From 02d69c663a47ddcd07a3dac8148190c07792c89f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akshan Krithick <97239696+akshan-main@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:58:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [Bugfix][Benchmark] Preserve SSE output across transport
 chunk boundaries (#51172)

Signed-off-by: Akshan Krithick <akshankrithick305@gmail.com>
---
 .../test_endpoint_request_func_timing.py      | 46 +++++++++++++++++++
 vllm/benchmarks/lib/endpoint_request_func.py  |  3 --
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/benchmarks/test_endpoint_request_func_timing.py b/tests/benchmarks/test_endpoint_request_func_timing.py
index 57ac5824ab..d400e6743a 100644
--- a/tests/benchmarks/test_endpoint_request_func_timing.py
+++ b/tests/benchmarks/test_endpoint_request_func_timing.py
@@ -345,6 +345,52 @@ def test_usage_only_stream_is_not_reported_as_success(
     assert "TTFT" in output.error
 
 
+# Significant whitespace at every edge, plus a multibyte character so that a
+# split can land inside a UTF-8 sequence.
+_BOUNDARY_TEXT = " leading 中 trailing "
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "endpoint_id,request_func,api_url,chat",
+    STREAMING_ENDPOINTS,
+    ids=[e[0] for e in STREAMING_ENDPOINTS],
+)
+def test_streamed_output_is_invariant_to_transport_chunk_boundaries(
+    endpoint_id: str,
+    request_func,
+    api_url: str,
+    chat: bool,
+) -> None:
+    """iter_any() yields arbitrary transport fragments, so parsing must
+    give the same result no matter where the byte stream is split."""
+    if chat:
+        choice: dict[str, Any] = {"index": 0, "delta": {"content": _BOUNDARY_TEXT}}
+    else:
+        choice = {"index": 0, "text": _BOUNDARY_TEXT}
+    # Not _sse(): its ensure_ascii default would escape the multibyte char.
+    event = json.dumps(
+        {"id": "cmpl-test", "object": "x", "choices": [choice]}, ensure_ascii=False
+    )
+    stream = f"data: {event}\n\ndata: [DONE]\n\n".encode()
+
+    async def run_all_splits() -> list[tuple[int, bool, str, str]]:
+        failures = []
+        for split_at in range(1, len(stream)):
+            chunks = [(0.0, stream[:split_at]), (0.0, stream[split_at:])]
+            output = await request_func(
+                _make_input(api_url, 1, endpoint_id),
+                _FakeSession(chunks),
+            )
+            if not output.success or output.generated_text != _BOUNDARY_TEXT:
+                error = output.error.splitlines()[-1] if output.error else ""
+                failures.append(
+                    (split_at, output.success, output.generated_text, error)
+                )
+        return failures
+
+    assert asyncio.run(run_all_splits()) == []
+
+
 # ``benchmarks/backend_request_func.py`` is a standalone script rather than a
 # package module, so it is loaded by path. It also builds its own ClientSession,
 # so the scripted stream is injected by swapping the module's aiohttp reference.
diff --git a/vllm/benchmarks/lib/endpoint_request_func.py b/vllm/benchmarks/lib/endpoint_request_func.py
index 778a4e50d3..a4b55736a9 100644
--- a/vllm/benchmarks/lib/endpoint_request_func.py
+++ b/vllm/benchmarks/lib/endpoint_request_func.py
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ async def async_request_openai_completions(
                 handler = StreamedResponseHandler()
 
                 async for chunk_bytes in response.content.iter_any():
-                    chunk_bytes = chunk_bytes.strip()
                     if not chunk_bytes:
                         continue
 
@@ -412,7 +411,6 @@ async def async_request_openai_chat_completions(
                 first_chunk_received = False
                 handler = StreamedResponseHandler()
                 async for chunk_bytes in response.content.iter_any():
-                    chunk_bytes = chunk_bytes.strip()
                     if not chunk_bytes:
                         continue
 
@@ -713,7 +711,6 @@ async def async_request_openai_audio(
                     handler = StreamedResponseHandler()
 
                     async for chunk_bytes in response.content.iter_any():
-                        chunk_bytes = chunk_bytes.strip()
                         if not chunk_bytes:
                             continue