[Frontend] Don't log duplicate error stacktrace for every request in the batch (#9023)

Signed-off-by: Wallas Santos <wallashss@ibm.com>

tests/mq_llm_engine/test_error_handling.py

@@ -59,15 +59,7 @@ async def test_evil_forward(tmp_socket):
         await asyncio.sleep(2.0)
         await client.check_health()
 
-        # Throws an error in first forward pass.
-        with pytest.raises(RAISED_ERROR):
-            async for _ in client.generate(prompt="Hello my name is",
-                                           sampling_params=SamplingParams(),
-                                           request_id=uuid.uuid4()):
-                pass
-        assert client.errored
-
-        # Engine is errored, should get ENGINE_DEAD_ERROR.
+        # Throws an error that should get ENGINE_DEAD_ERROR.
         with pytest.raises(MQEngineDeadError):
             async for _ in client.generate(prompt="Hello my name is",
                                            sampling_params=SamplingParams(),
@@ -149,7 +141,7 @@ async def test_failed_abort(tmp_socket):
         client = await engine.make_client()
         assert client.is_running
 
-        # Firsh check health should work.
+        # First check health should work.
         await client.check_health()
 
         # Trigger an abort on the client side.
@@ -174,6 +166,45 @@ async def test_failed_abort(tmp_socket):
         client.close()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_batch_error(tmp_socket):
+    with RemoteMQLLMEngine(engine_args=ENGINE_ARGS,
+                           ipc_path=tmp_socket,
+                           run_fn=run_with_evil_abort) as engine:
+
+        client = await engine.make_client()
+        assert client.is_running
+
+        # First check health should work.
+        await client.check_health()
+
+        # Batch of requests
+        async def do_generate(client):
+            # min_tokens=2048 to keep busy the engine busy
+            # to get enough time to get process a request
+            # that will crash the engine
+            params = SamplingParams(min_tokens=2048, max_tokens=2048)
+            async for _ in client.generate(prompt="Hello my name is",
+                                           sampling_params=params,
+                                           request_id=uuid.uuid4()):
+                pass
+
+        tasks = [asyncio.create_task(do_generate(client)) for _ in range(10)]
+
+        # This request will force a processing batch to raise
+        # an exception and next the engine get errored
+        await client.abort(request_id="foo")
+
+        # The batch of those request failed, then they
+        # should get the same exception as a MQEngineDeadError.
+        errors = await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)
+        for e in errors:
+            assert isinstance(e, MQEngineDeadError)
+            assert "KeyError" in repr(e)
+
+        client.close()
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_bad_request(tmp_socket):
     with RemoteMQLLMEngine(engine_args=ENGINE_ARGS,

vllm/engine/multiprocessing/client.py

@@ -204,8 +204,20 @@ class MQLLMEngineClient(EngineClient):
                     # (and record only the first one)
                     if is_engine_errored and not self._errored_with:
                         self._errored_with = exception
+                        # If engine is errored, no matter the type of exception
+                        # it will no longer be able to receive new requests,
+                        # therefore we have to inform that the current
+                        # processed requests failed as well. Send back a dead
+                        # engine error give this feedback and also give a
+                        # 'hint' to the server to shutdown next.
+                        exception = self.dead_error
 
                     if request_id is None:
+                        # If request_id is None, then the engine raised an
+                        # exception for a batch, and we may not know the
+                        # request that caused it, neither if it was actually
+                        # caused by any of them (e.g. CUDA OOM). Therefore we
+                        # broadcast the same exception for all requests.
                         for queue_i in tuple(self.output_queues.values()):
                             queue_i.put_nowait(exception)
                     else: