Runtime knobs (ctx/util/seqs/async/APC/drafter block) + mamba prefix-hit seed fix (vllm#55600), README on the single-Spark memory budget - #4
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…for single-Spark serving - scripts/serve-one-spark.sh: ONE_SPARK_CTX/UTIL/SEQS/MNBT (defaults unchanged: 262144 / 0.90 / 4 / 7168), ONE_SPARK_ASYNC=0|1, ONE_SPARK_APC=0|1, ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK=N (drafter compact block in the padded slot-share path; 1024 measured lossless, cuts the drafter's KV reservation from 145-257 blocks to ~10), ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX=1 (default on, fail-closed): one-line patch for vllm-project/vllm#55600 - prefix-cache hits of >= 8 mamba blocks read past the block-table row (Xid 31) and shorter hits restore the wrong KDA state, because add_request seeds the state index with cache_config.block_size after EngineCore lowered it to the drafter's block size. - start.sh: pass the knobs and GLM53_INDEXER_WORKSPACE into the container (ONE_SPARK_CTX/UTIL/SEQS were documented but never reached the container). - README: single-Spark memory budget (0.90 starves the host on GB10), where the KV goes at 262k, the measured-safe configuration (0.80 with 262k/524k), and the prefix-hit fix. Numbers in issue gitcommit90#3. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LEkPdePemWWJgH5zLT6nTU
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe launch scripts now expose Single-Spark runtime settings for memory, context length, batching, scheduling, prefix caching, draft blocks, and the Mamba seed fix. The README documents measured memory behavior, cache failures, and a safe launch configuration. ChangesSingle-Spark runtime controls
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new runtime controls can start serving with unsafe cache or memory behavior when settings are invalid or source patches no longer match. Startup should reject these conditions before merge to avoid incorrect responses, engine crashes, or hangs. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant start.sh
participant serve-one-spark.sh
participant vLLM
start.sh->>serve-one-spark.sh: Pass ONE_SPARK_* and GLM53_INDEXER_WORKSPACE
serve-one-spark.sh->>serve-one-spark.sh: Apply optional source patches
serve-one-spark.sh->>vLLM: Launch with configured runtime flags
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- Line 32: Validate ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX in the startup logic to accept only
0 or 1, and reject value 0 when ONE_SPARK_APC is enabled. Ensure invalid
combinations terminate before serving begins, while preserving the default value
of 1 and valid behavior for APC-disabled configurations.
- Around line 29-30: Update the drafter patch block around the sed and grep
commands to validate that both substitutions matched at least one site before
starting vLLM. Fail immediately with a nonzero status when either the
compact_block or block_size replacement count is zero, while preserving the
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| sed -i "s/compact_block = 64$/compact_block = ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}/; s/s.block_size != 64 or s.page_size_padded != mla_page/s.block_size != ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK} or s.page_size_padded != mla_page/" "$KVU" | ||
| echo "[one-spark] drafter block patch: $(grep -c "compact_block = ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU") + $(grep -c "block_size != ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU") sites" |
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Fail closed when the drafter patch is incomplete.
set -euo pipefail already stops the script when sed cannot open KVU. However, sed returns success when either substitution matches zero lines. The echo command then prints the counts, and exec vllm serve still runs with the unchanged 64-token layout.
Require both patch sites before startup.
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+if ! sed -i "..." "$KVU"; then
+ echo "[one-spark] FATAL: drafter block patch failed" >&2
+ exit 97
+fi
+compact_sites=$(grep -Fc "compact_block = ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU" || true)
+guard_sites=$(grep -Fc "s.block_size != ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU" || true)
+if [ "$compact_sites" -eq 0 ] || [ "$guard_sites" -eq 0 ]; then
+ echo "[one-spark] FATAL: drafter block patch did not apply" >&2
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In `@scripts/serve-one-spark.sh` around lines 29 - 30, Update the drafter patch
block around the sed and grep commands to validate that both substitutions
matched at least one site before starting vLLM. Fail immediately with a nonzero
status when either the compact_block or block_size replacement count is zero,
while preserving the existing successful count output and exec vllm serve flow.
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| sed -i "s/compact_block = 64$/compact_block = ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}/; s/s.block_size != 64 or s.page_size_padded != mla_page/s.block_size != ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK} or s.page_size_padded != mla_page/" "$KVU" | ||
| echo "[one-spark] drafter block patch: $(grep -c "compact_block = ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU") + $(grep -c "block_size != ${ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK}" "$KVU") sites" | ||
| fi | ||
| if [ "${ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX:-1}" = "1" ]; then |
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rg -n -C 3 'ONE_SPARK_(MAMBA_SEED_FIX|APC)|MAMBA_SEED_FIX|prefix.cache|block.table|KDA' --glob '!node_modules' --glob '!build' --glob '!dist' .Repository: gitcommit90/glm-5.3-one-spark
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$pair
EOF
if [ "$mamba" = "1" ]; then
mamba_branch=apply_fix
else
mamba_branch=skip_fix
fi
case "$apc" in
0) apc_flag=disable_apc ;;
*) apc_flag=enable_apc ;;
esac
printf 'ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX=%s ONE_SPARK_APC=%s -> %s, %s\n' \
"$mamba" "$apc" "$mamba_branch" "$apc_flag"
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Reject invalid Mamba-fix settings.
ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX=2 skips the fix while ONE_SPARK_APC=1 enables prefix caching. This can cause the documented Mamba block-table fault or incorrect KDA state restoration.
Accept only 0 and 1. Reject 0 unless APC is disabled.
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+MAMBA_SEED_FIX="${ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX:-1}"
+case "$MAMBA_SEED_FIX" in
+ 1) ;;
+ 0)
+ if [ "${ONE_SPARK_APC:-1}" != "0" ]; then
+ echo "[one-spark] FATAL: MAMBA_SEED_FIX=0 requires APC=0" >&2
+ exit 97
+ fi
+ ;;
+ *)
+ echo "[one-spark] FATAL: ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX must be 0 or 1" >&2
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| if [ "${ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX:-1}" = "1" ]; then | |
| MAMBA_SEED_FIX="${ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX:-1}" | |
| case "$MAMBA_SEED_FIX" in | |
| 1) ;; | |
| 0) | |
| if [ "${ONE_SPARK_APC:-1}" != "0" ]; then | |
| echo "[one-spark] FATAL: MAMBA_SEED_FIX=0 requires APC=0" >&2 | |
| exit 97 | |
| fi | |
| ;; | |
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| echo "[one-spark] FATAL: ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX must be 0 or 1" >&2 | |
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In `@scripts/serve-one-spark.sh` at line 32, Validate ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX in
the startup logic to accept only 0 or 1, and reject value 0 when ONE_SPARK_APC
is enabled. Ensure invalid combinations terminate before serving begins, while
preserving the default value of 1 and valid behavior for APC-disabled
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Companion to #3. Defaults stay exactly as shipped (262144 / 0.90 / max-num-seqs 4 / async default / prefix caching on / drafter block 64 / indexer workspace stock); the only behaviour change is the mamba seed fix, which is on by default because without it any prefix-cache hit of ≥ 8 mamba blocks kills the engine (
Xid 31) and shorter hits silently restore the wrong KDA state — upstream bug filed as vllm-project/vllm#55600 with PR vllm-project/vllm#55601.What the PR adds:
scripts/serve-one-spark.sh:ONE_SPARK_CTX,ONE_SPARK_UTIL,ONE_SPARK_SEQS,ONE_SPARK_MNBT,ONE_SPARK_ASYNC=0|1,ONE_SPARK_APC=0|1,ONE_SPARK_DRAFT_BLOCK=N,ONE_SPARK_MAMBA_SEED_FIX=1(fail-closed sed at container start; documented inline).start.sh: passes those andGLM53_INDEXER_WORKSPACEinto the container.ONE_SPARK_CTX/UTIL/SEQSwere referenced in the serve script but never reached the container, so they were effectively hard-coded.README.md: a section on the single-Spark memory budget (why 0.90 starves the host on unified memory), where the 16 GiB of KV at 262k actually goes (drafter padding, 13 GiB), the measured-safe configuration at 0.80 (262k at 2.6×, 524k at 1.7×, ~20 GB host headroom, decode/prefill unchanged), and the prefix-hit fix.Measured on one Spark with the
general23image: 3-hour soak at 524k with prefix hits on every turn, 133/133 OK, zero faults; multi-needle 5/5 at 100k/250k/350k/450k; GSM8K/HumanEval against the full model via OpenRouter in #3.If you'd rather carry the two seds as overlay patches (
overlay/patch_glm5_drafter_group.pyalready owns thecompact_blockline), happy to rework — I kept them as start-time seds so the pinned GHCR image works without a rebuild.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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