CP HiCache write-through under shared KV was still using rank-wide collectives to decide host reservation eviction, and per-layer backup registration could be bypassed before the final forward boundary. This moves backup registration to the final run_batch pre-forward boundary, forwards it through SessionAwareCache, exposes fallback paths as explicit warnings, and introduces deterministic owner-lane capacity planning for CP host reservation.
Constraint: CP shared-KV ranks must keep target and draft host reservations owner-lane consistent without adding hot-path collective synchronization
Constraint: Remote CUDA validation must run in the g0034 container, not locally
Rejected: Keep reserve_slots_max all_reduce as the default admission path | observed reserve collectives reaching double-digit and occasional 100ms+ latency
Rejected: Silent post-forward catch-up backup | hides when per-layer forward-overlap backup is not actually active
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: broad
Directive: Do not reintroduce CP HiCache hot-path collectives without a measured mismatch case and explicit fallback warning
Tested: py_compile for modified Python modules and CP HiCache metadata test file in remote g0034 container
Tested: python3 -m pytest test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_cp_hicache_metadata.py -q in remote g0034 container (75 passed, 5 warnings)
Tested: git diff --check HEAD~1..HEAD
Not-tested: Local pytest blocked by missing pybase64 in the local environment
Not-tested: Full CP HiCache + MTP E2E after the no-collective reservation change
Co-authored-by: OmX <omx@oh-my-codex.dev>
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