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Summary

Address the launch/shutdown hangs in #19659 by propagating rank failures and bounding cleanup when peers are stuck. This is intended to supersede #19660; the triggering model-initialization error remains outside this change.

Scope

  • Task completion and control: remove the final MPI barrier, gate subsequent batches on all futures, and process completions, stop requests, and socket writes on the server thread. See task_wrapper and serve.
  • Worker teardown: close the server-owned executor within the remaining grace period; abort on timeout or shutdown failure. See _shutdown_session.
  • Launcher supervision: track child processes, terminate the engine if its server exits, preserve task exit status, and include stop-helper startup in the shutdown deadline. See launcher.
  • Stop helper: bound connection/send/cleanup and report delivery failures. See stop_server_main.
  • Regression coverage: add server, launcher, and two/four-rank MPI tests, registered in CPU CI.

Verification

  • CPU cluster, 21b5622, Slurm job 4566707: 50 committed tests passed with zero skips (22 server, 12 launcher, 16 real MPI cases), plus two supplementary real-ZeroMQ stop-helper checks. MPI coverage includes asymmetric failure, blocked collectives, all-rank hangs, reuse, synchronous recovery, and async drain; all 16 MPI cases had zero surviving owned processes before harness cleanup.

  • Baseline comparison: identical harness, two ranks; elapsed time below includes startup.

    Scenario Base 7dfacfb Fix 21b5622
    Nonroot failure; peers in collective 180-second safety timeout Expected failure exit in 9.40 s
    All ranks hung; engine exits 180-second safety timeout Expected failure exit in 11.51 s
  • Latest head, 8d8c275: 14 launcher tests passed locally. Both new terminal-stdin/SIGTERM regressions fail on the prior PR head and pass on the original base.

  • Full CI, 8d8c275: PR_Github #75570 launched via /bot run --disable-fail-fast; results pending.

Cluster validation used real MPI/ZeroMQ with an import bootstrap. The latest changes have not been rerun on the cluster; full-package initialization, GPU/NCCL, and multi-node execution remain unverified.

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The changes bound remote MPI failure handling and launcher shutdown. The server reports task failures, drains failed or stopped batches within a configurable grace period, then shuts down or aborts its MPI world. The launcher tracks child process groups and applies a configurable shutdown deadline. The stop helper bounds its ZeroMQ send and socket linger, and raises a click.ClickException if the send fails.

The defaults are 60 seconds for MPI shutdown grace and 120 seconds for launcher stop timeout. Invalid values fall back to the grace default or are rejected, respectively. The reported CI pipeline failed; the supplied context says the latest cluster tests were not rerun. Full-package initialization, GPU/NCCL, and multi-node execution remain unverified.

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The changes add server lifecycle, launcher shutdown, and MPI lifecycle regression tests. Coverage includes failure propagation, blocked peers, batch sequencing, teardown deadlines, launcher exit statuses, process cleanup, and signal handling. The CPU test list registers all three new test files, with the MPI lifecycle test marked ISOLATION. The supplied author report says 50 committed tests passed on a CPU cluster and 14 launcher tests passed locally, but does not establish results for the latest changes. Since the associated L0 merge-request pipeline failed and latest cluster tests were not rerun, coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/mpi_session.py: Verify synchronous and asynchronous task failures reach the client, and verify failed batches and MPI teardown stay within the configured grace period.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/trtllm-llmapi-launch: Verify child-process cleanup, task status precedence, timeout behavior, and INT/TERM handling with both normal and stuck server processes.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/mgmn_leader_node.py: Verify stop requests wait for a connected peer, time out if sending fails, and report the failure through the command-line error path.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/_run_mpi_lifecycle_task.py: Provides importable worker scenarios for lifecycle regression tests; it is not a standalone test file and has no separate test-list entry.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_server_lifecycle.py: Covers task handling, batch sequencing, stop deadlines, owner teardown, timeout aborts, and grace parsing. Registered in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_launcher_shutdown.py: Covers launcher status preservation, deadlines, child cleanup, stdin EOF, follower SIGTERM, and invalid timeout values. Registered in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_lifecycle.py: Exercises two- and four-rank lifecycle scenarios and process cleanup. Registered in test-db/l0_cpu.yml with ISOLATION.
  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_session.py: Existing session tests were adjusted; the file is registered in test-db/l0_cpu.yml with ISOLATION.
  • tests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py: The supplied change summary reports removal of a callback test. The current inspected file still contains RemoteWorkerDeath tests, so the exact removal and remaining coverage need confirmation.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds the three lifecycle test files to CPU CI; the MPI lifecycle entry uses ISOLATION.

Signed-off-by: Chien-Chun Hung <2679986+chienchunhung@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Chien-Chun Hung <2679986+chienchunhung@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Chien-Chun Hung <2679986+chienchunhung@users.noreply.github.com>

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The MPI server now queues and serializes task batches, reports task failures, and bounds shutdown. The launcher tracks its server, task, and stop-helper processes under a shared deadline. New tests cover server behavior, launcher cleanup, and multi-rank lifecycle scenarios.

Changes

MPI server batches and teardown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Server task batches and teardown
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/mpi_session.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/mgmn_leader_node.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_server_lifecycle.py, tests/unittest/executor/test_proxy_fast_death.py
The server queues tasks and submits each batch after prior futures complete. It reports synchronous and asynchronous failures, bounds batch draining and shutdown, and closes its queue. Stop-message sending uses bounded ZeroMQ options and raises send errors. The previous callback test was removed.
Launcher child supervision
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/trtllm-llmapi-launch, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_launcher_shutdown.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_session.py
The launcher tracks child processes, handles signals and early server exit, and waits for server shutdown and stop-helper completion under one deadline. Tests cover timeout validation, exit statuses, cleanup, and stop signaling.
Lifecycle regression scenarios
tests/unittest/llmapi/_run_mpi_lifecycle_task.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_lifecycle.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml
The new worker task and multi-rank tests cover task success, injected failures, batch reuse, shutdown, and process cleanup. The CPU integration list adds the lifecycle test selections.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Launcher
  participant Task
  participant StopHelper
  participant Server
  Launcher->>Server: Start server process
  Launcher->>Task: Start task process
  Task-->>Launcher: Exit status
  Launcher->>StopHelper: Start stop helper
  StopHelper->>Server: Request server stop
  Launcher->>Launcher: Wait under shared shutdown deadline
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8d8c2

The change adds bounded MPI server and launcher shutdown. In one failure path, a failed stop message makes the launcher wait out the full shutdown timeout, then report a generic timeout status instead of the actual stop failure. Shutdown still completes and child processes are still cleaned up. This can be fixed before or shortly after merging. The failed CI pipeline should also be checked.

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- Around line 302-311: Update the shutdown wait loop around stop_pid to reap the
stop helper as soon as it exits; if it exits nonzero, preserve task_exit_code
precedence and return stop_exit_code instead of waiting for the shutdown
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Comment on lines +302 to +311
shutdown_timed_out=0
while kill -0 "$server_pid" 2>/dev/null || \
{ [ -n "$stop_pid" ] && kill -0 "$stop_pid" 2>/dev/null; }; do
if [ "$SECONDS" -ge "$shutdown_deadline" ]; then
log_stderr "MPI Comm shutdown exceeded ${stop_timeout}s; terminating owned processes"
shutdown_timed_out=1
break
fi
sleep 0.1
done

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Stop waiting when the stop helper fails.

The stop helper can exit with status 1 on a zmq.error.ZMQError. For example, SNDTIMEO expires after 5 s while the server PAIR slot is still held. In that case the server never receives the stop message. The loop still waits while kill -0 "$server_pid" succeeds, until stop_timeout expires, which is 120 s by default. The launcher then exits with 124 and loses stop_exit_code.

The fix is to reap the stop helper inside the loop. If it exits with a nonzero status, stop waiting right away and return that status. cleanup_launcher then stops the server.

🐛 Proposed fix
     shutdown_timed_out=0
+    stop_reaped=0
     while kill -0 "$server_pid" 2>/dev/null || \
         { [ -n "$stop_pid" ] && kill -0 "$stop_pid" 2>/dev/null; }; do
+        if [ -n "$stop_pid" ] && [ "$stop_reaped" -eq 0 ] && \
+            ! kill -0 "$stop_pid" 2>/dev/null; then
+            wait "$stop_pid"
+            stop_exit_code=$?
+            stop_reaped=1
+            if [ "$stop_exit_code" -ne 0 ]; then
+                log_stderr "Rank${mpi_rank} stop helper failed (status $stop_exit_code); terminating owned processes"
+                [ "$task_exit_code" -ne 0 ] && exit "$task_exit_code"
+                exit "$stop_exit_code"
+            fi
+        fi
         if [ "$SECONDS" -ge "$shutdown_deadline" ]; then
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-    if [ -n "$stop_pid" ]; then
+    if [ -n "$stop_pid" ] && [ "$stop_reaped" -eq 0 ]; then
         wait "$stop_pid"
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/trtllm-llmapi-launch around lines 302 -
311:
Update the shutdown wait loop around stop_pid to reap the stop helper as soon as
it exits; if it exits nonzero, preserve task_exit_code precedence and return
stop_exit_code instead of waiting for the shutdown timeout. Track whether the
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Confirmed on the current head: once the stop helper exits nonzero while the server is still alive, this loop continues solely on server_pid until the 120-second deadline, then returns 124 and discards the helper’s actionable status. Please reap and check stop_pid inside the loop and, after preserving a nonzero task status, exit promptly with stop_exit_code; add a regression where the stop helper fails without stopping the server. This is required for this PR.

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