[https://nvbugs/5651854][fix] Fix dist-serving perf by clearing CPU affinity

tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py

@@ -125,12 +125,13 @@ def _configure_affinity(self, device_id):
         Note:
             If the process already has constrained affinity, a warning is logged.
             Configuration is handled as follows:
-                TLLM_NUMA_WORKER_AFFINITY = <unset>
-                    -> affinity is auto-configured only if it is unconstrained
-                TLLM_NUMA_WORKER_AFFINITY = 1
-                    -> affinity is unconditionally auto-configured
-                TLLM_NUMA_WORKER_AFFINITY = 0 or any other value
-                    -> affinity is unconditionally _not_ auto-configured
+                TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY = <unset>
+                    -> Affinity is automatically configured if it is unconstrained,
+                       and deleted if it is constrained externally by the user.
+                TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY = 1
+                    -> Affinity is unconditionally auto-configured.
+                TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY = 0 or any other value
+                    -> Affinity is unconditionally _not_ auto-configured.
         '''
 
         # Get the current affinity setting
@@ -141,22 +142,31 @@ def _configure_affinity(self, device_id):
         all_cpus = list(range(psutil.cpu_count()))
 
         constrained_affinity = (cpu_affinity != all_cpus)
+        numa_aware_affinity = os.environ.get("TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY")
 
-        # If the process is affined to a constrained set of CPUs, warn the user
-        # so as to ensure that this is what is intended
+        # If affinity is constrained but the user hasn't explicitly
+        # requested NUMA-aware affinity, remove the constraints.
         if constrained_affinity:
             logger.warning(
                 f"Worker process {pid} is affined to run on the following CPUs: "
                 f"{cpu_affinity} (subset of all logical CPUs). This may harm "
                 f"performance if set incorrectly.")
+            if numa_aware_affinity is None:
+                logger.warning(
+                    f"Worker process {pid} has constrained CPU affinity "
+                    f"but `TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY` is not set. "
+                    f"Removing CPU affinity constraints.")
+                process.cpu_affinity(all_cpus)
 
         # If affinity is unconstrained and the user hasn't explicitly
         # prohibited it or the user has explicitly requested it, choose the
         # optimal affinity based upon the NUMA topology
-        numa_aware_affinity = os.environ.get("TLLM_NUMA_AWARE_WORKER_AFFINITY")
         if ((numa_aware_affinity is None and not constrained_affinity)
                 or (numa_aware_affinity == "1")):
             process.cpu_affinity(get_numa_aware_cpu_affinity(device_id))
+            logger.info(
+                f"Worker process {pid} CPU affinity set to "
+                f"{process.cpu_affinity()} for optimal NUMA-aware scheduling.")
 
     def _get_comm_ranks_device_id(self):
         device_id = self.global_rank % torch.cuda.device_count()

tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py

@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ def launch_disaggregated_llm(
         ctx_model: str = None,
         gen_model: str = None,
         server_waiting_timeout: int = DEFAULT_SERVER_WAITING_TIMEOUT,
-        max_workers: int = 16):
+        max_workers: int = 16,
+        enable_perf=False):
     temp_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
     disaggregated_serving_config_path = os.path.join(
         temp_dir.name, "disaggregated_serving_config.yaml")
@@ -104,9 +105,7 @@ def launch_disaggregated_llm(
         print(
             f"Using unified tp parameter for testing is not recommended. Please use server configs instead."
         )
-
-    enable_perf = True
-    perf_max_requests = 10000
+    perf_max_requests = 50
 
     def _apply_perf_flags(cfg: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]):
         if not isinstance(cfg, dict):
@@ -120,6 +119,7 @@ def _apply_perf_flags(cfg: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]):
     _apply_perf_flags(disaggregated_server_config)
     _apply_perf_flags(ctx_server_config)
     _apply_perf_flags(gen_server_config)
+
     disaggregated_server_config = revise_disaggregated_server_config_urls_with_free_ports(
         disaggregated_server_config)
 
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ def _get_perf_metrics():
             except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
                 print(f"Error fetching {perf_url}: {e}")
 
-        def _show_kvcache_time(kv_cache_perf_dir, max_lines=1000):
+        def _show_kvcache_time(kv_cache_perf_dir, max_lines=100):
             print(f"kv_cache_perf_dir: {kv_cache_perf_dir}")
             for file in os.listdir(kv_cache_perf_dir):
                 print(f"file: {file}")
@@ -475,9 +475,6 @@ def test_auto_dtype(self, disable_overlap_scheduler, ctx_enable_block_reuse,
             "disable_overlap_scheduler": disable_overlap_scheduler,
             "kv_cache_config": {
                 "enable_block_reuse": gen_enable_block_reuse
-            },
-            "cache_transceiver_config": {
-                "backend": "DEFAULT"
             }
         }
         gen_server_config["cache_transceiver_config"] = {"backend": "DEFAULT"}

tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt

@@ -349,8 +349,6 @@ examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[nougat-base-pp:1-tp:1-b
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestNVILA_8B::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648441)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestVILA1_5_3B::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648441)
 accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_nixl_backend SKIP (https://nvbugs/5651824)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestQwen3_8B::test_auto_dtype[False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5651854)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestQwen3_8B::test_auto_dtype[True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5651854)
 disaggregated/test_disaggregated.py::test_disaggregated_deepseek_v3_lite_bf16_empty_batch[DeepSeek-V3-Lite-bf16] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5601682)
 accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_eagle3[eagle3_one_model=False-overlap_scheduler=False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5655584)
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[llava-1.5-7b-hf-pp:1-tp:1-float16-bs:1-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5655832)
@@ -370,10 +368,7 @@ unittest/_torch/modules/test_fused_moe.py::test_fused_moe_alltoall[DeepEP] SKIP
 unittest/_torch/modules/test_fused_moe.py::test_fused_moe_alltoall[MNNVL] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5664904)
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced[Nemotron-Super-49B-v1-FP8-nemotron-nas/Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1-FP8] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670469)
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced[Nemotron-Super-49B-v1-NVFP4-nvfp4-quantized/Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1_nvfp4_hf] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670469)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_auto_dtype[False-False-True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670480)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestGPTOSS::test_w4_4gpus[dp4-cutlass-auto] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5673610)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_auto_dtype[False-False-False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670480)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_auto_dtype[False-True-False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670480)
 accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_ctx_pp_gen_tp_asymmetric[GSM8K-gen_tp=1-ctx_pp=2] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5673559)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_30B_A3B::test_nvfp4[tep4_latency_moe_trtllm-torch_compile=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5673578)
 examples/test_qwen.py::test_llm_qwen_int4_single_gpu_summary[qwen2.5_14b_instruct_int4-nb:4] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5666826)
@@ -393,7 +388,6 @@ unittest/_torch/speculative/test_draft_len_schedule.py::test_correctness_across_
 test_e2e.py::test_openai_responses SKIP (https://nvbugs/5635153)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestSeedOss_36B::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5612438)
 disaggregated/test_disaggregated_single_gpu.py::test_disaggregated_llama_context_capacity[False-False-DeepSeek-V3-Lite-fp8/fp8] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5688388)
-accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_auto_dtype[False-True-True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5670480)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_autodeploy.py::TestNemotronH::test_auto_dtype[True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5688721)
 unittest/_torch/speculative/test_eagle3.py::test_llama_eagle3[True-FLASHINFER-False-False-False-False-True-False-False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5691246)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_nvfp4_multi_gpus[throughput_mtp] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5698897)