v2: LMetric PD-colo vs PD-disagg on the real agentic trace

Anchor experiment for the clean-stack PD comparison using the canonical
cache-aware proxy with --policy lmetric (scripts/bench.sh harness). Two
traces x four arms = eight runs on dash1.

Headline: with the right routing baseline (LMetric), PD-colo holds 100%
completion on both traces while every static PD-disagg ratio fails
(14-65% completion), and the failure mode rotates with the split --
no static partition has a working operating point on this workload.
LMetric improves colo dramatically (TTFT p50 1.0s vs original §3 RR
7.0s; 7x) but does NOT rescue PD-disagg, confirming the bottleneck is
structural (D-pool admission + multi-turn KV accumulation), not routing.

Completion matrix:
                    first600s  full
  colo                 100%    100%
  pd6 (6:2)            58.7%   65.3%   (decode-bound)
  pd4 (4:4)            43.1%   43.9%   (both bottlenecks)
  pd2 (2:6)            22.3%   13.9%   (prefill-bound)

The original §3 RR "100% PD completion" appears to be a measurement
artifact of e13391e: producer-KV eviction acted as a relief valve,
letting more requests squeeze under the 600s timeout at the (uncosted)
price of cross-turn re-prefill. With the eviction off, PD-disagg is
worse than §3 advertised, not better.

Artifacts:
  analysis/v2/fig4l_lmetric.json     -- 8-arm summary data
  analysis/v2/PD_DISAGG_LMETRIC.md   -- writeup + reproduce recipe
  figs/v2/fig4_lmetric_pd_vs_colo.png -- 4-panel comparison figure
  microbench/fresh_setup/plot_fig4l_lmetric.py -- plot script
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"""Render the LMetric PD-colo vs PD-disagg figure on the real agentic trace.
Input : analysis/v2/fig4l_lmetric.json (8 arms = 4 ratios x 2 traces)
Output : figs/v2/fig4_lmetric_pd_vs_colo.png
Four panels x four ratios x two traces:
(a) completion rate %
(b) E2E latency (mean / p50 / p90)
(c) throughput (output tokens / second)
(d) bench wall-clock seconds
The thesis the figure visualizes: with LMetric routing,
- colo (elastic 8-GPU pool) holds 100% completion on both traces
- every PD-disagg ratio fails (completion 14-65%), and the failure mode
rotates with the split (pd2 = prefill-bound, pd6 = decode-bound)
- routing policy does not rescue PD-disagg; the bottleneck is structural.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
from pathlib import Path
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("Agg")
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
DATA = ROOT / "analysis" / "v2" / "fig4l_lmetric.json"
OUT = ROOT / "figs" / "v2" / "fig4_lmetric_pd_vs_colo.png"
OUT.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
ARMS = ["colo", "6P+2D", "4P+4D", "2P+6D"] # decode-rich -> prefill-rich
TRACES = ["first600s", "full"]
TRACE_LABEL = {"first600s": "first600s (1.35 req/s, high load)",
"full": "full w600 (0.42 req/s, original §3)"}
COLOR = {"first600s": "#1f77b4", "full": "#ff7f0e"}
def pick(rows, trace, arm):
for r in rows:
if r["trace"] == trace and r["arm"] == arm:
return r
return None
def main():
rows = json.load(open(DATA))
fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(12, 8))
width = 0.38
x = np.arange(len(ARMS))
# (a) completion %
ax = axes[0, 0]
for i, tr in enumerate(TRACES):
vals = [pick(rows, tr, a)["n"] / pick(rows, tr, a)["req"] * 100 for a in ARMS]
bars = ax.bar(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals, width, color=COLOR[tr], label=TRACE_LABEL[tr])
for bx, bv in zip(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals):
ax.annotate(f"{bv:.0f}%", (bx, bv + 1.5), ha="center", fontsize=8)
ax.axhline(100, color="grey", ls=":", lw=1)
ax.set_xticks(x); ax.set_xticklabels(ARMS)
ax.set_ylabel("completion (%)"); ax.set_ylim(0, 115)
ax.set_title("(a) request completion — colo holds 100%, all PD ratios fail")
ax.legend(fontsize=8); ax.grid(alpha=.3, axis="y")
# (b) E2E percentiles
ax = axes[0, 1]
for i, tr in enumerate(TRACES):
p50 = [pick(rows, tr, a)["e2e"]["p50"] for a in ARMS]
p90 = [pick(rows, tr, a)["e2e"]["p90"] for a in ARMS]
off = (i - 0.5) * width
ax.bar(x + off, p90, width, color=COLOR[tr], alpha=0.55, label=f"{tr} p90")
ax.bar(x + off, p50, width, color=COLOR[tr], alpha=1.0, label=f"{tr} p50")
ax.axhline(600, color="red", ls=":", lw=1, label="600 s request timeout")
ax.set_xticks(x); ax.set_xticklabels(ARMS)
ax.set_ylabel("E2E latency (s, log)"); ax.set_yscale("log")
ax.set_title("(b) E2E p50 (solid) + p90 (faded) — PD pegs at the timeout")
ax.legend(fontsize=7, ncol=2); ax.grid(alpha=.3, which="both", axis="y")
# (c) TPS
ax = axes[1, 0]
for i, tr in enumerate(TRACES):
vals = [pick(rows, tr, a)["tps"] for a in ARMS]
ax.bar(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals, width, color=COLOR[tr], label=TRACE_LABEL[tr])
for bx, bv in zip(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals):
ax.annotate(f"{bv:.0f}", (bx, bv + 4), ha="center", fontsize=8)
ax.set_xticks(x); ax.set_xticklabels(ARMS)
ax.set_ylabel("throughput (output tokens/s)")
ax.set_title("(c) throughput — PD throughput crashes 5100×")
ax.legend(fontsize=8); ax.grid(alpha=.3, axis="y")
# (d) wall (min)
ax = axes[1, 1]
for i, tr in enumerate(TRACES):
vals = [pick(rows, tr, a)["wall"] / 60 for a in ARMS]
ax.bar(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals, width, color=COLOR[tr], label=TRACE_LABEL[tr])
for bx, bv in zip(x + (i - 0.5) * width, vals):
ax.annotate(f"{bv:.0f}m", (bx, bv * 1.05), ha="center", fontsize=8)
ax.set_xticks(x); ax.set_xticklabels(ARMS)
ax.set_ylabel("bench wall-clock (min, log)"); ax.set_yscale("log")
ax.set_title("(d) wall-clock — PD drain dilates the run")
ax.legend(fontsize=8); ax.grid(alpha=.3, which="both", axis="y")
fig.suptitle("Fig 4 (LMetric) — PD-colo vs PD-disagg on the real agentic trace "
"(`w600_r0.0015_st30`), clean stack, cache-aware LMetric routing",
fontsize=12, y=1.0)
fig.tight_layout()
fig.savefig(OUT, dpi=130, bbox_inches="tight")
print(f"wrote {OUT}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()