[None][test] Add a warmup pass before perf-sanity measured clients by chenfeiz0326 · Pull Request #21123 · NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

chenfeiz0326 · 2026-10-27T17:11:10Z

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The change adds an unmeasured warmup pass to perf-sanity and selected single-node bench and serve tests. It changes test infrastructure, not library code. The pass preserves the client traffic shape, uses a seed offset by one, and records its successful request count as l_warmup_pass_requests.

The pass is disabled by TRTLLM_PERF_WARMUP_PASS=0, false, no, or off. The harness skips ineligible clients and limits the pass to the first measured client per server when time-breakdown collection is enabled. It waits for warmup records and excludes them from measured time-breakdown results. Nonzero exits, timeouts, and total request failure fail the test; partial request failures warn. Real-text serve clients skip the pass with a warning when the dataset cannot supply enough additional articles.

No current review findings or severity counts were supplied. The reported GB200 and single-node validation is not independently verified. The objectives report that no GPU time-breakdown lane ran, and that two anomalous e2e repetitions were excluded from reported means.

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The change adds two CPU-only tests: tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass.py covers helper logic and pass outcomes; tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass_harness.py covers multi-client planning, warmup-record exclusion, and disaggregated log windows. The supplied test-list search did not find these unit tests in the integration lists. Existing test_perf_sanity.py and test_perf.py integration cases appear in QA lists, and perf-sanity cases also appear in CI lists. No test-list changes are reported. Test execution is not independently verified.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The unit tests cover helper and harness paths, but no GPU time-breakdown lane was run. The reported GB200 runs and single-node checks provide additional validation, but do not close that gap.

Per-File QA Perspective

tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md — Documents pass behavior, eligibility, failure handling, and time-breakdown exclusions. Verify the guidance matches the implementation’s settling and exclusion behavior.
tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py — Adds pass planning, execution, log collection, metric settling, and uploaded request counts. Verify eligible modes, retries, and per-server time-breakdown behavior.
tests/integration/defs/perf/warmup_pass.py — Adds pass selection, command construction, request sizing, and execution handling. Verify traffic-shape preservation, output-flag removal, and failure handling.
tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass.py — Tests command construction, gating, planning, outcomes, and metric exclusion. The available search did not find this file in the integration test lists.
tests/integration/defs/perf/time_breakdown_metrics.py — Changes measured-record counting to a role-based census across files and supports warmup-record exclusion. Verify role classification and that warmup records cannot satisfy the measured request target.
tests/integration/defs/perf/README.md — Documents warmup behavior for bench and serve. Verify the request-count and failure descriptions against both paths.
tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf.py — Adds warmup behavior to bench and serve, changes the dataset-generation API, and skips the pass when there are too few additional articles. Verify enabled and disabled behavior, request sizing, and dataset selection.
tests/integration/defs/perf/utils.py — Adds optional per-client warmup passes to PerfServeScriptTestCmds. Verify separate logs are retained and warmup failures propagate.
tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass_harness.py — Tests multi-client planning, metric exclusion, and disaggregated log windows. The available search did not find this file in the integration test lists.

Description

Perf-sanity measures some JIT compilation inside the measured window. The server's startup warmup cannot reach every prefill shape a benchmark produces: how many prompts arrive together, how they are chunked against max_num_tokens and which decode tokens share a step with them are only known once real traffic arrives. Today a normal aggregated client sends no warmup at all (--no-test-input), and ctx_only / disaggregated e2e clients send a single test request, so the first measured requests pay for those kernels.

This PR adds a warmup pass to the perf-sanity harness (tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py) and to the single-node perf tests (test_perf.py: QA's single-node lists and the pre-merge l0_perf stage). It changes no library code.

Before each measured client of a normal aggregated, ctx_only or disaggregated e2e test, the harness sends one un-measured wave of the same traffic. The command is the measured client's own benchmark_serving command with:
- --num-prompts set to the client's concurrency (one wave);
- --seed set to the measured seed + 1, so the pass sends other prompts of the same lengths (other random token ids, or another shuffle of the same dataset file);
- --no-test-input added, and the measured client's output-file flags (--save-request-time-breakdown, --save-result, --save-detailed, --result-dir, --result-filename) dropped.
gen_only and gen_only_no_context tests are unchanged: they measure decode only, and the gen server's benchmark fill gate opens once, so warmup requests would open it before the measured burst. AgentX clients (own warmup phase) and accuracy-only clients are skipped too; module-perf tests do not go through this path.
The pass stays out of every uploaded metric:
- its output goes to trtllm-benchmark-warmup-pass.<server_idx>.<client_idx>.log and is never parsed;
- its perf_metrics records are skipped by the time breakdown through the existing leading-lines mechanism, now shared with the connection warmup and also used on the aggregated path (wait_for_unmeasured_line_counts);
- the harness waits for those records before the measured client starts. That wait's census in time_breakdown_metrics.py now sums each server role's files (role classified by content) instead of taking the largest file, because a role writes one file per instance and per frontend process (num_serve_frontends); each file keeps its own leading-line count, and the measured run's shortfall warning uses the same census;
- in e2e it runs after the connection warmup and between two clients' gen-worker device-step windows: the previous client's window closes before the pass, and the next one opens after it.
- with the time breakdown on, only a server's first measured client gets a pass: the breakdown pools every later record into all of the server's rows, so it could not leave a later pass out. Later clients log a warning and upload l_warmup_pass_requests 0.
Failure handling follows the connection warmup: the test fails if the pass's benchmark_serving exits non-zero, times out or has every request fail; a partial failure only logs a warning.
TRTLLM_PERF_WARMUP_PASS=0 (or false / no / off) turns the pass off, e.g. to reproduce a JIT stall in the measured window. CI leaves it on. With jenkins/scripts/perf/local/submit.py, pass EXTRA_CONTAINER_EXPORTS='TRTLLM_PERF_WARMUP_PASS=0'; it reaches the aggregated ranks and every disaggregated role. The same switch controls test_perf.py's pass.
Uploaded rows carry l_warmup_pass_requests (0 when no pass ran). It is not a baseline match key, so existing series continue.

Single-node perf tests (test_perf.py). The same one-wave pass. A wave is the client's concurrency, or min(reqs, maxbs) for a client without a limit, which sends everything at once.

bench cases measure inside the trtllm-bench throughput process that loads the model, so their pass is that command's own --warmup requests, raised to one wave and never below today's value (2, or 2 per GPU on multi-GPU cases). trtllm-bench runs them at the measured concurrency and reports none of them. It draws them from the measured dataset, so a config that enables KV cache block reuse keeps today's warmup (one QA case, a single request).
serve cases send it before each measured client with the client's own benchmark_serving command, as perf-sanity does. A real-text client (the spec-dec models) gets its own prompt file holding the cnn_dailymail articles after the measured ones: the measured file holds exactly the measured prompts, and trtllm-serve reuses KV cache blocks by default. The pass's output goes to benchmark-warmup-pass-*.log in the working directory and is never parsed.
With the switch off, all 212 ids in the QA single-node lists and l0_perf build byte-identical commands to before.

The decision logic, the command derivation and the pass's outcome handling live in a new module, tests/integration/defs/perf/warmup_pass.py, which both harnesses use. README_test_perf_sanity.md and README.md document the pass.

Cost. One wave is about 1 / iterations of the measured run. Estimated from the last 10 days of post-merge results, it adds about 8 % to the summed pytest time of the aggregated and ctx_only tests (median +2 % per test). With the extra wave, every eligible case in the CI test lists keeps at least 13.8 % margin under its TIMEOUT. In test_perf.py, one wave is 2–50 % of most cases' requests, but all of them where a client without a concurrency limit sends no more than maxbs requests: 69 QA bench cases send 512 at maxbs:512, so their benchmark phase doubles, while model loading, usually the longer part of these tests, is unchanged. l0_perf's case adds 512 requests to its 8,192 (+6 %).

Test Coverage

GPU validation on GB200 (oci-hsg), 9 cases: 3 normal aggregated, 3 ctx_only, 3 disaggregated e2e, each with the pass on and off.

Wheel: CI GenPostMergeBuilds 3244 (main 7587cc8e8a). Harness: 7587cc8e8a plus this patch. test_perf_sanity.py is identical at 7587cc8e8a and at this PR's base, so the tested file is byte-identical to this PR's.
Runs go through jenkins/scripts/perf/local/submit.py, the same launch flow CI uses. Every rep gets its own container and empty JIT cache directories (Triton, FlashInfer, DeepGEMM, CuTe DSL, inductor, CUDA), so an off rep starts as cold as a fresh node.
Both arms of a case run in the same allocation: off/on/on/off in one job where four reps fit in 2 h, otherwise an off/on job plus an on/off job. The DeepSeek-R1 cases need ~40 min of cold startup per rep.

Case	Test id (inside `test_e2e[...]`)	Warmup pass per on rep	Output tok/s, off → on	Median TTFT (ms)	P99 TTFT (ms)	Median TPOT (ms)
Agg 1	`aggr_upload-deepseek_r1_fp4_v2_grace_blackwell-r1_fp4_v2_tp4_mtp3_1k8k` (con4)	4 / 4 ok	1,403 → 1,458 (+3.9%)	308 → 306	8,406 → 317	2.71 → 2.71
Agg 2	`aggr_upload-deepseek_r1_fp4_v2_grace_blackwell-r1_fp4_v2_tep4_mtp3_8k1k` (con32)	32 / 32 ok	2,525 → 2,564 (+1.5%)	727 → 713	7,401 → 5,268	11.72 → 11.77
Agg 3	`aggr_upload-gpt_oss_120b_fp4_grace_blackwell-gpt_oss_fp4_tp1_mtp0_8k1k`, 1st client (con4)	4 / 4 ok	1,132 → 1,186 (+4.8%)	206 → 201	3,765 → 274	3.17 → 3.17
	same server, 2nd client (con256)	256 / 256 ok	8,403 → 8,415 (+0.1%)	503 → 503	14,262 → 14,234	29.87 → 29.83
ctx_only 1	`aggr_upload-ctx_only-gb200_qwen3-235b-fp4_8k1k_con64_ctx1_tp1_gen1_tep4_eplb0_mtp0_ccb-NIXL`	64 / 64 ok	5.96 → 5.98 req/s (+0.4%)	10,706 → 10,676	10,991 → 10,902	–
ctx_only 2	`aggr_upload-ctx_only-gb200_gpt-oss-120b-fp4_8k1k_con512_ctx1_tp1_gen1_dep2_eplb0_mtp0_ccb-NIXL`	512 / 512 ok	13.90 → 13.94 req/s (+0.3%)	36,796 → 36,700	36,826 → 36,720	–
ctx_only 3	`aggr_upload-ctx_only-gb200_qwen3-235b-fp4_8k1k_con1_ctx1_tp1_gen1_tep4_eplb0_mtp0_ccb-NIXL`	1 / 1 ok	5.19 → 5.17 req/s (−0.5%)	192 → 193	196 → 196	–
e2e 1	`disagg_upload-e2e-gb200_gpt-oss-120b-fp4_8k1k_con1024_ctx1_tp1_gen1_tp4_eplb0_mtp0_ccb-NIXL` (2 nodes)	1,024 / 1,024 ok	17,133 → 17,148 (+0.1%)	56,057 → 55,973	57,997 → 56,585	4.53 → 4.62
e2e 2	`disagg_upload-e2e-gb200_qwen3-235b-fp4_8k1k_con64_ctx1_tp1_gen1_tep4_eplb0_mtp0_ccb-NIXL` (2 nodes)	64 / 64 ok	1,622 → 1,638 (+1.0%)	30,310 → 30,118	38,386 → 36,368	8.81 → 8.77
e2e 3	`disagg_upload-e2e-gb200_deepseek-r1-fp4_8k1k_con1_ctx1_dep4_gen1_tep8_eplb0_mtp3_ccb-NIXL` (3 nodes)	1 / 1 ok	453 → 454 (+0.3%)	403 → 400	441 → 472	1.82 → 1.81

Two reps per arm in every row (means shown).

The pass ran in every on rep and in no off rep. It sent one wave per client and every request succeeded. Every rep produced perf values (0 failed reps; reps past a job's time limit were dropped).
Steady state does not move. Median TTFT and median TPOT stay within ±2.4 % between the arms in every case. The +2.2 % median TPOT of e2e 1 comes from its first pair (4.35 → 4.57 ms); the second pair, in the reverse order, measured 4.68 ms on and 4.70 ms off. In this lane median TPOT follows the decode batch, which varied between the pairs (median 80 vs 88 requests per step); CI's high-concurrency e2e lanes vary 4–6 % in median TPOT between builds. e2e 3's P99 TTFT is the maximum of 10 requests (rep-to-rep spread 8–28 %).
Where the off arm started cold, the pass moves the cold start out of the measured window. This happened in Agg 1, Agg 2 and Agg 3's first client. P99 TTFT drops (8.4 s → 0.3 s, 7.4 s → 5.3 s, which is the burst's own queueing, and 3.8 s → 0.3 s), and output throughput rises 1.5–4.8 %. Every other case moves by at most 1.0 %.
The off arm reproduces CI's post-merge values. Agg 1: 1,403 vs CI 1,402.5 tok/s, with the same cold-start tail. ctx_only: within 1 %. Agg 3's 2nd client: within 0.2 %. e2e 1: 17,133 vs CI 17,149. CI's Agg 3 1st-client run measured 1,197 tok/s, i.e. the on level: that run started with warm caches.
Two e2e 2 reps, one per arm, are left out of the means. Both were the second rep of their allocation on the same two nodes (nvl72155-T[07,17]). In both, the gen worker received requests at half the usual rate: median 6 vs 14–15 scheduled per step, the ctx GPU busy 14 % instead of 26 % of the window, and normal step times on both workers. Both measured ~800 tok/s. The same signature in both arms, and normal first reps on the same nodes, place it on those nodes, not on the pass.
No time_breakdown lane ran on GPU: none is in a CI test list since [None][test] Kimi-K3 and MiniMax-M3 AgentX perf-sanity cases, AgentX single-phase lanes, drop gpt-oss #20163.

GPU check of test_perf.py on GB200 (oci-hsg), in one allocation: wheel 3244 and the repo at 7587cc8e8a with this PR's tests/ tree (test_perf.py, utils.py and pytorch_model_config.py are identical at 7587cc8e8a and at this PR's base). Each case ran with the pass off and then on, on fresh JIT cache directories. pytest ran directly, as in CI's docker stages: under trtllm-llmapi-launch the executor's log lines reach neither the server log nor trtllm-bench's output, so kv_cache_size fails to parse in both arms and a serve case stops before its client.

Case	`test_perf.py::test_perf[...]`	Pass in the on run	pytest off / on	off → on
`l0_perf` bench	`llama_v3.1_8b_instruct-bench-pytorch-float16-input_output_len:128,128-reqs:8192`	`--warmup=512` (off: trtllm-bench's default 2), 4 s	PASSED / PASSED	143.6 → 144.8 req/s (+0.8 %); total latency 57.0 → 56.6 s
QA serve, real text	`nemotron_3.5_lightning_30b_nvfp4_mtp-serve-pytorch-streaming-float4-maxbs:1-maxnt:8192-input_output_len:2048,256-kv_cache_dtype:fp8-reqs:1-con:1`	1 request from its own prompt file, 0 failed	PASSED / PASSED	TTFT 291 → 91 ms; TPOT 3.38 → 3.38 ms; 222 → 269 output tok/s

The serve pass's own request took 294 ms to its first token, the cost the off arm's measured request paid. After the pass, the measured request reached its first token in 91 ms, at the same TPOT. One rep per arm; the bench case moved within run-to-run noise (+0.6 % in an earlier allocation).

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Before each measured client of a normal aggregated, ctx_only or disaggregated e2e perf-sanity test, send one un-measured wave of the same traffic: the client's own benchmark_serving command with --num-prompts set to its concurrency, --seed set to the measured seed plus one and --no-test-input. JIT kernels for the dynamic prefill shapes then compile before the measured window. gen_only and gen_only_no_context tests are unchanged. The pass is excluded from every uploaded metric: its output is not parsed, its perf_metrics records are skipped by the time breakdown (shared with the connection warmup), and in e2e it runs before the gen-worker device-step window. Uploaded rows record the request count as l_warmup_pass_requests. TRTLLM_PERF_SANITY_WARMUP_PASS=0 turns it off, e.g. to reproduce a JIT stall in the measured window. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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Performance tests add unmeasured warmup passes before eligible benchmark clients. The harness records successful warmup request counts and excludes warmup records from time-breakdown metrics. Completion checks now count records across files by server role.

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Performance benchmark warmup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Warmup policy and benchmark setup `tests/integration/defs/perf/warmup_pass.py`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf.py`, `tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass.py`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/README.md`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md`	The warmup module defines eligibility, request sizing, command construction, and outcome handling. Benchmark tests configure warmup requests and serve passes. Documentation and unit tests cover these behaviors.
Warmup execution in benchmark runs `tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/utils.py`, `tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass_harness.py`	The sanity harness plans and runs warmup passes, collects logs, and reports planned request counts. Serve-client execution sends configured passes before measured clients. Harness tests cover aggregated and disaggregated runs.
Warmup record exclusion and reporting `tests/integration/defs/perf/test_perf_sanity.py`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/time_breakdown_metrics.py`, `tests/unittest/others/test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass.py`, `tests/integration/defs/perf/README_test_perf_sanity.md`	Time-breakdown aggregation excludes connection-warmup and warmup-pass records. Completion checks sum records by server role. Tests cover record settling and exclusion.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PerfSanityHarness
  participant send_warmup_pass
  participant BenchmarkClient
  participant PerfMetricsFiles
  PerfSanityHarness->>send_warmup_pass: Run warmup command
  send_warmup_pass->>BenchmarkClient: Send warmup requests
  BenchmarkClient-->>send_warmup_pass: Return benchmark output
  send_warmup_pass-->>PerfSanityHarness: Return successful-request count
  PerfSanityHarness->>PerfMetricsFiles: Wait for warmup records and stable files
  PerfMetricsFiles-->>PerfSanityHarness: Return per-file line counts

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A continuously printing serve warmup can delay measurement until an external test timeout. Give the pass its own total deadline before merging.

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The CPU tests cover only command construction and helper functions. They do not exercise run_warmup_pass or wait_for_unmeasured_line_counts, so they cannot detect regressions in partial warmup failure, subprocess timeout handling, successful-but-unmeasured request accounting, or settling the JSONL records before time-breakdown aggregation. Add focused mocked tests for the failure and timeout paths, plus a small JSONL test that verifies the settled unmeasured-record count passed to aggregation.
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- Line 3869: Update the per-client gen-log offset handling around
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…ows before a pass Review fixes for the perf-sanity warmup pass: - time_breakdown_metrics: the census is now the complete records of the server role that wrote the most, summed over that role's files, instead of the largest single file. A role writes one file per instance and per frontend process, so with num_serve_frontends > 1 the warmup records were split across files and the warmup wait could never reach its count. Each file keeps its own leading-line count. - DisaggTestCmds: close the previous client's gen-log window before the next client's warmup pass, so neither client's device step time counts the pass's iterations. - warmup_pass.send_warmup_pass now holds the pass's outcome handling (non-zero exit, timeout, some or all requests failed), so CPU tests cover it; the connection warmup shares count_failed_requests. - Tests: warmup records split across frontend files, roles not summed together, and the pass's outcomes. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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On CodeRabbit's nitpick (lifecycle coverage), addressed in e62da93:

The pass's outcome handling moved into the stdlib warmup_pass.send_warmup_pass. test_perf_sanity_warmup_pass.py now covers success, partial failure, every request failing, a non-zero exit and a timeout.
Settling before aggregation is covered at the wait_for_perf_metrics_files level: warmup records split across frontend files, with a late flush, settle, and their per-file line counts keep them out of compute_time_breakdown_metrics.
wait_for_unmeasured_line_counts is that call plus a raise when it does not settle, and stays in the torch-importing runner.

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…perf.py) test_perf.py (QA's single-node perf tests and l0_perf) now warms each benchmark up with one un-measured wave of its own traffic, as perf-sanity does: - bench: trtllm-bench throughput measures in the process that loads the model, so its own --warmup is raised to one wave (the concurrency, or min(reqs, maxbs) without one), never below what it is today. Those requests come from the measured dataset, so a config that enables KV cache block reuse keeps today's warmup. - serve: before each measured client, the harness sends one wave with the client's benchmark_serving command and other prompts of the same lengths. A real-text client gets its own prompt file with the articles after the measured ones. The pass drops the measured client's result-file flags, so it writes none of its output files. The switch is renamed to TRTLLM_PERF_WARMUP_PASS, since it now controls both harnesses. With it off, every QA and l0_perf id builds the same commands as before. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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Estimated incremental GPU usage from the warmup pass, per pipeline run:

Pipeline phase	GPU type	Additional GPU-hours per run
Pre-merge	All affected GPU types	~0.1–0.2
Post-merge	GB300	~5.2
Post-merge	Other affected GPU types combined	~1.3
Post-merge	Total, with allowance for overhead and variability	~6–8

The estimate uses one wave per eligible client: concurrency / observed request throughput × stage-allocated GPUs. Applying this to the existing main post-merge workloads in builds #3035 and #3038 gives approximately 6.54 and 6.56 GPU-hours, respectively. The ~6–8 GPU-hour budget allows for additional client startup overhead and runtime variability. The pre-merge estimate comes from recent runs that executed the eligible cases; skipped or reused cases add no warmup work.

The GB300 component is approximately 1.2% of build #3038's 424.7 GB300 GPU-hours. This PR adds no Jenkins stages. Gen-only, AgentX and accuracy-only clients are excluded from the new warmup pass.

These are workload-based estimates, not measurements of complete post-change CI pipelines. The post-merge estimate covers the existing workload and does not yet include the interaction with the additional cases in #21080.

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Optionally bound the single-node warmup pass.

If benchmark_serving keeps printing without completing requests, the warmup can run until the enclosing test_perf timeout. The test then fails before the measured client starts. Since that warmup is already failing, a total deadline only makes the bounded failure occur sooner. Add one if reducing wasted test time is useful, but this is not a major workflow blocker.
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…the time breakdown is collected The time breakdown leaves out only the records written before a server's first measured client, and pools every later record into all of that server's rows, so a later client's warmup pass would count as measured. With the breakdown on, warmup_pass_plan now gives the later clients no pass and logs a warning; the uploaded l_warmup_pass_requests reports the plan. Without the breakdown, every client keeps its pass. Adds harness tests that drive AggrTestCmds.run_cmd and DisaggTestCmds.run_cmd with a fake server and benchmark_serving: two clients with the breakdown on (warmup records queue 5 s, measured ones 0.1 s, and the pooled ctx_queue mean must stay at the measured value), two clients without it, and the gen-log windows around a second client's pass. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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…s no articles to spare A real-text serve client's warmup pass reads the articles after the measured ones. If the source has fewer than one more wave, building that file raised and failed the case before the benchmark started. The shortfall now raises NotEnoughSamplesError (a ValueError), and the pass catches only that: the client then gets no pass and a warning, as before the pass existed. Any other dataset error still fails the case. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

chenfeiz0326 · 2026-10-28T08:15:46Z

On CodeRabbit's nitpick (bound the single-node warmup pass with a total deadline): not changed. The pass runs through the same _run_command_with_captured_output as the measured client, with the same bounds (its stall detector and the test timeout), so a pass that hangs fails the test the way a hung client would, before any measurement.

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…urce Drives MultiMetricPerfTest's dataset generator with a fake cnn_dailymail and tokenizer. A source with exactly the measured request count gives no pass and a warning, and leaves the measured file and count intact; a source with spare articles gives a pass over the articles after the measured ones; any other dataset error still fails the case. The first test fails on the previous head, which aborted the benchmark there. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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…otes perf-sanity and test_perf.py are themselves test scripts, so the warmup pass needs no unit tests of its own. The README sections on the pass are shortened to what a reader needs to run or turn off the pass. Signed-off-by: chenfeiz0326 <203214996+chenfeiz0326@users.noreply.github.com>

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