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Summary

Add a small, startup-only interface for sharing a scheduler step across multiple local prefills while preserving automatic prefill/decode compute sharing.

The default remains unchanged: --max-parallel-prefills 1 uses legacy scheduling.

Interface

  • --max-parallel-prefills {1|N|auto}
    • 1: legacy behavior.
    • N: at most N local prefills share a scheduler step.
    • auto: resolves from live scheduler geometry as min(4, max_num_seqs, max(1, max_num_scheduled_tokens // block_size)).
  • --prefill-policy {round-robin|decode-aware}
    • round-robin: bounded progress across queued and running local prefills.
    • decode-aware: below the decode refill target, reserve one selected lane for the prefill nearest to decode; all remaining lanes stay round-robin.
  • --decode-refill-target {auto|N}
    • Used only by decode-aware.
    • auto: use the effective parallel-prefill count.
    • N: explicit qualification knob for workload sweeps.

Token shares are calculated from the actual remaining per-step budget and unused shares are redistributed. There is no 4,096-token assumption.

The interleaving controls are startup-only. The existing dev fairness API continues to support atomic live updates of compute share and automatic-controller half-life; it does not mutate scheduler admission structure at runtime.

Why this shape

  • One fan-out knob controls how many prefills make progress.
  • One policy chooses between pure fairness and decode refill bias.
  • Decode-aware mode cannot starve long prefills: it changes only one lane, leaving the others round-robin.
  • Priority scheduling remains authoritative; decode-aware selection operates within the highest eligible priority class.
  • Async KV restores do not consume local-prefill lanes.

R26 rebase

The two implementation commits are rebased onto integration/glm53-r26-lmcache-expandable-20260905 at c8d1d0bd62. Every file touched by this PR is byte-identical on that base and the frozen R26 package mirror voipmonitor/vllm@7f53b30481, so the PR diff represents the same scheduler change against the published image source.

Validation

Prior composed-image validation of this implementation:

R26 rebase checks on the complete changed-file set:

  • Focused CPU scheduler, engine feedback, CLI, runtime API, and fairness tests: 124 passed in 14.82 seconds.
  • Ruff check: passed.
  • Ruff format check: passed; 18 files already formatted.
  • Python compilation and git diff --check: passed.
  • The rebased source tree for all PR-touched files matches the frozen-R26 rebase exactly.

The focused tests ran with the pinned CPU runtime in an isolated repository-local uv environment using VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu; no system packages were modified. GPU workload qualification remains pending and no running service was interrupted.

Two pre-existing tests instantiate Scheduler/AsyncScheduler with object.__new__ and omit the pre-existing acceptance_length_controller attribute. They fail independently of this patch and are not modified here.

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OpenAI Codex assisted with implementation, tests, the R26 rebase, and review. The submitter must review every changed line and validate the R26 serving behavior before merge.

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  • New Features

    • Added automatic prefill compute-share adjustment with configurable half-life settings.
    • Added parallel prefill interleaving with configurable policies and decode refill targets.
    • Added compute-pressure and local prefill-backlog metrics.
    • Prefill fairness settings can now be updated while the engine is running.
  • Updates

    • Scheduler configuration and API now use prefill compute-share, half-life, interleaving, and refill settings.
    • Invalid or incompatible scheduling configurations receive clearer validation errors.
    • Removed legacy fairness-engine and micro-slicing configuration options and metrics.

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The scheduler replaces legacy fairness and micro-slicing settings with adaptive prefill compute sharing and parallel prefill interleaving. It adds typed configuration, live policy updates, executor timing feedback, pressure metrics, and expanded validation coverage.

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Adaptive prefill scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and API contracts
vllm/config/scheduler.py, vllm/engine/arg_utils.py, tests/v1/core/utils.py, tests/v1/core/test_prefill_compute_share_scheduler.py
Adds typed compute-share, half-life, parallel-prefill, policy, and refill-target settings. Removes legacy fairness and micro-slicing options. Adds CLI and configuration validation.
Adaptive compute-share feedback
vllm/v1/core/sched/compute_fairness.py, vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py, vllm/v1/engine/core.py, vllm/v1/core/sched/output.py, tests/v1/core/test_compute_fairness.py, tests/v1/engine/test_compute_fairness_feedback.py
Adds automatic share adjustment from pressure and backlog feedback. Reservations retain dispatch-time shares. Executor timing and scheduled-token feedback support per-token cost tracking.
Prefill interleaving scheduler
vllm/v1/core/sched/prefill_interleave.py, vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py, tests/v1/core/test_prefill_compute_share_scheduler.py
Adds lane selection, token-budget distribution, priority ordering, decode-aware refill behavior, and parallel prefill scheduling.
Runtime updates and observability
vllm/entrypoints/serve/dev/fairness/api_router.py, vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py, vllm/v1/metrics/*, vllm/v1/engine/core.py, tests/entrypoints/serve/dev/test_fairness.py, tests/v1/engine/test_prefill_fairness_runtime.py
Updates the fairness API and live scheduler reconfiguration. Adds pressure and backlog statistics. Removes legacy micro-slicing metrics.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 77bea

Large request backlogs may add scheduler overhead, but the remaining concern is bounded and does not establish a merge-blocking production failure.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant FairnessAPI
  participant EngineCore
  participant Scheduler
  participant PrefillComputeShareController
  Client->>FairnessAPI: POST prefill fairness configuration
  FairnessAPI->>EngineCore: validated policy
  EngineCore->>Scheduler: set_prefill_fairness(policy)
  Scheduler->>PrefillComputeShareController: reconfigure(share, half-life)
  PrefillComputeShareController-->>Scheduler: effective share and reservations
  Scheduler-->>EngineCore: applied policy
  EngineCore-->>Client: policy response
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sequenceDiagram
  participant Scheduler
  participant PrefillInterleaveController
  participant EngineCore
  participant MetricsLogger
  Scheduler->>PrefillInterleaveController: begin_step(request queues)
  PrefillInterleaveController-->>Scheduler: selected lanes and token budgets
  Scheduler->>EngineCore: SchedulerOutput(timing and service tokens)
  EngineCore->>Scheduler: record_compute_time(compute feedback)
  Scheduler->>MetricsLogger: SchedulerStats(pressure and backlog)
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Port the reviewed automatic compute-share controller and live dev API onto the source-locked R26 base.

Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>

Signed-off-by: Derek Yates <derek.yates@live.com>

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R26 rebase CPU validation completed in an isolated repository-local uv environment (system Python/packages untouched):

VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu PYTHONPATH=. .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \
  tests/v1/core/test_compute_fairness.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_prefill_compute_share_scheduler.py \
  tests/v1/engine/test_compute_fairness_feedback.py \
  tests/v1/engine/test_prefill_fairness_runtime.py \
  tests/entrypoints/serve/dev/test_fairness.py

Result: 124 passed in 14.82 seconds. Ruff check, Ruff format, Python compilation, and git diff --check also pass.

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vllm/v1/core/sched/prefill_interleave.py (1)

92-109: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Avoid repeated queue scans in the scheduling hot path.

select_waiting_request runs inside the waiting loop and scans both queues on each call. PriorityRequestQueue.__iter__ copies the heap and pops every request, so this scan can cost O(n log n). RequestQueue has no lookup or membership contract, so iterating selected_ids alone does not remove the scan. If this path needs optimization, maintain a request-ID-to-queue index and update it when requests move between queues.

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In `@vllm/v1/core/sched/prefill_interleave.py` around lines 92 - 109, The
select_waiting_request method repeatedly scans and copies both queues through
PriorityRequestQueue.__iter__, causing avoidable hot-path overhead. Add and
maintain a request-ID-to-queue index as requests enter or move between queues,
then use selected_ids, rank, and unavailable_ids to select the minimum-ranked
request via the index without iterating the queues; ensure index updates remain
consistent with all queue mutations.
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924-924: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add Google-style Args: and Returns: sections to the three changed docstrings.

AGENTS.md requires Google-style docstrings. Document config and the returned mapping in set_prefill_fairness, and document the request parameters and JSONResponse results in both API handlers.

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In `@vllm/v1/core/sched/prefill_interleave.py`:
- Around line 92-109: The select_waiting_request method repeatedly scans and
copies both queues through PriorityRequestQueue.__iter__, causing avoidable
hot-path overhead. Add and maintain a request-ID-to-queue index as requests
enter or move between queues, then use selected_ids, rank, and unavailable_ids
to select the minimum-ranked request via the index without iterating the queues;
ensure index updates remain consistent with all queue mutations.

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- Line 924: Add Google-style Args and Returns sections to the three modified
docstrings: document config and the returned mapping in set_prefill_fairness,
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Use explicit engine-loop timestamps instead of instrumenting model futures, and only time execution while decode and prefill contend. This removes avoidable callback work from the asynchronous completion path.

Resolve automatic prefill lanes independently of KV page size and scheduler token geometry. The normal token budget continues to bound actual per-step work.

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Superseded by #664. PR #664 applies the same compute-share and parallel-prefill implementation directly to dev/jovian-judgement, preserves Derek Yates\x27s commit authorship, and adds the recurrent request-boundary compatibility fix validated by 99 scheduler tests and a TP4 mixed prefill/decode run.

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