[Test] enable external launcher and add e2e test for sleep mode in level2 (#3344)

### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. Enable tests/e2e/multicard/test_external_launcher.py
2. Add e2e test for  sleep mode in level2

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
not involved

### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with existing test.

- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0

Signed-off-by: huangxialu <huangxialu1@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: Shangwei-Li <lishangwei2@huawei.com>

.github/workflows/_e2e_test.yaml

@@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_data_parallel.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_expert_parallel.py
-          # external_launcher test is not stable enough. Fix it later
-          # pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_external_launcher.py
+          pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_external_launcher.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_fused_moe_allgather_ep.py
           pytest -sv tests/e2e/multicard/test_ilama_lora_tp2.py
 

examples/offline_external_launcher.py

@@ -67,11 +67,38 @@ from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
 from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import (  # noqa E402
     destroy_distributed_environment, destroy_model_parallel, get_tp_group)
 from vllm.utils import get_open_port, GiB_bytes
+from safetensors.torch import load_file
 
 os.environ["VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE"] = "True"
 os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
 
 
+def patch_vllm_moe_model_weight_loader(model):
+    model = getattr(model, "model", None) or getattr(model, "language_model", None)
+    if model is None:
+        raise ValueError("The provided model does not have a valid 'model' or 'language_model' attribute.")
+    for layer in model.layers:
+        mlp_attr = "mlp"
+        mlp = getattr(layer, mlp_attr)
+        param_dict = dict(mlp.named_parameters())
+        for name, param in param_dict.items():
+            if "w13_weight" in name or "w2_weight" in name:
+                param.weight_loader = mlp.experts.weight_loader
+
+
+def load_and_merge_safetensors(directory):
+    if not os.path.isdir(directory):
+        raise ValueError(f"The provided directory does not exist: {directory}")
+    merged_dict = {}
+    for filename in os.listdir(directory):
+        if filename.endswith(".safetensors"):
+            file_path = os.path.join(directory, filename)
+            print(f"loading file: {file_path}")
+            f = load_file(file_path)
+            merged_dict.update(f)
+    return merged_dict
+
+
 def parse_args():
 
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="External launcher Inference")
@@ -125,6 +152,11 @@ def parse_args():
                         type=float,
                         default=None,
                         help="Model weight memory usage in GiB (e.g., 1.0 for 0.5B model).")
+    parser.add_argument("--sleep-mode-level",
+                        type=int,
+                        choices=[1, 2],
+                        default=1,
+                        help="Sleep mode level: 1 or 2. This example of level 2 is only supported for dense model.")
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if args.enable_sleep_mode:
@@ -152,6 +184,7 @@ def main(
     trust_remote_code: bool = True,
     enable_sleep_mode: bool = False,
     temperature: float = 0.8,
+    sleep_mode_level: int = 1,
 ):
     os.environ["MASTER_ADDR"] = master_addr
     os.environ["MASTER_PORT"] = str(master_port)
@@ -193,7 +226,7 @@ def main(
     if enable_sleep_mode:
         if rank == 0:
             free_bytes_before_sleep, total = torch.npu.mem_get_info()
-        llm.sleep(level=1)
+        llm.sleep(level=sleep_mode_level)
         if rank == 0:
             free_bytes_after_sleep, total = torch.npu.mem_get_info()
             freed_bytes = free_bytes_after_sleep - free_bytes_before_sleep
@@ -201,7 +234,16 @@ def main(
             # now the freed memory should be larger than the model weights
             assert freed_bytes >= model_weight_gib / tensor_parallel_size * GiB_bytes
 
+        if sleep_mode_level == 1:
             llm.wake_up()
+        else:
+            llm.wake_up(tags=["weights"])
+            run_model = llm.llm_engine.model_executor.driver_worker.worker.model_runner.model
+            patch_vllm_moe_model_weight_loader(run_model)
+            sd = load_and_merge_safetensors(model)
+            run_model.load_weights(sd.items())
+            llm.wake_up(tags=["kv_cache"])
+
         outputs_after_wakeup = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
         if rank == 0:
             # cmp output
@@ -268,6 +310,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                            args.trust_remote_code,
                            args.enable_sleep_mode,
                            args.temperature,
+                           args.sleep_mode_level,
                        ))
 
         proc.start()

tests/e2e/multicard/test_external_launcher.py

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
 import torch_npu
+from modelscope import snapshot_download  # type: ignore
 
 MODELS = ["Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"]
 MOE_MODELS = ["Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B"]
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ DEVICE_NAME = torch_npu.npu.get_device_name(0)[:10]
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
+@patch.dict(os.environ, {"HCCL_BUFFSIZE": "500"})
 def test_external_launcher(model):
     script = Path(
         __file__
@@ -152,12 +154,64 @@ def test_external_launcher_and_sleepmode():
     assert proc.returncode == 0
 
 
+def test_external_launcher_and_sleepmode_level2():
+    script = Path(
+        __file__
+    ).parent.parent.parent.parent / "examples" / "offline_external_launcher.py"
+    env = os.environ.copy()
+    model_path = snapshot_download("Qwen/Qwen3-8B")
+    # TODO: Add moe model test
+    cmd = [
+        sys.executable,
+        str(script),
+        "--model",
+        model_path,
+        "--tp-size",
+        "1",
+        "--node-size",
+        "1",
+        "--node-rank",
+        "0",
+        "--proc-per-node",
+        "2",
+        "--trust-remote-code",
+        "--enable-sleep-mode",
+        "--temperature",
+        "0",
+        "--model-weight-gib",
+        "16",
+        "--sleep-mode-level",
+        "2",
+    ]
+
+    print(f"Running subprocess: {' '.join(cmd)}")
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        cmd,
+        env=env,
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+        timeout=300,
+    )
+    output = proc.stdout.decode()
+
+    print(output)
+
+    assert "TP RANKS: [0]" in output
+    assert "TP RANKS: [1]" in output
+    assert "Generated text:" in output
+    assert "Sleep and wake up successfully!!" in output
+    assert proc.returncode == 0
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
     DEVICE_NAME != "Ascend910B",
     reason="This test is only for Ascend910B devices.",
 )
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
-@patch.dict(os.environ, {"VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MATMUL_ALLREDUCE": "1"})
+@patch.dict(os.environ, {
+    "VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MATMUL_ALLREDUCE": "1",
+    "HCCL_BUFFSIZE": "500"
+})
 def test_mm_allreduce(model):
     script = Path(
         __file__