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[None][fix] Enable KVCM V2 by default for KimiLinear
yizhang-nv Sep 18, 2026
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[None][fix] Reuse existing Kimi tests for the V2 default
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[None][test] Cover registered KimiLinear V2 defaults
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions docs/source/features/kvcache.md
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Expand Up @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ Models that select the V2 manager by default:
| GPT-OSS | Sliding window on every other layer (VSWA), so the sliding-window and full-attention pools are sized independently |
| Gemma3 / Gemma4 (text and multimodal) | Alternating sliding-window and full-attention layers (VSWA); same independent pool sizing |
| Llama / Llama4 | Uniform KV pool layout; chunked attention does not partition the pools |
| KimiLinear | Hybrid KDA recurrent state and paged MLA cache |

Separately, Gemma4 hybrid attention and sparse-attention models are routed to
V2 unconditionally: their per-layer buffer layouts cannot be represented by V1's
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21 changes: 13 additions & 8 deletions tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py
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Caching
-------
KDA states live on the mamba side of a ``MixedMambaHybridCacheManager``
KDA states live on the mamba side of a ``MambaHybridCacheManagerV2``
(wired in ``pyexecutor/_util.py``): per layer, a short-conv slot of
``[3 * num_heads * head_dim, W]`` bf16 (the full FLA ``ShortConvolution``
cache window, sections ``[q | k | v]``) and a delta-rule recurrent slot of
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and the MLA prefill path natively attends over the cached latent prefix
(``kv_len = cached + q_len``). KV-cache block reuse is supported as an
opt-in via ``kv_cache_config.enable_block_reuse=true``, which routes to

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This now reads as if block reuse is what routes to MambaHybridCacheManagerV2, but both paths land there after this change. Suggest: reuse stays opt-in; enabling it adds per-block KDA state snapshots every mamba_state_cache_interval tokens and FORCE_CHUNK context chunking on the same V2 manager.

the unified-pool ``CppMambaHybridCacheManager`` (per-block KDA state
snapshots every ``mamba_state_cache_interval`` tokens, FORCE_CHUNK
context chunking).
``MambaHybridCacheManagerV2`` (per-block KDA state snapshots every
``mamba_state_cache_interval`` tokens, FORCE_CHUNK context chunking).

Not supported: pipeline parallelism, draft-head spec-dec modes
(MTP/Eagle — no draft-head checkpoint exists). SA speculative decoding
is validated only without block reuse (Mixed cache manager).
is validated only without block reuse.
"""

from __future__ import annotations
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@classmethod
def get_model_defaults(cls, llm_args) -> dict:
# - enable_block_reuse defaults off: reuse is supported as an
# explicit opt-in (routes to CppMambaHybridCacheManager with
# per-block KDA state snapshots); the default stays on the
# Mixed manager, which SA speculative decoding requires.
# explicit opt-in with per-block KDA state snapshots.

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The rewrite drops the reason and leaves a restatement: "defaults off: reuse is supported as an explicit opt-in." The original rationale (the default had to stay on the Mixed manager for SA spec-dec) is void now, so record the current reason for keeping reuse off by default — unqualified accuracy, memory cost, or whatever it actually is — or drop the default if there is none.

# - tokens_per_block=64: with 32, the flashinfer trtllm-gen FMHA lib
# rejects the MLA (576, 512) generation kernel (marked slower) and
# the fallback C++ path requires num_heads % 64 == 0, which K3's
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}
}

@classmethod
def get_preferred_kv_cache_manager_version(
cls,
pretrained_config: Any = None,
) -> Literal["V2"]:
"""Prefer KV cache manager V2 for KimiLinear."""

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This also flips the disaggregated default, which the description doesn't mention. model_loader.py:801-803 resolves the transceiver runtime first, get_preferred_transceiver_runtime() returns PYTHON, and _resolve_kv_cache_manager_v2_auto only demotes V2 when the route isn't NIXL+PYTHON — so the default Kimi disagg route now keeps V2 and get_kv_cache_manager_cls returns MambaHybridCacheManagerV2 where it previously returned MixedMambaHybridCacheManager.

The only KDA disagg transfer test (tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_kda_mamba_transfer.py:153) builds MixedMambaHybridCacheManager exclusively, so the new default transfer path is untested, and the PR says disagg transfer was not validated. Either add coverage for the V2 route or state in the description that disagg default behavior changed.

return "V2"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a concrete Kimi disaggregated-manager selection test.

The existing NIXL test resolves use_kv_cache_manager_v2=True and transceiver_runtime="PYTHON", but it does not call get_kv_cache_manager_cls(..., is_disagg=True). A regression in the Kimi disaggregated branch can therefore select a compatibility manager or reject the valid Python-NIXL route without failing these tests.

Add a case in tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_mamba_cache_manager.py that resolves both auto settings for Kimi with NIXL, then asserts that get_kv_cache_manager_cls returns MambaHybridCacheManagerV2 for is_disagg=True.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py` at line 2123, Add a
Kimi-specific NIXL test in the existing cache-manager test suite that resolves
the automatic KV-cache-manager and Python transceiver settings, then calls
get_kv_cache_manager_cls with is_disagg=True and asserts the result is
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+1


@classmethod
def get_preferred_transceiver_runtime(
cls,
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_mamba_cache_manager.py
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Expand Up @@ -844,10 +844,10 @@ def test_qwen3_gdn_replay_uses_v2_preference(
)


def test_kimi_without_v2_preference_uses_mixed_manager(
def test_kimi_model_preference_uses_v2_manager(
monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
) -> None:
"""Kimi K3 uses separate KV and recurrent-state pools for SA decoding."""
"""Kimi's model preference selects V2 for its KDA and MLA cache."""
from tensorrt_llm._torch.models.modeling_kimi_linear import KimiLinearForCausalLM

monkeypatch.delenv("TRTLLM_USE_PY_MAMBA", raising=False)
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)
resolved = _resolve_kv_cache_manager_v2_auto(llm_args, KimiLinearForCausalLM)

assert resolved is False
assert llm_args.kv_cache_config.use_kv_cache_manager_v2 is False
assert resolved is True
assert llm_args.kv_cache_config.use_kv_cache_manager_v2 is True
assert llm_args.kv_cache_config.enable_block_reuse is False
assert llm_args.kv_cache_config.tokens_per_block == 64
assert (
get_kv_cache_manager_cls(_kimi_model_config(), llm_args.kv_cache_config)

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This covers the aggregated route only. Add the disagg counterpart: _resolve_kv_cache_manager_v2_auto with cache_transceiver_config=CacheTransceiverConfig(backend="NIXL", transceiver_runtime="PYTHON"), then assert get_kv_cache_manager_cls(..., is_disagg=True, ...) — that path now also resolves to V2 and nothing pins it.

Related: test_kimi_disagg_python_nixl_routes_to_mixed_manager (line 914) passes a bare KvCacheConfig(), whose use_kv_cache_manager_v2 stays at "auto" and is treated as not-True by get_kv_cache_manager_cls. It still passes, but it now asserts a route no default-configured run takes, under a name that implies it is the default. Rename it to make the explicit-V1 precondition visible.

is MixedMambaHybridCacheManager
is MambaHybridCacheManagerV2
)


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Expand Up @@ -827,6 +827,7 @@ def test_registered_models_prefer_v2(self) -> None:
"MistralLarge3ForCausalLM",
"DeepseekV4ForCausalLM",
"KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration",
"KimiLinearForCausalLM",
"MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM",
"NemotronHForCausalLM",
"NemotronHPuzzleForCausalLM",
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"MistralLarge3ForCausalLM",
"GptOssForCausalLM",
"KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration",
"KimiLinearForCausalLM",
"NemotronHForCausalLM",
"NemotronHPuzzleForCausalLM",
"Qwen3NextForCausalLM",
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