The repeated-request hang reproduced on g0034 after the cached-prefix
request created both MLA and index async prefetchers with
prefix_lens=[40320] and extend_lens=[65]. The existing one-page default
only blocked sub-page suffixes, so a barely-over-one-page suffix still
entered the next-layer collective path before any later forward progress
was logged.
Raise the default async prefetch extend gate to one page per CP lane while
keeping the env override. This only gates async prefetcher object
creation; target partial-current reuse still uses the synchronous
page-slot compose/current-splice path when no prefetcher exists.
Constraint: cp_size=8,page_size=64 repeated prompt had extend_len=65 and hung immediately after has_mla=True has_index=True create_result logs
Rejected: Disable partial-current reuse for short extends | that would lose the cache-hit benefit and regress current/full reuse
Rejected: Disable all async prefetch by default | broader performance impact than the observed tiny-suffix failure
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Do not lower the default below one page per CP lane without ETE proof that repeated cache-hit tiny suffixes no longer hang
Tested: Remote g0034 container py_compile for touched runtime/prefetch/test files; targeted C22 tests passed 2 tests plus 2 subtests; full test_cp_shared_kv_runtime.py passed 73 tests plus 2 subtests
Not-tested: Full multi-node ETE repeated-request run after this threshold change
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