Host HiCache reservations were paying token-level free-slot scans when trying to preserve page contiguity. The allocator now keeps a lazy page-extent index so availability checks and contiguous-preferred allocations avoid materializing the full 220GB-equivalent free-slot metadata path. The companion benchmark models steady-state L2 churn near full occupancy, including burn-in and historical node-size effects, so LPF/RDMA descriptor quality can be separated from ETE noise. Constraint: CP HiCache host allocations are page-shaped, but existing callers may still read free_slots directly. Rejected: Sort and scan free_slots on each alloc_contiguous_preferred call | measured ms-level CPU overhead on 220GB-equivalent metadata. Rejected: Remove free_slots compatibility | storage/tests still rely on the public tensor surface. Confidence: medium Scope-risk: moderate Directive: Do not reintroduce per-allocation full free_slots scans on HostKVCache; preserve page-extent metadata or benchmark before changing allocator shape. Tested: Local py_compile for memory_pool_host.py, allocator benchmark, and related tests. Tested: Local test_cp_hicache_allocator_bench.py 10 passed. Tested: Remote g0034 test_hicache_controller_cp.py 67 passed; test_cp_hicache_allocator_bench.py 10 passed. Tested: Remote 220GB-equivalent host_churn benchmark: contiguous path reduced from ms-level to ~30-292us p50 depending on fragmentation. Not-tested: Full CUDA ETE run after allocator change. Not-tested: Production long-run fragmentation behavior under live traffic.
Run synthetic multi-turn benchmark
# SGLang server with radix cache disabled
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct --port 30000 --disable-radix-cache
# SGLang server with radix cache on and first-come-first-serve policy
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct --port 30000 --schedule-policy fcfs
# The default SGLang server with radix cache on and long-prefix-match policy
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct --port 30000
# SGLang server with hierarchical radix cache enabled
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct --port 30000 --enable-hierarchical-cache
python bench_multiturn.py --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
Note: The performance gain of hierarchical caching depends on the ratio of reusable tokens to GPU memory capacity. The more tokens to be reused, the larger the model, and the more constrained the GPU memory size, the greater the benefit one can expect from hierarchical caching.
Benchmark with more datasets
Download Dataset
./download.sh {sharegpt|ultragpt|loogle|nextqa|all}
This script will automatically download the required dataset to the current working directory
Multiturn Benchmark
Supported Datasets
- sharegpt
- ultrachat
- loogle
Example Usage:
python3 bench_serving.py --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 --backend sglang \
--dataset-path longdep_qa.json --dataset-name loogle --request-rate 10 --num-prompts 10 \
--port 8001 --enable-multiturn --disable-shuffle
This uses mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 model with sglang as backend. The dataset
is longdep_qa.json. We send 10 conversations with 10 req/s to port 8001. We enable
multiturn chat without shuffling the order of conversations (i.e. following the original
order in the dataset file).
Note:
The requests of multiple conversations are sent in a round robin fashion.
For example, if we have 3 conversations A, B, C whose rounds are [2, 3, 4] correspondingly,
multiturn chat will send the requests to the backend in the following order: [A1, B1, C1, A2, B2, C2, B3, C3, C4]
This has implications on the cache reuse patterns: the cache reuse distance is the largest
under this request pattern (which means a prefix-aware local scheduler in the backend can
yield the most benefit compared to a FIFO scheduler)
Shared Prefix Benchmark
Supported Datasets
- loogle
Example Usage:
python3 bench_serving.py --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 --backend sglang \
--dataset-path longdep_qa.json --dataset-name loogle --request-rate 10 --num-prompts 10 \
--port 8001 --enable-shared-prefix --disable-shuffle
Note:
Shared Prefix benchmark sends the questions for the same prompt together. For example,
if we have 3 shared prefix A, B, C, which have [2, 3, 4] questions correspondingly,
the shared prefix benchmark will send the requests to the
backend in the following order: [A+Q1, A+Q2, B+Q1, B+Q2, B+Q3, C+Q1, C+Q2, C+Q3].
Multi Modality Benchmark (WIP)
Supported Datasets:
- nextqa
Example Usage:
Server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path lmms-lab/LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B --tp 2 --dp 1 --port 8001 \
--host 0.0.0.0 --mem-fraction-static 0.9 --tokenizer-path llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf \
--json-model-override-args "{\"architectures\": [\"LlavaVidForCausalLM\"], \"model_type\":\"llava\", \"mm_spatial_pool_stride\":2}"
Client:
python3 bench_serving.py --model lmms-lab/LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B --backend sglang --dataset-path \
NExTVideo --dataset-name nextqa --request-rate 10 --num-prompts 1 --disable-shuffle --port 8001 \ --enable-multiturn --max-frames 16 --tokenizer llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf --fixed-output-len 2048
Note: for the server args, tokenizer-path, overriding architecture are necessary.
Supported Backend
- sglang (oai)
- vllm (oai)
- lmdeploy (oai)