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[None][perf] Cut per-turn prompt handling cost for long multi-turn prompts - #21308
Long multi-turn agentic prompts (100k+ tokens, most of each turn shared with the previous one) paid per-turn tokenization costs on the whole prompt before reaching the scheduler. This PR removes most of them and documents how to deploy the prefix-tokenization cache for this traffic.
1. Prefix-tokenization cache: splice prompts that diverge from a cached one.
The cache only hit when the new prompt extends a cached prompt. Agentic clients regularly rewrite the end of the history between turns (a trimmed tool result, a replaced last message); on our trace about 20% of turns did, and each of those re-tokenized the full prompt (≈140 ms per 100k tokens). The cache now records a checkpoint every 256 tokens of a cached prompt, and a prompt that diverges is spliced at a checkpoint strictly inside the longest common prefix. The re-tokenized tail must reproduce the cached ids over the whole interval up to the next checkpoint, so the output is still identical to tokenizing the whole prompt; otherwise the prompt is tokenized in full.
A diverging prompt no longer evicts or promotes the entry it was spliced from, so the original conversation (e.g. the parent of a subagent branch) still hits on its next turn.
When an extension match leaves a long tail, the divergent scan is tried as well.
The split point, for both the extension and the divergent path, now snaps to the first token of a character, so a character encoded as several tokens (byte fallback, expanded ligatures) is never cut in the middle.
Tokenizers whose tail can shift by a character (Prepend normalizers, e.g. Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1) are probed once when the cache is created, and the cache is disabled for them. A prompt the tokenizer rejects no longer disables the cache.
The periodic cache log line also reports divergent hits.
2. Optionally tokenize each conversation in one serving frontend.
With num_serve_frontends > 1, each turn of a conversation lands on whichever frontend the kernel picks, whose cache usually has not seen the previous turn. With TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ROUTE_BY_CONVERSATION=1, each frontend serves its cache on a Unix socket in the multi-frontend ipc dir, and a chat prompt whose conversation id hashes to another frontend is tokenized by that owner. The id is the one attention DP routes by (conversation_params.conversation_id or headers such as X-Correlation-ID); on a disaggregated context worker it is the signed sub-agent affinity id. Only the prompt text and the token ids cross processes; the request stays where it arrived.
A prompt without a conversation id is tokenized locally, and so is one whose owner does not answer within 5 s or cannot tokenize it. An owner that times out is skipped for a while, with a warning. The periodic cache log line counts routed prompts and route failures.
Each frontend keeps one connection per owner, so the routing mesh is bounded to 2·(K−1) sockets and K−1 handler threads per frontend. The owner accepts a full SOMAXCONN backlog, since a Unix-socket connect to a full backlog fails immediately.
The switch is off by default and must be 0 or 1. Without it no socket is opened and the chat path is unchanged; when it is set but cannot engage (one frontend, or no prefix cache), a warning says why. Owners are closed off the event loop at shutdown with one shared deadline.
The conversation-to-frontend mapping is shared with the disaggregated affinity-port selection in openai_client.py (frontend_of_conversation in multi_frontend.py).
On GLM-5.3 with 8 frontends (cache with divergent splice in all arms), the p90 frontend time at one session went from ~165 ms to ~58 ms (one frontend: 44 ms) and p90 TTFT from ~435 to ~332 ms; at 32 sessions, decode throughput per user was within 1.2% of one frontend (single run).
3. Docs.prefix-tokenization-cache.md describes the divergent splice, the routing switch, and a new section recommending a single serving frontend with the cache: the cache is per process, and with num_serve_frontends > 1 (trtllm-serve starts 8 by default) connections are spread across processes by SO_REUSEPORT, so a client opening a connection per request sends each turn to a frontend that usually has not seen the previous one. On our trace the frontend's p90 time at one session was ~165 ms with 8 frontends vs 44 ms with one, with unchanged decode throughput up to 32 concurrent sessions.
Measured effect (GB300, agentic multi-turn trace, prompts ≈160k tokens on average, single frontend in both arms): p90 TTFT at one session 526 → 335 ms. These numbers were taken before #20815 landed on main, and the PR arm also included its zero-copy token passing, which main now has; the share of this PR alone was not re-measured. Decode (ITL) is unaffected. On 300 multi-turn prompts whose history is rewritten between turns, the divergent splice matched full tokenization on all 300, hit on 99.3%, and took about a tenth of the tokenization time.
Related PRs
[None][perf] Prefix token cache: reuse token ids of unchanged chat messages #20392 (draft) handles rewritten histories differently: where it is exact for the tokenizer, it splits the prompt at the chat template's added tokens and caches each message's ids, and otherwise falls back to the offsets splice. The divergent splice here extends that offsets splice, so the two are complementary, but they change the same _encode/_insert/_Entry code, the same docs page and the same test file, so whichever lands second rebases onto the first; the order is to be agreed with @zheyuf.
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tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py: rewritten histories match full tokenization, are spliced from the common prefix, and do not evict the history they diverged from; tokenizers that never resync or shift the tail fall back to full tokenization, and the creation probe disables the cache for them; deep edits, the _common_prefix_len table, and the checkpoint interval must be wider than the resync span. test_conversations_sharing_a_long_preamble_find_their_own_entry now counts only its own hits, since the shared preamble can now produce divergent hits while the cache is filled.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_tokenization_owners.py (added to l0_cpu): turns of one conversation arriving at different frontends are all tokenized, with cache hits, by the owner and match full tokenization; a prompt whose owner has not started, times out, or whose owner's tokenizer fails is tokenized locally and counted as a route failure; frontends share one connection per owner; close() keeps its deadline; switch parsing and start-up gating.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_frontend_affinity.py::test_launch_server_serves_the_affinity_port: the launcher passes its frontend id and the frontend count to OpenAIServer.
End-to-end on GB300 with 4 frontends (Qwen3-0.6B, 50 conversations x 20 turns, one connection per request): with the switch off, no tokenization socket is opened; with it on and every conversation owned by an attached frontend, the other three frontends routed all their 750 turns with 0 route failures and the owner tokenized all 1000 turns (96.9% hits).
Run locally on GB300 at 819c5ef plus the test fix: test_serve_tokenization_owners.py (3 runs), test_serve_frontend_affinity.py, tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py.
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The PR updates token input handling in native and Python request paths and Mamba block reuse. It adds checkpoint-based reuse for divergent prompts and optional conversation-based tokenization routing across serving frontends.
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Native and Python token sources cpp/tensorrt_llm/nanobind/batch_manager/bindings.cpp, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/llm_request.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/mamba_cache_manager/mamba_cache_manager_v2.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_request_utils.py
The native constructor accepts a Python handle, copies eligible contiguous one-dimensional int32 arrays, and otherwise casts the input as a token vector. Python request conversion uses the input-token array accessor as a fallback, and Mamba block reuse uses _reuse_token_source(request). The test checks preservation of 4,099 tokens and prompt length.
Prefix-tokenization cache
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Checkpoint selection and divergent splicing tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py, tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py, docs/source/features/prefix-tokenization-cache.md
The cache stores checkpoint offsets and selects a split within the common prefix of divergent prompts. Encoding validates the spliced token sequence. Tests compare rewritten prompts with full tokenization. Documentation describes divergence handling and reported measurements.
The cache exposes a context-local routing key, and the input registry provides access to its cache and tokenizer. Frontend configuration carries frontend IDs and counts. Chat preprocessing sets the request routing ID when tokenization owners are active. Documentation describes the routing option and fallback behavior.
Tokenization ownership and socket exchange tensorrt_llm/serve/tokenization_owners.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_tokenization_owners.py
TokenizationOwners assigns conversations to frontends and exchanges prompts and token IDs over Unix sockets. Requests proceed with local tokenization when routing fails. Tests cover owner routing and local fallback.
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The rewritten-history test checks only the returned token IDs and the hit counters. A regression in the divergent-candidate comparison at tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py:293-294 could select a shorter reusable checkpoint. The spliced IDs are still validated, so the output would stay identical and no test would fail. The tokenization saving would drop without a test failure.
Add a focused test in tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py. Cache two divergent branches whose common prefixes with the rewritten prompt have different lengths. Then assert that _lookup returns the branch with the longer reusable checkpoint and that its split_token matches. Adjust the branch lengths so the two branches yield different checkpoint indexes under _MergeTokenizer.
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deftest_divergent_lookup_selects_longest_reusable_checkpoint() ->None:
tokenizer, cache=_MergeTokenizer(), _cache()
shared="shared history. "*80short_branch=shared[:600] +"branch A diverges here. "*20long_branch=shared+"branch B diverges later. "*20cache.encode(tokenizer, short_branch)
cache.encode(tokenizer, long_branch)
rewrite=shared+"rewritten tail after the shared history. "*4found=cache._lookup(rewrite)
assertfoundisnotNoneandnotfound.is_prefixassertfound.entry.text==long_branchassertfound.split_token>0
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Assert that the converter passes the ndarray to the LlmRequest binding.
This test checks only the resulting token values. Reverting executor_request_to_llm_request to use executor_request.input_token_ids would preserve those values, so the test could still pass while removing the optimization. Add a focused spy or mock assertion that the array-consuming binding receives executor_request.get_input_token_ids_array(). No timing test is required.
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Add an ownership assertion with a retained input array.
The current assertions only check values and length. They pass if LlmRequest aliases its input array. Keep the existing fallback-path call, then call the converter with a known NumPy array through input_token_ids, mutate that array, and verify that llm_request.get_tokens(0) is unchanged. The merge test mocks the converter and does not cover this behavior.
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Minor · Use a shorter tokenization socket name. · openai_server.py:761-770
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py:761-770 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Use a shorter tokenization socket name.
With TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ROUTE_BY_CONVERSATION=1, multiple frontends, and a prefix cache, a valid temporary-directory path can let launcher.sock bind while tokenize-0.sock exceeds the Unix-domain socket path limit. The resulting OSError escapes OpenAIServer construction and prevents startup before local fallback can run.
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Use a shorter socket filename in the tokenization socket naming logic used by
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paths that support launcher.sock do not exceed the Unix-domain socket path
limit. Preserve the per-frontend distinction in the generated socket name.
Test fallback when an owner accepts but does not answer.
The new five-second timeout protects against a stalled owner, but the fallback test covers only connection refusal and an explicit failure reply. A regression that leaves a connected request waiting would pass those tests. Add a test in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_tokenization_owners.py with a shorter configured timeout and an owner that accepts without replying. Assert local token IDs and a route-failure count. (raw.githubusercontent.com) As per path instructions, flag material coverage gaps in a changed “failure path” and name the smallest practical test.
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…ization cache
The cache is per frontend process, and multiple frontends spread a conversation's connections across processes, so most turns miss.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
Agentic clients rewrite the end of the history between turns (a trimmed
tool result, a replaced last message), so the new prompt no longer
extends the cached one and was tokenized in full. Record a checkpoint
every 256 tokens of a cached prompt and splice a diverging prompt at the
last checkpoint inside the longest common prefix, keeping the cached
entry for a branch that may continue from it.
Document the splice.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…ntend
With num_serve_frontends > 1, SO_REUSEPORT hands each connection to any
frontend, so consecutive turns of a conversation usually reach a frontend
whose prefix-tokenization cache has not seen the previous turn.
With TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ROUTE_BY_CONVERSATION=1, every frontend serves
its cache on a Unix socket in the multi-frontend ipc dir, and a chat prompt
whose conversation id hashes to another frontend is tokenized there. Only the
prompt text and the token ids cross processes; a prompt without a
conversation id, or whose owner does not answer, is tokenized locally. The
switch is off by default, and without it the chat path is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…ctions
- The owner's listen backlog is SOMAXCONN: a Unix-socket connect to a full
backlog fails at once, so with the default of 5 the first turns of
conversations starting together were tokenized locally.
- An owner that cannot tokenize a prompt replies with a failure instead of
closing the connection, and the asking frontend tokenizes it itself.
- Prompts tokenized locally because routing failed are counted in the
periodic cache log line. The owner timeout is 5 s.
- The doc's single-frontend numbers are measured with the divergent splice.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
- Reject a splice whose re-tokenized tail opens with several tokens at
one character offset (byte-fallback characters, expanded ligatures),
where a run of equal ids could hide a duplicated token.
- Hash a conversation id with a lone surrogate instead of failing the
request.
- Assert the hit or resync fallback of every rewritten prompt.
- Note that multiple serving frontends need the classic IPC executor.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…e changes
- Split at the first token of a multi-token character instead of rejecting
such seams, so byte-fallback-heavy text keeps its hits.
- Find the end of a common prefix by halving the mismatching block.
- Do not promote the entry a diverging prompt was spliced from.
- Skip a tokenization owner for a while after it does not answer.
- Type the tokenizer and the preprocess callable; keep per-thread owner
connections in a threading.local subclass.
- Run test_serve_tokenization_owners.py in l0_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…e changes
- Reject divergent splices whose tail is shifted by a character: the tail
must match the cached ids over the whole interval up to the next
checkpoint, which now starts strictly inside the common prefix. Probe the
tokenizer once at cache creation and disable the cache when a tail can be
shifted (Prepend normalizers, e.g. Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1).
- A prompt the tokenizer rejects no longer disables the cache.
- Count routed prompts toward the periodic log line.
- Try the divergent scan when an extension match leaves a long tail.
- Share one connection per owner per frontend, bounding the routing mesh to
2*(K-1) sockets and K-1 threads per frontend; skip an owner only after a
timeout, with a warning; turn any reply error into a route failure.
- Close tokenization owners off the event loop with one shared deadline.
- Key routing on the signed sub-agent affinity id on disagg context workers.
- Validate TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ROUTE_BY_CONVERSATION (0/1), log when
routing starts or cannot engage, and document it.
- Share the conversation-to-frontend mapping and socket path helpers in
multi_frontend.py; add get_prefix_token_cache() accessors and
PrefixTokenCache.set_route().
- Docs: trtllm-serve starts 8 frontends by default; stable conversation ids;
affinity ports; measurement context.
- Tests: shifted-tail tokenizer, probe, deep edit, _common_prefix_len table,
checkpoint validity, connection sharing, close deadline, switch parsing,
start-up gating, serve.py wiring.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
…ose test ends
close() returns at its deadline and leaves a handler that is still
tokenizing running, so the test left the owner's handler thread alive and
pytest-threadleak failed it. Release the slow tokenizer after the timing
check and join the asking and handler threads.
Signed-off-by: Fred Wei <20514172+WeiHaocheng@users.noreply.github.com>
Brings the branch up to date with main. Resolves the conflict in
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_client.py: _url_server() keeps this branch's
handling of server entries that carry a URL scheme or a trailing slash,
and of its refused-port key, and picks the frontend with
frontend_of_conversation(), which main added in NVIDIA#21308.
Signed-off-by: berryz <berryz@nvidia.com>
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Description
Long multi-turn agentic prompts (100k+ tokens, most of each turn shared with the previous one) paid per-turn tokenization costs on the whole prompt before reaching the scheduler. This PR removes most of them and documents how to deploy the prefix-tokenization cache for this traffic.
1. Prefix-tokenization cache: splice prompts that diverge from a cached one.
The cache only hit when the new prompt extends a cached prompt. Agentic clients regularly rewrite the end of the history between turns (a trimmed tool result, a replaced last message); on our trace about 20% of turns did, and each of those re-tokenized the full prompt (≈140 ms per 100k tokens). The cache now records a checkpoint every 256 tokens of a cached prompt, and a prompt that diverges is spliced at a checkpoint strictly inside the longest common prefix. The re-tokenized tail must reproduce the cached ids over the whole interval up to the next checkpoint, so the output is still identical to tokenizing the whole prompt; otherwise the prompt is tokenized in full.
Prependnormalizers, e.g. Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1) are probed once when the cache is created, and the cache is disabled for them. A prompt the tokenizer rejects no longer disables the cache.2. Optionally tokenize each conversation in one serving frontend.
With
num_serve_frontends > 1, each turn of a conversation lands on whichever frontend the kernel picks, whose cache usually has not seen the previous turn. WithTLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ROUTE_BY_CONVERSATION=1, each frontend serves its cache on a Unix socket in the multi-frontend ipc dir, and a chat prompt whose conversation id hashes to another frontend is tokenized by that owner. The id is the one attention DP routes by (conversation_params.conversation_idor headers such asX-Correlation-ID); on a disaggregated context worker it is the signed sub-agent affinity id. Only the prompt text and the token ids cross processes; the request stays where it arrived.SOMAXCONNbacklog, since a Unix-socket connect to a full backlog fails immediately.0or1. Without it no socket is opened and the chat path is unchanged; when it is set but cannot engage (one frontend, or no prefix cache), a warning says why. Owners are closed off the event loop at shutdown with one shared deadline.openai_client.py(frontend_of_conversationinmulti_frontend.py).On GLM-5.3 with 8 frontends (cache with divergent splice in all arms), the p90 frontend time at one session went from ~165 ms to ~58 ms (one frontend: 44 ms) and p90 TTFT from ~435 to ~332 ms; at 32 sessions, decode throughput per user was within 1.2% of one frontend (single run).
3. Docs.
prefix-tokenization-cache.mddescribes the divergent splice, the routing switch, and a new section recommending a single serving frontend with the cache: the cache is per process, and withnum_serve_frontends > 1(trtllm-serve starts 8 by default) connections are spread across processes bySO_REUSEPORT, so a client opening a connection per request sends each turn to a frontend that usually has not seen the previous one. On our trace the frontend's p90 time at one session was ~165 ms with 8 frontends vs 44 ms with one, with unchanged decode throughput up to 32 concurrent sessions.Measured effect (GB300, agentic multi-turn trace, prompts ≈160k tokens on average, single frontend in both arms): p90 TTFT at one session 526 → 335 ms. These numbers were taken before #20815 landed on main, and the PR arm also included its zero-copy token passing, which main now has; the share of this PR alone was not re-measured. Decode (ITL) is unaffected. On 300 multi-turn prompts whose history is rewritten between turns, the divergent splice matched full tokenization on all 300, hit on 99.3%, and took about a tenth of the tokenization time.
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_encode/_insert/_Entrycode, the same docs page and the same test file, so whichever lands second rebases onto the first; the order is to be agreed with @zheyuf.Test Coverage
tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py: rewritten histories match full tokenization, are spliced from the common prefix, and do not evict the history they diverged from; tokenizers that never resync or shift the tail fall back to full tokenization, and the creation probe disables the cache for them; deep edits, the_common_prefix_lentable, and the checkpoint interval must be wider than the resync span.test_conversations_sharing_a_long_preamble_find_their_own_entrynow counts only its own hits, since the shared preamble can now produce divergent hits while the cache is filled.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_tokenization_owners.py(added tol0_cpu): turns of one conversation arriving at different frontends are all tokenized, with cache hits, by the owner and match full tokenization; a prompt whose owner has not started, times out, or whose owner's tokenizer fails is tokenized locally and counted as a route failure; frontends share one connection per owner;close()keeps its deadline; switch parsing and start-up gating.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_serve_frontend_affinity.py::test_launch_server_serves_the_affinity_port: the launcher passes its frontend id and the frontend count toOpenAIServer.test_serve_tokenization_owners.py(3 runs),test_serve_frontend_affinity.py,tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py.PR Checklist
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