fix: add TQFullAttentionSpec guard in v1 _reshape_kv_cache_tensors

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Problem

vLLM v1 engine crashes with ValueError: Unknown TurboQuant cache dtype: 'auto' when using --kv-cache-dtype turboquant_* with hybrid Mamba+Attention models (e.g. Qwen3.5-MoE / Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ).

Root Cause

_reshape_kv_cache_tensors in v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py:7397 sets layer_cache_dtype_str = "auto" for any layer with kv_quant_mode == KVQuantMode.NONE. This "auto" string is then passed to TurboQuantConfig.from_cache_dtype() which only accepts explicit presets (turboquant_4bit_nc, etc.).

The non-v1 path (v1/worker/gpu/attn_utils.py:312-315) already guards against this:

layer_cache_dtype = (
    "auto"
    if kv_cache_spec.kv_quant_mode == KVQuantMode.NONE
    and not isinstance(kv_cache_spec, TQFullAttentionSpec)  # <-- this guard exists here
    else cache_dtype
)

The v1 engine path is missing the same guard.

Fix

Add the same TQFullAttentionSpec guard to the v1 engine path:

1. Import TQFullAttentionSpec from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface
2. Add and not isinstance(kv_cache_spec, TQFullAttentionSpec) to the condition in gpu_model_runner.py

This ensures TurboQuant layers always receive the correct cache dtype string, while genuinely unquantized layers (skipped via --kv-cache-dtype-skip-layers) still get "auto".

Reproduction

vllm serve QuantTrio/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ   --kv-cache-dtype turboquant_4bit_nc   --tensor-parallel-size 2   --enforce-eager

Without fix: ValueError: Unknown TurboQuant cache dtype: 'auto'. Valid presets: turboquant_k8v4, turboquant_4bit_nc, ...

With fix: server starts successfully.

Tested

Verified on 2x RTX 3060 12GB with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ (hybrid MoE, 35B/3B active, 256 experts, 8 active).

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