Support PLE-Offload for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - #53899
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With VLLM_PLE_CPU_OFFLOAD, the 51B PLE table currently requires ~50-95 GB of host RAM in the offload worker. This adds VLLM_PLE_DISK_OFFLOAD_DIR: when set, each PLE table is kept in a file-backed memory map under that directory instead of anonymous RAM. - First boot streams checkpoint shards through a shared read-write mapping, so dirty pages flush to disk under memory pressure and hosts with far less RAM than the table can complete the load (one shard, ~750 MB, is the peak incremental cost). - The finished file is recorded with a sidecar; later boots map it instantly, copy-on-write, and the checkpoint shard reads are skipped entirely. - MADV_RANDOM is applied to keep readahead from inflating RSS; gathers hit the kernel page cache, so steady-state residency follows the actual PLE working set (measured at a few hundred MB per active context) rather than table size. The gather/IPC path is unchanged: the swapped parameter is an ordinary CPU tensor from the layer's perspective. Depends on vllm-project#53899. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Jagat Kiran <jagat.kiran@primitive.com>
With VLLM_PLE_CPU_OFFLOAD, the 51B PLE table currently requires ~50-95 GB of host RAM in the offload worker. This adds VLLM_PLE_DISK_OFFLOAD_DIR: when set, each PLE table is kept in a file-backed memory map under that directory instead of anonymous RAM. - First boot streams checkpoint shards through a shared read-write mapping, so dirty pages flush to disk under memory pressure and hosts with far less RAM than the table can complete the load (one shard, ~750 MB, is the peak incremental cost). - The finished file is recorded with a sidecar; later boots map it instantly, copy-on-write, and the checkpoint shard reads are skipped entirely. - MADV_RANDOM is applied to keep readahead from inflating RSS; gathers hit the kernel page cache, so steady-state residency follows the actual PLE working set (measured at a few hundred MB per active context) rather than table size. The gather/IPC path is unchanged: the swapped parameter is an ordinary CPU tensor from the layer's perspective. Depends on vllm-project#53899. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Jagat Kiran <jagat.kiran@primitive.com>
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GB10 (DGX Spark, sm_121, 1 GPU, 128 GB unified) validation of this PR's
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Adding to @DONGRYEOLLEE1's Bare-metal cause: Two fixes, neither a code change:
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WalkthroughThe change adds PLE CPU offload across GPU workers and a dedicated CPU process. It adds CUDA IPC synchronization, ZMQ request routing, Qwen4Exp NVFP4 embedding support, executor lifecycle wiring, compiler handling, and broad unit coverage. ChangesPLE offload and embedding execution
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Only minor text corrections remain, with no established effect on serving behavior or deployment readiness. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GPUModelRunner
participant PleOffloadConnector
participant PleOffloadWorker
participant Qwen4ExpNGramEmbedding
GPUModelRunner->>PleOffloadConnector: prepare_forward(num_reqs, num_tokens, dummy_run)
PleOffloadConnector->>PleOffloadWorker: send PleOffloadRequest
PleOffloadWorker->>Qwen4ExpNGramEmbedding: forward_impl(input buffers, pinned output)
PleOffloadWorker->>PleOffloadConnector: copy output to GPU buffer and signal semaphore
PleOffloadConnector->>GPUModelRunner: release_outputs()
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In `@vllm/envs.py`:
- Around line 2074-2075: Update the comment near the n-gram PLE lookup worker to
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| # Run n-gram PLE lookup in a dedicated CPU offload worker. The initial | ||
| # implementation supports ModelRunner V1 and single-node TP only. |
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Correct the runner version in the comment.
The comment states that the offload mode supports ModelRunner V1. Worker._validate_ple_offload_config in vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py raises ValueError when use_v2_model_runner is false and reports model runner V1 as unsupported. The comment describes the opposite of the enforced constraint.
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- # Run n-gram PLE lookup in a dedicated CPU offload worker. The initial
- # implementation supports ModelRunner V1 and single-node TP only.
+ # Run n-gram PLE lookup in a dedicated CPU offload worker. The initial
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| # Run n-gram PLE lookup in a dedicated CPU offload worker. The initial | |
| # implementation supports ModelRunner V1 and single-node TP only. | |
| # Run n-gram PLE lookup in a dedicated CPU offload worker. The initial | |
| # implementation supports ModelRunner V2 and single-node TP only. |
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In `@vllm/envs.py` around lines 2074 - 2075, Update the comment near the n-gram
PLE lookup worker to state that the initial implementation supports ModelRunner
V2, not ModelRunner V1, while preserving the single-node TP limitation.
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| if safetensors_load_strategy == "eager": | ||
| loading_desc += " (eager)" | ||
| if is_offload_process(): | ||
| loading_desc += "(PLE-offload)" |
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Add the missing space in the progress label.
The neighbouring branch appends " (eager)" with a leading space. This branch omits it, so the rendered description becomes Loading safetensors checkpoint shards(PLE-offload).
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| loading_desc += "(PLE-offload)" | |
| loading_desc += " (PLE-offload)" |
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In `@vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py` at line 886, Update the
PLE-offload branch that appends to loading_desc so its label begins with a
leading space, matching the neighboring eager label and producing a correctly
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With VLLM_PLE_CPU_OFFLOAD, the 51B PLE table currently requires ~50-95 GB of host RAM in the offload worker. This adds VLLM_PLE_DISK_OFFLOAD_DIR: when set, each PLE table is kept in a file-backed memory map under that directory instead of anonymous RAM. - First boot streams checkpoint shards through a shared read-write mapping, so dirty pages flush to disk under memory pressure and hosts with far less RAM than the table can complete the load (one shard, ~750 MB, is the peak incremental cost). - The finished file is recorded with a sidecar; later boots map it instantly, copy-on-write, and the checkpoint shard reads are skipped entirely. - MADV_RANDOM is applied to keep readahead from inflating RSS; gathers hit the kernel page cache, so steady-state residency follows the actual PLE working set (measured at a few hundred MB per active context) rather than table size. The gather/IPC path is unchanged: the swapped parameter is an ordinary CPU tensor from the layer's perspective. Depends on vllm-project#53899. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Jagat Kiran <jagat.kiran@primitive.com>
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One more finding on this branch, GB10 / sm_121, TP=1, with graphs enabled (the default PIECEWISE, also FULL_DECODE_ONLY): How it shows: identical sequential requests give two bit-identical classes (the cold first one, and all later ones), so a Fix (11 lines, |
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NVFP4 checkpoint with an FP8 PLE table fails to load on this branchRunning this branch at That checkpoint's top-level quant config is NVFP4 (
if not isinstance(quant_config, Fp8Config):
return Noneso for an NVFP4 checkpoint The PR description lists NVFP4 as a validated weight format (without offload), What we run locally (stopgap, not a proposed fix)An env flag that forces the FP8 PLE method regardless of the top-level config: --- a/vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/ple_layer.py
+++ b/vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/ple_layer.py
@@ def _get_ple_embedding_quant_method(
"""Select global-scale FP8 only for quantized PLE checkpoint shards."""
+ # An NVFP4/ModelOpt checkpoint can still carry an FP8 PLE table with one
+ # global weight_scale. The checks below only recognise a top-level
+ # Fp8Config, so for those checkpoints the weight_scale parameter is never
+ # created and weight loading fails with "no module or parameter named
+ # 'ngram_embedding.weight_scale'".
+ if envs.VLLM_PLE_FP8_CHECKPOINT:
+ return Qwen4ExpPLEFp8EmbeddingMethod()
+
if not isinstance(quant_config, Fp8Config):
return None(plus the matching With it, the checkpoint loads and serves correctly. I am not proposing this Why the obvious auto-detect does not workThe natural candidate is "ple_embedding_dtype": "float8_e4m3fn"while its PLE shards are actually BF16 — read straight from the safetensors The ModelOpt metadata is no help either — both checkpoints list That leaves the presence of the QuestionIs there an intended way for a checkpoint to declare a PLE-level quantization Happy to send a PR against this branch for whichever shape you prefer. Caveats on this report
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Purpose
support https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
How to run
Enable PLE offload:
Validation
Without offload:
With N-gram embedding offload:
The validation results were provided by Inferact. See the vLLM recipe for details.
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supported_models.mdandexamplesfor a new model.