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• _prepare_environment() now sets TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL to "0" before framework initialization. os.environ.setdefault preserves an explicit user value.
• This changes the default Inductor async-compile pool behavior and may increase host-memory use. The supplied evidence does not establish the size of that increase or report test-run results.

QA Engineer Review

• tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py adds two tests. They check the default value during environment preparation and preservation of an explicit "1" setting.
• The new tests cover both unset and explicit-value paths. No test-list changes are shown. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the environment-variable behavior; runtime impact remains to be verified.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py: Verify the default is set before PyTorch imports and that explicit environment values remain effective. The setting may increase host-memory use.
• tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py: Covers defaulting and explicit override behavior. The test file is not an integration test, so CI or manual-QA integration-list status does not apply.

Description

NVBug 6971730: the GB200 perf-sanity case disagg_upload-gen_only-gb200_deepseek-r1-fp4_8k1k_con1_ctx1_dep4_gen1_tep8_eplb0_mtp3_ccb-NIXL intermittently times out with Endpoint http://...:9159/health did not become ready within 3600 seconds. The GEN server (TP8, MTP3) hangs in the num_tokens=5, num_gen_requests=1 mixed-batch attention warmup.

Root cause

• _get_draft_tokens_from_gathered (tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py) is decorated with @torch.compile(options={"max-autotune": True}). The MTP draft loop calls it right after a TP allgather. It is first compiled during the num_tokens=4 warmup, and the mixed batch recompiles it about 63 s later.
• With its default quiesce_async_compile_pool=True, Inductor shuts down its async-compile worker pool once it has been idle for 60 s. The idle check runs every 30 s, so the shutdown lands 60–90 s after the last job. A compile job submitted while that shutdown is in progress never gets a reply, and the parent waits on it with no timeout. The rank blocks inside torch.compile, and its TP peers spin in the next collective (GPU utilization 0% vs. 100%).
• Evidence from a reproduced hang:
  • Python stacks of all 8 GEN ranks show the stuck ranks waiting on the compile result.
  • The compile sidecar is idle in _recv_msg, and its freshly forked pool is idle.
  • On the stuck node, the first compile's Inductor cache entries are timestamped 03:42:37.6 and the recompile's 03:43:41.0 (+63 s).

Fix

• tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py defaults TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL=0 with setdefault, so an explicit setting still wins.
  • The variable is an env_name_force Inductor config. It is read when torch._inductor.config is first imported and overrides any value set in code later, so it has to be in the environment before torch is imported.
  • The bootstrap runs before that point in every process that imports tensorrt_llm, including MPI and Ray workers.
• Cost: the compile pool (a sidecar plus up to 32 workers per process) stays resident after warmup instead of exiting once compiling has been idle for 60 s. This is a fixed footprint, not a leak.
  • On an A40 with torch 2.12, a 16-worker pool held about 2.2 GB PSS, and that stayed flat while idle.
  • Over 300 compiles, the pool's growth was identical with quiescing on and off.
  • Extrapolating to 32 workers gives roughly 3.5 GB of host memory per rank. This is an estimate; it was not measured on GB200.
• If the footprint matters, a possible follow-up is to call shutdown_compile_workers() from the executor thread after warmup. It runs on the thread that submits compiles, so it cannot race with a submission.

No waivers exist for this bug.

Test Coverage

• Unit tests (CPU-only, run in l0_cpu through tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py):
  • New: test_prepare_environment_keeps_inductor_compile_pool_alive
  • New: test_explicit_inductor_compile_pool_quiesce_setting_takes_precedence
  • Results: the whole file passed (17 tests) in the failing run's CI image with this _bootstrap.py. In that image, import tensorrt_llm yields TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL=0 and torch._inductor.config.quiesce_async_compile_pool == False.
• Reproduction on OCI GB200 used the failing run's wheel and image, the CI GEN environment, and cold caches. The hang occurred in about 1 of 15 attempts.
• Standalone stress test with the Inductor build from the CI image. Each iteration compiles a gather/argmax helper with max-autotune, idles for about the quiesce threshold (lowered to 2 s), then recompiles:
  • Default: 6 of 16 processes hung within 214 iterations.
  • TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL=0: 0 of 8 processes hung over 1188 iterations.
• End-to-end GEN server on GB200 with this default set (confirmed in the rank processes' environment): warmup completed (num_tokens=4 in 1064 s cold, num_tokens=5 in 1.0 s) and the server came up.
  • This is a single pass; with a hang rate of about 1 in 15, the stress A/B above is the main evidence.

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Walkthrough

Bootstrap now defaults TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL to "0" when it is unset. It preserves an existing value. Tests cover both behaviors.

Changes

Inductor compile-pool environment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set and test the compile-pool default tensorrt_llm/_bootstrap.py, tests/unittest/test_unified_cache.py	Bootstrap sets the environment variable during environment preparation when it is unset. Tests verify the default and preservation of an explicit value.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to 883b8

The change is likely mergeable, but a small ordering regression test should be added to prevent the warmup timeout from returning unnoticed.

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174-174: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Record the helper call in the ordering test.

The new test_prepare_environment_keeps_inductor_compile_pool_alive checks only the final value of TORCHINDUCTOR_QUIESCE_ASYNC_COMPILE_POOL. It stubs the four later setup steps with no-ops, and it does not record call order. Moving _keep_inductor_compile_pool_alive() below any of those steps would leave the test passing, even though the setting could then be read too late. The module docstring requires phase 1 to run before torch. The existing test_prepare_environment_configures_cache_first checks order, but it does not include this helper.

Stub the helper so it records its call, then extend the existing order assertion:

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 def test_prepare_environment_configures_cache_first(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
     calls = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        _bootstrap, "_keep_inductor_compile_pool_alive", lambda: calls.append("inductor")
+    )
     monkeypatch.setattr(_bootstrap, "_setup_unified_cache", lambda: calls.append("cache"))
     monkeypatch.setattr(_bootstrap, "_add_trt_llm_dll_directory", lambda: calls.append("dll"))
     monkeypatch.setattr(_bootstrap, "_preload_python_lib", lambda: calls.append("python"))
     monkeypatch.setattr(
         _bootstrap, "_setup_vendored_triton_kernels", lambda: calls.append("triton")
     )

     _bootstrap._prepare_environment()

-    assert calls == ["cache", "dll", "python", "triton"]
+    assert calls == ["inductor", "cache", "dll", "python", "triton"]

The default-value test stays as written. This change adds the ordering check without changing that test.

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Update test_prepare_environment_configures_cache_first to stub
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