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Summary

Require every attention-DP rank to hold context work before the prefill CUDA
graph engages, instead of any single rank.

Once the prefill graph is in play, _get_padding_params pads all ranks to
bucket(max(all_rank_num_tokens)). Under the previous any gate a single
context request anywhere therefore dragged the whole group onto the largest
bucket, so a rank holding only generation work replayed a full prefill graph to
produce one token.

Measurements

Kimi-K3, DEP16 (TP16/EP16 + attention DP), aggregate serving:

eager BCG (any gate) BCG (all gate)
throughput 12.92 req/s 8.16 req/s 13.18 req/s
mean TTFT 1234 ms 1938 ms 1209 ms
generation step (rank 1) ~470 ms ~1265 ms ~449 ms
context step (rank 1) ~660 ms ~600 ms ~650 ms

The regression is entirely in generation: unprofiled A/B measured -42%
end-to-end, with generation iterations going 457 ms -> 1272 ms (+178%) while
context iterations barely moved (657 -> 623 ms).

nsys confirms the mechanism is padding rather than extra work. Kernel count is
flat (6717 -> 6610) while GPU busy time goes 239.7 ms -> 641.9 ms (2.68x) and
the fused MoE kernel alone goes 157.0 ms -> 530.4 ms (3.38x) -- the same kernels
running on padded tokens.

The aggregate runs above were captured without --segment=8, so MoE
communication fell back off NVLink all-to-all. The mechanism and the direction
hold, but treat the absolute magnitudes as indicative.

Why disaggregated serving is unaffected

An otherwise idle rank in disagg receives a context dummy from
PyExecutor._pad_attention_dp_dummy_request, which runs inside
_prepare_and_schedule_batch before _schedule(). The dummy is therefore
counted in scheduled_requests.num_context_requests, every rank reports
non-zero context work, and the group still qualifies for the graph.

Aggregate serving keeps a generation dummy instead, because
_update_adp_dummy_role returns early when there is no cache transceiver and
_adp_dummy_is_gen stays at its True default. That difference is exactly what
makes the two paths diverge under the new gate.

Test Coverage

  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestPrefillCudaGraph::test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_uses_all_rank_decision
    encoded the old behaviour with a fixture where only one of four ranks held
    context work. Its fixture now has context work everywhere, so it keeps testing
    what it is named for: a peer rank vetoing the group.
  • ...::test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_skips_generation_only_ranks is new and
    covers the gate directly -- context on every rank engages the graph, one
    generation-only rank keeps the whole group out of it.

PR Checklist

  • Commit message follows the [None][fix] <description> format
  • Commit is signed off (DCO)
  • New/updated tests accompany the behaviour change
  • Non-ADP and disaggregated paths verified unchanged

Dev Engineer Review

  • Updated attention-DP prefill CUDA graph eligibility in model_engine.py.
  • The graph now engages only when all attention-DP ranks have context work.
  • Generation-only ranks no longer trigger padding and replay of a full prefill graph.
  • Disaggregated serving behavior remains unchanged because idle ranks receive context dummy requests.
  • No public API or exported declaration changes were introduced.
  • The change is consistent with the intended aggregate-serving performance improvement.
  • No configuration files or test-list files were modified.

QA Engineer Review

  • Updated attention-DP CUDA graph padding tests in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py.
  • Added coverage for:
    • All ranks having context work.
    • At least one generation-only rank preventing prefill graph replay.
  • The affected existing test fixture was updated.
  • No test-list coverage was identified in tests/integration/test_lists/, test-db/, or qa/.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up because the new and modified test functions are not mapped to a CI or manual-QA test list.

Require every attention-DP rank to hold context work before the prefill
CUDA graph engages, instead of any single rank.

`_get_padding_params` pads all ranks to `bucket(max(all_rank_num_tokens))`
once the graph is in play, so under the previous `any` gate one context
request anywhere dragged the whole group onto the largest bucket. In
aggregate serving that turned a generation-only rank's one-token step into
a full prefill replay: measured on Kimi-K3 DEP16, generation iterations
went 457 ms -> 1272 ms (+178%) while context iterations barely moved
(657 -> 623 ms), for -42% end-to-end throughput. Gating on `all` recovers
it -- 13.18 req/s versus 12.92 req/s for eager in the same setup.

Disaggregated serving is unaffected. An otherwise idle rank there receives
a *context* dummy from `PyExecutor._pad_attention_dp_dummy_request`, which
runs inside `_prepare_and_schedule_batch` before `_schedule()`, so the
dummy is counted in `scheduled_requests.num_context_requests` and the group
still qualifies. Aggregate serving keeps a generation dummy instead, since
`_update_adp_dummy_role` returns early without a cache transceiver -- that
is what makes the two paths diverge under the new gate.

The existing attention-DP test encoded the old behaviour with a fixture
where only one of four ranks held context work; it now uses a fixture that
keeps testing what it was named for (a peer's veto), and a new test covers
the generation-only rank case directly.

Signed-off-by: GuanhuaWang2001 <300454435+GuanhuaWang2001@users.noreply.github.com>
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Prefill CUDA graph selection under attention-DP now requires context requests on every rank. Tests cover all-context padding and prevent graph replay when any rank is generation-only.

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Attention-DP graph selection

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Require context work on every rank
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py
Prefill graph eligibility requires context requests on all ranks. Tests cover shared bucket padding, graph-capture opt-out, and generation-only ranks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 80493

The change prevents prefill CUDA graph replay when any attention-DP rank is generation-only, with regression coverage for the all-context and mixed-rank cases. No current merge-readiness risk remains.

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2182-2182: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add annotations to the new test functions.

Add -> None to test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_skips_generation_only_ranks. Annotate EchoDist.tp_allgather() with its bool input and list[bool] return type.

Proposed fix
-    def test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_skips_generation_only_ranks(self):
+    def test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_skips_generation_only_ranks(self) -> None:
...
-            def tp_allgather(self, value):
+            def tp_allgather(self, value: bool) -> list[bool]:

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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py` at line 2182, Annotate
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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py`:
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test_attention_dp_prefill_graph_skips_generation_only_ranks with a -> None
return type, and update EchoDist.tp_allgather to accept a bool parameter and
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