feat(vllm-omni): support FastH3 VSA

[GuanLuo]

Summary

• Update the CUDA/CPU vLLM-Omni layer to v0.29.0rc1, the first released build containing MiniMax-H3 VSA support, paired with vLLM 0.29.
• Forward and validate the generic --fastvideo-vsa-topk diffusion option.
• Install the optional fastvideo-kernel==0.3.5 dependency only in the video-audio overlay.
• Select FASTVIDEO_VSA automatically for FastH3 vsa-* adapters and enforce pure Ulysses topology.
• Use the portable Triton VSA path on B200 and B300/SM103.
• Pin all four FastH3 adapter checksums and record VSA configuration in qualification metadata.
• Preserve vLLM-Omni 0.29 generated stage configs and resolve release dependencies with source-linked license metadata.
• Qualify both B200 and GB300 hardware guards.

Standalone scope

This PR targets main directly and contains only the FastH3 VSA extension. The prerequisite video/audio output support and MiniMax-H3 baseline have merged through #13707 and #13589.

Validation

Current head 07923e8664:

• Focused repository pre-commit hooks pass, including Python lint/format, YAML, docs, SPDX/index, and static pytest-marker checks.
• Bash syntax checks pass for the H3 launcher and qualification script.
• The video/audio overlay completes a plain Docker build without GPU exposure; a GPU runtime smoke test imports the portable FastVideo VSA entry point with torch 2.13 and fastvideo-kernel 0.3.5.
• Static pytest-marker validation confirms the Omni handler suite is selected by xpu_1.
• Docs lint passes with zero errors (the eight warnings are pre-existing on main).
• In a Linux validation environment, vLLM 0.27.1+xpu with vLLM-Omni 0.27.0rc1 selects the legacy shared-protocol path; 81 targeted Omni/frontend tests pass.
• In a Linux validation environment, vLLM 0.29.0 selects vllm.entrypoints.generate.base.protocol as expected.

Feature validation before the history-only rebase (the six FastH3 patches were replayed unchanged):

• Build On Demand run 34635146733 passed.
• Final linux/amd64 image: dynamoci.azurecr.io/ai-dynamo/dynamo@sha256:f1fd3060a9dc795061c30301ce11253b5b4e812d2b4eaca82d068a7aac810231.
• B200 smoke passed on compute capability 10.0 with vLLM 0.29.0, vLLM-Omni 0.29.0rc1, fastvideo-kernel 0.3.5, PyAV 18.0.0, and one generated MiniMax-H3 stage.
• Four-B200 end-to-end FastH3 vsa-datafree qualification passed at 448x256, 24 fps, 10 seconds, four inference steps, and seed 42.
• Runtime logs confirm pure Ulysses 4 (ring 1), four transformer forwards, and main H3 VSA routing at sequence length 8,944 with top-k 64 and 160 kernel blocks. A separate 70-token refiner call correctly uses SDPA because it is below VSA minimum; the main video transformer did not fall back.
• Cold request: 22.257998 seconds. Warm request: 2.406487 seconds.
• Output contract passed: 10.125-second H.264 448x256 video at 24 fps plus stereo 32 kHz AAC audio; audio was non-silent (mean -23.8 dB, max -3.3 dB).
• GB300 arm64 preflight also passed on compute capability 10.3 with the portable Triton path before the capacity-constrained workload was moved to B200.

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Walkthrough

The change upgrades vLLM-Omni compatibility to vLLM 0.29, adds FastVideo VSA TopK configuration and validation, preserves explicit zero FPS values, and updates FastH3 launch scripts, documentation, images, and qualification metadata.

Changes

vLLM-Omni and FastH3 integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
vLLM 0.29 runtime alignment container/...	Container metadata, dependency constraints, SBOM entries, and license overrides align the runtime with vLLM and vLLM-Omni 0.29.
Stage configuration compatibility components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_config_compat.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_router.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_worker.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_stage_config_compat.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_stage_*.py	A compatibility resolver supports structured and legacy vLLM-Omni APIs. Router and worker initialization use the resolver and handle missing connector paths.
FastVideo VSA runtime configuration components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/args.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/omni_handler.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_args.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_base_handler.py, docs/fern/pages/reference/backends/vllm-omni-configuration.mdx	Diffusion configuration supports FASTVIDEO_VSA and positive fastvideo_vsa_topk values. Explicit zero FPS values remain valid.
FastH3 VSA deployment assets examples/backends/vllm/launch/*.sh, examples/backends/vllm/omni/video_audio.Dockerfile, docs/fern/pages/use-cases/diffusion/workflows/text-to-video.md	Launch and validation scripts add FastH3 variant, adapter, backend, parallelism, TopK, checksum, GPU, and metadata handling. Documentation and the image add FastVideo VSA setup and kernel support.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/omni_handler.py`:
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• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/args.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/omni_handler.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_config_compat.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_router.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_worker.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_args.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_base_handler.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_stage_router.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_stage_worker.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_stage_config_compat.py
• container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json
• container/compliance/license_overrides.yaml
• container/context.yaml
• container/deps/vllm/protected_packages.txt
• container/templates/vllm_runtime.Dockerfile
• docs/fern/pages/reference/backends/vllm-omni-configuration.mdx
• docs/fern/pages/use-cases/diffusion/workflows/text-to-video.md
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_omni_minimax_h3.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/launch/validate_omni_minimax_h3.sh
• examples/backends/vllm/omni/video_audio.Dockerfile

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[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Reviewed only this PR's own 11 commits. Verified stack: the base branch is qiwa/minimax-h3-omni, and the true merge-base is 8165a11c45765b35cafd1c618a1d6a84ae19ff67, which is #13589's head. repos/ai-dynamo/dynamo/compare/<base>...<head> reports 11 commits / 20 files ahead, 0 behind, matching the +367/-35 shown here — so nothing from #13707, #13708 or #13589 is in scope, and I have not commented on any of it.

Intent as I read it from the diff and description: move the vLLM-Omni layer to v0.29.0rc1 with a matching vllm/vllm-openai:v0.29.0-ubuntu2404 runtime base, add a validated --fastvideo-vsa-topk, auto-select FASTVIDEO_VSA for vsa-* FastH3 adapters under pure Ulysses, default to the portable Triton kernel, and qualify the result on B200/GB300.

What I verified by execution

The non-VSA default path is unchanged — two independent probes, each run on the base tree and the head tree:

• BaseOmniHandler._build_omni_kwargs (real method, vllm-runtime-test image) returns a byte-identical kwargs dict on both trees for a default OmniDiffusionKwargs. fastvideo_vsa_topk is absent unless explicitly set, because the None-filter in _build_omni_kwargs drops it. With fastvideo_vsa_topk=64 it appears; on the base tree the field does not exist at all.

• Ran the real examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_omni_minimax_h3.sh from both trees with stubbed python/ffmpeg/ffprobe, capturing the argv it hands the worker:

  case	base	head
  no adapter	TRTLLM_ATTN, no topk	TRTLLM_ATTN, no topk
  dense-datafree adapter	TRTLLM_ATTN, no topk	TRTLLM_ATTN, no topk
  vsa-datafree adapter	n/a	FASTVIDEO_VSA, --fastvideo-vsa-topk 64, FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A=0

  The only flags head adds on the default path are --ring-degree 1 --allgather-degree 1, which equal the existing OmniParallelKwargs defaults, so they are behaviour-neutral.

Other claims checked:

• --fastvideo-vsa-topk is a real vLLM-Omni 0.29.0rc1 parameter (vllm_omni/config/stage_config.py, engine/arg_utils.py, consumed in engine/stage_init_utils.py), and upstream independently rejects non-positive values and use without FASTVIDEO_VSA. Dynamo's own > 0 check is defence in depth, not the only gate.
• FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A is a recognised vLLM-Omni environment variable, read in diffusion/attention/backends/fastvideo_vsa.py.
• The launcher's ring/all-gather guard mirrors a guard upstream already enforces for requires_vsa adapters, so a vsa-* adapter served with the wrong backend or with ring/all-gather SP fails loudly rather than silently running dense. I checked the "adapter in a directory not named vsa-*" case for a silent-dense fallback; upstream raises, so there is no finding there.
• container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json — the new from_digest sha256:563b8929… matches the live Docker Hub manifest-list digest for vllm/vllm-openai:v0.29.0-ubuntu2404 on both arch entries.
• container/deps/vllm/protected_packages.txt — the rationale for unfreezing tokenizers holds against PyPI metadata: transformers 5.14.1 requires tokenizers<=0.23.0,>=0.22.0, vllm 0.29.0 requires tokenizers>=0.21.1, and the base image ships 0.23.2. Likewise vllm-omni 0.29.0rc1 requires transformers<5.15,>=5.13.0, which the pinned 5.14.1 satisfies.
• stage_config_compat.py — in a vLLM-Omni 0.27 image the shim correctly takes the legacy branch (resolve_omni_config is None, load_and_resolve_stage_configs bound), and resolve_omni_config in the 0.29.0rc1 wheel has exactly the keyword-only signature the shim calls and returns an object carrying config_path/stage_configs/omni_lb_policy.
• The omni unit suites (test_omni_args, test_omni_stage_worker, test_omni_stage_router, test_omni_base_handler) were run on both trees in the same image: 95 → 99 passed, with one identical pre-existing failure on both (test_stage_connector_refs_builds_engine_core_request, an artefact of that image's older vLLM-Omni, not this PR).

What I could not verify

I have no vLLM 0.29 / vLLM-Omni 0.29.0rc1 image locally, so the runtime probes above ran in a vllm 0.27.1 / vllm-omni 0.27.0rc1 runtime-test image. That is sound for the code paths I exercised (argument plumbing, kwargs construction, the fps selection, the shim's legacy branch), and I confirmed the shapes those probes depend on — OmniDiffusionSamplingParams carries both fps and frame_rate — but I did not execute anything against vLLM-Omni 0.29 itself. The 0.29 claims above are read from the published vllm_omni-0.29.0rc1 wheel and from upstream vLLM's tagged trees, not from a running engine.

Findings

• P1 — container/context.yaml: the vLLM 0.29 base bump leaves dynamo/frontend/prepost.py importing a module vLLM removed.
• P3 — text-to-video.md: the documented SM100a opt-in is never forwarded into the container.
• Replies on the three existing threads (the fps fallback, the compat-shim ImportError width, and the CPU flavor's vLLM-Omni ref) — two of those premises do not hold as stated, and one of the proposed fixes regresses a case that works today; details in the threads.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Round 2, against 2fa395475.

What actually changed. The branch was rebased — all 17 commits were rewritten at 01:22 with new parents — so 87eda1b7...2fa39547 reads as 128 commits / 300 files and is almost entirely the base branch moving underneath. Measured against this PR's own merge base instead, the PR is 17 commits / 27 files, and comparing the PR's own patch at each head, only two files changed content since round 1:

• lib/llm/src/http/service/openai.rs — refactor(http): inline video fold error mapping removes the video_fold_error helper and inlines ErrorMessage::from_anyhow(...) at both call sites. Same expression, so no behaviour change; it does now duplicate the "Failed to fold videos stream" literal between the production site and the test, so the test no longer pins the production string. Not worth a finding, and it belongs to the lower PR in the stack anyway.
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/output_formatter.py — docs(vllm): document omni output formatters, a module-docstring rewrite, no code.

Both were authored a few minutes before the round-1 review landed, so neither is a response to it. None of the four round-1 findings were touched. Status per finding below.

New — P0, inline on container/context.yaml. The omni_audio serve test is green on the base branch tip and red here, four attempts out of four, with a deterministic ValueError from vLLM-Omni 0.29.0rc1 rejecting the six diffusion-only kwargs that base_handler._build_omni_kwargs forwards unconditionally. base_handler.py is byte-identical between the two trees, so the version pair is the whole difference. This breaks examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_omni_audio.sh — a shipped example — not just a test. Details and the two fix shapes are in the inline comment.

Round-1 findings, re-verified at this head:

• P1 — prepost.py import against vLLM 0.29 (thread on container/context.yaml:82): still reproduces. components/src/dynamo/frontend/prepost.py:22 is unchanged, and the module is still absent upstream — vllm/entrypoints/openai/engine/ has 2 files at the v0.28.0 tag and 0 at v0.29.0, with all four symbols now in vllm/entrypoints/generate/base/protocol.py (FunctionDefinition:224, DeltaFunctionCall:304, DeltaToolCall:310, DeltaMessage:329). There is no shim: vllm/entrypoints/openai/ at 0.29 contains only chat_completion, completion, models, parser, responses plus three modules. The collection-error count has grown by one since round 1 — components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py arrived with the base movement and carries the same import through vllm_processor.
• P2 — nvext.fps: 0 reaching the encoder as 0 (reply on the CodeRabbit thread at omni_handler.py:857): still reproduces here, and the fix exists one level down. omni_handler.py:855-863 is byte-for-byte what I measured in round 1. The two fix commits on the lower PR — bc5992cffe and 9d030cf95c — are not in this branch's commit range; they were authored roughly three hours after this branch was last pushed. bc5992cffe adds exactly the protocol-edge rejection the thread converged on (nvext.fps <= 0, nvext.num_frames <= 0, seconds <= 0), so a rebase resolves this without any work here. I have left the thread resolved rather than reopening it — the finding is tracked and its fix is identified, and thread churn would not add anything — but it is genuinely unfixed on this branch today.
• P3 — DYN_H3_FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A not plumbed into the container (thread on text-to-video.md:94): untouched. File is identical at both heads and identical between the base tip and this head.
• P3 — CPU flavor inherits vllm_omni_ref: v0.29.0rc1 against a vLLM 0.28.0 CPU base (reply on the review bot's thread at container/context.yaml:106): untouched. cpu.runtime_image_tag is still v0.28.0 with no vllm_omni_ref override.

CI triage, for the record and explicitly not findings — the author already sees these, and both turn out to be stale guards rather than defects, which is the useful part:

• test_vllm_kv_events_api.py::test_block_stored_fields / test_block_removed_fields — vLLM 0.29 appends an ownership field to BlockStored and BlockRemoved. lib/kv-router/src/zmq_wire/ already accepts it: the map visitor has an explicit "ownership" arm, and the seq visitor collects trailing fields generically and hands ownership through ParsedCommonTrailing. Per the test's own docstring the compatibility layer is the thing to check first, and it is already correct — so this needs only an ownership gate added to expected_fields, not a wire-format change.
• test_vllm_api_contract.py::test_scheduler_output_new_connector_fields_remain_optional — SchedulerOutput.partial_tail_offloads is gone in 0.29. All four direct constructions in components/src/dynamo/vllm/instrumented_scheduler.py (lines 1847, 3946, 5671, 5756) are keyword-only and none passes that field, so the re-audit the assertion demands comes back clean; the guard just needs retiring.
• test_all_diffusion_parallel_config_fields_covered (ulysses_a2a_permute) fails identically on the base tip — pre-existing, from lower in the stack.

Not approving: 1 P0, 1 P1, 1 P2, 2 P3 outstanding.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Follow-up round at 51fc128fec.

My earlier approval was recorded against e179f2305. It no longer describes this tree. The branch was rebased, the base moved from 883db9be32 to cfada2fd9d, and the head moved again while I was reviewing. The head I started from, 49f87d132, is no longer reachable from the branch, so everything below is measured at 51fc128fec.

What the rebase carried

A plain e179f2305...51fc128fec compare mixes the new base commits into the diff, so I did not use it. I compared the two PR-scoped diffs instead:

• old scope 883db9be32...e179f2305: 36 files, 2630 insertions, 131 deletions
• new scope cfada2fd9d...51fc128fec: 26 files, 2440 insertions, 108 deletions

The rebase carried real content change. Ten files left the PR scope. None entered it. A per-file blob comparison across both trees, restricted to the old PR file set, gives 19 files whose head blob is byte-identical, 10 files the PR no longer touches, and 7 files whose head content differs. Five of the seven have a changed PR delta, and every one of those five changes is the base absorbing work the PR used to carry.

The vLLM 0.29 interaction

This was the question I most wanted answered, because cfada2fd9d is build(vllm): prepare v0.29.0 bump and this branch carries a commit named fix(vllm-omni): sync parallel config with 0.28.0. The answer is that the base landed exactly what the PR needed, and the PR correctly dropped its own copy.

At cfada2fd9d, container/context.yaml already sets the global vllm_omni_ref: "v0.29.0rc1", cuda13.0 runtime_image_tag: v0.29.0-ubuntu2404, and cpu runtime_image_tag: v0.29.0. Those are the same values this PR used to set. The PR therefore no longer touches container/context.yaml, container/templates/vllm_runtime.Dockerfile, container/deps/vllm/protected_packages.txt, or container/compliance/base_sboms/manifest.json. Dropping the manifest also removes the self-baseline SBOM hazard from this PR, because the PR no longer moves the runtime image tag.

The base also removed components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/stage_config_compat.py from the picture. The base resolves stage configuration in components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/utils.py, so the PR's compatibility shim and its test are gone. That is the right outcome.

One consequence survives, and it is the finding below. The base's 0.29 move raised the floor for the CUDA and CPU targets only. The xpu target still pins vllm_omni_ref: "v0.27.0rc1".

The other base commits

I checked each named commit for reach into this PR and ruled out all but one.

• cfada2fd9d (#14543): reaches the PR. Seven files overlap. Covered above.
• c76d3208f3 (#14361, codec-free OpenCV): no file overlap. It changes components/src/dynamo/common/multimodal/video_loader.py and the decoder install, which are media input decoding. This PR changes components/src/dynamo/common/protocols/video_protocol.py and components/src/dynamo/common/utils/video_utils.py, which are generation output. The PR delta contains no cv2 or opencv reference, and video_utils.py imports only imageio. Ruled out.
• 16d60480f9 (#13599, install selectors): no file overlap. It changes docs/fern/components/ and docs/fern/scripts/. The PR changes two Fern content pages, which those components do not read. Its two open findings are against selector data generation, which this PR does not touch. Ruled out.
• 8f9510112c (#14878, radix branch eviction): no file overlap. It changes lib/kv-router/src/indexer/radix_tree.rs. The PR's Rust is in lib/llm. Ruled out.
• e292c76b2a (#14737, native KV events): no file overlap. It changes lib/mocker. Ruled out.
• ef235cf7e0 (#14206, compliance baseline refresh): no file overlap. It changes .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/ and container/compliance/base_sboms/capture_baseline_sbom.py. The PR's only compliance file is container/compliance/license_overrides.yaml. Ruled out.

The base movement did not touch lib/llm at all, so the Rust delta sits on the same ground I reviewed before, and its blobs are byte-identical to e179f2305.

Status of the earlier findings

I re-ran each one at this head rather than reading the fix.

Fixed, and I verified it. The P1 about prepost.py importing vllm.entrypoints.openai.engine.protocol is resolved. On a real vLLM 0.28.0 image, dynamo.frontend.prepost and dynamo.frontend.vllm_processor both import, and DeltaMessage resolves from vllm.entrypoints.openai.engine.protocol. components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_vllm_renderer_api.py collects 16 tests and runs. Its one failure is test_engine_core_struct_contract, which fails identically on the base tree in the same image, so it is not from this PR.

I also probed the new components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py directly, because find_spec on a dotted name raises ModuleNotFoundError when an intermediate package is missing, instead of returning None. On a synthetic layout with the parent absent, the fallback branch is unreachable. On real vLLM 0.27.1 and 0.28.0 the parents vllm.entrypoints.generate and vllm.entrypoints.generate.base do exist and only the leaf protocol is missing, so find_spec returns None and the fallback runs. The shim is correct. I am recording the probe because the correctness depends on a layout detail, not on the code reading as if it were safe.

Fixed, and I verified it. The P0 about diffusion-only defaults reaching AsyncOmni on every launch is resolved in components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/args.py. The six fields now default to None and env_value_type=parse_bool keeps an explicit false forwarded. I mutation tested the new regression test: restoring the six pre-fix defaults makes test_diffusion_only_defaults_not_forwarded_to_async_omni fail with AssertionError: assert 'enable_layerwise_offload' not in {...}, and the shipped code makes it pass. The test pins the fix.

Fixed. The fps value of 0 is preserved. components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/omni_handler.py:879 now reads output_sp.resolved_frame_rate, which exists on OmniDiffusionSamplingParams in vLLM-Omni 0.27.0rc1 and 0.28.0rc1 and uses is not None throughout. An explicit 0 returns 0.0 and does not fall back to the default.

Moot. The request to narrow the except ImportError in stage_config_compat.py no longer applies, because the file is not in this PR any more.

Fixed by the base. The CPU image no longer pairs a 0.28 runtime with vLLM-Omni 0.29, because the base moved cpu runtime_image_tag to v0.29.0.

Still open. The DYN_H3_FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A pass-through is unchanged at this head. I replied on that thread.

New findings

One P1 and two P3. Details are inline.

Withdrawing this approval. It was recorded against e179f23, and the branch has since been rebased onto a new base (cfada2f) with a new head (51fc128). I re-reviewed at the new head and found a P1, so the approval no longer reflects my position. Details are in the review dated today.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Not approving yet. Zero P0, zero P1, one P2 and three P3 remain.

The reason my approval came off is now closed, but by the base rather than by this branch. Commit 01ac8006c8 put the parallel-field filter on main, and this diff does not touch components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/base_handler.py, so a merge takes it. Evidence is on the args.py thread.

The four open items, and what I re-ran at this head

Open items, all already on their own threads:

1. P2, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_base_handler.py:34. This branch exposes ulysses_a2a_permute and also leaves it in _SKIP_FIELDS, so the coverage test treats it as deliberately unexposed. Main removed it from the set and added a guard. Please keep main's side of this file when you resolve it.
2. P3, container/compliance/license_overrides.yaml:1020. instanttensor, sigstore-models and tsp-asn1 each appear twice. Still true at this head.
3. P3, components/src/dynamo/frontend/prepost.py:33. The version gate below rebinds all three names, so this import has no effect. Still true at this head.
4. P3, docs/fern/pages/use-cases/diffusion/workflows/text-to-video.md:94. The block does not pass DYN_H3_FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A, so the documented opt-in stays off. Both launch scripts still read that variable.

Two items I closed in an earlier round stay closed. I reproduced neither. The frame rate now reads the upstream value first and raises when neither source gives a positive number. The stage configuration compatibility module is no longer in this diff.

I also checked what this diff sends back to a caller. lib/llm/src/http/service/openai.rs:4787 now returns the backend message instead of a fixed string. The one new message that echoes a caller value is f"Video fps must be greater than zero, got {fps!r}". That value reaches the formatter from the typed nvext.fps field, so it is bounded. No finding.

The pull request is green. The XPU lane reports SKIPPED, because it needs an xpu label that this pull request does not carry.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Re-review at f9ae6aa7cd

One P1 and two P2, so I am holding. The three items are inline.

Everything I raised before is fixed. dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py resolves the moved vLLM types by module lookup, the duplicate license entries and the duplicate marker stubs are gone, and -e DYN_H3_FASTVIDEO_VSA_SM100A now reaches the container. The older-Omni parallel-field filter works: all 63 tests in the two omni files pass against vLLM-Omni 0.28.0rc1.

What I checked, and where verification stopped

The push is a rebase onto a newer main, not new work on the old branch. 51fc128fec is not an ancestor of f9ae6aa7cd. The merge base moved from cfada2fd9d to 81fa669fcb, which absorbed 13 prerequisite commits. The six FastH3 commits replayed with identical git patch-id --stable values, so the only new work is f9ae6aa7cd. There are no merge commits and no hand edits inside the replay.

check	result
overlay image build, base against head	base built, head failed
fastvideo_kernel import, with and without a GPU	OK against RuntimeError
fastvideo_kernel._C under torch 2.13.0	ImportError, undefined c10 symbol
omni unit tests, vLLM-Omni 0.28.0rc1	63 passed
XPU marker selection, subject and control	16 deselected against 16 collected
dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py on vLLM 0.28.0	takes the legacy path, all four names resolve
AsyncOmni.__init__	takes **kwargs, so a new diffusion field does not raise

Verification stopped in three places. I have no Intel GPU, so the vLLM-Omni 0.27 path is reasoned from the pin at container/context.yaml:96 and from collection counts, not from a run. I have no B200 or GB300, so the four-GPU qualification result in the description stands unreproduced. The nearest image I could run holds vLLM 0.28.0 and vLLM-Omni 0.28.0rc1, not the 0.29 pair the CUDA target moves to.

[furionw]

Thank you

[whoisj]

Not an expert on a lot of this, but what I do understand looks good to me.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

Re-review at 07923e8664

Approving. My three open findings are now closed. Two are fixed and one I retract. I found nothing new.

This round is partly self-review. In commit 07923e8664 the author applied the remedy I described on the overlay thread, which was to use find_spec in place of the import. Treat my sign-off on that one point accordingly.

Status of the three findings I held on

finding	file	status
P1, overlay needs a GPU to build	examples/backends/vllm/omni/video_audio.Dockerfile:43	fixed in 07923e8664, rebuilt all three trees
P2, torch 2.12 against torch 2.13	same file, line 37	retracted by me, the backend never calls _C
P2, no Intel lane marker	components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/omni/test_omni_base_handler.py:26	fixed in 07923e8664, 0 collected became 16

Each thread carries its own measurements.

The 0.29 question is settled on main

The earlier concern was that one device key still resolved vLLM-Omni below 0.29. It does not. #15033 merged as 3e486515bc, and that commit deletes the vllm_omni_ref override for the Intel lane.

I rendered main at b40d169e0a with container/render.py rather than reading the YAML:

device	VLLM_OMNI_REF	runtime image tag
cuda	v0.29.0rc1	v0.29.0-ubuntu2404
xpu	v0.29.0rc1	v0.29.0
cpu	v0.29.0rc1	v0.29.0

Every key resolves to v0.29.0rc1. This pull request does not touch container/context.yaml, so a merge takes main's copy. I confirmed that. The tree from git merge-tree --write-tree matches main for that file.

Push shape and base drift

Since my last review at f9ae6aa7cd the branch moved forward by two commits with no rewrite. The last head_ref_force_pushed event produced f9ae6aa7cd itself. f9ae6aa7cd is an ancestor of the current head, and the compare API reports ahead 2, behind 0.

The rewrite before that was a plain rebase. Six of the FastH3 patches keep the same git patch-id --stable value across it, so the replay changed nothing:

49bb44c1d5d0  fix(vllm-omni): preserve upgrade compatibility
97b49cb67e63  fix(vllm-omni): qualify H3 on GB300
642980796949  fix(vllm-omni): default H3 VSA to portable kernel
6e136fbd5007  fix(container): classify InstantTensor license
f68f0bc916f8  fix(container): record vLLM-Omni dependency licenses
5ff66839d493  feat(vllm-omni): support FastH3 VSA

The branch holds nine commits and no merge commit.

The base moved a long way. The merge base is 81fa669fcb and the main tip is b40d169e0a, which is 220 files apart. I merged that tip myself with git merge-tree --write-tree. It merges clean, with no conflict. None of the 14 files in this pull request also changed on main in that range, so no finding here depends on a drifted file.

What I verified, and what I retract

Tests, in the vLLM-Omni image with the branch source first on PYTHONPATH:

tree	the two changed test files
merge base 81fa669fcb	55 passed
this head 07923e8664	63 passed

The new environment test is not empty. I removed env_value_type=parse_bool from --vae-use-tiling in components/src/dynamo/vllm/omni/args.py and ran the test again:

step	sha256 of args.py	subject test	control test	DYN_OMNI_VAE_USE_TILING=false gives
unmutated	42a0cacd6c64ac48	passed	passed	False
guard removed	0a0132e82438095c	failed	passed	'false'
restored	42a0cacd6c64ac48	passed	passed	False

Without that guard the value arrives as the string 'false', which is true. The test catches it, and the control does not move.

Three things I retract from my own work this round:

1. The torch version finding above. The effect I predicted does not happen.
2. A first count of 65 and 71 failures in the Omni suite. That was my error. I mounted the branch tests but left the installed package on the path, so pytest ran the image's own source. With PYTHONPATH set, both trees are green.
3. A worry that the new environment test pinned nothing. The same path error caused it.

The one red job is not related to this diff. dynamo-runtime / test / sequential cuda13.0, arm64 fails on ten tests under components/src/dynamo/common/http/ and components/src/dynamo/common/utils/. No file in this pull request appears there. Those paths are exactly the ones that moved on main after this branch forked. The same suite passes on amd64 at the same commit.

Deferred as a decision, not an oversight

The build guard at examples/backends/vllm/omni/video_audio.Dockerfile:44 uses assert. If -O is set, Python removes assert. The guard can then pass while the package is missing. I measured it:

package	flag	exit code
present	none	0
present	-O	0
absent	none	1
absent	-O	0

I am not raising this. PYTHONOPTIMIZE is unset in the base image, so the guard fires as written today. The same file already used four assert statements as build guards before this pull request, so one more matches the local style. Please consider a plain raise SystemExit the next time this file changes.

The other small thing I leave alone is the bare python -c 'import fastvideo_kernel' at examples/backends/vllm/launch/agg_omni_minimax_h3.sh:102. The script runs under set -euo pipefail, so it does stop. The four guards below it print an actionable message, and this one prints a Triton traceback.

[rmccorm4]

Approving docs changes for @ai-dynamo/dynamo-docs-codeowners