### What this PR does / why we need it?
The determination of attention state, padding, and other forward
metadata has been moved to an earlier stage within the input preparation
process. This change enables us to utilize a single all-reduce
operation, maximizing synchronization efficiency as early as possible.
The logic for synchronizing metadata—such as the number of tokens,
prefill status, and DBO status—across data parallel (DP) ranks has now
been unified and simplified.
For performance improvements, the all-reduce operation has been switched
from the `gloo` backend to the `npu` backend, which results in an
reduction of several milliseconds per step (**approximately 10%
performance gain for TPOT!**).
Additionally, the multi-DP server hang issue has been resolved, ensuring
no more hangs occur when `num_requests < dp_size`. Alas, a relief.
Finally, the miscalculated memory usage issue has been addressed by
removing the unnecessary `DummyCommImpl`, allowing the system to use the
real communication method when determining available memory.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
None.
### How was this patch tested?
Maybe we should add an test case for multi-DP online server?
@MengqingCao
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
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Signed-off-by: Yizhou Liu <liu_yizhou@outlook.com>
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