From c54dca96bd9562bf3f15d845dfcaf10df317c1b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshil <harshil_c@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:50:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [Bugfix][Benchmark] Fix probe latency and duration in bench
 serve (#60511)

Signed-off-by: QHarshil <harshil_c@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cyrus Leung <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>
---
 tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py |  4 +++
 vllm/benchmarks/serve.py           | 58 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py b/tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py
index 8aa17b7ef8..eb98bb2655 100644
--- a/tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py
+++ b/tests/benchmarks/test_serve_cli.py
@@ -141,12 +141,16 @@ def test_bench_serve_insecure(ssl_server):
         "--num-prompts",
         "5",
         "--insecure",
+        "--probe-request-rate",
+        "5",
     ]
     result = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True)
     print(result.stdout)
     print(result.stderr)
 
     assert result.returncode == 0, f"Benchmark failed: {result.stderr}"
+    # Probes use their own session, which must also honor --insecure.
+    assert "Probe requests completed" in result.stdout
 
 
 @pytest.mark.benchmark
diff --git a/vllm/benchmarks/serve.py b/vllm/benchmarks/serve.py
index 01a0f62aee..1a1107d3e4 100644
--- a/vllm/benchmarks/serve.py
+++ b/vllm/benchmarks/serve.py
@@ -823,22 +823,25 @@ async def benchmark(
     # Reuses connections across requests to reduce TLS handshake overhead.
     # Use ssl_context if provided, otherwise default to True for https URLs
     ssl_setting = ssl_context if ssl_context is not None else ("https://" in api_url)
-    connector = aiohttp.TCPConnector(
-        limit=max_concurrency or 0,
-        limit_per_host=max_concurrency or 0,
-        ttl_dns_cache=300,
-        use_dns_cache=True,
-        keepalive_timeout=60,
-        enable_cleanup_closed=True,
-        force_close=False,
-        ssl=ssl_setting,
-    )
 
-    session = aiohttp.ClientSession(
-        connector=connector,
-        trust_env=True,
-        timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=6 * 60 * 60),
-    )
+    def make_session(limit: int) -> aiohttp.ClientSession:
+        connector = aiohttp.TCPConnector(
+            limit=limit,
+            limit_per_host=limit,
+            ttl_dns_cache=300,
+            use_dns_cache=True,
+            keepalive_timeout=60,
+            enable_cleanup_closed=True,
+            force_close=False,
+            ssl=ssl_setting,
+        )
+        return aiohttp.ClientSession(
+            connector=connector,
+            trust_env=True,
+            timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=6 * 60 * 60),
+        )
+
+    session = make_session(max_concurrency or 0)
 
     print("Starting initial single prompt test run...")
     test_prompt, test_prompt_len, test_output_len, test_mm_content = (
@@ -997,11 +1000,16 @@ async def benchmark(
             chat_messages=None,
         )
         interval = 1 / probe_request_rate
-        while not probe_stop.is_set():
-            probe_outputs.append(
-                await request_func(request_func_input=probe_input, session=session)
-            )
-            await asyncio.sleep(interval)
+        # The main session's pool is capped at max_concurrency, so probes use
+        # their own connection.
+        async with make_session(1) as probe_session:
+            while not probe_stop.is_set():
+                probe_outputs.append(
+                    await request_func(
+                        request_func_input=probe_input, session=probe_session
+                    )
+                )
+                await asyncio.sleep(interval)
 
     probe_task: asyncio.Task | None = None
     if probe_request_rate > 0:
@@ -1080,15 +1088,17 @@ async def benchmark(
         )
     outputs: list[RequestFuncOutput] = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
 
-    if probe_task is not None:
-        probe_stop.set()
-        await probe_task
-
     if pbar is not None:
         pbar.close()
 
     benchmark_duration = time.perf_counter() - benchmark_start_time
 
+    # Stop probes after measuring the duration, so the final probe interval
+    # is not counted toward the main workload's throughput.
+    if probe_task is not None:
+        probe_stop.set()
+        await probe_task
+
     spec_decode_metrics_after = await fetch_spec_decode_metrics(base_url, session)
     spec_decode_stats: dict[str, Any] | None = None
     if spec_decode_metrics_before is not None and spec_decode_metrics_after is not None: