third_party/vllm/ now tracked in git for direct patch management.
Based on vLLM v0.18.1 release with one patch applied:
vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:
Replace fatal assert with graceful skip when KV transfer callback
arrives for an already-aborted request during PD disaggregated serving.
Future vLLM modifications should be made directly in third_party/vllm/
and committed normally. The patches/ directory is kept as documentation
of what changed from upstream.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Loading Model Weights with InstantTensor
InstantTensor accelerates loading Safetensors weights on CUDA devices through distributed loading, pipelined prefetching, and direct I/O. InstantTensor also supports GDS (GPUDirect Storage) when available. For more details, see the InstantTensor GitHub repository.
Installation
pip install instanttensor
Use InstantTensor in vLLM
Add --load-format instanttensor as a command-line argument.
For example:
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B --load-format instanttensor
Benchmarks
| Model | GPU | Backend | Load Time (s) | Throughput (GB/s) | Speedup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | 1*H200 | Safetensors | 57.4 | 1.1 | 1x |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | 1*H200 | InstantTensor | 1.77 | 35 | 32.4x |
| DeepSeek-R1 | 8*H200 | Safetensors | 160 | 4.3 | 1x |
| DeepSeek-R1 | 8*H200 | InstantTensor | 15.3 | 45 | 10.5x |
For the full benchmark results, see https://github.com/scitix/InstantTensor/blob/main/docs/benchmark.md.