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Description

RemoteMpiCommSessionClient.submit_sync could return an exception object where
its callers expect List[T].

When a worker task fails, the server forwards the failure as the response
payload itself:

# RemoteMpiCommSessionServer.mpi_future_callback
if future.exception() is not None:
    self.queue.put(future.exception())
    return

The client returned that payload verbatim, so the caller received a bare
exception instead of a list. CachedModelLoader._download_hf_model_if_needed
then iterates it:

model_dir = next((d for d in model_dirs if d is not None), None)

which raises TypeError: '<SomeError>' object is not iterable — far from the
real cause, and hiding whatever the worker actually raised.

The other two sessions do not have this problem: MpiPoolSession.submit_sync
and MpiCommSession.submit_sync both return [future.result() for ...], and
future.result() re-raises. This change makes the remote session consistent
with them.

Test Coverage

No new test. The change is a two-line guard on an error path that requires a
live remote MPI session with a failing worker to exercise; it has not been run
against such a session. It is derived from the two call sites quoted above.

Behaviour on the success path is unchanged: res is a list there, so
isinstance(res, BaseException) is false and the function returns as before.

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The current diff changes only formatting in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_session.py. It does not change RemoteMpiCommSessionClient.submit_sync, so the intended exception-forwarding behavior is not present in this diff.

QA Engineer Review

The test file changed only in import formatting and a docstring layout. No test functions, IDs, selectors, waivers, or test-list entries changed. The file is listed in the A100 and CPU CI test lists. The diff adds no coverage for exception re-raising; coverage of that behavior needs follow-up.

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  • tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_session.py: No test behavior changed. The file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a100.yml and tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.

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RemoteMpiCommSessionClient.submit_sync now re-raises polled BaseException responses. Tests verify exception propagation, unchanged successful response lists, and synchronous request submission.

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MPI exception propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronous response handling and validation
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/mpi_session.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_mpi_session.py
submit_sync re-raises polled BaseException responses. In-process tests use a fake queue and verify exception propagation, successful results, and synchronous request submission.

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Change: Bug fix

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Remote synchronous calls now raise forwarded worker errors while successful results remain unchanged. The inspected response path matches the new handling, and no merge-blocking risk is established.

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…xceptions from submit_sync

RemoteMpiCommSessionServer.mpi_future_callback forwards a failed worker's
exception by putting future.exception() on the response queue. The client's
submit_sync returned that payload verbatim, so a caller expecting List[T]
received a bare exception object instead.

CachedModelLoader._download_hf_model_if_needed then iterates that result,
producing "TypeError: 'HFValidationError' object is not iterable" far from the
real cause. The sibling sessions (MpiPoolSession, MpiCommSession) raise through
future.result(); this makes the remote session consistent with them.

Add focused unit tests for RemoteMpiCommSessionClient.submit_sync using an
in-process queue stand-in: a forwarded worker exception is re-raised as the
same object, and a successful result list is returned unchanged.

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