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Summary

• drive the LoRA allocation simulation with a deterministic virtual clock and production-style rate window
• route simulated requests through LoraFilter and model capacity-bounded adapter residency
• export route churn, adapter churn, hits, occupancy, imbalance, and recompute-latency metrics

Validation

• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --test lora_simulation
• cargo clippy -p dynamo-llm --test lora_simulation -- -D warnings
• cargo test -p dynamo-llm --test lora_simulation -- test_export_csv --ignored --nocapture

Follow-up

The multi-seed ablation, topology, and solver-scaling experiments are intentionally left as follow-up work; the current export records the corrected single-seed baseline measurements.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added detailed simulation metrics for adapter residency, cache hits, occupancy, worker load, routing, solver performance, and overflows.
  • Added versioned CSV exports containing time-series, summary, and metadata results.
  • Added configurable simulation timing, rate windows, and scale-down cooldowns.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved consistency of load and allocation metrics by using synchronized timestamps.
  • Added coverage for sparse workloads and residency-hit behavior after cold loads.

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Walkthrough

The LoRA controller and load estimator now support shared timestamps for deterministic recomputation. Simulations add configurable timing, residency tracking, expanded churn metrics, scenario coverage, and v2 CSV exports.

Changes

LoRA simulation timing and metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timestamped controller and load estimation lib/llm/src/lora/controller.rs, lib/llm/src/lora/load_estimator.rs	The controller propagates one Instant through recomputation and estimator reads. The estimator adds timestamp-aware APIs while existing methods use Instant::now().
Simulation timing and residency state lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/workloads.rs, lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/support.rs	Simulation configuration adds timing and cooldown settings. The harness tracks LRU residency, requests, hits, occupancy, worker load, routing, solver latency, and overflow metrics.
Scenario validation and CSV exports lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/scenario_tests.rs, lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/csv_export.rs	Tests cover sparse routing and residency hits. CSV output adds per-tick, aggregate, and metadata records with percentile calculations.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c2f02

The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up: the simulation export can report zero overflow regardless of solver behavior, metadata can drift from scenario configuration, and an empty candidate list can panic; churn column names are also ambiguous. These are localized simulation and measurement risks rather than production-impacting failures.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/csv_export.rs (1)

63-69: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Prefix the churn columns in the v2 summary schema to name their subject.

peak_churn_per_tick, p99_churn_per_tick, churn_free_ticks, and churn_free_pct are all computed from adapter_churn_per_tick on lines 280-295. Their neighbours in the same header are explicit: total_adapter_churn and total_route_churn. The legacy per-scenario summary also exports a peak_churn_per_tick row, but that one comes from metrics.peak_churn_per_tick, which is route churn.

So the same column name means adapter churn in v2/summary.csv and route churn in <scenario>_summary.csv. A reader comparing algorithms across the two files can draw the wrong conclusion. Rename the v2 columns to state the subject.

♻️ Proposed header change

     writeln!(
         summary,
-        "scenario,algorithm,seed,total_adapter_churn,total_route_churn,churn_free_ticks,churn_free_pct,peak_churn_per_tick,p99_churn_per_tick,overall_hit_rate,mean_worker_load_cov,mean_occupancy_pct,solve_ms_p50,solve_ms_p99,total_overflow,est_swap_ms"
+        "scenario,algorithm,seed,total_adapter_churn,total_route_churn,adapter_churn_free_ticks,adapter_churn_free_pct,peak_adapter_churn_per_tick,p99_adapter_churn_per_tick,overall_hit_rate,mean_worker_load_cov,mean_occupancy_pct,solve_ms_p50,solve_ms_p99,total_overflow,est_swap_ms"
     )
     .unwrap();

Update plot_lora_churn.py if it reads these column names.

Also applies to: 284-295

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In `@lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/csv_export.rs` around lines 63 - 69, Update the
v2 summary CSV header in the summary export to prefix churn_free_ticks,
churn_free_pct, peak_churn_per_tick, and p99_churn_per_tick with adapter_,
distinguishing them from route-churn fields; update any plot_lora_churn.py
readers to use the renamed columns.

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Inline comments:
In `@lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/csv_export.rs`:
- Around line 563-569: Update the v2 metadata generation around the
SimConfig-driven scenario export to use the relevant config values for
timestep_secs, rate_window_secs, and scale_down_cooldown_ticks instead of
literals, keeping meta.csv consistent with the data it describes. Reuse the
configured cooldown as already done for legacy metadata, and promote the shared
adapter load cost into one constant used by both the est_swap_ms summary and
metadata so they cannot diverge.

In `@lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/support.rs`:
- Around line 244-265: Update record_routing_metrics so per_tick_overflow_count
records the actual overflow count produced by the routing solver instead of
always pushing zero; thread that value from the caller or the controller’s
recompute_allocations result, preserving the CSV timeseries and total_overflow
aggregation. If the real count cannot be exposed safely, remove the
overflow_count metric from the export schema rather than publishing a constant
placeholder.
- Around line 155-166: In the candidate-selection logic using next_candidate,
check candidates.is_empty() before applying the modulo operation, and handle
that case according to the surrounding simulation flow so no indexing or modulo
occurs with an empty list. Preserve the existing round-robin selection and
expect behavior for non-empty candidates.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@lib/llm/tests/lora_simulation/csv_export.rs`:
- Around line 63-69: Update the v2 summary CSV header in the summary export to
prefix churn_free_ticks, churn_free_pct, peak_churn_per_tick, and
p99_churn_per_tick with adapter_, distinguishing them from route-churn fields;
update any plot_lora_churn.py readers to use the renamed columns.

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