test(vllm): re-enable aggregate migration matrix

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Summary

• re-enable aggregate vLLM request migration with eight explicit high-value cases instead of the 96-case Cartesian product
• cover migration enabled, migration disabled, sequence cap exceeded, and finite sequence cap not exceeded
• cover both abrupt and graceful worker loss, chat and completion APIs, streaming and unary responses, and NATS and TCP request planes for every policy state
• start the two vLLM workers concurrently after assigning dynamically allocated system, NIXL, KV-event, and rendezvous ports
• replace wall-clock and fixed-delay correctness checks with condition-driven polling, response completion, and exact vLLM migration metrics while preserving the shared helper's backend-agnostic defaults
• shrink the aggregate-only context/output bounds while preserving the migration behavior under test
• bound graceful parent-first shutdown so short completions disconnect and migrate before the engine child can exhaust the output budget

Why eight cases

The old matrix multiplied six mostly independent dimensions: 2 migration modes × 3 sequence-limit states × 2 shutdown modes × 2 APIs × 2 response modes × 2 transports = 96.

The replacement is an explicit covering array. Each of the four meaningful migration-policy states appears in two complementary rows, so every policy is exercised with both values of every binary dimension. Across the eight rows, every pair of shutdown/API/response/transport values is covered. The set also retains the graceful-shutdown + completion + unary + TCP shape that exposed the short-completion shutdown race.

We intentionally do not combine migration-disabled with sequence-cap rejection: each independently suppresses the same retry, and multiplying two rejection policies does not protect a unique observable contract. The Rust migration unit tests retain detailed retry accounting and sequence-boundary coverage.

Root cause

The aggregate matrix was skipped wholesale after repeated failures. The test infrastructure was not safe under concurrent GPU execution: workers shared several fixed ports and log paths, log-based worker discovery allowed only 500 ms, and response correctness included a hard six-second timing assertion. The metric assertions also accepted counts above the expected value, which could hide duplicate migrations.

Starting worker 2 only after worker 1 was ready added about 24 seconds of serialized cold-start time to every case. Starting both together makes their request planes ready within roughly 40 ms of each other.

The shorter request exposed a separate graceful-shutdown race: the previous 10-second parent-first wait allowed vLLM to finish all 512 output tokens before its engine child was stopped, leaving a zero-token retry that the frontend rejected. The two-second child-cleanup bound preserves endpoint withdrawal and forces the intended disconnect/retry without making request timing a correctness assertion.

Impact

During qualification, pre-merge CI gets meaningful aggregate vLLM migration coverage instead of skipped or duplicated permutations. After the no-retry CI qualification passes, the test returns to nightly. The active aggregate set falls from 96 cases to 8, and the shared parameter set reduces the three unsupported disaggregated functions from 288 reported skips to 24.

Concurrent worker startup plus the reduced covering set lowers the aggregate GPU job from 27m49s originally to 2m22s while retaining the important behavioral boundaries.

Validation

• exact nightly image: 210086341041.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo:10d71514e9c9c1c6a1b902be4b692378e78bff8a-vllm-runtime-nightly-test
• exhaustive qualification before reduction: 96 passed, 0 skipped, 0 final failures in 20m25s
• reduced covering matrix: 8 passed, 0 skipped, 0 retries in 2m22s using eight scheduler slots; 20.2 GiB peak GPU memory
• collection check on this layer: 28 total cases, consisting of 8 active aggregate, 8 skipped prefill, 8 skipped KV-transfer, and 4 skipped stream-only decode cases
• pre-commit formatting, lint, spelling, and repository checks for the changed files (repository-wide marker report skipped after the GPU run exhausted its shared port allocator)
• python3 -m py_compile tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py tests/utils/managed_process.py
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD

CI qualification

• the restored aggregate matrix is temporarily marked pre_merge with a measured 290-second pytest timeout
• the stacked decode and KV-transfer restorations are also temporarily pre_merge, each with a 350-second timeout
• each restored test carries a TODO to return to nightly after pre-merge CI passes without retries

Review guidance

Start with the explicit aggregate/decode parameter sets and per-test markers in tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py. Then review run_migration_test in tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py: strict exact-count validation is opt-in for vLLM, while SGLang/TRT-LLM callers retain the prior lower-bound behavior.

Related issues

No public GitHub issue. This is the base layer of the internal Dynamo + vLLM Nightly Health project; follow-on work is tracked by DYN-4118, DYN-4119, and DYN-4120.

Stack navigation

1. #13684 — Aggregate migration
2. #13692 — Prefill removal · DYN-4118
3. #13693 — Decode migration · DYN-4119
4. #13694 — KV-transfer migration · DYN-4120

This PR is layer 1 and targets main. Review and merge the stack in order.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests

  • Expanded migration test coverage across policy, sequence limits, termination modes, APIs, streaming, and request handling.
  • Improved validation of response content and migration metrics for more reliable results.
  • Added isolated logging, dynamic runtime configuration, and concurrent service startup coverage.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved process cleanup and startup-error reporting.
  • Reduced flaky timing-related failures by using more resilient readiness and response checks.

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Walkthrough

The migration tests now cover explicit policy and request combinations. Worker processes use dynamic ports, configurable resource limits, isolated logs, and concurrent startup. Request helpers support bounded deterministic output. Polling and migration validation use updated timing and count checks.

Changes

Migration test reliability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Worker runtime configuration tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py	DynamoWorkerProcess now accepts configurable model length and log paths. It allocates and cleans up service ports, applies GPU settings, and preserves worker logs.
Migration scenario execution tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py	The tests use eight explicit migration cases, resource markers, temporary log directories, concurrent aggregated workers, and bounded token limits.
Concurrent process startup tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py	managed_processes_concurrently starts managed processes concurrently, cleans up partially started processes, and propagates startup errors.
Request and migration validation tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py	Completion and chat requests use deterministic parameters and optional max_tokens. Polling uses monotonic deadlines and events. Response and migration checks use content and exact metric assertions. Shutdown uses a shorter timeout.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b0816

The aggregate migration tests currently route unary cases through a decode test that skips them, so advertised migration paths produce skipped results instead of coverage. The suite also lacks required scheduling and timeout markers for network and polling tests, leaving CI execution insufficiently bounded; merge should wait for these test-contract fixes.

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tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py (1)

340-341: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use lazy logging formatting at all added log calls.

• tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py#L340-L341: pass each PID as a logger argument.
• tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py#L156-L161: pass the request error as a logger argument.
• tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py#L231-L236: pass the request error as a logger argument.

As per coding guidelines, use lazy logging formatting. As per path instructions, use lazy logging formatting for Python changes.

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In `@tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py` around lines 340 - 341, Replace
eager f-string interpolation with lazy logger formatting at all three sites:
pass each PID as a logger argument in
tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py lines 340-341, and pass the request
error as a logger argument in tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py lines
156-161 and 231-236; preserve the existing log messages and levels.

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Inline comments:
In `@tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py`:
- Around line 50-57: Update the module-level parametrization used by
test_request_migration_vllm_decode so the four stream=False unary cases are
excluded from it, while retaining them for the appropriate non-decode migration
test. Split the parameter sets by migration topology or provide a stream-only
parameter set for the decode test, preserving coverage without skipped decode
cases.
- Around line 115-120: Update the module-level pytestmark and individual tests
in this migration module to include required scheduling and timeout markers.
Mark the re-enabled aggregated test as pre_merge and add the required
temporary-reversion TODO; mark other E2E tests post_merge unless they protect a
critical path. Add measured timeout markers to every test involving network
calls, polling, or the decode path’s sleep.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py`:
- Around line 340-341: Replace eager f-string interpolation with lazy logger
formatting at all three sites: pass each PID as a logger argument in
tests/fault_tolerance/migration/test_vllm.py lines 340-341, and pass the request
error as a logger argument in tests/fault_tolerance/migration/utils.py lines
156-161 and 231-236; preserve the existing log messages and levels.

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