diff --git a/docs/qwen235b-thinking-prefill/ttft-1s-2s-0-32k.md b/docs/qwen235b-thinking-prefill/ttft-1s-2s-0-32k.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f440e29 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/qwen235b-thinking-prefill/ttft-1s-2s-0-32k.md @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +# qwen235b-thinking-prefill-ttft-1s-2s-0-32k + +qwen3-235b-a22b `thinking` trace, prefill-only replay with `output_length=1`, internal vLLM (`/usr/local/bin/vllm`), tuned on the `0~32k` input bucket under a stricter stepped TTFT SLO. + +## Setup + +- Hardware: `dash1`, `8x H20` +- Model: `/home/admin/resource/model/464482ce.qwen3-235b-a22b/256k-0717` +- Engine: internal vLLM, baseline aligned to `~/run_qwen235b.sh` +- Baseline topology: `TP=4, DP=1, EP=1` +- Trace: `thinking_w20260327_1000` +- Trace source: `trace_windows/traces/thinking_w20260327_1000.jsonl` +- Window duration: `600s` (`10:00-10:10`, `2026-03-27`) +- Request mode: `chat` +- Replay override: `min_tokens=max_tokens=1` +- Input bucket: `0 <= input_length <= 32768` +- SLO: + - pass target: `95%` + - `TTFT <= 1000ms` for `<=8191` input tokens + - `TTFT <= 2000ms` for `<=32767` input tokens + - `TTFT <= 2000ms` fallback bucket +- Search: + - `sampling_u in [0, 0.125]` + - `max_probes = 6` + - `12` trials total +- Proposal model: `codex / gpt-5.4` + +## Run assets + +- Study root: `/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/aituner/aituner/.aituner-prefill/dash1-qwen235b-prefill-thinking-run5-ttft-1s-2s-0-32k-topology` +- State: `/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/aituner/aituner/.aituner-prefill/dash1-qwen235b-prefill-thinking-run5-ttft-1s-2s-0-32k-topology/state.json` +- Log: `/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/aituner/aituner/logs/q235b_prefill_1s2s_0_32k.log` +- Spec: `/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/aituner/aituner/configs/examples/dash1_qwen235b_prefill_thinking_run5_ttft_1s_2s_0_32k.json` + +## Best result + +- Best trial: `trial-0011` +- Best config: + - `tensor-parallel-size=8` + - `data-parallel-size=1` + - `enable-expert-parallel=false` + - `max-num-batched-tokens=4096` + - `max-num-seqs=16` + - `VLLM_ENABLE_TORCH_COMPILE=0` +- Best `sampling_u`: `0.073767628521` +- Best request rate: `1.8516666666666666 req/s` +- Best request rate per GPU: `0.23145833333333332 req/s/gpu` +- Best pass rate: `0.9558955895589559` + +Compared with baseline: + +- `trial-0001`: `0.47 req/s`, `0.1175 req/s/gpu` +- `trial-0011`: `1.8516666666666666 req/s`, `0.23145833333333332 req/s/gpu` +- Raw throughput gain: `3.94x` +- Per-GPU throughput gain: `1.97x` + +Best-point latency: + +- baseline `trial-0001` TTFT mean/p50/p90/p95/p99 = `236.68 / 75.19 / 294.39 / 1378.79 / 3118.86 ms` +- best `trial-0011` TTFT mean/p50/p90/p95/p99 = `223.70 / 65.67 / 261.69 / 1065.31 / 3648.34 ms` + +## 12-trial summary + +| Trial | Proposed config delta | Result | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `trial-0001` | baseline `TP4/DP1/EP-off`, compile on | `0.4700 req/s`, feasible | +| `trial-0002` | `TP4/DP2`, `EP-off` | probe-search failure | +| `trial-0003` | `TP4/DP1/EP4`, `max-num-batched-tokens=4096` | launch fail | +| `trial-0004` | `VLLM_ENABLE_TORCH_COMPILE=0`, `max-num-batched-tokens=6144` | infeasible | +| `trial-0005` | compile off, `max-num-batched-tokens=4096` | infeasible | +| `trial-0006` | compile off, `max-num-seqs=32` | infeasible | +| `trial-0007` | compile off, `TP8/DP1/EP-off` | `1.3817 req/s`, feasible | +| `trial-0008` | `trial-0007 + max-num-seqs=32` | `1.5983 req/s`, feasible | +| `trial-0009` | `trial-0008 + max-num-batched-tokens=6144` | `1.8017 req/s`, feasible | +| `trial-0010` | `trial-0008 + max-num-batched-tokens=4096` | `1.8300 req/s`, feasible | +| `trial-0011` | `trial-0010 + max-num-seqs=16` | `1.8517 req/s`, feasible, best | +| `trial-0012` | `trial-0011 + max-num-batched-tokens=3072` | infeasible | + +## Key insights + +- Under the stricter `1s/2s` TTFT SLO, the main win still came from topology first: `TP4 -> TP8`. +- `TP4/DP2` and `EP4` remain negative evidence in this stack. The former failed in probe search; the latter failed at engine launch. +- Runtime-only tuning inside the 4-GPU topology did not beat baseline at all. The useful search space opened only after moving to `TP8/DP1`. +- After the `TP8` switch, the winning runtime shape became more conservative than the looser prefill studies: `max-num-batched-tokens=4096` and `max-num-seqs=16`. +- This run shows that even under a much tighter TTFT target, the `TP8` shape still improves both raw throughput and per-GPU throughput materially over baseline. + +## Recommendation + +For `qwen235b thinking prefill-only` on the `0~32k` bucket under the `1s/2s` stepped TTFT SLO, use: + +- `tensor-parallel-size=8` +- `data-parallel-size=1` +- `enable-expert-parallel=false` +- `max-num-batched-tokens=4096` +- `max-num-seqs=16` +- `VLLM_ENABLE_TORCH_COMPILE=0` + +Keep the rest of the `run_qwen235b.sh` baseline unchanged.