[ishandhanani]

Summary

Follow-up to the merged #14785. Replaces #15183, which closed when its base branch was deleted; this PR targets main.

Move routing configuration into --router-policy-config:

• Default-policy scoring knobs use worker_selection.instances[].parameters. The builtin owns the shared-cache multiplier default: 0.5 when shared cache is enabled. Policy parameters override explicit deprecated CLI/env values, including zero. This also fixes native startup giving YAML-enabled HiCache zero credit while env-enabled HiCache got 0.5.
• Shared cache and tracking settings use a new process-wide router section. Python validation and Rust startup apply these settings before constructing policies and trackers. Explicit YAML values override legacy flags; omitted values keep their existing settings.
• Deprecate the six scoring flags, --load-aware, and the redundant prefill/decode selection and queue threshold/policy flags, including their environment variables. Their existing behavior and precedence remain available during migration.

All Python flag deprecations use one reusable Deprecated(replacement, remove_in) declaration through the argument helpers. It supplies the same warning format for CLI/env use and help text, including aliases and boolean negative forms. Defaults do not warn. Native Rust env reads use one matching deprecation mapping. Removal comments target v1.7, after the v1.6 YAML migration release; wire compatibility fields keep their separate lifetime.

The overlap-query response reports raw cache hits and removes router_credit_blocks, which was calculated from global weights and could disagree with the active policy.

During mixed-version rollouts, workers advertising HiCache routing settings must keep an explicit legacy shared-cache multiplier (normally 0.5) until all frontends support policy-owned defaults. Older readers otherwise interpret the omitted multiplier as zero; the migration guide documents this limitation.

Shared infrastructure flags remain supported, including host/disk cache weights because they also affect load accounting. Conditional-disaggregation settings remain separate. The migration guide replaces the load-aware preset with policy parameters and a router section in one YAML file.

Related: #14778.

Validation

• 1,366 Rust tests passed after merging current main; 4 ignored, across dynamo-kv-router and the builtin policy crate. Covers shared settings, cached startup loading, null resets, validation, policy parameters, existing selection behavior, and shared-cache defaults/explicit-zero precedence through actual worker selection.
• 127 Python argument tests passed with warnings treated as errors using CI's msgspec==0.19.0. Covers shared deprecation actions, aliases, CLI/env precedence, YAML settings, and frontend validation. Used the real argument modules in a harness that bypasses unrelated native imports in the groups package initializer.
• Rust formatting and changed-file pre-commit passed. Targeted mypy 1.18.2 passed for both changed configuration helpers; the dynamic deprecation action and validation exception handling were corrected after reproducing CI failures locally.
• Review follow-up: all 12 default-policy integration tests, docs lint, Fern structure checks, and changed-file pre-commit passed. Reproduced the legacy-reader default and confirmed the nonzero legacy selection case fails when nonzero overrides are deliberately ignored; restored source afterward.
• Before rebasing, Clippy with warnings denied, the LLM raw-overlap regression test without default features, docs lint, Fern structure checks, and native Python-binding compilation (cargo check --locked) passed. The extension was not rebuilt for runtime tests.
• Fern link checking reports the existing broken DeepSeek V4 recipe link; changed pages have no broken links.
• No benchmarks or baselines run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Router policy YAML can now configure shared router settings, with validation for unknown settings and invalid values.
  • Shared-cache multiplier defaults are selected by policy based on the configured cache type.

• Deprecations

  • Legacy router flags and environment settings now emit migration warnings and are slated for removal in v1.7.

• Changes

  • Overlap-score responses now report raw cache-hit information; per-request router overrides no longer affect these scores.
  • Updated router configuration guides explain policy YAML settings and migration from legacy options.

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Walkthrough

Shared router settings can now be loaded from policy YAML and applied during router setup. Legacy router options emit deprecation warnings. Shared-cache multiplier handling uses an unset value to select the default-policy behavior. Overlap-score responses expose raw cache hits without router-credit calculations.

Changes

Router policy configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared router settings and application components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/kv_router_args.py, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/policy_config.rs, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs, lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/*, lib/llm/src/..., components/src/dynamo/{frontend,router,squeeze_evolve}/..., lib/kv-router/tests/data/router-settings.yaml, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/configuration/test_kv_router_args.py, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/router/configuration-and-tuning.md	Policy YAML accepts typed shared router settings, rejects unknown names and invalid values, and applies settings after legacy presets and environment configuration. Router construction and validation paths apply the policy settings. Tests cover validation, precedence, and forwarding.
Legacy option deprecation warnings components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/utils.py, components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/kv_router_args.py, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs, components/src/dynamo/common/tests/configuration/*, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/router/configuration-and-tuning.md, docs/fern/pages/reference/components/frontend-configuration.mdx	Deprecated CLI flags and environment variables emit FutureWarnings with policy-config replacements. Help text and configuration guidance document the migration.
Optional shared-cache multiplier components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/kv_router_args.py, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs, lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/selector/reference.rs, lib/router-plugins/builtin/src/default/parameters.rs, lib/bindings/python/..., lib/router-plugins/builtin/tests/default_policy.rs, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/{backends/sglang/hicache.md,router/custom-worker-selection.mdx}, docs/fern/pages/reference/components/frontend-configuration.mdx	The multiplier defaults to unset in configuration interfaces. Default-policy scoring uses 0.0 for SharedCacheType::None and 0.5 for SharedCacheType::Hicache when no value is supplied. Tests cover omitted and explicit values.
Raw overlap-score responses lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/overlap.rs, lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/core/queries.rs, lib/llm/src/kv_router.rs, lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/kv.rs, lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_core.pyi, lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/tests.rs, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/backends/sglang/hicache.md	Overlap-score methods no longer pass router configuration overrides. Responses retain raw cache-hit fields and no longer include router_credit_blocks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8ee5f

Router policy settings move into the policy YAML, and legacy flags now warn. During a rolling upgrade, HiCache workers without an explicit multiplier can cause older frontends to stop crediting shared-cache hits. The omitted value is read as 0.0 instead of 0.5, which degrades routing quality until the upgrade completes. The flag reference also lists the decode active-request weight flag twice, with conflicting text. The change is mergeable once the owner serializes a HiCache default or documents the upgrade caveat, and removes the duplicate doc entry.

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In `@docs/fern/pages/reference/components/frontend-configuration.mdx`:
- Around line 176-181: Remove the duplicate
`--router-decode-active-request-weight` ParamField and add its deprecation
notice to the existing entry under “Active load and queueing,” preserving that
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In `@lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs`:
- Around line 913-917: Update serialization of shared_cache_multiplier so None
emits 0.5 when the shared cache type is SharedCacheType::Hicache, while
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• components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/groups/kv_router_args.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/configuration/utils.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/tests/configuration/test_kv_router_args.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/tests/configuration/test_router_advertisement.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/tests/configuration/test_utils.py
• components/src/dynamo/frontend/frontend_args.py
• components/src/dynamo/router/args.py
• components/src/dynamo/squeeze_evolve/args.py
• docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/backends/sglang/hicache.md
• docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/router/configuration-and-tuning.md
• docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/knowledge-base/modular-components/router/custom-worker-selection.mdx
• docs/fern/pages/reference/components/frontend-configuration.mdx
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/entrypoint.rs
• lib/bindings/python/rust/llm/kv.rs
• lib/bindings/python/src/dynamo/_core.pyi
• lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/config.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/overlap.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/policy_config.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/scheduling/selector/reference.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/core/mod.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/core/queries.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/service.rs
• lib/kv-router/src/services/selection/tests.rs
• lib/kv-router/tests/data/router-settings.yaml
• lib/llm/src/discovery/model_manager.rs
• lib/llm/src/kv_router.rs
• lib/router-plugins/builtin/benches/default_selection.rs
• lib/router-plugins/builtin/src/default/parameters.rs
• lib/router-plugins/builtin/tests/default_policy.rs

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: Still present: shared_cache_multiplier is serialized with skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none", so a HiCache config with no explicit multiplier omits the field instead of emitting the legacy 0.5 value or documenting the rolling-upgrade caveat.
• Original discussion: Still present: the frontend configuration docs define --router-decode-active-request-weight twice, once in the deprecated policy-parameter section and again under active load and queueing, with only one entry carrying the deprecation notice.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: an unset HiCache multiplier is omitted from serialized KvRouterConfig. A v1.3 reader deserializes the missing field as 0.0, disabling shared-cache credit during a rolling upgrade.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: the frontend configuration reference contains two ParamField entries for --router-decode-active-request-weight, with conflicting documentation and duplicate anchors.
• Original discussion: Verified: when HiCache is enabled without an explicit multiplier, the new config omits shared_cache_multiplier; an older reader defaults that missing field to 0.0, disabling shared-cache credit during a mixed-version rollout.
• Original discussion: Verified: when shared_cache_type is hicache and shared_cache_multiplier is unset, serialization omits the field. Older readers deserialize the missing value as 0.0, disabling shared-cache credit during a mixed-version rollout. Serialize the effective 0.5 HiCache default for compatibility, or document the rollout limitation.

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