Add vLLM v0.18.1 source tree with KV transfer abort fix

third_party/vllm/ now tracked in git for direct patch management.
Based on vLLM v0.18.1 release with one patch applied:

  vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:
    Replace fatal assert with graceful skip when KV transfer callback
    arrives for an already-aborted request during PD disaggregated serving.

Future vLLM modifications should be made directly in third_party/vllm/
and committed normally. The patches/ directory is kept as documentation
of what changed from upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

third_party/vllm/benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/mla_prefill.yaml

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+# MLA prefill backend comparison
+#
+# Compares all available MLA prefill backends:
+#   FA backends:  fa2, fa3, fa4 (FlashAttention versions)
+#   Non-FA:       flashinfer, cudnn, trtllm (Blackwell-only, require flashinfer)
+#
+# Uses cutlass_mla as the decode backend for impl construction
+# (only the prefill path is exercised).
+#
+# Backends that aren't available on the current platform will report errors
+# in the results table (e.g., fa3 on Blackwell, cudnn without artifactory).
+#
+# Usage:
+#   python benchmark.py --config configs/mla_prefill.yaml
+
+description: "MLA prefill backend comparison"
+
+model:
+  name: "deepseek-v3"
+  num_layers: 60
+  num_q_heads: 128
+  num_kv_heads: 1
+  head_dim: 576
+  kv_lora_rank: 512
+  qk_nope_head_dim: 128
+  qk_rope_head_dim: 64
+  v_head_dim: 128
+  block_size: 128
+
+# model:
+#   name: "deepseek-v2-lite"
+#   num_layers: 27
+#   num_q_heads: 16
+#   num_kv_heads: 1
+#   head_dim: 576
+#   kv_lora_rank: 512
+#   qk_nope_head_dim: 128
+#   qk_rope_head_dim: 64
+#   v_head_dim: 128
+#   block_size: 128
+
+batch_specs:
+  # Pure prefill
+  - "q512"
+  - "q1k"
+  - "q2k"
+  - "q4k"
+  - "q8k"
+
+  # Batched pure prefill
+  - "2q512"
+  - "2q1k"
+  - "2q2k"
+  - "2q4k"
+  - "2q8k"
+  - "4q512"
+  - "4q1k"
+  - "4q2k"
+  - "4q4k"
+  - "4q8k"
+  - "8q512"
+  - "8q1k"
+  - "8q2k"
+  - "8q4k"
+  - "8q8k"
+
+  # Chunked prefill / extend
+  # Short context
+  - "q128s1k"
+  - "q256s2k"
+  - "q512s4k"
+  - "q1ks4k"
+  - "q2ks8k"
+  - "2q128s1k"
+  - "2q256s2k"
+  - "2q512s4k"
+  - "2q1ks4k"
+  - "2q2ks8k"
+  - "4q128s1k"
+  - "4q256s2k"
+  - "4q512s4k"
+  - "4q1ks4k"
+  - "4q2ks8k"
+  - "8q128s1k"
+  - "8q256s2k"
+  - "8q512s4k"
+  - "8q1ks4k"
+
+  # Medium context
+  - "q128s16k"
+  - "q512s16k"
+  - "q1ks16k"
+  - "q2ks16k"
+  - "2q128s16k"
+  - "2q512s16k"
+  - "2q1ks16k"
+  - "2q2ks16k"
+  - "4q128s16k"
+  - "4q512s16k"
+  - "4q1ks16k"
+  - "4q2ks16k"
+
+  # Long context
+  - "q128s64k"
+  - "q512s64k"
+  - "q1ks64k"
+  - "q2ks64k"
+  - "2q128s64k"
+  - "2q512s64k"
+  - "2q1ks64k"
+  - "2q2ks64k"
+
+decode_backends:
+  - CUTLASS_MLA
+
+prefill_backends:
+  - fa2
+  - fa3
+  - fa4
+  - flashinfer
+  - cudnn
+  - trtllm
+
+device: "cuda:0"
+repeats: 20
+warmup_iters: 5