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Description

What this adds

  • A built-in mooncake-store KV cache connector: KV pages are published into a pool of host memory lent by the participating ranks and addressed by content.
  • A prefix computed by one engine becomes replayable by any other server on the pool, which native KV offloading alone cannot do because it never leaves the instance that computed it.
  • This is the Mooncake store, not the Mooncake transfer engine the C++ cache transceiver uses. The two compose: a context server can write pages here and still hand off over NIXL.

How a deployment uses it

  • trtllm-serve mooncake_master --pool_file <path> starts one master per deployment and publishes a manifest; every server joins by naming that file.
  • trtllm-serve mooncake_pool_report --run_dir <path> reports the capacity the pool actually had and where blocks landed.
  • Each server sets kv_connector_config.mooncake_store and gets its Mooncake client config rendered for it; an inherited MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH still wins.
  • Four roles separate capacity from traffic: both, producer, consumer, and capacity (lends memory, moves no KV, needs no GPUDirect RDMA).
  • capacity is the role we use for a gen server in a disagg setting.

Settings it overrides, and what it refuses

  • For a role that transfers KV, host_cache_size and disk_cache_size go to 0 and enable_partial_reuse to False, each with a log line. A capacity server keeps all three.
  • Rejected at startup: KV cache manager V1, context parallelism, pipeline parallelism, sliding-window attention, and sparse_attention_config with an index-V cache.
  • Bypassed per request, with the rest of the deployment served: a request carrying a LoRA adapter, and multimodal content that carries no hashes.
  • All of this is now documented in docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md.

Test Coverage

$ pytest tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py -s -v
$ pytest tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_connector.py -s -v
$ pytest tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_donor.py -s -v
$ pytest tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_master.py -s -v

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  • The change adds the mooncake-store KV cache connector and its configuration, pool provisioning, scheduler, worker, staging, reporting, and CLI support. It also adds capacity-only behavior so participating ranks can provide pool capacity without transferring KV.
  • Connector setup changes native host and disk cache handling, partial-reuse policy, and V2 scheduler behavior. Review should verify capacity-only startup, pool manifest creation and cleanup, prefix-key consistency across ranks, and deferred page release during preemption.
  • The Slurm benchmark path now starts and checks the Mooncake master when either worker requests the connector. It also records startup and pool-capacity details. These paths add job failure conditions and should be checked for timeout and cleanup behavior.
  • No current review findings or severity counts were supplied. The author reported four targeted pytest commands, but those reports do not establish results. The supplied CI notes report one successful bot run and a failed merge-request pipeline.

QA Engineer Review

  • Test changes reported in the PR include scheduler preemption and deadlock coverage, Mooncake CLI, common utilities, connector, master, and ledger tests, plus a KV cache manager integration test. The A10 pre-merge test list adds five Mooncake test files. The current working-tree output shows only tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector.py as changed; its added tests cover worker capability defaults and capacity-only scheduler-output behavior.
  • The supplied test-list entry includes the Mooncake CLI, common, connector, ledger, and master suites in test-db/l0_a10.yml. The listed V2 scheduler and KV cache manager integration test files are not among those five new entries.
  • Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The PR summary describes broad unit coverage, but no test results are established. Confirm the reported targeted runs and verify that changed integration tests have appropriate CI or manual-QA list coverage.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/: Verify pool setup, manifest resolution, page addressing, transfer-key construction, scheduler metadata, worker load/save completion, host staging, memory validation, and capacity reporting. The raw summary identifies these as new source files; their individual paths are listed there.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/registry.py: Verify that mooncake-store resolves to the intended scheduler and worker, and that unknown presets still fail as expected.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/kv_cache_connector.py: Verify that capacity-only workers skip per-iteration connector output while transferring workers retain existing output behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify that preemption retains pages during outstanding saves and releases resources after completion.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py: Verify capacity-only connector registration and the preemption-completion path before transfer release.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py: Verify connector policy validation, native host/disk tier suppression, and Mooncake partial-reuse handling.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify allocation retry after preemption and deadlock handling when connector loads or transfers are pending.
  • tensorrt_llm/commands/mooncake.py and tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py: Verify master startup and shutdown, pool provisioning around serving, CLI registration, and telemetry behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/grpc/smg/server.py: Verify the serving process provisions the connector pool for its lifetime.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: Verify validation and serialization of mooncake_store settings, including role and segment-size inputs.
  • tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json: Verify telemetry accepts the new preset and records the intended Mooncake role and segment-size fields.
  • examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/disaggr_torch.slurm: Verify master readiness checks, manifest timeout failure, and end-of-job reporting when either worker selects Mooncake.
  • examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/start_worker.sh: Verify defaults and overrides for transfer-performance logging and the FMHA cache directory.
  • examples/llm-api/configs/trtllm_mooncake_store_connector_extra.yaml: Verify that the example config matches supported connector fields and documents required setup accurately.
  • examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/README.md and docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md: Verify role instructions, configuration examples, unsupported modes, and pool startup guidance against runtime behavior.
  • requirements.txt: Verify the Mooncake transfer-engine dependency is available in supported install environments.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: Covers scheduler preemption, victim eligibility, page reservation, and deadlock behavior. The raw summary does not establish its test-list placement.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py: Covers cache release and connector-prefix reset after preemption. The raw summary does not establish its test-list placement.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_cli.py: Covers CLI telemetry, signal exit outcomes, and resource cleanup. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_common.py: Covers keys, configuration, staging, and metadata with fakes. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_connector.py: Covers addressing, validation, worker transfers, capacity-only behavior, and scheduler metadata. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_master.py: Covers pool configuration, manifests, startup, cleanup, and provisioning with fakes. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_ledger.py: Covers segment records and pool reports. Listed in test-db/l0_a10.yml.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector.py: Covers connector capability defaults and capacity-only scheduler output. The supplied list output does not show this file as a new test-list entry.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml: Adds the five Mooncake CLI, common, connector, ledger, and master suites to the A10 pre-merge list. This changes CI test selection.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py and tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py require follow-up on CI or manual-QA listing; no placement is established by the supplied list evidence.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds the Mooncake Store KV-cache connector, its pool configuration and provisioning commands, and serving integration. It also adds connector page-transfer handling, capacity-only connector support, V2 cache preemption and deadlock detection, tests, documentation, and benchmark examples.

Changes

Mooncake Store and KV Cache Scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Connector configuration and page contracts
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/registry.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, requirements.txt, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_common.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_connector.py
Adds connector configuration and role handling, page addressing and key generation, startup validation, host staging, and the mooncake-store registry preset. Adds the pinned transfer-engine dependency and tests for these contracts.
Pool lifecycle and serving integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/{master.py,ledger.py}, tensorrt_llm/commands/{mooncake.py,serve.py}, tensorrt_llm/grpc/smg/server.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_{cli,ledger,master}.py
Adds master startup and manifest publication, client pool provisioning, segment records and reports, and CLI commands. Serving entry points run within pool-provisioning contexts.
KV page lookup and transfer integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/{scheduler.py,worker.py}, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/{kv_cache_connector.py}, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/{py_executor.py,py_executor_creator.py}, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_connector.py, tests/unittest/_torch/test_connector.py
Adds prefix lookup, load and save metadata, synchronous page loads, asynchronous saves, and transfer completion handling. Capacity-only workers mount store segments without registering or transferring KV pages; executor and connector-manager paths account for that capability.
V2 cache preemption and deadlock handling
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/{scheduler/scheduler_v2.py,kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py,py_executor.py}, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py
Adds context-allocation preemption and deferred release while connector saves remain pending. Deadlock detection accounts for scheduling progress and in-flight transfers, with tests for preemption, retries, and stalls.
Documentation and operating examples
docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md, examples/disaggregated/slurm/benchmark/*, examples/llm-api/configs/trtllm_mooncake_store_connector_extra.yaml, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml
Documents connector setup, roles, pool reporting, transfer behavior, and restrictions. Adds a serving configuration example and Slurm benchmark startup checks and reporting, and adds Mooncake tests to the A10 test list.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MooncakeStoreConnectorScheduler
  participant MooncakeStoreConnectorWorker
  participant MooncakeStore
  MooncakeStoreConnectorScheduler->>MooncakeStoreConnectorWorker: count_prefix_hit(block_hashes)
  MooncakeStoreConnectorWorker->>MooncakeStore: look up block keys
  MooncakeStoreConnectorScheduler->>MooncakeStoreConnectorWorker: provide load or save metadata
  MooncakeStoreConnectorWorker->>MooncakeStore: read pages synchronously or write pages asynchronously
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  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19235: Adds the pool lifecycle, connector configuration, CLI provisioning, and V2 preemption interfaces used by the connector implementation here.

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 09efa

Servers configured through the documented mooncake_store settings fail at startup because no model key reaches the workers, and restarting a server or running several servers of one role in the Slurm example also fails. Requests replayed after rollback can save KV pages from stale state, and one new unit test errors before running. These should be fixed before merging.

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🟡 Minor · The OpenEngine gRPC path never provisions the pool or holds the donation. · serve.py:1594-1608

tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py:1594-1608
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The OpenEngine gRPC path never provisions the pool or holds the donation.

launch_smg_server now wraps startup in _provision_kv_cache_pool. The --grpc --grpc-protocol openengine branch calls launch_grpc_server(host, port, llm_args, ...) without that wrapper. On this path:

  • kv_connector_config.mooncake_store is ignored, so every rank fails in MooncakeStoreConnectorConfig.from_env because no config path exists.
  • mooncake_donation is ignored silently. TorchLlmArgs.mooncake_donation documents it as honored by trtllm-serve.

Either wrap this call in _provision_kv_cache_pool(llm_args) or reject the two settings on this branch with a clear error.

Proposed fix
-                launch_grpc_server(host,
-                                   port,
-                                   llm_args,
-                                   served_model_name=served_model_name)
+                with _provision_kv_cache_pool(llm_args):
+                    launch_grpc_server(host,
+                                       port,
+                                       llm_args,
+                                       served_model_name=served_model_name)
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py around lines 1594 - 1608:
Wrap the OpenEngine `launch_grpc_server` call in
`_provision_kv_cache_pool(llm_args)` so this gRPC startup path provisions the
configured KV cache pool and honors `mooncake_donation`.
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626-666: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

No test covers _provision_kv_cache_pool or the no-op branches of maybe_provision_pool and maybe_donate_segment.

These are new behaviors, and the PR adds no test that runs them:

  • owns_engine=False for an attached frontend must skip provisioning and donation. A regression would start a second master or lend a second segment for each extra frontend.
  • A dict kv_connector_config or dict mooncake_donation from YAML must be coerced to the typed model and written back into llm_args.
  • maybe_provision_pool must do nothing for a non-mooncake-store connector and for mooncake_store=None.
  • The MooncakeStoreConfig field names must match the PoolSpec field names that PoolSpec.from_json({}, **pool.model_dump()) relies on. A renamed field would raise TypeError only at serve time.

Smallest practical test: add cases to tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_master.py that monkeypatch maybe_provision_pool and maybe_donate_segment with recording context managers. Then check the following:

  1. owns_engine=False records no entry.
  2. Dict inputs become KvCacheConnectorConfig and MooncakeDonationConfig in llm_args.
  3. maybe_provision_pool(KvCacheConnectorConfig(connector="mooncake-store", mooncake_store=MooncakeStoreConfig(launch_master=True))) builds a PoolSpec without error. Stub provision_pool for this case.

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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py around lines 626 - 666:
Add focused tests for _provision_kv_cache_pool and the no-op paths of
maybe_provision_pool and maybe_donate_segment. Verify an attached frontend skips
both context managers, dictionary settings are converted to and stored as
KvCacheConnectorConfig and MooncakeDonationConfig, and pool provisioning accepts
a MooncakeStoreConfig whose fields match PoolSpec. Stub provision_pool in the
provisioning test.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docker/Dockerfile.multi:
- Line 136: Add the Mooncake installation to the release stage in
Dockerfile.multi, using requirements-mooncake.txt and ensuring the resulting
image contains the bindings and mooncake_master; the existing installation in
tritondevel does not carry over because release starts from DEVEL_IMAGE.

Review comments at @docs/source/features/kv-cache-connector.md:
- Around line 327-328: Remove the duplicate register_kv_cache_layout
documentation entry that incorrectly says the default always raises and limits
connectors to V1; retain the preceding entry that accurately describes the
default forwarding behavior and its unsupported-layout case.

Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py:
- Around line 3929-3930: Remove the unsupported max_input_len keyword from the
KVCacheV2Scheduler initialization; do not substitute max_seq_len or otherwise
change its separate configuration.

Review comments at
@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/config.py:
- Around line 275-282: Update the ValueError message in resolve_model_key to
remove kv_connector_config.mooncake_store.model_key as a suggested option, since
MooncakeStoreConfig rejects that field. Keep the valid Mooncake JSON config
model_key and MODEL_KEY_ENV options and the remaining guidance unchanged.

Review comments at
@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/master.py:
- Around line 228-235: Update resolve_master_address to use the CLI’s correct
--address_file spelling in both its timeout message and docstring. Update the
related test assertion to match --address_file.

Review comments at
@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/scheduler.py:
- Around line 250-251: Update the loop in build_connector_meta to enumerate the
list of layer-group indices instead of calling .items(), using each index as the
layer-group ID. Ensure the test helper represents new_block_ids_by_layer_group
as a list and appends the second group’s indices.

Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py:
- Around line 4022-4040: Update _resume_preempted_request to use
_free_request_resources and _pause_recompute_request after
try_complete_preemption succeeds, so deferred preemption releases the sequence
slot and resets prompt state like immediate recompute-pause teardown without
calling _release_transfer. Add a regression test covering completion through
get_finished and verifying both outcomes.

Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/commands/mooncake.py:
- Around line 356-365: Update the standalone donor flow in `mooncake_donor` to
resolve the device with `resolve_device_name`, matching the server-side donation
path. Pass the effective protocol and explicit-or-configured device name to the
resolver before calling `donate_segment`, so RDMA without a device selects the
detected active IB HCAs.

Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py:
- Around line 2341-2394: Add schema-level validation to MooncakeStoreConfig:
make transfer_batch_size a PositiveInt, constrain master_port and
master_metrics_port to 1–65535, and require master_eviction_ratio to be greater
than 0 and at most 1. Add a field_validator for global_segment_size,
local_buffer_size, and staging_buffer_bytes that uses parse_size to reject
invalid or non-positive sizes while preserving None for the optional staging
size.

Review comments at
@tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_connector.py:
- Around line 456-461: Remove test_config_model_key_defaults_to_basename because
it expects an implicit model key that resolve_model_key rejects. Remove this
file’s duplicate hash-chain, key-namespace, config, and plan_slot_geometry
tests, keeping those tests in the common test module; retain the addressing,
worker, staging-through-worker, and scheduler tests here.

Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_mooncake_store_donor.py:
- Around line 126-133: The missing-bindings test expects text that
`donate_segment` does not include in its ImportError. Update
`test_missing_bindings_are_reported_as_the_separate_component_they_are` to match
text actually present in the error message, such as the optional dependency’s
package name.

---

Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py:
- Around line 1594-1608: Wrap the OpenEngine `launch_grpc_server` call in
`_provision_kv_cache_pool(llm_args)` so this gRPC startup path provisions the
configured KV cache pool and honors `mooncake_donation`.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py:
- Around line 626-666: Add focused tests for _provision_kv_cache_pool and the
no-op paths of maybe_provision_pool and maybe_donate_segment. Verify an attached
frontend skips both context managers, dictionary settings are converted to and
stored as KvCacheConnectorConfig and MooncakeDonationConfig, and pool
provisioning accepts a MooncakeStoreConfig whose fields match PoolSpec. Stub
provision_pool in the provisioning test.

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  • docker/Dockerfile.multi
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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/addressing.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/config.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/donor.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/keys.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/master.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/metadata.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/scheduler.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/staging.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/connectors/mooncake_store/validation.py
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Release every page through the same handshake. The context path asked
`KVCacheManagerV2.preempt_request` whether a victim's pages were free to give
and backed off while a connector save was still reading them; the generation
path called `free_resources` directly. So a victim recompute-paused to fit a
generation step gave up pages the save thread was mid-transfer on, the next
request allocated them and overwrote the bytes, and the store published that
request's KV under the victim's hash -- a prefix hit serving unrelated KV, and
a disaggregated context server handing it on. `_preempt_or_defer` is now the
one release path. A deferred victim is left off both output lists rather than
on `evicted`: parked, it still holds its pages, and the `pause` an evicted
request gets would overwrite the state that keeps it parked. The generation
path also picks up the connector-prefix reset the context path had, so a
re-admitted victim asks the store again instead of replaying the offer it was
given before it lost its cache.

Confirm the save thread stopped before releasing what it reads. `shutdown`
closed the store handle and dropped the staging buffers after a timed join
without checking it had returned, so a thread still inside
`batch_put_from_multi_buffers` had the memory and the handle taken out from
under it. The join result is now read: a thread that outlived the wait keeps
both, logged as the leak it is, since the process is going down either way and
a leak outlives a read of freed memory. The thread is a daemon and does not
hold the process open, and a later call retries the join.

Regression tests for both. `TestPreemptionDefersToConnectorSaves` covers each
allocation path holding its victim's pages, the victim leaving `evicted`, one
victim draining at a time, the release landing once the save retires, and the
wait not counting as a stall. The connector suite covers a shutdown under a
save still reading. The shared scheduler fixture's `preempt_request` now
releases through `free_resources` as the real one does, so the existing
recompute-pause tests assert a release that actually happens.

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Test lists carry entries, not rationale. The three comment blocks added
alongside the Mooncake entries are removed; what they said belongs in the
review and in the tests themselves.

The comments and docstrings on the preemption handshake, the worker shutdown
and the signal handoff are cut back to one statement of each fact, with the
duplication between a docstring and its call site removed.

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A page lives in the host memory of whichever participant it was allocated
in, and the master drops it when that participant unmounts. The real-pool
tests made the writer the pool's only segment holder, so `shutdown()`
destroyed the pages the next worker was meant to find, failing the two
tests that read back across a worker boundary.

The fixture now holds a capacity-role segment for the life of the pool,
and the workers under test join with `segment_size=0` so the keeper's
segment is the only place a page can land. Without that, a block's layer
groups split across segments and come back half present.

That needs `segment_size` to accept zero, which Mooncake already supports
and a consumer-side server on a memory-tight node wants. `_log_contribution`
says what lending nothing means, and `validate_node_budget` no longer
returns early on a zero segment, since staging still pins a GiB per
direction per rank.

Also fixes `test_a_different_model_key_shares_nothing`, which passed
vacuously: every lookup missed once the writer closed.

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…tor now reads

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…nager now keeps

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KvCacheConnectorManager.shutdown only closed the prefix tracker, so a
worker kept its store handle, its segment and its save thread for the
life of the process. Running engines back to back in one session
accumulated a segment apiece until the pool ran out.

Add a no-op shutdown hook to KvCacheConnectorWorker and call it from the
manager. The mooncake-store worker already implements it.

The e2e tests now lend the pool its capacity from a module-scoped
fixture, with the engines lending nothing, and share one master across
the module because a recycled worker process resolves the
MOONCAKE_CONFIG_PATH it was born with and a per-test master is gone by
then. A key namespace per test keeps them apart.

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The mooncake connector duck-typed its own configuration objects: six
functions took Any and reached for declared Pydantic fields through
getattr with a default the field already had. One of them restated the
master_timeout default, so the two could drift apart. Name the types
under TYPE_CHECKING and read the attributes directly. The two remaining
getattr calls are genuine: sparse_disable_index_value exists only on the
configs with an index-V cache, and _adopt_inherited_settings loops over
attribute names.

On the test side, fold the six victim-eligibility cases into one table
so the matrix reads as a matrix, and drop coverage that asserted nothing
about this code: a dataclass field guard the interpreter already
enforces at class-definition time, a __bool__ compared against itself, a
preemption assertion that is a strict subset of its neighbour's, and the
second half of a Click flag pair generated from one declaration.

Give the kvcm2 preemption doubles should_add_sequence and
is_generation_only_request, which the connector path now asks for.

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Move the inherited-config restatement and the KV cache tier overrides out of
the serving wrapper and the executor into apply_effective_settings, called from
BaseLLM.__init__ before the ranks are spawned and before the usage report reads
the args, so trtllm-bench and a direct LLM(...) see the same settings as
trtllm-serve.

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An adapter id is assigned by whoever submitted the request, so two servers
sharing a pool can name different weights by the same id and a page keyed by it
would be replayed against the wrong weights. Such a request now gets neither a
lookup nor a save, through the same path that bypasses multimodal content the
connector cannot identify, which leaves the rest of the deployment served.
The reuse scope drops lora_task_id with it: no request that reaches the hash
chain carries one.

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…ds them

The response pass frees a request's pages as soon as it reads as finished, and
cancellation reached it without offering the connector the handshake a finished
request gets, so a request cancelled mid-prefill could have its blocks handed to
the next allocation while a save was still reading them. Cancellation now makes
the same offer, which leaves the pages in the transfer manager that
_terminate_request consults.

A cancellation also no longer lands on a preemption victim parked waiting for
its saves: the completion that ends such a preemption releases the victim's
pages and puts it back in context state to be re-prefilled, which would have
undone the cancellation. Held, the cancellation is applied to the request that
completion hands back.

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The closure the comments named became PyExecutor._start_connector_async_save
when the cancellation path started using it too.

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The unit tests assert the executor offers the connector its save on
cancellation, but nothing showed the pages actually surviving the
allocator while that save reads them.

Delay the save, cancel mid-generation, then run traffic that wants the
held pages out of a pool that only has room for one of the two. The
source has to read back byte for byte when the transfer finally takes
it, and only then may it be freed.

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The host and disk tier overrides belong to a role that moves KV: such a
rank holds device addresses in the pool, so a page migrating between
tiers reassigns its GPU slot underneath the pool, and pool pages share
the node's DRAM with any native tier beside them. A capacity-only rank
has neither problem.

Leaving its host_cache_size unset is what asks KVCacheManagerV2 for the
auto host tier, which is where the V2 MAX_UTILIZATION scheduler suspends
pages. A disaggregated generation server, which the capacity role is
meant for, has recompute-pause off and no other reclaim path, and
PyExecutor already exempts a capacity-only connector from its rejection
of non-GPU tiers.

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A worker that registers no page address has nothing to be asked about,
yet both per-request queries still ran: each reaches the leader through
a broadcast every rank takes part in, and the lookup first builds a hash
chain costing a SHA-256 over the whole prompt. On a generation server,
which the capacity role is for, that is overhead for a connector that
transfers nothing.

The manager now compares capacity_only against True rather than reading
it for truthiness. The property is declared bool, and what it disables
is too much of the engine to infer from a merely truthy value.

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AsyncTransferManager counts transfer claims and one completion comes
back per save, so a second accepted offer for the same request leaves a
claim nothing will retire and the request never terminates.

Two call sites reach the same request under the overlap scheduler: one
cancelled during _process_previous_batch is still in the batch
_save_kv_to_connector_async walks on the next iteration, and reads as
finished there. The connector manager can answer whether it already
holds an open save, from the request_finished that accepted it until the
get_finished in which every rank reports it complete, so the executor
asks before it offers.

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A failure in the save thread's transfer loop was stashed and re-raised
on the executor thread at the next connector call, while a negative
store status from the same write was only logged. Both are the same
failure, and a write that did not land costs a future cache miss and
nothing else, so the batch is now dropped and logged either way and the
request retires as it would have.

The save thread failing to start stays fatal: nothing would retire the
saves queued behind it, so every request holding those pages would stay
pinned and the worker would look merely slow. Naming that error for what
it is leaves no caller for the re-raise helper.

Loads keep failing loudly, since the runtime has already counted those
tokens as computed.

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Segments were registered under gethostbyname(gethostname()), which
answers 127.0.1.1 on a host whose /etc/hosts maps its own name to
loopback, as Ubuntu's default does. Peers dial whatever a rank
registers, so that address leaves a multi-node pool unreachable while a
single-node run keeps working.

The address now comes from the route to the master: connecting a
datagram socket consults the routing table without sending a packet, and
the local end of that socket names the interface the pool's traffic
takes. The master itself has no peer to measure against and uses the
route off this host. A loopback answer is skipped while any other is
available, and the hostname lookup remains the last resort for a host
with no route at all.

The master and the worker derived this separately, so the two could
disagree about which host a segment was on; they now share one
implementation. mooncake_store.local_hostname pins the address where the
routing table is not the right answer, and is left out of the rendered
client config otherwise so that each rank derives its own; the ranks of
one server can sit on different nodes.

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The LLM constructor imported them for any configured connector, so an
lmcache or kvbm deployment pulled in this connector's package, and with
it the worker and the scheduler. The registry can name a preset's module
without importing any of them, so ask it first.

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The connector had no prose anywhere: how to start a pool and point a
server at it, what each role does, which KV cache settings it overrides
and why, what it refuses to run alongside, and how it behaves when a
save fails or a rank cannot derive its own address.

The worker interface section also left out shutdown and capacity_only,
including the requirement that capacity_only agree on every rank.

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The mooncake-store docs section repeated reasoning that the startup error
messages already give, so the restrictions table becomes one sentence, the
capacity_only hook keeps only its rank-uniformity requirement, and the
install step gives way to the pin in requirements.txt, which installs the
bindings with TensorRT-LLM.

The two settings the pool supersedes were written out at both call sites,
where a third could be added to only one of them. The list now lives in a
single function and each caller keeps the gate it can answer: the resolved
role where no worker exists yet, and capacity_only off the worker once one
does.

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A worker that registers no page address has nothing to be asked about, and
only three of the manager's hooks said so. The rest still ran: the completion
poll reaches every rank through an allgather once per iteration, the
pending-load rebuild walks the batch, and the commit records bookkeeping that
only build_scheduler_output -- which this role skips -- would clear. The fused
C++ entry point refused a generation-only request before it read the role at
all, which is every request on the server the role is for.

Around those hooks the runtime did work of its own. KVCacheManagerV2 ran the
three-phase connector prefix over an offer that is always empty, gathered page
indices per context request to report an allocation the connector cannot
reach, and deferred a preemption to wait for a save that cannot exist; the V1
manager gathered the same indices. PyExecutor paid a second _can_queue over
the scheduled batch, a page index gather per finished and per cancelled
request, and the per-iteration cancellation sweep that precedes the poll. Each
is now skipped in the component that knows why it is skippable, behind one
predicate on the executor.

The prefix reservation protocol stays off for this role. A reservation is a
leader broadcast per context request, and enabling it also holds a duplicated
communicator and polls completion each iteration. The capability probe still
runs on every rank, since it is collective.

Leaving _connector_may_serve false also lets such a rank keep SWA scratch
reuse, which only a connector needing persistent destination pages gives up.

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