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Overview:

Prevent disaggregated load scaling at a configured GPU floor from turning scale-down proposals into scale-up churn or unpaired donor removal.

Details:

• Treat min_gpu_budget as a scale-down guard: down/down and down/hold decisions at the floor now HOLD.
• At a full fixed budget, require one role to explicitly scale down before admitting the other role's scale-up.
• Require weighted role swaps at the floor to fit the budget band as one complete proposal, including unequal GPU-per-replica widths and tolerance.
• Keep out-of-band recovery on an explicit reconcile-from-current path and preserve max-only behavior when the minimum is disabled.
• Expose gpu_budget_guard_hold and gpu_budget_reconcile load-decision diagnostics.

Where should the reviewer start?

Start with guard_disagg_load_budget in components/src/dynamo/planner/core/budget.py, then its load-loop integration in components/src/dynamo/planner/core/load_scaling.py. Regression coverage is in components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_load_budget_guard.py and test_budget.py.

Related Issues

🚫 This PR is NOT linked to an issue:

• Confirmed — no related issue

Validation

• PYTHONPATH=components/src /home/hongkuanz/Projects/dynamo/.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/core components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/monitoring (835 passed, 1 skipped)
• focused budget/load-guard/decision-enum tests (75 passed)
• MYPYPATH=components/src:lib/bindings/python/src mypy --explicit-package-bases components/src/dynamo/planner
• changed-file pre-commit run --files ...
• git diff --check
• independent agent review (clean after implementation and bot-fix passes)

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Walkthrough

The planner now validates disaggregated prefill/decode scaling proposals against GPU floor and ceiling budgets. It reconciles out-of-band allocations, preserves scaling direction, reports guard outcomes, and adds unit and regression coverage.

Changes

Disaggregated GPU budget guarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Budget policy and guard outcomes components/src/dynamo/planner/core/budget.py	Adds guard_disagg_load_budget with legacy fallback, out-of-band reconciliation, floor and ceiling guards, proportional clamping, direction checks, and diagnostic reasons.
Planner enforcement and diagnostics components/src/dynamo/planner/core/state_machine.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/core/load_scaling.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/monitoring/planner_metrics.py	Resolves GPU costs, applies the disaggregated budget guard, returns adjusted targets and reasons, prioritizes budget diagnostics, and registers two decision states.
Budget and decision-state validation components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_budget.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_load_budget_guard.py, components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/monitoring/test_decision_state_enums.py	Adds coverage for budget floors, ceilings, swaps, weighted costs, tolerance, reconciliation, missing donors, and the expanded decision-state contract.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42de4

This PR changes disaggregated GPU-budget decisions to preserve scaling direction and permits paired prefill/decode rebalances. If only one target is applied downstream, capacity could temporarily fall outside the intended GPU guard until reconciliation; the change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness of paired application and recovery behavior.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

components/src/dynamo/planner/core/state_machine.py (1)

452-461: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the duplicated GPU-cost resolution.

Lines 452-461 repeat the exact p_gpu/d_gpu resolution from _apply_global_budget (lines 414-423). Two copies can drift, which would make the throughput budget path and the load budget path resolve capabilities differently. Extract one private helper and call it from both methods.

♻️ Proposed refactor

+    def _resolve_disagg_gpu_costs(self) -> tuple[Optional[int], Optional[int]]:
+        """Resolve per-replica GPU costs for prefill and decode."""
+        p_gpu = (
+            self._capabilities.prefill.resolved_gpu_cost_per_replica
+            if self._capabilities.prefill is not None
+            else None
+        )
+        d_gpu = (
+            self._capabilities.decode.resolved_gpu_cost_per_replica
+            if self._capabilities.decode is not None
+            else None
+        )
+        return p_gpu, d_gpu
+
     def _apply_disagg_load_budget(
         self, num_p: int, num_d: int
     ) -> tuple[int, int, Optional[str]]:
         """Apply the direction-preserving budget policy for load scaling."""
-        p_gpu = (
-            self._capabilities.prefill.resolved_gpu_cost_per_replica
-            if self._capabilities.prefill is not None
-            else None
-        )
-        d_gpu = (
-            self._capabilities.decode.resolved_gpu_cost_per_replica
-            if self._capabilities.decode is not None
-            else None
-        )
+        p_gpu, d_gpu = self._resolve_disagg_gpu_costs()
         if p_gpu is None or d_gpu is None:
             return num_p, num_d, None

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In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/core/state_machine.py` around lines 452 - 461,
Extract the duplicated prefill/decode GPU-cost resolution into a private helper
in the state machine, returning the same p_gpu and d_gpu values with None when
the capability is absent. Replace the repeated resolution blocks in both
_apply_global_budget and the shown load-budget path with calls to that helper,
preserving existing behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@components/src/dynamo/planner/core/state_machine.py`:
- Around line 452-461: Extract the duplicated prefill/decode GPU-cost resolution
into a private helper in the state machine, returning the same p_gpu and d_gpu
values with None when the capability is absent. Replace the repeated resolution
blocks in both _apply_global_budget and the shown load-budget path with calls to
that helper, preserving existing behavior.

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• components/src/dynamo/planner/core/budget.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/core/load_scaling.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/core/state_machine.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/monitoring/planner_metrics.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/monitoring/test_decision_state_enums.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_budget.py
• components/src/dynamo/planner/tests/unit/test_load_budget_guard.py

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