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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions docs/features/disagg_prefill.md
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--kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"OffloadingConnector","kv_role":"kv_both","kv_connector_extra_config":{"block_size": 64, "cpu_bytes_to_use": 1000000000}}'
```

- **FlexKVConnectorV1**: refer to [examples/offline_inference/prefix_caching_flexkv.py](../../examples/offline_inference/prefix_caching_flexkv.py) for the example usage of FlexKVConnectorV1. FlexKV is a distributed KV Store and multi-level cache management system for ultra-large-scale LLM inference.

```bash
--kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"FlexKVConnectorV1","kv_role":"kv_both"}'
```

## Benchmarks

Please refer to [benchmarks/disagg_benchmarks](../../benchmarks/disagg_benchmarks) for disaggregated prefilling benchmarks.
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
"""
This example shows how to use FlexKV with vLLM for prefix caching.

FlexKV is a distributed KV Store and multi-level cache management system for
ultra-large-scale LLM inference.

Requirements:
- Install FlexKV (https://github.com/taco-project/FlexKV):
1. git clone git@github.com:taco-project/FlexKV.git
2. cd FlexKV && bash build.sh
- Ensure FlexKV is compatible with your vLLM version.

Usage:
1. Run this script:
python examples/offline_inference/prefix_caching_flexkv.py \
--model /path/to/your/model

2. Arguments:
--model Path or name of the model (required)
--tp-size Tensor parallel size (default: 1)
--gpu-memory-util GPU memory utilization (default: 0.4)

3. The script will:
- Create a FlexKV configuration file.
- Set the FLEXKV_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.
- Run vLLM with FlexKVConnectorV1 enabled.
- Compare results between regular execution, vLLM's default prefix
caching, and FlexKV.
"""

import argparse
import json
import os
import time

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory

# NOTE: This is just a running example. For benchmarking purpose,
# please see benchmarks/benchmark_prefix_caching.py


def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="Example of using FlexKV with vLLM for prefix caching."
)
parser.add_argument(
"--model",
type=str,
required=True,
help="Path or name of the model to use.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--tp-size",
type=int,
default=1,
help="Tensor parallel size (default: 1).",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--gpu-memory-util",
type=float,
default=0.4,
help="GPU memory utilization fraction (default: 0.4).",
)
return parser.parse_args()


def main():
args = parse_args()

flexkv_config = {
"server_recv_port": f"ipc:///tmp/flexkv_test_{os.getpid()}",
"cache_config": {
"enable_cpu": True,
"num_cpu_blocks": 10240,
},
"num_log_interval_requests": 200,
}
flexkv_config_path = f"./flexkv_config_{os.getpid()}.json"
with open(flexkv_config_path, "w") as f:
json.dump(flexkv_config, f)
os.environ["FLEXKV_CONFIG_PATH"] = flexkv_config_path

try:
_run(args)
finally:
if os.path.exists(flexkv_config_path):
os.remove(flexkv_config_path)


def _run(args):
# Common prefix.
prefix = (
"You are an expert school principal, skilled in effectively managing "
"faculty and staff. Draft 10-15 questions for a potential first grade "
"Head Teacher for my K-12, all-girls', independent school that emphasizes "
"community, joyful discovery, and life-long learning. The candidate is "
"coming in for a first-round panel interview for a 8th grade Math "
"teaching role. They have 5 years of previous teaching experience "
"as an assistant teacher at a co-ed, public school with experience "
"in middle school math teaching. Based on these information, fulfill "
"the following paragraph: "
)

# Sample prompts.
prompts = [
"Hello, my name is",
"The president of the United States is",
"The capital of France is",
"The future of AI is",
]

generating_prompts = [prefix + prompt for prompt in prompts]

# Create a sampling params object.
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.0)

kv_transfer_config = {
"kv_connector": "FlexKVConnectorV1",
"kv_role": "kv_both",
}

# Create an LLM without prefix caching as a baseline.
regular_llm = LLM(
model=args.model,
enable_prefix_caching=False,
gpu_memory_utilization=args.gpu_memory_util,
tensor_parallel_size=args.tp_size,
)

print("Results without `enable_prefix_caching`")

# ruff: noqa: E501
# Generate texts from the prompts. The output is a list of RequestOutput
# objects that contain the prompt, generated text, and other information.
outputs = regular_llm.generate(generating_prompts, sampling_params)

regular_generated_texts = []
# Print the outputs.
print("-" * 50)
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
regular_generated_texts.append(generated_text)
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}\nGenerated text: {generated_text!r}")
print("-" * 50)

# Destroy the LLM object and free up the GPU memory.
del regular_llm
cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()

# Create an LLM with prefix caching enabled.
prefix_cached_llm = LLM(
model=args.model,
enable_prefix_caching=True,
gpu_memory_utilization=args.gpu_memory_util,
tensor_parallel_size=args.tp_size,
kv_transfer_config=kv_transfer_config,
)

# Warmup so that the shared prompt's KV cache is computed.
prefix_cached_llm.generate(generating_prompts[0], sampling_params)

# wait for offload kv task finished.
time.sleep(2)
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Using time.sleep(2) to wait for an asynchronous offload task to complete is unreliable. The task might take more or less time depending on system load and other factors. This can lead to flaky behavior in the example, where it might fail intermittently or have unnecessary delays. A more robust synchronization mechanism should be used. If the FlexKV API provides a way to block until the operation is complete (e.g., a future, an event, or a blocking call), it should be used instead. This would make the example more reliable and demonstrate better programming practices.

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Absolutely right that time.sleep(2) is not a reliable synchronization mechanism. The offload task here is an asynchronous background operation managed internally by FlexKV. Unfortunately, the current LLM (offline inference) API does not expose a blocking interface to wait for the offload to complete — the synchronization (wait_for_save) happens internally at the worker level during the forward pass. In practice, 2 seconds is more than sufficient for the async KV transfer task to complete in typical scenarios, so this works reliably for the purpose of this example.


# Generate with prefix caching.
outputs = prefix_cached_llm.generate(generating_prompts, sampling_params)

print("Results with `enable_prefix_caching`")

cached_generated_texts = []
# Print the outputs. You should see the same outputs as before.
print("-" * 50)
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
cached_generated_texts.append(generated_text)
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}\nGenerated text: {generated_text!r}")
print("-" * 50)

# Compare the results and display the speedup
generated_same = all(
regular_generated_texts[i] == cached_generated_texts[i]
for i in range(len(prompts))
)
print(f"Generated answers are the same: {generated_same}")

# wait for offload kv task finished.
time.sleep(2)
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Similar to the previous comment, using time.sleep(2) here is unreliable for synchronizing with an asynchronous task. This can make the example flaky. Please use a proper synchronization primitive from the FlexKV API if one is available.

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This is the same case as the previous comment — the 2-second sleep is intentional here for the same reason.


# reset prefix cache to use flexkv
prefix_cached_llm.reset_prefix_cache()

# Generate with prefix caching.
outputs = prefix_cached_llm.generate(generating_prompts, sampling_params)

print("Results with `flexkv`")

flexkv_generated_texts = []
# Print the outputs. You should see the same outputs as before.
print("-" * 50)
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
flexkv_generated_texts.append(generated_text)
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}\nGenerated text: {generated_text!r}")
print("-" * 50)

# Compare the results and display the speedup
generated_same = all(
regular_generated_texts[i] == flexkv_generated_texts[i]
for i in range(len(prompts))
)
print(f"Generated answers are the same: {generated_same}")


if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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