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Document the iterative debugging from v1 (broken KVC) through v4
(routing fixed + session cap raised), with code-level analysis of
the two main bugs encountered:
1. v2 root cause (mis-diagnosed previously as `allow_local_prefill`):
`--policy default` for KVC mechanism caused replay's round-robin
policy and the PD router's round-robin to diverge, sending requests
with `session_params` to a D worker that did not have the session
open. Resulted in 56-61% truncation with finish_reason
"session id X does not exist".
Fix: use `--policy kv-aware` (sweep_tp1_v3_kvaware.sh) so replay
emits `x-smg-target-worker` and PD router uses consistent_hashing.
2. v3 new bottleneck: `pd-router-fallback-large-append-session-cap`
dominated 52-65% of requests. Root cause was hardcoded
`min(4, ...)` in `_decode_session_soft_cap`. With 7 D workers x 4
sessions = 28 slots for 52 trace sessions, ~24 sessions starved
permanently (bimodal direct-to-D rate of 0% or 99%).
Fix: raise the cap to 16 (replay.py).
Also includes the v3 finding that direct-to-d-session path P50=0.495s
and TTFT P50=0.043s already beats the 8-way DP baseline (0.65s/0.093s)
- the KVC core mechanism works when fallback paths are avoided.
Files:
- docs/KVC_DEBUG_JOURNEY_V1_TO_V4.md: full journey + code location index
- docs/SWEBENCH_EXPERIMENT_{PROGRESS,RESULTS}.md: prior session notes
- scripts/sweep_tp1_v{2,3,4}*.sh: experiment driver scripts
- src/agentic_pd_hybrid/replay.py: cap 4 -> 16, audit fields
- src/agentic_pd_hybrid/pd_router.py: strip session_params from prefill
- src/agentic_pd_hybrid/metrics.py: truncated_request_count
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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About
SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models. It is designed to deliver low-latency and high-throughput inference across a wide range of setups, from a single GPU to large distributed clusters. Its core features include:
- Fast Runtime: Provides efficient serving with RadixAttention for prefix caching, a zero-overhead CPU scheduler, prefill-decode disaggregation, speculative decoding, continuous batching, paged attention, tensor/pipeline/expert/data parallelism, structured outputs, chunked prefill, quantization (FP4/FP8/INT4/AWQ/GPTQ), and multi-LoRA batching.
- Broad Model Support: Supports a wide range of language models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, GPT, Gemma, Mistral, etc.), embedding models (e5-mistral, gte, mcdse), reward models (Skywork), and diffusion models (WAN, Qwen-Image), with easy extensibility for adding new models. Compatible with most Hugging Face models and OpenAI APIs.
- Extensive Hardware Support: Runs on NVIDIA GPUs (GB200/B300/H100/A100/Spark/5090), AMD GPUs (MI355/MI300), Intel Xeon CPUs, Google TPUs, Ascend NPUs, and more.
- Active Community: SGLang is open-source and supported by a vibrant community with widespread industry adoption, powering over 400,000 GPUs worldwide.
- RL & Post-Training Backbone: SGLang is a proven rollout backend used for training many frontier models, with native RL integrations and adoption by well-known post-training frameworks such as AReaL, Miles, slime, Tunix, verl and more.
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Benchmark and Performance
Learn more in the release blogs: v0.2 blog, v0.3 blog, v0.4 blog, Large-scale expert parallelism, GB200 rack-scale parallelism, GB300 long context.
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SGLang has been deployed at large scale, generating trillions of tokens in production each day. It is trusted and adopted by a wide range of leading enterprises and institutions, including xAI, AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, LinkedIn, Cursor, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Atlas Cloud, Voltage Park, Nebius, DataCrunch, Novita, InnoMatrix, MIT, UCLA, the University of Washington, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Jam & Tea Studios, Baseten, and other major technology organizations. As an open-source LLM inference engine, SGLang has become the de facto industry standard, with deployments running on over 400,000 GPUs worldwide. SGLang is currently hosted under the non-profit open-source organization LMSYS.
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For enterprises interested in adopting or deploying SGLang at scale, including technical consulting, sponsorship opportunities, or partnership inquiries, please contact us at sglang@lmsys.org.
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Acknowledgment
We learned the design and reused code from the following projects: Guidance, vLLM, LightLLM, FlashInfer, Outlines, and LMQL.