[BugFix] Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES before spawning the subprocesses (#21211)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@thinkingmachines.ai>
Signed-off-by: Nick Hill <nhill@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rui Qiao <ruisearch42@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nick Hill <nhill@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Rui Qiao <ruisearch42@gmail.com>

vllm/v1/engine/core.py

@@ -910,22 +910,6 @@ class DPEngineCoreProc(EngineCoreProc):
             logger.debug("Setting kv_transfer_config.engine_id to %s",
                          vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.engine_id)
 
-        from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-        device_control_env_var = current_platform.device_control_env_var
-        world_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.world_size
-        # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or equivalent.
-        try:
-            os.environ[device_control_env_var] = ",".join(
-                str(current_platform.device_id_to_physical_device_id(i))
-                for i in range(local_dp_rank *
-                               world_size, (local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size))
-        except IndexError as e:
-            raise Exception(
-                f"Error setting {device_control_env_var}: "
-                f"local range: [{local_dp_rank * world_size}, "
-                f"{(local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size}) "
-                f"base value: \"{os.getenv(device_control_env_var)}\"") from e
-
         self.dp_rank = dp_rank
         self.dp_group = vllm_config.parallel_config.stateless_init_dp_group()
 
@@ -1088,14 +1072,41 @@ class DPEngineCoreActor(DPEngineCoreProc):
         vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank_local = \
             local_dp_rank
 
-        # Ray sets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES to empty string,
+        # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES as early as possible in actor life cycle
-        # we clean this up to be able to properly initialize
+        # NOTE: in MP we set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES at process creation time,
-        # data parallel groups.
+        # and this cannot be done in the same way for Ray because:
-        del os.environ['CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES']
+        # 1) Ray manages life cycle of all ray workers (including
+        # DPEngineCoreActor)
+        # 2) Ray sets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES based on num_gpus configuration
+        # To bypass 2, we need to also set
+        # RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, but vLLM workers created
+        # thereafter would have CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES set, which is sticky:
+        # https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/e752fc319ddedd9779a0989b6d3613909bad75c9/python/ray/_private/worker.py#L456 # noqa: E501
+        # But vLLM worker assumes visibility into all local GPUs, therefore
+        # this results in incorrect indexing into the GPU ID list.
+        self._set_cuda_visible_devices(vllm_config, local_dp_rank)
 
         super().__init__(vllm_config, local_client, "", executor_class,
                          log_stats)
 
+    def _set_cuda_visible_devices(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+                                  local_dp_rank: int):
+        from vllm.platforms import current_platform
+        device_control_env_var = current_platform.device_control_env_var
+        world_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.world_size
+        # Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or equivalent.
+        try:
+            os.environ[device_control_env_var] = ",".join(
+                str(current_platform.device_id_to_physical_device_id(i))
+                for i in range(local_dp_rank *
+                               world_size, (local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size))
+        except IndexError as e:
+            raise Exception(
+                f"Error setting {device_control_env_var}: "
+                f"local range: [{local_dp_rank * world_size}, "
+                f"{(local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size}) "
+                f"base value: \"{os.getenv(device_control_env_var)}\"") from e
+
     def _decorate_logs(self):
         pass
 

vllm/v1/engine/utils.py

@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ from enum import Enum, auto
 from multiprocessing import Process, connection
 from multiprocessing.process import BaseProcess
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, Optional, Union
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import msgspec
 import zmq
 
 from vllm.config import CacheConfig, ParallelConfig, VllmConfig
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.ray.ray_env import get_env_vars_to_copy
 from vllm.utils import get_mp_context, get_open_zmq_ipc_path, zmq_socket_ctx
 from vllm.v1.engine.coordinator import DPCoordinator
@@ -105,10 +107,13 @@ class CoreEngineProcManager:
                 "client_handshake_address"] = client_handshake_address
 
         self.processes: list[BaseProcess] = []
+        local_dp_ranks = []
         for index in range(local_engine_count):
             local_index = local_start_index + index
             global_index = start_index + index
+
             # Start EngineCore in background process.
+            local_dp_ranks.append(local_index)
             self.processes.append(
                 context.Process(target=target_fn,
                                 name=f"EngineCore_{global_index}",
@@ -118,9 +123,14 @@ class CoreEngineProcManager:
                                 }))
 
         self._finalizer = weakref.finalize(self, shutdown, self.processes)
+
+        data_parallel = vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1
         try:
-            for proc in self.processes:
+            for proc, local_dp_rank in zip(self.processes, local_dp_ranks):
-                proc.start()
+                with set_device_control_env_var(
+                        vllm_config, local_dp_rank) if (
+                            data_parallel) else contextlib.nullcontext():
+                    proc.start()
         finally:
             # Kill other procs if not all are running.
             if self.finished_procs():
@@ -145,6 +155,30 @@ class CoreEngineProcManager:
         }
 
 
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def set_device_control_env_var(vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+                               local_dp_rank: int) -> Iterator[None]:
+    """
+    Temporarily set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or equivalent
+    for engine subprocess.
+    """
+    world_size = vllm_config.parallel_config.world_size
+    evar = current_platform.device_control_env_var
+    try:
+        value = ",".join(
+            str(current_platform.device_id_to_physical_device_id(i))
+            for i in range(local_dp_rank * world_size, (local_dp_rank + 1) *
+                           world_size))
+    except IndexError as e:
+        raise Exception(f"Error setting {evar}: "
+                        f"local range: [{local_dp_rank * world_size}, "
+                        f"{(local_dp_rank + 1) * world_size}) "
+                        "base value: "
+                        f"\"{os.getenv(evar)}\"") from e
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, values=((evar, value), )):
+        yield
+
+
 class CoreEngineActorManager:
     """
     Utility class to handle creation, readiness, and shutdown
@@ -215,10 +249,9 @@ class CoreEngineActorManager:
 
         self.placement_group_is_local = []
         refs = []
-        for index in range(dp_size):
+        for index, local_index, pg in zip(range(dp_size), local_dp_ranks,
-            local_index = local_dp_ranks[index]
+                                          placement_groups):
             dp_vllm_config = copy.deepcopy(vllm_config)
-            pg = placement_groups[index]
             dp_vllm_config.parallel_config.placement_group = pg
             local_client = index < local_engine_count
             actor = ray.remote(DPEngineCoreActor).options(
@@ -264,7 +297,6 @@ class CoreEngineActorManager:
         local_engine_count = \
             vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size_local
 
-        nodes = list_nodes()
         nodes = sorted(list_nodes(),
                        key=lambda node: node.node_ip != dp_master_ip)
         assert nodes[0].node_ip == dp_master_ip, (