[Core] Support custom executor qualname (#23314)

Signed-off-by: 22quinn <33176974+22quinn@users.noreply.github.com>

.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml

@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s v1/core
     - pytest -v -s v1/engine
     - pytest -v -s v1/entrypoints
+    - pytest -v -s v1/executor
     - pytest -v -s v1/sample
     - pytest -v -s v1/logits_processors
     - pytest -v -s v1/worker

tests/v1/executor/test_executor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import asyncio
+import os
+from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, Union
+
+import pytest
+
+from vllm.engine.arg_utils import AsyncEngineArgs, EngineArgs
+from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
+from vllm.v1.engine.async_llm import AsyncLLM
+from vllm.v1.engine.llm_engine import LLMEngine
+from vllm.v1.executor.multiproc_executor import MultiprocExecutor
+
+
+class Mock:
+    ...
+
+
+class CustomMultiprocExecutor(MultiprocExecutor):
+
+    def collective_rpc(self,
+                       method: Union[str, Callable],
+                       timeout: Optional[float] = None,
+                       args: tuple = (),
+                       kwargs: Optional[dict] = None,
+                       non_block: bool = False,
+                       unique_reply_rank: Optional[int] = None) -> list[Any]:
+        # Drop marker to show that this was ran
+        with open(".marker", "w"):
+            ...
+        return super().collective_rpc(method, timeout, args, kwargs)
+
+
+CustomMultiprocExecutorAsync = CustomMultiprocExecutor
+MODEL = "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"
+
+
+def test_custom_executor_type_checking():
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        engine_args = EngineArgs(
+            model=MODEL,
+            gpu_memory_utilization=0.2,
+            max_model_len=8192,
+            distributed_executor_backend=Mock,
+        )
+        LLMEngine.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(model=MODEL,
+                                      gpu_memory_utilization=0.2,
+                                      max_model_len=8192,
+                                      distributed_executor_backend=Mock)
+        AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("distributed_executor_backend", [
+    CustomMultiprocExecutor,
+    "tests.v1.executor.test_executor.CustomMultiprocExecutor"
+])
+def test_custom_executor(distributed_executor_backend, tmp_path):
+    cwd = os.path.abspath(".")
+    os.chdir(tmp_path)
+    try:
+        assert not os.path.exists(".marker")
+
+        engine_args = EngineArgs(
+            model=MODEL,
+            gpu_memory_utilization=0.2,
+            max_model_len=8192,
+            distributed_executor_backend=distributed_executor_backend,
+            enforce_eager=True,  # reduce test time
+        )
+        engine = LLMEngine.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(max_tokens=1)
+
+        engine.add_request("0", "foo", sampling_params)
+        engine.step()
+
+        assert os.path.exists(".marker")
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(cwd)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("distributed_executor_backend", [
+    CustomMultiprocExecutorAsync,
+    "tests.v1.executor.test_executor.CustomMultiprocExecutorAsync"
+])
+def test_custom_executor_async(distributed_executor_backend, tmp_path):
+    cwd = os.path.abspath(".")
+    os.chdir(tmp_path)
+    try:
+        assert not os.path.exists(".marker")
+
+        engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs(
+            model=MODEL,
+            gpu_memory_utilization=0.2,
+            max_model_len=8192,
+            distributed_executor_backend=distributed_executor_backend,
+            enforce_eager=True,  # reduce test time
+        )
+        engine = AsyncLLM.from_engine_args(engine_args)
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(max_tokens=1)
+
+        async def t():
+            stream = engine.generate(request_id="0",
+                                     prompt="foo",
+                                     sampling_params=sampling_params)
+            async for x in stream:
+                ...
+
+        asyncio.run(t())
+
+        assert os.path.exists(".marker")
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(cwd)

vllm/config/parallel.py

@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ class ParallelConfig:
     placement_group: Optional[PlacementGroup] = None
     """ray distributed model workers placement group."""
 
-    distributed_executor_backend: Optional[Union[DistributedExecutorBackend,
+    distributed_executor_backend: Optional[Union[str,
+                                                 DistributedExecutorBackend,
                                                  type[ExecutorBase]]] = None
     """Backend to use for distributed model
     workers, either "ray" or "mp" (multiprocessing). If the product
@@ -416,23 +417,22 @@ class ParallelConfig:
     def use_ray(self) -> bool:
         return self.distributed_executor_backend == "ray" or (
             isinstance(self.distributed_executor_backend, type)
-            and self.distributed_executor_backend.uses_ray)
+            and getattr(self.distributed_executor_backend, "uses_ray", False))
 
     @model_validator(mode='after')
     def _verify_args(self) -> Self:
         # Lazy import to avoid circular import
         from vllm.executor.executor_base import ExecutorBase
         from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-        if self.distributed_executor_backend not in (
-                "ray", "mp", "uni",
-                "external_launcher", None) and not (isinstance(
+        if self.distributed_executor_backend is not None and not isinstance(
+                self.distributed_executor_backend, str) and not (isinstance(
                     self.distributed_executor_backend, type) and issubclass(
                         self.distributed_executor_backend, ExecutorBase)):
             raise ValueError(
                 "Unrecognized distributed executor backend "
                 f"{self.distributed_executor_backend}. Supported "
-                "values are 'ray', 'mp' 'uni', 'external_launcher' or"
-                " custom ExecutorBase subclass.")
+                "values are 'ray', 'mp' 'uni', 'external_launcher', "
+                " custom ExecutorBase subclass or its import path.")
         if self.use_ray:
             from vllm.executor import ray_utils
             ray_utils.assert_ray_available()

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
     # is intended for expert use only. The API may change without
     # notice.
     distributed_executor_backend: Optional[Union[
-        DistributedExecutorBackend,
+        str, DistributedExecutorBackend,
         Type[ExecutorBase]]] = ParallelConfig.distributed_executor_backend
     # number of P/D disaggregation (or other disaggregation) workers
     pipeline_parallel_size: int = ParallelConfig.pipeline_parallel_size

vllm/v1/executor/abstract.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from vllm.executor.uniproc_executor import (  # noqa
     ExecutorWithExternalLauncher as ExecutorWithExternalLauncherV0)
 from vllm.executor.uniproc_executor import (  # noqa
     UniProcExecutor as UniProcExecutorV0)
+from vllm.utils import resolve_obj_by_qualname
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheConfig, KVCacheSpec
 from vllm.v1.outputs import DraftTokenIds, ModelRunnerOutput
 
@@ -50,6 +51,13 @@ class Executor(ExecutorBase):
             # TODO: make v1 scheduling deterministic
             # to support external launcher
             executor_class = ExecutorWithExternalLauncher
+        elif isinstance(distributed_executor_backend, str):
+            executor_class = resolve_obj_by_qualname(
+                distributed_executor_backend)
+            if not issubclass(executor_class, ExecutorBase):
+                raise TypeError(
+                    "distributed_executor_backend must be a subclass of "
+                    f"ExecutorBase. Got {executor_class}.")
         else:
             raise ValueError("Unknown distributed executor backend: "
                              f"{distributed_executor_backend}")