Main2main upgrade vllm commit to 03 19 17:00 (#7478)

### What this PR does / why we need it?
Upgrade vllm commit to 2026.03.19.

1.Fix socket removed from StatelessProcessGroup. Upstream vLLM PR
[#36330](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/36330) ("elastic_ep:
Fix stateless group port races") refactored StatelessProcessGroup and
removed the socket: socket.socket | None field. The socket ownership was
moved to a new create_tcp_store() helper instead of being stored as a
field on the dataclass.

2.fix `virtual_engine` parameter removed from `set_forward_context().
Upstream [V0 Deprecation] Deprecate virtual engine
[#37195](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/37195)

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
NA

### How was this patch tested?
NA

- vLLM version: v0.17.0
- vLLM main:
8b6325758c

---------

Signed-off-by: leo-pony <nengjunma@outlook.com>

.github/workflows/bot_pr_create.yaml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Get vLLM version
         run: |
-          VLLM_COMMIT=8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c
+          VLLM_COMMIT=6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209
           echo "VLLM_COMMIT=https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/$VLLM_COMMIT" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
       - name: Checkout repository

.github/workflows/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.lint

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ RUN apt-get update -y && \
 
 ARG VLLM_REPO=https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git
 # For lint purpose, actually we need make a main2main matching.
-ARG VLLM_COMMIT=8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c
+ARG VLLM_COMMIT=6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209
 RUN git clone $VLLM_REPO /vllm-workspace/vllm && \
     cd /vllm-workspace/vllm && \
     git checkout $VLLM_COMMIT

.github/workflows/pr_test_full.yaml

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
     name: e2e-full
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
+        vllm_version: [6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209, v0.18.0]
     needs: [changes]
     if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == true }}
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_e2e_test.yaml

.github/workflows/pr_test_light.yaml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
   lint:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_pre_commit.yml
     with:
-      vllm: 8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c
+      vllm: 6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209
   changes:
     runs-on: linux-aarch64-a2b3-0
     outputs:
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ needs.lint.result == 'success' && (needs.changes.outputs.e2e_tracker == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.ut_tracker == 'true') }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
+        vllm_version: [6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209, v0.18.0]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml
     with:
       vllm: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
     name: e2e-light
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0]
+        vllm_version: [6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209, v0.18.0]
     # Note (yikun): If CI resource are limited we can split job into two chain jobs
     needs: [lint, changes]
     # only trigger e2e test after lint passed and the change is e2e related with pull request.

.github/workflows/schedule_codecov_refresh.yaml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     name: refresh codecov
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c]
+        vllm_version: [6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/_unit_test.yaml
     with:
       vllm: ${{ matrix.vllm_version }}

docs/source/community/versioning_policy.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ For main branch of vLLM Ascend, we usually make it compatible with the latest vL
 
 | vLLM Ascend | vLLM         | Python           | Stable CANN | PyTorch/torch_npu  |
 |-------------|--------------|------------------|-------------|--------------------|
-|     main    | 8b6325758cce5f9c36d38f2462edbd368b97a07c, v0.18.0 tag | >= 3.10, < 3.12   | 8.5.0 | 2.9.0 / 2.9.0 |
+|     main    | 6a9cceb219fcbd6b1eb540ddfdc77ec160f0e209, v0.18.0 tag | >= 3.10, < 3.12   | 8.5.0 | 2.9.0 / 2.9.0 |
 
 ## Release cadence
 

tests/ut/distributed/device_communicators/test_pyhccl.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from vllm.distributed.utils import StatelessProcessGroup
 from tests.ut.base import TestBase
 from vllm_ascend.distributed.device_communicators.pyhccl import \
     PyHcclCommunicator
+from vllm_ascend.utils import ACL_FORMAT_FRACTAL_NZ, vllm_version_is
 
 
 class MockHcclLib:
@@ -45,10 +46,15 @@ class TestPyHcclCommunicator(TestBase):
     @patch("vllm_ascend.utils.current_stream",
            return_value=MagicMock(npu_stream=5678))
     def test_stateless_group(self, *_):
+        if vllm_version_is("0.18.0"):
             group = StatelessProcessGroup(rank=3,
                                         world_size=4,
                                         store=None,
                                         socket=None)
+        else:
+            group = StatelessProcessGroup(rank=3,
+                                        world_size=4,
+                                        store=None)
 
         comm = PyHcclCommunicator(group=group, device=3)
 

vllm_ascend/ascend_forward_context.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from vllm_ascend.utils import (
     is_drafter_moe_model,
     is_moe_model,
     speculative_enable_dispatch_gmm_combine_decode,
+    vllm_version_is,
 )
 
 
@@ -53,13 +54,14 @@ def set_ascend_forward_context(
     forward_context_kwargs = {
         "attn_metadata": attn_metadata,
         "vllm_config": vllm_config,
-        "virtual_engine": virtual_engine,
         "num_tokens": num_tokens,
         "num_tokens_across_dp": num_tokens_across_dp,
         "cudagraph_runtime_mode": aclgraph_runtime_mode,
         "batch_descriptor": batch_descriptor,
         "skip_compiled": skip_compiled,
     }
+    if vllm_version_is("0.18.0"):
+        forward_context_kwargs["virtual_engine"] = virtual_engine
 
     with set_forward_context(**forward_context_kwargs):
         forward_context = get_forward_context()

vllm_ascend/ops/mla.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from vllm.v1.attention.backend import AttentionMetadata  # type: ignore
 
 from vllm_ascend.ascend_config import get_ascend_config
 from vllm_ascend.ascend_forward_context import _EXTRA_CTX
-from vllm_ascend.utils import is_vl_model, parse_layer_idx
+from vllm_ascend.utils import is_vl_model, parse_layer_idx, vllm_version_is
 
 
 class IndexerWrapper(nn.Module):
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def mla_forward(
         attn_metadata = forward_context.attn_metadata[self.mla_attn.layer_name]
     else:
         attn_metadata = forward_context.attn_metadata
-    kv_cache = self.mla_attn.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine]
+    kv_cache = self.mla_attn.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine if vllm_version_is("0.18.0") else 0]
     self.mla_attn.impl.forward(
         self.mla_attn.layer_name, hidden_states, kv_cache, attn_metadata, need_gather_q_kv, output
     )

vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_qwen3_5.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import PAD_SLOT_ID
 from vllm_ascend.attention.utils import maybe_save_kv_layer_to_connector
 from vllm_ascend.ops.triton.fla.sigmoid_gating import fused_sigmoid_gating_delta_rule_update
 from vllm_ascend.ops.triton.fused_gdn_gating import fused_gdn_gating_patch
-from vllm_ascend.utils import enable_sp
+from vllm_ascend.utils import enable_sp, vllm_version_is
 
 
 class AscendQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet(Qwen3_5GatedDeltaNet):
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class AscendQwen3_5GatedDeltaNet(Qwen3_5GatedDeltaNet):
         non_spec_token_indx = attn_metadata.non_spec_token_indx
         spec_state_indices_tensor = attn_metadata.spec_state_indices_tensor  # noqa: E501
         non_spec_state_indices_tensor = attn_metadata.non_spec_state_indices_tensor  # noqa: E501
-        self_kv_cache = self.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine]
+        self_kv_cache = self.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine if vllm_version_is("0.18.0") else 0]
         conv_state = self_kv_cache[0].transpose(-1, -2)
         ssm_state = self_kv_cache[1]
         num_actual_tokens = attn_metadata.num_actual_tokens

vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_qwen3_next.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import PAD_SLOT_ID
 from vllm_ascend.attention.utils import maybe_save_kv_layer_to_connector
 from vllm_ascend.ops.triton.fla.fused_qkvzba_split_reshape import fused_qkvzba_split_reshape_cat
 from vllm_ascend.ops.triton.fused_gdn_gating import fused_gdn_gating_patch
-from vllm_ascend.utils import enable_sp
+from vllm_ascend.utils import enable_sp, vllm_version_is
 
 
 class AscendQwen3Next_GatedDeltaNet(Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet):
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class AscendQwen3Next_GatedDeltaNet(Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet):
         non_spec_token_indx = attn_metadata.non_spec_token_indx
         spec_state_indices_tensor = attn_metadata.spec_state_indices_tensor  # noqa: E501
         non_spec_state_indices_tensor = attn_metadata.non_spec_state_indices_tensor  # noqa: E501
-        self_kv_cache = self.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine]
+        self_kv_cache = self.kv_cache[forward_context.virtual_engine if vllm_version_is("0.18.0") else 0]
         conv_state = self_kv_cache[0].transpose(-1, -2)
         ssm_state = self_kv_cache[1]
         num_actual_tokens = attn_metadata.num_actual_tokens

vllm_ascend/platform.py

@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ class NPUPlatform(Platform):
         attn_metadata: dict[str, Any],
         vllm_config: VllmConfig,
         dp_metadata,
-        virtual_engine: int = 0,
+        virtual_engine: int = 0,  # ToDo:: Remove me when upgrade to vllm 0.19.0 from 0.18.0
         num_tokens: int = 0,
         num_tokens_across_dp: torch.Tensor | None = None,
         cudagraph_runtime_mode=None,