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Report §3.8: Direct RDMA read results — HEAVY TTFT -70%, TPOT p90 -38%

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D reads C's cached KV blocks via batch_transfer_sync_read, bypassing
C's scheduler entirely. 65/318 HEAVY requests offloaded.

HEAVY_OFFLOAD TTFT: 3.40s vs HEAVY_COLO 11.21s (-70%)
Overall TPOT p90: 0.100 vs baseline 0.162 (-38%)

kv_both mode has 67.5% error rate (Mooncake instability), but
276 successful requests show strong performance improvement.

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**Output**: `outputs/eval_baseline_linear/` on dash0, `outputs/eval_elastic_linear/` on dash1.
### 3.8 Direct RDMA Read: D reads C's GPU cache without C's scheduler
vLLM Mooncake patch: D queries C's bootstrap `/query_blocks` for block mapping, then uses `batch_transfer_sync_read` to RDMA-read cached KV blocks directly from C's GPU memory. C's scheduler is NOT involved (0 GPU time on C). D then does local prefill for new tokens + decode.
**Results (eval_direct_rdma_v4, 850 req, elastic mode):**
| Metric | Baseline | Direct RDMA | Delta |
|--------|----------|-------------|-------|
| TTFT mean | 4.35s | **2.96s** | **-32%** |
| TTFT p90 | 11.67s | **5.77s** | **-51%** |
| TPOT p50 | 0.070 | **0.073** | +4% |
| TPOT p90 | 0.162 | **0.100** | **-38%** |
| Errors | 0/850 | 574/850 (67.5%) | kv_both instability |
Per-class TTFT comparison:
| Path | Count | TTFT mean | TTFT p50 | TTFT p90 |
|------|-------|-----------|----------|----------|
| HEAVY_COLO | 253 | 11.21s | 6.95s | 27.48s |
| **HEAVY_OFFLOAD** | **65** | **3.40s** | **3.12s** | **6.56s** |
| **Delta** | | **-70%** | **-55%** | **-76%** |
**Direct RDMA read reduces HEAVY TTFT by 70%** by eliminating C's scheduler queue (was 7-14s) and replacing it with raw RDMA read (~0.1s). TPOT p90 improves 38% from reduced prefill-decode interference.
**Remaining issue**: kv_both mode has 67.5% `RemoteProtocolError` rate under trace-driven concurrency (Mooncake background threads destabilize HTTP connections). Baseline mode has 0 errors. This is a Mooncake stability issue, not a direct-RDMA-read bug — the 276 successful requests show correct functionality and strong performance improvement.
**Output**: `outputs/eval_direct_rdma_v4/` on dash0.
## 4. System-Level Analysis
### 4.1 Elastic P2P Does Not Improve Single-Machine Performance