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  • KvCacheCreator can place eligible DFlash target and draft layers in one V2 KV cache manager. The launcher enables sharing only for compatible context and generation configurations. Review the eligibility gates and layer specifications together, especially ownership, dtype, and page geometry.
  • DFlash now binds to unified-manager allocation metadata and block offsets. Unsupported unified layouts raise errors; separate-manager layouts can retain the private-arena fallback. Verify allocation, reuse, and context-slot behavior on both paths.
  • Peer registration rejects mismatched draft-layer counts. This enforces compatible unified layouts before peers register.
  • The supplied CI reports are mixed: some runs passed, some failed, and one was unstable. No test execution results for the current change or current review findings were supplied.

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Added coverage includes unified-cache eligibility and launcher configuration, manager-spec forwarding, mixed-dtype block-table indexing, peer compatibility, RankInfo serialization, and block-table offset decoding. The disaggregated DFlash accuracy test is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml. No manual-QA list entry is identified in the supplied evidence. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The change spans manager construction, runtime allocation, and disaggregated transfer, and the supplied evidence does not establish successful execution across these paths.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/peer.py — Verify that mismatched num_draft_layers values reject registration and matching values permit registration.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/native/rank_info.py — Verify draft-layer counts for unified and legacy manager layouts, including serialization and the default for older payloads.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py — Verify unified-layout eligibility, target and draft storage specifications, and fallback to separate draft-cache creation when eligibility fails.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py — Comment-only change; check that the documented disaggregated transfer behavior matches runtime behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py — Verify unified and separate manager binding, slot initialization, block offsets, and errors for unsupported unified layouts.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py — Verify draft metadata handling when the target manager also provides the draft cache view.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py — Verify that the target manager is not returned as a separate draft manager.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/spec_tail_kernels.py — Verify that block_offset is applied before counting and decoding draft block-table entries.
  • tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py — Verify that shared draft KV is enabled only for eligible context and generation configurations.
  • tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/acceptance_length.yaml — Adds the reference and minimum threshold for the unified DFlash accuracy test.
  • tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py — Adds TestQwen3_8BDFlash::test_gsm8k_1p1d_unified_draft_kv for accuracy and acceptance length. The test is listed in the B200 CI test list.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml — Adds the unified DFlash accuracy test to the B200 CI list.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_dflash_unified_kv_gate.py — Covers unified-layout eligibility and launcher decisions across configuration cases. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py — Covers forwarding per-layer storage specifications to cache-manager construction. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py — Covers DFlash context block-table indices with FP8 target storage and BF16 draft storage. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_peer.py — Covers peer registration with matching and mismatched draft-layer counts. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_rank_info.py — Covers manager-derived and serialized RankInfo draft-layer counts, including older payloads. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py — Covers block-table decoding with zero and nonzero offsets. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_budget_split.py — Sets the DFlash mode mock explicitly in the target-cost test. No integration test-list entry applies.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_copy_skip.py — Updates the slot-assignment stub and comment used by copy tests. No integration test-list entry applies.

Description

Follow-up to #20178. Integrate DFlash with the unified key-value cache manager so target and draft layers share one manager while retaining their respective cache data types.

Test Coverage

The following 24 comparisons cover tensor parallel configurations, CUDA graphs, overlap scheduling, attention data parallelism, and mixed cache precision.

All result columns report AL. Measurements come from the generation server’s /metrics, except the attention data parallelism comparisons, which use per-request statistics from a concurrent client. Both configuration columns show tensor parallel sizes; the disaggregated configuration lists prefill → decode.

Test configuration Aggregated configuration Disaggregated configuration Aggregated before Aggregated after Disaggregated before Disaggregated after
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler enabled 1 1 → 1 3.8180 3.8180 3.1793 3.8180
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler enabled 2 2 → 2 3.8646 3.8646 3.3140 3.8646
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler enabled 1 2 → 1 3.8180 3.8180 3.2437 3.8284
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler enabled 2 1 → 2 3.8646 3.8646 3.0522 3.6005
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler enabled 4 2 → 4 3.5928 3.5928 2.9582 3.4645
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler disabled 1 1 → 1 3.6360 3.6360 3.0302 3.6360
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler disabled 2 1 → 2 3.6973 3.6973 2.9202 3.4406
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler disabled 1 2 → 1 3.6360 3.6360 3.0928 3.6395
CUDA graphs enabled; overlap scheduler disabled 4 2 → 4 3.4499 3.4499 2.8491 3.3349
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler enabled 1 1 → 1 3.7645 3.7645 3.2793 3.7645
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler enabled 2 1 → 2 3.5380 3.5380 3.3256 3.8240
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler enabled 1 2 → 1 3.7645 3.7645 3.0041 3.4615
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler enabled 4 2 → 4 3.5565 3.5565 3.3079 3.8810
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler disabled 1 1 → 1 3.5856 3.5856 3.1083 3.5856
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler disabled 2 1 → 2 3.3938 3.3938 3.1842 3.6538
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler disabled 1 2 → 1 3.5856 3.5856 2.8926 3.3511
CUDA graphs disabled; overlap scheduler disabled 4 2 → 4 3.4255 3.4255 3.1556 3.7135
Attention data parallelism 2 2 → 2 3.7766 3.7766 3.1109 3.6687
Attention data parallelism 4 2 → 4 3.5341 3.5269 2.9660 3.5495
Mixed cache precision 1 1 → 1 3.7690 3.7690 3.2181 3.7690
Mixed cache precision 2 2 → 2 3.8874 3.8874 3.3286 3.8874
Mixed cache precision 2 1 → 2 3.8874 3.8874 3.2567 3.7878
Mixed cache precision 1 2 → 1 3.7690 3.7690 3.2178 3.7714
Mixed cache precision 4 2 → 4 3.6799 3.6799 3.0542 3.4708

The mixed cache precision runs use the following configuration. Here, bfloat16 denotes the 16-bit brain floating-point format.

Model Weights Key-value cache
Target: Qwen3-8B bfloat16 8-bit floating point
Drafter: Qwen3-8B-DFlash-b16 bfloat16 bfloat16

Only the target cache uses 8-bit floating point; target weights and activations remain bfloat16. Runtime logs confirm the intended target and draft cache types on every rank, with the drafter using the shared bfloat16 pool and no fallback to its private cache. Transfer unit coverage verifies that draft pages use two-byte elements even when the servers advertise the target cache’s one-byte element size.

Results:

  • Aggregated AL is unchanged in 23 of 24 comparisons. The attention data parallelism comparison at tensor parallel size 4 changes by −0.20%; this run uses a timing-dependent concurrent client.
  • Disaggregated AL increases in all 24 comparisons.
  • After the change, aggregated and disaggregated AL match exactly whenever prefill and decode use the same tensor parallel size without attention data parallelism.
  • Other configurations can produce different generated text. Among requests with identical output, aggregated and disaggregated AL agree within approximately ±1%, except the mixed cache precision configuration with prefill size 2 and decode size 4, where the difference is −1.89%.

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Separate NVFP4 data and block scales from other equal-size buffers while keeping shared lifecycle slot allocation. Preserve matching role order and require matching scale roles.

Add one regression test for mixed NVFP4 and BF16 storage, checking scale addresses at slot 1 and the final slot.

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Read the data-only view of three-dimensional pointer tables for non-FP4 layers while preserving NVFP4 scale handling and legacy two-dimensional tables.

Add one native-binding regression covering mixed BF16/NVFP4 pointer tables and legacy BF16 tables.

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Preserve explicit and legacy layer configuration while applying upstream pool rebalancing settings to both paths.

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The improvement is good.

May you share measurements upon this improvement with respect to e2e performance, ,latency, TTFT, or time per output token, or throughput at a fixed GPU budget and latency target which would take account for the additional memory and transfer overhead.

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Preserve unified DFlash cache layer offsets in the fused block-table decoder and cover nonzero offsets in the existing kernel regression test. Retain the ModelEngine rename alongside cache storage layer specifications.

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Require compatible target and draft attention backends, static drafting, and supported page sizes on every disaggregated peer before enabling shared draft KV. Keep separate caches when the effective page size is unsupported by DFlash, and cover the launcher and local fallback decisions.

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633-639: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Low value

Use a running token offset when seeding unified-cache slots.

When several new generation requests receive unified-cache slots in one batch, the current prefix sums can perform quadratic work. This path is bounded by max_batch_size and runs only for requests absent from worker._req_to_slot, so this is a low-reward optional optimization rather than a steady-state hot-path issue. Advancing the offset for every request preserves positions for skipped and dummy requests.

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             num_contexts = max(0, len(self.request_ids) - self.num_generations)
             assigned = {}
+            token_offset = sum(self.seq_lens[:num_contexts])
             for request_idx, rid in enumerate(self.request_ids[num_contexts:], num_contexts):
                 if (
                     rid != ATTENTION_DP_DUMMY_REQUEST_ID
                     and rid < worker._graph_dummy_id_floor
                     and rid not in worker._req_to_slot
@@
                         # accepted tokens advance the device length during replay.
-                        token_offset = sum(self.seq_lens[:request_idx])
                         assigned[slot] = min(
                             int(self.host_position_ids[token_offset]), worker._max_ctx
                         )
+                token_offset += self.seq_lens[request_idx]
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In the unified-cache slot seeding loop, replace the per-request prefix sum with
a running token offset. Initialize it to the sum of sequence lengths before the
generation requests, use it to read host_position_ids for each eligible new
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py:
- Around line 2565-2566: Update the launcher gate near the `attn_backend` and
`tokens_per_block` checks to also exclude pipeline parallelism, context
parallelism, KV cache compression, and mixed KV dtypes, matching the exclusions
in `_should_unify_dflash_kv_cache()`. Use the same configuration keys and
default values so the launcher does not enable shared draft KV when any worker
configuration is ineligible.

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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py:
- Around line 633-639: In the unified-cache slot seeding loop, replace the
per-request prefix sum with a running token offset. Initialize it to the sum of
sequence lengths before the generation requests, use it to read
host_position_ids for each eligible new request, and advance it by each
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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py
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  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kvcm2_integration.py
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or cfg.other_args.get("attn_backend", "TRTLLM") != "TRTLLM"
or kv_cache.get("tokens_per_block", 32) not in (16, 32, 64)):

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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

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Add all four worker exclusions to the launcher gate.

_should_unify_dflash_kv_cache() rejects pipeline parallelism, context parallelism, mixed KV dtype, and compression. The launcher currently omits all four. An asymmetric server configuration can therefore enable shared draft KV globally while only one worker creates draft layers, causing peer registration to fail on num_draft_layers.

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--- "a/tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py"
+++ "b/tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py"
@@ -2562,8 +2562,12 @@
                 or spec.get("attention_backend") != "TRTLLM"
                 or spec.get("draft_len_schedule") is not None
                 or spec.get("max_concurrency") is not None
                 or cfg.other_args.get("attn_backend", "TRTLLM") != "TRTLLM"
+                or cfg.other_args.get("pipeline_parallel_size", 1) != 1
+                or cfg.other_args.get("context_parallel_size", 1) != 1
+                or cfg.other_args.get("kv_cache_compression_config") is not None
+                or str(kv_cache.get("dtype", "auto")).startswith("mixed_")
                 or kv_cache.get("tokens_per_block", 32) not in (16, 32, 64)):
             shared_draft_kv_supported = False
             break
     os.environ["TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV"] = (

This blocks a supported disaggregated server startup, so the issue is a major workflow failure rather than a narrow minor issue.

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or cfg.other_args.get("attn_backend", "TRTLLM") != "TRTLLM"
or kv_cache.get("tokens_per_block", 32) not in (16, 32, 64)):
or cfg.other_args.get("attn_backend", "TRTLLM") != "TRTLLM"
or cfg.other_args.get("pipeline_parallel_size", 1) != 1
or cfg.other_args.get("context_parallel_size", 1) != 1
or cfg.other_args.get("kv_cache_compression_config") is not None
or str(kv_cache.get("dtype", "auto")).startswith("mixed_")
or kv_cache.get("tokens_per_block", 32) not in (16, 32, 64)):
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/commands/serve.py around lines 2565 - 2566:
Update the launcher gate near the `attn_backend` and `tokens_per_block` checks
to also exclude pipeline parallelism, context parallelism, KV cache compression,
and mixed KV dtypes, matching the exclusions in
`_should_unify_dflash_kv_cache()`. Use the same configuration keys and default
values so the launcher does not enable shared draft KV when any worker
configuration is ineligible.

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zheyuf added a commit to brb-nv/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Oct 29, 2026
… under disaggregated serving (#25)

* [None][feat] Unified kv cache manager foundation (NVIDIA#20178)

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>
(cherry picked from commit fce28f0)

Backport to this branch: the cpp/ part (BufferConfig.coalescing_group,
the attentionOp 3-D pool-pointer table) is not included;
_coalescing_group_kwargs passes the group only when it is nonzero, so
layer specs without NVFP4 buffers run on the existing bindings, and the
two mixed NVFP4/BF16 pool tests skip on bindings without
coalescing_group. Hunks for main-only features (mixed-precision KV,
pool rebalancing) are dropped, and layer_specs is declared on the class
for managers built without __init__.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [TRTLLM-16722][feat] Dflash Unified KVCache (NVIDIA#20486)

Port of NVIDIA#20486 at 219e26e (net diff against the
main it merges, df95eda).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: conflicts resolved against the separate draft
pool's disagg window transfer (RankInfo keeps both draft fields), the
drafter slot parking and seeds in DFlashSpecMetadata.prepare (the
position seeding applies to the unified cache only), and the fused
block-table refresh (skipped when the layer has a block offset). Hunks
for code this branch does not have (spec_tail_kernels, model-level
layer specs) are dropped; Gemma4 hybrid geometry stands in for
_has_variable_kv_cache_geometry.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Per View KV head transfer (NVIDIA#20709)

Port of NVIDIA#20709 at 300a671 (net diff against the
main it merges, 0746a23).

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

Backport to this branch: import and registration-check conflicts
resolved by keeping both sides.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Bound DFlash's shared context by the allocation's extent

DFlash took the number of valid block-table entries as the pages a request
holds. On a unified cache with per-layer page tables (e.g. an FP8 target
with a BF16 drafter), a sliding-window draft layer's evicted pages stay
BAD_PAGE_INDEX in front of its live tail, so the count stopped at about one
window (66 blocks for window 2048, page 32) whatever the context length. The
decode-time allocation check then trapped once a context passed ~2.1K
tokens, and prefill skipped the drafter's context store for later chunks and
for prefix hits past the window.

Use the extent of the allocation instead, the last valid entry + 1. Reads
below the window are never issued and writes land in the live tail; for a
full-attention drafter, and on the cpp backend, the extent equals the count.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit ff11364)

* [None][fix] Re-seed DFlash generation slots in CUDA-graph warmup

CUDA-graph warmup builds every batch from dummy requests whose ids repeat
across batches (0..bs-1), so a reused id keeps its drafter slot and the
previous batch's context length, which the replay after each capture
advances for good. A later batch can give the same id far fewer pages, and
on a unified KV cache the drafter's allocation check then trapped at server
start: during the advanced-sampling capture pass the filler rows reached
31..79 positions against a 24-position allocation.

Only warmup runs a CUDA-graph batch eagerly, so there re-seed each
generation row's slot from this batch's positions, as prepare() already
seeds a new request.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

(cherry picked from commit 2b23449)

* [None][feat] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: keep the drafter's KV in the target's manager under disagg

On GB300 a disaggregated generation worker gets the target's prompt KV but
not the DSpark drafter's, which lives in a separate pool: the drafter
starts from an empty window at block 0 and acceptance collapses on long
prompts. Hosting the draft layers in the target's KVCacheManagerV2 lets
the transceiver move them with the target's pages.

- MiniMaxM3KVCacheManagerV2 hosts explicit draft layer specs: index-K
  buffers follow the spec-built ones, dense target layers stay FP8,
  size-only coalescing keeps the target pools, draft layers use the base
  view.
- KvCacheCreator unifies a standalone DSpark drafter with such a manager
  under disaggregated serving when the drafter reads the target's page
  size. Agg keeps the separate pool paired with block reuse, and a model
  that ships that pool's window (F0a) keeps it in disagg.
  TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 opts out.
- An NVFP4 target transfers with a BF16 draft held in pools of its own.
- A windowed draft lifecycle gets the hot-tier bytes of every admissible
  sequence's window plus one context chunk, instead of the bytes-per-token
  split that handed it a quarter of the KV cache.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] Reuse a unified DSpark drafter's KV only where its window is complete

With the drafter's layers in the target's KV cache manager, the draft
lifecycle's REQUIRED policy let the drafter's window constrain every
prefix match: a request branching off a shared prefix found no
committed window there and re-prefilled its whole prompt.

- A windowed drafter's layer specs are OPTIONAL. The target alone sets
  the match, and a new cache's first resume selects the drafter's
  layers where their window is complete (page-aligned matches only).
- Where the window is missing, prepare_context caps the claim so the
  prefill writes everything the drafter reads (from L + 2 - W on): at
  L + 1 - W, or one window before a branch point within W of the prompt
  end, whose window the request then publishes. A partial match first
  retries at its last full page.
- The commit gate for unstored drafter context, its unwritten-prefix
  marks and branch-point publication cover a manager that hosts the
  drafter's layers, not only a paired draft pool.

A disagg generation request needs no cap: the KV transfer requests an
unselected OPTIONAL group in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark: copy only the unified drafter's block offsets per step

A hybrid NVFP4 MiniMax-M3 cache is pool-less: no target layer reads its
attention-op block offsets. With explicit draft layers it kept every
layer's pool, so each step converted the whole per-layer table (layers x
sequence slots x max_seq_len / tokens_per_block) on the device: about
3 ms per decode step at max_seq_len 1M on TP2.

Keep one attention-op pool, the first draft layer's, which is the only
one the unified drafter reads, and fill it from the draft lifecycle's
rows with the copy a separate draft pool uses.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Allocate the whole block of a drafter that shares the target's KV cache

A unified DFlash/DSpark drafter appends its block after the request's
context, through the request's own pages. The manager sized every request
with num_extra_kv_tokens = K-1 beyond its history, but the DSpark
shift_label block is K wide (DFlash K+1). When the allocation ended on a
page boundary, at the prompt end or after a step that accepts all K+1
tokens, the block's last slot had no page: the drafter then truncated the
advertised context and its scratch overwrote the last context position in
the draft layers, silently.

When DRAFT-owner layers live in the manager, size each request beyond its
history by max(num_extra_kv_tokens, drafter block width) at every
allocation site and in the generation headroom. The creator passes the
checkpoint-resolved width (shift_label). Adapted from NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
NVIDIA#20664 (76c4cef); num_extra_kv_tokens keeps its position-side meaning.

* [None][fix] Fail at startup when TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 cannot be honored

An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=1 on a disaggregated worker whose
target and drafter cannot share one KV cache manager silently kept the
separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred. Raise at KV cache
creation instead, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664's
_check_shared_draft_kv_request does.

disaggregated_mpi_worker now writes "auto" rather than "1" when both
sections pass its coarse checks, so its automatic choice can still fall
back where a worker's finer checks refuse; the creator shares under "1" and
"auto" alike. The unset default is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Let disaggregated_mpi_worker share a DSpark drafter's KV

The launcher wrote TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 for any drafter other than DFlash, and for any page
size other than 16, 32 or 64, so a MiniMax-M3.1 DSpark deployment started through it (128-token pages)
kept the separate draft pool, whose KV is not transferred.

Accept a standalone DSpark drafter with attention_backend unset, AUTO or TRTLLM, as NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM
NVIDIA#20664 does, and leave its page size to each worker's KvCacheCreator: the launcher cannot know whether
the drafter reads the target's page. It writes "auto"; if the two sides still disagree, the peers'
draft-layer check fails loudly. An explicit TRTLLM_DISAGG_SHARED_DRAFT_KV=0 is now kept.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Keep attention-DP dummy generation rows on DFlash's dummy slot

A generation row with the attention-DP dummy id must never inherit a real slot, because the C++ offset
copy maps placeholders to page 0: a slot that a context warmup stored under that id would let the
dummy row write its drafter K/V past its own pages, onto another request's page. As in
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM NVIDIA#20664, such rows now always take the dummy slot.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][perf] DFlash: size a unified MiniMax-M3.1 drafter's context stores on the host

DFlash bounds each context store by the row's allocation, which it reads
back from the device unless the drafter's block-table rows are known to
be written in full. That was only recognized for a separate draft pool,
so with the unified drafter every context chunk waited for the target's
forward before the store was issued.

Let the KV cache manager say whether it rewrites copied rows in full,
and check the target manager's own table for a unified drafter. The
MiniMax-M3 manager's drafter-only pool is copied in full.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][feat] KVCacheManagerV2: reuse an OPTIONAL group at a partial endpoint

An OPTIONAL lifecycle group was checked only at a page-aligned endpoint,
so a partial prefix match always left it incomplete. A unified DSpark
drafter then lost its window's partial page and the caller cut its claim
back to the last full page, recomputing up to a page per request.

Check an OPTIONAL group at any endpoint with the REQUIRED coverage rule:
the last page needs only the matched prefix. The first resume copies a
selected group's partial page into a private page, as for REQUIRED, and
counts it as a partial reuse. Partial snapshots now publish OPTIONAL
pages as well, so a continuation of a prompt that ended mid-page finds
them. A match whose partial page is missing still falls back to the
last full page.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

* [None][fix] Give the block-table refresh test's stub the extent columns

The stock DFlashWorker._refresh_ctx_block_tables reads _ctx_block_cols since
the allocation-extent fix; the test's object.__new__ stub never set it.

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Zheyu Fu <zheyuf@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: allisonlim-nv <allim@nvidia.com>
Preserve the DFlash unified-cache and upstream GLM acceptance-length baselines. Update the draft page-size test to match upstream behavior that retains supported 64-token pages.

Signed-off-by: Allison Lim <allim@nvidia.com>

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# Acceptance length is read back off this worker's /metrics.
"enable_iter_perf_stats": True,
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Retain the full engine iteration buffer.

iter_stats_max_iterations controls the metrics collector snapshot buffer. It does not replace max_stats_len, whose default is 1000. A long acceptance run can therefore lose its earlier iterations and produce an incomplete acceptance-length measurement.

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--- "a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py"
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@@ -1700,9 +1700,10 @@
                 "max_batch_size": 16,
                 "enable_padding": True,
             },
             # Acceptance length is read back off this worker's /metrics.
             "enable_iter_perf_stats": True,
+            "max_stats_len": -1,
             "iter_stats_max_iterations": -1,
         }
         disaggregated_server_config = {
             "hostname": "localhost",
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# Acceptance length is read back off this worker's /metrics.
"enable_iter_perf_stats": True,
"iter_stats_max_iterations": -1,
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"enable_iter_perf_stats": True,
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