[Core] Cleanup engine pause/sleep logic (#34528)

Signed-off-by: Nick Hill <nickhill123@gmail.com>

tests/v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 
 import asyncio
 import os
+import time
 from contextlib import ExitStack
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -187,24 +189,33 @@ async def test_load(
 # =============================================================================
 # DP Pause/Resume Tests
 # =============================================================================
+# When expert_parallel=False: uses non-MoE model (DP replicas as separate engines).
+# When expert_parallel=True: uses MoE model + EP (DPEngineCoreProc, sync pause path).
 
 DP_PAUSE_MODEL = "hmellor/tiny-random-LlamaForCausalLM"
+DP_PAUSE_MODEL_MOE = "ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b"
 DP_PAUSE_PROMPT = "This is a test of data parallel pause"
 
 
+def _get_dp_pause_engine_args(expert_parallel: bool) -> AsyncEngineArgs:
+    """Engine args for DP pause tests: MoE+EP when expert_parallel else small Llama."""
+    model = DP_PAUSE_MODEL_MOE if expert_parallel else DP_PAUSE_MODEL
+    return AsyncEngineArgs(
+        model=model,
+        enforce_eager=True,
+        tensor_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("TP_SIZE", 1)),
+        data_parallel_size=DP_SIZE,
+        data_parallel_backend="mp",
+        enable_expert_parallel=expert_parallel,
+    )
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_dp_pause_resume_basic():
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("expert_parallel", [False, True])
+async def test_dp_pause_resume_basic(expert_parallel: bool):
     """Pausing from the client (one call) pauses all DP ranks; resume clears it."""
-    if current_platform.is_rocm():
-        pytest.skip("DP pause tests use mp backend only")
     with ExitStack() as after:
-        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(
-            model=DP_PAUSE_MODEL,
-            enforce_eager=True,
-            tensor_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("TP_SIZE", 1)),
-            data_parallel_size=DP_SIZE,
-            data_parallel_backend="mp",
-        )
+        engine_args = _get_dp_pause_engine_args(expert_parallel)
         engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
         after.callback(engine.shutdown)
 
@@ -226,18 +237,11 @@ async def test_dp_pause_resume_basic():
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_dp_pause_abort():
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("expert_parallel", [False, True])
+async def test_dp_pause_abort(expert_parallel: bool):
     """Pause with abort from one client aborts in-flight requests on all DP ranks."""
-    if current_platform.is_rocm():
-        pytest.skip("DP pause tests use mp backend only")
     with ExitStack() as after:
-        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(
-            model=DP_PAUSE_MODEL,
-            enforce_eager=True,
-            tensor_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("TP_SIZE", 1)),
-            data_parallel_size=DP_SIZE,
-            data_parallel_backend="mp",
-        )
+        engine_args = _get_dp_pause_engine_args(expert_parallel)
         engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
         after.callback(engine.shutdown)
 
@@ -286,41 +290,111 @@ async def test_dp_pause_abort():
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_dp_pause_keep_then_resume():
-    """Pause with keep queues new requests; resume allows them to run."""
-    if current_platform.is_rocm():
-        pytest.skip("DP pause tests use mp backend only")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("expert_parallel", [False, True])
+async def test_dp_pause_keep_then_resume(expert_parallel: bool):
+    """Start generation, pause after a few tokens (keep mode), resume; verify gap."""
+
+    pause_duration = 2.0
+    min_tokens_before_pause = 3
+
     with ExitStack() as after:
-        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(
-            model=DP_PAUSE_MODEL,
-            enforce_eager=True,
-            tensor_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("TP_SIZE", 1)),
-            data_parallel_size=DP_SIZE,
-            data_parallel_backend="mp",
-        )
+        engine_args = _get_dp_pause_engine_args(expert_parallel)
         engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
         after.callback(engine.shutdown)
 
-        await engine.pause_generation(mode="keep")
-        assert await engine.is_paused()
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(max_tokens=15, ignore_eos=True)
+        token_times: list[tuple[int, float]] = []
+        pause_token_idx = 0
 
-        request_done = asyncio.Event()
-
-        async def gen():
-            async for out in engine.generate(
-                request_id="queued-keep",
+        async def generator_task():
+            nonlocal pause_token_idx
+            out = None
+            async for output in engine.generate(
+                request_id="keep-resume-req",
                 prompt=DP_PAUSE_PROMPT,
-                sampling_params=SamplingParams(max_tokens=5),
+                sampling_params=sampling_params,
             ):
-                pass
-            request_done.set()
+                token_count = len(output.outputs[0].token_ids)
+                token_times.append((token_count, time.monotonic()))
+                out = output
             return out
 
-        task = asyncio.create_task(gen())
-        await asyncio.sleep(0.2)
-        assert not request_done.is_set()
+        async def controller_task():
+            nonlocal pause_token_idx
+            while len(token_times) < min_tokens_before_pause:
+                await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+            await engine.pause_generation(mode="keep")
+            await asyncio.sleep(pause_duration)
+            pause_token_idx = len(token_times)
+            await engine.resume_generation()
 
+        gen_task = asyncio.create_task(generator_task())
+        ctrl_task = asyncio.create_task(controller_task())
+        final_output, _ = await asyncio.gather(gen_task, ctrl_task)
+
+        assert final_output is not None and final_output.finished
+        assert await engine.is_paused() is False
+        assert pause_token_idx >= min_tokens_before_pause
+        if pause_token_idx > 0 and pause_token_idx < len(token_times):
+            pause_gap = (
+                token_times[pause_token_idx][1] - token_times[pause_token_idx - 1][1]
+            )
+            assert pause_gap >= pause_duration * 0.8, (
+                f"Expected gap ~{pause_duration}s after pause, got {pause_gap:.3f}s"
+            )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_dp_pause_keep_race_staggered_engines():
+    """Race: send pause(keep) to engine 0, then add two requests,
+    then pause(keep) to engine 1. Ensures no deadlock when pause
+    requests are staggered and requests arrive in between."""
+    if DP_SIZE != 2:
+        pytest.skip("test_dp_pause_keep_race_staggered_engines requires DP_SIZE=2")
+
+    with ExitStack() as after:
+        engine_args = _get_dp_pause_engine_args(expert_parallel=True)
+        engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+        after.callback(engine.shutdown)
+
+        client = engine.engine_core
+
+        original_call_utility = client.call_utility_async
+        mid_pause_tasks: list[asyncio.Task] = []
+
+        async def staggered_pause_keep(method: str, *args) -> Any:
+            if method != "pause_scheduler" or not args or args[0] != "keep":
+                return await original_call_utility(method, *args)
+            # Send pause(keep) to engine 0 first
+            await client._call_utility_async(
+                method, *args, engine=client.core_engines[0]
+            )
+            # In the middle: send two requests (race window)
+            sp = SamplingParams(max_tokens=5, ignore_eos=True)
+
+            async def consume_gen(req_id: str) -> None:
+                async for _ in engine.generate(
+                    request_id=req_id,
+                    prompt=DP_PAUSE_PROMPT,
+                    sampling_params=sp,
+                ):
+                    pass
+
+            t1 = asyncio.create_task(consume_gen("race-1"))
+            t2 = asyncio.create_task(consume_gen("race-2"))
+            mid_pause_tasks.extend([t1, t2])
+            await asyncio.sleep(3)
+            # Then send pause(keep) to engine 1
+            result = await client._call_utility_async(
+                method, *args, engine=client.core_engines[1]
+            )
+            return result
+
+        client.call_utility_async = staggered_pause_keep
+
+        await engine.pause_generation(mode="keep")
+        assert await engine.is_paused()
         await engine.resume_generation()
-        final = await asyncio.wait_for(task, timeout=10.0)
-        assert final.finished
         assert not await engine.is_paused()
+        # Let the two requests we sent mid-pause complete
+        await asyncio.gather(*mid_pause_tasks)

tests/v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py

@@ -280,20 +280,15 @@ def echo_dc_nested(
 
 
 def future_echo(self, value: Any, num_wait_loops: int = 2) -> Future:
-    """Utility that returns a Future completed by a per_step_hook after
-    num_wait_loops engine steps (tests deferred utility path).
+    """Utility that returns a Future completed once the engine is idle
+    (tests deferred utility path).
     """
     future: Future = Future()
-    remaining = [num_wait_loops]
 
-    def _step(engine: EngineCore) -> bool:
-        remaining[0] -= 1
-        if remaining[0] <= 0:
-            future.set_result(value)
-            return True  # remove hook
-        return False
+    def idle(engine: EngineCore):
+        future.set_result(value)
 
-    self.per_step_hooks.add(_step)
+    self._idle_state_callbacks.append(idle)
     return future
 
 
@@ -832,8 +827,8 @@ async def test_engine_core_client_future_utility_async(
     monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
     subprocess_future_echo_patch,
 ):
-    """Test that a utility returning a Future (completed by a per_step_hook
-    after N steps) completes when the future is done (engine uses add_done_callback).
+    """Test that a utility returning a Future completes when the future is done
+    (engine uses add_done_callback).
     """
     with monkeypatch.context() as m:
         m.setattr(EngineCore, "future_echo", future_echo, raising=False)

vllm/engine/protocol.py

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class EngineClient(ABC):
         ...
 
     @abstractmethod
-    async def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
+    async def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: "PauseMode" = "abort") -> None:
         """Sleep the engine"""
         ...
 

vllm/entrypoints/llm.py

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ from vllm.usage.usage_lib import UsageContext
 from vllm.utils.counter import Counter
 from vllm.utils.mistral import is_mistral_tokenizer
 from vllm.utils.tqdm_utils import maybe_tqdm
+from vllm.v1.engine import PauseMode
 from vllm.v1.engine.llm_engine import LLMEngine
 from vllm.v1.sample.logits_processor import LogitsProcessor
 
@@ -441,8 +442,7 @@ class LLM:
             A list of `RequestOutput` objects containing the
             generated completions in the same order as the input prompts.
         """
-        model_config = self.model_config
-        runner_type = model_config.runner_type
+        runner_type = self.model_config.runner_type
         if runner_type != "generate":
             raise ValueError(
                 "LLM.generate() is only supported for generative models. "
@@ -489,46 +489,22 @@ class LLM:
         Returns:
             A list of request IDs for the enqueued requests.
         """
-        model_config = self.model_config
-        runner_type = model_config.runner_type
+        runner_type = self.model_config.runner_type
         if runner_type != "generate":
             raise ValueError("LLM.enqueue() is only supported for generative models.")
 
         if sampling_params is None:
             sampling_params = self.get_default_sampling_params()
 
-        # Use the same preprocessing as _run_completion
-        seq_prompts = prompt_to_seq(prompts)
-        seq_params = self._params_to_seq(sampling_params, len(seq_prompts))
-        seq_lora_requests = self._lora_request_to_seq(lora_request, len(seq_prompts))
-        seq_tok_kwargs = [
-            merge_kwargs(
-                tokenization_kwargs,
-                dict(truncate_prompt_tokens=param.truncate_prompt_tokens),
-            )
-            for param in seq_params
-        ]
-        seq_priority = self._priority_to_seq(priority, len(prompts))
-
-        request_ids = self._render_and_add_requests(
-            prompts=(
-                self._preprocess_cmpl_one(prompt, tok_kwargs)
-                for prompt, tok_kwargs in zip(
-                    maybe_tqdm(
-                        seq_prompts,
-                        use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
-                        desc="Rendering prompts",
-                    ),
-                    seq_tok_kwargs,
-                )
-            ),
-            params=seq_params,
-            lora_requests=seq_lora_requests,
-            priorities=seq_priority,
+        return self._add_completion_requests(
+            prompts=prompts,
+            params=sampling_params,
+            use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
+            lora_request=lora_request,
+            priority=priority,
+            tokenization_kwargs=tokenization_kwargs,
         )
 
-        return request_ids
-
     @overload
     def wait_for_completion(
         self,
@@ -1659,7 +1635,7 @@ class LLM:
             reset_running_requests, reset_connector
         )
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1):
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort"):
         """
         Put the engine to sleep. The engine should not process any requests.
         The caller should guarantee that no requests are being processed
@@ -1679,10 +1655,10 @@ class LLM:
                            a different model or update the model, where
                            previous model weights are not needed. It reduces
                            CPU memory pressure.
+            mode: How to handle any existing requests, can be "abort", "wait",
+                or "keep".
         """
-        if level > 0:
-            self.reset_prefix_cache()
-        self.llm_engine.sleep(level=level)
+        self.llm_engine.sleep(level=level, mode=mode)
 
     def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None):
         """
@@ -1759,6 +1735,45 @@ class LLM:
 
         return [0] * num_requests
 
+    def _add_completion_requests(
+        self,
+        prompts: PromptType | Sequence[PromptType],
+        params: SamplingParams
+        | PoolingParams
+        | Sequence[SamplingParams | PoolingParams],
+        *,
+        use_tqdm: bool | Callable[..., tqdm] = True,
+        lora_request: Sequence[LoRARequest] | LoRARequest | None = None,
+        priority: list[int] | None = None,
+        tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+    ) -> list[str]:
+        seq_prompts = prompt_to_seq(prompts)
+        seq_params = self._params_to_seq(params, len(seq_prompts))
+        seq_lora_requests = self._lora_request_to_seq(lora_request, len(seq_prompts))
+        seq_tok_kwargs = [
+            merge_kwargs(
+                tokenization_kwargs,
+                dict(truncate_prompt_tokens=param.truncate_prompt_tokens),
+            )
+            for param in seq_params
+        ]
+        seq_priority = self._priority_to_seq(priority, len(prompts))
+
+        return self._render_and_add_requests(
+            prompts=(
+                self._preprocess_cmpl_one(prompt, tok_kwargs)
+                for prompt, tok_kwargs in zip(
+                    maybe_tqdm(
+                        seq_prompts, use_tqdm=use_tqdm, desc="Rendering prompts"
+                    ),
+                    seq_tok_kwargs,
+                )
+            ),
+            params=seq_params,
+            lora_requests=seq_lora_requests,
+            priorities=seq_priority,
+        )
+
     def _run_completion(
         self,
         prompts: PromptType | Sequence[PromptType],
@@ -1772,36 +1787,15 @@ class LLM:
         priority: list[int] | None = None,
         tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
     ):
-        seq_prompts = prompt_to_seq(prompts)
-        seq_params = self._params_to_seq(params, len(seq_prompts))
-        seq_lora_requests = self._lora_request_to_seq(lora_request, len(seq_prompts))
-        seq_tok_kwargs = [
-            merge_kwargs(
-                tokenization_kwargs,
-                dict(truncate_prompt_tokens=param.truncate_prompt_tokens),
-            )
-            for param in seq_params
-        ]
-        seq_priority = self._priority_to_seq(priority, len(prompts))
-
-        return self._render_and_run_requests(
-            prompts=(
-                self._preprocess_cmpl_one(prompt, tok_kwargs)
-                for prompt, tok_kwargs in zip(
-                    maybe_tqdm(
-                        seq_prompts,
-                        use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
-                        desc="Rendering prompts",
-                    ),
-                    seq_tok_kwargs,
-                )
-            ),
-            params=seq_params,
-            output_type=output_type,
+        self._add_completion_requests(
+            prompts=prompts,
+            params=params,
             use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
-            lora_requests=seq_lora_requests,
-            priorities=seq_priority,
+            lora_request=lora_request,
+            priority=priority,
+            tokenization_kwargs=tokenization_kwargs,
         )
+        return self._run_engine(use_tqdm=use_tqdm, output_type=output_type)
 
     def _run_chat(
         self,

vllm/entrypoints/serve/sleep/api_router.py

@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ router = APIRouter()
 async def sleep(raw_request: Request):
     # get POST params
     level = raw_request.query_params.get("level", "1")
-    await engine_client(raw_request).sleep(int(level))
+    mode = raw_request.query_params.get("mode", "abort")
+    await engine_client(raw_request).sleep(int(level), mode)
     # FIXME: in v0 with frontend multiprocessing, the sleep command
     # is sent but does not finish yet when we return a response.
     return Response(status_code=200)

vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py

@@ -753,6 +753,13 @@ class AsyncLLM(EngineClient):
             )
             mode = "wait"
         await self.engine_core.pause_scheduler_async(mode=mode, clear_cache=clear_cache)
+        # Small sleep to help ensure that final outputs from any in-flight requests are
+        # returned prior to this method returning. These outputs come out of the engine
+        # prior to the wait-for-idle completion event, but involve additional async
+        # tasks in output processing.
+        # Note that this is not required for correctness, just more intuitive ordering
+        # of events from caller's pov.
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.02)
 
     async def resume_generation(self) -> None:
         """Resume generation after :meth:`pause_generation`."""
@@ -890,10 +897,8 @@ class AsyncLLM(EngineClient):
     async def reset_encoder_cache(self) -> None:
         await self.engine_core.reset_encoder_cache_async()
 
-    async def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
-        if level > 0:
-            await self.reset_prefix_cache()
-        await self.engine_core.sleep_async(level)
+    async def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
+        await self.engine_core.sleep_async(level, mode)
 
         if self.logger_manager is not None:
             self.logger_manager.record_sleep_state(1, level)

vllm/v1/engine/core.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from collections import defaultdict, deque
 from collections.abc import Callable, Generator
 from concurrent.futures import Future
 from contextlib import ExitStack, contextmanager
+from functools import partial
 from inspect import isclass, signature
 from logging import DEBUG
 from typing import Any, TypeVar, cast
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ class EngineCore:
 
         self.aborts_queue = queue.Queue[list[str]]()
 
-        self.per_step_hooks: set[Callable] = set()
+        self._idle_state_callbacks: list[Callable] = []
 
         # Mark the startup heap as static so that it's ignored by GC.
         # Reduces pause times of oldest generation collections.
@@ -592,21 +593,51 @@ class EngineCore:
         # Reset the GPU model runner's encoder cache (physical storage)
         self.model_executor.reset_encoder_cache()
 
+    def _reset_caches(self, reset_running_requests=True) -> None:
+        self.reset_prefix_cache(reset_running_requests=reset_running_requests)
+        self.reset_mm_cache()
+        self.reset_encoder_cache()
+
     def pause_scheduler(
         self, mode: PauseMode = "abort", clear_cache: bool = True
-    ) -> Future[Any] | None:
-        """Pause scheduling. No-op in base EngineCore; overridden in EngineCoreProc."""
+    ) -> Future | None:
+        """Pause generation; behavior depends on mode.
+
+        All pause modes queue new adds -- "abort" and "keep" skip step();
+        "wait" allows step() so in-flight requests can drain.
+
+        - ``abort``: Set PAUSED_NEW, abort all requests, wait for abort
+          outputs to be sent (when running with output_queue), optionally
+          clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
+        - ``wait``: Set PAUSED_NEW (queue adds, keep stepping); when drained,
+          optionally clear caches, then complete the returned Future.
+        - ``keep``: Set PAUSED_ALL; return a Future that completes when the
+          output queue is empty.
+        """
+        if mode not in ("keep", "abort", "wait"):
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid pause mode: {mode}")
+        if mode == "wait":
+            raise ValueError("'wait' mode can't be used in inproc-engine mode")
+
+        if mode == "abort":
+            self.scheduler.finish_requests(None, RequestStatus.FINISHED_ABORTED)
+
+        pause_state = PauseState.PAUSED_ALL if mode == "keep" else PauseState.PAUSED_NEW
+        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(pause_state)
+        if clear_cache:
+            self._reset_caches()
+
         return None
 
     def resume_scheduler(self) -> None:
-        """Resume scheduling. No-op in base EngineCore; overridden in EngineCoreProc."""
+        """Resume the scheduler and flush any requests queued while paused."""
+        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(PauseState.UNPAUSED)
 
     def is_scheduler_paused(self) -> bool:
-        """Return whether the scheduler is in any pause state. False in base EngineCore
-        and overridden in EngineCoreProc."""
-        return False
+        """Return whether the scheduler is in any pause state."""
+        return self.scheduler.pause_state != PauseState.UNPAUSED
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1):
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None | Future:
         """Put the engine to sleep at the specified level.
 
         Args:
@@ -615,13 +646,34 @@ class EngineCore:
                            but not processed. No GPU memory changes.
                 - Level 1: Offload model weights to CPU, discard KV cache.
                 - Level 2: Discard all GPU memory.
+            mode: Pause mode - how to deal with any existing requests, see
+                documentation of pause_scheduler method.
         """
-        if level == 0:
-            # Level 0: Just pause scheduling, don't touch GPU
-            self.pause_scheduler()
-        else:
-            # Level 1+: Delegate to executor for GPU memory management
-            self.model_executor.sleep(level)
+
+        # Pause scheduler before sleeping.
+        clear_prefix_cache = level >= 1
+        pause_future = self.pause_scheduler(mode=mode, clear_cache=clear_prefix_cache)
+        if level < 1:
+            return pause_future
+
+        # Level 1+: Delegate to executor for GPU memory management
+        model_executor = self.model_executor
+        if pause_future is None:
+            model_executor.sleep(level)
+            return None
+
+        future = Future[Any]()
+
+        def pause_complete(f: Future):
+            try:
+                f.result()  # propagate any exception
+                future.set_result(model_executor.sleep(level))
+            except Exception as e:
+                future.set_exception(e)
+
+        logger.info("Waiting for in-flight requests to complete before sleeping...")
+        pause_future.add_done_callback(pause_complete)
+        return future
 
     def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None):
         """Wake up the engine from sleep.
@@ -630,17 +682,15 @@ class EngineCore:
             tags: Tags to wake up. Use ["scheduling"] for level 0 wake up.
         """
         if tags is not None and "scheduling" in tags:
-            # Level 0 wake up: Resume scheduling
-            self.resume_scheduler()
-            # Remove "scheduling" from tags if there are other tags to process
-            remaining_tags = [t for t in tags if t != "scheduling"]
-            if remaining_tags:
-                self.model_executor.wake_up(remaining_tags)
-        else:
-            # Full wake up
-            self.resume_scheduler()
+            # Remove "scheduling" from tags if there are other tags to process.
+            tags = [t for t in tags if t != "scheduling"]
+
+        if tags is None or tags:
             self.model_executor.wake_up(tags)
 
+        # Resume scheduling (applies to all levels)
+        self.resume_scheduler()
+
     def is_sleeping(self) -> bool:
         """Check if engine is sleeping at any level."""
         return self.is_scheduler_paused() or self.model_executor.is_sleeping
@@ -1038,6 +1088,14 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
     def _init_data_parallel(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
         pass
 
+    def has_work(self) -> bool:
+        """Returns true if the engine should be stepped."""
+        return (
+            self.engines_running
+            or self.scheduler.has_requests()
+            or bool(self.batch_queue)
+        )
+
     def run_busy_loop(self):
         """Core busy loop of the EngineCore."""
 
@@ -1047,19 +1105,14 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
             self._process_input_queue()
             # 2) Step the engine core and return the outputs.
             self._process_engine_step()
-            # 3) Run any per-step hooks.
-            self._process_per_step_hooks()
 
     def _process_input_queue(self):
         """Exits when an engine step needs to be performed."""
 
         waited = False
-        while (
-            not self.engines_running
-            and not self.scheduler.has_requests()
-            and not self.batch_queue
-            and not self.per_step_hooks
-        ):
+        while not self.has_work():
+            # Notify callbacks waiting for engine to become idle.
+            self._notify_idle_state_callbacks()
             if self.input_queue.empty():
                 # Drain aborts queue; all aborts are also processed via input_queue.
                 with self.aborts_queue.mutex:
@@ -1098,12 +1151,10 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
 
         return model_executed
 
-    def _process_per_step_hooks(self) -> None:
-        if self.per_step_hooks:
-            for hook in list(self.per_step_hooks):
-                finished = hook(self)
-                if finished:
-                    self.per_step_hooks.discard(hook)
+    def _notify_idle_state_callbacks(self) -> None:
+        while self._idle_state_callbacks:
+            callback = self._idle_state_callbacks.pop()
+            callback(self)
 
     def _handle_client_request(
         self, request_type: EngineCoreRequestType, request: Any
@@ -1377,19 +1428,10 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
         if mode not in ("keep", "abort", "wait"):
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid pause mode: {mode}")
 
-        future: Future[Any] = Future()
-
-        def wait_until_idle(engine: "EngineCoreProc") -> bool:
-            scheduler = engine.scheduler
-            out_queue = engine.output_queue
-            if scheduler.has_requests() or engine.batch_queue or not out_queue.empty():
-                return False
+        def engine_idle_callback(engine: "EngineCoreProc", future: Future[Any]) -> None:
             if clear_cache:
-                engine.reset_prefix_cache(reset_running_requests=True)
-                engine.reset_mm_cache()
-                engine.reset_encoder_cache()
+                engine._reset_caches()
             future.set_result(None)
-            return True
 
         if mode == "abort":
             aborted_reqs = self.scheduler.finish_requests(
@@ -1399,12 +1441,17 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
 
         pause_state = PauseState.PAUSED_ALL if mode == "keep" else PauseState.PAUSED_NEW
         self.scheduler.set_pause_state(pause_state)
-        if not wait_until_idle(self):
-            self.per_step_hooks.add(wait_until_idle)
-            return future
-        return None
+        if not self.has_work():
+            if clear_cache:
+                self._reset_caches()
+            return None
+
+        future = Future[Any]()
+        self._idle_state_callbacks.append(partial(engine_idle_callback, future=future))
+        return future
 
     def _send_abort_outputs(self, aborted_reqs: list[tuple[str, int]]) -> None:
+        # TODO(nick) this will be moved inside the scheduler
         if aborted_reqs:
             # Map client_index to list of request_ids that belong to that client.
             by_client = defaultdict[int, set[str]](set)
@@ -1418,14 +1465,6 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
                 eco = EngineCoreOutputs(finished_requests=req_ids, outputs=outputs)
                 self.output_queue.put_nowait((client_index, eco))
 
-    def resume_scheduler(self) -> None:
-        """Resume the scheduler and flush any requests queued while paused."""
-        self.scheduler.set_pause_state(PauseState.UNPAUSED)
-
-    def is_scheduler_paused(self) -> bool:
-        """Return whether the scheduler is in any pause state."""
-        return self.scheduler.pause_state != PauseState.UNPAUSED
-
 
 class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
     """ZMQ-wrapper for running EngineCore in background process
@@ -1481,6 +1520,7 @@ class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
             stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group(dp_group)
 
     def add_request(self, request: Request, request_wave: int = 0):
+        super().add_request(request, request_wave)
         if self.has_coordinator and request_wave != self.current_wave:
             if request_wave > self.current_wave:
                 self.current_wave = request_wave
@@ -1491,7 +1531,13 @@ class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
                     (-1, EngineCoreOutputs(start_wave=self.current_wave))
                 )
 
-        super().add_request(request, request_wave)
+    def resume_scheduler(self):
+        super().resume_scheduler()
+        if not self.engines_running and self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests():
+            # Wake up other DP engines.
+            self.output_queue.put_nowait(
+                (-1, EngineCoreOutputs(start_wave=self.current_wave))
+            )
 
     def _handle_client_request(
         self, request_type: EngineCoreRequestType, request: Any
@@ -1532,8 +1578,8 @@ class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
             # 2) Step the engine core.
             executed = self._process_engine_step()
             self._maybe_publish_request_counts()
-            local_unfinished_reqs = self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests()
 
+            local_unfinished_reqs = self.scheduler.has_unfinished_requests()
             if not executed:
                 if not local_unfinished_reqs and not self.engines_running:
                     # All engines are idle.

vllm/v1/engine/core_client.py

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ class EngineCoreClient(ABC):
     def reset_encoder_cache(self) -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class EngineCoreClient(ABC):
     async def reset_encoder_cache_async(self) -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    async def sleep_async(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
+    async def sleep_async(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     async def wake_up_async(self, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
@@ -314,8 +314,11 @@ class InprocClient(EngineCoreClient):
     def reset_encoder_cache(self) -> None:
         self.engine_core.reset_encoder_cache()
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
-        self.engine_core.sleep(level)
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
+        if mode == "wait":
+            raise ValueError("'wait' pause mode is not supported in inproc-engine mode")
+        result = self.engine_core.sleep(level, mode)
+        assert result is None
 
     def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
         self.engine_core.wake_up(tags)
@@ -796,8 +799,8 @@ class SyncMPClient(MPClient):
     def pin_lora(self, lora_id: int) -> bool:
         return self.call_utility("pin_lora", lora_id)
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
-        self.call_utility("sleep", level)
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
+        self.call_utility("sleep", level, mode)
 
     def wake_up(self, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
         self.call_utility("wake_up", tags)
@@ -1009,8 +1012,8 @@ class AsyncMPClient(MPClient):
     async def reset_encoder_cache_async(self) -> None:
         await self.call_utility_async("reset_encoder_cache")
 
-    async def sleep_async(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
-        await self.call_utility_async("sleep", level)
+    async def sleep_async(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort") -> None:
+        await self.call_utility_async("sleep", level, mode)
 
     async def wake_up_async(self, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
         await self.call_utility_async("wake_up", tags)

vllm/v1/engine/llm_engine.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
 from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.tracing import init_tracer
 from vllm.usage.usage_lib import UsageContext
-from vllm.v1.engine import EngineCoreRequest
+from vllm.v1.engine import EngineCoreRequest, PauseMode
 from vllm.v1.engine.core_client import EngineCoreClient
 from vllm.v1.engine.input_processor import InputProcessor
 from vllm.v1.engine.output_processor import OutputProcessor
@@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ class LLMEngine:
         """
         self.engine_core.reset_encoder_cache()
 
-    def sleep(self, level: int = 1):
-        self.engine_core.sleep(level)
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1, mode: PauseMode = "abort"):
+        self.engine_core.sleep(level, mode)
 
         if self.logger_manager is not None:
             self.logger_manager.record_sleep_state(1, level)

vllm/v1/engine/output_processor.py

@@ -429,8 +429,6 @@ class OutputProcessor:
         self.external_req_ids: defaultdict[str, list[str]] = defaultdict(list)
         self.lora_states = LoRARequestStates(log_stats)
         self.tracing_enabled = tracing_enabled
-        self._requests_drained = asyncio.Event()
-        self._requests_drained.set()
 
     def get_num_unfinished_requests(self):
         return len(self.request_states)
@@ -438,11 +436,6 @@ class OutputProcessor:
     def has_unfinished_requests(self) -> bool:
         return len(self.request_states) > 0
 
-    async def wait_for_requests_to_drain(self) -> None:
-        if not self.request_states:
-            return
-        await self._requests_drained.wait()
-
     def propagate_error(self, e: Exception):
         """Propagate error to all generate() tasks."""
 
@@ -510,8 +503,6 @@ class OutputProcessor:
                     child_reqs = self.abort_requests(child_reqs, internal=True)
                     request_ids_to_abort.extend(child_reqs)
                 self.parent_requests.pop(request_id, None)
-        if not self.request_states:
-            self._requests_drained.set()
         return request_ids_to_abort
 
     def add_request(
@@ -538,8 +529,6 @@ class OutputProcessor:
             log_stats=self.log_stats,
             stream_interval=self.stream_interval,
         )
-        if self._requests_drained.is_set():
-            self._requests_drained.clear()
         self.request_states[request_id] = req_state
         if parent_req:
             self.parent_requests[parent_req.request_id] = parent_req
@@ -706,9 +695,6 @@ class OutputProcessor:
         if parent_req and not parent_req.child_requests:
             self.parent_requests.pop(parent_req.request_id, None)
 
-        if not self.request_states:
-            self._requests_drained.set()
-
     def update_scheduler_stats(self, scheduler_stats: SchedulerStats | None):
         self.lora_states.update_scheduler_stats(scheduler_stats)