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… (V2) Port of NVIDIA#17023 (branch feat/native-kv-events-clean) onto current main, squashed into a single commit. Adds an opt-in streaming KV-event path for KV cache manager V2 (PyTorch backend). Each rank publishes its own stored/removed block events directly over ZeroMQ instead of building Python KVCacheEvent objects, buffering them, and all-gathering onto rank 0. - StreamingKVCacheEventManager implements the V2 event-sink hooks and builds msgspec wire structs, reusing the low 64 bits of the radix block key as the wire hash and coalescing consecutive blocks. - ZmqEventPublisher msgpack-encodes each per-iteration batch and sends it from a background thread over a ZeroMQ PUB socket, with an optional ROUTER replay socket. Each attention-DP rank binds base_port + rank. - New KVEventsConfig nested as kv_cache_config.kv_events_config (prototype). V2 only; excluded for draft models and KV-cache-size estimation; raises under pipeline or context parallelism. - In streaming mode the pull API returns [], so LLM.get_kv_cache_events() degrades cleanly instead of raising. Off by default; the buffered gather/poll path is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Guan Luo <41310872+GuanLuo@users.noreply.github.com>
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WalkthroughThis change adds configurable ZeroMQ streaming for KV-cache lifecycle events. It defines the event wire format and publishers, integrates streaming with ChangesStreaming KV-cache events
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The opt-in streaming path can expose raw prompt token IDs over an unauthenticated socket reachable on all interfaces, creating a concrete privacy risk, and identical publish/replay endpoints can cause opaque startup failures. The PR should not merge until these risks are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant KVCacheManagerV2
participant StreamingKVCacheEventManager
participant ZmqEventPublisher
participant Subscriber
KVCacheManagerV2->>StreamingKVCacheEventManager: record cache block lifecycle event
StreamingKVCacheEventManager->>ZmqEventPublisher: publish KVEventBatch
ZmqEventPublisher->>Subscriber: send event frames with sequence number
Subscriber->>ZmqEventPublisher: request replay after a sequence gap
ZmqEventPublisher-->>Subscriber: send retained event batches
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py (2)
325-344: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winBound the replay response and set a high-water mark on the replay socket.
_service_replaysends every buffered payload whose sequence number is at or abovestart_seq. With the defaultbuffer_steps=10_000, one request produces up to 10,000 multipart sends on the publisher thread, which delays live publishing for that period. TheROUTERsocket also has no high-water mark, so a slow or absent client lets ZeroMQ queue those frames without bound.Set an explicit high-water mark on
self._replayin_socket_setup, and cap the number of batches sent per request.♻️ Proposed high-water mark for the replay socket
if self._replay_endpoint is not None: self._replay = self._ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER) + self._replay.set_hwm(self._hwm) self._replay.bind(self._replay_endpoint)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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286-290: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueNarrow the exception handlers.
The three handlers catch bare
Exception. The coding guidelines require the narrowest exception. The expected failures here are ZeroMQ transport errors and msgspec encode errors.Catch those explicitly. If you must keep a final safety net so the background thread cannot die, add a separate outer handler and label it as such.
As per coding guidelines: "Catch the narrowest exception possible, keep duck-typing try blocks minimal and use
elsefor normal logic, prefer built-in exception types".Also applies to: 310-317, 725-730
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tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py (2)
110-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAvoid catching
BaseExceptionfor cleanup.Use an outer
try/finallywith an optionalmanagervariable. This closessubscriberwhen construction fails without catching system-exiting exceptions.Proposed change
- try: - manager = StreamingKVCacheEventManager(...) - except BaseException: - subscriber.close(linger=0) - raise - + manager: StreamingKVCacheEventManager | None = None try: + manager = StreamingKVCacheEventManager(...) manager.set_layer_group_window_sizes({0: 128, 1: 64}) ... finally: - manager.shutdown() + if manager is not None: + manager.shutdown() subscriber.close(linger=0)As per coding guidelines, “Catch specific exceptions instead of using broad or bare
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tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py#L298-L298: add-> None.tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py#L336-L336: annotate all parameters and add-> None.tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py#L349-L349: add-> None.tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py#L370-L370: annotate all parameters and add-> None.tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py#L374-L374: add-> None.As per coding guidelines, “Annotate every function.”
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In `@docs/source/features/kvcache.md`:
- Around line 213-215: Update the KV cache event description near the
delivery-path overview to distinguish buffered events from streaming events:
clarify that created and updated apply only to the buffered path, and explicitly
identify the streaming set as BlockStored, BlockRemoved, and AllBlocksCleared.
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py`:
- Around line 261-276: Update the KV cache event configuration and documentation
to prevent unconfigured deployments from exposing raw token IDs broadly: change
the shipped default endpoint from tcp://*:5557 to a loopback or ipc:// endpoint,
and document in kvcache.md that operators must restrict endpoints to trusted
networks when using TCP. Ensure both the PUB socket setup in _socket_setup and
any corresponding replay endpoint defaults follow the safer configuration.
- Around line 423-445: Update validate_endpoint_ranges to reject identical
endpoint and replay_endpoint values before calling _tcp_base_port or returning
for non-TCP schemes. Preserve the existing range-overlap validation for distinct
TCP endpoints.
In `@tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py`:
- Around line 315-346: Add deterministic end-to-end replay coverage alongside
test_validate_endpoint_ranges, exercising replay frames,
ZmqEventPublisher.END_SEQ, and the buffer_steps retention gap. Add the required
replay test cases without changing or removing existing endpoint-range
validation coverage.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py`:
- Around line 325-344: Update _socket_setup to configure an explicit high-water
mark on self._replay, and update _service_replay to limit the number of buffered
batches emitted for each request while preserving sequence filtering and the
END_SEQ marker.
- Around line 286-290: Replace the broad Exception handlers in the KV event
replay request paths, including the handlers near the streaming replay logic and
the locations around lines 310 and 725, with explicit ZeroMQ transport and
msgspec encoding exceptions matching the operations in each try block. Keep try
blocks minimal; if thread survival requires a fallback, add a distinct outer
safety-net handler and label it accordingly.
In `@tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py`:
- Around line 110-112: Replace the BaseException handler around subscriber and
manager construction with an outer try/finally and an optional manager variable,
ensuring subscriber.close(linger=0) runs when construction fails without
catching system-exiting exceptions; preserve the existing cleanup behavior after
successful construction.
- Line 298: Add complete type annotations to every affected test function:
annotate the return type of
test_validate_streaming_support_rejects_unsupported_setups at
tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py:298,
annotate all parameters and the return type at :336 and :370, and add return
annotations at :349 and :374; use types matching each function’s existing
parameters and ensure all five functions return None.
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| def _socket_setup(self) -> None: | ||
| self._pub = self._ctx.socket(zmq.PUB) | ||
| self._pub.set_hwm(self._hwm) | ||
| if not self._endpoint: | ||
| raise ValueError("KV event publisher endpoint must not be empty") | ||
| if not self._endpoint.startswith(("tcp://", "ipc://", "inproc://")): | ||
| raise ValueError(f"Unsupported KV event endpoint scheme: {self._endpoint!r}") | ||
| # The publisher owns its endpoint and subscribers connect to it, so the | ||
| # PUB socket always binds -- including explicit-host TCP binds like | ||
| # tcp://0.0.0.0:5557 that the previous '*'-only heuristic wrongly | ||
| # treated as connect targets (silently dropping every event). | ||
| self._pub.bind(self._endpoint) | ||
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| if self._replay_endpoint is not None: | ||
| self._replay = self._ctx.socket(zmq.ROUTER) | ||
| self._replay.bind(self._replay_endpoint) |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
The publisher exposes raw prompt token IDs on an unauthenticated socket bound to all interfaces.
BlockStored.token_ids carries the raw prompt token IDs of user requests. _socket_setup binds the PUB socket, and optionally the ROUTER replay socket, without any ZeroMQ authentication or encryption. The default endpoint is tcp://*:5557, which binds every interface. Any host that can reach the port can therefore read, or replay, user prompt content in clear text.
Do at least one of the following:
- Document this exposure in
docs/source/features/kvcache.mdand require the operator to restrict the endpoint to a trusted network. - Default the shipped endpoint to a loopback or
ipc://address so an unconfigured deployment does not publish on all interfaces. - Add ZeroMQ CURVE authentication for the
PUBandROUTERsockets.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py` around lines 261 - 276,
Update the KV cache event configuration and documentation to prevent
unconfigured deployments from exposing raw token IDs broadly: change the shipped
default endpoint from tcp://*:5557 to a loopback or ipc:// endpoint, and
document in kvcache.md that operators must restrict endpoints to trusted
networks when using TCP. Ensure both the PUB socket setup in _socket_setup and
any corresponding replay endpoint defaults follow the safer configuration.
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| def validate_endpoint_ranges(config: KVEventsConfig, data_parallel_size: int) -> None: | ||
| """Reject configurations whose publish and replay port ranges overlap. | ||
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| Every attention-DP rank binds ``base_port + rank``, so the publish sockets occupy | ||
| ``[endpoint_port, endpoint_port + dp_size - 1]`` and the replay sockets occupy the | ||
| same span from ``replay_endpoint``'s base port. If the two spans intersect, one | ||
| rank's publish bind collides with another rank's replay bind and startup fails with | ||
| an opaque ``EADDRINUSE``. Catch it here, before any socket is created. | ||
| """ | ||
| pub_base = _tcp_base_port(config.endpoint) | ||
| replay_base = _tcp_base_port(config.replay_endpoint) | ||
| if pub_base is None or replay_base is None: | ||
| return | ||
| span = max(1, data_parallel_size) | ||
| if abs(pub_base - replay_base) < span: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| f"KV event endpoint {config.endpoint!r} and replay_endpoint " | ||
| f"{config.replay_endpoint!r} overlap: with {span} attention-DP rank(s) each " | ||
| f"binds base_port+rank, so the publish range is " | ||
| f"[{pub_base}, {pub_base + span - 1}] and the replay range is " | ||
| f"[{replay_base}, {replay_base + span - 1}]. Choose base ports at least " | ||
| f"{span} apart." | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
validate_endpoint_ranges misses an identical publish and replay endpoint.
_tcp_base_port returns None for ipc:// and inproc:// endpoints, so the function returns early for them. offset_endpoint_port appends _dp{rank} to both endpoints, and appends nothing on rank 0. If a user sets replay_endpoint equal to endpoint, the PUB bind and the ROUTER bind collide on rank 0 for every scheme, and on all ranks for ipc:// and inproc://. That is the exact failure this function documents, but it is not detected.
Reject equal endpoints before the scheme check.
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def validate_endpoint_ranges(config: KVEventsConfig, data_parallel_size: int) -> None:
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+ if config.replay_endpoint is not None and config.replay_endpoint == config.endpoint:
+ raise ValueError(
+ f"KV event endpoint and replay_endpoint must differ, but both are "
+ f"{config.endpoint!r}: the PUB and ROUTER sockets cannot bind the same address."
+ )
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| def validate_endpoint_ranges(config: KVEventsConfig, data_parallel_size: int) -> None: | |
| """Reject configurations whose publish and replay port ranges overlap. | |
| Every attention-DP rank binds ``base_port + rank``, so the publish sockets occupy | |
| ``[endpoint_port, endpoint_port + dp_size - 1]`` and the replay sockets occupy the | |
| same span from ``replay_endpoint``'s base port. If the two spans intersect, one | |
| rank's publish bind collides with another rank's replay bind and startup fails with | |
| an opaque ``EADDRINUSE``. Catch it here, before any socket is created. | |
| """ | |
| pub_base = _tcp_base_port(config.endpoint) | |
| replay_base = _tcp_base_port(config.replay_endpoint) | |
| if pub_base is None or replay_base is None: | |
| return | |
| span = max(1, data_parallel_size) | |
| if abs(pub_base - replay_base) < span: | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| f"KV event endpoint {config.endpoint!r} and replay_endpoint " | |
| f"{config.replay_endpoint!r} overlap: with {span} attention-DP rank(s) each " | |
| f"binds base_port+rank, so the publish range is " | |
| f"[{pub_base}, {pub_base + span - 1}] and the replay range is " | |
| f"[{replay_base}, {replay_base + span - 1}]. Choose base ports at least " | |
| f"{span} apart." | |
| ) | |
| def validate_endpoint_ranges(config: KVEventsConfig, data_parallel_size: int) -> None: | |
| """Reject configurations whose publish and replay port ranges overlap. | |
| Every attention-DP rank binds ``base_port + rank``, so the publish sockets occupy | |
| ``[endpoint_port, endpoint_port + dp_size - 1]`` and the replay sockets occupy | |
| the same span from ``replay_endpoint``'s base port. If the two spans intersect, one | |
| rank's publish bind collides with another rank's replay bind and startup fails with | |
| an opaque ``EADDRINUSE``. Catch it here, before any socket is created. | |
| """ | |
| if config.replay_endpoint is not None and config.replay_endpoint == config.endpoint: | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| f"KV event endpoint and replay_endpoint must differ, but both are " | |
| f"{config.endpoint!r}: the PUB and ROUTER sockets cannot bind the same address." | |
| ) | |
| pub_base = _tcp_base_port(config.endpoint) | |
| replay_base = _tcp_base_port(config.replay_endpoint) | |
| if pub_base is None or replay_base is None: | |
| return | |
| span = max(1, data_parallel_size) | |
| if abs(pub_base - replay_base) < span: | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| f"KV event endpoint {config.endpoint!r} and replay_endpoint " | |
| f"{config.replay_endpoint!r} overlap: with {span} attention-DP rank(s) each " | |
| f"binds base_port+rank, so the publish range is " | |
| f"[{pub_base}, {pub_base + span - 1}] and the replay range is " | |
| f"[{replay_base}, {replay_base + span - 1}]. Choose base ports at least " | |
| f"{span} apart." | |
| ) |
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py` around lines 423 - 445,
Update validate_endpoint_ranges to reject identical endpoint and replay_endpoint
values before calling _tcp_base_port or returning for non-TCP schemes. Preserve
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@brnguyen2 I got assigned to follow up on #17023 so I created yet another PR, your comments have been addressed in c87c9b4 |
Addresses the unresolved review threads on NVIDIA#17023. - Gate the streaming manager on the active KV cache manager V2 backend. StreamingKVCacheEventManager is a duck-typed Python event sink, but the default backend is "cpp", whose nanobind KVCacheManager casts its event_manager to std::shared_ptr<kv::EventManager>. Enabling kv_events_config there raised an opaque TypeError; it now raises an error naming TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND. Expose the active backend as kv_cache_manager_v2.BACKEND. - Scope the AttnLifeCycle filter in _get_event_window_sizes_by_layer_group() to the streaming manager. It previously also dropped SSM layer groups from the buffered KVCacheEventManager's window sizes, changing the existing path on hybrid models where every attention layer is sliding-window. - Reject publish/replay endpoint port ranges that overlap. Both apply the base_port+rank convention, so with N ranks per host a replay base within N-1 of the publish base made one rank's bind collide with another's. The span is the per-host rank count, not the total: a multi-node deployment legitimately reuses the same port numbers on each node. Document the required spacing on the replay_endpoint field. - Reserve publisher sequence numbers before enqueue instead of in the publisher thread, so a batch dropped by a full queue or a failed send leaves a detectable hole. Previously a queue-full drop consumed no sequence number, letting a consumer accept an incomplete stream as complete. - Correct the module header's wire-format claim. The events encode as maps tagged with a "type" key, which is the documented contract for custom router backends and what Dynamo's own TensorRT-LLM publisher emits, not vLLM's array_like positional encoding. Tighten ExternalBlockHash to int, since a bytes hash would fail the decode for the whole batch. - Make the ZeroMQ test deterministic: retry the publish/receive setup on a fresh port and a fresh manager rather than relying on a released port and a fixed sleep for subscription propagation. - Extract the streaming preconditions into validate_streaming_support() so they can be unit tested without building a manager, and cover the backend gate, endpoint-range validation and sequence-gap behavior with tests. - Document kv_cache_config.kv_events_config in docs/source/features/kvcache.md: endpoint convention, replay semantics, wire format, delivery guarantees and the V2-only plus parallelism constraints. Signed-off-by: Guan Luo <41310872+GuanLuo@users.noreply.github.com>
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KVCacheManagerV2on the PyTorch backend.KVEventsConfigwith ZeroMQ publishing, replay, queue, HWM, endpoint, and topic settings.msgspecwire structs, event coalescing, sequence tracking, replay buffering, endpoint validation, and graceful shutdown.KVEventsConfigand the normalized V2BACKENDconstant.QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.py.test-db/orqa/for the added test file.Description
Continues the work in #17023 (still open) by @tanmayv25, superseding #16869 and #16876 by @alec-flowers. Original authorship is preserved on the port commit. Relates to RFC #17013.
This branch is #17023's change rebased onto current
main(it was 57 commits behind), plus fixes for the review threads that were still unresolved there.What this adds
An opt-in streaming (push-based) KV-event path for KV cache manager V2 on the PyTorch backend. Off by default; the buffered gather/poll path is unchanged.
External KV-cache-aware routers (e.g. Dynamo) subscribe to block stored/removed events to route a request to the engine that already holds its prefix. The existing path builds Python
KVCacheEventobjects, buffers them, all-gathers them onto rank 0 under attention DP, and exposes them through a per-iteration pull API. This adds a path where each rank publishes its own events directly over ZeroMQ, reusing the V2 radix block hashes it already computed.StreamingKVCacheEventManager(newtensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache_events.py) implements the V2 event-sink hooks by duck typing, buildingmsgspecwire structs and coalescing consecutive blocks.ZmqEventPublishermsgpack-encodes each per-iteration batch and sends three frames (topic,seq,payload) from a background thread, with an optionalROUTERreplay socket. Each attention-DP rank bindsbase_port + rank.KVEventsConfig, nested askv_cache_config.kv_events_config(prototype). V2 only; excluded for draft models and KV-cache-size estimation; rejected under pipeline or context parallelism.[], soLLM.get_kv_cache_events()degrades cleanly instead of raising.Review feedback addressed on top of #17023
kv_cache_manager_v2.py:901— streaming manager unusable on the default backendnb::cast<std::shared_ptr<kv::EventManager>>. Enablingkv_events_configunder a non-Python V2 backend now raises an error namingTLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKENDinstead of an opaqueTypeError. The active backend is exposed askv_cache_manager_v2.BACKEND.kv_cache_manager_v2.py:1556— filter leaked into the buffered pathAttnLifeCyclefilter in_get_event_window_sizes_by_layer_group()also dropped SSM layer groups from the bufferedKVCacheEventManager's window sizes. It is now scoped to the streaming manager, so the buffered path is genuinely unchanged.llm_args.py:3748— publish/replay port collisionbase_port + rank, so a replay base withinN-1of the publish base made one rank's bind collide with another's. Overlapping ranges are now rejected at startup given the DP size, and the spacing rule is documented on the field.kv_cache_events.py:289— dropped batches invisible on the wirekv_cache_events.py:57— wire-format claimzmq_wire/deserialize.rs) accepts both tagged maps andarray_liketuples, and the map form is what Dynamo documents for custom backends and what its own TensorRT-LLM publisher emits. Kept the map encoding and corrected the header, which wrongly claimed the schema was adapted from vLLM'sarray_likeform. Also tightenedExternalBlockHashtoint, since abyteshash would fail the decode for the entire batch.test_streaming_kv_events.py:34— nondeterministic ZeroMQ setuptime.sleep(0.2)for subscription propagation.docs/source/features/kvcache.mdcovering both paths: the endpoint/base-port-plus-rank convention, replay semantics, wire format, delivery guarantees, and the V2-only plus parallelism constraints.The streaming preconditions were additionally extracted into
validate_streaming_support()so they can be unit tested without building a manager, which needs a GPU.Open items for reviewers
TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND=python. Adding C++-side support (anEventSinkimplementable from Python, or a C++ publisher) is deliberately out of scope here.KVCacheEventManager(tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/_event_manager.py) already implements the same hook surface, radix hashing, and coalescing, and Dynamo already consumes this exact wire format from the buffered pull path. Every wire field maps 1:1 off the existingKVCacheEventobjects, so a follow-up could plug the publisher intoKVCacheEventManager.flush_iteration_events()— where the attention-DP gather is already an injected, optional callback — rather than maintaining a parallel manager. Two caveats: this would not lift the backend limitation above, since on thecppbackendKVCacheEventManagerresolves to the nanobindkv::EventManagerand the Python manager is itself python-backend-only; and the shared producer allocates aUniqueTokenper token and defaults to the chain-walking V1 hash, where the streaming manager builds plain ints — a plausible scheduler-thread cost that is unmeasured, and fixable in the shared producer. Not attempted here, to keep the diff aligned with [None][feat] Streaming (push-based) KV cache event publishing (V2) #17023.Test Coverage
tests/unittest/kv_cache_manager_v2_tests/test_streaming_kv_events.pytest_streaming_fast_path_publishes_only_full_max_window_blockstest_streaming_removals_are_never_dropped_by_the_entry_captest_dropped_batches_leave_a_sequence_gaptest_validate_streaming_support_rejects_unsupported_setupstest_validate_endpoint_rangestest_kv_events_config_publisher_defaultKVEventsConfig.model_post_initpublisher defaultingtest_offset_endpoint_port,test_offset_endpoint_port_rejects_bad_inputbase_port + rankconvention and its rejection of malformed endpointsThese have not been executed on this branch — the authoring environment has no PyTorch — so they need a CI run.
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test-db/orqa/coverage entry is added: the streaming path requiresTLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND=python, so an integration entry is best added together with the backend support noted above.PR Checklist
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