Migration trigger validation: unified_v4 fires at 2x QPS, not at 1x
Ran unified vs unified_v4 A/B on dash2 (8×H20, kv_both+DR-fix substrate, w600_r0.0015_st30_first600s trace). Key findings: - At 1x QPS (~1.3 req/s): zero migrations. pending_prefill_tokens is 0 for 95% of routing decisions because instances complete prefill before the next request arrives. The relative arm (src_pp > fleet_median*1.5) never fires. - At 2x QPS (~2.7 req/s): 4 migrations (0.5%). src_pp>0 rises to 24% of eligible decisions. Trigger correctly identifies genuinely overloaded instances (src_pp 13k–73k vs fleet median 3.8k–33k). Conclusion: mechanism is correct but migration benefit requires higher concurrency (scale-out or >3x QPS) where queue pressure makes the signal non-trivial. At single-node 8-instance scale, Pillar 1 (affinity routing) is sufficient and Pillar 2 gracefully degrades to no-op. Next: scale-out validation (16+ GPU) where session skew naturally concentrates load and triggers migration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Migration Trigger Validation (unified_v4) — 2026-05-30
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Hardware: dash2, 8×H20, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, TP=1, kv_both + DR-fix substrate.
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Trace: `w600_r0.0015_st30_first600s.jsonl` (807 reqs, 600s span).
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Policy: `unified_v4` = unified hybrid routing + pending-prefill-queue-triggered
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session migration (commit `3a6bf5d` on `kzlin-dev` branch).
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## Research Question
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Does Pillar 2 (hot-triggered session migration) provide measurable benefit on
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top of Pillar 1 (affinity-default routing)?
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## Experiment Design
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| Arm | Policy | Substrate | Trace QPS |
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|---|---|---|---|
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| unified_1x | unified (affinity-only) | kv_both + DR-fix | ~1.3 (original) |
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| unified_v4_1x | unified_v4 (affinity + migration) | kv_both + DR-fix | ~1.3 |
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| unified_v4_2x | unified_v4 (affinity + migration) | kv_both + DR-fix | ~2.7 (2× compressed) |
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The 2× trace was generated by halving inter-request intervals:
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`ts_new = ts_min + (ts_orig - ts_min) / 2`.
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## Results
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### 1x QPS: unified vs unified_v4
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| Metric | unified | unified_v4 | Delta |
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|---|---:|---:|---:|
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| OK/total | 807/807 | 807/807 | — |
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| TTFT mean | 3.990s | 4.142s | +3.8% |
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| TTFT p50 | 0.719s | 0.711s | −1.0% |
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| TTFT p90 | 11.499s | 12.293s | +6.9% |
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| TPOT p90 | 0.024s | 0.022s | −9.3% |
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| E2E p50 | 2.265s | 2.293s | +1.2% |
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| E2E p90 | 24.507s | 23.955s | −2.3% |
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| **Migrations** | **0** | **0** | — |
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**Conclusion**: At 1x QPS (~1.3 req/s, ~0.16 req/instance/s), the migration
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trigger NEVER fires. The two arms produce statistically identical results.
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### 2x QPS: unified_v4 under higher load
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| Metric | unified_v4 @ 2x |
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|---|---:|
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| OK/total | 807/807 |
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| TTFT mean | 5.227s |
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| TTFT p90 | 15.000s |
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| E2E p90 | 39.401s |
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| **Migrations** | **4/807 (0.5%)** |
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4 migrated requests (all verified via `v3_decode_target_url` in breakdown):
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| Session | Input | new_local | src_pp | fleet_median | proj_prefill | Target |
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|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|
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| 1313181 | 22,686 | 22,686 | 13,360 | 6,680 | 5.1s | inst_5 |
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| 1310590 | 32,440 | 14,520 | 57,051 | 12,630 | 10.2s | inst_4 |
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| 1373431 | 126,340 | 126,340 | 73,385 | 33,294 | 28.5s | inst_4 |
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| 1313181 | 60,004 | 17,508 | 19,503 | 3,806 | 5.3s | inst_5 |
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## Root Cause Analysis: Why Zero Migrations at 1x
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The unified_v4 trigger requires BOTH arms to fire simultaneously:
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- **Absolute SLO arm**: `proj_prefill_s(src) > 2.5s` — fires for 41% of eligible requests
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- **Relative arm**: `src_pending_prefill > fleet_median × 1.5` — NEVER fires at 1x
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The relative arm fails because `pending_prefill_tokens` (the proxy's shadow
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counter) is 0 for **95% of routing decisions** at 1x QPS:
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| QPS | src_pp > 0 (% of eligible) | Migrations |
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|---:|---:|---:|
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| 1.3 (1×) | 5% (8/241) | 0 |
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| 2.7 (2×) | 24% (62/257) | 4 |
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**Mechanism**: `pending_prefill_tokens` reflects previously-dispatched requests
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that haven't finished their prefill yet. At 0.16 req/instance/s, each instance
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completes its prefill before the next request arrives — the counter is almost
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always 0 at decision time. Only under genuine queueing pressure (2× and above)
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does the counter become non-zero and the relative arm can fire.
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The high TTFT at 1x (~11.5s p90) comes from **compute-bound large prefills**
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(single 60k+ token requests inherently need ~9s), NOT from queue depth.
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## Interpretation for Paper
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1. **The migration mechanism is functionally correct.** At 2x it fires on the
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right signal (src genuinely overloaded relative to fleet) and selects valid
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targets (cooler instances with load gap).
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2. **At benchmark scale (8 instances, ~1 QPS), migration is not needed.** The
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affinity-default routing (Pillar 1) already achieves APC ~79% and the
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remaining hot-pin issue is mild (max-worker/median-worker ≈ 3.7×). The
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"dispatch coupling" feedback loop is present but not yet at the catastrophic
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amplification regime.
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3. **Migration becomes relevant under scale-out + higher load.** With more
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instances (16–32), session skew concentrates more load per hot instance
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while cold instances sit idle — exactly the condition where `src_pp >
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fleet_median × 1.5` naturally fires. The 1x→2x progression (0%→0.5%
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migration rate) shows the correct scaling direction.
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4. **Paper §3.3 framing**: Migration is a **scale-out insurance mechanism**
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that gracefully degrades to no-op under low load. Its value is NOT
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demonstrable at 8-instance single-node benchmark; the argument must rely on
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(a) the mechanism's correctness (this experiment), (b) the substrate's
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net-positive property (commit `ef9e010`), and (c) scale-out projection
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(future: 16+ GPU, multi-node).
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## Next Steps
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- [ ] **Scale-out validation** (16 GPU, 2 nodes): With more instances and the
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same trace, more sessions compete per-instance → higher pending_prefill →
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migration triggers naturally. This is the strongest evidence path.
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- [ ] **3–4× QPS on 8 instances**: Push to saturation to measure migration's
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effect in the catastrophic regime. Risk: may exceed serving capacity (errors).
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- [ ] **Threshold sensitivity**: Ablate `v4_rel_hi` (1.5→1.2→1.0) and
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`v4_ttft_slo_s` (2.5→1.5→1.0) to characterize the trigger landscape.
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## Reproduction
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```bash
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# On dash2 (local /tmp, does NOT modify shared NAS):
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# 1x QPS
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bash /tmp/migration_exp/run_migration_ab.sh # interleaved unified vs unified_v4
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# 2x QPS
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python3 -c "
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import json
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trace_in = '/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv/traces/w600_r0.0015_st30_first600s.jsonl'
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rows = [json.loads(l) for l in open(trace_in)]
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ts_min = min(r['timestamp'] for r in rows)
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for r in rows: r['timestamp'] = ts_min + (r['timestamp'] - ts_min) / 2.0
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with open('/tmp/migration_exp/trace_2x.jsonl', 'w') as f:
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for r in rows: f.write(json.dumps(r) + '\n')
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"
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bash /tmp/migration_exp/run_2x.sh
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```
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## Data Locations (dash2 /tmp, ephemeral)
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| Path | Content |
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| `/tmp/migration_exp/outputs/unified_run1/` | Baseline arm (1x) |
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| `/tmp/migration_exp/outputs/unified_v4_run1/` | Migration arm (1x) |
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| `/tmp/migration_exp/outputs/unified_v4_2x/` | Migration arm (2x) |
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| `/tmp/migration_exp/outputs/*/breakdown.json` | Per-request routing decisions with v4_* fields |
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| `/tmp/migration_exp/outputs/*/metrics.jsonl` | Per-request latency metrics |
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{
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"experiment": "migration_trigger_validation",
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"date": "2026-05-30",
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"hardware": "dash2, 8xH20, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, TP=1",
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"substrate": "kv_both + DR-fix (delay_free_blocks + VLLM_EVICT_SENT_BLOCKS gate)",
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"arms": {
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"unified_1x": {
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"metrics": {
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"ok": 807,
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"total": 807,
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"ttft_mean": 3.99,
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"ttft_p50": 0.719,
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"ttft_p90": 11.499,
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"ttft_p99": 45.982,
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"tpot_p90": 0.0239,
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"e2e_p50": 2.265,
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"e2e_p90": 24.507,
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"e2e_p99": 71.233
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},
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"migrations": 0
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},
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"unified_v4_1x": {
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"metrics": {
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"ok": 807,
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"total": 807,
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"ttft_mean": 4.142,
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"ttft_p50": 0.711,
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"ttft_p90": 12.293,
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"ttft_p99": 46.148,
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"tpot_p90": 0.0217,
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"e2e_p50": 2.293,
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"e2e_p90": 23.955,
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"e2e_p99": 75.915
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},
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"trigger_summary": {
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"trace": "w600_r0.0015_st30_first600s.jsonl",
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"qps_factor": 1,
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"total_requests": 807,
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"migrations_triggered": 13,
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"size_floor_filtered": 552,
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"eligible_requests": 255,
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"slo_arm_true": 100,
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"src_pp_nonzero": 22
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}
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},
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"unified_v4_2x": {
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"metrics": {
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"ok": 807,
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"total": 807,
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"ttft_mean": 5.227,
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"ttft_p50": 0.942,
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"ttft_p90": 15.0,
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"ttft_p99": 59.227,
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"tpot_p90": 0.1087,
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"e2e_p50": 5.035,
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"e2e_p90": 39.401,
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"e2e_p99": 163.032
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},
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"trigger_summary": {
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"trace": "trace_2x.jsonl (timestamps / 2)",
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"qps_factor": 2,
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"total_requests": 807,
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"migrations_triggered": 4,
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"size_floor_filtered": 550,
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"eligible_requests": 257,
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"slo_arm_true": 133,
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"src_pp_nonzero": 62,
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"pending_prefill_p90_when_nonzero": 68131,
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"migrated_details": [
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{
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"session_id": "1313181",
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"input_length": 22686,
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"new_local": 22686,
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"src_pending_prefill": 13360,
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"fleet_median_pp": 6680.0,
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"proj_prefill_s": 5.15,
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"target_idx": 5
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},
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{
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"session_id": "1310590",
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"input_length": 32440,
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"new_local": 14520,
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"src_pending_prefill": 57051,
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"fleet_median_pp": 12630.5,
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"proj_prefill_s": 10.22,
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"target_idx": 4
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},
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{
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"session_id": "1373431",
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"input_length": 126340,
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"new_local": 126340,
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"src_pending_prefill": 73385,
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"fleet_median_pp": 33294.5,
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"proj_prefill_s": 28.53,
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"target_idx": 4
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},
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{
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"session_id": "1313181",
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"input_length": 60004,
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"new_local": 17508,
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"src_pending_prefill": 19503,
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"fleet_median_pp": 3806.5,
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"proj_prefill_s": 5.29,
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"target_idx": 5
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}
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]
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}
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}
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}
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}
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