From 6be9c4a978c2a35d9cae254e2c05a1dc536d2fd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yassin <yassin@berri.ai>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:17:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(router): compose DeploymentSemaphore over
 asyncio.Semaphore instead of subclassing it

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 litellm/router.py                             |  6 ++--
 .../client_initalization_utils.py             | 31 ++++++++++++++-----
 tests/test_litellm/test_router.py             |  5 ++-
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index b62c83b8ab1..132f48730df 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ from litellm.router_utils.batch_utils import (
     replace_model_in_jsonl,
     should_replace_model_in_jsonl,
 )
-from litellm.router_utils.client_initalization_utils import InitalizeCachedClient
+from litellm.router_utils.client_initalization_utils import DeploymentSemaphore, InitalizeCachedClient
 from litellm.router_utils.clientside_credential_handler import (
     get_dynamic_litellm_params,
     is_clientside_credential,
@@ -3640,7 +3640,7 @@ class Router:
                 client_type="max_parallel_requests",
             )
             async with contextlib.AsyncExitStack() as deployment_slot:
-                if isinstance(rpm_semaphore, asyncio.Semaphore):
+                if isinstance(rpm_semaphore, DeploymentSemaphore):
                     await deployment_slot.enter_async_context(rpm_semaphore)
                 await self.async_routing_strategy_pre_call_checks(
                     deployment=deployment,
@@ -8512,7 +8512,7 @@ class Router:
             client_type="max_parallel_requests",
         )
         async with contextlib.AsyncExitStack() as slot:
-            if isinstance(rpm_semaphore, asyncio.Semaphore):
+            if isinstance(rpm_semaphore, DeploymentSemaphore):
                 await slot.enter_async_context(rpm_semaphore)
             await self.async_routing_strategy_pre_call_checks(deployment=deployment, parent_otel_span=parent_otel_span)
             yield
diff --git a/litellm/router_utils/client_initalization_utils.py b/litellm/router_utils/client_initalization_utils.py
index a135978d09e..72854cba028 100644
--- a/litellm/router_utils/client_initalization_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/router_utils/client_initalization_utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import asyncio
 import time
+from types import TracebackType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final
 
 from litellm._logging import verbose_router_logger
@@ -15,22 +16,36 @@ else:
     LitellmRouter = Any
 
 
-class DeploymentSemaphore(asyncio.Semaphore):
+class DeploymentSemaphore:
     """A deployment's max_parallel_requests slots. ``queue_size=None`` parks callers without bound, like a plain
     ``asyncio.Semaphore``; otherwise a caller arriving while all slots are busy and ``queue_size`` callers already
     wait gets a 429 instead of being parked."""
 
     def __init__(self, max_parallel_requests: int, model_id: str, model_group: str, queue_size: int | None) -> None:
-        super().__init__(max_parallel_requests)
-        self.max_parallel_requests = max_parallel_requests
-        self.model_id = model_id
-        self.model_group = model_group
+        self._slots: Final = asyncio.Semaphore(max_parallel_requests)
+        self.max_parallel_requests: Final = max_parallel_requests
+        self.model_id: Final = model_id
+        self.model_group: Final = model_group
         self.queue_size = queue_size
         self.waiting = 0
 
+    def locked(self) -> bool:
+        return self._slots.locked()
+
+    def release(self) -> None:
+        self._slots.release()
+
+    async def __aenter__(self) -> None:
+        await self.acquire()
+
+    async def __aexit__(
+        self, exc_type: type[BaseException] | None, exc: BaseException | None, tb: TracebackType | None
+    ) -> None:
+        self._slots.release()
+
     async def acquire(self) -> bool:
-        if not self.locked():
-            return await super().acquire()
+        if not self._slots.locked():
+            return await self._slots.acquire()
         if self.queue_size is not None and self.waiting >= self.queue_size:
             raise RateLimitError(
                 message=(
@@ -57,7 +72,7 @@ class DeploymentSemaphore(asyncio.Semaphore):
             self.queue_size,
         )
         try:
-            return await super().acquire()
+            return await self._slots.acquire()
         finally:
             self.waiting -= 1
             verbose_router_logger.debug(
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py b/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
index b094312808e..a674f767dde 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/test_router.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from litellm.router import (
     _is_retriable_anthropic_status,
 )
 from litellm.router_strategy import simple_shuffle
+from litellm.router_utils.client_initalization_utils import DeploymentSemaphore
 from litellm.router_utils.cooldown_handlers import _async_get_cooldown_deployments
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import ChatCompletionRequest
 from litellm.types.router import Deployment, DeploymentTypedDict, LiteLLM_Params, ModelInfo, PreRoutingHookResponse, RetryPolicy
@@ -1520,7 +1521,9 @@ async def test_router_ageneric_api_call_with_fallbacks_helper():
             },
         }
 
-        mock_semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(1)
+        mock_semaphore = DeploymentSemaphore(
+            max_parallel_requests=1, model_id="deployment-1", model_group="gpt-3.5-turbo", queue_size=None
+        )
 
         with patch.object(
             router, "_update_kwargs_with_deployment"