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GEN slot preemption adds an opt-in path for the auto GEN admission policy. When the next queued request risks missing its TTFT target, the controller can pause an eligible decode request in place. The paused request retains resident state and does not enter the scheduled batch.

The configuration supports tpot_budget or target_output_tps, but not both. Preemption adds resident-pool headroom and preserves DFlash and DSpark request state. It requires the V2 KV cache scheduler and rejects pipeline parallelism and attention DP when enabled. Review findings and severity counts are unavailable.

QA Engineer Review

Five unit-test files changed. They cover configuration and validation, admission risk and controller behavior, paused-request residency and scheduling, drafter-state retention, and KV-cache and DFlash sizing. test_llm_args.py is included in CI lists, and test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py has CI entries for other tests; the new preemption tests are not individually listed. No matching CI or manual-QA list entries were found for the other three changed test files. No integration-test list files changed. Test execution results are unavailable.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The tests cover key behavior and error paths, but execution results are not provided.

Per-File QA Perspective

• docs/source/features/disagg-serving.md: Verify the documented settings, prerequisites, unsupported configurations, and capacity assumptions against runtime behavior.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py: Verify resident-headroom accounting and propagation of preemption settings during executor creation.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/inputs.py: Verify paused request IDs reach decoder input preparation and default to an empty set.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify preemption headroom is included in resident capacity and cache-cost calculations.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/common.py: Verify Mamba hybrid cache estimates include preemption headroom.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/mamba_cache_manager_v2.py: Verify resident-sequence sizing includes preemption headroom.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py: Verify the optional constructor setting and controller integration with admission and scheduling.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py: Verify scheduler settings reach executor setup before resource-pool initialization.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/gen_admission_queue.py: Verify at-risk counts across adaptive-target, clock, and queue states.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/gen_preemption.py: Verify victim eligibility, pause limits, resume behavior, and both configuration modes.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler.py: Verify paused_in_place_ids defaults to an empty set and propagates consistently.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py: Verify paused requests leave the scheduled batch without losing resident state, and resume correctly.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py: Verify DFlash retains paused request mappings and allocates headroom without slot overlap.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py: Verify DSpark retains paused request mappings and keeps request, scratch, and free-slot ranges consistent.
• tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: Verify defaults, mutual exclusion, value validation, and rejection of unsupported parallel configurations.
• tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json: Verify the usage manifest records both optional preemption settings.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py: TestGenSlotPreemption covers paused-request residency, allocation, batch-slot use, and scheduling. The file has CI entries for other tests, but the new class is not individually listed.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_gen_preemption.py: Covers admission risk, controller behavior, victim selection, pause and resume, configuration support, rank-identical decisions, and drafter-state retention. No matching CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py: test_gen_preemption_config and test_gen_preemption_rejects_pp_and_attention_dp cover defaults, YAML merging, invalid values, mutual exclusion, and unsupported parallel configurations. The file is included in CI lists, but the new tests are not individually listed.
• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py: Covers cache estimates with preemption enabled and disabled, including resident capacity and SWA costs. No matching CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py: Covers DFlash buffer-budget effects from preemption headroom and configuration propagation. No matching CI or manual-QA list entry was found.

Description

Builds on the TTFT-percentile GEN admission queue from #20736 (merged), and only takes effect with its auto policy.

Problem. Under agentic multi-turn load, a disaggregated GEN worker is bound by its slots, not by KV: all max_num_active_requests slots are taken by decode requests. A waiting request whose TTFT is about to miss the admission target X can then only wait for some request to finish, and the GEN queue's ordering cannot help it.

Mechanism: pause in place. When no slot is free and the request the admission queue pops next is at risk (its slack X - (age + s2f) is within the at-risk window, or it is already late), a decode request is paused and the freed slot admits the waiter. Pauses are paid for in TPOT, bounded either by a TPOT budget or by a per-request output-rate objective.

• A paused request stays resident. It keeps its KV, KDA/Mamba recurrent state, draft KV, DSpark rolling window and sequence slot. It is only left out of the scheduled batch and out of the admission count. A pause costs no copy and no extra step.
• The scheduled batch stays within max_batch_size, so CUDA graphs are unchanged. The pools that hold one entry per resident request reserve room for the paused cap: the sequence-slot pool, the V2 KV index pool, the V2 recurrent-state pool and its memory estimate, the DSpark rolling-window slots, and the DFlash / standalone DSpark drafter context slots. At startup the executor checks the sequence-slot, KV-index and recurrent-state capacities and disables preemption, with one warning, if any checked pool is short. SWA page reservations include the paused cap. DFlash's config-time private-arena estimate and its reported fitting batch size include the same resident headroom as allocation.
• Victim with tpot_budget: the longest resident request (ties: the newest). Its first token is long out and it is the furthest from any TTFT deadline. The order is one small function, GenPreemption._key.
• Victim with target_output_tps: the request with the most slack against the target (see the design note below), else one already below the target, else a sacrifice paid from a small credit.
• Resume lane: paused requests resume ahead of any new admission as slots free up: oldest pause first with tpot_budget; with target_output_tps, least slack first and sacrificed requests last, after every other paused request. A request paused for the maximum pause (or, with target_output_tps, whose slack is down to a small margin) resumes regardless. When forced resumes make more requests eligible than fit in a batch, a live decode request left unscheduled resumes from its host token and retains its DFlash/DSpark state. The returned count is active occupancy, so an over-capacity count blocks new admissions.
• Guardrails: 1 pause per scheduling pass, at most 2 pauses per request with tpot_budget (8 slack-bounded pauses, 3 below the target with target_output_tps), a minimum decode time before a pause, 64 decode steps after a resume before the next pause, near-finished requests kept.
• Every decision uses rank-identical inputs only: the active requests, token and decode-iteration counts, max_tokens, the broadcast waiting queue, and rank 0's clock (already broadcast for the auto policy). The controller and the objective's credit only add completions (requests leaving the active list) timed on that clock. No extra collective is needed, and it also runs under helix CP.
• Code: scheduler/gen_preemption.py holds the policy. GenPreemption.step() runs once per scheduling pass (track, resume, pause) and returns the admission count; the two modes are two victim strategies over the same pause/resume bookkeeping. create_gen_preemption() does the executor setup checks. PyExecutor only calls step() and hands the paused ids to the scheduler.
• Drafter state: DFlash and DSpark retain slots for policy-paused requests and live decode requests displaced by forced resumes. KV-evicted or recompute-paused requests are excluded from this retention set.
• PEFT: with preemption enabled, pre-claim adapter pages for every live decode request before transfer admission, including policy-paused requests and requests that the batch limit can displace.

Configuration

scheduler_config.gen_preemption (prototype) in the GEN server's LLM API / extra_llm_api_options YAML. Set exactly one of the two fields:

scheduler_config:
  gen_preemption:
    tpot_budget: 0.10        # allow up to 10% TPOT inflation from pausing

scheduler_config:
  gen_preemption:
    target_output_tps: 35.0  # per-request output tok/s floor, met by at least ~80% of requests

• Neither field set (the default): off. No pool grows and nothing changes.
• Both set: validation error.
• pipeline_parallel_size > 1 or enable_attention_dp=True with preemption on: ValueError at LLM-args validation. The executor raises the same error for PP; with attention DP it keeps preemption off with one warning.
• Requires the auto GEN admission policy (TLLM_GEN_ADMISSION_TTFT_PERCENTILE) and the KV cache manager V2 scheduler. Without them preemption stays off with one warning at startup.

KV pressure: pausing frees batch slots, not KV pages. Paused requests remain outside KV eviction candidates. Size the cache for active plus paused requests; full-attention demand still depends on sequence lengths. Disaggregated GEN workers cannot recompute their context, and Helix CP raises on decode allocation failure before attempting eviction. Reduce concurrency or increase the KV budget under combined slot/page pressure. Pool sizing assumes one executor per process.

Validation scope: target_output_tps is simulation-validated only. The GPU results below were reported for earlier revisions; this review-fix commit has no new GPU performance run.

Everything else is derived online from completed requests (D = mean decode time, R0 = 1 / mean TPOT, pauses excluded, both running means over 500 completions):

parameter	value
at-risk window	g × 0.15 D (tpot_budget); 0.15 D (target_output_tps)
g (tpot_budget only)	integral controller in [0.25, 2], one step per completion once X is set, time constant 3000 completions, holding the mean TPOT inflation from pauses at 0.8 × budget
paused cap (also the pool headroom)	0.375 × max_num_active_requests
forced resume / minimum decode before a pause	0.35 D / 0.07 D (10 s / 2 s until the first completion)

The rank-0 stat line, every 30 s, shows the pauses, resumes and forced resumes since the last line, the paused count against the cap, g, the window, D and the TPOT inflation of the window's completions; with target_output_tps also the completions below the target and the credit.

Why PP is rejected. This settles the open review point that max_resident_sequences = max_batch_size * pp_size in mamba_cache_manager_v2.py (and the PP branches of the other pools) reserves no headroom for paused requests. Preemption can no longer run with PP, so those pools never need headroom.

Design note: target_output_tps. The target is a service-level objective, not a budget: a per-request output rate (1 / TPOT, accepted draft tokens included) that at least about 80% of requests keep (ε = 0.2 of requests may fall below it; ε is an internal constant).

• Slack ("laxity"): a request's deadline is its first-token time + (max_tokens − 1) / target; its slack is that deadline minus its projected finish at its own unpaused rate, i.e. how long it can still be paused and finish at or above the target.
• Requests with slack against the target are paused first, the largest slack first (at least 0.02 D of slack, up to 8 pauses), and are resumed when their slack is down to 0.01 D, so they still finish above the target. Most of the pause demand is absorbed this way at no cost to the objective.
• When no request has slack, a request that is already below the target (or sacrificed earlier) is paused, up to 3 times, which costs the objective nothing more.
• Otherwise a small credit allows sacrificing a few requests: each completion earns ε, a completion below the target costs 1, a sacrificed request is debited once, and the credit is a token bucket clamped to ±3000 ε completions, so credit saved in quiet periods is spent in load waves.
• The resume lane takes the least slack first; sacrificed requests resume last, after every other paused request, and still resume at the maximum pause.
• Why not a pure floor: requests run only about 10% above a target set at baseline / 1.10, so each can absorb about 0.1 D of pause in total, spread evenly in time; a strict per-request floor (ε = 0) is limited to about −1 s of TTFT p90 in simulation. Converting the target into a TPOT budget (the previous revision) put 24–26% of requests below the target at c220.

Results

Simulation. Kimi-K3 disaggregated serving on GB300, AgentX traffic, c220, 16 seeds, paired against the control (GEN admission only). Columns: Δ TTFT p90 / Δ mean TPOT / Δ total tps.

setting	DWDP16 context	DEP16 context
tpot_budget: 0.10	−2.63 s / +7.1% / −0.38%	−2.07 s / +6.8% / −0.26%
per-request projected victim filter (rejected design)	−0.39 s	−0.23 s

target_output_tps as an objective (T = control's mean per-request output rate / 1.10, one T per layout at every load, 16 seeds, paired against the control). Columns: Δ TTFT p90 / Δ mean TPOT / share of requests below T:

load	DWDP16 context	DEP16 context
c220	−2.69 s / +5.7% / 12%	−2.02 s / +4.6% / 12%
c250	−3.51 s / +8.1% / 17.5%	−3.35 s / +8.5% / 17.3%

• Total tps within ±0.5% of the control at every point. The control has 2–3% of requests below T; tpot_budget: 0.10 has 24–26% at c220.
• The cost is E2E p90: 0.3–1.9 s worse than tpot_budget at c220–c250, from the up to 3 long pauses of the sacrificed requests.

Load sweep c130–c250 with one fixed setting: no effect below about c180, where the admission target is not formed. Gains grow with load, and tps stays within 0.45%.

GPU, earlier fixed-knob prototype (same mechanism with a fixed 5 s window, a fixed paused cap, the late trigger and 2 pauses per request; c220, 32 GB300 GPUs, GEN helix-CP16 with max_batch_size 128). TTFT p90, control → preempt:

context	TTFT p90	total tps	mean TPOT
DWDP16	13.48 → 10.32 s	−1.2%	+14%
DEP16	13.08 → 11.31 s	flat	+12%

GPU, adaptive controller (tpot_budget: 0.10, same setup, DWDP16 context, one 3600 s run vs the same control):

	TTFT p50 / p90 / p99 / mean (s)	out / total tps/GPU	mean TPOT	E2E p90
control	9.85 / 13.48 / 53.49 / 11.24	150.2 / 20,165	24.2 ms	68.2 s
tpot_budget: 0.10	8.66 / 10.99 / 49.12 / 9.96	149.7 / 20,061	25.8 ms	70.1 s
delta	−1.19 / −2.49 / −4.37 / −1.28	−0.3% / −0.5%	+6.7%	+1.9 s
max_batch_size: 144, no preemption	7.97 / 12.21 / 44.45 / 9.47	143.5 / 19,344	28.1 ms (+16.1%)	73.4 s

• The controller held measured TPOT inflation at 7.7% against its 8% setpoint (0.8 × budget); about 9,800 pauses, mean pause 0.9 s, 6 forced resumes.
• Simulation predicted −2.63 s p90 and +7.1% TPOT for this point.
• Compared with the fixed-knob prototype it gives up 0.7 s of p90 for half the TPOT cost and no throughput loss, without per-model tuning.
• Bigger batch instead of preemption (review question): the max_batch_size: 144 row has preemption off, the same tree and image, and was sized to cost +6.7% TPOT. On this setup the GEN decode step jumps about 11% once the batch passes 128 (≈90 ms at 125–128 requests, ≈102 ms at 129, ≈110 ms at 141–144), so it cost +16.1% TPOT and −4.1% total tps for −1.27 s of p90, half of preemption's gain. It is better on p50, p99 and mean, as more decode capacity helps every request; preemption targets the requests about to miss the TTFT target at a fixed batch size. In simulation the two add up, and an equal-TPOT batch would beat preemption on p90 (by about 1.3 s) only if the step had no jump above 128.

Test Coverage

• tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_gen_preemption.py (CPU, mock-based, parametrized):
  • settings from the LLM API config and the pool headroom (sequence slots, recurrent state);
  • tpot_budget victims (longest resident first, ties newest), eligibility, minimum run, hysteresis, per-request / per-pass limits and the paused cap, requests leaving while paused;
  • the controller: warm start and running means, one integral step per completion, no update before X, clamps, convergence to 0.8 × budget from g = 0.25 / 1 / 2 on a toy plant;
  • at-risk detection on the admission queue (slack bound, late and guard-tier heads, on-time head blocks, no target);
  • GenPreemption.step(): pauses only when full and at risk, warm-up window, resume lane ahead of new admissions, forced resume after the maximum pause, FIFO resume, controller start with X;
  • target_output_tps: laxity with and without pauses, the victim tiers (largest slack, below target, sacrifice on credit) and their pause limits, the laxity-margin forced resume and least-slack resume lane, the credit bucket (ε per completion, below-target debit, sacrifice refund, clamp, no update before X), a step() pass;
  • identical decisions across ranks for both modes, with the local clock never read;
  • executor setup: off, enabled, PP raising, and each reason it stays off with one warning (scheduler, admission policy, attention DP, short pools).
  • DFlash / DSpark drafter state kept for paused requests and released for finished ones.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py: YAML round trip, bounds, exclusivity, and PP / attention-DP rejection.
• test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py::TestGenSlotPreemption: paused requests stay resident, take no batch slot, and are scheduled again after resume.
• Telemetry manifest updated for the two new fields; docs/source/features/disagg-serving.md documents the YAML.

Review-fix validation

• Added executor coverage for step() occupancy and paused-ID forwarding, forced resume with a full batch, displaced-request overlap reset, DFlash/DSpark slot retention through rescheduling, and exclusion of KV-evicted requests in a focused source check.
• Added scheduler coverage for retained PEFT claims before conflicting adapter transfer admission and the batch limit after a forced resume.
• Extended SWA static costing and quota round-trip tests with preemption on/off, including scratch reuse.
• Added a DFlash budget regression that fits batch 8 plus scratch without preemption but rejects it with paused headroom, reports fitting batch 6, and checks propagation from LLM args.
• All pre-commit checks passed. Focused source-isolated checks in ipp2-1773 / lizhiz-pr19959-cputest passed for executor overlap reset, adapter admission, DFlash/DSpark retention, and DFlash fit arithmetic. These checks exercise extracted Python definitions with stand-in dependencies and do not replace the full suites.
• Full pytest collection was blocked locally by older native bindings missing tensorrt_llm.bindings.BuildInfo.check_cuda_architecture_supported. The telemetry manifest generator was also blocked by the unavailable matching runtime; this fix adds no config fields or constraints. Full runtime validation is delegated to CI as requested.
• The changed unit tests are collected by the existing l0_cpu.yml entries for unittest/_torch/pyexecutor and unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic.

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This change adds configurable generation-slot preemption to the PyExecutor. The controller can pause eligible decode requests when a waiting request is at risk, while retaining their request state. Scheduler, speculative-cache, and capacity logic now account for paused requests.

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GEN Slot Preemption

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and executor setup tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor_creator.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py, docs/source/features/disagg-serving.md	Adds GenPreemptionConfig with mutually exclusive tpot_budget and target_output_tps settings. Validates unsupported parallelism modes and passes the configuration into executor setup. Adds usage-manifest entries and feature documentation.
Admission risk and preemption decisions tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/gen_admission_queue.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/gen_preemption.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_gen_preemption.py	Adds queue queries for the adaptive target and at-risk waiters. The controller tracks request completion and pause time, selects eligible requests, and manages pause and resume decisions for the configured policy.
Paused-request scheduler integration tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler/scheduler_v2.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/inputs.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py	Passes paused request IDs through the executor and scheduler. The V2 scheduler omits those requests from scheduling while retaining them in place, and decoder input preparation receives the paused IDs.
Resident capacity and speculative state tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/_util.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_gen_preemption.py, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_estimation.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_config_budget.py	Adds preemption headroom to sequence and cache capacity calculations. DFlash and DSpark retain paused requests’ slots and state, and allocate request slots for the added headroom.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PyExecutor
  participant GenPreemption
  participant GenAdmissionWaitingQueue
  participant KVCacheV2Scheduler
  PyExecutor->>GenPreemption: Step with active requests and waiting queue
  GenPreemption->>GenAdmissionWaitingQueue: Check waiter risk
  GenAdmissionWaitingQueue-->>GenPreemption: Return at-risk waiter count
  GenPreemption-->>PyExecutor: Return updated active count and paused IDs
  PyExecutor->>KVCacheV2Scheduler: Pass paused IDs

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Forced resumes can exceed batch capacity, displacing another live request without clearing py_batch_idx. Its next decode advances position_ids incorrectly; please reset overlap bookkeeping and preserve drafter state for displaced requests.

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Fixed in cc67f75 by clearing py_batch_idx and preserving DFlash/DSpark state for displaced live decode requests, with regression coverage for a forced resume at full batch capacity.

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• Test file: tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_gen_preemption.py.
• New test: test_executor_forced_resume_preserves_displaced_request, parameterized with dflash and dspark.
• Behaviors covered:
  • PyExecutor._fetch_new_requests calls preemption.step.
  • A forced resume makes the step return the full occupancy, so admission is blocked.
  • scheduler.set_gen_paused_ids receives the controller IDs.
  • _schedule writes paused_in_place_ids.
  • _schedule clears py_batch_idx on a displaced request.
  • The drafter keeps the slot and context length of a request that is paused in place or displaced, and a later resume reuses them.
• Previous review gap: this test closes the earlier gap on the executor hook.
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🟠 Major (question on the baseline) — compare against a larger max_batch_size at equal TPOT cost?

The GPU result trades +6.7% mean TPOT and −0.3% tps for −2.49 s TTFT p90. Pausing reorders decode time, so total GEN throughput is unchanged.

The 48-request resident headroom costs about the same KV/recurrent/drafter memory as 48 extra batch slots. A batch bump (e.g. 128 → ~136) also costs TPOT, but it adds throughput, which in this closed loop is what shrinks slot wait for every request. Was a max_batch_size arm at the same TPOT increase compared? If preemption still wins on p90 (it targets at-risk waiters, which a batch bump does not), a line in the description would close this.

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Good point. I ran the batch arm on GPU (DWDP16 context, c220, 32 GB300, GEN helix-CP16 + MTP6, same tree and image as the preemption run, preemption off).

arm	TTFT p50 / p90 / p99 (s)	mean TPOT	total tps
control, max_batch_size 128	9.85 / 13.48 / 53.49	24.16 ms	—
tpot_budget: 0.10, b128	8.66 / 10.99 / 49.12	+6.7%	−0.5%
max_batch_size 144, no preemption	7.97 / 12.21 / 44.45	+16.1%	−4.1%

• b144 was sized from a fit on the control to cost +6.7% TPOT. It came out at +16.1%: on this setup the GEN decode step jumps by about 11% as soon as the batch goes past 128 (≈90 ms at 125–128 requests, ≈102 ms at 129, ≈110 ms at 141–144). So there is no max_batch_size above 128 with preemption's TPOT cost here.
• At +16% TPOT and −4% throughput, b144 gains −1.27 s on p90 vs −2.49 s for preemption. It is better on p50/p99/mean, as you'd expect from more decode capacity for every request, while preemption targets the at-risk tail at a fixed batch size.
• In simulation the two levers add (preemption gives another 1–3 s of p90 on top of a bigger batch). If the step above 128 were linear, an equal-TPOT batch would beat preemption on p90 by about 1.3 s, so the bigger batch is the better lever only when it is cheap per step.

I'll add a line on this to the description.

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Runtime part looks good overall; two sizing questions inline.

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This adds the paused cap to SWA sizing, but Kimi K3's NVFP4 MLA layout binds its own version returning max_batch_size * pp_size (fp4_mla/cache_manager.py:1101), and its static cost charges the HP ring for max_batch_size only (L1168). DeepseekV4CacheManager's quota helpers and static cost (deepseek_v4/cache_manager.py:1003, 1050, 2063) also use max_batch_size, while its pool-ratio constraint (L1224) uses the padded value. So paused requests' HP ring / SWA pages are not budgeted on these models, and the doc's "sliding-window reservations include the paused cap" does not hold there. Should those paths add resident_headroom() too, with a sizing test?

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configure() reserves the paused cap in every pool (sequence slots, KV index, SWA reservation, recurrent state, DFlash/DSpark slots) whenever gen_preemption is set. create_gen_preemption() can still turn the feature off with only a rank-0 warning (auto admission policy not selected via TLLM_GEN_ADMISSION_TTFT_PERCENTILE, or no V2 scheduler), so that worker keeps a smaller KV pool and gets no preemption. Could the creator check those prerequisites before configure(), or raise as it does for PP?

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Assert that the remote-tail retry makes progress.

Add an unpaused generation request without an adapter and assert that the retry schedules it. Keep the assertion that no context request, including the conflicting replay, is scheduled.

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         other = make_ctx_request(2, context_remaining_length=64, lora_task_id=20)
+        progress = make_gen_request(3)
         # The replay cannot allocate KV, so admission retries without it. The
         # retry must still count the paused decode's resident adapter.
-        out = sched.schedule_request([paused, replay, other], set())
+        out = sched.schedule_request([paused, replay, other, progress], set())
         assert out.context_requests == []
-        assert out.generation_requests == []
+        assert ids(out.generation_requests) == [3]

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