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WalkthroughThis change adds mmap and CUDA VMM host-memory backings, progressive commitment, and KV cache tier quota and NUMA options. It adds host-memory placement introspection and tests, updates cold-page copy paths, and changes a dependency patch command. ChangesHost-memory backing and KV cache integration
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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HostMem->>FillWorker: start asynchronous fill
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- Around line 52-54: Update the mmap backing override in the staging-memory
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A host tier is sized from host memory, so it is routinely hundreds of GiB. Making all of it resident before the first request is served is time the process spends doing nothing useful, and it scales with the tier, so the larger the configured cache the worse the startup. The range is now reserved once, at the tier's max_quota, and committed as the tier grows. Committing runs on a worker thread that publishes a watermark which allocation waits on, so serving starts before the tier is fully resident. The wait is tight because fresh slot ids ascend from zero and recycled slots come first: the Nth fresh allocation blocks only on the chunk containing it, and once the fill completes every wait is a relaxed load. The watermark is a plain std::atomic and the wait is atomic::wait, so a blocked allocation costs a futex wait rather than a condition variable and a lock. Committing incrementally needs a base address that does not move while the tier grows, which cuMemHostRegister could not offer: the mremap behind it could relocate the mapping, so a pointer handed out earlier was only usually valid. Reserving the address space up front fixes the base for the object's lifetime. A resize past the reservation is refused in adjustCacheLevel, before any pool group has been touched, instead of surfacing from inside one after earlier groups were already resized. max_quota defaults to the host memory the OS reports. IHostMemBacking is what the incremental commit is expressed against, and it has two implementations because the fastest route to host memory differs by platform: a plain anonymous mmap where the GPU reaches host memory through the CPU's page tables and the link is coherent, and cuMemCreate(HOST_NUMA) mapped into a reserved range elsewhere. That split is measured, not assumed. On Grace, VMM host memory runs about 5x slower because EGM is not provisioned and the GMMU path is translated by the SMMU; on PCIe, an unregistered mmap makes the copy synchronous, which VMM does not. Which one a process selected is logged with the two device attributes that chose it, since a host-tier bandwidth report is not interpretable without it. The unit the fill commits in and the unit memory is allocated in are kept separate. The first paces progress reporting and is 512 MiB; the second decides how finely a resize can hand memory back and reuses the granularity the GPU tier already scales from its quota, 2 MiB rising to 32 MiB. Measured on one host, 4 GiB committed in 32 MiB units costs the same as in 512 MiB units while 2 MiB units cost 36% more, so the finer resize granularity is free at the cap. Dropping registration also retires a workaround that had leaked well beyond startup. cuMemHostRegister cannot pin more than 2 GiB per call on Linux 6.11, so the host tier registered itself in chunks, and those chunk boundaries did not stay local: a copy could not span one, so batchedPageCopy refused the copy-engine path and the SSM/GDN codec failed closed whenever chunked registration was in effect. That cost bandwidth on every platform to accommodate one kernel version. Neither backing here registers anything, so the limit and the chunking it forced are both gone. KVCacheManagerConfig::validate() now visits the cache tiers. It never did, so every per-tier check was unreachable from C++ despite the manager constructor calling validate(): a zero quota and a disk path that is not a directory both passed silently. Those checks predate this change and are simply enforced now. The tier method is renamed from assertValid() to validate() to match the convention every other config type in that header already follows. Validated on GH200. The device reports both host page tables and a coherent link, so Grace selects the mmap backing as intended. Both backings pass conformance and a GPU round trip there. A batched copy off unregistered mmap memory submits in 0.01 ms against a 509 ms stream, so it is asynchronous, which is what makes that backing usable; a VMM source behaves the same way and serves as the positive control for the measurement. The mapping is fully backed by transparent huge pages, which are 512 MiB on that kernel because its base page is 64 KiB. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
The mmap backing left page placement to the kernel's default, which is to fault locally to whichever CPU touched the page first. That made placement a property of wherever the fill worker happened to be scheduled, and the scheduler is free to move it mid-fill, so a host tier could end up partly or wholly on the node the GPU does not attach to. The VMM backing never had this problem: it names the node to the driver, which allocates there regardless of the calling thread. Two things are needed and neither substitutes for the other. mbind attaches the policy to the address range, so it holds whichever thread faults a page; it is applied once over the whole reservation, before anything is committed, for the same reason the page-mode advice is. Binding the fill worker to the node's CPUs is separate and only makes the prefault writes local -- on its own it would be advisory, since a migrated thread or a pressured node breaks it silently. allow_remote_numa_fallback, defaulting to true, selects MPOL_PREFERRED over MPOL_BIND. Strict binding caps a tier at one node's memory, and max_quota defaults to total system memory, so binding by default would leave a tier unable to fill roughly half of what it was told it could have. The default therefore takes a remote page, which the GPU reaches more slowly, over failing the allocation. Selecting the device in the fill worker is a fix in its own right. A new thread starts on device 0 whatever the creator chose, and the VMM backing's commit runs on that thread and maps against the current device, so any process not using GPU 0 was mapping host memory against the wrong one. Binding the thread by GPU needs the same information, which is how this surfaced. The placement test lives with the multi-GPU tests because it needs two GPUs on different NUMA nodes to mean anything: it pins itself to one node and allocates against a GPU on the other, so an unbound range would land on the thread's node and the case would fail. With one node, or with every GPU on one node, there is nothing to distinguish and it skips rather than reporting a pass. Placement alone cannot tell the two policies apart while a node has room, so the policy in effect is read back with get_mempolicy as well; without that the flag could be ignored entirely and both parametrizations would still pass. The backing's commit unit and this policy travel together as HostMemBackingOptions rather than as a second scalar parameter. That keeps the seven signatures they thread through the same arity, and it turned what would have been a silently-changed bool argument at two call sites into a compile error. HostMem's reservation parameter and accessor are renamed to vmSize, which is what VirtMem and both slot pools already call the same quantity. maxSize named it in a vocabulary nothing else used. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
The host tier raises HostOOMError when it cannot be backed, which reaches Python as a subclass of OutOfMemoryError. Only the base was re-exported, so telling host-tier exhaustion apart from the disk or CUDA cases meant importing from tensorrt_llm.bindings.internal. The stub also gave OutOfPagesError a base of OutOfMemoryError. It derives from std::runtime_error and is bound without a base, so a checker was told that catching OutOfMemoryError covers page exhaustion when it does not. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
A resize rounds the requested quota up to the commit unit before comparing it against the bound, and the pools round their reservation up the same way. The bound itself was kept as configured, so one that was not a multiple of the unit sat below the smallest quota able to represent it: with a 2 MiB unit, a max_quota of 129 MiB refused a resize to 129 MiB, for address space the pools had already reserved. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Commit offsets are multiples of the backing's granularity, so the base has to be one for the addresses they name to be. cuMemAddressReserve aligns the VMM backing; mmap promises only page alignment, which left HostMem asserting on a property one of its two backings did not have. hostMmap now takes the alignment to place the base at, carving it out of a larger mapping and releasing the slack at both ends, so the span stays exactly the one the caller unmaps. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Batch metadata publication allocates pinned staging buffers of arbitrary byte counts through HostMem(size_t), which the granularity check in the HostMem constructor rejects. The single-size constructor now rounds the request up to HostMem::kAlignment. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
HostMem::~HostMem() ran destroy() inside KVCM2_POISON_ON_EXCEPT, which skips the callable once KVCM2 is poisoned. destroy() was the only path that joined mFillWorker, so destroying a HostMem after poisoning destroyed a joinable std::thread and terminated the process. The destructor now joins the worker before the poison guard. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
A host tier that could not be built was dropped and the manager rebuilt without it, so the job ran on a cache other than the one asked for and said so only in a log line. Capacity planning, benchmark numbers and the performance profile all quietly stopped describing the configuration. Progressive fill makes the old behaviour unreachable in any case: a commit that fails after construction surfaces at the first host-slot allocation, long past the point where the tier could be dropped. Initialization failures are now reported to every rank through the existing allreduce, so one rank's failure stops them all rather than leaving the rest to hang on the next collective. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Cleanup is skipped once KVCM2 is poisoned, including the waits that let a range's CUDA consumers finish with it. Releasing the backing anyway unmaps memory a copy may still be reading, and the fault that follows lands somewhere unrelated, which buries the violation the latch had recorded. Both backings now decide this for themselves, so the range outlives the object while the object itself is still freed. The cuMem calls behind the VMM backing are checked rather than discarded: a driver that disagrees about what is owned is a broken invariant, not something to pass over in silence. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Every pool group is allocated at least one commit unit, so a level with two of them cannot be built below two units however small the quota is. A maximum under that total was accepted: the quota was raised to the minimum at construction and then sat above the maximum, leaving the level unable to resize to the size it reported. Checked for every cold level before any is built, so a rejection does not leave earlier levels allocated, and the message names the field alongside the minimum and the per-pool unit. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
cudaMemset is asynchronous with respect to the host for device memory and goes to the legacy NULL stream, which does not implicitly synchronize with the cudaStreamNonBlocking stream the offload runs on. The slots were freshly allocated, so their readyEvent was null and the migration waited on nothing: the offload was free to read the pages before the fills landed, and the restore then compared against stale bytes. Seen once under ten concurrent test binaries, failing both pages at once, which is the signature of a lost ordering rather than a torn copy. The sibling case in kvCacheManagerV2ColdPageTest describes the same hazard and issues its fill on the migration stream; this was the last plain cudaMemset in these suites. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
Collapse the host-memory backing onto a single implementation that populates pages through the kernel and hands them to the driver with cuMemHostRegister, and drop the virtual IHostMemBacking interface along with the factory functions and the backing-kind selection that existed to choose between implementations. Staging buffers and upload batches no longer go through HostMem. They are sized once and released once, so they use the new StaticHostMem: a single cuMemHostAlloc, one registration, no fill worker or watermark. A copy may therefore span the whole range. Commit units are a multiple of the slot size so a copy never crosses a registration boundary, while mprotect and madvise operate on page ranges rounded outward on commit and inward on decommit. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_THP now defaults off, so the tier is populated with ordinary pages unless the variable is set to 1. MADV_HUGEPAGE opts a region's faults into direct compaction wherever /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag is "madvise" or "always". What that costs depends on how fragmented the node's free memory is, and the two nodes of one machine can differ by an order of magnitude. Filling 32 GiB on each of eight ranks, on a node with ~29600 free order-9 blocks huge pages gave 4.6 GiB/s against 3.0 without; on a node with ~330 they gave 0.32 against 2.5. Since every rank must finish before the system serves, the figure that matters is the slowest: 100 s with huge pages, 13 s without. Fragmentation accumulates with uptime while the benefit does not, so the penalty is the one that grows. Ordinary pages bound the worst case at 1.6x off ideal rather than 7.8x. Transfer bandwidth does not pay for it: over a registered region host-to-device is PCIe-bound and identical either way, and device-to-host is no slower. Pinned memory from cudaHostAlloc reports no huge pages at all, so this also makes the tier consistent with every other pinned buffer rather than exceptional. The disaggregated test harness already set the variable to 0 after hitting this on CI nodes (nvbugs/6888251). Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
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Two tests leave a KVCacheManagerV2 reachable only through a reference cycle, so reference counting never frees it and the cyclic GC does so later, on whichever thread happens to run the collection. Under pytest that can be the timeout watchdog, which holds no CUDA context, and KVCM2's teardown then fails its first driver call with CUDA error 201 and poisons the manager process-wide. That is how a single teardown turned into ten reported failures in DGX_H100-PyTorch-1. test_dsa_indexer defines a class per call whose __init__ reads the enclosing cache_manager, which puts it in a closure cell reachable from the class object, and a class object is always part of a cycle. Taking the manager as a parameter shadows the outer name, so no cell is created and the only strong reference left is the returned instance's. test_pytorch_model_engine_warmup never released the manager its engine helper builds. An autouse fixture now shuts down whatever that helper created, which covers all six call sites and still runs when a test fails part way. Signed-off-by: Yao Yao <lowsfer@users.noreply.github.com>
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Makes the KVCM2 host tier allocate progressively: the address range is
reserved up front, a worker thread commits it in the background, and allocation
blocks only on the chunk it actually needs. Serving starts as soon as the first
chunk is resident rather than after the whole tier is.
The tier is populated by faulting pages in through the kernel and handing them
to the driver with
cuMemHostRegister, rather than allocating them inside thedriver with
cuMemCreate. That choice is the subject of most of thisdescription, because it is a deliberate trade rather than a free win.
Why progressive
A host tier is sized from host memory, so it is routinely hundreds of GiB.
Making all of it resident before the first request is served is time the process
spends doing nothing useful, and it scales with the tier, so the larger the
configured cache the worse the startup.
Committing incrementally needs a base address that does not move while the tier
grows, and a way to make more memory resident without touching what is already
there. The range is reserved once at the tier's
max_quotaand committed as thetier grows, so the base address is fixed for the object's lifetime.
max_quotadefaults to the host memory the OS reports; a resize past the reservation is
refused in
adjustCacheLevel, before any pool group has been touched.Committing runs on a worker thread that publishes a watermark. The wait against
it is tight because fresh slot ids ascend from zero and recycled slots come
first: the Nth fresh allocation blocks only on the chunk containing it, and once
the fill completes every wait is a relaxed load. The watermark is a plain
std::atomicand the wait isatomic::wait, so a blocked allocation costs afutex wait rather than a condition variable and a lock.
The unit the fill commits in and the unit memory is allocated in are deliberately
separate. The first paces progress and is 512 MiB; the second decides how finely
a later resize can hand memory back, and is a multiple of the slot size so that
no copy ever spans two registrations.
Why registered memory rather than driver allocation
The earlier revision of this PR carried two backings behind an
IHostMemBackinginterface, selectingcuMemCreateon PCIe andmmaponcoherent platforms. That abstraction is gone: there is one backing, and it
registers.
The reason is executor starvation.
cuMemCreateallocates and zeroes pagesinside the driver, and the ioctl path it uses takes locks in the nvidia kernel
module that are shared across every process on the machine. While a rank fills
its tier, unrelated CUDA calls on that rank's executor thread queue behind the
allocation work of all the other ranks.
Measured on an 8-GPU B200 host, 8 ranks filling 64 GiB each concurrently, with a
probe thread timing
cudaPointerGetAttributesthroughout — the call a reviewerobserved an executor thread stuck in:
cuMemCreateThe register path is slower to fill and leaves the executor thread able to run.
That is the trade this PR makes, stated plainly: it costs fill throughput to
stop a one-time startup fill from freezing the process for tens of seconds.
Two cheaper fixes were tried first and do not work
Both target the existing
cuMemCreatepath and both were measured on the same8 ranks × 64 GiB:
nanosleep(1us)between driver callscuMemSetAccessper granuleBoth work beautifully with one process and neither survives contention, which
is what the kernel-side locking predicts: releasing a user-space mutex more
often cannot help when the queue that matters is a global one inside the driver.
sched_yield()does nothing even single-process — the window it opens is tooshort on an idle many-core box; only a real deschedule helps.
Registration boundaries
cuMemHostRegistermeans a copy cannot span two registered ranges, which is theconstraint a previous revision removed and this one reintroduces. It is
contained rather than leaked: the commit unit is rounded to a multiple of the
slot size, so a slot never straddles a registration and
batchedPageCopykeepsthe copy-engine path unconditionally.
Staging buffers and upload batches do not go through
HostMemat all. They aresized once and released once, so they use
StaticHostMem— a singlecuMemHostAlloc, one registration, no fill worker or watermark — and a copy mayspan the whole range.
Transparent huge pages now default off
TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_THPdefaults to off.MADV_HUGEPAGEopts a region'sfaults into direct compaction wherever
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defragismadviseoralways, and whatthat costs depends on how fragmented the node's free memory is.
The two NUMA nodes of a single B200 host differ by an order of magnitude. Eight
ranks filling 32 GiB each:
Every rank must finish before the system serves, so the figure that matters is
the slowest: 100 s with huge pages against 13 s without. Fragmentation
accumulates with uptime while the benefit does not, so ordinary pages bound the
worst case at 1.6× off ideal rather than 7.8×.
Transfer bandwidth does not pay for it — over a registered region
host-to-device is PCIe-bound and identical either way, and device-to-host is no
slower.
cudaHostAllocreports no huge pages at all, so this also makes thetier consistent with every other pinned buffer rather than exceptional. The
disaggregated test harness already set this variable to 0 after hitting the same
effect on CI nodes (nvbugs/6888251).
NUMA placement and
allow_remote_numa_fallbackHost pages are placed on the NUMA node the GPU attaches to.
mbindattaches thepolicy to the address range so it holds whichever thread faults a page, and the
fill worker is bound to that node's CPUs so the prefault writes are local;
neither substitutes for the other.
true(default)falseMPOL_PREFERRED; first touch by the bound fill worker ifmbindis deniedMPOL_BIND; construction fails ifmbindis deniedallow_remote_numa_fallbackdefaults totruebecause strict binding would capa tier at one node's memory while
max_quotadefaults to total system memory —so the default takes a remote page, which the GPU reaches more slowly, over
failing the allocation. Nothing unprivileged reproduces
MPOL_BIND, so a strictrequest that cannot be applied is refused rather than silently downgraded.
Containers:
mbind,set_mempolicyandget_mempolicysit behindCAP_SYS_NICEin Docker's default seccomp profile. Without it the backing fallsback to first touch, and refuses outright in strict mode.
Dead code removed alongside
launchCopyEngineandcopyPageIndicesToDevicecarried#if CUDA_VERSIONfallbacks for toolkits older than 12.8 and for the 12.x
cuMemcpyBatchAsyncsignature.
cpp/CMakeLists.txtrequires CUDA 13.0, so none of it could becompiled; the kernel fallback and its only test (whose single
TESTwas itselfinside
#if CUDA_VERSION < 12080, so that binary ran zero tests) are gone withit. What remains is one unconditional
cuMemcpyBatchAsyncper site, with theCU_MEMCPY_SRC_ACCESS_ORDER_STREAMrequirement stated where it matters.Fixes surfaced along the way
new thread starts on device 0 whatever the creator chose, so any process not
using GPU 0 was placing and mapping host memory against the wrong one.
KVCacheManagerConfig::validate()never visited the cache tiers. Everyper-tier check was unreachable from C++ despite the manager constructor
calling
validate(): a zero quota and a disk path that is not a directoryboth passed silently. Those checks predate this change and are enforced now.
silently satisfying less than the user configured.
teardown, so a corrupted manager does not leak the thread or the mapping.
Test
kvCacheManagerV2HostMemBackingTestcovers reserve/commit/decommit/destroy,data preservation across a commit, rejection of a copy spanning a unit boundary,
and GPU round trips.
kvCacheManagerV2HostMemNumaTest(C++, multi-GPU stage) andtest_host_numa_placement.py(Python,l0_gb200_multi_gpus) both need two GPUson different NUMA nodes to mean anything: they pin to one node and allocate
against a GPU on the other, so an unbound range would land on the thread's node
and the case would fail. The Python test reads placement from
/proc/self/numa_maps, an ordinary file read rather than a gated syscall, so itasserts placement with or without
CAP_SYS_NICE.Measured
Verified on an 8-GPU B200 host (
umbriel-b200-043), built againstmainatc226e2d77c: 7 KVCM2 binaries / 156 tests pass.The contention figures above come from the same host: 8 ranks, one process per
GPU, both arms run alternately within each rank so that drift on a shared
machine lands on both equally, with a probe thread timing
cudaPointerGetAttributesthroughout and reporting the fraction of the fill itspent blocked rather than only its worst case.
Not reachable in CI
Two paths compile but no stage exercises them, because each needs a condition CI
does not create: the strict-mode refusal (
mbinddenied whileallow_remote_numa_fallback=false), and the NUMA-fragmentation regime thatmotivates the THP default, which depends on a node's free-block distribution.
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