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IterationWriter.capture() creates the log directory and opens the file before starting the writer. This exposes setup errors in the parent process. The writer polls for messages and exits after receiving the end marker or after one second without messages following shutdown. A five-second join limit prevents a stalled writer from blocking shutdown and warns when the log may be incomplete.

The async producer uses a dedicated ZeroMQ context, finite socket linger, and bounded shutdown waiting. If the wait times out, it warns and continues backend shutdown. Latency configuration now forwards iteration_log to executor settings. Test execution results are not available in the supplied evidence.

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Added tests/unittest/llmapi/test_iteration_logging.py and listed it in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. The tests cover shutdown, ordered delivery, missing or invalid paths, absent or stalled consumers, writer failures, missing end markers, shared ZeroMQ context behavior, benchmark-body exceptions, and latency configuration. The test is listed in the CPU CI list. No manual-QA list entry is shown.

Coverage verdict: sufficient. The tests cover key shutdown, path setup, and configuration behavior. End-to-end report generation is not covered by the described tests.

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• tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/low_latency.py: Latency runs now pass iteration_log into executor settings. Verify that iteration statistics are enabled when logging is configured.
• tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/utils/asynchronous.py: Producer shutdown now uses finite linger and bounded waiting. Verify healthy delivery and confirm that an unavailable writer does not prevent backend shutdown.
• tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/utils/processes.py: Capture creates parent directories and opens the log before starting the writer. Verify missing-parent handling, setup errors, and warnings when the log may be incomplete.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_iteration_logging.py: Covers iteration-log shutdown, failure paths, and latency configuration. Listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml; no manual-QA list entry is shown.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: Adds unittest/llmapi/test_iteration_logging.py to the CPU CI test list.

Description

Fixes #18297.

trtllm-bench --iteration_log could finish inference and then hang during shutdown, preventing report generation. A missing log directory killed the writer process while the producer retained messages indefinitely, and both producer and writer teardown had unbounded waits.

This change creates and validates the log path in the parent, opens the file before the writer binds, drains queued records until the end marker or an idle stop, bounds producer and writer shutdown, uses finite ZeroMQ linger with an isolated context, and warns when a failure may truncate the log. It preserves awaited sends so a healthy writer does not silently drop iteration records.

Latency benchmarks also now forward iteration_log into executor settings so iteration statistics are enabled when the option is used.

Test Coverage

• Added 15 CPU-only regression scenarios using real ZeroMQ IPC in killable subprocesses.
• Covers missing log parents, dead writers below and above the high-water mark, no requests, empty and exceptional benchmark bodies, invalid paths, shared contexts, setup errors, stalled/failed writers, missing end markers, and logging disabled.
• Healthy and missing-parent cases verify exact ordered delivery of 2,000 records.
• The original implementation exceeds an 8-second watchdog in the reproduced dead-writer and missing-parent cases; the patched suite passes in under 7 seconds.
• Repository pre-commit checks pass for all changed files.
• End-to-end validation on one NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3 with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, 8 requests, and 64 output tokens per request:
  • The unchanged baseline completed inference, then exceeded the shutdown watchdog and wrote no JSON report.
  • Patched throughput with a missing log parent exited normally, wrote the report, and logged 326 iteration records.
  • Patched throughput with an existing log parent exited normally, wrote the report, and logged 326 iteration records.
  • Patched latency with a missing log parent exited normally, wrote the report, and logged 641 iteration records.

The H100 run exercised the complete patch at 9467b327, including the ZeroMQ connection change. All three patched cases exited normally, wrote reports for all 8 requests, and produced parseable iteration logs.

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Walkthrough

The latency command passes the configured iteration-log path to runtime settings. The logging worker and writer use bounded shutdown. CPU-only tests cover logging behavior, failure scenarios, and latency-command configuration.

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Iteration logging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime iteration-log coordination tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/low_latency.py, tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/utils/asynchronous.py	The latency command passes the iteration-log path to runtime settings. The worker uses a dedicated ZeroMQ context, performs a final timed stats read, sends the end marker, and waits up to six seconds during shutdown.
IPC writer and bounded cleanup tensorrt_llm/bench/benchmark/utils/processes.py	The writer opens the log file before starting and polls for messages. Shutdown waits up to five seconds, then warns and kills the process if needed.
Iteration-logging regression coverage tests/unittest/llmapi/test_iteration_logging.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml	CPU-only tests cover logging, shutdown, file-path errors, writer failures, and latency-command configuration. The test module is added to the l0_cpu test list.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StatsWorker
  participant IterationWriter
  participant LogFile
  StatsWorker->>IterationWriter: Send iteration records
  StatsWorker->>IterationWriter: Send end marker
  IterationWriter->>LogFile: Write received records
  IterationWriter-->>StatsWorker: Close after end marker or idle timeout

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 9bc40

Normal shutdown is bounded, but a terminal interruption can leave a partial iteration log without an incomplete-log warning, and delayed final producer records remain untested. Correct the warning path and add focused coverage before relying on logs for complete iteration data.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy [#18297]. capture() creates the log directory and opens the file before the writer starts, so path errors reach the parent. The producer uses bounded sends and shutdown waits. Th…
Out of Scope Changes check		The latency wiring, shutdown diagnostics, ZeroMQ cleanup, test-list update, and regression tests directly support [#18297]. No unrelated change is demonstrated by the reviewed change summary.
Title check		The title follows the required [issue][type] format and clearly identifies the main change: preventing iteration log shutdown hangs.
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Test delayed stats reads during shutdown.

The supplied _Stats.get_stats_async ignores timeout and emits all records immediately. These tests cannot detect a regression that cancels valid delayed reads or drops records available only during the final read.

Add a case in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_iteration_logging.py with a timeout-aware stats fixture. Let an in-flight read finish after shutdown starts, then return a distinct record from the final read. Assert exact log output and no producer timeout warning.

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I've spent a fair amount of time in exactly this code recently (#17731 fixed the b"None" drain loop and the unbound message in the writer's KeyboardInterrupt handler; #17735 the end-sentinel ordering in the producer's finally), so I read this closely. Overall this is the right shape of fix, and it's more complete than my two patches — happy to see both superseded if this lands.

What convinced me, from the code:

• The two actual deadlocks are both bounded now. Hang 1: the producer used the process-global zmq.asyncio.Context.instance() with default linger (-1), so when the writer child died at startup (FileNotFoundError on the log path), context.term() at asynchronous.py had unsent messages it would wait on forever. Dedicated context + LINGER=1000 + asyncio.to_thread(term) kills that class entirely. Hang 2: the writer's blocking first recv_json() (processes.py:150 on current main) never returned when the producer died first; the 100ms poll loop with a stop_event check bounds it.
• Shutdown now terminates by construction: every wait on the path has a finite bound — wait_for on the drain task (9s, and the 2×2×2+1 derivation checks out against the two get_stats_async(2) reads), linger (1s), join(5s) + kill, poll (100ms). Worst case is ~15s of degraded shutdown with warnings instead of an unkillable process. That's the property the issue actually asks for.
• The latency one-liner is a real bug, not scope creep — verified on current main: low_latency.py:191 declares --iteration_log but, unlike throughput.py:422, never copies it into exec_settings, so RuntimeConfig.iteration_log stays None and the flag is silently dropped.
• The mkstemp fd leak fix and the pre-flight open("a") probe in capture() (fail in the parent before the run spends GPU-hours) are both correct, and the test actually runs in CI since it's registered in l0_cpu.yml with cpu_only.

Two genuine questions, not blockers:

1. mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) silently materializes a mistyped directory — the reported repro is literally a one-character typo, and auto-create means the log quietly lands in the wrong place. Would failing fast with a clear error serve that user better? Either behavior preserves the run (the probe catches it pre-flight), so this is a design taste question for the maintainers.
2. In the writer's quiet-gap exit: after stop_event is set, a >100ms gap between messages breaks the loop with the "may be incomplete" warning. In the normal flow capture()'s finally only sets the event after the producer's drain finished, so the tail should already be queued — but if the parent ever reorders that, the warning fires spuriously. Probably worth a comment in capture() noting the ordering dependency.

Nice work — this closes out a nasty failure mode.

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I've spent a fair amount of time in exactly this code recently (#17731 fixed the b"None" drain loop and the unbound message in the writer's KeyboardInterrupt handler; #17735 the end-sentinel ordering in the producer's finally), so I read this closely. Overall this is the right shape of fix, and it's more complete than my two patches — happy to see both superseded if this lands.

Thanks for the detailed review. Directory creation is intentional to match --report_json and the expected/suggested behavior in #18297. I also confirmed the shutdown ordering: async_benchmark() awaits the iteration worker’s final drain and end marker before the capture context exits and sets stop_event. The healthy tests verify exact delivery of 2,000 records, while the missing-end case covers the fallback warning. I agree an ordering comment could help future maintenance, but no functional change appears necessary.

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Re-raise KeyboardInterrupt in the writer.

When the forked writer receives KeyboardInterrupt after writing records, this handler logs the interruption and returns normally. The parent then sees exit code zero, so the bounded cleanup emits no incomplete-log warning even though the log can be truncated. Re-raise the exception so the parent observes a nonzero exit code and keeps the warning without restoring the unbounded join.

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