Implemented --offload mode: HEAVY requests (>20k new tokens) get P on
least-loaded instance, KV via Mooncake RDMA, D on session-sticky instance.
WARM/MEDIUM stay co-located (no KV transfer). All 8 instances run kv_both.
Result (200 req, same instances, fresh restart):
Baseline (no offload): TTFT=1.073 TPOT90=0.074 E2E=5.086
Offload HEAVY: TTFT=1.462 TPOT90=0.077 E2E=6.847
Delta: +36% +4% +35%
Conclusion: even selective KV transfer (only 44% of requests) adds more
overhead than the isolation benefit provides. On single-machine 8 GPU,
PD-combined with hybrid routing is strictly optimal. No form of KV
transfer — full PD-sep, selective offload, or otherwise — improves
over co-located serving for this workload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>