-`VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE`: specify the KV Cache size (e.g, `VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=40` means 40 GiB space for KV cache), larger setting will allow vLLM running more requests in parallel. This parameter should be set based on the hardware configuration and memory management pattern of users. Default value is `0`.
-`VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND`: specify the CPU cores dedicated to the OpenMP threads, can be set as CPU id lists or `auto` (by default). For example, `VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=0-31` means there will be 32 OpenMP threads bound on 0-31 CPU cores. `VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=0-31|32-63` means there will be 2 tensor parallel processes, 32 OpenMP threads of rank0 are bound on 0-31 CPU cores, and the OpenMP threads of rank1 are bound on 32-63 CPU cores. By setting to `auto`, the OpenMP threads of each rank are bound to the CPU cores in each NUMA node respectively.
-`VLLM_CPU_NUM_OF_RESERVED_CPU`: specify the number of CPU cores which are not dedicated to the OpenMP threads for each rank. The variable only takes effect when VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND is set to `auto`. Default value is `None`. If the value is not set and use `auto` thread binding, no CPU will be reserved for `world_size == 1`, 1 CPU per rank will be reserved for `world_size > 1`.
-`VLLM_CPU_MOE_PREPACK` (x86 only): whether to use prepack for MoE layer. This will be passed to `ipex.llm.modules.GatedMLPMOE`. Default is `1` (True). On unsupported CPUs, you might need to set this to `0` (False).
-`VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL` (x86 only, Experimental): whether to use small-batch optimized kernels for linear layer and MoE layer, especially for low-latency requirements like online serving. The kernels require AMX instruction set, BFloat16 weight type and weight shapes divisible by 32. Default is `0` (False).
- Currently vLLM CPU uses model default settings as `dtype`. However, due to unstable float16 support in torch CPU, it is recommended to explicitly set `dtype=bfloat16` if there are any performance or accuracy problem.
- When using the online serving, it is recommended to reserve 1-2 CPU cores for the serving framework to avoid CPU oversubscription. For example, on a platform with 32 physical CPU cores, reserving CPU 31 for the framework and using CPU 0-30 for inference threads:
- Default `auto` thread-binding is recommended for most cases. Ideally, each OpenMP thread will be bound to a dedicated physical core respectively, threads of each rank will be bound to a same NUMA node respectively, and 1 CPU per rank will be reserved for other vLLM components when `world_size > 1`. If have any performance problems or unexpected binding behaviours, please try to bind threads as following.
- On a hyper-threading enabled platform with 16 logical CPU cores / 8 physical CPU cores:
$ lscpu -e # check the mapping between logical CPU cores and physical CPU cores
# The "CPU" column means the logical CPU core IDs, and the "CORE" column means the physical core IDs. On this platform, two logical cores are sharing one physical core.
CPU NODE SOCKET CORE L1d:L1i:L2:L3 ONLINE MAXMHZ MINMHZ MHZ
0 0 0 0 0:0:0:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
1 0 0 1 1:1:1:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
2 0 0 2 2:2:2:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
3 0 0 3 3:3:3:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
4 0 0 4 4:4:4:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
5 0 0 5 5:5:5:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
6 0 0 6 6:6:6:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
7 0 0 7 7:7:7:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
8 0 0 0 0:0:0:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
9 0 0 1 1:1:1:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
10 0 0 2 2:2:2:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
11 0 0 3 3:3:3:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
12 0 0 4 4:4:4:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
13 0 0 5 5:5:5:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
14 0 0 6 6:6:6:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
15 0 0 7 7:7:7:0 yes 2401.0000 800.0000 800.000
# On this platform, it is recommend to only bind openMP threads on logical CPU cores 0-7 or 8-15
- When deploy vLLM CPU backend on a multi-socket machine with NUMA and enable tensor parallel or pipeline parallel, each NUMA node is treated as a TP/PP rank. So be aware to set CPU cores of a single rank on a same NUMA node to avoid cross NUMA node memory access.
This value is 4GB by default. Larger space can support more concurrent requests, longer context length. However, users should take care of memory capacity of each NUMA node. The memory usage of each TP rank is the sum of `weight shard size` and `VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE`, if it exceeds the capacity of a single NUMA node, the TP worker will be killed with `exitcode 9` due to out-of-memory.
First of all, please make sure the thread-binding and KV cache space are properly set and take effect. You can check the thread-binding by running a vLLM benchmark and observing CPU cores usage via `htop`.
Inference batch size is an important parameter for the performance. Larger batch usually provides higher throughput, smaller batch provides lower latency. Tuning max batch size starts from default value to balance throughput and latency is an effective way to improve vLLM CPU performance on specific platforms. There are two important related parameters in vLLM:
-`--max-num-batched-tokens`, defines the limit of token numbers in a single batch, has more impacts on the first token performance. The default value is set as:
- Offline Inference: `4096 * world_size`
- Online Serving: `2048 * world_size`
-`--max-num-seqs`, defines the limit of sequence numbers in a single batch, has more impacts on the output token performance.
vLLM CPU supports tensor parallel (TP) and pipeline parallel (PP) to leverage multiple CPU sockets and memory nodes. For more details of tuning TP and PP, please refer to [Optimization and Tuning](../../configuration/optimization.md). For vLLM CPU, it is recommend to use TP and PP together if there are enough CPU sockets and memory nodes.
