[Test] Add ACL graph capture/replay DP test (#4259)

### What this PR does / why we need it?
Add ACL graph capture/replay DP test, this is a imprved version of #3886

Restructures the multi-card ACL graph test for improved clarity,
robustness, and accuracy.

Key improvements include:
- Replaces fragile `sys.settrace` and manual patching with a clean,
reusable spy installer using `unittest.mock.patch`.
- Introduces more precise metrics by tracking
`NPUModelRunner.execute_model` and `_dummy_run` calls directly.
- Rewrites assertions to be more accurate and provides clear
explanations for the expected counts of graph captures, replays, model
executions, and dummy runs.
- Simplifies the overall test structure by separating the worker logic
into a dedicated function.
- Removes a long, unnecessary sleep at the end of the test.
- Expands test coverage by adding a larger `max_tokens` parameter.

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
None.

### How was this patch tested?
None.

- vLLM version: v0.11.0
- vLLM main:
vllm-project/vllm@2918c1b

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Signed-off-by: lilinsiman <lilinsiman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Liu <liu_yizhou@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: lilinsiman <lilinsiman@gmail.com>

Author: yiz-liu

.github/workflows/_e2e_test.yaml

@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ jobs:
           VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE: True
         if: ${{ inputs.type == 'full' }}
         run: |
+          pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_aclgraph_capture_replay.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_torchair_graph_mode.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_full_graph_mode.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_data_parallel.py

tests/e2e/multicard/test_aclgraph_capture_replay.py

@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
+# Copyright 2023 The vLLM team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import contextlib
+import gc
+import math
+import multiprocessing
+import os
+from typing import Any
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
+
+if vllm_version_is("0.11.0"):
+    from vllm.utils import get_open_port
+else:
+    from vllm.utils.network_utils import get_open_port
+
+MODELS = [
+    "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
+    "vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-V2-Lite-W8A8",
+]
+
+
+def _install_spies(counters: dict[str, Any]) -> contextlib.ExitStack:
+    """Installs thread-safe spies on NPU methods to track invocation counts."""
+    from vllm_ascend.worker.model_runner_v1 import NPUModelRunner
+
+    def make_spy(cls, method_name, counter):
+        original = getattr(cls, method_name)
+
+        def spy(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            with counter.get_lock():
+                counter.value += 1
+            return original(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        return spy
+
+    stack = contextlib.ExitStack()
+    hooks = [
+        (torch.npu.NPUGraph, "replay", counters["replay"]),
+        (torch.npu.NPUGraph, "__init__", counters["capture"]),
+        (NPUModelRunner, "execute_model", counters["exec_model"]),
+        (NPUModelRunner, "_dummy_run", counters["dummy_run"]),
+    ]
+
+    for cls, method, counter in hooks:
+        stack.enter_context(
+            patch.object(cls, method, make_spy(cls, method, counter)))
+
+    return stack
+
+
+def _run_worker_process(
+    rank: int,
+    local_rank: int,
+    world_size: int,
+    master_ip: str,
+    master_port: int,
+    counters: dict[str, Any],
+    model_path: str,
+    max_tokens: int,
+):
+    """Main entry point for the worker process."""
+    os.environ.update({
+        "VLLM_DP_RANK": str(rank),
+        "VLLM_DP_RANK_LOCAL": str(local_rank),
+        "VLLM_DP_SIZE": str(world_size),
+        "VLLM_DP_MASTER_IP": master_ip,
+        "VLLM_DP_MASTER_PORT": str(master_port),
+    })
+
+    # Import vLLM only after environment setup
+    from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+    from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import (
+        destroy_distributed_environment, destroy_model_parallel)
+
+    # Apply hooks and run inference
+    with _install_spies(counters):
+        prompts = [
+            "Hello, my name is",
+            "The president of the United States is",
+            "The capital of France is",
+            "The future of AI is",
+        ]
+
+        # Simple data sharding
+        chunk_size = len(prompts) // world_size
+        start_idx = rank * chunk_size
+        end_idx = start_idx + chunk_size if rank < world_size - 1 else len(
+            prompts)
+        local_prompts = prompts[start_idx:end_idx]
+
+        llm = LLM(
+            model=model_path,
+            quantization="ascend" if "W8A8" in model_path else None,
+            # enable_expert_parallel=True if "DeepSeek" in model_path else False,
+            trust_remote_code=True,
+        )
+
+        # Expose model config to the main test process
+        counters["hidden_layers"].value = (
+            llm.llm_engine.model_config.hf_config.num_hidden_layers)
+
+        llm.generate(local_prompts,
+                     SamplingParams(max_tokens=max_tokens, temperature=0.0))
+
+        # Explicit cleanup is mandatory in multi-process vLLM tests
+        del llm
+
+        destroy_model_parallel()
+        destroy_distributed_environment()
+
+        with contextlib.suppress(AssertionError):
+            torch.distributed.destroy_process_group()
+
+        gc.collect()
+        torch.npu.empty_cache()
+        torch.npu.reset_peak_memory_stats()
+
+
+# @patch.dict(os.environ, clear=["HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE","VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("max_tokens", [4, 36])
+@patch.dict(os.environ, {"ASCEND_RT_VISIBLE_DEVICES": "0,1"})
+def test_aclgraph_capture_replay_dp2(
+    model: str,
+    max_tokens: int,
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+) -> None:
+    # Counter doesn't work in default "spawn" mode
+    monkeypatch.delenv("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD", raising=False)
+
+    # Shared counters for cross-process assertion
+    counters = {
+        "replay": multiprocessing.Value("i", 0),
+        "capture": multiprocessing.Value("i", 0),
+        "exec_model": multiprocessing.Value("i", 0),
+        "dummy_run": multiprocessing.Value("i", 0),
+        "hidden_layers": multiprocessing.Value("i", -1),
+    }
+
+    dp_size = 2
+    port = get_open_port()
+
+    # Launch workers
+    workers = []
+    for rank in range(dp_size):
+        p = multiprocessing.Process(
+            target=_run_worker_process,
+            args=(rank, rank, dp_size, "127.0.0.1", port, counters, model,
+                  max_tokens),
+        )
+        p.start()
+        workers.append(p)
+
+    # Supervision loop
+    for p in workers:
+        p.join(timeout=900)
+        if p.exitcode != 0:
+            for k in workers:
+                if k.is_alive():
+                    k.kill()
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Worker {p.pid} failed with exit code {p.exitcode}")
+
+    actual_capture = counters["capture"].value
+    actual_replay = counters["replay"].value
+    num_execute_model = counters["exec_model"].value
+    num_dummy_run = counters["dummy_run"].value
+    num_layers = counters["hidden_layers"].value
+
+    num_acl_graphs = num_layers + 1
+    num_comm_groups = sum(1 for s in [dp_size, 1]
+                          if s > 1)  # dp_size=2, tp_size=1
+
+    # Metric 1: Graph Capture (ACL Graph Construction)
+    # Ref: vllm_ascend.utils.update_aclgraph_sizes
+    max_batch_sizes = math.floor((1800 - num_comm_groups * 40) /
+                                 num_acl_graphs / (1 + num_comm_groups * 2))
+
+    expected_capture = max_batch_sizes * num_acl_graphs * dp_size
+    assert (
+        actual_capture == expected_capture
+    ), f"Capture count mismatch. Expected: {expected_capture}, Got: {actual_capture}"
+
+    # Metric 2: Model Execution (NPUModelRunner.execute_model)
+    # vLLM Step Breakdown:
+    # 1. First step (prefill, 1 prompt)
+    # 2. Generation steps (max_tokens)
+    # 3. Final step (likely EOS/idle step), no replay here
+    total_steps = max_tokens + 1  # this includes the 1 and 2 above
+    expected_exec_model = (total_steps + 1) * dp_size
+
+    assert (
+        num_execute_model == expected_exec_model
+    ), f"Model execution count mismatch. Expected: {expected_exec_model}, Got: {num_execute_model}"
+
+    # Metric 3: Dummy Runs (Warmup & Alignment)
+    # vLLM synchronizes globally every 32 steps.
+    # Ref: vllm.v1.engine.core.DPEngineCoreProc._has_global_unfinished_reqs
+    aligned_steps = (total_steps + 31) // 32 * 32
+
+    # Part A: Warmup runs (Profile run + 2 runs per captured graph)
+    warmup_runs = 1 + (2 * max_batch_sizes)
+
+    # Part B: Alignment padding (Empty runs to hit the 32-step boundary)
+    padding_runs = aligned_steps - total_steps
+
+    expected_dummy_run = (warmup_runs + padding_runs) * dp_size
+
+    assert (
+        num_dummy_run == expected_dummy_run
+    ), f"Dummy run count mismatch. Expected: {expected_dummy_run}, Got: {num_dummy_run}"
+
+    # Metric 4: Graph Replay (Inference Execution)
+    # Replays happen for every aligned step across all graphs.
+    expected_replay = num_acl_graphs * aligned_steps * dp_size
+
+    assert (
+        actual_replay == expected_replay
+    ), f"Replay count mismatch. Expected: {expected_replay}, Got: {actual_replay}"