core.py

# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
import os
import queue
import signal
import threading
import time
from collections import defaultdict, deque
from collections.abc import Callable, Generator
from concurrent.futures import Future
from contextlib import ExitStack, contextmanager
from functools import partial
from inspect import isclass, signature
from logging import DEBUG
from typing import Any, TypeVar, cast

import msgspec
import zmq

from vllm.config import ParallelConfig, VllmConfig
from vllm.distributed import stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group
from vllm.envs import enable_envs_cache
from vllm.logger import init_logger
from vllm.logging_utils.dump_input import dump_engine_exception
from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
from vllm.tasks import POOLING_TASKS, SupportedTask
from vllm.tracing import instrument, maybe_init_worker_tracer
from vllm.transformers_utils.config import maybe_register_config_serialize_by_value
from vllm.utils.gc_utils import (
    freeze_gc_heap,
    maybe_attach_gc_debug_callback,
)
from vllm.utils.hashing import get_hash_fn_by_name
from vllm.utils.network_utils import make_zmq_socket
from vllm.utils.system_utils import decorate_logs, set_process_title
from vllm.v1.core.kv_cache_utils import (
    BlockHash,
    generate_scheduler_kv_cache_config,
    get_kv_cache_configs,
    get_request_block_hasher,
    init_none_hash,
)
from vllm.v1.core.sched.interface import PauseState, SchedulerInterface
from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
from vllm.v1.engine import (
    EngineCoreOutput,
    EngineCoreOutputs,
    EngineCoreRequest,
    EngineCoreRequestType,
    FinishReason,
    PauseMode,
    ReconfigureDistributedRequest,
    ReconfigureRankType,
    UtilityOutput,
    UtilityResult,
)
from vllm.v1.engine.utils import (
    EngineHandshakeMetadata,
    EngineZmqAddresses,
    get_device_indices,
)
from vllm.v1.executor import Executor
from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheConfig
from vllm.v1.metrics.stats import SchedulerStats
from vllm.v1.outputs import ModelRunnerOutput
from vllm.v1.request import Request, RequestStatus
from vllm.v1.serial_utils import MsgpackDecoder, MsgpackEncoder
from vllm.v1.structured_output import StructuredOutputManager
from vllm.v1.utils import compute_iteration_details
from vllm.version import __version__ as VLLM_VERSION

logger = init_logger(__name__)

POLLING_TIMEOUT_S = 2.5
HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MINS = 5

_R = TypeVar("_R")  # Return type for collective_rpc


class EngineCore:
    """Inner loop of vLLM's Engine."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        executor_class: type[Executor],
        log_stats: bool,
        executor_fail_callback: Callable | None = None,
        include_finished_set: bool = False,
    ):
        # plugins need to be loaded at the engine/scheduler level too
        from vllm.plugins import load_general_plugins

        load_general_plugins()

        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
        if not vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local:
            logger.info(
                "Initializing a V1 LLM engine (v%s) with config: %s",
                VLLM_VERSION,
                vllm_config,
            )

        self.log_stats = log_stats

        # Setup Model.
        self.model_executor = executor_class(vllm_config)
        if executor_fail_callback is not None:
            self.model_executor.register_failure_callback(executor_fail_callback)

        self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache = -1

        # Setup KV Caches and update CacheConfig after profiling.
        num_gpu_blocks, num_cpu_blocks, kv_cache_config = self._initialize_kv_caches(
            vllm_config
        )

        vllm_config.cache_config.num_gpu_blocks = num_gpu_blocks
        vllm_config.cache_config.num_cpu_blocks = num_cpu_blocks
        self.collective_rpc("initialize_cache", args=(num_gpu_blocks, num_cpu_blocks))

        self.structured_output_manager = StructuredOutputManager(vllm_config)

        # Setup scheduler.
        Scheduler = vllm_config.scheduler_config.get_scheduler_cls()

        if len(kv_cache_config.kv_cache_groups) == 0:  # noqa: SIM102
            # Encoder models without KV cache don't support
            # chunked prefill. But do SSM models?
            if vllm_config.scheduler_config.enable_chunked_prefill:
                logger.warning("Disabling chunked prefill for model without KVCache")
                vllm_config.scheduler_config.enable_chunked_prefill = False

        scheduler_block_size = (
            vllm_config.cache_config.block_size
            * vllm_config.parallel_config.decode_context_parallel_size
            * vllm_config.parallel_config.prefill_context_parallel_size
        )

        self.scheduler: SchedulerInterface = Scheduler(
            vllm_config=vllm_config,
            kv_cache_config=kv_cache_config,
            structured_output_manager=self.structured_output_manager,
            include_finished_set=include_finished_set,
            log_stats=self.log_stats,
            block_size=scheduler_block_size,
        )
        self.use_spec_decode = vllm_config.speculative_config is not None
        if self.scheduler.connector is not None:  # type: ignore
            self.model_executor.init_kv_output_aggregator(self.scheduler.connector)  # type: ignore

        self.mm_registry = mm_registry = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
        self.mm_receiver_cache = mm_registry.engine_receiver_cache_from_config(
            vllm_config
        )

        # If a KV connector is initialized for scheduler, we want to collect
        # handshake metadata from all workers so the connector in the scheduler
        # will have the full context
        kv_connector = self.scheduler.get_kv_connector()
        if kv_connector is not None:
            # Collect and store KV connector xfer metadata from workers
            # (after KV cache registration)
            xfer_handshake_metadata = (
                self.model_executor.get_kv_connector_handshake_metadata()
            )

            if xfer_handshake_metadata:
                # xfer_handshake_metadata is list of dicts from workers
                # Each dict already has structure {tp_rank: metadata}
                # Merge all worker dicts into a single dict
                content: dict[int, Any] = {}
                for worker_dict in xfer_handshake_metadata:
                    if worker_dict is not None:
                        content.update(worker_dict)
                kv_connector.set_xfer_handshake_metadata(content)

        # Setup batch queue for pipeline parallelism.
        # Batch queue for scheduled batches. This enables us to asynchronously
        # schedule and execute batches, and is required by pipeline parallelism
        # to eliminate pipeline bubbles.
        self.batch_queue_size = self.model_executor.max_concurrent_batches
        self.batch_queue: (
            deque[tuple[Future[ModelRunnerOutput], SchedulerOutput, Future[Any]]] | None
        ) = None
        if self.batch_queue_size > 1:
            logger.debug("Batch queue is enabled with size %d", self.batch_queue_size)
            self.batch_queue = deque(maxlen=self.batch_queue_size)

        self.is_ec_producer = (
            vllm_config.ec_transfer_config is not None
            and vllm_config.ec_transfer_config.is_ec_producer
        )
        self.is_pooling_model = vllm_config.model_config.runner_type == "pooling"

        self.request_block_hasher: Callable[[Request], list[BlockHash]] | None = None
        if vllm_config.cache_config.enable_prefix_caching or kv_connector is not None:
            caching_hash_fn = get_hash_fn_by_name(
                vllm_config.cache_config.prefix_caching_hash_algo
            )
            init_none_hash(caching_hash_fn)

            self.request_block_hasher = get_request_block_hasher(
                scheduler_block_size, caching_hash_fn
            )

        self.step_fn = (
            self.step if self.batch_queue is None else self.step_with_batch_queue
        )
        self.async_scheduling = vllm_config.scheduler_config.async_scheduling

        self.aborts_queue = queue.Queue[list[str]]()

        self._idle_state_callbacks: list[Callable] = []

        # Mark the startup heap as static so that it's ignored by GC.
        # Reduces pause times of oldest generation collections.
        freeze_gc_heap()
        # If enable, attach GC debugger after static variable freeze.
        maybe_attach_gc_debug_callback()
        # Enable environment variable cache (e.g. assume no more
        # environment variable overrides after this point)
        enable_envs_cache()

    @instrument(span_name="Prepare model")
    def _initialize_kv_caches(
        self, vllm_config: VllmConfig
    ) -> tuple[int, int, KVCacheConfig]:
        start = time.time()

        # Get all kv cache needed by the model
        kv_cache_specs = self.model_executor.get_kv_cache_specs()

        has_kv_cache = any(kv_cache_spec for kv_cache_spec in kv_cache_specs)
        if has_kv_cache:
            if os.environ.get("VLLM_ELASTIC_EP_SCALE_UP_LAUNCH") == "1":
                dp_group = getattr(self, "dp_group", None)
                assert dp_group is not None
                self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache = (
                    ParallelConfig.sync_kv_cache_memory_size(dp_group, -1)
                )
                available_gpu_memory = [self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache] * len(
                    kv_cache_specs
                )
            else:
                # Profiles the peak memory usage of the model to determine how
                # much memory can be allocated for kv cache.
                available_gpu_memory = self.model_executor.determine_available_memory()
                self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache = available_gpu_memory[0]
        else:
            # Attention free models don't need memory for kv cache
            available_gpu_memory = [0] * len(kv_cache_specs)

        assert len(kv_cache_specs) == len(available_gpu_memory)

        # Track max_model_len before KV cache config to detect auto-fit changes
        max_model_len_before = vllm_config.model_config.max_model_len

        kv_cache_configs = get_kv_cache_configs(
            vllm_config, kv_cache_specs, available_gpu_memory
        )

        # If auto-fit reduced max_model_len, sync the new value to workers.
        # This is needed because workers were spawned before memory profiling
        # and have the original (larger) max_model_len cached.
        max_model_len_after = vllm_config.model_config.max_model_len
        if max_model_len_after != max_model_len_before:
            self.collective_rpc("update_max_model_len", args=(max_model_len_after,))

        scheduler_kv_cache_config = generate_scheduler_kv_cache_config(kv_cache_configs)
        num_gpu_blocks = scheduler_kv_cache_config.num_blocks
        num_cpu_blocks = 0

        # Initialize kv cache and warmup the execution
        self.model_executor.initialize_from_config(kv_cache_configs)

        elapsed = time.time() - start
        logger.info_once(
            "init engine (profile, create kv cache, warmup model) took %.2f seconds",
            elapsed,
            scope="local",
        )
        return num_gpu_blocks, num_cpu_blocks, scheduler_kv_cache_config

    def get_supported_tasks(self) -> tuple[SupportedTask, ...]:
        return self.model_executor.supported_tasks

    def add_request(self, request: Request, request_wave: int = 0):
        """Add request to the scheduler.

        `request_wave`: indicate which wave of requests this is expected to
        belong to in DP case
        """
        # Validate the request_id type.
        if not isinstance(request.request_id, str):
            raise TypeError(
                f"request_id must be a string, got {type(request.request_id)}"
            )

        if pooling_params := request.pooling_params:
            supported_pooling_tasks = [
                task for task in self.get_supported_tasks() if task in POOLING_TASKS
            ]

            if pooling_params.task not in supported_pooling_tasks:
                raise ValueError(
                    f"Unsupported task: {pooling_params.task!r} "
                    f"Supported tasks: {supported_pooling_tasks}"
                )

        if request.kv_transfer_params is not None and (
            not self.scheduler.get_kv_connector()
        ):
            logger.warning(
                "Got kv_transfer_params, but no KVConnector found. "
                "Disabling KVTransfer for this request."
            )

        self.scheduler.add_request(request)

    def abort_requests(self, request_ids: list[str]):
        """Abort requests from the scheduler."""

        # TODO: The scheduler doesn't really need to know the
        # specific finish reason, TBD whether we propagate that
        # (i.e. client-aborted vs stop criteria met).
        self.scheduler.finish_requests(request_ids, RequestStatus.FINISHED_ABORTED)

    @contextmanager
    def log_error_detail(self, scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput):
        """Execute the model and log detailed info on failure."""
        try:
            yield
        except Exception as err:
            # We do not want to catch BaseException here since we're only
            # interested in dumping info when the exception is due to an
            # error from execute_model itself.

            # NOTE: This method is exception-free
            dump_engine_exception(
                self.vllm_config, scheduler_output, self.scheduler.make_stats()
            )
            raise err

    @contextmanager
    def log_iteration_details(self, scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput):
        if not self.vllm_config.observability_config.enable_logging_iteration_details:
            yield
            return
        self._iteration_index = getattr(self, "_iteration_index", 0)
        iteration_details = compute_iteration_details(scheduler_output)
        before = time.monotonic()
        yield
        logger.info(
            "".join(
                [
                    "Iteration(",
                    str(self._iteration_index),
                    "): ",
                    str(iteration_details.num_ctx_requests),
                    " context requests, ",
                    str(iteration_details.num_ctx_tokens),
                    " context tokens, ",
                    str(iteration_details.num_generation_requests),
                    " generation requests, ",
                    str(iteration_details.num_generation_tokens),
                    " generation tokens, iteration elapsed time: ",
                    format((time.monotonic() - before) * 1000, ".2f"),
                    " ms",
                ]
            )
        )
        self._iteration_index += 1

    def step(self) -> tuple[dict[int, EngineCoreOutputs], bool]:
        """Schedule, execute, and make output.

        Returns tuple of outputs and a flag indicating whether the model
        was executed.
        """

        # Check for any requests remaining in the scheduler - unfinished,
        # or finished and not yet removed from the batch.
        if not self.scheduler.has_requests():
            return {}, False
        scheduler_output = self.scheduler.schedule()
        future = self.model_executor.execute_model(scheduler_output, non_block=True)
        grammar_output = self.scheduler.get_grammar_bitmask(scheduler_output)
        with (
            self.log_error_detail(scheduler_output),
            self.log_iteration_details(scheduler_output),
        ):
            model_output = future.result()
            if model_output is None:
                model_output = self.model_executor.sample_tokens(grammar_output)

        # Before processing the model output, process any aborts that happened
        # during the model execution.
        self._process_aborts_queue()
        engine_core_outputs = self.scheduler.update_from_output(
            scheduler_output, model_output
        )

        return engine_core_outputs, scheduler_output.total_num_scheduled_tokens > 0

    def post_step(self, model_executed: bool) -> None:
        # When using async scheduling we can't get draft token ids in advance,
        # so we update draft token ids in the worker process and don't
        # need to update draft token ids here.
        if not self.async_scheduling and self.use_spec_decode and model_executed:
            # Take the draft token ids.
            draft_token_ids = self.model_executor.take_draft_token_ids()
            if draft_token_ids is not None:
                self.scheduler.update_draft_token_ids(draft_token_ids)

    def step_with_batch_queue(
        self,
    ) -> tuple[dict[int, EngineCoreOutputs] | None, bool]:
        """Schedule and execute batches with the batch queue.
        Note that if nothing to output in this step, None is returned.

        The execution flow is as follows:
        1. Try to schedule a new batch if the batch queue is not full.
        If a new batch is scheduled, directly return an empty engine core
        output. In other words, fulfilling the batch queue has a higher priority
        than getting model outputs.
        2. If there is no new scheduled batch, meaning that the batch queue
        is full or no other requests can be scheduled, we block until the first
        batch in the job queue is finished.
        3. Update the scheduler from the output.
        """

        batch_queue = self.batch_queue
        assert batch_queue is not None

        # Try to schedule a new batch if the batch queue is not full, but
        # the scheduler may return an empty batch if all requests are scheduled.
        # Note that this is not blocking.
        assert len(batch_queue) < self.batch_queue_size

        model_executed = False
        deferred_scheduler_output = None
        if self.scheduler.has_requests():
            scheduler_output = self.scheduler.schedule()
            exec_future = self.model_executor.execute_model(
                scheduler_output, non_block=True
            )
            if not self.is_ec_producer:
                model_executed = scheduler_output.total_num_scheduled_tokens > 0

            if self.is_pooling_model or not model_executed:
                # No sampling required (no requests scheduled).
                future = cast(Future[ModelRunnerOutput], exec_future)
            else:
                if not scheduler_output.pending_structured_output_tokens:
                    # We aren't waiting for any tokens, get any grammar output
                    # and sample immediately.
                    grammar_output = self.scheduler.get_grammar_bitmask(
                        scheduler_output
                    )
                    future = self.model_executor.sample_tokens(
                        grammar_output, non_block=True
                    )
                else:
                    # We need to defer sampling until we have processed the model output
                    # from the prior step.
                    deferred_scheduler_output = scheduler_output

            if not deferred_scheduler_output:
                # Add this step's future to the queue.
                batch_queue.appendleft((future, scheduler_output, exec_future))
                if (
                    model_executed
                    and len(batch_queue) < self.batch_queue_size
                    and not batch_queue[-1][0].done()
                ):
                    # Don't block on next worker response unless the queue is full
                    # or there are no more requests to schedule.
                    return None, True

        elif not batch_queue:
            # Queue is empty. We should not reach here since this method should
            # only be called when the scheduler contains requests or the queue
            # is non-empty.
            return None, False

        # Block until the next result is available.
        future, scheduler_output, exec_model_fut = batch_queue.pop()
        with (
            self.log_error_detail(scheduler_output),
            self.log_iteration_details(scheduler_output),
        ):
            model_output = future.result()
            if model_output is None:
                # None from sample_tokens() implies that the original execute_model()
                # call failed - raise that exception.
                exec_model_fut.result()
                raise RuntimeError("unexpected error")

        # Before processing the model output, process any aborts that happened
        # during the model execution.
        self._process_aborts_queue()
        engine_core_outputs = self.scheduler.update_from_output(
            scheduler_output, model_output
        )

        # NOTE(nick): We can either handle the deferred tasks here or save
        # in a field and do it immediately once step_with_batch_queue is
        # re-called. The latter slightly favors TTFT over TPOT/throughput.
        if deferred_scheduler_output:
            # If we are doing speculative decoding with structured output,
            # we need to get the draft token ids from the prior step before
            # we can compute the grammar bitmask for the deferred request.
            if self.use_spec_decode:
                draft_token_ids = self.model_executor.take_draft_token_ids()
                assert draft_token_ids is not None
                # Update the draft token ids in the scheduler output to
                # filter out the invalid spec tokens, which will be padded
                # with -1 and skipped by the grammar bitmask computation.
                self.scheduler.update_draft_token_ids_in_output(
                    draft_token_ids, deferred_scheduler_output
                )
            # We now have the tokens needed to compute the bitmask for the
            # deferred request. Get the bitmask and call sample tokens.
            grammar_output = self.scheduler.get_grammar_bitmask(
                deferred_scheduler_output
            )
            future = self.model_executor.sample_tokens(grammar_output, non_block=True)
            batch_queue.appendleft((future, deferred_scheduler_output, exec_future))

        return engine_core_outputs, model_executed

    def _process_aborts_queue(self):
        if not self.aborts_queue.empty():
            request_ids = []
            while not self.aborts_queue.empty():
                ids = self.aborts_queue.get_nowait()
                # Should be a list here, but also handle string just in case.
                request_ids.extend((ids,) if isinstance(ids, str) else ids)
            # More efficient to abort all as a single batch.
            self.abort_requests(request_ids)

    def shutdown(self):
        self.structured_output_manager.clear_backend()
        if self.model_executor:
            self.model_executor.shutdown()
        if self.scheduler:
            self.scheduler.shutdown()

    def profile(self, is_start: bool = True, profile_prefix: str | None = None):
        self.model_executor.profile(is_start, profile_prefix)

    def reset_mm_cache(self):
        # NOTE: Since this is mainly for debugging, we don't attempt to
        # re-sync the internal caches (P0 sender, P1 receiver)
        if self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests():
            logger.warning(
                "Resetting the multi-modal cache when requests are "
                "in progress may lead to desynced internal caches."
            )

        # The cache either exists in EngineCore or WorkerWrapperBase
        if self.mm_receiver_cache is not None:
            self.mm_receiver_cache.clear_cache()

        self.model_executor.reset_mm_cache()

    def reset_prefix_cache(
        self, reset_running_requests: bool = False, reset_connector: bool = False
    ) -> bool:
        return self.scheduler.reset_prefix_cache(
            reset_running_requests, reset_connector
        )

    def reset_encoder_cache(self) -> None:
        """Reset the encoder cache to invalidate all cached encoder outputs.

        This should be called when model weights are updated to ensure
        stale vision embeddings computed with old weights are not reused.
        Clears both the scheduler's cache manager and the GPU model runner's cache.
        """
        # NOTE: Since this is mainly for debugging, we don't attempt to
        # re-sync the internal caches (P0 sender, P1 receiver)
        if self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests():
            logger.warning(
                "Resetting the encoder cache when requests are "
                "in progress may lead to desynced internal caches."
            )

        # Reset the scheduler's encoder cache manager (logical state)
        self.scheduler.reset_encoder_cache()
        # Reset the GPU model runner's encoder cache (physical storage)
        self.model_executor.reset_encoder_cache()

    def _reset_caches(self, reset_running_requests=True) -> None:
        self.reset_prefix_cache(reset_running_requests=reset_running_requests)
        self.reset_mm_cache()
        self.reset_encoder_cache()

    def pause_scheduler(
        self, mode: PauseMode = "abort", clear_cache: bool = True
    ) -> Future | None:
        """Pause generation; behavior depends on mode.

        All pause modes queue new adds -- "abort" and "keep" skip step();
        "wait" allows step() so in-flight requests can drain.

        - ``abort``: Set PAUSED_NEW, abort all requests, wait for abort
          outputs to be sent (when running with output_queue), optionally
          clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
        - ``wait``: Set PAUSED_NEW (queue adds, keep stepping); when drained,
          optionally clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
        - ``keep``: Set PAUSED_ALL; return a Future that completes when the
          output queue is empty.
        """
        if mode not in ("keep", "abort", "wait"):
            raise ValueError(f"Invalid pause mode: {mode}")
        if mode == "wait":
            raise ValueError("'wait' mode can't be used in inproc-engine mode")

        if mode == "abort":
            self.scheduler.finish_requests(None, RequestStatus.FINISHED_ABORTED)

        pause_state = PauseState.PAUSED_ALL if mode == "keep" else PauseState.PAUSED_NEW
        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(pause_state)
        if clear_cache:
            self._reset_caches()

        return None

    def resume_scheduler(self) -> None:
        """Resume the scheduler and flush any requests queued while paused."""
        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(PauseState.UNPAUSED)

    def is_scheduler_paused(self) -> bool:
        """Return whether the scheduler is in any pause state."""
        return self.scheduler.pause_state != PauseState.UNPAUSED

    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None | Future:
        """Put the engine to sleep at the specified level.

        Args:
            level: Sleep level.
                - Level 0: Pause scheduling only. Requests are still accepted
                           but not processed. No GPU memory changes.
                - Level 1: Offload model weights to CPU, discard KV cache.
                - Level 2: Discard all GPU memory.
            mode: Pause mode - how to deal with any existing requests, see
                documentation of pause_scheduler method.
        """

        # Pause scheduler before sleeping.
        clear_prefix_cache = level >= 1
        pause_future = self.pause_scheduler(mode=mode, clear_cache=clear_prefix_cache)
        if level < 1:
            return pause_future

        # Level 1+: Delegate to executor for GPU memory management
        model_executor = self.model_executor
        if pause_future is None:
            model_executor.sleep(level)
            return None

        future = Future[Any]()

        def pause_complete(f: Future):
            try:
                f.result()  # propagate any exception
                future.set_result(model_executor.sleep(level))
            except Exception as e:
                future.set_exception(e)

        logger.info("Waiting for in-flight requests to complete before sleeping...")
        pause_future.add_done_callback(pause_complete)
        return future

    def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None):
        """Wake up the engine from sleep.

        Args:
            tags: Tags to wake up. Use ["scheduling"] for level 0 wake up.
        """
        if tags is not None and "scheduling" in tags:
            # Remove "scheduling" from tags if there are other tags to process.
            tags = [t for t in tags if t != "scheduling"]

        if tags is None or tags:
            self.model_executor.wake_up(tags)

        # Resume scheduling (applies to all levels)
        self.resume_scheduler()

    def is_sleeping(self) -> bool:
        """Check if engine is sleeping at any level."""
        return self.is_scheduler_paused() or self.model_executor.is_sleeping

    def execute_dummy_batch(self):
        self.model_executor.execute_dummy_batch()

    def add_lora(self, lora_request: LoRARequest) -> bool:
        return self.model_executor.add_lora(lora_request)

    def remove_lora(self, lora_id: int) -> bool:
        return self.model_executor.remove_lora(lora_id)

    def list_loras(self) -> set[int]:
        return self.model_executor.list_loras()

    def pin_lora(self, lora_id: int) -> bool:
        return self.model_executor.pin_lora(lora_id)

    def save_sharded_state(
        self,
        path: str,
        pattern: str | None = None,
        max_size: int | None = None,
    ) -> None:
        self.model_executor.save_sharded_state(
            path=path, pattern=pattern, max_size=max_size
        )

    def collective_rpc(
        self,
        method: str | Callable[..., _R],
        timeout: float | None = None,
        args: tuple = (),
        kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
    ) -> list[_R]:
        return self.model_executor.collective_rpc(method, timeout, args, kwargs)

    def preprocess_add_request(self, request: EngineCoreRequest) -> tuple[Request, int]:
        """Preprocess the request.

        This function could be directly used in input processing thread to allow
        request initialization running in parallel with Model forward
        """
        # Note on thread safety: no race condition.
        # `mm_receiver_cache` is reset at the end of LLMEngine init,
        # and will only be accessed in the input processing thread afterwards.
        if self.mm_receiver_cache is not None and request.mm_features:
            request.mm_features = self.mm_receiver_cache.get_and_update_features(
                request.mm_features
            )

        req = Request.from_engine_core_request(request, self.request_block_hasher)
        if req.use_structured_output:
            # Note on thread safety: no race condition.
            # `grammar_init` is only invoked in input processing thread. For
            # `structured_output_manager`, each request is independent and
            # grammar compilation is async. Scheduler always checks grammar
            # compilation status before scheduling request.
            self.structured_output_manager.grammar_init(req)
        return req, request.current_wave


class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
    """ZMQ-wrapper for running EngineCore in background process."""

    ENGINE_CORE_DEAD = b"ENGINE_CORE_DEAD"

    @instrument(span_name="EngineCoreProc init")
    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        local_client: bool,
        handshake_address: str,
        executor_class: type[Executor],
        log_stats: bool,
        client_handshake_address: str | None = None,
        *,
        engine_index: int = 0,
    ):
        self.input_queue = queue.Queue[tuple[EngineCoreRequestType, Any]]()
        self.output_queue = queue.Queue[tuple[int, EngineCoreOutputs] | bytes]()
        executor_fail_callback = lambda: self.input_queue.put_nowait(
            (EngineCoreRequestType.EXECUTOR_FAILED, b"")
        )

        self.engine_index = engine_index
        identity = self.engine_index.to_bytes(length=2, byteorder="little")
        self.engines_running = False

        with self._perform_handshakes(
            handshake_address,
            identity,
            local_client,
            vllm_config,
            client_handshake_address,
        ) as addresses:
            self.client_count = len(addresses.outputs)

            # Set up data parallel environment.
            self.has_coordinator = addresses.coordinator_output is not None
            self.frontend_stats_publish_address = (
                addresses.frontend_stats_publish_address
            )
            logger.debug(
                "Has DP Coordinator: %s, stats publish address: %s",
                self.has_coordinator,
                self.frontend_stats_publish_address,
            )
            internal_dp_balancing = (
                self.has_coordinator
                and not vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_external_lb
            )
            # Only publish request queue stats to coordinator for "internal"
            # and "hybrid" LB modes.
            self.publish_dp_lb_stats = internal_dp_balancing

            self._init_data_parallel(vllm_config)

            super().__init__(
                vllm_config,
                executor_class,
                log_stats,
                executor_fail_callback,
                internal_dp_balancing,
            )

            # Background Threads and Queues for IO. These enable us to
            # overlap ZMQ socket IO with GPU since they release the GIL,
            # and to overlap some serialization/deserialization with the
            # model forward pass.
            # Threads handle Socket <-> Queues and core_busy_loop uses Queue.
            ready_event = threading.Event()
            input_thread = threading.Thread(
                target=self.process_input_sockets,
                args=(
                    addresses.inputs,
                    addresses.coordinator_input,
                    identity,
                    ready_event,
                ),
                daemon=True,
            )
            input_thread.start()

            self.output_thread = threading.Thread(
                target=self.process_output_sockets,
                args=(
                    addresses.outputs,
                    addresses.coordinator_output,
                    self.engine_index,
                ),
                daemon=True,
            )
            self.output_thread.start()

            # Don't complete handshake until DP coordinator ready message is
            # received.
            while not ready_event.wait(timeout=10):
                if not input_thread.is_alive():
                    raise RuntimeError("Input socket thread died during startup")
                assert addresses.coordinator_input is not None
                logger.info("Waiting for READY message from DP Coordinator...")

    @contextmanager
    def _perform_handshakes(
        self,
        handshake_address: str,
        identity: bytes,
        local_client: bool,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        client_handshake_address: str | None,
    ) -> Generator[EngineZmqAddresses, None, None]:
        """
        Perform startup handshakes.

        For DP=1 or offline mode, this is with the colocated front-end process.

        For DP>1 with internal load-balancing this is with the shared front-end
        process which may reside on a different node.

        For DP>1 with external or hybrid load-balancing, two handshakes are
        performed:
            - With the rank 0 front-end process which retrieves the
              DP Coordinator ZMQ addresses and DP process group address.
            - With the colocated front-end process which retrieves the
              client input/output socket addresses.
        with the exception of the rank 0 and colocated engines themselves which
        don't require the second handshake.

        Here, "front-end" process can mean the process containing the engine
        core client (which is the API server process in the case the API
        server is not scaled out), OR the launcher process running the
        run_multi_api_server() function in serve.py.
        """
        input_ctx = zmq.Context()
        is_local = local_client and client_handshake_address is None
        headless = not local_client
        handshake = self._perform_handshake(
            input_ctx,
            handshake_address,
            identity,
            is_local,
            headless,
            vllm_config,
            vllm_config.parallel_config,
        )
        if client_handshake_address is None:
            with handshake as addresses:
                yield addresses
        else:
            assert local_client
            local_handshake = self._perform_handshake(
                input_ctx, client_handshake_address, identity, True, False, vllm_config
            )
            with handshake as addresses, local_handshake as client_addresses:
                addresses.inputs = client_addresses.inputs
                addresses.outputs = client_addresses.outputs
                yield addresses

        # Update config which may have changed from the handshake
        vllm_config.__post_init__()

    @contextmanager
    def _perform_handshake(
        self,
        ctx: zmq.Context,
        handshake_address: str,
        identity: bytes,
        local_client: bool,
        headless: bool,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        parallel_config_to_update: ParallelConfig | None = None,
    ) -> Generator[EngineZmqAddresses, None, None]:
        with make_zmq_socket(
            ctx,
            handshake_address,
            zmq.DEALER,
            identity=identity,
            linger=5000,
            bind=False,
        ) as handshake_socket:
            # Register engine with front-end.
            addresses = self.startup_handshake(
                handshake_socket, local_client, headless, parallel_config_to_update
            )
            yield addresses

            # Send ready message.
            num_gpu_blocks = vllm_config.cache_config.num_gpu_blocks
            # We pass back the coordinator stats update address here for the
            # external LB case for our colocated front-end to use (coordinator
            # only runs with rank 0).
            dp_stats_address = self.frontend_stats_publish_address

            # Include config hash for DP configuration validation
            ready_msg = {
                "status": "READY",
                "local": local_client,
                "headless": headless,
                "num_gpu_blocks": num_gpu_blocks,
                "dp_stats_address": dp_stats_address,
            }
            if vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1:
                ready_msg["parallel_config_hash"] = (
                    vllm_config.parallel_config.compute_hash()
                )

            handshake_socket.send(msgspec.msgpack.encode(ready_msg))

    @staticmethod
    def startup_handshake(
        handshake_socket: zmq.Socket,
        local_client: bool,
        headless: bool,
        parallel_config: ParallelConfig | None = None,
    ) -> EngineZmqAddresses:
        # Send registration message.
        handshake_socket.send(
            msgspec.msgpack.encode(
                {
                    "status": "HELLO",
                    "local": local_client,
                    "headless": headless,
                }
            )
        )

        # Receive initialization message.
        logger.debug("Waiting for init message from front-end.")
        if not handshake_socket.poll(timeout=HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MINS * 60_000):
            raise RuntimeError(
                "Did not receive response from front-end "
                f"process within {HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MINS} "
                f"minutes"
            )
        init_bytes = handshake_socket.recv()
        init_message: EngineHandshakeMetadata = msgspec.msgpack.decode(
            init_bytes, type=EngineHandshakeMetadata
        )
        logger.debug("Received init message: %s", init_message)

        if parallel_config is not None:
            for key, value in init_message.parallel_config.items():
                setattr(parallel_config, key, value)

        return init_message.addresses

    @staticmethod
    def run_engine_core(*args, dp_rank: int = 0, local_dp_rank: int = 0, **kwargs):
        """Launch EngineCore busy loop in background process."""

        # Signal handler used for graceful termination.
        # SystemExit exception is only raised once to allow this and worker
        # processes to terminate without error
        shutdown_requested = False

        # Ensure we can serialize transformer config after spawning
        maybe_register_config_serialize_by_value()

        def signal_handler(signum, frame):
            nonlocal shutdown_requested
            if not shutdown_requested:
                shutdown_requested = True
                raise SystemExit()

        # Either SIGTERM or SIGINT will terminate the engine_core
        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, signal_handler)
        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)

        engine_core: EngineCoreProc | None = None
        try:
            vllm_config: VllmConfig = kwargs["vllm_config"]
            parallel_config: ParallelConfig = vllm_config.parallel_config
            data_parallel = parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1 or dp_rank > 0
            if data_parallel:
                parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local = local_dp_rank
                maybe_init_worker_tracer(
                    instrumenting_module_name="vllm.engine_core",
                    process_kind="engine_core",
                    process_name=f"EngineCore_DP{dp_rank}",
                )
                set_process_title("EngineCore", f"DP{dp_rank}")
            else:
                maybe_init_worker_tracer(
                    instrumenting_module_name="vllm.engine_core",
                    process_kind="engine_core",
                    process_name="EngineCore",
                )
                set_process_title("EngineCore")
            decorate_logs()

            if data_parallel and vllm_config.kv_transfer_config is not None:
                # modify the engine_id and append the local_dp_rank to it to ensure
                # that the kv_transfer_config is unique for each DP rank.
                vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.engine_id = (
                    f"{vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.engine_id}_dp{local_dp_rank}"
                )
                logger.debug(
                    "Setting kv_transfer_config.engine_id to %s",
                    vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.engine_id,
                )

            parallel_config.data_parallel_index = dp_rank
            if data_parallel and vllm_config.model_config.is_moe:
                # Set data parallel rank for this engine process.
                parallel_config.data_parallel_rank = dp_rank
                engine_core = DPEngineCoreProc(*args, **kwargs)
            else:
                # Non-MoE DP ranks are completely independent, so treat like DP=1.
                # Note that parallel_config.data_parallel_index will still reflect
                # the original DP rank.
                parallel_config.data_parallel_size = 1
                parallel_config.data_parallel_size_local = 1
                parallel_config.data_parallel_rank = 0
                engine_core = EngineCoreProc(*args, engine_index=dp_rank, **kwargs)

            assert engine_core is not None
            engine_core.run_busy_loop()

        except SystemExit:
            logger.debug("EngineCore exiting.")
            raise
        except Exception as e:
            if engine_core is None:
                logger.exception("EngineCore failed to start.")
            else:
                logger.exception("EngineCore encountered a fatal error.")
                engine_core._send_engine_dead()
            raise e
        finally:
            if engine_core is not None:
                engine_core.shutdown()

    def _init_data_parallel(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
        pass

    def has_work(self) -> bool:
        """Returns true if the engine should be stepped."""
        return (
            self.engines_running
            or self.scheduler.has_requests()
            or bool(self.batch_queue)
        )

    def run_busy_loop(self):
        """Core busy loop of the EngineCore."""

        # Loop until process is sent a SIGINT or SIGTERM
        while True:
            # 1) Poll the input queue until there is work to do.
            self._process_input_queue()
            # 2) Step the engine core and return the outputs.
            self._process_engine_step()

    def _process_input_queue(self):
        """Exits when an engine step needs to be performed."""

        waited = False
        while not self.has_work():
            # Notify callbacks waiting for engine to become idle.
            self._notify_idle_state_callbacks()
            if self.input_queue.empty():
                # Drain aborts queue; all aborts are also processed via input_queue.
                with self.aborts_queue.mutex:
                    self.aborts_queue.queue.clear()
                if logger.isEnabledFor(DEBUG):
                    logger.debug("EngineCore waiting for work.")
                    waited = True
            req = self.input_queue.get()
            self._handle_client_request(*req)

        if waited:
            logger.debug("EngineCore loop active.")

        # Handle any more client requests.
        while not self.input_queue.empty():
            req = self.input_queue.get_nowait()
            self._handle_client_request(*req)

    def _process_engine_step(self) -> bool:
        """Called only when there are unfinished local requests."""

        # Step the engine core.
        outputs, model_executed = self.step_fn()
        # Put EngineCoreOutputs into the output queue.
        for output in outputs.items() if outputs else ():
            self.output_queue.put_nowait(output)
        # Post-step hook.
        self.post_step(model_executed)

        # If no model execution happened but there are waiting requests
        # (e.g., WAITING_FOR_REMOTE_KVS), yield the GIL briefly to allow
        # background threads (like NIXL handshake) to make progress.
        # Without this, the tight polling loop can starve background threads.
        if not model_executed and self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests():
            time.sleep(0.001)

        return model_executed

    def _notify_idle_state_callbacks(self) -> None:
        while self._idle_state_callbacks:
            callback = self._idle_state_callbacks.pop()
            callback(self)

    def _handle_client_request(
        self, request_type: EngineCoreRequestType, request: Any
    ) -> None:
        """Dispatch request from client."""

        if request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.ADD:
            req, request_wave = request
            self.add_request(req, request_wave)
        elif request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.ABORT:
            self.abort_requests(request)
        elif request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.UTILITY:
            client_idx, call_id, method_name, args = request
            output = UtilityOutput(call_id)
            # Lazily look-up utility method so that failure will be handled/returned.
            get_result = lambda: (method := getattr(self, method_name)) and method(
                *self._convert_msgspec_args(method, args)
            )
            enqueue_output = lambda out: self.output_queue.put_nowait(
                (client_idx, EngineCoreOutputs(utility_output=out))
            )
            self._invoke_utility_method(method_name, get_result, output, enqueue_output)
        elif request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.EXECUTOR_FAILED:
            raise RuntimeError("Executor failed.")
        else:
            logger.error(
                "Unrecognized input request type encountered: %s", request_type
            )

    @staticmethod
    def _invoke_utility_method(
        name: str, get_result: Callable, output: UtilityOutput, enqueue_output: Callable
    ):
        try:
            result = get_result()
            if isinstance(result, Future):
                # Defer utility output handling until future completion.
                callback = lambda future: EngineCoreProc._invoke_utility_method(
                    name, future.result, output, enqueue_output
                )
                result.add_done_callback(callback)
                return
            output.result = UtilityResult(result)
        except Exception as e:
            logger.exception("Invocation of %s method failed", name)
            output.failure_message = f"Call to {name} method failed: {str(e)}"
        enqueue_output(output)

    @staticmethod
    def _convert_msgspec_args(method, args):
        """If a provided arg type doesn't match corresponding target method
        arg type, try converting to msgspec object."""
        if not args:
            return args
        arg_types = signature(method).parameters.values()
        assert len(args) <= len(arg_types)
        return tuple(
            msgspec.convert(v, type=p.annotation)
            if isclass(p.annotation)
            and issubclass(p.annotation, msgspec.Struct)
            and not isinstance(v, p.annotation)
            else v
            for v, p in zip(args, arg_types)
        )

    def _send_engine_dead(self):
        """Send EngineDead status to the EngineCoreClient."""

        # Put ENGINE_CORE_DEAD in the queue.
        self.output_queue.put_nowait(EngineCoreProc.ENGINE_CORE_DEAD)

        # Wait until msg sent by the daemon before shutdown.
        self.output_thread.join(timeout=5.0)
        if self.output_thread.is_alive():
            logger.fatal(
                "vLLM shutdown signal from EngineCore failed "
                "to send. Please report this issue."
            )

    def process_input_sockets(
        self,
        input_addresses: list[str],
        coord_input_address: str | None,
        identity: bytes,
        ready_event: threading.Event,
    ):
        """Input socket IO thread."""

        # Msgpack serialization decoding.
        add_request_decoder = MsgpackDecoder(EngineCoreRequest)
        generic_decoder = MsgpackDecoder()

        with ExitStack() as stack, zmq.Context() as ctx:
            input_sockets = [
                stack.enter_context(
                    make_zmq_socket(
                        ctx, input_address, zmq.DEALER, identity=identity, bind=False
                    )
                )
                for input_address in input_addresses
            ]
            if coord_input_address is None:
                coord_socket = None
            else:
                coord_socket = stack.enter_context(
                    make_zmq_socket(
                        ctx,
                        coord_input_address,
                        zmq.XSUB,
                        identity=identity,
                        bind=False,
                    )
                )
                # Send subscription message to coordinator.
                coord_socket.send(b"\x01")

            # Register sockets with poller.
            poller = zmq.Poller()
            for input_socket in input_sockets:
                # Send initial message to each input socket - this is required
                # before the front-end ROUTER socket can send input messages
                # back to us.
                input_socket.send(b"")
                poller.register(input_socket, zmq.POLLIN)

            if coord_socket is not None:
                # Wait for ready message from coordinator.
                assert coord_socket.recv() == b"READY"
                poller.register(coord_socket, zmq.POLLIN)

            ready_event.set()
            del ready_event
            while True:
                for input_socket, _ in poller.poll():
                    # (RequestType, RequestData)
                    type_frame, *data_frames = input_socket.recv_multipart(copy=False)
                    request_type = EngineCoreRequestType(bytes(type_frame.buffer))

                    # Deserialize the request data.
                    request: Any
                    if request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.ADD:
                        req: EngineCoreRequest = add_request_decoder.decode(data_frames)
                        try:
                            request = self.preprocess_add_request(req)
                        except Exception:
                            self._handle_request_preproc_error(req)
                            continue
                    else:
                        request = generic_decoder.decode(data_frames)

                        if request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.ABORT:
                            # Aborts are added to *both* queues, allows us to eagerly
                            # process aborts while also ensuring ordering in the input
                            # queue to avoid leaking requests. This is ok because
                            # aborting in the scheduler is idempotent.
                            self.aborts_queue.put_nowait(request)

                    # Push to input queue for core busy loop.
                    self.input_queue.put_nowait((request_type, request))

    def process_output_sockets(
        self,
        output_paths: list[str],
        coord_output_path: str | None,
        engine_index: int,
    ):
        """Output socket IO thread."""

        # Msgpack serialization encoding.
        encoder = MsgpackEncoder()
        # Send buffers to reuse.
        reuse_buffers: list[bytearray] = []
        # Keep references to outputs and buffers until zmq is finished
        # with them (outputs may contain tensors/np arrays whose
        # backing buffers were extracted for zero-copy send).
        pending = deque[tuple[zmq.MessageTracker, Any, bytearray]]()

        # We must set linger to ensure the ENGINE_CORE_DEAD
        # message is sent prior to closing the socket.
        with ExitStack() as stack, zmq.Context() as ctx:
            sockets = [
                stack.enter_context(
                    make_zmq_socket(ctx, output_path, zmq.PUSH, linger=4000)
                )
                for output_path in output_paths
            ]
            coord_socket = (
                stack.enter_context(
                    make_zmq_socket(
                        ctx, coord_output_path, zmq.PUSH, bind=False, linger=4000
                    )
                )
                if coord_output_path is not None
                else None
            )
            max_reuse_bufs = len(sockets) + 1

            while True:
                output = self.output_queue.get()
                if output == EngineCoreProc.ENGINE_CORE_DEAD:
                    for socket in sockets:
                        socket.send(output)
                    break
                assert not isinstance(output, bytes)
                client_index, outputs = output
                outputs.engine_index = engine_index

                if client_index == -1:
                    # Don't reuse buffer for coordinator message
                    # which will be very small.
                    assert coord_socket is not None
                    coord_socket.send_multipart(encoder.encode(outputs))
                    continue

                # Reclaim buffers that zmq is finished with.
                while pending and pending[-1][0].done:
                    reuse_buffers.append(pending.pop()[2])

                buffer = reuse_buffers.pop() if reuse_buffers else bytearray()
                buffers = encoder.encode_into(outputs, buffer)
                tracker = sockets[client_index].send_multipart(
                    buffers, copy=False, track=True
                )
                if not tracker.done:
                    ref = outputs if len(buffers) > 1 else None
                    pending.appendleft((tracker, ref, buffer))
                elif len(reuse_buffers) < max_reuse_bufs:
                    # Limit the number of buffers to reuse.
                    reuse_buffers.append(buffer)

    def _handle_request_preproc_error(self, request: EngineCoreRequest) -> None:
        """Log and return a request-scoped error response for exceptions raised
        from the add request preprocessing in the input socket processing thread.
        """
        logger.exception(
            "Unexpected error pre-processing request %s", request.request_id
        )
        self.output_queue.put_nowait(
            (
                request.client_index,
                EngineCoreOutputs(
                    engine_index=self.engine_index,
                    finished_requests={request.request_id},
                    outputs=[
                        EngineCoreOutput(
                            request_id=request.request_id,
                            new_token_ids=[],
                            finish_reason=FinishReason.ERROR,
                        )
                    ],
                ),
            )
        )

    def pause_scheduler(
        self, mode: PauseMode = "abort", clear_cache: bool = True
    ) -> Future | None:
        """Pause generation; behavior depends on mode.

        All pause modes queue new adds -- "abort" and "keep" skip step();
        "wait" allows step() so in-flight requests can drain.

        - ``abort``: Set PAUSED_NEW, abort all requests, wait for abort
          outputs to be sent (when running with output_queue), optionally
          clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
        - ``wait``: Set PAUSED_NEW (queue adds, keep stepping); when drained,
          optionally clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
        - ``keep``: Set PAUSED_ALL; return a Future that completes when the
          output queue is empty.
        """
        if mode not in ("keep", "abort", "wait"):
            raise ValueError(f"Invalid pause mode: {mode}")

        def engine_idle_callback(engine: "EngineCoreProc", future: Future[Any]) -> None:
            if clear_cache:
                engine._reset_caches()
            future.set_result(None)

        if mode == "abort":
            aborted_reqs = self.scheduler.finish_requests(
                None, RequestStatus.FINISHED_ABORTED
            )
            self._send_abort_outputs(aborted_reqs)

        pause_state = PauseState.PAUSED_ALL if mode == "keep" else PauseState.PAUSED_NEW
        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(pause_state)
        if not self.has_work():
            if clear_cache:
                self._reset_caches()
            return None

        future = Future[Any]()
        self._idle_state_callbacks.append(partial(engine_idle_callback, future=future))
        return future

    def _send_abort_outputs(self, aborted_reqs: list[tuple[str, int]]) -> None:
        # TODO(nick) this will be moved inside the scheduler
        if aborted_reqs:
            # Map client_index to list of request_ids that belong to that client.
            by_client = defaultdict[int, set[str]](set)
            for req_id, client_index in aborted_reqs:
                by_client[client_index].add(req_id)
            for client_index, req_ids in by_client.items():
                outputs = [
                    EngineCoreOutput(req_id, [], finish_reason=FinishReason.ABORT)
                    for req_id in req_ids
                ]
                eco = EngineCoreOutputs(finished_requests=req_ids, outputs=outputs)
                self.output_queue.put_nowait((client_index, eco))


class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
    """ZMQ-wrapper for running EngineCore in background process
    in a data parallel context."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        local_client: bool,
        handshake_address: str,
        executor_class: type[Executor],
        log_stats: bool,
        client_handshake_address: str | None = None,
    ):
        assert vllm_config.model_config.is_moe, (
            "DPEngineCoreProc should only be used for MoE models"
        )

        # Counts forward-passes of the model so that we can synchronize
        # finished with DP peers every N steps.
        self.step_counter = 0
        self.current_wave = 0
        self.last_counts = (0, 0)

        # Initialize the engine.
        dp_rank = vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank
        super().__init__(
            vllm_config,
            local_client,
            handshake_address,
            executor_class,
            log_stats,
            client_handshake_address,
            engine_index=dp_rank,
        )

    def _init_data_parallel(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
        # Configure GPUs and stateless process group for data parallel.
        dp_rank = vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank
        dp_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size
        local_dp_rank = vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local

        assert dp_size > 1
        assert local_dp_rank is not None
        assert 0 <= local_dp_rank <= dp_rank < dp_size

        self.dp_rank = dp_rank
        self.dp_group = vllm_config.parallel_config.stateless_init_dp_group()

    def shutdown(self):
        super().shutdown()
        if dp_group := getattr(self, "dp_group", None):
            stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group(dp_group)

    def add_request(self, request: Request, request_wave: int = 0):
        super().add_request(request, request_wave)
        if self.has_coordinator and request_wave != self.current_wave:
            if request_wave > self.current_wave:
                self.current_wave = request_wave
            elif not self.engines_running:
                # Request received for an already-completed wave, notify
                # front-end that we need to start the next one.
                self.output_queue.put_nowait(
                    (-1, EngineCoreOutputs(start_wave=self.current_wave))
                )

    def resume_scheduler(self):
        super().resume_scheduler()
        if not self.engines_running and self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests():
            # Wake up other DP engines.
            self.output_queue.put_nowait(
                (-1, EngineCoreOutputs(start_wave=self.current_wave))
            )

    def _handle_client_request(
        self, request_type: EngineCoreRequestType, request: Any
    ) -> None:
        if request_type == EngineCoreRequestType.START_DP_WAVE:
            new_wave, exclude_eng_index = request
            if exclude_eng_index != self.engine_index and (
                new_wave >= self.current_wave
            ):
                self.current_wave = new_wave
                if not self.engines_running:
                    logger.debug("EngineCore starting idle loop for wave %d.", new_wave)
                    self.engines_running = True
        else:
            super()._handle_client_request(request_type, request)

    def _maybe_publish_request_counts(self):
        if not self.publish_dp_lb_stats:
            return

        # Publish our request counts (if they've changed).
        counts = self.scheduler.get_request_counts()
        if counts != self.last_counts:
            self.last_counts = counts
            stats = SchedulerStats(
                *counts, step_counter=self.step_counter, current_wave=self.current_wave
            )
            self.output_queue.put_nowait((-1, EngineCoreOutputs(scheduler_stats=stats)))

    def run_busy_loop(self):
        """Core busy loop of the EngineCore for data parallel case."""

        # Loop until process is sent a SIGINT or SIGTERM
        while True:
            # 1) Poll the input queue until there is work to do.
            self._process_input_queue()

            # 2) Step the engine core.
            executed = self._process_engine_step()
            self._maybe_publish_request_counts()

            local_unfinished_reqs = self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests()
            if not executed:
                if not local_unfinished_reqs and not self.engines_running:
                    # All engines are idle.
                    continue

                # We are in a running state and so must execute a dummy pass
                # if the model didn't execute any ready requests.
                self.execute_dummy_batch()

            # 3) All-reduce operation to determine global unfinished reqs.
            self.engines_running = self._has_global_unfinished_reqs(
                local_unfinished_reqs
            )

            if not self.engines_running:
                if self.dp_rank == 0 or not self.has_coordinator:
                    # Notify client that we are pausing the loop.
                    logger.debug(
                        "Wave %d finished, pausing engine loop.", self.current_wave
                    )
                    # In the coordinator case, dp rank 0 sends updates to the
                    # coordinator. Otherwise (offline spmd case), each rank
                    # sends the update to its colocated front-end process.
                    client_index = -1 if self.has_coordinator else 0
                    self.output_queue.put_nowait(
                        (
                            client_index,
                            EngineCoreOutputs(wave_complete=self.current_wave),
                        )
                    )
                # Increment wave count and reset step counter.
                self.current_wave += 1
                self.step_counter = 0

    def _has_global_unfinished_reqs(self, local_unfinished: bool) -> bool:
        # Optimization - only perform finish-sync all-reduce every 32 steps.
        self.step_counter += 1
        if self.step_counter % 32 != 0:
            return True

        return ParallelConfig.has_unfinished_dp(self.dp_group, local_unfinished)

    def reinitialize_distributed(
        self, reconfig_request: ReconfigureDistributedRequest
    ) -> None:
        stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group(self.dp_group)
        self.shutdown()

        parallel_config = self.vllm_config.parallel_config
        old_dp_size = parallel_config.data_parallel_size
        parallel_config.data_parallel_size = reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_size
        if reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_rank != -1:
            parallel_config.data_parallel_rank = reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_rank
        # local rank specifies device visibility, it should not be changed
        assert (
            reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_rank_local
            == ReconfigureRankType.KEEP_CURRENT_RANK
        )
        parallel_config.data_parallel_master_ip = (
            reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_master_ip
        )
        parallel_config.data_parallel_master_port = (
            reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_master_port
        )
        if reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_rank != -2:
            self.dp_rank = parallel_config.data_parallel_rank
            self.dp_group = parallel_config.stateless_init_dp_group()
        reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_master_port = (
            parallel_config.data_parallel_master_port
        )

        self.model_executor.reinitialize_distributed(reconfig_request)
        if reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_size > old_dp_size:
            assert self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache > 0
            # pass available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache from existing
            # engine-cores to new engine-cores so they can directly
            # use it in _initialize_kv_caches() rather than profiling.
            ParallelConfig.sync_kv_cache_memory_size(
                self.dp_group, self.available_gpu_memory_for_kv_cache
            )
            # NOTE(yongji): newly joined workers require dummy_run even
            # CUDA graph is not used
            self.model_executor.collective_rpc("compile_or_warm_up_model")
        if (
            reconfig_request.new_data_parallel_rank
            == ReconfigureRankType.SHUTDOWN_CURRENT_RANK
        ):
            self.shutdown()
            logger.info("DPEngineCoreProc %s shutdown", self.dp_rank)
        else:
            logger.info(
                "Distributed environment reinitialized for DP rank %s", self.dp_rank
            )


class EngineCoreActorMixin:
    """
    Ray actor for running EngineCore in a data parallel context
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        addresses: EngineZmqAddresses,
        dp_rank: int = 0,
        local_dp_rank: int = 0,
    ):
        # Initialize tracer for distributed tracing if configured.
        maybe_init_worker_tracer(
            instrumenting_module_name="vllm.engine_core",
            process_kind="engine_core",
            process_name=f"DPEngineCoreActor_DP{dp_rank}",
        )

        self.addresses = addresses
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_index = dp_rank
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local = local_dp_rank

        # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES as early as possible in actor life cycle
        # NOTE: in MP we set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES at process creation time,
        # and this cannot be done in the same way for Ray because:
        # 1) Ray manages life cycle of all ray workers (including
        # DPEngineCoreActor)
        # 2) Ray sets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES based on num_gpus configuration
        # To bypass 2, we need to also set
        # RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, but vLLM workers created
        # thereafter would have CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES set, which is sticky:
        # https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/e752fc319ddedd9779a0989b6d3613909bad75c9/python/ray/_private/worker.py#L456 # noqa: E501
        # This is problematic because when the vLLM worker (a Ray actor)
        # executes a task, it indexes into the sticky CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
        # rather than directly using the GPU ID, potentially resulting in
        # index out of bounds error. See:
        # https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/40461/files#diff-31e8159767361e4bc259b6d9883d9c0d5e5db780fcea4a52ead4ee3ee4a59a78R1860 # noqa: E501
        # and get_accelerator_ids_for_accelerator_resource() in worker.py
        # of ray.
        self._set_visible_devices(vllm_config, local_dp_rank)

    def _set_visible_devices(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, local_dp_rank: int):
        from vllm.platforms import current_platform

        if current_platform.is_xpu():
            pass
        else:
            device_control_env_var = current_platform.device_control_env_var
            self._set_cuda_visible_devices(
                vllm_config, local_dp_rank, device_control_env_var
            )

    def _set_cuda_visible_devices(
        self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, local_dp_rank: int, device_control_env_var: str
    ):
        world_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.world_size
        # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or equivalent.
        try:
            value = get_device_indices(
                device_control_env_var, local_dp_rank, world_size
            )
            os.environ[device_control_env_var] = value
        except IndexError as e:
            raise Exception(
                f"Error setting {device_control_env_var}: "
                f"local range: [{local_dp_rank * world_size}, "
                f"{(local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size}) "
                f'base value: "{os.getenv(device_control_env_var)}"'
            ) from e

    @contextmanager
    def _perform_handshakes(
        self,
        handshake_address: str,
        identity: bytes,
        local_client: bool,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        client_handshake_address: str | None,
    ):
        """
        For Ray, we don't need to actually perform handshake.
        All addresses information is known before the actor creation.
        Therefore, we simply yield these addresses.
        """
        yield self.addresses

    def wait_for_init(self):
        """
        Wait until the engine core is initialized.

        This is just an empty method. When ray.get() on this method
        (or any other method of the actor) returns, it is guaranteed
        that actor creation (i.e., __init__) is complete.
        """
        pass

    def run(self):
        """
        Run the engine core busy loop.
        """
        try:
            self.run_busy_loop()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
        except SystemExit:
            logger.debug("EngineCore exiting.")
            raise
        except Exception:
            logger.exception("EngineCore encountered a fatal error.")
            raise
        finally:
            self.shutdown()  # type: ignore[attr-defined]


class DPMoEEngineCoreActor(EngineCoreActorMixin, DPEngineCoreProc):
    """Used for MoE model data parallel cases."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        local_client: bool,
        addresses: EngineZmqAddresses,
        executor_class: type[Executor],
        log_stats: bool,
        dp_rank: int = 0,
        local_dp_rank: int = 0,
    ):
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank = dp_rank

        EngineCoreActorMixin.__init__(
            self, vllm_config, addresses, dp_rank, local_dp_rank
        )
        DPEngineCoreProc.__init__(
            self, vllm_config, local_client, "", executor_class, log_stats
        )


class EngineCoreActor(EngineCoreActorMixin, EngineCoreProc):
    """Used for non-MoE and/or non-DP cases."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
        local_client: bool,
        addresses: EngineZmqAddresses,
        executor_class: type[Executor],
        log_stats: bool,
        dp_rank: int = 0,
        local_dp_rank: int = 0,
    ):
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size = 1
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size_local = 1
        vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank = 0

        EngineCoreActorMixin.__init__(
            self, vllm_config, addresses, dp_rank, local_dp_rank
        )
        EngineCoreProc.__init__(
            self,
            vllm_config,
            local_client,
            "",
            executor_class,
            log_stats,
            engine_index=dp_rank,
        )