[Core] Encoder separation for Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation (#25233)

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vllm/distributed/ec_transfer/ec_connector/factory.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import importlib
+from collections.abc import Callable
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+# yapf: disable
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import (
+    ECConnectorBase,
+    ECConnectorRole,
+)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+
+# yapf: enable
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.config import ECTransferConfig, VllmConfig
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class ECConnectorFactory:
+    _registry: dict[str, Callable[[], type[ECConnectorBase]]] = {}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def register_connector(cls, name: str, module_path: str, class_name: str) -> None:
+        """Register a connector with a lazy-loading module and class name."""
+        if name in cls._registry:
+            raise ValueError(f"Connector '{name}' is already registered.")
+
+        def loader() -> type[ECConnectorBase]:
+            module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
+            return getattr(module, class_name)
+
+        cls._registry[name] = loader
+
+    @classmethod
+    def create_connector(
+        cls,
+        config: "VllmConfig",
+        role: ECConnectorRole,
+    ) -> ECConnectorBase:
+        ec_transfer_config = config.ec_transfer_config
+        if ec_transfer_config is None:
+            raise ValueError("ec_transfer_config must be set to create a connector")
+        connector_cls = cls.get_connector_class(ec_transfer_config)
+        logger.info(
+            "Creating connector with name: %s and engine_id: %s",
+            connector_cls.__name__,
+            ec_transfer_config.engine_id,
+        )
+        # Connector is explicitly separated into two roles.
+        # Scheduler connector:
+        # - Co-locate with scheduler process
+        # - Should only be used inside the Scheduler class
+        # Worker connector:
+        # - Co-locate with worker process
+        return connector_cls(config, role)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_connector_class(
+        cls, ec_transfer_config: "ECTransferConfig"
+    ) -> type[ECConnectorBase]:
+        """Get the connector class by name."""
+        connector_name = ec_transfer_config.ec_connector
+        if connector_name is None:
+            raise ValueError("EC connect must not be None")
+        elif connector_name in cls._registry:
+            connector_cls = cls._registry[connector_name]()
+        else:
+            connector_module_path = ec_transfer_config.ec_connector_module_path
+            if connector_module_path is None:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unsupported connector type: {connector_name}")
+            connector_module = importlib.import_module(connector_module_path)
+            connector_cls = getattr(connector_module, connector_name)
+        return connector_cls
+
+
+# Register various connectors here.
+# The registration should not be done in each individual file, as we want to
+# only load the files corresponding to the current connector.
+
+ECConnectorFactory.register_connector(
+    "ECSharedStorageConnector",
+    "vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.shared_storage_connector",
+    "ECSharedStorageConnector",
+)

vllm/distributed/ec_transfer/ec_connector/shared_storage_connector.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+import safetensors
+
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import (
+    ECConnectorBase,
+    ECConnectorMetadata,
+    ECConnectorRole,
+)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.v1.request import Request
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MMMeta:
+    mm_hash: str
+    num_token: int
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def make_meta(mm_hash, num_token) -> "MMMeta":
+        return MMMeta(mm_hash=mm_hash, num_token=num_token)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ECSharedStorageConnectorMetadata(ECConnectorMetadata):
+    mm_datas: list[MMMeta]
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.mm_datas = []
+
+    def add_mm_data(self, mm_data: MMMeta):
+        self.mm_datas.append(mm_data)
+
+
+class ECSharedStorageConnector(ECConnectorBase):
+    # NOTE: This is Simple debug implementation of the EC connector.
+    # It save / load the EC cache to / from the disk.
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: "VllmConfig", role: ECConnectorRole):
+        super().__init__(vllm_config=vllm_config, role=role)
+        # req_id -> index
+        self._mm_datas_need_loads: dict[str, int] = {}
+        transfer_config = vllm_config.ec_transfer_config
+        if transfer_config is not None:
+            self._storage_path = transfer_config.get_from_extra_config(
+                "shared_storage_path", "/tmp"
+            )
+            logger.debug(transfer_config)
+            logger.debug("Shared storage path is %s", self._storage_path)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("ec_transfer_config must be set for ECConnectorBase")
+
+    def start_load_caches(self, encoder_cache, **kwargs) -> None:
+        """
+        Start loading the cache from the connector into vLLM's encoder cache.
+
+        This method loads the encoder cache based on metadata provided by the scheduler.
+        It is called before `_gather_mm_embeddings` for the EC Connector. For EC,
+        the `encoder_cache` and `mm_hash` are stored in `kwargs`.
+
+        Args:
+            encoder_cache (dict[str, torch.Tensor]): A dictionary mapping multimodal
+                data hashes (`mm_hash`) to encoder cache tensors.
+            kwargs (dict): Additional keyword arguments for the connector.
+        """
+
+        # Get the metadata
+        metadata: ECConnectorMetadata = self._get_connector_metadata()
+        assert isinstance(metadata, ECSharedStorageConnectorMetadata)
+        assert encoder_cache is not None
+        if metadata is None:
+            logger.warning(
+                (
+                    "In connector.start_load_caches, ",
+                    "but the connector metadata is None",
+                )
+            )
+            return
+        # Load the EC for each mm data
+        for mm_data in metadata.mm_datas:
+            if mm_data.mm_hash in encoder_cache:
+                continue
+            filename = self._generate_filename_debug(mm_data.mm_hash)
+            ec_cache = safetensors.torch.load_file(filename)["ec_cache"].cuda()
+            encoder_cache[mm_data.mm_hash] = ec_cache
+            logger.debug("Success load encoder cache for hash %s", mm_data.mm_hash)
+
+    def save_caches(self, encoder_cache, mm_hash, **kwargs) -> None:
+        """
+        Save the encoder cache to the connector.
+
+        This method saves the encoder cache from the worker's local storage
+        to shared storage or another external connector.
+
+        Args:
+            encoder_cache (dict[str, torch.Tensor]): A dictionary mapping multimodal
+                data hashes (`mm_hash`) to encoder cache tensors.
+            mm_hash (str): The hash of the multimodal data whose cache is being saved.
+            kwargs (dict): Additional keyword arguments for the connector.
+        """
+        # Return if it is PD Instance
+        if not self.is_producer:
+            return
+        filename = self._generate_filename_debug(mm_hash)
+        ec_cache = encoder_cache[mm_hash]
+        tensors = {"ec_cache": ec_cache.detach().cpu()}
+        safetensors.torch.save_file(tensors, filename)
+        logger.debug("Save cache successful for mm_hash %s", mm_hash)
+
+    def has_caches(
+        self,
+        request: "Request",
+    ) -> list[bool]:
+        """
+        Check if cache exist externally for each mm_data of request
+
+        Args:
+            request (Request): the request object.
+
+        Returns:
+            List of bool indicate that ith mm_data exist in cache or not
+        """
+        result = []
+        for feature in request.mm_features:
+            result.append(self._found_match_for_mm_data(feature.identifier))
+        return result
+
+    def update_state_after_alloc(
+        self,
+        request: "Request",
+        index: int,
+    ) -> None:
+        """
+        Update ECConnector state after encoder cache allocation.
+        """
+        mm_hash = request.mm_features[index].identifier
+        num_encoder_token = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(index)
+        # Insert mm_hash only if this block has not been recorded yet.
+        self._mm_datas_need_loads[mm_hash] = num_encoder_token
+
+    def build_connector_meta(
+        self,
+        scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput,
+    ) -> ECConnectorMetadata:
+        """Build the connector metadata for this step.
+
+        This function should NOT modify any fields in the scheduler_output.
+        Also, calling this function will reset the state of the connector.
+        This only build for load mm_data only
+        Args:
+            scheduler_output (SchedulerOutput): the scheduler output object.
+        """
+        meta = ECSharedStorageConnectorMetadata()
+        for mm_hash, num_encoder_token in self._mm_datas_need_loads.items():
+            meta.add_mm_data(MMMeta.make_meta(mm_hash, num_encoder_token))
+        self._mm_datas_need_loads.clear()
+        return meta
+
+    # ==============================
+    # Helper functions
+    # ==============================
+
+    def _found_match_for_mm_data(self, mm_hash) -> bool:
+        """Check if the cache is hit for the request."""
+        filename = self._generate_filename_debug(mm_hash)
+        return os.path.exists(filename)
+
+    def _generate_foldername_debug(
+        self,
+        mm_hash: str,
+        create_folder: bool = True,  # <- now defaults to True
+    ) -> str:
+        """
+        Return the folder in which the cache for this mm_hash lives.
+        If `create_folder` is True (default) the directory is created
+        recursively the first time it is needed.
+        """
+        foldername = os.path.join(self._storage_path, mm_hash)
+        if create_folder:
+            os.makedirs(foldername, exist_ok=True)
+        return foldername
+
+    def _generate_filename_debug(self, mm_hash: str) -> str:
+        """
+        Return the full path of the safetensors file for this mm_hash.
+        Ensures the parent directory exists because
+        `_generate_foldername_debug` is called with its default
+        (`create_folder=True`).
+        """
+        foldername = self._generate_foldername_debug(mm_hash)  # <- folder auto-created
+        return os.path.join(foldername, "encoder_cache.safetensors")

vllm/distributed/ec_transfer/ec_transfer_state.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from vllm import envs
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import (
+    ECConnectorBase,
+    ECConnectorRole,
+)
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.factory import ECConnectorFactory
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+
+_EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT: ECConnectorBase | None = None
+
+
+def get_ec_transfer() -> ECConnectorBase:
+    assert _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT is not None, "disaggregated EC cache is not initialized"
+    return _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT
+
+
+def has_ec_transfer() -> bool:
+    return _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT is not None
+
+
+def ensure_ec_transfer_initialized(vllm_config: "VllmConfig") -> None:
+    """
+    Initialize EC cache connector.
+    """
+
+    global _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT
+
+    if vllm_config.ec_transfer_config is None:
+        return
+
+    if (
+        vllm_config.ec_transfer_config.is_ec_transfer_instance
+        and _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT is None
+    ):
+        if envs.VLLM_USE_V1:
+            _EC_CONNECTOR_AGENT = ECConnectorFactory.create_connector(
+                config=vllm_config, role=ECConnectorRole.WORKER
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("V0 is no longer supported")

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ from vllm.config import (
     CompilationConfig,
     ConfigType,
     DeviceConfig,
+    ECTransferConfig,
     EPLBConfig,
     KVEventsConfig,
     KVTransferConfig,
@@ -527,6 +528,8 @@ class EngineArgs:
     kv_transfer_config: KVTransferConfig | None = None
     kv_events_config: KVEventsConfig | None = None
 
+    ec_transfer_config: ECTransferConfig | None = None
+
     generation_config: str = ModelConfig.generation_config
     enable_sleep_mode: bool = ModelConfig.enable_sleep_mode
     override_generation_config: dict[str, Any] = get_field(
@@ -1105,6 +1108,9 @@ class EngineArgs:
             "--kv-transfer-config", **vllm_kwargs["kv_transfer_config"]
         )
         vllm_group.add_argument("--kv-events-config", **vllm_kwargs["kv_events_config"])
+        vllm_group.add_argument(
+            "--ec-transfer-config", **vllm_kwargs["ec_transfer_config"]
+        )
         vllm_group.add_argument(
             "--compilation-config", "-O", **vllm_kwargs["compilation_config"]
         )
@@ -1676,6 +1682,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
             compilation_config=self.compilation_config,
             kv_transfer_config=self.kv_transfer_config,
             kv_events_config=self.kv_events_config,
+            ec_transfer_config=self.ec_transfer_config,
             additional_config=self.additional_config,
         )
 

vllm/model_executor/warmup/kernel_warmup.py

@@ -49,10 +49,18 @@ def kernel_warmup(worker: "Worker"):
         except NotImplementedError:
             return False
 
-    if not worker.model_runner.is_pooling_model and all(
-        _is_flashinfer_backend(group.backend)
-        for groups in worker.model_runner.attn_groups
-        for group in groups
+    # NOTE: we add check for empty attn_groups to avoid errors when
+    # deploying models such as E instances and encoder-only models.
+    # As for those models, worker.model_runner.attn_groups is empty.
+    # This change is made during EPD feature development.
+    if (
+        not worker.model_runner.is_pooling_model
+        and worker.model_runner.attn_groups
+        and all(
+            _is_flashinfer_backend(group.backend)
+            for groups in worker.model_runner.attn_groups
+            for group in groups
+        )
     ):
         logger.info("Warming up FlashInfer attention.")
         # Warmup with mixed batch containing both prefill and decode tokens

vllm/v1/core/sched/output.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import numpy.typing as npt
     import torch
 
+    from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import ECConnectorMetadata
     from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.base import KVConnectorMetadata
     from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
     from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalFeatureSpec
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
     from vllm.v1.request import Request
 else:
+    ECConnectorMetadata = object
     KVConnectorMetadata = object
     LoRARequest = object
     MultiModalFeatureSpec = object
@@ -188,6 +190,9 @@ class SchedulerOutput:
     # KV Cache Connector metadata.
     kv_connector_metadata: KVConnectorMetadata | None = None
 
+    # EC Cache Connector metadata
+    ec_connector_metadata: ECConnectorMetadata | None = None
+
 
 @dataclass
 class GrammarOutput:

vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ from collections.abc import Iterable
 from typing import Any
 
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import (
+    ECConnectorMetadata,
+    ECConnectorRole,
+)
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.factory import ECConnectorFactory
 from vllm.distributed.kv_events import EventPublisherFactory, KVEventBatch
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.factory import KVConnectorFactory
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1 import (
@@ -14,6 +19,7 @@ from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1 import (
     KVConnectorRole,
     SupportsHMA,
 )
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.base import KVConnectorMetadata
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.metrics import KVConnectorStats
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalRegistry
@@ -104,6 +110,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
             self.kv_events_config,
             self.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank,
         )
+        self.ec_connector = None
+        if self.vllm_config.ec_transfer_config is not None:
+            self.ec_connector = ECConnectorFactory.create_connector(
+                config=self.vllm_config, role=ECConnectorRole.SCHEDULER
+            )
 
         num_gpu_blocks = self.cache_config.num_gpu_blocks
         assert num_gpu_blocks is not None and num_gpu_blocks > 0
@@ -230,12 +241,14 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
 
             # Schedule encoder inputs.
             encoder_inputs_to_schedule = None
+            external_load_encoder_input: list[int] = []
             new_encoder_compute_budget = encoder_compute_budget
             if request.has_encoder_inputs:
                 (
                     encoder_inputs_to_schedule,
                     num_new_tokens,
                     new_encoder_compute_budget,
+                    external_load_encoder_input,
                 ) = self._try_schedule_encoder_inputs(
                     request,
                     request.num_computed_tokens,
@@ -342,6 +355,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                 for i in encoder_inputs_to_schedule:
                     self.encoder_cache_manager.allocate(request, i)
                 encoder_compute_budget = new_encoder_compute_budget
+            if external_load_encoder_input:
+                for i in external_load_encoder_input:
+                    self.encoder_cache_manager.allocate(request, i)
+                    if self.ec_connector is not None:
+                        self.ec_connector.update_state_after_alloc(request, i)
 
         # Record the LoRAs in scheduled_running_reqs
         scheduled_loras: set[int] = set()
@@ -445,6 +463,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                     num_computed_tokens = request.num_computed_tokens
 
                 encoder_inputs_to_schedule = None
+                external_load_encoder_input = []
                 new_encoder_compute_budget = encoder_compute_budget
 
                 # KVTransfer: loading remote KV, do not allocate for new work.
@@ -480,6 +499,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                             encoder_inputs_to_schedule,
                             num_new_tokens,
                             new_encoder_compute_budget,
+                            external_load_encoder_input,
                         ) = self._try_schedule_encoder_inputs(
                             request,
                             num_computed_tokens,
@@ -583,7 +603,12 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                     for i in encoder_inputs_to_schedule:
                         self.encoder_cache_manager.allocate(request, i)
                     encoder_compute_budget = new_encoder_compute_budget
-
+                # Allocate for external load encoder cache
+                if external_load_encoder_input:
+                    for i in external_load_encoder_input:
+                        self.encoder_cache_manager.allocate(request, i)
+                        if self.ec_connector is not None:
+                            self.ec_connector.update_state_after_alloc(request, i)
         # Put back any skipped requests at the head of the waiting queue
         if skipped_waiting_requests:
             self.waiting.prepend_requests(skipped_waiting_requests)
@@ -591,6 +616,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         # Check if the scheduling constraints are satisfied.
         total_num_scheduled_tokens = sum(num_scheduled_tokens.values())
         assert total_num_scheduled_tokens <= self.max_num_scheduled_tokens
+
         assert token_budget >= 0
         assert len(self.running) <= self.max_num_running_reqs
         # Since some requests in the RUNNING queue may not be scheduled in
@@ -653,8 +679,18 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         # 2. Wrap up all the KV cache load / save ops into an opaque object
         # 3. Clear the internal states of the connector
         if self.connector is not None:
-            meta = self.connector.build_connector_meta(scheduler_output)
+            meta: KVConnectorMetadata = self.connector.build_connector_meta(
+                scheduler_output
+            )
             scheduler_output.kv_connector_metadata = meta
+
+        # Build the connector meta for ECConnector
+        if self.ec_connector is not None:
+            ec_meta: ECConnectorMetadata = self.ec_connector.build_connector_meta(
+                scheduler_output
+            )
+            scheduler_output.ec_connector_metadata = ec_meta
+
         with record_function_or_nullcontext("schedule: update_after_schedule"):
             self._update_after_schedule(scheduler_output)
         return scheduler_output
@@ -755,7 +791,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         num_computed_tokens: int,
         num_new_tokens: int,
         encoder_compute_budget: int,
-    ) -> tuple[list[int], int, int]:
+    ) -> tuple[list[int], int, int, list[int]]:
         """
         Determine which encoder inputs need to be scheduled in the current step,
         and update `num_new_tokens` and encoder token budget accordingly.
@@ -765,6 +801,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         in this step, i.e.,
         [num_computed_tokens, num_computed_tokens + num_new_tokens).
         - It is not already computed and stored in the encoder cache.
+        - It is not exist on remote encoder cache (via ECConnector)
         - There is sufficient encoder token budget to process it.
         - The encoder cache has space to store it.
 
@@ -776,12 +813,16 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         blocks and externally cached blocks (via KVConnector).
         """
         if num_new_tokens == 0 or not request.has_encoder_inputs:
-            return [], num_new_tokens, encoder_compute_budget
+            return [], num_new_tokens, encoder_compute_budget, []
         encoder_inputs_to_schedule: list[int] = []
         mm_features = request.mm_features
         assert mm_features is not None
         assert len(mm_features) > 0
+        external_load_encoder_input = []
 
+        # Check remote cache first
+        if self.ec_connector is not None:
+            remote_cache_has_item = self.ec_connector.has_caches(request)
         # NOTE: since scheduler operates on the request level (possibly with
         # multiple encoder inputs per request), we need to create temporary
         # trackers for accounting at the encoder input level.
@@ -862,6 +903,12 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                     num_new_tokens = 0
                 break
 
+            if self.ec_connector is not None and remote_cache_has_item[i]:
+                mm_hashes_to_schedule.add(request.mm_features[i].identifier)
+                external_load_encoder_input.append(i)
+                num_tokens_to_schedule += num_encoder_tokens
+                continue
+
             num_tokens_to_schedule += num_encoder_tokens
             encoder_compute_budget -= num_encoder_tokens
             mm_hashes_to_schedule.add(request.mm_features[i].identifier)
@@ -871,6 +918,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
             encoder_inputs_to_schedule,
             num_new_tokens,
             encoder_compute_budget,
+            external_load_encoder_input,
         )
 
     def get_grammar_bitmask(

vllm/v1/outputs.py

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, NamedTuple
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.metrics import KVConnectorStats
 else:
@@ -136,6 +138,13 @@ class KVConnectorOutput:
         )
 
 
+@dataclass
+class ECConnectorOutput:
+    # [mm_hash]
+    finished_sending: set[str] | None = None
+    finished_recving: set[str] | None = None
+
+
 # ModelRunnerOutput is serialized and sent to the scheduler process.
 # This is expensive for torch.Tensor so prefer to use list instead.
 @dataclass
@@ -167,6 +176,8 @@ class ModelRunnerOutput:
 
     kv_connector_output: KVConnectorOutput | None = None
 
+    ec_connector_output: ECConnectorOutput | None = None
+
     # req_id -> num_nans_in_logits
     num_nans_in_logits: dict[str, int] | None = None
 
@@ -192,6 +203,41 @@ class DraftTokenIds:
     draft_token_ids: list[list[int]]
 
 
+def make_empty_encoder_model_runner_output(
+    scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
+) -> ModelRunnerOutput:
+    """
+    Create a ModelRunnerOutput stub that contains the correct
+    per-request bookkeeping but no generated data yet.
+    """
+    if not scheduler_output.num_scheduled_tokens:
+        return EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT
+
+    # Convert to list so we get a deterministic, indexable sequence
+    req_ids: list[str] = list(scheduler_output.num_scheduled_tokens.keys())
+
+    # Give every request its own contiguous index
+    req_id_to_index: dict[str, int] = {rid: idx for idx, rid in enumerate(req_ids)}
+
+    # No tokens generated yet ⇒ one empty list per request
+    sampled_token_ids: list[list[int]] = [[0] for _ in req_ids]
+
+    # Pooler outputs are not available yet ⇒ use None placeholders
+    pooler_output: list[torch.Tensor | None] = [None for _ in req_ids]
+
+    return ModelRunnerOutput(
+        req_ids=req_ids,
+        req_id_to_index=req_id_to_index,
+        sampled_token_ids=sampled_token_ids,
+        logprobs=None,
+        prompt_logprobs_dict={},
+        pooler_output=pooler_output,
+        kv_connector_output=None,
+        ec_connector_output=None,
+        num_nans_in_logits=None,
+    )
+
+
 EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT = ModelRunnerOutput(
     req_ids=[],
     req_id_to_index={},

vllm/v1/worker/ec_connector_model_runner_mixin.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+Define EC connector functionality mixin for model runners.
+"""
+
+from collections.abc import Generator
+from contextlib import AbstractContextManager, contextmanager, nullcontext
+from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,  # noqa: UP035
+)
+
+import torch
+
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer import get_ec_transfer, has_ec_transfer
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer.ec_connector.base import ECConnectorBase
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.v1.outputs import ECConnectorOutput
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+# Defined as a EC connector functionality mixin for ModelRunner (GPU, TPU)
+class ECConnectorModelRunnerMixin:
+    @staticmethod
+    def maybe_save_ec_to_connector(
+        encoder_cache: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+        mm_hash: str,
+    ):
+        if not has_ec_transfer():
+            logger.debug("Not have ec transfer please check")
+            return
+        connector = get_ec_transfer()
+        connector.save_caches(encoder_cache=encoder_cache, mm_hash=mm_hash)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_finished_ec_transfers(
+        scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
+    ) -> tuple[set[str] | None, set[str] | None]:
+        if has_ec_transfer():
+            return get_ec_transfer().get_finished(scheduler_output.finished_req_ids)
+        return None, None
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def maybe_get_ec_connector_output(
+        scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
+        encoder_cache: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> AbstractContextManager[ECConnectorOutput | None]:
+        return (
+            ECConnectorModelRunnerMixin._get_ec_connector_output(
+                scheduler_output, encoder_cache, **kwargs
+            )
+            if has_ec_transfer()
+            else nullcontext()
+        )
+
+    # This context manager must be used within an active forward context.
+    # It encapsulates the entire EC conector lifecycle within execute_model
+    @staticmethod
+    @contextmanager
+    def _get_ec_connector_output(
+        scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
+        encoder_cache: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> Generator[ECConnectorOutput, None, None]:
+        output = ECConnectorOutput()
+
+        ec_connector = get_ec_transfer()
+        assert isinstance(ec_connector, ECConnectorBase)
+        assert scheduler_output.ec_connector_metadata is not None
+        ec_connector.bind_connector_metadata(scheduler_output.ec_connector_metadata)
+
+        if not ec_connector.is_producer:
+            ec_connector.start_load_caches(encoder_cache, **kwargs)
+
+        try:
+            yield output
+        finally:
+            output.finished_sending, output.finished_recving = (
+                ec_connector.get_finished(scheduler_output.finished_req_ids)
+            )
+
+            ec_connector.clear_connector_metadata()

vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ from vllm.config import (
     get_layers_from_vllm_config,
     update_config,
 )
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer import get_ec_transfer, has_ec_transfer
 from vllm.distributed.eplb.eplb_state import EplbState
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer import get_kv_transfer_group, has_kv_transfer_group
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.utils import copy_kv_blocks
@@ -114,12 +115,14 @@ from vllm.v1.outputs import (
     EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT,
     AsyncModelRunnerOutput,
     DraftTokenIds,
+    ECConnectorOutput,
     KVConnectorOutput,
     LogprobsLists,
     LogprobsTensors,
     ModelRunnerOutput,
     PoolerOutput,
     SamplerOutput,
+    make_empty_encoder_model_runner_output,
 )
 from vllm.v1.pool.metadata import PoolingMetadata
 from vllm.v1.sample.logits_processor import LogitsProcessors, build_logitsprocs
@@ -134,6 +137,7 @@ from vllm.v1.spec_decode.suffix_decoding import SuffixDecodingProposer
 from vllm.v1.structured_output.utils import apply_grammar_bitmask
 from vllm.v1.utils import CpuGpuBuffer, record_function_or_nullcontext
 from vllm.v1.worker.dp_utils import coordinate_batch_across_dp
+from vllm.v1.worker.ec_connector_model_runner_mixin import ECConnectorModelRunnerMixin
 from vllm.v1.worker.gpu_input_batch import CachedRequestState, InputBatch
 from vllm.v1.worker.gpu_ubatch_wrapper import UBatchWrapper
 from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin
@@ -237,9 +241,12 @@ class ExecuteModelState(NamedTuple):
     sample_hidden_states: torch.Tensor
     aux_hidden_states: list[torch.Tensor] | None
     kv_connector_output: KVConnectorOutput | None
+    ec_connector_output: ECConnectorOutput | None
 
 
-class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
+class GPUModelRunner(
+    LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin, ECConnectorModelRunnerMixin
+):
     def __init__(
         self,
         vllm_config: VllmConfig,
@@ -1873,6 +1880,8 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
                 output,
                 is_embed=pos_info.is_embed,
             )
+            logger.debug("Finish execute for mm hash %s", mm_hash)
+            self.maybe_save_ec_to_connector(self.encoder_cache, mm_hash)
 
     def _gather_mm_embeddings(
         self,
@@ -2191,20 +2200,27 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
         torch.Tensor,
         IntermediateTensors | None,
         dict[str, Any],
+        ECConnectorOutput | None,
     ]:
         num_scheduled_tokens = scheduler_output.total_num_scheduled_tokens
         is_first_rank = get_pp_group().is_first_rank
 
         # _prepare_inputs may reorder the batch, so we must gather multi
         # modal outputs after that to ensure the correct order
+        ec_connector_output = None
+
         if (
             self.supports_mm_inputs
             and is_first_rank
             and not self.model_config.is_encoder_decoder
         ):
             # Run the multimodal encoder if any.
-            self._execute_mm_encoder(scheduler_output)
-            mm_embeds, is_mm_embed = self._gather_mm_embeddings(scheduler_output)
+            with self.maybe_get_ec_connector_output(
+                scheduler_output,
+                encoder_cache=self.encoder_cache,
+            ) as ec_connector_output:
+                self._execute_mm_encoder(scheduler_output)
+                mm_embeds, is_mm_embed = self._gather_mm_embeddings(scheduler_output)
 
             # NOTE(woosuk): To unify token ids and soft tokens (vision
             # embeddings), we always use embeddings (rather than token ids)
@@ -2284,6 +2300,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
             positions,
             intermediate_tensors,
             model_kwargs,
+            ec_connector_output,
         )
 
     def _sample(
@@ -2508,6 +2525,14 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
                 # Update persistent batch states.
                 self._update_states(scheduler_output)
 
+                if has_ec_transfer() and get_ec_transfer().is_producer:
+                    with self.maybe_get_ec_connector_output(
+                        scheduler_output,
+                        encoder_cache=self.encoder_cache,
+                    ) as ec_connector_output:
+                        self._execute_mm_encoder(scheduler_output)
+                        return make_empty_encoder_model_runner_output(scheduler_output)
+
                 if not num_scheduled_tokens:
                     if not has_kv_transfer_group():
                         # Return empty ModelRunnerOutput if no work to do.
@@ -2583,6 +2608,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
                 positions,
                 intermediate_tensors,
                 model_kwargs,
+                ec_connector_output,
             ) = self._preprocess(
                 scheduler_output, num_input_tokens, intermediate_tensors
             )
@@ -2699,6 +2725,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
             sample_hidden_states,
             aux_hidden_states,
             kv_connector_output,
+            ec_connector_output,
         )
         return None
 
@@ -2720,6 +2747,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
             sample_hidden_states,
             aux_hidden_states,
             kv_connector_output,
+            ec_connector_output,
         ) = self.execute_model_state
         # Clear ephemeral state.
         self.execute_model_state = None
@@ -2811,6 +2839,9 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
                 prompt_logprobs_dict=prompt_logprobs_dict,
                 pooler_output=[],
                 kv_connector_output=kv_connector_output,
+                ec_connector_output=ec_connector_output
+                if self.supports_mm_inputs
+                else None,
                 num_nans_in_logits=num_nans_in_logits,
             )
 
@@ -4797,7 +4828,8 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin, KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin):
             KVCacheSpec: A dictionary mapping layer names to their KV cache
             format. Layers that do not need KV cache are not included.
         """
-
+        if has_ec_transfer() and get_ec_transfer().is_producer:
+            return {}
         kv_cache_spec: dict[str, KVCacheSpec] = {}
         attn_layers = get_layers_from_vllm_config(self.vllm_config, AttentionLayerBase)
         for layer_name, attn_module in attn_layers.items():

vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from vllm.distributed import (
     init_distributed_environment,
     set_custom_all_reduce,
 )
+from vllm.distributed.ec_transfer import ensure_ec_transfer_initialized
 from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer import (
     ensure_kv_transfer_initialized,
     get_kv_transfer_group,
@@ -887,3 +888,7 @@ def init_worker_distributed_environment(
         parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size,
         parallel_config.decode_context_parallel_size,
     )
+
+    # Init ec connector here before KV caches caches init
+    # NOTE: We do not init KV caches for Encoder-only instance in EPD disagg mode
+    ensure_ec_transfer_initialized(vllm_config)