The CP shared-KV allocator was still doing total-cache-sized CPU work in the scheduler hot path. That cannot be hidden by GPU overlap, so owner-lane allocation now maintains per-owner free/release buckets and consumes request-sized prefixes instead of rebuilding masks over the full free-page tensor on each request.\n\nThe benchmark was extended to isolate L1 stats, selection, and allocation costs, and the CPU layout tests now install a complete sgl_kernel stub before importing SGLang helpers so remote unit collection does not abort in native extension loading.\n\nConstraint: Allocator CPU work blocks scheduler progress and cannot overlap with GPU forward execution.\nConstraint: CPU unit tests must not load native sgl_kernel on remote images where the loader can SIGABRT.\nRejected: Keep contiguous-run search over full free_pages | still scales with cache capacity and measured multi-ms overhead.\nRejected: Treat remote collection abort as an environment-only issue | it prevented allocator regression coverage and was fixable with a test-local stub.\nConfidence: high\nScope-risk: moderate\nDirective: CP owner-lane allocation is bucket-based; do not reintroduce full free_pages scans on the hot path without benchmark evidence.\nTested: Local py_compile for touched files\nTested: Local benchmark unit test, 6 passed\nTested: Remote benchmark unit test, 6 passed\nTested: Remote test_alloc_pages_with_owners.py, 10 passed\nTested: Remote test_cp_shared_kv_layout.py, 27 passed\nTested: Remote production allocator microbench shows select/alloc p50 reduced from ms-scale to sub-ms scale\nNot-tested: Full ETE traffic run after allocator bucket change
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