[Diffusion] Add rank-local mmap storage for DLO

Decouple node-local checkpoint storage from the DLO AllGather transfer protocol. Compatible rank-local workers retain shared file-backed sources and stream complete blocks through bounded staging without changing request scheduling.

Refs #6195

Signed-off-by: Hongsheng Liu <liuhongsheng4@huawei.com>
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@@ -189,7 +189,10 @@ multi-device deployments. In the default mode, each rank stores only
reconstructed at runtime via **AllGather** on a dedicated communication stream,
overlapped with computation via a fixed double-buffer scheme. The
`--dlo-no-use-allgather` mode instead streams standard-loader rank-local
weights independently and does not shard weights across ranks.
weights independently and does not shard weights across ranks. For explicitly
mmap-compatible TP1 models, the same mode can retain node-shared file-backed
DiT weights and use bounded per-worker host staging instead of a private full
DiT copy.
For the implementation design and compatibility matrix, see
[Distributed Layerwise Offload](../../design/feature/distributed_layerwise_offload.md).
@@ -201,8 +204,9 @@ For the implementation design and compatibility matrix, see
time, regardless of model size
- **DP multi-concurrency**: N concurrent requests processed in parallel
(AllGather only gathers weight shards, which are request-independent)
- **mmap weight loading**: weights loaded as mmap views pointing to shared OS
page cache, eliminating O(dp_size × model_size) RSS during model creation
- **mmap weight storage**: compatible checkpoints use views into the shared OS
page cache. AllGather copies persistent rank shards; rank-local mode keeps
the views and packs complete blocks through two bounded host staging slots
- **Platform-agnostic**: works on NVIDIA GPU (CUDA/NCCL) and Ascend NPU
(CANN/HCCL) via vLLM-Omni's platform abstraction
@@ -224,7 +228,7 @@ vllm serve /path/to/model --omni \
--enable-distributed-layerwise-offload \
--data-parallel-size 4
# Without DLO AllGather (each rank streams standard-loader rank-local weights)
# Without DLO AllGather (compatible TP1 models use node-shared mmap storage)
vllm serve /path/to/model --omni \
--enable-distributed-layerwise-offload \
--data-parallel-size 4 \
@@ -258,20 +262,26 @@ m = Omni(
### How model weights are loaded (mmap path)
When DLO + AllGather is active, the offloader:
When DLO and an mmap-compatible model are active, the offloader:
1. **Saves non-persistent buffers** (e.g. RoPE `inv_freq`, timestep `freqs`)
from the normally-created transformer
2. **Converts to meta device** via `to_empty(device="meta")`, releasing random
initialization weights
3. **Loads checkpoint weights as mmap views** via `safe_open().get_tensor()`,
which return views into the OS page cache (shared across all ranks, 0 RSS)
4. **Calls `post_load_weights()`** to apply model-specific dtype conversions
(e.g. Cosmos3's `time_embedder` → FP32)
which return views into the OS page cache without eagerly copying the full
tensor into anonymous process memory
4. **Applies declared per-parameter layout adapters while packing**, when the
checkpoint and TP1 runtime layouts differ (for example MiniMax-H3 grouped
QKV)
5. **Restores non-persistent buffers** from saved copies
This approach requires **zero model-specific code changes** — no pipeline or
transformer modifications are needed.
With AllGather, each rank copies only its persistent shard and then releases
the source mappings. Without AllGather, mappings remain open and every worker
owns two pinned staging slots sized to the largest streamed block. The latter
shares file-backed pages, not process-local Python objects, and does not alter
request routing or scheduling. Packing into the host slot is synchronous; the
pinned H2D copy can overlap with computation.
### OffloadPlan (declarative topology metadata)
@@ -313,7 +323,7 @@ request while AllGather synchronizes only weight shards (request-independent).
`--dlo-no-use-allgather` or disable online quantization.
- Tensor Parallel > 1 is rejected in the DLO+AllGather mmap path because TP-aware
weight-loader callbacks are bypassed. The no-AllGather path retains the
standard TP loader and is experimental.
standard TP loader instead of rank-local mmap and is experimental.
- HSDP + AllGather is rejected because it would double-shard parameters. HSDP
with no-AllGather is accepted at configuration level, but has limited
end-to-end validation.
@@ -373,6 +383,7 @@ reasoner/generator components inside the model forward pass.
| StableDiffusion3Pipeline | `stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3.5-medium` | `SD3Transformer2DModel` | - | ✓ | - | `"transformer_blocks"` |
| Wan22I2VPipeline | `Wan-AI/Wan2.2-I2V-A14B-Diffusers` | `WanTransformer3DModel` | ✓ | ✓ | - | `"blocks"` |
| Wan22Pipeline | `Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-Diffusers` | `WanTransformer3DModel` | ✓ | ✓ | - | `"blocks"` |
| MiniMaxH3Pipeline | `MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3` (`FL2VA`) | `MiniMaxH3DiTModel` | - | ✓ | ✓ | `"blocks"` |
| SoulXSingerPipeline / SoulXSingerSVCPipeline | `Soul-AILab/SoulX-Singer` | `DiffLlama` (`cfm_decoder.model.diff_estimator`) | ✓ | ✓ | - | `"layers"` |
| BagelPipeline | `ByteDance-Seed/BAGEL-7B-MoT` | `Qwen2MoTModel` | - | ✓ | - | `"layers"`, `"customized modules"` |
| Cosmos3OmniDiffusersPipeline | `nvidia/Cosmos3-Nano`, `nvidia/Cosmos3-Super` | `Cosmos3VFMTransformer`, `Cosmos3LanguageModel` | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | `"layers"`, `"gen_layers"` |
@@ -382,8 +393,9 @@ reasoner/generator components inside the model forward pass.
- Layerwise Offloading requires DiT class to define `_layerwise_offload_blocks_attrs` pointing to transformer blocks
- Distributed Layerwise Offloading reuses the layerwise block topology, but the
model and parallelism combination still needs validation. AllGather mode
additionally requires a compatible checkpoint/mmap layout; no-AllGather mode
retains the standard loader's rank-local tensors. See the
additionally requires a compatible checkpoint/mmap layout. For explicitly
compatible TP1 models, no-AllGather uses node-shared mmap sources; other
layouts retain the standard loader's rank-local tensors. See the
[DLO design](../../design/feature/distributed_layerwise_offload.md) and
[Cosmos3 DistOffload recipe](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/recipes/cosmos3/Cosmos3-DistOffload.md)
for usage examples.