From 61c1dd0966fd8d91954003cf6b7ab746448a46f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: omerpaz95 <73347585+omerpaz95@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:25:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [EC Connector] Call to EC Connector update_connector_output
 from scheduler (#49579)
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Signed-off-by: omerpaz95 <omerpaz95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolò Lucchesi <nicolo.lucchesi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nicolò Lucchesi <nicolo.lucchesi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: mergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 tests/v1/core/test_async_scheduler.py |  1 +
 tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py       | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py       |  5 ++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/v1/core/test_async_scheduler.py b/tests/v1/core/test_async_scheduler.py
index 1b01d184dc..79c6f6f65c 100644
--- a/tests/v1/core/test_async_scheduler.py
+++ b/tests/v1/core/test_async_scheduler.py
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ def test_abort_request_when_structured_output_fsm_cannot_advance():
 
     scheduler.perf_metrics = None
     scheduler.connector = None
+    scheduler.ec_connector = None
     scheduler.structured_output_manager = Mock()
     scheduler.structured_output_manager.should_advance.return_value = True
     scheduler.structured_output_manager.trim_reasoning_for_advance.side_effect = (
diff --git a/tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py b/tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py
index 75f9402394..c419d50b5b 100644
--- a/tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py
+++ b/tests/v1/core/test_scheduler.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import (
 )
 from vllm.v1.outputs import (
     DraftTokenIds,
+    ECConnectorOutput,
     KVConnectorOutput,
     ModelRunnerOutput,
     make_empty_encoder_model_runner_output,
@@ -3237,6 +3238,7 @@ def test_abort_request_when_structured_output_fsm_cannot_advance():
 
     scheduler.perf_metrics = None
     scheduler.connector = None
+    scheduler.ec_connector = None
     scheduler.structured_output_manager = Mock()
     scheduler.structured_output_manager.should_advance.return_value = True
     scheduler.structured_output_manager.trim_reasoning_for_advance.side_effect = (
@@ -4771,6 +4773,41 @@ def test_scheduler_kv_connector_stats():
         assert final_stats == expected_data
 
 
+def test_ec_connector_update_connector_output_called():
+    """Test that worker-side EC connector output is forwarded to the
+    EC connector's update_connector_output hook."""
+    scheduler = create_scheduler(
+        model="llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf",
+        use_ec_connector=True,
+        ec_role="ec_consumer",
+    )
+    scheduler.ec_connector.update_connector_output = Mock()
+
+    scheduler_output = SchedulerOutput(
+        scheduled_new_reqs=[],
+        scheduled_cached_reqs=CachedRequestData.make_empty(),
+        num_scheduled_tokens={},
+        total_num_scheduled_tokens=0,
+        scheduled_encoder_inputs={},
+        scheduled_spec_decode_tokens={},
+        num_common_prefix_blocks=[],
+        finished_req_ids=set(),
+        free_encoder_mm_hashes=[],
+    )
+    ec_connector_output = ECConnectorOutput(finished_sending={"hash_test1"})
+    model_runner_output = ModelRunnerOutput(
+        req_ids=[],
+        req_id_to_index={},
+        ec_connector_output=ec_connector_output,
+    )
+
+    scheduler.update_from_output(scheduler_output, model_runner_output)
+
+    scheduler.ec_connector.update_connector_output.assert_called_once_with(
+        ec_connector_output
+    )
+
+
 # ==============================================================================
 # Variable-length encoder cross-attention block allocation tests
 # ==============================================================================
diff --git a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
index 006da8c7d1..15ef101799 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py
@@ -1672,6 +1672,7 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         pooler_outputs = model_runner_output.pooler_output
         num_nans_in_logits = model_runner_output.num_nans_in_logits
         kv_connector_output = model_runner_output.kv_connector_output
+        ec_connector_output = model_runner_output.ec_connector_output
         cudagraph_stats = model_runner_output.cudagraph_stats
 
         # Every GPU write enqueued by this and earlier steps has completed, so it is
@@ -1979,6 +1980,10 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         if kv_connector_output:
             self._update_from_kv_xfer_finished(kv_connector_output)
 
+        # EC Connector: update state from worker-side EC connector output.
+        if self.ec_connector is not None and ec_connector_output:
+            self.ec_connector.update_connector_output(ec_connector_output)
+
         # Worker-side KV connector stats from the model runner output.
         kv_connector_stats: KVConnectorStats | None = (
             kv_connector_output.kv_connector_stats if kv_connector_output else None