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This pull request replaces the prior redundancy-expert update path with prefill EPLB. It adds placement planning, physical expert routing, prefill load monitoring, and expert-row migration. Startup options, weight allocation, memory profiling, and tests are updated for the new flow.
Changes: Prefill EPLB and EP balance monitoring
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EPLB configuration and expert state lightllm/server/api_cli.py, lightllm/server/api_start.py, lightllm/server/core/objs/start_args_type.py, lightllm/common/eplb_utils.py, lightllm/common/basemodel/..., lightllm/common/quantization/*, lightllm/utils/envs_utils.py, lightllm/utils/profile_max_tokens.py, lightllm/distributed/communication_op.py, lightllm/models/*, docs/*, test/advanced_config/*, unit_tests/common/*
Startup resolves EPLB settings and initializes physical expert state. Weight creation distinguishes dense weights from weights with an expert axis, and memory profiling reserves space for EPLB buffers. The old redundancy-expert options, manager, and associated tests and configuration are removed.
Placement planning and expert routing lightllm/common/basemodel/layer_weights/meta_weights/fused_moe/*, lightllm/common/basemodel/triton_kernel/fused_moe/*, lightllm/common/basemodel/triton_kernel/redundancy_topk_ids_repair.py, unit_tests/common/fused_moe/*
Placement utilities validate layouts, map logical experts to physical replicas, estimate loads, and refine candidate placements. MoE routing uses physical maps and can record logical and replica-bucket loads.
The runtime records prefill route and compute loads. The monitor gathers rank data and reports balance and placement-pressure metrics. The manager freezes sample windows, evaluates candidate placements, and coordinates planning.
Placement transfer and publication lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_transfer.py, lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_manager.py, lightllm/common/eplb_planner_worker.py, lightllm/common/cuda_wrapper.py, unit_tests/common/fused_moe/test_eplb*, unit_tests/common/test_cuda_wrapper.py
The planner worker handles CPU planning requests. Transfer code stages expert rows using local CUDA copies or cross-node NIXL reads, commits ready layers, and publishes completed placement generations.
ModelTC/LightLLM#1657: Changes fused-MoE execution hooks that this pull request also updates.
Suggested reviewers:wandy666
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 6faff
If an expert-migration worker fails during a multi-layer rebalance, other ranks can hang and block the prefill path. Cross-node transfers can also spin on the CPU with no timeout. Both problems occur only on failure or cross-node paths, but they should be fixed before merging or explicitly accepted.
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- Around line 177-178: Update the launcher call to is_eplb_enabled(args) to skip
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#!/bin/bash# Find other launcher-side CUDA queries that would already create a context.
rg -nP -C2 'torch\.cuda\.|is_sm100_gpu|get_device_capability' lightllm/server/api_start.py lightllm/utils/config_utils.py lightllm/utils/device_utils.py
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#!/bin/bash# Run on a GPU host: check whether get_device_capability leaves a context.
python - <<'EOF'import torch, subprocess, ostorch.cuda.get_device_capability()print(subprocess.run(["nvidia-smi","--query-compute-apps=pid,used_memory","--format=csv"],capture_output=True,text=True).stdout)print("pid", os.getpid())EOF
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<excerpt>citeturn2view1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: today; Content type: text/html; Source: find({"ref_id":"turn1view0","pattern":"return _get_device_properties(device)"}); Total lines: 3734
L3154: device (torch.device or int or str, optional): device for which to return the
L3155:
L3156: name. This function is a no-op if this argument is a negative
L3157:
L3158: integer. It uses the current device, given by :func:`~torch.cuda.current_device`,
L3159:
L3175: device (torch.device or int or str, optional): device for which to return the
L3176:
L3177: device capability. This function is a no-op if this argument is
L3178:
L3179: a negative integer. It uses the current device, given by
L3180:
L3181: :func:`~torch.cuda.current_device`, if :attr:`device` is ``None``
L3182:
L3183: (default).
L3184:
L3185: Returns:
L3186:
L3187: tuple(int, int): the major and minor cuda capability of the device
L3188:
L3189: """
L3190:
L3191: prop = get_device_properties(device)
L3192:
L3193: return prop.major, prop.minor
L3194: # pyrefly: ignore [not-a-type]
L3195:
L3196: def get_device_properties(device: Device = None) -> _CudaDeviceProperties:
L3197:
L3198: r"""Get the properties of a device.
L3199:
L3200: Args:
L3201:
L3202: device (torch.device or int or str, optional): device for which to return the
L3203:
L3204: properties of the device. It uses the current device, given by
L3205:
L3206: :func:`~torch.cuda.current_device`, if :attr:`device` is ``None``
L3207:
L3208: (default).
L3209:
L3210: Returns:
L3211:
L3212: _CudaDeviceProperties: the properties of the device
L3213:
L3214: """
L3215:
L3216: _lazy_init() # will define _get_device_properties
L3217: device = _get_device_index(device, optional=True)
L3218:
L3219: if device < 0 or device >= device_count():
L3220:
L3221: raise AssertionError("Invalid device id")
L3222:
L3223: return _get_device_properties(device) # type: ignore[name-defined]
L3224:
L3225: def can_device_access_peer(device: Device, peer_device: Device) -> bool:
L3226:
L3227: r"""Check if peer access between two devices is possible."""
L3228:
L3229: _lazy_init()
L3230:
L3231: device = _get_device_index(device, optional=True)
L3232:
L3233: peer_device = _get_device_index(peer_device)
L3234:
L3235: if device < 0 or device >= device_count():
L3236: raise AssertionError("Invalid device id")
L3237:
L3238: if peer_device < 0 or peer_device >= device_count():
L3239:
L3240: raise AssertionError("Invalid peer device id")
L3241:
L3242: return torch._C._cuda_canDeviceAccessPeer(device, peer_device)
L3243:
L3244: class StreamContext:
L3245:
L3246: r"""Context-manager that selects a given stream.
L3247:
L3248: All CUDA kernels queued within its context will be enqueued on a selected
L3249:
L3250: stream.
L3251:
L3252: Args:
L3253:
L3254: Stream (Stream): selected stream. This manager is a no-op if it's
L3255:
L3256: ``None``.
L3257:
L3258: .. note:: Streams are per-device.
L3259:
L3260: """
L3261: cur_stream: Optional["torch.cuda.Stream"]
L3262:
L3263: def __init__(self, stream: Optional["torch.cuda.Stream"]):
L3264:
L3265: self.stream = stream
L3266:
L3267: self.idx = _get_device_index(None, True)
L3268:
L3269: if not torch.jit.is_scripting():
L3270:
L3271: if self.idx is None:
L3272: # pyrefly: ignore [bad-assignment]
L3273:
L3274: self.idx = -1
L3275:
L3276: self.src_prev_stream = (
L3277:
L3278: None if not torch.jit.is_scripting() else torch.cuda.default_stream(None)
L3279:
L3280: )
L3281:
L3282: self.dst_prev_stream = (
L3283:
L3284: None if not torch.jit.is_scripting() else torch.cuda.default_stream(None)
L3285:
L3286: )
L3287:
L3288: def __enter__(self):
L3289:
L3290: # Local cur_stream variable for type refinement
L3291:
L3292: cur_stream = self.stream
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; # https://github.com/ROCm/amdsmi/blob/1d305dc9708e87080f64f668402887794cd46584/py-interface/amdsmi_wrapper.py#L174 ... prop_name = torch.cuda.get_device_properties().gcnArchName ... + " Please create an issue on Github if this is a valid compute capability.", ... f"No published PyTorch CUDA builds for release {torch.__version__} support this GPU. ... def get_device_capability(device: Device = None) -> tuple[int, int]: ... _lazy_init() # will define _get_device_properties
# The amdsmi python package is installed but its native library
# could not be discovered or loaded. For example, some ROCm
# wheels lay it out so find_smi_library() raises KeyError.
_AMDSMI_ERR = err
raise ModuleNotFoundError(
"amdsmi is installed but libamd_smi.so could not be loaded"
) from err
except AttributeError as err:
# ctypes reports a wrapper/library ABI mismatch as an
# AttributeError when a symbol expected by the wrapper is absent.
if "undefined symbol:" not in str(err):
raise
_AMDSMI_ERR = err
raise ModuleNotFoundError(
"amdsmi is installed but libamd_smi.so is ABI-incompatible"
) from err
_HAS_PYNVML = True
except ModuleNotFoundError:
pass
finally:
del _version
except ImportError as err:
_PYNVML_ERR = err # sometimes a lib is installed but the import fails for some other reason, so we log the error for later
_lazy_seed_tracker = _LazySeedTracker()
# Define dummy _CudaDeviceProperties type if PyTorch was compiled without CUDA
if hasattr(torch._C, "_CudaDeviceProperties"):
_CudaDeviceProperties = torch._C._CudaDeviceProperties
else:
_CudaDeviceProperties = _dummy_type("_CudaDeviceProperties") # type: ignore[assignment, misc]
if hasattr(torch._C, "_cuda_exchangeDevice"):
_exchange_device = torch._C._cuda_exchangeDevice
else:
def _exchange_device(device: int) -> int:
if device < 0:
return -1
raise RuntimeError("PyTorch was compiled without CUDA support")
if hasattr(torch._C, "_cuda_maybeExchangeDevice"):
_maybe_exchange_device = torch._C._cuda_maybeExchangeDevice
else:
def _maybe_exchange_device(device: int) -> int:
if device < 0:
return -1
raise RuntimeError("PyTorch was compiled without CUDA support")
has_half: bool = True
has_magma: bool = torch._C._has_magma
default_generators: tuple[torch._C.Generator] = () # type: ignore[assignment]
def _is_compiled() -> bool:
r"""Return true if compile with CUDA support."""
return hasattr(torch._C, "_cuda_getDeviceCount")
def _nvml_based_avail() -> bool:
return os.getenv("PYTORCH_NVML_BASED_CUDA_CHECK") == "1"
def is_available() -> bool:
r"""
Return a bool indicating if CUDA is currently available.
.. note:: This function will NOT poison fork if the environment variable
``PYTORCH_NVML_BASED_CUDA_CHECK=1`` is set. For more details, see
:ref:`multiprocessing-poison-fork-note`.
"""
if not _is_compiled():
return False
if _nvml_based_avail():
return False
device = torch.cuda.current_device()
if torch.cuda.get_device_properties(device).major >= 8:
return True
if not including_emulation:
return False
# Finally try to create a bfloat16 device.
return _check_bf16_tensor_supported(device)
@lru_cache(maxsize=16)
def _check_bf16_tensor_supported(device: Device):
try:
torch.tensor([1.0], dtype=torch.bfloat16, device=device)
return True
except Exception:
return False
def is_tf32_supported() -> bool:
r"""Return a bool indicating if the current CUDA/ROCm device supports dtype tf32."""
if torch.version.hip:
prop_name = torch.cuda.get_device_properties().gcnArchName
archs = ("gfx94", "gfx95")
for arch in archs:
if arch in prop_name:
return True
return False
# Otherwise, tf32 is supported on CUDA platforms t…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: 2.2 years ago; Crawled: 2 months ago; File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.11/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 430, in get_device_capability ... File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.11/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 448, in get_device_properties ... torch.cuda.DeferredCudaCallError: CUDA call failed lazily at initialization with error: device >= 0 && device < num_gpus INTERNAL ASSERT FAILED at "../aten/src/ATen/cuda/CUDAContext.cpp":50, please report a bug to PyTorch. device=, num_gpus=
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<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 weeks ago; # Define dummy if PyTorch was compiled without XPU ... ZES_DEVICE_PROPERTY_FLAG_INTEGRATED = 1 << 0 ... pyzes.zesDeviceGetProperties(device, byref(props)), ... def __init__(self, device: Any) -> None: ... def get_device_capability(device: Device = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Published: last month; Crawled: last month; The primary context created by the CUDA runtime can be accessed from the driver API for interoperability as described in Interoperability between Runtime and Driver APIs.As of CUDA 12.0, the `cudaInitDevice` and `cudaSetDevice` calls initialize the runtime and the primary context associated with the specified device.
## 2.1.6. Runtime Initialization#
The CUDA runtime creates a CUDA context for each device in the system. This context is the primary context for this device and is initialized at the first runtime function which requires an active context on this device. The context is shared among all the host threads of the application. As part of context creation, the device code is just-in-time compiled if necessary and loaded into device memory. This all happens transparently. The primary context created by the CUDA runtime can be accessed from the driver API for interoperability as described in Interoperability between Runtime and Driver APIs.
As of CUDA 12.0, the `cudaInitDevice` and `cudaSetDevice` calls initialize the runtime and the primary context associated with the specified device. The runtime will implicitly use device 0 and self-initialize as needed to process runtime API requests if they occur before these calls. This is important when timing runtime function calls and when interpreting the error code from the first call into the runtime. </excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search9 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; Flags returned by this function may specifically include cudaDeviceMapHost even though it is not accepted by cudaSetDeviceFlags because it is implicit in runtime API flags. ... __host__ cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceProperties(struct cudaDeviceProp *prop, int device) ... This function will initialize the CUDA Runtime structures and primary context on `device` when called, but the context will not be made current to `device`.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last month; As mentioned in CUDA Runtime API and CUDA Driver API, the CUDA runtime is written on top of the lower level CUDA driver API. ... The driver API is interoperable with the runtime and it is possible to access the primary context (see Runtime Initialization) managed by the runtime from the driver API via `cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain()`.
The objects available in the driver API are summarized in Table 6.
Table 6 Objects Available in the CUDA Driver API#
Object | Handle | Description
--- | --- | ---
Device | CUdevice | CUDA-enabled device
Context | CUcontext | Roughly equivalent to a CPU process
Module | CUmodule | Roughly equivalent to a dynamic library
Function | CUfunction | Kernel
Heap memory | CUdeviceptr | Pointer to device memory
CUDA array | CUarray | Opaque container for one-dimensional or two-dimensional data on the device, readable via texture or surface references
Texture object | CUtexref | Object that describes how to interpret texture memory data
Surface reference | CUsurfref | Object that describes how to read or write CUDA arrays
Stream | CUstream | Object that describes a CUDA stream
Event | CUevent | Object that describes a CUDA event
The driver API must be initialized with `cuInit()` before any function from the driver API is called. A CUDA context must then be created that is attached to a specific device and made current to the calling host thread as detailed in Context.
The context is then “floating” and may be pushed as the current context for any host thread. `cuCtxPopCurrent()` also restores the previous current context, if any.
A usage count is also maintained for each context. `cuCtxCreate()` creates a context with a usage count of 1. `cuCtxAttach()` increments the usage count and `cuCtxDetach()` decrements it. A context is destroyed when the usage count goes to 0 when calling `cuCtxDetach()` or `cuCtxDestroy()`.
The driver API is interoperable with the runtime and it is possible to access the primary context (see Runtime Initialization) managed by the runtime from the driver API via `cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain()`.
Usage count facilitates interoperability between third party authored code operating in the same context. For example, if three libraries are loaded to use the same context, each library would call `cuCtxAttach()` to increment the usage count and `cuCtxDetach()` to decrement the usage count when the library is done using the context. For most libraries, it is expected that the application will have created a context before loading or initializing the library; that way, the application can create the context using its own heuristics, and the library simply operates on the context handed to it. Libraries that wish to create their own contexts - unbeknownst to their API clients who may or may not have created contexts of their own - would use `cuCtxPushCurrent()` and `cuCtxPopCurrent()` as illustrated in the following figure.
Image: Library Context Management
Figure 23 Library Context Management#
## 3.3.4. Interoperability between Runtime and Driver APIs#
An application can mix runtime API code with driver API code.
If a context is created and made current via the driver API, subsequent runtime calls will use this context instead of creating a new one.
If the runtime is initialized, `cuCtxGetCurrent()` can be used to retrieve the context created during initialization. This context can be used by subsequent driver API calls.
The implicitly created context from the runtime is called the primary context (see Runtime Initialization). It can be managed from the driver API with the Primary Context Management functions.
Device memory can be allocated and freed using either API. `CUdeviceptr` can be cast to regular pointers and vice-versa:
CUdeviceptr devPtr;
float* d_data;
// Allocation using driver API
cuMemAlloc(&devPtr, size);
d_data = (float*)devPtr;
// Allocat…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>CUDA Runtime API</title>
<location>https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pdf/CUDA_Runtime_API.pdf</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search12 [wordlim: 200] Published: 6 months ago; Unless explicitly overridden, either by making a different context current via the Driver API (e.g., cuCtxSetCurrent()) or by using an explicit execution context handle, the Runtime will implicitly initialize and use the primary context for API calls as needed. ... If no CUcontext is current to the calling thread when a CUDA Runtime API call which requires an active context is made, then the primary context (device execution context) for a device will be selected, made current to the calling thread, and initialized.
The primary context is the default execution context associated with a device in the Runtime. It can be obtained via a call to cudaDeviceGetExecutionCtx(). There is a one-to-one mapping between CUDA devices in the runtime and their primary contexts within a process.
From the CUDA Runtime’s perspective, a device and its primary context are functionally synonymous.
Unless explicitly overridden, either by making a different context current via the Driver API (e.g., cuCtxSetCurrent()) or by using an explicit execution context handle, the Runtime will implicitly initialize and use the primary context for API calls as needed.
Initialization and Tear-Down
Unless an explicit execution context is specified (see “Execution Context Management” for APIs), CUDA Runtime API calls operate on the CUDA Driver CUcontext which is current to the calling host thread. If no CUcontext is current to the calling thread when a CUDA Runtime API call which requires an active context is made, then the primary context (device execution context) for a device will be selected, made current to the calling thread, and initialized. The context will be initialized using the parameters specified by the CUDA Runtime API functions cudaSetDeviceFlags(), cudaD3D9SetDirect3DDevice(), cudaD3D10SetDirect3DDevice(), cudaD3D11SetDirect3DDevice(), cudaGLSetGLDevice(), and cudaVDPAUSetVDPAUDevice(). Note that these functions will fail with cudaErrorSetOnActiveProcess if they are called when the primary context for the specified device has already been initialized, except for cudaSetDeviceFlags() which will simply overwrite the previous settings.
CUDA Runtime API
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<title>6.2. Context Management — CUDA Driver API Reference Manual 13.4 documentation</title>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; This section describes the context management functions of the low-level CUDA driver application programming interface.Please note that some functions are described in Primary Context Management section. ... The API will return CUDA_ERROR_STREAM_CAPTURE_UNSUPPORTED if the specified context `hCtx` has a stream in the capture mode.
# 6.2. Context Management
This section describes the context management functions of the low-level CUDA driver application programming interface.
Please note that some functions are described in Primary Context Management section.
Functions
CUresult cuCtxCreate(CUcontext *pctx, CUctxCreateParams *ctxCreateParams, unsigned int flags, CUdevice dev)
Create a CUDA context.
CUresult cuCtxDestroy(CUcontext ctx)
Destroy a CUDA context.
CUresult cuCtxGetApiVersion(CUcontext ctx, unsigned int *version)
Gets the context's API version.
CUresult cuCtxGetCacheConfig(CUfunc_cache *pconfig)
Returns the preferred cache configuration for the current context.
CUresult cuCtxGetCurrent(CUcontext *pctx)
Returns the CUDA context bound to the calling CPU thread.
CUresult cuCtxGetDevice(CUdevice *device)
Returns the device handle for the current context.
CUresult cuCtxGetDevice_v2(CUdevice *device, CUcontext ctx)
* flags – - Context creation flags
* dev – - Device to create context on
Returns
CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED, CUDA_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY, CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN
CUresult cuCtxDestroy(CUcontext ctx)
Destroy a CUDA context.
Destroys the CUDA context specified by `ctx`. The context `ctx` will be destroyed regardless of how many threads it is current to. It is the responsibility of the calling function to ensure that no API call issues using `ctx` while cuCtxDestroy() is executing.
Destroys and cleans up all resources associated with the context. It is the caller’s responsibility to ensure that the context or its resources are not accessed or passed in subsequent API calls and doing so will result in undefined behavior. See also
cuCtxCreate, cuCtxDestroy, cuCtxGetApiVersion, cuCtxGetCacheConfig, cuCtxGetDevice, cuCtxGetFlags, cuCtxGetLimit, cuCtxPopCurrent, cuCtxPushCurrent, cuCtxSetCacheConfig, cuCtxSetLimit, ::cudaDeviceSynchronize
Note
Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.
Returns
CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_STREAM_CAPTURE_UNSUPPORTED
CUresult cuCtxSynchronize_v2(CUcontext ctx)
Block for the specified context’s tasks to complete.
Blocks until the specified context has completed all preceding requested tasks. If the specified context is the primary context, green contexts that have been created will also be synchronized. The API returns an error if one of the preceding tasks failed.
If the context was created with the CU_CTX_SCHED_BLOCKING_SYNC flag, the CPU thread will block until the GPU context has finished its work.
If the specified context is NULL, the API will operate on the current context.
See also
cuCtxGetCurrent, cuCtxPopCurrent, cuCtxPushCurrent, cuGreenCtxCreate, cuCtxFromGreenCtx, ::cudaDeviceSynchronize
Note
Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.
Parameters
ctx – - Context to synchronize
Returns
CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_STREAM_CAPTURE_UNSUPPORTED
CUresult cuCtxWaitEvent(CUcontext hCtx, CUevent hEvent)
Make a context wait on an event.
Makes all future work submitted to context `hCtx` wait for all work captured in `hEvent`. The synchronization will be performed on the device and will not block the c…[truncated]</excerpt>
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Citations:
- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/cuda_runtime_api/group__CUDART__DEVICE.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-programming-guide/02-basics/intro-to-cuda-cpp.html?utm_source=openai
Skip the SM100 query in the launcher.
With active EPLB, is_eplb_enabled(args) calls torch.cuda.get_device_capability(). In PyTorch 2.11.0, that call reaches cudaGetDeviceProperties, which initializes the device's primary CUDA context. The launcher retains that context while the service runs, so rank 0 can report less free memory during KV profiling. The worker-side call still performs the SM100 check.
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diff --git a/lightllm/server/api_start.py b/lightllm/server/api_start.py- args.enable_prefill_eplb = is_eplb_enabled(args)+ args.enable_prefill_eplb = is_eplb_enabled(args, check_sm100=False)diff --git a/lightllm/common/eplb_utils.py b/lightllm/common/eplb_utils.py-def is_eplb_enabled(args) -> bool:+def is_eplb_enabled(args, *, check_sm100: bool = True) -> bool:
...
- from lightllm.utils.device_utils import is_sm100_gpu-- # SM100 Mega-MoE caches transformed weights by data_ptr; EPLB updates them in place.- assert not is_sm100_gpu(), "--enable_prefill_eplb does not support SM100"+ if check_sm100:+ from lightllm.utils.device_utils import is_sm100_gpu++ # SM100 Mega-MoE caches transformed weights by data_ptr; EPLB updates them in place.+ assert not is_sm100_gpu(), "--enable_prefill_eplb does not support SM100"
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Update the launcher call to is_eplb_enabled(args) to skip the SM100 capability
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- Around line 363-371: Update the _wait_xfers polling loop to yield with a brief
sleep while transfers remain pending and enforce a deadline using the
established transfer-timeout setting. Preserve the existing ERR and DONE
handling, and raise a timeout error if transfers have not completed by the
deadline.
- Around line 185-188: Update the later-layer reuse barrier guarded by
_needs_staging_reuse_barrier so workers detect a recorded _error before waiting
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#!/bin/bash# Find which process group the manager's ready gate and other in-flight collectives use.
rg -nP -C4 '\b(all_reduce|all_gather_object|barrier|broadcast)\s*\(' lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_manager.py
rg -nP -C3 'transfer_group|new_group' lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_manager.py
Prevent worker failure from stranding peers in the reuse barrier.
If a worker fails before a later-layer barrier, it stores _error and exits. A peer can then enter dist.barrier(group=self.transfer_group) and wait indefinitely for that rank. The control-group error reduction does not unblock the transfer-group barrier. Ensure all ranks skip or complete this barrier after a worker failure. Do not rely on finish() to recover it because finish() calls thread.join() on the blocked worker.
The _full_phase_gate ordering is not the cause: commit() sets _release only after _full_phase_gate returns, and the worker enters the next barrier only after observing _release.
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Update the later-layer reuse barrier guarded by _needs_staging_reuse_barrier so
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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Add a yield and a deadline to the NIXL poll loop.
_wait_xfers calls check_xfer_state in a pure-Python loop with no sleep. The loop runs on the migration thread while inference runs on the main thread. While a cross-node READ is pending, the loop competes for the GIL with the inference thread, and that thread launches kernels. The loop also has no timeout. If a remote peer stops responding, the worker blocks forever, and finish() blocks in join().
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--- "a/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_transfer.py"+++ "b/lightllm/server/router/model_infer/mode_backend/eplb_transfer.py"@@ -360,15 +360,20 @@
raise RuntimeError("NIXL READ post failed")
if state == "PROC":
pending.append(item)
+ deadline = time.monotonic() + self._xfer_timeout_s
while pending:
remaining = []
for item in pending:
state = self._nixl_agent.check_xfer_state(item[2])
if state == "ERR":
raise RuntimeError("NIXL READ transfer failed")
if state != "DONE":
remaining.append(item)
pending = remaining
+ if pending:+ if time.monotonic() > deadline:+ raise RuntimeError("NIXL READ transfer timed out")+ time.sleep(0.0001)
def _release_xfers(self, xfers) -> None:
unreleased = []
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Update the _wait_xfers polling loop to yield with a brief sleep while transfers
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