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Adds the MLA-backboned standalone DSpark drafter for Kimi-K3, alongside the GQA one already on main.

The GQA drafter stores 16 KV heads x 64, K and V both. Under attention-DP nothing shards it, so every rank holds 20480 B per token. The MLA drafter holds one 576-wide latent per token per layer: 5760 B, a 3.6x reduction that does not depend on the parallelism.

Measured on the GEN worker of a DEP16 disaggregated run — two arms whose generated gen_config.yaml differ by exactly one line (speculative_model), same tree, same MoE backend, same free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.8:

per rank GQA drafter MLA drafter
KV capacity 1,779,275 tok 2,491,831 tok +40.0%
bytes/token, total 48,128 33,408 -30.6%
bytes/token, target 27,648 27,648 unchanged
bytes/token, draft 20,480 5,760 -71.9%
draft pool 33.94 GiB 13.37 GiB -20.57 GiB

Those are the KV manager's own max_tokens ... New quota is <G>GiB lines, not derived. Three independent cross-checks agree: draft quota / max_tokens is exactly 5760.0 and 20480.0; solving target = a*tokens + b across the two arms gives a = 27648.0 B/token, identical for both as it must be; and the pool shapes are 5 x (194785, 1, 1, 64, 576) bf16 for MLA against 5 x (139005, 2, 16, 64, 64) for GQA. The residual b = 7.53 GiB is the token-independent KDA per-sequence state, which is why capacity rises 40.0% rather than the 44.1% the bytes/token ratio alone would suggest.

MLADSparkForCausalLM is selected from the checkpoint's own architectures, so switching drafters is one line of config. It brings its own absorbed-MLA block decode rather than borrowing the worker's attention backend (_uses_worker_attention_backend = False), and takes its context KV from the draft KV cache manager's pool rather than a max_seq_len-dense private arena (_paged_ctx_cache = True) — the arena needs 78.5 GiB at 1M context, which is what made the MLA drafter undeployable before #18343 landed.

One user-visible default moves

DSparkDecodingConfig.attention_backend goes VANILLA -> AUTO, and AUTO resolves per drafter family: an MLA backbone to its absorbed-MLA paged decode, a GQA backbone to the trtllm-gen op set, degrading to VANILLA when those ops are unavailable. A standalone GQA DSpark deployment that did not set the field therefore moves from FlashAttention to trtllm-gen. Nothing raises that did not raise before on that family — only the MLA one refuses to degrade, because a build that cannot run its kernel cannot hold the target either. The Literal only gains values (AUTO, CUTEDSL), so existing configs stay valid; tests/unittest/api_stability reference files are unchanged, since they record speculative_config's union type rather than each config's fields.

Block reuse

kv_cache_config.enable_block_reuse: true costs the drafter acceptance: the target skips a cached prefix, the drafter's context does not follow, so it cross-attends over the newly computed tail alone. Lossless — the target verifies every token — so AL is the only symptom. NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#18093 built the one-model draft KV reuse protocol but its scope table excludes DFlash/DSpark; these two commits join them to it, and _store_prefill_context indexes the tail from the absolute position instead of overwriting the prefix from 0.

Teacher-forced multi-turn, T=0, C=1, every (conversation, turn) prompt byte-identical across arms. 20 trajectories, 522 paired turns, SE clustered on conversation [measured job 3084626, on the source branch]:

subset reuse ON before after reuse OFF SGLang turns
workflow 1.7778 2.2343 2.2018 2.2610 151
coding 2.4603 3.3932 3.2861 3.3834 371
ALL 2.2056 2.9450 2.8714 2.9482 522

SGLang − this branch is +0.0231 (SE 0.0335, t = 0.69), i.e. indistinguishable.

Why this is not split further

The drafter, the KV-budget fix and the backend selection are one deployable unit: the drafter cannot run without the per-request page bound (it corrupts a neighbour's pages), and it cannot be budgeted without charging the draft pool at its allocated dtype (the split hands it half the target's tokens and the GEN worker dies at ~50% target utilization, fatal to every rank). Landing any one alone leaves a configuration that loads and then fails in production. The commits are separable for review and each carries its own test.

Test Coverage

All numbers below are from this branch rebased onto current main (236 upstream commits, four files conflict-resolved), in the container the editable env was built against.

Unit — 13 suites, 236 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed, plus test_kda_mtp_decode_cute_parity.py 30 passed. The 41 tests this PR adds break down as:

  • Falsifiable against a named commit (14): each asserts a value the pre-fix code cannot produce — e.g. test_inherited_fp8_kv_algo_is_dropped_from_the_draft_cost asserts cost.slope == 5760, which is 2880 without the fix; test_mla_block_fixup_stays_inside_the_allocation asserts every page is 42 with a negative control that lands on page 0; test_prepare_keeps_cuda_graph_slots_across_replays reads [7,8,9] across two prepare() calls where the old path reset to [0,0,0].
  • Numeric parity with a negative control (5): absorbed vs un-absorbed MLA, SWA vs full attention, adjacent-pair vs HF RoPE. Each pairs a tolerance with a control that must be far outside it (K/V halves swapped lands 89-201x away), so a degenerate output cannot pass.
  • Construction-time contract (19): the backend policy and weight-loading guards. These cannot run on main at all — the class does not exist there — so their answer to "red on which commit" is "absent before the feature commit". Three match on exact error strings.

Disaggregated GSM8K, TEP16 1xCTX + 1xGEN, full 1319 questions, 5-shot, against the same config before the rebase:

pre-rebase this branch
strict-match 0.9629 0.9666 ±0.0049
drafter AL 3.713 3.715
drafter AR 38.8% 38.8%
not aligned to 16 bytes in CTX 16 ranks 0

AL is 1 + sum(i*hist[i]) / sum(hist) over all 16 ranks' dflash_accept_stats_rank*.json — the denominator is request-steps, not num_steps, which counts iterations and would overstate AL ~7.7x. The GEN worker logs DFlash: ctx block tables 32 times, so this exercises the managed paged pool rather than the private arena; the arena fallback would make the run vacuous.

Aggregated GSM8K + acceptance, TEP16, n=200, 0-shot (the drafter was distilled on chat traffic), against two pre-rebase runs of the same arm:

pre-rebase A pre-rebase B this branch
AL 5.505 5.390 5.534
AR 66.3% 64.6% 66.7%
flexible-extract 84 86.5 83 ±2.7

The two pre-rebase runs differ from each other by 0.115 AL and 1.7pt AR, so this run sits inside the arm's own spread. strict-match is 0 in all three: at 0-shot the model never sees the #### <answer> form, so the strict filter matches nothing by construction.

Two gaps worth stating rather than hiding:

  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_budget_split.py is in no CI test list, so the three tests added there do not run in CI. The gap pre-dates this PR (l0_cpu.yml covers unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic as a directory, but _torch/executor/kv_cache is listed file-by-file).
  • The reuse extension's own guard (first_pos + slen > covered -> RuntimeError) is subsumed here by this branch's per-request cap, which is the same quantity (_ctx_block_counts[i] * page_size) and skips the request with a warning rather than killing the forward for every other in-flight request.
  • The flashinfer MLA decode call's lse= / return_lse= keyword pair is exercised only through the parity test, not asserted directly.

Review follow-ups

Landed after the first review round:

  • The paged generation path raised AttributeError. Upstream's merged [None][feat] Page the DSpark drafter context through the draft KV cache manager #18343 bounds the drafter's context writes by the block-table width and defines no _ctx_block_counts; the branch this was developed on defines it, so the port carried the consumer without its producer. Restored, and both write paths — generation and _store_prefill_context — are now bounded by the same quantity rather than only the advertised read length.
  • That bound is per-request on one backend only. copyBatchBlockOffsetsToDeviceKernel maps BAD_PAGE_INDEX to 0 (kvCacheManagerV2Utils.cu:231) and TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND defaults to cpp, so there the count saturates at the table width and the bound degenerates to exactly what upstream already applied. It is real on the python backend, which propagates the sentinel. Stated in dflash_allocated_ctx_limit's docstring so nobody reads a guarantee into it.
  • The draft-KV dtype carve-out is narrowed from is_external_drafter() to is_dflash() or is_dspark(), matching _should_create_separate_draft_kv_cache; PARD and DRAFT_TARGET_ONE_MODEL reach that helper too and can carry a genuine fp8 KV algo of their own.
  • _runtime_position_ceiling is declared on DFlashForCausalLM instead of injected, the MLA RoPE table is keyed on its resolved cap so a re-published ceiling rebuilds it, a guard whose named failure mode now raises one frame down was removed, and a try/except around a diagnostic that cannot fail was dropped.
  • Tests: the allocation-bound test calls the production clamp instead of restating it and gains a negative control at the regression boundary; two parameterized tests drive both KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM conventions through the real layer forward and the model tail.

Also in this branch

Two ancillary commits that touch the same files and are not part of the feature:

  • A comment correction in the draft-mirror saturation path. Skipping a context request whose mirror found no IndexMapper slot does not defer it to the next iteration — copy_batch_block_offsets runs later in the same iteration and IndexMapper::getCopyIndex feeds every id in the batch, context ids included, to getIndex(), which TLLM_CHECKs on an unmapped id. Behaviour is unchanged and predates the mirror refactor; only the claim about it was wrong.
  • _get_draft_kv_model_config(), so the KV budget split charges the external drafter at the dtype its pool is actually allocated at. kv_cache_config.dtype: fp8 stamps the target's algo onto every loaded model; the allocation path stripped it back off for an external drafter but the cost path did not, charging 2880 B/token for a pool costing 5760.

PR Checklist

  • PR description clearly explains what and why — yes, including the one default-value change above.

  • PR follows TRT-LLM CODING GUIDELINES to the best of my knowledge.

  • Test cases are provided for new code paths — yes, 41 new tests, classified above.

  • API changes: the attention_backend Literal only gains values and tests/unittest/api_stability references are unchanged, so this is api-compatible, not breaking. tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json is regenerated and committed, as AGENTS.md requires.

  • New dependencies: none.

  • CODEOWNERS: unchanged. The manifest edit pulls in trt-llm-usage-telemetry-devs, trt-llm-oss-compliance and trt-llm-noncommitted-api-review-committee per .github/CODEOWNERS:496.

  • Documentation: no user-facing doc change; the new architecture name K3DsparkForCausalLM is deliberately not added to tensorrt_llm/usage/architecture_allowlist.py, since the checkpoint is not publicly documented by TensorRT-LLM. Telemetry hashes it, which fails closed.

  • tava architecture diagram: no change, this adds a drafter behind existing interfaces.

  • Please check this after reviewing the above items as appropriate for this PR.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds K3 DSpark configuration and MLA drafter support. It extends fused RMSNorm/RoPE operations, DFlash backend selection, cache allocation, checkpoint validation, draft KV accounting, diagnostics, and auxiliary stream capture.

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DSpark runtime and speculative support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and RMSNorm/RoPE
tensorrt_llm/_torch/configs/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_dspark_cute_dsl_rmsnorm_rope.py
Registers K3 DSpark and adds optional weights, partial normalization, regular row strides, and offset RoPE output.
MLA model and registration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/__init__.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/_arch_index.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.py
Adds standalone MLA components, YaRN helpers, latent caching, eager/TRTLLM/CuTe DSL decoding, GQA/MLA dispatch, exports, and semantic coverage.
Backend, checkpoint, and cache allocation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_utils.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py
Adds AUTO backend resolution, checkpoint coverage checks, shared fused-component metadata, configurable cache layouts, page limits, and direct diagnostics.
Draft configuration and auxiliary stream capture
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_speculative.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/*, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dflash_scaffold.py
Aligns draft KV accounting with allocation, normalizes applicable external-drafter settings, and selects attention-residual or prefix-only capture.
Runtime integration and backend configuration
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash_attention.py
Adds DSpark backend configuration, degenerate page-table handling, and a public TRTLLM-Gen availability check.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RequestEngine
  participant DFlash
  participant MLADSparkForCausalLM
  participant KVCacheManager
  RequestEngine->>DFlash: configure backend and runtime limits
  DFlash->>MLADSparkForCausalLM: select MLA decode and cache layout
  DFlash->>KVCacheManager: allocate bounded draft cache
  KVCacheManager->>DFlash: return page counts and block tables
  DFlash->>MLADSparkForCausalLM: execute context or block decode
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Suggested reviewers: bowenfu, yizhang-nv, mingyanghao

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206-248: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test coverage summary (tests/ path instruction).**

  • Files modified: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_dspark_cute_dsl_rmsnorm_rope.py.
  • Tests added: test_fused_dspark_rmsnorm_rope_norm_dim[False] and test_fused_dspark_rmsnorm_rope_norm_dim[True].
  • Behaviors covered: norm_dim forwarding from _rmsnorm_rope_batched to is_fused_dspark_rmsnorm_rope_supported and to the compiled kernel; whole-row normalization as the DSv4 regression gate; latent-only normalization with a raw k_pe tail; RoPE over the trailing rope_dim; numerical agreement with an eager reference at bf16 tolerance.
  • Strengths: the test seeds RNG, asserts the support predicate before the numeric assertion so a silent eager fallback cannot pass, and uses a strictly positive weight so the two parameterizations produce genuinely different expected tensors.
  • Gap: the split (norm_dim == nope) path is not covered with apply_weight=False or apply_rmsnorm=False, which is the exact combination the MLA query path uses at modeling_dspark.py lines 3001-3010. That path relies on the kernel skipping the weight read outside norm_dim. Add one parameterization with apply_rmsnorm=False, apply_weight=False to close it.
  • Verdict: sufficient for the norm_dim contract; one recommended addition above.
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test_fused_dspark_rmsnorm_rope_norm_dim currently covers only weighted RMS
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py`:
- Around line 492-493: Update the fused-module validation around _has so every
expected parameter for every non-shared component must be present, rather than
accepting a component when any tensor exists. Ensure partial fused modules are
rejected with ValueError even when allow_partial_loading=True, and add a
regression test that removes one component parameter and verifies the error.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py`:
- Line 1724: Extend the scaffold test around the auxiliary capture logic to
parameterize both _AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENABLED values, covering direct mixture
capture and aggregated prefix_sum capture. Assert intermediate captures use the
selected tapped tensor, and verify the final-layer capture uses the
corresponding tail fallback for each convention.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py`:
- Around line 1398-1401: Initialize and maintain self._ctx_block_counts wherever
the context block tables are created or updated, including the bound-pool
generation path guarded by self._ctx_block_tables and has_target_features.
Ensure it contains per-request allocated block counts before the clamp using
allocated[gen_rows_out], while preserving the existing num_ctx_per_req_t
limiting behavior.

In
`@tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.py`:
- Around line 1189-1195: Update the allocation-bound test around
_build_mla_block_fixup so it exercises the production boundary input where
ctx_len is allocated rather than the already-clamped allocated - block_size
value. Assert that the truncation path leaves room for block_size, and
strengthen page validation to reject unallocated or wrong-boundary page
selections instead of only checking set inclusion.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_dspark_cute_dsl_rmsnorm_rope.py`:
- Around line 206-248: The test parametrization in
test_fused_dspark_rmsnorm_rope_norm_dim currently covers only weighted RMS
normalization; add a split_norm case exercising apply_rmsnorm=False and
apply_weight=False, matching the MLA query path. Update the invocation and
expected-reference construction to reflect disabled normalization and weighting
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Two blocking items inline (dflash.py:1398, _util.py:1583); the rest are non-blocking.

# clamped from its negative placeholder to 0, i.e. another
# request's block. That is a silent cross-request write, not an
# out-of-range fault.
allocated = (self._ctx_block_counts * self._ctx_page_size - block_size).clamp_(

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_ctx_block_counts is never assigned anywhere in the repo, and SpecWorkerBase is an nn.Module, so this raises AttributeError rather than returning None — on the managed-pool generation path, which is this PR's main path. Note also that whatever populates it has to count the non-placeholder entries before _refresh_ctx_block_tables does encoded.clamp_(min=0), since after that clamp a placeholder is indistinguishable from block 0. Given the disaggregated GSM8K numbers in the description, was a commit defining it lost in a rebase?

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Yes — lost in the port, and the cause is that the base moved: upstream's merged #18343 uses a block-table-width clamp with no _ctx_block_counts, whereas the rubin-advance copy this was developed on defines it. Only the consumer came across.

Fixed in a93e50b, and your ordering point is exactly why it works: the count is (encoded >= 0).sum(dim=1) taken in _refresh_ctx_block_tables before encoded.clamp_(min=0). Every gen step hits this path, so the disagg GSM8K numbers in the description are from the rubin build; a main-base rerun is in flight.

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Correction to my reply above, from reading the kernel rather than the comment.

copyBatchBlockOffsetsToDeviceKernel writes dstK = (val == BAD_PAGE_INDEX) ? 0 : ... (cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2Utils.cu:231), and TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND defaults to cpp (tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/__init__.py:23). So on the default path the placeholders are already gone by the time _refresh_ctx_block_tables sees them, (encoded >= 0).sum() counts the full row, and the bound degenerates to exactly the block-table-width clamp this PR replaced. The comment I removed was right for that backend; my claim that the count is recoverable holds only on the python backend, which propagates BAD_PAGE_INDEX through _copy_swa_block_offsets_with_scratch (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:856).

The fix stands — _ctx_block_counts still has to exist or the path raises, and the bound is never looser than upstream's — but it is per-request only on python. Stated in dflash_allocated_ctx_limit's docstring in 9bcd529 so nobody reads a guarantee into it. Practical consequence: the cross-request write this thread is about is not fixed on the default backend, only bounded to the table as before.

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effective_draft_config = self._get_effective_draft_config()
if not self._speculative_config.spec_dec_mode.is_external_drafter():

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is_external_drafter() expands to {PARD, DFLASH, DSPARK, DRAFT_TARGET_ONE_MODEL}, so this also neutralizes PARD and DRAFT_TARGET_ONE_MODEL — exactly the two that _should_create_separate_draft_kv_cache calls out as out of scope for this kind of carve-out, and both can reach here via should_use_separate_draft_kv_cache. Their draft checkpoints can carry a genuine fp8 KV algo of their own rather than one inherited from the target: with the default kv_cache_config.dtype="auto", validate_and_set_kv_cache_quant returns early and keeps the checkpoint's value. Dropping it then allocates a bf16 pool (_create_kv_cache_manager reads quant_config off this copy) while the drafter's attention modules — built from the un-neutralized config — still read and write fp8, which is the out-of-bounds hazard documented at model_loader.py:195-203. Can this use the same narrower is_dflash() or is_dspark() predicate?

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Agreed, fixed in 23e1495 — now is_dflash() or is_dspark(), matching the predicate _should_create_separate_draft_kv_cache already uses for the same reason (and its comment naming PARD / DRAFT_TARGET_ONE_MODEL as out of scope). Docstrings updated from "external drafter" to "standalone drafter" so the wording matches the predicate.

self._ctx_len.clamp_(max=self._max_ctx)

num_ctx_per_req_t = self._ctx_len[slots]
if self._ctx_block_tables is not None:

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This bounds only the advertised read length; neither write path is bounded by the same quantity. The generation path clamps col_idx to the full block-table width (line 1336), not to this request's allocation, and _store_prefill_context passes torch.arange(cur, end) with no block-table bound at all. If the allocation really can lag _ctx_len — the premise of this truncation — those writes resolve through table entries that _refresh_ctx_block_tables clamped from their negative placeholder to 0, i.e. another request's block, which truncating the read length does not prevent for the request being overwritten. If it cannot lag, is this truncation guarding a reachable state? Either way, _ctx_block_counts is exactly the per-request bound that the comment on line 1332 says is "not recoverable here", so that comment needs updating too.

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Right on both counts; fixed in a93e50b.

  • Generation write is now bounded by the request's own allocation (_ctx_block_counts[gen_rows_out] * page_size) instead of the table width, so the overshoot cannot resolve through a clamped placeholder.
  • _store_prefill_context folds the row's allocation into the existing _max_ctx overflow guard (cap = min(_max_ctx, ctx_alloc[i])), one sync hoisted out of the loop, reusing the same request-level skip.
  • The "not recoverable here" comment is gone — with the count taken pre-clamp it is recoverable.

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Correction to my reply above, from reading the kernel rather than the comment.

copyBatchBlockOffsetsToDeviceKernel writes dstK = (val == BAD_PAGE_INDEX) ? 0 : ... (cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2Utils.cu:231), and TLLM_KV_CACHE_MANAGER_V2_BACKEND defaults to cpp (tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_manager_v2/__init__.py:23). So on the default path the placeholders are already gone by the time _refresh_ctx_block_tables sees them, (encoded >= 0).sum() counts the full row, and the bound degenerates to exactly the block-table-width clamp this PR replaced. The comment I removed was right for that backend; my claim that the count is recoverable holds only on the python backend, which propagates BAD_PAGE_INDEX through _copy_swa_block_offsets_with_scratch (kv_cache_manager_v2.py:856).

The fix stands — _ctx_block_counts still has to exist or the path raises, and the bound is never looser than upstream's — but it is per-request only on python. Stated in dflash_allocated_ctx_limit's docstring in 9bcd529 so nobody reads a guarantee into it. Practical consequence: the cross-request write this thread is about is not fixed on the default backend, only bounded to the table as before.

# Before any store: prefill and decode both address pages through it.
self._refresh_ctx_block_tables(attn_metadata, batch_size)
refreshed = self._refresh_ctx_block_tables(attn_metadata, batch_size)
if self._ctx_block_tables is not None and not refreshed:

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_refresh_ctx_block_tables raises on its own when draft_kv_cache_block_offsets is absent, so it returns False only for self._ctx_block_tables is None or num_seqs <= 0. The first disjunct is already excluded by the condition here, so this branch is reachable only on an empty batch — which the message then misattributes to missing block offsets, and which changes from a no-op into a hard failure. Suggest asserting on batch_size explicitly, or dropping the guard since the case it names already raises with an accurate message one frame down.

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Correct — on this base _refresh_ctx_block_tables raises on missing offsets itself, so the only way to reach that guard is an empty batch, which it then misreports. The guard came over from a branch where _refresh returned False for that case. Removed in a93e50b; the accurate message one frame down is the only one left.

# before any of them, so a drafter may read it in place of its
# config-derived cap. _compute_block_size, not _resolved_block_size:
# the block decode's j runs over the slots the forward computes.
draft_model._runtime_position_ceiling = dflash_position_ceiling(

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_runtime_position_ceiling is injected onto the drafter but declared on no class, so the only reader (modeling_dspark.py:2817) needs a getattr(..., None) fallback to compensate. _uses_worker_attention_backend, _paged_ctx_cache and _kv_factor in this same PR are all declared on DFlashForCausalLM with a docstring — declaring this one the same way (defaulting to None) would remove both the untyped injection and the fallback.

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Done in 23e1495 — declared on DFlashForCausalLM next to _uses_worker_attention_backend / _paged_ctx_cache with a docstring, defaulting to None, and the getattr(..., None) in modeling_dspark.py is now a plain attribute read.

"""
if self._mla_freqs is None:
rope = dict(self._mla_rope_params)
runtime_cap = getattr(self, "_runtime_position_ceiling", None)

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_mla_freqs is built once and never reset, but _lazy_init_ctx_buffers re-publishes _runtime_position_ceiling on the rebind path when the estimation probe KV manager is swapped for the real one, and drafter forwards do run during estimation. Is _max_ctx guaranteed identical across that rebind? If it can grow, the table built during estimation is short for the real run and freqs[positions] indexes out of range — clearing the cache wherever the ceiling is published would make that impossible by construction.

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Checked the trigger: _max_ctx = min(attn_metadata.max_seq_len, config.max_position_embeddings) (dflash.py:540-543) — neither input depends on the KV manager, so the ceiling cannot grow across the probe→real rebind today.

Made it impossible by construction anyway (23e1495): the table is cached on _mla_freqs_cap and rebuilt whenever the resolved cap differs, rather than built once.

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effective_draft_config = copy.copy(effective_draft_config)
effective_draft_config._frozen = False
effective_draft_config.quant_config = neutral_quant
effective_draft_config._frozen = True

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ModelConfig.__setattr__ already exempts quant_config from the frozen check (model_config.py:315), so the _frozen = False / _frozen = True dance around this assignment is unnecessary — and restoring it to True unconditionally freezes a copy whose source may not have been frozen. Separately, the comment above points at a draft_kv_config.dtype -> "auto" guard in _create_one_model_draft_kv_cache_manager that reads layer_quant_mode; I can't find one. layer_quant_mode has no reader anywhere under pyexecutor/, and the only KV-quant consumer on this path is _create_kv_cache_manager, which reads quant_mode.

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Both correct; fixed in 23e1495.

  • _frozen dance dropped — quant_config is in the exempt tuple at model_config.py:315-316, and restoring True unconditionally was the worse half of it.
  • The comment named a guard that does not exist. The only layer_quant_mode reader under pyexecutor/ is model_engine.py:1123, and it reads the model's config, not this shallow copy. Comment now says why the pop is still needed: _create_kv_cache_manager reads quant_mode off this copy and layer_quant_mode is the same cached pair.

f" [draft pool: {len(self.kv_cache_map)} live caches holding "
f"{live} tokens, gpu_max_tokens={self._gpu_max_tokens}]"
)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - diagnostic only

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kv_cache_map and _gpu_max_tokens are both assigned unconditionally in __init__, and .capacity is read on _KVCache in a dozen other places here, so none of the three reads can fail at the point this is called. The bare except Exception defends a state that cannot occur and conflicts with the repo guidance on broad exception handling — suggest dropping the try/except.

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Agreed — both attributes are assigned unconditionally in __init__ (:1387, :1404) and .capacity is read on _KVCache in 15 other places in this file. try/except removed in 23e1495.

Deriving this from checkpoint metadata is not possible today: neither published
drafter's config records which capture convention it was distilled against."""

_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENABLED = os.environ.get(KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENV, "1") == "1"

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The info_once at construction makes the active mode visible, which helps. The remaining concern is the read itself: evaluating it into a module-level global at import time means it cannot be set per-LLM instance, cannot be changed after this module is imported, and does not appear in the serialized args. Since the surrounding docstring describes it as a property of the drafter checkpoint rather than a tuning knob, would a field on the drafter config — with this env var kept as an override — be a better home, even though the value still has to be supplied by hand today?

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Agreed on the limitation. Leaving it as an env var in this PR, deliberately: the docstring's own measurement calls the Inferact direction unsettled (+0.9pt at n=200, inside the band this harness treats as noise for RadixArk's own 71-73% spread), so promoting it to a serialized config field would fix a value we do not yet consider settled. Worth revisiting once a drafter checkpoint records its capture convention — until then the info_once is what makes the active mode auditable.

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Require every parameter of each required module. _supplied() returns true when any parameter exists under a non-fused, non-shared module. DFlash loading passes allow_partial_loading=True, so the loader skips missing parameters and leaves their torch.empty storage uninitialized. Reject the checkpoint unless every parameter in each required module is present, while preserving the target-shared exceptions.

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zero-filled page entries. Assert the Python-style row records only its
valid-page count, while the zero-filled row records the full table width,
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- Line 478: Update the tests at
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dflash_scaffold.py
lines 478-478 and 541-541 to configure KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM before module
configuration initializes, instead of setting mkl._AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENABLED
directly. Verify that the aggregated-stream value produces the expected in-loop
and tail capture streams at line 478, and the prefix-stream value produces the
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- Line 480: Wrap the seeded sections in both
test_aux_capture_taps_the_selected_stream at
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from tensorrt_llm._torch.models import modeling_kimi_linear as mkl

monkeypatch.setattr(mkl, "_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENABLED", aggregated)

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Exercise the environment configuration boundary.

These tests set the private derived flag directly. They pass if KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM is ignored, parsed incorrectly, or mapped to the wrong branch.

Set the environment variable before module configuration initializes. Assert that each supported value produces the expected in-loop and tail capture stream.

  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dflash_scaffold.py#L478-L478: test the configured aggregated-stream value through KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dflash_scaffold.py#L541-L541: test the configured prefix-stream value through KIMI_K3_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM.
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monkeypatch.setattr(mkl, "_AUX_ATTN_RES_STREAM_ENABLED", aggregated)

torch.manual_seed(0)

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LGTM from KVCM perspective

self._freqs_cap = (
int(getattr(config, "max_position_embeddings", 163840)) + self.block_size + 2
)
self._freqs_cap = _runtime_position_cap(model_config, config, self.block_size + 2)

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Flagging this one for a second look — I may be missing a constraint, but the new cap looks like it could end up tighter than what the engine actually serves.

_runtime_position_cap resolves to model_config.max_seq_len + block_size + 2, so the largest valid index into _dspark_freqs_table() is max_seq_len + block_size + 1. The largest index the draft asks for is start_pos + block (blk_pos = start_pos + 1 + arange(block), L595), so this holds only while start_pos <= max_seq_len + 1.

What makes me want to ask is that model_config.max_seq_len is the un-raised value. py_executor_creator.py reads it into a local at L636, adds the spec-dec headroom at L639/L642/L643, and never writes it back — which is exactly what the new comment on external_drafter_config_kwargs in modeling_speculative.py points out. For DSPARK that headroom is 2 * (tokens_per_gen_step - 1) + get_num_extra_kv_tokens(spec_config); DSPARK is is_parallel_draft(), so use_one_engine() holds and get_num_extra_kv_tokens returns max_draft_len - 1, giving 3K - 1 with K = max_draft_len. The slack added here is block_size + 2 = K + 2, which is smaller than 3K - 1 for every K >= 2 (7 vs 14 at K=5). Before this change the cap was max_position_embeddings + block_size + 2 — 163840+ — so the gap was unreachable and none of this mattered.

I haven't traced start_pos to its actual maximum, so it may well be bounded below the cap for some other reason. But the engine reserving those positions specifically for this mode is the part I can't explain away. Could you confirm the upper bound on start_pos here?

Independently of how that lands, the four consumers disagree on how they fail, and one of them fails silently. dspark_attention_forward_batched (L593/L595) and write_context_windows / write_context_windows_batched (L1477/L1523) index with tensors, so an out-of-range position raises or trips a device-side assert. But dspark_attention_forward slices with Python ints (L486-487, freqs_cis[start_pos + 1 : start_pos + 1 + block]), which silently returns a short tensor instead of failing — RoPE quietly dropped from the block tail, visible only as lower acceptance. There's an assert start_pos > 0 at L483 but no upper guard. Even if the bound turns out to be safe today, making that path fail loudly seems worth doing.

Last thing, on the shape of the fix rather than the bug: this PR already solves the same problem on the DFlash side by publishing the ceiling at runtime (_runtime_position_ceiling, set in DFlashWorker._lazy_init_ctx_buffers) precisely because a config-derived reconstruction drifts from what the engine serves. The NOTE at L1079-1085 says the DSv4 site keeps its own slack because it isn't driven by that worker, which is fair — but it does leave this site on the config-derived arithmetic the rest of the PR is moving away from.

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Leave a concern, please to confirm the correctness. Not a blocker.

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DSparkDecodingConfig.attention_backend gained AUTO and CUTEDSL, and the
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The op dispatch ended in a bare else, so a subclass widening
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Every inline block over five lines, compressed to the measured numbers,
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Twenty-four docstring paragraphs over five lines, cut to the facts a
reader cannot re-derive; four split into two points rather than trimmed.
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tokens [0, i] -- the same dependency face as the target's KV. So the span is
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external_drafter_config_kwargs() forwards model_config.max_seq_len so the
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The reuse-protocol cherry-pick came off a branch predating NVIDIA#18093, so
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