The first gpt-5.5 verification run exposed a bug in the prior gate: topology_settled =
cur_tp>base_tp let gpu-memory-utilization fire on a TP2 incumbent (TP2>baseline TP1)
and preempt the still-open TP4 frontier -- the harness proposed TP2+gpu-mem-util=0.92
at iter 2 instead of climbing to TP4. The candidate path runs before the topology-
frontier check, so a score>=0.35 runtime candidate wins.
Fix: gate runtime micro-tuning (gpu-mem-util, raising max-num-seqs) on the TP frontier
being closed -- topology_settled = no untested _next_allowed_tp remains (respects GPU
count, so TP4 is the real ceiling on 6 GPUs). New regression test: TP2 incumbent with
TP4 reachable must climb TP and must NOT propose gpu-mem-util. 116 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gahow Wang
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