[None][fix] Scope KVCM warmup capacity constraints to DeepSeek V4

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Description

DeepSeek V4's warmup constraints were moved into the generic KVCM V2 in #16545. For ordinary attention models, the maximum-sequence-length decode floor can grow a temporary KV pool beyond its estimated GPU budget, causing OOM during initial cache creation or model/encoder profiling.

Restore the maximum-length decode constraint to DeepseekV4CacheManager._build_cache_config. The generic context/chunked-prefill constraint stays in the base manager: it reserves the configured per-iteration token budget, rather than the model's maximum sequence length. V4 inherits that context constraint and adds its longest-decode-plus-short-requests workload, preserving draft/extra-token reservations and the explicit pool-ratio opt-out. Generic V2 retains average-length pool preferences, and Mamba's independent state-slot floor is preserved.

The CUDA-graph warmup builder also reserves V2's additional generation token and releases its short dummy requests if insufficient capacity remains. Original gRPC, Seed-OSS, Mistral, and multimodal-example fixtures explicitly select V2. No native allocator or public configuration change is introduced.

Test Coverage

The committed unit-test change only updates two existing generic KVCM assertions to retain the context constraint without the longest-decode constraint, and renames one test. The DeepSeek V4 test file is unchanged from main. Additional budget/warmup test fixtures and parameter matrices have been removed from the PR; their earlier manual validation evidence remains below.

Follow-up B200 comparison with the generic context constraint retained: 12 passed (four native allocation-budget cases and eight graph-request construction cases). Removing only the model-engine generation-token reservation produced 6 failures, 6 passes: two byte-budget cases could no longer construct an otherwise feasible warmup batch, and four one-token boundary cases accepted a batch that should be rejected. This was an isolated Python-policy comparison on the same CI60862 runtime, not a full-model run of the rebased branch. The validation scripts remain outside the PR.

Manual GPU validation on 2026-09-20, before the test reduction, using matching CI60862 native binaries and source-hash-verified baseline/fixed Python packages:

Hardware / test	Baseline	Fixed
B200 byte/token budget controls	Four expected failures: a roughly 17 MiB budget allocates 270 MiB	All four pass within budget plus allocation rounding
B200 generic V2, budget splitting, estimation and selected Mamba regressions	Budget controls above	221 passed
B200 DeepSeek V4 cache-manager module	—	60 passed, including real longest-decode/context allocations with default/explicit average length and scratch reuse on/off
A10 original multimodal gRPC class	Initial KV cache OOM; three fixture errors	3 passed
B200 Seed-OSS-36B	Initial KV cache OOM	Full 1,319-sample GSM8K passed; average accuracy 92.077% vs threshold 87.597%
H100 Mistral-Small-24B forced chunked prefill	Encoder profiling OOM	Full 900-sample MMMU passed; accuracy 53.889% vs threshold 53.123%

That validation passed all 286 cases with zero skips; this is the historical run count, not the number of cases added by this PR. Each original model group completed 34 CUDA-graph warmups and captures for both temporary and final caches, without skipped graph workloads. The A10 fixture retains its original dummy weights; Seed and Mistral load their real checkpoints. V4 validation is component coverage, not a full-model accuracy run.

These full-model GPU results apply to pre-rebase commit eb7be9db6a (parent 40466ac6c0, base 3f610d644c), before narrowing the relocation to the longest-decode constraint only. The branch was subsequently rebased onto 63e64e5bdb. The full GPU suite was not repeated after rebase or after restoring the generic context constraint. The separate multimodal serve/chat example fixtures were not rerun in this validation.

Source hashes, complete stdout/stderr, and JUnit paths are recorded in /home/scratch.yizhan_sw_1/tekit-pr-unwaive-kv-siblings/tmp/v4-relocation/RESULTS.md; full logs are under /home/scratch.yizhan_sw_1/logs/2026-09-20/. No new CI run has been requested for this update.

PR Checklist

• Description and regression coverage reflect the V4-specific constraint ownership and the generation-token boundary.
• Original workloads, accuracy thresholds and assertions are preserved.
• No new dependency, public API/configuration field, ownership change or architecture-diagram change.
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Dev Engineer Review

• KVCM V2 now creates context warmup constraints when max_num_tokens is set.
• CUDA-graph warmup reserves one additional generation token and releases dummy requests when capacity is too low.
• DeepSeek V4-specific capacity constraints remain scoped to DeepseekV4CacheManager.
• No public API or allocator changes are indicated.
• CUDA budget-allocation and warmup coverage was removed from the KVCM V2 unit tests. Re-run this coverage after the final rebase.

QA Engineer Review

• Modified tests cover KVCM V2 for Seed-OSS, Mistral, multimodal gRPC, OpenAI multimodal, and multimodal serving.
• test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py now checks context constraints and extra-token behavior. It removes CUDA budget-allocation and CUDA-graph warmup tests.
• Existing CI entries include tests/unittest/grpc/smg/test_smg.py in l0_a10.yml and the multimodal example tests in l0_a10.yml.
• No changed test-list files or new test IDs were identified.
• Reported GPU validation covered generic V2, DeepSeek V4, multimodal gRPC, Seed-OSS, and Mistral. The validation preceded the final rebase.
• Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify warmup constraints for configured and default capacity paths.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py: Verify extra-token accounting and cleanup when capacity cannot support a dummy request.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/deepseek_v4/cache_manager.py: Verify DeepSeek V4 constraints remain isolated from generic V2 behavior.
• tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py: Covers Seed-OSS with KVCM V2 and GSM8K evaluation. No matching changed test-list entry was confirmed.
• tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py: Covers Mistral with KVCM V2. No matching changed test-list entry was confirmed.
• tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Covers warmup-constraint behavior and extra-token handling. CUDA budget and graph-warmup coverage was removed.
• tests/unittest/grpc/smg/test_smg.py: Covers multimodal gRPC execution with KVCM V2. It is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_a10.yml.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/_test_openai_chat_multimodal.py: Covers the multimodal OpenAI test server with KVCM V2. The related A10 end-to-end entry is present in l0_a10.yml.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/_test_trtllm_serve_multimodal_example.py: Covers the multimodal serving example with KVCM V2. The related A10 end-to-end entry is present in l0_a10.yml.

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[Shixiaowei02]

Please model the final dummy capacity here. add_dummy_requests() reserves runtime draft/extra tokens, then adds max_draft_loop_tokens + 1; crossing a page boundary makes this constraint under-allocate the short batch.

[Wanli-Jiang]

should we consider the indexer K cahe when using sparse attention, for example the MiniMax-M3 INDEX_KEY extra buffer?

[Shixiaowei02]

This clamp starts from total slots and reserves only one minimal page per other row, although short dummies and the optional guard page are already resident. It can overestimate capacity and skip graph capture.

[Shixiaowei02]

The draft cache cannot use the target-style clamp: its warmup resizes omit history_length, so SWA history remains zero and the full prefix is materialized. The solver assumes stale-page reclamation and overestimates capacity.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/backends/sparse/deepseek_v4/cache_manager.py`:
- Around line 1178-1206: Keep the constraints-building logic in the DeepSeek-V4
cache manager empty when config.initial_pool_ratio is explicitly set; only
construct warmup constraints when it is None. In
test_deepseek_v4_cache_manager.py, add a focused case using a valid pool ratio
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