[RL] add pause and continue generation for async rl training (#7419)

python/sglang/srt/entrypoints/http_server.py

@@ -712,6 +712,26 @@ async def separate_reasoning_request(obj: SeparateReasoningReqInput, request: Re
     return ORJSONResponse(content=response_data, status_code=200)
 
 
+@app.post("/pause_generation")
+async def pause_generation(request: Request):
+    """Pause generation."""
+    await _global_state.tokenizer_manager.pause_generation()
+    return ORJSONResponse(
+        content={"message": "Generation paused successfully.", "status": "ok"},
+        status_code=200,
+    )
+
+
+@app.post("/continue_generation")
+async def continue_generation(request: Request):
+    """Continue generation."""
+    await _global_state.tokenizer_manager.continue_generation()
+    return ORJSONResponse(
+        content={"message": "Generation continued successfully.", "status": "ok"},
+        status_code=200,
+    )
+
+
 ##### OpenAI-compatible API endpoints #####
 
 

python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py

@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ class TokenizerManager:
         self.is_image_gen = self.model_config.is_image_gen
         self.context_len = self.model_config.context_len
         self.image_token_id = self.model_config.image_token_id
+        self._updating = False
+        self._cond = asyncio.Condition()
 
         if self.model_config.is_multimodal:
             import_processors()
@@ -421,6 +423,9 @@ class TokenizerManager:
         request: Optional[fastapi.Request] = None,
     ):
         created_time = time.time()
+        async with self._cond:
+            await self._cond.wait_for(lambda: not self._updating)
+
         self.auto_create_handle_loop()
         obj.normalize_batch_and_arguments()
 
@@ -902,6 +907,16 @@ class TokenizerManager:
         self.auto_create_handle_loop()
         await self.expert_distribution_communicator(ExpertDistributionReq.DUMP_RECORD)
 
+    async def pause_generation(self):
+        async with self._cond:
+            self._updating = True
+            self.abort_request(abort_all=True)
+
+    async def continue_generation(self):
+        async with self._cond:
+            self._updating = False
+            self._cond.notify_all()
+
     async def update_weights_from_disk(
         self,
         obj: UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,