[krishung5]

Summary

Forward ordered image HTTP(S) URLs, data URIs, and explicit caller UUIDs through the native TensorRT-LLM OpenEngine sidecar.

• Require both multimodal capability signals before forwarding images.
• Share bounded capability-discovery failures across concurrent callers and observe cancellation/shutdown.
• Reject image requests when the configured context window cannot be enforced after engine-side media expansion.
• Keep conversion unit tests and direct/mock integration coverage with the wiring.

This PR contains no runtime source overlay, personal-fork pin, CI workflow change, or container-based HTTP E2E change. Automatic MM-aware KV routing remains separate.

Merge prerequisites

Depends on NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20446 and an official published TRT-LLM nightly containing it. Before merging, update the standalone sidecar engine-version references in the launch guidance, deployment YAMLs, and README to that verified nightly, then validate direct-engine integration against it. Those version updates and official-runtime GPU validation are pending.

Container-based E2E coverage is split into trtllm-sidecar-image-e2e. That follow-up waits until Dynamo's in-process runtime container adopts the matching TRT-LLM version. The wiring PR does not require that shared-container upgrade.

Validation

• Sidecar unit tests: 78 passed; 4 live-only tests ignored.
• Shared TRT-LLM testkit: 6 passed, including concurrent discovery failure, bounded timeout, recovery, cancellation, capability gating, and context-window mismatch.
• Targeted pre-commit hooks passed.
• The latest main merge changes only operator code; the validated Rust sources are unchanged.

Relates to DIS-2971; this is image passthrough only and does not complete its video/audio scope. MM-aware routing remains DIS-2972.

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Walkthrough

The TensorRT-LLM sidecar now supports image request conversion when model metadata advertises image support. Image media is included in generation requests and disaggregated paths. CI adds TensorRT-LLM sidecar GPU testing and an aggregated image test configuration.

Changes

TensorRT-LLM image support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Model metadata and image request conversion lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/client.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/convert.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/convert_request.rs	Model metadata now records advertised image support. Request conversion validates image inputs and UUIDs, creates image media, and leaves an unspecified output limit unset for media requests. Tests cover conversion and rejection cases.
Engine and disaggregated generation lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/engine.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/engine.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/disagg.rs, lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/e2e.rs	The engine uses the expanded model metadata. Tests cover image delivery, capability checks, prefill and decode propagation, and live-server image requests.
Runtime build and GPU test wiring .github/filters.yaml, .github/scripts/test-filters.js, .github/workflows/pr.yaml, container/templates/trtllm_runtime.Dockerfile, tests/serve/test_sidecar.py	CI filters TensorRT-LLM sidecar changes and adds a gated GPU test job. The runtime build can overlay a selected TensorRT-LLM source commit. Sidecar test configuration adds an aggregated image case and updates test marks.

Priority: Normal

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

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9ef15

Image testing can be missed in two bounded CI cases. The change is mergeable with owner awareness, though those gaps should be fixed to keep image support covered.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Description check		The description explains the image-forwarding changes, merge prerequisites, validation, and related issue DIS-2971. It does not include a reviewer-start section, but the description is otherwise subst…

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The description explains the image-forwarding changes, merge prerequisites, validation, and related issue DIS-2971. It does not include a reviewer-start section, but the description is otherwise substantially complete.

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- Line 940: Update the trtllm filter so changes to tests/serve/test_sidecar.py
match it, allowing sidecar-trtllm-test to run when that file changes; add
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• .github/filters.yaml
• .github/scripts/test-filters.js
• .github/workflows/pr.yaml
• container/templates/trtllm_runtime.Dockerfile
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/client.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/convert.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/engine.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/convert_request.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/disagg.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/e2e.rs
• lib/sidecar/trtllm/src/tests/engine.rs
• tests/serve/test_sidecar.py

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The TRT-LLM filter still omits tests/serve/test_sidecar.py, so a PR changing only the new image test can skip the sidecar TRT-LLM GPU lane.
• Original discussion: The required pre-merge image case still uses skipif when the OpenEngine servicer is absent, allowing the new GPU lane to pass without exercising image support.
• Original discussion: This remains present: sidecar-trtllm-test requires both the sidecar and trtllm filters, but a PR changing only tests/serve/test_sidecar.py does not match the TRT-LLM filter, so the image test lane is skipped.
• Original discussion: This remains present: the required pre-merge image configuration uses pytest.mark.skipif when the TensorRT-LLM image lacks OpenEngine, allowing the dedicated lane to pass without exercising the feature it is intended to validate.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: changes limited to tests/serve/test_sidecar.py do not match the trtllm filter, so the new sidecar-trtllm-test job is skipped and the image path is not exercised.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: the required pre-merge image configuration uses skipif when OpenEngine is unavailable, allowing the dedicated CI lane to pass without exercising image support.

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❌ Dynamo PR CI failed — run 40763185900 (attempt 1) on d9c040cfed

Gate checks: ❌ backend-status-check · ❌ deploy-status-check · ✅ dynamo-status-check

Framework	Build
SGLang	❌ 1 ✅ 3

Other	Jobs
sidecar-trtllm-nightly-image-test	❌ 1 ✅ 1

Failure details

2 jobs failed: the upstream TRT-LLM image integration test timed out waiting for the engine to become ready, and 1 of 8 SGLang N-2 compatibility cases (old-worker-1-embedding) never saw the embedding model register with the frontend. Nothing was cancelled.

❌ sidecar-trtllm-nightly-image-test / Upstream TRT-LLM image integration (1 GPU): TimeoutError: Engine did not become ready within 600 seconds

Job: sidecar-trtllm-nightly-image-test / Upstream TRT-LLM image integration (1 GPU) · Failed step: Run live image integration test · Logs: gh run view --job 123082093412 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

python3 lib/sidecar/trtllm/ci/run_image_test.py --binary trtllm-image-tests/trtllm-image-tests --config trtllm-image-tests/nightly.json
Fetching 12 files: 100%|██████████| 12/12 [00:05<00:00,  2.21it/s]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/__w/dynamo/dynamo/lib/sidecar/trtllm/ci/run_image_test.py", line 230, in main
    run(args, results)
  File "/__w/dynamo/dynamo/lib/sidecar/trtllm/ci/run_image_test.py", line 161, in run
    wait_for_engine(engine, port)
  File "/__w/dynamo/dynamo/lib/sidecar/trtllm/ci/run_image_test.py", line 35, in wait_for_engine
    raise TimeoutError("Engine did not become ready within 600 seconds")
TimeoutError: Engine did not become ready within 600 seconds
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

The OpenEngine bindings installed and the model files downloaded. After that, run_image_test.py gave up when the TRT-LLM engine still wasn't ready after 600 s, so no image requests ran. The job log has no engine output, so it doesn't show why the engine never came up.

❌ SGLang N-2 compatibility / compatibility: Model Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B did not become available (old-worker-1-embedding)

Job: SGLang N-2 compatibility / compatibility · Failed step: Test four mixed version pairs for embedding and chat · Logs: gh run view --job 123097542750 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed

INFO     ManagedDeployment:dgd_utils.py:1123 Deployment n2-0ffb1699c1 has Ready condition True and state successful
WARNING  tests.deploy.test_n2_compatibility:client.py:220 Model 'Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B' not found (404). Response: {"message":"Model not found","type":"Not Found","code":404}
...
WARNING  tests.deploy.test_n2_compatibility:client.py:242 Could not confirm model availability after all attempts
>       assert await asyncio.to_thread(
            wait_for_model_availability, base, endpoint, model, logger, payload=payload,
        ), f"Model {model} did not become available"
E       AssertionError: Model Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B did not become available
tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility.py:116: AssertionError
FAILED tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility.py::test_n2_compatibility[old-worker-1-embedding] - AssertionError: Model Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B did not become available
============= 1 failed, 7 passed, 9 warnings in 1275.55s (0:21:15) =============

In the old-worker-1 pair (old SGLang worker with the new frontend), the DGD reported Ready. The frontend still returned 404 Model not found for Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B on /v1/embeddings for about 105 s, until the test gave up. The old-worker-1-chat case and the other 6 cases passed.

For agents

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 "failures": [
  {"job": "sidecar-trtllm-nightly-image-test / Upstream TRT-LLM image integration (1 GPU)", "job_id": 123082093412, "failed_step": "Run live image integration test", "signature": "TimeoutError: Engine did not become ready within 600 seconds (run_image_test.py wait_for_engine)", "tests": [], "log_cmd": "gh run view --job 123082093412 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed"},
  {"job": "SGLang N-2 compatibility / compatibility", "job_id": 123097542750, "failed_step": "Test four mixed version pairs for embedding and chat", "signature": "AssertionError: Model Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B did not become available (frontend 404 Model not found)", "tests": ["tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility.py::test_n2_compatibility[old-worker-1-embedding]"], "log_cmd": "gh run view --job 123097542750 -R ai-dynamo/dynamo --log-failed"}
 ]}

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[krishung5]

/ok to test b2793bd

[tanmayv25]

Two suggestions to resolve capabilities during startup while preserving the text-only compatibility fallback.

[tanmayv25]

Please keep the new sidecar GPU integration test in post-merge/nightly CI.

[tanmayv25]

LGTM