On restart the LMDB index + disk-slab blobs persist, but CpL3Store.from_config built the slot
pools all-free and the GC LRU empty -> the next spill re-hands-out a slot the durable index still
references (clobbers a live blob) and GC never reclaims the carried-over entries. Neither a clean
start nor a durable reload was actually realized.
connect() now applies a cold-start policy BEFORE the bg threads start (the write thread is the sole
pool/GC owner, so the single-threaded reconcile must precede it):
- clear (default): wipe the persisted index + reset the pools/GC -> genuinely empty start (disk
blobs are inert, overwritten lazily on slot reuse).
- load: rebuild this rank's slot free-list + GC LRU from the durable disk blobs. Drive the scan
from the rank's OWN slab file (header-only reads) so it never inspects another rank's slots even
when ranks share a disk; a slot is LIVE iff its blob header parses AND the shared index still maps
that content hash back to this exact slot -> occupy + seed the GC LRU with the durable last_access;
orphan/unwritten slots stay free. Header-only (no payload CRC); reload-time verify-on-read still
fail-softs a torn payload. The L3 durable floor now survives a process restart.
Primitives: CpL3SlotPool.rebuild_from_allocated (O(num_slots) bulk-occupy) + CpL3DiskSlab.read_header
(one aligned block, not the multi-MB slot). Env SGLANG_CP_L3_COLD_START (default "clear"), read in
_maybe_init_cp_l3 and passed to connect(). Tests: 4 cold-start e2e (load rebuilds the floor + no slot
collision after a fresh spill; GC LRU rebuilt; clear starts empty; unknown mode fails loud) + 2 unit
(rebuild_from_allocated, read_header). 23 L3 store/disk/posix tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unit Tests
Component-level tests that do not launch a server or load model weights. Tests can use CPU or GPU — the key criterion is no server process.
Quick Start
- Find the source file under
python/sglang/srt/. - Create the corresponding test here, mirroring the source tree:
srt/mem_cache/radix_cache.py → unit/mem_cache/test_radix_cache.py srt/sampling/sampling_params.py → unit/sampling/test_sampling_params.py - Register for CI at the top of the file (after imports, before test classes):
from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="stage-a-test-cpu") # or: register_cuda_ci(est_time=10, suite="stage-b-test-1-gpu-small") - Run locally:
pytest test/registered/unit/ -v # all unit tests pytest test/registered/unit/mem_cache/ -v # one module - Run with coverage:
# summary pytest test/registered/unit/ --cov --cov-config=.coveragerc -v # PR incremental check (require ≥60% on changed lines) pytest test/registered/unit/ --cov --cov-config=.coveragerc --cov-report=xml diff-cover coverage.xml --compare-branch=origin/main --fail-under=60
Example
"""Unit tests for <module> — no server, no model loading."""
from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="stage-a-test-cpu")
import unittest
from sglang.srt.<module> import TargetClass
from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
class TestTargetClass(CustomTestCase):
def test_basic_behavior(self):
obj = TargetClass(...)
self.assertEqual(obj.method(), expected)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
Rules
- No
popen_launch_server()orEngine(...). - No model weight loading.
- Use
CustomTestCase(fromsglang.test.test_utils, adds CI retry). - Use
unittest.mockfor dependencies that are expensive to construct.