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    • Added guidance for a new UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS environment variable: default 2, uses multiple NICs per GPU for rendezvous transfers, and recommendation to set to 1 when tensor- and expert-parallel instances run concurrently to reduce NIC contention.
    • Minor formatting adjustments in Troubleshooting/FAQ for improved readability.

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Documentation update to disaggregated-service: adds the UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS environment variable with default 2 and guidance on NIC usage across GPUs; minor formatting tweak in Troubleshooting/FAQ. No code or API changes.

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Added Environment Variables entry for UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS (default 2) explaining UCX may use two IB NICs per GPU for RNDV transfers and advising UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS=1 to reduce NIC contention when both context and generation instances enable TEP; minor formatting adjustment in Troubleshooting/FAQ (trailing asterisk on NVLink-domain FAQ).

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docs/source/advanced/disaggregated-service.md (4)

39-41: Define or link the “TEP” acronym on first mention

Readers unfamiliar with TEP may not know what it stands for. Either expand it on first mention or link to the section that defines/enables it.

If “TEP” is already defined elsewhere in the docs, please point this section to it with a link to improve discoverability.


39-41: Operator guidance: add “when to use 1 vs 2” rule-of-thumb

A short decision aid helps users:

  • Use 2 when each GPU has sufficient dedicated NIC bandwidth (e.g., no cross-GPU NIC sharing).
  • Use 1 when context+generation both enable TEP and concurrent TP KV transfers cause NIC contention across GPUs.

Optionally suggest how to inspect topology and NIC/GPU mapping (run on the hosts):

  • nvidia-smi topo -m to see GPU↔NIC proximity
  • ibdev2netdev (OFED) to map HCAs to net devices

80-80: Polish the FAQ question phrasing

Minor readability tweak.

-*Q. When my servers are running on different NVLink domains, some servers hang or have a lower performance. How to fix that?*
+*Q. When servers are in different NVLink domains, some servers hang or performance drops. How can I address this?*

39-41: Confirm UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS default and add reference

UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS controls how many network “rails” (NIC devices) UCX will use for rendezvous (large-message) transfers. Across UCX releases, the default is 2 rails (ucx-shamisp.readthedocs.io, docs.nvidia.com). Please add a reference to the official UCX documentation (e.g. the OpenUCX FAQ or NVIDIA HPC-X docs) here, or note that TRT-LLM recommends using the default of 2 unless overridden.

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39-41: Good addition: actionable knob for NIC contention under TEP + TP concurrency

Adding UCX_MAX_RNDV_RAILS here is helpful and gives operators a concrete mitigation when context and generation both enable TEP and TP ranks contend for NICs. Nice catch to surface this in the Environment Variables section.

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