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Prefill/Decode Disaggregation

techniqueactiveprefill-decode-disaggregation-9725723e·2 events·first seen 1mo ago

Aliases: Prefill/Decode Disaggregation, prefill-decode disaggregation

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6Mistral Ai News·1mo ago·source ↗

Mistral AI Engineering Deep Dive: Debugging a Memory Leak in vLLM

Mistral AI's engineering team investigated a memory leak in vLLM that appeared exclusively during disaggregated prefill/decode serving with Mistral Medium 3.1 and graph compilation enabled, causing ~400 MB/min RSS growth. The leak was not visible in heap profilers (Memray, Guppy3, Heaptrack), pointing to off-heap memory allocation tied to NIXL/UCX-based KV cache transfer over InfiniBand. The post is the first in a new Engineering Deep Dive series and documents a methodical descent from Python-level tools to kernel-level tracing to isolate the root cause.

4Hugging Face Blog·28d ago·source ↗

Prefill and Decode for Concurrent Requests - Optimizing LLM Performance

This Hugging Face blog post from TNG Technology Consulting examines how prefill and decode phases interact under concurrent request loads in LLM serving systems. It analyzes performance bottlenecks that arise when multiple requests share GPU resources, covering throughput-latency tradeoffs and optimization strategies. The piece targets practitioners deploying LLMs at scale who need to understand scheduling and batching behavior.