[CI] Inline env vars lost by CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE subshell wrapping

Postmerge/nightly/daily builds set CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE=1, which wraps
each YAML command in `(cmd) || CI_OVERALL_STATUS=1`. A standalone
`export VAR=val` executes inside the subshell and the variable is
immediately lost — subsequent commands never see it.

This caused real failures (model_executor fastsafetensors crash from
missing VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn) and silent coverage gaps
(rust_frontend tests silently running the Python frontend because
VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 was never set).

Fix: inline env vars as command prefixes (`VAR=val command`) instead
of standalone `export` lines across all 11 affected CI YAML files.

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Michael Smith <tyler@tylermsmith.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Michael Smith <tlrmchlsmth@gmail.com>

.buildkite/ci_config.yaml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ run_all_patterns:
   - "CMakeLists.txt"
   - "requirements/common.txt"
   - "requirements/cuda.txt"
+  - "requirements/kv_connectors.txt"
   - "requirements/build/cuda.txt"
   - "requirements/test/cuda.txt"
   - "setup.py"

.buildkite/ci_config_rocm.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: vllm_rocm_ci
+job_dirs:
+  - ".buildkite/hardware_tests"
+run_all_patterns:
+  - "docker/Dockerfile.rocm"
+  - "docker/Dockerfile.rocm_base"
+  - "docker/ci-rocm.hcl"
+  - "docker/docker-bake-rocm.hcl"
+  - ".buildkite/hardware_tests/amd.yaml"
+  - ".buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh"
+  - ".buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-amd-test.py"
+  - ".buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-amd-test.sh"
+  - "CMakeLists.txt"
+  - "requirements/common.txt"
+  - "requirements/rocm.txt"
+  - "requirements/build/rocm.txt"
+  - "requirements/test/rocm.txt"
+  - "setup.py"
+  - "csrc/"
+  - "cmake/"
+run_all_exclude_patterns:
+  - "csrc/cpu/"
+  - "cmake/cpu_extension.cmake"

.buildkite/hardware_tests/amd.yaml

@@ -1,22 +1,73 @@
-group: Hardware - AMD Build 
+group: Hardware - AMD Build
 steps:
-  - label: "AMD: :docker: build image"
-    key: image-build-amd
+  # Ensure ci_base is up-to-date before building the test image.
+  # Compares a content hash of ci_base-affecting files against the remote
+  # image label. If hashes match the build is skipped (< 30 s); if they
+  # differ ci_base is rebuilt and pushed automatically.
+  - label: "AMD: :docker: ensure ci_base"
+    key: ensure-ci-base-amd
     depends_on: []
     device: amd_cpu
     no_plugin: true
     commands:
-    - >
-      docker build
-      --build-arg max_jobs=16
-      --build-arg REMOTE_VLLM=1
-      --build-arg ARG_PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH='gfx90a;gfx942;gfx950'
-      --build-arg VLLM_BRANCH=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-      --tag "rocm/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
-      -f docker/Dockerfile.rocm
-      --target test
-      --no-cache
-      --progress plain .
-    - docker push "rocm/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
+      - bash .buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh ci-base-rocm-ci-with-deps
     env:
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+      VLLM_BAKE_FILE: "docker/docker-bake-rocm.hcl"
+      PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH: "gfx90a;gfx942;gfx950"
+      REMOTE_VLLM: "1"
+      VLLM_BRANCH: "$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 1
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 1
+
+  - label: "AMD: :docker: build test image and artifacts"
+    key: image-build-amd
+    depends_on:
+      - ensure-ci-base-amd
+    device: amd_cpu
+    no_plugin: true
+    commands:
+      - |
+        if [[ "${ROCM_CI_ARTIFACT_ONLY:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+          echo "ROCM_CI_ARTIFACT_ONLY=1; building ROCm wheel artifact only"
+          IMAGE_TAG="" bash .buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh test-rocm-ci-with-artifacts
+        else
+          bash .buildkite/scripts/ci-bake-rocm.sh test-rocm-ci-with-wheel
+        fi
+      - |
+        docker run --rm --network=none --entrypoint /bin/bash "rocm/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}" -ec '
+          if [ ! -d /vllm-workspace ]; then echo Missing directory: /vllm-workspace >&2; exit 1; fi
+          if [ ! -d /vllm-workspace/tests ]; then echo Missing directory: /vllm-workspace/tests >&2; exit 1; fi
+          if [ ! -d /vllm-workspace/src/vllm ]; then echo Missing directory: /vllm-workspace/src/vllm >&2; exit 1; fi
+          if [ ! -x /vllm-workspace/src/vllm/vllm-rs ]; then echo Missing executable: /vllm-workspace/src/vllm/vllm-rs >&2; exit 1; fi
+          command -v python3
+          command -v uv
+          command -v pytest
+          if ! command -v amd-smi >/dev/null 2>&1 && ! command -v rocminfo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo No ROCm CLI found in image >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          python3 - <<PY
+        import torch, vllm
+        print(torch.__version__)
+        print(vllm.__version__)
+        PY
+          echo AMD image smoke OK
+        '
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+      VLLM_BAKE_FILE: "docker/docker-bake-rocm.hcl"
+      PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH: "gfx90a;gfx942;gfx950"
+      IMAGE_TAG: "rocm/vllm-ci:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+      REMOTE_VLLM: "1"
+      VLLM_BRANCH: "$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 1
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 1

.buildkite/hardware_tests/cpu.yaml

@@ -12,28 +12,35 @@ steps:
   - vllm/_custom_ops.py
   - tests/kernels/attention/test_cpu_attn.py
   - tests/kernels/moe/test_cpu_fused_moe.py
+  - tests/kernels/moe/test_cpu_quant_fused_moe.py
   - tests/kernels/test_onednn.py
   - tests/kernels/test_awq_int4_to_int8.py
+  - tests/kernels/quantization/test_cpu_fp8_scaled_mm.py
+  - tests/kernels/mamba/cpu/test_cpu_gdn_ops.py
   commands:
     - |
-      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 20m "
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 30m "
       pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_cpu_attn.py
       pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_cpu_fused_moe.py
+      pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_cpu_quant_fused_moe.py
       pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/test_onednn.py
-      pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/test_awq_int4_to_int8.py"
+      pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/test_awq_int4_to_int8.py
+      pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_cpu_fp8_scaled_mm.py
+      pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/mamba/cpu/test_cpu_gdn_ops.py"
 
-- label: CPU-Compatibility Tests
-  depends_on: []
-  device: intel_cpu
-  no_plugin: true
-  source_file_dependencies:
-  - cmake/cpu_extension.cmake
-  - setup.py
-  - vllm/platforms/cpu.py
-  commands:
-    - |
-      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 20m "
-      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-compatibility-test.sh"
+# Note: SDE can't be downloaded from CI host because of AWS WAF
+# - label: CPU-Compatibility Tests
+#   depends_on: []
+#   device: intel_cpu
+#   no_plugin: true
+#   source_file_dependencies:
+#   - cmake/cpu_extension.cmake
+#   - setup.py
+#   - vllm/platforms/cpu.py
+#   commands:
+#     - |
+#       bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 20m "
+#       bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-compatibility-test.sh"
 
 - label: CPU-Language Generation and Pooling Model Tests
   depends_on: []
@@ -50,30 +57,49 @@ steps:
       pytest -x -v -s tests/models/language/generation -m cpu_model
       pytest -x -v -s tests/models/language/pooling -m cpu_model"
 
+- label: CPU-ModelRunnerV2 Tests
+  depends_on: []
+  device: intel_cpu
+  no_plugin: true
+  soft_fail: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/v1/worker/cpu/
+  - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
+  - vllm/v1/sample/ops/topk_topp_triton.py
+  - vllm/v1/sample/ops/topk_topp_sampler.py
+  - tests/v1/sample/test_topk_topp_sampler.py
+  commands:
+    - |
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 45m "
+      uv pip install git+https://github.com/triton-lang/triton-cpu.git@270e696d
+      VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -x -v -s tests/models/language/generation/test_granite.py -m cpu_model
+      # TODO: move to CPU-Kernel Tests once triton-cpu has a pre-built wheel
+      pytest -x -v -s tests/v1/sample/test_topk_topp_sampler.py::TestTritonTopkTopp"
+
 - label: CPU-Quantization Model Tests
   depends_on: []
   device: intel_cpu
   no_plugin: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/cpu/
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/cpu_wna16.py
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/gptq_marlin.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/auto_gptq.py
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors/schemes/compressed_tensors_w8a8_int8.py
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/kernels/scaled_mm/cpu.py
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/kernels/mixed_precision/cpu.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/kernels/linear/mixed_precision/cpu.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/kernels/linear/scaled_mm/cpu.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/experts/cpu_moe.py
   - tests/quantization/test_compressed_tensors.py
   - tests/quantization/test_cpu_wna16.py
   commands:
     - |
-      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 20m "
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 45m "
       pytest -x -v -s tests/quantization/test_compressed_tensors.py::test_compressed_tensors_w8a8_logprobs
       pytest -x -v -s tests/quantization/test_cpu_wna16.py"
       
-- label: CPU-Distributed Tests
+- label: CPU-Distributed Tests (PP+TP)
   depends_on: []
   device: intel_cpu
   no_plugin: true
-  source_file_dependencies:
+  source_file_dependencies: &cpu_distributed_deps
   - csrc/cpu/shm.cpp
   - vllm/v1/worker/cpu_worker.py
   - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
@@ -82,10 +108,21 @@ steps:
   - vllm/platforms/cpu.py
   - vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py
   - vllm/distributed/device_communicators/cpu_communicator.py
+  - .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-distributed-smoke-test.sh
   commands:
     - |
       bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 10m "
-      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-distributed-smoke-test.sh"
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-distributed-smoke-test.sh tp_pp"
+
+- label: CPU-Distributed Tests (DP+TP)
+  depends_on: []
+  device: intel_cpu
+  no_plugin: true
+  source_file_dependencies: *cpu_distributed_deps
+  commands:
+    - |
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh 10m "
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-distributed-smoke-test.sh dp_tp"
 
 - label: CPU-Multi-Modal Model Tests %N
   depends_on: []

.buildkite/hardware_tests/intel.yaml

@@ -8,10 +8,3 @@ steps:
     commands: 
     - bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-hpu-test.sh
 
-  - label: "Intel GPU Test"
-    depends_on: []
-    soft_fail: true
-    device: intel_gpu
-    no_plugin: true
-    commands: 
-    - bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh

.buildkite/hardware_tests/intel_xpu_ci/test-intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+group: Intel
+steps:
+  - label: ":docker: Build XPU image"
+    soft_fail: true
+    optional: true
+    depends_on: []
+    key: image-build-xpu
+    commands:
+      - bash -lc '.buildkite/image_build/image_build_xpu.sh "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7" "vllm-ci-test-repo" "$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"'
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+  - label: "XPU example Test"
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build-xpu
+    timeout_in_minutes: 30
+    optional: true
+    device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 2+
+      mem: 24+
+    no_plugin: true
+    env:
+      REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - .buildkite/hardware_tests/intel_xpu_ci/test-intel.yaml
+      - .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh
+    commands:
+      - >-
+        bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+        'bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh example'
+  - label: "XPU V1 test"
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build-xpu
+    timeout_in_minutes: 30
+    optional: true
+    device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 1+
+      mem: 16+
+    no_plugin: true
+    env:
+      REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - .buildkite/hardware_tests/intel_xpu_ci/test-intel.yaml
+      - .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh
+    commands:
+      - >-
+        bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+        'bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh v1'
+  - label: "XPU server test"
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build-xpu
+    timeout_in_minutes: 30
+    optional: true
+    device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 1+
+      mem: 16+
+    no_plugin: true
+    env:
+      REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - .buildkite/hardware_tests/intel_xpu_ci/test-intel.yaml
+      - .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh
+    commands:
+      - >-
+        bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+        'bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh server'

.buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh

@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ check_and_skip_if_image_exists() {
 }
 
 ecr_login() {
-    aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
-    aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
+    aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
+    aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com || true
 }
 
 prepare_cache_tags() {
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ export BUILDKITE_COMMIT
 export PARENT_COMMIT
 export IMAGE_TAG
 export IMAGE_TAG_LATEST
+export COMMIT="${COMMIT:-${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}}"
 export CACHE_FROM
 export CACHE_FROM_BASE_BRANCH
 export CACHE_FROM_MAIN

.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,60 @@ steps:
         - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
           limit: 2
 
+  - label: ":docker: :smoking: Non-root smoke tests"
+    key: image-build-smoke-test
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build
+    commands:
+    # Smoke 1: the default (root) image must still be importable
+    # under a non-root UID via `--user 2000:0`. Validates the `vllm` passwd
+    # entry + group-0-writable /home/vllm + uv path cleanup from #31959.
+    # Uses `import vllm` rather than `vllm serve --help` because the latter
+    # instantiates `VllmConfig` which requires a GPU attached to the
+    # container.
+    - docker run --rm --user 2000:0 --entrypoint python3 "$IMAGE_TAG" -c "import vllm; print(vllm.__version__)"
+    # Smoke 2: assert the non-root enabling invariants are baked
+    # into the image. Runs as UID 2000:0 via a shell so we can verify
+    # filesystem perms + passwd/group file state + wrapper presence without
+    # triggering vLLM's GPU-requiring config-init path. The opt-in
+    # `vllm-openai-nonroot` target adds only `USER vllm`, `WORKDIR
+    # /home/vllm`, and an `ENTRYPOINT` override on top of these invariants;
+    # its build correctness is reviewed at the Dockerfile level. Wrapper
+    # logic is covered separately by the pre-commit hook
+    # `test-nonroot-entrypoint` (see .pre-commit-config.yaml).
+    - |
+      docker run --rm --user 2000:0 --entrypoint /bin/sh "$IMAGE_TAG" -ec '
+        if ! getent passwd 2000 | grep -q ^vllm:; then
+          echo FAIL: UID 2000 != vllm
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        if ! id -gn 2>/dev/null | grep -qx root; then
+          echo FAIL: GID 0 not root group
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        touch /home/vllm/.smoke && rm /home/vllm/.smoke
+        touch /opt/uv/cache/.smoke && rm /opt/uv/cache/.smoke
+        if ! test -x /usr/local/bin/vllm-nonroot-entrypoint.sh; then
+          echo FAIL: wrapper missing
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        if ! test -w /etc/passwd; then
+          echo FAIL: /etc/passwd not group-writable
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        if ! test -w /etc/group; then
+          echo FAIL: /etc/group not group-writable
+          exit 1
+        fi
+        echo non-root invariants OK
+      '
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+
   - label: ":docker: Build CPU image"
     key: image-build-cpu
     depends_on: []
@@ -56,3 +110,21 @@ steps:
           limit: 2
         - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
           limit: 2
+
+  - label: ":docker: Build arm64 image"
+    key: arm64-image-build
+    depends_on: []
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - ".buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml"
+      - ".buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh"
+      - "docker/Dockerfile"
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_arm64.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 3 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# build (Grace/GH200 is the arm64 GPU target; sm_90)
+docker build --file docker/Dockerfile \
+  --platform linux/arm64 \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg nvcc_threads=4 \
+  --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="9.0" \
+  --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
+  --tag "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64 \
+  --target test \
+  --progress plain .
+
+# push
+docker push "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
 
 # skip build if image already exists
 if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu) ]]; then

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
 
 # skip build if image already exists
 if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-arm64-cpu) ]]; then

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
 
 # skip build if image already exists
 if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-hpu) ]]; then

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_torch_nightly.sh

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
 
 # --- CUDA 13.0 for nightly builds ---
 # Nightly CI uses CUDA 13.0 while regular CI stays on CUDA 12.9
-NIGHTLY_CUDA_VERSION="13.0.0"
+NIGHTLY_CUDA_VERSION="13.0.2"
 NIGHTLY_BUILD_BASE_IMAGE="nvidia/cuda:${NIGHTLY_CUDA_VERSION}-devel-ubuntu22.04"
 NIGHTLY_FINAL_BASE_IMAGE="nvidia/cuda:${NIGHTLY_CUDA_VERSION}-base-ubuntu22.04"
 

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_xpu.sh

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
-aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY" || true
+aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com || true
 
 # skip build if image already exists
 if ! docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-xpu &> /dev/null; then

.buildkite/intel_jobs/basic_correctness.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+group: Basic Correctness
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: XPU Sleep Mode
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/basic_correctness/test_cumem.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_mem.py::test_end_to_end'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/engine_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+group: Engine Intel
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: Engine (1 GPU)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/engine/
+    - tests/v1/engine/
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/engine --ignore v1/engine/test_preprocess_error_handling.py'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/expert_parallelism_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+group: Expert Parallelism
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: EPLB Algorithm
+  key: eplb-algorithm
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/eplb
+  - tests/distributed/test_eplb_algo.py
+  - tests/distributed/test_eplb_utils.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_algo.py'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/kernels_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+group: Kernels Intel
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: vLLM IR Tests
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/ir
+    - vllm/kernels
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s kernels/ir'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/lora_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+group: LoRA Intel
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: LoRA Runtime + Utils
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 24+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_layers.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_lora_checkpoints.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_lora_functions.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_lora_huggingface.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_lora_manager.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_lora_utils.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_peft_helper.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_resolver.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_utils.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_add_lora.py  &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_worker.py'
+
+- label: LoRA Fused/MoE Kernels
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_fused_moe_lora_kernel.py && 
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_moe_lora_align_sum.py --deselect="tests/lora/test_moe_lora_align_sum.py::test_moe_lora_align_block_size_mixed_base_and_lora[1]"'
+
+- label: LoRA Punica Kernels
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      set -o pipefail &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_punica_ops.py --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[expand-0-xpu:0-dtype0-3-43264-32-4-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype1-1-2049-64-128-16]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-1-2049-128-1-32]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-1-2049-256-1-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-1-2049-256-8-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[expand-0-xpu:0-dtype0-3-2049-128-8-16]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-1-2049-128-8-32]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels[expand-0-xpu:0-dtype1-1-2049-256-128-32]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-3-64256-32-4-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype1-2-29696-32-4-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype1-3-49408-32-4-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[shrink-0-xpu:0-dtype0-2-16384-32-4-4]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_punica_ops.py::test_kernels_hidden_size[expand-0-xpu:0-dtype0-2-51328-32-4-4]"'
+
+- label: LoRA Punica FP8/XPU Ops
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_punica_ops_fp8.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_punica_xpu_ops.py'
+
+- label: LoRA Models
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 2+
+    mem: 24+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      (pytest -v -s lora/test_mixtral.py --deselect="tests/lora/test_mixtral.py::test_mixtral_lora[4]" || true) &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_quant_model.py --deselect="tests/lora/test_quant_model.py::test_quant_model_lora[model0]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_quant_model.py::test_quant_model_lora[model1]" --deselect="tests/lora/test_quant_model.py::test_quant_model_tp_equality[model0]" &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_transformers_model.py &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py &&
+      pytest -s -v lora/test_minicpmv_tp.py'
+
+- label: LoRA Multimodal
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/lora
+    - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'cd tests &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_default_mm_loras.py && 
+      pytest -v -s lora/test_whisper.py'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/misc_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+group: Miscellaneous Intel
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: V1 Core + KV + Metrics
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/v1/core
+    - tests/v1/executor
+    - tests/v1/kv_offload
+    - tests/v1/worker
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/unit
+    - tests/v1/metrics
+    - tests/entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install -r requirements/kv_connectors.txt &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/executor'
+
+- label: V1 Sample + Logits
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
+    - tests/v1/sample
+    - tests/v1/logits_processors
+    - tests/v1/test_oracle.py
+    - tests/v1/test_request.py
+    - tests/v1/test_outputs.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install lm_eval[api]>=0.4.12 &&
+      export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/logits_processors --ignore=v1/logits_processors/test_custom_online.py --ignore=v1/logits_processors/test_custom_offline.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/test_oracle.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/test_request.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/test_outputs.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/sample/test_topk_topp_sampler.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/sample/test_logprobs.py &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py'
+
+- label: XPU CPU Offload
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - vllm/v1/kv_offload/
+    - vllm/v1/kv_connector/
+    - tests/v1/kv_offload/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_offloading_connector.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/kv_offload &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/unit/test_offloading_connector.py'
+
+- label: Regression
+  key: regression
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
+  - tests/test_regression
+  commands:
+  - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install modelscope &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s test_regression.py'
+
+- label: Metrics, Tracing (2 GPUs)
+  key: metrics-tracing-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  num_devices: 2
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 2+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/tracing/
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
+  - tests/v1/tracing
+  commands:
+  - >-
+    bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+    'pip install opentelemetry-sdk\>=1.26.0 opentelemetry-api\>=1.26.0 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp\>=1.26.0 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai\>=0.4.1 &&
+    cd tests &&
+    pytest -v -s v1/tracing'
+
+- label: Async Engine, Inputs, Utils, Worker
+  key: async-engine-inputs-utils-worker
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 24+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/assets/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/tokenizers/
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
+  - tests/detokenizer
+  - tests/multimodal
+  - tests/utils_
+  commands:
+  - >-
+    bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+    'cd tests &&
+    pip install av &&
+    pytest -v -s detokenizer &&
+    pytest -v -s -m "not cpu_test" ./multimodal &&
+    pytest -v -s utils_ --ignore=utils_/test_mem_utils.py'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/model_runner_v2_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+group: Model Runner V2 Intel
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: Model Runner V2 Core Tests (Intel)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 2+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
+    - vllm/v1/core/sched/
+    - vllm/v1/attention/
+    - tests/v1/engine/test_llm_engine.py
+    - tests/v1/e2e/
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_llm_engine.py -k "not test_engine_metrics" &&
+      ENFORCE_EAGER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_async_scheduling.py -k "not ngram" &&
+      pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_min_tokens.py'
+
+- label: Model Runner V2 Examples (Intel)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 24+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
+    - vllm/v1/core/sched/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
+    - examples/basic/offline_inference/
+    - examples/generate/multimodal/
+    - examples/features/
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 &&
+      cd examples &&
+      python3 basic/offline_inference/chat.py &&
+      python3 basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m &&
+      python3 generate/multimodal/vision_language_offline.py --seed 0 &&
+      python3 features/automatic_prefix_caching/prefix_caching_offline.py'

.buildkite/intel_jobs/models_multimodal_intel.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+group: Models - Multimodal
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build-xpu
+steps:
+- label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 1: qwen2"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-1-qwen2
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install av git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m core_model -k "qwen2" &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_ultravox.py -m core_model'
+
+- label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 2: qwen3 + gemma"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-2-qwen3-gemma
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_5_vl.py -m core_model'
+
+- label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 3: llava + qwen2_vl"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-3-llava-qwen2-vl
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 24+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m core_model -k "not qwen2 and not qwen3 and not gemma" &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_vl.py -m core_model'
+
+- label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 4: other + whisper"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-4-other-whisper
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install av git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal -m core_model --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_ultravox.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_5_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py  --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_memory_leak.py --ignore models/multimodal/processing'
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Processor # 44min
+  key: multi-modal-processor
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: intel_gpu
+  agent_tags:
+    label: production
+    gpu: 1+
+    mem: 16+
+  no_plugin: true
+  working_dir: "."
+  env:
+    REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+    REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    VLLM_TEST_DEVICE: "xpu"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  - tests/models/registry.py
+  commands:
+    - >-
+      bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+      'pip install av matplotlib ftfy git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git &&
+      pip install open-clip-torch --no-deps &&
+      cd tests &&
+      pytest -v -s models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py
+      --deselect "tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py::test_model_tensor_schema[mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512-NVFP4]"
+      --deselect "tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py::test_model_tensor_schema[Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B-AWQ]"
+      --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB'
+  parallelism: 4

.buildkite/intel_jobs/test-intel.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ steps:
       - image-build-xpu
     timeout_in_minutes: 30
     device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 2+
+      mem: 24+
     no_plugin: true
     env:
       REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
@@ -36,14 +40,23 @@ steps:
         python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --attention-backend=TRITON_ATTN &&
         python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --quantization fp8 &&
         python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --kv-cache-dtype fp8 &&
+        python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model nvidia/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP8 --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --quantization modelopt --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --attention-backend TRITON_ATTN --max-model-len 4096 &&
         python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model superjob/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GPTQ-Int4 --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192 &&
         python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 &&
-        python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --enable-expert-parallel'
+        python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --enable-expert-parallel &&
+        python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model superjob/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GPTQ-Int4 --max-model-len 8192 &&
+        VLLM_XPU_FUSED_MOE_USE_REF=1 python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-FP8 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --max-model-len 8192 &&
+        python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model INCModel/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-MXFP4-LLMC --enforce-eager -tp 2 --max-model-len 8192
+        '
   - label: "XPU V1 test"
     depends_on:
       - image-build-xpu
     timeout_in_minutes: 30
     device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 1+
+      mem: 16+
     no_plugin: true
     env:
       REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
@@ -55,11 +68,56 @@ steps:
       - >-
         bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
         'cd tests &&
+        bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_xpu_disagg_accuracy_test.sh &&
         pytest -v -s v1/core --ignore=v1/core/test_reset_prefix_cache_e2e.py --ignore=v1/core/test_scheduler_e2e.py &&
         pytest -v -s v1/engine --ignore=v1/engine/test_output_processor.py &&
         pytest -v -s v1/sample --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs.py --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py -k "not test_topk_only and not test_topp_only and not test_topk_and_topp" &&
         pytest -v -s v1/worker --ignore=v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py --ignore=v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py &&
         pytest -v -s v1/structured_output &&
         pytest -v -s v1/test_serial_utils.py &&
-        pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_tree_attention.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_eagle3.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py &&
-        pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/unit --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_multi_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_example_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_lmcache_integration.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_client.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_metadata_server.py'
+        pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_eagle3.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_correctness.py &&
+        pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/unit --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_multi_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_example_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_lmcache_integration.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_client.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_metadata_server.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_offloading_connector.py'
+  - label: "XPU server test"
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build-xpu
+    timeout_in_minutes: 30
+    device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 1+
+      mem: 16+
+    no_plugin: true
+    env:
+      REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/
+      - .buildkite/intel_jobs/test-intel.yaml 
+    commands:
+      - >-
+        bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+        'pip install av &&
+        cd tests &&
+        pytest -v -s entrypoints/multimodal/openai/chat_completion/test_audio_in_video.py &&
+        pytest -v -s benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py'
+  - label: "XPU quantization test"
+    depends_on:
+      - image-build-xpu
+    timeout_in_minutes: 30
+    device: intel_gpu
+    agent_tags:
+      label: production
+      gpu: 1+
+      mem: 16+
+    no_plugin: true
+    env:
+      REGISTRY: "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      REPO: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
+    source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/
+      - .buildkite/intel_jobs/test-intel.yaml 
+    commands:
+      - >-
+        bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh
+        'cd tests &&
+        pytest -v -s quantization/test_auto_round.py'

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/configs/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-FP8.yaml

@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ tasks:
     value: 0.7142
   - name: "exact_match,flexible-extract"
     value: 0.4579
-env_vars:
-  VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_MOE_FP8: "1"
-  VLLM_FLASHINFER_MOE_BACKEND: "throughput"
+moe_backend: "flashinfer_cutlass"
 limit: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
 max_model_len: 262144

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-chartqa-vllm-vlm-baseline.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # We can use this script to compute baseline accuracy on chartqa for vllm.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-hf-baseline.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # We can use this script to compute baseline accuracy on GSM for transformers.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # We use this for fp8, which HF does not support.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-mmlupro-vllm-baseline.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # We use this for fp8, which HF does not support.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py

@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ def launch_lm_eval(eval_config, tp_size):
     if current_platform.is_rocm() and "Nemotron-3" in eval_config["model_name"]:
         model_args += "attention_backend=TRITON_ATTN"
 
+    moe_backend = eval_config.get("moe_backend", None)
+    if moe_backend is not None:
+        model_args += f"moe_backend={moe_backend},"
+
     env_vars = eval_config.get("env_vars", None)
     with scoped_env_vars(env_vars):
         results = lm_eval.simple_evaluate(

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/latency-tests-arm64-cpu.json

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
     {
         "test_name": "latency_llama8B_tp1",
         "environment_variables": {
-            "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
             "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
             "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
             "VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE": 40

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/latency-tests-cpu.json

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
     {
         "test_name": "latency_llama8B_tp2",
         "environment_variables": {
-            "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
 	    "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
 	    "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
 	    "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-arm64-cpu.json

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
       200
     ],
     "server_environment_variables": {
-      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
       "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
       "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
       "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu-asr.json

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
     ],
     "max_concurrency_list": [12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 200],
     "server_environment_variables": {
-      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
       "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120
     },
     "server_parameters": {

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu-embed.json

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
       128
     ],
     "server_environment_variables": {
-      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
       "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
       "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
       "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu-text.json

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
     ],
     "max_concurrency_list": [12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 200],
     "server_environment_variables": {
-      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
       "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
       "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
       "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,
@@ -31,30 +30,9 @@
     }
   },
   "tests": [
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_sharegpt",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_sharegpt",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
-      }
-    },
     {
       "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "dataset_name": "random",
@@ -62,158 +40,10 @@
         "random-output-len": 128
       }
     },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_128_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_128_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_2048_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_2048_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_2048_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_2048_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_2048_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_2048_2048",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 2048,
-        "random-output-len": 2048
-      }
-    },
     {
       "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp2_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp4_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
@@ -225,8 +55,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int8_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
@@ -236,26 +65,12 @@
       }
     },
     {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int8_tp2_random_128_128",
+      "test_name": "serving_llama1B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int8_tp4_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8",
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B",
         "dataset_name": "random",
         "random-input-len": 128,
         "random-output-len": 128
@@ -264,8 +79,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_llama3B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
@@ -274,11 +88,22 @@
         "random-output-len": 128
       }
     },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama70B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
     {
       "test_name": "serving_granite2B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
@@ -290,8 +115,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_qwen1.7B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
@@ -303,8 +127,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_qwen4B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
@@ -316,8 +139,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_qwen8B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
@@ -326,11 +148,34 @@
         "random-output-len": 128
       }
     },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_qwen14B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-14B"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-14B",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_qwen30B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
     {
       "test_name": "serving_glm9B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
@@ -342,8 +187,7 @@
     {
       "test_name": "serving_gemma7B_tp1_random_128_128",
       "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "google/gemma-7b",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+        "model": "google/gemma-7b"
       },
       "client_parameters": {
         "model": "google/gemma-7b",
@@ -351,6 +195,94 @@
         "random-input-len": 128,
         "random-output-len": 128
       }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma3-4b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_environment_variables": {
+	"VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 0
+      },
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-3-4b-it"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-3-4b-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma3-12b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_environment_variables": {
+	"VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 0
+      },
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-3-12b-it"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-3-12b-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma4-4b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_environment_variables": {
+	"VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 0
+      },
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E4B-it"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E4B-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma4-2b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_environment_variables": {
+	"VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 0
+      },
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E2B-it"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E2B-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma4-26b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_environment_variables": {
+	"VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 0,
+        "VLLM_CPU_ATTN_SPLIT_KV": 0
+      },
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_phi4_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "microsoft/Phi-4-reasoning"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "microsoft/Phi-4-reasoning",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
     }
   ]
 }

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu.json

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
     ],
     "max_concurrency_list": [12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 200],
     "server_environment_variables": {
-      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
       "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
       "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
       "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests.json

@@ -1,77 +1,112 @@
-[
-    {
-        "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_sharegpt",
-        "qps_list": [1, 4, 16, "inf"],
-        "server_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
-            "tensor_parallel_size": 1,
-            "disable_log_stats": "",
-            "load_format": "dummy"
-        },
-        "client_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
-            "backend": "vllm",
-            "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-            "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json",
-            "temperature": 0,
-            "num_prompts": 200
-        }
+{
+  "defaults": {
+    "qps_list": [
+      "inf"
+    ],
+    "max_concurrency_list": [12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 200],
+    "server_parameters": {
+      "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
+      "tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+      "dtype": "bfloat16"
     },
-    {
-        "test_name": "serving_llama70B_tp4_sharegpt",
-        "qps_list": [1, 4, 16, "inf"],
-        "server_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct",
-            "tensor_parallel_size": 4,
-            "disable_log_stats": "",
-            "load_format": "dummy"
-        },
-        "client_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct",
-            "backend": "vllm",
-            "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-            "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json",
-            "temperature": 0,
-            "num_prompts": 200
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test_name": "serving_mixtral8x7B_tp2_sharegpt",
-        "qps_list": [1, 4, 16, "inf"],
-        "server_parameters": {
-            "model": "mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1",
-            "tensor_parallel_size": 2,
-            "disable_log_stats": "",
-            "load_format": "dummy"
-        },
-        "client_parameters": {
-            "model": "mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1",
-            "backend": "vllm",
-            "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-            "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json",
-            "temperature": 0,
-            "num_prompts": 200
-        }
-    },
-    {
-        "test_name": "serving_llama70B_tp4_sharegpt_specdecode",
-        "qps_list": [2],
-        "server_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct", 
-            "tensor_parallel_size": 4,
-            "speculative_config": {
-                "model": "turboderp/Qwama-0.5B-Instruct",
-                "num_speculative_tokens": 4,
-                "draft_tensor_parallel_size": 1
-            }
-        },
-        "client_parameters": {
-            "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct",
-            "backend": "vllm",
-            "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
-            "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json",
-            "temperature": 0,
-            "num_prompts": 200 
-        }
+    "client_parameters": {
+      "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
+      "backend": "vllm",
+      "ignore-eos": "",
+      "temperature": 0,
+      "num_prompts": 200
     }
-]
+  },
+  "tests": [
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_sharegpt",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
+        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
+        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_2048",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 2048
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_2048_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 2048,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_2048_2048",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 2048,
+        "random-output-len": 2048
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama70B_tp4_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
+        "async_scheduling": "",
+	"no_enable_prefix_caching": "",
+        "max_num_batched_tokens": 8192
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma4-e4b_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E4B-it",
+	"enable_auto_tool_choice": "",
+	"tool_call_parser": "gemma4",
+	"chat_template": "examples/tool_chat_template_gemma4.jinja",
+	"reasoning_parser": "gemma4"
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-4-E4B-it",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/throughput-tests-arm64-cpu.json

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
     {
         "test_name": "throughput_llama8B_tp1",
         "environment_variables": {
-            "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
             "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
             "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
             "VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE": 40

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/throughput-tests-cpu.json

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
     {
         "test_name": "throughput_llama8B_tp2",
         "environment_variables": {
-            "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
 	    "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
 	    "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
 	    "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,

.buildkite/release-pipeline.yaml

@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+# CUDA architecture lists — following PyTorch RELEASE.md
+# (https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/RELEASE.md)
+# SM86 included for broader Ampere coverage; SM89 for marlin fp8 support
+# These requested arches are filtered by CMake's CUDA_SUPPORTED_ARCHS before
+# per-kernel arch selection. Do not add +PTX here: top-level +PTX is stripped
+# during that filtering, so kernels that need PTX must request it locally.
+env:
+  # for CUDA >=13, sm_100+ targets have family specifiers (see CMakeLists.txt)
+  # so targets like 10.3 and 12.1 are automatically supported with this list
+  CUDA_ARCH_X86: "7.5 8.0 8.6 8.9 9.0 10.0 12.0"
+  # aarch64-only targets: Orin (8.7), Thor (11.0, CUDA 13+)
+  CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64: "8.0 8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0"
+
+  # for CUDA <13, we need to specify all needed targets
+  # some targets (10.3, 12.1) are skipped to limit the wheel size (< 500MB)
+  # please use CUDA 13 wheels or compile yourself on these new devices
+  CUDA_ARCH_X86_CU129: "7.5 8.0 8.6 8.9 9.0 10.0 12.0"
+  CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64_CU129: "8.0 8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0 12.0"
+  
+  # pre-built mooncake wheels
+  # the manylinux_2_35 wheel has compatibility issue on Ubuntu 24.04
+  # so we use different wheels for the time being
+  MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_35: "https://vllm-wheels.s3.amazonaws.com/mooncake/mooncake_transfer_engine-0.3.10.post2-0da9dfea3-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_35_aarch64.whl"
+  MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_39: "https://vllm-wheels.s3.amazonaws.com/mooncake/mooncake_transfer_engine-0.3.10.post2-0da9dfea3-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_39_aarch64.whl"
+  MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64: "https://vllm-wheels.s3.amazonaws.com/mooncake/mooncake_transfer_engine-0.3.10.post2-0da9dfea3-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_35_x86_64.whl"
+
 steps:
   - input: "Provide Release version here"
     id: input-release-version
@@ -14,12 +40,11 @@ steps:
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
-          # #NOTE: torch_cuda_arch_list is derived from upstream PyTorch build files here:
-          # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/.ci/aarch64_linux/aarch64_ci_build.sh#L7
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0' --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list=\"${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64_CU129}\" --build-arg BUILD_OS=manylinux --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=pytorch/manylinuxaarch64-builder:cuda12.9 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
           - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -29,12 +54,11 @@ steps:
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
-          # #NOTE: torch_cuda_arch_list is derived from upstream PyTorch build files here:
-          # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/.ci/aarch64_linux/aarch64_ci_build.sh#L7
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0' --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu22.04  --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list=\"${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64}\" --build-arg BUILD_OS=manylinux --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=pytorch/manylinuxaarch64-builder:cuda13.0 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh manylinux_2_35"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -47,7 +71,8 @@ steps:
           - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg VLLM_BUILD_ACL=ON --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target vllm-build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh manylinux_2_35"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -57,10 +82,11 @@ steps:
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list=\"${CUDA_ARCH_X86_CU129}\" --build-arg BUILD_OS=manylinux --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=pytorch/manylinux2_28-builder:cuda12.9 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh manylinux_2_31"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -70,10 +96,11 @@ steps:
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu22.04 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list=\"${CUDA_ARCH_X86}\" --build-arg BUILD_OS=manylinux --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=pytorch/manylinux2_28-builder:cuda13.0 --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh manylinux_2_35"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -86,7 +113,8 @@ steps:
           - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg VLLM_CPU_X86=true --tag vllm-ci:build-image --target vllm-build --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu ."
           - "mkdir artifacts"
           - "docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/artifacts:/artifacts_host vllm-ci:build-image bash -c 'cp -r dist /artifacts_host && chmod -R a+rw /artifacts_host'"
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh manylinux_2_35"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -108,102 +136,226 @@ steps:
     depends_on: block-build-release-images
     allow_dependency_failure: true
     steps:
-      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 12.9"
+      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 13.0"
         depends_on: ~
         id: build-release-image-x86
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_X86}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_35}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.2-devel-ubuntu22.04 \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"
           # re-tag to default image tag and push, just in case arm64 build fails
           - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 12.9"
+      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 13.0"
         depends_on: ~
         id: build-release-image-arm64
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_35}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.2-devel-ubuntu22.04 \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 13.0"
+      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 12.9"
         depends_on: ~
-        id: build-release-image-x86-cuda-13-0
+        id: build-release-image-x86-cuda-12-9
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu22.04 --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh cu129) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_X86_CU129}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_35}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129"
           # re-tag to default image tag and push, just in case arm64 build fails
-          - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130"
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130"
+          - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129"
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 13.0"
+      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 12.9"
         depends_on: ~
-        id: build-release-image-arm64-cuda-13-0
+        id: build-release-image-arm64-cuda-12-9
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          # compute capability 12.0 for RTX-50 series / RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 12.1 for DGX Spark
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0 12.1' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu22.04 --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh cu129) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64_CU129}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_35}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on: ~
         id: build-release-image-x86-ubuntu2404
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh ubuntu2404) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 \
+              --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 \
+              --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_X86}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_39}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.2-devel-ubuntu24.04 \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404"
           - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-ubuntu2404"
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on: ~
         id: build-release-image-arm64-ubuntu2404
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh ubuntu2404) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.2 \
+              --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 \
+              --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_39}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.2-devel-ubuntu24.04 \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-ubuntu2404"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on: ~
-        id: build-release-image-x86-cuda-13-0-ubuntu2404
+        id: build-release-image-x86-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
         agents:
           queue: cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0 12.1' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu24.04 --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130-ubuntu2404 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130-ubuntu2404"
-          - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130-ubuntu2404"
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130-ubuntu2404"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh cu129-ubuntu2404) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 \
+              --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 \
+              --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_X86_CU129}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_39}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129-ubuntu2404"
+          - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129-ubuntu2404"
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129-ubuntu2404"'
 
-      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Build release image - aarch64 - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on: ~
-        id: build-release-image-arm64-cuda-13-0-ubuntu2404
+        id: build-release-image-arm64-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
         agents:
           queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=13.0.1 --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 --build-arg FLASHINFER_AOT_COMPILE=true --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list='8.7 8.9 9.0 10.0+PTX 12.0 12.1' --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true --build-arg BUILD_BASE_IMAGE=nvidia/cuda:13.0.1-devel-ubuntu24.04 --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130-ubuntu2404 --target vllm-openai --progress plain -f docker/Dockerfile ."
-          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu130-ubuntu2404"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              $(bash .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh cu129-ubuntu2404) \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+              --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 \
+              --build-arg CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1 \
+              --build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04 \
+              --build-arg GDRCOPY_OS_VERSION=Ubuntu24_04 \
+              --build-arg torch_cuda_arch_list="${CUDA_ARCH_AARCH64_CU129}" \
+              --build-arg INSTALL_KV_CONNECTORS=true \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_AARCH64_2_39}" \
+              --build-arg MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64="${MOONCAKE_WHEEL_X86_64}" \
+              --target vllm-openai \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)-cu129-ubuntu2404"'
 
       - block: "Build release image for x86_64 CPU"
         key: block-cpu-release-image-build
         depends_on: ~
 
       - label: "Build release image - x86_64 - CPU"
+        key: build-cpu-release-image-x86
         depends_on:
           - block-cpu-release-image-build
           - input-release-version
@@ -214,6 +366,7 @@ steps:
           - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --build-arg VLLM_CPU_X86=true --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version) --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:latest --progress plain --target vllm-openai -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu ."
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:latest"
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version)"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
@@ -222,7 +375,8 @@ steps:
         depends_on: ~
 
       - label: "Build release image - arm64 - CPU"
-        depends_on: 
+        key: build-cpu-release-image-arm64
+        depends_on:
           - block-arm64-cpu-release-image-build
           - input-release-version
         agents:
@@ -232,13 +386,14 @@ steps:
           - "DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --build-arg max_jobs=16 --build-arg GIT_REPO_CHECK=1 --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version) --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:latest --progress plain --target vllm-openai -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu ."
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:latest"
           - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version)"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version)"'
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
   - group: "Publish release images"
     key: "publish-release-images"
     steps:
-      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 12.9"
+      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 13.0"
         depends_on:
           - build-release-image-x86
           - build-release-image-arm64
@@ -249,29 +404,22 @@ steps:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
           - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64 --amend"
           - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "Manifest: CUDA 13.0" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"'
 
-      - label: "Annotate release workflow - CUDA 12.9"
+      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 12.9"
         depends_on:
-          - create-multi-arch-manifest
-        id: annotate-release-workflow
-        agents:
-          queue: small_cpu_queue_release
-        commands:
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-release.sh"
-
-      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 13.0"
-        depends_on:
-          - build-release-image-x86-cuda-13-0
-          - build-release-image-arm64-cuda-13-0
-        id: create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-13-0
+          - build-release-image-x86-cuda-12-9
+          - build-release-image-arm64-cuda-12-9
+        id: create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-12-9
         agents:
           queue: small_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64-cu130 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64-cu130 --amend"
-          - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130"
+          - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64-cu129 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64-cu129 --amend"
+          - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "Manifest: CUDA 12.9" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129"'
 
-      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on:
           - build-release-image-x86-ubuntu2404
           - build-release-image-arm64-ubuntu2404
@@ -282,18 +430,20 @@ steps:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
           - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64-ubuntu2404 --amend"
           - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "Manifest: CUDA 13.0 Ubuntu 24.04" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-ubuntu2404"'
 
-      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 13.0 - Ubuntu 24.04"
+      - label: "Create multi-arch manifest - CUDA 12.9 - Ubuntu 24.04"
         depends_on:
-          - build-release-image-x86-cuda-13-0-ubuntu2404
-          - build-release-image-arm64-cuda-13-0-ubuntu2404
-        id: create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-13-0-ubuntu2404
+          - build-release-image-x86-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
+          - build-release-image-arm64-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
+        id: create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
         agents:
           queue: small_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
           - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-          - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64-cu130-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64-cu130-ubuntu2404 --amend"
-          - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu130-ubuntu2404"
+          - "docker manifest create public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404 --amend"
+          - "docker manifest push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129-ubuntu2404"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "Manifest: CUDA 12.9 Ubuntu 24.04" "public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cu129-ubuntu2404"'
 
       - label: "Publish nightly multi-arch image to DockerHub"
         depends_on:
@@ -313,16 +463,16 @@ steps:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
           DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: "vllmbot"
 
-      - label: "Publish nightly multi-arch image to DockerHub - CUDA 13.0"
+      - label: "Publish nightly multi-arch image to DockerHub - CUDA 12.9"
         depends_on:
-          - create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-13-0
+          - create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-12-9
         if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
         agents:
           queue: small_cpu_queue_release
         commands:
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/push-nightly-builds.sh cu130"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/push-nightly-builds.sh cu129"
           # Clean up old nightly builds (keep only last 14)
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/cleanup-nightly-builds.sh cu130-nightly-"
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/cleanup-nightly-builds.sh cu129-nightly-"
         plugins:
           - docker-login#v3.0.0:
               username: vllmbot
@@ -331,24 +481,6 @@ steps:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
           DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: "vllmbot"
 
-  - group: "Publish wheels"
-    key: "publish-wheels"
-    steps:
-      - block: "Confirm update release wheels to PyPI (experimental, use with caution)?"
-        key: block-upload-release-wheels
-        depends_on:
-          - input-release-version
-          - build-wheels
-
-      - label: "Upload release wheels to PyPI"
-        depends_on:
-          - block-upload-release-wheels
-        id: upload-release-wheels
-        agents:
-          queue: small_cpu_queue_release
-        commands:
-          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-release-wheels-pypi.sh"
-
   # =============================================================================
   # ROCm Release Pipeline (x86_64 only)
   # =============================================================================
@@ -462,7 +594,7 @@ steps:
           echo ""
           echo " Build complete - Image and wheels cached"
         fi
-        
+
     artifact_paths:
       - "artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/*.whl"
     env:
@@ -618,7 +750,7 @@ steps:
       - "bash tools/vllm-rocm/generate-rocm-wheels-root-index.sh"
     env:
       S3_BUCKET: "vllm-wheels"
-      VARIANT: "rocm721"
+      VARIANT: "rocm723"
 
   # ROCm Job 6: Build ROCm Release Docker Image
   - label: ":docker: Build release image - x86_64 - ROCm"
@@ -678,7 +810,7 @@ steps:
         
         # Push to ECR
         docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-rocm
-        
+
         echo ""
         echo " Successfully built and pushed ROCm release image"
         echo "   Image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-rocm"
@@ -705,3 +837,59 @@ steps:
     env:
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
       DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: "vllmbot"
+
+  # =============================================================================
+  # Publish to DockerHub and PyPI (at the end so all builds complete first)
+  # =============================================================================
+
+  - block: "Publish release images to DockerHub"
+    key: block-publish-release-images
+    depends_on:
+      - create-multi-arch-manifest
+      - create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-12-9
+      - create-multi-arch-manifest-ubuntu2404
+      - create-multi-arch-manifest-cuda-12-9-ubuntu2404
+      - build-rocm-release-image
+      - input-release-version
+      # Wait for CPU builds if their block steps were unblocked, so publish
+      # doesn't race the in-progress CPU build. allow_failure lets publish
+      # proceed when the operator legitimately leaves the CPU block steps
+      # unblocked or the CPU build fails.
+      - step: build-cpu-release-image-x86
+        allow_failure: true
+      - step: build-cpu-release-image-arm64
+        allow_failure: true
+
+  - label: "Publish release images to DockerHub"
+    depends_on:
+      - block-publish-release-images
+    key: publish-release-images-dockerhub
+    agents:
+      queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+    commands:
+      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/publish-release-images.sh"
+    plugins:
+      - docker-login#v3.0.0:
+          username: vllmbot
+          password-env: DOCKERHUB_TOKEN
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+      DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: "vllmbot"
+
+  - group: "Publish wheels"
+    key: "publish-wheels"
+    steps:
+      - block: "Confirm update release wheels to PyPI (experimental, use with caution)?"
+        key: block-upload-release-wheels
+        depends_on:
+          - input-release-version
+          - build-wheels
+
+      - label: "Upload release wheels to PyPI"
+        depends_on:
+          - block-upload-release-wheels
+        id: upload-release-wheels
+        agents:
+          queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+        commands:
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-release-wheels-pypi.sh"

.buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# Append a build artifact line to the Buildkite annotation.
+# Usage: annotate-build-artifact.sh <label> <value>
+set -e
+echo "- **${1}**: \`${2}\`" | \
+  buildkite-agent annotate --append --style 'info' --context 'release-artifacts'

.buildkite/scripts/annotate-release.sh

@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -ex
-
-# Get release version, default to 1.0.0.dev for nightly/per-commit builds
-RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^v//')
-if [ -z "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]; then
-  RELEASE_VERSION="1.0.0.dev"
-fi
-
-ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY=$(.buildkite/scripts/cache-rocm-base-wheels.sh key)
-
-buildkite-agent annotate --style 'info' --context 'release-workflow' << EOF
-To download the wheel (by commit):
-\`\`\`
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_31_x86_64.whl .
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_31_aarch64.whl .
-
-(Optional) For CUDA 13.0:
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cu130-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_35_x86_64.whl .
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cu130-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_35_aarch64.whl .
-
-(Optional) For CPU:
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cpu-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_35_x86_64.whl .
-aws s3 cp s3://vllm-wheels/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/vllm-${RELEASE_VERSION}+cpu-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_35_aarch64.whl .
-\`\`\`
-
-
-To download and upload the image:
-
-\`\`\`
-# Download images:
-
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-x86_64
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-aarch64
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-x86_64-cu130
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-aarch64-cu130
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}-rocm-base
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-rocm
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-
-# Tag and push images:
-
-## CUDA
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-x86_64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64-cu130
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu130
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:x86_64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu130
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu130
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu130
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-aarch64 vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-aarch64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64-cu130
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu130
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai:aarch64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu130
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu130
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu130
-
-## ROCm
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-rocm vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT} vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT} vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}-rocm-base vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-base
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-base vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest-base
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-base vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-base
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest-base
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-base
-
-## CPU
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:x86_64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
-
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:arm64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:arm64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
-docker tag vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:arm64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
-
-# Create multi-arch manifest:
-
-docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-
-docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu130
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu130
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu130 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu130
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu130
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu130
-
-docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest || true
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
-\`\`\`
-EOF

.buildkite/scripts/check-ray-compatibility.sh

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if python3 -c "import torch; assert torch.version.hip" 2>/dev/null; then
         TORCH_INDEX_URL=""
     fi
 else
-    TORCH_INDEX_URL="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu129"
+    TORCH_INDEX_URL="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu130"
 fi
 echo ">>> Using PyTorch index: ${TORCH_INDEX_URL:-PyPI default}"
 

.buildkite/scripts/ci-clean-log.sh

@@ -13,5 +13,8 @@ INPUT_FILE="$1"
 # Strip timestamps
 sed -i 's/^\[[0-9]\{4\}-[0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{2\}T[0-9]\{2\}:[0-9]\{2\}:[0-9]\{2\}Z\] //' "$INPUT_FILE"
 
+# Strip Buildkite inline timestamp markers (ESC _bk;t=<ms> BEL)
+sed -i 's/\x1B_bk;t=[0-9]*\x07//g' "$INPUT_FILE"
+
 # Strip colorization
 sed -i -r 's/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[mK]//g' "$INPUT_FILE"

.buildkite/scripts/ci-fetch-log.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Fetch vLLM Buildkite CI logs (public; no login required).
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ci-fetch-log.sh [--soft|--all] --pr [<PR>]  failed jobs in the PR's latest
+#                                               build (current branch if omitted)
+#   ci-fetch-log.sh [--soft|--all] <build_url>  failed jobs in that build
+#   ci-fetch-log.sh <job_url> [output]          one job; both #<job_uuid> and
+#                                               ?sid=<id> URL forms work
+#   ci-fetch-log.sh <build> <job_uuid> [output]
+#
+# --soft also fetches soft-failed jobs; --all fetches every finished job.
+# Saves each log as ci-<build>-<job-name>.log (ANSI/timestamps stripped) and
+# prints "<file>\t<job name>" per job. [output] is single-job only; "-"
+# streams to stdout. Existing files are kept; CI_FETCH_LOG_FORCE=1 refetches.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+ORG="vllm"
+PIPELINE="ci"
+UA="vllm-ci-fetch-log"
+UUID_RE='[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}'
+
+usage() {
+    sed -n '2,15p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'
+    exit 1
+}
+
+die() {
+    echo "$1" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+BUILD="" JOB="" SID="" OUT=""
+SCOPE="failed"
+
+while :; do
+    case "${1:-}" in
+    --soft) SCOPE="soft" ;;
+    --all) SCOPE="all" ;;
+    *) break ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+done
+
+case "${1:-}" in
+--pr)
+    PR="${2:-}"
+    # gh pr checks exits non-zero when checks are failing; that is the
+    # expected case here.
+    URL=$(gh pr checks ${PR:+"$PR"} --repo vllm-project/vllm 2>/dev/null |
+        grep -oE "https://buildkite.com/${ORG}/${PIPELINE}/builds/[0-9]+" |
+        sort -t/ -k7 -n | tail -1 || true)
+    [ -n "$URL" ] || die "No Buildkite build found via: gh pr checks ${PR:-<current branch>}"
+    BUILD="${URL##*/}"
+    ;;
+https://*)
+    BUILD=$(echo "$1" | sed -nE 's#.*/builds/([0-9]+).*#\1#p')
+    JOB=$(echo "$1" | grep -oE "#${UUID_RE}" | head -n 1 | cut -c2- || true)
+    SID=$(echo "$1" | grep -oE "[?&]sid=${UUID_RE}" | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*sid=//' || true)
+    OUT="${2:-}"
+    [ -n "$BUILD" ] || die "Could not parse build number from: $1"
+    ;;
+[0-9]*)
+    [ $# -ge 2 ] || usage
+    BUILD="$1"
+    JOB="$2"
+    OUT="${3:-}"
+    ;;
+*)
+    usage
+    ;;
+esac
+
+COOKIES=$(mktemp)
+JOBS_TSV=$(mktemp)
+trap 'rm -f "$COOKIES" "$JOBS_TSV"' EXIT
+
+# Buildkite issues a session cookie on first hit; later requests need it.
+curl -fsSL -c "$COOKIES" -A "$UA" \
+    "https://buildkite.com/${ORG}/${PIPELINE}/builds/${BUILD}" -o /dev/null
+
+# The build's job list (id, step uuid, state, name) is served as JSON from
+# the user-facing /data/jobs endpoint. Flatten it to TSV for easy filtering:
+#   job_id  step_uuid  failed  soft_failed  finished  slug  name
+curl -fsSL -b "$COOKIES" -A "$UA" \
+    "https://buildkite.com/${ORG}/${PIPELINE}/builds/${BUILD}/data/jobs" |
+    python3 -c '
+import json, re, sys
+
+data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+if data.get("has_next_page"):
+    print("warning: job list is paginated; some jobs not shown", file=sys.stderr)
+for r in data["records"]:
+    if r.get("type") != "script":
+        continue
+    name = (r.get("name") or "").replace("\t", " ").replace("\n", " ")
+    slug = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", "-", name.lower()).strip("-")[:60]
+    print("\t".join([
+        r["id"],
+        r.get("step_uuid") or "",
+        str(r.get("passed") is False),
+        str(bool(r.get("soft_failed"))),
+        str(bool(r.get("finished_at"))),
+        slug,
+        name,
+    ]))
+' >"$JOBS_TSV" || die "Could not list jobs for build ${BUILD}"
+
+if [ -n "$SID" ] && [ -z "$JOB" ]; then
+    # The ?sid= in builds/<N>/list URLs is the *step* uuid, not the job uuid.
+    JOB=$(awk -F'\t' -v s="$SID" '$1 == s || $2 == s {print $1; exit}' "$JOBS_TSV")
+    [ -n "$JOB" ] || die "No job matching sid=${SID} in build ${BUILD}"
+fi
+
+fetch_job() { # <job_uuid> <output_file>
+    curl -fsSL -b "$COOKIES" -A "$UA" \
+        "https://buildkite.com/organizations/${ORG}/pipelines/${PIPELINE}/builds/${BUILD}/jobs/$1/download" \
+        -o "$2"
+    bash "$(dirname "$0")/ci-clean-log.sh" "$2"
+}
+
+if [ -n "$JOB" ]; then
+    # Single-job mode.
+    NAME=$(awk -F'\t' -v j="$JOB" '$1 == j {print $7; exit}' "$JOBS_TSV")
+    SLUG=$(awk -F'\t' -v j="$JOB" '$1 == j {print $6; exit}' "$JOBS_TSV")
+    [ -n "$OUT" ] || OUT="ci-${BUILD}-${SLUG:-${JOB:0:13}}.log"
+    if [ "$OUT" = "-" ]; then
+        TMP=$(mktemp)
+        fetch_job "$JOB" "$TMP"
+        cat "$TMP"
+        rm -f "$TMP"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+    if [ -e "$OUT" ] && [ -z "${CI_FETCH_LOG_FORCE:-}" ]; then
+        die "Refusing to overwrite existing ${OUT} (set CI_FETCH_LOG_FORCE=1 or pass an output path)."
+    fi
+    fetch_job "$JOB" "$OUT"
+    printf '%s\t%s\n' "$OUT" "${NAME:-$JOB}"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Build-wide mode: fetch finished jobs matching $SCOPE.
+[ -z "$OUT" ] || die "[output_file] is only valid when fetching a single job."
+
+case "$SCOPE" in
+failed) FILTER='$3 == "True" && $4 == "False" && $5 == "True"' ;;
+soft) FILTER='$3 == "True" && $5 == "True"' ;;
+all) FILTER='$5 == "True"' ;;
+esac
+
+if [ "$SCOPE" = "failed" ]; then
+    SOFT=$(awk -F'\t' '$3 == "True" && $4 == "True"' "$JOBS_TSV" | wc -l)
+    [ "$SOFT" -eq 0 ] || echo "Skipping ${SOFT} soft-failed job(s); use --soft to include them." >&2
+fi
+
+FOUND=0
+EMITTED=" "
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r job_id _ _ _ _ slug name; do
+    FOUND=$((FOUND + 1))
+    out="ci-${BUILD}-${slug:-${job_id:0:13}}.log"
+    # Retries share a name with the original job; disambiguate by uuid.
+    case "$EMITTED" in
+    *" $out "*) out="ci-${BUILD}-${slug:-job}-${job_id:0:13}.log" ;;
+    esac
+    EMITTED="${EMITTED}${out} "
+    if [ -e "$out" ] && [ -z "${CI_FETCH_LOG_FORCE:-}" ]; then
+        echo "Keeping existing ${out} (set CI_FETCH_LOG_FORCE=1 to refetch)." >&2
+    elif ! fetch_job "$job_id" "$out"; then
+        echo "Failed to download log for job ${job_id} (${name})." >&2
+        continue
+    fi
+    printf '%s\t%s\n' "$out" "$name"
+done < <(awk -F'\t' "$FILTER" "$JOBS_TSV")
+
+if [ "$FOUND" -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "No matching jobs in build ${BUILD} (scope: ${SCOPE})." >&2
+fi

.buildkite/scripts/detect-manylinux-tag.py

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""Detect the manylinux platform tag for a wheel and rename it in place.
+
+vLLM's build images produce wheels with the generic ``linux_<arch>`` platform
+tag, which installers like ``pip`` won't accept off PyPI/our index. We need to
+rewrite the platform tag to the appropriate ``manylinux_<major>_<minor>_<arch>``
+before uploading.
+
+Historically the tag was hard-coded per build (``manylinux_2_31`` for the
+Ubuntu 20.04-based image, ``manylinux_2_35`` for the Ubuntu 22.04-based
+images). That is brittle: bumping the base image silently produces wheels
+labelled with the wrong glibc requirement. This script asks ``auditwheel``
+to derive the tag from the symbol versions actually referenced by the
+binaries inside the wheel, so the label tracks reality.
+
+We can't simply call ``auditwheel repair`` -- it tries to graft external
+shared libraries into the wheel and fails on vLLM's CUDA/cuBLAS dependencies.
+Instead we use ``auditwheel.wheel_abi.analyze_wheel_abi`` directly, which is
+the same call that powers ``auditwheel show``, and read off
+``winfo.sym_policy.name``.
+
+Usage:
+    detect-manylinux-tag.py <wheel_path>
+
+The wheel is renamed in place; the new path is printed on stdout. All
+diagnostics go to stderr so callers can capture stdout safely.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from auditwheel.error import (
+    AuditwheelError,
+    NonPlatformWheelError,
+    WheelToolsError,
+)
+from auditwheel.wheel_abi import analyze_wheel_abi
+from auditwheel.wheeltools import get_wheel_architecture, get_wheel_libc
+
+
+def detect_platform_tag(wheel_path: Path) -> str:
+    """Return the most precise platform tag the wheel is consistent with.
+
+    Mirrors ``auditwheel show`` but returns ``sym_policy`` rather than
+    ``overall_policy``: we only care about the glibc symbol versions used,
+    not about other policy axes (ISA extensions, blacklist, etc.) that
+    ``overall_policy`` folds in.
+    """
+    fn = wheel_path.name
+
+    try:
+        arch = get_wheel_architecture(fn)
+    except (WheelToolsError, NonPlatformWheelError):
+        # Architecture isn't deducible from the filename; let auditwheel
+        # infer it from the ELF binaries inside the wheel.
+        arch = None
+
+    try:
+        libc = get_wheel_libc(fn)
+    except WheelToolsError:
+        # An unrepaired wheel uses ``linux_<arch>``, which doesn't encode
+        # libc. Let auditwheel infer it from the ELF binaries.
+        libc = None
+
+    winfo = analyze_wheel_abi(
+        libc,
+        arch,
+        wheel_path,
+        frozenset(),
+        disable_isa_ext_check=False,
+        allow_graft=False,
+    )
+    return winfo.sym_policy.name
+
+
+def rename_wheel(wheel_path: Path, new_platform_tag: str) -> Path:
+    """Rename the wheel in place, replacing only its platform tag."""
+    # Wheel filename per PEP 427:
+    #   {distribution}-{version}(-{build})?-{python}-{abi}-{platform}.whl
+    # The platform tag is always the last ``-``-separated token before
+    # ``.whl``. Compound tags like ``manylinux_2_31_x86_64`` use ``_`` as the
+    # internal separator, so ``-``-splitting is unambiguous.
+    parts = wheel_path.stem.split("-")
+    if len(parts) < 5:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unrecognised wheel filename: {wheel_path.name}")
+    parts[-1] = new_platform_tag
+    new_path = wheel_path.with_name("-".join(parts) + ".whl")
+    if new_path != wheel_path:
+        wheel_path.rename(new_path)
+    return new_path
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Detect a wheel's manylinux platform tag with "
+        "auditwheel and rename the wheel in place."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "wheel",
+        type=Path,
+        help="Path to the wheel to inspect and rename.",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    wheel_path: Path = args.wheel
+    if not wheel_path.is_file():
+        print(f"error: {wheel_path} is not a file", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+
+    # Catch the things that ``analyze_wheel_abi`` and ``rename_wheel`` can
+    # raise: any subclass of ``AuditwheelError`` (pure-Python wheels,
+    # invalid libc, malformed wheels), filesystem errors, or our own
+    # ``ValueError`` for an unrecognised wheel filename. Print a single
+    # ``ERROR_TYPE: message`` line to stderr instead of a Python
+    # traceback, which is much friendlier in CI logs.
+    try:
+        new_tag = detect_platform_tag(wheel_path)
+        print(f"detected platform tag: {new_tag}", file=sys.stderr)
+        new_path = rename_wheel(wheel_path, new_tag)
+    except (AuditwheelError, ValueError, OSError) as e:
+        print(
+            f"error: failed to retag {wheel_path.name}: {type(e).__name__}: {e}",
+            file=sys.stderr,
+        )
+        return 2
+
+    if new_path != wheel_path:
+        print(f"renamed {wheel_path.name} -> {new_path.name}", file=sys.stderr)
+    else:
+        print(f"wheel already tagged {new_tag}", file=sys.stderr)
+
+    print(new_path)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

.buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Emit docker build flags for release image provenance metadata.
+# Keep this helper best-effort: missing Buildkite metadata should fall back to
+# local/default values instead of blocking the Docker build.
+
+# Variant examples: "", "cu129", "ubuntu2404", "cu129-ubuntu2404".
+variant="${1:-}"
+variant_suffix="${variant:+-${variant}}"
+
+image_name="${VLLM_DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME:-vllm/vllm-openai}"
+staging_repo="${VLLM_STAGING_IMAGE_REPO:-public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo}"
+build_commit="${VLLM_BUILD_COMMIT:-${BUILDKITE_COMMIT:-unknown}}"
+build_pipeline="${VLLM_BUILD_PIPELINE:-${BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_ID:-${BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_SLUG:-local}}}"
+build_url="${VLLM_BUILD_URL:-${BUILDKITE_BUILD_URL:-}}"
+tag_commit="${BUILDKITE_COMMIT:-${build_commit}}"
+
+if [[ -n "${BUILDKITE:-}" || -n "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT:-}" ]]; then
+  release_version="${RELEASE_VERSION:-}"
+  if command -v buildkite-agent >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    release_version="${release_version:-$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version 2>/dev/null)}"
+  fi
+  release_version="${release_version#v}"
+  release_version="${release_version:-${tag_commit}}"
+
+  staging_image_ref="${staging_repo}:${tag_commit}-$(uname -m)${variant_suffix}"
+
+  if [[ "${NIGHTLY:-}" == "1" ]]; then
+    if [[ -z "${variant}" ]]; then
+      image_tag="${image_name}:nightly-${tag_commit}"
+    elif [[ "${variant}" == cu* ]]; then
+      cuda_variant="${variant%%-*}"
+      remaining_variant="${variant#${cuda_variant}}"
+      image_tag="${image_name}:${cuda_variant}-nightly-${tag_commit}${remaining_variant}"
+    else
+      image_tag="${image_name}:nightly-${tag_commit}${variant_suffix}"
+    fi
+  else
+    image_tag="${image_name}:v${release_version}${variant_suffix}"
+  fi
+else
+  image_tag="${VLLM_IMAGE_TAG:-local/vllm-openai:dev}"
+  staging_image_ref="${image_tag}"
+fi
+
+emit_arg() {
+  printf -- "--build-arg %s=%s " "$1" "$2"
+}
+
+emit_arg VLLM_BUILD_COMMIT "${build_commit}"
+emit_arg VLLM_BUILD_PIPELINE "${build_pipeline}"
+emit_arg VLLM_BUILD_URL "${build_url}"
+# This is the intended public tag. The final digest is only known after push.
+emit_arg VLLM_IMAGE_TAG "${image_tag}"
+printf -- "--tag %s " "${staging_image_ref}"

.buildkite/scripts/generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh

@@ -9,21 +9,14 @@ set -ex
 
 BUCKET="vllm-wheels"
 INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR="indices"
-DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS="cu129" # align with vLLM_MAIN_CUDA_VERSION in vllm/envs.py
-PYTHON="${PYTHON_PROG:-python3}" # try to read from env var, otherwise use python3
+DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS="cu130" # align with vLLM_MAIN_CUDA_VERSION in vllm/envs.py
 SUBPATH=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
 S3_COMMIT_PREFIX="s3://$BUCKET/$SUBPATH/"
 
-# detect if python3.12+ is available
-has_new_python=$($PYTHON -c "print(1 if __import__('sys').version_info >= (3,12) else 0)")
-if [[ "$has_new_python" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    # use new python from docker
-    docker pull python:3-slim
-    PYTHON="docker run --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/app -w /app python:3-slim python3"
-fi
-
-echo "Using python interpreter: $PYTHON"
-echo "Python version: $($PYTHON --version)"
+# Select python3 (>= 3.12) -- local if available, else a docker fallback.
+# shellcheck source=lib/select-python.sh
+source .buildkite/scripts/lib/select-python.sh
+select_python
 
 # ======== generate and upload indices ========
 

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-amd-test.sh

@@ -28,32 +28,18 @@
 ###############################################################################
 set -o pipefail
 
-# Export Python path
-export PYTHONPATH=".."
+# Export Python path for commands that run directly on the host. Containerized
+# tests set this to /vllm-workspace below so spawned Python processes do not
+# depend on their current working directory.
+export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH:-..}"
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Helper Functions
 ###############################################################################
 
-cleanup_docker() {
-  # Get Docker's root directory
-  docker_root=$(docker info -f '{{.DockerRootDir}}')
-  if [ -z "$docker_root" ]; then
-    echo "Failed to determine Docker root directory."
-    exit 1
-  fi
-  echo "Docker root directory: $docker_root"
-
-  disk_usage=$(df "$docker_root" | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//')
-  threshold=70
-  if [ "$disk_usage" -gt "$threshold" ]; then
-    echo "Disk usage is above $threshold%. Cleaning up Docker images and volumes..."
-    docker image prune -f
-    docker volume prune -f && docker system prune --force --filter "until=72h" --all
-    echo "Docker images and volumes cleanup completed."
-  else
-    echo "Disk usage is below $threshold%. No cleanup needed."
-  fi
+report_docker_usage() {
+  echo "--- Docker usage"
+  docker system df || true
 }
 
 cleanup_network() {
@@ -68,6 +54,108 @@ cleanup_network() {
   fi
 }
 
+prepare_artifact_image() {
+  if [[ "${VLLM_CI_USE_ARTIFACTS:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
+    return 1
+  fi
+  if ! command -v buildkite-agent >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "buildkite-agent not found; cannot download ROCm wheel artifact"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  local artifact_glob="${VLLM_CI_ARTIFACT_GLOB:-artifacts/vllm-rocm-install/vllm-rocm-install.tar.gz}"
+  local archive=""
+  local metadata_file=""
+  local base_image="${VLLM_CI_BASE_IMAGE:-rocm/vllm-dev:ci_base}"
+  local artifact_image=""
+  local artifact_key=""
+  local base_digest=""
+  local wheel_dir=""
+  local context_dir=""
+  local workspace_dir=""
+
+  artifact_work_dir=$(mktemp -d -t vllm-rocm-artifact.XXXXXX)
+  wheel_dir="${artifact_work_dir}/wheels"
+  context_dir="${artifact_work_dir}/context"
+  workspace_dir="${context_dir}/workspace"
+  mkdir -p "${wheel_dir}" "${context_dir}/wheels" "${workspace_dir}"
+
+  echo "--- Downloading ROCm wheel artifact"
+  if ! buildkite-agent artifact download "${artifact_glob}" "${artifact_work_dir}"; then
+    echo "Failed to download ${artifact_glob}"
+    return 1
+  fi
+  buildkite-agent artifact download \
+    "artifacts/vllm-rocm-install/ci-base-image.txt" \
+    "${artifact_work_dir}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+  archive=$(find "${artifact_work_dir}" -name "vllm-rocm-install.tar.gz" -type f | head -1)
+  if [[ -z "${archive}" || ! -f "${archive}" ]]; then
+    echo "ROCm wheel artifact archive was not found"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  metadata_file=$(find "${artifact_work_dir}" -name "ci-base-image.txt" -type f | head -1)
+  if [[ -n "${metadata_file}" && -s "${metadata_file}" ]]; then
+    base_image=$(tr -d '[:space:]' < "${metadata_file}")
+  fi
+
+  echo "--- Preparing local ROCm test image"
+  echo "Base image: ${base_image}"
+  docker pull "${base_image}" || return 1
+  base_digest=$(
+    docker image inspect \
+      --format='{{if .RepoDigests}}{{index .RepoDigests 0}}{{else}}{{.Id}}{{end}}' \
+      "${base_image}" 2>/dev/null || printf '%s' "${base_image}"
+  )
+
+  artifact_key=$(
+    {
+      printf 'base-image:%s\n' "${base_digest}"
+      sha256sum "${archive}"
+    } | sha256sum | cut -c1-24
+  )
+  artifact_image="rocm/vllm-ci-artifact:${artifact_key}"
+
+  if docker image inspect "${artifact_image}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "Using existing local ROCm artifact image: ${artifact_image}"
+    image_name="${artifact_image}"
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  tar -xzf "${archive}" -C "${wheel_dir}" || return 1
+  if ! ls "${wheel_dir}"/*.whl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ROCm wheel artifact did not contain a wheel"
+    return 1
+  fi
+  if [[ ! -d "${wheel_dir}/tests" ]]; then
+    echo "ROCm wheel artifact did not contain the test workspace"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  cp "${wheel_dir}"/*.whl "${context_dir}/wheels/" || return 1
+  tar -C "${wheel_dir}" --exclude='*.whl' -cf - . \
+    | tar -C "${workspace_dir}" -xf - || return 1
+  cat > "${context_dir}/Dockerfile" <<'EOF'
+ARG BASE_IMAGE
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+COPY wheels/ /tmp/vllm-wheels/
+COPY workspace/ /vllm-workspace/
+RUN python3 -m pip install --no-deps --force-reinstall /tmp/vllm-wheels/*.whl \
+    && rm -rf /tmp/vllm-wheels
+WORKDIR /vllm-workspace
+EOF
+
+  echo "--- Building local ROCm test image"
+  docker build \
+    --pull=false \
+    --build-arg "BASE_IMAGE=${base_image}" \
+    -t "${artifact_image}" \
+    "${context_dir}" || return 1
+  image_name="${artifact_image}"
+  return 0
+}
+
 is_multi_node() {
   local cmds="$1"
   # Primary signal: NUM_NODES environment variable set by the pipeline
@@ -114,8 +202,7 @@ handle_pytest_exit() {
 # unquoted since they have no spaces and work fine.
 #
 # Already-quoted expressions (containing literal single quotes) are passed
-# through untouched to avoid double-quoting values injected by
-# apply_rocm_test_overrides.
+# through untouched to avoid double-quoting well-formed shell fragments.
 #
 # NOTE: This ONLY fixes -m/-k flags. It cannot recover arbitrary inner
 # double-quotes stripped by the calling shell (see header comment).
@@ -247,102 +334,6 @@ re_quote_pytest_markers() {
   echo "${output% }"
 }
 
-###############################################################################
-# ROCm-specific pytest command rewrites
-#
-# These apply ignore flags and environment overrides for tests that are not
-# yet supported or behave differently on ROCm hardware. Kept as a single
-# function so new exclusions are easy to add in one place.
-###############################################################################
-
-apply_rocm_test_overrides() {
-  local cmds="$1"
-
-  # --- Model registry filter ---
-  if [[ $cmds == *"pytest -v -s models/test_registry.py"* ]]; then
-    cmds=${cmds//"pytest -v -s models/test_registry.py"/"pytest -v -s models/test_registry.py -k 'not BambaForCausalLM and not GritLM and not Mamba2ForCausalLM and not Zamba2ForCausalLM'"}
-  fi
-
-  # --- LoRA: disable custom paged attention ---
-  if [[ $cmds == *"pytest -v -s lora"* ]]; then
-    cmds=${cmds//"pytest -v -s lora"/"pytest -v -s lora"}
-  fi
-
-  # --- Kernel ignores ---
-  if [[ $cmds == *" kernels/core"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=kernels/core/test_fused_quant_layernorm.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/core/test_permute_cols.py"
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" kernels/attention"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_encoder_decoder_attn.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_flash_attn.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_flashinfer.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_prefix_prefill.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_cascade_flash_attn.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_mha_attn.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_lightning_attn.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/attention/test_attention.py"
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" kernels/quantization"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_int8_quant.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_machete_mm.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_block_fp8.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_block_int8.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_marlin_gemm.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_cutlass_scaled_mm.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/quantization/test_int8_kernel.py"
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" kernels/mamba"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=kernels/mamba/test_mamba_mixer2.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/mamba/test_causal_conv1d.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/mamba/test_mamba_ssm_ssd.py"
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" kernels/moe"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=kernels/moe/test_moe.py \
-    --ignore=kernels/moe/test_cutlass_moe.py"
-  fi
-
-  # --- Entrypoint ignores ---
-  if [[ $cmds == *" entrypoints/openai "* ]]; then
-    cmds=${cmds//" entrypoints/openai "/" entrypoints/openai \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_audio.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion/test_shutdown.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_completion.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/models/test_models.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_return_tokens_as_ids.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_root_path.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion/test_prompt_validation.py "}
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" entrypoints/serve"* ]]; then
-    cmds="${cmds} \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/serve/lora/test_lora_adapters.py"
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmds == *" entrypoints/llm "* ]]; then
-    cmds=${cmds//" entrypoints/llm "/" entrypoints/llm \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_chat.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_accuracy.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_init.py \
-    --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_prompt_validation.py "}
-  fi
-
-  # Clean up escaped newlines from --ignore appends
-  cmds=$(echo "$cmds" | sed 's/ \\ / /g')
-
-  echo "$cmds"
-}
-
 ###############################################################################
 # Main
 ###############################################################################
@@ -351,20 +342,36 @@ apply_rocm_test_overrides() {
 echo "--- ROCm info"
 rocminfo
 
-# --- Docker housekeeping ---
-cleanup_docker
+# --- Docker status ---
+report_docker_usage
 
 # --- Pull test image ---
 echo "--- Pulling container"
-image_name="rocm/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
+image_name="${VLLM_CI_FALLBACK_IMAGE:-rocm/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT:-local}}"
+artifact_work_dir=""
 container_name="rocm_${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}_$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c 10; echo)"
-docker pull "${image_name}"
 
 remove_docker_container() {
-  docker rm -f "${container_name}" || docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true
+  if docker container inspect "${container_name}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    docker rm -f "${container_name}" || true
+  fi
+  if [[ "${VLLM_CI_REMOVE_TEST_IMAGE:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+    docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true
+  else
+    # Keep images by default so later jobs on the same AMD node can reuse layers.
+    echo "Keeping ROCm test image locally: ${image_name}"
+  fi
+  if [[ -n "${artifact_work_dir}" ]]; then
+    rm -rf "${artifact_work_dir}"
+  fi
 }
 trap remove_docker_container EXIT
 
+if ! prepare_artifact_image; then
+  echo "Using full ROCm CI image: ${image_name}"
+  docker pull "${image_name}" || exit 1
+fi
+
 # --- Prepare commands ---
 echo "--- Running container"
 
@@ -372,15 +379,25 @@ HF_CACHE="$(realpath ~)/huggingface"
 mkdir -p "${HF_CACHE}"
 HF_MOUNT="/root/.cache/huggingface"
 
+# Hugging Face Hub defaults to 10s request/download timeouts, while the ROCm
+# CI image currently raises downloads to 60s. AMD model-test jobs routinely
+# start from a cold or partially-populated shared cache, and the 60s read cap
+# has still timed out before pytest reached the vLLM behavior under test.
+# Keep the CI default explicit and overridable from the Buildkite environment.
+: "${HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT:=300}"
+: "${HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT:=60}"
+
 # ---- Command source selection ----
 # Prefer VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS (preserves all inner quoting intact).
 # Fall back to $* for backward compatibility, but warn that inner
 # double-quotes will have been stripped by the calling shell.
 if [[ -n "${VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS:-}" ]]; then
   commands="${VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS}"
+  commands_source="env"
   echo "Commands sourced from VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS (quoting preserved)"
 else
   commands="$*"
+  commands_source="argv"
   if [[ -z "$commands" ]]; then
     echo "Error: No test commands provided." >&2
     echo "Usage:" >&2
@@ -397,14 +414,26 @@ fi
 
 echo "Raw commands: $commands"
 
-# Fix quoting before ROCm overrides (so overrides see correct structure)
-commands=$(re_quote_pytest_markers "$commands")
-echo "After re-quoting: $commands"
+# Only try to repair stripped pytest -m/-k quoting in legacy argv mode.
+# VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS preserves inner quoting already, and re-quoting that path
+# can corrupt embedded echo strings or otherwise well-formed shell fragments.
+if [[ "$commands_source" == "argv" ]]; then
+  commands=$(re_quote_pytest_markers "$commands")
+  echo "After re-quoting: $commands"
+else
+  echo "Skipping re-quoting for VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS input"
+fi
 
-commands=$(apply_rocm_test_overrides "$commands")
 echo "Final commands: $commands"
 
-MYPYTHONPATH=".."
+MYPYTHONPATH="/vllm-workspace"
+
+container_job_id="${BUILDKITE_JOB_ID:-${BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB:-0}}"
+container_job_id="${container_job_id//[^A-Za-z0-9_.-]/_}"
+container_job_id_short="${container_job_id:0:8}"
+CONTAINER_TMPDIR="/tmp/vllm-${container_job_id_short}"
+CONTAINER_CACHE_ROOT="/tmp/vllm-buildkite-${container_job_id}/cache"
+CONTAINER_PREFLIGHT="mkdir -p \"\$TMPDIR\" \"\$TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR\" \"\$TRITON_CACHE_DIR\" \"\$VLLM_CACHE_ROOT\" \"\$XDG_CACHE_HOME\" && python -c \"import encodings, importlib.metadata as im, importlib.util as iu; [im.version(d) for d in ('transformers', 'torch', 'ray', 'sympy', 'markupsafe', 'vllm')]; missing=[m for m in ('torch.utils.model_zoo', 'transformers.models.nomic_bert', 'ray.dag', 'sympy.physics', 'markupsafe._speedups') if iu.find_spec(m) is None]; assert not missing, missing\""
 
 # Verify GPU access
 render_gid=$(getent group render | cut -d: -f3)
@@ -481,6 +510,8 @@ else
     --group-add "$render_gid" \
     --rm \
     -e HF_TOKEN \
+    -e "HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT=${HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT}" \
+    -e "HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT=${HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT}" \
     -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
     -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
     -e BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB \
@@ -488,10 +519,15 @@ else
     -v "${HF_CACHE}:${HF_MOUNT}" \
     -e "HF_HOME=${HF_MOUNT}" \
     -e "PYTHONPATH=${MYPYTHONPATH}" \
+    -e "TMPDIR=${CONTAINER_TMPDIR}/tmp" \
+    -e "TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR=${CONTAINER_CACHE_ROOT}/torchinductor" \
+    -e "TRITON_CACHE_DIR=${CONTAINER_CACHE_ROOT}/triton" \
+    -e "VLLM_CACHE_ROOT=${CONTAINER_CACHE_ROOT}/vllm" \
+    -e "XDG_CACHE_HOME=${CONTAINER_CACHE_ROOT}/xdg" \
     -e "PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH=" \
     --name "${container_name}" \
     "${image_name}" \
-    /bin/bash -c "${commands}"
+    /bin/bash -c "${CONTAINER_PREFLIGHT} && ${commands}"
 
   exit_code=$?
   handle_pytest_exit "$exit_code"

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-distributed-smoke-test.sh

@@ -3,42 +3,37 @@ set -euox pipefail
 export VLLM_CPU_CI_ENV=0
 export VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=1 # avoid OOM
 
-echo "--- PP+TP"
-vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct -tp=2 -pp=2 --max-model-len=4096 &
-server_pid=$!
-timeout 600 bash -c "until curl localhost:8000/v1/models > /dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 1; done" || exit 1
-vllm bench serve \
-    --backend vllm \
-    --dataset-name random \
-    --model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct \
-    --num-prompts 20 \
-    --result-dir ./test_results \
-    --result-filename tp_pp.json \
-    --save-result \
-    --endpoint /v1/completions
-kill -s SIGTERM $server_pid; wait $server_pid || true
-failed_req=$(jq '.failed' ./test_results/tp_pp.json)
-if [ "$failed_req" -ne 0 ]; then
-  echo "Some requests were failed!"
-  exit 1
-fi
+MODE=${1:-all}
 
-echo "--- DP+TP"
-vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct -tp=2 -dp=2 --max-model-len=4096 &
-server_pid=$!
-timeout 600 bash -c "until curl localhost:8000/v1/models > /dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 1; done" || exit 1
-vllm bench serve \
-   --backend vllm \
-   --dataset-name random \
-   --model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct \
-   --num-prompts 20 \
-   --result-dir ./test_results \
-   --result-filename dp_pp.json \
-   --save-result \
-   --endpoint /v1/completions
-kill -s SIGTERM $server_pid; wait $server_pid || true
-failed_req=$(jq '.failed' ./test_results/dp_pp.json)
-if [ "$failed_req" -ne 0 ]; then
- echo "Some requests were failed!"
- exit 1
-fi
+run_scenario() {
+    local label="$1" result_file="$2"
+    shift 2
+    echo "--- $label"
+    vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct "$@" --max-model-len=4096 &
+    local server_pid=$!
+    timeout 600 bash -c "until curl localhost:8000/v1/models > /dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 1; done" || exit 1
+    vllm bench serve \
+        --backend vllm \
+        --dataset-name random \
+        --model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct \
+        --num-prompts 20 \
+        --result-dir ./test_results \
+        --result-filename "$result_file" \
+        --save-result \
+        --endpoint /v1/completions
+    kill -s SIGTERM "$server_pid"; wait "$server_pid" || true
+    if [ "$(jq '.failed' "./test_results/$result_file")" -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Some requests were failed in $label!"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+case "$MODE" in
+    tp_pp) run_scenario "PP+TP" tp_pp.json -tp=2 -pp=2 ;;
+    dp_tp) run_scenario "DP+TP" dp_tp.json -tp=2 -dp=2 ;;
+    all)
+        run_scenario "PP+TP" tp_pp.json -tp=2 -pp=2
+        run_scenario "DP+TP" dp_tp.json -tp=2 -dp=2
+        ;;
+    *) echo "ERROR: unknown mode '$MODE' (expected: tp_pp | dp_tp | all)" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+esac

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test-arm.sh

@@ -31,6 +31,22 @@ function cpu_tests() {
     set -e
     pip list"
 
+  # Run kernel tests
+  docker exec cpu-test bash -c "
+    set -e
+    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/test_onednn.py
+    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_cpu_attn.py
+    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/core/test_cpu_activation.py
+    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_moe.py -k test_cpu_fused_moe_basic
+    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/mamba/cpu/test_cpu_gdn_ops.py"
+
+  # skip tests requiring model downloads if HF_TOKEN is not set
+  # due to rate-limits
+  if [ -z "$HF_TOKEN" ]; then
+    echo "Warning: HF_TOKEN is not set. Skipping tests that require model downloads."
+    return
+  fi
+
   # offline inference
   docker exec cpu-test bash -c "
     set -e
@@ -46,13 +62,6 @@ function cpu_tests() {
     set -e
     pytest -x -v -s tests/quantization/test_compressed_tensors.py::test_compressed_tensors_w8a8_logprobs"
 
-  # Run kernel tests
-  docker exec cpu-test bash -c "
-    set -e
-    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/test_onednn.py
-    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_cpu_attn.py
-    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/core/test_cpu_activation.py
-    pytest -x -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_moe.py -k test_cpu_fused_moe_basic"
 
   # basic online serving
   docker exec cpu-test bash -c '
@@ -67,6 +76,21 @@ function cpu_tests() {
       --num-prompts 20 \
       --endpoint /v1/completions
     kill -s SIGTERM $server_pid &'
+
+  # smoke test for Gated DeltaNet
+  docker exec cpu-test bash -c '
+    set -e
+    VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=$E2E_OMP_THREADS vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B --max-model-len 2048 &
+    server_pid=$!
+    timeout 600 bash -c "until curl localhost:8000/v1/models; do sleep 1; done" || exit 1
+    vllm bench serve \
+      --backend vllm \
+      --dataset-name random \
+      --model Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B \
+      --num-prompts 20 \
+      --endpoint /v1/completions
+    kill -s SIGTERM $server_pid &'
+
 }
 
 # All of CPU tests are expected to be finished less than 40 mins.

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-ci-test.sh

@@ -1,55 +1,51 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# This script build the CPU docker image and run the offline inference inside the container.
-# It serves a sanity check for compilation and basic model usage.
-set -ex
+set -euo pipefail
 
-image_name="xpu/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
-container_name="xpu_${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}_$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c 10; echo)"
+test_suite="${1:-}"
 
-# Try building the docker image
-docker build -t "${image_name}" -f docker/Dockerfile.xpu .
+if [[ -z "${test_suite}" ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <example|v1|server>" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
 
-# Setup cleanup
-remove_docker_container() {
-  docker rm -f "${container_name}" || true;
-  docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true;
-  docker system prune -f || true;
-}
-trap remove_docker_container EXIT
+case "${test_suite}" in
+  example)
+    pip install tblib==3.1.0
 
-# Run the image and test offline inference/tensor parallel
-docker run \
-    --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri \
-    --net=host \
-    --ipc=host \
-    --privileged \
-    -v /dev/dri/by-path:/dev/dri/by-path \
-    --entrypoint="" \
-    -e "HF_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN}" \
-    -e "ZE_AFFINITY_MASK=${ZE_AFFINITY_MASK}" \
-    --name "${container_name}" \
-    "${image_name}" \
-    bash -c '
-    set -e
-    echo $ZE_AFFINITY_MASK
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 -O3 -cc.cudagraph_mode=NONE
-    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --distributed-executor-backend ray
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --distributed-executor-backend mp
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --attention-backend=TRITON_ATTN
     python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --quantization fp8
-    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model superjob/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GPTQ-Int4  --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192
-    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b  --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2
-    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b  --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --enable-expert-parallel
-    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model OPEA/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-int4-sym-inc --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --kv-cache-dtype fp8
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model nvidia/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP8 --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --quantization modelopt --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --attention-backend TRITON_ATTN --max-model-len 4096
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model superjob/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GPTQ-Int4 --block-size 64 --enforce-eager --max-model-len 8192
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b --block-size 64 --enforce-eager -tp 2 --enable-expert-parallel
+    python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model superjob/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-GPTQ-Int4 --max-model-len 8192
+    ;;
+  v1)
     cd tests
+
     pytest -v -s v1/core --ignore=v1/core/test_reset_prefix_cache_e2e.py --ignore=v1/core/test_scheduler_e2e.py
-    pytest -v -s v1/engine
-    pytest -v -s v1/sample --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs.py --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py
+    pytest -v -s v1/engine --ignore=v1/engine/test_output_processor.py
+    pytest -v -s v1/sample --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs.py --ignore=v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py -k "not test_topk_only and not test_topp_only and not test_topk_and_topp"
     pytest -v -s v1/worker --ignore=v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py --ignore=v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
     pytest -v -s v1/structured_output
-    pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_tree_attention.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_eagle3.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py
-    pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/unit --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_multi_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_example_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_lmcache_integration.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_client.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_metadata_server.py
     pytest -v -s v1/test_serial_utils.py
-'
+    pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_eagle3.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py --ignore=v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_correctness.py
+    pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/unit --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_multi_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_example_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_lmcache_integration.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_client.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_connector.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_hf3fs_metadata_server.py --ignore=v1/kv_connector/unit/test_offloading_connector.py
+    ;;
+  server)
+    pip install av
+    cd tests
+
+    pytest -v -s entrypoints/multimodal/openai/chat_completion/test_audio_in_video.py
+    pytest -v -s benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo "Unknown Intel test suite: ${test_suite}" >&2
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+esac

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-intel-test.sh

@@ -25,22 +25,100 @@ export PYTHONPATH=".."
 ###############################################################################
 
 cleanup_docker() {
+  # Share the same lock with image pull to avoid cleanup/pull races on one node.
+  local docker_lock="/tmp/docker-pull.lock"
+  exec 9>"$docker_lock"
+  flock 9
+
   docker_root=$(docker info -f '{{.DockerRootDir}}')
   if [ -z "$docker_root" ]; then
     echo "Failed to determine Docker root directory." >&2
-    exit 1
+    flock -u 9
+    return 1
   fi
   echo "Docker root directory: $docker_root"
 
   disk_usage=$(df "$docker_root" | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//')
   threshold=70
   if [ "$disk_usage" -gt "$threshold" ]; then
-    echo "Disk usage is above $threshold%. Cleaning up Docker images and volumes..."
-    docker image prune -f
-    docker volume prune -f && docker system prune --force --filter "until=72h" --all
-    echo "Docker images and volumes cleanup completed."
+    echo "Disk usage is above $threshold%. Running aggressive CI image cleanup..."
+    cleanup_old_ci_images "${REGISTRY}/${REPO}" "${image_name}" "${DOCKER_IMAGE_CLEANUP_HOURS:-72}" 1
   else
-    echo "Disk usage is below $threshold%. No cleanup needed."
+    echo "Disk usage is below $threshold%. Checking old CI images anyway."
+    cleanup_old_ci_images "${REGISTRY}/${REPO}" "${image_name}" "${DOCKER_IMAGE_CLEANUP_HOURS:-72}" 0
+  fi
+  echo "Old CI image cleanup completed."
+
+  flock -u 9
+}
+
+cleanup_old_ci_images() {
+  local repo_prefix="$1"
+  local current_image_ref="$2"
+  local ttl_hours="$3"
+  local aggressive_cleanup="$4"
+
+  if [[ -z "$repo_prefix" || "$repo_prefix" == "/" ]]; then
+    echo "Skip old-image cleanup: invalid repo prefix '${repo_prefix}'"
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  if ! [[ "$ttl_hours" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+    echo "Invalid DOCKER_IMAGE_CLEANUP_HOURS='${ttl_hours}', fallback to 72"
+    ttl_hours=72
+  fi
+
+  local now_epoch cutoff_epoch
+  now_epoch=$(date +%s)
+  cutoff_epoch=$((now_epoch - ttl_hours * 3600))
+
+  local -a used_image_ids
+  mapfile -t used_image_ids < <(docker ps -aq | xargs -r docker inspect --format '{{.Image}}' | sort -u)
+
+  local removed_count=0
+  local examined_count=0
+  declare -A seen_ids=()
+
+  while read -r image_ref image_id; do
+    [[ -z "$image_ref" || -z "$image_id" ]] && continue
+    ((examined_count++))
+
+    # Keep the image this job is going to use.
+    if [[ "$image_ref" == "$current_image_ref" ]]; then
+      continue
+    fi
+
+    # Avoid duplicate deletes when multiple tags point to same image id.
+    if [[ -n "${seen_ids[$image_id]:-}" ]]; then
+      continue
+    fi
+    seen_ids[$image_id]=1
+
+    # Never delete images that are used by any container on this node.
+    if printf '%s\n' "${used_image_ids[@]}" | grep -qx "$image_id"; then
+      continue
+    fi
+
+    local created created_epoch
+    created=$(docker image inspect -f '{{.Created}}' "$image_id" 2>/dev/null || true)
+    [[ -z "$created" ]] && continue
+    created_epoch=$(date -d "$created" +%s 2>/dev/null || true)
+    [[ -z "$created_epoch" ]] && continue
+
+    if (( created_epoch < cutoff_epoch )) || [[ "$aggressive_cleanup" == "1" ]]; then
+      if docker image rm -f "$image_id" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        ((removed_count++))
+      fi
+    fi
+  done < <(docker image ls --no-trunc "$repo_prefix" --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}} {{.ID}}')
+
+  # Also trim old dangling layers; this is safe and does not remove referenced images.
+  docker image prune -f --filter "until=${ttl_hours}h" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+  if [[ "$aggressive_cleanup" == "1" ]]; then
+    echo "Examined ${examined_count} images under ${repo_prefix}, removed ${removed_count} unused images under disk pressure."
+  else
+    echo "Examined ${examined_count} images under ${repo_prefix}, removed ${removed_count} old images (>${ttl_hours}h)."
   fi
 }
 
@@ -165,8 +243,10 @@ container_name="xpu_${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}_$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head
 
 # ---- Command source selection ----
 commands=""
+commands_source=""
 if [[ -n "${VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS:-}" ]]; then
   commands="${VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS}"
+  commands_source="env"
   echo "Commands sourced from VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS (quoting preserved)"
 elif [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
   all_yaml=true
@@ -225,8 +305,12 @@ if [[ -z "$commands" ]]; then
 fi
 
 echo "Raw commands: $commands"
-commands=$(re_quote_pytest_markers "$commands")
-echo "After re-quoting: $commands"
+if [[ "$commands_source" != "env" ]]; then
+  commands=$(re_quote_pytest_markers "$commands")
+  echo "After re-quoting: $commands"
+else
+  echo "Skipping re-quoting for VLLM_TEST_COMMANDS input"
+fi
 commands=$(apply_intel_test_overrides "$commands")
 echo "Final commands: $commands"
 
@@ -240,34 +324,14 @@ fi
 cleanup_docker
 
 aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
-aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
 
 # --- Build or pull test image ---
 IMAGE="${IMAGE_TAG_XPU:-${image_name}}"
 
 echo "Using image: ${IMAGE}"
 
-if docker image inspect "${IMAGE}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-  echo "Image already exists locally, skipping pull"
-else
-  echo "Image not found locally, waiting for lock..."
-
-  flock /tmp/docker-pull.lock bash -c "
-    if docker image inspect '${IMAGE}' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-      echo 'Image already pulled by another runner'
-    else
-      echo 'Pulling image...'
-      timeout 900 docker pull '${IMAGE}'
-    fi
-  "
-
-  echo "Pull step completed"
-fi
-
 remove_docker_container() {
   docker rm -f "${container_name}" || true
-  docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true
-  docker system prune -f || true
 }
 trap remove_docker_container EXIT
 
@@ -277,16 +341,36 @@ if [[ -z "${ZE_AFFINITY_MASK:-}" ]]; then
   echo "Warning: ZE_AFFINITY_MASK is not set. Proceeding without device affinity." >&2
 fi
 
-docker run \
+export CMDS="${commands}"
+export HF_TOKEN ZE_AFFINITY_MASK
+
+{
+  flock 9
+  if docker image inspect "${IMAGE}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "Image already exists locally, skipping pull"
+  else
+    echo "Image not found locally, pulling image..."
+    timeout 900 docker pull "${IMAGE}"
+    echo "Pull step completed"
+  fi
+
+  docker create \
     --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri \
     --net=host \
     --ipc=host \
     --privileged \
     -v /dev/dri/by-path:/dev/dri/by-path \
-    --entrypoint="" \
-    -e "HF_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN:-}" \
-    -e "ZE_AFFINITY_MASK=${ZE_AFFINITY_MASK:-}" \
-    -e "CMDS=${commands}" \
+    -v "${HOME}/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface" \
+    --entrypoint='' \
+    -e HF_TOKEN \
+    -e ZE_AFFINITY_MASK \
+    -e BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB \
+    -e BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT \
+    -e CMDS \
     --name "${container_name}" \
-    "${image_name}" \
-    bash -c 'set -e; echo "ZE_AFFINITY_MASK is ${ZE_AFFINITY_MASK:-}"; eval "$CMDS"'
+    "${IMAGE}" \
+    bash -c 'set -e; echo "ZE_AFFINITY_MASK is ${ZE_AFFINITY_MASK:-}"; eval "$CMDS"' \
+    >/dev/null
+} 9>/tmp/docker-pull.lock
+
+docker start -a "${container_name}"

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-tpu-v1-test-part2.sh

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ echo "Results will be stored in: $RESULTS_DIR"
 echo "--- Installing Python dependencies ---"
 python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off git+https://github.com/thuml/depyf.git \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off pytest pytest-asyncio tpu-info \
-    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11" \
+    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12" \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off hf-transfer tblib==3.1.0
 echo "--- Python dependencies installed ---"
 

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-tpu-v1-test.sh

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ echo "Results will be stored in: $RESULTS_DIR"
 echo "--- Installing Python dependencies ---"
 python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off git+https://github.com/thuml/depyf.git \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off pytest pytest-asyncio tpu-info \
-    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11" \
+    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.12" \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off hf-transfer tblib==3.1.0
 echo "--- Python dependencies installed ---"
 
@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ run_and_track_test 3 "test_accuracy.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine" \
     "python3 -m pytest -s -v /workspace/vllm/tests/entrypoints/llm/test_accuracy.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine"
 run_and_track_test 4 "test_quantization_accuracy.py" \
     "python3 -m pytest -s -v /workspace/vllm/tests/tpu/test_quantization_accuracy.py"
-run_and_track_test 5 "examples/offline_inference/tpu.py" \
-    "python3 /workspace/vllm/examples/offline_inference/tpu.py"
 run_and_track_test 6 "test_tpu_model_runner.py" \
     "python3 -m pytest -s -v /workspace/vllm/tests/v1/tpu/worker/test_tpu_model_runner.py"
 run_and_track_test 7 "test_sampler.py" \

.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if python3 -c "import torch; raise SystemExit(0 if torch.version.hip is not None else 1)"; then
+    uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors_rocm.txt
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+REQUIREMENTS_FILE="${KV_CONNECTORS_REQUIREMENTS:-/vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt}"
+
+uv pip install --system -r "${REQUIREMENTS_FILE}"
+
+NIXL_METADATA=$(python3 - <<'PY'
+import importlib.metadata as metadata
+
+import torch
+
+cuda_version = torch.version.cuda
+if cuda_version is None:
+    raise SystemExit("torch.version.cuda is not set")
+
+print(cuda_version.split(".", 1)[0], metadata.version("nixl"))
+PY
+)
+read -r CUDA_MAJOR NIXL_VERSION <<<"${NIXL_METADATA}"
+
+# nixl>=1.1.0 can install multiple CUDA wheel variants. Keep only the variant
+# matching this CI image so nixl_ep_cpp links against the available libcudart.
+uv pip uninstall --system nixl-cu12 nixl-cu13 2>/dev/null || true
+uv pip install --system --no-deps "nixl-cu${CUDA_MAJOR}==${NIXL_VERSION}"
+
+python3 - <<'PY'
+import importlib.metadata as metadata
+
+for package_name in ("nixl", "nixl-cu12", "nixl-cu13"):
+    try:
+        version = metadata.version(package_name)
+    except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+        version = "not installed"
+    print(f"{package_name}: {version}")
+PY

.buildkite/scripts/lib/manylinux.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# Shared helper for rewriting a wheel's platform tag from the generic
+# ``linux_<arch>`` to the correct ``manylinux_<major>_<minor>_<arch>``.
+# After sourcing, call ``apply_manylinux_tag <wheel>`` on each wheel
+# that still carries the generic tag; the renamed path is printed on
+# stdout (logs go to stderr).
+#
+# Why a pinned Docker container instead of using whatever Python
+# happens to be on the agent:
+#   - vLLM's release agents are heterogeneous -- they don't agree on
+#     a Python minor version, and we can't rely on a particular
+#     ``auditwheel`` being installed.
+#   - ``detect-manylinux-tag.py`` reads ``auditwheel.wheel_abi`` and
+#     ``Policy.sym_policy``, which are *internal* APIs without a
+#     stability promise. Pinning both Python and auditwheel makes the
+#     detected tag a function of the inputs alone, and shifts version
+#     bumps from "implicit drift" to "deliberate, retested change".
+#   - Other release scripts (``generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh``,
+#     ``upload-rocm-wheels.sh``) already use the python:3-slim image
+#     when the agent's interpreter is too old; this is the same idea
+#     made stricter.
+#
+# To keep the per-wheel cost down (the ROCm upload retags ~10 wheels
+# each run), we install auditwheel into a long-lived helper container
+# once on source, then ``docker exec`` into it for each call.
+#
+# Trap behaviour:
+# - Sourcing installs an EXIT trap that calls ``manylinux_cleanup`` to
+#   tear down the helper container. Any EXIT trap that was already in
+#   place when this file was sourced is captured and run AFTER our
+#   cleanup, so we don't silently clobber it.
+# - If a caller sets a new EXIT trap *after* sourcing, that trap will
+#   replace ours; in that case the caller should call
+#   ``manylinux_cleanup`` from their own handler.
+
+if [[ -n "${_MANYLINUX_LIB_SOURCED:-}" ]]; then
+    return 0
+fi
+_MANYLINUX_LIB_SOURCED=1
+
+# Pin both sides. Bump these deliberately and re-run a representative
+# wheel from each build target through the detection.
+_MANYLINUX_PYTHON_IMAGE="python:3.12-slim"
+_MANYLINUX_AUDITWHEEL_VERSION="6.6.0"
+
+# Resolve our own directory (and the sibling detect script) using the
+# canonical, symlink-resolved path. The container mounts cwd at the
+# same absolute path on both sides, so all paths we hand to it -- the
+# script, the wheel -- must canonicalise to a location under cwd.
+_MANYLINUX_LIB_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)"
+_MANYLINUX_DETECT_SCRIPT="$(cd "${_MANYLINUX_LIB_DIR}/.." && pwd -P)/detect-manylinux-tag.py"
+_MANYLINUX_CWD="$(pwd -P)"
+
+docker pull --quiet "$_MANYLINUX_PYTHON_IMAGE" >/dev/null
+
+# Spin up a long-lived helper container so we install auditwheel once
+# and then ``docker exec`` into it for each wheel.
+#
+# The container runs as root so ``pip install`` can write into the
+# system site-packages; individual ``docker exec`` calls below pin
+# themselves to the host UID so any file rename happens with host
+# ownership, not root.
+_MANYLINUX_CONTAINER="$(docker run -d --rm \
+    -v "$_MANYLINUX_CWD:$_MANYLINUX_CWD" \
+    -w "$_MANYLINUX_CWD" \
+    "$_MANYLINUX_PYTHON_IMAGE" \
+    sleep infinity)"
+docker exec "$_MANYLINUX_CONTAINER" \
+    pip install --quiet --disable-pip-version-check \
+    --root-user-action=ignore \
+    "auditwheel==${_MANYLINUX_AUDITWHEEL_VERSION}"
+
+# Public cleanup -- safe to call multiple times.
+manylinux_cleanup() {
+    if [[ -n "${_MANYLINUX_CONTAINER:-}" ]]; then
+        docker rm -f "$_MANYLINUX_CONTAINER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+        _MANYLINUX_CONTAINER=""
+    fi
+}
+
+# Capture any EXIT trap that was already in place so we can chain to
+# it rather than overwrite it. ``trap -p EXIT`` prints the handler in
+# eval-able form (``trap -- 'CMD' EXIT``) or nothing if unset; we
+# strip the wrapper to recover ``CMD``. Handles the common case --
+# CMDs without embedded single quotes -- and degrades gracefully (we
+# still run our own cleanup) for the pathological case.
+_manylinux_prev_exit_trap_cmd=""
+_manylinux_existing_exit_trap="$(trap -p EXIT)"
+if [[ -n "$_manylinux_existing_exit_trap" ]]; then
+    _tmp="${_manylinux_existing_exit_trap#trap -- \'}"
+    _manylinux_prev_exit_trap_cmd="${_tmp%\' EXIT}"
+    unset _tmp
+fi
+unset _manylinux_existing_exit_trap
+
+_manylinux_run_exit_chain() {
+    manylinux_cleanup
+    if [[ -n "$_manylinux_prev_exit_trap_cmd" ]]; then
+        eval "$_manylinux_prev_exit_trap_cmd"
+    fi
+}
+trap _manylinux_run_exit_chain EXIT
+
+# Detect the manylinux platform tag for a single wheel and rename it
+# in place, printing the renamed wheel path on stdout. Returns
+# non-zero on failure (which under ``set -e`` propagates to caller).
+#
+# The wheel must be reachable via a path under the host cwd so it's
+# visible inside the helper container; in CI the wheels always live
+# under ``artifacts/`` so this is fine.
+apply_manylinux_tag() {
+    local wheel="$1"
+    local abs_wheel
+    abs_wheel="$(realpath "$wheel")"
+    local new_wheel
+    new_wheel="$(docker exec -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
+        "$_MANYLINUX_CONTAINER" \
+        python "$_MANYLINUX_DETECT_SCRIPT" "$abs_wheel")"
+    if [[ -z "$new_wheel" || ! -f "$new_wheel" ]]; then
+        echo "apply_manylinux_tag: detect-manylinux-tag.py did not produce a valid wheel path for $wheel" >&2
+        return 1
+    fi
+    printf '%s\n' "$new_wheel"
+}

.buildkite/scripts/lib/select-python.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# Pick a Python interpreter for buildkite scripts: prefer a local
+# ``python3`` if it is recent enough (>= 3.12), otherwise fall back to
+# a one-shot Docker container running ``python:3-slim``. After
+# ``select_python`` returns, ``$PYTHON`` is set in the caller's shell
+# and is safe to use as a command (e.g. ``$PYTHON some_script.py``).
+#
+# The 3.12 threshold matches what the existing nightly-index work
+# expects -- typing features used by ``generate-nightly-index.py``.
+# This helper does not pin the *minor* version; if you need stricter
+# reproducibility (e.g. relying on auditwheel internals), invoke
+# Docker yourself with a pinned tag rather than calling this.
+
+if [[ -n "${_SELECT_PYTHON_LIB_SOURCED:-}" ]]; then
+    return 0
+fi
+_SELECT_PYTHON_LIB_SOURCED=1
+
+# Sets ``PYTHON`` in the caller's shell and exports it. Idempotent --
+# calling twice is safe and the second call simply re-runs the probe.
+select_python() {
+    local py="${PYTHON_PROG:-python3}"
+    local has_new_python
+    has_new_python=$("$py" -c \
+        "print(1 if __import__('sys').version_info >= (3,12) else 0)" \
+        2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+    if [[ "$has_new_python" -eq 0 ]]; then
+        # ``-u $(id -u):$(id -g)`` so files created via the container
+        # end up owned by the host user, not root.
+        docker pull python:3-slim
+        PYTHON="docker run --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/app -w /app python:3-slim python3"
+    else
+        PYTHON="$py"
+    fi
+    export PYTHON
+    echo "Using python interpreter: $PYTHON"
+    echo "Python version: $($PYTHON --version)"
+}

.buildkite/scripts/publish-release-images.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# Publish release Docker images from ECR to DockerHub.
+# Pulls per-arch images, tags with latest and versioned tags, pushes them,
+# then creates and pushes multi-arch manifests.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version --default "" | sed 's/^v//')
+if [ -z "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: release-version metadata not set"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+COMMIT="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY=$(.buildkite/scripts/cache-rocm-base-wheels.sh key)
+
+echo "========================================"
+echo "Publishing release images v${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+echo "  Commit: ${COMMIT}"
+echo "  ROCm base cache key: ${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}"
+echo "========================================"
+
+# Login to ECR to pull staging images
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | \
+  docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7
+
+# ---- CUDA (default: 13.0) ----
+
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
+
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest || true
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION} || true
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+
+# ---- CUDA 12.9 ----
+
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129
+
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129 || true
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129 || true
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129
+
+# ---- Ubuntu 24.04 (CUDA 13.0) ----
+
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-ubuntu2404
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-ubuntu2404
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-ubuntu2404
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest-ubuntu2404 || true
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-ubuntu2404 || true
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-ubuntu2404
+
+# ---- Ubuntu 24.04 (CUDA 12.9) ----
+
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129-ubuntu2404 || true
+docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129-ubuntu2404 || true
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:latest-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:latest-cu129-ubuntu2404
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-cu129-ubuntu2404
+
+# ---- ROCm ----
+
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-rocm
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}-rocm-base
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-rocm vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${COMMIT}-rocm vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}-rocm-base vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest-base
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:${ROCM_BASE_CACHE_KEY}-rocm-base vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-base
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:latest-base
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-base
+
+# ---- CPU ----
+# CPU images are behind separate block steps and may not have been built.
+# All-or-nothing: inspect both arches first, then either publish everything
+# (per-arch + multi-arch manifest) or skip everything. Publishing only one
+# arch would leave `:latest-x86_64` pointing at the new release while the
+# `:latest` multi-arch manifest still resolves to the previous release.
+
+CPU_X86_TAG=public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+CPU_ARM_TAG=public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-arm64-cpu-release-repo:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+
+CPU_X86_AVAILABLE=false
+CPU_ARM_AVAILABLE=false
+docker manifest inspect "${CPU_X86_TAG}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && CPU_X86_AVAILABLE=true
+docker manifest inspect "${CPU_ARM_TAG}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && CPU_ARM_AVAILABLE=true
+
+if [ "$CPU_X86_AVAILABLE" = "true" ] && [ "$CPU_ARM_AVAILABLE" = "true" ]; then
+  docker pull "${CPU_X86_TAG}"
+  docker tag "${CPU_X86_TAG}" vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64
+  docker tag "${CPU_X86_TAG}" vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
+  docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64
+  docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64
+
+  docker pull "${CPU_ARM_TAG}"
+  docker tag "${CPU_ARM_TAG}" vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
+  docker tag "${CPU_ARM_TAG}" vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
+  docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
+  docker push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
+
+  docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest || true
+  docker manifest rm vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION} || true
+  docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest-arm64
+  docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION} vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-arm64
+  docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:latest
+  docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai-cpu:v${RELEASE_VERSION}
+elif [ "$CPU_X86_AVAILABLE" = "false" ] && [ "$CPU_ARM_AVAILABLE" = "false" ]; then
+  echo "WARNING: Neither CPU image found in ECR, skipping CPU publish (ensure block-cpu-release-image-build and block-arm64-cpu-release-image-build were unblocked and the builds finished pushing)"
+else
+  # Partial state: one arch built, the other did not. Fail loudly rather than
+  # ship a Docker Hub state where `:latest-${arch}` and `:latest` (multi-arch)
+  # disagree on which release they point at.
+  echo "ERROR: Partial CPU build detected (x86_64=${CPU_X86_AVAILABLE}, arm64=${CPU_ARM_AVAILABLE})."
+  echo "       Refusing to publish to avoid split-tag drift between per-arch and multi-arch tags."
+  echo "       Re-run the missing CPU build and retry, or manually publish if a single-arch release is intended."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "Successfully published release images for v${RELEASE_VERSION}"

.buildkite/scripts/run-rust-frontend-cargo-ci.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+MODE="${1:-}"
+
+if [[ "$MODE" != "style-clippy" && "$MODE" != "test" ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 {style-clippy|test}" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+ROOT_DIR="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+cd "$ROOT_DIR"
+
+export CARGO_TERM_COLOR="${CARGO_TERM_COLOR:-always}"
+export CARGO_HOME="${CARGO_HOME:-$HOME/.cargo}"
+export RUSTUP_HOME="${RUSTUP_HOME:-$HOME/.rustup}"
+export PATH="$CARGO_HOME/bin:$PATH"
+
+log_section() {
+  echo "--- $*"
+}
+
+install_protoc() {
+  if command -v protoc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  local version="${PROTOC_VERSION:-31.1}"
+  local arch
+  case "$(uname -m)" in
+    x86_64)
+      arch="x86_64"
+      ;;
+    aarch64|arm64)
+      arch="aarch_64"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "Unsupported protoc architecture: $(uname -m)" >&2
+      return 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  local url="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v${version}/protoc-${version}-linux-${arch}.zip"
+  local tmp_dir
+  tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
+
+  log_section "Installing protoc ${version}"
+  curl -L --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf "$url" -o "$tmp_dir/protoc.zip"
+  mkdir -p "$CARGO_HOME/bin"
+  unzip -q "$tmp_dir/protoc.zip" bin/protoc 'include/*' -d "$CARGO_HOME"
+  chmod +x "$CARGO_HOME/bin/protoc"
+  rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
+}
+
+rust_toolchain() {
+  awk -F '"' '/channel[[:space:]]*=/ { print $2; exit }' rust-toolchain.toml
+}
+
+install_rust_toolchain() {
+  log_section "Installing Rust toolchain"
+  if ! command -v rustup >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs \
+      | sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --default-toolchain none
+  fi
+
+  local toolchain
+  toolchain="$(rust_toolchain)"
+  rustup toolchain install "$toolchain" --profile minimal --component rustfmt,clippy
+  rustup component add --toolchain "$toolchain" rustfmt clippy
+}
+
+install_cargo_binstall() {
+  if command -v cargo-binstall >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  log_section "Installing cargo-binstall"
+  curl -L --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf \
+    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/main/install-from-binstall-release.sh \
+    | bash
+}
+
+install_cargo_sort() {
+  if command -v cargo-sort >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  log_section "Installing cargo-sort"
+  install_cargo_binstall
+  cargo binstall --no-confirm cargo-sort
+}
+
+install_cargo_nextest() {
+  if command -v cargo-nextest >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  log_section "Installing cargo-nextest"
+  install_cargo_binstall
+  cargo binstall --no-confirm --secure cargo-nextest
+}
+
+install_uv() {
+  if command -v uv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    return
+  fi
+
+  log_section "Installing uv"
+  curl -LsSf --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh \
+    | env UV_INSTALL_DIR="$CARGO_HOME/bin" sh
+}
+
+setup_pyo3_python() {
+  local python_version="${PYO3_PYTHON_VERSION:-3.12}"
+
+  log_section "Installing Python ${python_version} for PyO3 tests"
+  uv python install "$python_version"
+  PYO3_PYTHON="$(uv python find \
+    --managed-python \
+    --no-project \
+    --resolve-links \
+    "$python_version")"
+  export PYO3_PYTHON
+
+  local python_libdir
+  python_libdir="$("$PYO3_PYTHON" - <<'PY'
+import pathlib
+import sysconfig
+
+libdir = pathlib.Path(sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDIR"))
+ldlibrary = sysconfig.get_config_var("LDLIBRARY")
+assert sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_ENABLE_SHARED") == 1
+assert ldlibrary
+assert (libdir / ldlibrary).exists(), libdir / ldlibrary
+print(libdir)
+PY
+)"
+
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${python_libdir}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
+  export LIBRARY_PATH="${python_libdir}:${LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
+}
+
+run_style_clippy() {
+  install_cargo_sort
+
+  log_section "Checking Rust formatting"
+  cargo fmt --manifest-path rust/Cargo.toml --all -- --check
+
+  log_section "Checking Cargo.toml ordering"
+  cargo sort --workspace --check rust
+
+  log_section "Running clippy"
+  cargo clippy \
+    --manifest-path rust/Cargo.toml \
+    --workspace \
+    --all-targets \
+    --all-features \
+    --locked \
+    -- \
+    -D warnings
+}
+
+run_tests() {
+  install_uv
+  setup_pyo3_python
+  install_cargo_nextest
+
+  log_section "Running cargo nextest"
+  cargo nextest run \
+    --manifest-path rust/Cargo.toml \
+    --workspace \
+    --all-features \
+    --locked \
+    --no-fail-fast
+}
+
+install_protoc
+install_rust_toolchain
+
+case "$MODE" in
+  style-clippy)
+    run_style_clippy
+    ;;
+  test)
+    run_tests
+    ;;
+esac

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
     --data-parallel-size 2 \
     --enable-expert-parallel \
     --enable-eplb \
+    --eplb-config '{"use_async": false}' \
     --trust-remote-code \
     --max-model-len 2048 \
     --all2all-backend "$BACK" \

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_prefetch_offload.sh

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ vllm serve "$MODEL" \
   --offload-num-in-group 2 \
   --offload-prefetch-step 1 \
   --offload-params w13_weight w2_weight \
+  --generation-config vllm \
   --port "$PORT" \
   ${EXTRA_ARGS+"${EXTRA_ARGS[@]}"} &
 SERVER_PID=$!

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-eplb \
     --all2all-backend "$BACK" \
-    --eplb-config '{"window_size":10, "step_interval":100, "num_redundant_experts":0, "log_balancedness":true}' \
+    --eplb-config '{"window_size":10, "step_interval":100, "num_redundant_experts":0, "log_balancedness":true, "use_async":false}' \
     --tensor-parallel-size "${TENSOR_PARALLEL_SIZE}" \
     --data-parallel-size "${DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE}" \
     --enable-expert-parallel \

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_dp4_async_eplb.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+# args: [THRESHOLD] [NUM_QUESTIONS] [START_PORT]
+THRESHOLD=${1:-0.8}
+NUM_Q=${2:-1319}
+PORT=${3:-8050}
+OUT_DIR=${OUT_DIR:-/tmp/vllm-scheduled}
+mkdir -p "${OUT_DIR}"
+
+wait_for_server() {
+  local port=$1
+  timeout 600 bash -c '
+    until curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:'"$port"'/health" > /dev/null; do
+      sleep 1
+    done'
+}
+
+MODEL="Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8"
+BACK="allgather_reducescatter"
+
+cleanup() {
+  if [[ -n "${SERVER_PID:-}" ]] && kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null; then
+    kill "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
+    for _ in {1..20}; do
+      kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || break
+      sleep 0.5
+    done
+    kill -9 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
+  fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+VLLM_DEEP_GEMM_WARMUP=skip \
+vllm serve "$MODEL" \
+--enforce-eager \
+--data-parallel-size 4 \
+--enable-expert-parallel \
+--enable-eplb \
+--all2all-backend "$BACK" \
+--eplb-config '{"window_size":20, "step_interval":100, "use_async":true}' \
+--trust-remote-code \
+--max-model-len 2048 \
+--port "$PORT" &
+SERVER_PID=$!
+wait_for_server "$PORT"
+
+TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
+OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}.json"
+python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port "$PORT" --num-questions "${NUM_Q}" --save-results "${OUT}"
+python3 - <<PY
+import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
+print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")
+assert acc >= ${THRESHOLD}, f"${MODEL} ${BACK} accuracy {acc}"
+PY

.buildkite/scripts/tool_call/run-bfcl-eval.sh

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #   BFCL_MAX_MODEL_LEN  - Max model length (default: 4096)
 #   BFCL_PORT           - Server port (default: 8000)
 #   BFCL_REASONING_PARSER - Reasoning parser name (default: disabled)
+#   BFCL_TEMPERATURE    - Temperature (default: 0.0)
 #   BFCL_EXTRA_ARGS     - Additional vLLM server args
 
 set -euo pipefail
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ TP_SIZE="${BFCL_TP_SIZE:-1}"
 MAX_MODEL_LEN="${BFCL_MAX_MODEL_LEN:-4096}"
 PORT="${BFCL_PORT:-8000}"
 REASONING_PARSER="${BFCL_REASONING_PARSER:-}"
+TEMPERATURE="${BFCL_TEMPERATURE:-0.0}"
 EXTRA_ARGS="${BFCL_EXTRA_ARGS:-}"
 
 # Set up output directory
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ echo "============================================"
 # ---- Install bfcl-eval if missing ----
 if ! python3 -c "import bfcl_eval" 2>/dev/null; then
     echo "Installing bfcl-eval..."
-    pip install "bfcl-eval>=2025.10.20.1,<2026"
+    uv pip install "bfcl-eval>=2025.10.20.1,<2026"
 fi
 
 # ---- Cleanup handler ----
@@ -98,7 +100,7 @@ SERVE_ARGS=(
     --tensor-parallel-size "$TP_SIZE"
     --max-model-len "$MAX_MODEL_LEN"
     --enforce-eager
-    --no-enable-prefix-caching
+    --enable-prefix-caching
 )
 
 # Append reasoning parser if specified
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ echo "vLLM server is ready. (started in ${SECONDS_WAITED}s)"
 # be patched in-process so BFCL knows to use the OpenAI-compatible handler
 # against our local vLLM server.
 bfcl_exit_code=0
-python3 - "$MODEL" "$TEST_CATEGORY" "$NUM_THREADS" "$PORT" "$API_TYPE" "$OUTPUT_DIR" << 'PYEOF' || bfcl_exit_code=$?
+python3 - "$MODEL" "$TEST_CATEGORY" "$NUM_THREADS" "$PORT" "$API_TYPE" "$TEMPERATURE" "$OUTPUT_DIR" << 'PYEOF' || bfcl_exit_code=$?
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -148,7 +150,8 @@ test_category = sys.argv[2]
 num_threads = int(sys.argv[3])
 port = sys.argv[4]
 api_type = sys.argv[5]
-output_dir = sys.argv[6] if len(sys.argv) > 6 and sys.argv[6] else os.getcwd()
+temperature = float(sys.argv[6])
+output_dir = sys.argv[7] if len(sys.argv) > 7 and sys.argv[7] else os.getcwd()
 
 os.environ["OPENAI_BASE_URL"] = f"http://localhost:{port}/v1"
 os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "dummy"
@@ -204,6 +207,7 @@ gen_kwargs["model"] = [model]
 gen_kwargs["test_category"] = [c.strip() for c in test_category.split(",")]
 gen_kwargs["skip_server_setup"] = True
 gen_kwargs["num_threads"] = num_threads
+gen_kwargs["temperature"] = temperature
 generate(**gen_kwargs)
 
 # ---- evaluate ----

.buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh

@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-# Upload a single wheel to S3 (rename linux -> manylinux).
+# Upload a single wheel to S3, after detecting and applying the appropriate
+# manylinux platform tag with auditwheel.
 # Index generation is handled separately by generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh.
 
+# shellcheck source=lib/manylinux.sh
+source .buildkite/scripts/lib/manylinux.sh
+
 BUCKET="vllm-wheels"
 SUBPATH=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
 S3_COMMIT_PREFIX="s3://$BUCKET/$SUBPATH/"
 
-# ========= collect, rename & upload the wheel ==========
+# ========= locate the wheel ==========
 
 # Assume wheels are in artifacts/dist/*.whl
 wheel_files=(artifacts/dist/*.whl)
@@ -21,19 +25,9 @@ if [[ ${#wheel_files[@]} -ne 1 ]]; then
 fi
 wheel="${wheel_files[0]}"
 
-# default build image uses ubuntu 20.04, which corresponds to manylinux_2_31
-# we also accept params as manylinux tag
-# refer to https://github.com/mayeut/pep600_compliance?tab=readme-ov-file#acceptable-distros-to-build-wheels
-manylinux_version="${1:-manylinux_2_31}"
+# ========= detect manylinux tag and rename ==========
 
-# Rename 'linux' to the appropriate manylinux version in the wheel filename
-if [[ "$wheel" != *"linux"* ]]; then
-  echo "Error: Wheel filename does not contain 'linux': $wheel"
-  exit 1
-fi
-new_wheel="${wheel/linux/$manylinux_version}"
-mv -- "$wheel" "$new_wheel"
-wheel="$new_wheel"
+wheel="$(apply_manylinux_tag "$wheel")"
 echo "Renamed wheel to: $wheel"
 
 # Extract the version from the wheel

.buildkite/scripts/upload-release-wheels-pypi.sh

@@ -39,10 +39,17 @@ fi
 
 set -x # avoid printing secrets above
 
-# install twine from pypi
-python3 -m venv /tmp/vllm-release-env
+# install uv if not already available
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | UV_VERSION=0.11.14 sh
+  export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+
+# install twine and sdist build prerequisites using uv with Python 3.12
+uv venv --python 3.12 /tmp/vllm-release-env
 source /tmp/vllm-release-env/bin/activate
-pip install twine
+uv pip install twine
+uv pip install -r requirements/build/cuda.txt
 python3 -m twine --version
 
 # copy release wheels to local directory

.buildkite/scripts/upload-rocm-wheels.sh

@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ BUCKET="${S3_BUCKET:-vllm-wheels}"
 ROCM_SUBPATH="rocm/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
 S3_COMMIT_PREFIX="s3://$BUCKET/$ROCM_SUBPATH/"
 INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR="rocm-indices"
-PYTHON="${PYTHON_PROG:-python3}"
-
-# ROCm uses manylinux_2_35 (Ubuntu 22.04 based)
-MANYLINUX_VERSION="manylinux_2_35"
 
 echo "========================================"
 echo "ROCm Wheel Upload Configuration"
@@ -34,19 +30,21 @@ echo "Commit: $BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
 echo "Branch: $BUILDKITE_BRANCH"
 echo "========================================"
 
-# ======== Part 0: Setup Python ========
+# ======== Part 0: Setup Python and helpers ========
 
-# Detect if python3.12+ is available
-has_new_python=$($PYTHON -c "print(1 if __import__('sys').version_info >= (3,12) else 0)" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
-if [[ "$has_new_python" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    # Use new python from docker
-    # Use --user to ensure files are created with correct ownership (not root)
-    docker pull python:3-slim
-    PYTHON="docker run --rm --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/app -w /app python:3-slim python3"
-fi
+# Pick a Python interpreter for index generation -- local if recent
+# enough, else a one-shot docker fallback.
+# shellcheck source=lib/select-python.sh
+source .buildkite/scripts/lib/select-python.sh
+select_python
 
-echo "Using python interpreter: $PYTHON"
-echo "Python version: $($PYTHON --version)"
+# Set up auditwheel-in-a-container for the manylinux retagging step.
+# Distinct from select_python: ``manylinux.sh`` deliberately pins both
+# the Python and auditwheel versions (the script reads auditwheel
+# internals) and so always runs in a known-good container regardless
+# of what's on the agent.
+# shellcheck source=lib/manylinux.sh
+source .buildkite/scripts/lib/manylinux.sh
 
 # ======== Part 1: Collect and prepare wheels ========
 
@@ -63,11 +61,18 @@ if [ "$WHEEL_COUNT" -eq 0 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-# Rename linux to manylinux in wheel filenames
+# Detect the appropriate manylinux platform tag for any wheel that still
+# carries the generic ``linux_<arch>`` tag, and rename it in place. We use
+# auditwheel via ``apply_manylinux_tag`` (see lib/manylinux.sh) rather than
+# a hard-coded ``manylinux_2_35`` string so that the label tracks the actual
+# glibc symbol versions used by the binaries (and stays correct if the
+# rocm_base image is rebased).
+#
+# The ``linux``/``manylinux`` filter below skips both pre-tagged wheels
+# (e.g. upstream torch) and pure-Python ``-any.whl`` wheels.
 for wheel in all-rocm-wheels/*.whl; do
     if [[ "$wheel" == *"linux"* ]] && [[ "$wheel" != *"manylinux"* ]]; then
-        new_wheel="${wheel/linux/$MANYLINUX_VERSION}"
-        mv -- "$wheel" "$new_wheel"
+        new_wheel="$(apply_manylinux_tag "$wheel")"
         echo "Renamed: $(basename "$wheel") -> $(basename "$new_wheel")"
     fi
 done

.buildkite/test_areas/attention.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ group: Attention
 depends_on: 
   - image-build
 steps:
-- label: V1 attention (H100)
+- label: V1 attention (H100-MI300)
+  key: v1-attention-h100-mi300
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h100
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -12,10 +13,25 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/attention
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/attention
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 70
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/config/attention.py
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/attention
+      - vllm/v1/attention
+      - tests/v1/attention
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/envs.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
 
 - label: V1 attention (B200)
+  key: v1-attention-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/config/attention.py
     - vllm/model_executor/layers/attention

.buildkite/test_areas/basic_correctness.yaml

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Basic Correctness
+  key: basic-correctness
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness
   - tests/basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload
-  - tests/basic_correctness/test_cumem.py
+  - tests/basic_correctness/test_mem.py
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_cumem.py
-  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
-  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload.py
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_mem.py
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload.py

.buildkite/test_areas/benchmarks.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Benchmarks CLI Test
+  key: benchmarks-cli-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -12,7 +13,8 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s benchmarks/
 
 - label: Attention Benchmarks Smoke Test (B200)
-  device: b200
+  key: attention-benchmarks-smoke-test-b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   num_gpus: 2
   optional: true
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
@@ -21,4 +23,4 @@ steps:
   - benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/
   - vllm/v1/attention/
   commands:
-  - python3 benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/benchmark.py --backends flash flashinfer --batch-specs "8q1s1k" --repeats 1 --warmup-iters 1
+  - python3 benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/benchmark.py --backends flash flashinfer --batch-specs "8q1s1k"

.buildkite/test_areas/compile.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Sequence Parallel Correctness Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: sequence-parallel-correctness-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -13,40 +14,40 @@ steps:
   - vllm/v1/cudagraph_dispatcher.py
   - tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_sequence_parallel.py
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-  - pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_sequence_parallel.py
+  - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_sequence_parallel.py
 
 - label: Sequence Parallel Correctness Tests (2xH100)
+  key: sequence-parallel-correctness-tests-2xh100
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-  - pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_sequence_parallel.py
+  - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_sequence_parallel.py
 
 - label: AsyncTP Correctness Tests (2xH100)
+  key: asynctp-correctness-tests-2xh100
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-  - pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_async_tp.py
+  - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_async_tp.py
 
 - label: AsyncTP Correctness Tests (B200)
+  key: asynctp-correctness-tests-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-  - pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_async_tp.py
+  - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/correctness_e2e/test_async_tp.py
 
 - label: Distributed Compile Unit Tests (2xH100)
+  key: distributed-compile-unit-tests-2xh100
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -56,13 +57,13 @@ steps:
   - vllm/model_executor/layers
   - tests/compile/passes/distributed/
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-  - pytest -s -v tests/compile/passes/distributed
+  - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -s -v tests/compile/passes/distributed
 
 - label: Fusion and Compile Unit Tests (2xB200)
+  key: fusion-and-compile-unit-tests-2xb200
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/fp4/
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fullgraph/test_full_graph.py::test_fp8_kv_scale_compile
 
 - label: Fusion E2E Quick (H100)
+  key: fusion-e2e-quick-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -107,6 +109,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp1_quant.py -k "inductor_partition and not +rms_norm and +quant_fp8 and (qwen3 or deepseek)"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E Config Sweep (H100)
+  key: fusion-e2e-config-sweep-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -126,9 +129,10 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp1_quant.py -k "llama-3"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E Config Sweep (B200)
+  key: fusion-e2e-config-sweep-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   num_devices: 1
   optional: true
   commands:
@@ -139,6 +143,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp1_quant.py -k "inductor_partition and (FLASHINFER and not +rms_norm and (not +quant_fp8 or +quant_fp8 and (qwen3 or deepseek)) or llama-3)"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E TP2 Quick (H100)
+  key: fusion-e2e-tp2-quick-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -156,6 +161,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp2_async_tp.py -k "inductor_partition and not +rms_norm and (not +quant_fp8 or +quant_fp8 and (qwen3 or deepseek))"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E TP2 AR-RMS Config Sweep (H100)
+  key: fusion-e2e-tp2-ar-rms-config-sweep-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 40
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -175,6 +181,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp2_ar_rms.py -k "llama-3"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E TP2 AsyncTP Config Sweep (H100)
+  key: fusion-e2e-tp2-asynctp-config-sweep-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 40
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   device: h100
@@ -194,9 +201,10 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fusions_e2e/test_tp2_async_tp.py -k "llama-3"
 
 - label: Fusion E2E TP2 (B200)
+  key: fusion-e2e-tp2-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
     - csrc/quantization/

.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml

@@ -3,16 +3,22 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Platform Tests (CUDA)
+  key: platform-tests-cuda
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/logger.py
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/plugins/
+  - vllm/utils/
   - tests/cuda
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s cuda/test_cuda_context.py
     - pytest -v -s cuda/test_platform_no_cuda_init.py
 
 - label: Cudagraph
+  key: cudagraph
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   source_file_dependencies:
   - tests/v1/cudagraph
@@ -21,4 +27,5 @@ steps:
   - vllm/compilation
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_dispatch.py
-    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_mode.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_mode.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_breakable_cudagraph.py

.buildkite/test_areas/disaggregated.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+group: Disaggregated
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy (4 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-nixlconnector-pd-accuracy-4-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+- label: Distributed FlashInfer NixlConnector PD accuracy (4 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-flashinfer-nixlconnector-pd-accuracy-4-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - FLASHINFER=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: DP EP Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
+  key: dp-ep-distributed-nixlconnector-pd-accuracy-tests-4-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - DP_EP=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: CrossLayer KV layout Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
+  key: crosslayer-kv-layout-distributed-nixlconnector-pd-accuracy-tests-4-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - CROSS_LAYERS_BLOCKS=True bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: Hybrid SSM NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
+  key: hybrid-ssm-nixlconnector-pd-accuracy-tests-4-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 25
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - HYBRID_SSM=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: Hybrid SSM NixlConnector PD prefix cache test (2 GPUs)
+  key: hybrid-ssm-nixlconnector-pd-prefix-cache-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 25
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - vllm/v1/core/sched/
+    - vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_mamba_prefix_cache_test.sh
+
+- label: MultiConnector (Nixl+Offloading) PD accuracy (2 GPUs)
+  key: multiconnector-nixl-offloading-pd-accuracy-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading_connector.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_multi_connector_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: NixlConnector PD + Spec Decode acceptance (2 GPUs)
+  key: nixlconnector-pd-spec-decode-acceptance-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: a100
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_spec_decode_test.sh
+
+- label: MultiConnector (Nixl+Offloading) PD edge cases (2 GPUs)
+  key: multiconnector-nixl-offloading-pd-edge-cases-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl/
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading_connector.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_multi_connector_edge_case_test.sh

.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Distributed Comm Ops
+  key: distributed-comm-ops
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_storage.py
 
 - label: Distributed DP Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-dp-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -30,13 +32,13 @@ steps:
   - tests/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
-  - DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
 
 - label: Distributed Compile + RPC Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-compile-rpc-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -53,12 +55,12 @@ steps:
   - tests/entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
-  - pytest -v -s ./compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
-  - pytest -v -s ./compile/test_wrapper.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s ./compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s ./compile/test_wrapper.py
 
 - label: Distributed Torchrun + Shutdown Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-torchrun-shutdown-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -74,13 +76,13 @@ steps:
   - tests/v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
-  - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 VLLM_TEST_WITH_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SET=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
-  - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s v1/shutdown
-  - pytest -v -s v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 VLLM_TEST_WITH_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SET=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s v1/shutdown
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
 
 - label: Distributed Torchrun + Examples (4 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-torchrun-examples-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -88,31 +90,30 @@ steps:
   - vllm/distributed/
   - tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
   - tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
-  - examples/offline_inference/rlhf_colocate.py
   - examples/rl/
-  - tests/examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py
+  - tests/examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
   # test with torchrun tp=2 and external_dp=2
-  - torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
   # test with torchrun tp=2 and pp=2
-  - PP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 PP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
   # test with torchrun tp=4 and dp=1
-  - TP_SIZE=4 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=4 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
   # test with torchrun tp=2, pp=2 and dp=1
-  - PP_SIZE=2 TP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 PP_SIZE=2 TP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
   # test with torchrun tp=1 and dp=4 with ep
-  - DP_SIZE=4 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 DP_SIZE=4 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
   # test with torchrun tp=2 and dp=2 with ep
-  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
   # test with internal dp
-  - python3 examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --enforce-eager
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 python3 examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py --enforce-eager
   # rlhf examples
-  - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 examples/rl/rlhf_nccl.py
-  - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 examples/rl/rlhf_ipc.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 examples/rl/rlhf_nccl.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 examples/rl/rlhf_ipc.py
 
 - label: Distributed DP Tests (4 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-dp-tests-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -123,16 +124,16 @@ steps:
   - tests/distributed/test_utils
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_internal_lb_dp.py
-  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py
-  - pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py::test_kv_cache_events_dp
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_utils.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_internal_lb_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py::test_kv_cache_events_dp
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_utils.py
 
 - label: Distributed Compile + Comm (4 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-compile-comm-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -145,33 +146,35 @@ steps:
   - tests/distributed/test_multiproc_executor.py
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - pytest -v -s compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pynccl.py
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_events.py
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_symm_mem_allreduce.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pynccl.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_events.py
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_symm_mem_allreduce.py
   # test multi-node TP with multiproc executor (simulated on single node)
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_multiproc_executor.py::test_multiproc_executor_multi_node
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_multiproc_executor.py::test_multiproc_executor_multi_node
 
 - label: Distributed Tests (8 GPUs)(H100)
+  key: distributed-tests-8-gpus-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 10
   device: h100
   num_devices: 8
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - examples/offline_inference/torchrun_dp_example.py
+  - examples/features/torchrun/torchrun_dp_example_offline.py
   - vllm/config/parallel.py
   - vllm/distributed/
   - vllm/v1/engine/llm_engine.py
   - vllm/v1/executor/uniproc_executor.py
   - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
+  - tests/distributed/test_mnnvl_alltoall.py
+
   commands:
   # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
   # test with torchrun tp=2 and dp=4 with ep
-  - torchrun --nproc-per-node=8 ../examples/offline_inference/torchrun_dp_example.py --tp-size=2 --pp-size=1 --dp-size=4 --enable-ep
+  - NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 torchrun --nproc-per-node=8 ../examples/features/torchrun/torchrun_dp_example_offline.py --tp-size=2 --pp-size=1 --dp-size=4 --enable-ep
 
 - label: Distributed Tests (4 GPUs)(A100)
+  key: distributed-tests-4-gpus-a100
   device: a100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 4
@@ -186,6 +189,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_mixtral.py
 
 - label: Distributed Tests (2 GPUs)(H100)
+  key: distributed-tests-2-gpus-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   device: h100
   optional: true
@@ -194,13 +198,14 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
     - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 examples/rl/rlhf_async_new_apis.py
-    - VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=1 VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG python3 examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --model=Qwen/Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B -tp=1 -dp=2 --max-model-len=2048 --all2all-backend=deepep_high_throughput
+    - VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=1 VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG python3 examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py --model=Qwen/Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B -tp=1 -dp=2 --max-model-len=2048 --all2all-backend=deepep_high_throughput
     - pytest -v -s tests/v1/distributed/test_dbo.py
     - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_weight_transfer.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_packed_tensor.py
 
 - label: Distributed Tests (2 GPUs)(B200)
-  device: b200
+  key: distributed-tests-2-gpus-b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -208,8 +213,12 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_nccl_symm_mem_allreduce.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/v1/distributed/test_dbo.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_mnnvl_alltoall.py
+
+    
 
 - label: 2 Node Test (4 GPUs)
+  key: 2-node-test-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -222,96 +231,12 @@ steps:
   - vllm/executor/
   - vllm/model_executor/models/
   - tests/distributed/
-  - tests/examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py
+  - tests/examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py
   commands:
-    - ./.buildkite/scripts/run-multi-node-test.sh /vllm-workspace/tests 2 2 $IMAGE_TAG "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py -dp=2 -tp=1 --dp-num-nodes=2 --dp-node-rank=0 --dp-master-addr=192.168.10.10 --dp-master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_multi_node_assignment.py && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py" "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py -dp=2 -tp=1 --dp-num-nodes=2 --dp-node-rank=1 --dp-master-addr=192.168.10.10 --dp-master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code"
-
-- label: Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy (4 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 4
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
-
-- label: DP EP Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 4
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - DP_EP=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
-
-- label: CrossLayer KV layout Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 4
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - CROSS_LAYERS_BLOCKS=True bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
-
-- label: Hyrbid SSM NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 20
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 4
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - HYBRID_SSM=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
-
-- label: MultiConnector (Nixl+Offloading) PD accuracy (2 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 2
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_multi_connector_accuracy_test.sh
-
-- label: NixlConnector PD + Spec Decode acceptance (2 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  device: a100
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 2
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/spec_decode_acceptance_test.sh
-
-- label: MultiConnector (Nixl+Offloading) PD edge cases (2 GPUs)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  num_devices: 2
-  source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/multi_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading_connector.py
-    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/offloading/
-    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
-  commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/run_multi_connector_edge_case_test.sh
+    - ./.buildkite/scripts/run-multi-node-test.sh /vllm-workspace/tests 2 2 $IMAGE_TAG "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py -dp=2 -tp=1 --dp-num-nodes=2 --dp-node-rank=0 --dp-master-addr=192.168.10.10 --dp-master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_multi_node_assignment.py && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py" "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/features/data_parallel/data_parallel_offline.py -dp=2 -tp=1 --dp-num-nodes=2 --dp-node-rank=1 --dp-master-addr=192.168.10.10 --dp-master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code"
 
 - label: Pipeline + Context Parallelism (4 GPUs)
+  key: pipeline-context-parallelism-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -326,6 +251,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
 
 - label: RayExecutorV2 (4 GPUs)
+  key: rayexecutorv2-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -338,9 +264,7 @@ steps:
   - tests/distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
   - tests/basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=1
-  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_ray_v2_executor.py
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_ray_v2_executor_e2e.py
-  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py -k "ray"
-  - TARGET_TEST_SUITE=L4 pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py -k "ray"
+  - VLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_ray_v2_executor.py
+  - VLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_ray_v2_executor_e2e.py
+  - VLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py -k "ray"
+  - VLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TARGET_TEST_SUITE=L4 pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py -k "ray"

.buildkite/test_areas/docker.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+group: Docker
+depends_on:
+  - image-build-cpu
+steps:
+- label: Docker Build Metadata
+  timeout_in_minutes: 10
+  device: cpu-small
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - .buildkite/release-pipeline.yaml
+    - .buildkite/scripts/docker-build-metadata-args.sh
+    - docker/Dockerfile
+    - docker/Dockerfile.cpu
+    - docker/docker-bake.hcl
+    - tests/tools/test_docker_build_metadata_args.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s tools/test_docker_build_metadata_args.py

.buildkite/test_areas/e2e_integration.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ group: E2E Integration
 depends_on: 
   - image-build
 steps:
-- label: DeepSeek V2-Lite Accuracy
+- label: DeepSeek V2-Lite Sync EPLB Accuracy
+  key: deepseek-v2-lite-sync-eplb-accuracy
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h100
   optional: true
@@ -11,7 +12,8 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh 0.25 200 8010
 
-- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block Accuracy
+- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block Sync EPLB Accuracy
+  key: qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8-block-sync-eplb-accuracy
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h100
   optional: true
@@ -20,16 +22,28 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8020
 
-- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block Accuracy (B200)
+- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block Sync EPLB Accuracy (B200)
+  key: qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8-block-sync-eplb-accuracy-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
   commands:
   - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8020 2 1
 
+- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 DP4 Async EPLB Accuracy
+  key: qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8-dp4-async-eplb-accuracy
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  device: h100
+  optional: true
+  num_devices: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
+  commands:
+  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_dp4_async_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8050
+
 - label: DeepSeek V2-Lite Prefetch Offload Accuracy (H100)
+  key: deepseek-v2-lite-prefetch-offload-accuracy-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h100
   optional: true

.buildkite/test_areas/engine.yaml

@@ -3,19 +3,38 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Engine
+  key: engine
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/logger.py
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/logger.py
+  - vllm/logging_utils/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sequence.py
+  - vllm/triton_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
   - tests/engine
   - tests/test_sequence
   - tests/test_config
   - tests/test_logger
   - tests/test_vllm_port
+  - tests/test_jit_monitor.py
   commands:
-  - pytest -v -s engine test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py test_vllm_port.py
+  - pytest -v -s engine test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py test_vllm_port.py test_jit_monitor.py
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Engine (1 GPU)
+  key: engine-1-gpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/engine/
@@ -23,8 +42,15 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_preprocess_error_handling.py
     - pytest -v -s v1/engine --ignore v1/engine/test_preprocess_error_handling.py
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 40
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: e2e Scheduling (1 GPU)
+  key: e2e-scheduling-1-gpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -32,48 +58,91 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/e2e/general/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_async_scheduling.py
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi250_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: e2e Core (1 GPU)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: e2e-core-1-gpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/
     - tests/v1/e2e/general/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general --ignore v1/e2e/general/test_async_scheduling.py
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi250_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 35
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/v1/
+      - tests/v1/e2e/general/
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
 
 - label: V1 e2e (2 GPUs)
+  key: v1-e2e-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60 # TODO: Fix timeout after we have more confidence in the test stability
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
-    - tests/v1/e2e
+    - vllm/compilation/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/envs.py
+    - vllm/forward_context.py
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/logging_utils/
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/triton_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode
   commands:
     # Only run tests that need exactly 2 GPUs
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode/test_spec_decode.py -k "tensor_parallelism"
-  mirror:
-    amd:
-      device: mi325_2
-      depends_on:
-      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: V1 e2e (4 GPUs)
+  key: v1-e2e-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60 # TODO: Fix timeout after we have more confidence in the test stability
   optional: true
   num_devices: 4
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
-    - tests/v1/e2e
+    - vllm/compilation/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/envs.py
+    - vllm/forward_context.py
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/logging_utils/
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/triton_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode
   commands:
     # Only run tests that need 4 GPUs
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode/test_spec_decode.py -k "eagle_correctness_heavy"
-  mirror:
-    amd:
-      device: mi325_4
-      depends_on:
-      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: V1 e2e (4xH100)
+  key: v1-e2e-4xh100
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h100
   num_devices: 4

.buildkite/test_areas/entrypoints.yaml

@@ -2,100 +2,111 @@ group: Entrypoints
 depends_on: 
   - image-build
 steps:
-- label: Entrypoints Unit Tests  
+- label: Entrypoints Unit Tests
+  key: entrypoints-unit-tests
   timeout_in_minutes: 10
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/entrypoints
-  - tests/entrypoints/
+  - tests/entrypoints/unit_tests
+  - tests/entrypoints/weight_transfer
   commands:
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/ --ignore=entrypoints/llm --ignore=entrypoints/rpc --ignore=entrypoints/sleep --ignore=entrypoints/serve/instrumentator --ignore=entrypoints/openai --ignore=entrypoints/offline_mode --ignore=entrypoints/test_chat_utils.py  --ignore=entrypoints/pooling
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/unit_tests
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/weight_transfer
 
 - label: Entrypoints Integration (LLM)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-llm
   timeout_in_minutes: 40
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/entrypoints/llm
-  - tests/entrypoints/offline_mode
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py # it needs a clean process
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/offline_mode # Needs to avoid interference with other tests
-
-- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server openai - Part 1)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 50
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
-  - tests/entrypoints/openai
-  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
-  commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/chat_completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_chat_with_tool_reasoning.py --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_oot_registration.py
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py --ignore=entrypoints/llm/offline_mode
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py # it needs a clean process
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/offline_mode # Needs to avoid interference with other tests
   mirror:
     amd:
       device: mi325_1
       depends_on:
       - image-build-amd
 
-
-- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server openai - Part 2)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 50
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
-  - tests/entrypoints/openai
-  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
-  commands:
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/speech_to_text/
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/test_chat_utils.py
-  mirror:
-    amd:
-      device: mi325_1
-      depends_on:
-      - image-build-amd
-
-- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server openai - Part 3)
-  timeout_in_minutes: 50
-  device: h200_18gb
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
-  source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
-  - tests/entrypoints/openai
-  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
-  commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/speech_to_text/ --ignore=entrypoints/openai/correctness/ --ignore=entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/ --ignore=entrypoints/openai/responses --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
-
-- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server 2)
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-api-server
+  device: h200_35gb
   timeout_in_minutes: 130
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
-  - tests/entrypoints/rpc
-  - tests/entrypoints/serve/instrumentator
-  - tests/tool_use
+  - tests/entrypoints/serve
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/instrumentator
-  - PYTHONPATH=/vllm-workspace pytest -v -s entrypoints/rpc
-  - pytest -v -s tool_use
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve --ignore=entrypoints/serve/dev/rpc
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTHONPATH=/vllm-workspace pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/dev/rpc
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
-- label: Entrypoints Integration (Pooling)
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server OpenAI - Part 1)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-api-server-openai-part-1
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
-  - tests/entrypoints/pooling
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai
+  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
   commands:
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/pooling
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/chat_completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/responses --ignore=entrypoints/openai/correctness
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 80
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server OpenAI - Part 2)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-api-server-openai-part-2
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai
+  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/chat_completion
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion --ignore=entrypoints/openai/completion/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 80
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server Generate)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-api-server-generate
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/tool_use
+  - tests/entrypoints/tool_parsers
+  - tests/entrypoints/anthropic
+  - tests/entrypoints/generate
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s tool_use
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/tool_parsers
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/generate
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/anthropic
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Entrypoints Integration (Responses API)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-responses-api
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -104,12 +115,61 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/responses
 
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (Speech to Text)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: entrypoints-integration-speech_to_text
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/speech_to_text
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/speech_to_text
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (Multimodal)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: entrypoints-integration-multimodal
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/multimodal
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/multimodal
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (Pooling)
+  key: entrypoints-integration-pooling
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/pooling
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/pooling
+
 - label: OpenAI API Correctness
+  key: openai-api-correctness
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/
   - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
-  - vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py
-  commands: # LMEval+Transcription WER check
+  commands: # LMEval
   - pytest -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - csrc/
+      - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/
+      - vllm/v1/attention/backends/
+      - vllm/v1/attention/selector.py
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      commands:
+      - bash ../tools/install_torchcodec_rocm.sh || exit 1
+      - pytest -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/

.buildkite/test_areas/expert_parallelism.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: EPLB Algorithm
+  key: eplb-algorithm
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   device: h200_18gb
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_utils.py
 
 - label: EPLB Execution # 17min
+  key: eplb-execution
   timeout_in_minutes: 27
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_spec_decode.py
 
 - label: Elastic EP Scaling Test
+  key: elastic-ep-scaling-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   device: h100
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"

.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: vLLM IR Tests
+  key: vllm-ir-tests
   timeout_in_minutes: 10
   device: h200_18gb
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
@@ -14,15 +15,18 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/ir
 
 - label: Kernels Core Operation Test
+  key: kernels-core-operation-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 75
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/
   - tests/kernels/core
   - tests/kernels/test_concat_mla_q.py
+  - tests/kernels/test_fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py
   commands:
-    - pytest -v -s kernels/core --ignore=kernels/core/test_minimax_reduce_rms.py  kernels/test_concat_mla_q.py
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/core --ignore=kernels/core/test_minimax_reduce_rms.py  kernels/test_concat_mla_q.py kernels/test_fused_qk_norm_rope_gate.py
 
 - label: Kernels MiniMax Reduce RMS Test (2 GPUs)
+  key: kernels-minimax-reduce-rms-test-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 15
   num_devices: 2
   device: h100
@@ -35,7 +39,30 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/core/test_minimax_reduce_rms.py
 
+- label: Deepseek V4 Kernel Test (H100)
+  key: deepseek-v4-kernel-test-h100
+  timeout_in_minutes: 15
+  device: h100
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/fused_deepseek_v4_qnorm_rope_kv_insert_kernel.cu
+  - vllm/models/deepseek_v4/common/ops/
+  - tests/kernels/test_fused_deepseek_v4_qnorm_rope_kv_insert.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/test_fused_deepseek_v4_*.py
+
+- label: Deepseek V4 Kernel Test (B200)
+  key: deepseek-v4-kernel-test-b200
+  timeout_in_minutes: 15
+  device: b200-k8s
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/fused_deepseek_v4_qnorm_rope_kv_insert_kernel.cu
+  - vllm/models/deepseek_v4/common/ops/
+  - tests/kernels/test_fused_deepseek_v4_qnorm_rope_kv_insert.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/test_fused_deepseek_v4_*.py
+
 - label: Kernels Attention Test %N
+  key: kernels-attention-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 35
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/attention/
@@ -47,8 +74,36 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/attention --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
   parallelism: 2
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 55
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - csrc/attention/
+      - vllm/v1/attention
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/attention
+      - tests/kernels/attention
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/envs.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+
+- label: Kernels Attention DiffKV Test (H100)
+  key: kernels-attention-diffkv-test-h100
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  device: h100
+  num_devices: 1
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/v1/attention/ops/triton_unified_attention_diffkv.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/triton_attn_diffkv.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flash_attn_diffkv.py
+  - tests/kernels/attention/test_triton_unified_attention_diffkv.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/attention/test_triton_unified_attention_diffkv.py
 
 - label: Kernels Quantization Test %N
+  key: kernels-quantization-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/
@@ -57,8 +112,23 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/quantization --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
   parallelism: 2
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - csrc/quantization/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+      - vllm/config/
+      - tests/kernels/quantization
+      - tests/kernels/quantization/test_rocm_skinny_gemms.py
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+      - vllm/model_executor/kernels/
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Kernels MoE Test %N
+  key: kernels-moe-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 25
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
@@ -72,8 +142,25 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe --ignore=kernels/moe/test_modular_oai_triton_moe.py --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_modular_oai_triton_moe.py --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
   parallelism: 5
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 50
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
+      - csrc/moe/
+      - tests/kernels/moe
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/
+      - vllm/distributed/device_communicators/
+      - vllm/envs.py
+      - vllm/config
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Kernels Mamba Test
+  key: kernels-mamba-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/mamba/
@@ -82,12 +169,28 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/mamba
 
+- label: Kernels KDA Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  device: h200_18gb
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/kda.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/chunk_delta_h.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fla/ops/l2norm.py
+  - tests/kernels/test_kda.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/test_kda.py
+
 - label: Kernels DeepGEMM Test (H100)
+  key: kernels-deepgemm-test-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   device: h100
   num_devices: 1
   source_file_dependencies:
+  - cmake/external_projects/deepgemm.cmake
   - tools/install_deepgemm.sh
+  - tools/build_deepgemm_C.py
+  - tools/setup_deepgemm_pythons.sh
+  - tools/check_wheel_deepgemm.py
   - vllm/utils/deep_gemm.py
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
@@ -95,24 +198,31 @@ steps:
   - tests/kernels/moe/test_deepgemm.py
   - tests/kernels/moe/test_batched_deepgemm.py
   - tests/kernels/attention/test_deepgemm_attention.py
+  - tests/quantization/test_cutlass_w4a16.py
   commands:
+    - python3 ../tools/check_wheel_deepgemm.py
     - pytest -v -s kernels/quantization/test_block_fp8.py
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_deepgemm.py
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_batched_deepgemm.py
     - pytest -v -s kernels/attention/test_deepgemm_attention.py
+    - pytest -v -s quantization/test_cutlass_w4a16.py
 
 - label: Kernels (B200)
+  key: kernels-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   # optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/fp4/
   - csrc/attention/mla/
   - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/cutlass_moe.py
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_cutlass_moe.py
-  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_a2a_prepare_finalize.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/experts/cutlass_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/experts/flashinfer_cutlass_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/experts/trtllm_nvfp4_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/oracle/nvfp4.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/prepare_finalize/flashinfer_nvlink_one_sided.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/prepare_finalize/flashinfer_nvlink_two_sided.py
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/utils/flashinfer_utils.py
   - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
   - vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/cutlass_mla.py
@@ -145,22 +255,25 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_ocp_mx_moe.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer_moe.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_trtllm_nvfp4_moe.py
     - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_cutedsl_moe.py
     # e2e
     - pytest -v -s tests/models/quantization/test_nvfp4.py
 
 - label: Kernels Helion Test
+  key: kernels-helion-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h100
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/utils/import_utils.py
   - tests/kernels/helion/
   commands:
-    - pip install helion==1.0.0
+    - pip install helion==1.1.0
     - pytest -v -s kernels/helion/
 
  
 - label: Kernels FP8 MoE Test (1 H100)
+  key: kernels-fp8-moe-test-1-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
   device: h100
   num_devices: 1
@@ -177,6 +290,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_triton_moe_ptpc_fp8.py
 
 - label: Kernels FP8 MoE Test (2 H100s)
+  key: kernels-fp8-moe-test-2-h100s
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
   device: h100
   num_devices: 2
@@ -186,8 +300,9 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_deepep_moe.py
 
 - label: Kernels Fp4 MoE Test (B200)
+  key: kernels-fp4-moe-test-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   num_devices: 1
   optional: true
   commands:
@@ -198,6 +313,7 @@ steps:
 
 
 - label: Kernels FusedMoE Layer Test (2 H100s)
+  key: kernels-fusedmoe-layer-test-2-h100s
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
   device: h100
   num_devices: 2
@@ -214,8 +330,9 @@ steps:
 
 
 - label: Kernels FusedMoE Layer Test (2 B200s)
+  key: kernels-fusedmoe-layer-test-2-b200s
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
@@ -227,3 +344,4 @@ steps:
   - vllm/config
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_moe_layer.py
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_deepep_v2_moe.py

.buildkite/test_areas/lm_eval.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: LM Eval Small Models
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: lm-eval-small-models
   timeout_in_minutes: 75
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/
@@ -10,6 +12,21 @@ steps:
   autorun_on_main: true
   commands:
   - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-small.txt
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 55
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - csrc/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+      - vllm/model_executor/models/
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      - vllm/v1/attention/backends/
+      - vllm/v1/attention/selector.py
+      - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
 
 # - label: LM Eval Large Models (4 GPUs)(A100)
 #   device: a100
@@ -24,6 +41,7 @@ steps:
 #   - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-large.txt --tp-size=4
 
 - label: LM Eval Large Models (4 GPUs)(H100)
+  key: lm-eval-large-models-4-gpus-h100
   device: h100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 4
@@ -32,12 +50,12 @@ steps:
   - csrc/
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0  # We found Triton is faster than DeepGEMM for H100
-    - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-large-hopper.txt --tp-size=4
+    - VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0 pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-large-hopper.txt --tp-size=4  # Triton is faster than DeepGEMM for H100
 
 - label: LM Eval Small Models (B200)
+  key: lm-eval-small-models-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 120
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/
@@ -45,9 +63,22 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-blackwell.txt
 
-- label: LM Eval Qwen3.5 Models (B200)
+- label: LM Eval Large Models (B200, EP)
+  key: lm-eval-large-models-b200-ep
   timeout_in_minutes: 120
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
+  optional: true
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  commands:
+  - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-blackwell-ep.txt
+
+- label: LM Eval Qwen3.5 Models (B200)
+  key: lm-eval-qwen3-5-models-b200
+  timeout_in_minutes: 120
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -62,14 +93,24 @@ steps:
   - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-qwen35-blackwell.txt
 
 - label: LM Eval Large Models (H200)
+  key: lm-eval-large-models-h200
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h200
   optional: true
   num_devices: 8
   commands:
     - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-h200.txt
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi300_8
+      timeout_in_minutes: 180
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      commands:
+      - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH=gfx942 pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-mi3xx.txt  # Limit Quark compilation to save time
 
 - label: MoE Refactor Integration Test (H100 - TEMPORARY)
+  key: moe-refactor-integration-test-h100-temporary
   device: h100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
@@ -77,14 +118,16 @@ steps:
     - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor/config-h100.txt
   
 - label: MoE Refactor Integration Test (B200 - TEMPORARY)
-  device: b200
+  key: moe-refactor-integration-test-b200-temporary
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   commands:
     - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=evals/gsm8k/configs/moe-refactor/config-b200.txt
 
 - label: MoE Refactor Integration Test (B200 DP - TEMPORARY)
-  device: b200
+  key: moe-refactor-integration-test-b200-dp-temporary
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   commands:
@@ -92,7 +135,9 @@ steps:
 
 
 - label: LM Eval TurboQuant KV Cache
+  key: lm-eval-turboquant-kv-cache
   timeout_in_minutes: 75
+  device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/turboquant/
   - vllm/v1/attention/backends/turboquant_attn.py
@@ -102,6 +147,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=evals/gsm8k/configs/models-turboquant.txt
 
 - label: GPQA Eval (GPT-OSS) (H100)
+  key: gpqa-eval-gpt-oss-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 120
   device: h100
   optional: true
@@ -115,8 +161,9 @@ steps:
     - pytest -s -v evals/gpt_oss/test_gpqa_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-h100.txt
 
 - label: GPQA Eval (GPT-OSS) (B200)
+  key: gpqa-eval-gpt-oss-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 120
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   optional: true
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -126,3 +173,11 @@ steps:
   commands:
     - uv pip install --system 'gpt-oss[eval]==0.0.5'
     - pytest -s -v evals/gpt_oss/test_gpqa_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-b200.txt
+
+- label: MRCR Eval Small Models
+  device: h200_35gb
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/evals/mrcr/
+  commands:
+    - pytest -s -v evals/mrcr/test_mrcr_correctness.py --config-list-file=evals/mrcr/configs/models-small.txt

.buildkite/test_areas/lora.yaml

@@ -3,32 +3,47 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: LoRA %N
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: lora
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/lora
   - tests/lora
   commands:
-    - pytest -v -s lora --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --ignore=lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_llama_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_llm_with_multi_loras.py --ignore=lora/test_olmoe_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_deepseekv2_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_gptoss_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen3moe_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen35_densemodel_lora.py 
+    - pytest -v -s lora --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --ignore=lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_llama_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen3_with_multi_loras.py --ignore=lora/test_olmoe_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_deepseekv2_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_gptoss_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen3moe_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen35_densemodel_lora.py 
   parallelism: 4
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/lora
+      - tests/lora
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 
 - label: LoRA TP (Distributed)
+  key: lora-tp-distributed
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   num_devices: 4
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/lora
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/
   - tests/lora
   commands:
     # FIXIT: find out which code initialize cuda before running the test
     # before the fix, we need to use spawn to test it
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+    #
     # Alot of these tests are on the edge of OOMing
-    - export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
+    #
     # There is some Tensor Parallelism related processing logic in LoRA that
     # requires multi-GPU testing for validation.
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_llama_tp.py
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_llm_with_multi_loras.py
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_olmoe_tp.py
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_gptoss_tp.py
-    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_qwen35_densemodel_lora.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_llama_tp.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_qwen3_with_multi_loras.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_olmoe_tp.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_gptoss_tp.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True pytest -v -s -x lora/test_qwen35_densemodel_lora.py

.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml

@@ -3,37 +3,57 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: V1 Spec Decode
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: v1-spec-decode
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/v1/spec_decode
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
     # TODO: create another `optional` test group for slow tests
-    - pytest -v -s -m 'not slow_test' v1/spec_decode
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s -m 'not slow_test' v1/spec_decode
   mirror:
     amd:
-      device: mi325_1
+      device: mi300_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 65
       depends_on:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: V1 Sample + Logits
+  key: v1-sample-logits
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/v1/sample
     - tests/v1/logits_processors
     - tests/v1/test_oracle.py
     - tests/v1/test_request.py
     - tests/v1/test_outputs.py
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - pytest -v -s v1/sample
-    - pytest -v -s v1/logits_processors
-    - pytest -v -s v1/test_oracle.py
-    - pytest -v -s v1/test_request.py
-    - pytest -v -s v1/test_outputs.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/sample
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/logits_processors
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/test_oracle.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/test_request.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/test_outputs.py
   mirror:
     amd:
       device: mi325_1
@@ -41,40 +61,74 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: V1 Core + KV + Metrics
+  key: v1-core-kv-metrics
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/entrypoints/pooling/
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/lora/
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/outputs.py
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/pooling_params.py
+    - vllm/profiler/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/tokenizers/
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/v1/core
     - tests/v1/executor
     - tests/v1/kv_offload
+    - tests/v1/simple_kv_offload
     - tests/v1/worker
     - tests/v1/kv_connector/unit
     - tests/v1/metrics
     - tests/entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py
   commands:
-    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+    - bash /vllm-workspace/.buildkite/scripts/install-kv-connectors.sh
     # split the test to avoid interference
-    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/core
-    - pytest -v -s v1/executor
-    - pytest -v -s v1/kv_offload
-    - pytest -v -s v1/worker
-    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
-    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/metrics
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/core
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/executor
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/kv_offload
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/simple_kv_offload
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/worker
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/metrics
     # Integration test for streaming correctness (requires special branch).
     - pip install -U git+https://github.com/robertgshaw2-redhat/lm-evaluation-harness.git@streaming-api
-    - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine
   mirror:
     amd:
       device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
       depends_on:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: V1 Others (CPU)
+  key: v1-others-cpu
   depends_on:
     - image-build-cpu
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/lora/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/outputs.py
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/pooling_params.py
+    - vllm/profiler/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/tokenizers/
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/v1
   device: cpu-small
   commands:
@@ -85,11 +139,48 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
     - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/metrics
 
-- label: Regression
+- label: Extract Hidden States Integration
+  key: extract-hidden-states-integration
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/models/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/configs/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/example_hidden_states_connector.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/extract_hidden_states_integration
+  commands:
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/kv_connector/extract_hidden_states_integration
+
+- label: Extract Hidden States Integration (2 GPUs)
+  key: extract-hidden-states-integration-2-gpus
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  num_devices: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/models/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/configs/extract_hidden_states.py
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/example_hidden_states_connector.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/extract_hidden_states_integration
+  commands:
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s -m 'distributed' v1/kv_connector/extract_hidden_states_integration
+
+- label: Regression
+  key: regression
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  device: h200_18gb
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
   - tests/test_regression
   commands:
   - pip install modelscope
@@ -97,6 +188,8 @@ steps:
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests" # optional
 
 - label: Examples
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: examples
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/examples"
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -113,25 +206,37 @@ steps:
     - python3 basic/offline_inference/embed.py
     - python3 basic/offline_inference/score.py
     # for multi-modal models
-    - python3 offline_inference/audio_language.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/encoder_decoder_multimodal.py --model-type whisper --seed 0
+    - python3 generate/multimodal/audio_language_offline.py --seed 0
+    - python3 generate/multimodal/vision_language_offline.py --seed 0
+    - python3 generate/multimodal/vision_language_multi_image_offline.py --seed 0
+    - python3 generate/multimodal/encoder_decoder_multimodal_offline.py --model-type whisper --seed 0
      # for pooling models
     - python3 pooling/embed/vision_embedding_offline.py --seed 0
     # for features demo
-    - python3 offline_inference/prefix_caching.py
-    - python3 offline_inference/llm_engine_example.py
-    - python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m serialize --serialized-directory /tmp/ --suffix v1 && python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m deserialize --path-to-tensors /tmp/vllm/facebook/opt-125m/v1/model.tensors
-    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 2048
+    - python3 features/automatic_prefix_caching/prefix_caching_offline.py
+    - python3 deployment/llm_engine_example.py
+    - python3 features/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m serialize --serialized-directory /tmp/ --suffix v1 && python3 features/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m deserialize --path-to-tensors /tmp/vllm/facebook/opt-125m/v1/model.tensors
+    - python3 features/speculative_decoding/spec_decode_offline.py --test --method eagle --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 2048
     # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/26682 uses slightly more memory in PyTorch 2.9+ causing this test to OOM in 1xL4 GPU
-    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle3 --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 1536
+    - python3 features/speculative_decoding/spec_decode_offline.py --test --method eagle3 --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 1536
 
 - label: Metrics, Tracing (2 GPUs)
+  key: metrics-tracing-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   num_devices: 2
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/tracing/
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
   - tests/v1/tracing
   commands:
   - "pip install \
@@ -142,8 +247,11 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s v1/tracing
 
 - label: Python-only Installation
+  key: python-only-installation
   depends_on: ~
+  optional: true
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
   - tests/standalone_tests/python_only_compile.sh
   - setup.py
@@ -151,9 +259,23 @@ steps:
   - bash standalone_tests/python_only_compile.sh
 
 - label: Async Engine, Inputs, Utils, Worker
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: async-engine-inputs-utils-worker
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/assets/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/tokenizers/
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
   - tests/detokenizer
   - tests/multimodal
   - tests/utils_
@@ -163,11 +285,37 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s utils_
 
 - label: Async Engine, Inputs, Utils, Worker, Config (CPU)
-  depends_on: 
+  key: async-engine-inputs-utils-worker-config-cpu
+  depends_on:
   - image-build-cpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/assets/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
+  - vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
+  - vllm/entrypoints/mcp/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/protocol.py
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/engine/protocol.py
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/exceptions.py
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/quark/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/outputs.py
+  - vllm/parser/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/pooling_params.py
+  - vllm/ray/
+  - vllm/reasoning/
+  - vllm/renderers/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/tokenizers/
+  - vllm/tool_parsers/
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
+  - tests/test_envs.py
   - tests/test_inputs.py
   - tests/test_outputs.py
   - tests/test_pooling_params.py
@@ -175,27 +323,44 @@ steps:
   - tests/multimodal
   - tests/renderers
   - tests/standalone_tests/lazy_imports.py
-  - tests/tokenizers_
   - tests/reasoning
   - tests/tool_parsers
+  - tests/tokenizers_
+  - tests/parser
   - tests/transformers_utils
   - tests/config
   device: cpu-small
   commands:
   - python3 standalone_tests/lazy_imports.py
+  - pytest -v -s test_envs.py
   - pytest -v -s test_inputs.py
   - pytest -v -s test_outputs.py
   - pytest -v -s test_pooling_params.py
   - pytest -v -s test_ray_env.py
   - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' multimodal
   - pytest -v -s renderers
-  - pytest -v -s tokenizers_
-  - pytest -v -s reasoning --ignore=reasoning/test_seedoss_reasoning_parser.py --ignore=reasoning/test_glm4_moe_reasoning_parser.py --ignore=reasoning/test_gemma4_reasoning_parser.py
+  - pytest -v -s reasoning --ignore=reasoning/test_seedoss_reasoning_parser.py --ignore=reasoning/test_glm4_moe_reasoning_parser.py
   - pytest -v -s tool_parsers
+  - pytest -v -s tokenizers_
+  - pytest -v -s parser
   - pytest -v -s transformers_utils
   - pytest -v -s config
 
+- label: Batch Invariance (A100)
+  key: batch-invariance-a100
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: a100
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/attention
+    - vllm/model_executor/layers
+    - tests/v1/determinism/
+  commands:
+    - pip install pytest-timeout pytest-forked
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn VLLM_TEST_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[TRITON_MLA]
+
 - label: Batch Invariance (H100)
+  key: batch-invariance-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h100
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -203,30 +368,32 @@ steps:
     - vllm/model_executor/layers
     - tests/v1/determinism/
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
     - pip install pytest-timeout pytest-forked
-    - pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py
-    - pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_rms_norm_batch_invariant.py
-    - VLLM_TEST_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[TRITON_MLA]
-    - VLLM_TEST_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[FLASH_ATTN]
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_rms_norm_batch_invariant.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn VLLM_TEST_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[TRITON_MLA]
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn VLLM_TEST_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[FLASH_ATTN]
 
 - label: Batch Invariance (B200)
+  key: batch-invariance-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/attention
     - vllm/model_executor/layers
     - tests/v1/determinism/
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
     - pip install pytest-timeout pytest-forked
-    - pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py
-    - pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_rms_norm_batch_invariant.py
-    - VLLM_TEST_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[TRITON_MLA]
-    - VLLM_TEST_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[FLASH_ATTN]
-    - pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_nvfp4_batch_invariant.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_rms_norm_batch_invariant.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn VLLM_TEST_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-Chat pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[TRITON_MLA]
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn VLLM_TEST_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_batch_invariance.py::test_v1_generation_is_deterministic_across_batch_sizes_with_needle[FLASH_ATTN]
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_nvfp4_batch_invariant.py
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/determinism/test_nvfp4_batch_invariant_scaled_mm.py
   
 - label: Acceptance Length Test (Large Models) # optional
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: acceptance-length-test-large-models
   timeout_in_minutes: 25
   gpu: h100
   optional: true
@@ -237,5 +404,4 @@ steps:
   - vllm/model_executor/models/mlp_speculator.py
   - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1
-    - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py -m slow_test
+    - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_acceptance_length.py -m slow_test

.buildkite/test_areas/model_executor.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Model Executor
+  key: model-executor
   timeout_in_minutes: 35
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
@@ -12,6 +13,12 @@ steps:
   - tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
   commands:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl libsodium23
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - pytest -v -s model_executor -m '(not slow_test)'
-    - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
+    # Per-test watchdog: a single hung test (e.g. stuck during engine/CUDA
+    # init) fails fast with a traceback instead of running until the global
+    # build timeout. The `thread` method also handles hangs inside C/CUDA
+    # calls that the signal method cannot interrupt.
+    #
+    # Env vars are inlined because CONTINUE_ON_FAILURE wraps each command
+    # in a subshell, so a standalone `export` would be lost.
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTHONFAULTHANDLER=1 pytest -v -s model_executor -m '(not slow_test)' --timeout=900 --timeout-method=thread
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn PYTHONFAULTHANDLER=1 pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py --timeout=900 --timeout-method=thread

.buildkite/test_areas/model_runner_v2.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Model Runner V2 Core Tests
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: model-runner-v2-core-tests
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
@@ -14,51 +16,53 @@ steps:
   - tests/entrypoints/llm/test_struct_output_generate.py
   commands:
   - set -x
-  - export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1
-  - pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_llm_engine.py -k "not test_engine_metrics"
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_llm_engine.py -k "not test_engine_metrics"
   # This requires eager until we sort out CG correctness issues.
   # TODO: remove ENFORCE_EAGER here after https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/32936 is merged.
-  - ENFORCE_EAGER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_async_scheduling.py -k "not ngram"
-  - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_context_length.py
-  - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_min_tokens.py
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 ENFORCE_EAGER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_async_scheduling.py -k "not ngram"
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_context_length.py
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/general/test_min_tokens.py
   # Temporary hack filter to exclude ngram spec decoding based tests.
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_struct_output_generate.py -k "xgrammar and not speculative_config6 and not speculative_config7 and not speculative_config8 and not speculative_config0"
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_struct_output_generate.py -k "xgrammar and not speculative_config6 and not speculative_config7 and not speculative_config8 and not speculative_config0"
 
 - label: Model Runner V2 Examples
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: model-runner-v2-examples
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/examples"
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
     - vllm/v1/core/sched/
     - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
-    - examples/offline_inference/
     - examples/basic/offline_inference/
+    - examples/generate/multimodal/
+    - examples/features/
     - examples/pooling/embed/vision_embedding_offline.py
-    - examples/others/tensorize_vllm_model.py
+    - examples/features/tensorize_vllm_model.py
   commands:
     - set -x
-    - export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1
     - pip install tensorizer # for tensorizer test
-    - python3 basic/offline_inference/chat.py # for basic
-    - python3 basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m
-    #- python3 basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf --cpu-offload-gb 10  # TODO
-    #- python3 basic/offline_inference/embed.py   # TODO
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 basic/offline_inference/chat.py # for basic
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m
+    #- VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 basic/offline_inference/generate.py --model meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf --cpu-offload-gb 10  # TODO
+    #- VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 basic/offline_inference/embed.py   # TODO
     # for multi-modal models
-    - python3 offline_inference/audio_language.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py --seed 0
-    - python3 offline_inference/encoder_decoder_multimodal.py --model-type whisper --seed 0
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 generate/multimodal/audio_language_offline.py --seed 0
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 generate/multimodal/vision_language_offline.py --seed 0
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 generate/multimodal/vision_language_multi_image_offline.py --seed 0
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 generate/multimodal/encoder_decoder_multimodal_offline.py --model-type whisper --seed 0
     # for pooling models
-    - python3 pooling/embed/vision_embedding_offline.py --seed 0
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 pooling/embed/vision_embedding_offline.py --seed 0
     # for features demo
-    - python3 offline_inference/prefix_caching.py
-    - python3 offline_inference/llm_engine_example.py
-    - python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m serialize --serialized-directory /tmp/ --suffix v1 && python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m deserialize --path-to-tensors /tmp/vllm/facebook/opt-125m/v1/model.tensors
-    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 2048
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 features/automatic_prefix_caching/prefix_caching_offline.py
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 deployment/llm_engine_example.py
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 features/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m serialize --serialized-directory /tmp/ --suffix v1 && VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 features/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m deserialize --path-to-tensors /tmp/vllm/facebook/opt-125m/v1/model.tensors
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 features/speculative_decoding/spec_decode_offline.py --test --method eagle --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 2048
     # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/26682 uses slightly more memory in PyTorch 2.9+ causing this test to OOM in 1xL4 GPU
-    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle3 --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 1536
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 python3 features/speculative_decoding/spec_decode_offline.py --test --method eagle3 --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 1536
 
 - label: Model Runner V2 Distributed (2 GPUs)
+  key: model-runner-v2-distributed-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -70,15 +74,14 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
   commands:
     - set -x
-    - export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1
     # The "and not True" here is a hacky way to exclude the prompt_embeds cases which aren't yet supported.
-    - TARGET_TEST_SUITE=L4 pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)' -k "not ray and not True"
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 TARGET_TEST_SUITE=L4 pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)' -k "not ray and not True"
     # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
-    - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
-    - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py -k "not ray"
-    - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py -k "not ray"
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
 
 - label: Model Runner V2 Pipeline Parallelism (4 GPUs)
+  key: model-runner-v2-pipeline-parallelism-4-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 4
@@ -87,26 +90,27 @@ steps:
     - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
     - tests/distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
     - tests/distributed/test_pp_cudagraph.py
+    - tests/v1/distributed/test_pp_dp_v2.py
   commands:
     - set -x
-    - export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1
-    - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py -k "not ray and not Jamba"
-    - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pp_cudagraph.py -k "not ray"
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py -k "not ray and not Jamba"
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pp_cudagraph.py -k "not ray"
+    - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_pp_dp_v2.py
 
 - label: Model Runner V2 Spec Decode
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: model-runner-v2-spec-decode
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/
   - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
   - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py
-  - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_probabilistic_rejection_sampler_utils.py
-  - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_synthetic_rejection_sampler_utils.py
+  - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_rejection_sampler_utils.py
   - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/test_spec_decode.py
   commands:
   - set -x
-  - export VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1
-  - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py -k "eagle or mtp"
-  - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_probabilistic_rejection_sampler_utils.py
-  - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_synthetic_rejection_sampler_utils.py
-  - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode/test_spec_decode.py -k "eagle or mtp"
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_max_len.py -k "eagle or mtp"
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_rejection_sampler_utils.py
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_synthetic_rejection_sampler_utils.py
+  - VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=1 pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode/test_spec_decode.py -k "eagle or mtp"

.buildkite/test_areas/models_basic.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Basic Models Tests (Initialization)
+  key: basic-models-tests-initialization
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  device: h200_18gb
   torch_nightly: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -16,6 +18,8 @@ steps:
     torch_nightly: {}
 
 - label: Basic Models Tests (Extra Initialization) %N
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: basic-models-tests-extra-initialization
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/model_executor/models/
@@ -31,6 +35,8 @@ steps:
     torch_nightly: {}
 
 - label: Basic Models Tests (Other)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: basic-models-tests-other
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -39,14 +45,9 @@ steps:
   - tests/models/test_registry.py
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s models/test_terratorch.py models/test_transformers.py models/test_registry.py
-  mirror:
-    amd:
-      device: mi325_1
-      depends_on:
-      - image-build-amd
-
 
 - label: Basic Models Test (Other CPU) # 5min
+  key: basic-models-test-other-cpu
   depends_on:
   - image-build-cpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 10
@@ -57,33 +58,3 @@ steps:
   device: cpu-small
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s models/test_utils.py models/test_vision.py
-
-- label: Transformers Nightly Models
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  optional: true
-  soft_fail: true
-  commands:
-    - pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_initialization.py
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_transformers.py
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/processing/
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/test_mapping.py
-    - python3 examples/basic/offline_inference/chat.py
-    - python3 examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py --model-type qwen2_5_vl
-    # Whisper needs spawn method to avoid deadlock
-    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn python3 examples/offline_inference/audio_language.py --model-type whisper
-
-- label: Transformers Backward Compatibility Models Test
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  optional: true
-  soft_fail: true
-  commands:
-    - pip install transformers==4.57.5
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_initialization.py
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_transformers.py
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/processing/
-    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/test_mapping.py
-    - python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/chat.py
-    - python3 examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py --model-type qwen2_5_vl
-    # Whisper needs spawn method to avoid deadlock
-    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn python3 examples/offline_inference/audio_language.py --model-type whisper

.buildkite/test_areas/models_distributed.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Distributed Model Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: distributed-model-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2

.buildkite/test_areas/models_language.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Language Models Tests (Standard)
+  key: language-models-tests-standard
   timeout_in_minutes: 25
+  device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/models/language
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ steps:
     torch_nightly: {}
 
 - label: Language Models Tests (Extra Standard) %N
+  key: language-models-tests-extra-standard
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/model_executor/models/
@@ -31,6 +34,7 @@ steps:
     torch_nightly: {}
 
 - label: Language Models Tests (Hybrid) %N
+  key: language-models-tests-hybrid
   timeout_in_minutes: 75
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -45,8 +49,19 @@ steps:
   parallelism: 2
   mirror:
     torch_nightly: {}
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 90
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      commands:
+      - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/AndreasKaratzas/mamba@fix-rocm-7.0-warp-size-constexpr'
+      - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d@v1.6.0'
+      - pytest -v -s models/language/generation -m hybrid_model --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB
 
 - label: Language Models Test (Extended Generation) # 80min
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: language-models-test-extended-generation
   timeout_in_minutes: 110
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -58,17 +73,9 @@ steps:
     - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba@v2.3.0'
     - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d@v1.6.0'
     - pytest -v -s models/language/generation -m '(not core_model) and (not hybrid_model)'
-  mirror:
-    amd:
-      device: mi325_1
-      depends_on:
-      - image-build-amd
-      commands:
-      - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/AndreasKaratzas/mamba@fix-rocm-7.0-warp-size-constexpr'
-      - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d@v1.6.0'
-      - pytest -v -s models/language/generation -m '(not core_model) and (not hybrid_model)'
 
 - label: Language Models Test (PPL)
+  key: language-models-test-ppl
   timeout_in_minutes: 110
   device: h200_18gb
   optional: true
@@ -79,6 +86,8 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s models/language/generation_ppl_test
 
 - label: Language Models Test (Extended Pooling)  # 36min
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: language-models-test-extended-pooling
   timeout_in_minutes: 50
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -89,10 +98,12 @@ steps:
   mirror:
     amd:
       device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 100
       depends_on:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Language Models Test (MTEB)
+  key: language-models-test-mteb
   timeout_in_minutes: 110
   device: h200_18gb
   optional: true

.buildkite/test_areas/models_multimodal.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 1: qwen2"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-1-qwen2
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 2: qwen3 + gemma"
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-2-qwen3-gemma
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -35,6 +37,8 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 3: llava + qwen2_vl"
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-3-llava-qwen2-vl
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -50,13 +54,16 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: "Multi-Modal Models (Standard) 4: other + whisper"
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: multi-modal-models-standard-4-other-whisper
   timeout_in_minutes: 45
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/models/multimodal
   commands:
     - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
-    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal -m core_model --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_ultravox.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_5_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py  --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_memory_leak.py --ignore models/multimodal/processing
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal -m core_model --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_ultravox.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_5_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_qwen2_vl.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py  --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_memory_leak.py --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_vit_cudagraph.py --ignore models/multimodal/processing
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_vit_cudagraph.py -m core_model
     - pytest models/multimodal/generation/test_memory_leak.py -m core_model
     - cd .. && VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py -m core_model  # Otherwise, mp_method="spawn" doesn't work
   mirror:
@@ -66,7 +73,8 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Processor (CPU)
-  depends_on: 
+  key: multi-modal-processor-cpu
+  depends_on:
   - image-build-cpu
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -79,6 +87,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/processing --ignore models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Processor # 44min
+  key: multi-modal-processor
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -90,6 +99,8 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Accuracy Eval (Small Models) # 50min
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: multi-modal-accuracy-eval-small-models
   timeout_in_minutes: 70
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness"
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -100,6 +111,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-mm-small.txt --tp-size=1
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended Generation 1)
+  key: multi-modal-models-extended-generation-1
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -116,6 +128,8 @@ steps:
       - image-build-amd
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended Generation 2)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: multi-modal-models-extended-generation-2
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -125,6 +139,8 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m 'split(group=0) and not core_model'
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended Generation 3)
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: multi-modal-models-extended-generation-3
   optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
@@ -134,6 +150,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m 'split(group=1) and not core_model'
 
 - label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended Pooling)
+  key: multi-modal-models-extended-pooling
   optional: true
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -141,3 +158,12 @@ steps:
   - tests/models/multimodal/pooling
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/pooling -m 'not core_model'
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 60
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/
+      - tests/models/multimodal/pooling

.buildkite/test_areas/plugins.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Plugin Tests (2 GPUs)
+  key: plugin-tests-2-gpus
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_devices: 2
@@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ steps:
   - pip install -e ./plugins/bge_m3_sparse_plugin
   - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_bge_m3_sparse_io_processor_plugins.py
   - pip uninstall bge_m3_sparse_plugin -y
+  # test colbert_query io_processor plugin
+  - pip install -e ./plugins/colbert_query_plugin
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_colbert_query_io_processor_plugins.py
+  - pip uninstall colbert_query_plugin -y
   # end io_processor plugins test
   # begin stat_logger plugins test
   - pip install -e ./plugins/vllm_add_dummy_stat_logger
@@ -36,6 +41,20 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_scheduler_plugins.py
   - pip install -e ./plugins/vllm_add_dummy_model
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_distributed_oot.py
-  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_oot_registration.py # it needs a clean process
-  - pytest -v -s models/test_oot_registration.py # it needs a clean process
-  - pytest -v -s plugins/lora_resolvers # unit tests for in-tree lora resolver plugins
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_oot_registration_online.py # it needs a clean process
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_oot_registration_offline.py # it needs a clean process
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/lora_resolvers # unit tests for in-tree lora resolver plugins
+
+
+- label: GGUF Plugin
+  key: gguf-plugin
+  device: h200_18gb
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  soft_fail: true
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  - tests/plugins_tests/test_gguf_plugin.py
+  commands:
+    - pip install "vllm-gguf-plugin >= 0.0.2"
+    - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/gguf

.buildkite/test_areas/pytorch.yaml

@@ -3,9 +3,34 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: PyTorch Compilation Unit Tests
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: pytorch-compilation-unit-tests
   timeout_in_minutes: 10
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/__init__.py
+    - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+    - vllm/_custom_ops.py
+    - vllm/compilation/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/env_override.py
+    - vllm/envs.py
+    - vllm/forward_context.py
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/ir/
+    - vllm/kernels/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/plugins/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/sequence.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/triton_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/compile
   commands:
   # Run unit tests defined directly under compile/,
@@ -18,27 +43,105 @@ steps:
   - "find compile/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'test_*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} pytest -s -v '{}'"
 
 - label: PyTorch Compilation Unit Tests (H100)
+  key: pytorch-compilation-unit-tests-h100
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h100
   num_devices: 1
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/__init__.py
+    - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+    - vllm/_custom_ops.py
+    - vllm/compilation/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/env_override.py
+    - vllm/envs.py
+    - vllm/forward_context.py
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/ir/
+    - vllm/kernels/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/plugins/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/sequence.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/triton_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/compile/h100/
   commands:
   - "find compile/h100/ -name 'test_*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} pytest -s -v '{}'"
 
 - label: PyTorch Compilation Passes Unit Tests
+  key: pytorch-compilation-passes-unit-tests
   timeout_in_minutes: 20
   source_file_dependencies:
-    - vllm/
+    - vllm/__init__.py
+    - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+    - vllm/_custom_ops.py
+    - vllm/compilation/
+    - vllm/config/
+    - vllm/distributed/
+    - vllm/engine/
+    - vllm/env_override.py
+    - vllm/envs.py
+    - vllm/forward_context.py
+    - vllm/inputs/
+    - vllm/ir/
+    - vllm/kernels/
+    - vllm/logger.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/
+    - vllm/multimodal/
+    - vllm/platforms/
+    - vllm/plugins/
+    - vllm/sampling_params.py
+    - vllm/sequence.py
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/
+    - vllm/triton_utils/
+    - vllm/utils/
+    - vllm/v1/
     - tests/compile/passes
   commands:
   - pytest -s -v compile/passes --ignore compile/passes/distributed
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi300_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 180
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
 
 - label: PyTorch Fullgraph Smoke Test
+  key: pytorch-fullgraph-smoke-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 35
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/__init__.py
+  - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+  - vllm/_custom_ops.py
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/env_override.py
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/forward_context.py
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/ir/
+  - vllm/kernels/
+  - vllm/logger.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/plugins/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/sequence.py
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/triton_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
   - tests/compile
   commands:
   # Run smoke tests under fullgraph directory, except test_full_graph.py
@@ -48,16 +151,41 @@ steps:
   - "find compile/fullgraph/ -name 'test_*.py' -not -name 'test_full_graph.py' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -I{} pytest -s -v '{}'"
 
 - label: PyTorch Fullgraph
+  key: pytorch-fullgraph
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
-  - vllm/
+  - vllm/__init__.py
+  - vllm/_aiter_ops.py
+  - vllm/_custom_ops.py
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  - vllm/config/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/env_override.py
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/forward_context.py
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/ir/
+  - vllm/kernels/
+  - vllm/logger.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/platforms/
+  - vllm/plugins/
+  - vllm/sampling_params.py
+  - vllm/sequence.py
+  - vllm/transformers_utils/
+  - vllm/triton_utils/
+  - vllm/utils/
+  - vllm/v1/
   - tests/compile
   commands:
     # fp8 kv scales not supported on sm89, tested on Blackwell instead
   - pytest -v -s compile/fullgraph/test_full_graph.py -k 'not test_fp8_kv_scale_compile'
 
 - label: Pytorch Nightly Dependency Override Check # 2min
+  key: pytorch-nightly-dependency-override-check
   # if this test fails, it means the nightly torch version is not compatible with some
   # of the dependencies. Please check the error message and add the package to whitelist
   # in /vllm/tools/pre_commit/generate_nightly_torch_test.py

.buildkite/test_areas/quantization.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Quantization
+  key: quantization
   timeout_in_minutes: 90
   source_file_dependencies:
   - csrc/
@@ -20,10 +21,23 @@ steps:
   - uv pip install --system conch-triton-kernels
   - VLLM_TEST_FORCE_LOAD_FORMAT=auto pytest -v -s quantization/ --ignore quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
 
+- label: Quantized Fusions
+  key: quantized-fusions
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/fusion
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fusion
+  - vllm/model_executor/kernels/linear
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/modelopt.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s fusion/
+
 - label: Quantized MoE Test (B200)
+  key: quantized-moe-test-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
-  device: b200
+  device: b200-k8s
   source_file_dependencies:
   - tests/quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
   - vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py
@@ -38,6 +52,7 @@ steps:
     - pytest -s -v tests/quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
 
 - label: Quantized Models Test
+  key: quantized-models-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization

.buildkite/test_areas/ray_compat.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Ray Dependency Compatibility Check
+  key: ray-dependency-compatibility-check
   # Informational only — does not block the pipeline.
   # If this fails, it means the PR introduces a dependency that
   # conflicts with Ray's dependency constraints.

.buildkite/test_areas/rust_frontend.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+group: Rust Frontend E2E
+depends_on:
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Rust Frontend OpenAI Coverage
+  timeout_in_minutes: 90
+  device: h200_18gb
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - vllm/benchmarks/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/serve/
+  - vllm/v1/sample/
+  - tests/utils.py
+  - tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_chat_completion.py
+  # - tests/entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_chat_logit_bias_validation.py
+
+  # - tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_prompt_validation.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai/completion/test_shutdown.py
+  # - tests/entrypoints/openai/test_return_token_ids.py
+  # - tests/entrypoints/openai/test_uds.py
+  - tests/v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py -k "not insecure and not (test_bench_serve and not test_bench_serve_chat)"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_chat_completion.py
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/test_chat_logit_bias_validation.py -k "not invalid"
+
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion/test_prompt_validation.py -k "not prompt_embeds"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/completion/test_shutdown.py -k "not engine_failure and not test_abort_timeout_exits_quickly"
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_return_token_ids.py
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_uds.py
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s v1/sample/test_logprobs_e2e.py -k "test_prompt_logprobs_e2e_server"
+
+- label: Rust Frontend Serve/Admin Coverage
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  device: h200_18gb
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/serve/
+  - vllm/v1/engine/
+  - tests/utils.py
+  # - tests/entrypoints/serve/dev/rpc/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/serve/disagg/test_serving_tokens.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/serve/instrumentator/test_basic.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/serve/instrumentator/test_metrics.py
+  # - tests/entrypoints/serve/dev/test_sleep.py
+  commands:
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/dev/rpc/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/instrumentator/test_basic.py -k "not show_version and not server_load"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/disagg/test_serving_tokens.py -k "not stream and not lora and not test_generate_logprobs and not stop_string_workflow"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/instrumentator/test_metrics.py -k "text and not show and not run_batch and not test_metrics_counts and not test_metrics_exist"
+  # - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s entrypoints/serve/dev/test_sleep.py
+
+- label: Rust Frontend Core Correctness
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: h200_18gb
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+  - tests/utils.py
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine
+
+- label: Rust Frontend Tool Use
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+  - vllm/tool_parsers/
+  - tests/utils.py
+  - tests/tool_use/
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s tool_use --ignore=tool_use/mistral --models llama3.2 -k "not test_response_format_with_tool_choice_required and not test_parallel_tool_calls_false and not test_tool_call_and_choice"
+
+- label: Rust Frontend Distributed
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  num_devices: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/v1/engine/
+  - vllm/v1/worker/
+  - tests/utils.py
+  - tests/v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - tests/v1/distributed/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py
+  - tests/v1/distributed/test_internal_lb_dp.py
+  commands:
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_internal_lb_dp.py -k "not 4 and not server_info"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py -k "not 4 and not server_info"
+  - VLLM_USE_RUST_FRONTEND=1 VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0 TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py -k "not 4 and not server_info"

.buildkite/test_areas/rust_frontend_cargo.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+group: Rust Frontend Cargo
+depends_on: []
+steps:
+- label: Rust Frontend Cargo Style + Clippy
+  key: rust-frontend-cargo-style-clippy
+  depends_on: []
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: cpu-medium
+  no_plugin: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - rust-toolchain.toml
+  - .buildkite/test_areas/rust_frontend_cargo.yaml
+  - .buildkite/scripts/run-rust-frontend-cargo-ci.sh
+  commands:
+  - .buildkite/scripts/run-rust-frontend-cargo-ci.sh style-clippy
+
+- label: Rust Frontend Cargo Tests
+  key: rust-frontend-cargo-tests
+  depends_on: []
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: cpu-medium
+  no_plugin: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - rust/
+  - rust-toolchain.toml
+  - .buildkite/test_areas/rust_frontend_cargo.yaml
+  - .buildkite/scripts/run-rust-frontend-cargo-ci.sh
+  commands:
+  - .buildkite/scripts/run-rust-frontend-cargo-ci.sh test

.buildkite/test_areas/samplers.yaml

@@ -3,18 +3,23 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Samplers Test
+  device: h200_35gb
+  key: samplers-test
   timeout_in_minutes: 75
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/model_executor/layers
   - vllm/sampling_metadata.py
   - tests/samplers
   - tests/conftest.py
+  - vllm/entrypoints/generate/beam_search
   commands:
-    - pytest -v -s samplers
+    # VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER defaults to 1 now, so we need to pin both
+    # values explicitly to still cover the PyTorch-native (Triton) path.
+    - VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER=0 pytest -v -s samplers
     - VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER=1 pytest -v -s samplers
   mirror:
     amd:
-      device: mi325_1
+      device: mi250_1
       depends_on:
       - image-build-amd
       commands:

.buildkite/test_areas/spec_decode.yaml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ depends_on:
   - image-build
 steps:
 - label: Spec Decode Eagle
+  key: spec-decode-eagle
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -11,10 +12,66 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "eagle_correctness"
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 45
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      - vllm/v1/sample/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/
+      - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+
+- label: Spec Decode Eagle Nightly B200
+  key: spec-decode-eagle-nightly-b200
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: b200-k8s
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "eagle_correctness"
 
 - label: Spec Decode Speculators + MTP
+  key: spec-decode-speculators-mtp
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/v1/attention/backends/
+    - vllm/transformers_utils/configs/speculators/
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "speculators or mtp_correctness"
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 65
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      - vllm/v1/sample/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/
+      - vllm/transformers_utils/configs/speculators/
+      - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
+
+- label: Spec Decode Speculators + MTP Nightly B200
+  key: spec-decode-speculators-mtp-nightly-b200
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: b200-k8s
+  optional: true
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
     - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
@@ -22,8 +79,9 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "speculators or mtp_correctness"
-
+  
 - label: Spec Decode Ngram + Suffix
+  key: spec-decode-ngram-suffix
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -32,8 +90,23 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "ngram or suffix"
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 65
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      - vllm/v1/sample/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/
+      - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
 
 - label: Spec Decode Draft Model
+  key: spec-decode-draft-model
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
   device: h200_18gb
   source_file_dependencies:
@@ -42,16 +115,55 @@ steps:
     - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
   commands:
     - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "draft_model or no_sync or batch_inference"
+  mirror:
+    amd:
+      device: mi325_1
+      timeout_in_minutes: 50
+      depends_on:
+      - image-build-amd
+      source_file_dependencies:
+      - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/
+      - vllm/v1/sample/
+      - vllm/model_executor/layers/
+      - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+      - vllm/platforms/rocm.py
 
-- label: DFlash Speculators Correctness
+- label: Spec Decode Draft Model Nightly B200
+  key: spec-decode-draft-model-nightly-b200
   timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: b200-k8s
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "draft_model or no_sync or batch_inference"
+
+- label: Speculators Correctness
+  key: speculators-correctness
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
   device: h100
   optional: true
   num_devices: 1
   source_file_dependencies:
     - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
     - vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_dflash.py
-    - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_dflash.py
+    - tests/v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_correctness.py
   commands:
-    - export VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1
-    - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_dflash.py -m slow_test
+    - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode/test_speculators_correctness.py -m slow_test
+
+- label: Spec Decode MTP hybrid (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  device: b200-k8s
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/
+    - vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_5.py
+    - vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_5_mtp.py
+    - tests/v1/e2e/spec_decode/
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/e2e/spec_decode -k "qwen3_5-hybrid"