vllm-cpu-amxbf16 0.9.1__cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.whl

vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import contextlib
+import math
+import threading
+import time
+import uuid
+from collections import defaultdict
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional
+
+import msgspec
+import torch
+import zmq
+
+from vllm import envs
+from vllm.attention.selector import backend_name_to_enum, get_attn_backend
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.base import (
+    KVConnectorBase_V1, KVConnectorMetadata, KVConnectorRole)
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import (
+    get_tensor_model_parallel_rank, get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size,
+    get_tp_group)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.platforms import _Backend
+from vllm.utils import make_zmq_path, make_zmq_socket, round_down
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+from vllm.v1.request import RequestStatus
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionMetadata
+    from vllm.forward_context import ForwardContext
+    from vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_manager import KVCacheBlocks
+    from vllm.v1.request import Request
+
+Transfer = tuple[int, float]  # (xfer_handle, start_time)
+GET_META_MSG = b"get_meta_msg"
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+# Lazy import nixl_wrapper to avoid loading nixl_bindings if nixl is not used
+try:
+    from nixl._api import nixl_agent as NixlWrapper
+    logger.info("NIXL is available")
+except ImportError:
+    logger.warning("NIXL is not available")
+    NixlWrapper = None
+
+
+class NixlAgentMetadata(
+        msgspec.Struct,
+        omit_defaults=True,  # type: ignore[call-arg]
+        # required for @cached_property.
+        dict=True):
+    engine_id: str
+    agent_metadata: bytes
+    kv_caches_base_addr: list[int]
+    num_blocks: int
+    tp_size: int
+    block_len: int
+    attn_backend_name: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ReqMeta:
+    local_block_ids: list[int]
+    remote_block_ids: list[int]
+    remote_host: str
+    remote_port: int
+    remote_engine_id: str
+
+
+class NixlConnectorMetadata(KVConnectorMetadata):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.requests: dict[str, ReqMeta] = {}
+
+    def add_new_req(
+        self,
+        request_id: str,
+        local_block_ids: list[int],
+        kv_transfer_params: dict[str, Any],
+    ):
+        self.requests[request_id] = ReqMeta(
+            local_block_ids=local_block_ids,
+            remote_block_ids=kv_transfer_params["remote_block_ids"],
+            remote_engine_id=kv_transfer_params["remote_engine_id"],
+            remote_host=kv_transfer_params["remote_host"],
+            remote_port=kv_transfer_params["remote_port"],
+        )
+
+
+class NixlConnector(KVConnectorBase_V1):
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, role: KVConnectorRole):
+        assert vllm_config.kv_transfer_config is not None
+        self.engine_id = vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.engine_id
+
+        if role == KVConnectorRole.SCHEDULER:
+            self.connector_scheduler : Optional[NixlConnectorScheduler] = \
+                NixlConnectorScheduler(vllm_config, str(self.engine_id))
+            self.connector_worker: Optional[NixlConnectorWorker] = None
+        elif role == KVConnectorRole.WORKER:
+            self.connector_scheduler = None
+            self.connector_worker = NixlConnectorWorker(
+                vllm_config, str(self.engine_id))
+
+    ############################################################
+    # Scheduler Side Methods
+    ############################################################
+
+    def get_num_new_matched_tokens(
+            self, request: "Request",
+            num_computed_tokens: int) -> tuple[int, bool]:
+        assert self.connector_scheduler is not None
+        return self.connector_scheduler.get_num_new_matched_tokens(
+            request, num_computed_tokens)
+
+    def update_state_after_alloc(self, request: "Request",
+                                 blocks: "KVCacheBlocks",
+                                 num_external_tokens: int):
+        assert self.connector_scheduler is not None
+        return self.connector_scheduler.update_state_after_alloc(
+            request, blocks, num_external_tokens)
+
+    def build_connector_meta(
+        self,
+        scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput,
+    ) -> KVConnectorMetadata:
+        assert self.connector_scheduler is not None
+        return self.connector_scheduler.build_connector_meta(scheduler_output)
+
+    def request_finished(
+        self,
+        request: "Request",
+        block_ids: list[int],
+    ) -> tuple[bool, Optional[dict[str, Any]]]:
+        assert self.connector_scheduler is not None
+        return self.connector_scheduler.request_finished(request, block_ids)
+
+    ############################################################
+    # Worker Side Methods
+    ############################################################
+    def register_kv_caches(self, kv_caches: dict[str, torch.Tensor]):
+        assert self.connector_worker is not None
+        self.connector_worker.register_kv_caches(kv_caches)
+
+    def get_finished(self,
+                     finished_req_ids: set[str]) -> tuple[set[str], set[str]]:
+        """Get the finished recving and sending requests."""
+        assert self.connector_worker is not None
+        return self.connector_worker.get_finished()
+
+    def start_load_kv(self, forward_context: "ForwardContext",
+                      **kwargs) -> None:
+        assert self.connector_worker is not None
+        assert isinstance(self._connector_metadata, NixlConnectorMetadata)
+        self.connector_worker.start_load_kv(self._connector_metadata)
+
+    def wait_for_layer_load(self, layer_name: str) -> None:
+        """NixlConnector does not do layerwise saving."""
+        pass
+
+    def save_kv_layer(self, layer_name: str, kv_layer: torch.Tensor,
+                      attn_metadata: "AttentionMetadata", **kwargs) -> None:
+        """NixlConnector does not save explicitly."""
+        pass
+
+    def wait_for_save(self):
+        """NixlConnector does not save explicitly."""
+        pass
+
+
+class NixlConnectorScheduler:
+    """Implementation of Scheduler side methods"""
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, engine_id: str):
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
+        self.block_size = vllm_config.cache_config.block_size
+        self.engine_id = engine_id
+        self.side_channel_host = envs.VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_HOST
+        self.side_channel_port = (
+            envs.VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT +
+            vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local *
+            vllm_config.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size)
+        logger.info("Initializing NIXL Scheduler %s", engine_id)
+
+        # Requests that need to start recv.
+        # New requests are added by update_state_after_alloc in
+        # the scheduler. Used to make metadata passed to Worker.
+        self._reqs_need_recv: dict[str, tuple[Request, list[int]]] = {}
+
+    def get_num_new_matched_tokens(
+            self, request: "Request",
+            num_computed_tokens: int) -> tuple[int, bool]:
+        """
+        For remote prefill, pull all prompt blocks from remote
+        asynchronously relative to engine execution.
+        
+        Args:
+            request (Request): the request object.
+            num_computed_tokens (int): the number of locally
+                computed tokens for this request
+        Returns:
+            * the number of tokens that can be loaded from the 
+              external KV cache beyond what is already computed.
+            * true if the external KV cache tokens will be loaded
+              asynchronously (between scheduler steps).
+        """
+
+        params = request.kv_transfer_params
+        logger.debug(
+            "NIXLConnector get_num_new_matched_tokens: "
+            "num_computed_tokens=%s, kv_transfer_params=%s",
+            num_computed_tokens, params)
+
+        if params is not None and params.get("do_remote_prefill"):
+            # Remote prefill: get all prompt blocks from remote.
+            assert num_computed_tokens % self.block_size == 0
+            rounded_num_prompt_tokens = round_down(
+                len(request.prompt_token_ids), self.block_size)
+            count = max(rounded_num_prompt_tokens - num_computed_tokens, 0)
+            if count > 0:
+                return count, True
+
+        # No remote prefill for this request.
+        return 0, False
+
+    def update_state_after_alloc(self, request: "Request",
+                                 blocks: "KVCacheBlocks",
+                                 num_external_tokens: int):
+
+        params = request.kv_transfer_params
+        logger.debug(
+            "NIXLConnector update_state_after_alloc: "
+            "num_external_tokens=%s, kv_transfer_params=%s",
+            num_external_tokens, params)
+
+        if params is not None and params.get("do_remote_prefill"):
+            if params.get("remote_block_ids"):
+                if all(p in params for p in ("remote_engine_id", "remote_host",
+                                             "remote_port")):
+                    # If remote_blocks and num_external_tokens = 0, we have
+                    # a full prefix cache hit on the D worker. We need to call
+                    # send_notif in _read_blocks to free the memory on the P.
+                    local_block_ids = (blocks.get_unhashed_block_ids()
+                                       if num_external_tokens > 0 else [])
+                    # Get unhashed blocks to pull from remote.
+                    self._reqs_need_recv[request.request_id] = (
+                        request, local_block_ids)
+                else:
+                    logger.warning(
+                        "Got invalid KVTransferParams: %s. This "
+                        "request will not utilize KVTransfer", params)
+            else:
+                assert num_external_tokens == 0
+            # Only trigger 1 KV transfer per request.
+            params["do_remote_prefill"] = False
+
+    def build_connector_meta(
+        self,
+        scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput,
+    ) -> KVConnectorMetadata:
+        meta = NixlConnectorMetadata()
+
+        # Loop through scheduled reqs and convert to ReqMeta.
+        for req_id, (req, block_ids) in self._reqs_need_recv.items():
+            assert req.kv_transfer_params is not None
+            meta.add_new_req(
+                request_id=req_id,
+                local_block_ids=block_ids,
+                kv_transfer_params=req.kv_transfer_params,
+            )
+
+        # Clear the list once workers start the transfers
+        self._reqs_need_recv.clear()
+
+        return meta
+
+    def request_finished(
+        self,
+        request: "Request",
+        block_ids: list[int],
+    ) -> tuple[bool, Optional[dict[str, Any]]]:
+        """
+        Once a request is finished, determine whether request blocks
+        should be freed now or will be sent asynchronously and freed later.
+        """
+
+        params = request.kv_transfer_params
+        logger.debug(
+            "NIXLConnector request_finished, request_status=%s, "
+            "kv_transfer_params=%s", request.status, params)
+
+        if (params is None or not params.get("do_remote_decode")
+                or request.status != RequestStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED):
+            return False, None
+
+        # Get computed blocks.
+        all_full = request.num_computed_tokens % self.block_size == 0
+        computed_block_ids = block_ids if all_full else block_ids[:-1]
+
+        # If prompt < block_size, no xfer so free blocks immediately.
+        delay_free_blocks = len(computed_block_ids) > 0
+
+        return delay_free_blocks, dict(
+            do_remote_prefill=True,
+            do_remote_decode=False,
+            remote_block_ids=computed_block_ids,
+            remote_engine_id=self.engine_id,
+            remote_host=self.side_channel_host,
+            remote_port=self.side_channel_port,
+        )
+
+
+class NixlConnectorWorker:
+    """Implementation of Worker side methods"""
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, engine_id: str):
+        if NixlWrapper is None:
+            logger.error("NIXL is not available")
+            raise RuntimeError("NIXL is not available")
+        logger.info("Initializing NIXL wrapper")
+        logger.info("Initializing NIXL worker %s", engine_id)
+
+        # Config.
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
+        self.block_size = vllm_config.cache_config.block_size
+
+        # Agent.
+        self.nixl_wrapper = NixlWrapper(str(uuid.uuid4()), None)
+        # Map of engine_id -> {rank0: agent_name0, rank1: agent_name1..}.
+        self._remote_agents: dict[str, dict[int, str]] = defaultdict(dict)
+
+        # NIXL handshake port.
+        # NOTE(rob): Within a DP group, each DP rank gets its own
+        # base port (which is sent in the KVTransferParams).
+        # Each TP rank listens/queries on the base_port + tp_rank.
+        self.side_channel_port = (
+            envs.VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT +
+            vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local *
+            vllm_config.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size)
+
+        # Metadata.
+        self.engine_id = engine_id
+        self.tp_rank = get_tensor_model_parallel_rank()
+        self.world_size = get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size()
+        self.tp_group = get_tp_group()
+
+        # KV Caches and nixl tracking data.
+        self.kv_caches: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+
+        # Map of engine_id -> kv_caches_base_addr. For TP case, each local
+        # rank will still only pull from a single remote TP worker.
+        self.kv_caches_base_addr: dict[str, list[int]] = {}
+
+        # Number of NIXL regions. Currently one region per cache
+        # (so 1 per layer for MLA, otherwise 2 per layer)
+        self.num_regions = 0
+        self.num_layers = 0
+
+        # nixl_prepped_dlist_handle.
+        self.src_xfer_side_handle: int = 0
+        # Map of engine_id -> nixl_prepped_dlist_handle (int)].
+        self.dst_xfer_side_handles: dict[str, int] = {}
+
+        # Map of engine_id -> num_blocks. All ranks in the same deployment will
+        # have the same number of blocks.
+        self.dst_num_blocks: dict[str, int] = {}
+        self._registered_descs: list[Any] = []
+
+        # In progress transfers.
+        # [req_id -> list[handle]]
+        self._recving_transfers = defaultdict[str, list[Transfer]](list)
+
+        # Complete transfer tracker. Used by the rank 0 to track finished
+        # transactions on ranks 1 to N-1.
+        # [req_id -> count]
+        self._done_recving_count: defaultdict[str,
+                                              int] = defaultdict(lambda: 0)
+        self._done_sending_count: defaultdict[str,
+                                              int] = defaultdict(lambda: 0)
+
+        # Background thread for establishing new connections.
+        self._nixl_handshake_listener_t: Optional[threading.Thread] = None
+
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
+        self.block_size = vllm_config.cache_config.block_size
+        self.model_config = vllm_config.model_config
+        self.cache_config = vllm_config.cache_config
+
+        # TODO(mgoin): remove this once we have hybrid memory allocator
+        # Optimization for models with local attention (Llama 4)
+        # List of block window sizes for each layer for local attention
+        self.block_window_per_layer: list[Optional[int]] = []
+        self.use_mla = self.model_config.use_mla
+
+        backend = get_attn_backend(self.model_config.get_head_size(),
+                                   self.model_config.dtype,
+                                   self.cache_config.cache_dtype,
+                                   self.block_size,
+                                   self.model_config.is_attention_free,
+                                   use_mla=self.use_mla)
+        self.backend_name = backend.get_name()
+        attn_backend = backend_name_to_enum(self.backend_name)
+        self._use_flashinfer = attn_backend == _Backend.FLASHINFER_VLLM_V1
+        logger.debug("Detected attention backend %s", self.backend_name)
+
+        self._tp_size: dict[str, int] = {self.engine_id: self.world_size}
+        # With heterogeneous TP, P must wait for all assigned D TP workers to
+        # finish reading before safely freeing the blocks.
+        self.consumer_notification_counts_by_req = defaultdict[str, int](int)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _nixl_handshake_listener(metadata: NixlAgentMetadata,
+                                 ready_event: threading.Event, base_port: int,
+                                 tp_rank: int):
+        """Background thread for getting new NIXL handshakes."""
+        # NOTE(rob): this is a simple implementation. We will move
+        # to a better approach via HTTP endpoint soon.
+
+        encoder = msgspec.msgpack.Encoder()
+        encoded_data = encoder.encode(metadata)
+        size_in_bytes = len(encoded_data)
+        logger.debug("Size of encoded NixlAgentMetadata: %s bytes",
+                     str(size_in_bytes))
+
+        # Listen for new requests for metadata.
+        host = envs.VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_HOST
+        path = make_zmq_path("tcp", host, base_port + tp_rank)
+        logger.debug("Starting listening on path: %s", path)
+        with zmq_ctx(zmq.ROUTER, path) as sock:
+            ready_event.set()
+            while True:
+                identity, _, msg = sock.recv_multipart()
+                if msg != GET_META_MSG:
+                    logger.warning(
+                        "Connection listener got unexpected message %s", msg)
+                sock.send_multipart((identity, b"", encoded_data))
+
+    def _nixl_handshake(self, host: str, port: int):
+        """Do a NIXL handshake with a remote instance."""
+
+        start_time = time.perf_counter()
+
+        # NOTE(rob): we need each rank to have a unique port. This is
+        # a hack to keep us moving. We will switch when moving to etcd
+        # or where we have a single ZMQ socket in the scheduler.
+
+        def handshake(path: str, rank: int) -> NixlAgentMetadata:
+            # Send query for the request.
+            with zmq_ctx(zmq.REQ, path) as sock:
+                sock.send(GET_META_MSG)
+                metadata_bytes = sock.recv()
+                decoder = msgspec.msgpack.Decoder(NixlAgentMetadata)
+                metadata = decoder.decode(metadata_bytes)
+                got_metadata_time = time.perf_counter()
+
+                # Register Remote agent.
+                self.add_remote_agent(metadata, rank)
+                setup_agent_time = time.perf_counter()
+
+                logger.debug("NIXL handshake: get metadata took: %s",
+                             got_metadata_time - start_time)
+                logger.debug("NIXL handshake: add agent took: %s",
+                             setup_agent_time - got_metadata_time)
+                return metadata
+
+        # Handshake with remote agent-rank0 first to get the tp_size of remote
+        path = make_zmq_path("tcp", host, port)
+        logger.debug("Querying master rank metadata on path: %s", path)
+        metadata = handshake(path, 0)
+
+        # Handshake only with the other TP remote the current local rank will
+        # pull from. With homogeneous TP it happens to be the same rank_i.
+        tp_ratio = self._tp_size[self.engine_id] // metadata.tp_size
+        p_remote_rank = self.tp_rank // tp_ratio
+        if p_remote_rank > 0:
+            path = make_zmq_path("tcp", host, port + p_remote_rank)
+            logger.debug("Querying metadata on path: %s at remote rank %s",
+                         path, p_remote_rank)
+            _ = handshake(path, p_remote_rank)
+
+    def register_kv_caches(self, kv_caches: dict[str, torch.Tensor]):
+        """Register the KV Cache data in nixl."""
+
+        _, first_kv_cache = next(iter(kv_caches.items()))
+        kv_elem_size = first_kv_cache.element_size()
+
+        # TODO(tms): Find a more robust way to detect and handle MLA
+        # NOTE (NickLucche) To move blocks efficiently with NIXL, the expected
+        # KV memory layout is HND, as opposed to the default NHD. Note that it
+        # will only affects the strides. For MLA instead, we make require no
+        # such thing and resort to the standard layout.
+        use_mla = len(first_kv_cache.shape) == 3
+        assert use_mla == self.use_mla
+
+        # TODO (NickLucche) not compatible with hybrid allocator. Enforce check
+        # once it goes live, as a single kv layout is expected for xfers.
+        if use_mla:
+            # MLA case.
+            self.num_blocks = first_kv_cache.shape[0]
+            block_rank = 2  # [block_size, latent_dim]
+            block_shape = first_kv_cache.shape[-block_rank:]
+            block_size, kv_latent_dim = block_shape
+            self.slot_size_bytes = kv_elem_size * kv_latent_dim
+        else:
+            # [2 (k and v), num_blocks, ...]
+            if self._use_flashinfer:
+                # FlashInfer swaps 2<->num_blocks dimensions.
+                self.num_blocks = first_kv_cache.shape[0]
+                block_rank = 4  # [2, block_size, kv_heads, head_dim]
+            else:
+                self.num_blocks = first_kv_cache.shape[1]
+                block_rank = 3  # [block_size, kv_heads, head_dim]
+            block_shape = first_kv_cache.shape[-block_rank:]
+            block_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim = block_shape[-3:]
+            # head size in bytes.
+            self.slot_size_bytes = kv_elem_size * n_kv_heads * head_dim
+        assert block_size == self.block_size
+        # TODO(tms): self.block_len needs to be per-layer for sliding window,
+        # hybrid attn, etc
+        # block size in bytes
+        self.block_len = kv_elem_size * math.prod(block_shape)
+        logger.info(
+            "Registering KV_Caches: use_mla: %s, num_blocks: %s, "
+            "block_shape: %s, per_layer_kv_cache_shape: %s", use_mla,
+            self.num_blocks, block_shape, first_kv_cache.shape)
+        self.dst_num_blocks[self.engine_id] = self.num_blocks
+        self.kv_caches = kv_caches
+        kv_caches_base_addr = []
+        caches_data = []
+
+        # Note(tms): I modified this from the original region setup code.
+        # K and V are now in different regions. Advantage is that we can
+        # elegantly support MLA and any cases where the K and V tensors
+        # are non-contiguous (it's not locally guaranteed that they will be)
+        # Disadvantage is that the encoded NixlAgentMetadata is now larger
+        # (roughly 8KB vs 5KB).
+        # Conversely for FlashInfer, K and V are transferred in the same tensor
+        # to better exploit the memory layout (ie num_blocks is the first dim).
+        for cache_or_caches in kv_caches.values():
+            # Normalize to always be a list of caches
+            cache_list = [cache_or_caches] if use_mla or self._use_flashinfer \
+                else cache_or_caches
+            for cache in cache_list:
+                base_addr = cache.data_ptr()
+                region_len = self.num_blocks * self.block_len
+                caches_data.append(
+                    (base_addr, region_len, cache.device.index, ""))
+                kv_caches_base_addr.append(base_addr)
+        self.kv_caches_base_addr[self.engine_id] = kv_caches_base_addr
+        self.num_regions = len(caches_data)
+        self.num_layers = len(self.kv_caches.keys())
+
+        # TODO(mgoin): remove this once we have hybrid memory allocator
+        # Optimization for models with local attention (Llama 4)
+        if self.vllm_config.model_config.hf_config.model_type == "llama4":
+            from transformers import Llama4TextConfig
+            assert isinstance(self.vllm_config.model_config.hf_text_config,
+                              Llama4TextConfig)
+            llama4_config = self.vllm_config.model_config.hf_text_config
+            no_rope_layers = llama4_config.no_rope_layers
+            chunk_size = llama4_config.attention_chunk_size
+            chunk_block_size = math.ceil(chunk_size / self.block_size)
+            for layer_idx in range(self.num_layers):
+                # no_rope_layers[layer_idx] == 0 means NoPE (global)
+                # Any other value means RoPE (local chunked)
+                is_local_attention = no_rope_layers[layer_idx] != 0
+                block_window = chunk_block_size if is_local_attention else None
+                self.block_window_per_layer.append(block_window)
+            logger.debug("Llama 4 block window per layer mapping: %s",
+                         self.block_window_per_layer)
+            assert len(self.block_window_per_layer) == self.num_layers
+
+        descs = self.nixl_wrapper.get_reg_descs(caches_data, "VRAM")
+        logger.debug("Registering descs: %s", caches_data)
+        self.nixl_wrapper.register_memory(descs)
+        logger.debug("Done registering descs")
+        self._registered_descs.append(descs)
+
+        # Register local/src descr for NIXL xfer.
+        blocks_data = []
+        for base_addr in self.kv_caches_base_addr[self.engine_id]:
+            # NOTE With heter-TP, more blocks are prepared than what are
+            # needed as self.num_blocks >= nixl_agent_meta.num_blocks. We
+            # could create fewer, but then _get_block_descs_ids needs to
+            # select agent_meta.num_blocks instead of self.num_blocks for
+            # local descr, and that makes handling regular flow less clean.
+            for block_id in range(self.num_blocks):
+                block_offset = block_id * self.block_len
+                addr = base_addr + block_offset
+                # (addr, len, device id)
+                blocks_data.append((addr, self.block_len, self.tp_rank))
+        logger.debug("Created %s blocks for src engine %s and rank %s",
+                     len(blocks_data), self.engine_id, self.tp_rank)
+
+        descs = self.nixl_wrapper.get_xfer_descs(blocks_data, "VRAM")
+        # NIXL_INIT_AGENT to be used for preparations of local descs.
+        self.src_xfer_side_handle = self.nixl_wrapper.prep_xfer_dlist(
+            "NIXL_INIT_AGENT", descs)
+
+        # After KV Caches registered, listen for new connections.
+        metadata = NixlAgentMetadata(
+            engine_id=self.engine_id,
+            agent_metadata=self.nixl_wrapper.get_agent_metadata(),
+            kv_caches_base_addr=self.kv_caches_base_addr[self.engine_id],
+            num_blocks=self.num_blocks,
+            tp_size=self.world_size,
+            block_len=self.block_len,
+            attn_backend_name=self.backend_name)
+        ready_event = threading.Event()
+        self._nixl_handshake_listener_t = threading.Thread(
+            target=self._nixl_handshake_listener,
+            args=(metadata, ready_event, self.side_channel_port, self.tp_rank),
+            daemon=True,
+            name="nixl_handshake_listener")
+        self._nixl_handshake_listener_t.start()
+        ready_event.wait()
+
+    def add_remote_agent(self,
+                         nixl_agent_meta: NixlAgentMetadata,
+                         remote_tp_rank: int = 0):
+        """
+        Add the remote NIXL agent and prepare the descriptors for reading cache
+        blocks from remote.
+
+        In particular, handle both homogeneous and heterogeneous TP. The former
+        requires local rank_i to read from remote rank_i. 
+        The latter, assuming D.world_size > P.world_size, requires that two or 
+        more local TP worker share the xfer from a single TP worker.
+
+        Here's an example:
+
+        rank_offset     p_remote_tp_rank
+        (kv split no)    
+        --------------------------------
+            0                 0      Worker0  ---- 1st half of KV ----> Worker0  [ KV Cache ]
+                                                                        /
+            1                 0      Worker1  ---- 2nd half of KV -----/
+
+            0                 1      Worker2  ---- 1st half of KV ----> Worker1  [ KV Cache ]
+                                                                        /
+            1                 1      Worker3  ---- 2nd half of KV -----/
+
+
+                                Decoder TP workers                     Prefix TP workers
+                                  (world_size=4)                         (world_size=2)
+                                                 tp_ratio = 4 // 2 = 2                  
+                                
+        Considering the KV Caches, if P-Worker_i has cache size [2, num_blocksP, kv_heads, block_size, head_dim]  
+        then D-Worker_j has [2, num_blocksD, kv_heads//tp_ratio, block_size, head_dim]. Mind the "HND" layout format.
+        Assuming num_blocksD >= num_blocksP, D-Worker0 reads from P-Worker0 by preparing the kv_heads//tp_ratio 
+        first heads from all the slots of all the blocks. D-Worker1 will do the same, but reading the second split
+        along the kv_heads dimension, and so forth until "tp_ratio" D TP workers have pulled from P-Worker0.   
+        
+        Note that the above will also hold true for the homogeneous TP case, where tp_ratio evaluates to 1.
+
+        Regarding MLA case, the cache is replicated across TP workers so the rank_offset will just always be 0
+        so that the whole cache is shared by "tp_ratio" D TP workers.
+        """ # noqa: E501
+        engine_id = nixl_agent_meta.engine_id
+        # TODO re-evaluate refreshing for scaling/recovery
+        if remote_tp_rank in self._remote_agents.get(engine_id, ()):
+            return
+
+        if engine_id in self._tp_size:
+            assert self._tp_size[engine_id] == nixl_agent_meta.tp_size
+        else:
+            self._tp_size[engine_id] = nixl_agent_meta.tp_size
+        # We may eventually enable this after asserting equality in cache
+        # layout and close outputs.
+        assert nixl_agent_meta.attn_backend_name == self.backend_name
+
+        self._remote_agents[engine_id][
+            remote_tp_rank] = self.nixl_wrapper.add_remote_agent(
+                nixl_agent_meta.agent_metadata)
+
+        # Number of D TP workers reading from a single P TP worker. This is
+        # 1 when P and D `--tensor-parallel-size` match.
+        assert self._tp_size[self.engine_id] % self._tp_size[engine_id] == 0, (
+            "Local TP size must be divisible by remote TP size.")
+        tp_ratio = self._tp_size[self.engine_id] // self._tp_size[engine_id]
+        assert tp_ratio > 0, "Decode TP cannot be smaller than prefill TP"
+        if self.use_mla:
+            # With MLA the only difference is in the number of blocks.
+            remote_block_size = nixl_agent_meta.block_len // (
+                self.slot_size_bytes)
+            assert self.block_len == nixl_agent_meta.block_len
+        else:
+            remote_block_size = nixl_agent_meta.block_len // (
+                self.slot_size_bytes * tp_ratio)
+            if self._use_flashinfer:
+                # Account for joint KV in FlashInfer.
+                remote_block_size //= 2
+
+            assert nixl_agent_meta.block_len == self.block_len * tp_ratio, (
+                "Remote P worker KV layer cache must be of shape [2, N, "
+                "local_kv_heads*tp_ratio, block_size, head_dim] and same dtype."
+            )
+
+        assert self.block_size == remote_block_size, "Remote P worker with " \
+        "different block size is not supported"
+
+        assert self.num_blocks >= nixl_agent_meta.num_blocks
+
+        # Create dst descs and xfer side handles. TP workers have same #blocks.
+        if engine_id in self.dst_num_blocks:
+            assert self.dst_num_blocks[engine_id] == nixl_agent_meta.num_blocks
+        else:
+            self.dst_num_blocks[engine_id] = nixl_agent_meta.num_blocks
+
+        blocks_data = []
+        # With homogeneous TP, D pulls the whole kv cache from corresponding
+        # rank. With heterogeneous TP, prepare the descriptors by splitting the
+        # P KV cache along kv_head dim, of D worker's kv_head size (D>P).
+        # Eg. PTP1 DTP2 => P0 KV:[block0-KV_0 | block0-KV_1..].
+        p_remote_tp_rank = self.tp_rank // tp_ratio
+        # Only register the remote's descriptors if current rank pulls from it.
+        if p_remote_tp_rank == remote_tp_rank:
+            self.kv_caches_base_addr[
+                engine_id] = nixl_agent_meta.kv_caches_base_addr
+            rank_offset = self.tp_rank % tp_ratio * self.block_len \
+                if not self.use_mla else 0
+            # Register all remote blocks, but only the corresponding kv heads.
+            for base_addr in nixl_agent_meta.kv_caches_base_addr:
+                for block_id in range(nixl_agent_meta.num_blocks):
+                    block_offset = block_id * nixl_agent_meta.block_len
+                    # For each block, grab the heads chunk belonging to rank_i
+                    # of size remote_nheads // tp_ratio, which correspond to
+                    # self.block_len == remote_block_len//tp_ratio bytes.
+                    addr = base_addr + block_offset + rank_offset
+                    # (addr, len, device id)
+                    blocks_data.append((addr, self.block_len, remote_tp_rank))
+            logger.debug(
+                "Created %s blocks for dst engine %s with remote rank %s and "
+                "local rank %s", len(blocks_data), engine_id, remote_tp_rank,
+                self.tp_rank)
+
+            # Register with NIXL.
+            descs = self.nixl_wrapper.get_xfer_descs(blocks_data, "VRAM")
+            self.dst_xfer_side_handles[
+                engine_id] = self.nixl_wrapper.prep_xfer_dlist(
+                    self._remote_agents[engine_id][remote_tp_rank], descs)
+
+    def get_finished(self) -> tuple[set[str], set[str]]:
+        """
+        Get requests that are done sending or recving.
+
+        In TP>1 setup, each rank exchanges KVs with its counterpart
+        ranks independently. get_finished() runs in a worker creates
+        the done_sending and done_recving sets that are sent to the
+        scheduler via ModelRunnerOutput by Rank 0. To ensure trnxs
+        are done before adding to finished, Ranks 1 to N-1 communicate
+        to Rank 0 once their transaction is done + Rank 0 returns
+        finished sets to Scheduler only once all ranks are done.
+        """
+        done_sending = self._get_new_notifs()
+        done_recving = self._pop_done_transfers(self._recving_transfers)
+        if len(done_sending) > 0 or len(done_recving) > 0:
+            logger.debug(
+                "Rank %s, get_finished: %s requests done sending "
+                "and %s requests done recving", self.tp_rank,
+                len(done_sending), len(done_recving))
+
+        if self.world_size == 1:
+            return done_sending, done_recving
+
+        # Rank 0: get finished from all other ranks.
+        if self.tp_rank == 0:
+            for req_id in done_sending:
+                self._done_sending_count[req_id] += 1
+            for req_id in done_recving:
+                self._done_recving_count[req_id] += 1
+
+            # Keep track of how many other ranks have finished.
+            other_ranks_finished_ids: list[str] = []
+            for i in range(1, self.world_size):
+                other_ranks_finished_ids.extend(
+                    self.tp_group.recv_object(src=i))
+            for req_id in other_ranks_finished_ids:
+                if (req_id in self._done_recving_count
+                        or req_id in self._recving_transfers):
+                    self._done_recving_count[req_id] += 1
+                else:
+                    self._done_sending_count[req_id] += 1
+
+            # Return ids that finished on all ranks to the scheduler.
+            all_done_recving: set[str] = set()
+            for req_id in list(self._done_recving_count.keys()):
+                if self._done_recving_count[req_id] == self.world_size:
+                    del self._done_recving_count[req_id]
+                    all_done_recving.add(req_id)
+
+            all_done_sending: set[str] = set()
+            for req_id in list(self._done_sending_count.keys()):
+                if self._done_sending_count[req_id] == self.world_size:
+                    del self._done_sending_count[req_id]
+                    all_done_sending.add(req_id)
+
+            return all_done_sending, all_done_recving
+
+        # Ranks 1 to N-1: send finished ids to Rank 0.
+        else:
+            finished_req_ids = list(done_recving.union(done_sending))
+            self.tp_group.send_object(finished_req_ids, dst=0)
+
+            # Unused as only Rank 0 results are sent to scheduler.
+            return done_sending, done_recving
+
+    def _get_new_notifs(self) -> set[str]:
+        """
+        Get req_ids which got a remote xfer message. When multiple consumers
+        are reading from the same producer (heterogeneous TP scenario), wait
+        for all consumers to be done pulling.
+        """
+        notified_req_ids: set[str] = set()
+        for notifs in self.nixl_wrapper.get_new_notifs().values():
+            for notif in notifs:
+                req_id, tp_ratio = notif.decode("utf-8").rsplit(":", 1)
+                self.consumer_notification_counts_by_req[req_id] += 1
+                # Wait all consumers (D) to be done reading before freeing.
+                if self.consumer_notification_counts_by_req[req_id] == int(
+                        tp_ratio):
+                    notified_req_ids.add(req_id)
+                    del self.consumer_notification_counts_by_req[req_id]
+        return notified_req_ids
+
+    def _pop_done_transfers(
+            self, transfers: dict[str, list[tuple[int, float]]]) -> set[str]:
+        """
+        Pop completed xfers by checking for DONE state.
+        Args:
+            transfers: dict of req_id -> list[running_xfer]
+        Returns:
+            set of req_ids that have all done xfers
+        """
+        done_req_ids: set[str] = set()
+        for req_id, handles in list(transfers.items()):
+            for handle, xfer_stime in handles:
+                xfer_state = self.nixl_wrapper.check_xfer_state(handle)
+                if xfer_state == "DONE":
+                    self.nixl_wrapper.release_xfer_handle(handle)
+                    done_req_ids.add(req_id)
+                    del transfers[req_id]
+                elif xfer_state == "PROC":
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    raise RuntimeError("Transfer failed with state %s",
+                                       xfer_state)
+        return done_req_ids
+
+    def start_load_kv(self, metadata: NixlConnectorMetadata):
+        """
+        Start loading by triggering non-blocking nixl_xfer.
+        We check for these trnxs to complete in each step().
+        """
+        for req_id, meta in metadata.requests.items():
+            logger.debug(
+                "start_load_kv for request %s from remote engine %s. "
+                "Num local_block_ids: %s. Num remote_block_ids: %s. ", req_id,
+                meta.remote_engine_id, len(meta.local_block_ids),
+                len(meta.remote_block_ids))
+            self._read_blocks(
+                request_id=req_id,
+                dst_engine_id=meta.remote_engine_id,
+                local_block_ids=meta.local_block_ids,
+                remote_block_ids=meta.remote_block_ids,
+                remote_host=meta.remote_host,
+                remote_port=meta.remote_port,
+            )
+
+    def _read_blocks(
+        self,
+        local_block_ids: list[int],
+        remote_block_ids: list[int],
+        remote_host: str,
+        remote_port: int,
+        dst_engine_id: str,
+        request_id: str,
+    ):
+        # NOTE(rob): this takes ~2s. We need to get this off the hotpath.
+        if dst_engine_id not in self._remote_agents:
+            self._nixl_handshake(remote_host, remote_port)
+
+        # NOTE(rob): having the staging blocks be on the READER side is
+        # not going to work well (since we will have to call rearrange tensors).
+        # after we detect the txn is complete (which means we cannot make the
+        # read trxn async easily). If we want to make "READ" happen cleanly,
+        # then we will need to have the staging blocks on the remote side.
+
+        # NOTE(rob): according to nvidia the staging blocks are used to
+        # saturate IB with heterogeneous TP sizes. We should remove the staging
+        # blocks until we are ready.
+
+        # Number of D TP workers that will read from dst P. Propagate tp_ratio
+        # on notification so that dst worker can wait before freeing blocks.
+        tp_ratio = self._tp_size[
+            self.engine_id] // self._tp_size[dst_engine_id]
+        notif_id = f"{request_id}:{tp_ratio}".encode()
+
+        # Full prefix cache hit: do not need to read remote blocks,
+        # just notify P worker that we have the blocks we need.
+        num_local_blocks = len(local_block_ids)
+        if num_local_blocks == 0:
+            remote_rank = self.tp_rank // tp_ratio
+            agent_name = self._remote_agents[dst_engine_id][remote_rank]
+            self.nixl_wrapper.send_notif(agent_name, notif_msg=notif_id)
+            return
+
+        # Partial prefix cache hit: just read uncomputed blocks.
+        num_remote_blocks = len(remote_block_ids)
+        assert num_local_blocks <= num_remote_blocks
+        if num_local_blocks < num_remote_blocks:
+            remote_block_ids = remote_block_ids[-num_local_blocks:]
+
+        # Get side handles.
+        local_xfer_side_handle = self.src_xfer_side_handle
+        remote_xfer_side_handle = self.dst_xfer_side_handles[dst_engine_id]
+
+        # NOTE (nicolo) With homogeneous TP, each TP worker loads KV from
+        # corresponding rank. With heterogeneous TP, fixing D>P, the D tp
+        # workers will issue xfers to parts of the P worker remote kv caches.
+
+        # Get descs ids.
+        local_block_descs_ids: list[int] = []
+        remote_block_descs_ids: list[int] = []
+        if not self.block_window_per_layer:
+            # Default case: assume global attention
+            remote_block_descs_ids = self._get_block_descs_ids(
+                dst_engine_id, remote_block_ids)
+            local_block_descs_ids = self._get_block_descs_ids(
+                self.engine_id, local_block_ids)
+        else:
+            # TODO(mgoin): remove this once we have hybrid memory allocator
+            # Optimization for models with local attention (Llama 4)
+            for layer_idx, block_window in enumerate(
+                    self.block_window_per_layer):
+                # For each layer:
+                if block_window is None:
+                    # If not chunked, we just use the
+                    # full block lists (global attention)
+                    layer_local_block_ids = local_block_ids
+                    layer_remote_block_ids = remote_block_ids
+                else:
+                    # If chunked, get the last block_window blocks
+                    layer_local_block_ids = local_block_ids[-block_window:]
+                    layer_remote_block_ids = remote_block_ids[-block_window:]
+
+                # Get descs ids for the layer.
+                layer_local_desc_ids = self._get_block_descs_ids(
+                    self.engine_id, layer_local_block_ids, layer_idx)
+                layer_remote_desc_ids = self._get_block_descs_ids(
+                    dst_engine_id, layer_remote_block_ids, layer_idx)
+
+                local_block_descs_ids.extend(layer_local_desc_ids)
+                remote_block_descs_ids.extend(layer_remote_desc_ids)
+
+        assert len(local_block_descs_ids) == len(remote_block_descs_ids)
+
+        # Prepare transfer with Nixl.
+        handle = self.nixl_wrapper.make_prepped_xfer(
+            "READ",
+            local_xfer_side_handle,
+            local_block_descs_ids,
+            remote_xfer_side_handle,
+            remote_block_descs_ids,
+            notif_msg=notif_id,
+        )
+
+        # Begin async xfer.
+        self.nixl_wrapper.transfer(handle)
+
+        # Use handle to check completion in future step().
+        # TODO (NickLucche) surface xfer elapsed time
+        self._recving_transfers[request_id].append(
+            (handle, time.perf_counter()))
+
+    def _get_block_descs_ids(self,
+                             engine_id: str,
+                             block_ids: list[int],
+                             layer_idx: Optional[int] = None) -> list[int]:
+        """
+        Get the descs ids for a set of block ids.
+        If layer_idx is provided, we use the region_ids for the given layer.
+        Otherwise, we use all regions.
+        """
+        if layer_idx is None:
+            region_ids = range(self.num_regions)
+        else:
+            assert layer_idx < self.num_layers
+            if self.num_layers < self.num_regions:
+                # If we have more regions than layers, we assume that
+                # the regions are organized as [K0, V0, K1, V1, ...]
+                # and we select K_i and V_i
+                assert 2 * self.num_layers == self.num_regions
+                region_ids = range(2 * layer_idx, 2 * layer_idx + 2)
+            else:
+                # Otherwise, we assume we have MLA and select i-th layer
+                assert self.num_layers == self.num_regions
+                region_ids = range(layer_idx, layer_idx + 1)
+
+        num_blocks = self.dst_num_blocks[engine_id]
+
+        # Compute the desc ids for each block.
+        descs_ids: list[int] = []
+        for reg_id in region_ids:
+            for block_id in block_ids:
+                descs_ids.append(reg_id * num_blocks + block_id)
+        return descs_ids
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def zmq_ctx(socket_type: Any, addr: str) -> Iterator[zmq.Socket]:
+    """Context manager for a ZMQ socket"""
+
+    if socket_type not in (zmq.ROUTER, zmq.REQ):
+        raise ValueError(f"Unexpected socket type: {socket_type}")
+
+    ctx: Optional[zmq.Context] = None
+    try:
+        ctx = zmq.Context()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        yield make_zmq_socket(ctx=ctx,
+                              path=addr,
+                              socket_type=socket_type,
+                              bind=socket_type == zmq.ROUTER)
+    finally:
+        if ctx is not None:
+            ctx.destroy(linger=0)