swadhinbiswas WIP save-point: production hardening, H3 removal, fmt gate, and accumulated phase work · 7/15/2026
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//! Inference-engine scheduler benchmark — structural proof-of-mechanism on the
//! CPU fixture.
//!
//! No GPU is available in CI, so this does **not** measure wall-clock LLM
//! tokens/sec. Instead it drives the *real* JustAPI schedulers
//! ([`PdScheduler`] for disaggregated prefill/decode, [`Scheduler`] for a
//! collocated pool) with a parameterized synthetic GPU-cost model and reports
//! the scheduling metrics that define LLM-serving quality:
//!
//! - **TTFT** (time to first token) — prefill latency experienced by a request.
//! - **ITL** (inter-token latency) — decode-step spacing (streaming smoothness).
//! - **Throughput** — total generated tokens / wall time.
//!
//! ## Cost + parallelism model
//!
//! Prefill cost scales with prompt tokens processed in a step (compute-bound);
//! decode cost is a single fixed step regardless of batch size
//! (memory-bandwidth-bound) — the standard vLLM/SGLang assumption.
//!
//! The two topologies differ in *hardware*:
//! - **Disaggregated** runs prefill and decode on **independent pools** (separate
//! GPUs), so their timelines advance in parallel. Decode ITL is therefore
//! decoupled from prefill — it stays uniform at `decode_us` even while prefill
//! is busy.
//! - **Collocated** shares one pool, so each step serialises prefill-then-decode
//! on the same budget; decode ITL is inflated by whatever prefill work shares
//! the step.
//!
//! We model this with two independent virtual clocks (disaggregated) vs one
//! shared clock (collocated). This is a faithful structural model of the
//! scheduler topology, not a wall-clock GPU claim.
use std::collections::HashSet;
use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
use std::time::Instant;
use justapi_inference::{
Engine, EngineDevice, KvBlockPool, NewRequest, PdScheduler, SamplingParams, Scheduler,
SchedulerConfig, SchedulerEngine,
};
/// Benchmark parameters.
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
struct BenchParams {
/// Number of concurrent requests submitted at t=0 (burst load).
num_requests: usize,
/// Base prompt length; actual length varies per request to force prefill/decode
/// overlap (so the collocated scheduler's ITL degradation is visible).
prompt_len: usize,
/// Max new tokens to generate per request.
max_tokens: usize,
/// Synthetic prefill cost: microseconds per prompt token in a prefill step.
prefill_us_per_token: u64,
/// Synthetic decode cost: microseconds for one batched decode step.
decode_us_per_token: u64,
/// Chunked-prefill size (None = whole prompt at once).
chunked_prefill_size: Option<usize>,
}
/// Collected scheduling metrics for one run (times in milliseconds).
#[derive(Default)]
struct Metrics {
/// Per-request time-to-first-token.
ttfts: Vec<f64>,
/// Per-decode-step inter-token latency.
itls: Vec<f64>,
/// Total generated (decode) tokens.
total_tokens: u64,
/// Wall-clock duration (virtual).
wall_ms: f64,
/// Tokens transferred prefill→decode pool (disaggregated only).
transferred_tokens: usize,
}
fn make_request(id: u64, prompt_len: usize, max_tokens: usize) -> NewRequest {
NewRequest {
id,
prompt: (0..prompt_len as u32).collect(),
sampling_params: SamplingParams { max_tokens, ..Default::default() },
prefix_cached_tokens: 0,
cached_blocks: Vec::new(),
}
}
fn percentile(sorted: &[f64], p: f64) -> f64 {
if sorted.is_empty() {
return 0.0;
}
let rank = (p * (sorted.len() as f64 - 1.0)).round() as usize;
sorted[rank.min(sorted.len() - 1)]
}
/// Run the **disaggregated** configuration: independent prefill and decode pools
/// modelled with parallel virtual clocks.
fn run_disaggregated(p: &BenchParams) -> Metrics {
let mut pd = PdScheduler::new(
SchedulerConfig {
max_num_seqs: p.num_requests.max(1),
max_num_batched_tokens: 8192,
max_seq_len: 8192,
chunked_prefill_size: p.chunked_prefill_size,
},
KvBlockPool::new(8192),
SchedulerConfig {
max_num_seqs: p.num_requests.max(1),
max_num_batched_tokens: 8192,
max_seq_len: 8192,
chunked_prefill_size: p.chunked_prefill_size,
},
KvBlockPool::new(8192),
);
for i in 0..p.num_requests as u64 {
// Vary prompt length so sequences finish prefill at different steps and
// prefill/decode overlap.
let pl = p.prompt_len + ((i as usize) % 5) * 48;
pd.add_request(make_request(i, pl, p.max_tokens));
}
// Two independent timelines (parallel prefill + decode GPUs).
let mut prefill_clock = 0.0_f64; // µs
let mut decode_clock = 0.0_f64; // µs
let mut m = Metrics::default();
let mut decoded_once: HashSet<u64> = HashSet::new();
let mut prev_decode_clock: Option<f64> = None;
loop {
if pd.is_idle() {
break;
}
// ---- prefill pool ----
let sched = pd.schedule_prefill();
let p_cost: f64 = sched.prefill.iter().map(|s| s.tokens.len()).sum::<usize>() as f64
* p.prefill_us_per_token as f64;
prefill_clock += p_cost;
for step in &sched.prefill {
pd.on_prefill_complete(step.seq_id, 1);
}
m.transferred_tokens += pd.transfer_completed();
// ---- decode pool (runs in parallel on its own GPU) ----
let sched = pd.schedule_decode();
let d_cost: f64 = if sched.decode.is_empty() { 0.0 } else { p.decode_us_per_token as f64 };
decode_clock += d_cost;
if !sched.decode.is_empty() {
// Global virtual time = the later of the two pool timelines.
let now = prefill_clock.max(decode_clock);
for &seq_id in &sched.decode {
if decoded_once.insert(seq_id) {
m.ttfts.push(now / 1000.0);
}
pd.on_decode_complete(seq_id, 1);
}
m.total_tokens += sched.decode.len() as u64;
// ITL is measured on the decode pool's own timeline (independent).
if let Some(prev) = prev_decode_clock {
m.itls.push((decode_clock - prev) / 1000.0);
}
prev_decode_clock = Some(decode_clock);
}
}
m.wall_ms = decode_clock.max(prefill_clock) / 1000.0;
m
}
/// Run the **collocated** configuration: one scheduler, one shared virtual clock
/// (prefill and decode serialised on the same pool/budget).
fn run_collocated(p: &BenchParams) -> Metrics {
let mut sched = Scheduler::new(
SchedulerConfig {
max_num_seqs: p.num_requests.max(1),
max_num_batched_tokens: 8192,
max_seq_len: 8192,
chunked_prefill_size: p.chunked_prefill_size,
},
KvBlockPool::new(8192),
);
for i in 0..p.num_requests as u64 {
let pl = p.prompt_len + ((i as usize) % 5) * 48;
sched.add_request(make_request(i, pl, p.max_tokens));
}
let mut t = 0.0_f64; // µs, single shared clock
let mut m = Metrics::default();
let mut decoded_once: HashSet<u64> = HashSet::new();
let mut prev_t: Option<f64> = None;
loop {
if sched.is_idle() {
break;
}
let s = sched.schedule();
// Shared pool: prefill and decode serialised in the same step.
let mut cost = 0.0_f64;
for step in &s.prefill {
cost += (step.tokens.len() as f64) * p.prefill_us_per_token as f64;
}
if !s.decode.is_empty() {
cost += p.decode_us_per_token as f64;
}
t += cost;
for step in &s.prefill {
sched.on_step_complete(step.seq_id, 1);
}
for &seq_id in &s.decode {
if decoded_once.insert(seq_id) {
m.ttfts.push(t / 1000.0);
}
sched.on_step_complete(seq_id, 1);
}
m.total_tokens += s.decode.len() as u64;
if !s.decode.is_empty() {
if let Some(prev) = prev_t {
m.itls.push((t - prev) / 1000.0);
}
prev_t = Some(t);
}
}
m.wall_ms = t / 1000.0;
m
}
fn report(name: &str, m: &Metrics, p: &BenchParams) {
let mut ttfts = m.ttfts.clone();
ttfts.sort_by(|a, b| a.partial_cmp(b).unwrap());
let mut itls = m.itls.clone();
itls.sort_by(|a, b| a.partial_cmp(b).unwrap());
let tput = if m.wall_ms > 0.0 { m.total_tokens as f64 / (m.wall_ms / 1000.0) } else { 0.0 };
println!("### {name}");
println!();
println!("| Metric | p50 | p99 |");
println!("|---|---|---|");
println!("| TTFT (ms) | {:.2} | {:.2} |", percentile(&ttfts, 0.5), percentile(&ttfts, 0.99));
println!("| ITL (ms) | {:.2} | {:.2} |", percentile(&itls, 0.5), percentile(&itls, 0.99));
println!("| Throughput (tok/s) | {:.0} | |", tput);
println!("| Total tokens | {} | |", m.total_tokens);
println!("| Wall time (ms) | {:.2} | |", m.wall_ms);
if m.transferred_tokens > 0 {
println!("| Transferred tokens (P→D) | {} | |", m.transferred_tokens);
}
println!();
println!(
"Config: {} requests, prompt≈{}-{} tok, max_tokens={}, prefill={}µs/tok, decode={}µs/step, chunk={:?}",
p.num_requests,
p.prompt_len,
p.prompt_len + 4 * 48,
p.max_tokens,
p.prefill_us_per_token,
p.decode_us_per_token,
p.chunked_prefill_size
);
println!();
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Real wall-clock throughput (CPU fixture, MockModel)
//
// The structural benchmark above models GPU cost synthetically. This section
// additionally drives the *real* generation path (naive `Engine::generate` vs
// scheduler-backed `SchedulerEngine::generate`) and measures actual token
// throughput on the CPU fixture. This quantifies the scheduler's per-token
// overhead (thread hop + lock + sampling) — not LLM tokens/sec, which needs a
// GPU.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const REAL_MODEL: &str = "mock";
/// Run `n` requests through the naive `Engine::generate` path and return
/// (total_tokens, wall_ms).
fn bench_naive(n: usize, prompt_len: usize, max_tokens: usize) -> (u64, f64) {
let engine = Arc::new(Engine::new(EngineDevice::Cpu).unwrap());
engine.register_mock(REAL_MODEL);
let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread().build().unwrap();
let prompt: Vec<u32> = (0..prompt_len as u32).collect();
let params = SamplingParams { max_tokens, ..Default::default() };
let start = Instant::now();
let total: u64 = rt.block_on(async {
let mut total = 0u64;
for _ in 0..n {
let mut rx = engine.generate(REAL_MODEL, &prompt, params.clone()).unwrap();
while let Some(tok) = rx.recv().await {
if tok.finish_reason.is_some() {
break;
}
total += 1;
}
}
total
});
let wall_ms = start.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0;
(total, wall_ms)
}
/// Run `n` requests through the scheduler-backed `SchedulerEngine` path and
/// return (total_tokens, wall_ms).
fn bench_scheduled(n: usize, prompt_len: usize, max_tokens: usize) -> (u64, f64) {
let engine = Arc::new(Engine::new(EngineDevice::Cpu).unwrap());
engine.register_mock(REAL_MODEL);
let pool = KvBlockPool::new(4096);
let config = SchedulerConfig { max_num_seqs: n.max(1), ..Default::default() };
let scheduler = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Scheduler::new(config, pool)));
let se = Arc::new(SchedulerEngine::new(engine.clone(), scheduler));
let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread().build().unwrap();
let prompt: Vec<u32> = (0..prompt_len as u32).collect();
let params = SamplingParams { max_tokens, ..Default::default() };
let start = Instant::now();
let total: u64 = rt.block_on(async {
let mut total = 0u64;
// All requests are admitted up front; the persistent scheduler loop
// interleaves them (continuous batching).
let mut receivers = Vec::new();
for _ in 0..n {
receivers.push(se.generate(REAL_MODEL, &prompt, params.clone()).unwrap());
}
for rx in receivers.iter_mut() {
while let Some(tok) = rx.recv().await {
if tok.finish_reason.is_some() {
break;
}
total += 1;
}
}
total
});
let wall_ms = start.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1000.0;
(total, wall_ms)
}
fn main() {
let params = BenchParams {
num_requests: 16,
prompt_len: 64,
max_tokens: 64,
prefill_us_per_token: 5,
decode_us_per_token: 200,
chunked_prefill_size: Some(16),
};
println!("# JustAPI inference scheduler benchmark — disaggregated P/D vs collocated");
println!();
println!(
"Hardware: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13600K (20 threads), CachyOS. \
Structural run — GPU cost modeled synthetically (no GPU in CI). \
Disaggregated = parallel prefill/decode timelines; collocated = shared timeline."
);
println!();
let coll = run_collocated(¶ms);
let disagg = run_disaggregated(¶ms);
report("Collocated (single pool, prefill+decode serialised)", &coll, ¶ms);
report("Disaggregated (independent prefill/decode pools)", &disagg, ¶ms);
let mut coll_itl = coll.itls.clone();
coll_itl.sort_by(|a, b| a.partial_cmp(b).unwrap());
let mut disagg_itl = disagg.itls.clone();
disagg_itl.sort_by(|a, b| a.partial_cmp(b).unwrap());
let coll_p99 = percentile(&coll_itl, 0.99);
let disagg_p99 = percentile(&disagg_itl, 0.99);
let itl_improvement = if disagg_p99 > 0.0 { coll_p99 / disagg_p99 } else { 1.0 };
let tput_improvement = if coll.wall_ms > 0.0 { disagg.wall_ms / coll.wall_ms } else { 1.0 };
println!("---");
println!();
println!(
"**ITL p99:** collocated {:.2} ms → disaggregated {:.2} ms ({:.2}x tighter)",
coll_p99, disagg_p99, itl_improvement
);
println!(
"**Wall time:** collocated {:.2} ms → disaggregated {:.2} ms ({:.2}x faster, parallel pools)",
coll.wall_ms, disagg.wall_ms, tput_improvement
);
println!();
// ---- Real wall-clock throughput comparison ----
println!("---");
println!();
println!("# Real wall-clock throughput (CPU fixture, MockModel)");
println!();
println!(
"Measures actual generation latency on the CPU — quantifies scheduler \
per-token overhead (thread hop + lock contention + sampling). \
All models are MockModel (instant forward pass)."
);
println!();
let n_requests_real = 8;
let prompt_len_real = 8;
let max_tokens_real = 16;
let (naive_tokens, naive_ms) = bench_naive(n_requests_real, prompt_len_real, max_tokens_real);
let (sched_tokens, sched_ms) =
bench_scheduled(n_requests_real, prompt_len_real, max_tokens_real);
let naive_tput = (naive_tokens as f64) / (naive_ms / 1000.0);
let sched_tput = (sched_tokens as f64) / (sched_ms / 1000.0);
let overhead = if naive_tput > 0.0 { sched_tput / naive_tput * 100.0 } else { 0.0 };
println!("| Path | Total tokens | Wall (ms) | Throughput (tok/s) | Overhead vs naive |");
println!("|---|---|---|---|---|");
println!("| Naive Engine | {naive_tokens} | {naive_ms:.2} | {naive_tput:.0} | — |");
println!(
"| SchedulerEngine | {sched_tokens} | {sched_ms:.2} | {sched_tput:.0} | Scheduler {overhead:.1}% of naive |"
);
println!();
println!(
"Config: {n_requests_real} requests, {prompt_len_real} prompt tokens, {max_tokens_real} max_tokens each."
);
println!();
}