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WalkthroughAdds a shared timeline for exclusive frontend TTFT stage durations. The change instruments Python and Rust preprocessing, multimodal preparation, routing, and backend response stages. HTTP metrics and structured logs record the partitioned durations at the first output token. ChangesFrontend TTFT Breakdown
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334-334: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueReplace the runtime
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assert stage == "template_tokenize"validates a runtime value. Python stripsassertunder-O. Today onlysglang_prepost.pycalls this method, and it passes"template_tokenize". A future stage name added insglang_prepost.pywould crash the pool worker withAssertionError, or it would be silently mis-recorded under-O. RaiseValueErrorfor an unsupported stage instead of usingassert.Proposed fix
- assert stage == "template_tokenize" + if stage != "template_tokenize": + raise ValueError(f"Unsupported worker TTFT stage: {stage}")As per path instructions: "assert used for runtime validation" is flagged in
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_WorkerPreprocessTiming.start_ttft_stagestill usesassert stage == "template_tokenize", which is removed under optimized Python execution; the existing review prescribes an explicit check that raisesValueError.
Questions for the author:
- lib/llm/src/http/service/metrics.rs: All supported HTTP chat and text-completion requests now allocate and populate the timing timeline, allocate and sort the interval event vector at first token, observe 17 Prometheus histograms, and emit a large INFO event by default. Please provide a base-versus-head CPU/throughput or first-token-handler measurement at representative request rates, with
dynamo_frontend::ttftboth disabled and enabled, to separate the metrics/partitioning cost from default log I/O and establish whether this hot-path overhead is acceptable.
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Addressed the TTFT review feedback in Measured instrumentation overheadI compiled and ran the real Rust Both builds use Rust 1.96.1, Two synthetic interval patterns exercise different partitioning costs: text has five real spans; multistage has five Logging uses the production Across 152 retained runs / 40 experimental groups, 17.5 million synthetic requests passed the measurement checks. In the unpaced lifecycle cases, enabling the instrumentation with TTFT logs off adds 1.46–2.25 microseconds of CPU per request over the base. Enabling the dedicated log target adds another 6.39–7.11 microseconds on the PR. This shows measurable overhead, with the dedicated log event costing more than the timing/metrics work in this experiment. Disabling that target preserves all stage histogram observations. Unpaced CPU cost, microseconds per synthetic request:
Fixed-rate lifecycle CPU cost, microseconds per synthetic request:
Each fixed-rate run lasts approximately five seconds. CPU uses Correctness checks on the measured runs: every measured request contributed exactly one total-TTFT sample; every PR request contributed one sample to each of the 17 stage histograms; stage sums matched total-TTFT sums. Head/log-on produced exactly one log line per request (including warmup); all other arms produced zero TTFT log lines. All fixed-rate runs stayed within 2% of the requested rate. Noise control and limitations: the baseline also ran with the TTFT target enabled, even though it emits no TTFT events. The per-run raw measurements below include this control and the measured wall times. This is a single-host, single-thread experiment with a warm model/metric-label cache; it does not establish contention behavior, whole-frontend throughput, GPU latency, Python bridge overhead, or production logging-backend costs. ReproductionSave the three source files in the expandable sections below to one directory. Use clean checkouts of the exact base and head revisions above, with the repository build prerequisites installed and Cargo dependencies fetched. The build driver installs the identical temporary binary target in both worktrees, compiles actual python build_ttft_overhead.py \
--base-checkout ./dynamo-base --head-checkout ./dynamo-head \
--target-dir /dev/shm/ttft-build --output ./ttft-binaries
python run_ttft_overhead.py \
--base ./ttft-binaries/ttft-overhead-base \
--head ./ttft-binaries/ttft-overhead-head \
--output ./ttft-results --logs /dev/shm/ttft-logs --cpu 2ttft_overhead.rs// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Standalone benchmark driver for the real dynamo-llm production APIs.
// Build the identical file against both revisions; pass --cfg ttft_bench_head
// only to this benchmark target when building the revision with TTFT stages.
// No production sources or timing/metrics implementations are replaced.
#![allow(unexpected_cfgs)]
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::hint::black_box;
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
use dynamo_llm::http::service::metrics::{Metrics, ResponseMetricCollector};
#[cfg(ttft_bench_head)]
use dynamo_llm::protocols::common::ttft::{TTFT_CONTEXT_KEY, TtftStage, TtftTimings};
use dynamo_runtime::pipeline::Context;
use prometheus::Registry;
use serde_json::json;
const MODEL: &str = "ttft-overhead-benchmark";
const REQUEST_ID: &str = "ttft-overhead-request";
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum Scope {
Lifecycle,
FirstToken,
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum Workload {
Text,
Multistage,
}
struct Config {
scope: Scope,
workload: Workload,
iterations: usize,
warmup: usize,
batch_size: usize,
rate: Option<f64>,
}
impl Config {
fn parse() -> Result<Self, String> {
let mut cfg = Self {
scope: Scope::Lifecycle,
workload: Workload::Text,
iterations: 100_000,
warmup: 5_000,
batch_size: 128,
rate: None,
};
let mut duration_seconds = None;
let mut explicit_iterations = false;
let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
while let Some(key) = args.next() {
// cargo bench can add this even for harness=false targets.
if key == "--bench" {
continue;
}
let value = args
.next()
.ok_or_else(|| format!("missing value for {key}"))?;
match key.as_str() {
"--scope" => {
cfg.scope = match value.as_str() {
"lifecycle" => Scope::Lifecycle,
"first-token" => Scope::FirstToken,
_ => return Err("--scope must be lifecycle or first-token".into()),
};
}
"--workload" => {
cfg.workload = match value.as_str() {
"text" => Workload::Text,
"multistage" => Workload::Multistage,
_ => return Err("--workload must be text or multistage".into()),
};
}
"--iterations" => {
cfg.iterations = value.parse().map_err(|_| "invalid --iterations")?;
explicit_iterations = true;
}
"--warmup" => cfg.warmup = value.parse().map_err(|_| "invalid --warmup")?,
"--batch-size" => {
cfg.batch_size = value.parse().map_err(|_| "invalid --batch-size")?
}
"--rate" => cfg.rate = Some(value.parse().map_err(|_| "invalid --rate")?),
"--duration-seconds" => {
duration_seconds = Some(value.parse::<f64>().map_err(|_| "invalid duration")?);
}
_ => return Err(format!("unknown argument {key}")),
}
}
if let Some(rate) = cfg.rate {
if !rate.is_finite() || rate <= 0.0 {
return Err("--rate must be finite and positive".into());
}
if cfg.scope != Scope::Lifecycle {
return Err("--rate is only supported with --scope lifecycle".into());
}
}
if let Some(duration) = duration_seconds {
if explicit_iterations {
return Err("choose --iterations or --duration-seconds".into());
}
let rate = cfg.rate.ok_or("--duration-seconds requires --rate")?;
if !duration.is_finite() || duration <= 0.0 || duration * rate > usize::MAX as f64 {
return Err("invalid duration/rate combination".into());
}
cfg.iterations = (duration * rate).ceil() as usize;
}
if cfg.iterations == 0 || cfg.warmup == 0 || cfg.batch_size == 0 {
return Err("iterations, warmup and batch-size must be positive".into());
}
Ok(cfg)
}
}
struct PreparedRequest {
collector: ResponseMetricCollector,
context: Context<()>,
}
fn prepare(metrics: &Arc<Metrics>, workload: Workload) -> PreparedRequest {
// Same Context construction and collector API on both revisions.
// A fixed synthetic request ID avoids adding UUID generation to this scope.
#[allow(unused_mut)]
let mut context = Context::with_id_and_metadata((), REQUEST_ID.to_owned(), Default::default());
let mut collector = metrics.clone().create_response_collector(MODEL);
collector.observe_current_osl(1);
#[cfg(ttft_bench_head)]
{
collector.attach_ttft_timeline(&mut context);
let shared = context.get::<Arc<TtftTimings>>(TTFT_CONTEXT_KEY).unwrap();
let timeline = shared.as_ref();
match workload {
Workload::Text => {
// Native aggregated text path: 5 real interval insertions,
// including one left open until the HTTP first-token instant.
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::TemplateTokenize));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::RouteAggregated));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::BackendAggregated));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::FirstTokenAggregated));
timeline
.start_span(TtftStage::ResponsePostprocess)
.leave_open();
}
Workload::Multistage => {
// 5 imported intervals use the real Rust Python-bridge endpoint.
// This includes its clocks/locks/insertions, not Python or PyO3.
for stage in [
TtftStage::PythonPreprocess,
TtftStage::PreprocessQueue,
TtftStage::TemplateTokenize,
TtftStage::MultimodalPrepare,
TtftStage::MmRoutingBuild,
] {
timeline.record_ago(stage, Duration::from_nanos(100), Duration::ZERO);
}
// 7 real Rust spans, with overlapping prefill/decode intervals.
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::RoutePrefill));
let prefill = timeline.start_span(TtftStage::BackendPrefill);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::RouteDecode));
let decode = timeline.start_span(TtftStage::BackendDecode);
drop(prefill);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::FirstTokenPrefill));
drop(decode);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::FirstTokenDecode));
timeline
.start_span(TtftStage::ResponsePostprocess)
.leave_open();
}
}
}
#[cfg(not(ttft_bench_head))]
black_box(workload);
PreparedRequest { collector, context }
}
#[inline(never)]
fn observe_first_token(request: &mut PreparedRequest) {
black_box(&mut request.collector).observe_response(black_box(128), black_box(1));
}
#[inline(never)]
fn run_lifecycle(metrics: &Arc<Metrics>, workload: Workload) {
let mut request = prepare(black_box(metrics), black_box(workload));
observe_first_token(&mut request);
black_box(&request.context);
// Includes ResponseMetricCollector::drop, Context registry/timeline teardown,
// output-sequence metrics, strings and Arc deallocation.
drop(request);
}
fn process_cpu_ns() -> u64 {
let mut time = libc::timespec {
tv_sec: 0,
tv_nsec: 0,
};
// CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID includes userspace and kernel CPU of this process.
let rc = unsafe { libc::clock_gettime(libc::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &mut time) };
assert_eq!(rc, 0, "clock_gettime failed");
time.tv_sec as u64 * 1_000_000_000 + time.tv_nsec as u64
}
fn stderr_position() -> Option<u64> {
let offset = unsafe { libc::lseek(libc::STDERR_FILENO, 0, libc::SEEK_CUR) };
(offset >= 0).then_some(offset as u64)
}
fn stderr_is_regular_file() -> bool {
let mut stat = std::mem::MaybeUninit::<libc::stat>::uninit();
let rc = unsafe { libc::fstat(libc::STDERR_FILENO, stat.as_mut_ptr()) };
if rc != 0 {
return false;
}
let stat = unsafe { stat.assume_init() };
stat.st_mode & libc::S_IFMT == libc::S_IFREG
}
#[derive(Default)]
struct Snapshot {
ttft_count: u64,
ttft_sum: f64,
stages: BTreeMap<String, (u64, f64)>,
}
fn snapshot(registry: &Registry) -> Snapshot {
let mut result = Snapshot::default();
for family in registry.gather() {
let name = family.name();
if name != "dynamo_frontend_time_to_first_token_seconds"
&& name != "dynamo_frontend_ttft_stage_seconds"
{
continue;
}
for metric in family.get_metric() {
let labels: BTreeMap<_, _> = metric
.get_label()
.iter()
.map(|label| (label.name(), label.value()))
.collect();
if labels.get("model") != Some(&MODEL) {
continue;
}
let histogram = metric.get_histogram();
if name == "dynamo_frontend_time_to_first_token_seconds" {
result.ttft_count = histogram.get_sample_count();
result.ttft_sum = histogram.get_sample_sum();
} else {
result.stages.insert(
format!("{}:{}", labels["stage"], labels["phase"]),
(histogram.get_sample_count(), histogram.get_sample_sum()),
);
}
}
}
result
}
struct Measurement {
cpu_ns: u64,
measured_wall_ns: u128,
elapsed_wall_ns: u128,
schedule_lateness_max_ns: u128,
}
fn measure(cfg: &Config, metrics: &Arc<Metrics>) -> Measurement {
let whole_start = Instant::now();
match cfg.scope {
Scope::Lifecycle => {
let cpu_start = process_cpu_ns();
let mut schedule_lateness_max_ns = 0;
for index in 0..cfg.iterations {
if let Some(rate) = cfg.rate {
let deadline = whole_start + Duration::from_secs_f64(index as f64 / rate);
if let Some(remaining) = deadline.checked_duration_since(Instant::now()) {
std::thread::sleep(remaining);
}
schedule_lateness_max_ns = schedule_lateness_max_ns.max(
Instant::now()
.saturating_duration_since(deadline)
.as_nanos(),
);
}
run_lifecycle(metrics, cfg.workload);
}
let cpu_ns = process_cpu_ns() - cpu_start;
let elapsed_wall_ns = whole_start.elapsed().as_nanos();
Measurement {
cpu_ns,
measured_wall_ns: elapsed_wall_ns,
elapsed_wall_ns,
schedule_lateness_max_ns,
}
}
Scope::FirstToken => {
let mut cpu_ns = 0;
let mut measured_wall_ns = 0;
let mut completed = 0;
while completed < cfg.iterations {
let batch_len = cfg.batch_size.min(cfg.iterations - completed);
let mut requests: Vec<_> = (0..batch_len)
.map(|_| prepare(metrics, cfg.workload))
.collect();
// The input allocation, instrumentation and teardown are outside
// the timed interval. All first-token metric/log side effects
// remain inside observe_response, exactly as in production.
let cpu_start = process_cpu_ns();
let wall_start = Instant::now();
for request in &mut requests {
observe_first_token(request);
}
measured_wall_ns += wall_start.elapsed().as_nanos();
cpu_ns += process_cpu_ns() - cpu_start;
black_box(&requests);
drop(requests);
completed += batch_len;
}
Measurement {
cpu_ns,
measured_wall_ns,
elapsed_wall_ns: whole_start.elapsed().as_nanos(),
schedule_lateness_max_ns: 0,
}
}
}
}
fn run() -> Result<(), String> {
let cfg = Config::parse()?;
// Use the production subscriber, formatter, target filter and stderr writer.
// Run each logging mode in a separate process to preserve normal callsite
// caching. Redirect stderr to a real regular file, not /dev/null or a pipe.
if !stderr_is_regular_file() {
return Err("redirect stderr to a regular log file (2> run.log)".into());
}
if std::env::var("OTEL_EXPORT_ENABLED").is_ok_and(|v| {
!matches!(
v.to_ascii_lowercase().as_str(),
"0" | "false" | "off" | "no" | ""
)
}) {
return Err("disable external OTLP export for this local benchmark".into());
}
dynamo_runtime::logging::init();
let ttft_logging_enabled =
tracing::enabled!(target: "dynamo_frontend::ttft", tracing::Level::INFO);
let metrics = Arc::new(Metrics::new_with_prefix(None));
let registry = Registry::new();
metrics
.register(®istry)
.map_err(|error| error.to_string())?;
for _ in 0..cfg.warmup {
run_lifecycle(&metrics, cfg.workload);
}
let before = snapshot(®istry);
let log_before = stderr_position().ok_or("cannot read stderr offset")?;
let measurement = measure(&cfg, &metrics);
let log_after = stderr_position().ok_or("cannot read stderr offset")?;
let after = snapshot(®istry);
let measured_ttft_samples = after.ttft_count - before.ttft_count;
if measured_ttft_samples != cfg.iterations as u64 {
return Err(format!(
"TTFT sample count mismatch: {measured_ttft_samples}"
));
}
let expected_stages = if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) { 17 } else { 0 };
if after.stages.len() != expected_stages {
return Err(format!(
"expected {expected_stages} stage histograms, found {}",
after.stages.len()
));
}
let mut stage_sum = 0.0;
let mut stage_samples = BTreeMap::new();
for (stage, (count, sum)) in &after.stages {
let (old_count, old_sum) = before
.stages
.get(stage)
.ok_or("stage missing after warmup")?;
let measured_count = count - old_count;
if measured_count != cfg.iterations as u64 {
return Err(format!(
"stage {stage} sample count mismatch: {measured_count}"
));
}
stage_sum += sum - old_sum;
stage_samples.insert(stage, measured_count);
}
let ttft_sum = after.ttft_sum - before.ttft_sum;
if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) && (stage_sum - ttft_sum).abs() > 1e-8 * ttft_sum.max(1.0) {
return Err("exclusive stage sum differs from total TTFT histogram sum".into());
}
let log_bytes = log_after - log_before;
if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) && ttft_logging_enabled && log_bytes == 0 {
return Err("TTFT logging enabled but no bytes reached the log file".into());
}
let iterations = cfg.iterations as f64;
println!(
"{}",
json!({
"schema_version": 1,
"revision_kind": if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) { "head" } else { "base" },
"scope": match cfg.scope { Scope::Lifecycle => "lifecycle", Scope::FirstToken => "first-token" },
"workload": match cfg.workload { Workload::Text => "text", Workload::Multistage => "multistage" },
"iterations": cfg.iterations,
"warmup_iterations": cfg.warmup,
"batch_size": cfg.batch_size,
"target_requests_per_second": cfg.rate,
"cpu_clock": "CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID",
"cpu_ns": measurement.cpu_ns,
"cpu_ns_per_request": measurement.cpu_ns as f64 / iterations,
"measured_wall_ns": measurement.measured_wall_ns,
"wall_ns_per_request": measurement.measured_wall_ns as f64 / iterations,
"measured_scope_requests_per_second": iterations * 1e9 / measurement.measured_wall_ns as f64,
"elapsed_wall_ns": measurement.elapsed_wall_ns,
"achieved_requests_per_second": iterations * 1e9 / measurement.elapsed_wall_ns as f64,
"schedule_lateness_max_ns": measurement.schedule_lateness_max_ns,
"cpu_includes_pacing_control": cfg.rate.is_some(),
"wall_includes_pacing_waits": cfg.rate.is_some(),
"ttft_logging_enabled": ttft_logging_enabled,
"console_format": std::env::var("DYN_LOGGING_CONSOLE_FORMAT").unwrap_or_else(|_| "runtime-default".into()),
"log_bytes_measured": log_bytes,
"log_sink": "regular-file, buffered by OS; no fsync",
"ttft_samples_measured": measured_ttft_samples,
"stage_histogram_count": after.stages.len(),
"stage_samples_measured": stage_samples,
"ttft_histogram_sum_seconds": ttft_sum,
"stage_histogram_sum_seconds": if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) { Some(stage_sum) } else { None },
"intervals_per_request": if cfg!(ttft_bench_head) { match cfg.workload { Workload::Text => 5, Workload::Multistage => 12 } } else { 0 },
"scope_limitations": "synthetic CPU microbenchmark of production instrumentation APIs; excludes actual preprocessing, routing, Python/PyO3, HTTP, backend execution and remote log collection",
})
);
Ok(())
}
fn main() {
if let Err(error) = run() {
println!("{}", json!({"error": error}));
std::process::exit(1);
}
}build_ttft_overhead.py#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
"""Install a temporary target in two clean checkouts, build, then restore files."""
import argparse
import hashlib
import os
from pathlib import Path
import shutil
import subprocess
TARGET = '\n# Local performance experiment; removed after measurement.\n[[bin]]\nname = "ttft-overhead-bench"\npath = "benches/ttft_overhead.rs"\n'
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--base-checkout', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--head-checkout', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--target-dir', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--output', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--jobs', type=int, default=8)
args = parser.parse_args()
args.output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.target_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
temp = args.target_dir / 'tmp'
temp.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
source = Path(__file__).with_name('ttft_overhead.rs')
env = dict(os.environ, CARGO_TARGET_DIR=str(args.target_dir.resolve()), CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=str(args.jobs), CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_DEBUG='0', CARGO_INCREMENTAL='0', TMPDIR=str(temp.resolve()))
for kind, checkout in [('head', args.head_checkout), ('base', args.base_checkout)]:
manifest = checkout / 'lib/llm/Cargo.toml'
driver = checkout / 'lib/llm/benches/ttft_overhead.rs'
original = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'show', 'HEAD:lib/llm/Cargo.toml'], cwd=checkout)
actual = manifest.read_bytes()
if actual not in (original, original + TARGET.encode()):
raise RuntimeError('manifest has unrelated edits; refusing to overwrite')
if driver.exists() and driver.read_bytes() != source.read_bytes():
raise RuntimeError('benchmark path already contains unrelated code')
if actual != original + TARGET.encode():
manifest.write_bytes(original + TARGET.encode())
if not driver.exists():
shutil.copyfile(source, driver)
command = ['cargo', 'rustc', '-p', 'dynamo-llm', '--release', '--no-default-features', '--bin', 'ttft-overhead-bench', '--locked', '--offline']
if kind == 'head':
command += ['--', '--cfg', 'ttft_bench_head']
print(f'Building {kind} release driver', flush=True)
try:
with (args.output / f'build-{kind}-driver.log').open('wb') as log:
subprocess.run(command, cwd=checkout, env=env, stdout=log, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, check=True)
binary = args.output / f'ttft-overhead-{kind}'
shutil.copy2(args.target_dir / 'release/ttft-overhead-bench', binary)
print(f'Built {kind}; sha256={hashlib.sha256(binary.read_bytes()).hexdigest()}', flush=True)
finally:
manifest.write_bytes(original)
driver.unlink(missing_ok=True)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()run_ttft_overhead.py#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
"""Interleave release binaries; keep machine-specific paths out of result JSON."""
import argparse
import hashlib
import json
import os
from pathlib import Path
import statistics
import subprocess
import time
def digest(path):
h = hashlib.sha256()
with open(path, 'rb') as source:
for chunk in iter(lambda: source.read(1024 * 1024), b''):
h.update(chunk)
return h.hexdigest()
def aggregate(rows):
groups = {}
for row in rows:
key = (row['scope'], row['workload'], row['target_requests_per_second'], row['arm'])
groups.setdefault(key, []).append(row)
summary = []
for (scope, workload, rate, arm), group in groups.items():
item = dict(scope=scope, workload=workload, rate=rate, arm=arm, repeats=len(group))
for field in ['cpu_ns_per_request', 'wall_ns_per_request', 'achieved_requests_per_second', 'measured_scope_requests_per_second']:
values = [row[field] for row in group]
item[field] = dict(median=statistics.median(values), min=min(values), max=max(values))
item['log_bytes_per_request'] = statistics.median(row['log_bytes_measured'] / row['iterations'] for row in group)
summary.append(item)
return summary
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--base', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--head', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--output', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--logs', type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument('--cpu', type=int, default=2)
parser.add_argument('--rounds', type=int, default=5)
parser.add_argument('--paced-rounds', type=int, default=3)
parser.add_argument('--iterations', type=int, default=200000)
parser.add_argument('--warmup', type=int, default=5000)
parser.add_argument('--duration', type=float, default=5.0)
parser.add_argument('--smoke', action='store_true')
args = parser.parse_args()
args.output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.logs.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
if args.cpu not in os.sched_getaffinity(0):
raise RuntimeError('requested CPU is outside current affinity')
env = {k: v for k, v in os.environ.items() if not k.startswith(('DYN_', 'OTEL_'))}
env.update(OTEL_EXPORT_ENABLED='false', DYN_LOGGING_CONSOLE_FORMAT='readable')
arms = [('base-off', args.base, 'off'), ('head-off', args.head, 'off'), ('base-on', args.base, 'info'), ('head-on', args.head, 'info')]
metadata = {
'schema_version': 1, 'cpu_affinity': [args.cpu], 'available_logical_cpus': len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
'base_sha': '094aaca91941421bb0dcb645b0f700a42d6de3ef',
'head_sha': 'd80ee7b53deced7e64002d1f877ee3f8be114571',
'binary_sha256': {'base': digest(args.base), 'head': digest(args.head)},
'harness_sha256': digest(Path(__file__).with_name('ttft_overhead.rs')),
'build': 'Rust 1.96.1; cargo release, codegen-units=1, thin LTO, target-cpu=x86-64-v3; no-default-features',
'logging': 'production dynamo_runtime::logging::init(); readable format, OTLP disabled; real regular files in tmpfs, no fsync',
'execution': 'one process at a time, fresh process per arm/run; rotating arm order; one discarded run per arm/workload/scope before measured rounds; no concurrent builds',
'scope': 'synthetic instrumentation API benchmark; not HTTP throughput, GPU inference, Python/PyO3 or end-to-end request TTFT',
'paced_cpu': 'includes sleep/pacing control; compare matched base/head; wall/request includes waiting',
}
(args.output / 'metadata.json').write_text(json.dumps(metadata, indent=2) + '\n')
rows = []
serial = 0
sink = (args.output / 'raw.jsonl').open('w')
def run(arm, scope, workload, rate, repeat, discard=False):
nonlocal serial
serial += 1
name, binary, level = arm
log = args.logs / f'{serial:04}-{name}.log'
cmd = ['taskset', '-c', str(args.cpu), str(binary), '--scope', scope, '--workload', workload, '--warmup', str(args.warmup), '--batch-size', '128']
if rate:
cmd += ['--rate', str(rate), '--duration-seconds', str(args.duration)]
else:
cmd += ['--iterations', str(args.iterations)]
current_env = dict(env, DYN_LOG=f'error,dynamo_frontend::ttft={level}')
started = time.monotonic()
with log.open('wb') as handle:
result = subprocess.run(cmd, env=current_env, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=handle, text=True, timeout=180)
if result.returncode:
raise RuntimeError(f'{name} failed: {result.stdout}\n{log.read_text()[-4000:]}')
row = json.loads(result.stdout)
if 'error' in row:
raise RuntimeError(row['error'])
lines = 0
sample = None
with log.open('rb') as handle:
for line in handle:
if b'frontend first token' in line:
lines += 1
if sample is None:
sample = line
expected = row['iterations'] + row['warmup_iterations'] if name == 'head-on' else 0
if lines != expected:
raise RuntimeError(f'{name}: {lines} TTFT log lines, expected {expected}')
if bool(row['ttft_logging_enabled']) != (level == 'info'):
raise RuntimeError('logging target filter did not take effect')
if rate and abs(row['achieved_requests_per_second'] / rate - 1) > .02:
raise RuntimeError('paced workload missed requested rate by more than 2%')
row.update(arm=name, repeat=repeat, log_lines_including_warmup=lines, log_line_count_verified=True, runner_elapsed_seconds=time.monotonic() - started)
if sample and not (args.output / 'sample-ttft-log.txt').exists():
(args.output / 'sample-ttft-log.txt').write_bytes(sample)
log.unlink()
if not discard:
rows.append(row)
sink.write(json.dumps(row, sort_keys=True) + '\n')
sink.flush()
(args.output / 'summary.json').write_text(json.dumps(aggregate(rows), indent=2) + '\n')
print(f'{serial:03} {"discard" if discard else "sample "} {name:8} {scope:11} {workload:10} rate={str(rate):5} cpu={row["cpu_ns_per_request"]/1000:8.3f} us/request', flush=True)
for scope in ['first-token', 'lifecycle']:
for workload in ['text', 'multistage']:
for arm in arms:
run(arm, scope, workload, None, -1, discard=True)
for repeat in range(1 if args.smoke else args.rounds):
order = arms[repeat % 4:] + arms[:repeat % 4]
for arm in order:
run(arm, scope, workload, None, repeat)
if not args.smoke:
for workload in ['text', 'multistage']:
for rate in [500, 2000, 10000]:
for repeat in range(args.paced_rounds):
order = arms[repeat % 4:] + arms[:repeat % 4]
for arm in order:
run(arm, 'lifecycle', workload, rate, repeat)
sink.close()
print(f'Completed {len(rows)} retained samples; all cohort and log checks passed.', flush=True)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()Raw per-run measurements (CSV)scope,workload,rate,arm,repeat,requests,cpu_us_per_request,wall_us_per_request,achieved_requests_per_second,measured_log_bytes
first-token,text,,base-off,0,200000,0.152892,0.150059,945679.637,0
first-token,text,,head-off,0,200000,0.835325,0.832171,382802.855,0
first-token,text,,base-on,0,200000,0.150389,0.147379,952224.679,0
first-token,text,,head-on,0,200000,7.085560,7.084946,111777.935,212699459
first-token,text,,head-off,1,200000,0.865785,0.862538,369629.651,0
first-token,text,,base-on,1,200000,0.151719,0.148723,931630.073,0
first-token,text,,head-on,1,200000,7.108204,7.108050,111316.895,212716584
first-token,text,,base-off,1,200000,0.150049,0.147113,953922.477,0
first-token,text,,base-on,2,200000,0.150602,0.147608,945495.650,0
first-token,text,,head-on,2,200000,6.837390,6.839539,115595.134,212456382
first-token,text,,base-off,2,200000,0.155916,0.152563,900468.794,0
first-token,text,,head-off,2,200000,0.892128,0.888583,356365.712,0
first-token,text,,head-on,3,200000,6.814131,6.813020,116220.510,212455380
first-token,text,,base-off,3,200000,0.158432,0.155272,869736.692,0
first-token,text,,head-off,3,200000,0.861230,0.857918,368495.446,0
first-token,text,,base-on,3,200000,0.150097,0.147157,953381.254,0
first-token,text,,base-off,4,200000,0.149926,0.146980,954344.867,0
first-token,text,,head-off,4,200000,0.841344,0.838287,381275.860,0
first-token,text,,base-on,4,200000,0.150695,0.147727,954685.796,0
first-token,text,,head-on,4,200000,6.975124,6.974918,113474.303,212561651
first-token,multistage,,base-off,0,200000,0.150152,0.147088,953893.860,0
first-token,multistage,,head-off,0,200000,1.035749,1.032534,303572.959,0
first-token,multistage,,base-on,0,200000,0.150347,0.147464,949590.846,0
first-token,multistage,,head-on,0,200000,7.785749,7.784862,99086.123,230287224
first-token,multistage,,head-off,1,200000,1.012331,1.009094,305130.664,0
first-token,multistage,,base-on,1,200000,0.150859,0.147922,960128.527,0
first-token,multistage,,head-on,1,200000,7.748054,7.747311,99657.023,230343977
first-token,multistage,,base-off,1,200000,0.149548,0.146619,955785.492,0
first-token,multistage,,base-on,2,200000,0.149708,0.146851,950367.332,0
first-token,multistage,,head-on,2,200000,7.683709,7.683655,100522.051,230280782
first-token,multistage,,base-off,2,200000,0.151434,0.148574,951199.060,0
first-token,multistage,,head-off,2,200000,1.044882,1.041633,301096.702,0
first-token,multistage,,head-on,3,200000,7.800273,7.799600,98945.457,230540346
first-token,multistage,,base-off,3,200000,0.152086,0.149081,942015.330,0
first-token,multistage,,head-off,3,200000,1.107594,1.104147,289654.417,0
first-token,multistage,,base-on,3,200000,0.154920,0.151820,912535.711,0
first-token,multistage,,base-off,4,200000,0.159831,0.156669,859888.093,0
first-token,multistage,,head-off,4,200000,1.106451,1.102789,282779.893,0
first-token,multistage,,base-on,4,200000,0.155720,0.152442,883631.700,0
first-token,multistage,,head-on,4,200000,7.997018,7.997615,96482.270,230231946
lifecycle,text,,base-off,0,200000,0.969237,0.969431,1031533.196,0
lifecycle,text,,head-off,0,200000,2.441779,2.441940,409510.406,0
lifecycle,text,,base-on,0,200000,0.971063,0.971118,1029740.788,0
lifecycle,text,,head-on,0,200000,8.989087,8.994759,111175.848,213690578
lifecycle,text,,head-off,1,200000,2.435190,2.435630,410571.349,0
lifecycle,text,,base-on,1,200000,1.059766,1.059808,943567.386,0
lifecycle,text,,head-on,1,200000,9.159283,9.163711,109126.094,213885305
lifecycle,text,,base-off,1,200000,1.020169,1.020404,980004.190,0
lifecycle,text,,base-on,2,200000,0.962826,0.962928,1038499.557,0
lifecycle,text,,head-on,2,200000,8.788900,8.792634,113731.564,213839689
lifecycle,text,,base-off,2,200000,1.032502,1.032570,968457.372,0
lifecycle,text,,head-off,2,200000,2.520250,2.520341,396771.740,0
lifecycle,text,,head-on,3,200000,8.761269,8.764444,114097.367,213613324
lifecycle,text,,base-off,3,200000,0.959915,0.960034,1041629.607,0
lifecycle,text,,head-off,3,200000,2.482309,2.482414,402833.624,0
lifecycle,text,,base-on,3,200000,0.964900,0.964910,1036366.016,0
lifecycle,text,,base-off,4,200000,0.995262,0.995632,1004387.224,0
lifecycle,text,,head-off,4,200000,2.457248,2.457299,406950.833,0
lifecycle,text,,base-on,4,200000,0.974598,0.974663,1025995.989,0
lifecycle,text,,head-on,4,200000,8.848388,8.851691,112972.766,213784481
lifecycle,multistage,,base-off,0,200000,0.966693,0.966752,1034391.939,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-off,0,200000,3.231723,3.231972,309408.635,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-on,0,200000,0.966383,0.966499,1034662.267,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-on,0,200000,10.095245,10.099416,99015.627,226268410
lifecycle,multistage,,head-off,1,200000,3.273461,3.273815,305454.020,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-on,1,200000,0.962623,0.962813,1038623.219,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-on,1,200000,10.381747,10.386150,96282.072,226081361
lifecycle,multistage,,base-off,1,200000,1.041861,1.041923,959763.384,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-on,2,200000,1.016251,1.016336,983926.784,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-on,2,200000,10.728884,10.737359,93132.770,226907371
lifecycle,multistage,,base-off,2,200000,1.027085,1.027221,973500.466,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-off,2,200000,3.204893,3.204913,312020.943,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-on,3,200000,10.751882,10.756502,92967.026,230974595
lifecycle,multistage,,base-off,3,200000,0.968810,0.968877,1032122.959,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-off,3,200000,3.295695,3.296125,303386.586,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-on,3,200000,0.972661,0.972732,1028032.377,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-off,4,200000,1.040790,1.040955,960656.413,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-off,4,200000,3.461443,3.461700,288875.438,0
lifecycle,multistage,,base-on,4,200000,1.013960,1.014073,986122.374,0
lifecycle,multistage,,head-on,4,200000,10.262368,10.267358,97396.042,226357899
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-off,0,2500,8.603275,1999.230278,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-off,0,2500,11.425333,1999.229025,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-on,0,2500,8.152463,1999.226741,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-on,0,2500,22.282244,1999.233380,500.192,2698319
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-off,1,2500,11.246602,1999.229064,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-on,1,2500,8.830414,1999.227050,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-on,1,2500,23.819118,1999.276352,500.181,2699699
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-off,1,2500,8.576579,1999.231451,500.192,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-on,2,2500,9.388478,1999.227177,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-on,2,2500,23.381710,1999.240687,500.190,2696485
lifecycle,text,500.0,base-off,2,2500,9.029928,1999.228363,500.193,0
lifecycle,text,500.0,head-off,2,2500,12.534018,1999.235410,500.191,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-off,0,10000,7.302629,499.951413,2000.194,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-off,0,10000,9.794171,499.956874,2000.173,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-on,0,10000,7.289938,499.957406,2000.170,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-on,0,10000,21.903261,499.957673,2000.169,10806976
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-off,1,10000,9.966593,499.957835,2000.169,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-on,1,10000,7.443327,499.956601,2000.174,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-on,1,10000,19.190589,499.958971,2000.164,10825560
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-off,1,10000,7.523145,499.957003,2000.172,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-on,2,10000,7.211614,499.957853,2000.169,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-on,2,10000,19.100532,499.958603,2000.166,10805429
lifecycle,text,2000.0,base-off,2,10000,7.241841,499.956723,2000.173,0
lifecycle,text,2000.0,head-off,2,10000,9.857888,499.959368,2000.163,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-off,0,50000,5.752055,99.999140,10000.086,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-off,0,50000,7.679907,99.999212,10000.079,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-on,0,50000,5.794458,99.999150,10000.085,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-on,0,50000,15.783122,99.999348,10000.065,53815345
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-off,1,50000,7.688715,99.999190,10000.081,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-on,1,50000,5.717188,99.999165,10000.083,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-on,1,50000,15.395492,99.999348,10000.065,53769479
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-off,1,50000,5.723151,99.999143,10000.086,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-on,2,50000,5.595799,99.998457,10000.154,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-on,2,50000,15.435296,99.999320,10000.068,53705966
lifecycle,text,10000.0,base-off,2,50000,5.595942,99.999143,10000.086,0
lifecycle,text,10000.0,head-off,2,50000,7.692203,99.999184,10000.082,0
lifecycle,multistage,500.0,base-off,0,2500,8.620241,1999.227734,500.193,0
lifecycle,multistage,500.0,head-off,0,2500,12.167898,1999.228322,500.193,0
lifecycle,multistage,500.0,base-on,0,2500,8.733961,1999.228718,500.193,0
lifecycle,multistage,500.0,head-on,0,2500,25.688719,1999.232301,500.192,2865641
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"schema_version": 1,
"cpu_affinity": [
2
],
"available_logical_cpus": 20,
"base_sha": "094aaca91941421bb0dcb645b0f700a42d6de3ef",
"head_sha": "d80ee7b53deced7e64002d1f877ee3f8be114571",
"binary_sha256": {
"base": "222e2ebeba4c22fa58f3a7e2a057167c1c15692bb415aaa16f4caf1d99a6cff2",
"head": "ed06e1384da5b97208363a5c253069c0ec2045aa7af148e3e8a594b248a806b8"
},
"harness_sha256": "468ee6cd676f4f58105aef6f3854fb3c2628318a491392e66f716ce2ccddd9e5",
"build": "Rust 1.96.1; cargo release, codegen-units=1, thin LTO, target-cpu=x86-64-v3; no-default-features",
"logging": "production dynamo_runtime::logging::init(); readable format, OTLP disabled; real regular files in tmpfs, no fsync",
"execution": "one process at a time, fresh process per arm/run; rotating arm order; one discarded run per arm/workload/scope before measured rounds; no concurrent builds",
"scope": "synthetic instrumentation API benchmark; not HTTP throughput, GPU inference, Python/PyO3 or end-to-end request TTFT",
"paced_cpu": "includes sleep/pacing control; compare matched base/head; wall/request includes waiting"
} |
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The UUID iteration is non-discriminating because it also supplies mm_features=[]; removing the UUID-specific early return still reaches the ordinary empty-feature path, returns the same tuple, and records no stages. The retained {} iteration already protects the supported text/no-feature behavior.
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Thanks for the contribution. This new metrics overlap with https://docs.nvidia.com/dynamo/dev/reference/observability/metric-labels#stage-values, can we please consolidate and merge? |
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Thanks @jh-nv. Following up on your comment, there is overlap in the stage terminology and instrumentation, especially The existing I propose consolidating the shared definitions and instrumentation while preserving those existing metric contracts:
One boundary needs explicit treatment: on the KV path, the existing route gauge ends after selection/tracking, while the new TTFT routing interval continues through dispatch preparation. I would preserve the existing gauge boundary and make that additional timing interval explicit in the shared helper rather than silently changing the gauge’s meaning. The validation would cover existing gauge lifecycles, metric compatibility, cancellation/retry paths, and the invariant that stage contributions sum to total TTFT. Does this match the consolidation you had in mind, or are you looking for a single duration metric family? I’d like to confirm that before refactoring. |
Merge current main, make exclusive TTFT detail opt-in, and share existing operation timing and routing lifecycle events. Preserve legacy metric boundaries, labels and request populations; keep Python timeline propagation independent of legacy trackers. Signed-off-by: ssssnow <38564764+ssssnow@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks for this, @ssssnow. An exclusive breakdown that sums to TTFT is exactly what we need to find where structural-tag tool calls spend their first-token time. I've left a few inline requests from the tool-calling side. Any of them can be a follow-up, and they could fold into the consolidation with dynamo_frontend_stage_* that @jh-nv asked for.
| let response_generator = request.response_generator(context.id().to_string()); | ||
| let tracker = Some(response_generator.tracker()); | ||
| let request_tracker = response_generator.tracker(); | ||
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Request: time the structural-tag build. Further down in this function (L7731 at this head), apply_tool_choice_guided_decoding runs after preprocess_request_with_options has returned. That puts it outside every span, so its time lands in frontend_overhead. It builds and serializes the structural tag, and the cost grows with the toolset: we measured roughly 0.4–0.9 ms per request at 120 tools.
Could it get its own stage, such as structural_tag_build?
let guided_tool_constraint = {
let _ttft_stage = tracker
.as_deref()
.and_then(RequestTracker::ttft)
.map(|timings| timings.start_span(TtftStage::StructuralTagBuild));
self.apply_tool_choice_guided_decoding(
&request,
&mut common_request,
prompt_injected_reasoning.unified,
)?
};The new stage also needs an entry in the precedence list in attribute(). Otherwise its time still falls through to FrontendOverhead. If you'd rather the stage also cover the tool_processing_route call right after it, tool_guidance would be a better name.
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Same request on the Python path. Here build_tool_call_guided_decoding runs just after the template_tokenize span and inside the caller's python_preprocess. So the structural-tag build gets mixed in with the rest of Python preprocessing. A structural_tag_build stage around this call would match the Rust one. The same applies to sglang_prepost.py L987.
One catch on the SGLang pool path: _WorkerPreprocessTiming.start_ttft_stage raises ValueError for anything other than template_tokenize, and the result returns only template_tokenize_intervals_ns. Wrapping L987 as-is would fail there, so the worker would need to return intervals per stage. The new name also needs adding to TtftStage::from_python.
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Request: split template_tokenize into template_render and tokenize. For tool-heavy prompts, rendering dominates. At 120 tools, rendering was about 6 ms of 9.8 ms of preprocessing in our runs. We're evaluating a cache for the rendered tool prefix, and with one stage we can't see its effect in TTFT.
On the Rust path this is nearly free. preprocessor.rs already opens two separate spans: L3057 around apply_template and L4737 in gather_tokens. That's the same boundary TEMPLATE_SECONDS and TOKENIZE_SECONDS use, so only the stage each span records would change.
On the Python paths, render and tokenize are often one call. Examples are render_messages_async returning prompt_token_ids, and SGLang's apply_chat_template. Splitting where they're separate calls (the tokenizer branch in prepost.py) and recording the combined call as render elsewhere seems fine, as long as the docs say so.
A small related point: ttft.rs hard-codes 17 in its array types. Using TtftStage::ALL.len(), as metrics.rs does, would make adding stages a one-place change.
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Merge current upstream main and share canonical stage definitions and lifecycle hooks while preserving legacy gauge, duration, dispatch, and request-cohort semantics. Default detail metrics on and per-request DEBUG logs off. Add real render, tokenize, structural-tag, and dispatch-preparation boundaries; bounded typed same-host Python timing batches; deterministic exclusive first-token attribution; and explicit coarse/degraded coverage diagnostics. Document the measurement contract and add lifecycle, batch-validation, and HTTP regressions. Signed-off-by: ssssnow <38564764+ssssnow@users.noreply.github.com>
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@jh-nv @indrajit96 I have updated this PR around the integrated stage/TTFT design below. It combines the request lifecycle instrumentation with the existing stage vocabulary while preserving the existing metrics as separate statistical views. Detail metrics collect by default; per-request DEBUG logs remain off. Commit: f69a58e. This follows the integration request, the earlier proposal, and the review of the exclusive breakdown. The review supported an exclusive breakdown that sums to TTFT; I am not treating that as approval of every design choice here, or as approval from both reviewers. One lifecycle, three metric viewsThe integration preserves three quantities:
The shared registry defines legal stage/phase pairs, parent mappings, attribution priority, and Python availability. Arrays and loops derive their size from the registry; Python consumes the binding's registry instead of maintaining another handwritten stage list. Only legal pairs are instantiated, not a Cartesian product. Reusable observation hooks combine an existing gauge guard with an optional request timeline where their boundaries match. Existing operation clocks are reused when recording native render/tokenize/preprocess intervals. Different boundaries remain explicit: old histograms are not changed into exclusive histograms, and old gauge values are not expanded to include every diagnostic leaf. No runtime-to-LLM dependency is introduced. I checked the actual upstream boundary rather than assuming the old PR head preserved it. The old PR patch had moved KV Stage boundariesThere are 24 legal stage/phase pairs:
Native Rust uses the existing separate Collection and logging
Enable both with: export DYN_FRONTEND_TTFT_DETAIL=both
export DYN_LOG='info,dynamo_frontend::ttft=debug'Startup logs report the mode and target enablement. The first-token event includes the canonical request ID, total and stage durations, quality, fixed reason values, and the unexpected-overlap flag. It contains no prompts, tool schemas, or per-span payloads. Metrics-only mode does not copy the request ID for this event or format its strings. Request IDs and attempt IDs are never Prometheus labels. Same-host Python process-pool timingThe SGLang pool uses an optional, versioned, typed timing batch containing fixed stage IDs and integer-nanosecond intervals. Collection is explicitly enabled by the request, not by testing whether a method exists. Enabled workers can return multiple stages and repeated intervals. The disabled path omits the optional enablement argument and uses the base result without a timing field or timing clock reads. Fixed local enablement checks remain, but this path adds no timing flag or timing batch to its IPC payload. The supported Linux/macOS same-host monotonic domain is validated. The parent checks version, stage IDs, interval ordering, the submission/completion envelope, future timestamps, overflow, and the 64-interval batch bound. It reads Python An unsupported clock keeps the reliable parent preprocessing window and reports coarse coverage. Invalid or untrusted data degrades the detailed partition rather than inventing positions from durations. This design does not align clocks on remote GPU workers or add timing fields to backend RPCs. Cross-machine attribution would require a separate clock-domain and synchronization-error design. Exclusive attribution and lifecycle rulesThe HTTP collector's existing start and valid first-output-token event define the interval. It reads one Each smallest time slice has one owner, in this fixed order: This is an attribution policy favoring observed frontend work, not proof of a distributed critical path. A phase is snapshotted when dispatch begins. Batched completions and multiple choices retain the parent HTTP first-token cohort. Metadata-only responses do not settle TTFT. Tokens withheld and discarded by migration do not become HTTP first tokens, and aborted attempts close their postprocessing span before replacement routing/waits. Pre-token errors or cancellation do not fabricate samples; failures after the first token retain the sample already observed. Freeze happens once. Late worker intervals, late prefill, and guard drops cannot revise the result. Entry points and drops check an atomic frozen flag before clock reads/locking and recheck under the lock; a call already racing with freeze can still have one in-flight clock read or lock acquisition. Existing metrics continue for their full original lifetime. Bounded degradation and interpretationThe implementation bounds collection at 256 intervals per request and 64 per worker batch. Buffers grow only while enabled and below the bound. Active guards can close safely after a limit is reached; their indices are not reused. Invalid or excessive data marks the request degraded, stops useful detail collection, and places the full TTFT in Quality is
The stage histogram uses 24 legal pairs and the existing default 26 finite boundaries, yielding 696 series per model including Additivity applies to individual requests or same-cohort sums/means: the same enabled instances, model, request coverage, and time window. Per-stage P95/P99 values cannot be added. Mixing enabled and disabled instances changes the cohort. Backend waits include frontend-observed transport, scheduling, and processing, not isolated GPU compute or KV transfer. A remote standalone router cannot receive the process-local timeline; otherwise valid uninstrumented time remains Validation and remaining limitsLocal validation of the integrated implementation passed:
The focused tests cover the mode/default contract; unchanged legacy schemas, buckets, and sample counts; operation/gauge lifetimes; integer-duration conservation; missing-timeline fallback; overlap and repeated intervals; frozen/late-event behavior; first-token cohort and log/histogram agreement; phase snapshots and retry/migration behavior; worker versions, stages, clocks, bounds, and disabled payloads. Python spies reject timing clock/FFI calls on the disabled path, and a Rust frozen-path test checks no later clock read or lock acquisition. An absent off-mode timeline and handles are asserted directly; this is not an allocator-instrumented proof of zero additional allocations across the full serving process. These are targeted local checks, not the complete repository suite. The three HTTP tests use the test backend; serving against real SGLang/vLLM/GPU backends has not been exercised, nor has the full text/tool-heavy/multimodal × aggregated/P-D × streaming/non-streaming end-to-end matrix or an HTTP load benchmark. CPU and stubbed processor tests do not establish that broader coverage. Current-head CI must be checked after publication; no old-SHA CI result is used as evidence for this update. The supplemental measurement tables and complete reproduction below report the current implementation's cost using production Rust collector/timeline APIs and the actual Python timing helper. These are macOS ARM debug/unoptimized synthetic measurements, not release-build performance, observed request TTFT, or inference throughput. The one-thread median process CPU costs were 5.403 μs/request for upstream base, 5.810 for off, 42.654 for metrics, 59.954 for logs, and 59.868 for both. Metrics therefore adds about 37 μs in this debug workload. The four-thread results, ranges, wall times, and log sizes are in the appendix; small inversions between arms do not establish speedups or zero off-mode overhead. The Rust runs interleave three rounds after warming 1,000 requests per thread, measuring 25,000 per thread with one and four threads sharing histogram handles. Enabled requests record 11 spans. Log modes use the production DEBUG event and a synchronous mutex-protected real file writer with timestamp formatting disabled; filesystem page caching applies and The Python inline-helper median rises from 1.467 to 7.527 μs/request; real spawned-pool serialized result tuples rise from 17 to 332 bytes when timing is enabled. These runs use the production helper but a native-registry/receiver stub, excluding PyO3 execution, SGLang/vLLM, tokenization, and GPU work. Pool startup and warmup are excluded, pending work is bounded, and byte counts exclude the multiprocessing envelope and benchmark CPU counter. Worker-function and parent CPU figures measure different scopes and must not be added as full-system CPU. The two native PyO3 runtime tests above establish correctness, not native FFI performance. Native FFI performance, HTTP load, and real-backend/GPU serving performance remain unmeasured. The choices still open for maintainer review are the shared-lifecycle/separate-family approach, Supplemental local instrumentation measurementsMedian costs per synthetic request from three runs; CPU ranges are min–max. These are workload costs, not observed request TTFT.
Metrics mode adds about 37–38 μs of process CPU versus main in this debug build. Off and filtered-logs modes stay near base, with run-to-run variation; these results do not establish zero overhead. Small inversions such as both versus logs at one thread are within measurement variation.
These are macOS 26.5.2 ARM debug/unoptimized measurements using Rust 1.96.1 and Python 3.12.13. They exercise the production collector/timeline APIs, not release-build, HTTP, tokenizer, backend, or GPU throughput. Base is upstream main The log arms run the production DEBUG event through a synchronous, mutex-protected real file writer. Timestamp formatting is disabled, and no The Python rows use the actual Complete reproduction: production Rust APIs and Python process-pool helperUse a disposable directory with the repository's normal Rust/protoc build prerequisites, Python 3.12, and adequate local disk. Save the four files below under mkdir ttft-bench-run
cd ttft-bench-run
mkdir validation
# Save the four Python files below into validation/, then:
git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/ssssnow/dynamo.git dynamo
git -C dynamo checkout --detach f69a58ecdc89b25d59477498ce0621a6f9a6f361
git clone --no-hardlinks --no-checkout ./dynamo validation/benchmark-base
git -C validation/benchmark-base checkout --detach 75d0686fb7def243ab5a07ec69159427b169675c
python3 validation/generate_ttft_benchmark.py
rustfmt --edition 2024 validation/ttft_benchmark_head.rs validation/ttft_benchmark_base.rs
python3 validation/prepare_public_benchmark.py
export CARGO_TARGET_DIR="$PWD/validation/target"
mkdir validation/bench-binaries
cargo test --manifest-path dynamo/Cargo.toml -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features --lib --no-run --locked --message-format=json > validation/head-build.json
python3 - <<'PY'
import json, shutil
for line in open("validation/head-build.json"):
item = json.loads(line)
if item.get("executable") and item.get("target", {}).get("name") == "dynamo_llm":
shutil.copy2(item["executable"], "validation/bench-binaries/head")
PY
cargo test --manifest-path validation/benchmark-base/Cargo.toml -p dynamo-llm --no-default-features --lib --no-run --locked --message-format=json > validation/base-build.json
python3 - <<'PY'
import json, shutil
for line in open("validation/base-build.json"):
item = json.loads(line)
if item.get("executable") and item.get("target", {}).get("name") == "dynamo_llm":
shutil.copy2(item["executable"], "validation/bench-binaries/base")
PY
python3 validation/run_rust_benchmarks.py --head "$PWD/validation/bench-binaries/head" --base "$PWD/validation/bench-binaries/base"
python3 validation/benchmark_python_timing.py --requests 5000 --rounds 3 > validation/python-benchmark-results.jsonl
"""Generate temporary child modules for the same base/head production benchmark."""
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
COMMON = r'''// Local validation harness; intentionally not a repository deliverable.
use super::*;
use std::sync::Barrier;
fn process_cpu_ns() -> u64 {
let mut value = libc::timespec { tv_sec: 0, tv_nsec: 0 };
// SAFETY: value is valid writable storage; process CPU clock is read-only.
assert_eq!(unsafe { libc::clock_gettime(libc::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &mut value) }, 0);
value.tv_sec as u64 * 1_000_000_000 + value.tv_nsec as u64
}
fn one_request(metrics: &Arc<Metrics>) {
let mut collector = ResponseMetricCollector::new(
metrics.clone(), "synthetic".to_owned(),
Arc::new(RequestMetrics::new(metrics, "synthetic")),
);
// Both revisions construct the same request context. Only HEAD instruments it.
let mut request = dynamo_runtime::pipeline::Context::new(());
__TIMELINE__
collector.observe_response(128, 0);
collector.observe_response(128, 1);
collector.observe_response(128, 1);
std::hint::black_box((&collector, &mut request));
}
fn run_threads(metrics: Arc<Metrics>, dispatch: tracing::Dispatch, threads: usize, per_thread: usize) -> (u64, u128) {
let start = Arc::new(Barrier::new(threads + 1));
let ready = Arc::new(Barrier::new(threads + 1));
std::thread::scope(|scope| {
for _ in 0..threads {
let (metrics, dispatch, start, ready) = (metrics.clone(), dispatch.clone(), start.clone(), ready.clone());
scope.spawn(move || tracing::dispatcher::with_default(&dispatch, || {
ready.wait();
start.wait();
for _ in 0..per_thread { one_request(&metrics); }
}));
}
ready.wait();
let cpu_start = process_cpu_ns();
let wall_start = Instant::now();
start.wait();
// Scope joins below, so defer reporting until after joining all workers.
(cpu_start, wall_start)
}).pipe_elapsed()
}
trait Elapsed { fn pipe_elapsed(self) -> (u64, u128); }
impl Elapsed for (u64, Instant) {
fn pipe_elapsed(self) -> (u64, u128) { (process_cpu_ns() - self.0, self.1.elapsed().as_nanos()) }
}
#[test]
#[ignore = "manual production API benchmark, run without concurrent builds"]
fn ttft_integrated_production_benchmark() {
let mode = std::env::var("DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_MODE").unwrap_or_else(|_| "__DEFAULT_MODE__".into());
let threads: usize = std::env::var("DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_THREADS").unwrap_or_else(|_| "1".into()).parse().unwrap();
let per_thread: usize = std::env::var("DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_REQUESTS").unwrap_or_else(|_| "25000".into()).parse().unwrap();
assert!((1..=16).contains(&threads));
let output = std::env::var("DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_LOG").expect("explicit local log path required");
let filter = if mode == "logs-filtered" { "off" } else { "off,dynamo_frontend::ttft=debug" };
let file = std::fs::File::create(&output).unwrap();
let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
.with_env_filter(filter)
.with_ansi(false)
.with_writer(std::sync::Mutex::new(file))
.without_time()
.finish();
let dispatch = tracing::Dispatch::new(subscriber);
let metrics = Arc::new(__METRICS__);
run_threads(metrics.clone(), dispatch.clone(), threads, 1000);
let bytes_start = std::fs::metadata(&output).unwrap().len();
let (cpu_ns, wall_ns) = run_threads(metrics, dispatch, threads, per_thread);
let log_bytes = std::fs::metadata(&output).unwrap().len() - bytes_start;
let requests = threads * per_thread;
__ASSERT_LOGS__
println!("BENCH_RESULT {{\"revision\":\"__REVISION__\",\"mode\":\"{mode}\",\"threads\":{threads},\"requests\":{requests},\"cpu_ns\":{cpu_ns},\"wall_ns\":{wall_ns},\"log_bytes\":{log_bytes}}}");
}
'''
TIMELINE = r'''collector.attach_ttft_timeline(&mut request);
if let Some(timeline) = &collector.ttft_timeline {
let preprocess = timeline.start_span(TtftStage::Preprocess);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::TemplateRender));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::Tokenize));
let multimodal = timeline.start_span(TtftStage::MultimodalPrepare);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::MmRoutingBuild));
drop(multimodal);
drop(preprocess);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::StructuralTagBuild));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::RouteAggregated));
let dispatch = timeline.start_span(TtftStage::BackendAggregated);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::DispatchPrepareAggregated));
drop(dispatch);
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::FirstTokenAggregated));
drop(timeline.start_span(TtftStage::ResponsePostprocess));
}'''
for revision in ("head", "base"):
text = COMMON.replace("__REVISION__", revision).replace("__DEFAULT_MODE__", "base" if revision == "base" else "off")
if revision == "head":
text = text.replace("__TIMELINE__", TIMELINE)
text = text.replace("__METRICS__", 'Metrics::build_with_detail(None, &|_| None, if mode == "logs-filtered" { TtftDetail::Logs } else { mode.parse().unwrap() })')
text = text.replace("__ASSERT_LOGS__", 'assert_eq!(log_bytes > 0, matches!(mode.as_str(), "logs" | "both"));')
else:
text = text.replace("__TIMELINE__", "")
text = text.replace("__METRICS__", "Metrics::build(None, &|_| None)")
text = text.replace("__ASSERT_LOGS__", 'assert_eq!(mode, "base"); assert_eq!(log_bytes, 0);')
(ROOT / f"ttft_benchmark_{revision}.rs").write_text(text)
"""Attach benchmark-only test modules to two disposable local checkouts."""
import datetime
import hashlib
import json
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
VALIDATION = ROOT / "validation"
for variant, repo in [("head", ROOT / "dynamo"), ("base", VALIDATION / "benchmark-base")]:
module = (VALIDATION / f"ttft_benchmark_{variant}.rs").resolve()
metrics = repo / "lib/llm/src/http/service/metrics.rs"
source = metrics.read_text()
if "mod integrated_benchmark;" in source:
raise RuntimeError(f"Benchmark module already attached: {metrics}")
metrics.write_text(source + '\n#[cfg(test)]\n#[path = ' + json.dumps(str(module)) + ']\nmod integrated_benchmark;\n')
sources = [
"lib/llm/src/protocols/common/ttft.rs",
"lib/llm/src/http/service/metrics.rs",
"lib/llm/src/frontend_config.rs",
]
(VALIDATION / "head-benchmark-sources.json").write_text(json.dumps({
"captured_utc": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(),
"source_sha256": {rel: hashlib.sha256((ROOT / "dynamo" / rel).read_bytes()).hexdigest() for rel in sources},
}, indent=2) + "\n")
"""Interleave prepared production test binaries after all compilation is idle."""
import argparse
import hashlib
import json
import os
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
TEST = "http::service::metrics::integrated_benchmark::ttft_integrated_production_benchmark"
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--head", type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--base", type=Path, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--requests-per-thread", type=int, default=25000)
parser.add_argument("--rounds", type=int, default=3)
args = parser.parse_args()
output = ROOT / "rust-benchmark-results.jsonl"
raw = ROOT / "rust-benchmark-output.log"
log_path = ROOT / "rust-benchmark-writer.log"
samples = ROOT / "rust-benchmark-log-samples.json"
log_samples = {}
manifest = {
"base_sha": "75d0686fb7def243ab5a07ec69159427b169675c",
"binary_sha256": {
"head": hashlib.file_digest(args.head.open("rb"), "sha256").hexdigest(),
"base": hashlib.file_digest(args.base.open("rb"), "sha256").hexdigest(),
},
"head_sources_sha256": {},
"method": "debug production collector test binary; process CPU; real synchronous file writer; OS page cache, no fsync; interleaved arms; no HTTP/GPU/PyO3",
}
snapshot = json.loads((ROOT / "head-benchmark-sources.json").read_text())
manifest["head_sources_sha256"] = snapshot["source_sha256"]
manifest["head_sources_captured_utc"] = snapshot["captured_utc"]
(ROOT / "benchmark-inputs.json").write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2) + "\n")
arms = ["base", "off", "metrics", "logs", "both", "logs-filtered"]
with output.open("w") as results, raw.open("w") as logs:
for round_index in range(args.rounds):
order = arms[round_index:] + arms[:round_index]
if round_index % 2:
order = list(reversed(order))
for threads in (1, 4):
for mode in order:
env = dict(os.environ)
env.update({
"DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_MODE": mode,
"DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_THREADS": str(threads),
"DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_REQUESTS": str(args.requests_per_thread),
"DYNAMO_TTFT_BENCH_LOG": str(log_path),
})
binary = args.base if mode == "base" else args.head
result = subprocess.run(
[str(binary), "--ignored", "--exact", TEST, "--nocapture", "--test-threads=1"],
env=env, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
check=True,
)
logs.write(f"ROUND {round_index}, THREADS {threads}, MODE {mode}\n" + result.stdout + "\n")
logs.flush()
records = [line.removeprefix("BENCH_RESULT ") for line in result.stdout.splitlines() if line.startswith("BENCH_RESULT ")]
if len(records) != 1:
# libtest may prefix the first captured line with the test name.
records = [line.split("BENCH_RESULT ", 1)[1] for line in result.stdout.splitlines() if "BENCH_RESULT " in line]
if len(records) != 1:
raise RuntimeError("Expected exactly one benchmark record")
record = json.loads(records[0])
with log_path.open() as stream:
total_log_lines = sum(1 for _ in stream)
expected_log_lines = threads * (1000 + args.requests_per_thread) if mode in {"logs", "both"} else 0
if total_log_lines != expected_log_lines:
raise RuntimeError(f"Expected {expected_log_lines} log events; got {total_log_lines}")
record["verified_log_lines_including_warmup"] = total_log_lines
record["round"] = round_index
results.write(json.dumps(record) + "\n")
results.flush()
print(json.dumps(record), flush=True)
if mode in {"logs", "both"} and mode not in log_samples:
with log_path.open() as stream:
log_samples[mode] = stream.readline().strip()
log_path.unlink()
samples.write_text(json.dumps(log_samples, indent=2) + "\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
"""Synthetic production Python timing-helper/ProcessPoolExecutor overhead.
Uses the actual ttft.py helper with a registry-only binding stub derived from
the canonical Rust registry. The receiver counts native import calls: no PyO3,
SGLang/vLLM, tokenizer, HTTP, or GPU work is included.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import concurrent.futures
import datetime
import hashlib
import importlib.util
import json
import multiprocessing
import pickle
import re
import sys
import time
import types
from collections import deque
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
REPO = ROOT / "dynamo"
TIMING = None
def install_helper() -> None:
global TIMING
text = (REPO / "lib/llm/src/protocols/common/ttft.rs").read_text()
body = text.split("stages! {", 1)[1].split("\n}", 1)[0]
rows = [line.strip() for line in body.splitlines() if "=>" in line]
registry = []
for stage_id, row in enumerate(rows):
match = re.match(r'\w+ => \(([^,]+), "[^"]*", .*, \d+, (true|false), .*\),', row)
if not match:
raise ValueError(f"Unexpected canonical registry format: {row}")
if match[2] == "true":
label = match[1].strip('"')
if label == "STAGE_PREPROCESS":
label = "preprocess"
registry.append((stage_id, label))
core = types.ModuleType("dynamo._core")
core.ttft_stage_registry = lambda: registry
dynamo = types.ModuleType("dynamo")
dynamo._core = core
frontend = types.ModuleType("dynamo.frontend")
dynamo.frontend = frontend
sys.modules["dynamo"] = dynamo
sys.modules["dynamo._core"] = core
sys.modules["dynamo.frontend"] = frontend
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
"dynamo.frontend.ttft", REPO / "components/src/dynamo/frontend/ttft.py"
)
TIMING = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
sys.modules[spec.name] = TIMING
frontend.ttft = TIMING
spec.loader.exec_module(TIMING)
TIMING.stage_registry() # Warm registry import/cache outside measured work.
class Receiver:
ttft_enabled = True
def __init__(self):
self.calls = 0
self.intervals = 0
self.invalid = 0
def record_ttft_batch_ago(self, intervals, coarse_reasons=()):
self.calls += 1
self.intervals += len(intervals)
def mark_ttft_quality(self, quality, reason):
self.invalid += 1
def worker_request(enabled: bool):
start_cpu = time.process_time_ns()
context = TIMING.WorkerTiming() if enabled else None
# Small deterministic stand-in operations keep all arms' useful work equal.
with TIMING.ttft_stage(context, "template_render"):
value = sum(range(32))
with TIMING.ttft_stage(context, "tokenize"):
value += sum(range(32))
with TIMING.ttft_stage(context, "structural_tag_build"):
value += sum(range(32))
if enabled:
result = (value, context.batch())
else:
result = (value,)
return result, time.process_time_ns() - start_cpu
def consume(receiver, future, submitted, enabled):
result, cpu_ns = future.result()
if enabled:
TIMING.import_worker_batch(receiver, result[1], submitted)
return cpu_ns, result
def pool_run(pool, enabled, requests, workers):
receiver = Receiver()
pending = deque()
worker_cpu = 0
sample_result = None
parent_cpu_start = time.process_time_ns()
wall_start = time.perf_counter_ns()
for _ in range(requests):
submitted = time.monotonic_ns() if enabled else 0
pending.append((pool.submit(worker_request, enabled), submitted))
if len(pending) >= workers * 8:
future, submitted = pending.popleft()
cpu, sample_result = consume(receiver, future, submitted, enabled)
worker_cpu += cpu
while pending:
future, submitted = pending.popleft()
cpu, sample_result = consume(receiver, future, submitted, enabled)
worker_cpu += cpu
wall_ns = time.perf_counter_ns() - wall_start
parent_cpu_ns = time.process_time_ns() - parent_cpu_start
assert receiver.invalid == 0
assert receiver.calls == (requests if enabled else 0)
assert receiver.intervals == (requests * 3 if enabled else 0)
return dict(parent_cpu_ns=parent_cpu_ns, worker_function_cpu_ns=worker_cpu,
wall_ns=wall_ns, serialized_result_bytes_per_request=len(pickle.dumps(sample_result, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)),
batch_import_calls=receiver.calls, requests=requests)
def inline_run(enabled, requests):
receiver = Receiver()
wall_start = time.perf_counter_ns()
cpu_start = time.process_time_ns()
for _ in range(requests):
submitted = time.monotonic_ns() if enabled else 0
result, _ = worker_request(enabled)
if enabled:
TIMING.import_worker_batch(receiver, result[1], submitted)
cpu_ns = time.process_time_ns() - cpu_start
wall_ns = time.perf_counter_ns() - wall_start
assert receiver.invalid == 0
return dict(parent_cpu_ns=cpu_ns, wall_ns=wall_ns, requests=requests,
batch_import_calls=receiver.calls)
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--requests", type=int, default=5000)
parser.add_argument("--rounds", type=int, default=3)
args = parser.parse_args()
install_helper()
manifest = {
"captured_utc": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(),
"source_sha256": {
str(path.relative_to(ROOT)): hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
for path in [REPO / "components/src/dynamo/frontend/ttft.py",
REPO / "lib/llm/src/protocols/common/ttft.rs", Path(__file__)]
},
"native_binding": "registry-derived stub; receiver only counts imports",
}
(ROOT / "validation/python-benchmark-inputs.json").write_text(json.dumps(manifest, indent=2) + "\n")
for round_index in range(args.rounds):
for enabled in ([False, True] if round_index % 2 == 0 else [True, False]):
inline_run(enabled, 1000)
result = inline_run(enabled, args.requests * 10)
print(json.dumps(dict(path="inline-helper", enabled=enabled,
round=round_index, **result)), flush=True)
for workers in (1, 4):
for enabled in ([False, True] if round_index % 2 == 0 else [True, False]):
with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor(
max_workers=workers,
mp_context=multiprocessing.get_context("spawn"),
initializer=install_helper,
) as pool:
pool_run(pool, enabled, 200, workers)
result = pool_run(pool, enabled, args.requests, workers)
print(json.dumps(dict(path="process-pool", workers=workers,
enabled=enabled, round=round_index,
**result)), flush=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
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@jh-nv @indrajit96 I've merged the latest main, resolved the conflicts, and updated the PR description to reflect the integrated 24-stage/phase design and current validation limits. The merge preserves upstream RoutePlan ownership and session affinity alongside the shared instrumentation and exclusive TTFT accounting. Local routing, bindings, TTFT, preprocessing tests, and Clippy pass; the new CI run is in progress. Could you review the updated implementation, particularly lifecycle reuse, cancellation/retry accounting, and Python propagation? The proposal and benchmark limitations remain linked in the PR description. |
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Overview
Expose an exclusive, per-request breakdown of frontend time to first token (TTFT), so operators can distinguish preprocessing, routing, backend waits, and first-token response processing. The breakdown uses one process-local timeline, preserves the total HTTP TTFT boundary, and integrates with the existing stage metrics rather than maintaining separate instrumentation at the same lifecycle events.
Key Changes
Approximately 1,550 added core-code lines relative to current main, excluding tests, documentation, comments, blank lines, and generated Python metric constants. No new third-party dependency is introduced by this PR.
ttft.rsandobservation.rs: one canonical registry of 24 stage/phase pairs, shared lifecycle adapters, exclusive attribution, bounded storage, and degraded/unexpected-overlap diagnostics. Existing operation histograms retain their inclusive semantics and sample populations; the detail stages include template rendering, tokenization, structural-tag construction, and dispatch preparation. Opaque fused APIs usetemplate_tokenize.context.rs,ttft.py, androuting_host: propagate the optional timeline through Rust, Python, process-pool preprocessing, batching, and KV/built-in routing without adding backend RPC fields. The latest main merge preserves session affinity andRoutePlanbooking ownership, carries preparation timing through admitted plans, and closes abandoned intervals before retries. KV dispatch metrics follow upstream's currentbegin_dispatchboundary after preparation.frontend_config.rsand metrics documentation:--ttft-detail/DYN_FRONTEND_TTFT_DETAILsupportsoff,metrics(default),logs, andboth. Collection defaults on; request logs default off. Log modes also require thedynamo_frontend::ttftDEBUG target. Metrics and logs consume the same frozen first-token partition; requests without output tokens emit neither. Document bucket configuration, additive means, non-additive percentiles, and measurement limits.Validation
Merged current main
319ad3b9069a2585d5c2054a5f9209010c1284b3in additive merge commit1082160ab70da2cc96d92b35a404ff7997c056bc(no published history rewrite).aborted_prefill_plan_closes_preparation_before_decode_retryverifies explicit prefill-phase timing and that an abandoned preparation interval cannot mask a decode retry. Upstream booking-release, affinity-failure, and stream-lease tests also pass.preprocessor::beam_route_testspassed, preserving upstream tool/reasoning behavior alongside instrumentation.Local environment: macOS ARM, Rust 1.96.1; LLM tests use
--no-default-features. The additional Python CLI suite could not collect because this checkout has no installed currentdynamo._coreextension. A wheel build/import and GPU serving were not rerun for this merge; native bindings tests passed as described above. Newly triggered CI must validate the Linux/default-feature configuration.The proposal and reproducible instrumentation measurements describe the integrated design. Those historical measurements used an earlier base and the integrated implementation before this main merge: macOS ARM debug/unoptimized synthetic tests, not release, HTTP, tokenizer, GPU, or serving throughput. Default metrics added approximately 37–38 µs of process CPU per synthetic request; off/filtered-log modes stayed near base within run variation. The Python pool measurements exclude native FFI and backend work. These results have not been rerun for this merge and do not establish production performance or zero overhead.
The timeline stays within one frontend process; a separate network router cannot receive it. Uninstrumented time remains in
frontend_overhead. Backend intervals include frontend-observed transport and scheduling, not isolated GPU execution or KV transfer. GPU serving and Linux CI coverage are not replaced by local macOS tests. The earlier proposal's statement that the KV dispatch gauge begins before preparation has been superseded by upstream's current dispatch boundary; this merge preserves that upstream behavior.Issues and Ongoing Work
Pull Request Checklist
/pr-checklistskill, including independent routing and Python/frontend review, performance-limit review, documentation checks, and issue-reference validation.Summary by CodeRabbit
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