2026-05-27 trace-replay A/B/C (commit ef9e010) shows the kv_both substrate
is net positive on current codebase, not just neutral:
- TTFT p90: 11.97s plain → 9.74s kv_both (−18.6%) → 7.58s with DR-fix (−36.6%)
This reverses the elastic_migration_v2 paper's +45% kv_both penalty claim
and removes the primary cause of the 4 prior migration reverts.
Reframes EAR Pillar 2 from "DEFERRED" to "PARTIAL" — substrate verified,
e2e strategy-layer validation (trigger thresholds + target selection in
the dispatch-coupling feedback loop) remains as the only open risk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# EAR — Agentic Serving Scheduler 汇报
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**One-liner**:Agentic workload 的 KV reuse 93% 在 session 内,turn 间 tool-call 反馈耦合把单 request 延迟差放大成 throughput 差距 —— locality 因此是主导调度杠杆;现有 load-balance 丢 locality、static PD-disagg 撞 D 侧 KV 墙、pure sticky 造 hot pin;我们提 EAR (Elastic Affinity Router) = session-affinity routing + hot-instance 触发 session migration。
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## 1. 关键洞察:Dispatch Coupling
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Chatbot:turn 间有人类 think-time,系统快慢 ⊥ 下一 turn 到达率。
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Agentic:turn 间只有 tool-call 返回 (≈0),**系统跑慢 → session 停留长 → 并发多 → KV pool 紧 → 更慢**。
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Little's Law 隐式方程:
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```
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L = Λ · N · W_turn(L) # agentic, T_human≈0
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```
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小扰动分析:amplification = `1 / (1 − Λ·N·W'(L*))`,系统接近 KV 饱和时发散。
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**实测**:lmetric 跑 600s trace 用 49 min wall-clock = **8x amplification**。同硬件 unified 比 lmetric session 清空速度 ~3x。**per-turn W 的小差异被放大成 wall-clock 数量级差距** —— 这意味着 locality 不是 nice-to-have,是 dominant lever。
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## 2. Workload 实证(三件事)
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| | 数据 | 图 |
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| KV reuse 几乎只在 session 内 | intra 93.2% / cross 5.7% / shared 1.1% |  |
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| Session 极度偏斜 | top 1% = 46.5% input mass |  |
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| 单请求 KV footprint 已经很大 | p99 = 11.8 GiB ≈ H20 12% |  |
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理论 APC 上界 = intra-session 79.6% / any-session 80.3%,差 <1pp。**任何不 affinity 的调度都丢绝大部分 reuse。**
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## 3. 现有调度的三种失败模式
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### Load-balanced (LMetric / round-robin / kv-aware):丢 locality
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LMetric 56.9%、load_only 54.1%、capped 31.6% APC,远低于 79.6% 上界。23pp 缺口直接来自跨 instance 路由丢的 intra-session hit。
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### 静态 PD-disagg:D 侧 KV 容量墙
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agentic 平均请求 33.6k token 需 3.3GB KV;4P+4D / 6P+2D 在 agentic regime 都穿过 90% 内存墙。**TTFT p50 暴涨 62-72x,成功率 99.5% → 52-68%**。
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### Pure sticky / current unified:hot pin
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APC 拉到 77-79%(接近上界),但 hotspot index 翻倍:sticky 2.73、unified 3.66 vs lmetric 2.25、load_only 1.29。skew 中的大 session 被锁在单 instance 上,造成 prefill-decode 干扰。
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## 4. EAR 设计
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两个 pillar,所有 instance 对称 PD-colocated(无静态 P/D 分区):
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**Pillar 1 — Affinity-default routing(已实现)**
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新 session 用 load-balance 分配 host;后续 turn 按 session→host binding 路由。
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→ 这就是当前 `unified` 算法(hybrid LMetric + high-cache affinity),APC 79.4%,达到上界 97%。
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**Pillar 2 — Hot-triggered session migration(end-to-end 实证待补,substrate 已验证)**
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当 host 的 `pending_prefill_tokens > T_hot`,把整个 session 的 KV 通过 mooncake `kv_connector` migrate 到更轻 instance;session binding 更新;后续 turn 路由到新 host。
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> 🆕 **2026-05-27 数据**(commit `ef9e010`):之前认为是 migration blocker 的 `kv_both` substrate overhead 已经不存在。在 8×TP1 trace replay 上 A/B/C 对比:
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> - plain unified: TTFT p90 = 11.97s
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> - unified + `kv_both`(未 DR-fix): 9.74s(**−18.6%** vs plain)
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> - unified + `kv_both` + DR-fix: 7.58s(**−36.6%** vs plain)
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> 即原 elastic_migration_v2 论文里 "+45% kv_both penalty" 已 obsolete;当前 substrate 是 **net positive**(connector mode 的 `delay_free_blocks=True` 在 93% intra-session-reuse trace 上把跨 turn cache hit 窗口拉长)。Migration 之前 4 次 revert 的主因消失。
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关键 design:
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- Target 选择用 **observable pending prefill tokens**,**不用** cost-model prediction(实测 mooncake cost model 误差 10-21x,绕过)
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- Per-session cooldown 防 thrashing
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- 若无候选 instance 能装下 session context → 保留当前 binding,opportunistic 不 mandatory
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## 5. 进展 & TODO
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### ✅ 已完成
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- Workload characterization 三件事的实证齐全(`f2a/b/c`)
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- 三类 baseline 失败的实证齐全(`f4a/b/c/d`)
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- Anchor + paper outline(`PAPER_OUTLINE.md`)
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- Pillar 1 affinity routing 已实现并测过(current `unified` 算法)
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- Dispatch coupling 的 Little's Law 形式化推导
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- `replayer/replay.py` patched 输出 `amplification`
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- 🆕 **kv_both substrate validation**(commit `ef9e010`):trace replay A/B/C 证明 substrate 已经是 net positive(TTFT p90 −18.6% / DR-fix 后 −36.6% vs plain),原 +45% penalty obsolete
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### 🟢 不依赖 migration 可以现在做
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1. **5 baseline × 3 runs wall-clock sweep**(patched replayer 直接出 amplification 字段)— §2.3 的实证 closure,**最高优先级**,一晚能跑完
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2. Static PD-disagg 补进 end-to-end 表
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3. λ / skew / KV pool 三轴 sensitivity
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4. Draft §1-§4 正文(数据已齐)
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### 🚧 待 migration end-to-end validation
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- §4.3 migration mechanism 的 e2e trigger + target selection 实验(substrate 已通,只缺策略层)
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- Full ablation(migration-only + both)
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- §5.6 migration microbench
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### 风险
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- Migration 之前 4 次尝试(`6b255fa`, `e991960/5772149`, `cc6e562`, `4c583f2`)都被 transfer overhead 吞掉而 revert —— **该 overhead 已在 2026-05-27 验证不再存在**(substrate net positive)
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- 仍未直接验证 e2e migration 策略层(trigger + target 选择)能在反馈环里产生正收益;中间还有"决策错误 + cooldown thrashing"两类风险,独立于 substrate
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- 即便 migration e2e 仍 marginal,affinity-only pillar 的实证已经独立成立,paper 至少有 strong-affinity 的 storyline 可写
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## 6. 一句话总结要 sell 的事
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> **Agentic 让 locality 从 nice-to-have 变成 dominant lever(dispatch coupling 论证);EAR 用 affinity-default + hot-triggered migration 单一方案同时拿到 locality 和 balance。Pillar 1 已实证(APC 79.4%);Pillar 2 design 完整、validation pending in DR-fix 之上的重测。**
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下一步主战场:跑 wall-clock sweep 把 §2.3 dispatch coupling 论证钉死。
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