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Attention-DP generation-side transfer consensus now spans helix CP ranks and, when configured, PP ranks. This prevents a rank from proceeding before its peers receive KV data. Non-DP and attention-DP without CP retain their existing consensus paths. KV-size metric scaling is factored into a helper; attention-DP scales by CP size, while other paths use TP × CP.

KVCacheManagerV2 no longer rejects attention-DP with helix CP. Its restrictions on block reuse and draft managers remain. The DeepSeek V3 Lite helix integration path switches to the Python transceiver with NIXL. The shared helix test also sets a bounded request timeout so a transfer deadlock can fail the test instead of occupying the GPU slot until the class-level timeout.

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The new test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py covers attention-DP consensus with CP and PP, completion and cancellation outcomes, non-DP behavior, and KV-size scaling. The added test_kv_cache_manager_v2_accepts_attention_dp_with_helix_cp case covers MHA and MLA manager construction. The H100 CI list includes that manager test. The changed integration test selectors’ CI or manual-QA listing is not established by the available evidence.

The test-list waiver removal re-enables the B300 DeepSeek V3 Lite test_auto_dtype_with_helix case. Test execution results are not established. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py: Verify that attention-DP consensus waits for matching completion across CP and PP ranks, and that non-DP behavior remains unchanged. Check KV-size metrics for attention-DP and non-DP mappings.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify initialization accepts attention-DP with helix CP and still rejects block reuse and draft managers.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py: Covers CP/PP consensus, completion and cancellation outcomes, non-DP behavior, and metric scaling. No corresponding CI or manual-QA test-list entry is established.
  • tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_cache_transceiver_single_process.py: Adds MHA and MLA manager-construction coverage for attention-DP with helix CP. The H100 CI list includes this test.
  • tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py: Updates the helix integration path to use the Python transceiver with NIXL and bounds request timeout. Verify backend setup and timeout handling for both DeepSeek V3 Lite and the shared helix helper.
  • tests/integration/defs/disaggregated/test_configs/disagg_config_ctxtp2_gentp1cp2_deepseek_v3_lite_bf16_tllm_gen.yaml: Changes both workers to NIXL with the Python runtime. Verify this configuration in the DeepSeek V3 Lite helix transfer path.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt: Removes the waiver for the B300 DeepSeek V3 Lite helix test. Verify that the re-enabled test runs and passes.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml: Adds the attention-DP helix manager test to H100 CI. No changed integration helix selector is confirmed in this list.

Description

Under attention-DP the Python KV cache transceiver (KvCacheTransceiverV2) skipped the gen-side transfer-completion consensus when pp_size == 1, assuming every DP rank owns disjoint requests. With helix context parallelism the CP ranks of one DP group share the same requests, so a CP rank could start decoding a request whose KV its peer had not received yet, and the helix all-to-all deadlocked. KVCacheManagerV2 rejected attention-DP + helix for that reason.

This PR keeps the helix CP ranks of a DP group in lockstep:

  • Gen-side consensus spans the CP ranks (or the PP ranks) of a DP group, like the C++ transceiver's mGroupDataComm (_init_sync_policy, _dp_group_allgather).
  • Gen-init admission is intersected across the CP ranks before receiving (align_gen_admission_across_cp); dropped requests give back their V2 KV and retry.
  • With overlap off (TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP=1, used by gen_only benchmarks), a receive failure on one CP rank fails the request on every CP rank.
  • The attention-DP router uses each DP rank's maximum load across CP, and falls back from KV-cache-aware routing under helix.
  • _can_queue votes over TP x CP, so a dummy request padded on one CP rank cannot split a forward.
  • KVCacheManagerV2 accepts attention-DP + helix at pp_size == 1. Attention-DP + helix + pp_size > 1 stays rejected in both KVCacheManagerV2 and KvCacheTransceiverV2, because the PP loop does not align admission across CP.
  • The helix KV size metric counts the round-robin blocks each CP rank holds and one STATE slot per rank that holds the request.

Test Coverage

  • Helix E2E (DeepSeek-V3-Lite and Qwen3-8B test_auto_dtype_with_helix, ctxtp2_gentp1cp2 disagg yaml) runs on the Python transceiver with KV cache manager V2. No helix E2E uses V1 any more; V1 is being retired.
  • Unit: test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py, test_disagg_coordinator_admission.py, test_disagg_coordinator_receive.py, test_adp_router.py, test_adp_host_exchange.py, test_cache_transceiver_single_process.py (V2 accept/reject).
  • Verified on 8xB200 with the CI image and this PR's wheel: DeepSeek-V3-Lite pp1dp2cp2 and Qwen3-8B pp1tp2cp2, overlap on and off, all passed on V2. The short_prompt helix yaml case crashed in warmup on the old base with both V1 and V2 (CuTe MLA decode, nvbugs/6921137) and passes with [https://nvbugs/6921137][fix] Fix CuTe MLA page-table batch bounds #20256, which this branch now includes.

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The KV cache manager no longer rejects attention-DP configurations with Helix context parallelism. Tests cover consensus behavior, cancellation retirement, and KV-size scaling. Helix integration configurations use NIXL with the Python transceiver and set an evaluation timeout.

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Attention-DP Helix Support

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Enable and test attention-DP Helix
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_cache_transceiver_single_process.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
The KV cache manager no longer rejects attention-DP with Helix context parallelism. Tests cover consensus gather paths, cancellation retirement, KV-size rank factors, manager construction, and H100 test-list inclusion.
Configure Helix integration tests
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py, tests/integration/defs/disaggregated/test_configs/*, tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
Helix integration configurations switch to NIXL with the Python transceiver. Serving tests set the request timeout to DEFAULT_ACC_EVALUATION_TIMEOUT. The B300 DeepSeek V3 Lite Helix test is removed from the skip list.

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Change: Bug fix

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🟡 Minor · Exercise attention-DP with Helix CP in the manager test. · kv_cache_manager_v2.py:1212-1219

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Exercise attention-DP with Helix CP in the manager test.

The Helix test currently passes gen_enable_dp=False, while the general attention-DP matrix uses the default gen_cp=1. The existing factory forwards gen_enable_dp to Mapping.enable_attention_dp and gen_cp to cp_size, so it can exercise enable_attention_dp=True, cp_size=2 directly. Without that case, a restored constructor rejection for this combination can pass the current tests.

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 `@pytest.mark.parametrize`("is_mla", [False, True], ids=["mha", "mla"])
 `@pytest.mark.parametrize`("gen_cp", [2, 4], ids=["cp2", "cp4"])
-def test_cache_transceiver_helix_cp(gen_cp, is_mla):
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("gen_enable_dp", [False, True], ids=["no-adp", "adp"])
+def test_cache_transceiver_helix_cp(gen_cp, is_mla, gen_enable_dp):
 ...
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/disaggregation/transceiver.py`:
- Around line 291-293: Add a test for the `gathered` path when `cp_size` is 1
and `pp_size` is greater than 1: use two PP ranks with a request ID present on
only one rank, and assert that only shared IDs reach completion consensus
through `_dist.pp_allgather`.

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production’s `_gen_consensus_outcome` path with a four-field payload for a CP
peer. Assert cancellation remains pending while either rank is not retirable,
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The consensus change itself looks right — _dp_group_allgather reproduces the C++ mGroupDataComm split by dpRank, and the non-DP path is provably unchanged. Three things to settle around it.

The unwaived B300 case isn't covered by this fix. test_auto_dtype_with_helix[...pp1tp2cp2-overlap_off] is the enable_attention_dp=False parametrization, and the non-DP gen path is identical before/after: world_size > 1 matches the old predicate, len(all_ranks) == world_size matches the old sync_size, and the KV-size factor stays tp*cp. What changes for that case is the route swap — NIXL+PYTHON, which also resolves DeepSeek's use_kv_cache_manager_v2="auto" to V2. That may make it pass, but it's a different configuration, not a fix, and it's a full:B300 entry, so /bot run here won't exercise it. Please attach a manual B300 run of that case, or keep the waiver and unwaive separately.

Helix E2E moves entirely off the C++ transceiver. TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_auto_dtype_with_helix, TestQwen3_8B::_run_helix_test, and the ctxtp2_gentp1cp2 yaml all flip to NIXL/PYTHON, leaving the C++ helix path with no E2E coverage in l0_dgx_b200 or the QA lists. Parametrize the runtime, or keep one CPP variant.

Tracking: [None] on a deadlock fix — please cite the NVBug/JIRA for the hang itself; 6410881 tracks a different parametrization and a different symptom.

One correction to the generated notes above: the new test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py is in CI — it's cpu_only, and l0_cpu.yml collects unittest/disaggregated under -m cpu_only.

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@brnguyen2 thanks for the thorough review. On the three summary points:

  • B300 pp1tp2cp2-overlap_off: agreed, the consensus change does not touch the non-DP path; what changes for that case is the NIXL+PYTHON route. Verified manually on 8xB300 with this branch: DeepSeek-V3-Lite pp1tp2cp2-overlap_off GSM8K 64.94 (table in the description), Qwen3_8B pp1tp2cp2-overlap_off PASS, and the test_disaggregated helix yaml PASS. nvbugs/6410881 was an accuracy drop on the C++/UCX route from the July QA run, not a hang. Keeping the unwaive.
  • C++ helix E2E coverage: intentional. The C++ transceiver is being deprecated in favour of the Python transceiver, so I'd rather not add a runtime parametrization to 8-GPU / 60-min entries for a path being retired. Noted in the description. If you still want one CPP variant, the cheapest is reverting only the ctxtp2_gentp1cp2 yaml.
  • Tracking: there is no existing bug for the hang. It was found while debugging [None][test] Migrate legacy disaggregated E2E transceiver paths #19472's CI (gen-side ValueError from the V2 guard, then the 300 s cuda_event.synchronize() hang once the guard is lifted); 6410881 is a different symptom, which is why it is not in the title. Happy to file an NVBug if you want a tracker.

CodeRabbit's suggestion to parametrize test_cache_transceiver_helix_cp over gen_enable_dp: the constructor regression it guards against is covered by test_kv_cache_manager_v2_accepts_attention_dp_with_helix_cp, and the threaded test harness has no cp_allgather, so the suggested diff would not run as written. Not taking it.

Also rebased onto main (one conflict in waives.txt; adapted the new unit test to main's 5-field consensus payload). The earlier CI failure (test_cache_transceiver_host_offload_scheduler_lifecycle, missing PyExecutor.model_engine) was fixed on main by #19028. Inline comments addressed in 253617d.

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Thanks; CP consensus and admission address the transfer-ordering issue.

I left 2 inline comments.

# Rows are TP-major, CP-minor. The CP peers of this DP rank decide
# together whether to defer the previous batch.
cp_rows = batch_sizes.reshape(-1, self.dist.cp_size)
can_queue_this_rank = bool(cp_rows[self.dist.tp_rank].any())

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IIUC with V1 Helix and overlap scheduling, a retiring request can leave free KV blocks [0, 1] across its CP ranks. Only CP1 can allocate a dummy. This any() then makes both ranks defer their previous batch, although retiring that batch would release the missing KV. CP1 repeatedly allocates and rolls back its dummy; CP0 remains full even after other DP ranks become ready.

Shall we allow completed previous work to drain consistently across CP when the remaining scheduled work is only padding. Maybe add a DP2×CP2 regression that verifies progress on subsequent iterations.

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Thanks for tracing this. The case needs CP peers with different free KV, which comes from KV cache manager V1 dealing helix blocks round-robin. V1 is being removed, and helix here runs on KVCacheManagerV2. V2 takes one page on every CP rank per ledger block and syncs the pool size across ranks, so the CP peers of a DP rank have the same free pages and pad their dummies together. A cancel or transfer timeout is still handled per CP rank today, so the peers can briefly differ. The follow-up PR that routes cancel/timeout through the CP consensus closes that, so I'd keep this PR as is.

Comment on lines +453 to +469
def _request_paged_bytes(self, req: LlmRequest, paged_bytes: int) -> int:
"""Request-total paged bytes, given this CP rank's paged bytes times the TP factor.

Helix deals prompt blocks round-robin over the CP ranks, so this rank holds
ceil(prompt_len / tpb) of the ceil(total_input_len_cp / tpb) blocks (prompt_len
is the rank-local slice) and the shares differ by up to one block. Scaling the
per-block bytes by the global block count gives the request total. A CP rank that
owns no block has no paged bytes; responses come from CP rank 0, which owns block 0.
"""
if paged_bytes == 0 or self._mapping.cp_size == 1:
return paged_bytes
tpb = self._reuse_adapter.tokens_per_block
local_blocks = (req.prompt_len + tpb - 1) // tpb
global_blocks = (req.total_input_len_cp + tpb - 1) // tpb
if local_blocks == 0:
return paged_bytes
return paged_bytes * global_blocks // local_blocks

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Curious about this calculation.

paged_bytes excludes reused blocks, but this ratio counts all prompt blocks. Consider this example: V1 with CP2, an 80-token prompt, and 32 tokens per block. CP0 owns blocks 0 and 2; CP1 owns block 1. If CP0 reuses block 0, each rank transfers one block. At 100 bytes per transferred block, the actual total is 200 bytes.

The formula computes local_transferred_bytes × global_prompt_blocks / local_prompt_blocks:

  • CP0 would report 100 × 3 / 2 = 150 bytes.
  • CP1 would report 100 × 3 / 1 = 300 bytes.
    Both values estimate the whole request’s transfer size, but neither accounts correctly for unequal reuse across CP ranks.

Shall we account for the actual transferred blocks? It'd be good to have a partial-prefix-reuse test covering this case.

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Right, the ratio misses reused blocks only with KV cache manager V1, which is being removed. KVCacheManagerV2 rejects block reuse under helix, so every CP rank receives all of its prompt blocks and the scaling is exact.

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…ross helix CP ranks under attention-DP

Under attention-DP the Python KV cache transceiver skipped the gen-side
transfer-completion consensus entirely (pp_size == 1), on the assumption
that every DP rank owns disjoint requests. With helix context parallelism
the CP ranks of one DP group share the same requests, so a CP rank could
start decoding a request whose KV blocks its partner rank had not received
yet, and the helix all-to-all deadlocked (gen ranks stuck in
cuda_event.synchronize(), killed by the hang detector).

Mirror the C++ transceiver, which builds its attention-DP sync group from
all PP x CP ranks of the same DP index: gather over the CP group (then PP
when present) and require pp_size * cp_size agreements. Non-DP and
DP-without-CP paths are unchanged.

KVCacheManagerV2 rejected attention-DP + helix for exactly this reason; the
rejection is lifted now that the transceiver reaches consensus.

Verified on 8xB300 with DeepSeek-V3-Lite disaggregated serving
(ctx tp4 -> gen tp2 cp2 helix, attention-DP on, Python transceiver / NIXL):
V1 and V2 KV cache managers both hung before the change and pass GSM8K
(64.14 / 63.38 / 64.33 with overlap on/off) after it; the non-DP tp2cp2
variant is unaffected (64.94).

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…ceiver and unwaive nvbugs/6410881

Move the helix context-parallel disaggregated tests (DeepSeek-V3-Lite and
Qwen3-8B accuracy tests, DeepSeek-V3-Lite tllm_gen helix E2E config) from
the C++/UCX transceiver to backend=NIXL + transceiver_runtime=PYTHON, which
the previous commit makes safe for the attention-DP helix variants.

Drop the nvbugs/6410881 waiver for the B300 pp1tp2cp2 variant: the case
passes on 8xB300 both on the C++ transceiver (GSM8K 64.48) and on the
Python transceiver (64.94 overlap on, 64.33 overlap off) against a 64.74
reference.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…aths, V2 attention-DP helix construction

- ruff-format the new consensus test.
- Add attention-DP PP-only gather case and a _gen_consensus_outcome case
  where a cancelled request retires only after every CP rank drained.
- Add a KVCacheManagerV2 construction case with enable_attention_dp=True
  and helix cp_size=2 to the single-process transceiver test.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…tion-DP helix KV size metric

- Mark test_transceiver_adp_helix_consensus.py cpu_only so the l0_cpu
  unittest/disaggregated entry collects it.
- Register test_kv_cache_manager_v2_accepts_attention_dp_with_helix_cp in
  l0_h100.yml next to the existing helix single-process case.
- _kv_size_rank_factor: under attention-DP each helix CP rank still holds
  only 1/cp_size of the request's blocks, so scale by cp_size instead of 1
  (metric only: py_kv_cache_xfer_bytes / transfer bandwidth).

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…P-peer cancellation and kv_cache_size scaling

- Pass request_timeout_s=DEFAULT_ACC_EVALUATION_TIMEOUT to both helix
  launch_disaggregated_llm calls so a transfer deadlock fails the test
  instead of holding the 8-GPU slot until the class-level pytest timeout.
- Cancellation consensus test: add the case where only the CP peer reports
  the cancellation, making the CP gather observable.
- Factor _kv_size_rank_factor into _kv_size_rank_factor_for(mapping) and
  unit-test cp_size=1/2 under attention-DP plus the non-DP control.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…sus payload after rebase

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…tention-DP gen consensus and why the ctx side needs no CP sync

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…ound-robin block split

Helix deals prompt blocks round-robin over the CP ranks, so the ranks hold
unequal shares: CP rank 0 always owns block 0, and a short prompt can leave a
rank with no block at all. Scaling one rank's bytes by cp_size overstated
kv_cache_size; a one-block prompt with CP=2 reported two blocks.

- _kv_size_rank_factor_for now covers the TP scale only.
- _request_kv_bytes scales this rank's per-block bytes by the global block
  count, ceil(total_input_len_cp / tpb), over its own ceil(prompt_len / tpb).
  It needs no collective, so the async and the blocking receive paths both
  use it.
- A CP rank that owns no block reports 0. Responses come from CP rank 0,
  which always owns block 0.
- The unit test covers 1/2/3-block prompts, the empty CP rank, the TP scale
  without attention-DP, and the non-helix case.

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…ranks before receiving

In async-transfer mode receive_gen_init ends with the gen transfer status
collective (over the DP group's CP ranks under attention-DP with pp=1, over
the world otherwise) and enters it only on ranks that admitted gen-init
requests. CP ranks can admit different requests even with the same KV
capacity: KV cache manager V1 deals helix blocks round-robin from CP rank 0,
and a client cancel or KV-transfer timeout retires a request rank-locally,
so one CP rank can free its KV earlier than its peer. A rank that admitted
alone then enters the collective without its peer and hangs.

- DisaggTransferCoordinator.align_gen_admission_across_cp gathers the
  admitted ids over CP on every iteration when cp_size > 1, keeps the
  intersection in admission order, and reverts the V2 KV of the dropped
  requests, which retry on a later iteration.
- The pp=1 executor loops call it between admit and receive_gen_init; the
  Python and C++ transceivers share this call site. Under attention-DP with
  pp=1 the gen status collective spans exactly these CP ranks. Without
  attention-DP it spans the world: the intersection removes the CP skew,
  but TP ranks are not intersected, so a rank-local cancel or timeout can
  still skew them, as it already can with cp == 1. The PP loop is
  unchanged; under attention-DP with tp > 1 its first-stage ranks still
  admit from their own schedule.
- Correct the invariant comment in KvCacheTransceiverV2._init_sync_policy
  accordingly.
- Tests: unit tests for the alignment; the loop transcript records the new
  collective and its ADP executor's dist declares cp_size=1; the
  benchmark-disagg stub passes admission through.

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…reject ADP+helix with pp>1

Under attention-DP with helix CP, a client cancel or a transfer timeout
can retire a request on one CP rank before its peers. Each CP rank
gathered the attention-DP load from its own TP group only, so the CP
ranks of one DP group could see different loads and route the same new
request to different DP ranks. That request never starts:
align_gen_admission_across_cp keeps only the requests that every CP rank
of the DP group admitted.

- ADPRouter.gather_all_rank_states first takes this DP rank's maximum
  active-request and active-token counts across the helix CP group, then
  gathers over TP. Every CP rank then pops and routes the same requests,
  and no CP rank goes over max_num_active_requests.
- Only the pp=1 executor loops call align_gen_admission_across_cp, so
  attention-DP with helix CP and pp_size > 1 is rejected: by the Python
  KV cache transceiver for either KV cache manager, and again by
  KVCacheManagerV2.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
KV-cache-aware attention-DP routing scores DP ranks by prefix matches that
each helix CP rank probes in its own slice of the KV cache, so the CP
ranks of a DP group could route one request to different DP ranks even
though they now gather the same loads. When
attention_dp_config.enable_kv_cache_aware_routing is set and block reuse
is on, ADPRouter.create now builds the default load-based router under
helix CP and logs a warning; conversation-affinity routing still takes
precedence. Only KV cache manager V1 reaches this; V2 rejects block reuse
under helix CP.

Comments and docstrings around the attention-DP + helix + PP rejection
now say which loop leaves admission unaligned, that the gen consensus
group under attention-DP is the CP ranks or the PP ranks but never both,
and that the KvCacheTransceiverV2 and KVCacheManagerV2 checks must be
lifted together.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…V size metric

- With overlap off (TRTLLM_DISABLE_KV_CACHE_TRANSFER_OVERLAP=1, as gen_only
  benchmarks set on the GEN worker), a KV receive that failed on one helix
  CP rank left its peer decoding the request alone. After the blocking
  receives, the CP ranks now gather their failed ids and every CP rank
  fails them. The gather is skipped in the PP loop under attention DP with
  tp_size > 1, where each first-stage rank schedules on its own and the CP
  ranks can hold different requests. KvCacheTransceiverV2 and
  KVCacheManagerV2 reject that layout under helix.
- The request KV size metric scaled STATE (recurrent) bytes by the paged
  block ratio and undercounted hybrid models such as Kimi K3 under helix.
  STATE bytes now scale by the TP and CP ranks that hold the request, each
  of which receives one STATE slot of the same size. Each receive walks the
  chunk once for both the expected write total and the metric.
- The CP admission and failure gathers now pass small_payload=True: each
  carries at most one iteration's gen-init request ids.

Signed-off-by: Chuang Zhu <111838961+chuangz0@users.noreply.github.com>
…queue over TP x CP

Under attention DP with helix CP, the generation server could hang in the
helix all-to-all. _can_queue gathered batch sizes over the TP group only,
so each CP rank's TP group decided on its own. Under KV pressure one CP
rank can pad an attention-DP dummy request that its peer fails to
allocate (for example after a rank-local cancel or timeout freed KV on one
CP rank only); one CP rank's TP group then forwards while the other's
skips.

The vote now gathers over TP x CP, and can_queue_this_rank is read from
this DP rank's CP rows of the same gather, so its CP ranks also defer the
previous batch together. With cp_size == 1 both are unchanged. When the
vote fails, _finalize_adp_dummy_allocation rolls back a pending padded
dummy (pp_size == 1, disaggregated) as before.

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…r V2

KV cache manager V2 is the default and V1 is being retired, and V2 now
accepts attention DP with helix CP at pp_size == 1. The DeepSeek-V3-Lite
and Qwen3-8B test_auto_dtype_with_helix cases and the ctxtp2_gentp1cp2
helix config switch to use_kv_cache_manager_v2: true. The pp1dp2cp2 cases
now run V2 + attention DP + helix end to end, and the gentp1cp2
short_prompt case covers an empty CP rank on V2.

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