traces/README: clarify w600 is the session-start window, not span

The trace actually spans ~2912 s (~48.5 min): all 274 sessions START within
the 600 s --window-seconds window, but their later multi-turn requests (34%
of rows, inter-turn gaps up to ~700 s) extend well past t=600 s. Remove the
misleading "~600 s span".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitignore

@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ __pycache__/
 .venv/
 *.egg-info/
 outputs/
-traces/
+traces/*
+# ship the anonymized sampled trace + its provenance (metadata only, no cleartext)
+!traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl
+!traces/README.md
 *.log
 .claude/
 # third_party/vllm tracked in git for patch management

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/MIGRATION_TRANSFER_COST.md

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+# Why KV-transfer is slow during migration under real load
+
+**Question.** EAR's unified+A+B routing beats migration (v3) on agentic
+workloads. We wanted to know whether *layerwise* KV transfer would shrink
+migration's overhead enough to make it viable. Investigating that led to a
+sharper question: **in a real (loaded) cluster, when we migrate, the KV
+transfer is already slow — the effective bandwidth is far below the
+~10 GB/s wire rate. Why?**
+
+This doc answers that with instrumented measurements.
+
+**TL;DR.** Migration fires precisely when instances are *busy* (that's the
+trigger). But on a busy instance, KV transfer runs at **~3 GB/s instead of
+~10 GB/s**, because:
+
+1. **The RDMA write itself slows ~2× under compute load** — GPU-direct RDMA
+   (`batch_transfer_sync_write`) contends with the running attention/MLP
+   kernels for **HBM and PCIe bandwidth**. (idle 7.6 GB/s → busy 4.0 GB/s)
+2. **The connector's Python control plane gets GIL-starved** — mooncake's
+   ZMQ handshake + transfer orchestration run on asyncio threads inside the
+   engine process; when the engine's main thread is doing a long forward
+   pass (e.g. a 100k-token prefill), those threads stall for *seconds*.
+
+Both are **inherent to upstream vLLM 0.18.1 + mooncake** (reproduced on a
+clean fresh venv; the transfer path is byte-identical to upstream — our
+patches did not cause this), and both get **worse**, not better, with
+layerwise transfer. So the bandwidth gap is not a layerwise problem; it is a
+*transfer-on-a-busy-GPU* problem.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Evidence chain
+
+Three independent measurements, all on dash0 (8×H100, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B,
+TP=1), Mooncake `kv_both`.
+
+### 1a. Instrumented v3 trace replay — where does migration time go?
+
+Run `outputs/b3_v3_fullbreak_20260528_0338/`. Instruments:
+`instrument_dst_migration.py` (dst scheduler lifecycle) +
+`instrument_mooncake.py` (connector internals: `send_blocks` RDMA,
+`receive_kv` window, `ready_wait`).
+
+25 migrations fired over the trace. Dst-side migration overhead
+(`T_kv_pull` = scheduler marks `WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS` → `finished_recving`):
+
+| component | share | what it is |
+|---|---:|---|
+| RDMA-actual (`batch_transfer_sync_write`) | **55%** (55.2 s) | the real RDMA write |
+| dst control-plane gap | **45%** (45.4 s) | scheduler↔receiver_loop dispatch + completion propagation |
+| `ready_wait` (src KV not committed) | 0% | 25/25 already committed — **ruled out** |
+
+- Pure RDMA aggregate rate: **2.03 GB/s** (vs MB2 idle 9.7 GB/s).
+- RDMA rate **collapses with transfer size**: <3 GiB → 4–9.5 GB/s,
+  >5 GiB → 0.9–2.6 GB/s.
+- The control-plane gap is **bimodal**: median 0.04 s, but a handful of
+  requests stall ~10 s. Those are small-KV transfers (0.18 s of actual RDMA)
+  whose `T_kv_pull` is 8–11 s — i.e. the dst's `receiver_loop` thread was
+  GIL-starved for ~10 s while the engine did a big forward pass.
+
+> Earlier (pre-instrumentation) we wrongly attributed ~90% of migration
+> overhead to "dst scheduler queueing" by estimating transfer at clean wire
+> speed. With real instrumentation, dst *scheduler admission* is ~0
+> (`T_admission_post_kv` = 0.003 s); the time is the transfer phase (RDMA +
+> connector control plane), both degraded by instance busy-ness.
+
+### 1b. MB6 controlled microbench — does busy-ness cause it?
+
+`microbench/fresh_setup/mb6_transfer_under_load.py` + `run_mb6.sh`: 2
+instances, transfer a fixed-size KV (prefill on A → migrate to B) while
+holding *N* background decode streams on both. Sweep N.
+
+Effective transfer bandwidth (65k-token KV ≈ 6 GiB), main venv:
+
+| background load | 65k transfer | eff bandwidth |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| **0 (idle)** | 747 ms | **8.76 GB/s** |
+| 8 (4/instance) | 2423 ms | 4.53 GB/s |
+| **24 (12/instance)** | 2015 ms | **3.33 GB/s** |
+
+Monotonic degradation with load. **The busy level (3.3 GB/s) matches the
+v3 trace's 3.3 GB/s median exactly** — because agentic instances run
+~10+ concurrent requests, i.e. the bg=24 regime.
+
+Decomposing the 65k transfer into RDMA-actual vs control-plane:
+
+| bg | RDMA rate | control-plane share |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| 0 (idle) | 7.56 GB/s | 13% |
+| 8 | 4.07 GB/s | 11% |
+| 24 (busy) | 3.97 GB/s | 15% |
+
+In the clean microbench the **RDMA write itself is the dominant degrading
+term** (7.6 → 4.0 GB/s). The ~10 s control-plane stalls seen in the trace
+(1a) don't reproduce here because steady decode forward passes are short;
+they require the long (100k-token) prefills that the real trace has.
+
+### 1c. Fresh-venv comparison — is it our patch?
+
+Same MB6 sweep on `agentic-kv-fresh/.venv` (clean upstream-style 0.18.1):
+
+| bg | 65k eff (fresh) | 65k eff (main/patched) |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| 0 | 8.73 GB/s | 8.76 GB/s |
+| 8 | 4.52 GB/s | 4.53 GB/s |
+| 24 | 3.27 GB/s | 3.33 GB/s |
+
+**Identical within noise.** Plus a static check: the v3 transfer path
+(`send_kv_to_decode`, `_send_blocks`/`batch_transfer_sync_write`,
+`_build_transfer_params`) is **byte-identical** to pristine upstream 0.18.1
+(commit `445e491`); `receive_kv_from_single_worker` differs only by a 4-line
+error branch. Our mooncake commits (`a7df84b` direct-read,
+`ea51497` partial-prefill, `e3a1d70` read→push) only touch a *separate*
+`direct_read` path that v3 does **not** use (v3 requests carry no
+`direct_read` flag → normal push path).
+
+→ **The slowdown is upstream/hardware-inherent, not introduced by us.**
+
+---
+
+## 2. Root cause
+
+Migration in agentic serving transfers KV **between instances that are
+concurrently busy with compute** — by construction, since v3 migrates *away
+from* a busy host. On a busy instance:
+
+- **HBM/PCIe contention (the dominant, irreducible part).** Mooncake's
+  transfer is GPU-direct RDMA: the NIC DMAs KV straight out of / into GPU
+  HBM. While the GPU runs attention+MLP kernels, those kernels saturate HBM
+  bandwidth, so the NIC's RDMA gets a smaller slice. Effective transfer
+  bandwidth roughly halves (7.6 → 4.0 GB/s at our load), and degrades
+  further for large multi-segment transfers.
+- **Control-plane GIL starvation (secondary, bursty).** The connector runs
+  its ZMQ handshake + `send_kv_to_decode`/`receive_kv` orchestration on
+  asyncio threads (`sender_loop`/`receiver_loop`) *inside the engine
+  process*. A long forward pass (100k-token prefill) holds the GIL for
+  seconds, stalling those threads → multi-second dispatch gaps even when the
+  actual transfer is 0.2 s.
+
+MB2 measured 9.7 GB/s precisely because both endpoints were **idle**. The
+real-workload gap is the difference between "idle benchmark" and "transfer
+while the GPU is doing the day job."
+
+---
+
+## 3. Implication: layerwise is the wrong lever; migration's tax is largely irreducible
+
+| lever | effect on the gap |
+|---|---|
+| **Model-level layerwise transfer** (push each layer's KV during prefill) | **Worse.** Prefill is the most HBM-intensive phase, so per-layer transfers contend *harder* for HBM (Cause 1); and they multiply the control-plane round-trips (Cause 2). |
+| **Control-plane fix** (move mooncake orchestration off the GIL-contended threads / separate process) | Addresses only the bursty ~10 s stalls (~15% in the clean case, up to ~45% of the trace tail). Does **not** touch the HBM-contention half. |
+| **Reduce bytes** (cache-aware target so less KV moves) | Helps linearly; v3 Mechanism B already does some. Orthogonal. |
+| **Migrate to/from idle instances** | Would restore ~10 GB/s — but defeats the purpose (we migrate *because* the host is busy). |
+
+The dominant cost (RDMA contending with compute for HBM on busy instances)
+is a **hardware reality**, not a software bug we can patch away, and not
+something layerwise improves. This reinforces
+[UNIFIED_ABLATION.md](UNIFIED_ABLATION.md): the unified no-migration path
+(A+B'+RaceFix) remains the right default; migration's transfer tax is
+structural on a loaded agentic cluster.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Repro / artifacts
+
+- Instrumented v3 breakdown: `outputs/b3_v3_fullbreak_20260528_0338/unified_v3/`
+  (`transfer_decomp.txt`, `dst_migration_breakdown.{csv,png}`,
+  `transfer_rootcause.png`)
+- MB6 main: `outputs/mb6_agentic-kv_20260528_0552/mb6_result.json`
+- MB6 fresh: `outputs/mb6_fresh_20260528_0559/mb6_result.json`
+- Instruments: `microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_dst_migration.py`,
+  `microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_mooncake.py`
+- Microbench: `microbench/fresh_setup/mb6_transfer_under_load.py` +
+  `run_mb6.sh` (`VENV=… bash run_mb6.sh`)
+- Analyzers: `analyze_dst_migration.py`, `analyze_transfer_decomp.py`
+
+All instruments apply/revert cleanly via `--apply`/`--revert`; both venvs
+were restored after the runs.

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/UNIFIED_ABLATION.md

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+# Unified routing ablation: A (tighter affinity) + B (decode-aware LMetric)
+
+Goal: judge whether `unified` (cache-aware hybrid affinity + LMetric fallback)
+has enough headroom to surpass v3 migration-based routing on agentic
+workloads, without invoking PD-sep migration.
+
+## Workload / baseline
+
+- Trace: `w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl` (1214 reqs, 274 sessions)
+- Hardware: 8 × H100 (dash0), Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, TP=1, max_model_len=200000
+- Trace replay through `cache_aware_proxy.py` with policy `unified`
+- `b3_replay_20260527_0114/unified/` reference
+
+| Metric (ms) | baseline (`overload_factor=2.0`) |
+|---|---:|
+| TTFT p50 | 520 |
+| TTFT p90 | **8781** |
+| TTFT p99 | 47647 |
+| TPOT p90 | 17.8 |
+| E2E p90 | 19989 |
+| E2E p99 | 85841 |
+
+Reference points we're trying to beat / match:
+- v3 fixed rotation (cache-blind picker): TTFT p90 = 10828
+- v3 + Mechanism B (cache-rich picker): TTFT p90 = 9711
+- All v3 variants are +10–23% worse than `unified` baseline.
+
+## Tail-source diagnostic on baseline
+
+Decision split, baseline unified:
+
+| Decision | n | TTFT mean | TTFT p90 | TTFT p99 |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| affinity     | 852 | 3183 | 7011 | 47432 |
+| lmetric_fallback | 362 | 4285 | 12083 | 46036 |
+
+Long-tail (>20s, n=65):
+- 40 / 65 came from `affinity` decisions
+- 25 / 65 came from `lmetric_fallback`
+
+For the 40 slow `affinity` reqs:
+- only 12 / 40 were actually overloaded at decision time (`aff_num_req > avg_num_req`)
+- overload ratio at decision: mean=0.93, p50=0.87
+- **most slow affinity reqs looked fine when the picker stuck — load piled
+  on after dispatch**.
+
+This is a snapshot-based-routing limitation. Tightening
+`overload_factor` only helps the genuine cases above the new threshold —
+expected to be a 5-10% improvement at best.
+
+---
+
+## Direction A — tighten affinity overflow
+
+**Hypothesis.** `overload_factor=2.0` lets the picker stick to affinity
+even when `affinity.num_req` is up to 2× the cluster average. Reducing to
+1.3 forces earlier overflow to LMetric fallback, escaping busy affinity
+hosts before the tail blows up.
+
+**Change.** Single CLI flag: `--overload-factor 1.3`. No code change.
+
+**Run.** `unified_of13_20260527_1532/unified/`.
+
+### A vs baseline
+
+| Metric (ms) | baseline (of=2.0) | A (of=1.3) | Δ |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| TTFT p50 | 520 | 495 | −5% |
+| TTFT p90 | 8781 | 8730 | ≈0 |
+| TTFT p99 | 47647 | 43059 | −10% |
+| TPOT p50 | 7.9 | 8.0 | ≈0 |
+| TPOT p90 | 17.8 | **15.5** | **−13%** |
+| E2E p50 | 1761 | 1824 | +4% |
+| E2E p90 | 19989 | 18407 | −8% |
+| E2E p99 | 85841 | **71396** | **−17%** |
+
+TTFT p90 is essentially unchanged but the **deeper tail (p99) and
+TPOT both improved meaningfully**. Net: A alone gives roughly −10% to
+−17% on the long tail without hurting medians.
+
+### Decision split, A vs baseline
+
+| Decision | baseline n / p90 | A n / p90 | Δ p90 |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| affinity | 852 / 7011 | 817 / **5817** | **−17%** ✅ |
+| lmetric_fallback | 362 / 12083 | 397 / **15360** | **+27%** ⚠️ |
+
+The picker now sticks to affinity 35 fewer times. The remaining affinity
+decisions are higher-quality (no longer "barely-fitting" cases), so their
+p90 drops 17%.
+
+But the 35 extra reqs that got pushed into fallback **got slower**:
+fallback p90 went from 12083 → 15360. The LMetric scorer is selecting a
+worse instance for them.
+
+### Per-worker TTFT under A (of=1.3)
+
+```
+port 8000: n=  94  mean=4424  p90=12290    port 8004: n=192  mean=2597  p90=6968
+port 8001: n= 135  mean=2779  p90= 5553    port 8005: n=202  mean=3102  p90=6113
+port 8002: n=  88  mean=5827  p90=15804    port 8006: n=136  mean=4006  p90=10899
+port 8003: n= 217  mean=2674  p90= 4598    port 8007: n=150  mean=3648  p90= 7025
+```
+
+Compared to baseline (88..217 reqs/port), A redistributes more evenly
+(88..217 still but distribution is fatter in the middle). port 8002
+remains slow (p90 15.8s) — its cache pool seems to keep getting cold
+work routed there by LMetric.
+
+### Why A alone isn't enough
+
+LMetric scorer (`unified_hybrid` fallback path):
+
+```python
+score = (pending_prefill_tokens + new_uncached_tokens) * num_requests
+```
+
+This **ignores `ongoing_decode_tokens`** entirely. An instance with no
+pending prefill but 200k tokens currently in decode looks "ideal"
+(score=0×num_req=0) — yet a new request landing there waits behind
+slow decode iters caused by the large batch KV reads.
+
+A pushes more requests into fallback, but fallback can't tell which
+instance is actually free. → Direction B is mandatory companion.
+
+---
+
+## Direction B — decode-aware LMetric
+
+**Hypothesis.** Adding a decode-load penalty to the LMetric score lets
+fallback distinguish "no prefill queued but heavy decode running" from
+"truly idle". Should restore fallback p90 ≤ 12s baseline level.
+
+**Change.**
+```python
+score = (pending_prefill + new + lmetric_decode_weight * ongoing_decode_tokens) * num_requests
+```
+- `lmetric_decode_weight=0.0` ⇒ original LMetric (control)
+- `lmetric_decode_weight=0.01` ⇒ first experiment (rationale: 1 decode token
+  in batch costs ~0.01 prefill-token-equivalent in scheduler iter time
+  on H100 + Qwen3-30B-A3B)
+
+CLI: `--lmetric-decode-weight 0.01`. Setting in code:
+`cache_aware_proxy.py:Settings.lmetric_decode_weight`.
+
+**Run.** `unified_of13_lmw001_20260527_1628/unified/`.
+
+### A+B vs baseline / A
+
+| Metric (ms) | baseline | A (of=1.3) | A+B (of=1.3, lmw=0.01) | Δ vs baseline |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| TTFT p50 | 520 | 495 | 514 | −1% |
+| **TTFT p90** | 8781 | 8730 | **8421** | **−4%** ✅ |
+| TTFT p99 | 47647 | 43059 | 44800 | −6% |
+| TPOT p50 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.9 | ≈0 |
+| TPOT p90 | 17.8 | 15.5 | 15.7 | −12% |
+| E2E p50 | 1761 | 1824 | 1870 | +6% |
+| E2E p90 | 19989 | 18407 | **21064** | **+5%** ⚠️ |
+| E2E p99 | 85841 | 71396 | **64344** | **−25%** ✅ |
+
+Long-tail counts:
+
+```
+thresh       baseline      A      A+B   v3 MechB
+>  5000ms        170      173      170        177
+> 10000ms        105      109      109        119
+> 20000ms         65       64       59         78
+> 30000ms         41       40       37         50
+> 50000ms          8        5        6         14
+```
+
+A+B is best on every long-tail-count threshold ≤30s, marginal worse at 50s.
+
+### Decision split (A+B vs A)
+
+| Decision | A (of=1.3) | A+B | Note |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| affinity p90 | 5817 | 5836 | ≈ same |
+| fallback p90 | **15360** | **13501** | B recovered some of A's fallback regression |
+
+B partially fixed fallback's selection (−12% on fallback p90 vs A alone),
+but still worse than baseline (12083).
+
+### Per-worker TTFT (A+B)
+
+```
+port 8000: n=134  mean=3495  p90=10967      port 8004: n=136  mean=3102  p90= 7906
+port 8001: n=143  mean=2981  p90=10189      port 8005: n=179  mean=1624  p90= 2735
+port 8002: n=221  mean=2355  p90= 3502      port 8006: n=137  mean=5356  p90= 9628
+port 8003: n=146  mean=3932  p90=10729      port 8007: n=118  mean=5210  p90=26798  ← new hotspot
+```
+
+A+B trades the baseline's 8002 hotspot (p90=35s) for a new 8007 hotspot
+(p90=26.8s). Lower amplitude but hotspot survives.
+
+### Why 8007 became a hotspot under A+B — **found a bug in B**
+
+8007 in A+B: 118 reqs, **53% affinity / 47% fallback** (vs other ports
+60–77% affinity), **cache_hit_mean=50.5% (lowest)**.
+
+Top-10 slowest at 8007: all are big-prompt (100k+ tokens) fallback decisions
+with `cached_tokens=0` (cold prefill). LMetric is pushing many cold-prefill
+fallbacks to 8007.
+
+Looking at the B formula:
+
+```python
+decode_pen = lmetric_decode_weight * ongoing_decode_tokens
+score = (pending_prefill + new + decode_pen) * num_requests   # ← BUG
+```
+
+When `num_requests = 0`, the entire score (including decode penalty) zeros
+out. So an idle-but-decoding host (num_req=0 because its last prefill
+finished but decode is still running) looks like score=0, beating every
+busy host.
+
+**Fix (B'):** multiply by `max(num_requests, 1)`:
+
+```python
+score = (pending_prefill + new + decode_pen) * max(num_requests, 1)
+```
+
+Now idle hosts with high decode load get score = decode_pen × 1 = real
+nonzero penalty, beating zero-load hosts only when decode is small.
+
+### A+B' — re-run with the fix
+
+**Run.** `unified_of13_lmw001_v2_20260527_1724/unified/`.
+
+| Metric (ms) | baseline | A+B (BUG) | A+B' (fix) | Δ vs baseline |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| TTFT p50 | 520 | 514 | **485** | −7% |
+| **TTFT p90** | 8781 | 8421 | **8287** | **−5.6%** ✅ |
+| TTFT p99 | 47647 | 44800 | **41876** | **−12%** ✅ |
+| TPOT p90 | 17.8 | 15.7 | 17.5 | −2% |
+| E2E p90 | 19989 | 21064 | 20625 | +3% |
+| E2E p99 | 85841 | 64344 | 77827 | −9% |
+
+A+B' **best of all variants on TTFT p90 (8287) and TTFT p99 (41876)**.
+Long-tail counts (>30s, >50s) also best across variants.
+
+vs v3 reference points:
+| | TTFT p90 | TPOT p90 | E2E p99 |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| **A+B'** | **8287** | 17.5 | 77827 |
+| v3 fixed (cache-blind) | 10828 | 21.0 | 47610 |
+| v3 + Mech B | 9711 | 18.3 | 84492 |
+
+A+B' **beats v3 Mech B by 15% TTFT p90** with no migration overhead.
+
+### Per-worker (A+B' fixed)
+
+```
+8000: n=158  p90= 5688      8004: n=189  p90= 4249
+8001: n=159  p90= 7323      8005: n=116  p90=14598
+8002: n=114  p90= 8726      8006: n=180  p90= 6198
+8003: n=173  p90= 6715      8007: n=125  p90=22242   ← still hot
+```
+
+A+B' redistributed load more evenly (114..189) but **8007 still has p90=22s**.
+
+### 8007 deep-dive in A+B'
+
+```
+8007: n=125, affinity=69 (55%), fallback=56 (45%), cache_hit_mean=lowest
+```
+
+Top-15 slow at 8007:
+- 7 of them are session **1313181** turns 9–14 (130k+ tokens each, agentic
+  long context, ~50% cache hit)
+- Several others are cold-start turn-1 of large-prompt sessions
+- First two slow reqs arrived **0.7 s apart** — strong hint of concurrent
+  picker race
+
+### Iteration 3: race-condition fix
+
+**Diagnosis.** In `_handle_combined`:
+
+```python
+chosen, best_idx, decision = pick_instance_unified_hybrid(...)  # sync
+# ... sync breakdown updates ...
+return await _handle_local_request(...)   # ← await yields here
+                                          #   THEN reservation happens
+```
+
+`return await async_func(...)` evaluates the async call (creates coroutine)
+and yields to the event loop **before** the coroutine body executes. The
+reservation (`chosen.pending_prefill_tokens += new`, etc.) lives at the top
+of `_handle_local_request`, so between the picker and the reservation there
+is a **window where another coroutine can run and re-pick the same instance**.
+
+When two big-prompt reqs arrive within milliseconds, both run pick →
+both pick the "free" 8007 → both yield → both reserve. Result: 8007 gets
+back-to-back 130k-token cold prefills, each waiting for the other.
+
+**Fix.** Move the reservation **before** the await, inside `_handle_combined`:
+
+```python
+# Race fix: reserve atomically with pick, before any await.
+chosen.ongoing_tokens += input_length
+chosen.pending_prefill_tokens += estimated_new
+chosen.num_requests += 1
+return await _handle_local_request(..., _pre_reserved=True)
+```
+
+`_handle_local_request` skips its own reservation when `_pre_reserved=True`.
+PD-sep paths are unaffected (they have their own reservation).
+
+**Run.** Pending — `unified_of13_lmw001_racefix_*`. Hypothesis: 8007 p90
+drops to within ±3s of cluster median, since concurrent picks for the
+same "free" instance no longer happen.
+
+---
+
+## A+B'+RaceFix — results
+
+**Run.** `unified_of13_lmw001_racefix_20260527_1821/unified/`.
+
+| Metric (ms) | baseline | A+B' | A+B'+RF | Δ vs baseline |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| TTFT p50 | 520 | 485 | **478** | −8% |
+| **TTFT p90** | 8781 | 8287 | **7770** | **−11.5%** ✅ |
+| TTFT p99 | 47647 | 41876 | **42447** | −11% |
+| TPOT p90 | 17.8 | 17.5 | 18.0 | +1% |
+| E2E p90 | 19989 | 20625 | **18418** | −8% |
+| E2E p99 | 85841 | 77827 | **71227** | −17% |
+
+vs v3 reference:
+- **A+B'+RF TTFT p90 = 7770ms, vs v3 Mech B 9711ms → −20%** ✅
+
+Long-tail counts (best across all variants):
+```
+> 5s:   170 → 158         > 30s:   41 → 33
+>10s:   105 → 103         > 50s:    8 →  4
+>20s:    65 →  57         >100s:    0 →  0
+```
+
+### Decision split — race fix mainly helped affinity
+
+| Decision | baseline | A+B'+RF |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| affinity p90 | 7011 | **5042** ✅ (−28%) |
+| fallback p90 | 12083 | 13944 (+15%) |
+
+The race-condition was hurting affinity decisions the most. When two
+concurrent reqs both stuck to a "free-looking" affinity instance, they
+piled up and inflated affinity's tail. Fix removed this collision.
+
+### Per-worker
+
+```
+8000: n=86   p90=11541      8004: n=150  p90=11906
+8001: n=186  p90= 8307      8005: n=109  p90= 4798
+8002: n=105  p90=14540      8006: n=183  p90= 6258
+8003: n=264  p90= 3079      8007: n=131  p90=21850   ← still hot
+8000 spread now 86..264 — race fix did disperse routing
+```
+
+### 8007 still hot — but it's **workload-inherent, not a routing bug**
+
+Top sessions on 8007:
+```
+session 1279412: n=22  mean= 2208  max=18985  decisions: 91% affinity
+session 1313181: n=17  mean=17399  max=49089  decisions: 65% affinity
+session 1262354: n=15  mean=  622  max= 2325  decisions: 87% affinity
+session 1342921: n= 7  mean=17817  max=55589  decisions: 86% affinity
+session 1260327: n= 8  mean= 1636  max= 5382  decisions: 75% affinity
+session 1268831: n= 5  mean= 1443  max= 2673  decisions: 80% affinity
+```
+
+Sessions 1313181 and 1342921 are **long agentic contexts**: 100k–130k tokens
+per turn with ~50% cache hit (i.e. 50k new tokens prefill per turn). Even
+on a perfectly load-balanced instance, each turn is 7–15s of pure compute.
+
+Forcing these sessions to spread across instances would mean **cold prefill
+every turn (0% cache hit)** → each turn becomes 20–30s instead of 7–15s.
+Spreading is **net-negative**.
+
+→ The 8007 p90=22s is the floor imposed by these sessions' structure,
+not by routing policy. Unified is at its ceiling for this workload.
+
+---
+
+## Final ranking and take-aways
+
+| Policy | TTFT p90 (ms) | Δ vs baseline | Notes |
+|---|---:|---:|---|
+| baseline unified (of=2.0) | 8781 | — | reference |
+| A (of=1.3) | 8730 | ≈0 | affinity p90 -17%, fallback p90 +27% |
+| A+B (of=1.3, lmw=0.01, BUG) | 8421 | −4% | 8007 hotspot from `*num_req` zeroing bug |
+| A+B' (formula fix) | 8287 | −5.6% | Bug fixed, still 8007 mild hotspot |
+| **A+B'+RaceFix** | **7770** | **−11.5%** ✅ | **Best unified variant** |
+| v3 fixed | 10828 | +23% | PD-sep migration, cache-blind picker |
+| v3 + Mech B | 9711 | +11% | PD-sep + cache-rich target picker |
+
+### Conclusions
+
+1. **Unified path beats v3 PD-sep on this workload by 20%+ TTFT p90.**
+   PD-sep migration's fixed cost (src prefill + dst first-token waiting on
+   loaded scheduler) outweighs any decode-time savings for short-output
+   agentic turns.
+
+2. **Three orthogonal fixes compound for a 11.5% TTFT p90 win:**
+   - A (`overload_factor=1.3`): tighter affinity overflow → −0.6% but
+     much cleaner affinity decisions (p90 -17%)
+   - B' (`lmetric_decode_weight=0.01` with `max(num_req,1)`): decode-aware
+     fallback → −3.5%
+   - RaceFix (atomic reserve before await): kills concurrent-pick
+     collisions → −5.6%
+
+3. **Race condition was the biggest single hidden bug.** `return await
+   async_func(...)` yields to the event loop **before** the body of
+   `async_func` runs, so reservations done in the body don't take effect
+   in time to deter concurrent picks. This affects ANY async dispatch
+   with separate pick/reserve steps — worth checking other routing
+   policies.
+
+4. **8007 p90=22s is workload-inherent.** Sessions with 100k+ token turns
+   at 50% cache hit cannot finish faster than 7–15s per turn regardless
+   of routing. Forcing spread would hurt rather than help.
+
+5. **Migration (v3) is not necessary** when unified routing is tuned
+   well. Save the PD-sep mechanism for cases where it can be proven
+   net-positive (e.g. very-long-output sessions on extremely overloaded
+   prefill hosts) and use unified A+B'+RaceFix as the default.
+
+---
+
+## Direction A+B — run pending
+
+(Will be filled when `unified_of13_lmw001_*/unified/` finishes.)

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_b3_replay.py

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""B3 5-policy re-test analyser.
+
+Compute TTFT/TPOT/E2E mean/p50/p90/p99 for each policy from
+metrics.jsonl, compare against the historical b3_policy_comparison.json
+that drives fig_b3_latency_bars.png, and emit a side-by-side table
+plus a new figure with the same layout as the original.
+
+Usage:
+  python analyze_b3_replay.py --root <outroot> [--old-data <path>] [--figure <path>]
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import statistics
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+POLICIES = ["lmetric", "load_only", "sticky", "unified", "unified_v2"]
+
+
+def pct(xs, p):
+    if not xs:
+        return None
+    xs = sorted(xs)
+    k = max(0, min(len(xs) - 1, int(p / 100.0 * (len(xs) - 1))))
+    return xs[k]
+
+
+def summarise(path):
+    rows = [json.loads(l) for l in open(path) if l.strip()]
+    ok = [r for r in rows if not r.get("error")]
+    ttft = [r["ttft_s"] * 1000 for r in ok if r.get("ttft_s") is not None]
+    tpot = [r["tpot_s"] * 1000 for r in ok if r.get("tpot_s")]
+    e2e = [r["latency_s"] * 1000 for r in ok if r.get("latency_s") is not None]
+    return {
+        "n_total": len(rows),
+        "n_ok": len(ok),
+        "ttft_mean_ms": statistics.mean(ttft) if ttft else None,
+        "ttft_p50_ms": pct(ttft, 50),
+        "ttft_p90_ms": pct(ttft, 90),
+        "ttft_p99_ms": pct(ttft, 99),
+        "tpot_mean_ms": statistics.mean(tpot) if tpot else None,
+        "tpot_p50_ms": pct(tpot, 50),
+        "tpot_p90_ms": pct(tpot, 90),
+        "tpot_p99_ms": pct(tpot, 99),
+        "e2e_mean_ms": statistics.mean(e2e) if e2e else None,
+        "e2e_p50_ms": pct(e2e, 50),
+        "e2e_p90_ms": pct(e2e, 90),
+        "e2e_p99_ms": pct(e2e, 99),
+    }
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--root", type=Path, required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--old-data", type=Path,
+                    default=Path("analysis/characterization/window_1_results/b3_policy_comparison.json"))
+    ap.add_argument("--figure", type=Path, default=None)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    new = {}
+    for p in POLICIES:
+        path = args.root / p / "metrics.jsonl"
+        if not path.exists():
+            print(f"MISSING: {path}")
+            continue
+        new[p] = summarise(path)
+
+    old = {}
+    if args.old_data.exists():
+        d = json.load(open(args.old_data))
+        for r in d.get("rows", []):
+            old[r["policy"]] = {
+                "ttft_p50_ms": r["ttft_p50_s"] * 1000,
+                "ttft_p90_ms": r["ttft_p90_s"] * 1000,
+                "ttft_p99_ms": r["ttft_p99_s"] * 1000,
+                "tpot_p90_ms": r["tpot_p90_s"] * 1000,
+                "e2e_p90_ms":  r.get("e2e_p90_s", 0) * 1000,
+            }
+
+    def fmt(v): return f"{v:.0f}" if v is not None else "-"
+    def pctd(a, b):
+        if a is None or b is None or a == 0: return "-"
+        return f"{(b/a-1)*100:+.1f}%"
+
+    # Headline table
+    print(f"\n# NEW: today's re-test")
+    print(f"{'policy':<14}{'n_ok':>6}{'TTFTp50':>10}{'TTFTp90':>10}{'TTFTp99':>10}{'TPOTp90':>10}{'E2Ep90':>10}")
+    print("-" * 70)
+    for p in POLICIES:
+        if p not in new: continue
+        r = new[p]
+        print(f"{p:<14}{r['n_ok']:>6}{fmt(r['ttft_p50_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['ttft_p90_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['ttft_p99_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['tpot_p90_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['e2e_p90_ms']):>9}ms")
+
+    print(f"\n# OLD: window_1_results/b3_policy_comparison.json")
+    print(f"{'policy':<14}{'TTFTp50':>10}{'TTFTp90':>10}{'TTFTp99':>10}{'TPOTp90':>10}{'E2Ep90':>10}")
+    print("-" * 60)
+    for p in POLICIES:
+        if p not in old: continue
+        r = old[p]
+        print(f"{p:<14}{fmt(r['ttft_p50_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['ttft_p90_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['ttft_p99_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['tpot_p90_ms']):>9}ms{fmt(r['e2e_p90_ms']):>9}ms")
+
+    print(f"\n# DRIFT: today vs old (same policy)")
+    print(f"{'policy':<14}{'ΔTTFTp50':>10}{'ΔTTFTp90':>10}{'ΔTTFTp99':>10}{'ΔTPOTp90':>10}{'ΔE2Ep90':>10}")
+    print("-" * 60)
+    for p in POLICIES:
+        if p not in new or p not in old: continue
+        n, o = new[p], old[p]
+        print(f"{p:<14}{pctd(o['ttft_p50_ms'], n['ttft_p50_ms']):>10}"
+              f"{pctd(o['ttft_p90_ms'], n['ttft_p90_ms']):>10}"
+              f"{pctd(o['ttft_p99_ms'], n['ttft_p99_ms']):>10}"
+              f"{pctd(o['tpot_p90_ms'], n['tpot_p90_ms']):>10}"
+              f"{pctd(o['e2e_p90_ms'], n['e2e_p90_ms']):>10}")
+
+    # Relative ordering check
+    def ranks(values_dict, key):
+        items = [(p, r[key]) for p, r in values_dict.items() if r.get(key)]
+        items.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
+        return [p for p, _ in items]
+
+    print(f"\n# TTFT p90 ranking (best → worst)")
+    for label, src in [("OLD", old), ("NEW", new)]:
+        if src:
+            order = ranks(src, "ttft_p90_ms")
+            print(f"  {label}: {' < '.join(order)}")
+
+    out = {"new": new, "old": old}
+    out_path = args.root / "b3_replay_summary.json"
+    out_path.write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=2))
+    print(f"\nWrote {out_path}")
+
+    # Bar plot (matplotlib)
+    if not args.figure:
+        args.figure = args.root / "fig_b3_latency_bars_new.png"
+    try:
+        import matplotlib
+        matplotlib.use("Agg")
+        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+        pols = [p for p in POLICIES if p in new]
+        metrics = [("TTFT p90 (s)", "ttft_p90_ms", 1000),
+                    ("TPOT p90 (ms)", "tpot_p90_ms", 1),
+                    ("E2E p90 (s)", "e2e_p90_ms", 1000)]
+        colors = {"lmetric": "tab:blue", "load_only": "tab:orange",
+                  "sticky": "tab:green", "unified": "tab:red",
+                  "unified_v2": "tab:purple"}
+        fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(14, 4.5))
+        for ax, (label, key, div) in zip(axes, metrics):
+            vals = [new[p][key] / div for p in pols]
+            bars = ax.bar(pols, vals,
+                          color=[colors.get(p, "gray") for p in pols],
+                          edgecolor="black", linewidth=0.5)
+            ax.set_title(label)
+            ax.tick_params(axis="x", rotation=20)
+            for b, v in zip(bars, vals):
+                ax.text(b.get_x() + b.get_width() / 2, v, f"{v:.1f}",
+                        ha="center", va="bottom", fontsize=9)
+            ax.grid(alpha=0.3, axis="y")
+        fig.suptitle(f"B3 5-policy re-test ({args.root.name})")
+        fig.tight_layout()
+        fig.savefig(args.figure, dpi=120)
+        print(f"Wrote {args.figure}")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"(figure skipped: {e})")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_dst_migration.py

@@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Analyze dst-side migration breakdown for unified_v3 runs.
+
+Joins the proxy `breakdown.json` (per-request route + phase timestamps)
+with the dst engine per-PID logs written by
+`instrument_dst_migration.py` (`dm_mig_pid<pid>.jsonl`), to attribute
+each migration's dst-side wall-clock into:
+
+  T_relay              proxy decode-sent → dst arrival
+  T_admission_pre_kv   dst arrival → status=WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS
+                       (waiting in dst's scheduler queue before KV pull
+                        is even initiated)
+  T_kv_pull            WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS → finished_recving
+                       (the actual RDMA transfer + connector ack)
+  T_admission_post_kv  finished_recving → first time in self.running
+                       (KV ready, waiting for batch slot)
+  T_first_iter         first scheduled → first generated token
+                       (one decode-iter compute + sampler latency)
+
+Layerwise transfer can at best eliminate T_kv_pull. Everything else is
+queueing or compute that layerwise does not touch.
+
+Usage:
+    python analyze_dst_migration.py \
+        --proxy-breakdown <RUNDIR>/breakdown.json \
+        --dst-log-dir     <DST_LOG_DIR>
+        [--output         <RUNDIR>/dst_migration_breakdown.csv]
+        [--plot           <RUNDIR>/dst_migration_breakdown.png]
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import re
+import statistics
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def _core_req_id(rid: str) -> str:
+    """Normalize a vLLM engine req_id back to the proxy's request_id.
+
+    vLLM wraps the proxy id `S:T:U:N` as `cmpl-S:T:U:N-<dp_rank>-<hex>`.
+    Strip the `cmpl-` prefix and the trailing `-<digits>-<hex>` suffix so
+    it joins against the proxy `breakdown.json` request_id.
+    """
+    if not rid:
+        return rid
+    s = rid
+    if s.startswith("cmpl-"):
+        s = s[len("cmpl-"):]
+    m = re.match(r"^(.*)-\d+-[0-9a-fA-F]+$", s)
+    if m:
+        s = m.group(1)
+    return s
+
+
+def _pct(vals: list[float], q: float) -> float:
+    if not vals:
+        return float("nan")
+    vs = sorted(vals)
+    i = max(0, min(len(vs) - 1, int(math.ceil(q * len(vs))) - 1))
+    return vs[i]
+
+
+def _summary(name: str, vals: list[float]) -> dict:
+    if not vals:
+        return {"name": name, "n": 0}
+    return {
+        "name": name,
+        "n": len(vals),
+        "mean_s": statistics.mean(vals),
+        "p50_s": _pct(vals, 0.5),
+        "p90_s": _pct(vals, 0.9),
+        "p99_s": _pct(vals, 0.99),
+        "max_s": max(vals),
+        "sum_s": sum(vals),
+    }
+
+
+def load_dst_log(dst_log_dir: Path) -> dict[str, dict]:
+    by_req: dict[str, dict] = {}
+    found_files = sorted(dst_log_dir.glob("dm_mig_pid*.jsonl"))
+    print(f"[analyze] dst log files: {len(found_files)} under {dst_log_dir}")
+    for f in found_files:
+        with f.open() as fh:
+            for line in fh:
+                try:
+                    rec = json.loads(line)
+                except Exception:
+                    continue
+                rid = rec.get("req_id")
+                if not rid:
+                    continue
+                key = _core_req_id(rid)
+                rec["_raw_req_id"] = rid
+                # If a req shows up twice (shouldn't, but be safe), prefer the
+                # one with t_first_token_unix populated.
+                prev = by_req.get(key)
+                if prev is None or (
+                    rec.get("t_first_token_unix") and
+                    not prev.get("t_first_token_unix")
+                ):
+                    by_req[key] = rec
+    print(f"[analyze] unique dst records: {len(by_req)}")
+    return by_req
+
+
+def load_proxy_breakdown(path: Path) -> list[dict]:
+    with path.open() as fh:
+        data = json.load(fh)
+    assert isinstance(data, list), f"unexpected breakdown.json shape: {type(data)}"
+    return data
+
+
+def decompose(proxy_recs: list[dict], dst_by_req: dict[str, dict]) -> list[dict]:
+    """Build per-migration breakdown rows by joining proxy + dst by req_id."""
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+    migrations = [x for x in proxy_recs if x.get("route_class") == "PD_SEP_V2"]
+    print(f"[analyze] proxy migrations: {len(migrations)} "
+          f"(of {len(proxy_recs)} total requests)")
+
+    miss_in_dst = 0
+    missing_phases = 0
+    for p in migrations:
+        rid = p.get("request_id")
+        dst = dst_by_req.get(rid)
+        if dst is None:
+            miss_in_dst += 1
+            continue
+        if dst.get("t_first_token_unix") is None:
+            missing_phases += 1
+            # still include the row but mark phases as NaN downstream
+        t_decode_sent = p.get("t_decode_sent_unix")
+        t_first_tok = p.get("t_first_token_unix")
+        t_arrival = dst.get("t_arrival_unix")
+        t_wait_kvs = dst.get("t_wait_for_kvs_unix")
+        t_kv_done = dst.get("t_kv_recv_done_unix")
+        t_first_sched = dst.get("t_first_scheduled_unix")
+        t_first_tok_dst = dst.get("t_first_token_unix")
+
+        def _diff(a, b):
+            if a is None or b is None:
+                return None
+            return float(a) - float(b)
+
+        rows.append({
+            "request_id": rid,
+            "session_id": p.get("session_id"),
+            "input_length": p.get("input_length"),
+            "v3_new_local": p.get("v3_new_local"),
+            "v3_target_idx": p.get("v3_target_idx") or p.get("v3_decode_target_idx"),
+            "arrival_n_running": (dst.get("arrival_state") or {}).get("n_running"),
+            "arrival_n_waiting": (dst.get("arrival_state") or {}).get("n_waiting"),
+            "arrival_pending_prefill_tok": (dst.get("arrival_state") or {}).get("pending_prefill_tok"),
+            "arrival_n_waiting_for_kvs": (dst.get("arrival_state") or {}).get("n_waiting_for_kvs"),
+            # Phase durations (seconds)
+            "T_proxy_total_dst_first_token_s": _diff(t_first_tok, t_decode_sent),
+            "T_relay_s": _diff(t_arrival, t_decode_sent),
+            "T_admission_pre_kv_s": _diff(t_wait_kvs, t_arrival),
+            "T_kv_pull_s": _diff(t_kv_done, t_wait_kvs),
+            "T_admission_post_kv_s": _diff(t_first_sched, t_kv_done),
+            "T_first_iter_s": _diff(t_first_tok_dst, t_first_sched),
+            # Raw timestamps for debugging
+            "t_decode_sent_unix": t_decode_sent,
+            "t_dst_arrival_unix": t_arrival,
+            "t_dst_wait_for_kvs_unix": t_wait_kvs,
+            "t_dst_kv_recv_done_unix": t_kv_done,
+            "t_dst_first_scheduled_unix": t_first_sched,
+            "t_dst_first_token_unix": t_first_tok_dst,
+            "t_proxy_first_token_unix": t_first_tok,
+        })
+
+    print(f"[analyze] missing in dst log: {miss_in_dst}")
+    print(f"[analyze] dst record incomplete (no t_first_token): {missing_phases}")
+    return rows
+
+
+def emit_summary(rows: list[dict]) -> None:
+    if not rows:
+        print("[analyze] no rows — nothing to summarize.")
+        return
+
+    phase_keys = [
+        "T_proxy_total_dst_first_token_s",
+        "T_relay_s",
+        "T_admission_pre_kv_s",
+        "T_kv_pull_s",
+        "T_admission_post_kv_s",
+        "T_first_iter_s",
+    ]
+
+    print()
+    print("=" * 88)
+    print(f"Migration dst-side phase breakdown  (n_migrations={len(rows)})")
+    print("=" * 88)
+    print(f"{'phase':<36} {'n':>4} {'mean(s)':>9} {'p50':>8} {'p90':>8} "
+          f"{'p99':>8} {'max':>8} {'sum(s)':>9}")
+    print("-" * 88)
+    for k in phase_keys:
+        vals = [r[k] for r in rows if r.get(k) is not None]
+        if not vals:
+            print(f"{k:<36} {'n/a':>4}")
+            continue
+        s = _summary(k, vals)
+        print(f"{k:<36} {s['n']:>4} {s['mean_s']:>9.3f} {s['p50_s']:>8.3f} "
+              f"{s['p90_s']:>8.3f} {s['p99_s']:>8.3f} {s['max_s']:>8.3f} "
+              f"{s['sum_s']:>9.2f}")
+
+    print()
+    print("Aggregate attribution (sum across all migrations):")
+    sums = {}
+    for k in ("T_relay_s", "T_admission_pre_kv_s", "T_kv_pull_s",
+              "T_admission_post_kv_s", "T_first_iter_s"):
+        sums[k] = sum(r[k] for r in rows if r.get(k) is not None)
+    total = sum(sums.values())
+    total_proxy = sum(r["T_proxy_total_dst_first_token_s"] for r in rows
+                      if r.get("T_proxy_total_dst_first_token_s") is not None)
+    print(f"  decomposed sum   : {total:>8.2f} s")
+    print(f"  proxy total sum  : {total_proxy:>8.2f} s   "
+          f"(should be ~equal; gap = uninstrumented)")
+    if total > 0:
+        for k, v in sums.items():
+            print(f"    {k:<28} {v:>8.2f} s  ({v/total*100:5.1f} %)")
+
+    # Headline: "How much could layerwise save?"
+    layerwise_addressable = sums.get("T_kv_pull_s", 0.0)
+    queue_residual = sum(v for k, v in sums.items() if k != "T_kv_pull_s")
+    print()
+    print("Layerwise-addressable vs queue-residual:")
+    print(f"  T_kv_pull_s (addressable by layerwise)   : {layerwise_addressable:>8.2f} s "
+          f"({layerwise_addressable / total * 100 if total else 0:5.1f} %)")
+    print(f"  everything else (queue/admission/iter)   : {queue_residual:>8.2f} s "
+          f"({queue_residual / total * 100 if total else 0:5.1f} %)")
+
+
+def write_csv(rows: list[dict], path: Path) -> None:
+    import csv
+    if not rows:
+        path.write_text("")
+        return
+    fields = list(rows[0].keys())
+    with path.open("w", newline="") as fh:
+        w = csv.DictWriter(fh, fieldnames=fields)
+        w.writeheader()
+        w.writerows(rows)
+    print(f"[analyze] wrote CSV: {path}  (n={len(rows)})")
+
+
+def maybe_plot(rows: list[dict], out_path: Path) -> None:
+    try:
+        import matplotlib
+        matplotlib.use("Agg")
+        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"[analyze] matplotlib unavailable ({e}); skipping plot.")
+        return
+
+    if not rows:
+        return
+
+    rows_sorted = sorted(
+        rows,
+        key=lambda r: r.get("T_proxy_total_dst_first_token_s") or 0.0,
+    )
+    n = len(rows_sorted)
+    idx = list(range(n))
+
+    def col(k):
+        return [(r.get(k) or 0.0) for r in rows_sorted]
+
+    relay = col("T_relay_s")
+    pre = col("T_admission_pre_kv_s")
+    pull = col("T_kv_pull_s")
+    post = col("T_admission_post_kv_s")
+    first_iter = col("T_first_iter_s")
+
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(11, 5))
+    bot = [0.0] * n
+    for vals, label, color in [
+        (relay, "HTTP relay", "#cccccc"),
+        (pre, "admission pre-KV", "#f4a261"),
+        (pull, "KV pull (layerwise-addressable)", "#e76f51"),
+        (post, "admission post-KV", "#2a9d8f"),
+        (first_iter, "first decode iter", "#264653"),
+    ]:
+        ax.bar(idx, vals, bottom=bot, color=color, label=label, width=0.85)
+        bot = [b + v for b, v in zip(bot, vals)]
+
+    ax.set_xticks(idx)
+    ax.set_xticklabels([str(i + 1) for i in idx], rotation=0, fontsize=8)
+    ax.set_xlabel("Migrated request (sorted by total dst wait, ascending)")
+    ax.set_ylabel("Time (s)")
+    ax.set_title("Per-migration dst-side phase breakdown (v3 unified_v3 run)")
+    ax.legend(loc="upper left", fontsize=9)
+    ax.grid(axis="y", linestyle=":", alpha=0.5)
+    fig.tight_layout()
+    fig.savefig(out_path, dpi=120)
+    plt.close(fig)
+    print(f"[analyze] wrote plot: {out_path}")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--proxy-breakdown", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-log-dir", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--output", type=Path, default=None,
+                   help="CSV path (default: <run>/dst_migration_breakdown.csv)")
+    p.add_argument("--plot", type=Path, default=None,
+                   help="PNG path (default: <run>/dst_migration_breakdown.png)")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    if not args.proxy_breakdown.is_file():
+        sys.exit(f"missing proxy breakdown: {args.proxy_breakdown}")
+    if not args.dst_log_dir.is_dir():
+        sys.exit(f"missing dst log dir: {args.dst_log_dir}")
+
+    run_dir = args.proxy_breakdown.parent
+    out_csv = args.output or (run_dir / "dst_migration_breakdown.csv")
+    out_png = args.plot or (run_dir / "dst_migration_breakdown.png")
+
+    proxy_recs = load_proxy_breakdown(args.proxy_breakdown)
+    dst_by_req = load_dst_log(args.dst_log_dir)
+    rows = decompose(proxy_recs, dst_by_req)
+    emit_summary(rows)
+    write_csv(rows, out_csv)
+    maybe_plot(rows, out_png)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_migration_log.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Per-migration log + per-instance summary for a v3 trace replay.
+
+Reads <run_dir>/breakdown.json and <run_dir>/metrics.jsonl and emits:
+  1. A row per migration showing src→dst, per-side state snapshots, and
+     the resulting TTFT.
+  2. Histograms: migrations received per inst, sent per inst, all
+     (src→dst) pairs.
+  3. Post-rotation tail: how many turns of migrated sessions ended up on
+     each inst (downstream impact of rotation).
+  4. Anti-hotspot signal: recent_mig_received_in_window at decision time.
+
+Run any v3 replay through this to spot pathological clustering of
+migrations on the same dst within a short window.
+
+Usage:
+    python analyze_migration_log.py <RUN_DIR>
+where <RUN_DIR> contains breakdown.json + metrics.jsonl (i.e. the proxy's
+per-policy output folder, e.g. .../b3_v3_20260527_1344/unified_v3).
+"""
+import json
+import sys
+from collections import Counter, defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def main(run_dir: Path) -> None:
+    bd = json.load(open(run_dir / "breakdown.json"))
+    m = {json.loads(l)["request_id"]: json.loads(l)
+         for l in open(run_dir / "metrics.jsonl")}
+
+    mig = [e for e in bd if e.get("v3_migrate")]
+    mig.sort(key=lambda x: x.get("t_decision_unix", 0))
+
+    print(f"=== {len(mig)} migrations in {run_dir.name} ===\n")
+    cols = (
+        "#", "t_rel", "session", "turn",
+        "src", "dst", "src_nreq", "src_dec_tok",
+        "dst_nreq", "dst_cache", "dst_recent_recv",
+        "inlen", "self_ttft_ms",
+    )
+    print("  " + " ".join(f"{c:>13}" for c in cols))
+    print("-" * (15 * len(cols)))
+
+    t0 = mig[0]["t_decision_unix"] if mig else 0
+    for i, e in enumerate(mig):
+        rid = e["request_id"]
+        src_idx = e.get("v3_src_idx", e["chosen_idx"])
+        dst_idx = e.get("v3_target_idx", -1)
+        src_state = e.get("v3_src_state") or {}
+        dst_state = e.get("v3_target_state") or {}
+        cands = {c["idx"]: c for c in e.get("candidate_scores", [])}
+        # Fall back to candidate_scores if dedicated v3_*_state fields aren't present.
+        src_nreq = src_state.get("num_requests", cands.get(src_idx, {}).get("num_requests", "-"))
+        src_dec_tok = src_state.get("ongoing_decode_tokens",
+                                    cands.get(src_idx, {}).get("ongoing_decode_tokens", "-"))
+        dst_nreq = dst_state.get("num_requests", cands.get(dst_idx, {}).get("num_requests", "-"))
+        dst_cache = e.get("v3_target_cache_hit", dst_state.get("cache_hit_estimate", 0))
+        dst_recent = e.get("v3_target_recent_received",
+                            dst_state.get("recent_mig_received_in_window", "-"))
+        inlen = e.get("input_length") or m.get(rid, {}).get("input_length", 0)
+        ttft = m.get(rid, {}).get("ttft_s") or 0
+        t_rel = e["t_decision_unix"] - t0
+        turn = m.get(rid, {}).get("turn_id", "?")
+        print(
+            f"  {i+1:>13} {t_rel:>13.1f} {e['session_id']:>13} {turn:>13} "
+            f"{src_idx:>13} {dst_idx:>13} {src_nreq:>13} {src_dec_tok:>13} "
+            f"{dst_nreq:>13} {dst_cache:>13} {dst_recent:>13} "
+            f"{inlen:>13} {ttft*1000:>13.0f}"
+        )
+
+    # Aggregate counts
+    print("\n=== Migrations TO each instance ===")
+    to_count = Counter(e.get("v3_target_idx", -1) for e in mig)
+    for idx in range(8):
+        print(f"  inst_{idx}: {to_count.get(idx, 0)} migrations received")
+
+    print("\n=== Migrations FROM each instance ===")
+    from_count = Counter(e.get("v3_src_idx", e["chosen_idx"]) for e in mig)
+    for idx in range(8):
+        print(f"  inst_{idx}: {from_count.get(idx, 0)} migrations sent")
+
+    print("\n=== Migration pairs (src→dst, count) ===")
+    pair_count = Counter(
+        (e.get("v3_src_idx", e["chosen_idx"]), e.get("v3_target_idx", -1))
+        for e in mig
+    )
+    for (s, d), n in sorted(pair_count.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
+        print(f"  {s} → {d}: {n}")
+
+    print("\n=== Sessions migrating multiple times ===")
+    sess_mig = defaultdict(list)
+    for e in mig:
+        sess_mig[e["session_id"]].append(
+            (e.get("t_decision_unix", 0),
+             e.get("v3_src_idx", e["chosen_idx"]),
+             e.get("v3_target_idx", -1))
+        )
+    multi = {s: ev for s, ev in sess_mig.items() if len(ev) > 1}
+    if not multi:
+        print("  (none)")
+    for sess, events in sorted(multi.items()):
+        chain = " → ".join(f"{s}->{d}" for _, s, d in sorted(events))
+        print(f"  session {sess}: {chain}")
+
+    # Recent-received hotspot signal — non-zero values mean the picker
+    # accepted a target that recently got another migration.
+    print("\n=== Anti-hotspot signal: dst.recent_mig_received_in_window ===")
+    rec = [e.get("v3_target_recent_received", 0) for e in mig]
+    if rec:
+        nonzero = [v for v in rec if v]
+        print(f"  total migrations: {len(rec)}, "
+              f"with recent_received > 0: {len(nonzero)}, "
+              f"max recent_received: {max(rec)}")
+
+    # Post-rotation tail: turns of migrated sessions after their LAST mig
+    print("\n=== Post-rotation tail per inst (turns of migrated sessions after last mig) ===")
+    tail = Counter()
+    for sess, events in sess_mig.items():
+        final_dst = sorted(events)[-1][2]
+        last_t = max(t for t, _, _ in events)
+        sess_turns = [mm for rid, mm in m.items() if mm["session_id"] == sess]
+        tail[final_dst] += sum(1 for mm in sess_turns
+                               if mm.get("t_dispatch_unix", 0) > last_t)
+    for idx in range(8):
+        print(f"  inst_{idx}: {tail.get(idx, 0)} tail turns")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        print("usage: analyze_migration_log.py <run_dir>", file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    main(Path(sys.argv[1]))

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_transfer_decomp.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Decompose migration KV-transfer time into RDMA-actual vs control-plane.
+
+Joins three logs from an instrumented unified_v3 run:
+
+  proxy breakdown.json        — per-request route + phase timestamps
+  dst_mig_log/dm_mig_pid*.jsonl  — dst lifecycle (instrument_dst_migration.py)
+                                   gives T_kv_pull = wait_for_kvs -> recv_done
+  mooncake xfer/mb2_transfer_pid*.jsonl — connector internals
+                                   (instrument_mooncake.py):
+      send_blocks            : pure RDMA (total_bytes, duration_s)  [producer]
+      receive_kv_enter/finish: consumer-observed transfer window    [consumer]
+      ready_wait             : producer wait for src KV commit       [producer]
+      send_kv_to_decode_enter: producer received the pull request    [producer]
+
+Decisive question: of the 87% dst-side overhead that is T_kv_pull, how
+much is the actual RDMA write (`send_blocks`) vs control-plane
+(handshake / ready-wait / GIL starvation on the busy src)?
+
+  - send_blocks bandwidth ~ wire (10 GB/s) AND << T_kv_pull
+        => loss is control-plane; layerwise (which only moves WHEN the
+           RDMA fires) will NOT fix it.
+  - send_blocks bandwidth << wire
+        => the RDMA write itself is slow (NIC / src-side servicing);
+           characterize with a load microbench next.
+
+Usage:
+  python analyze_transfer_decomp.py \
+      --proxy-breakdown <RUN>/unified_v3/breakdown.json \
+      --dst-log-dir     <RUN>/dst_mig_log \
+      --xfer-log-dir    <RUN>/xfer_log
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import math
+import re
+import statistics
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def _core_req_id(rid: str) -> str:
+    if not rid:
+        return rid
+    s = rid
+    if s.startswith("cmpl-"):
+        s = s[len("cmpl-"):]
+    m = re.match(r"^(.*)-\d+-[0-9a-fA-F]+$", s)
+    if m:
+        s = m.group(1)
+    return s
+
+
+def _pct(vals, q):
+    if not vals:
+        return float("nan")
+    vs = sorted(vals)
+    i = max(0, min(len(vs) - 1, int(math.ceil(q * len(vs))) - 1))
+    return vs[i]
+
+
+def _stat_line(name, vals, unit="s"):
+    if not vals:
+        print(f"{name:<34} n=0")
+        return
+    print(f"{name:<34} n={len(vals):>3}  mean={statistics.mean(vals):>8.3f}  "
+          f"p50={_pct(vals,0.5):>8.3f}  p90={_pct(vals,0.9):>8.3f}  "
+          f"max={max(vals):>8.3f}  sum={sum(vals):>8.2f} {unit}")
+
+
+def load_events(xfer_dir: Path):
+    files = sorted(xfer_dir.glob("mb2_transfer_pid*.jsonl"))
+    print(f"[xfer] log files: {len(files)} under {xfer_dir}")
+    send_blocks, recv_enter, recv_finish, ready_wait, send_enter = [], [], [], [], []
+    for f in files:
+        pid = f.stem.replace("mb2_transfer_pid", "")
+        with f.open() as fh:
+            for line in fh:
+                try:
+                    e = json.loads(line)
+                except Exception:
+                    continue
+                e["_pid"] = pid
+                ev = e.get("event")
+                if ev == "send_blocks":
+                    send_blocks.append(e)
+                elif ev == "receive_kv_enter":
+                    recv_enter.append(e)
+                elif ev == "receive_kv_finish":
+                    recv_finish.append(e)
+                elif ev == "ready_wait":
+                    ready_wait.append(e)
+                elif ev == "send_kv_to_decode_enter":
+                    send_enter.append(e)
+    print(f"[xfer] events: send_blocks={len(send_blocks)} "
+          f"recv_enter={len(recv_enter)} recv_finish={len(recv_finish)} "
+          f"ready_wait={len(ready_wait)} send_enter={len(send_enter)}")
+    return send_blocks, recv_enter, recv_finish, ready_wait, send_enter
+
+
+def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--proxy-breakdown", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-log-dir", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--xfer-log-dir", type=Path, required=True)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    for pth in (args.proxy_breakdown, args.dst_log_dir, args.xfer_log_dir):
+        if not pth.exists():
+            sys.exit(f"missing: {pth}")
+
+    proxy = json.load(args.proxy_breakdown.open())
+    migrations = [x for x in proxy if x.get("route_class") == "PD_SEP_V2"]
+    mig_ids = {x.get("request_id") for x in migrations}
+    print(f"[proxy] migrations: {len(migrations)} / {len(proxy)} total")
+
+    # dst lifecycle: T_kv_pull per migration (core req id)
+    dst_pull = {}
+    for f in sorted(args.dst_log_dir.glob("dm_mig_pid*.jsonl")):
+        for line in f.open():
+            try:
+                r = json.loads(line)
+            except Exception:
+                continue
+            tw = r.get("t_wait_for_kvs_unix")
+            td = r.get("t_kv_recv_done_unix")
+            if tw and td:
+                dst_pull[_core_req_id(r.get("req_id"))] = td - tw
+
+    sb, re_enter, re_finish, rw, se = load_events(args.xfer_log_dir)
+
+    # ---- 1. Pure RDMA bandwidth from send_blocks (the decisive number) ----
+    print("\n" + "=" * 90)
+    print("1. PURE RDMA WRITE rate (`send_blocks` = batch_transfer_sync_write)")
+    print("=" * 90)
+    bws, durs, bytes_l = [], [], []
+    for e in sb:
+        b = e.get("total_bytes", 0)
+        d = e.get("duration_s", 0)
+        if d and d > 0 and b > 0:
+            bws.append(b / 1e9 / d)
+            durs.append(d)
+            bytes_l.append(b)
+    if bws:
+        tot_b = sum(bytes_l)
+        tot_d = sum(durs)
+        print(f"  send_blocks calls: {len(bws)}")
+        print(f"  total bytes moved : {tot_b/2**30:.2f} GiB")
+        print(f"  total RDMA time   : {tot_d:.2f} s")
+        print(f"  AGGREGATE rate    : {tot_b/1e9/tot_d:.2f} GB/s  "
+              f"(MB2 idle-src steady-state = ~9.7-10 GB/s)")
+        _stat_line("  per-call rate (GB/s)", bws, unit="GB/s")
+        _stat_line("  per-call duration", durs)
+        # bandwidth vs size — small ops are latency-bound
+        print("\n  rate vs transfer size:")
+        pairs = sorted(zip(bytes_l, bws))
+        for b, w in pairs:
+            bar = "#" * int(min(40, w * 4))
+            print(f"    {b/2**20:>8.1f} MiB  {w:>6.2f} GB/s  {bar}")
+    else:
+        print("  no send_blocks events with positive duration")
+
+    # ---- 2. Producer ready-wait (src KV commit) ----
+    print("\n" + "=" * 90)
+    print("2. PRODUCER ready-wait (src KV not yet committed when pull arrived)")
+    print("=" * 90)
+    rw_vals = [e.get("ready_wait_s", 0) for e in rw if e.get("ready_wait_s") is not None]
+    already = sum(1 for e in rw if e.get("ready_already_set"))
+    _stat_line("  ready_wait", rw_vals)
+    print(f"  ready_already_set at entry: {already}/{len(rw)} "
+          f"(if most are True, src commit is not the bottleneck)")
+
+    # ---- 3. Consumer-observed receive_kv window ----
+    print("\n" + "=" * 90)
+    print("3. CONSUMER receive_kv window (enter->FINISH, ~most of T_kv_pull)")
+    print("=" * 90)
+    rf_vals = [e.get("duration_s", 0) for e in re_finish if e.get("duration_s")]
+    _stat_line("  receive_kv duration", rf_vals)
+
+    # ---- 4. Per-migration join: T_kv_pull vs receive_kv vs ready_wait ----
+    print("\n" + "=" * 90)
+    print("4. PER-MIGRATION join (T_kv_pull from dst vs connector internals)")
+    print("=" * 90)
+    # index connector events by core req id
+    rf_by_req = {}
+    for e in re_finish:
+        for rid in e.get("req_ids", []):
+            rf_by_req[_core_req_id(rid)] = e.get("duration_s")
+    rw_by_req = {}
+    for e in rw:
+        rw_by_req[_core_req_id(e.get("d_req_id", ""))] = e.get("ready_wait_s")
+
+    joined = 0
+    sum_pull = sum_recv = sum_rw = 0.0
+    rows = []
+    for m in migrations:
+        core = m.get("request_id")
+        pull = dst_pull.get(core)
+        recv = rf_by_req.get(core)
+        rwv = rw_by_req.get(core)
+        if pull is None and recv is None:
+            continue
+        joined += 1
+        if pull: sum_pull += pull
+        if recv: sum_recv += recv
+        if rwv: sum_rw += rwv
+        rows.append((core, m.get("input_length"), m.get("v3_target_cache_hit"),
+                     pull, recv, rwv))
+    print(f"  joined migrations: {joined}")
+    print(f"  Σ T_kv_pull (dst)        = {sum_pull:8.2f} s")
+    print(f"  Σ receive_kv (consumer)  = {sum_recv:8.2f} s")
+    print(f"  Σ ready_wait (producer)  = {sum_rw:8.2f} s")
+    # The RDMA share: best-effort total send_blocks time
+    sum_rdma = sum(durs) if durs else 0.0
+    print(f"  Σ send_blocks RDMA       = {sum_rdma:8.2f} s   (all transfers, "
+          f"not just migrations)")
+    if sum_pull > 0:
+        print(f"\n  RDMA-actual / T_kv_pull   ≈ {sum_rdma/sum_pull*100:5.1f} %")
+        print(f"  ready-wait / T_kv_pull    ≈ {sum_rw/sum_pull*100:5.1f} %")
+        resid = sum_pull - sum_rdma - sum_rw
+        print(f"  control-plane residual    ≈ {resid/sum_pull*100:5.1f} %  "
+              f"(handshake / ZMQ / GIL starvation)")
+
+    print("\n  per-migration detail:")
+    print(f"  {'req_id':<22} {'in_len':>7} {'dst_hit':>8} {'kv_pull':>8} "
+          f"{'recv_kv':>8} {'rdy_wait':>8}")
+    for core, il, hit, pull, recv, rwv in sorted(
+            rows, key=lambda r: -(r[3] or 0)):
+        def s(v): return f"{v:.2f}" if v is not None else "  --"
+        print(f"  {core:<22} {str(il):>7} {str(hit):>8} {s(pull):>8} "
+              f"{s(recv):>8} {s(rwv):>8}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_b3_replay.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# B3 routing-policy reproducibility re-test.
+#
+# Re-runs the 5 routing policies from fig_b3_latency_bars.png on the same
+# trace, in a single same-day session, to check whether the ordering
+# (unified < load_only < sticky etc.) still holds today.
+#
+# Policies (in run order):
+#   lmetric        plain — cache-aware P_tokens × BS
+#   load_only      plain — pure min-num_requests
+#   sticky         plain — hard session affinity
+#   unified        plain — hybrid affinity + LMetric fallback
+#   unified_v2     Mooncake kv_both + selective PD-sep (with DR-fix applied)
+#
+# unified_v2 is run with VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1 so we
+# get the "best Mooncake state" we have today (DR-fix on top of the
+# already-fixed mainline after e3a1d70 etc.). The other 4 policies don't
+# load any connector so the patch is irrelevant.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_replay_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin/python"
+DR_FIX_SCRIPT="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+VLLM_ROOT="${VLLM_ROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm}"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+echo "=== B3 5-policy re-test ==="
+echo "Trace : $TRACE"
+echo "Out   : $OUTROOT"
+echo "Order : lmetric → load_only → sticky → unified → unified_v2 (DR-fix on)"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup_all() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup_all EXIT
+cleanup_all
+
+# Apply DR-fix once — it's env-gated so only unified_v2 (with env=1) sees it
+echo "[stage 0] applying CT_DR_FIX (env-gated, only activates when VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1)"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+run_policy() {
+    local policy="$1"
+    local skip_dr="$2"
+    local rundir="$OUTROOT/$policy"
+    mkdir -p "$rundir"
+
+    echo ""
+    echo "====== $policy ; DR_SYNC_DISABLED=$skip_dr ======"
+
+    if [ "$skip_dr" = "1" ]; then
+        export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+    else
+        unset VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC
+    fi
+
+    bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "$policy" "$TRACE" "$rundir" \
+        2>&1 | tee "$rundir/orchestrator.log" | tail -30
+    rc="${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
+    if [ "$rc" != "0" ]; then
+        echo "[FAIL] policy $policy rc=$rc"
+    fi
+    # Belt-and-braces cleanup between policies
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 10
+    return 0
+}
+
+run_policy "lmetric"    "0"
+run_policy "load_only"  "0"
+run_policy "sticky"     "0"
+run_policy "unified"    "0"
+run_policy "unified_v2" "1"  # uses Mooncake kv_both; activate DR-fix
+
+echo ""
+echo "[stage Z] reverting CT_DR_FIX"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts: $OUTROOT"
+for p in lmetric load_only sticky unified unified_v2; do
+    echo "  $p: $OUTROOT/$p/metrics.jsonl"
+done

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_nixl.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Smoke test for Nixl-based PD-sep migration (NVLink intra-node via UCX).
+#
+# Drops 2 vLLM kv_both NixlConnector instances on GPU 0,1 and runs
+# smoke_test_migrate_cache.py against them with the kv_transfer_params
+# format Nixl expects (only do_remote_decode on src; proxy must forward
+# kv_transfer_params from src's response to dst).
+#
+# Since smoke_test_migrate_cache.py is currently hard-coded for Mooncake
+# (transfer_id + remote_bootstrap_addr), we use a tiny Python in-line
+# variant here that does the Nixl response-forward handshake directly.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_nixl_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke-nixl] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] starting 2 vLLM kv_both NixlConnector on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    nixl_port=$((5600 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT=$nixl_port \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"NixlConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] waiting for health on 8000 and 8001 ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 240 ]; then
+            echo "[smoke-nixl] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] running smoke_nixl_migrate.py"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py" \
+    --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke-nixl] test exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_partial.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Smoke test for Mechanism B (partial KV transfer):
+# Start 3 vLLM kv_both Mooncake instances on GPU 0,1,2:
+#   - inst_0 = src (port 8000, bp 8998)
+#   - inst_1 = dst_warm (port 8001, bp 8999) — will be pre-warmed
+#   - inst_2 = dst_cold (port 8002, bp 9000) — control, no cache
+#
+# Then run smoke_partial_transfer.py which migrates the same prompt
+# to both warm and cold dst, comparing transfer cost.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_partial_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke-partial] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] starting 3 vLLM kv_both Mooncake on GPU 0,1,2"
+for i in 0 1 2; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] waiting for health ..."
+for port in 8000 8001 8002; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 240 ]; then echo "FATAL: $port"; exit 1; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] running smoke_partial_transfer.py"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py" \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke-partial] exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_sweep.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Single vLLM warmup, multiple smoke-test iterations under varying load.
+#
+# Each iteration uses a distinct --prefix-base to avoid prefix-cache pollution
+# from prior iterations. We sweep noise levels 0, 8, 32, 64 to see at which
+# point the migration cache becomes invisible to the follow-up.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_sweep_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[sweep] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[sweep] starting 2 vLLM kv_both on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[sweep] waiting for health ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 180 ]; then echo "[sweep] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+base=100
+for noise in 0 8 32 64 128; do
+    echo ""
+    echo "============================================"
+    echo "[sweep] iteration noise=$noise prefix_base=$base"
+    echo "============================================"
+    "$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py" \
+        --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+        --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 \
+        --noise-reqs "$noise" \
+        --prefix-base "$base" \
+        2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/iter_noise${noise}.log" | tail -25
+    base=$((base + 100000))
+done
+
+echo ""
+echo "[sweep] all iterations done; logs in $LOGS_DIR"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fast iteration: start 2 vLLM kv_both, run smoke_test_migrate_cache, tear down.
+#
+# Usage: bash run_smoke_test.sh [WAIT_BETWEEN_S]
+#
+# Iteration overhead: ~3-4 min warmup + a few sec for the test. Cleanly
+# tears everything down on exit so you can re-run repeatedly.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_test_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+# MOONCAKE_PROTOCOL controls Mooncake's C++ TransferEngine transport.
+# Options exposed: rdma (default), tcp, nvlink_intra (NVLink intra-node).
+PROTO="${MOONCAKE_PROTOCOL:-rdma}"
+echo "[smoke] using Mooncake protocol: $PROTO"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke] starting 2 vLLM kv_both on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config "{\"kv_connector\":\"MooncakeConnector\",\"kv_role\":\"kv_both\",\"kv_connector_extra_config\":{\"mooncake_protocol\":\"$PROTO\"}}" \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke] waiting for health on 8000 and 8001 ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 180 ]; then
+            echo "[smoke] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke] running migration smoke test"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py" \
+    --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+    --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke] test exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_unified_ablation.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Single-policy trace replay for unified, with tunable overload-factor.
+# Used to test direction A: does tightening affinity overflow improve unified?
+#
+# Usage:
+#   OVERLOAD_FACTOR=1.3 bash run_unified_ablation.sh
+#   OVERLOAD_FACTOR=1.0 bash run_unified_ablation.sh
+#
+# Output: $PROJ_DIR/outputs/unified_of${OF}_${DATE}/unified/
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+OF="${OVERLOAD_FACTOR:-1.3}"
+LMW="${LMETRIC_DECODE_WEIGHT:-0.0}"
+TAG_DEFAULT="of${OF/./}"
+if [ "$(printf '%s' "$LMW" | grep -v '^0\.\?0*$' || true)" != "" ]; then
+    TAG_DEFAULT="${TAG_DEFAULT}_lmw${LMW/./}"
+fi
+TAG="${TAG:-$TAG_DEFAULT}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/unified_${TAG}_${DATE}}"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+echo "=== unified ablation: overload_factor=$OF ==="
+echo "Trace : $TRACE"
+echo "Out   : $OUTROOT"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 3
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified"
+mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+export EXTRA_PROXY_ARGS="--overload-factor $OF --lmetric-decode-weight $LMW"
+
+echo ""
+echo "====== unified ; overload_factor=$OF lmetric_decode_weight=$LMW ======"
+bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "unified" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -30
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts: $OUTROOT/unified/metrics.jsonl"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_v3_dst_breakdown.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# v3 trace replay with dst-side migration breakdown instrumentation.
+#
+# Same trace + DR_FIX as `run_v3_replay.sh`, plus:
+#   - instrument_dst_migration.py applied to vLLM scheduler
+#   - DM_LOG_DIR exported to all 8 vLLM instances so per-PID
+#     dst-migration logs land in <RUNDIR>/dst_mig_log/
+#   - analyze_dst_migration.py runs on completion to print the
+#     T_kv_pull vs queue-residual decomposition
+#
+# Usage: bash run_v3_dst_breakdown.sh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_v3_dstbreak_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin/python"
+VLLM_ROOT="${VLLM_ROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm}"
+DR_FIX_SCRIPT="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+DM_INSTRUMENT="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_dst_migration.py"
+ANALYZE="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_dst_migration.py"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+DST_LOG_DIR="$OUTROOT/dst_mig_log"
+mkdir -p "$DST_LOG_DIR"
+
+echo "=== unified_v3 + dst-side migration breakdown ==="
+echo "Trace      : $TRACE"
+echo "Out        : $OUTROOT"
+echo "DST logs   : $DST_LOG_DIR"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup_all() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+    "$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTRUMENT" --revert --venv "$PROJ_DIR/.venv" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup_all EXIT
+cleanup_all
+
+echo "[stage 0a] applying CT_DR_FIX (env-gated)"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+echo "[stage 0b] applying DST migration instrumentation"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTRUMENT" --apply --venv "$PROJ_DIR/.venv"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTRUMENT" --check --venv "$PROJ_DIR/.venv"
+
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified_v3"
+mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+# Activate DR-fix env gate (consistent with run_v3_replay.sh)
+export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+# Export DM_LOG_DIR — every vLLM EngineCore inherits this env and writes
+# its own dm_mig_pid<pid>.jsonl into it.
+export DM_LOG_DIR="$DST_LOG_DIR"
+
+echo ""
+echo "====== unified_v3 ; DR_SYNC_DISABLED=1 ; DM_LOG_DIR=$DST_LOG_DIR ======"
+bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "unified_v3" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -30
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo ""
+echo "[stage Z] reverting DR_FIX + DM instrument"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTRUMENT" --revert --venv "$PROJ_DIR/.venv"
+
+echo ""
+echo "[stage analyze] dst-side migration breakdown"
+"$PYTHON" "$ANALYZE" \
+    --proxy-breakdown "$cfg_dir/breakdown.json" \
+    --dst-log-dir "$DST_LOG_DIR" \
+    --output "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.csv" \
+    --plot "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.png" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.txt"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done."
+echo "  proxy breakdown : $cfg_dir/breakdown.json"
+echo "  dst per-PID log : $DST_LOG_DIR/"
+echo "  decomposition   : $cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.{csv,png,txt}"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_v3_full_breakdown.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# v3 trace replay with FULL migration instrumentation:
+#   - instrument_dst_migration.py  : dst lifecycle -> T_kv_pull
+#   - instrument_mooncake.py        : connector internals (send_blocks RDMA,
+#                                      receive_kv window, ready_wait)
+# Goal: decompose the 87% T_kv_pull into RDMA-actual vs control-plane to
+# explain why effective bandwidth is far below the ~10 GB/s wire rate.
+#
+# Usage: bash run_v3_full_breakdown.sh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_v3_fullbreak_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin/python"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv"
+VLLM_ROOT="${VLLM_ROOT:-$VENV/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm}"
+DR_FIX="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+DM_INSTR="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_dst_migration.py"
+MC_INSTR="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_mooncake.py"
+ANALYZE_DST="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_dst_migration.py"
+ANALYZE_XFER="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/analyze_transfer_decomp.py"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+DST_LOG_DIR="$OUTROOT/dst_mig_log"
+XFER_LOG_DIR="$OUTROOT/xfer_log"
+mkdir -p "$DST_LOG_DIR" "$XFER_LOG_DIR"
+
+echo "=== unified_v3 + FULL migration breakdown ==="
+echo "Out      : $OUTROOT"
+echo "DST logs : $DST_LOG_DIR"
+echo "XFER logs: $XFER_LOG_DIR"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup_all() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX"   --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+    "$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTR" --revert --venv "$VENV" 2>/dev/null || true
+    "$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --revert --venv "$VLLM_ROOT/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup_all EXIT
+cleanup_all
+
+echo "[0a] DR_FIX"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+echo "[0b] DST migration instrument"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTR" --apply --venv "$VENV"
+echo "[0c] Mooncake transfer instrument"
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --apply --venv "$VLLM_ROOT/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTR" --check --venv "$VENV"
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --check --venv "$VLLM_ROOT/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified_v3"
+mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+export DM_LOG_DIR="$DST_LOG_DIR"
+export MB2_LOG_DIR="$XFER_LOG_DIR"
+
+echo ""
+echo "====== unified_v3 ; DM_LOG_DIR + MB2_LOG_DIR set ======"
+bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "unified_v3" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -25
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo ""
+echo "[Z] revert all instruments"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX"   --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+"$PYTHON" "$DM_INSTR" --revert --venv "$VENV"
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --revert --venv "$VLLM_ROOT/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+
+echo ""
+echo "[analyze 1] dst-side T_kv_pull breakdown"
+"$PYTHON" "$ANALYZE_DST" \
+    --proxy-breakdown "$cfg_dir/breakdown.json" \
+    --dst-log-dir "$DST_LOG_DIR" \
+    --output "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.csv" \
+    --plot "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.png" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/dst_migration_breakdown.txt" || echo "(dst analyze failed)"
+
+echo ""
+echo "[analyze 2] transfer decomposition: RDMA-actual vs control-plane"
+"$PYTHON" "$ANALYZE_XFER" \
+    --proxy-breakdown "$cfg_dir/breakdown.json" \
+    --dst-log-dir "$DST_LOG_DIR" \
+    --xfer-log-dir "$XFER_LOG_DIR" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/transfer_decomp.txt" || echo "(xfer analyze failed)"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts in $cfg_dir/"
+echo "  dst_migration_breakdown.{csv,png,txt}"
+echo "  transfer_decomp.txt"
+echo "  raw: $DST_LOG_DIR/  $XFER_LOG_DIR/"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_v3_norot_replay.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Trace replay for unified_v3 WITHOUT affinity rotation.
+#
+# This is the #2 follow-up to cache_miss_audit: prior run showed v3 with
+# rotation hits 9.5% cache on post-migration next turn vs 80.6% for unified.
+# Hypothesis: rotation destroys prefix cache locality. Test by keeping the
+# session affinity on prefill_host even after migration (i.e., the same
+# behavior as unified for the post-migration write), so only the *current*
+# turn's decode is migrated.
+#
+# Applies CT_DR_FIX (Mooncake DR sync disabled).
+# Output: $PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_v3_norot_${DATE}/unified_v3/
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_v3_norot_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin/python"
+DR_FIX_SCRIPT="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+VLLM_ROOT="${VLLM_ROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm}"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+echo "=== unified_v3 (no rotation) trace replay ==="
+echo "Trace : $TRACE"
+echo "Out   : $OUTROOT"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup_all() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup_all EXIT
+cleanup_all
+
+echo "[stage 0] applying CT_DR_FIX (env-gated)"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified_v3"
+mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+export EXTRA_PROXY_ARGS="--v3-rotate-affinity 0"
+
+echo ""
+echo "====== unified_v3 (no rotation) ; DR_SYNC_DISABLED=1 ======"
+bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "unified_v3" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -30
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo ""
+echo "[stage Z] reverting CT_DR_FIX"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts: $OUTROOT/unified_v3/metrics.jsonl"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_v3_replay.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Trace replay for the new unified_v3 (offload-decode) policy.
+#
+# Runs the same trace as run_b3_replay.sh on a single policy:
+#   unified_v3 — prefill on session-affinity host (uses prefix cache),
+#                decode migrated to a low-load target via Mooncake
+#                KV transfer (kv_role=kv_both). Session affinity rotates
+#                to decode_target after migration so next turn lands
+#                where the KV now lives.
+#
+# Applies CT_DR_FIX so the run uses the "best Mooncake state" we have
+# today (post-e3a1d70 + DR sync skipped).
+#
+# Usage: bash run_v3_replay.sh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/b3_v3_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin/python"
+DR_FIX_SCRIPT="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+VLLM_ROOT="${VLLM_ROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm}"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+echo "=== unified_v3 (offload-decode) trace replay ==="
+echo "Trace : $TRACE"
+echo "Out   : $OUTROOT"
+echo ""
+
+cleanup_all() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup_all EXIT
+cleanup_all
+
+echo "[stage 0] applying CT_DR_FIX (env-gated)"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified_v3"
+mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+# Activate the DR-fix env-gate (unified_v3 uses Mooncake kv_both)
+export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+
+echo ""
+echo "====== unified_v3 ; DR_SYNC_DISABLED=1 ======"
+bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "unified_v3" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -30
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo ""
+echo "[stage Z] reverting CT_DR_FIX"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX_SCRIPT" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts: $OUTROOT/unified_v3/metrics.jsonl"

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test for Nixl PD-sep migration.
+
+Nixl handshake (vs Mooncake's pre-baked engine_id):
+  1. POST to src with kv_transfer_params={"do_remote_decode": True},
+     max_tokens=1, stream=False.
+  2. src returns kv_transfer_params in the response body containing
+     remote_block_ids, remote_engine_id, remote_host, remote_port,
+     remote_request_id, tp_size.
+  3. POST to dst with the SAME kv_transfer_params dict.
+  4. dst pulls KV via UCX (NVLink intra-node) and decodes.
+
+Verifies migration correctness + measures KV transfer latency on Nixl
+so we can ablate vs Mooncake/RDMA on the same workload.
+"""
+import asyncio, argparse, json, sys, uuid, time
+import httpx
+import random as _r
+
+MODEL = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+
+
+async def send(client, port, prompt, max_tokens, kv_xfer, stream):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if kv_xfer is not None:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_xfer
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/v1/completions"
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    last_with_usage = None; last_any = None
+    async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        buf = ""
+        async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+            buf += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            while "\n\n" in buf:
+                line, buf = buf.split("\n\n", 1)
+                if line.startswith("data: "):
+                    s = line[6:].strip()
+                    if s == "[DONE]": continue
+                    try:
+                        d = json.loads(s); last_any = d
+                        if d.get("usage"): last_with_usage = d
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+    return last_with_usage or last_any or {}
+
+
+def short(d):
+    if not d: return "no_resp"
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    details = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    cached = details.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+    return (f"cached={cached}/{usage.get('prompt_tokens',0)} "
+            f"completion={usage.get('completion_tokens',0)}")
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--n-prefix-tokens", type=int, default=8192)
+    p.add_argument("--n-extension", type=int, default=32)
+    p.add_argument("--decode-tokens", type=int, default=16)
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-base", type=int, default=100)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    rng = _r.Random(f"prefix-{args.prefix_base}")
+    prompt = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_prefix_tokens)]
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        # ----- Step 1: src prefills with do_remote_decode=True -----
+        t_src_start = time.monotonic()
+        src_resp = await send(
+            client, args.src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+            kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": True}, stream=False,
+        )
+        t_src_done = time.monotonic()
+        src_kv = src_resp.get("kv_transfer_params")
+        print(f"[1] src prefill ({(t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000:.0f}ms): {short(src_resp)}")
+        if not src_kv:
+            print(f"    FAIL: src returned no kv_transfer_params")
+            print(f"    response keys: {list(src_resp.keys())}")
+            sys.exit(1)
+        print(f"    src kv_transfer_params keys: {list(src_kv.keys())}")
+        print(f"    remote_block_ids: {len(src_kv.get('remote_block_ids', [[]])[0]) if src_kv.get('remote_block_ids') else 0} blocks")
+
+        # ----- Step 2: dst pulls KV using forwarded kv_transfer_params -----
+        t_dst_start = time.monotonic()
+        dst_resp = await send(
+            client, args.dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=args.decode_tokens,
+            kv_xfer=src_kv, stream=True,
+        )
+        t_dst_done = time.monotonic()
+        dst_total_ms = (t_dst_done - t_dst_start) * 1000
+        n_completion = (dst_resp.get("usage") or {}).get("completion_tokens", 0)
+        print(f"[2] dst decode ({dst_total_ms:.0f}ms, {n_completion} completion tokens): {short(dst_resp)}")
+        print(f"    [TIMING] proto=nixl src_prefill={int((t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000)}ms "
+              f"dst_total={int(dst_total_ms)}ms (KV xfer + {n_completion}-token decode)")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 3: follow-up on dst (no kv_transfer_params) -----
+        ext = [_r.Random(f"ext-{args.prefix_base}").randint(1024, 99_999)
+               for _ in range(args.n_extension)]
+        follow_prompt = prompt + ext
+        fu = await send(client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+                        kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        print(f"[3] follow-up dst (cache hit test): {short(fu)}")
+
+        usage_fu = fu.get("usage") or {}
+        details_fu = usage_fu.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+        cached_fu = details_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+        expected_min = int(args.n_prefix_tokens * 0.95)
+        verdict = "PASS" if cached_fu >= expected_min else "FAIL"
+        print(f"\n=== verdict: {verdict} (follow-up cached={cached_fu}, "
+              f"expected >= {expected_min} of {args.n_prefix_tokens}) ===")
+        sys.exit(0 if verdict == "PASS" else 1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test for partial KV transfer (Mechanism B).
+
+Test if vLLM's Mooncake connector actually transfers only the
+NON-OVERLAPPING portion when dst already has prefix cache.
+
+Sequence:
+  step 0: warm dst with prompt P (cold prefill) — dst now has cache for [0, P]
+  step 1: cold prefill on src with prompt P+ext  (src now has [0, P+ext])
+  step 2: migrate src→dst with prompt P+ext
+            - dst local cache should hit [0, P]
+            - only [P, P+ext] needs to come from src (~ext tokens)
+            - dst decode should be fast
+  step 3: control: another migrate src→dst_cold with prompt P+ext
+            - dst_cold has no cache, must pull all P+ext tokens
+            - compare with step 2
+
+If step 2 is dramatically faster than step 3, partial transfer works
+and Mechanism B is viable. If step 2 ~= step 3, partial transfer isn't
+being exploited and we need to dig deeper.
+"""
+import asyncio, argparse, json, sys, uuid, time
+import httpx
+import random as _r
+
+MODEL = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+
+
+async def send(client, port, prompt, max_tokens, kv_xfer, stream):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if kv_xfer is not None:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_xfer
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/v1/completions"
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    last_w = None; last_any = None
+    async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        buf = ""
+        async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+            buf += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            while "\n\n" in buf:
+                line, buf = buf.split("\n\n", 1)
+                if line.startswith("data: "):
+                    s = line[6:].strip()
+                    if s == "[DONE]": continue
+                    try:
+                        d = json.loads(s); last_any = d
+                        if d.get("usage"): last_w = d
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+    return last_w or last_any or {}
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client, bp):
+    r = await client.get(f"http://127.0.0.1:{bp}/query")
+    return r.json()["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+def cached_of(d):
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    det = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    return det.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+
+
+async def do_migration(client, src_port, dst_port, src_bp, prompt, max_tokens, label):
+    """Perform Mooncake-style PD-sep migration, returns (src_ms, dst_ms, response)."""
+    src_id = await get_engine_id(client, src_bp)
+    transfer_id = f"smoke-xfer-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
+    t0 = time.monotonic()
+    src_resp = await send(client, src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+                          kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": True, "do_remote_prefill": False,
+                                   "transfer_id": transfer_id}, stream=False)
+    t1 = time.monotonic()
+    bootstrap_addr = f"http://127.0.0.1:{src_bp}"
+    dst_resp = await send(client, dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=max_tokens,
+                          kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": False, "do_remote_prefill": True,
+                                   "remote_bootstrap_addr": bootstrap_addr,
+                                   "remote_engine_id": src_id,
+                                   "transfer_id": transfer_id}, stream=True)
+    t2 = time.monotonic()
+    src_ms = int((t1-t0)*1000); dst_ms = int((t2-t1)*1000)
+    cached = cached_of(dst_resp)
+    print(f"  [{label}] src_prefill={src_ms}ms  dst_total={dst_ms}ms  cached={cached}/{len(prompt)}")
+    return src_ms, dst_ms, dst_resp
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-warm-port", type=int, default=8001)  # will be pre-warmed
+    p.add_argument("--dst-warm-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-cold-port", type=int, default=8002)  # cold control
+    p.add_argument("--dst-cold-bp", type=int, default=9000)
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-tokens", type=int, default=32768)
+    p.add_argument("--ext-tokens", type=int, default=512)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    rng = _r.Random("partial-1")
+    prompt_base = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.prefix_tokens)]
+    ext_tokens = [_r.Random("ext-partial").randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.ext_tokens)]
+    prompt_ext = prompt_base + ext_tokens
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        print(f"\n=== Setup ===")
+        print(f"Prompt prefix: {args.prefix_tokens} tokens, extension: {args.ext_tokens} tokens")
+
+        # Step 0: warm dst_warm with prompt_base (normal request, no kv_transfer)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 0: warm dst_warm (port {args.dst_warm_port}) with prompt_base ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.dst_warm_port, prompt_base, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  cold prefill on dst_warm: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{args.prefix_tokens}")
+
+        # Sanity: 2nd request to dst_warm hits local cache
+        print(f"\n=== Sanity: 2nd request to dst_warm with same prompt — should hit local cache ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.dst_warm_port, prompt_base, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  warm request on dst_warm: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{args.prefix_tokens}")
+
+        # Step 1: cold prefill on src with prompt_ext (also caches at src)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 1: cold prefill on src (port {args.src_port}) with prompt_ext ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.src_port, prompt_ext, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  cold prefill on src: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{len(prompt_ext)}")
+
+        # Step 2: MIGRATE src -> dst_warm (which has cache for prompt_base)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 2: MIGRATE src -> dst_warm (cache-rich) with prompt_ext ===")
+        s_ms_warm, d_ms_warm, _ = await do_migration(
+            client, args.src_port, args.dst_warm_port, args.src_bp,
+            prompt_ext, max_tokens=4, label="cache-rich dst")
+
+        # Step 3: MIGRATE src -> dst_cold (no cache)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 3: MIGRATE src -> dst_cold (port {args.dst_cold_port}, cold) with prompt_ext ===")
+        s_ms_cold, d_ms_cold, _ = await do_migration(
+            client, args.src_port, args.dst_cold_port, args.src_bp,
+            prompt_ext, max_tokens=4, label="cold dst (control)")
+
+        # Verdict
+        print(f"\n=== VERDICT ===")
+        print(f"Cache-rich dst (Mechanism B):  dst_total={d_ms_warm}ms")
+        print(f"Cold dst (full transfer):      dst_total={d_ms_cold}ms")
+        speedup = (d_ms_cold - d_ms_warm) / d_ms_cold * 100 if d_ms_cold > 0 else 0
+        print(f"Δ = {d_ms_cold - d_ms_warm}ms ({speedup:+.1f}% faster with cache-rich dst)")
+        print(f"Partial transfer {'WORKING' if speedup > 30 else 'NOT working / not exploited'}.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())

microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test: does remote-prefill on dst leave its prefix cache discoverable
+to a follow-up turn on the same instance?
+
+Reproducer for the v3 rotation bug observed in unified_v3 (next-turn at
+decode_target sees cached_tokens=0 despite migration's `cache_blocks`
+supposedly running).
+
+Expects 2 vLLM instances running on 127.0.0.1:8000 and 8001 with
+--kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}'
+and Mooncake bootstrap servers on 8998 and 8999.
+
+Run flow:
+  1. Query both bootstrap servers for engine_ids.
+  2. Send migration: src=8000 do_remote_decode (max_tokens=1), then
+     dst=8001 do_remote_prefill (pulls KV via Mooncake) with same prompt.
+  3. Send follow-up: same session prompt + tiny extension, hit 8001
+     directly (no kv_transfer_params), check cached_tokens.
+
+A working migration with prefix-cache visibility would see ~100% cached
+on the follow-up (full prefix hit). The v3 bug shows cached=0.
+"""
+import asyncio
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+import uuid
+import httpx
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client: httpx.AsyncClient, port: int) -> str:
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/query"
+    r = await client.get(url)
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    data = r.json()
+    # data = {"0": {"engine_id": "..."}, ...}
+    return data["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+async def send_completion(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient,
+    host_port: int,
+    prompt: list[int],
+    max_tokens: int,
+    kv_transfer_params: dict | None = None,
+    stream: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    payload = {
+        "model": "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct",
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    if kv_transfer_params:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_transfer_params
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{host_port}/v1/completions"
+
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    else:
+        # Stream and collect chunks; keep the LAST chunk that contains
+        # `usage` (with include_usage, the very last data: chunk has it).
+        last_with_usage = None
+        last_any = None
+        async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+            resp.raise_for_status()
+            buffer = ""
+            async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+                buffer += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+                while "\n\n" in buffer:
+                    line, buffer = buffer.split("\n\n", 1)
+                    if line.startswith("data: "):
+                        data_str = line[6:].strip()
+                        if data_str == "[DONE]":
+                            continue
+                        try:
+                            d = json.loads(data_str)
+                            last_any = d
+                            if d.get("usage"):
+                                last_with_usage = d
+                        except Exception:
+                            pass
+        return last_with_usage or last_any or {}
+
+
+def short(d: dict) -> str:
+    """Pull cached_tokens out of the response usage section."""
+    if not d:
+        return "no_resp"
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    details = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    cached = details.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+    return (
+        f"cached={cached}/{usage.get('prompt_tokens', 0)} "
+        f"completion={usage.get('completion_tokens', 0)} "
+        f"id={d.get('id', '?')[:24]}"
+    )
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--n-prefix-tokens", type=int, default=8192,
+                   help="Length of synthetic prompt prefix (tokens)")
+    p.add_argument("--n-extension", type=int, default=32,
+                   help="Tokens added in the follow-up request")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-reqs", type=int, default=0,
+                   help="Number of unrelated requests to send to dst between "
+                        "migration and follow-up (eviction-pressure test)")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-tokens", type=int, default=16384,
+                   help="Tokens per noise request")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-parallel", type=int, default=4,
+                   help="How many noise requests in parallel")
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-base", type=int, default=100,
+                   help="Token-id base for the prompt prefix (use distinct value "
+                        "across iterations to avoid prefix-cache pollution).")
+    p.add_argument("--decode-tokens", type=int, default=16,
+                   help="max_tokens on dst decode request")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        src_id = await get_engine_id(client, args.src_bp)
+        dst_id = await get_engine_id(client, args.dst_bp)
+        print(f"src engine_id = {src_id}")
+        print(f"dst engine_id = {dst_id}")
+        print()
+
+        # Build a deterministic prompt: a long enough token sequence to be
+        # multiple blocks. Use simple range to avoid tokenizer dependence.
+        # Build deterministic prompt using values in safe vocab range [1024, 100000)
+        # so high prefix-base values don't overflow the tokenizer vocab.
+        import random as _r
+        rng = _r.Random(f"prefix-{args.prefix_base}")
+        prompt = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_prefix_tokens)]
+
+        # ----- Step 1: Migration. src does prefill (max_tokens=1, no stream),
+        # then dst pulls KV and decodes. -----
+        transfer_id = f"smoke-xfer-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
+        print(f"[1] migration: transfer_id={transfer_id}")
+
+        # First: cold-prefill on src (no Mooncake yet, just establish src has the KV)
+        # The proxy convention: src sees do_remote_decode=True so it will SEND its KV
+        # via Mooncake later. We do this as a single-shot.
+        import time as _t
+        t_src_start = _t.monotonic()
+        src_resp_task = asyncio.create_task(
+            send_completion(
+                client, args.src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+                kv_transfer_params={
+                    "do_remote_decode": True,
+                    "do_remote_prefill": False,
+                    "transfer_id": transfer_id,
+                },
+                stream=False,
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Slight stagger: dst needs to be ready to pull. In production the
+        # proxy waits for src to finish before sending dst. We'll do the
+        # same — await src then send dst.
+        src_resp = await src_resp_task
+        t_src_done = _t.monotonic()
+        print(f"    src prefill resp ({(t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000:.0f}ms): {short(src_resp)}")
+
+        bootstrap_addr = f"http://127.0.0.1:{args.src_bp}"
+        t_dst_start = _t.monotonic()
+        dst_resp = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=args.decode_tokens,
+            kv_transfer_params={
+                "do_remote_decode": False,
+                "do_remote_prefill": True,
+                "remote_bootstrap_addr": bootstrap_addr,
+                "remote_engine_id": src_id,
+                "transfer_id": transfer_id,
+            },
+            stream=True,
+        )
+        t_dst_done = _t.monotonic()
+        # dst time = KV transfer + decode of N tokens. Subtract approx decode time
+        # to isolate transfer cost.
+        usage_d = dst_resp.get("usage") or {}
+        n_completion = usage_d.get("completion_tokens", 0)
+        dst_total_ms = (t_dst_done - t_dst_start) * 1000
+        print(f"    dst decode resp ({dst_total_ms:.0f}ms, {n_completion} completion tokens): {short(dst_resp)}")
+        print(f"    [TIMING] proto={args.n_prefix_tokens}p src_prefill={int((t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000)}ms "
+              f"dst_total={int(dst_total_ms)}ms (KV xfer + {n_completion}-token decode)")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 1.5: Noise. Send unrelated requests to dst to test eviction. -----
+        if args.noise_reqs > 0:
+            print(f"[1.5] sending {args.noise_reqs} noise requests "
+                  f"(tokens={args.noise_tokens}, parallel={args.noise_parallel}) to dst")
+            async def noise(idx):
+                rng_n = _r.Random(f"noise-{args.prefix_base}-{idx}")
+                p_n = [rng_n.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.noise_tokens)]
+                return await send_completion(
+                    client, args.dst_port, p_n, max_tokens=1,
+                    kv_transfer_params=None, stream=False,
+                )
+            sem = asyncio.Semaphore(args.noise_parallel)
+            async def gated(idx):
+                async with sem:
+                    return await noise(idx)
+            results = await asyncio.gather(*[gated(i) for i in range(args.noise_reqs)])
+            done = sum(1 for r in results if r and r.get("usage"))
+            print(f"    noise: {done}/{args.noise_reqs} completed")
+            print()
+
+        # ----- Step 2: Follow-up. Same session, extended prompt, hit dst directly. -----
+        rng_ext = _r.Random(f"ext-{args.prefix_base}")
+        follow_prompt = prompt + [rng_ext.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_extension)]
+        print(f"[2] follow-up direct to dst (no kv_transfer_params): "
+              f"prefix_len={args.n_prefix_tokens}, extended_len={len(follow_prompt)}")
+        fu = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+            kv_transfer_params=None,
+            stream=False,
+        )
+        print(f"    follow-up resp: {short(fu)}")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 3: Same prompt twice on dst (sanity) -----
+        print(f"[3] sanity: same prompt again to dst (should see local hit "
+              f"from step 2's just-cached blocks)")
+        sanity = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+            kv_transfer_params=None,
+            stream=False,
+        )
+        print(f"    sanity resp: {short(sanity)}")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Verdict -----
+        usage_fu = fu.get("usage") or {}
+        details_fu = usage_fu.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+        cached_fu = details_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+        # Expect ~n_prefix_tokens (minus the last token + alignment)
+        expected_min = int(args.n_prefix_tokens * 0.95)
+        verdict = "PASS" if cached_fu >= expected_min else "FAIL"
+        print(f"=== verdict: {verdict} (follow-up cached={cached_fu}, "
+              f"expected >= {expected_min} of {args.n_prefix_tokens}) ===")
+        sys.exit(0 if verdict == "PASS" else 1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/DESIGN.md

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+# Layer-wise KV transfer on Mooncake — exploration
+
+Goal: make vLLM's `MooncakeConnector` push KV **per-layer during prefill**
+(write mode) instead of the current **post-hoc full-request transfer**, then
+microbench correctness + whether it hides the transfer behind prefill compute
+(the thing MoRIIO's write mode does on AMD; no NVIDIA connector ships it).
+
+Everything here is isolated in worktree `worktree-mooncake-layerwise`. The
+dash0 venv connector is backed up at `mooncake_connector.py.ORIG_BACKUP`;
+revert = copy the backup back. Opt-in via env `MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=1`, so with
+the env unset the connector behaves exactly as upstream.
+
+## Baseline flow (post-hoc, what we have)
+
+1. Proxy: prefill on src (`do_remote_decode`, max_tokens=1) → **await done** →
+   decode on dst (`do_remote_prefill`) which pulls.
+2. dst `start_load_kv`→`receive_kv` sends ZMQ `MooncakeXferMetadata` (its block
+   addrs) to src bootstrap.
+3. src `send_kv_to_decode`: waits `send_meta.ready` (set at `request_finished`,
+   i.e. **after full prefill**) → `_build_transfer_params` (all layers) →
+   `_send_blocks` (one big `batch_transfer_sync_write`) → FINISH response.
+
+Measured: this full transfer is on the critical path, runs at ~3 GB/s under
+load (vs ~10 GB/s idle), dominating migration TTFT.
+
+## Layer-wise flow (write mode, this exploration)
+
+Key idea: keep all RDMA + completion on the `sender_loop` thread (clean), but
+issue **one `batch_transfer_sync_write` per layer**, each fired as soon as that
+layer's KV is computed — so writes overlap the remaining prefill compute.
+
+Signaling: `save_kv_layer(layer_name, ...)` (called by vLLM's attention hook
+after each layer's forward, on the main worker thread) records "layer L
+computed" and wakes the sender_loop. `send_kv_to_decode` loops L=0..N-1,
+waits until L is computed, writes layer L's blocks, then sends FINISH.
+
+### Edits to `mooncake_connector.py` (all gated by `_lw_enabled`)
+
+1. **Worker `__init__`**: `_lw_enabled` (env), layer-name→position map,
+   `_lw_computed: dict[transfer_id,int]`, `_lw_active: set[transfer_id]`,
+   wake event, lock.
+2. **`register_kv_caches`**: build `_lw_layer_pos[layer_name]` (0..N-1) and
+   `_lw_addr_idx[pos]` = indices into `kv_caches_base_addr` (×2 if
+   `split_k_and_v`).
+3. **Scheduler `update_state_after_alloc`** (`do_remote_decode` branch): in
+   layer-wise mode capture `blocks.get_block_ids()[0]` and store non-empty in
+   `_reqs_need_send` so the worker learns local block_ids + sets `ready`
+   **before** prefill finishes.
+4. **Worker `note_layer_computed(layer_name)`** (new) called from
+   `MooncakeConnector.save_kv_layer`: bump `_lw_computed[tid]` for active
+   producers, `call_soon_threadsafe(wake.set)`.
+5. **Worker `send_kv_to_decode`**: in layer-wise mode, mark transfer active,
+   loop layers: await `_lw_computed[tid] >= L`, `_send_blocks` for layer L
+   only (subset of `_build_transfer_params`), then send FINISH.
+6. **Worker `_build_layer_transfer_params`** (new): like
+   `_build_transfer_params` but only the addr indices for one layer position.
+
+### Microbench requirements
+
+- Disable chunked prefill (`--max-num-batched-tokens` ≥ prompt) so prefill is a
+  single forward and `save_kv_layer` fires once per layer in order.
+- Dispatch the dst (`do_remote_prefill`) request **first/concurrently** so the
+  ZMQ handshake reaches src during prefill.
+- Correctness: dst follow-up `cached_tokens == prompt_len` (KV landed),
+  identical to baseline.
+- Perf: src prefill wall-clock (does layer-wise slow it?) and dst TTFT (does
+  transfer leave the critical path?), swept over KV size, vs baseline.
+
+## Status
+
+- [x] worktree + connector backup + design
+- [x] modified connector (LAYERWISE.py, +193/-4 lines, env-gated)
+- [x] correctness microbench (mb7_layerwise.py) + launcher (run_mb7.sh)
+- [x] correctness run on dash0 — PASS (KV lands; cached == prompt)
+- [x] perf run + verdict — POSITIVE (transfer hidden behind prefill)
+
+## Results (2-instance, idle, chunked-prefill off, Qwen3-30B-A3B, 48 layers)
+
+Metric: `overhead = total − prefill_only` = the transfer cost left on the
+critical path (TTFT). Baseline = post-hoc full pull (sequential).
+
+| KV size | baseline overhead | **layerwise overhead** | reduction |
+|--------:|------------------:|-----------------------:|----------:|
+| 8192 (0.75 GiB)  | 123 ms | **58 ms** | 2.1× |
+| 16384 (1.5 GiB)  | 202 ms | **58 ms** | 3.5× |
+| 32768 (3.0 GiB)  | 529 ms | **57 ms** | 9.3× |
+
+Key signatures:
+- **Layerwise overhead is ~constant (~58 ms)** regardless of KV size, while
+  baseline grows O(KV size). The 58 ms is handshake + last-layer tail + 1
+  decode; the bulk transfer is hidden behind prefill compute.
+- **Prefill did NOT slow down**: layerwise `t_A` (575/1495/4440 ms) ==
+  `prefill_only` (574/1492/4440 ms). The concurrent RDMA was "free" on idle
+  GPUs — no measurable HBM contention with prefill compute here.
+- Producer logs confirm the transfer itself took 0.39/0.55/4.37 s (grows with
+  size) yet ran *inside* the prefill window, so it left the critical path.
+- **Correctness PASS**: B's follow-up cached == prompt for all sizes; the
+  48-layer / 96-base-addr (split K&V) per-layer addressing is correct.
+
+## Caveats (why this is a proof-of-concept, not a verdict for production)
+
+1. **Idle instances only.** Real migration happens between *busy* instances.
+   Under load both prefill and transfer slow; transfer (even at ~3 GB/s) is
+   still < prefill for big contexts so it should still hide, but receive-side
+   (B) and HBM contention during prefill are untested here. NEXT: rerun with
+   background load on both A and B.
+2. **Chunked prefill disabled.** The monotonic layer counter assumes one
+   forward, layers in order. Production uses chunked prefill (multi-step),
+   which needs per-(chunk,layer) tracking — not implemented.
+3. **Single concurrent producer transfer.** Global counter; real migration is
+   concurrent. Would need per-transfer state.
+4. **Microbench dispatch.** mb7 fires B then A with a 50 ms head start to get
+   the handshake to A before its forward. The real proxy path
+   (`_handle_combined_pd_sep_v2`) dispatches sequentially and would need the
+   write-mode (concurrent) restructure.
+
+## Results under LOAD (bg=16 background decode streams, 8 per instance)
+
+Critical-path transfer overhead (ms), `total − prefill_only`:
+
+| KV size | idle base | idle LW | **load base** | **load LW** |
+|--------:|----------:|--------:|--------------:|------------:|
+| 8k  | 123 | 58 | 158 | **94** |
+| 16k | 202 | 58 | 239 | **83** |
+| 32k | 529 | 57 | **749** | **95** |
+
+The overlap **survives load**: layerwise overhead stays ~constant (~90 ms)
+under load while baseline grows to 749 ms at 32k (7.9× reduction). Prefill did
+not slow (load LW `t_A` == load `prefill_only`); the transfer (0.56/1.46/4.37 s,
+producer logs) ran inside the prefill window even with 16 concurrent decodes.
+Correctness PASS under load.
+
+## FULL 1200-req v3 TRACE re-profile (chunk-safe + concurrent + write-mode)
+
+Hardened connector (per-step incremental shipping, per-transfer state) +
+write-mode proxy (concurrent prefill/decode dispatch). Two passes of
+`w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl` under `unified_v3`, differing only in transfer mode.
+
+Correctness: layer-wise **1213/1214 success** (1 connection-error on the 128k
+req, not KV corruption); byte-level KV correctness validated on mb7
+(chunked + 3-way concurrent, `cached==prompt`); producer logs confirm
+incremental shipping (e.g. `shipped 7872/7872 blocks`).
+
+Migration sets differ between runs (write-mode timing shifts which requests
+trigger migration; only 4 migrated in both), but are distributionally
+comparable (median new_local/input ≈ 0.42 vs 0.46). **Matched migrations
+all improved**, scaling with the transfer hidden behind prefill:
+
+| request | input | new_local | base TTFT | LW TTFT | Δ |
+|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|
+| 1268630 | 102k | 97k | 41.20 | 33.96 | **−7.23s** |
+| 1334223 | 37k | 14k | 6.04 | 3.23 | −2.81s |
+| 1279412 | 40k | 8k | 5.50 | 2.92 | −2.58s |
+| 1271459 | 8.9k | 8.9k | 37.01 | 36.98 | −0.03s (queue-bound) |
+
+Trace-level TTFT (different sets, directional): overall p90 9.79→9.16 (−6%),
+p99 44.89→42.85 (−5%). **Modest** because (a) migrations are only 25/1214 ≈
+**2%** of requests, and (b) several migrations are queue/contention-bound, not
+transfer-bound — layer-wise removes the transfer component but not the
+control-plane/queue residual (the ~45% from the b3_v3_fullbreak profile).
+
+**Verdict on the trace re-profile:** layer-wise does exactly what the profile
+predicted — it removes the transfer half of migration overhead (matched
+migrations −2.6 to −7.2s, biggest where there's the most prefill to hide
+behind), but the trace-level gain is small because migrations are rare and
+partly queue-bound. It does NOT, on its own, flip migration to a clear win
+over unified for this agentic workload.
+
+## Verdict (microbench)
+
+The mechanism **works and the benefit holds under load**: layer-wise push turns
+migration's KV-transfer cost from O(KV size) on the critical path into a
+near-constant ~90 ms tail, by overlapping it with prefill compute — what
+MoRIIO's write mode does on AMD, now demonstrated on NVIDIA/Mooncake.
+
+**BUT this is single-transfer, non-chunked.** Running the actual 1200-req trace
+correctly needs two more pieces this PoC does NOT have:
+1. **Chunk-safe tracking** — long agentic prompts force chunked prefill;
+   `save_kv_layer` then fires per-chunk and the monotonic counter would ship
+   uncomputed blocks. Needs slot-mapping-aware per-(request,chunk) tracking.
+2. **Concurrent-transfer safety** — the global counter assumes one producer at
+   a time; the trace migrates from busy instances running other forwards.
+
+Also: even with those fixed, layer-wise only removes the **transfer half** of
+the measured migration overhead. The b3_v3_fullbreak profile showed dst-side
+`T_kv_pull` = ~55% RDMA + ~45% control-plane GIL-dispatch stalls; layer-wise
+hides the RDMA half but the control-plane half is orthogonal. So a trace
+re-profile would show roughly the transfer half collapse, not the whole thing.

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/ES_ABLATION_RESULTS.md

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+# Engine-state ablation: real-time state vs router shadow counters
+
+**Question.** The router (`cache_aware_proxy`) routes on **shadow counters** it
+maintains itself (incremented at dispatch, reconciled to vLLM `/metrics` only
+every 30 s → stale). Does feeding it **real** per-engine state (running/waiting,
+KV-used, pending-prefill, `max_prefill_remaining`) change routing decisions,
+performance, or the policy ranking?
+
+**Setup.** dash1, 8×H20 (TP=1), Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, trace
+`w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl` (1214 reqs / 274 sessions). Each policy run as a
+matched pair: `es0` (shadow only) vs `es1` (real-state feed via
+`file:///dev/shm/...`, published ~50 ms by a scheduler daemon thread, read by
+the proxy via `eff_* = max(shadow, real)`). Only the state source differs.
+Driver: `run_full_ablation.sh`; per-cell freshness via `fresh_sampler.py`;
+comparison via `cmp_es.py`.
+
+## Result — real-time state is NOT the routing lever
+
+It reshuffles 44–76% of routing decisions but **never beats the champion**;
+the cache-affinity champion (`unified+A+B`, es0 p90 **7.62 s**) stays best.
+
+| Policy | how it uses load | inst/session | reroute % | TTFT p90 es0→es1 | mean es0→es1 | verdict |
+|---|---|--:|--:|--:|--:|---|
+| `sticky` | **once at session birth, then pinned** | 1.00 | 44.5% | 13.42 → **9.95 (−26%)** | 4.13→3.65 | **HELPS** |
+| `unified+A+B` | per-req, affinity-dominated | 1.22 | 76.4% | 7.62 → 7.76 (+1.8%) | 3.20→3.24 | wash |
+| `v3_AB_lw` | per-req, affinity-dom + migration | ~1.2 | 71.7% | 9.35 → 9.49 (+1.5%) | 3.34→3.58 | wash* |
+| `unified_kv_both` | per-req, affinity-dom (same picker) | ~1.2 | 73.6% | 6.45 → 9.28 (+44%) | 3.07→3.49 | worse† |
+| `lmetric` | per-req, load×batch | 2.04 | 73.4% | 15.63 → 18.23 (+16.6%) | 5.18→5.80 | HURTS |
+| `load_only` | per-req, pure load | 2.22 | 72.7% | 21.79 → 27.69 (+27%) | 6.65→8.42 | HURTS |
+
+\* v3 real-state migration targeting backfired: migrations 26→32, migrated-req
+mean TTFT 11.99→18.45 s (+54%). Real state does not rescue migration.
+† same picker as `unified`; the 1.8%-vs-44% spread is run-variance (single
+pairs) in which reshuffled routes hit hotspots — sign is consistently ≥ neutral.
+
+## Mechanism — the sign is set by reactivity, not "affinity vs not"
+
+- **One-shot placement (`sticky`) → HELPS.** `pick_instance_sticky` is *not* a
+  stateless hash: the first turn picks `min(eff_num_requests())` (load), then
+  `affinity[session]` pins it for all later turns. State enters at exactly one
+  decision per session; real load → better placement that compounds across the
+  session, locality preserved, no per-request oscillation.
+- **Per-request, affinity-dominated (`unified`/`v3`/`kv_both`) → wash-to-worse.**
+  The hybrid picker mostly obeys affinity; only the ~12% fallback fraction
+  consults load. Net 0…+44%, never helps.
+- **Per-request, pure load (`lmetric`/`load_only`) → HURTS, monotonic in
+  load-purity.** Routing on *instantaneous* load induces **herding** (everyone
+  piles onto whatever momentarily looks idle → transient overload → tail
+  inflation); the stale shadow counter was inadvertently a **dampener**.
+
+## Why the result is trustworthy (not a stale-feed artifact)
+The feed was fresh on every es1 cell: age median **25 ms**, **≤92 ms even
+during 100k-token prefills**, <0.5 % of samples >2 s stale (and those not
+during prefills → reader drops them → shadow fallback). The feared GIL-
+starvation of the publisher during big prefills did **not** materialize.
+
+## Implications
+1. Don't invest in real-time state for per-request routing — it never wins and
+   degrades load-driven policies up to +27 %.
+2. The cache-affinity champion is robust to state source; A+B+RaceFix already
+   handled the staleness that mattered.
+3. **Design insight:** the only place ground-truth state helps is **one-shot
+   session placement** (decide well once on real load, then commit) — not
+   per-request load polling.
+4. All prior shadow-state results stand; the router's approximate state was
+   never the bottleneck. Workload skew + affinity discipline are.
+
+## Reproduce
+```bash
+# per-cell: same proxy, ES=0 (shadow) vs ES=1 (real); see run_v3_trace.sh
+MODE=baseline POLICY=unified AB_FLAGS="--overload-factor 1.3 --lmetric-decode-weight 0.01" \
+  ES=1 TAG=unified_AB_es1 bash run_v3_trace.sh
+# full sweep (waits for the champion es1 marker, then runs the rest):
+bash run_full_ablation.sh
+# compare a pair:
+python cmp_es.py <es0_dir>/unified_v3 <es1_dir>/unified_v3 abl_<tag>_es1.freshness.jsonl
+```

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/P2_ENGINE_STATE.md

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+# P2: real engine-state feed for migration target selection
+
+Problem: the router (`cache_aware_proxy.py`) decides migration targets from
+**shadow counters** it maintains itself (incremented at dispatch, decremented
+at completion) and reconciles to vLLM `/metrics` only every **30 s**
+(`_reconcile_loop`). So every routing/migration decision is on stale state.
+Worse, the signal that predicts the ~45% control-plane stall — *is the target
+mid-large-prefill?* (a big prefill holds the GIL and starves the mooncake
+receiver_loop) — isn't visible at all, and `/metrics` doesn't expose it either.
+
+Fix: vLLM publishes **real** per-engine state to a shared store ~20 Hz; the
+router reads ground truth and avoids GIL-stall / capacity-wall targets.
+
+## Components (all unit-tested without GPUs)
+
+- `engine_state.py` — canonical `compute_snapshot(scheduler, id)`, `StateWriter`,
+  `StateReader`. Schema per engine: `ts, num_running, num_waiting,
+  gpu_blocks_total/free, gpu_kv_used_frac, pending_prefill_tokens,
+  ongoing_decode_tokens, num_prefilling, max_prefill_remaining`.
+- `instrument_engine_state.py` — vLLM `Scheduler` patch (apply/revert markers
+  `ES_INSTRUMENT_*`): a daemon thread publishes the snapshot every
+  `AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_PERIOD_MS` (50 ms) off the forward hot path. Inlined
+  writer (engine process needs no repo import). Coexists with MB5.
+- `migration_target.py` — pure target scorer: avoid `max_prefill_remaining ≥
+  es_big_prefill_threshold` (GIL stall) and `gpu_kv_used_frac ≥ es_kv_wall_frac`
+  (capacity wall), then rank by cache-richness and **real** load.
+- `cache_aware_proxy.WRITEMODE.py` — wired: `InstanceState.real_state`,
+  `_engine_state_poll_loop` (instance i ← `engine_{i}`), `_real_load`/Gate-3 and
+  Mechanism-B now real-state-aware. `--engine-state-uri` flag; off ⇒ identical
+  to before (shadow only).
+
+Transport (`AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_URI` / `--engine-state-uri`):
+`file:///dev/shm/agentic_engine_state` (default, zero-dep, single-node) or
+`redis://host:port/0` (multi-node; needs redis-py + server — not installed on
+dash0, so file backend is the working default).
+
+## Tests (no GPU)
+- `compute_snapshot` field math (mock scheduler): running/waiting,
+  max_prefill_remaining, pending, decode, kv_used_frac.
+- writer→reader round-trip + staleness drop (file backend).
+- target scorer: 5 cases incl. *avoid GIL-stall target even when its shadow
+  load is lower*, *real load beats stale shadow*, *cache-rich wins*,
+  *avoid KV wall*, *graceful fallback when feed missing*.
+- end-to-end: publish 8 engines (one mid-130k-prefill) → proxy inlined reader →
+  target selection avoids it.
+
+## Enabling in a GPU run (when free)
+1. `instrument_engine_state.py --apply` on the dash0 venv.
+2. `export AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_URI=file:///dev/shm/agentic_engine_state`
+   before the launcher (vLLM instances inherit it; `AGENTIC_WORKER_ID=engine_{i}`
+   already set by `b3_isolated_policy.sh` → publishes as `engine_{i}`).
+3. Proxy: `EXTRA_PROXY_ARGS="--engine-state-uri file:///dev/shm/agentic_engine_state ..."`.
+4. Revert the patch + `rm -rf /dev/shm/agentic_engine_state` after.
+
+## ALL policies now read the real state (update)
+`InstanceState` exposes effective accessors used by **every** picker:
+`eff_num_requests / eff_pending_prefill / eff_ongoing_decode /
+eff_ongoing_tokens` = `max(shadow, real)` when the feed is fresh (real fixes
+the 30s-stale under-count; shadow's atomic pre-await reservation still covers
+the in-flight window, preserving the RaceFix), plus real-only
+`r_max_prefill_remaining / r_kv_used_frac`. Wired into: `load_only`, `lmetric`,
+`sticky`, `pick_instance` (legacy), `pick_instance_unified_hybrid`
+(unified / unified_kv_both), `pick_instance_unified_v3` (gate + Mechanism B),
+and `snapshot_workers` (logged scores now match the decision + real fields).
+Feed off ⇒ `real_state is None` ⇒ accessors return shadow ⇒ byte-identical to
+before. (legacy `unified_v2` left on shadow — retired, not in the ablation.)
+
+## Ablation (when GPU free)
+`run_v3_trace.sh` gains `ES=1` (apply engine-state patch + feed + proxy flag)
+and always deploys the enhanced proxy (dormant when feed/write-mode off).
+`run_ablation_es.sh` runs each config twice (ES=0 vs ES=1) so the only
+difference is the state source. Default decisive set (4 runs): champion
+`unified+A+B` and `unified_v3+A+B+layerwise`, each ES0/ES1. Extend CONFIGS for
+`lmetric` / `unified_kv_both` / `load_only`. Compares per-policy TTFT
+(overall + migrated) and whether the **ranking** changes with ground-truth
+state.
+
+## Status / scope
+- Built + unit-tested (snapshot, round-trip, target scorer, eff_ accessors,
+  end-to-end publish→read→select); NOT yet run against live engines (GPU busy).
+- TP=1 only (one EngineCore/instance → one publisher/engine_id). TP>1 needs
+  per-rank ids.

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/cmp_es.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Compare an es0 (shadow) vs es1 (real-state) run: TTFT, decision split,
+routing flips, load distribution. Optional 3rd arg = es1 freshness jsonl."""
+import json, sys, statistics, os
+
+def load(d):
+    ms = {}
+    for l in open(os.path.join(d, "metrics.jsonl")):
+        m = json.loads(l); ms[m["request_id"]] = m
+    bd = {x["request_id"]: x for x in json.load(open(os.path.join(d, "breakdown.json")))}
+    return ms, bd
+
+def pct(xs, q):
+    xs = sorted(xs)
+    return xs[min(len(xs) - 1, int(q * len(xs)))] if xs else 0
+
+def chosen(x):
+    return x.get("routed_to", x.get("chosen_idx"))
+
+d0, d1 = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
+m0, b0 = load(d0); m1, b1 = load(d1)
+
+def ttfts(ms):
+    return [m["ttft_s"] for m in ms.values() if not m.get("error") and m.get("ttft_s") is not None]
+
+print("=== overall TTFT ===")
+for tag, ms in [("es0/shadow", m0), ("es1/real ", m1)]:
+    t = ttfts(ms)
+    print(f"{tag}: {len(t)}/{len(ms)} ok  p50={pct(t,.5):.2f} p90={pct(t,.9):.2f} "
+          f"p99={pct(t,.99):.2f} max={max(t):.2f} mean={statistics.mean(t):.2f}")
+
+def byclass(ms, bd):
+    cls = {}
+    for rid, m in ms.items():
+        if m.get("error") or m.get("ttft_s") is None: continue
+        dec = bd.get(rid, {}).get("decision", "?")
+        cls.setdefault(dec, []).append(m["ttft_s"])
+    return cls
+
+print("\n=== decision split (n / p90 / p99) ===")
+for tag, ms, bd in [("es0", m0, b0), ("es1", m1, b1)]:
+    print(f"  [{tag}]")
+    for dec, ts in sorted(byclass(ms, bd).items()):
+        print(f"    {dec:18s} n={len(ts):4d} p90={pct(ts,.9):7.2f} p99={pct(ts,.99):7.2f}")
+
+common = set(b0) & set(b1)
+flips = [r for r in common if chosen(b0[r]) != chosen(b1[r])]
+decflip = [r for r in common if b0[r].get("decision") != b1[r].get("decision")]
+print(f"\n=== routing changes (common reqs={len(common)}) ===")
+print(f"  instance flips    : {len(flips)} ({100*len(flips)/max(1,len(common)):.1f}%)")
+print(f"  decision-type flips: {len(decflip)} ({100*len(decflip)/max(1,len(common)):.1f}%)")
+
+# TTFT of flipped vs non-flipped (es1 side)
+fl_t = [m1[r]["ttft_s"] for r in flips if not m1[r].get("error") and m1[r].get("ttft_s") is not None]
+if fl_t:
+    print(f"  flipped reqs es1 TTFT: p50={pct(fl_t,.5):.2f} p90={pct(fl_t,.9):.2f} mean={statistics.mean(fl_t):.2f}")
+
+def dist(bd):
+    d = {}
+    for x in bd.values():
+        d[chosen(x)] = d.get(chosen(x), 0) + 1
+    return dict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda kv: str(kv[0])))
+print("\n=== per-instance request count ===")
+print("  es0:", dist(b0))
+print("  es1:", dist(b1))
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 3 and os.path.exists(sys.argv[3]):
+    rows = [json.loads(l) for l in open(sys.argv[3]) if l.strip()]
+    ages = [r["age_s"] for r in rows]
+    busy = [r["age_s"] for r in rows if (r.get("num_prefilling") or 0) > 0]
+    print(f"\n=== es1 feed freshness (full run, n={len(ages)}) ===")
+    if ages:
+        print(f"  age_s med={statistics.median(ages):.3f} p90={pct(ages,.9):.3f} max={max(ages):.3f} "
+              f"stale>2s={sum(1 for a in ages if a>2)}")
+    if busy:
+        print(f"  during-prefill n={len(busy)} med={statistics.median(busy):.3f} max={max(busy):.3f}")

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/engine_state.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Engine-state store: canonical snapshot + writer/reader, shared schema.
+
+The vLLM scheduler patch (instrument_engine_state.py) inlines a faithful copy
+of `compute_snapshot` + the file/redis writer (engine process needs no repo
+import). The router (cache_aware_proxy) imports `StateReader` here to read the
+real per-engine state instead of its stale shadow counters.
+
+Schema (one record per engine, key = engine_id):
+  ts, engine_id, num_running, num_waiting, gpu_blocks_total, gpu_blocks_free,
+  gpu_kv_used_frac, pending_prefill_tokens, ongoing_decode_tokens,
+  num_prefilling, max_prefill_remaining
+
+Transport URIs:
+  file:///dev/shm/agentic_engine_state   (default; atomic temp+rename)
+  redis://host:port/0                      (optional; needs redis-py)
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import time
+
+
+def compute_snapshot(scheduler, engine_id: str) -> dict:
+    """Cheap O(batch) read of routing-relevant real state from a live
+    vLLM V1 Scheduler (duck-typed for testability)."""
+    try:
+        pool = scheduler.kv_cache_manager.block_pool
+        total = int(pool.num_gpu_blocks)
+        free = int(pool.get_num_free_blocks())
+    except Exception:
+        total = free = -1
+    n_run = pend = dec = n_pref = max_pref = 0
+    try:
+        for r in scheduler.running:
+            n_run += 1
+            npr = int(getattr(r, "num_prompt_tokens", 0))
+            nct = int(getattr(r, "num_computed_tokens", 0))
+            if nct < npr:
+                rem = npr - nct
+                pend += rem
+                n_pref += 1
+                max_pref = max(max_pref, rem)
+            else:
+                dec += int(getattr(r, "num_tokens", 0))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    n_wait = 0
+    try:
+        n_wait = len(scheduler.waiting) + len(getattr(scheduler, "skipped_waiting", []))
+        for r in list(scheduler.waiting):
+            pend += max(0, int(getattr(r, "num_prompt_tokens", 0))
+                        - int(getattr(r, "num_computed_tokens", 0)))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    used = ((total - free) / total) if (total and total > 0) else -1.0
+    return {
+        "ts": time.time(),
+        "engine_id": engine_id,
+        "num_running": n_run,
+        "num_waiting": int(n_wait),
+        "gpu_blocks_total": total,
+        "gpu_blocks_free": free,
+        "gpu_kv_used_frac": used,
+        "pending_prefill_tokens": int(pend),
+        "ongoing_decode_tokens": int(dec),
+        "num_prefilling": n_pref,
+        "max_prefill_remaining": int(max_pref),
+    }
+
+
+class StateWriter:
+    def __init__(self, uri: str, engine_id: str):
+        self.engine_id = engine_id
+        self.kind = None
+        if uri.startswith("file://"):
+            self.kind = "file"
+            self.dir = uri[len("file://"):]
+            os.makedirs(self.dir, exist_ok=True)
+            self.path = os.path.join(self.dir, f"{engine_id}.json")
+            self.tmp = self.path + f".tmp.{os.getpid()}"
+        elif uri.startswith("redis://"):
+            self.kind = "redis"
+            import redis
+            self.r = redis.Redis.from_url(uri)
+            self.key = f"engine_state:{engine_id}"
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"unsupported engine-state URI: {uri}")
+
+    def publish(self, state: dict):
+        if self.kind == "file":
+            with open(self.tmp, "w") as f:
+                f.write(json.dumps(state))
+            os.replace(self.tmp, self.path)
+        elif self.kind == "redis":
+            self.r.set(self.key, json.dumps(state), ex=5)
+
+
+class StateReader:
+    """Router-side reader. read_all() returns {engine_id: state}, dropping
+    records older than max_age_s (so a dead/hung engine is ignored)."""
+    def __init__(self, uri: str, max_age_s: float = 2.0):
+        self.uri = uri
+        self.max_age_s = max_age_s
+        self.kind = None
+        if uri.startswith("file://"):
+            self.kind = "file"
+            self.dir = uri[len("file://"):]
+        elif uri.startswith("redis://"):
+            self.kind = "redis"
+            import redis
+            self.r = redis.Redis.from_url(uri)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"unsupported engine-state URI: {uri}")
+
+    def read_all(self) -> dict[str, dict]:
+        now = time.time()
+        out: dict[str, dict] = {}
+        try:
+            if self.kind == "file":
+                import glob
+                for p in glob.glob(os.path.join(self.dir, "*.json")):
+                    try:
+                        s = json.load(open(p))
+                    except Exception:
+                        continue
+                    if now - s.get("ts", 0) <= self.max_age_s:
+                        out[s.get("engine_id", os.path.basename(p)[:-5])] = s
+            elif self.kind == "redis":
+                for k in self.r.scan_iter("engine_state:*"):
+                    v = self.r.get(k)
+                    if not v:
+                        continue
+                    s = json.loads(v)
+                    if now - s.get("ts", 0) <= self.max_age_s:
+                        out[s.get("engine_id")] = s
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        return out

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/fresh_sampler.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Sample engine-state feed freshness during the es1 run.
+Writes one jsonl record per engine per tick: age_s = now - state.ts.
+Stops when the DONE marker appears (run finished + /dev/shm wiped) or after 90min.
+"""
+import json, os, time, sys, glob
+
+esdir, outpath, donemarker = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]
+deadline = time.time() + 90 * 60
+with open(outpath, "a") as out:
+    while not os.path.exists(donemarker) and time.time() < deadline:
+        now = time.time()
+        if os.path.isdir(esdir):
+            for f in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(esdir, "engine_*.json"))):
+                try:
+                    s = json.load(open(f))
+                    rec = {
+                        "now": round(now, 3),
+                        "engine": os.path.basename(f)[:-5],
+                        "age_s": round(now - s.get("ts", 0), 4),
+                        "num_running": s.get("num_running"),
+                        "num_prefilling": s.get("num_prefilling"),
+                        "max_prefill_remaining": s.get("max_prefill_remaining"),
+                        "kv_used": s.get("gpu_kv_used_frac"),
+                    }
+                    out.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+            out.flush()
+        time.sleep(5)

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/instrument_engine_state.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Patch vLLM V1 scheduler to publish REAL engine state to a shared store,
+so the global router reads ground truth instead of its own stale shadow
+counters (reconciled only every 30s).
+
+Published per engine (key = AGENTIC_ENGINE_ID), throttled ~20 Hz from a
+daemon thread (off the forward hot path):
+
+  {ts, num_running, num_waiting, gpu_blocks_total, gpu_blocks_free,
+   gpu_kv_used_frac, pending_prefill_tokens, ongoing_decode_tokens,
+   num_prefilling, max_prefill_remaining}
+
+`max_prefill_remaining` is the key signal /metrics does NOT expose: the
+largest in-progress prefill on the engine. A big in-progress prefill holds
+the GIL and stalls the mooncake receiver_loop — so the router should avoid
+migrating KV to such an instance (P2).
+
+Transport (env AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_URI):
+  file:///dev/shm/agentic_engine_state   (default; atomic temp+rename)
+  redis://host:port/0                      (optional; needs redis-py + server)
+
+Self-contained (inlined writer) so the engine process needs no repo import.
+Apply/revert markers: # ES_INSTRUMENT_START / # ES_INSTRUMENT_END.
+
+Usage:
+  python instrument_engine_state.py --apply  [--venv PATH]
+  python instrument_engine_state.py --revert [--venv PATH]
+  python instrument_engine_state.py --check  [--venv PATH]
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+DEFAULT_VENV = Path("/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv/.venv")
+TARGET_REL = "lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py"
+START = "# ES_INSTRUMENT_START"
+END = "# ES_INSTRUMENT_END"
+
+# ---- Patch 1: header (writer + publisher thread), before class Scheduler ----
+HEADER_ANCHOR = "class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):"
+HEADER = f'''{START}
+import json as _es_json
+import os as _es_os
+import threading as _es_threading
+import time as _es_time
+
+_ES_URI = _es_os.environ.get("AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_URI", "")
+_ES_ID = _es_os.environ.get("AGENTIC_ENGINE_ID") or _es_os.environ.get(
+    "AGENTIC_WORKER_ID", f"engine_{{_es_os.getpid()}}")
+_ES_PERIOD_S = float(_es_os.environ.get("AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_PERIOD_MS", "50")) / 1000.0
+
+
+class _ESWriter:
+    """Pluggable state writer: file:// (atomic temp+rename) or redis://."""
+    def __init__(self, uri: str, engine_id: str):
+        self.engine_id = engine_id
+        self.kind = None
+        if uri.startswith("file://"):
+            self.kind = "file"
+            self.dir = uri[len("file://"):]
+            _es_os.makedirs(self.dir, exist_ok=True)
+            self.path = _es_os.path.join(self.dir, f"{{engine_id}}.json")
+            self.tmp = self.path + f".tmp.{{_es_os.getpid()}}"
+        elif uri.startswith("redis://"):
+            self.kind = "redis"
+            import redis  # lazy
+            self.r = redis.Redis.from_url(uri)
+            self.key = f"engine_state:{{engine_id}}"
+
+    def publish(self, state: dict):
+        try:
+            if self.kind == "file":
+                with open(self.tmp, "w") as f:
+                    f.write(_es_json.dumps(state))
+                _es_os.replace(self.tmp, self.path)  # atomic
+            elif self.kind == "redis":
+                self.r.set(self.key, _es_json.dumps(state), ex=5)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+
+def _es_compute_snapshot(scheduler) -> dict:
+    """Cheap O(batch) state read from the live scheduler."""
+    try:
+        kvm = scheduler.kv_cache_manager
+        pool = kvm.block_pool
+        total = int(pool.num_gpu_blocks)
+        free = int(pool.get_num_free_blocks())
+    except Exception:
+        total = free = -1
+    n_run = 0
+    pend = 0
+    dec = 0
+    n_pref = 0
+    max_pref = 0
+    try:
+        for r in scheduler.running:
+            n_run += 1
+            npr = int(getattr(r, "num_prompt_tokens", 0))
+            nct = int(getattr(r, "num_computed_tokens", 0))
+            if nct < npr:  # still prefilling
+                rem = npr - nct
+                pend += rem
+                n_pref += 1
+                if rem > max_pref:
+                    max_pref = rem
+            else:  # decoding
+                dec += int(getattr(r, "num_tokens", 0))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    n_wait = 0
+    try:
+        n_wait = len(scheduler.waiting) + len(getattr(scheduler, "skipped_waiting", []))
+        for r in list(scheduler.waiting):
+            pend += max(0, int(getattr(r, "num_prompt_tokens", 0))
+                        - int(getattr(r, "num_computed_tokens", 0)))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    used_frac = ((total - free) / total) if (total and total > 0) else -1.0
+    return {{
+        "ts": _es_time.time(),
+        "engine_id": _ES_ID,
+        "num_running": n_run,
+        "num_waiting": int(n_wait),
+        "gpu_blocks_total": total,
+        "gpu_blocks_free": free,
+        "gpu_kv_used_frac": used_frac,
+        "pending_prefill_tokens": int(pend),
+        "ongoing_decode_tokens": int(dec),
+        "num_prefilling": n_pref,
+        "max_prefill_remaining": int(max_pref),
+    }}
+
+
+class _ESPublisher:
+    def __init__(self, scheduler):
+        self._sched = scheduler
+        self._writer = _ESWriter(_ES_URI, _ES_ID)
+        self._stop = _es_threading.Event()
+        self._t = _es_threading.Thread(target=self._loop, daemon=True)
+        self._t.start()
+
+    def _loop(self):
+        while not self._stop.is_set():
+            try:
+                self._writer.publish(_es_compute_snapshot(self._sched))
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            _es_time.sleep(_ES_PERIOD_S)
+{END}
+
+
+'''
+
+# ---- Patch 2: start the publisher at the end of Scheduler.__init__ ----------
+# Anchor on the existing agentic step-log block tail in __init__.
+INIT_ANCHOR = """        _step_path = _os.environ.get("AGENTIC_STEP_LOG_PATH")"""
+INIT_INSERT = f"""        {START}
+        if _ES_URI:
+            try:
+                self._es_publisher = _ESPublisher(self)
+                logger.info("agentic engine-state publisher: uri=%s id=%s",
+                            _ES_URI, _ES_ID)
+            except Exception as _e:
+                logger.warning("engine-state publisher disabled (%r)", _e)
+        {END}
+        _step_path = _os.environ.get("AGENTIC_STEP_LOG_PATH")"""
+
+PATCHES = [
+    ("header", HEADER_ANCHOR, HEADER + HEADER_ANCHOR),
+    ("init", INIT_ANCHOR, INIT_INSERT),
+]
+
+
+def find_target(venv: Path) -> Path:
+    for c in (venv / TARGET_REL, DEFAULT_VENV / TARGET_REL):
+        if c.is_file():
+            return c
+    raise FileNotFoundError(f"cannot find {TARGET_REL} under {venv}")
+
+
+def is_patched(t: str) -> bool:
+    return START in t
+
+
+def apply(target: Path):
+    text = target.read_text()
+    if is_patched(text):
+        print(f"[es-instr] already patched: {target}")
+        return
+    new = text
+    for name, src, dst in PATCHES:
+        if src not in new:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"patch {name!r}: anchor not found in {target}")
+        new = new.replace(src, dst, 1)
+    target.write_text(new)
+    print(f"[es-instr] applied {len(PATCHES)} patches -> {target}")
+
+
+def revert(target: Path):
+    text = target.read_text()
+    if not is_patched(text):
+        print(f"[es-instr] not patched: {target}")
+        return
+    pat = re.compile(r"[ \t]*" + re.escape(START) + r".*?" + re.escape(END) + r"\n",
+                     flags=re.DOTALL)
+    new = pat.sub("", text)
+    new = re.sub(r"\n{3,}class Scheduler\(", "\n\nclass Scheduler(", new)
+    target.write_text(new)
+    print(f"[es-instr] reverted: {target}")
+
+
+def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--apply", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--revert", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--check", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--venv", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_VENV)
+    a = p.parse_args()
+    t = find_target(a.venv)
+    if a.apply:
+        apply(t)
+    elif a.revert:
+        revert(t)
+    elif a.check:
+        print(f"[es-instr] {'PATCHED' if is_patched(t.read_text()) else 'CLEAN'}: {t}")
+    else:
+        p.error("specify --apply/--revert/--check")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/mb7_layerwise.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""MB7: correctness + perf of layer-wise KV push vs post-hoc transfer.
+
+Two 2-instance modes against A (src/producer) and B (dst/consumer):
+
+  baseline  : prefill A (await) -> THEN B pulls (post-hoc full transfer).
+              T_total = T_prefill + T_xfer  (sequential)
+  layerwise : dispatch B's remote-prefill (handshake) and A's prefill
+              CONCURRENTLY, so A pushes each layer as it computes it.
+              If overlap works, T_total ~= max(T_prefill, T_xfer) ~= T_prefill.
+
+Reference: T_prefill_only = a plain prefill on A with no transfer.
+
+Correctness: after the transfer, a plain follow-up to B on the same prompt
+must report cached_tokens >= ~prompt_len (the KV actually landed on B).
+
+The connector mode is selected by the launcher (run_mb7.sh): baseline uses the
+stock connector; layerwise deploys mooncake_connector.LAYERWISE.py +
+MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=1. This script just drives the requests and measures.
+
+Usage:
+  python mb7_layerwise.py --mode layerwise --sizes 8192,32768,65536 --repeats 3 \
+      --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 --out mb7.json
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import json
+import statistics
+import time
+import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import httpx
+
+MODEL = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+KV_PER_TOK = 98304
+
+
+def synth_prompt(seed: int, n: int) -> list[int]:
+    import random
+    rng = random.Random(seed)
+    return [rng.randint(100, 150000) for _ in range(n)]
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client, host, bp):
+    r = await client.get(f"http://{host}:{bp}/query")
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    return r.json()["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+async def completion(client, host, port, prompt, max_tokens, ktp=None):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL, "prompt": prompt, "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0, "stream": False,
+    }
+    if ktp:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = ktp
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    r = await client.post(f"http://{host}:{port}/v1/completions",
+                          json=payload, timeout=600.0)
+    dt = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    return dt, r.json()
+
+
+def cached_of(resp) -> int:
+    usage = resp.get("usage") or {}
+    det = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    return det.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0) or 0
+
+
+async def _stream_completion(client, host, port, prompt, max_tokens):
+    payload = {"model": MODEL, "prompt": prompt, "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+               "min_tokens": 1, "temperature": 0.0, "stream": True}
+    async with client.stream("POST", f"http://{host}:{port}/v1/completions",
+                             json=payload, timeout=600.0) as r:
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        async for _ in r.aiter_bytes():
+            pass
+
+
+class BackgroundLoad:
+    """Hold N concurrent long-decode streams across endpoints to keep busy."""
+    def __init__(self, client, endpoints, n, prompt_tokens=2000, out_tokens=6000):
+        self.client, self.endpoints, self.n = client, endpoints, n
+        self.pt, self.ot = prompt_tokens, out_tokens
+        self._stop = asyncio.Event()
+        self._tasks = []
+
+    async def _w(self, idx):
+        host, port = self.endpoints[idx % len(self.endpoints)]
+        seed = 800000 + idx
+        while not self._stop.is_set():
+            try:
+                await _stream_completion(self.client, host, port,
+                                         synth_prompt(seed, self.pt), self.ot)
+            except Exception:
+                await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
+            seed += 1
+
+    def start(self):
+        self._tasks = [asyncio.create_task(self._w(i)) for i in range(self.n)]
+
+    async def stop(self):
+        self._stop.set()
+        for t in self._tasks:
+            t.cancel()
+        await asyncio.gather(*self._tasks, return_exceptions=True)
+
+
+async def num_running(client, host, port):
+    try:
+        r = await client.get(f"http://{host}:{port}/metrics", timeout=5.0)
+        for line in r.text.splitlines():
+            if line.startswith("vllm:num_requests_running"):
+                return int(float(line.split()[-1]))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return -1
+
+
+async def prefill_only(client, host, port, prompt):
+    """Reference: plain prefill cost on A, no transfer."""
+    dt, _ = await completion(client, host, port, prompt, max_tokens=1)
+    return dt
+
+
+async def measure_baseline(client, A, B, src_eid, src_bp_addr, prompt, seed):
+    tid = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    t_pf, _ = await completion(client, *A, prompt, 1,
+                               ktp={"do_remote_decode": True, "transfer_id": tid})
+    t_xfer, _ = await completion(client, *B, prompt, 1,
+                                 ktp={"do_remote_prefill": True, "transfer_id": tid,
+                                      "remote_engine_id": src_eid,
+                                      "remote_bootstrap_addr": src_bp_addr})
+    t_total = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    # correctness: B follow-up should hit cache
+    _, fr = await completion(client, *B, prompt, 1)
+    return {"t_prefill_s": t_pf, "t_xfer_s": t_xfer, "t_total_s": t_total,
+            "cached": cached_of(fr)}
+
+
+async def measure_layerwise(client, A, B, src_eid, src_bp_addr, prompt, seed):
+    """Dispatch B handshake + A prefill concurrently => layer-wise overlap."""
+    tid = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    async def run_B():
+        return await completion(client, *B, prompt, 1,
+                                ktp={"do_remote_prefill": True, "transfer_id": tid,
+                                     "remote_engine_id": src_eid,
+                                     "remote_bootstrap_addr": src_bp_addr})
+
+    async def run_A():
+        # small head start for B's handshake to reach A before A's forward
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.05)
+        return await completion(client, *A, prompt, 1,
+                                ktp={"do_remote_decode": True, "transfer_id": tid})
+
+    b_task = asyncio.create_task(run_B())
+    a_task = asyncio.create_task(run_A())
+    (t_b, _), (t_a, _) = await asyncio.gather(b_task, a_task)
+    t_total = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    _, fr = await completion(client, *B, prompt, 1)
+    return {"t_A_s": t_a, "t_B_s": t_b, "t_total_s": t_total,
+            "cached": cached_of(fr)}
+
+
+async def main_async(a):
+    sizes = [int(s) for s in a.sizes.split(",")]
+    A = (a.src_host, a.src_port)
+    B = (a.dst_host, a.dst_port)
+    limits = httpx.Limits(max_connections=64, max_keepalive_connections=64)
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(limits=limits, trust_env=False) as client:
+        src_eid = await get_engine_id(client, a.src_host, a.src_bp)
+        src_bp_addr = f"http://{a.src_host}:{a.src_bp}"
+        print(f"[mb7] mode={a.mode} bg_load={a.bg_load} src_eid={src_eid[:16]}...")
+
+        loader = None
+        if a.bg_load > 0:
+            loader = BackgroundLoad(client, [A, B], a.bg_load)
+            loader.start()
+            print(f"[mb7] ramping background load ({a.bg_load}) ...")
+            for _ in range(40):
+                await asyncio.sleep(1.0)
+                na = await num_running(client, *A)
+                nb = await num_running(client, *B)
+                if na >= 1 and nb >= 1:
+                    print(f"[mb7] busy: A_run={na} B_run={nb}")
+                    break
+
+        # --- concurrent correctness mode: fire N transfers at once ----------
+        if a.concurrent > 1 and a.mode == "layerwise":
+            print(f"[mb7] CONCURRENT correctness: {a.concurrent} simultaneous "
+                  f"transfers per size (src=A stresses concurrent producing)")
+            all_ok = True
+            for sz in sizes:
+                tasks = [
+                    asyncio.create_task(measure_layerwise(
+                        client, A, B, src_eid, src_bp_addr,
+                        synth_prompt(sz * 1000 + j, sz), sz * 1000 + j))
+                    for j in range(a.concurrent)
+                ]
+                rows = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+                oks = [r["cached"] >= int(sz * 0.9) for r in rows]
+                all_ok = all_ok and all(oks)
+                print(f"  sz={sz:>6} x{a.concurrent}: cached="
+                      f"{[r['cached'] for r in rows]} correct={oks}")
+            print(f"[mb7] CONCURRENT correctness: "
+                  f"{'ALL PASS' if all_ok else 'FAILURE'}")
+            if loader:
+                await loader.stop()
+            return
+
+        results = []
+        for sz in sizes:
+            for rep in range(a.repeats):
+                prompt = synth_prompt(sz * 100 + rep, sz)
+                # reference prefill-only cost (fresh prompt, different seed so no cache)
+                t_pf_only = await prefill_only(
+                    client, *A, synth_prompt(sz * 100 + rep + 555, sz))
+                if a.mode == "baseline":
+                    row = await measure_baseline(client, A, B, src_eid, src_bp_addr,
+                                                 prompt, sz * 100 + rep)
+                else:
+                    row = await measure_layerwise(client, A, B, src_eid, src_bp_addr,
+                                                  prompt, sz * 100 + rep)
+                row.update({"mode": a.mode, "size": sz, "rep": rep,
+                            "t_prefill_only_s": t_pf_only,
+                            "kv_gib": sz * KV_PER_TOK / 2**30,
+                            "correct": row["cached"] >= int(sz * 0.9)})
+                results.append(row)
+                extra = (f"xfer={row.get('t_xfer_s', 0)*1000:.0f}ms"
+                         if a.mode == "baseline"
+                         else f"tA={row.get('t_A_s',0)*1000:.0f}ms tB={row.get('t_B_s',0)*1000:.0f}ms")
+                print(f"  sz={sz:>6} rep={rep} pf_only={t_pf_only*1000:6.0f}ms "
+                      f"total={row['t_total_s']*1000:7.0f}ms {extra} "
+                      f"cached={row['cached']}/{sz} correct={row['correct']}")
+
+        if loader:
+            await loader.stop()
+
+    # summary
+    print(f"\n=== {a.mode} (bg={a.bg_load}) summary ===")
+    print(f"{'size':>7} {'n':>2} {'pf_only_ms':>11} {'total_ms':>9} "
+          f"{'overhead_ms':>12} {'correct':>8}")
+    summary = []
+    for sz in sizes:
+        rs = [r for r in results if r["size"] == sz]
+        if not rs:
+            continue
+        pf = statistics.median(r["t_prefill_only_s"] for r in rs) * 1000
+        tot = statistics.median(r["t_total_s"] for r in rs) * 1000
+        allok = all(r["correct"] for r in rs)
+        # overhead = total - prefill_only = the part NOT hidden behind prefill
+        overhead = tot - pf
+        summary.append({"size": sz, "n": len(rs), "pf_only_ms": pf,
+                        "total_ms": tot, "overhead_ms": overhead,
+                        "all_correct": allok})
+        print(f"{sz:>7} {len(rs):>2} {pf:>11.0f} {tot:>9.0f} {overhead:>12.0f} "
+              f"{str(allok):>8}")
+
+    Path(a.out).write_text(json.dumps(
+        {"mode": a.mode, "model": MODEL, "raw": results, "summary": summary}, indent=2))
+    print(f"\n[mb7] wrote {a.out}")
+
+
+def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--mode", choices=["baseline", "layerwise"], required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--src-host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    p.add_argument("--dst-host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--sizes", default="8192,32768,65536")
+    p.add_argument("--repeats", type=int, default=3)
+    p.add_argument("--bg-load", type=int, default=0,
+                   help="N concurrent background decode streams across A+B")
+    p.add_argument("--concurrent", type=int, default=1,
+                   help="layerwise: fire N simultaneous transfers to test "
+                        "concurrent-producing correctness")
+    p.add_argument("--out", default="mb7_result.json")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+    asyncio.run(main_async(args))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/migration_target.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""P2: real-state-aware migration target selection.
+
+Pure helpers (no proxy deps) so they're unit-testable. The router calls
+`rank_migration_targets` to pick the decode target, using REAL engine state
+(from the engine-state store) when available, falling back to shadow counters.
+
+Key fix over the shadow-only Mechanism B: deprioritise targets that are
+mid-large-prefill (`max_prefill_remaining` high) — those hold the GIL and
+stall the mooncake receiver_loop, which is the ~45% control-plane residual
+that layer-wise transfer does NOT fix. Also avoid targets near the KV
+capacity wall (`gpu_kv_used_frac` high).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TargetCandidate:
+    idx: int
+    cache_hit: int                 # estimated transfer bytes saved (tokens)
+    shadow_num_req: int            # proxy shadow counter (fallback)
+    ongoing_tokens: int            # shadow tertiary
+    real_state: dict | None = None # engine-state record, or None if stale/missing
+
+
+def real_load(c: TargetCandidate) -> float:
+    """Effective load: prefer real (running + waiting); else shadow."""
+    rs = c.real_state
+    if rs is not None:
+        return float(rs.get("num_running", 0) + rs.get("num_waiting", 0))
+    return float(c.shadow_num_req)
+
+
+def big_prefill_remaining(c: TargetCandidate) -> int:
+    """Largest in-progress prefill on the candidate (GIL-stall predictor).
+    0 when unknown (no real state) so we don't over-penalise blind."""
+    rs = c.real_state
+    return int(rs.get("max_prefill_remaining", 0)) if rs is not None else 0
+
+
+def kv_used_frac(c: TargetCandidate) -> float:
+    rs = c.real_state
+    if rs is not None:
+        f = rs.get("gpu_kv_used_frac", -1.0)
+        return float(f) if f is not None and f >= 0 else 0.0
+    return 0.0
+
+
+def target_sort_key(
+    c: TargetCandidate,
+    big_prefill_threshold: int = 16000,
+    kv_wall_frac: float = 0.90,
+):
+    """Sort key (lower = better). Ordering of concerns:
+      1. NOT mid-large-prefill (avoid the GIL-stall dst)         [bool]
+      2. NOT near the KV capacity wall                            [bool]
+      3. most cache-rich  (fewest transfer bytes)  -> -cache_hit
+      4. lowest real load
+      5. lowest ongoing_tokens (shadow tertiary tie-break)
+    """
+    stalls = 1 if big_prefill_remaining(c) >= big_prefill_threshold else 0
+    near_wall = 1 if kv_used_frac(c) >= kv_wall_frac else 0
+    return (stalls, near_wall, -c.cache_hit, real_load(c), c.ongoing_tokens)
+
+
+def rank_migration_targets(
+    candidates: list[TargetCandidate],
+    big_prefill_threshold: int = 16000,
+    kv_wall_frac: float = 0.90,
+) -> TargetCandidate | None:
+    """Return the best candidate, or None if the list is empty."""
+    if not candidates:
+        return None
+    return min(
+        candidates,
+        key=lambda c: target_sort_key(c, big_prefill_threshold, kv_wall_frac),
+    )

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/results/mb7_baseline.json

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microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/results/mb7_baseline_bg16.json

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microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/results/mb7_layerwise.json

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microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/results/mb7_layerwise_bg16.json

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microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_ab_matrix.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# A/B x migration matrix on the 1200-req trace (sequential, ~47 min each).
+#   1. unified           (no A/B, no migration)            anchor
+#   2. unified + A+B      (documented champion, no mig)
+#   3. unified_v3 + A+B + layer-wise (champion + cheap mig)
+# We already have: unified_v3 + layer-wise (no A/B) from the prior run.
+#
+# Q1 (migration benefit w/ layer-wise): #1 vs prior v3+layerwise(noAB)
+# Q2 (does migration add to champion):  #2 vs #3
+set -uo pipefail
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+R="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_v3_trace.sh"
+AB="--overload-factor 1.3 --lmetric-decode-weight 0.01"
+LOGD=/tmp/dst_break_logs; mkdir -p "$LOGD"
+
+echo "########## 1/3 unified plain ##########"
+TAG=unified_plain POLICY=unified MODE=baseline AB_FLAGS="" \
+    bash "$R" 2>&1 | tee "$LOGD/abmatrix_1_unified_plain.log" | tail -6
+
+echo "########## 2/3 unified + A+B ##########"
+TAG=unified_AB POLICY=unified MODE=baseline AB_FLAGS="$AB" \
+    bash "$R" 2>&1 | tee "$LOGD/abmatrix_2_unified_AB.log" | tail -6
+
+echo "########## 3/3 unified_v3 + A+B + layer-wise ##########"
+TAG=v3_AB_lw POLICY=unified_v3 MODE=layerwise AB_FLAGS="$AB" \
+    bash "$R" 2>&1 | tee "$LOGD/abmatrix_3_v3_AB_lw.log" | tail -6
+
+echo "########## MATRIX DONE ##########"
+for t in unified_plain unified_AB v3_AB_lw; do
+    D=$(ls -dt "$PROJ_DIR"/outputs/v3trace_${t}_*/unified_v3 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+    echo "=== $t ($D) ==="
+    sed -n '/\[stats\]/,/\[done\]/p' "$LOGD"/abmatrix_*_${t}.log 2>/dev/null | grep -E "requests:|TTFT|migrations:" || true
+done

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_ablation_es.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Ablation: does the REAL engine-state feed (P2) change each policy's
+# performance and ranking vs the stale-shadow baseline?
+#
+# Each config is run twice (ES=0 shadow-only, ES=1 real-state feed) so the
+# ONLY difference is the state source. Sequential, ~47 min each.
+#
+# Default = the 4 decisive runs (champion + migration, with/without feed).
+# Extend CONFIGS for the full sweep (lmetric / unified_kv_both / load_only).
+set -uo pipefail
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+R="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_v3_trace.sh"
+AB="--overload-factor 1.3 --lmetric-decode-weight 0.01"
+LOGD=/tmp/dst_break_logs; mkdir -p "$LOGD"
+
+# CONFIG format: "TAG|POLICY|MODE|AB?|ES"
+CONFIGS=(
+  "unified_AB_es0|unified|baseline|AB|0"
+  "unified_AB_es1|unified|baseline|AB|1"
+  "v3_AB_lw_es0|unified_v3|layerwise|AB|0"
+  "v3_AB_lw_es1|unified_v3|layerwise|AB|1"
+  # --- extend for the full sweep ---
+  # "lmetric_es0|lmetric|baseline|noAB|0"
+  # "lmetric_es1|lmetric|baseline|noAB|1"
+  # "ukvboth_AB_es0|unified_kv_both|baseline|AB|0"
+  # "ukvboth_AB_es1|unified_kv_both|baseline|AB|1"
+)
+
+for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
+  IFS='|' read -r tag policy mode ab es <<< "$cfg"
+  ab_flags=""; [ "$ab" = "AB" ] && ab_flags="$AB"
+  echo "########## $tag (policy=$policy mode=$mode ab=$ab es=$es) ##########"
+  TAG="$tag" POLICY="$policy" MODE="$mode" AB_FLAGS="$ab_flags" ES="$es" \
+      bash "$R" 2>&1 | tee "$LOGD/abl_${tag}.log" | tail -6
+done
+
+echo "########## ABLATION DONE — summary ##########"
+for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
+  IFS='|' read -r tag _ _ _ _ <<< "$cfg"
+  echo "=== $tag ==="
+  grep -E "requests:|TTFT|migrations:" "$LOGD/abl_${tag}.log" 2>/dev/null || true
+done

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_full_ablation.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Full engine-state ablation sweep on dash1 (sequential; shared-venv patch
+# can't be parallelized). Waits for the in-flight champion es1 to finish, then
+# runs the remaining policies as matched es0/es1 pairs. Each es1 cell gets a
+# freshness sampler (age_s = now - state.ts) written to cpfs.
+#
+# Champion: es0 already done (v3trace_unified_AB_es0_20260528_1633),
+#           es1 in flight (launch_es1.sh) -> reused, not re-run here.
+set -uo pipefail
+PROJ=/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv
+LWDIR=$PROJ/microbench/connector_tax/layerwise
+R=$LWDIR/run_v3_trace.sh
+SAMPLER=$LWDIR/fresh_sampler.py
+PY=$PROJ/.venv/bin/python
+AB="--overload-factor 1.3 --lmetric-decode-weight 0.01"
+PROG=$PROJ/outputs/abl_full.progress
+MASTERDONE=$PROJ/outputs/abl_full.done
+rm -f "$MASTERDONE"
+
+echo "[driver] $(date) waiting for champion es1 (abl_unified_AB_es1.done) ..." >> "$PROG"
+while [ ! -f "$PROJ/outputs/abl_unified_AB_es1.done" ]; do sleep 30; done
+echo "[driver] $(date) champion es1 done -> starting sweep" >> "$PROG"
+
+# TAG | POLICY | MODE | AB(yes=AB) | ES
+CONFIGS=(
+ "lmetric_es0|lmetric|baseline||0"
+ "lmetric_es1|lmetric|baseline||1"
+ "load_only_es0|load_only|baseline||0"
+ "load_only_es1|load_only|baseline||1"
+ "sticky_es0|sticky|baseline||0"
+ "sticky_es1|sticky|baseline||1"
+ "v3_AB_lw_es0|unified_v3|layerwise|AB|0"
+ "v3_AB_lw_es1|unified_v3|layerwise|AB|1"
+ "ukvboth_AB_es0|unified_kv_both|baseline|AB|0"
+ "ukvboth_AB_es1|unified_kv_both|baseline|AB|1"
+)
+
+for cfg in "${CONFIGS[@]}"; do
+  IFS='|' read -r tag policy mode ab es <<< "$cfg"
+  abf=""; [ "$ab" = "AB" ] && abf="$AB"
+  esdir=/dev/shm/agentic_engine_state_${tag}
+  fresh=$PROJ/outputs/abl_${tag}.freshness.jsonl
+  rl=$PROJ/outputs/abl_${tag}.runlog
+  celldone=$PROJ/outputs/abl_${tag}.celldone
+  rm -f "$fresh" "$celldone"
+  echo "[driver] $(date) START $tag (policy=$policy mode=$mode ab=$ab es=$es)" >> "$PROG"
+
+  sp=""
+  if [ "$es" = "1" ]; then
+    nohup "$PY" "$SAMPLER" "$esdir" "$fresh" "$celldone" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+    sp=$!
+  fi
+
+  TAG="$tag" POLICY="$policy" MODE="$mode" AB_FLAGS="$abf" ES="$es" \
+    bash "$R" > "$rl" 2>&1
+  ec=$?
+
+  echo "done $ec $(date)" > "$celldone"
+  [ -n "$sp" ] && { kill "$sp" 2>/dev/null || true; }
+  echo "[driver] $(date) END   $tag exit=$ec" >> "$PROG"
+  sleep 10
+done
+
+echo "ALL DONE $(date)" > "$MASTERDONE"
+echo "[driver] $(date) SWEEP COMPLETE" >> "$PROG"

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_mb7.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# MB7 launcher (runs on dash0). Two 2-instance modes selected by MODE env:
+#   MODE=baseline  : restore stock connector, no layerwise env
+#   MODE=layerwise : deploy mooncake_connector.LAYERWISE.py + MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=1
+#
+# Chunked prefill is DISABLED (max-num-batched-tokens >= max prompt) so the
+# producer prefill is a single forward and save_kv_layer fires once per layer
+# in order — the layer-wise counter assumes this.
+#
+# The connector is always restored from .ORIG_BACKUP on exit.
+#
+# Usage (on dash0):
+#   MODE=baseline  bash run_mb7.sh
+#   MODE=layerwise bash run_mb7.sh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+MODE="${MODE:-baseline}"
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+VENV="${VENV:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+GPUS=(${GPUS:-0 1})
+SIZES="${SIZES:-8192,16384,32768}"
+REPEATS="${REPEATS:-3}"
+BG_LOAD="${BG_LOAD:-0}"
+CONCURRENT="${CONCURRENT:-1}"
+MAX_BATCHED="${MAX_BATCHED:-40960}"   # >= max prompt => no chunked prefill
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTDIR="${OUTDIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/mb7_${MODE}_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$VENV/bin/python"
+MC_FILE="$VENV/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+LW_SRC="${LW_SRC:-/tmp/mooncake_connector.LAYERWISE.py}"
+DRIVER="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/mb7_layerwise.py"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTDIR/logs"
+PORTS=(8000 8001); BPS=(8998 8999)
+
+echo "=== MB7 ($MODE) ==="
+echo "Out: $OUTDIR ; connector: $MC_FILE"
+
+restore_connector() {
+    if [ -f "$MC_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" ]; then
+        cp -f "$MC_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" "$MC_FILE"
+        echo "[restore] connector reset to ORIG"
+    fi
+}
+cleanup() {
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 4
+    restore_connector
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true; sleep 3
+
+# Deploy the connector for the chosen mode.
+if [ "$MODE" = "layerwise" ]; then
+    if [ ! -f "$LW_SRC" ]; then echo "FATAL: $LW_SRC not found (scp it first)"; exit 1; fi
+    cp -f "$LW_SRC" "$MC_FILE"
+    "$PYTHON" -c "import ast; ast.parse(open('$MC_FILE').read()); print('[deploy] LAYERWISE connector AST OK')" || exit 1
+    LW_ENV="MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=1"
+else
+    restore_connector
+    LW_ENV=""
+fi
+
+echo "[launch] 2 instances (max-num-batched-tokens=$MAX_BATCHED, chunked-prefill off)"
+i=0
+for gpu in "${GPUS[@]:0:2}"; do
+    port=${PORTS[$i]}; bp=${BPS[$i]}; master=$((29700 + i))
+    env $LW_ENV \
+        PYTHONHASHSEED=42 VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu MASTER_PORT=$master \
+        nohup "$VENV/bin/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching --dtype auto \
+        --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --max-num-batched-tokens "$MAX_BATCHED" \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$OUTDIR/logs/vllm_${i}_gpu${gpu}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown; sleep 2; i=$((i + 1))
+done
+
+echo "[health] waiting ..."
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=${PORTS[$i]}; tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries + 1)); [ $tries -gt 180 ] && { echo "FATAL inst_$i"; exit 1; }
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  inst_$i ready"
+done
+for i in 0 1; do
+    bp=${BPS[$i]}; tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$bp/query" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1)); [ $tries -gt 60 ] && { echo "WARN bp $bp"; break; }; sleep 2
+    done
+done
+
+echo "[run] mb7 --mode $MODE"
+"$PYTHON" "$DRIVER" --mode "$MODE" \
+    --src-port "${PORTS[0]}" --dst-port "${PORTS[1]}" \
+    --src-bp "${BPS[0]}" --dst-bp "${BPS[1]}" \
+    --sizes "$SIZES" --repeats "$REPEATS" --bg-load "$BG_LOAD" \
+    --concurrent "$CONCURRENT" --out "$OUTDIR/mb7_result.json" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$OUTDIR/mb7_run.txt"
+
+echo "[done] $OUTDIR"
+# grep layerwise transfer logs from the producer (gpu0) for sanity
+if [ "$MODE" = "layerwise" ]; then
+    echo "=== producer layerwise log lines ==="
+    grep -i "layerwise" "$OUTDIR/logs/vllm_0_gpu${GPUS[0]}.log" | tail -10 || true
+fi

microbench/connector_tax/layerwise/run_v3_trace.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Full 1200-req v3 trace, two modes (MODE env), for layer-wise re-profile.
+#   MODE=baseline  : stock connector + stock proxy (post-hoc transfer)
+#   MODE=layerwise : LAYERWISE connector + write-mode proxy (overlapped)
+# Both: unified_v3 routing + DR-fix. Connector & proxy restored from backup
+# on exit. Output-equivalence/correctness gate = success rate + migrated-req
+# TTFT distribution (byte-level KV correctness already validated on mb7).
+#
+# Usage (on dash0):  MODE=baseline  bash run_v3_trace.sh
+#                    MODE=layerwise bash run_v3_trace.sh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+MODE="${MODE:-baseline}"
+POLICY="${POLICY:-unified_v3}"
+AB_FLAGS="${AB_FLAGS:-}"        # e.g. "--overload-factor 1.3 --lmetric-decode-weight 0.01"
+TAG="${TAG:-$MODE}"
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv"
+VLLM_ROOT="$VENV/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm"
+TRACE="${TRACE:-$PROJ_DIR/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTROOT="${OUTROOT:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/v3trace_${TAG}_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$VENV/bin/python"
+DR_FIX="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/apply_direct_read_fix.py"
+MC_FILE="$VLLM_ROOT/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+PROXY_FILE="$PROJ_DIR/scripts/cache_aware_proxy.py"
+# Staging on shared cpfs (visible on dash0/dash1), not node-local /tmp.
+_LWDIR="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/layerwise"
+LW_CONN="${LW_CONN:-$_LWDIR/mooncake_connector.LAYERWISE.py}"
+WM_PROXY="${WM_PROXY:-$_LWDIR/cache_aware_proxy.WRITEMODE.py}"
+ES_INSTR="$_LWDIR/instrument_engine_state.py"
+ES="${ES:-0}"                  # 1 = enable real engine-state feed (P2)
+ES_DIR="/dev/shm/agentic_engine_state_${TAG}"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTROOT"
+cfg_dir="$OUTROOT/unified_v3"; mkdir -p "$cfg_dir"
+
+# Backups (connector backup already exists as .ORIG_BACKUP; make proxy one).
+[ -f "$MC_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" ] || cp "$MC_FILE" "$MC_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP"
+[ -f "$PROXY_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" ] || cp "$PROXY_FILE" "$PROXY_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP"
+
+restore() {
+    cp -f "$MC_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" "$MC_FILE"
+    cp -f "$PROXY_FILE.ORIG_BACKUP" "$PROXY_FILE"
+    "$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX" --revert --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT" 2>/dev/null || true
+    "$PYTHON" "$ES_INSTR" --revert --venv "$VENV" 2>/dev/null || true
+    rm -rf "$ES_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
+    echo "[restore] connector+proxy reset to ORIG, DR-fix + ES-patch reverted"
+}
+cleanup() {
+    pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 5
+    restore
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true; sleep 3
+restore   # start from clean
+
+echo "=== v3 trace (mode=$MODE es=$ES tag=$TAG) -> $OUTROOT ==="
+# Always deploy the enhanced proxy (write-mode + engine-state, both env/flag
+# gated; with feed off + write-mode off it behaves identically to stock).
+cp -f "$WM_PROXY" "$PROXY_FILE"
+if [ "$MODE" = "layerwise" ]; then
+    cp -f "$LW_CONN" "$MC_FILE"
+    export MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=1
+    export EAR_WRITE_MODE=1
+fi
+"$PYTHON" -c "import ast; ast.parse(open('$MC_FILE').read()); ast.parse(open('$PROXY_FILE').read()); print('[deploy] proxy + connector AST OK')" || exit 1
+
+PROXY_ES_ARG=""
+if [ "$ES" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "[ES] apply engine-state patch + enable feed at $ES_DIR"
+    "$PYTHON" "$ES_INSTR" --apply --venv "$VENV"
+    mkdir -p "$ES_DIR"
+    export AGENTIC_ENGINE_STATE_URI="file://$ES_DIR"
+    PROXY_ES_ARG="--engine-state-uri file://$ES_DIR"
+fi
+
+echo "[DR-fix] apply"
+"$PYTHON" "$DR_FIX" --apply --vllm-root "$VLLM_ROOT"
+export VLLM_MOONCAKE_DISABLE_DIRECT_READ_SYNC=1
+
+echo "[run] $POLICY AB=[$AB_FLAGS] (MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE=${MOONCAKE_LAYERWISE:-0} EAR_WRITE_MODE=${EAR_WRITE_MODE:-0})"
+EXTRA_PROXY_ARGS="$AB_FLAGS $PROXY_ES_ARG" bash "$PROJ_DIR/scripts/b3_isolated_policy.sh" "$POLICY" "$TRACE" "$cfg_dir" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$cfg_dir/orchestrator.log" | tail -20
+
+pkill -9 -f cache_aware_proxy 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 5
+
+echo "[stats] $MODE"
+"$PYTHON" - "$cfg_dir" << 'PYEOF'
+import json, sys, statistics
+d = sys.argv[1]
+ms = [json.loads(l) for l in open(f"{d}/metrics.jsonl")]
+ok = [m for m in ms if not m.get("error")]
+ttft = sorted(m["ttft_s"] for m in ok if m.get("ttft_s") is not None)
+def p(q): return ttft[min(len(ttft)-1, int(q*len(ttft)))] if ttft else 0
+print(f"  requests: {len(ms)}  success: {len(ok)} ({len(ok)/max(1,len(ms))*100:.1f}%)")
+print(f"  TTFT s  : p50={p(.5):.2f} p90={p(.9):.2f} p99={p(.99):.2f}")
+# migrated reqs from proxy breakdown
+try:
+    bd = json.load(open(f"{d}/breakdown.json"))
+    mig = [x for x in bd if x.get("route_class") == "PD_SEP_V2"]
+    mids = {x["request_id"] for x in mig}
+    mt = sorted(m["ttft_s"] for m in ok if m["request_id"] in mids and m.get("ttft_s"))
+    print(f"  migrations: {len(mig)}  migrated-req TTFT: "
+          f"p50={mt[len(mt)//2]:.2f} p90={mt[int(len(mt)*.9)]:.2f} max={mt[-1]:.2f}" if mt else f"  migrations: {len(mig)}")
+except Exception as e:
+    print(f"  (breakdown parse: {e})")
+PYEOF
+echo "[done] $cfg_dir  (metrics.jsonl, breakdown.json)"

microbench/fresh_setup/PD_DISAGG_RESULTS.md

@@ -28,14 +28,21 @@ completion), and the failure *moves* with the ratio:
   wall-clock, best p50/p90 latency.
 
 PD-disagg *does* deliver the phase-isolation win we predicted in MB1 — its
-**TPOT is 10–35× cleaner** — but that win is swamped by TTFT inflation,
-request loss, and a total collapse of prefix-cache reuse under the stock
-round-robin router.
+**TPOT is 10–35× cleaner** — but that win is swamped by TTFT inflation and
+request loss.
+
+**Smarter routing does not save it (§6).** We added the "correct" PD policy —
+session-affinity on the prefill side to recover prefix-cache reuse, load-balance
+on decode — and swept it across all four ratios. It is *strictly worse* than
+round-robin at every ratio (4P+4D: 100% → 36% completion), success *decreases*
+as you add decode capacity (59→36→24→19%), and the GPUs sit at **~0%
+utilization** — the cluster stalls on KV-transfer coordination, not compute.
+Session-affinity reproduces the producer **hot-pinning** pathology from §3.3.
 
 This is the empirical backing for the paper's claim: **agentic workloads
 have time-varying P:D demand that no static partition can track; colocation
-wins because its pool is elastic.** (H1 *and* H2 from the investigation doc,
-unified by one mechanism.)
+wins because its pool is elastic — and no routing knob rescues the static
+split.** (H1 *and* H2 from the investigation doc, unified by one mechanism.)
 
 ---
 
@@ -210,28 +217,109 @@ by session affinity** (reuse the producer's prefix cache) while **D is chosen
 by load balance** (decode KV is freshly transferred per turn, so D gains
 nothing from affinity). We added this as an env-gated mode in the proxy
 (`MB5_P_ROUTING=session`, consistent hash on `X-Session-Id`; D stays
-round-robin) and re-ran the best-performing disaggregated config, **6P+2D**.
+round-robin) and swept it across **all four P:D ratios**. All runs below are on
+the **metrics-fixed stack** (§5.1 clamp), so consumers no longer crash and
+failures are genuine KV-transfer/capacity failures — an apples-to-apples
+comparison of the two routing policies.
 
-> **Status: session-affinity 6P+2D run in progress.** Results below will be
-> filled in when it completes; the question it answers is *how much of the
-> gap to 8C does restoring prefix-cache reuse close.*
+### 6.1 Session-affinity does NOT rescue PD — it makes it worse
 
-<!-- SESSION_AFFINITY_RESULTS -->
-*(pending)*
+| Config | rr success | **session success** | rr TTFT mean | direction |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 6P+2D | 73% | **59%** | 89 s | session worse |
+| 4P+4D | **100%** | **36%** | 71 s | session much worse |
+| 3P+5D | — | **24%** | — | ↓ |
+| 2P+6D | 9%* | **19%** | — | ↓ |
+
+\* rr 2P+6D from the original sweep (prefill-bound, 9%).
+
+Two results, both decisive:
+
+1. **At every ratio, session-affinity is worse than round-robin.** The most
+   damning point is 4P+4D, where round-robin completes **100%** but
+   session-affinity completes only **36%**.
+2. **Session-affinity success *decreases monotonically* as you add decode
+   capacity** (59% → 36% → 24% → 19% going 6P+2D → 4P+4D → 3P+5D → 2P+6D).
+   Adding D does not help — it hurts. This refutes the natural hypothesis
+   ("session prefill is faster, so it needs more D").
+
+### 6.2 The smoking gun: GPUs sit at ~0% utilization
+
+During the session-affinity runs the cluster is **not compute-bound — it is
+stalled**. Sampled GPU utilization mid-run:
+
+```
+session 3P+5D :  0  0 100  0  0  0  0  0     (1 of 8 GPUs doing anything)
+session 2P+6D :  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0       (entirely idle)
+```
+
+Requests are piling up (transfer failures climbing into the hundreds) while
+**the hardware you paid for does nothing.** This is the deepest argument
+against PD-disagg for this workload: the binding constraint is KV-pool
+capacity and P→D transfer coordination, not FLOPs. Colocation (8C) keeps every
+GPU busy because prefill and decode interleave in one elastic pool with no
+cross-instance handoff.
+
+### 6.3 Why session-affinity backfires (mechanism)
+
+Session-affinity pins **all turns of a session to one producer**. Agentic
+sessions are heavy-tailed (a few very long multi-turn sessions — recall the
+112k-token request in §5.1). Sticky routing concentrates those heavy sessions
+onto individual producers, whose KV pools fill and stall — the **same
+hot-pinning pathology as sticky routing in the colocated study (§3.3)**, now on
+the producer side. Round-robin avoids it by spreading each session's turns
+across producers. With *fewer* producers (2P+6D), the concentration is worse,
+which is exactly why success keeps dropping as the ratio shifts D-ward. A
+failed transfer also pins the producer's KV (it is not freed on
+`kv_load_failure_policy=fail`), compounding the stall until the pipeline
+deadlocks at ~0% utilization.
+
+The per-producer KV-pool timelines make the hot-pinning direct. At the **same
+4P+4D ratio**, round-robin holds all four producers within **1 percentage
+point** of each other (spread 0pp, CV 0.01); session-affinity blows the spread
+open to **49 percentage points** (one producer pegged at ~93% while another
+sits at 45%, CV 0.25 — a 25× jump in load imbalance):
+
+![per-producer KV pool: round-robin vs session-affinity](../../figs/mb5/mb5_producer_hotspot.png)
+
+Producer-side prefix-cache hit in the degraded state is ~0.2% (vs round-robin's
+~5%) — session-affinity never even gets to *collect* the cache-reuse benefit it
+was supposed to provide, because the producers it concentrates load onto are
+thrashing.
+
+### 6.4 Verdict on routing
+
+Neither **ratio tuning** (§3, no static split beats 8C) nor **routing policy**
+(§6, session-affinity is strictly worse and ratio-tuning it only makes it
+worse) rescues static PD-disaggregation for this agentic workload. The failure
+is **structural**: a static prefill/decode partition cannot track time-varying
+P:D demand, the cross-instance KV handoff adds a capacity-coupled failure mode
+absent in colocation, and the routing knob that helps colocation (affinity)
+actively hurts disaggregation (producer hotspots). Colocation wins on
+completion, latency, *and* hardware utilization.
 
 ---
 
 ## 7. Caveats / honesty
 
-- **Single rep** for this analysis. The earlier 3-rep sweep showed 8C and
-  4P+4D are tight run-to-run, but 6P+2D completion varied (rep1 100% vs rep2
-  56% vs rep3 80%) — i.e. the D-pool sits right at the cliff edge, so 6P+2D's
-  "100% rep1" is optimistic. The qualitative ranking is robust; exact numbers
-  on the marginal configs are not.
+- **Single rep** for this analysis. The earlier 3-rep round-robin sweep
+  varied for 6P+2D (rep1 100% / rep2 56% / rep3 80%) — but §5.1 showed that
+  variance was the *consumer-crash bug*, not genuine load behavior. On the
+  metrics-fixed stack, round-robin 6P+2D completes a stable **73%** (the
+  unpatched "100% rep1" in §3's table was a lucky no-crash run). 8C and rr
+  4P+4D are tight run-to-run. The qualitative ranking is robust.
 - **Latency percentiles count successes only** (see §3 warning). For failing
-  configs the latency bars *understate* the damage.
-- **Round-robin baseline.** §6 addresses the routing fairness concern head-on
-  with a session-affinity re-run.
+  configs the latency bars *understate* the damage — and for the session-
+  affinity runs, which stall at ~0% GPU util, the latency of the few survivors
+  is especially unrepresentative.
+- **Routing fairness addressed.** §6 tests the "correct" PD routing
+  (session-affinity P + load-balanced D) across all ratios; it does not rescue
+  PD, so the round-robin baseline in §3 is not an unfair handicap on the
+  conclusion.
+- **Session-affinity ratio sweep used near-final partials** (runs were stopped
+  once the monotonic-decline trend and 0% GPU util were unambiguous, to save
+  GPU time). Exact final percentages would shift by a few points; the trend
+  and the stall are not in doubt.
 - Trace is a single agentic workload; conclusions are about *this* class of
   workload (sub-second tool-call cadence, multi-turn sessions), not all LLM
   serving.

microbench/fresh_setup/analyze_goodput.py

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+"""SLO-goodput analyzer + PD_advantage for the PD-disagg crossover study.
+
+Reads per-arm replayer output (replay_metrics.jsonl) and computes, per arm:
+  - completion rate (error-free fraction)
+  - raw TTFT / TPOT / E2E percentiles (over successes — reported for context
+    only; NEVER the verdict metric, since failing arms have a small success set)
+  - SLO-goodput: fraction of OFFERED requests that are error-free AND meet a
+    (TTFT, TPOT) SLO. This is the verdict metric.
+
+The two arms must replay the IDENTICAL trace (same seed), so they are paired
+request-for-request. PD_advantage = goodput(arm) / goodput(baseline); y=1 is
+the crossover line — PD_advantage >= 1 means PD-disagg wins.
+
+Goodput is computed over a grid of SLO thresholds so the conclusion does not
+hinge on one arbitrary cutoff.
+
+Usage:
+  python analyze_goodput.py \
+      --arm 8C-proxy  .../8C-proxy/replay_metrics.jsonl \
+      --arm 4P+4D     .../4P+4D/replay_metrics.jsonl \
+      --baseline 8C-proxy \
+      --ttft-slo 0.5 1 2 5 --tpot-slo 0.05 0.1 0.2
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import statistics
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def load_metrics(path: Path) -> list[dict]:
+    rows = []
+    with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        for line in fh:
+            line = line.strip()
+            if line:
+                rows.append(json.loads(line))
+    return rows
+
+
+def percentile(sorted_vals: list[float], pct: float) -> float:
+    n = len(sorted_vals)
+    if n == 0:
+        return float("nan")
+    if n == 1:
+        return sorted_vals[0]
+    rank = pct * (n - 1)
+    lo = int(rank)
+    hi = min(lo + 1, n - 1)
+    frac = rank - lo
+    return sorted_vals[lo] * (1 - frac) + sorted_vals[hi] * frac
+
+
+def pstats(vals: list[float]) -> dict:
+    clean = sorted(v for v in vals if v is not None)
+    if not clean:
+        return {"count": 0}
+    return {
+        "count": len(clean),
+        "mean": statistics.fmean(clean),
+        "p50": percentile(clean, 0.50),
+        "p90": percentile(clean, 0.90),
+        "p99": percentile(clean, 0.99),
+    }
+
+
+def offered_window_s(rows: list[dict]) -> float:
+    ts = [r.get("trace_timestamp_s") for r in rows if r.get("trace_timestamp_s") is not None]
+    if len(ts) < 2:
+        return 0.0
+    return max(ts) - min(ts)
+
+
+def meets_slo(r: dict, ttft_slo: float, tpot_slo: float) -> bool:
+    if r.get("error") is not None:
+        return False
+    ttft = r.get("ttft_s")
+    tpot = r.get("tpot_s")
+    if ttft is None:
+        return False
+    if ttft > ttft_slo:
+        return False
+    # tpot=0 happens only for single-token outputs; treat as meeting any SLO.
+    if tpot is not None and tpot > tpot_slo:
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
+def load_summary(jsonl_path: Path) -> dict:
+    """Read the sibling replay_metrics.summary.json (wall-clock, amplification)."""
+    sp = jsonl_path.with_suffix(".summary.json")
+    if sp.exists():
+        try:
+            return json.loads(sp.read_text())
+        except Exception:
+            return {}
+    return {}
+
+
+def summarize_arm(name: str, jsonl_path: Path, rows: list[dict]) -> dict:
+    n = len(rows)
+    ok = [r for r in rows if r.get("error") is None]
+    window = offered_window_s(rows)
+    summ = load_summary(jsonl_path)
+    return {
+        "name": name,
+        "n_offered": n,
+        "n_success": len(ok),
+        "completion_rate": len(ok) / n if n else 0.0,
+        "offered_window_s": window,
+        "offered_qps": n / window if window > 0 else 0.0,
+        # Throughput: how much longer than the offered window it took to drain.
+        # ~1.0 = keeps up; >1 = falling behind (the cleanest PD-collapse signal).
+        "wall_clock_s": summ.get("wall_clock_s"),
+        "amplification": summ.get("amplification"),
+        "ttft": pstats([r.get("ttft_s") for r in ok]),
+        "tpot": pstats([r.get("tpot_s") for r in ok]),
+        "e2e": pstats([r.get("latency_s") for r in ok]),
+        "_rows": rows,
+    }
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    p.add_argument("--arm", nargs=2, action="append", metavar=("NAME", "PATH"),
+                   required=True, help="arm name + replay_metrics.jsonl path (repeatable)")
+    p.add_argument("--baseline", required=True, help="arm name to use as PD_advantage denominator")
+    p.add_argument("--ttft-slo", nargs="+", type=float, default=[0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0])
+    p.add_argument("--tpot-slo", nargs="+", type=float, default=[0.05, 0.1, 0.2])
+    p.add_argument("--out-json", type=Path, default=None)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    arms = {}
+    for name, path in args.arm:
+        arms[name] = summarize_arm(name, Path(path), load_metrics(Path(path)))
+
+    if args.baseline not in arms:
+        raise SystemExit(f"baseline {args.baseline!r} not among arms {list(arms)}")
+
+    # ---- per-arm overview ------------------------------------------------
+    print("=" * 78)
+    print("PER-ARM OVERVIEW (latency stats over successes only — context, not verdict)")
+    print("=" * 78)
+    hdr = f"{'arm':<12}{'offered':>8}{'compl%':>8}{'ampl':>6}{'oQPS':>7}" \
+          f"{'TTFTp50':>9}{'TTFTp90':>9}{'TPOTp50':>9}{'TPOTp99':>9}{'E2Ep90':>9}"
+    print(hdr)
+    for name, a in arms.items():
+        t, tp, e = a["ttft"], a["tpot"], a["e2e"]
+        ampl = a.get("amplification")
+        ampl_s = f"{ampl:>6.2f}" if isinstance(ampl, (int, float)) else f"{'--':>6}"
+        print(f"{name:<12}{a['n_offered']:>8}{100*a['completion_rate']:>7.1f}%"
+              f"{ampl_s}{a['offered_qps']:>7.2f}"
+              f"{t.get('p50', float('nan')):>9.2f}{t.get('p90', float('nan')):>9.2f}"
+              f"{1000*tp.get('p50', float('nan')):>8.0f}m{1000*tp.get('p99', float('nan')):>8.0f}m"
+              f"{e.get('p90', float('nan')):>9.2f}")
+
+    # ---- SLO-goodput grid + PD_advantage --------------------------------
+    base = arms[args.baseline]
+    grid = []
+    print()
+    print("=" * 78)
+    print(f"SLO-GOODPUT (attainment = error-free AND TTFT<=slo AND TPOT<=slo)")
+    print(f"PD_advantage = attainment(arm) / attainment(baseline={args.baseline}); "
+          f">=1 means arm wins")
+    print("=" * 78)
+    for ttft_slo in args.ttft_slo:
+        for tpot_slo in args.tpot_slo:
+            row = {"ttft_slo_s": ttft_slo, "tpot_slo_s": tpot_slo, "arms": {}}
+            base_n = sum(1 for r in base["_rows"] if meets_slo(r, ttft_slo, tpot_slo))
+            base_att = base_n / base["n_offered"] if base["n_offered"] else 0.0
+            line = f"TTFT<={ttft_slo:>4}s TPOT<={int(1000*tpot_slo):>4}ms | "
+            cells = []
+            for name, a in arms.items():
+                n_slo = sum(1 for r in a["_rows"] if meets_slo(r, ttft_slo, tpot_slo))
+                att = n_slo / a["n_offered"] if a["n_offered"] else 0.0
+                adv = (att / base_att) if base_att > 0 else float("nan")
+                row["arms"][name] = {"attainment": att, "pd_advantage": adv, "n_slo": n_slo}
+                tag = "" if name == args.baseline else f" adv={adv:.2f}"
+                cells.append(f"{name}={100*att:>5.1f}%{tag}")
+            print(line + "  ".join(cells))
+            grid.append(row)
+
+    if args.out_json:
+        out = {
+            "baseline": args.baseline,
+            "arms": {n: {k: v for k, v in a.items() if k != "_rows"}
+                     for n, a in arms.items()},
+            "slo_grid": grid,
+        }
+        args.out_json.write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=2))
+        print(f"\nwrote {args.out_json}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/gen_synthetic_trace.py

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+"""Generate synthetic traces for the PD-disagg crossover study.
+
+Emits the same JSONL schema the replayer consumes (chat_id, parent_chat_id,
+timestamp, input_length, output_length, type, turn, hash_ids, session_id),
+so no replayer change is needed.
+
+Phase A ("vanilla") workload — the textbook regime where PD-disagg is
+expected to win:
+  - Poisson arrivals at a fixed mean QPS.
+  - Fixed input / output length.
+  - Every request is its own single-turn session (parent_chat_id = -1).
+  - hash_ids are globally unique, so there is ZERO prefix-cache reuse and the
+    prefix-cache confound (PD round-robin loses cache, 8C keeps it) is removed
+    from the comparison by construction.
+
+Later morph dimensions (multi-turn reuse, burst arrivals, session skew) are
+intentionally NOT implemented here yet; this file owns the vanilla baseline.
+
+Usage:
+  python gen_synthetic_trace.py --out traces/vanilla_q1.6_in1024_out256.jsonl \
+      --qps 1.6 --duration-s 600 --input-len 1024 --output-len 256 --seed 42
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import random
+from pathlib import Path
+
+BLOCK_SIZE = 512  # must match replayer.replay.BLOCK_SIZE
+# Start unique hash ids well above the real-trace hash range (~1.2e7) so a
+# synthetic trace never accidentally shares a block hash with anything else.
+HASH_BASE = 1_000_000_000
+
+
+def n_blocks_for(input_length: int) -> int:
+    return max(1, input_length // BLOCK_SIZE)
+
+
+def gen_vanilla(
+    *,
+    qps: float,
+    duration_s: float,
+    input_len: int,
+    output_len: int,
+    seed: int,
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """Poisson arrivals, fixed lengths, every request a unique single-turn
+    session with globally-unique block hashes (zero reuse)."""
+    rng = random.Random(seed)
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+    t = 0.0
+    next_hash = HASH_BASE
+    chat_id = 1
+    while True:
+        # Exponential inter-arrival -> Poisson process at rate `qps`.
+        t += rng.expovariate(qps)
+        if t > duration_s:
+            break
+        nb = n_blocks_for(input_len)
+        hash_ids = list(range(next_hash, next_hash + nb))
+        next_hash += nb
+        rows.append({
+            "chat_id": chat_id,
+            "parent_chat_id": -1,
+            "timestamp": round(t, 6),
+            "input_length": input_len,
+            "output_length": output_len,
+            "type": "synthetic",
+            "turn": 1,
+            "hash_ids": hash_ids,
+            "session_id": str(chat_id),
+        })
+        chat_id += 1
+    return rows
+
+
+def _sample_turns(rng: random.Random, turns_mean: float, turns_max: int,
+                  heavy_frac: float) -> int:
+    """Geometric-ish turn count, with a heavy-tailed minority (session skew)."""
+    if heavy_frac > 0 and rng.random() < heavy_frac:
+        return turns_max
+    cont = max(0.0, 1.0 - 1.0 / max(turns_mean, 1.0))
+    t = 1
+    while t < turns_max and rng.random() < cont:
+        t += 1
+    return t
+
+
+def gen_multiturn(
+    *,
+    session_qps: float,
+    duration_s: float,
+    turns_mean: float,
+    turns_max: int,
+    heavy_frac: float,
+    first_input: int,
+    new_user_tokens: int,
+    output_len: int,
+    inter_turn_gap_s: float,
+    seed: int,
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """Multi-turn agentic-like sessions with intra-session prefix reuse.
+
+    Each session's turn k re-sends the whole conversation-so-far as its prompt
+    (cumulative hash_ids prefix = prior turns' input+output blocks) then appends
+    `new_user_tokens` of fresh context, so vLLM sees a high intra-session prefix-
+    cache hit on the growing prefix — exactly the agentic multi-turn pattern.
+    Context grows each turn; outputs are short; inter-turn gap models think-time.
+    """
+    rng = random.Random(seed)
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+    next_hash = HASH_BASE
+    chat_id = 1
+
+    # Generate session start times (Poisson), then expand each into turns.
+    starts: list[float] = []
+    t = 0.0
+    while True:
+        t += rng.expovariate(session_qps)
+        if t > duration_s:
+            break
+        starts.append(t)
+
+    for s_idx, start in enumerate(starts):
+        session_id = f"s{s_idx}"
+        n_turns = _sample_turns(rng, turns_mean, turns_max, heavy_frac)
+        session_hashes: list[int] = []   # cumulative blocks of the conversation
+        ctx_len = 0                       # cumulative prompt tokens (prior turns)
+        prev_chat = -1
+        ts = start
+        for turn in range(1, n_turns + 1):
+            added = first_input if turn == 1 else new_user_tokens
+            input_len = ctx_len + added
+            n_new = max(1, added // BLOCK_SIZE)
+            new_blocks = list(range(next_hash, next_hash + n_new))
+            next_hash += n_new
+            turn_hashes = session_hashes + new_blocks
+            rows.append({
+                "chat_id": chat_id,
+                "parent_chat_id": prev_chat,
+                "timestamp": round(ts, 6),
+                "input_length": input_len,
+                "output_length": output_len,
+                "type": "synthetic_agentic",
+                "turn": turn,
+                "hash_ids": turn_hashes,
+                "session_id": session_id,
+            })
+            # Conversation grows by the new user tokens AND this turn's output.
+            n_out_blocks = max(1, output_len // BLOCK_SIZE)
+            session_hashes = turn_hashes + list(range(next_hash, next_hash + n_out_blocks))
+            next_hash += n_out_blocks
+            ctx_len = input_len + output_len
+            prev_chat = chat_id
+            chat_id += 1
+            ts += rng.expovariate(1.0 / inter_turn_gap_s) if inter_turn_gap_s > 0 else 0.0
+
+    rows.sort(key=lambda r: r["timestamp"])
+    return rows
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    p.add_argument("--out", type=Path, required=True, help="output trace JSONL")
+    p.add_argument("--mode", choices=["vanilla", "multiturn"], default="vanilla")
+    p.add_argument("--qps", type=float, help="vanilla: mean Poisson request rate; "
+                   "multiturn: mean Poisson SESSION rate")
+    p.add_argument("--duration-s", type=float, default=600.0, help="trace span (s)")
+    p.add_argument("--input-len", type=int, help="vanilla: fixed input length")
+    p.add_argument("--output-len", type=int, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42)
+    # multiturn knobs
+    p.add_argument("--turns-mean", type=float, default=4.0)
+    p.add_argument("--turns-max", type=int, default=40)
+    p.add_argument("--heavy-frac", type=float, default=0.0,
+                   help="fraction of sessions that are heavy (turns_max) — session skew")
+    p.add_argument("--first-input", type=int, default=2048,
+                   help="multiturn: turn-1 input length")
+    p.add_argument("--new-user-tokens", type=int, default=256,
+                   help="multiturn: fresh user tokens added each subsequent turn")
+    p.add_argument("--inter-turn-gap-s", type=float, default=1.6,
+                   help="multiturn: mean think-time between turns")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    if args.mode == "vanilla":
+        assert args.qps and args.input_len, "vanilla needs --qps and --input-len"
+        rows = gen_vanilla(
+            qps=args.qps, duration_s=args.duration_s,
+            input_len=args.input_len, output_len=args.output_len, seed=args.seed,
+        )
+        cfg = {"mode": "vanilla", "qps": args.qps, "duration_s": args.duration_s,
+               "input_len": args.input_len, "output_len": args.output_len,
+               "seed": args.seed, "reuse": "none"}
+    else:
+        assert args.qps, "multiturn needs --qps (session rate)"
+        rows = gen_multiturn(
+            session_qps=args.qps, duration_s=args.duration_s,
+            turns_mean=args.turns_mean, turns_max=args.turns_max,
+            heavy_frac=args.heavy_frac, first_input=args.first_input,
+            new_user_tokens=args.new_user_tokens, output_len=args.output_len,
+            inter_turn_gap_s=args.inter_turn_gap_s, seed=args.seed,
+        )
+        cfg = {"mode": "multiturn", "session_qps": args.qps,
+               "duration_s": args.duration_s, "turns_mean": args.turns_mean,
+               "turns_max": args.turns_max, "heavy_frac": args.heavy_frac,
+               "first_input": args.first_input, "new_user_tokens": args.new_user_tokens,
+               "output_len": args.output_len, "inter_turn_gap_s": args.inter_turn_gap_s,
+               "seed": args.seed, "reuse": "intra-session"}
+
+    args.out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with args.out.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        for r in rows:
+            fh.write(json.dumps(r) + "\n")
+
+    cfg["n_requests"] = len(rows)
+    cfg["block_size"] = BLOCK_SIZE
+    cfg_path = args.out.with_suffix(args.out.suffix + ".config.json")
+    cfg_path.write_text(json.dumps(cfg, indent=2))
+
+    span = rows[-1]["timestamp"] - rows[0]["timestamp"] if rows else 0.0
+    eff_qps = len(rows) / span if span > 0 else 0.0
+    print(f"wrote {len(rows)} requests to {args.out}  (mode={args.mode})")
+    print(f"  target qps={args.qps}  effective req qps={eff_qps:.3f}  span={span:.1f}s")
+    if args.mode == "vanilla":
+        print(f"  input_len={args.input_len} output_len={args.output_len} "
+              f"(blocks/req={n_blocks_for(args.input_len)}, zero reuse)")
+    else:
+        n_sessions = len({r["session_id"] for r in rows})
+        inputs = sorted(r["input_length"] for r in rows)
+        p = lambda v, q: v[min(int(q * len(v)), len(v) - 1)] if v else 0
+        print(f"  sessions={n_sessions}  turns/session~{len(rows)/max(n_sessions,1):.1f}  "
+              f"input p50={p(inputs,.5)} p90={p(inputs,.9)} p99={p(inputs,.99)} "
+              f"output_len={args.output_len} (intra-session reuse)")
+    print(f"  config -> {cfg_path}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_dst_migration.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Instrument vLLM V1 scheduler to dump per-request DST-side migration timeline.
+
+For each request that arrives at the engine with `kv_transfer_params`
+containing `do_remote_prefill=True` (i.e., the decode-target of an
+EAR v3 migration), record:
+
+  t_arrival_unix         — Scheduler.add_request() entry
+  t_wait_for_kvs_unix    — status set to WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS (KV pull start)
+  t_kv_recv_done_unix    — req_id added to finished_recving_kv_req_ids
+  t_first_scheduled_unix — first time req appears in self.running after KV done
+  t_first_token_unix     — first new_token_ids appended in update_from_output
+  arrival_state          — {n_running, n_waiting, pending_prefill_tok,
+                            n_waiting_for_kvs}
+
+We complement the proxy `breakdown.json` (t_decode_sent_unix /
+t_first_token_unix) to attribute the migration's dst-side wait into:
+  HTTP relay + admission_pre_kv + KV pull + admission_post_kv + first_iter
+
+One JSONL per EngineCore PID at $DM_LOG_DIR/dm_mig_pid<pid>.jsonl
+(default DM_LOG_DIR=/tmp). Records are flushed when t_first_token is
+reached or when the request is aborted/finished.
+
+Co-exists with MB5 KV snapshot patches (different START/END markers).
+
+Usage:
+    python instrument_dst_migration.py --apply  [--venv PATH]
+    python instrument_dst_migration.py --revert [--venv PATH]
+    python instrument_dst_migration.py --check  [--venv PATH]
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+DEFAULT_VENV = Path("/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv/.venv")
+TARGET_REL = "lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py"
+
+START_MARK = "# DM_INSTRUMENT_START"
+END_MARK = "# DM_INSTRUMENT_END"
+
+# ---------- Patch 1: module-level header (helpers + globals) -----------------
+# Anchor: the very first `class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):` line. We insert
+# the entire helper block immediately before that, so MB5's prior block (if
+# present) is preserved and our block lives in module scope. The anchor must
+# stay outside our own START/END markers so revert() can re-find it.
+HEADER_ANCHOR = "class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):"
+
+HEADER_INSERT = f"""{START_MARK}
+import json as _dm_json
+import os as _dm_os
+import threading as _dm_threading
+import time as _dm_time
+_DM_LOG_DIR = _dm_os.environ.get("DM_LOG_DIR", "/tmp")
+try:
+    _dm_os.makedirs(_DM_LOG_DIR, exist_ok=True)
+except Exception:
+    pass
+_DM_LOG_PATH = _dm_os.path.join(
+    _DM_LOG_DIR, f"dm_mig_pid{{_dm_os.getpid()}}.jsonl"
+)
+_DM_LOG_FILE = None
+_DM_LOG_LOCK = _dm_threading.Lock()
+# req_id -> in-flight record. We pop and flush when t_first_token lands or on
+# finish/abort.
+_DM_DATA: dict = {{}}
+
+
+def _dm_write_event(d: dict) -> None:
+    global _DM_LOG_FILE
+    if _DM_LOG_FILE is None:
+        _DM_LOG_FILE = open(_DM_LOG_PATH, "a", buffering=1)
+    with _DM_LOG_LOCK:
+        _DM_LOG_FILE.write(_dm_json.dumps(d) + "\\n")
+
+
+def _dm_is_migrated(request) -> bool:
+    ktp = getattr(request, "kv_transfer_params", None)
+    if not isinstance(ktp, dict):
+        return False
+    return bool(ktp.get("do_remote_prefill"))
+
+
+def _dm_snapshot_arrival(scheduler) -> dict:
+    try:
+        n_running = len(scheduler.running)
+    except Exception:
+        n_running = -1
+    try:
+        n_waiting_main = len(scheduler.waiting)
+    except Exception:
+        n_waiting_main = -1
+    try:
+        n_skipped = len(scheduler.skipped_waiting)
+    except Exception:
+        n_skipped = 0
+    pending_tok = 0
+    n_kv = 0
+    try:
+        from vllm.v1.request import RequestStatus as _RS
+        for r in list(scheduler.waiting):
+            try:
+                if getattr(r, "status", None) == _RS.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS:
+                    n_kv += 1
+                npr = int(getattr(r, "num_prompt_tokens", 0))
+                nct = int(getattr(r, "num_computed_tokens", 0))
+                pending_tok += max(0, npr - nct)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+        for r in list(scheduler.skipped_waiting):
+            try:
+                if getattr(r, "status", None) == _RS.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS:
+                    n_kv += 1
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return {{
+        "n_running": int(n_running),
+        "n_waiting": int(n_waiting_main + n_skipped),
+        "pending_prefill_tok": int(pending_tok),
+        "n_waiting_for_kvs": int(n_kv),
+    }}
+
+
+def _dm_emit_and_drop(req_id: str, reason: str = "first_token") -> None:
+    rec = _DM_DATA.pop(req_id, None)
+    if rec is None:
+        return
+    rec["flush_reason"] = reason
+    rec["t_flush_unix"] = _dm_time.time()
+    _dm_write_event(rec)
+
+
+{END_MARK}
+
+
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 2: add_request() hook --------------------------------------
+# Right after self.requests[request.request_id] = request (line ~1927) and the
+# if self.log_stats: block. Anchor includes the QUEUED record_event line so it
+# is uniquely matchable.
+ADD_REQUEST_ANCHOR = """            self._enqueue_waiting_request(request)
+            self.requests[request.request_id] = request
+            if self.log_stats:
+                request.record_event(EngineCoreEventType.QUEUED)
+"""
+
+ADD_REQUEST_REPLACE = f"""            self._enqueue_waiting_request(request)
+            self.requests[request.request_id] = request
+            if self.log_stats:
+                request.record_event(EngineCoreEventType.QUEUED)
+            {START_MARK}
+            try:
+                if _dm_is_migrated(request):
+                    _DM_DATA[request.request_id] = {{
+                        "req_id": str(request.request_id),
+                        "is_migrated": True,
+                        "n_prompt_tokens": int(getattr(request, "num_prompt_tokens", 0)),
+                        "t_arrival_unix": _dm_time.time(),
+                        "t_wait_for_kvs_unix": None,
+                        "t_kv_recv_done_unix": None,
+                        "t_first_scheduled_unix": None,
+                        "t_first_token_unix": None,
+                        "arrival_state": _dm_snapshot_arrival(self),
+                    }}
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            {END_MARK}
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 3: WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS transition -----------------------
+WAIT_KV_ANCHOR = """                    request.status = RequestStatus.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS
+                    step_skipped_waiting.prepend_request(request)
+"""
+
+WAIT_KV_REPLACE = f"""                    request.status = RequestStatus.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS
+                    {START_MARK}
+                    try:
+                        _rec = _DM_DATA.get(request.request_id)
+                        if _rec is not None and _rec["t_wait_for_kvs_unix"] is None:
+                            _rec["t_wait_for_kvs_unix"] = _dm_time.time()
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+                    {END_MARK}
+                    step_skipped_waiting.prepend_request(request)
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 4: finished_recving signal ---------------------------------
+FINISHED_RECV_ANCHOR = """            if req.status == RequestStatus.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS:
+                self.finished_recving_kv_req_ids.add(req_id)
+            elif RequestStatus.is_finished(req.status):
+"""
+
+FINISHED_RECV_REPLACE = f"""            if req.status == RequestStatus.WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS:
+                self.finished_recving_kv_req_ids.add(req_id)
+                {START_MARK}
+                try:
+                    _rec = _DM_DATA.get(req_id)
+                    if _rec is not None and _rec["t_kv_recv_done_unix"] is None:
+                        _rec["t_kv_recv_done_unix"] = _dm_time.time()
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+                {END_MARK}
+            elif RequestStatus.is_finished(req.status):
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 5: first scheduled (sweep at end of schedule()) ------------
+# Co-exists with the MB5 snapshot inserted at the same location.
+SCHED_END_ANCHOR = """        # MB5_INSTRUMENT_START
+        _mb5_snapshot(self)
+        # MB5_INSTRUMENT_END
+        return scheduler_output
+"""
+
+SCHED_END_REPLACE = f"""        # MB5_INSTRUMENT_START
+        _mb5_snapshot(self)
+        # MB5_INSTRUMENT_END
+        {START_MARK}
+        try:
+            if _DM_DATA:
+                _now_dm = _dm_time.time()
+                for _r in self.running:
+                    _rec = _DM_DATA.get(_r.request_id)
+                    if _rec is not None and _rec["t_first_scheduled_unix"] is None:
+                        _rec["t_first_scheduled_unix"] = _now_dm
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        {END_MARK}
+        return scheduler_output
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 6: first new token in update_from_output -------------------
+FIRST_TOK_ANCHOR = """            # Check for stop and update request status.
+            if new_token_ids:
+                new_token_ids, stopped = self._update_request_with_output(
+                    request, new_token_ids
+                )
+"""
+
+FIRST_TOK_REPLACE = f"""            # Check for stop and update request status.
+            if new_token_ids:
+                {START_MARK}
+                try:
+                    _rec = _DM_DATA.get(request.request_id)
+                    if _rec is not None and _rec["t_first_token_unix"] is None:
+                        _rec["t_first_token_unix"] = _dm_time.time()
+                        _dm_emit_and_drop(request.request_id, reason="first_token")
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+                {END_MARK}
+                new_token_ids, stopped = self._update_request_with_output(
+                    request, new_token_ids
+                )
+"""
+
+# ---------- Patch 7: abort/finish — flush partial record ---------------------
+FINISH_ANCHOR = """            request.status = finished_status
+            self._free_request(request, delay_free_blocks=delay_free_blocks)
+"""
+
+FINISH_REPLACE = f"""            request.status = finished_status
+            {START_MARK}
+            try:
+                if request.request_id in _DM_DATA:
+                    _dm_emit_and_drop(request.request_id, reason="finish_or_abort")
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            {END_MARK}
+            self._free_request(request, delay_free_blocks=delay_free_blocks)
+"""
+
+PATCHES = [
+    ("header",            HEADER_ANCHOR,         HEADER_INSERT + HEADER_ANCHOR),
+    ("add_request",       ADD_REQUEST_ANCHOR,    ADD_REQUEST_REPLACE),
+    ("wait_for_kvs",      WAIT_KV_ANCHOR,        WAIT_KV_REPLACE),
+    ("finished_recving",  FINISHED_RECV_ANCHOR,  FINISHED_RECV_REPLACE),
+    ("first_scheduled",   SCHED_END_ANCHOR,      SCHED_END_REPLACE),
+    ("first_token",       FIRST_TOK_ANCHOR,      FIRST_TOK_REPLACE),
+    ("finish_flush",      FINISH_ANCHOR,         FINISH_REPLACE),
+]
+
+
+def find_target(venv_or_path: Path) -> Path:
+    candidates = [venv_or_path / TARGET_REL, DEFAULT_VENV / TARGET_REL]
+    for c in candidates:
+        if c.is_file():
+            return c
+    raise FileNotFoundError(f"cannot find {TARGET_REL} under {venv_or_path}")
+
+
+def is_patched(text: str) -> bool:
+    return START_MARK in text
+
+
+def apply(target: Path) -> None:
+    text = target.read_text()
+    if is_patched(text):
+        print(f"[dm-instr] already patched: {target}")
+        return
+    new = text
+    for name, src, dst in PATCHES:
+        if src not in new:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"patch {name!r}: anchor not found in {target}. "
+                f"Anchor head: {src.splitlines()[0]!r}"
+            )
+        new = new.replace(src, dst, 1)
+    target.write_text(new)
+    print(f"[dm-instr] applied {len(PATCHES)} patches -> {target}")
+
+
+def revert(target: Path) -> None:
+    text = target.read_text()
+    if not is_patched(text):
+        print(f"[dm-instr] not patched (nothing to revert): {target}")
+        return
+    # Strip our DM_* block, including the trailing newline that
+    # terminated the END_MARK line. We do NOT collapse other blank-line
+    # runs (MB5_* whitespace and original spacing between methods are
+    # preserved).
+    pat = re.compile(
+        r"[ \t]*" + re.escape(START_MARK) + r".*?" + re.escape(END_MARK) + r"\n",
+        flags=re.DOTALL,
+    )
+    new = pat.sub("", text)
+    # The header insert added a leading "# DM_INSTRUMENT_START\n" with
+    # two trailing blank lines and the anchor; revert removed the block
+    # plus its trailing newline, leaving one extra blank line before the
+    # class — harmless. We additionally collapse the very narrow case of
+    # "\n\n\nclass Scheduler" -> "\n\nclass Scheduler" so revert is
+    # byte-identical for that anchor.
+    new = re.sub(r"\n{3,}class Scheduler\(", "\n\nclass Scheduler(", new)
+    target.write_text(new)
+    print(f"[dm-instr] reverted: {target}")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--apply", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--revert", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--check", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--venv", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_VENV)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+    target = find_target(args.venv)
+    if args.apply:
+        apply(target)
+    elif args.revert:
+        revert(target)
+    elif args.check:
+        state = "PATCHED" if is_patched(target.read_text()) else "CLEAN"
+        print(f"[dm-instr] {state}: {target}")
+    else:
+        p.error("specify --apply / --revert / --check")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_kv_snapshot.py

@@ -194,24 +194,35 @@ MOONCAKE_PATCHES = [
 ]
 
 # ---------- Patch 4: vLLM 0.18.1 PD-consumer metrics counter underflow ------
-# In PromptTokenStats.update_from_output, local_cache_hit is computed as
-# (num_cached_tokens + recomputed - num_external_computed_tokens). On a
-# kv_consumer, a remote KV transfer can report more external-computed tokens
-# than the scheduler's cached count (esp. on a KV-load failure for a large
-# request), driving local_cache_hit negative. loggers.record() then calls
-# Counter.inc() with that negative value and prometheus_client raises
+# On a kv_consumer, a KV-load failure (Mooncake transfer returns -1 when the
+# D-pool is full) makes vLLM emit an iteration-stats "correction" with NEGATIVE
+# token deltas: PromptTokenStats fields (local_cache_hit, cached_tokens, ...)
+# AND iteration_stats.{num_prompt_tokens, num_generation_tokens} all go below
+# zero. Every Counter.inc() in loggers.record() then trips prometheus_client's
 # "Counters can only be incremented by non-negative amounts.", which kills the
 # EngineCore — turning one failed request into a total config collapse.
-# We clamp the per-source counts to >= 0 right before they are recorded.
-LOGGERS_ANCHOR = "        pts = iteration_stats.prompt_token_stats\n"
+#
+# Clamp every field that feeds a Counter.inc() in record() to >= 0. We anchor
+# right after the `if iteration_stats is None: return` guard so the clamp runs
+# before the first inc() (the corrupted-requests / preempted / prompt-token
+# counters at the top of the method).
+LOGGERS_ANCHOR = "        if iteration_stats is None:\n            return\n"
 LOGGERS_INSERT = (
     f"        {START_MARK}\n"
-    f"        if pts.local_cache_hit < 0:\n"
-    f"            pts.local_cache_hit = 0\n"
-    f"        if pts.computed < 0:\n"
-    f"            pts.computed = 0\n"
-    f"        if pts.external_kv_transfer < 0:\n"
-    f"            pts.external_kv_transfer = 0\n"
+    f"        _mb5_pts = iteration_stats.prompt_token_stats\n"
+    f"        for _mb5_o, _mb5_a in (\n"
+    f"            (iteration_stats, 'num_prompt_tokens'),\n"
+    f"            (iteration_stats, 'num_generation_tokens'),\n"
+    f"            (iteration_stats, 'num_preempted_reqs'),\n"
+    f"            (iteration_stats, 'num_corrupted_reqs'),\n"
+    f"            (_mb5_pts, 'computed'),\n"
+    f"            (_mb5_pts, 'local_cache_hit'),\n"
+    f"            (_mb5_pts, 'external_kv_transfer'),\n"
+    f"            (_mb5_pts, 'cached_tokens'),\n"
+    f"            (_mb5_pts, 'recomputed_tokens'),\n"
+    f"        ):\n"
+    f"            if getattr(_mb5_o, _mb5_a, 0) < 0:\n"
+    f"                setattr(_mb5_o, _mb5_a, 0)\n"
     f"        {END_MARK}\n"
 )
 

microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_mooncake.py

@@ -151,11 +151,65 @@ RECV_FINISH_REPLACE = f"""                    if response.status == MooncakeXfer
                         {END_MARK}
                         break"""
 
+# ---- Patch 5: send_kv_to_decode entry (P-side, producer receives pull req) ----
+
+SEND_ENTRY_TARGET = """    async def send_kv_to_decode(
+        self, identity: bytes, sock: zmq.asyncio.Socket, meta: MooncakeXferMetadata
+    ):
+        pending_reqs: dict[ReqId, SendBlockMeta] = {}"""
+
+SEND_ENTRY_REPLACE = f"""    async def send_kv_to_decode(
+        self, identity: bytes, sock: zmq.asyncio.Socket, meta: MooncakeXferMetadata
+    ):
+        pending_reqs: dict[ReqId, SendBlockMeta] = {{}}
+        {START_MARK}
+        try:
+            _mb2_log_event({{"event": "send_kv_to_decode_enter",
+                              "d_req_ids": [str(r) for r in meta.req_blocks],
+                              "t_start_unix": _mb2_time.time(),
+                              "tp_rank": getattr(self, "tp_rank", -1)}})
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        {END_MARK}"""
+
+# ---- Patch 6: wait_and_ret ready-wait timing (P-side, src KV commit wait) ----
+
+READY_WAIT_TARGET = """        async def wait_and_ret(
+            d_req_id: ReqId, send_meta: SendBlockMeta
+        ) -> tuple[ReqId, SendBlockMeta]:
+            await send_meta.ready.wait()
+            return d_req_id, send_meta"""
+
+READY_WAIT_REPLACE = f"""        async def wait_and_ret(
+            d_req_id: ReqId, send_meta: SendBlockMeta
+        ) -> tuple[ReqId, SendBlockMeta]:
+            {START_MARK}
+            _mb2_rw_start = _mb2_time.perf_counter()
+            _mb2_rw_start_unix = _mb2_time.time()
+            _mb2_rw_already = send_meta.ready.is_set()
+            {END_MARK}
+            await send_meta.ready.wait()
+            {START_MARK}
+            try:
+                _mb2_log_event({{"event": "ready_wait",
+                                  "d_req_id": str(d_req_id),
+                                  "transfer_id": str(getattr(send_meta, "transfer_id", "")),
+                                  "ready_already_set": bool(_mb2_rw_already),
+                                  "ready_wait_s": _mb2_time.perf_counter() - _mb2_rw_start,
+                                  "t_start_unix": _mb2_rw_start_unix,
+                                  "tp_rank": getattr(self, "tp_rank", -1)}})
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            {END_MARK}
+            return d_req_id, send_meta"""
+
 PATCHES = [
     ("header",               HEADER_ANCHOR,      HEADER_ANCHOR + HEADER_INSERT),
     ("_send_blocks",         SEND_TARGET,        SEND_REPLACE),
     ("receive_kv (entry)",   RECV_ENTRY_TARGET,  RECV_ENTRY_REPLACE),
     ("receive_kv (FINISH)",  RECV_FINISH_TARGET, RECV_FINISH_REPLACE),
+    ("send_kv (entry)",      SEND_ENTRY_TARGET,  SEND_ENTRY_REPLACE),
+    ("ready_wait",           READY_WAIT_TARGET,  READY_WAIT_REPLACE),
 ]
 
 

microbench/fresh_setup/mb5_launch.sh

@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 
 FRESH_ROOT="/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv-fresh"
-VENV="${FRESH_ROOT}/.venv"
+# MB5_VENV lets a second host use an isolated venv clone (e.g. .venv_dash0) so
+# two boxes can run in parallel without racing on the shared cpfs venv patch.
+VENV="${MB5_VENV:-${FRESH_ROOT}/.venv}"
 MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 INSTRUMENT="${SCRIPT_DIR}/instrument_kv_snapshot.py"
@@ -86,12 +88,16 @@ case "${1:-start}" in
 esac
 
 # --- parse CONFIG into (prefill_gpus, decode_gpus) ----------------
+USE_COLO_PROXY=0
 case "${CONFIG}" in
     8C)        ROLES="combined"; P_GPUS=""; D_GPUS=""; COMBINED_GPUS="0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7" ;;
+    8C-proxy)  ROLES="combined"; USE_COLO_PROXY=1; P_GPUS=""; D_GPUS=""; COMBINED_GPUS="0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7" ;;
     6P+2D)     ROLES="pd"; P_GPUS="0,1,2,3,4,5"; D_GPUS="6,7" ;;
+    5P+3D)     ROLES="pd"; P_GPUS="0,1,2,3,4"; D_GPUS="5,6,7" ;;
     4P+4D)     ROLES="pd"; P_GPUS="0,1,2,3"; D_GPUS="4,5,6,7" ;;
+    3P+5D)     ROLES="pd"; P_GPUS="0,1,2"; D_GPUS="3,4,5,6,7" ;;
     2P+6D)     ROLES="pd"; P_GPUS="0,1"; D_GPUS="2,3,4,5,6,7" ;;
-    *) echo "Unknown CONFIG=${CONFIG} (expected: 8C, 6P+2D, 4P+4D, 2P+6D)"; exit 1;;
+    *) echo "Unknown CONFIG=${CONFIG} (expected: 8C, 8C-proxy, 6P+2D, 5P+3D, 4P+4D, 3P+5D, 2P+6D)"; exit 1;;
 esac
 
 stop_all
@@ -135,6 +141,7 @@ launch_vllm() {
 
 idx=0
 proxy_args=()
+colo_args=()
 ENDPOINTS=""
 
 case "${ROLES}" in
@@ -145,6 +152,7 @@ case "${ROLES}" in
             bp=$((BASE_BP+idx))
             launch_vllm "${idx}" "${gpu}" "${port}" "kv_both" "${bp}"
             ENDPOINTS+="${ENDPOINTS:+,}http://127.0.0.1:${port}"
+            colo_args+=( --colo "http://127.0.0.1:${port}" )
             idx=$((idx+1))
             sleep 1
         done
@@ -213,6 +221,25 @@ if [ "${ROLES}" = "pd" ]; then
     ENDPOINTS="http://127.0.0.1:${PROXY_PORT}"
 fi
 
+if [ "${USE_COLO_PROXY}" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "[mb5] launching colo passthrough proxy on ${PROXY_PORT} (8 kv_both instances)"
+    nohup python "${PROXY_SRC}" "${colo_args[@]}" --port "${PROXY_PORT}" --host 0.0.0.0 \
+        > "${LOGS_DIR}/proxy.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "http://127.0.0.1:${PROXY_PORT}/" 2>/dev/null | grep -qE "^[0-9]"; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ ${tries} -gt 60 ]; then
+            echo "[mb5] FATAL colo proxy did not come up in 2 min"
+            tail -40 "${LOGS_DIR}/proxy.log" || true
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  colo proxy port=${PROXY_PORT} ready (HTTP responding)"
+    ENDPOINTS="http://127.0.0.1:${PROXY_PORT}"
+fi
+
 echo "[mb5] CONFIG=${CONFIG}  RUN_LABEL=${RUN_LABEL}  UP"
 echo "ENDPOINTS=${ENDPOINTS}"
 echo "RUN_ROOT=${RUN_ROOT}"

microbench/fresh_setup/mb5_pd_proxy.py

@@ -72,8 +72,32 @@ async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
     # Startup: Initialize client pools for prefiller and decoder services
     app.state.prefill_clients = []
     app.state.decode_clients = []
+    app.state.colo_clients = []
     app.state.ready = asyncio.Event()
 
+    # Colo (PD-combined) passthrough mode: no bootstrap handshake needed.
+    if global_args.colo:
+        for url in global_args.colo:
+            app.state.colo_clients.append({
+                "client": httpx.AsyncClient(
+                    timeout=None,
+                    base_url=url,
+                    trust_env=False,  # ignore http_proxy env: backends are localhost
+                    limits=httpx.Limits(
+                        max_connections=None,
+                        max_keepalive_connections=None,
+                    ),
+                ),
+                "url": url,
+            })
+        app.state.colo_iterator = itertools.cycle(range(len(app.state.colo_clients)))
+        app.state.ready.set()
+        print(f"Colo passthrough mode: {len(app.state.colo_clients)} kv_both clients.")
+        yield
+        for client_info in app.state.colo_clients:
+            await client_info["client"].aclose()
+        return
+
     # Create prefill clients
     for i, (url, bootstrap_port) in enumerate(global_args.prefill):
         parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
@@ -169,9 +193,25 @@ def parse_args():
         help="Decode server URL. Can be specified multiple times.",
     )
 
+    # MB5: colocated (PD-combined) instances. When given, the proxy runs in
+    # "colo" mode — it round-robins /v1/completions to these kv_both instances
+    # with a plain streaming passthrough (no P->D split, no kv_transfer_params).
+    # This exists so the 8C baseline pays the SAME proxy hop as PD configs,
+    # removing the "8C bypasses the proxy" confound from the comparison.
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--colo",
+        nargs=1,
+        action="append",
+        dest="colo_raw",
+        metavar=("URL",),
+        help="Colocated (kv_both) server URL. Can be specified multiple times. "
+             "Enables colo passthrough mode.",
+    )
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
     args.prefill = _parse_prefill_urls(args.prefill_raw)
     args.decode = _parse_decode_urls(args.decode_raw)
+    args.colo = [u[0] for u in args.colo_raw] if args.colo_raw else []
 
     return args
 
@@ -235,6 +275,14 @@ def _parse_decode_urls(decode_list):
 # Decode side stays round-robin (load balance) regardless.
 MB5_P_ROUTING = os.environ.get("MB5_P_ROUTING", "rr").lower()
 
+# MB5: routing mode for the COLO (kv_both) passthrough proxy.
+#   "rr"      — round-robin (loses session-local prefix cache)
+#   "session" — consistent hash on X-Session-Id, so all turns of a session land
+#               on the same kv_both instance and reuse its prefix cache. This is
+#               the cache-aware colo baseline (the fair strong baseline for the
+#               agentic reuse regime — D4).
+MB5_COLO_ROUTING = os.environ.get("MB5_COLO_ROUTING", "rr").lower()
+
 
 def get_prefill_by_session(app, session_id: str):
     """Pick a (prefill_client, dp_rank) deterministically from session_id.
@@ -340,7 +388,58 @@ async def stream_service_response(
             yield chunk
 
 
+async def stream_colo_response(
+    colo_client_info: dict, endpoint: str, req_data: dict, headers: dict
+):
+    """Plain streaming passthrough to one colocated (kv_both) instance.
+
+    The request body is forwarded unchanged (stream/min_tokens/stream_options
+    all preserved) so the replayer's streaming + usage parsing works exactly
+    as it does when it talks to a colo instance directly.
+    """
+    async with colo_client_info["client"].stream(
+        "POST", endpoint, json=req_data, headers=headers
+    ) as response:
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        async for chunk in response.aiter_bytes():
+            yield chunk
+
+
+async def _handle_colo(api: str, request: Request):
+    if not app.state.ready.is_set():
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Service Unavailable")
+
+    req_data = await request.json()
+    request_id = request.headers.get("X-Request-Id") or str(uuid.uuid4())
+    headers = {"X-Request-Id": request_id}
+    session_id = request.headers.get("X-Session-Id")
+    if session_id:
+        headers["X-Session-Id"] = session_id
+    key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
+    if key:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {key}"
+
+    if MB5_COLO_ROUTING == "session" and session_id:
+        # consistent hash -> same kv_both instance reuses its prefix cache
+        h = int(hashlib.md5(session_id.encode()).hexdigest()[:8], 16)
+        idx = h % len(app.state.colo_clients)
+    else:
+        idx = next(app.state.colo_iterator)
+    colo_client_info = app.state.colo_clients[idx]
+
+    async def generate_stream():
+        async for chunk in stream_colo_response(
+            colo_client_info, api, req_data, headers
+        ):
+            yield chunk
+
+    return StreamingResponse(generate_stream(), media_type="text/event-stream")
+
+
 async def _handle_completions(api: str, request: Request):
+    if getattr(global_args, "colo", None):
+        return await _handle_colo(api, request)
+
     if not app.state.ready.is_set():
         raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Service Unavailable")
 

microbench/fresh_setup/mb5_run.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 
 FRESH_ROOT="/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv-fresh"
-VENV="${FRESH_ROOT}/.venv"
+# MB5_VENV lets a second host use an isolated venv clone (see mb5_launch.sh).
+VENV="${MB5_VENV:-${FRESH_ROOT}/.venv}"
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 LAUNCH="${SCRIPT_DIR}/mb5_launch.sh"
 REPLAYER_DIR="${FRESH_ROOT}/replayer"
@@ -91,6 +92,19 @@ run_one() {
     echo "[mb5-run] replay done in ${wall_clock_s}s"
     echo "${wall_clock_s}" > "${rundir}/wall_clock_s.txt"
 
+    # Per-instance prefix-cache counters, scraped from each backend BEFORE
+    # teardown. For PD this is the only honest reuse signal: producer ports
+    # (the low ones) show cross-turn prefix-cache hits; the consumer's
+    # per-request cached_tokens is meaningless (it counts transferred KV).
+    {
+        for p in 8000 8001 8002 8003 8004 8005 8006 8007; do
+            m=$(curl -s --noproxy '*' "http://127.0.0.1:${p}/metrics" 2>/dev/null) || continue
+            q=$(printf '%s' "$m" | awk '/^vllm:prefix_cache_queries_total/{print $2; exit}')
+            h=$(printf '%s' "$m" | awk '/^vllm:prefix_cache_hits_total/{print $2; exit}')
+            [ -n "${q}" ] && echo "port=${p} queries=${q} hits=${h}"
+        done
+    } > "${rundir}/instance_apc.txt" 2>/dev/null || true
+
     # Stop launch (cleans up vllm + proxy; reverts patch on last call)
     CONFIG="${config}" RUN_LABEL="${RUN_TAG}_${config}_rep${rep}" \
         bash "${LAUNCH}" stop > "${OUT_ROOT}/${config}_rep${rep}_stop.log" 2>&1 || true

microbench/fresh_setup/mb6_transfer_under_load.py

@@ -0,0 +1,261 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""MB6: KV-transfer bandwidth vs instance busy-ness.
+
+Confirms the causal hypothesis from the v3 breakdown: the migration
+transfer runs far below wire speed because it happens between instances
+that are concurrently busy with compute (GIL-starved control plane +
+HBM/NIC contention), NOT because of a wire/NIC limit.
+
+Method (reuses the MB2 transfer primitive):
+  prefill on A (do_remote_decode, max_tokens=1) -> migrate to B
+  (do_remote_prefill). Time step 2 = the KV transfer.
+
+For each background-load level B in --bg-loads, we hold B concurrent
+long-decode streams on BOTH instances to keep them busy, then run
+--repeats measured transfers per size. With the MB2 mooncake instrument
+applied (MB2_LOG_DIR set), the analyzer can split the e2e transfer into
+RDMA-actual (`send_blocks`) vs control-plane.
+
+Expected: bg=0 reproduces MB2 (~10 GB/s); higher bg degrades toward the
+~2-3 GB/s seen in the v3 trace.
+
+Usage:
+  python mb6_transfer_under_load.py \
+    --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 \
+    --sizes 16384,65536 --bg-loads 0,8,24 --repeats 4 \
+    --out mb6_result.json
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import json
+import statistics
+import time
+import uuid
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import httpx
+
+MODEL_PATH = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+KV_PER_TOK = 98304  # Qwen3-30B-A3B est bytes/token
+
+
+def synth_prompt(seed: int, n: int) -> list[int]:
+    import random
+    rng = random.Random(seed)
+    return [rng.randint(100, 150000) for _ in range(n)]
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client, host, bp):
+    r = await client.get(f"http://{host}:{bp}/query")
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    return r.json()["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+async def completion(client, host, port, prompt, max_tokens, ktp=None, stream=False):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL_PATH, "prompt": prompt, "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0, "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if ktp:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = ktp
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    if stream:
+        # consume the stream to keep the instance decoding
+        async with client.stream("POST", f"http://{host}:{port}/v1/completions",
+                                 json=payload, timeout=600.0) as r:
+            r.raise_for_status()
+            async for _ in r.aiter_bytes():
+                pass
+        return time.perf_counter() - t0, {}
+    r = await client.post(f"http://{host}:{port}/v1/completions",
+                          json=payload, timeout=600.0)
+    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    return elapsed, r.json()
+
+
+async def num_running(client, host, port) -> int:
+    """Read vLLM running-request gauge from /metrics."""
+    try:
+        r = await client.get(f"http://{host}:{port}/metrics", timeout=5.0)
+        for line in r.text.splitlines():
+            if line.startswith("vllm:num_requests_running"):
+                return int(float(line.split()[-1]))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return -1
+
+
+class BackgroundLoad:
+    """Maintain N concurrent long-decode streams on a set of (host,port)."""
+    def __init__(self, client, endpoints, concurrency, prompt_tokens=2000,
+                 out_tokens=6000):
+        self.client = client
+        self.endpoints = endpoints
+        self.concurrency = concurrency
+        self.prompt_tokens = prompt_tokens
+        self.out_tokens = out_tokens
+        self._stop = asyncio.Event()
+        self._tasks: list[asyncio.Task] = []
+
+    async def _worker(self, idx):
+        host, port = self.endpoints[idx % len(self.endpoints)]
+        seed = 900000 + idx
+        while not self._stop.is_set():
+            prompt = synth_prompt(seed, self.prompt_tokens)
+            seed += 1
+            try:
+                await completion(self.client, host, port, prompt,
+                                 max_tokens=self.out_tokens, stream=True)
+            except Exception:
+                await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
+
+    def start(self):
+        self._tasks = [asyncio.create_task(self._worker(i))
+                       for i in range(self.concurrency)]
+
+    async def stop(self):
+        self._stop.set()
+        for t in self._tasks:
+            t.cancel()
+        await asyncio.gather(*self._tasks, return_exceptions=True)
+        self._tasks = []
+
+
+async def measure_transfer(client, src_host, src_port, dst_host, dst_port,
+                           src_eid, src_bootstrap_addr, input_tokens, seed):
+    prompt = synth_prompt(seed, input_tokens)
+    transfer_id = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    # step 1: prefill on A
+    await completion(client, src_host, src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+                     ktp={"do_remote_decode": True, "transfer_id": transfer_id})
+    # step 2: migrate to B (this is the timed transfer)
+    t_start_unix = time.time()
+    t_xfer, _ = await completion(
+        client, dst_host, dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+        ktp={"do_remote_prefill": True, "transfer_id": transfer_id,
+             "remote_engine_id": src_eid,
+             "remote_bootstrap_addr": src_bootstrap_addr})
+    return {
+        "input_tokens": input_tokens,
+        "t_transfer_s": t_xfer,
+        "t_step2_start_unix": t_start_unix,
+        "t_step2_end_unix": time.time(),
+        "kv_bytes": input_tokens * KV_PER_TOK,
+        "eff_gbps": input_tokens * KV_PER_TOK / 1e9 / t_xfer if t_xfer > 0 else 0,
+    }
+
+
+async def main_async(a):
+    sizes = [int(s) for s in a.sizes.split(",")]
+    bg_loads = [int(s) for s in a.bg_loads.split(",")]
+    src_host, dst_host = a.src_host, a.dst_host
+    limits = httpx.Limits(max_connections=256, max_keepalive_connections=256)
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(limits=limits, trust_env=False) as client:
+        src_eid = await get_engine_id(client, src_host, a.src_bp)
+        src_bootstrap_addr = f"http://{src_host}:{a.src_bp}"
+        print(f"[mb6] src eid={src_eid[:16]}...  endpoints A={src_host}:{a.src_port} "
+              f"B={dst_host}:{a.dst_port}")
+
+        endpoints = [(src_host, a.src_port), (dst_host, a.dst_port)]
+        results = []
+        for bg in bg_loads:
+            loader = None
+            if bg > 0:
+                loader = BackgroundLoad(client, endpoints, bg,
+                                        prompt_tokens=a.bg_prompt,
+                                        out_tokens=a.bg_out)
+                loader.start()
+                # wait for instances to actually be busy
+                print(f"[mb6] bg={bg}: ramping background load ...")
+                for _ in range(40):
+                    await asyncio.sleep(1.0)
+                    na = await num_running(client, src_host, a.src_port)
+                    nb = await num_running(client, dst_host, a.dst_port)
+                    if na >= 1 and nb >= 1:
+                        print(f"[mb6] bg={bg}: busy (A running={na} B running={nb})")
+                        break
+            else:
+                print(f"[mb6] bg=0: idle baseline")
+                # ensure idle
+                await asyncio.sleep(2.0)
+
+            for sz in sizes:
+                for rep in range(a.repeats):
+                    na = await num_running(client, src_host, a.src_port)
+                    nb = await num_running(client, dst_host, a.dst_port)
+                    row = await measure_transfer(
+                        client, src_host, a.src_port, dst_host, a.dst_port,
+                        src_eid, src_bootstrap_addr, sz, seed=sz * 100 + rep + bg * 7)
+                    row["bg_load"] = bg
+                    row["A_running_at_measure"] = na
+                    row["B_running_at_measure"] = nb
+                    results.append(row)
+                    kv_mib = sz * KV_PER_TOK / 2**20
+                    print(f"  bg={bg:>3} size={sz:>6} ({kv_mib:6.0f}MiB) rep={rep} "
+                          f"A_run={na:>2} B_run={nb:>2} "
+                          f"transfer={row['t_transfer_s']*1000:7.0f}ms "
+                          f"eff={row['eff_gbps']:5.2f}GB/s")
+
+            if loader:
+                await loader.stop()
+                # let the instances drain before next bg level
+                print(f"[mb6] bg={bg}: draining ...")
+                for _ in range(60):
+                    await asyncio.sleep(1.0)
+                    na = await num_running(client, src_host, a.src_port)
+                    nb = await num_running(client, dst_host, a.dst_port)
+                    if na <= 0 and nb <= 0:
+                        break
+
+    # summary per (bg, size)
+    print("\n=== summary: effective transfer bandwidth vs background load ===")
+    print(f"{'bg':>4} {'size':>7} {'n':>3} {'xfer_p50_ms':>12} {'eff_p50_GBps':>13} "
+          f"{'eff_mean':>9}")
+    summary = []
+    for bg in bg_loads:
+        for sz in sizes:
+            rs = [r for r in results if r["bg_load"] == bg and r["input_tokens"] == sz]
+            if not rs:
+                continue
+            xfer = sorted(r["t_transfer_s"] for r in rs)
+            eff = sorted(r["eff_gbps"] for r in rs)
+            p50x = xfer[len(xfer) // 2]
+            p50e = eff[len(eff) // 2]
+            meane = statistics.mean(eff)
+            summary.append({"bg": bg, "size": sz, "n": len(rs),
+                            "xfer_p50_ms": p50x * 1000,
+                            "eff_p50_gbps": p50e, "eff_mean_gbps": meane})
+            print(f"{bg:>4} {sz:>7} {len(rs):>3} {p50x*1000:>12.0f} "
+                  f"{p50e:>13.2f} {meane:>9.2f}")
+
+    Path(a.out).write_text(json.dumps(
+        {"model": MODEL_PATH, "kv_bytes_per_token": KV_PER_TOK,
+         "label": a.label, "raw": results, "summary": summary}, indent=2))
+    print(f"\n[mb6] wrote {a.out}")
+
+
+def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    p.add_argument("--dst-host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--sizes", default="16384,65536")
+    p.add_argument("--bg-loads", default="0,8,24")
+    p.add_argument("--repeats", type=int, default=4)
+    p.add_argument("--bg-prompt", type=int, default=2000)
+    p.add_argument("--bg-out", type=int, default=6000)
+    p.add_argument("--label", default="main-venv")
+    p.add_argument("--out", default="mb6_result.json")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+    asyncio.run(main_async(args))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/mutate_trace.py

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+"""Reverse-ablation trace surgeon for the PD-disagg crossover study.
+
+Takes the REAL agentic trace and neutralizes ONE agentic property at a time,
+so we can see which removal restores PD-disagg to parity with colocation.
+This is the subtractive complement to the additive synthetic sweep (D1-D5).
+
+Neutralizations (compose freely; each defaults to off):
+  --set-output N     set every output_length to N      (kill short-output -> test decode-benefit starvation)
+  --max-input N      clamp input_length to N, truncating hash_ids to ceil(N/512)
+                                                         (kill huge-prefill -> test prefill-bound bottleneck)
+  --uniform-arrival  respace requests evenly over the original span, order preserved
+                                                         (kill burstiness -> test arrival variance)
+  --unique-hash      replace all hash_ids with globally-unique ids
+                                                         (kill intra-session reuse -> test cache/affinity)
+  --max-turns N      keep only the first N turns of each session
+                                                         (flatten session skew / heavy tail)
+
+The schema is preserved so the replayer consumes the output unchanged.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import math
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+
+BLOCK_SIZE = 512
+UNIQUE_HASH_BASE = 2_000_000_000
+
+
+def load_rows(path: Path) -> list[dict]:
+    rows = []
+    with path.open() as fh:
+        for line in fh:
+            line = line.strip()
+            if line:
+                rows.append(json.loads(line))
+    return rows
+
+
+def resolve_session(row: dict, chat_to_session: dict) -> str:
+    if "session_id" in row:
+        return str(row["session_id"])
+    cid, pid = int(row["chat_id"]), int(row["parent_chat_id"])
+    sid = str(cid) if pid < 0 else chat_to_session.get(pid, str(pid))
+    chat_to_session[cid] = sid
+    return sid
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    p.add_argument("--input", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--output", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--set-output", type=int, default=None)
+    p.add_argument("--max-input", type=int, default=None)
+    p.add_argument("--uniform-arrival", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--unique-hash", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--max-turns", type=int, default=None)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    rows = load_rows(args.input)
+    # ensure session_id present
+    c2s: dict = {}
+    for r in rows:
+        r["session_id"] = resolve_session(r, c2s)
+
+    applied = []
+
+    # --- flatten session skew: keep first N turns per session ---
+    if args.max_turns is not None:
+        kept_count: dict = defaultdict(int)
+        rows.sort(key=lambda r: (r["session_id"], r.get("turn", 0)))
+        out = []
+        for r in rows:
+            if kept_count[r["session_id"]] < args.max_turns:
+                kept_count[r["session_id"]] += 1
+                out.append(r)
+        rows = out
+        rows.sort(key=lambda r: r.get("timestamp", 0.0))
+        applied.append(f"max_turns={args.max_turns}")
+
+    # --- clamp input + truncate hash_ids ---
+    if args.max_input is not None:
+        for r in rows:
+            if r["input_length"] > args.max_input:
+                r["input_length"] = args.max_input
+            keep_blocks = max(1, math.ceil(r["input_length"] / BLOCK_SIZE))
+            r["hash_ids"] = list(r.get("hash_ids", []))[:keep_blocks]
+        applied.append(f"max_input={args.max_input}")
+
+    # --- set fixed output length ---
+    if args.set_output is not None:
+        for r in rows:
+            r["output_length"] = args.set_output
+        applied.append(f"set_output={args.set_output}")
+
+    # --- kill reuse: globally-unique hashes ---
+    if args.unique_hash:
+        nxt = UNIQUE_HASH_BASE
+        for r in rows:
+            n = max(1, len(r.get("hash_ids", [])) or
+                    math.ceil(r["input_length"] / BLOCK_SIZE))
+            r["hash_ids"] = list(range(nxt, nxt + n))
+            nxt += n
+        applied.append("unique_hash")
+
+    # --- de-burst: uniform arrival over original span (order preserved) ---
+    if args.uniform_arrival:
+        rows.sort(key=lambda r: r.get("timestamp", 0.0))
+        ts = [r.get("timestamp", 0.0) for r in rows]
+        span = (ts[-1] - ts[0]) if len(ts) > 1 else 0.0
+        n = len(rows)
+        for i, r in enumerate(rows):
+            r["timestamp"] = round(ts[0] + (span * i / max(n - 1, 1)), 6)
+        applied.append("uniform_arrival")
+
+    rows.sort(key=lambda r: r.get("timestamp", 0.0))
+    args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with args.output.open("w") as fh:
+        for r in rows:
+            fh.write(json.dumps(r) + "\n")
+
+    inputs = sorted(r["input_length"] for r in rows)
+    outs = sorted(r["output_length"] for r in rows)
+    q = lambda v, p: v[min(int(p * len(v)), len(v) - 1)] if v else 0
+    print(f"wrote {len(rows)} rows -> {args.output}")
+    print(f"  neutralized: {applied or ['none (passthrough)']}")
+    print(f"  input p50={q(inputs,.5)} p90={q(inputs,.9)} p99={q(inputs,.99)}  "
+          f"output p50={q(outs,.5)} p90={q(outs,.9)}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/plot_crossover.py

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+"""Render the PD-disagg crossover figure from analyze_goodput.py JSONs.
+
+Two sweeps bracket the prefill<->decode bottleneck axis:
+  D2: fixed input, grow OUTPUT  -> decode-bound  -> PD_advantage rises above 1
+  D1: fixed output, grow INPUT  -> prefill-bound -> PD_advantage falls below 1
+
+Top row: PD_advantage (4P+4D / colo SLO-goodput) vs swept dim, y=1 = crossover.
+Bottom row: completion rate, colo vs 4P+4D.
+Agentic operating region (input p50~33k, output p50~92) annotated.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import matplotlib
+matplotlib.use("Agg")
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+CROSS = Path("analysis/crossover")
+OUT = Path("figs/crossover_pd_advantage.png")
+
+
+def load_series(prefix: str, key_re: str):
+    pts = []
+    for f in sorted(CROSS.glob(f"{prefix}*_goodput.json")):
+        m = re.search(key_re, f.name)
+        if not m:
+            continue
+        d = json.loads(f.read_text())
+        g = d["slo_grid"][0]["arms"]
+        pts.append({
+            "x": int(m.group(1)),
+            "adv": g["4P+4D"]["pd_advantage"],
+            "colo_att": g["8C-proxy"]["attainment"],
+            "pd_att": g["4P+4D"]["attainment"],
+            "colo_compl": d["arms"]["8C-proxy"]["completion_rate"],
+            "pd_compl": d["arms"]["4P+4D"]["completion_rate"],
+            "colo_ampl": d["arms"]["8C-proxy"]["amplification"],
+            "pd_ampl": d["arms"]["4P+4D"]["amplification"],
+        })
+    pts.sort(key=lambda p: p["x"])
+    return pts
+
+
+def main():
+    d2 = load_series("d2_o", r"d2_o(\d+)_")   # x = output length
+    d1 = load_series("d1_i", r"d1_i(\d+)_")   # x = input length
+
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(12, 8))
+
+    def adv_plot(a, pts, xlabel, title, agentic_x, agentic_label):
+        CAP = 50.0  # display cap for "colo=0, PD>0" (PD wins outright)
+        line_x, line_y = [], []
+        for p in pts:
+            adv, colo_att, pd_att = p["adv"], p["colo_att"], p["pd_att"]
+            finite = isinstance(adv, (int, float)) and adv == adv
+            if finite:
+                line_x.append(p["x"]); line_y.append(max(adv, 1e-3))
+            elif colo_att == 0 and pd_att > 0:        # PD wins outright
+                line_x.append(p["x"]); line_y.append(CAP)
+                a.annotate("PD wins\n(colo=0)", (p["x"], CAP), fontsize=7, ha="center", va="top")
+            else:                                      # both fail SLO -> not a PD win
+                a.scatter([p["x"]], [1.0], marker="x", color="gray", zorder=5)
+                a.annotate("both\nfail SLO", (p["x"], 1.0), fontsize=7, ha="center",
+                           va="bottom", color="gray")
+        a.plot(line_x, line_y, "o-", color="tab:blue", lw=2)
+        a.axhline(1.0, color="k", ls="--", lw=1, label="crossover (PD=colo)")
+        a.set_xscale("log"); a.set_yscale("log")
+        a.set_xlabel(xlabel)
+        a.set_ylabel("PD_advantage = goodput(4P+4D)/goodput(colo)")
+        a.set_title(title)
+        a.axvline(agentic_x, color="tab:red", ls=":", lw=1.5)
+        a.annotate(agentic_label, (agentic_x, 1.2), color="tab:red", fontsize=8,
+                   rotation=90, va="bottom", ha="right")
+        a.legend(fontsize=8, loc="best")
+        a.grid(True, which="both", alpha=0.3)
+
+    def compl_plot(a, pts, xlabel, title):
+        xs = [p["x"] for p in pts]
+        a.plot(xs, [100*p["colo_compl"] for p in pts], "s-", color="tab:orange", label="colo (8C-proxy)")
+        a.plot(xs, [100*p["pd_compl"] for p in pts], "o-", color="tab:blue", label="PD (4P+4D)")
+        a.set_xscale("log")
+        a.set_xlabel(xlabel)
+        a.set_ylabel("completion rate (%)")
+        a.set_title(title)
+        a.set_ylim(0, 105)
+        a.legend(fontsize=8, loc="best")
+        a.grid(True, alpha=0.3)
+
+    adv_plot(ax[0][0], d2, "output length (tokens), fixed input=2048, q12",
+             "D2 decode-bound sweep — PD wins as output grows",
+             92, "agentic out~92")
+    adv_plot(ax[0][1], d1, "input length (tokens), fixed output=64, q4",
+             "D1 prefill-bound sweep — PD collapses as input grows",
+             33533, "agentic in~33k")
+    compl_plot(ax[1][0], d2, "output length (tokens)", "D2 completion")
+    compl_plot(ax[1][1], d1, "input length (tokens)", "D1 completion")
+
+    fig.suptitle("PD-disaggregation vs colocation: the prefill<->decode bottleneck crossover\n"
+                 "(single node 8xH20, vLLM 0.18.1 chunked-prefill; zero-reuse synthetic)",
+                 fontsize=11)
+    fig.tight_layout(rect=[0, 0, 1, 0.96])
+    OUT.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    fig.savefig(OUT, dpi=130)
+    print(f"wrote {OUT}")
+    # also dump the numeric series for the record
+    print("D2 (output -> adv):", [(p["x"], round(p["adv"],2) if p["adv"]==p["adv"] else "inf") for p in d2])
+    print("D1 (input  -> adv):", [(p["x"], round(p["adv"],2) if p["adv"]==p["adv"] else "inf") for p in d1])
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/plot_producer_hotspot.py

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Per-producer KV-pool occupancy: round-robin vs session-affinity.
+
+Evidence for the §6.3 producer hot-pinning claim. Under session-affinity P
+routing, heavy multi-turn sessions concentrate onto individual producers, so
+one producer's KV pool runs hot while the others idle. Round-robin spreads the
+load, keeping producers balanced.
+
+Two-stage (same pattern as aggregate_mb5.py) so the numpy-only reduce can run
+on a serving host over multi-GB snapshot dirs:
+
+  # on the host with the data (numpy only):
+  python plot_producer_hotspot.py --reduce \\
+      --snapshot-dir .../rr_4P4D_..._4P+4D/kv_snapshots \\
+      --label "round-robin 4P+4D" --out rr_prod.json
+
+  # locally (matplotlib):
+  python plot_producer_hotspot.py --plot --rr rr_prod.json \\
+      --session session_prod.json --out figs/mb5/mb5_producer_hotspot.png
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from aggregate_mb5 import load_snapshots_for_run, load_pid_roles, cluster_timeline
+
+
+def reduce_run(snapshot_dir: Path, label: str) -> dict:
+    """Per-producer KV-pool fraction timeline on a shared time grid."""
+    snaps = load_snapshots_for_run(snapshot_dir)
+    roles = load_pid_roles(snapshot_dir.parent / "vllm_logs")
+    if not snaps:
+        return {"label": label, "producers": []}
+
+    t0 = snaps[0]["t_unix"]
+    t_end = snaps[-1]["t_unix"]
+    n_bins = max(1, int(np.ceil(t_end - t0)) + 1)
+
+    prod_pids = sorted(pid for pid, r in roles.items() if r == "P")
+    producers = []
+    for i, pid in enumerate(prod_pids):
+        times, _, frac, _, _ = cluster_timeline(
+            snaps, keep_pids={pid}, t0=t0, n_bins=n_bins
+        )
+        producers.append({
+            "pid": pid,
+            "idx": i,
+            "times": times.tolist(),
+            "frac": frac.tolist(),
+        })
+    return {"label": label, "producers": producers}
+
+
+def _steady_band(frac: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    n = len(frac)
+    if n >= 10:
+        return float(np.median(frac[int(n * 0.1):int(n * 0.9)]))
+    return float(np.median(frac)) if n else 0.0
+
+
+def plot(rr: dict, session: dict, out: Path) -> None:
+    import matplotlib
+    matplotlib.use("Agg")
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+    fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(15, 5), sharey=True)
+    palette = ["#4c72b0", "#dd8452", "#55a868", "#c44e52",
+               "#8172b3", "#937860", "#da8bc3", "#8c8c8c"]
+
+    for ax, run in zip(axes, (rr, session)):
+        prods = run["producers"]
+        steadies = []
+        for p in prods:
+            t = np.asarray(p["times"])
+            f = np.asarray(p["frac"]) * 100
+            ax.plot(t, f, lw=1.3, color=palette[p["idx"] % len(palette)],
+                    label=f"P{p['idx']} (pid {p['pid']})")
+            steadies.append(_steady_band(np.asarray(p["frac"])) * 100)
+        # imbalance metric: spread across producers (max - min of steady band)
+        if steadies:
+            spread = max(steadies) - min(steadies)
+            cv = (np.std(steadies) / np.mean(steadies)) if np.mean(steadies) else 0
+            sub = (f"per-producer steady KV: "
+                   f"min={min(steadies):.0f}%  max={max(steadies):.0f}%  "
+                   f"spread={spread:.0f}pp  CV={cv:.2f}")
+        else:
+            sub = "no producer data"
+        ax.set_title(f"{run['label']}\n{sub}", fontsize=10)
+        ax.set_xlabel("wall-clock since first snapshot (s)")
+        ax.set_ylim(0, 105)
+        ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3)
+        ax.legend(loc="upper right", fontsize=8)
+    axes[0].set_ylabel("per-producer KV pool utilization (%)")
+    fig.suptitle(
+        "Producer hot-pinning: round-robin spreads prefill load; "
+        "session-affinity concentrates it",
+        fontsize=12,
+    )
+    fig.tight_layout()
+    out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    fig.savefig(out, dpi=120)
+    plt.close(fig)
+    print(f"wrote {out}")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--reduce", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--plot", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--snapshot-dir", type=Path)
+    p.add_argument("--label", default="")
+    p.add_argument("--out", type=Path, required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--rr", type=Path, help="reduced round-robin JSON (for --plot)")
+    p.add_argument("--session", type=Path, help="reduced session JSON (for --plot)")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    if args.reduce:
+        if not args.snapshot_dir:
+            p.error("--reduce needs --snapshot-dir")
+        data = reduce_run(args.snapshot_dir, args.label)
+        args.out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        args.out.write_text(json.dumps(data))
+        n = len(data["producers"])
+        print(f"wrote {args.out} ({n} producers)")
+    elif args.plot:
+        if not (args.rr and args.session):
+            p.error("--plot needs --rr and --session")
+        plot(json.loads(args.rr.read_text()),
+             json.loads(args.session.read_text()), args.out)
+    else:
+        p.error("specify --reduce or --plot")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

microbench/fresh_setup/run_mb6.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# MB6 launcher: 2 vLLM instances (kv_both, Mooncake) + transfer-under-load
+# sweep. Parameterized by VENV so it runs on either the patched main venv
+# or the fresh upstream venv, to test whether the bandwidth degradation is
+# our patch or inherent to upstream mooncake.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   VENV=/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv/.venv       bash run_mb6.sh   # main
+#   VENV=/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv-fresh/.venv bash run_mb6.sh   # fresh
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+VENV="${VENV:-$PROJ_DIR/.venv}"
+LABEL="${LABEL:-$(basename $(dirname $VENV))}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+GPUS="${GPUS:-0 1}"
+SIZES="${SIZES:-16384,65536}"
+BG_LOADS="${BG_LOADS:-0,8,24}"
+REPEATS="${REPEATS:-4}"
+DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M)"
+OUTDIR="${OUTDIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/mb6_${LABEL}_${DATE}}"
+PYTHON="$VENV/bin/python"
+MC_INSTR="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/fresh_setup/instrument_mooncake.py"
+DRIVER="$PROJ_DIR/microbench/fresh_setup/mb6_transfer_under_load.py"
+MC_FILE="$VENV/lib/python3.12/site-packages/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUTDIR/logs"
+XFER_LOG_DIR="$OUTDIR/xfer_log"; mkdir -p "$XFER_LOG_DIR"
+
+echo "=== MB6 transfer-under-load ($LABEL) ==="
+echo "VENV : $VENV"
+echo "Out  : $OUTDIR"
+echo ""
+
+PORTS=(8000 8001); BPS=(8998 8999)
+gpu_arr=($GPUS)
+
+cleanup() {
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 4
+    "$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --venv "$MC_FILE" --revert 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[0] apply MB2 mooncake instrument to $LABEL venv"
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --venv "$MC_FILE" --apply
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --venv "$MC_FILE" --check
+
+echo "[1] launch 2 instances"
+i=0
+for gpu in ${gpu_arr[@]:0:2}; do
+    port=${PORTS[$i]}; bp=${BPS[$i]}; master=$((29600 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    MB2_LOG_DIR="$XFER_LOG_DIR" \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/bin/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$OUTDIR/logs/vllm_${i}_gpu${gpu}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+    i=$((i + 1))
+done
+
+echo "[2] wait for health"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=${PORTS[$i]}; tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries + 1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 180 ]; then echo "FATAL inst_$i not healthy"; exit 1; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  inst_$i ready"
+done
+# bootstrap /query reachable?
+for i in 0 1; do
+    bp=${BPS[$i]}; tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$bp/query" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries + 1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 60 ]; then echo "WARN bootstrap $bp not ready"; break; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+done
+
+echo "[3] run MB6 driver"
+"$PYTHON" "$DRIVER" \
+    --src-port "${PORTS[0]}" --dst-port "${PORTS[1]}" \
+    --src-bp "${BPS[0]}" --dst-bp "${BPS[1]}" \
+    --sizes "$SIZES" --bg-loads "$BG_LOADS" --repeats "$REPEATS" \
+    --label "$LABEL" --out "$OUTDIR/mb6_result.json" \
+    2>&1 | tee "$OUTDIR/mb6_run.txt"
+
+echo "[4] teardown + revert"
+pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 4
+"$PYTHON" "$MC_INSTR" --venv "$MC_FILE" --revert
+
+echo ""
+echo "Done. Artifacts in $OUTDIR/"
+echo "  mb6_result.json  mb6_run.txt  xfer_log/  logs/"

scripts/cache_aware_proxy.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import os
 import time as _time
 import urllib.parse
 import uuid
-from collections import OrderedDict
+from collections import OrderedDict, deque
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 
@@ -103,6 +103,20 @@ class Settings:
                                                 # auto-transfers only the missing portion (verified via
                                                 # smoke_partial_transfer: cache-rich dst is 77% faster than
                                                 # cold dst at 33k tokens, +512 ext).
+    # Anti-hotspot: picker scores effective_load = num_requests + (recent
+    # migrations received within window). Prevents clustering migrations on
+    # one instance in rapid succession (observed in Mech B run: inst_5 became
+    # a hotspot via post-rotation tail accumulation).
+    v3_recent_mig_window_s: float = 10.0        # sliding window
+    v3_recent_mig_weight: float = 1.0           # how many "virtual requests" each
+                                                # recent migration counts as
+
+    # Direction B knob: LMetric fallback adds decode-token penalty to score.
+    # score = (pending_prefill + new + lmetric_decode_weight * ongoing_decode_tok) * num_req
+    # Empirical iter-time slope on H100 + Qwen3-30B-A3B: each decode token in
+    # batch costs ~0.01 prefill-token-equivalent in scheduler time, so 0.01 is
+    # a reasonable starting weight. Set 0 to disable (original behavior).
+    lmetric_decode_weight: float = 0.0
 
     # --- KV connector selection (governs PD-sep handshake) -------------
     # "mooncake": pre-baked kv_transfer_params (bootstrap_addr+engine_id+transfer_id).
@@ -187,6 +201,11 @@ class InstanceState:
         self.dp_size = 1
         # OrderedDict acts as an LRU keyed by block hash; value is unused.
         self.cached_blocks: OrderedDict[int, None] = OrderedDict()
+        # v3 anti-hotspot: timestamps (monotonic) when this instance was picked
+        # as a v3 migration target. Used to compute effective_load = num_req +
+        # recent-migration count over a sliding window, preventing back-to-back
+        # decisions from clustering on the same dst.
+        self.recent_mig_targeted_at: deque[float] = deque(maxlen=64)
 
     def estimate_cache_hit(self, token_ids: list[int] | None) -> int:
         if not token_ids or len(token_ids) < BLOCK_SIZE:
@@ -417,13 +436,24 @@ def pick_instance_unified_hybrid(
                 decision["chosen_idx"] = a_idx
                 return a_inst, a_idx, decision
 
-    keys: list[tuple[int, int, int, int]] = []
+    # Direction B: extend LMetric with decode-load awareness.
+    # Original score = (pending_prefill + new_uncached) * num_requests, which
+    # ignores ongoing decode work. A host with 200k decode tokens looks "ideal"
+    # (P_tokens=0) but its decode iters are slow due to large batch KV reads.
+    #
+    # First attempt (BUG): score = (p_tokens + decode_pen) * num_req — when
+    # num_req=0 the decode_pen is zeroed out, so idle-but-decoding hosts still
+    # look free and accumulate cold prefills (8007 hotspot in A+B v1 run).
+    #
+    # Fix: max(num_req, 1) so decode_pen contributes on idle hosts too.
+    keys: list[tuple[float, int, int, int]] = []
     for i, inst in enumerate(instances):
         cache_hit = inst.estimate_cache_hit(token_ids)
         new_prefill = max(0, input_length - cache_hit)
         p_tokens = inst.pending_prefill_tokens + new_prefill
+        decode_pen = SETTINGS.lmetric_decode_weight * inst.ongoing_decode_tokens
         bs = inst.num_requests
-        score = p_tokens * bs
+        score = (p_tokens + decode_pen) * max(bs, 1)
         keys.append((score, new_prefill, bs, i))
 
     best_triple = min(k[:3] for k in keys)
@@ -637,48 +667,80 @@ def pick_instance_unified_v3(
         )
         return prefill_host, prefill_idx, decision, None
 
-    # Gate 3: pick the lowest-load target that is materially less loaded
-    # than the prefill_host. Cache content irrelevant — KV ships over.
+    # Gate 3: pick the lowest-effective-load target. effective_load adds a
+    # penalty for recent migrations the instance has received (anti-hotspot).
+    now_mono = _time.monotonic()
+    cutoff = now_mono - SETTINGS.v3_recent_mig_window_s
+
+    def effective_load(inst):
+        # Drop expired entries lazily.
+        while inst.recent_mig_targeted_at and inst.recent_mig_targeted_at[0] < cutoff:
+            inst.recent_mig_targeted_at.popleft()
+        recent = len(inst.recent_mig_targeted_at)
+        return inst.num_requests + recent * SETTINGS.v3_recent_mig_weight
+
     threshold_loaded = max(1,
         int(prefill_host.num_requests * SETTINGS.v3_target_load_ratio))
     candidates = [
         (i, inst) for i, inst in enumerate(instances)
         if i != prefill_idx
-        and inst.num_requests < threshold_loaded
-        and inst.num_requests <= prefill_host.num_requests - SETTINGS.v3_min_load_gap
+        and effective_load(inst) < threshold_loaded
+        and effective_load(inst) <= prefill_host.num_requests - SETTINGS.v3_min_load_gap
     ]
     if not candidates:
         decision["v3_reason"] = (
             f"no_low_load_target "
             f"(prefill_host.num_req={prefill_host.num_requests} "
-            f"threshold={threshold_loaded})"
+            f"threshold={threshold_loaded} "
+            f"eff_loads=[{','.join(f'{int(effective_load(i))}' for i in instances)}])"
         )
         return prefill_host, prefill_idx, decision, None
 
     # Mechanism B (v3_prefer_cache_target=True): rank candidates first by
-    # cache_hit DESC (more cache = less KV to transfer), then by load. vLLM
-    # auto-skips transferring overlapping prefix when dst's local cache
-    # matches — verified in smoke_partial_transfer: 77% faster on a 33k
-    # prompt when dst has the prefix already.
+    # cache_hit DESC (more cache = less KV to transfer), then by effective_load
+    # (which includes recent-migration penalty), then by ongoing_tokens.
     if SETTINGS.v3_prefer_cache_target:
         decode_target_idx, decode_target = min(
             candidates,
             key=lambda x: (-x[1].estimate_cache_hit(token_ids),
-                           x[1].num_requests, x[1].ongoing_tokens))
+                           effective_load(x[1]),
+                           x[1].ongoing_tokens))
     else:
         decode_target_idx, decode_target = min(
-            candidates, key=lambda x: (x[1].num_requests, x[1].ongoing_tokens))
+            candidates, key=lambda x: (effective_load(x[1]), x[1].ongoing_tokens))
 
     target_cache_hit = decode_target.estimate_cache_hit(token_ids)
+    target_recent_received = len(decode_target.recent_mig_targeted_at)
+    # Record this decision for the anti-hotspot accounting.
+    decode_target.recent_mig_targeted_at.append(now_mono)
+
     decision["v3_migrate"] = True
     decision["v3_decision"] = "migrate_decode"
+    decision["v3_src_idx"] = prefill_idx
     decision["v3_target_idx"] = decode_target_idx
     decision["v3_target_num_req"] = decode_target.num_requests
     decision["v3_target_cache_hit"] = target_cache_hit
+    decision["v3_target_recent_received"] = target_recent_received
     decision["v3_prefill_num_req"] = prefill_host.num_requests
+    # Snapshot of src state at the moment of decision (for postmortem).
+    decision["v3_src_state"] = {
+        "num_requests": prefill_host.num_requests,
+        "ongoing_tokens": prefill_host.ongoing_tokens,
+        "ongoing_decode_tokens": prefill_host.ongoing_decode_tokens,
+        "pending_prefill_tokens": prefill_host.pending_prefill_tokens,
+    }
+    decision["v3_target_state"] = {
+        "num_requests": decode_target.num_requests,
+        "ongoing_tokens": decode_target.ongoing_tokens,
+        "ongoing_decode_tokens": decode_target.ongoing_decode_tokens,
+        "pending_prefill_tokens": decode_target.pending_prefill_tokens,
+        "cache_hit_estimate": target_cache_hit,
+        "recent_mig_received_in_window": target_recent_received,
+    }
     decision["v3_reason"] = (
         f"prefill_host.num_req={prefill_host.num_requests} busy; "
-        f"target.num_req={decode_target.num_requests} cache_hit={target_cache_hit}, "
+        f"target.num_req={decode_target.num_requests} cache_hit={target_cache_hit} "
+        f"recent_received={target_recent_received}, "
         f"transferring KV after prefill"
     )
     return prefill_host, prefill_idx, decision, (decode_target, decode_target_idx)
@@ -987,12 +1049,16 @@ async def _handle(request: Request, api: str):
 
 async def _handle_local_request(api, req_data, headers, token_ids, input_length,
                                 chosen: InstanceState, estimated_new: int,
-                                breakdown: dict):
+                                breakdown: dict, *, _pre_reserved: bool = False):
     breakdown.setdefault("route_class", "LOCAL")
     breakdown.setdefault("routed_to", chosen.url)
-    chosen.ongoing_tokens += input_length
-    chosen.pending_prefill_tokens += estimated_new
-    chosen.num_requests += 1
+    # Skip reservation when called from _handle_combined (it already reserved
+    # synchronously to close the picker→await race). When called directly
+    # from non-combined paths (PD-Sep, offload), reserve here for safety.
+    if not _pre_reserved:
+        chosen.ongoing_tokens += input_length
+        chosen.pending_prefill_tokens += estimated_new
+        chosen.num_requests += 1
 
     async def generate():
         prefill_done = False
@@ -1180,9 +1246,19 @@ async def _handle_combined(api, req_data, token_ids, input_length, session_id, h
                 src_inst, chosen, breakdown,
                 request_id=request_id)
 
+    # Race fix: reserve load on `chosen` BEFORE the `await` so concurrent
+    # picker calls in the same asyncio event-loop tick see the updated
+    # counters. Without this, two requests arriving back-to-back can both
+    # pick the same "free" instance and both end up running there
+    # simultaneously (observed as 8007 hotspot in A+B run).
+    chosen.ongoing_tokens += input_length
+    chosen.pending_prefill_tokens += estimated_new
+    chosen.num_requests += 1
+    breakdown.setdefault("route_class", "LOCAL")
+    breakdown.setdefault("routed_to", chosen.url)
     return await _handle_local_request(
         api, req_data, headers, token_ids, input_length,
-        chosen, estimated_new, breakdown)
+        chosen, estimated_new, breakdown, _pre_reserved=True)
 
 
 async def _handle_combined_pd_sep_v2(
@@ -1545,6 +1621,10 @@ def parse_args():
                    help="Mechanism B: unified_v3 picks decode_target with the most"
                         " prefix cache among low-load candidates (default 1). Set 0"
                         " to fall back to pure-load tie-break (cache-blind).")
+    p.add_argument("--lmetric-decode-weight", type=float, default=0.0,
+                   help="Direction B: LMetric fallback adds this × ongoing_decode_tokens"
+                        " to the queue-depth score, so hosts with heavy decode load get"
+                        " penalised. 0 = original behavior; 0.01 is a reasonable start.")
     p.add_argument("--overload-factor", type=float, default=2.0,
                    help="Break session affinity when instance load > factor * avg")
     # The four flags below are accepted for bench.sh backward compatibility but
@@ -1585,11 +1665,13 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     SETTINGS.v3_rotate_affinity = bool(getattr(global_args, 'v3_rotate_affinity', 1))
     SETTINGS.connector_type = getattr(global_args, 'connector_type', 'mooncake')
     SETTINGS.v3_prefer_cache_target = bool(getattr(global_args, 'v3_prefer_cache_target', 1))
+    SETTINGS.lmetric_decode_weight = float(getattr(global_args, 'lmetric_decode_weight', 0.0))
     print("SETTINGS: throughput=%.0f rdma_overhead=%.2f offload=%s v3_rotate_affinity=%s "
-          "connector_type=%s v3_prefer_cache_target=%s" % (
+          "connector_type=%s v3_prefer_cache_target=%s lmetric_decode_weight=%.3f" % (
         SETTINGS.prefill_throughput, SETTINGS.rdma_overhead_s,
         getattr(global_args, 'offload', False),
         SETTINGS.v3_rotate_affinity,
         SETTINGS.connector_type,
-        SETTINGS.v3_prefer_cache_target))
+        SETTINGS.v3_prefer_cache_target,
+        SETTINGS.lmetric_decode_weight))
     uvicorn.run(app, host=global_args.host, port=global_args.port)

traces/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Benchmark trace
+
+## `w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl`
+
+The primary replay trace for the routing / connector experiments
+(1214 requests, 274 sessions). One JSON object per request:
+
+```json
+{"chat_id": 1237198, "parent_chat_id": -1, "timestamp": 0.0,
+ "input_length": 8228, "output_length": 21, "type": "coder", "turn": 1,
+ "hash_ids": [12292995, ...], "session_id": "1237198"}
+```
+
+| field | meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `input_length` / `output_length` | token **counts** only |
+| `hash_ids` | opaque integer KV-block hashes — shared ids ⇒ shared prefix (drives prefix-cache reuse in replay) |
+| `timestamp` | arrival offset (s) from trace start |
+| `turn` / `parent_chat_id` / `session_id` | multi-turn session structure |
+
+**No cleartext.** There are no prompts, no model outputs, and no PII — only
+token counts, opaque block hashes, timing, and session structure. The replayer
+synthesizes dummy token sequences consistent with `hash_ids` so prefix-cache
+hit rates match the original workload.
+
+### Provenance
+Sampled from the internal Alibaba GLM-5.1-formatted production trace
+(`~/ali-trace/trace-glm5.1-formatted/051315-051317.jsonl` on dash0, ~2.1 M
+requests, 2 h) — not redistributable; only this anonymized sample is shipped.
+The filename encodes the sampling params: `w`=window-seconds, `r`=sample-ratio,
+`st`=max-single-turn-ratio.
+
+**`w600` is the 600 s window of session _start_ times, not the trace duration.**
+The sampler keeps every session whose *first* request falls in a 600 s window,
+then includes *all* of that session's turns. Because agentic sessions are
+long-lived multi-turn (inter-turn gaps up to ~700 s), the actual trace **spans
+~2912 s (~48.5 min)** even though all 274 sessions start within the first
+598 s; 34 % of requests are later turns occurring after t=600 s.
+
+Regenerate (requires the dash0 source):
+```bash
+python scripts/sample_trace.py \
+    --input ~/ali-trace/trace-glm5.1-formatted/051315-051317.jsonl \
+    --output traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl \
+    --window-seconds 600 --sample-ratio 0.0015 --max-single-turn-ratio 0.30 --seed 42
+```
+
+### Replay
+```bash
+python -m replayer --trace traces/w600_r0.0015_st30.jsonl ...
+```
+See `replayer/` and `scripts/cache_aware_proxy.py`.