[TRTLLM-15289][doc] Document KVCacheV2Scheduler and KVCacheManagerV2 divergence points

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Description

Document the assumptions KVCacheV2Scheduler makes about KVCacheManagerV2
and the cases where scheduler bookkeeping can diverge from manager-side
KV-cache state.

The documentation covers generation allocation and eviction, partial failures
while suspending primary and draft caches, context-allocation mutations that
remain after later scheduling failures, and differences between BudgetTracker
accounting and physical KV-page allocation.

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• Added documentation for assumptions and divergence risks between KVCacheV2Scheduler, KVCacheManagerV2, and BudgetTracker.
• Covered generation allocation and eviction, partial suspension failures, context-allocation rollback, and logical versus physical KV-cache capacity.
• No runtime code, APIs, dependencies, configuration files, or public declarations changed.
• Documentation-only change. No correctness, performance, error-handling, or regression concerns identified.

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Scheduler Manager Divergence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scheduler-manager assumptions and divergence tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/scheduler_manager_divergence.md	Documents side effects during context preparation, generation allocation, suspension, eviction, rollback, and disaggregated generation initialization. It also records differences between BudgetTracker accounting and manager-managed capacity.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0469d

The PR only adds documentation and does not change runtime behavior. The remaining issues are limited to a missing repository copyright header and a wording clarification about rollback scope; they are localized documentation fixes with no product or production impact.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/SCHEDULER_MANAGER_DIVERGENCE.md`:
- Line 1: Add the repository-standard NVIDIA copyright header at the beginning
of SCHEDULER_MANAGER_DIVERGENCE.md, using 2026 as the latest meaningful
modification year, while preserving the existing document title and content.
- Line 5: Update the scheduler divergence statement describing
KVCacheV2Scheduler and KVCacheManagerV2 to say that no general reconciliation
mechanism exists for every manager mutation, while preserving the existing
“only” qualification for revert_allocate_context() and its deferred
disaggregated-generation-init handling.

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We should have @NVIDIA/trt-llm-kv-cache-manager-devs review this for correctness as well

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