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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 (256-token pages) After
KV cache pool at a 33 GB budget 1.39M tokens, 5.3x concurrent 262k-token requests 4.30M tokens, 16.4x
Same 5.3x concurrency needs 33 GB ~10.7 GB (22 GB per node freed)
Prefix-cache reuse granularity 256 tokens 256 tokens (unchanged)
Decode / prefill throughput baseline at parity (within a few %)
Long-context correctness (90k needle, estonia) pass pass

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-judgement head (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. the auto geometry, 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 + b12x b58f34e + #667), the 2048/2048 row is from the earlier a84f907 build:

Geometry (target/recurrent/match unit) KV pool @33 GB c1 @32k c4 @16k c16 @32k
256 / 256 / 256 (production, current head) 1.39M tokens 43.1 93.3 207.2
2048 / 2048 / 2048 (+ dense retention, a84f907 build) 4.30M 36.1 69.2 186.1
2048 / 256 / 256 (this PR, current head) 4.30M 42.6 84.3 203.3

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 256 had no effect.

Details

  • SlidingWindowManager gains supports_fine_grained_hash_lookup. In fine-grained mode a hit lands on a hash boundary L when the cache block ending at L is registered (a full block, or a partial entry at or beyond L in the same append-only block) and the full blocks covering the window before L are cached. EAGLE rewinds the hit by one hash unit, as FullAttentionManager does, 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.
  • The covering-entry rule matters for the coordinator's fixed-point loop: after the EAGLE rewind the group is re-queried at the rewound length with no margin, and the only registered entry may sit further along the tail block. Without it the reconciled hit cascades to 0 (observed).
  • FullAttentionManager: a fully cached block also serves interior boundaries below max_length, so a re-query at a rewound length inside that block does not fall back a whole block.
  • Managers carry 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_block moves to the base class.
  • Sparse retention keeps both boundaries: when the hit alignment is finer than the scheduler block, each reachable boundary is expanded to its hash-aligned and scheduler-aligned positions, plus the position one unit below each when an EAGLE group rewinds the reconciled hit. Without this, a recurrent state materialized only at a scheduler-step end was no longer retained and a repeat request resumed from zero (review finding; regression test 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.
  • KVCacheCoordinator also enables partial hash hits for recurrent hybrids whose attention/sliding-window blocks are coarser than the hash unit (an explicit prefix_match_unit at the recurrent block). Attention-only hybrids keep block-aligned hits (test included).
  • VLLM_GLM53_SPLIT_MAMBA_BLOCK_SIZE may 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 new auto split geometry (target block from the retention interval or scheduler budget): auto still 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

Unit: 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 untouched dev/jovian-judgement head (test_mamba_align_split_* x4: their fake scheduler lacks the drop_last_prefix_cache_block attribute a recent scheduler change reads; not touched here). On f564dffe9 the 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_hits is 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 + b12x master@b58f34e + #667 with this branch's three commits (image ...-dd399e7-b58f34e; the later rebase onto b7e3d0336 changed no line of the three commits, git range-diff reports 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:

  • KV pool at 33 GB: 1,394,714 tokens / 5.32x @262k with 256-token pages on the current head -> 4,297,015 tokens / 16.39x with 2048/256/256 (791,273 / 3.02x for 256-token pages before upstream fix(kv-cache): balance GLM split groups by memory cost #603 rebalanced the split groups).
  • Prefix reuse: a shared-prefix request to a 52k prompt hits n//256*256 - 256 tokens (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-bench decode 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.
  • Correctness with the Spark checkpoint (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).
  • Async scheduling on: a 2h11m 8-cycle soak (decode matrix + prefill sweep + GSM8K @c16 per cycle) with an engine-step stall monitor, 0 stalls, 0 engine errors. Note: on a build from 83cb22a + b12x 4152c5b the same geometry with async scheduling hung once on a decode step (all ranks stuck in a kernel launch, GPU at 96%); it did not reproduce on b12x >= 9ae41c5 (which includes "fix(gemm): wait for persistent epilogue stores"), so this change should ride on those heads.

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, KV nvfp4_ds_mla, an LMCache sidecar (64G L1 + 128G L2 tmpfs), DCP=1, at target 2048 / recurrent 256 / match unit 256:

Prefix reuse on that box Before After
Serial 25k prompt, cold -> hot TTFT 3.68 s 0.37 s
16 streams sharing a 32k prefix, TTFT - 2.56 s (all)
Needle at 64k riding the shared prefix 11.8 s 2.3 s
Needle at ~620k riding the shared prefix 99.5 s 9.6 s

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's auto geometry 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.

Duplicate check

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 check and ruff 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: BlockHash list narrowing at the finder call site, and _cache_partial_tail_block returning BlockHashWithGroupId | None in the base class to match the mamba override). Commits are DCO signed.

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The analysis, the change, the tests and the cluster measurements were produced with AI assistance (Claude); the submitter reviewed the changed lines and ran the serving tests on our cluster.

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  • The EAGLE margin for a fine-grained sliding-window group is one hash unit (eagle_margin = hash_block_size in the coordinator when the group's block is coarser than the hash unit); the finder extends the required cached run by that unit rather than by a block.
  • Enabling partial hits for recurrent hybrids with coarse attention blocks is gated on a mamba-align group being present, so attention-only hybrids see no behaviour change. If a broader gate is preferred (any group coarser than the hash unit), the existing test_prefix_caching SWA/FA expectations would need to move with it.
  • A recurrent block finer than the target block relies on the scheduler block being the LCM (2048 here) and the mamba group hitting at hash granularity; nothing else in the split path assumed the old ordering as far as the serving tests show.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Improved prefix-cache reuse for hybrid attention configurations, including sliding-window and EAGLE decoding.
    • Requests can now reuse cached prefixes at finer-grained boundaries, including portions of previously cached blocks.
    • Improved cache retention and reuse when attention windows or sparse cache layouts are involved.
    • Added support for more flexible cache block sizing in GLM-5.3 configurations.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected cache-hit alignment and EAGLE rewind behavior for hybrid decoding scenarios.

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Hybrid 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.

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Fine-grained hybrid prefix-cache hits

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Hybrid alignment configuration
vllm/platforms/interface.py, vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_coordinator.py
GLM-5.3 validation accepts recurrent block sizes that are multiples or divisors of the target size. Hybrid coordination enables fine-grained hits for supported attention managers and assigns hit alignment and EAGLE rewind state.
Fine-grained manager lookup and retention
vllm/v1/core/single_type_kv_cache_manager.py
Managers register partial tail entries, resolve fine-grained full-attention and sliding-window hits, apply one-hash-unit EAGLE rewind, and retain reachable boundaries.
Prefix-cache behavior validation
tests/v1/core/prefix_cache/test_partial_prefix_cache_hits.py
Tests cover partial sliding-window hits, reachable masks, EAGLE margins, scheduler-aligned fallback retention, attention-only hybrids, and decoupled-block reuse.

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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.

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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 cache_blocks() from scheduler alignment to hit_alignment_tokens can replace a retained recurrent checkpoint rather than preserve both useful positions. With Mamba block size 256, scheduler alignment 2048, reachable boundary 3000, and retention_interval=0, the existing Mamba mask retains block 7 at alignment 2048 but block 10 at alignment 256.

If the finer checkpoint was not materialized, this can discard a usable scheduler-aligned fallback. #643's resolve_sparse_retention_inputs() addresses that distinction by preserving lookup and materialization boundaries.

Could you:

  1. Preserve that fallback behavior when integrating these changes. Add a regression where the scheduler-aligned recurrent state exists but the finer state does not. Exercise cache registration and the coordinator's resulting hit, beyond checking the mask alone. Include an EAGLE rewind case.
  2. Add coverage for the newly enabled SWA topology. Test DCP greater than one with replicated SWA, plus a partial-tail store/reload through the supported connector. Existing DCP handling is present; the missing evidence is this combination.
  3. Isolate the incremental benefit and lookup cost. Compare 256/256, existing 2048/2048, and proposed 2048/256 target/recurrent geometry on the same software base and workload. State the hash unit and resolved group sizes for each. For an MTP topology that already supports full-attention/Mamba partial hits, include 2048/2048 with a 256-token hash unit where supported. Report capacity, reused tokens, TTFT, and lookup CPU time for cold misses, sparse hits, and warm hits. This separates page-size savings from the SWA finder and recurrent-block changes.

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.

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Add regression coverage for DCP-replicated sliding-window attention and connector partial-tail reload.

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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).

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… hybrids

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…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.

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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.

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* Clean up cache regression fixtures for pre-commit checks

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