1. Why Deploy LLM Applications with PD Disaggregation In the process of LLM inference, there are two serial stages: Process the entire input context and generate the KV Cache (Prefill stage) Incrementally generate new tokens (Decode stage) These two stages have different resource requirements. The Prefill stage has to compute

1. Introduction to LMCache TTFT is the time from when a request is issued until the model generates its first token. Because the Prefill phase has to encode the input context into a KV Cache before generation can begin, producing that first token requires a large amount of computation, which makes TTFT high.

1. What Is Prefix Cache In model inference scenarios, caching mechanisms are often used to improve throughput and performance. There are two common caching mechanisms: Key-Value Cache (KV Cache), which is oriented toward the internals of a single request, caching the intermediate computation results (Key and Value) of the Transformer model to avoid redundant computation.

VLLM Benchmark is a tool provided by VLLM for testing model performance, supporting a variety of inference backends. This article mainly records some of the process of using VLLM Benchmark to test model performance. 1. Starting the Model Service 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 python -m vllm.

1. Environment Preparation Download Miniforge 1 wget "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh" Install Miniforge 1 bash Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh 1 2 echo "export PATH=$HOME/miniforge3/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc Create the environment 1 conda create -n vllm python=3.12 vLLM currently requires Python 3.9+. Activate the environment 1 conda activate vllm Install dependencies 1 conda install