feat(ai): switch qwen-3.8 to Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on llama-server - #4764
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Replaces the vLLM-served 27B behind the qwen-3.8 alias with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (176.9B total, 6B active) on llama.cpp, and parks the vLLM InferenceService rather than deleting it. Runnable here only because llama.cpp keeps the PLE n-gram table on NVMe: it is a single 26.82Gi tensor holding 51.2B of the 176.9B params, and --tensor-read-lazy gathers its rows on demand instead of making them resident. Measured resident footprints, from the GGUF tensor headers: GGUF PLE (NVMe) experts other RESIDENT file REAP-256 UD-Q3_K_XL 26.82 25.99 4.87 30.9Gi 57.7Gi unsloth UD-IQ1_S 26.82 37.10 3.62 40.7Gi 67.6Gi unsloth UD-Q2_K_XL 26.82 42.92 3.70 46.6Gi 73.5Gi Only REAP-256 fits the R9700's 32Gi. Unsloth's whole-model table (75GB at 1-bit) assumes a resident PLE, which is the constraint this lifts. The official ROCm image already builds gfx1201, so no custom build. Context drops 246944 -> 131072 with the engine; Hermes peaks at 112K, so the alias's maxInputTokens moves 238752 -> 122880 to match.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Kubernetes configuration adds the Qwen3.8 Flash-Next backend, suspends the previous vLLM backend, and updates LiteLLM routing, token limits, and fallback monitoring. ChangesQwen3.8 Flash-Next migration
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The model-cache PVC is too small to retain both the current and new model revisions, so a pinned revision update can fail during download or deployment. Increase the PVC capacity before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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@@ spec.info.maxInputTokens @@
# litellm.home-operations.com/v1alpha1/LiteLLMModel/ai/qwen-3.8
! ± value change
- 238752
+ 122880
@@ spec.params.apiBase @@
# litellm.home-operations.com/v1alpha1/LiteLLMModel/ai/qwen-3.8
! ± value change
- http://qwen38-27b-vllm.ai.svc.cluster.local:8000/v1
+ http://qwen38-flash-next.ai.svc.cluster.local:8080/v1
@@ spec.info.maxInputTokens @@
# litellm.home-operations.com/v1alpha1/LiteLLMModel/ai/qwen-3.8-fast
! ± value change
- 238752
+ 122880
@@ spec.params.apiBase @@
# litellm.home-operations.com/v1alpha1/LiteLLMModel/ai/qwen-3.8-fast
! ± value change
- http://qwen38-27b-vllm.ai.svc.cluster.local:8000/v1
+ http://qwen38-flash-next.ai.svc.cluster.local:8080/v1
@@ spec.groups.litellm.rules.rules.LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown.annotations.summary @@
# monitoring.coreos.com/v1/PrometheusRule/ai/litellm-rules
! ± value change
- qwen38-27b-vllm has no available replica — litellm's only fallback target is gone and hermes has no local model
+ qwen38-flash-next has no available replica — litellm's only fallback target is gone and hermes has no local model
@@ spec.groups.litellm.rules.rules.LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown.expr @@
# monitoring.coreos.com/v1/PrometheusRule/ai/litellm-rules
! ± value change in multiline text (two inserts, two deletions)
- kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-27b-vllm"} == 0
+ kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-flash-next"} == 0
or
- absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-27b-vllm"})
+ absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-flash-next"})
@@ spec @@
# inference.llmkube.dev/v1alpha1/InferenceService/ai/qwen38-27b-vllm
! + one map entry added:
+ suspend: true
@@ (root level) @@
# v1/PersistentVolumeClaim/ai/qwen38-flash-next-model-cache
! + one document added:
+ apiVersion: v1
+ kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
+ metadata:
+ name: qwen38-flash-next-model-cache
+ namespace: ai
+ labels:
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name: llmkube-models
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace: ai
+ spec:
+ resources:
+ requests:
+ storage: 85Gi
+ storageClassName: openebs-hostpath
+ accessModes:
+ - ReadWriteOnce
@@ (root level) @@
# inference.llmkube.dev/v1alpha1/Model/ai/qwen38-flash-next
! + one document added:
+ apiVersion: inference.llmkube.dev/v1alpha1
+ kind: Model
+ metadata:
+ name: qwen38-flash-next
+ namespace: ai
+ labels:
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name: llmkube-models
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace: ai
+ spec:
+ source: "hf://unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF@c8b5954a88c2775c546b92593eda40ea041d3176"
+ format: gguf
+ quantization: UD-Q2_K_XL
+ refreshPolicy: OnChange
+ files:
+ - UD-Q2_K_XL/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q2_K_XL-00001-of-00003.gguf
+ - UD-Q2_K_XL/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q2_K_XL-00002-of-00003.gguf
+ - UD-Q2_K_XL/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q2_K_XL-00003-of-00003.gguf
+ hardware:
+ accelerator: rocm
+ gpu:
+ count: 1
+ enabled: true
+ layers: -1
+ resourceName: squat.ai/dri
+ runtime: rocm
+ vendor: amd
@@ (root level) @@
# inference.llmkube.dev/v1alpha1/InferenceService/ai/qwen38-flash-next
! + one document added:
+ apiVersion: inference.llmkube.dev/v1alpha1
+ kind: InferenceService
+ metadata:
+ name: qwen38-flash-next
+ namespace: ai
+ labels:
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name: llmkube-models
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace: ai
+ spec:
+ resources:
+ cpu: "3"
+ memory: 32Gi
+ moeCPULayers: 24
+ contextSize: 131072
+ parallelSlots: 1
+ bindAddress: "0.0.0.0"
+ image: "ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-rocm-b10711"
+ jinja: true
+ noWarmup: true
+ modelRef: qwen38-flash-next
+ extraArgs:
+ - "-lzm"
+ - on
+ - "--alias"
+ - qwen-3.8-flash-next
+ - "--temp"
+ - "1.0"
+ - "--top-p"
+ - "0.95"
+ - "--top-k"
+ - "20"
+ - "--min-p"
+ - "0.0"
+ modelCache:
+ claimName: qwen38-flash-next-model-cache
+ nodeSelector:
+ amd.com/gpu: "true"
+ endpoint:
+ port: 8080
+ podSecurityContext:
+ runAsGroup: 0
+ runAsUser: 0
+ seccompProfile:
+ type: Unconfined
+ supplementalGroups:
+ - 44
+ - 226
+ probeOverrides:
+ liveness:
+ failureThreshold: 20
+ httpGet:
+ path: /health
+ port: 8080
+ periodSeconds: 30
+ startup:
+ failureThreshold: 240
+ httpGet:
+ path: /health
+ port: 8080
+ initialDelaySeconds: 60
+ periodSeconds: 15
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REAP-256 was picked against VRAM alone. The real budget is VRAM+RAM: parking vLLM releases 27.4Gi, taking control-1 from 15.4Gi to ~42.8Gi available, and moeCPULayers spills experts there. That admits the stock unsloth quants. Measured resident footprints (PLE excluded, it stays on NVMe): GGUF RESIDENT spill published top-1 REAP-256 UD-Q3_K_XL 30.9Gi ~1Gi none unsloth UD-IQ1_S 40.7Gi ~11Gi ~79.7% unsloth UD-Q2_K_XL 46.6Gi ~17Gi 82.7% unsloth UD-IQ3_XXS 49.5Gi ~20Gi -- unsloth UD-Q3_K_XL 57.0Gi ~27Gi -- REAP prunes half the 512 routed experts with no published evals, stacked on Q3 quantization -- an unmeasured quality risk, which is the wrong basis for a quality evaluation. Q2_K_XL is the cheapest tier carrying a published number. Spill cost is bounded: llama.cpp#27861 measured this exact model with 28 expert layers host-pinned at 18.4 tok/s decode (24.2 with their GPU LRU cache), against this box's current 31.8-33.9. moeCPULayers 8 -> 24 and memory 24Gi -> 32Gi to match the larger artifact.
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Cleanup pass over the cutover. Four things the first two commits got wrong: - qwen-3.8-fast still pointed at the suspended vLLM service. It is proxy.yaml's only fallback target and the chain is one deep, so the whole safety net was aimed at nothing; its maxInputTokens was also still derived from the old 246944 window. - LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown hardcodes the deployment name and its own comment says the two move together. Left on qwen38-27b-vllm it would fire critical and stay firing the moment this merged. - No modelCache, so the 73.5Gi GGUF would land on the shared 8Gi CephFS cache sized for the embedding models. That cache assumes "read-once at load, so CephFS latency never touches inference", which is exactly wrong for --tensor-read-lazy: it reads PLE rows on every token. Adds a node-local openebs-hostpath claim, same pattern as qwen38-27b-vllm. - cpu "4" would not have scheduled: control-1 has 11 cores and 7665m stays requested with vLLM suspended. Lowered to 3; no CPU limit is set so the 24 CPU expert layers can still burst. Also adds probeOverrides (a 73.5Gi mmap cold start needs the same long startup budget the vLLM sibling has) and noWarmup, and trims the comment prose down to the measured facts.
b10689 is still the newest container build across all backends, but it predates llama.cpp#27837 by ~10h. That fix is load-bearing here: the old code gated the lazy decision on `use_mmap`, which is false during the memory-fit pass (no_alloc, no mmap), so the pass counts the full 26.82Gi PLE against available memory rather than excluding it. On a 32Gi card already spilling experts to host RAM, that plausibly refuses or silently shrinks contextSize. Bump the image before validating rather than measuring b10689. The same build carries the -lzm rename (#27969), so both land together.
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b10711 (rev 9723942, built 2026-08-31T05:52Z) is the first image carrying llama.cpp#27837, which excludes the lazy PLE tensor from the memory-fit pass. Without it the fit pass counts the whole 26.82Gi PLE against available memory and shrinks or refuses contextSize on a 32Gi card. The same build also carries #27969, which renamed --tensor-read-lazy to -lzm/--lazy-mode. The old spelling no longer parses, so the flag moves with the image.
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| apiBase: http://qwen38-27b-vllm.ai.svc.cluster.local:8000/v1 | ||
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Increase the model-cache PVC for pinned revision updates.
A revision change uses a new cache directory because effectiveModelCacheKey hashes the full spec.source. The old 73.5Gi revision remains on the user-owned PVC while the init container downloads the new three-shard revision. An 85Gi PVC cannot hold both revisions. Increase it to cover two revisions plus margin.
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In `@kubernetes/apps/ai/llmkube/models/qwen38-flash-next.yaml` at line 17,
Increase the model-cache PVC storage from 85Gi to a capacity sufficient for both
the existing and new pinned revisions, including the requested margin; update
the storage value in the model cache configuration.
Flash-Next loads and serves on gfx1201 -- the open question in #4764 -- but measured on control-1's R9700: prefill 125-144 tok/s vs vLLM ~7170 (~57x) decode 12-14 tok/s vs vLLM 31.8-33.9 (~2.7x) Capacity, not tuning. UD-Q2_K_XL experts are 42.92Gi against a 31.86Gi card; with a zero-cost KV cache the budget is 26.16Gi, so >=19 of 48 expert layers run on host RAM. GPU busy oscillated 3%<->100% against a saturated CPU: the halves alternate and prefill pays it once per prompt token. No published quant clears the budget (UD-IQ1_S still strands 14 layers). vLLM config was never modified, so this is suspend:false plus the alias and alert following it back.
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What changes
server-rocm-b10711qwen-3.8apiBaseqwen38-27b-vllm:8000qwen38-flash-next:8080vLLM is parked with
suspend: true, not deleted — every measured tuning value in that file (mnbt 4096, maxModelLen 246944,blocks_per_chunk: 4) stays valid, so reverting is a one-line change.Why it fits at all
The PLE n-gram table is a single
[160, 320001536]tensor — 26.82Gi, holding 51.2B of the 176.9B params. llama.cpp's-lzm on(formerly--tensor-read-lazy) reads its rows from disk on demand instead of keeping it resident; upstream states the intent in the loader verbatim: "keep PLE / engrams embd tensors on disk, read them on demand". Merged 2026-08-27 (ggml-org/llama.cpp#27742), maintained since (#27794, #27837, #27969). #27837 is load-bearing and is why this PR now pinsb10711: before it, the memory-fit pass gated the lazy decision onuse_mmap(false during the fit pass), counting the full 26.82Gi PLE against available memory and shrinking or refusingcontextSizeon a 32Gi card.Unsloth's published table (75GB at 1-bit, 96GB recommended) assumes a resident PLE. That assumption is what this lifts.
Quant choice
The budget is VRAM+RAM, not VRAM alone — parking vLLM releases 27.4Gi, taking control-1 from 15.4Gi to ~42.8Gi available, and
moeCPULayersspills experts there. Resident footprints measured from the GGUF tensor headers, PLE excluded:Accuracy columns are unsloth's own per-quant table for this model (unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8-next), not carried over from the 27B. Artifact sizes are the HF tree totals; resident is artifact minus the 26.8Gi PLE.
Two corrections to an earlier revision of this table. The 79.7% previously shown against
UD-IQ1_SisUD-IQ1_M's number;IQ1_Sis 77.33. AndUD-IQ1_MandUD-IQ4_XSwere missing entirely.An earlier revision of this PR used REAP-256, sized against VRAM alone. That was wrong twice over: the budget is larger than VRAM, and REAP prunes half the 512 routed experts by a community process with no published evals — an unmeasured quality risk stacked on Q3 quantization, which is the wrong basis for a quality evaluation.
Why Q2_K_XL and not higher: disk, not quality. The PVC is 85Gi and control-1's kv-offload guard floors free space at 160Gi.
UD-Q3_K_XL(83.8Gi) would push below that floor, andUD-IQ4_XS(87.2Gi) does not fit the PVC at all.UD-IQ3_XXSfits but cuts the disk margin from 5.4Gi to ~2.6Gi for +2.7 top-1 points. Q2_K_XL is the best accuracy that clears both limits with margin.Why not lower:
UD-IQ1_Mis the escape hatch if decode is too slow — 4.1Gi less artifact and ~4Gi less spill for −3.0 top-1 points. Worth testing only if the HIP decode cliff below turns out to bite, since spill volume is what decode pays for.Spill cost is real but bounded. llama.cpp#27861 measured this exact model (UD-Q4_K_XL, 28 expert layers host-pinned, 2×3090, one populated RAM channel per socket) at 18.4 tok/s decode, 24.2 with their GPU LRU cache — against this box's current 31.8-33.9.
Unsloth's one hard caveat is that PLE/n-gram layers stay ≥4-bit. Verified against the artifact, not assumed:
Q2_K_XLnames the expert tiers only, andper_layer_token_embd.weightis type 20 (IQ4_NL, 4.5 bpw). Clears it.The official ROCm image already builds gfx1201, so no custom build.
Blockers
contextSize: 131072is a guess. Chosen to clear Hermes's 112K peak, not derived from a measured KV footprint. Reconcile withmoeCPULayersat validation.moeCPULayers: 24is arithmetic, not measurement — 42.92Gi of experts over 48 layers, ~22Gi of VRAM for experts. Tune against real headroom.squat.ai/driand all 4 are held; this cannot schedule until vLLM releases one, and 32Gi could not hold both regardless.--tensor-read-lazybecame-lzm/--lazy-mode(with aMODEargument) in #27969, and the old spelling no longer parses. Image and flag moved together.Validation plan
Baseline for the current model is captured:
bench/perfat 31.8-33.9 tok/s decode, 173-273 ms TTFT shallow, 6.75-6.82 s TTFT at 48.6K. Flash-Next runs the same suite before this merges.Not done here
vLLM and SGLang both gained real PLE offload in the last week — SGLang's
io_uringNVMe path (#36567) is the best implementation anywhere. Neither is usable here.vLLM re-checked against its own published recipe (recipes.vllm.ai/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next), because it does support this model and the earlier one-line dismissal understated why that does not help:
VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1VLLM_PLE_CPU_OFFLOAD=1moves the 51B n-gram table to host RAM, needs ≥51 GB thereEven granting the PLE offload, ~47.5 GiB of the 172.78 GiB checkpoint is the n-gram table, leaving ~125 GiB that must stay resident across GPUs — four times the card, before KV. The gap is not the PLE, which vLLM does handle; it is that llama.cpp will also push MoE expert layers to host RAM (
moeCPULayers) and vLLM will not. No single-GPU or consumer configuration is published, and the recipe requires a dedicatedvllm/vllm-openai:qwen38-flash-nextimage on vLLM 0.29.0+.The earlier "78Gi backbone" figure in this PR was wrong; ~125 GiB is the number from the recipe's own checkpoint size.
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