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[#18156][fix] Carry lora_id and share the cache_salt derivation in the KV-aware router - #18160

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Fixes #18156.

The KV-cache-aware router scores workers by recomputing a request's block hashes and matching them against the hashes workers publish in KV cache events. KvCacheAwareServerState.matched_tokens walks a request's block-hash list and breaks on the first miss, so any first-block mismatch makes match_count 0 for the whole request: cache-aware routing silently degrades to load balancing, with no error and no log line.

Two request dimensions never survived that recomputation.

lora_id was dropped entirely. hash_v1_block_key already accepts lora_task_id and the worker supplies it from ReuseScope.lora_id (EventManager::hashV1BlockKey), but nothing under tensorrt_llm/serve/ ever passed it: grep -i lora tensorrt_llm/serve/router_utils.py tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py had zero hits. So every LoRA request scored zero matches, and because all adapters hashed identically, the router's own prefix accounting collided adapters with one another. This change adds _get_request_lora_id next to the existing _get_request_cache_salt_id and threads the adapter id through block_key_hasher, _compute_block_hashes, the _tokenize_and_compute_block_hashes* helpers and the V2 ReuseScope. The worker holds the id as a uint64 on both paths, so the router reduces it modulo 2**64 on both instead of letting an out-of-range id raise in the binding. The native BlockKey binding carries the lora id, so LoRA requests stay on the native BlockKeyHasher fast path; only a salt, which the binding cannot carry, falls back to the Python hasher.

The salt id was derived twice. The router used blake3 (kv_cache_hash.get_cache_salt_id) while the V2 engine used sha256 (KVCacheManagerV2._derive_reuse_salt), so a salted request could not match a V2 worker either. This keeps the engine's derivation and makes it the single source of truth both sides import; the engine's published ids are unchanged, so nothing a running worker has already emitted moves. The V1 C++ BlockKeyHasher mixes std::hash<std::string>(cacheSalt) directly, which is implementation-defined and not reproducible in Python; that limitation is now documented on the shared helper rather than left implicit.

It also removes the duplicate get_cache_salt_id in tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py. It had no engine caller, and test_cache_salt_id_derivation_matches_worker_path pinned the router against it — so the parity test passed while the two live derivations disagreed. The test now pins against KVCacheManagerV2._derive_reuse_salt.

Scope note: this is one concern (the router's reuse-namespace keying) in one component; the engine-side keying was already correct and is untouched apart from delegating its derivation.

Test Coverage

tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py:

  • test_router_block_hashes_round_trip_worker_event_hashes — new, parametrized over {no salt, salt} x {no lora, lora} for all three hash algorithms. The v1 worker side chains the engine's own C++ hasher (KVCacheEventManager._hash_block_key) with the LoRA id and salt from the worker's ReuseScope, and asserts the router computes the same hashes. This fails on main for every arm except the unsalted/unadapted one.
  • test_cache_salt_id_derivation_matches_worker_path — re-pinned to the engine's derivation, plus the None case.
  • test_get_request_lora_id_extraction — new, covers the object and dict request shapes and the absent case.
  • test_routing_key_sync_carries_lora_and_salt_to_block_hashes — new, drives KvCacheAwareRouter._routing_key_sync itself for a LoRA request, with and without a salt, and compares its hashes with the worker's.
  • test_native_block_key_hasher_matches_python_v1_with_lora — new, the native fast path against hash_v1_block_key for LoRA ids across the uint64 boundary, including out-of-range ids.
  • test_block_key_hasher_python_fallback_only_for_cache_salt — new, fails if a LoRA-only request takes the Python hasher.
  • test_block_hashes_wrap_out_of_range_lora_id — new, all three hash algorithms reduce an out-of-range LoRA id modulo 2**64 instead of raising in the uint64 binding.

The reproducer from #18156 runs on CPU with no bindings and no GPU, and reproduces the before/after directly. On main, a LoRA request gives worker 1405807694910447675 vs router 924206229973855 and 0/8 block overlap; with this change both sides produce 1405807694910447675. For a salted request the v2 root key was ceb640ee7c220334 on the worker vs 982186b7060809a3 on the router; both are now ceb640ee7c220334.

Run on an NVIDIA L4 against the tensorrt_llm==1.3.0rc29 wheel, using the repo's conftest. No wheel contains #19154 yet, so the tree is the wheel's source commit (v1.3.0rc29) plus the router half of #19154, plus this PR, installed over the wheel; router_utils.py, router.py and kv_cache_hash.py are byte-identical to this branch:

rc29 + #19154 router backport,  its test file:        91 passed
same library,  this PR's test file:                   22 failed, 90 passed
this PR,       this PR's test file:                  112 passed

The new tests fail against the unfixed library and pass with the change, and the pre-existing tests are unaffected.

pre-commit run --files <changed files> passes.

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  • The current diff changes only tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py and tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py.
  • The changes reformat imports and one import statement. They do not change router behavior, salt derivation, LoRA propagation, or hash generation.
  • The implementation changes described in the objectives are not present in this diff. Confirm that the intended implementation is included before merging.

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  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py changed, but only import formatting changed. No test functions or assertions changed.
  • No test-list files changed. The test file’s registration in CI or manual-QA lists is not confirmed.
  • The author reports 102 passing tests on an L4 with tensorrt_llm==1.3.0rc29; the shipped-library run had 16 failures and 86 passes. The author also reports that pre-commit passed and that CI had not run. These are reported results, not results verified from this diff.
  • Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The current diff does not include the described regression tests or implementation changes.

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  • tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py: Import formatting changed. No observable behavior change appears in the diff.
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The router now includes LoRA adapter IDs in KV-cache hashing. Cache-salt IDs use SHA-256 derivation shared with KVCacheManagerV2. Tests compare router hashes with worker-side hashes across supported algorithms and request options.

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KV cache routing consistency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared cache-salt derivation
tensorrt_llm/runtime/kv_cache_hash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py
get_cache_salt_id now uses the first eight bytes of a SHA-256 digest. KVCacheManagerV2 uses this helper, and the duplicate helper in inputs/utils.py is removed. The tests compare the shared derivation with the engine’s salt derivation.
LoRA-aware router hashing
tensorrt_llm/serve/router.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/router_utils.py
The router extracts the request LoRA ID and passes it through V1 and V2 block hashing. V2 reuse scopes include the masked LoRA ID.
Salt and LoRA hash validation
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_router.py
Tests compare router hashes with worker-side hashes across V1, V2, and truncated V2, with optional cache salts and LoRA IDs.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Request
  participant KvCacheAwareRouter
  participant RouterHashing
  participant KVCacheManagerV2
  Request->>KvCacheAwareRouter: provide tokens, cache salt, and LoRA request
  KvCacheAwareRouter->>RouterHashing: pass tokens, salt ID, and LoRA task ID
  RouterHashing->>RouterHashing: compute V1 and V2 block hashes
  KVCacheManagerV2-->>RouterHashing: provide matching worker-side hash values
  RouterHashing-->>KvCacheAwareRouter: return routing hashes
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The router now carries LoRA IDs into its hashes. One test's docstring overstates that out-of-range IDs are accepted by the worker. This is a minor test-accuracy issue that should be fixed or clarified, and it does not block the change.

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Linked Issues check Warning The PR implements the hash-parity and propagation requirements in #18156. It carries lora_id through router hashing and ReuseScope, shares the V2 SHA-256 salt derivation, preserves the engine deri… When lora_task_id is set, route block_key_hasher through the Python hash_v1_block_key path, including for unsalted requests. Update the native-path test to require the LoRA fallback and retain parity coverage for the resulting hashes.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 57.69% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed production files and tests relate to the router reuse-namespace keying in #18156. The shared salt helper removes duplicate derivation, the V2 delegation preserves the existing engine key s…
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the issue, fix type, and primary changes: carrying LoRA IDs and sharing cache-salt derivation in the KV-aware router.
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The PR implements the hash-parity and propagation requirements in #18156. It carries lora_id through router hashing and ReuseScope, shares the V2 SHA-256 salt derivation, preserves the engine derivation path, and adds parity and propagation tests. However, #18156 requires skipping the native fast path when LoRA is set. block_key_hasher uses _NativeBlockKeyHasher when cache_salt_id is None, even when lora_task_id is set. The new test_block_key_hasher_python_fallback_only_for_cache_salt explicitly enforces this contrary behavior.

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- Line 531: Add a -> None return annotation to each newly added test function,
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_get_request_lora_id and _compute_block_hashes directly. Add a routing-key case
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Pushed a follow-up commit for both review comments.

The call-site gap was the right catch: the round-trip test pinned _compute_block_hashes directly, so dropping either id from _routing_key_sync would not have failed anything. There is now a test that goes through _routing_key_sync itself, salted and unsalted, comparing its block_hashes_by_algo against the worker-side hashes for the same LoRA request, with a sensitivity assertion against what the same call site produces without the ids. New test functions are annotated -> None per CODING_GUIDELINES.

I also dropped the dict fallback in _get_request_lora_id: lora_request is a pydantic-validated LoRARequest on every request model that carries one, so that branch was unreachable and only its own unit test reached it.

One thing I should be explicit about: the earlier numbers in this PR came from a run against the 1.3.0rc24 wheel, but this new test I have only verified by reading the source (my box has no GPU and no compiled bindings, and the wheel predates the _routing_key_sync changes in this branch). Everything it touches was checked line by line against router.py and router_utils.py, and pre-commit passes, but I would not want that read as "I ran it". A ready label would put it through real CI.

"""
if cache_salt is None:
return None
digest = hashlib.sha256(cache_salt.encode("utf-8")).digest()
return int.from_bytes(digest[:8], "little")
return get_cache_salt_id(cache_salt)

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Should we fix the v2 c++ manager instead?

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There is no salt derivation in the V2 C++ manager to fix — it consumes an id that Python has already derived, so this line is the layer where the two disagreeing derivations actually live.

Tracing it: EventManager::hashV1BlockKey takes std::optional<std::uint64_t> cacheSaltId (eventManager.h:189, mixed at eventManager.cpp:588-590), ReuseScope on the C++ side holds std::optional<std::uint64_t> salt and its own comment says it mirrors Python's (blockRadixTree.h:50-59), and castReuseScope accepts None / ReuseScope / an int lora id / an object with lora_id and salt — never a string (nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManagerV2.cpp:679-699). The only salt string under kv_cache_manager_v2/ is KVCacheStoredBlockData::cacheSalt (eventManager.h:88), which is event payload for consumers and is not read anywhere else in that file.

So str -> uint64 happens only in Python, and on main the two Python derivations disagree:

  • KVCacheManagerV2._derive_reuse_salt: sha256(salt).digest()[:8], little-endian
  • kv_cache_hash.get_cache_salt_id: blake3(salt).digest(8), little-endian

This PR keeps the engine's bytes exactly and moves the router onto them, so no id a running worker has already published changes.

If you meant the V1 C++ hasher, then I agree there is a real defect there, but it is a different and breaking one. blockKey.cpp:367-370 mixes std::hash<std::string>{}(cacheSalt) straight into the root block hash. That is implementation-defined, so the router cannot reproduce it from Python at all and salted requests can never match a V1 worker — which is the limitation I documented on get_cache_salt_id rather than worked around. Fixing it means changing every published V1 block hash, so it wants its own PR and its own compatibility discussion. Happy to take that one if you want it.

One thing worth flagging either way: the docstring on _derive_reuse_salt on main claims the derivation "matches C++ blockKey hashing on cacheSalt". It does not, and never did — that is sha256-truncated on one side and std::hash on the other. That stale comment is a plausible origin for this exact confusion, and the PR replaces it with what the code actually does.

Separately, whenever you have a moment: this PR has had no CI at all, since /bot run needs someone on your side. I would rather have it red and fix it than merged unrun.

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The caveat I left on the follow-up commit is now cleared. test_routing_key_sync_carries_lora_and_salt_to_block_hashes has been executed, not just read: A6000, wheel 1.3.0rc24, --noconftest.

-k routing_key_sync full test_router.py
pristine library 2 failed, 91 deselected 8 failed, 85 passed
patched library 2 passed, 91 deselected 93 passed

The pre-fix failure is not a near miss. Router and worker produce disjoint keys for the same LoRA request:

router  d640331a8566b89199962bb4552f386a57361738fef5a92ac3d8a5c7bfbb4231 ...
worker  08b6fad376be32e79fa575f56037ce617df32f5349a6931826a0df9248353bfc ...

Every block differs, so a LoRA request scores zero matches against a worker that is holding exactly its blocks. That is the behaviour reported in #18156.

Method note, since this is not a clean checkout: the newest published wheel is still 1.3.0rc24 while this branch sits on rc25-era main, so the four changed Python files are copied over the installed wheel and _derive_reuse_salt is applied as a one-function edit rather than a whole-file swap (the rc25 kv_cache_manager_v2.py imports uses_vswa_kv_cache_layout, which rc24 does not have). --noconftest for the same reason: tests/unittest/conftest.py imports tensorrt_llm.executor.ray, also post-rc24. The 8 pre-fix failures are the 6 from the original round plus the 2 new parametrisations.

This PR still has had no CI run at all, so everything above is my own bench rather than yours.

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

Verified the id chain end to end for this fix: LoRARequest.adapter_id → LoraConfig(task_id=...) (executor/base_worker.py:350) → LlmRequest.lora_task_id (llm_request.py:1611) → ReuseScope.lora_id, and the C++ BlockKeyHasher mixes loraTaskId in the same position/way as hash_v1_block_key, so the router-side ids now line up with both V1 and V2 workers. Both routing entry points (get_next_server and the coordinator's routing_key) funnel through _routing_key_sync, so the fix covers the whole path.

Two things worth addressing beyond the inline comments:

  1. Removing tensorrt_llm.inputs.utils.get_cache_salt_id deletes an importable, non-underscored symbol. It has no in-tree callers, but anything outside the repo importing it breaks, and the surviving runtime.kv_cache_hash.get_cache_salt_id returns a different value than the removed one did (sha256 vs blake3). Worth a release-note line rather than a silent removal.

  2. Description hygiene: it says test_get_request_lora_id_extraction "covers the object and dict request shapes", but the test only exercises a CompletionRequest and a SimpleNamespace — _get_request_lora_id uses getattr only, so a dict-shaped request would silently return None. Either drop the claim or add the dict case and support it (if a dict-shaped request can actually reach the router, that is a real gap; if not, the docstring/description shouldn't imply it).

Otherwise the round-trip test that drives the real KVCacheEventManager._v1_hash_from_radix_block against the router's recomputation is the right shape for this class of bug — it's the check that would have caught both divergences.

Notes on lines outside the diff:

  • tensorrt_llm/serve/router_utils.py:387: _tokenize_and_compute_block_hashes_with_salt (and _tokenize_and_compute_block_hashes above it) have no callers anywhere in tensorrt_llm/ — _routing_key_sync uses the _by_algo variant. Threading lora_task_id through them adds a second signature that has to be kept in sync with the live one for no benefit. Prefer deleting both dead helpers in this PR instead of extending them.

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if cache_salt_id is None:
# takes no cache_salt_id or lora_task_id, so fall back to Python whenever
# either is set (rare opt-in; never in the plain agent/chat completion path).
if cache_salt_id is None and lora_task_id is None:

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The native fast path doesn't need to be disabled for LoRA — only for the salt. The nanobind BlockKey binding exposes a two-arg constructor BlockKey(tokens, lora_task_id=...) (cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/kvCacheManager.cpp:412-414, backing blockKey.h:56), and BlockKeyHasher mixes loraTaskId in exactly the position hash_v1_block_key does, so the two stay bit-exact.

As written, every block of every LoRA request in the routing hot path now takes the per-token Python loop — and LoRA is the main case this PR exists to fix, so it's not the rare opt-in the comment describes. Suggest:

if cache_salt_id is None:
    return _NativeBlockKeyHasher.hash(_NativeBlockKey(token_ids, lora_task_id), parent)

and a test asserting the native and Python paths agree for a non-None lora_task_id, so the equivalence is pinned rather than assumed.

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You were right, and I should have acted on this when you raised it. The binding takes lora_task_id, and BlockKeyHasher::hash mixes loraTaskId after the tokens with hash64Mix, the same position hash_v1_block_key uses, so only the salt needs the Python loop. Done in 991de58: with no salt, block_key_hasher now hashes BlockKey(token_ids, lora_task_id=...) natively.

One detail I added: LoRARequest.lora_int_id is not range-checked and arrives on the request (CompletionRequest.lora_request), and nanobind raises on a negative or wider-than-64-bit int where the Python path wraps it. The id is masked to 64 bits before the native call, so both paths give the same hash for every input instead of a bad adapter id turning into an exception in the routing path.

Two new tests: test_native_block_key_hasher_matches_python_v1_with_lora checks the native path against hash_v1_block_key for 0, 7, 2**32+3, 2**63, 2**64-1, 2**64+5 and -1, and test_block_key_hasher_python_fallback_only_for_cache_salt fails if a LoRA-only request ever reaches the Python loop again. Both pass against the rc29 bindings.

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import hashlib

digest = hashlib.sha256(cache_salt.encode("utf-8")).digest()

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import hashlib can move to module scope now. The function-local import was there because blake3 is an optional third-party dependency; hashlib is stdlib and already imported all over the process, so the deferral just costs a dict lookup per call on a per-request path.

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Moved to module scope in 991de58.

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Stamp on behalf of runtime devs, delegating proper review to @NVIDIA/trt-llm-kv-cache-manager-devs; please ping me if you think this is not accurate

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[by Codex] @lowsfer Could you review this PR? Thanks!

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Rebased onto main a67ede16f; the branch had gone conflicting. Head is now 1e91ef4f0 and the PR is mergeable again. Both approvals survived the force-push.

The conflict was import-only. kv_cache_manager_v2.py moved to _torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/, and upstream added the logger and Mapping imports directly above the runtime.kv_cache_hash import this PR widens. Kept both sides. git range-diff bd25b31d7~2..bd25b31d7 a67ede16f..1e91ef4f0 reports the test commit as identical and the fix commit as differing only in that import block and the file path, so what was approved is what is on the branch:

  • _derive_reuse_salt still delegates to kv_cache_hash.get_cache_salt_id instead of re-deriving sha256 locally
  • the router still carries lora_task_id into _tokenize_and_compute_block_hashes_by_algo
  • the remaining blake3 in router.py is _content_affinity_key, which is unrelated to block keys and untouched here

One thing this PR has never had: a CI run. Only the DCO check has ever reported on it, so the approvals are standing on the GPU evidence I posted by hand rather than on pipeline results. Could someone with the permission kick off /bot run so the l0_cpu stage and the disaggregated router tests report here?

@lowsfer, @NVIDIA/trt-llm-kv-cache-manager-devs, this is waiting on the KV-cache-manager review that @mikeiovine delegated.

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@brnguyen2 you traced the id chain end to end on this one, so you are the right person to ask about mechanics rather than the code.

This PR has two approvals and has still never had a CI run. DCO is the only check that has ever reported on it. I asked for /bot run a week ago and nothing picked it up, and looking at how PRs actually land here I think I asked for the wrong thing: the recently merged PRs are NVIDIA-authored and none of them needed that comment, so pipeline coverage looks automatic for internal PRs and absent for external ones rather than comment-triggered.

So, plainly: what is the path for an externally-authored PR to get pipeline coverage here? If it needs someone internal to queue it, I am happy to wait for whoever that is rather than pinging further. I mainly want to know whether this is sitting in a queue or waiting on something from me, because from the outside those two look identical.

State, unchanged since your review: rebased onto main a67ede16f, head 1e91ef4f0, mergeable, 201 commits behind main without conflicting. The GPU evidence in the thread is still the only verification this has, which is exactly why I would rather it not be the last word.

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code path (``_v1_hash_from_radix_block``) over a radix chain seeded with
the worker's ``ReuseScope``.
"""
from tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.kv_cache_manager_v2 import \

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Is the import correct? The module is under _torch.pyexecutor.kv_cache.kv_cache_manager_v2

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It was not. kv_cache_manager_v2.py moved to _torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/, and when I rebased onto the move I kept the old path in three lazy imports: this one, and the ones in test_cache_salt_id_derivation_matches_worker_path and test_routing_key_sync_carries_lora_and_salt_to_block_hashes. The imports sit inside the test bodies, so collection still passed, but 7 test cases fail with ModuleNotFoundError when they run. I reproduced exactly that against the 1.3.0rc29 wheel. Fixed in e6eeb3c: all three now use tensorrt_llm._torch.pyexecutor.kv_cache.kv_cache_manager_v2, the path the rest of the suite uses, and all 7 run and pass (numbers in my comment below). Thanks for catching it.

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Rebased onto main 111687f92 (579 commits behind, no conflicts) and addressed the three open threads:

Verified on an NVIDIA L4 against the tensorrt_llm==1.3.0rc29 wheel. There is no wheel for current main, so the four commits were cherry-picked onto the wheel's own source commit (v1.3.0rc29, c76f4a8, the commit the wheel's metadata names; the five touched source files are byte-identical to the installed ones). They applied without conflicts and git range-diff shows all four identical to this branch. The patched files were installed over the wheel's copies and test_router.py was run with the repo's own conftest:

library test file result
rc29 as shipped rc29 87 passed
rc29 as shipped this PR 16 failed, 86 passed
this PR this PR 102 passed
this PR without e6eeb3c same 7 failed (ModuleNotFoundError), 95 passed

Nothing was skipped or deselected in any run. The second row is the new and re-pinned tests meeting the unfixed library. The last row isolates the import fix.

pre-commit run --files <changed files> passes. test_router.py is covered by l0_cpu.yml through unittest/disaggregated, so a pipeline run will exercise all of it, and this PR has not had one yet. @liji-nv, if the changes look right to you, could you trigger /bot run?

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… in the KV-aware router

The KV-cache-aware router scores workers by recomputing a request's block
hashes and matching them against the hashes workers publish in KV cache
events. The walk breaks on the first miss, so any first-block mismatch
makes match_count 0 for the whole request and cache-aware routing silently
degrades to load balancing.

Two request dimensions never survived that recomputation:

lora_id was dropped entirely. hash_v1_block_key already takes lora_task_id
and the worker passes it from ReuseScope.lora_id, but nothing in serve/
ever supplied it, so every LoRA request scored zero matches and all
adapters collapsed into one hash in the router's own prefix accounting.
Thread the request's adapter id through the hashers, the block-hash
helpers and ReuseScope, skipping the native BlockKeyHasher fast path when
it is set, exactly as is already done for a salt.

The salt id was derived twice: blake3 in kv_cache_hash.get_cache_salt_id
for the router, sha256 in KVCacheManagerV2._derive_reuse_salt for the
engine, so a salted request could not match a V2 worker either. Keep the
engine's derivation and make it the single source of truth both sides
import; the engine's published ids are unchanged. The V1 C++ BlockKeyHasher
mixes std::hash<std::string>(cacheSalt) directly, which is not reproducible
in Python, so that limitation is now documented on the shared helper.

The duplicate unused get_cache_salt_id in inputs/utils.py is removed. It
had no engine caller, and the router's parity test pinned against it, so
the test passed while the two live derivations disagreed.

Adds a round trip over {no salt, salt} x {no lora, lora} asserting the
router's hashes equal the hashes the worker's event path publishes, for
all three hash algorithms.

Fixes NVIDIA#18156

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…_sync

The round-trip test pins _compute_block_hashes against the worker's
published hashes but calls it directly, so dropping the cache_salt_id or
lora_task_id argument from KvCacheAwareRouter._routing_key_sync would not
fail anything. Add a test that goes through _routing_key_sync itself and
compares its block_hashes_by_algo with the worker-side hashes for the same
LoRA request, salted and unsalted, with a sensitivity assertion against the
hashes the same call site would produce without the ids.

Annotate the new test functions with -> None per CODING_GUIDELINES.

Also drop the dict fallback in _get_request_lora_id: lora_request is a
pydantic-validated LoRARequest on every request model that carries one, so
the branch was unreachable and only its unit test exercised it.

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…e path

kv_cache_manager_v2.py lives under _torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/ on main.
The three round-trip tests imported it from the old
_torch.pyexecutor.kv_cache_manager_v2 path inside the test bodies, so
collection succeeded but each test would raise ModuleNotFoundError when
run.

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…path

The native BlockKey binding takes a lora_task_id, and BlockKeyHasher
mixes it at the same position as hash_v1_block_key, so only a cache salt
(which the binding cannot carry) needs the per-token Python loop. The id
is reduced modulo 2**64 before the native call, as hash_v1_block_key
already does, so an out-of-range adapter id hashes identically on both
paths instead of raising in the binding.

Also import hashlib at module scope in kv_cache_hash.

Adds tests that the LoRA native path is bit-exact with hash_v1_block_key
across the uint64 boundary, and that only a cache salt selects the
Python fallback.

Signed-off-by: Shifat Islam Santo <shifatislamsanto764@gmail.com>
The Python backend of KVCacheManagerV2, including its _event_manager module, was removed in NVIDIA#19154, so the round-trip test can no longer build v1 worker hashes through _v1_hash_from_radix_block. It now chains KVCacheEventManager._hash_block_key, the C++ EventManager::hashV1BlockKey that v1HashFromBlock calls per text-token block, with the LoRA id and salt read from the worker's ReuseScope. This stays CPU-only, so the test keeps running in l0_cpu.

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ReuseScope is now the C++ binding, whose lora_id is a uint64, so an adapter id outside [0, 2**64) would raise in the router's V2 hash path while the V1 native path already reduces it modulo 2**64. Share that reduction through _to_uint64 and apply it to both, with a test across all three hash algos.

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Rebased onto main f84a4ba7f. It had gone conflicting after #19154 removed the Python backend of KVCacheManagerV2, which changed three things under this PR, so there are two new commits on top of the four already reviewed:

  • router_utils.py: [None][refactor] BREAKING: Remove the Python backend of KVCacheManagerV2 #19154 deleted v2_sha256_block_hasher and moved both V2 algorithms onto sequence_to_blockchain_keys, still with ReuseScope(salt=cache_salt_id) and no lora_id, so the bug is live on main. The LoRA id now goes into that ReuseScope.
  • ReuseScope is now the C++ binding and its lora_id is a uint64, so an out-of-range adapter id would raise a TypeError on the V2 path while the V1 native path already wraps it. Both now share _to_uint64, with a test across all three algorithms (f9f2cef).
  • The round-trip test built its v1 worker hashes through the deleted Python _event_manager. It now chains KVCacheEventManager._hash_block_key, the C++ EventManager::hashV1BlockKey the worker calls per block, so the worker side is the engine's own code and the test stays CPU-only (bb5207d).

No wheel contains #19154 yet, so I tested on an L4 with the rc29 wheel, its source commit plus the router half of #19154, and these six commits; the three router files are byte-identical to this branch. 112 passed with the PR, 22 of those fail against the same library without it, and reverting only the uint64 wrap gives 4 V2 TypeErrors. Description updated.

@liji-nv the import you flagged is fixed and holds after the rebase. Could you take another look, and trigger /bot run if it looks right? This PR has not had a CI run yet. @lowsfer this now sits on top of #19154.

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The worker's LoRA id is a uint64 on both the V1 ``BlockKey`` and the V2
``ReuseScope``, so an id outside [0, 2**64) must hash as its wrapped value
rather than make the native binding reject the request.

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Fair on the docstring: it implied the worker hashes the wrapped id. It doesn't. The worker's LlmRequest binding takes lora_task_id as std::optional<uint64_t> and rejects an out-of-range id itself. The router reads lora_int_id from the client request before that, so the wrap only keeps the router's own native bindings from raising mid-routing; for in-range ids it is the identity. Reworded both docstrings in da00f5a, no code change. Keeping the out-of-range cases, since that router behavior is what they pin.

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The worker holds the LoRA id as a uint64 LlmRequest.lora_task_id and rejects an out-of-range id itself; the router wraps it only so its own native bindings do not raise while routing a request the worker will refuse. Docstrings only.

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KV-cache-aware router never matches LoRA or salted requests: lora_id is dropped and cache_salt is hashed with a different algorithm than the engine

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