafter reads the target's page
  size. Agg keeps the separate pool paired with block reuse, and a model
  that ships that pool's window (F0a) keeps it in disagg.
  TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 opts out.
- An NVFP4 target transfers with a BF16 draft held in pools of its own.
- A windowed draft lifecycle gets the hot-tier bytes of every admissible
  sequence's window plus one context chunk, instead of the bytes-per-token
  split that handed it a quarter of the KV cache.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Reuse a unified DSpark drafter's KV only where its window is complete

With the drafter's layers in the target's KV cache manager, the draft
lifecycle's REQUIRED policy let the drafter's window constrain every
prefix match: a request branching off a shared prefix found no
committed window there and re-prefilled its whole prompt.

- A windowed drafter's layer specs are OPTIONAL. The target alone sets
  the match, and a new cache's first resume selects the drafter's
  layers where their window is complete (page-aligned matches only).
- Where the window is missing, prepare_context caps the claim so the
  prefill writes everything the drafter reads (from L + 2 - W on): at
  L + 1 - W, or one window before a branch point within W of the prompt
  end, whose window the request then publishes. A partial match first
  retries at its last full page.
- The commit gate for unstored drafter context, its unwritten-prefix
  marks and branch-point publication cover a manager that hosts the
  drafter's layers, not only a paired draft pool.

A disagg generation request needs no cap: the KV transfer requests an
unselected OPTIONAL group in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: copy only the unified drafter's block offsets per step

A hybrid NVFP4 MiniMax-M3 cache is pool-less: no target layer reads its
attention-op block offsets. With explicit draft layers it kept every
layer's pool, so each step converted the whole per-layer table (layers x
sequence slots x max_seq_len / tokens_per_block) on the device: about
3 ms per decode step at max_seq_len 1M on TP2.

Keep one attention-op pool, the first draft layer's, which is the only
one the unified drafter reads, and fill it from the draft lifecycle's
rows with the copy a separate draft pool uses.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Allocate the whole block of a drafter that shares the target's KV cache

A unified DFlash/DSpark drafter appends its block after the request's
context, through the request's own pages. The manager sized every request
with num_extra_kv_tokens = K-1 beyond its history, but the DSpark
shift_label block is K wide (DFlash K+1). When the allocation ended on a
page boundary, at the prompt end or after a step that accepts all K+1
tokens, the block's last slot had no page: the drafter then truncated the
advertised context and its scratch overwrote the last context position in
the draft layers, silently.

When DRAFT-owner layers live in the manager, size each request beyond its
history by max(num_extra_kv_tokens, drafter block width) at every
allocation site and in the generation headroom. The creator passes the
checkpoint-resolved width (shift_label). Adapted from NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
NVIDIA#20664 (76c4cef); num_extra_kv_tokens keeps its position-side meaning.

* [None][fix] Fail at startup when TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 cannot be honored

An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 on a disaggregated worker whose
target and drafter cannot share one KV cache manager silently kept the
separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred. Raise at KV cache
creation instead, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664's
_check_shared_draft_kv_request does.

disaggregated_mpi_worker now writes "auto" rather than "1" when both
sections pass its coarse checks, so its automatic choice can still fall
back where a worker's finer checks refuse; the creator shares under "1" and
"auto" alike. The unset default is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Let disaggregated_mpi_worker share a DSpark drafter's KV

The launcher wrote TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 for any drafter other than DFlash, and for any page
size other than 16, 32 or 64, so a MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark deployment started through it (128-token pages)
kept the separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred.

Accept a standalone DSpark drafter with attention_backend unset, AUTO or TRTLLM, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM
NVIDIA#20664 does, and leave its page size to each worker's KvCacheCreator: the launcher cannot know whether
the drafter reads the target's page. It writes "auto"; if the two sides still disagree, the peers'
draft-layer check fails loudly. An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 is now kept.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Keep attention-DP dummy generation rows on DFlash's dummy slot

A generation row with the attention-DP dummy id must never inherit a real slot, because the C++ offset
copy maps placeholders to page 0: a slot that a context warmup stored under that id would let the
dummy row write its drafter K/V past its own pages, onto another request's page. As in
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664, such rows now always take the dummy slot.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] DFlash: size a unified MiniMax-M3.1 drafter's context stores on the host

DFlash bounds each context store by the row's allocation, which it reads
back from the device unless the drafter's block-table rows are known to
be written in full. That was only recognized for a separate draft pool,
so with the unified drafter every context chunk waited for the target's
forward before the store was issued.

Let the KV cache manager say whether it rewrites copied rows in full,
and check the target manager's own table for a unified drafter. The
MiniMax-M3 manager's drafter-only pool is copied in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] KVCacheManagerV2: reuse an OPTIONAL group at a partial endpoint

An OPTIONAL lifecycle group was checked only at a page-aligned endpoint,
so a partial prefix match always left it incomplete. A unified DSpark
drafter then lost its window's partial page and the caller cut its claim
back to the last full page, recomputing up to a page per request.

Check an OPTIONAL group at any endpoint with the REQUIRED coverage rule:
the last page needs only the matched prefix. The first resume copies a
selected group's partial page into a private page, as for REQUIRED, and
counts it as a partial reuse. Partial snapshots now publish OPTIONAL
pages as well, so a continuation of a prompt that ended mid-page finds
them. A match whose partial page is missing still falls back to the
last full page.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Give the block-table refresh test's stub the extent columns

The stock DFlashWorker._refresh_ctx_block_tables reads _ctx_block_cols since
the allocation-extent fix; the test's object.__new__ stub never set it.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: allisonlim-nv <allim@nvidia.com>
Keep per-view KV-head counts alongside ring-slot geometry in pool-view construction, validation, and serialization. Preserve upstream replicated-ring routing and the per-view head transfer paths.

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
brb-nv pushed a commit to brb-nv/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2026
… under disaggregated serving (#25)

* [None][feat] Unified kv cache manager foundation (NVIDIA#20178)

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit fce28f0)

Backport to this branch: the cpp/ part (BufferConfig.coalescing_group,
the attentionOp 3-D pool-pointer table) is not included;
_coalescing_group_kwargs passes the group only when it is nonzero, so
layer specs without NVFP4 buffers run on the existing bindings, and the
two mixed NVFP4/BF16 pool tests skip on bindings without
coalescing_group. Hunks for main-only features (mixed-precision KV,
pool rebalancing) are dropped, and layer_specs is declared on the class
for managers built without __init__.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [TRTLLM-16722][feat] Dflash Unified KVCache (NVIDIA#20486)

Port of NVIDIA#20486 at 219e26e (net diff against the
main it merges, df95eda).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: conflicts resolved against the separate draft
pool's disagg window transfer (RankInfo keeps both draft fields), the
drafter slot parking and seeds in DFlashSpecMetadata.prepare (the
position seeding applies to the unified cache only), and the fused
block-table refresh (skipped when the layer has a block offset). Hunks
for code this branch does not have (spec_tail_kernels, model-level
layer specs) are dropped; Gemma4 hybrid geometry stands in for
_has_variable_kv_cache_geometry.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Per View KV head transfer (NVIDIA#20709)

Port of NVIDIA#20709 at 300a671 (net diff against the
main it merges, 0746a23).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: import and registration-check conflicts
resolved by keeping both sides.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Bound DFlash's shared context by the allocation's extent

DFlash took the number of valid block-table entries as the pages a request
holds. On a unified cache with per-layer page tables (e.g. an FP8 target
with a BF16 drafter), a sliding-window draft layer's evicted pages stay
BAD_PAGE_INDEX in front of its live tail, so the count stopped at about one
window (66 blocks for window 2048, page 32) whatever the context length. The
decode-time allocation check then trapped once a context passed ~2.1K
tokens, and prefill skipped the drafter's context store for later chunks and
for prefix hits past the window.

Use the extent of the allocation instead, the last valid entry + 1. Reads
below the window are never issued and writes land in the live tail; for a
full-attention drafter, and on the cpp backend, the extent equals the count.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit ff11364)

* [None][fix] Re-seed DFlash generation slots in CUDA-graph warmup

CUDA-graph warmup builds every batch from dummy requests whose ids repeat
across batches (0..bs-1), so a reused id keeps its drafter slot and the
previous batch's context length, which the replay after each capture
advances for good. A later batch can give the same id far fewer pages, and
on a unified KV cache the drafter's allocation check then trapped at server
start: during the advanced-sampling capture pass the filler rows reached
31..79 positions against a 24-position allocation.

Only warmup runs a CUDA-graph batch eagerly, so there re-seed each
generation row's slot from this batch's positions, as prepare() already
seeds a new request.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit 2b23449)

* [None][feat] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: keep the drafter's KV in the target's manager under disagg

On GB300 a disaggregated generation worker gets the target's prompt KV but
not the DSpark drafter's, which lives in a separate pool: the drafter
starts from an empty window at block 0 and acceptance collapses on long
prompts. Hosting the draft layers in the target's KVCacheManagerV2 lets
the transceiver move them with the target's pages.

- MiniMaxM3KVCacheManagerV2 hosts explicit draft layer specs: index-K
  buffers follow the spec-built ones, dense target layers stay FP8,
  size-only coalescing keeps the target pools, draft layers use the base
  view.
- KvCacheCreator unifies a standalone DSpark drafter with such a manager
  under disaggregated serving when the drafter reads the target's page
  size. Agg keeps the separate pool paired with block reuse, and a model
  that ships that pool's window (F0a) keeps it in disagg.
  TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 opts out.
- An NVFP4 target transfers with a BF16 draft held in pools of its own.
- A windowed draft lifecycle gets the hot-tier bytes of every admissible
  sequence's window plus one context chunk, instead of the bytes-per-token
  split that handed it a quarter of the KV cache.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Reuse a unified DSpark drafter's KV only where its window is complete

With the drafter's layers in the target's KV cache manager, the draft
lifecycle's REQUIRED policy let the drafter's window constrain every
prefix match: a request branching off a shared prefix found no
committed window there and re-prefilled its whole prompt.

- A windowed drafter's layer specs are OPTIONAL. The target alone sets
  the match, and a new cache's first resume selects the drafter's
  layers where their window is complete (page-aligned matches only).
- Where the window is missing, prepare_context caps the claim so the
  prefill writes everything the drafter reads (from L + 2 - W on): at
  L + 1 - W, or one window before a branch point within W of the prompt
  end, whose window the request then publishes. A partial match first
  retries at its last full page.
- The commit gate for unstored drafter context, its unwritten-prefix
  marks and branch-point publication cover a manager that hosts the
  drafter's layers, not only a paired draft pool.

A disagg generation request needs no cap: the KV transfer requests an
unselected OPTIONAL group in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: copy only the unified drafter's block offsets per step

A hybrid NVFP4 MiniMax-M3 cache is pool-less: no target layer reads its
attention-op block offsets. With explicit draft layers it kept every
layer's pool, so each step converted the whole per-layer table (layers x
sequence slots x max_seq_len / tokens_per_block) on the device: about
3 ms per decode step at max_seq_len 1M on TP2.

Keep one attention-op pool, the first draft layer's, which is the only
one the unified drafter reads, and fill it from the draft lifecycle's
rows with the copy a separate draft pool uses.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Allocate the whole block of a drafter that shares the target's KV cache

A unified DFlash/DSpark drafter appends its block after the request's
context, through the request's own pages. The manager sized every request
with num_extra_kv_tokens = K-1 beyond its history, but the DSpark
shift_label block is K wide (DFlash K+1). When the allocation ended on a
page boundary, at the prompt end or after a step that accepts all K+1
tokens, the block's last slot had no page: the drafter then truncated the
advertised context and its scratch overwrote the last context position in
the draft layers, silently.

When DRAFT-owner layers live in the manager, size each request beyond its
history by max(num_extra_kv_tokens, drafter block width) at every
allocation site and in the generation headroom. The creator passes the
checkpoint-resolved width (shift_label). Adapted from NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
NVIDIA#20664 (76c4cef); num_extra_kv_tokens keeps its position-side meaning.

* [None][fix] Fail at startup when TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 cannot be honored

An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 on a disaggregated worker whose
target and drafter cannot share one KV cache manager silently kept the
separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred. Raise at KV cache
creation instead, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664's
_check_shared_draft_kv_request does.

disaggregated_mpi_worker now writes "auto" rather than "1" when both
sections pass its coarse checks, so its automatic choice can still fall
back where a worker's finer checks refuse; the creator shares under "1" and
"auto" alike. The unset default is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Let disaggregated_mpi_worker share a DSpark drafter's KV

The launcher wrote TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 for any drafter other than DFlash, and for any page
size other than 16, 32 or 64, so a MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark deployment started through it (128-token pages)
kept the separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred.

Accept a standalone DSpark drafter with attention_backend unset, AUTO or TRTLLM, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM
NVIDIA#20664 does, and leave its page size to each worker's KvCacheCreator: the launcher cannot know whether
the drafter reads the target's page. It writes "auto"; if the two sides still disagree, the peers'
draft-layer check fails loudly. An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 is now kept.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Keep attention-DP dummy generation rows on DFlash's dummy slot

A generation row with the attention-DP dummy id must never inherit a real slot, because the C++ offset
copy maps placeholders to page 0: a slot that a context warmup stored under that id would let the
dummy row write its drafter K/V past its own pages, onto another request's page. As in
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664, such rows now always take the dummy slot.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] DFlash: size a unified MiniMax-M3.1 drafter's context stores on the host

DFlash bounds each context store by the row's allocation, which it reads
back from the device unless the drafter's block-table rows are known to
be written in full. That was only recognized for a separate draft pool,
so with the unified drafter every context chunk waited for the target's
forward before the store was issued.

Let the KV cache manager say whether it rewrites copied rows in full,
and check the target manager's own table for a unified drafter. The
MiniMax-M3 manager's drafter-only pool is copied in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] KVCacheManagerV2: reuse an OPTIONAL group at a partial endpoint

An OPTIONAL lifecycle group was checked only at a page-aligned endpoint,
so a partial prefix match always left it incomplete. A unified DSpark
drafter then lost its window's partial page and the caller cut its claim
back to the last full page, recomputing up to a page per request.

Check an OPTIONAL group at any endpoint with the REQUIRED coverage rule:
the last page needs only the matched prefix. The first resume copies a
selected group's partial page into a private page, as for REQUIRED, and
counts it as a partial reuse. Partial snapshots now publish OPTIONAL
pages as well, so a continuation of a prompt that ended mid-page finds
them. A match whose partial page is missing still falls back to the
last full page.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Give the block-table refresh test's stub the extent columns

The stock DFlashWorker._refresh_ctx_block_tables reads _ctx_block_cols since
the allocation-extent fix; the test's object.__new__ stub never set it.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

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Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: allisonlim-nv <allim@nvidia.com>

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Add a dispatch-level test for the new PP gate in Receiver.dispatch_task.

The peer_infos.pp_size <= 1 term at transfer.py:2973-2976 disables multi-writer bounce for PP senders. No test reaches this gate. The _fanin_bounce_safe tests call the helper directly, so removing the new term would not fail any test. The one dispatch test that asserts _bounce.reserve.assert_not_called() (test_peer.py:653) rejects the peer before the gate runs, so that assertion holds regardless of the gate.

Add a case to tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_peer.py. Reuse _make_receiver_for_view_validation (test_peer.py:545-573), which builds a Receiver with a mocked bounce. Use a healthy sender overlap with two ranks, a non-None ctx_dp_rank, no context parallelism, and a sender with pp_size=2. Dispatch one KVRecvTask and assert that receiver._bounce.reserve is not called and that the transfer takes the per-fragment path. Add a parallel case with cp_size > 1 to cover the existing CP gate. Keep test_bounce.py for helper-level checks.

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             and not cp_involved
+            and peer_infos.pp_size <= 1
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From the disagg side, the per-view mapping looks correct. Head offsets, replicated-head dedup and per-view sender election check out for asymmetric TP in both directions and for ADP, and the writer count is unchanged, so there is no early completion or hang. Uniform-head models behave exactly as on main.

Before merge: please rebase onto #20049 (drop the Python-bounce hunks and the two bounce lines in test_peer.py) and get the multi-GPU stages green. I'd also suggest the small partition fallback for managers without layer_specs.

receiver = transfer_module.Receiver(
registrar,
Mock(),
bounce=Mock(),

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After rebasing onto main, this will fail with TypeError: #20049 removed the bounce parameter from Receiver.__init__, and receiver._bounce no longer exists (line 653). Git does not flag this file as a conflict, so it is easy to miss. Please drop bounce=Mock() here and the _bounce.reserve assertion below.

While resolving the other conflicts, take main for the _fanin_bounce_safe / allow_bounce hunks in transfer.py, test_bounce.py and test_transfer_ownership_regressions.py. Keep the validate_view_head_geometry(sender_info) call in _get_sender_info. Please also rerun CI with the multi-GPU stages, since the multi-GPU disagg tests have not run on this change yet.

if heads
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if len(layer_heads) > 1:
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Production V2 managers never get layer_specs. _util.py turns Gemma4's specs into per-layer head and head_dim lists, so get_disagg_pool_view_partition returns None. If two layer types have equal per-rank bytes but different per-rank head counts in one life cycle, they share a pool, and this raises when the page table is built, so the worker does not start. Example: Gemma4 at TP8 with max_seq_len <= sliding_window, where sliding is 2x256 per rank and global is 1x512 per rank. The same config works on main with matching ctx/gen TP. Could the partition fall back to num_kv_heads_per_layer[layer_id] when layer_specs is None, instead of raising?

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def _head_factors(self, peer_ri: RankInfo) -> tuple[int, int]:
@staticmethod
def view_kv_heads(ri: RankInfo, pool_view: Optional[PoolView] = None) -> int:

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view_kv_heads, the HND/NHD mapper __init__s and validate_view_head_geometry fall back to the rank-wide kv_heads_per_rank when a view has no num_kv_heads. _build_page_table_v2 is the only builder, and both sides must run the same build (developer-guide/kv-transfer.md). I suggest always setting num_kv_heads there, resolving virtual layers such as mixed-precision twins via _layer_attn_to_layer_id as _window_size_for_layer does, and deleting these fallbacks.



@pytest.mark.parametrize("mapper_kind", [MapperKind.INDEXED, MapperKind.NHD])
def test_per_view_heads_select_correct_transfer_bytes(mapper_kind):

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The new per-view mapping and election tests all run ctx TP4 → gen TP1, so the ctx TP < gen TP branch of _compute_head_offsets, the one that reads self_kv_heads, has no per-view case.

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