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Fix three V2 KV cache sizing failures in one PR: PARD's separate draft pool can be too small to allocate or resume, GPT-OSS with finite window overrides can report hundreds of GiB of mandatory fixed cache, and layer-wise hybrid benchmarks can underallocate attention pages for their synthetic requests.

  • Share context, generation-headroom, and SWA boundary-page accounting between static estimation and runtime quota conversion. Preserve the external drafter's fixed pool and page-rounded resume capacity. Estimate the standalone draft cost directly when splitting target/draft budgets.
  • Keep the existing CacheCost(slope, intercept) model. Explicit native full_attention layers contribute to the slope even when a runtime window override bounds retention; native SWA and external draft pools retain fixed costs. Runtime windows are unchanged. No separate budget-estimation mode or for_budget_split parameter is needed. Configured target/draft quotas still sum to the input budget.
  • Set avg_seq_len=max_seq_len in the layer-wise benchmark, where every dummy request actually has that length. Keep this workload correction in the benchmark rather than changing the hybrid pool solver.

PARD/DFlash allocation and resume regressions run in the GPU unit-test lane. The focused Nemotron/Qwen3-Next benchmark cases select V2 directly, without adding duplicate V1 CI cases. This PR incorporates the fixes from #18932 and #18954.

The native-full classification relies on explicit layer metadata; configs without it retain existing behavior. This is a static affine estimate, not an exact saturation curve for arbitrary all-SWA workloads.

The SWA context and boundary-page reservations also apply to ordinary target models with speculative decoding disabled. For a Gemma3-27B-shaped configuration (30 SWA layers at window 1024, 10 full-attention layers, 2048 bytes/token/layer, 64-token blocks, batch size 8, and max_num_tokens=8192), the fixed cost with scratch reuse disabled increases from 480 MiB (~0.47 GiB) to 990 MiB (~0.97 GiB): 480 MiB for context capacity and 30 MiB for retained boundary pages. Lower estimated token capacity under the same GPU memory budget is an expected consequence of correcting the earlier underestimation. Static estimation reads scratch reuse from KvCacheConfig and keeps it disabled for draft managers, matching runtime.

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  • Merged main at e13e487195; the related suite passed again on the merged revision: 142 passed. Main removed the Llama-3.1-8B accuracy suite in [None][test] clean Llama-3.1-8B accuracy test coverage #18809, including the old PARD overlap cases; this PR preserves that removal and retains the CUDA-backed PARD/DFlash quota regressions.
  • CI lane correction: moved both CUDA-backed external-draft regressions out of the module-level cpu_only estimator file into test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py. Existing H100/B300/GB300 executor entries cover that file with -m "not cpu_only"; adding a GPU marker alone would not cancel an inherited CPU marker. Validated the CI marker expressions on B200: 40 passed, 54 deselected with CUDA hidden and -m cpu_only; 54 passed, 3 deselected with -m "not cpu_only", including both PARD and DFlash regressions with no skips.
  • Final combined budget split, cache estimation, V2 manager, and focused hybrid/MTP suite on B200: 142 passed, including GPU allocation tests.
  • All commit hooks passed, including modern and legacy Python lint/format checks.
  • Regression tests use the estimated quota to allocate real PARD/DFlash context and generation caches, sweep unaligned page boundaries, then suspend and resume them. Replaying the pre-fix PARD estimator makes the same test fail at actual cache growth (resize(1035, 1024)); the current estimator passes.
  • GPT-OSS budget coverage checks conservation and target/draft capacity bounds in three representative scenarios, without asserting exact affine coefficients or split ratios. Removed the Cartesian formula-comparison matrix and redundant internal page-count checks; test cleanup removes 146 net lines from the previous revision.
  • B200 GPT-OSS 20B TP2 proxy: startup and two generation rounds passed with overlap both on and off. The proxy uses a compatible 120B Eagle3 draft checkpoint and disables CUDA graphs; it is a capacity check, not an accuracy evaluation. Full PARD accuracy and the original GPT-OSS 120B case have not been rerun for this combined revision.
  • Focused V2 layer-wise benchmarks: Nemotron completed successfully. The combined run hit its 15-minute timeout while Qwen3-Next was still in first-time CUDA kernel compilation (ptxas); Qwen3-Next validation is incomplete, with no runtime quota result from this run.

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The change unifies KV-cache sizing, preserves independent target and draft costs during budget splitting, adds V2 manager selection to benchmarks, and expands runtime-backed allocation coverage.

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KV-cache estimation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared runtime and static sizing
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py
Shared generation headroom and cache-component calculations now drive runtime allocation, quota conversion, static sizing, SWA retention, and draft reserves.
Independent target and draft costs
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py
Cost estimation passes maximum token counts to both managers, computes draft costs independently, and preserves each manager’s fixed cost during budget splitting.
Benchmark manager wiring
examples/layer_wise_benchmarks/run.py, tensorrt_llm/tools/layer_wise_benchmarks/runner.py, tests/unittest/tools/test_layer_wise_benchmarks.py, tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py
Benchmark commands and runner configuration expose and pass use_kv_cache_manager_v2; the configuration records average sequence length. PARD accuracy configuration explicitly enables the V2 manager.
Sizing and allocation validation
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/*
Tests validate budget splitting, static sizing, quota calculations, reuse-window retention, runtime draft allocation, and suspend/resume.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant CacheCostEstimator
  participant KVCacheManagerV2
  participant DraftCacheManager
  CacheCostEstimator->>KVCacheManagerV2: request target cost with max_num_tokens
  KVCacheManagerV2-->>CacheCostEstimator: return target slope and intercept
  CacheCostEstimator->>DraftCacheManager: request draft cost with max_num_tokens
  DraftCacheManager-->>CacheCostEstimator: return draft slope and intercept
  CacheCostEstimator-->>CacheCostEstimator: split budgets using independent affine costs
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The sizing changes have broad focused validation, but two previously identified test-coverage concerns remain open around large-batch draft capacity and removed cache-mode agreement coverage. These are bounded validation risks rather than demonstrated runtime failures.

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- Around line 810-814: Update the draft-manager call to _per_manager_cache_cost
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@yizhang-nv yizhang-nv changed the title [https://nvbugs/6732123][fix] Correct V2 SWA target and draft cache budget accounting [https://nvbugs/6732123][fix] Correct V2 KV cache quota estimation Sep 10, 2026
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_budget_split.py`:
- Line 160: Strengthen the assertion in the large-batch test case around
max_batch_size 2048 to require at least one allocatable draft KV block, using
the draft cache cost and block geometry already exposed by the test setup.
Replace the weak positive max_gpu_total_bytes check while preserving the
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