feat: 添加输出占位符功能以优化调度

- 在环境变量中引入 `VLLM_SCHED_ENABLE_MINIMAL_INJECTION` 以控制流水线并行调度的最小注入。
- 调整 Scheduler 逻辑以使用新的最小注入功能。
- 更新调度逻辑以利用输出占位符，确保在解码过程中避免 0-token 停滞。
- 增强 Scheduler，根据批次队列状态管理最小进度注入。

vllm/envs.py

@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     USE_FUSED_SILU_MUL_QUANT: bool = False
     VLLM_P2P_ASYNC: bool = False
     VLLM_P2P_BUF_TOKENS: int = 30000
+    VLLM_SCHED_ENABLE_MINIMAL_INJECTION: bool = False
 
 def get_default_cache_root():
     return os.getenv(
@@ -1151,6 +1152,11 @@ environment_variables: dict[str, Callable[[], Any]] = {
     # pd separation p2p async buf tokens
     "VLLM_P2P_BUF_TOKENS":
     lambda: int(os.getenv("VLLM_P2P_BUF_TOKENS", "30000")), 
+    
+    # vllm will enable minimal injection for pipeline parallel scheduling
+    "VLLM_SCHED_ENABLE_MINIMAL_INJECTION":
+        lambda: (os.getenv("VLLM_SCHED_ENABLE_MINIMAL_INJECTION", "0").lower() in
+                 ("true", "1")),
 }
 
 # --8<-- [end:env-vars-definition]

vllm/v1/core/sched/interface.py

@@ -148,3 +148,6 @@ class SchedulerInterface(ABC):
 
     def get_kv_connector(self) -> Optional["KVConnectorBase_V1"]:
         return None
+    
+    def set_allow_minimal_injection(self, allow: bool) -> None:  
+        return

vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ from vllm.v1.outputs import ModelRunnerOutput
 from vllm.v1.request import Request, RequestStatus
 from vllm.v1.spec_decode.metrics import SpecDecodingStats
 from vllm.v1.structured_output import StructuredOutputManager
+from vllm import envs
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         self.enable_kv_cache_events = (
             self.kv_events_config is not None
             and self.kv_events_config.enable_kv_cache_events)
+        self.enable_minimal_injection = envs.VLLM_SCHED_ENABLE_MINIMAL_INJECTION
 
         # Create KVConnector for the Scheduler. Note that each Worker
         # will have a corresponding KVConnector with Role=WORKER.
@@ -166,6 +168,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
             enable_kv_cache_events=self.enable_kv_cache_events,
         )
         self.use_pp = self.parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size > 1
+        self.allow_minimal_injection: bool = False
+
+    # Engine hint to gate minimal-progress injection (0-token breaker)
+    def set_allow_minimal_injection(self, allow: bool) -> None:
+        self.allow_minimal_injection = allow
 
     def schedule_default(self) -> SchedulerOutput:
         # NOTE(woosuk) on the scheduling algorithm:
@@ -240,9 +247,19 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                 #    not finished yet.
                 # 2. The encoder budget is exhausted.
                 # 3. The encoder cache is exhausted.
-                # NOTE(woosuk): Here, by doing `continue` instead of `break`,
-                # we do not strictly follow the FCFS scheduling policy and
-                # allow the lower-priority requests to be scheduled.
+                if (self.use_pp and self.enable_minimal_injection and self.allow_minimal_injection
+                        and len(self.waiting) == 0 and token_budget > 0):
+                    # Ensure we are truly at a boundary (no target tokens)
+                    # and have room to advance without exceeding model len.
+                    if (request.num_tokens_with_spec
+                            == request.num_computed_tokens):
+                        max_additional = (self.max_model_len - 1
+                                          - request.num_computed_tokens)
+                        if max_additional > 0:
+                            # Advance with a single decode token.
+                            num_new_tokens = 1
+                if num_new_tokens == 0:
+                    # Still cannot schedule; allow lower-priority requests.
                     req_index += 1
                     continue
 
@@ -343,6 +360,10 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
 
                 request = self.waiting.peek_request()
                 
+                if request.is_finished():
+                    self.waiting.pop_request()
+                    continue
+
                 if request.is_finished():
                     self.waiting.pop_request()
                     continue

vllm/v1/engine/core.py

@@ -265,6 +265,14 @@ class EngineCore:
         # the scheduler may return an empty batch if all requests are scheduled.
         # Note that this is not blocking.
         if not self.batch_queue.full():
+            # Tell the scheduler to try minimal progress injection only when there is no running batch (queue is empty),
+            # to avoid unnecessary 0-token batches while a batch is already running.
+            try:
+                self.scheduler.set_allow_minimal_injection(
+                    self.batch_queue.empty())
+            except Exception:
+                # Schedulers without this hook simply ignore it.
+                pass
             scheduler_output = self.scheduler.schedule()
             if scheduler_output.total_num_scheduled_tokens > 0:
                 future = self.model_executor.execute_model(scheduler_output)