Revert "Fix Stale Encoder Cache After Weight Update" (#46125)

Sumanth R Hegde committed Jun 20, 2026 at 07:09 UTC 7ff7f5c8eb98354d3776f6c60c90aebc2b41c1da
2 files changed -12
vllm/entrypoints/llm.py
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@@ -898,12 +898,6 @@ class LLM(BeamSearchOfflineMixin, PoolingOfflineMixin, OfflineInferenceMixin):
898 def finish_weight_update(self) -> None:
899 """Finish the current weight update."""
900 self.llm_engine.collective_rpc("finish_weight_update")
901 - # Invalidate cached state computed with the old weights so it isn't
902 - # reused for subsequent requests:
903 - # - prefix cache: KV blocks computed with the old weights
904 - # - encoder cache: multimodal embeddings keyed only by mm_hash
905 - self.llm_engine.reset_prefix_cache()
906 - self.llm_engine.reset_encoder_cache()
901
902 def __repr__(self) -> str:
903 """Return a transformers-style hierarchical view of the model."""
vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py
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@@ -1109,9 +1109,3 @@ class AsyncLLM(EngineClient):
1109 async def finish_weight_update(self) -> None:
1110 """Finish the current weight update."""
1111 await self.collective_rpc("finish_weight_update")
1112 - # Invalidate cached state computed with the old weights so it isn't
1113 - # reused for subsequent requests:
1114 - # - prefix cache: KV blocks computed with the old weights
1115 - # - encoder cache: multimodal embeddings keyed only by mm_hash
1116 - await self.reset_prefix_cache()
1117 - await self.reset_encoder_cache()