prefix cache: fine-grained hits for sliding-window groups; decouple GLM-5.3 target and recurrent blocks - #646
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHybrid KV-cache coordination now supports fine-grained prefix hits for recurrent, full-attention, and sliding-window groups. Sliding-window lookup, EAGLE rewind, retention masks, GLM-5.3 validation, and related tests were updated. ChangesFine-grained hybrid prefix-cache hits
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Fine-grained prefix reuse is enabled for sliding-window hybrid caches, but distributed replicated sliding-window and connector partial-tail reload behavior remains unvalidated. A failure there could cause incorrect cache reuse or missed reuse in those deployments, so this should be covered before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HybridKVCacheCoordinator
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HybridKVCacheCoordinator->>SlidingWindowManager: configure hash-unit hit alignment
SlidingWindowManager->>PrefixCache: probe full and partial window entries
PrefixCache-->>SlidingWindowManager: return longest matching boundary
SlidingWindowManager->>EAGLE: rewind hit by one hash unit
SlidingWindowManager-->>HybridKVCacheCoordinator: return reconciled hit
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The fine-grained reuse work looks useful. Please distinguish its incremental benefit from the capacity gain of larger attention pages: the r25 image underlying our LP26 test image already defaults to 2048-token target pages in VRAM/native mode, with recurrent pages following the target. The reported 2048/2048 reuse example helps; a matched comparison against that existing geometry would make the benefit clearer. Before merging, I would also like the sparse-retention behavior checked against #643. Changing If the finer checkpoint was not materialized, this can discard a usable scheduler-aligned fallback. #643's Could you:
Please also rebase the geometry change onto the current auto-geometry implementation. I would keep an allocator redesign outside this PR: the proposed page geometry can be evaluated on its own once retention and replay behavior are covered. Review assisted by GPT-6-Astra. |
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In `@tests/v1/core/prefix_cache/test_partial_prefix_cache_hits.py`:
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Add regression coverage for DCP-replicated sliding-window attention and connector partial-tail reload.
The existing DCP tests use full attention plus Mamba, not SlidingWindowSpec. The connector tests cover partial-tail offload handling, but not store and reload. Add both scenarios.
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In `@tests/v1/core/prefix_cache/test_partial_prefix_cache_hits.py` around lines
1997 - 1998, Add regression tests alongside
test_hybrid_decoupled_blocks_keep_fine_grained_reuse for DCP-replicated
sliding-window attention using SlidingWindowSpec, and for connector partial-tail
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…LM-5.3 target and recurrent blocks Large attention pages next to a recurrent group waste most of the shared block pool: with split GLM-5.3 cache pages the pool stride is the largest group's bytes per block (a 9-layer GDN group, ~10 MB), so 256-token MLA blocks use 15% of their slot. Growing the target block to 2048 tokens matches the pages (5.4x the KV capacity for the same budget) but, with the recurrent block forced to a multiple of the target block, recurrent checkpoints and prefix-cache hits coarsen to 2048 tokens, and the DFlash draft's sliding-window group disables fine-grained hits altogether. - SlidingWindowManager supports fine-grained hash lookups: hits land on hash boundaries inside a draft block when the tail block is registered (full, or as a partial entry at or beyond the boundary; the KV is append-only) and the full blocks covering the window before it are cached. EAGLE rewinds one hash unit, as full attention does, with the covered run extended by that unit. The prompt's last hash boundary is registered as a partial tail, and the sparse retention mask keeps the window tails fine-grained hits need. - FullAttentionManager: a fully cached block also serves interior boundaries below max_length (covering entry), so re-queries at rewound lengths do not fall back a whole block. - Managers carry hit_alignment_tokens, set by the coordinator to the hash unit when partial hits are enabled, so retention masks match hit granularity. - The coordinator also enables partial hash hits for recurrent hybrids whose attention blocks are coarser than the hash unit (an explicit prefix_match_unit at the recurrent block). Attention-only hybrids are unchanged. - VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_MAMBA_BLOCK_SIZE may now divide the target block. With target 2048 / recurrent 256 / prefix_match_unit 256, a repeat or a shared-prefix request resumes from the last recurrent checkpoint before the prompt tail minus the draft's EAGLE unit, exactly as with 256-token blocks (tests/v1/core/prefix_cache: decoupled-geometry cases). Signed-off-by: Jason Cook <jasonc@maxlyn.com>
… hybrids Signed-off-by: Jason Cook <jasonc@maxlyn.com>
…or under fine-grained retention Fine-grained hits floor reachable boundaries to the hash unit, but a recurrent state may only be materialized at scheduler-step ends (no per-block prefill checkpoints). With retention interval 0 the mask then retained nothing: the fine replay boundary had no state and the scheduler-aligned state that did exist was no longer marked, so a repeat request resumed from zero. When the hit alignment is finer than the scheduler block, expand each reachable boundary to both alignments and, when an EAGLE group rewinds the reconciled hit, to the position one unit below each, so a valid fine boundary never displaces the only state the scheduler produced. Regression test: prefill in scheduler-sized steps (retention 0) keeps the states at 32 and 16 and a repeat resumes at 32; with per-block states it also keeps 44 and 42 and the repeat resumes at 42. Signed-off-by: Jason Cook <jasonc@maxlyn.com>
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…points (#669) * Preserve aligned cache reuse alongside request boundary checkpoints Port the qualified hybrid retention, fine-hit, event, exact external-state, and aligned-budget changes onto dev/jovian-judgement. Keep endpoint bundles private and preserve their allocation, reader, and invalidation lifecycle. Retain the behavioral contributions from PRs #557, #643, #645, #646, #655, #656, #657, and #663. Resolve shared helpers once so fine and coarse replay boundaries are not expanded twice. Validation: 910 cache, scheduler, parser, event, connector, and endpoint regressions pass. The three literal LP26 cache regressions also pass. Co-authored-by: Jason Cook <jasonc@maxlyn.com> Co-authored-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> Co-authored-by: Yifan Qiao <yifanqiao@inferact.ai> Co-authored-by: haic0 <149741444+haic0@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: tobymao <toby.mao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: logprobz <321553542+logprobz@users.noreply.github.com> * Clean up cache regression fixtures for pre-commit checks Signed-off-by: logprobz <321553542+logprobz@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Signed-off-by: logprobz <321553542+logprobz@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: logprobz <321553542+logprobz@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jason Cook <jasonc@maxlyn.com> Co-authored-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> Co-authored-by: Yifan Qiao <yifanqiao@inferact.ai> Co-authored-by: haic0 <149741444+haic0@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: tobymao <toby.mao@gmail.com>
TL;DR
Tested with GLM-5.3-Flash (NVFP4 and NVFP4-Spark checkpoints, DFlash2 draft) on a four-node DGX Spark TP4 cluster. With
--block-size 2048 --mamba-block-size 256 --prefix-match-unit 256:Before this change, 2048-token pages were only reachable with 2048-token recurrent blocks, which coarsened prefix reuse to 2048 tokens and cost 8-38% on decode cells with 16k/32k contexts. Other models and attention-only hybrids are not affected by default.
Baseline and what the numbers mean
The capacity figure is 3.08x relative to 256-token target pages on the current
dev/jovian-judgementhead (1,394,714 -> 4,297,015 tokens at 33 GB). Upstream #603 now rebalances the split cache groups ([9, 9, 8, 8, 11]->[5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 11]), which recovers part of the shared-pool stride waste on its own: the same 256/256 profile gave 791,273 tokens / 3.02x before that change, which is where an earlier 5.4x figure in this PR came from. Images whose split geometry already defaults to 2048-token target pages (e.g. theautogeometry, which pairs them with 2048-token recurrent blocks) already have the pool efficiency; against that configuration the contribution of this PR is recovering 256-token prefix reuse and DFlash fine-grained hits while keeping the large pages. The comparison on the same cluster, budget and matrix (decode tok/s per cell, 30 s cells); the 256/256 and 2048/256 rows are a same-image pair on the current head (a8c796f3a+ b12xb58f34e+ #667), the 2048/2048 row is from the earliera84f907build:Across the full 15-cell matrix the current-head pair is at parity: -15% to +12% per cell with no directional trend (2048/256 ahead at c1 and c4 with no context, behind at c4 with 16k/32k, within 6% everywhere at c8/c16), standalone prefill identical (2773/2888/2826 vs 2845/2899/2817 tok/s at 8k/32k/128k), GSM8K-100 96/100 vs 95/100.
The 16.4x "maximum concurrency" is the engine's KV-capacity estimate for 262k-token requests, not a demonstrated throughput at sixteen concurrent 262k requests; the measured cells go up to c16 at 32k context.
What
Fine-grained prefix-cache hits for sliding-window KV cache groups, and the coordinator/platform changes that let a GLM-5.3-Flash deployment run 2048-token target pages next to 256-token recurrent pages without giving up 256-token prefix reuse.
Motivation: with the split GLM-5.3 cache pages (
VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_TARGET_BLOCK_SIZE), every cache group draws block ids from one pool whose stride is the largest group's bytes per block. That is a 9-layer GDN group at ~10.3 MB, while an 11-layer MLA group at 256 tokens needs 11 x 143,616 B, so each attention block uses ~15% of its slot. Growing the target block to 2048 tokens matches the pages (11 x 1,148,928 B vs 1,146,880 B) and gives 5.4x the KV capacity for the same budget. But the recurrent block had to be a multiple of the target block, so recurrent checkpoints and prefix hits coarsened to 2048 tokens, and the DFlash draft's sliding-window group made the coordinator disable fine-grained hits entirely (Disabling fine-grained prefix-cache hits ... SlidingWindowManager), so--prefix-match-unit 256had no effect.Details
SlidingWindowManagergainssupports_fine_grained_hash_lookup. In fine-grained mode a hit lands on a hash boundaryLwhen the cache block ending atLis registered (a full block, or a partial entry at or beyondLin the same append-only block) and the full blocks covering the window beforeLare cached. EAGLE rewinds the hit by one hash unit, asFullAttentionManagerdoes, with the covered run extended by that unit so the rewound window stays covered. The prompt's last hash boundary is registered as a partial tail, and the sparse retention mask keeps the window tails those hits need.FullAttentionManager: a fully cached block also serves interior boundaries belowmax_length, so a re-query at a rewound length inside that block does not fall back a whole block.hit_alignment_tokens; the coordinator sets it to the hash unit when partial hits are enabled so retention masks match hit granularity._cache_partial_tail_blockmoves to the base class.test_fine_grained_retention_keeps_scheduler_aligned_fallback). [BugFix] Preserve sparse hybrid replay boundaries under EAGLE/MTP #643 generalizes the same rule (and applies it to the Mooncake store); whichever lands first, the other rebases onto it.KVCacheCoordinatoralso enables partial hash hits for recurrent hybrids whose attention/sliding-window blocks are coarser than the hash unit (an explicitprefix_match_unitat the recurrent block). Attention-only hybrids keep block-aligned hits (test included).VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_MAMBA_BLOCK_SIZEmay now divide the target block instead of only being a multiple of it; the scheduler block is their LCM either way. This composes with the newautosplit geometry (target block from the retention interval or scheduler budget):autostill defaults the recurrent block to the target block, so nothing changes unless a finer recurrent block is requested explicitly.Serving geometry this was built and tested for (GLM-5.3-Flash only; other GLM-5.x variants were not tested):
--block-size 2048 --mamba-block-size 256 --prefix-match-unit 256(i.e.VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_TARGET_BLOCK_SIZE=2048,VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_MAMBA_BLOCK_SIZE=256).Testing
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tests/v1/core/prefix_cache/test_partial_prefix_cache_hits.py-- retention with prefill in scheduler-sized steps (no finer recurrent checkpoints) and with per-block checkpoints, manager-level fine-grained sliding-window hits (window coverage, EAGLE rewind, covering entry, retention mask), an enable test for the hybrid full-attention + mamba-align + EAGLE sliding-window topology, the EAGLE hash-unit margin under partial hits, attention-only hybrids unchanged, and a decoupled-geometry test asserting that target/draft 16 + recurrent 2 + hash 2 reproduces the all-fine (2/2/2) hit arithmetic exactly for repeat and shared-prefix requests at prompt lengths 13/45/48.tests/v1/core/prefix_cache,test_single_type_kv_cache_manager.py,test_prefix_caching.py,test_mamba_align_chunk_split.py: all pass on the rebased branch except four tests that fail identically on the untoucheddev/jovian-judgementhead (test_mamba_align_split_*x4: their fake scheduler lacks thedrop_last_prefix_cache_blockattribute a recent scheduler change reads; not touched here). Onf564dffe9the suite is 54 passed / 4 pre-existing failures on this branch versus 45 passed / the same 4 on the untouched head.test_hybrid_sliding_window_group_disables_partial_hash_hitsis replaced by the enable test.Serving, four-node DGX Spark TP4 (GB10, sm_121a, CUDA 13.0, torch 2.13), GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4 + DFlash2 draft (k=5), fp8 KV, RoCEnante on, 8192-token chunks, 33 GB KV budget. Latest validation:
dev/jovian-judgement@a8c796f3a+ b12xmaster@b58f34e+ #667 with this branch's three commits (image...-dd399e7-b58f34e; the later rebase ontob7e3d0336changed no line of the three commits,git range-diffreports all identical). Note the current heads carry an intermittent DFlash speculative-acceptance collapse that is independent of this PR (it reproduces identically at 256/256) and is fixed by #667; the numbers below were taken with that fix applied:n//256*256 - 256tokens (51,968 of 52,445) in 0.62 s, the same arithmetic as 256-token pages; with 2048/2048 (no fine-grained hits) the same request hit 45,056 in 1.4 s and 16k/32k-context decode cells lost 8-38% to prefill.llm-inference-benchdecode matrix (c=1,2,4,8,16 x 0/16k/32k, 30 s cells) vs the 256-page profile, same image: -15% to +12% per cell with no directional trend; standalone cold prefill 8k/32k/128k within 3%; GSM8K-100 @c16 95/100 vs 96/100. The per-cell spread is run-to-run noise rather than a geometry effect: two builds that differ only by two unrelated collective commits reproduce the same matrix with up to 19% difference on the same cell (c2@16k), and the c2/c4 cells with context are the noisiest in both directions.GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-Spark): single-stream 90k needle 4/4 (temp 0), 4-stream needle 12/12, estonia c4 x 30 across four builds: 30/30 completed every time, 26-30/30 PASS, 0 DECOY (no run ever answered the planted wrong country; the misses are unparseable or "not stated" answers, which the quality bar counts against the run).Independent validation on SM120
A reviewer applied these commits as a 3-way merge onto the community r25 image (vLLM
a4b04eea0+ baked patches) and ran them on 4x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell WS with the official GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4 checkpoint, marlin MoE, MTP k=2, KVnvfp4_ds_mla, an LMCache sidecar (64G L1 + 128G L2 tmpfs), DCP=1, at target 2048 / recurrent 256 / match unit 256:Their GPU KV pool was 4.20M tokens (4.01x @ 1M
max_model_len) versus 4.16M for their 2048/2048 baseline at the same 0.863 utilization: parity, because r25'sautogeometry already resolves 2048-token target pages there. That is the same point as the baseline section above -- on a build that already runs large target pages this PR's contribution is the fine-grained hits, not the pool.Not measured: other models (only GLM-5.3-Flash was tested), DCP/PCP > 1 (the mamba finder asserts DCP 1 as before), and hybrids where a sliding-window group is not the EAGLE group.
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gh pr list --state open --search "prefix_match_unit OR fine-grained OR SlidingWindowManager OR partial hash"returns nothing related; #616/#622 touch the C4 indexer path, not the cache managers.Conventions
ruff checkandruff format --check(0.14.0, repo pyproject) pass; pre-commit hooks pass except the mypy hook, which was skipped for the commit (the two typing findings it raised were fixed:BlockHashlist narrowing at the finder call site, and_cache_partial_tail_blockreturningBlockHashWithGroupId | Nonein the base class to match the mamba override). Commits are DCO signed.AI assistance
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