fix: count only uncached tokens against the legacy agg prefill budget

[kangclzjc]

Why and what changed

Problem

The legacy aggregated (IFB) estimator ignores prefix-cache hits when it schedules mixed (prefill + decode) steps. This affects:

• aiconfigurator cli estimate in agg mode
• cli_estimate(mode="agg")
• Task.run_single_agg
• the agg sweeps: sdk/sweep.py and the legacy find_best_agg_result_under_constraints

At a fixed --ctx-tokens, --prefix changes neither the number of mixed steps nor the TTFT chunk count. The per-step cost credits the cached prefix only when --ctx-tokens >= ISL.

Example: Qwen3-32B-FP8, h200_sxm, SGLang 0.5.14, TP2, bs 16, ISL 32768, OSL 512, --ctx-tokens 16384. A request with 90% of its prompt cached gets the same 32 mixed steps as a cold one, and throughput rises only 1.31x from prefix 0 to prefix 29491.

Root cause: two defects

Line numbers refer to origin/main 9f140b7.

1. Schedule (Python). BaseBackend.run_agg (python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/backends/base_backend.py L1655) computes every scheduling quantity from the full effective ISL, cached prefix included:

   • balance_score = isl * b / ctx_tokens / ... (L1683)
   • steps_to_finish_ctx = ceil(isl * b / ctx_tokens) (L1727)
   • _mix_step_gen_tokens(b, ctx_tokens, isl, ...) (L1731; base at L145, vLLM override at vllm_backend.py L103)
   • the TTFT chunk count ceil(isl / ctx_tokens) (L1802)
   • num_ctx_requests = ceil(ctx_tokens / isl) (L1845)

   The agg sweeps build their ctx_tokens grid and batch/ctx guards on the same ISL: sdk/sweep.py L343 and L364-371, and find_best_agg_result_under_constraints at L2125 and L2134-2143.

2. Mixed-step cost (Rust). Engine::mixed_step_breakdown_with (crates/core/src/perfmodel/engine/runtime.rs L863) has two problems:

   • Pass 1 credits the cache as prefix * floor(ctx / isl) (L946). That is 0 whenever ctx < isl. In the chunked regime, pass 1 therefore never sees a cache hit. That includes models whose attention is folded into a module op outside the context_attention name (the DeepSeek/Kimi context_mla_block), which have no separate pass-2 attention op.
   • Pass 2 packs ceil(ctx / isl) requests and divides by ceil(isl / ctx), both on the full ISL. This is at L985-986, in the per-op variant at L1702, and in the DeepSeek V4.1 branch at L918-919.

The result: the budget counts cached tokens when ctx >= isl and ignores them when ctx < isl. Neither matches the engines, whose per-step knob caps the tokens actually computed in a step: SGLang --chunked-prefill-size, vLLM max_num_batched_tokens, and the TRT-LLM scheduler's max_num_tokens.

The FPM mixed step already packs by isl - prefix (fpm_mixed_step_components, L1240-1297; unchanged here). So on main, the FPM step and the run_agg schedule also disagreed.

Fix

ctx_tokens is now a per-step budget of uncached (new) prefill tokens everywhere. Below, isl_new = isl - prefix, where isl is the text ISL plus any visual-context tokens.

run_agg

• prefix >= isl is rejected up front with a ValueError.
• The schedule runs on ctx_budget = min(ctx_tokens, b * isl_new), for every batch size. When a step's prefilling requests cover the whole batch (ceil(ctx_budget / isl_new) >= b, including a partial last request), the mixed step prices no decode request, and the first (decode-free) mixed step leaves the TPOT average; a second mixed step, shared with the requests already decoding, still counts.
• steps_to_finish_ctx = ceil(isl_new * b / ctx_budget).
• balance_score and _mix_step_gen_tokens use isl_new and ctx_budget.
• TTFT chunks are ceil(isl_new / ctx_budget).
• num_ctx_requests = min(ceil(ctx_budget / isl_new), b).
• The memory token count follows ctx_budget.
• The published ctx_tokens is still the knob as passed.
• run_mixed still passes the full ISL and prefix to the engine; its visual-context batch now follows isl_new.

mixed_step_breakdown_with (scalar, per-op and DSv4.1 variants)

• Pass 1 prices ctx + decode_query_tokens tokens, all new. It passes the cached prefix of the scheduled requests as KV context, using the same weighted request groups as pass 2: a group of n requests reads n * prefix cached tokens, and a non-multiple budget weights the floor(ctx / isl_new) and floor(ctx / isl_new) + 1 groups by the partial request's fill fraction (0 when ctx == 0 or prefix == 0). Ops whose cost does not depend on the prefix keep one unweighted, exact value. An op that folds attention into a module outside the context_attention name (the DeepSeek/Kimi context_mla_block) keeps seeing the cache; DSA/DSV4/MSA modules are named context_attention and get the prefix in pass 2. Token-major ops (GEMM, MoE, comm, norms) only read the token count. With ctx == isl_new this is exactly main's (ctx + decode - prefix, prefix) query at ctx == isl.
• Pass 2 fills the budget the way the schedulers do (Engine::context_attention_groups): floor(ctx / isl_new) complete requests plus one partial request, weighted by its fill fraction of one more batched request. Each request has isl_new new tokens over prefix cached ones. The result is divided by ceil(isl_new / ctx). At prefix == 0 the legacy ceil(ctx / isl) packing is kept bit-for-bit. When ctx < isl_new, one whole request is priced and divided by its chunk count.
• Pass 3 is unchanged.
• DSv4.1 branch: complete extends pack by isl_new.

Default budget

• max(isl + visual tokens - prefix, 1), i.e. one request's full uncached prefill per step.
• Applies to _run_agg_estimate in legacy_cli/api.py (CLI and cli_estimate) and to Task.run_single_agg in sdk/task_v2.py.

Agg sweeps (sdk/sweep.py and the legacy find_best_agg_result_under_constraints)

• The ctx_tokens grid is built on isl_new, and the guards and balance dedup use it too. Under the new semantics, a full-ISL grid (whose smallest point is ISL when chunked prefill is off) would pack at least ceil(ISL / (ISL - prefix)) requests per point. The guards would then drop every batch size up to that count: b = 1 at any prefix, and b <= 10 at a 90% hit rate.
• sweep.py logs a warning when no point passes the guards.
• Both sweeps reject prefix >= ISL up front with the same ValueError as run_agg, before any grid point is estimated.

run_agg result cache: the cache key now includes prefix (normalized as int(prefix or 0)) and both imbalance-correction scales, so a reused backend or InferenceSession no longer returns another prefix's summary.

Docs and help: docs/cli/legacy-aic-user-guide.md (--ctx-tokens, --prefix, --enable-chunked-prefill), the --ctx-tokens and --enable-chunked-prefill help text, the mixed_step_latency doc in runtime.rs, and the cli_estimate, Task.run_single_agg, predict_agg_worker, sweep_agg, rust_engine_step, mixed_step_breakdown_per_op (py.rs / engine.py), MixedStepInput and InferenceSession.run_mixed docstrings.

Behaviour changes

• --ctx-tokens / ctx_tokens is an uncached-token budget for agg estimates.
  • At a fixed budget, a larger prefix can reduce the mixed-step count and raise throughput; the count only drops once the batch's uncached tokens need fewer budget-sized steps, and each step's cost grows with the cached context.
  • TTFT drops when the uncached prefill needs fewer chunks or the queue drains in fewer steps. It can rise when one step now carries several requests' prefills (vLLM row at prefix 29491 below).
  • Callers that pass a budget sized to include cached tokens (for example ctx_tokens = ISL with prefix > 0) now pack more requests per step. To keep one request per step, pass ISL - prefix. Example: the deepseek-v3-b200-vllm-shape-prefix-heavy parity shape (DeepSeek-V3, b200_sxm, vLLM, TP8/EP8, ISL 2048, OSL 16, prefix 1024, bs 2) with an explicit --ctx-tokens 2048 now prefills both requests in one step: mixed step 55.78 → 89.76 ms, TTFT 117.65 → 155.88 ms, TPOT 16.05 → 10.37 ms (the prefill-only step no longer enters TPOT). Its default budget (1024) keeps 55.78 / 117.65 / 16.05.
• The default --ctx-tokens is max(ISL - prefix, 1) instead of ISL, where ISL includes visual tokens.
  • On the op-level path, runs without --ctx-tokens keep the same TTFT, TPOT and throughput at every prefix. Only the reported Context Tokens and the activation-memory estimate change (third table below).
  • On the FPM forward model (--forward-model fpm), this default changes results for prefix > 0. Main passed ctx = ISL to an FPM step that packs by ISL - prefix, so each step priced ceil(ISL / (ISL - prefix)) >= 2 requests and a full ISL of scheduled tokens while run_agg scheduled one request per step. The new default prices one request's ISL - prefix tokens, so FPM steps get cheaper and match the schedule. This is from reading the code; no FPM table is bundled, so it is not in the evidence below.
• prefix >= effective ISL is rejected up front by run_agg: ValueError: prefix (P) must be smaller than the effective isl (I) for an agg run. Main already failed on the same input, but later and inside the engine (invalid engine config: isl must be greater than 0 after removing prefix).
• The schedule budget is capped at b * isl_new for every batch size, and a budget that covers the whole batch prices no decode request in the mixed step. The prefilling-request count can no longer exceed the batch. Packing by isl_new makes ceil(ctx / isl_new) > b reachable with ordinary inputs (a large prefix), which would publish negative decode-request counts; main already did so for an explicit ctx_tokens > b * ISL, and priced phantom requests at b == 1. At prefix 0 this changes results only for explicit budgets above (b - 1) * ISL (fourth table); the agg sweeps never reach that regime.
• The agg sweep grid is built on ISL - prefix, so its ctx_tokens column holds multiples of the uncached prefill instead of multiples of ISL. Prefix-0 sweeps are unchanged.
• Prefix 0 is otherwise unchanged. Full --detail time reports are byte-identical for all three backends, and no prefix-free golden record moves.

Review map

• Risk level: medium. The modeling changes on the legacy agg path for SGLang, vLLM and TRT-LLM whenever prefix > 0 with an explicit budget other than ISL - prefix (and at prefix 0 only for explicit budgets above (b - 1) * ISL). On the default budget, op-level estimates are unchanged at every prefix.
• Start with:
  1. Engine::context_attention_groups and mixed_step_breakdown_with in crates/core/src/perfmodel/engine/runtime.rs, covering the pass-1 KV context and the pass-2 groups, plus the Rust oracle tests next to them.
  2. BaseBackend.run_agg: ctx_budget, the up-front prefix >= isl check, and num_ctx_requests.
  3. The defaults in legacy_cli/api.py::_run_agg_estimate and Task.run_single_agg.
  4. The two sweep grids and guards.
• Public or serialized contract changed: yes, semantics only. The meaning and default of ctx_tokens / --ctx-tokens change for agg estimates. No schema, FFI signature or EngineSpec change.
• Compatibility or rollback concern: explicit budgets sized to include cached tokens now pack more requests per step. For example, on this PR --ctx-tokens 32768 --prefix 16384 gives 8 mix steps and TTFT 5055.377 ms, versus 16 mix steps and TTFT 3099.655 ms on main. Reverting restores the old schedule, and the two golden records revert with it.

Evidence

• Tests: see Validation and Tests added below.
• Fast CI: passed on the pre-rebase head 9f24c45b; runs automatically on the current head 1f4c130b (rebased onto main 05b3e0b).
• Full CI: not run yet (fork PR; needs /ok to test 1f4c130b877c2bf18bcf7e5be1274a766fc881a7). Local equivalent below under Validation.
• CodeRabbit reviewed commit: 9f24c45b (3 actionable findings). All three are fixed by the follow-up commits (0153c897 run_agg cache key, a47d8de6 pass-1 partial-request prefix, df7fc8be docs wording) and their threads are resolved. The incremental review of df7fc8be raised one more finding (reject prefix >= ISL before the legacy sweep builds its grid), fixed in d802e9ae for both sweeps.
• Codex reviewed commit: d802e9ae. Two P2 findings (a partial last request priced one phantom decode request; prefill-only steps weighted into TPOT) are fixed in 1f4c130b. Independent Claude-based reviews of the squashed fix, 9f24c45b and each follow-up were also addressed.
• Negative or boundary cases:
  • prefix >= ISL: covered by test_run_agg_rejects_prefix_at_or_beyond_isl, test_sweep_agg_rejects_prefix_at_or_beyond_isl_before_the_grid, Rust mixed_step_prefix_at_or_beyond_isl_rejects_prefill_only, and the CLI check below.
  • Batch cap: test_run_agg_caps_prefilling_requests_at_the_batch, test_run_agg_caps_the_budget_for_every_batch_size, test_run_agg_budget_cap_is_inert_when_the_batch_owns_more_tokens, and the prefix-0 cap table below.
  • Budgets with ctx < isl_new, ctx = k * isl_new, and non-multiples, with and without a prefix, in both Rust and Python.
  • Prefix-0 non-multiple budgets keep ceil packing: mixed_step_prefix_free_non_multiple_budget_keeps_legacy_ceil_packing.
  • Sweep coverage at high prefix: test_sweep_agg_prefix_grid_covers_every_batch_and_mirrors_legacy.
  • Visual-context batch: test_run_mixed_visual_context_batch_follows_uncached_isl.
  • DSv4.1: dsv41_complete_extends_with_prefix_pack_by_uncached_tokens.
• Expected-value derivation:
  • Mixed steps are ceil((ISL - prefix) * bs / ctx_tokens) = ceil((32768 - prefix) / 1024), which gives 32 / 24 / 16 / 8 / 4 below. Main gives ceil(32768 * 16 / 16384) = 32 at every prefix.
  • The Rust oracle tests compare against a hand-written legacy three-pass composition (prefix 0, bit-for-bit) and hand-composed weighted pass-2 batches (prefix > 0).
  • The Python schedule tests stub the per-step costs and pin step counts from the same closed form.
  • The speculation consumer-equivalence test's expected context rows are hand-derived per case, not copied from the production packing formula.
• Before/after output, trace, benchmark, or golden diff: see below.

Validation

Local runs on df7fc8be (rebased onto main 05b3e0b; d802e9ae and 1f4c130b change only Python scheduling code and tests; the full gate above was re-run on the pre-amend version of 1f4c130b (same result, prediction regression gate still without differences) and the final head re-checked with -m "unit or integration" (7618 passed), both parity suites (387) and the estimate e2e tests; Python 3.12 uv-synced venv, cargo stable), with a clean origin/main worktree built the same way as the baseline:

gate	result
git diff --check, DCO sign-off (5/5 commits)	pass
ruff format --check, cargo fmt --check, CI-scoped ruff check	pass (the AGENTS.md-scoped ruff check reports two import-order errors in files this PR does not touch; main reports the same two)
cargo test --workspace	1778 passed, 0 failed
Python -m unit	7461 passed, 14 skipped, 0 failed
Parity: test_engine_step_parity.py / test_compile_engine_parity.py	301 / 86 passed
Python -m "not unit" (e2e/cli, integration, build, tools)	no new failures: all 93 failing IDs also fail on main in this environment (gated HF repos without a token, l40s/gb200 matrix entries, source-tag and API-equivalence column checks, a maturin build)
test_cli_recommend.py (serial)	2 passed
Repo-level tests/	only failures that also occur on main here (pip-licenses metadata, nightly-version env, tests/fpm_accuracy import)
Numerical sentinels (scripts/check_prediction_numerics.py)	16 cases, 0 failures
Prediction regression gate (old = main 05b3e0b, new = this branch)	170,765 rows across 29 combos, no differences (the gate grid runs on default budgets, where op-level estimates are unchanged)

Before/after: aiconfigurator cli estimate, agg

• before is the CLI built from e8828036. For every file this PR touches, origin/main 9f140b7 differs from it only as follows:

  • runtime.rs gained FPM / DeepSeek V4.1 replay guards and MoE-kernel-source / fpm_fmha_dtype plumbing (feat: add DeepSeek V4.1 FPM identity and Slurm collection #158, feat: select exact MoE kernel source #282).
  • main.py gained the Slurm deployment target.
  • task_v2.py and rust_engine_step.py gained the moe_kernel_source field.

  The scheduling code (base_backend.py, the backend subclasses, sweep.py, api.py) is identical. The prefix-0 byte-identity checks below also confirm the MoE example (DeepSeek-V3) prices the same on both builds.

• after was measured on the fix commit (now 3eae51ed). The follow-up commits change pass 1 only for non-multiple budgets with at least one complete request on module-attention (MLA) models, and the cache key; none of the rows below is affected.

• Each point is a fresh process.

• At prefix 0, the full report after the ==== banner, including the --detail time per-op breakdown, is byte-identical between the two builds. This holds for SGLang with --ctx-tokens 16384 and with the default budget, for vLLM, for TRT-LLM, and for the DeepSeek-V3 cold point.

aiconfigurator cli estimate --model-path Qwen/Qwen3-32B-FP8 --system h200_sxm \
  --backend sglang --backend-version 0.5.14 --tp-size 2 --batch-size 16 \
  --isl 32768 --osl 512 --ctx-tokens 16384 --prefix <P> \
  --database-mode SILICON --detail time

SGLang 0.5.14, --ctx-tokens 16384. Values are before → after. "mix step" is the Mix Step (total = ...) latency from --detail time.

prefix	mix steps	mix step (ms)	TTFT (ms)	TPOT (ms)	tokens/s
0	32 → 32	973.176 → 973.176	6714.917 → 6714.917	77.390 → 77.390	193.23 → 193.23
8192	32 → 24	948.772 → 948.772	6546.525 → 5787.508	76.000 → 61.454	196.87 → 239.58
16384	32 → 16	875.558 → 1169.681	6041.350 → 3099.655	71.829 → 52.550	208.64 → 270.22
24576	32 → 8	753.535 → 1256.627	5199.391 → 2827.411	64.877 → 35.386	231.73 → 375.37
29491	32 → 4	656.897 → 1348.148	4532.589 → 2763.704	59.371 → 25.873	253.99 → 474.97

From prefix 0 to prefix 29491, throughput rises 1.31x before and 2.46x after.

• Before: the mix step gets cheaper as the prefix grows, but the schedule stays at 32 steps. Pass 2 always prices half of one request's attention (/ ceil(32768/16384)), and pass 1 gets no cache credit.
• After: each step carries its full 16384-token budget of new tokens. That is one request's chunk at prefix 8192, then one, two, and about five requests at prefix 16384, 24576 and 29491. Their attention runs over a longer cached context, so each step costs more, but far fewer steps are needed.
• Prefix 8192: the step cost is identical to before (one request, two chunks); only the schedule changes.

vLLM 0.24.0 and TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20, same shape, --ctx-tokens 16384. All three backends share run_agg and the mixed-step engine.

backend	prefix	mix steps	mix step (ms)	TTFT (ms)	TPOT (ms)	tokens/s
vLLM	0	32 → 32	1016.896 → 1016.896	3127.488 → 3127.488	83.128 → 83.128	179.28 → 179.28
vLLM	16384	32 → 16	899.497 → 1252.961	2775.292 → 1956.242	75.790 → 59.379	196.99 → 253.13
vLLM	29491	32 → 4	636.529 → 1443.459	1986.388 → 2241.989	59.355 → 31.990	253.00 → 439.83
TRT-LLM	0	32 → 32	969.601 → 969.601	6690.245 → 6690.245	71.966 → 71.966	206.78 → 206.78
TRT-LLM	16384	32 → 16	874.250 → 1161.569	6032.327 → 3078.158	66.533 → 46.947	224.07 → 298.60
TRT-LLM	29491	32 → 4	660.669 → 1318.550	4558.619 → 2703.027	54.364 → 20.289	275.72 → 572.44

vLLM TTFT at prefix 29491 rises 12.9%:

• The step now carries about five requests' prefills: four complete plus one partial with fill 3276/3277, each attending over about 32k tokens of KV.
• The vLLM TTFT queuing factor is a constant min(1 + log2(b)/8, 2) (1.5 at bs 16) that does not shrink as the queue gets shorter.
• Before, the estimate charged two chunks of a step that priced half of one request's attention.
• SGLang and TRT-LLM use the base factor min(2 + (steps - 3)/20, 4), which does reward the shorter queue.

SGLang 0.5.14, --ctx-tokens omitted (new default ISL - prefix)

prefix	Context Tokens	mix steps	TTFT (ms)	TPOT (ms)	tokens/s	Memory (GPU)
0	32768 → 32768	16 → 16	4966.038 (same)	70.538 (same)	196.89 (same)	57.90 → 57.90 GB
8192	32768 → 24576	16 → 16	4175.263 (same)	62.916 (same)	222.47 (same)	57.90 → 56.68 GB
16384	32768 → 16384	16 → 16	3099.655 (same)	52.550 (same)	270.22 (same)	57.90 → 55.46 GB
24576	32768 → 8192	16 → 16	1657.697 (same)	38.652 (same)	379.38 (same)	57.90 → 54.24 GB
29491	32768 → 3277	16 → 16	727.539 (same)	29.688 (same)	513.10 (same)	57.90 → 53.51 GB

Runs without --ctx-tokens keep their latency and throughput. With main's ISL-sized default, floor(ctx/isl) = 1 credited exactly one request's prefix, which is the same schedule the new uncached default describes. Only the displayed budget and the activation-memory estimate (sized from the per-step token count) change.

Cross-check: --ctx-tokens 16384 --prefix 16384 after equals --ctx-tokens 32768 --prefix 16384 before in every line after the banner except Context Tokens and Memory. Both give TTFT 3099.655 ms, TPOT 52.550 ms, 270.22 tok/s and a 1169.681 ms mix step. Both describe one step of one request with 16384 new tokens over 16384 cached ones.

Boundary: --prefix 32768 (= ISL) fails on both builds.

• before: Error: invalid engine config: isl must be greater than 0 after removing prefix, but got 0
• after: Error: prefix (32768) must be smaller than the effective isl (32768) for an agg run

MLA module path: DeepSeek-V3, b200_sxm, vLLM 0.24.0, TP8, --moe-ep-size 8, bs 4, OSL 64

MLA attention is folded into context_mla_block, so the whole mixed step is pass 1. The Rust breakdown reports it as shared_non_attention, with context_attention = 0.

point	mix steps	mix step = shared_non_attention (ms)	context_mla_block (ms)	TTFT (ms)	TPOT (ms)	tokens/s
cold: ISL 1024, prefix 0, --ctx-tokens 1024	4 → 4	54.800 → 54.800	6.531 → 6.531	129.499 → 129.499	13.840 → 13.840	251.65 → 251.65
warm: ISL 16384, prefix 15360, --ctx-tokens 1024	64 → 4	54.800 → 59.303	6.531 → 11.034	1156.992 → 135.128	54.800 → 14.573	54.67 → 239.27
warm, --ctx-tokens omitted (16384 → 1024)	4 → 4	59.303 → 59.303	11.034 → 11.034	135.128 → 135.128	14.573 → 14.573	239.27 → 239.27

• Before, warm with a 1024-token budget: prefix * floor(1024/16384) = 0, so the MLA block priced the warm step exactly like the cold one and the 15360 cached tokens were invisible. The schedule charged ceil(16384 * 4 / 1024) = 64 mix steps, one per output token.
• After: the warm step reads the cached prefix as KV context (MLA block 6.531 → 11.034 ms). The default budget prices exactly what main's ISL-sized default priced; only Context Tokens and Memory differ (93.71 → 90.83 GB).

Prefix 0, ctx_tokens > (b - 1) * ISL (the batch cap). Qwen3-32B-FP8, h200_sxm, SGLang 0.5.14, TP2, ISL 4096, OSL 128, prefix 0, --ctx-tokens 16384.

bs	b × ISL	mix step (ms)	TTFT (ms)	TPOT (ms)	tokens/s	Memory (GPU)
1	4096	626.611 → 150.478	1190.561 → 285.909	10.077 → 10.077	66.62 → 88.80	23.22 → 21.38 GB
2	8192	629.420 → 297.694	1195.898 → 565.619	15.000 → 10.162	132.29 → 159.92	23.47 → 22.25 GB
8	32768	629.672 (same)	1227.861 (same)	14.973 (same)	401.38 (same)	25.02 (same)

• Before, bs 1 and bs 2 priced a step of four 4096-token requests that do not exist (and bs 2 a decode request alongside them). After, bs 2's single prefill-only step no longer enters TPOT.
• After, bs 1 equals --ctx-tokens 4096 on both builds; only the echoed Context Tokens line differs.
• bs 8 (budget below b × ISL) is byte-identical.

Goldens (second commit)

One record moves and one is added, both in compile_engine.json, pinned on the clean tree at 3eae51ed (the fix commit) with pin_goldens.py --refresh <ctx300 key> (the new shape is appended by the same run); the other changed lines are the fixture's git_head provenance.

golden	record	before	after	change
compile_engine	chunked_prefill::ctx300_gen7_isl1000_osl64_prefix100::mixed_step	16.081171352808852	16.414675748089216	+2.07%
compile_engine	chunked_prefill::ctx4096_gen4_isl4096_osl128_prefix256::mixed_step (new)	(main prices it 55.30729111158813)	57.89342286133688	+4.68%

The new record pins the regime this PR deliberately re-prices: an explicit ISL-sized budget with a cached prefix now holds one request of 3840 new tokens plus a 256-token partial request (fill 1/15). The new default budget 3840 prices exactly main's 55.30729111158813.

Why it moves: the budget (300) is below one request's uncached prefill (900). That request's context attention is now amortized over ceil(900/300) = 3 chunks instead of ceil(1000/300) = 4. The whole change is the context-attention slice, 1.000513 → 1.334018 ms (×4/3). Shared non-attention (12.803207 ms) and decode attention (2.277451 ms) are identical on both builds.

Every other prefix record matches the committed goldens at rtol 1e-12 (observed relative difference 0):

• engine_step.json: static, mixed, agg and disagg for minimax-m25-b200-vllm-sampled-prefix and deepseek-v3-b200-vllm-shape-prefix-heavy. Both run on the default budget.
• compile_engine.json: minimax-m25-b200-vllm-sampled-prefix::mixed_step, and the chunked shapes ctx512_gen4_isl4096_osl128_prefix0 and ..._prefix256. For the prefix-256 shape, ceil(3840/512) = ceil(4096/512) = 8.

The parity harness now feeds its prefix cases the default budget max(isl - prefix, 1), in test_engine_step_parity._agg_metrics / _mix_step_shape and, through one shared helper _default_ctx_tokens, in test_compile_engine_parity.test_mixed_step and pin_goldens.py. No prefix-free record moved.

Tests added

Rust (runtime.rs, oracle tests against hand-rolled compositions):

• mixed_step_prefix_zero_is_bit_for_bit_the_legacy_composition
• mixed_step_chunked_prefill_with_prefix_follows_uncached_isl
• mixed_step_full_prefill_with_prefix_prices_every_budget_token_as_new
• mixed_step_partial_request_prices_an_isl_sized_budget_between_floor_and_ceil_packing
• mixed_step_prefix_free_non_multiple_budget_keeps_legacy_ceil_packing
• mixed_step_prefix_at_or_beyond_isl_rejects_prefill_only
• mixed_step_pass_one_reads_the_cached_prefix_of_the_packed_requests: a fixture whose attention op is renamed out of context_attention (as context_mla_block is in production) pins the pass-1 KV context at ctx < isl_new, = isl_new, a 2.5-request budget (fill-weighted, and its per-op fold), and 0 without prefill.
• mixed_step_pass_one_keeps_prefix_free_ops_exact_for_a_partial_request
• dsv41_complete_extends_with_prefix_pack_by_uncached_tokens
• The existing draft-native mixed test now expects the weighted pass-2 batches.

Python unit tests

• test_base_backend.py:
  • test_run_agg_mix_step_count_follows_uncached_isl
  • test_run_agg_prefix_zero_schedule_is_unchanged
  • test_run_agg_ttft_chunk_count_follows_uncached_isl
  • test_run_agg_rejects_prefix_at_or_beyond_isl
  • test_run_agg_caps_prefilling_requests_at_the_batch
  • test_run_agg_caps_the_budget_for_every_batch_size
  • test_run_agg_budget_cap_is_inert_when_the_batch_owns_more_tokens
  • test_run_mixed_visual_context_batch_follows_uncached_isl
• test_run_agg_partial_last_request_prefills_the_whole_batch (hand-derived TPOT for the partial-last-request step and its one-request contrast)
• test_run_agg_cache_separates_prefix_on_a_reused_backend, test_run_agg_cache_separates_seq_imbalance_correction_scales
• test_cli_api.py::test_agg_estimate_ctx_tokens_defaults_to_the_uncached_isl
• test_task_config.py::test_run_single_agg_ctx_tokens_defaults_to_the_uncached_isl
• test_sweep.py::test_sweep_agg_prefix_grid_covers_every_batch_and_mirrors_legacy

Python e2e and integration tests

• test_cli_estimate_static.py:
  • test_agg_estimate_explicit_isl_budget_prices_partial_requests_and_caps_at_the_batch
  • test_agg_mixed_step_prices_the_cached_prefix_for_mla_module_models: warm > cold at equal new tokens, and the default budget resolves to ISL - prefix (that it prices exactly what main's ISL-sized default did is pinned by the engine-step golden deepseek-v3-b200-vllm-shape-prefix-heavy::mixed).
• test_consumer_equivalence.py::test_mixed_draft_native_phases_match_independent_queries (integration): expected context rows are hand-derived for the weighted pass-2 batches.

Modeling or data provenance

• All numbers above are model estimates from the bundled perf tables with --database-mode SILICON: h200_sxm (SGLang 0.5.14, vLLM 0.24.0, TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20) and b200_sxm (vLLM 0.24.0). They are not GPU measurements.
• No perf data, table, selection rule or calibration constant changes.
• The step counts follow the closed forms above.
• The re-pinned golden's move is fully explained by the chunk count; the added golden pins the explicit ISL-sized-budget regime.

Open questions for maintainers

1. Packing discontinuity at prefix 0. For a budget that is not a multiple of ISL - prefix, prefix 0 keeps the legacy ceil(ctx/isl) packing so that no prefix-free golden moves. Prefix >= 1 uses floor packing plus the fill-weighted partial request. So estimates jump between prefix 0 and prefix 1.

   • Example: Qwen3-32B-FP8, h200_sxm, SGLang, TP2, ctx 6144, ISL 4096, 4 decode requests. At prefix 0 the step is 241.111 ms, with context attention 32.844 ms (two whole requests). At prefix 1 it is 233.578 ms, with context attention 25.312 ms, which is -3.1%.
   • The FPM mixed step and the visual-context branch in run_mixed also keep ceil(ctx / isl_new) packing.
   • Should prefix 0, FPM and visual move to the weighted form? That would refresh prefix-free goldens.

2. Partial-request pricing. The leftover request of a non-multiple budget is priced as its fill fraction of one more batched request, a convex combination of the floor-packed and ceil-packed batch. It is not priced as a lone small query.

   • On Qwen3-32B-FP8 / h200_sxm / SGLang / TP2, pricing it standalone would change the step by +0.7% (ISL 4096, prefix 1024, ctx 4096), +3.1% (ISL 2048, prefix 256, ctx 2048) and -0.1% (ISL 32768, prefix 29491, ctx 16384).
   • The DSv4.1 branch keeps its explicit partial-extend form.
   • Is the weighted approximation acceptable?

3. Legacy TTFT queuing factor unchanged. vLLM's min(1 + log2(b)/8, 2) does not depend on the queue length, so TTFT can rise when one step now carries several requests' prefills (vLLM, prefix 29491: +12.9%). The base min(2 + (steps - 3)/20, 4) barely rewards a shorter queue. This heuristic probably deserves its own fix and is out of scope here.

4. Sweep ctx_tokens column. The agg sweep grid now holds multiples of ISL - prefix instead of multiples of ISL, and the reported ctx_tokens follows. Is that acceptable for consumers of the sweep table?

5. Module ops with several packed requests. When k >= 2 complete requests share a step, pass 1 queries module-folded attention (the MLA context block) as one sequence of ctx + decode new tokens over k * prefix cached tokens. That is main's composition at ctx = k * ISL, but the uncached budget now reaches it at ordinary budgets; with a partial request pass 1 also queries the (k + 1) * prefix group, weighted by its fill fraction.

   • Example: DeepSeek-V3 (same setup as above), ISL 16384, prefix 15360, --ctx-tokens 4096 (k = 4). After this PR the mix step is 265.553 ms and context_mla_block is 127.371 ms, identical to main at --ctx-tokens 65536.
   • A batch-4 query of 1024 new tokens over 15360 cached each prices context_mla_block at about 42.5 ms.
   • In the chunked regime, pass 1 sees only the cached prefix, not the earlier chunks of the same request.
   • Should pass 1 query module ops at the per-request shape (batch k) instead? That would change estimates only when ctx > ISL - prefix (k >= 2, or k >= 1 with a partial request). The default-budget goldens (k = 1) would not move. It is left for a follow-up.

6. Out of scope, pre-existing on main: mixed-step decode count when the prefill outlasts the decode. In the regime steps_to_finish_ctx >= decode_iterations, the base _mix_step_gen_tokens (SGLang, TRT-LLM) returns max(1, b // (steps / decode_iterations)) without subtracting the prefilling requests, so the mixed step can be priced with more than b requests (e.g. Qwen3-32B-FP8 h200 SGLang TP2, bs 64, ISL 4096, OSL 32, --ctx-tokens 8192: 2 prefilling + 64 decoding). Sweeps reach this regime, so capping it would change prefix-0 sweep results; it is left for a separate change.

7. vLLM TPOT at the whole-batch boundary. SGLang and TRT-LLM TPOT is continuous across ctx = (b - 1) * (ISL - prefix) because their mixed-step TPOT count is floored at 1. vLLM counts every mixed step, so its TPOT drops by the one decode-free mixed step there (bs 8, ISL 4096, prefix 3000, OSL 256: 13.12 → 11.90 ms). Is that the intended reading of vLLM's scheduling?

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• Closes: none.
• Related PRs or issues: none. The run_agg cache-key fix that was planned as a separate PR is included here (e697d50f), since this change makes the prefix drive the schedule.

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📝 Summary

Risk: High. Human review should focus on: (1) uncached-token scheduling, batch caps, and partial-prefill handling in BaseBackend.run_agg; (2) prefix-aware mixed-step costs and context-attention scaling across Rust and Python; and (3) CLI and SDK defaults, sweep guards, and compatibility.

Changed behavior and contracts

• ctx_tokens now budgets uncached prefill tokens. Each request contributes effective ISL - prefix; the cached prefix remains part of the engine context.
• Aggregate scheduling caps prefill work at the batch’s available uncached tokens. Both sweep implementations reject prefixes at or above effective ISL.
• CLI and SDK defaults use max(effective ISL - prefix, 1). Explicit budgets remain unchanged.
• Mixed-step estimates use uncached-token budgets and prefix-aware attention scaling. The run_agg result-cache key now includes the normalized prefix and sequence-imbalance correction scales.
• Help text, documentation, and API docstrings describe these semantics.

Evidence supplied

• The change adds Rust and Python unit, end-to-end, sweep, and parity tests. Compile-engine golden records were updated.
• The PR objectives report 1,778 Rust tests and 7,461 Python unit tests passing locally on the rebased head. These results are reported, not independently verified here.
• The objectives state that full CI had not yet run. Performance figures are model estimates, not GPU measurements.
• Current review findings were not supplied. Review severity counts are unavailable.

Quality and merge readiness

• Review cross-language scheduling and cost accounting, especially partial-request handling and explicit-budget behavior.
• Local test results provide evidence, but merge readiness is not established without CI results and current review findings. Bot review is not approval.

Walkthrough

Mixed-step estimates and aggregate scheduling now treat ctx_tokens as a budget for uncached prefill tokens. Defaults, scheduling, chunk counts, context-attention pricing, sweeps, documentation, and parity cases account for cached prefixes.

Changes

Uncached prefill accounting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mixed-step engine accounting crates/core/src/perfmodel/engine/runtime.rs, crates/core/src/perfmodel/py.rs, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/engine.py, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/rust_engine_step.py, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/step_estimate.py, python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/speculation/test_consumer_equivalence.py	Mixed-step context-attention calculations use uncached prefill capacity for chunk counts and weighted partial batches. Pass 1 retains cached-prefix context, and scheduled prefill rejects prefixes greater than or equal to ISL. Tests cover prefix-free packing, cached prefixes, DSV4.1 packing, and scalar/per-op agreement.
Aggregate scheduling and sweep python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/backends/base_backend.py, python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/backends/test_base_backend.py	Aggregate scheduling caps prefill work at the batch's available uncached tokens. Request counts, TTFT, activation estimates, visual-context scheduling, cache keys, sweep grids, feasibility checks, and deduplication use uncached input length. Tests cover prefix cases, budget caps, and visual context.
API defaults and sweep grids python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/legacy_cli/*, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/sdk/*, python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/backends/base_backend.py, python/aisimulate/tests/e2e/cli/test_cli_estimate_static.py, python/aisimulate/tests/unit/cli/test_cli_api.py, python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/sweep/test_sweep.py, python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/task_v2/test_task_config.py, docs/cli/legacy-aic-user-guide.md	Omitted aggregate context budgets default to effective input length minus prefix, with a one-token minimum. SDK and CLI sweeps use uncached input length. Tests cover default and explicit budgets, prefix propagation, and sweep grids; CLI help and the user guide describe the uncached-token semantics.
Parity cases and reference values crates/core/parity_tests/perfmodel/*	Compile and engine-step parity cases use uncached-token defaults. The compile-engine golden data updates mixed-step references and adds a cached-prefix case.

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For some batch and prefix combinations, aggregated estimates may misprice the final partial prefill step, which can skew reported latency, TPOT, and energy. Price that step separately before merging.

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Cross-Layer Contract	⚠️ Warning	The main agg contract is propagated through the changed Python, CLI, Rust binding, Rust runtime, sweep, and parity tests. However, public and affected documentation remains stale. `EstimateResult.ctx_…	Update the EstimateResult.ctx_tokens field documentation to state that agg mode reports the per-step uncached prefill-token budget, and distinguish static/disagg convenience values. Correct the sweep.py comments to consistently use effe…

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Modeling And Data Evidence	✅ Passed	The PR supplies reproducible, explained model evidence. The machine-readable compile_engine.json diff records the changed value (16.081171352808852 to 16.414675748089216), the new ctx4096 case…
Compatibility Boundaries	✅ Passed	No compatibility-boundary failure is introduced. The PR keeps the Rust/Python mixed-step signatures aligned: the PyO3 methods, _native.pyi, and Python Rust bridge use the same arguments and defaults…
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Explanation

The main agg contract is propagated through the changed Python, CLI, Rust binding, Rust runtime, sweep, and parity tests. However, public and affected documentation remains stale. EstimateResult.ctx_tokens still says only “Context tokens budget for IFB scheduling” at python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/legacy_cli/api.py:834-835, although agg defaults now expose an uncached-token budget at :1767-1770. The new sweep code uses isl_new at python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/sdk/sweep.py:345-355, but its surrounding comments still say the guards use the effective ISL at :333-336 and describe ceil(ctx/isl) at :357-360. The affected Rust FPM consumer also retains the old ceil(ctx_tokens/isl) contract in crates/core/src/perfmodel/session.rs:325-335, despite ctx_tokens now being uncached tokens. These stale descriptions can cause callers to interpret the input and output incorrectly.

Resolution

Update the EstimateResult.ctx_tokens field documentation to state that agg mode reports the per-step uncached prefill-token budget, and distinguish static/disagg convenience values. Correct the sweep.py comments to consistently use effective uncached length (isl_new) and ceil(ctx_tokens / isl_new). Update the Rust FPM mixed-step comments to name new_tokens_per_prefill_req/uncached ISL and document the corresponding scale. Add consumer-level tests that assert the public EstimateResult.ctx_tokens and raw ctx_tokens values for a prefixed agg estimate, and cover the FPM/session path with a prefixed uncached budget.

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• Dynamo pins both the Python aisimulate wheel and Rust aisimulate-core crate to exactly 0.12.0; consistency tests require these versions to remain synchronized. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::]

  • pyproject.toml:17
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• Dynamo’s Rust integration calls AicEngine::prefill_latency_ms, passing full ISL plus prefix, rather than the changed aggregate run_agg/mixed-step APIs. [::ai-dynamo/dynamo::]

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ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator

• The frozen compatibility implementation still uses full ISL for aggregate scheduling: steps_to_finish_ctx = ceil(isl * batch_size / ctx_tokens), TTFT chunking, and request classification all divide by isl. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::]

  • aic-core/src/aiconfigurator_core/sdk/backends/base_backend.py:1184-1258,1322,1365

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crates/core/src/perfmodel/py.rs (1)

568-569: LGTM!

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235-235: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The concern is refuted. Commit 9f24c45b35e352e77e69e40048301bb9a33177b3 records the before/after values, the +2.07% delta, the ceil(900/300) = 3 versus ceil(1000/300) = 4 explanation, and the exact refresh command. It also explains the new ctx4096 reference and its partial-request weighting.

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ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator

• The frozen AIC implementation explicitly requires ctx_tokens and calculates aggregate steps, TTFT, and request counts from full isl; cached prefix is not part of those formulas. [::ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator::]
  • aic-core/src/aiconfigurator_core/sdk/backends/base_backend.py:1184-1258,1322,1365
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  • src/aiconfigurator/sdk/sweep.py:256-297,315-366
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python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/sdk/task_v2.py (1)

3170-3174: The default of 1 hides an invalid prefix.

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Price the partial final prefill step separately.

When b=2, isl_new=1920, and ctx_budget=2048, the first step prefills both requests. The second step finishes 1,792 prefill tokens while the first request decodes. This condition sets num_mix_gen_tokens=0, but run_agg prices both steps using the same 2,048-token, decode-free run_mixed estimate. Aggregate latency, energy, TPOT, and decode activation inputs can therefore be wrong. Estimate the first and final steps separately, and exclude only the decode-free step from TPOT. Use a regression stub whose cost depends on both prefill tokens and decode requests.

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