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Add documentation about NVLS all-reduce being a source of run-to-run
non-determinism on Hopper NVSwitch nodes (H100, H20, H800) when the
kernel driver / Fabric Manager is older than 550.144.03.

Document that NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 alone fixes single-request
reproducibility with ~1% latency cost, vs ~76% for full batch
invariance.

Closes #59352

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  • docs/usage/reproducibility.md: Add NVSwitch (NVLS) non-determinism on Hopper section with a comparison table
  • docs/features/batch_invariance.md: Add NVLS and fixed-batch reproducibility subsection under Implementation Details

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Documentation preview: https://vllm--59734.org.readthedocs.build/en/59734/

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Add documentation about NVLS all-reduce being a source of run-to-run
non-determinism on Hopper NVSwitch nodes (H100, H20, H800) when the
kernel driver / Fabric Manager is older than 550.144.03.

Document that NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 alone fixes single-request
reproducibility with ~1% latency cost, vs ~76% for full batch
invariance.

Closes vllm-project#59352

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: www6v <www6v@126.com>
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www6v force-pushed the doc/nvls-reproducibility-hopper branch from 4b07c08 to d9267a5 Compare October 2, 2026 05:34

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[Doc]: On Hopper NVSwitch nodes, TP runs can be non-reproducible even for a single request; NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 alone fixes it at ~1% cost

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