[Bugfix] Two-phase KV allocation for cross-group prefix cache hits (supersedes #33775) by Saddss · Pull Request #44409 · vllm-project/vllm

Saddss · 2026-06-03T09:54:12Z

Summary

Hybrid models (e.g. Gemma-4) with local prefix hits + external KV could assign the same physical block twice: per-group touch → extend → get_new_blocks(external) let group i's external alloc evict group j's untouched hit blocks → bad ref_cnt / duplicate block IDs → downstream #43884 assert in OffloadingConnectorScheduler.

Fix: coordinator runs all groups' local (add_local_computed_blocks, touch paired with extend) before any group's external (allocate_external_computed_blocks). Implements #33775 intent per @orozery's review (no bulk touch of SWA-skipped blocks; original evictable accounting).

Not #44329 connector clamp. Manual soak: RedHat gemma-4-31B-it-NVFP4, offload + MTP-3, without #44329 — no ASSERT_581 / engine crash (~900 reqs).

Fixes #43884 (root cause). Supersedes #33775 — credits @heheda12345 for the original approach.

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Supersedes [KVConnector] Fix data race when we have both local and external cache hit #33775 (@heheda12345) — stale/conflicting; same bug, two-phase split + review feedback.
Fixes root cause behind [Bug]: EngineCore crash: AssertionError in offloading_connector during update_state_after_alloc #43884; does not include [Bugfix] Clamp offloading load path to hash-backed GPU blocks #44329 band-aid.
Not duplicating open work on connector-only clamp.

Test plan

pre-commit on changed files
pytest tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py -k test_cache_hit_local_and_external (fails on unpatched main)
pytest tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py (62 passed, patched)
pytest tests/v1/core/test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py::test_evictable_cached_blocks_not_double_allocated

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Saddss · 2026-06-04T07:46:13Z

Hi — could you review ? Two-phase KV allocation (all local prefix hits first, then external) for cross-group prefix + offload double-alloc behind #43884. Supersedes #33775 with orozery’s feedback; distinct from the #44329 clamp. Repro unit test + Gemma-4 offload/MTP soak look good. Would appreciate your take on coordinator ordering and SWA/multi-group safety. Thanks! @WoosukKwon @robertgshaw2-redhat @njhill @ywang96 @alexm-redhat @heheda12345 @ApostaC @orozery

mergify · 2026-06-04T08:42:51Z

This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @Saddss.

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/syncing-a-fork

ivanium

Thanks for the contribution 👍 Looks correct to me. Left two comments.

Remove vllm-project#33775 two-phase explanation duplicated from kv_cache_coordinator, per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

Remove vllm-project#33775 two-phase explanation duplicated from kv_cache_coordinator, per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409.

Saddss · 2026-06-09T07:41:32Z

@ivanium Hi — could you please help take this PR forward when you have time?

aoshen02 · 2026-06-14T08:20:06Z

Hi, could you add tests about

swa + full attention
3 groups
preemption and reallocate + 2 groups.

Cover the cross-group prefix-cache + external (connector) allocation path across multiple KV cache groups, per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409: - test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups: 1 full + 2 sliding-window groups; a local prefix hit plus external blocks must not double-allocate across groups (issue vllm-project#33775). - test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups_preempt_and_reallocate and test_cache_hit_local_and_external_two_groups_preempt_and_reallocate: free (preempt) then reallocate, exercising the is_new_request re-arm and the two-phase ordering. These fail on the pre-fix interleaved coordinator and pass with the two-phase split. Signed-off-by: Saddss <2872669061@qq.com>

Saddss · 2026-06-14T10:14:49Z

Hi, could you add tests about

swa + full attention

3 groups

preemption and reallocate + 2 groups.

Thanks @aoshen02! Added the multi-group tests in tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py (commit a5bdedb):

test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups — SWA + full attention with 3 groups (1 full + 2 sliding-window): a local prefix hit plus external (connector) blocks; asserts no physical block is allocated to two groups and every referenced block keeps a live ref_cnt.
test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups_preempt_and_reallocate — same 3-group config, but the request is preempted (freed) and reallocated. This verifies the coordinator re-arms is_new_request after the free so external allocation runs again, and the two-phase ordering still prevents cross-group double allocation.
test_cache_hit_local_and_external_two_groups_preempt_and_reallocate — the minimal 2-group (full + SWA) case through the same preempt → reallocate cycle.
The cache-hit blocks are placed at the head of the free queue (same construction as the existing test_cache_hit_local_and_external), so a later group's external get_new_blocks would contend for them. I verified these fail on the pre-fix interleaved coordinator and pass with the two-phase split; the full test_prefix_caching.py is green (80 passed).

aoshen02 · 2026-06-14T12:37:51Z

Cool, thanks, I will enable the CI.

Cover the cross-group prefix-cache + external (connector) allocation path across multiple KV cache groups, per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409: - test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups: 1 full + 2 sliding-window groups; a local prefix hit plus external blocks must not double-allocate across groups (issue vllm-project#33775). - test_cache_hit_local_and_external_three_groups_preempt_and_reallocate and test_cache_hit_local_and_external_two_groups_preempt_and_reallocate: free (preempt) then reallocate, exercising the is_new_request re-arm and the two-phase ordering. These fail on the pre-fix interleaved coordinator and pass with the two-phase split. Signed-off-by: Saddss <2872669061@qq.com>

mergify · 2026-06-14T14:12:47Z

Documentation preview: https://vllm--44409.org.readthedocs.build/en/44409/

mergify · 2026-06-14T14:13:10Z

This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @Saddss.

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/syncing-a-fork

Split local prefix-hit registration and external block allocation into coordinator-wide phases so one group's get_new_blocks cannot evict another group's not-yet-touched cache-hit blocks (fixes vllm-project#33775 / downstream vllm-project#43884). Add multi-group regression tests in tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py covering SWA + full attention with 3 groups, 2 groups, and the preempt -> reallocate path; they fail on the pre-fix interleaved coordinator and pass with the two-phase split. Signed-off-by: Saddss <2872669061@qq.com>

Saddss · 2026-06-14T14:35:29Z

A quick note on the labels: while resolving the DCO sign-off, I rewrote the branch history (it's now a single signed commit on top of the latest main). During one of the force-pushes the diff briefly appeared to touch many paths, which caused mergify to auto-apply a large set of area labels (rocm, intel-gpu, llama, qwen, deepseek, gpt-oss, mistral, multi-modality, tool-calling, structured-output, speculative-decoding, frontend, rust, documentation, performance, new-model, ci/build, cpu, nvidia, kv-connector, …) that don't reflect this PR.

The actual change is small and only touches:

vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
tests/v1/core/test_prefix_caching.py
tests/v1/core/test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
Could a maintainer please remove the incorrect labels (keeping bug, v1, ready, verified)? I don't have permission to edit labels myself. DCO is green and CI is re-running on the cleaned-up commit. Sorry for the noise, and thanks!

Saddss · 2026-06-14T17:18:31Z

Cool, thanks, I will enable the CI.

Thanks for enabling CI! Everything is green apart from amd-v1-sample-plus-logits-mi325-1. The failure is test_spec_decode_logprobs[ngram-*] — a single-token logprob diff that looks like the long-standing ROCm GEMM-nondeterminism flake previously addressed in #34599 / #41335. I don't believe it's related to this PR: the change is confined to KV-cache block allocation, and that test doesn't go through the modified path. Would you mind re-running it when convenient?

ivanium

Overall good! Sorry for the delay. Left one follow-up comment

Address review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409: gate the coordinator's external allocation phase on `request_id not in num_cached_block` (the signal the pre-split code used) instead of `len(req_to_blocks) == 0`, and move the already-allocated fast-path early-return out of add_local_computed_blocks up into the coordinator so the running-request short-circuit lives in one place. Signed-off-by: Saddss <2872669061@qq.com>

ivanium

👍 Better. Left a final edit suggestion.

…ocks Per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409: inline `is_new_request` into the early return (`any(request_id in manager.num_cached_block)`) and trim the comment now that the fast path is unified in the coordinator. Signed-off-by: Saddss <2872669061@qq.com>

ivanium

Thanks for the efforts!

Saddss · 2026-06-15T08:58:17Z

This has @ivanium's approval and CI is green aside from amd-v1-sample-plus-logits-mi325-1, which is the known ROCm spec-decode-logprob flake (#34599 / #41335), unrelated to this change.

Since /vllm/v1/core needs a code-owner sign-off, could one of you take a look when you have a moment? @heheda12345 (this builds on your original #33775 approach), @orozery (your earlier review feedback is incorporated), @ApostaC. It's a small, test-covered two-phase KV-allocation fix for the cross-group prefix-cache + offload double-allocation behind #43884. Thanks!

Saddss requested review from ApostaC, WoosukKwon, alexm-redhat, heheda12345, njhill, orozery, robertgshaw2-redhat and ywang96 as code owners June 3, 2026 09:54

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[Bugfix] Clamp offloading load path to hash-backed GPU blocks #44329

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[Bugfix] Trim redundant docstring in add_local_computed_blocks

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Remove vllm-project#33775 two-phase explanation duplicated from kv_cache_coordinator, per review feedback on PR vllm-project#44409.

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[Bug]: EngineCore crash: AssertionError in offloading_connector during update_state_after_alloc #43884

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[Bug]: Hybrid Mamba + KV connector: per-group prefix-hit divergence and vllm engine crashed #46453

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