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Ettore Di Giacinto f06eb61633 fix(llama-cpp): stop a generation whose stream is gone
grpc::ServerWriter::Write() returns false once the peer is gone, and
PredictStream ignored that result at every call site. The handler kept
pulling decoded tokens and writing them into a dead stream, so the
llama.cpp slot stayed busy until the generation ended on its own terms.

A model configured with max_tokens 0 and a large context ends on its own
terms only at the context limit. On a 35B model at ~41 t/s a 120k context
is about fifty minutes, and a slot held that long is a slot every other
request for that model queues behind. Two abandoned requests were enough
to make a node with free VRAM and a healthy control plane serve nothing:
new requests timed out waiting for a slot, each timeout abandoned another
generation, and the node fell further behind the longer it ran.

Track the peer instead. The first failed write retires it for good, since
a stream never recovers, and the RPC's own cancellation flag folds into
the same predicate so the loop has one condition to test. Returning early
is what frees the slot: ~server_response_reader() posts
SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CANCEL for whatever is still decoding.

TTSStream already checked Write(); this brings PredictStream in line.
Cancellation stays cooperative and is checked between decoded results, so
a batch already in flight may finish before the request stops.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
2026-09-03 21:43:03 +00:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
#pragma once
namespace llama_grpc {
// Tracks whether a server-streaming RPC still has somewhere to send tokens.
//
// grpc::ServerWriter::Write() returns false once the peer is gone, and a
// stream never recovers afterwards. Ignoring that result is not harmless: the
// handler goes on draining decoded tokens into a dead stream, so the llama.cpp
// slot stays busy for the rest of the request's token budget. A model config
// with no max_tokens and a large context turns that into tens of minutes per
// abandoned request, and the slots are exactly what every other request queues
// behind.
//
// Returning as soon as the peer is gone is what frees the slot: the handler's
// server_response_reader then goes out of scope and its destructor posts
// SERVER_TASK_TYPE_CANCEL for whatever is still decoding.
class StreamPeer {
public:
// Records the outcome of a Write(). Once a write has failed the peer stays
// gone -- a later write cannot succeed on a broken stream.
void observe_write(bool ok) noexcept {
if (!ok) {
gone_ = true;
}
}
// Folds in the RPC's own cancellation flag, so callers have a single
// predicate to test rather than two that can disagree.
void observe_cancelled(bool cancelled) noexcept {
if (cancelled) {
gone_ = true;
}
}
bool gone() const noexcept { return gone_; }
bool alive() const noexcept { return !gone_; }
private:
bool gone_ = false;
};
} // namespace llama_grpc