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  • Root cause is Nemotron-nas model includes some no-op attention layers.

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    • Corrected attention window grouping to use the actual number of local KV-head layers, preventing mis-sized cache windows in certain configurations.
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    • Improved KV cache efficiency, potentially reducing memory usage and latency during inflight batching.
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    • Aligned cache management with layer-local context, improving correctness across heterogeneous layer setups.

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* Root cause is Nemotron-nas model includes some no-op attention layers.

Signed-off-by: Wanli Jiang <[email protected]>
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Updated inflight batching to compute window size grouping using the count of local KV-head layers, deriving numLayers from numKvHeadsPerLayer.size(), and to call KVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers) instead of BaseKVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(..., modelConfig.getNbLayers()).

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Inflight batching manager
cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/trtGptModelInflightBatching.cpp
Compute numLayers from numKvHeadsPerLayer.size(); use KVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers) replacing BaseKVCacheManager call with modelConfig.getNbLayers().

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  actor Caller as InflightBatching
  participant Cfg as modelConfig
  participant KV as KVCacheManager

  Caller->>Caller: numLayers = numKvHeadsPerLayer.size()
  Caller->>KV: groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers)
  KV-->>Caller: windowSizeLayers

  opt Prior flow (reference)
    Caller->>Cfg: getNbLayers()
    Cfg-->>Caller: totalModelLayers
    Caller->>KV: groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, totalModelLayers) note right of KV: Previously via BaseKVCacheManager
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cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/trtGptModelInflightBatching.cpp (1)

272-276: Avoid the temporary vector; compute numLayers without allocation.

Minor allocation you can skip; distance on the iterator range suffices.

-            auto [numKvHeadsPerLayerBegin, numKvHeadsPerLayerEnd] = modelConfig.getNumKvHeadsPerLayerLocalRange(
-                worldConfig.getPipelineParallelism(), worldConfig.getPipelineParallelRank(), isCrossAttention);
-            auto numKvHeadsPerLayer = std::vector<SizeType32>(numKvHeadsPerLayerBegin, numKvHeadsPerLayerEnd);
-            auto const numLayers = static_cast<SizeType32>(numKvHeadsPerLayer.size());
+            auto [numKvHeadsPerLayerBegin, numKvHeadsPerLayerEnd] = modelConfig.getNumKvHeadsPerLayerLocalRange(
+                worldConfig.getPipelineParallelism(), worldConfig.getPipelineParallelRank(), isCrossAttention);
+            auto const numLayers = static_cast<SizeType32>(
+                std::distance(numKvHeadsPerLayerBegin, numKvHeadsPerLayerEnd));
             auto const windowSizeLayers = KVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers);
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cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/trtGptModelInflightBatching.cpp (3)

275-276: Correct window-size grouping using local KV-head layers.

Deriving numLayers from the local KV-head range and grouping via KVCacheManager fixes the mismatch when models include no-op attention layers. Looks good.


661-662: Consistent local-layer grouping for KV-cache sizing.

Using the local numLayers here aligns block computation with the actual managed layers on this PP rank. Good change.


661-663: Remove sanity-check: no instances of groupLayersByWindowSize called with modelConfig.getNbLayers()

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auto windowSizeLayers
= BaseKVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, modelConfig.getNbLayers());
auto const numLayers = static_cast<SizeType32>(numKvHeadsPerLayer.size());
auto const windowSizeLayers = KVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers);
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Here's my issue with groupLayersByWindowSize: It doesn't take PP into account and leads to incorrect memory computation.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/blob/main/cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/kvCacheManager.cpp#L2177-L2192

Let's take an example of a model with 4 layers and maxAttentionWindowVec = {2, 3, 4, 5}

Case1: PP=1
ppRank 0; layers = {l0, l1, l2, l3}
Input to groupLayersByWindowSize: maxAttentionWindowVec={2, 3, 4, 5}, numLayers=4.
Output from groupLayersByWindowSize: {2:{0}, 3:{1}, 4:{2}, 5{3}}.

Case1: PP=2
ppRank 0; layers = {l0, l1}
Input to groupLayersByWindowSize: maxAttentionWindowVec={2, 3, 4, 5}, numLayers=2.
Output from groupLayersByWindowSize: {2:{0}, 3:{1}}.
ppRank 1; layers = {l2, l3}
Input to groupLayersByWindowSize: maxAttentionWindowVec={2, 3, 4, 5}, numLayers=2.
Output from groupLayersByWindowSize: {2:{0}, 3:{1}}. // THIS SHOULD'VE BEEN {4{0}, 5{1}} WHERE 0,1 ARE LOCAL LAYER IDS.

Problem is it's just taking numLayers as input. Instead it should take a layer range (where layerIds are global) to get the math right. [OR] maxAttentionWindowVec must be different for each PP rank.

Please let me know if I'm missing something.

auto const windowSizeLayers = KVCacheManager::groupLayersByWindowSize(maxAttentionWindowVec, numLayers);
std::map<SizeType32, SizeType32> cacheSizeBytesPerTokenPerWindow;
for (auto const& [windowSize, managedLayers] : windowSizeLayers)
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There's a similar issue with calculateCacheSizePerTokenForSingleWindowSize which further calls getNumKvForGivenLayers.

To my understanding, getNumKvForGivenLayers expects global layer ids. Currently, we pass in local layer ids when using PP.

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