[None][perf] Prefix-tokenization cache for the default input processor - #18389
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In multi-turn agentic serving each turn's prompt is the previous turn's prompt plus a small delta, but the frontend re-tokenizes the whole prompt every turn. On a GLM-5.2 disaggregated context server with ~38k-token prompts, nsys attributed 47.4% of context wall-clock to the tokenize-prompt range at 43.7 ms/request. Reusing the tokenization of the longest cached prefix and tokenizing only the tail brings that to 5.49 ms/request (10.5% of wall). Correctness is the whole difficulty: splitting a string and tokenizing the tail in isolation is not generally equal to tokenizing the whole, because BPE merges can straddle the seam. The cache backs off "overlap" tokens from the split, re-tokenizes from there, and requires the first "resync" re-tokenized ids to match the cached ids over the same span; if they do not, it tokenizes the prompt in full. Off by default (TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE=1 to enable) and applied only to plain long text prompts with a fast tokenizer -- skipped whenever the arguments would change tokenization (add_special_tokens, truncation, or a separate query). Any exception inside the cache falls back to the normal path, so it cannot fail a request. Adds tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py, which asserts spliced ids are identical to whole-prompt ids across multi-turn growth, that a tokenizer which cannot re-synchronize falls back to a full tokenization, and that concurrent encode() stays correct. The tokenizers used are context-sensitive rather than char-level, so the seam-straddling case is actually exercised; the suite was checked against three deliberate mutations (dropped resync guard, off-by-one splice, dropped overlap backoff) and catches all three. Measured end to end on GB300: an A/B on GLM-5.2 pareto07 (matched pair, 3600 s, ~29.6k requests per arm, 0.34% error both) shows TTFT p50 1135.5 -> 938.9 ms (-17.3%) with total throughput flat (+0.08%), i.e. this is a latency win at that operating point rather than a throughput win. Signed-off-by: Iman Tabrizian <10105175+tabrizian@users.noreply.github.com>
WalkthroughChangesThe pull request adds an opt-in, thread-safe prefix-tokenization cache. It reuses cached prompt prefixes, validates tokenizer resynchronization, falls back to full tokenization when needed, integrates with Prefix Token Cache
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The opt-in prefix cache can reuse token IDs from the wrong tokenizer, potentially producing incorrect request inputs; its default capacity may also retain excessive host memory, and malformed settings can fail request processing. These correctness and availability risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DefaultInputProcessor
participant PrefixTokenCache
participant Tokenizer
DefaultInputProcessor->>PrefixTokenCache: encode tokenizer and prompt
PrefixTokenCache->>Tokenizer: tokenize uncached tail
Tokenizer-->>PrefixTokenCache: return tail tokens and offsets
PrefixTokenCache->>PrefixTokenCache: validate seam and update cache
PrefixTokenCache-->>DefaultInputProcessor: return prompt token IDs
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py`:
- Line 1: Add the standard NVIDIA copyright and SPDX license header at the
beginning of the new source file, before the module docstring, using 2026 as the
latest modification year.
- Around line 138-149: Add a configurable byte or token budget to the prefix
token cache, track each entry’s retained prompt and list usage, and update the
insertion flow around _entries, _buckets, _order, and _evict to evict or reject
entries until the budget is satisfied. Preserve hit/miss accounting and add
coverage for budget-triggered eviction.
- Line 25: Update PrefixTokenCache by defining a typed cache-entry record and
tokenizer protocol, then annotate every function, especially _bucket_key,
_find_longest_prefix, and encode, with precise parameter and return types.
Replace untyped dictionaries and positional entry tuples with the typed
representations, use built-in generic syntax and | None, and avoid dict, object,
or Any annotations.
- Around line 143-149: The prefix cache currently evicts entries by insertion
order because reused entries are not promoted. Update _find_longest_prefix() to
return the matched entry ID, move that ID to the most-recent position in _order
when reused, and keep _evict() removing the least-recent entry; add coverage
proving a reused entry survives while an unused entry is evicted.
- Around line 163-168: Update PrefixTokenCache initialization in
DefaultInputProcessor to safely parse and validate all numeric cache environment
values before request processing, falling back to established defaults or
disabling the cache when any value is invalid instead of allowing int conversion
to raise. Add coverage for invalid numeric environment settings.
- Around line 101-107: Partition PrefixTokenCache entries by tokenizer identity
or configuration so encode and _find_longest_prefix never reuse token IDs
produced by a different tokenizer; update the process-wide
get_prefix_token_cache integration and cache lookup/keying accordingly, and add
a regression covering differing earlier mappings that share the checked seam
IDs.
In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/registry.py`:
- Around line 216-220: Define or reuse a cache-specific exception type covering
only expected tokenizer and cache failures, and update the cache encode path in
the surrounding registry method to catch that type instead of broad Exception.
Preserve the fallback behavior for expected cache failures, while recording
unexpected exceptions before disabling use_cache and continuing.
In `@tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py`:
- Around line 39-105: Rename the test-only helpers MergeTokenizer and
UnsyncableTokenizer to _MergeTokenizer and _UnsyncableTokenizer, updating every
reference; add required type annotations to their __call__ methods, _cache,
_turns, worker, and all test functions in the file, including the additional
affected section, while preserving existing behavior.
- Around line 108-176: Add focused tests for DefaultInputProcessor.__call__
covering eligible prefix-cache usage, fallback when the cache is disabled, and
fallback when cache encoding raises an exception; verify each path still
produces the expected tokenized output and locate the tests alongside the
existing input processor coverage.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` at line 1, Add the standard NVIDIA
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before the module docstring, using 2026 as the latest modification year.
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| import bisect | ||
| import os | ||
| import threading | ||
| from typing import List, Optional |
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Add precise types for the cache contract.
_bucket_key, _find_longest_prefix, and encode omit required parameter or return annotations. The cache also uses untyped dictionaries and positional entry tuples. Define a typed cache-entry record and a tokenizer protocol, then use built-in generic types and | None.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` at line 25, Update
PrefixTokenCache by defining a typed cache-entry record and tokenizer protocol,
then annotate every function, especially _bucket_key, _find_longest_prefix, and
encode, with precise parameter and return types. Replace untyped dictionaries
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| entry = self._find_longest_prefix(text) | ||
| if entry is not None: | ||
| ptext, pids, pends, pstarts, _ = entry | ||
| i = bisect.bisect_right(pends, len(ptext)) - self._overlap | ||
| if i > 0: | ||
| reuse, start_char = i, pstarts[i] | ||
| prev = (pids, pends, pstarts) |
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Partition PrefixTokenCache entries by tokenizer identity.
get_prefix_token_cache() is process-wide, while PrefixTokenCache.encode() looks up entries by prompt text only. It can reuse tokenizer A's pids for tokenizer B and checks only the first _resync IDs at the seam. If those IDs match but earlier mappings differ, the returned IDs are invalid for tokenizer B. Include tokenizer identity or configuration in the cache key and add a regression for this case.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` around lines 101 - 107, Partition
PrefixTokenCache entries by tokenizer identity or configuration so encode and
_find_longest_prefix never reuse token IDs produced by a different tokenizer;
update the process-wide get_prefix_token_cache integration and cache
lookup/keying accordingly, and add a regression covering differing earlier
mappings that share the checked seam IDs.
| with self._lock: | ||
| if reuse: | ||
| self.hits += 1 | ||
| else: | ||
| self.misses += 1 | ||
| eid = self._next_id | ||
| self._next_id += 1 | ||
| key = self._bucket_key(text) | ||
| self._entries[eid] = (text, ids, ends, starts, key) | ||
| self._buckets.setdefault(key, []).append(eid) | ||
| self._order.append(eid) | ||
| self._evict() |
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Bound cache capacity by memory usage.
Each entry retains the full prompt plus ids, starts, and ends, which are all O(token-count) Python lists. At the default 512 entries, long prompts at the reported ~38k-token scale can retain multiple gigabytes of host memory. Successive multi-turn prompts also retain near-duplicate prefixes.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` around lines 138 - 149, Add a
configurable byte or token budget to the prefix token cache, track each entry’s
retained prompt and list usage, and update the insertion flow around _entries,
_buckets, _order, and _evict to evict or reject entries until the budget is
satisfied. Preserve hit/miss accounting and add coverage for budget-triggered
eviction.
| eid = self._next_id | ||
| self._next_id += 1 | ||
| key = self._bucket_key(text) | ||
| self._entries[eid] = (text, ids, ends, starts, key) | ||
| self._buckets.setdefault(key, []).append(eid) | ||
| self._order.append(eid) | ||
| self._evict() |
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Implement LRU promotion instead of FIFO eviction.
A matched entry is never moved in _order. _evict() therefore removes by insertion order, not least-recently-used order. A hot prefix can be evicted before a cold prefix during interleaved requests.
Return the matched entry ID from _find_longest_prefix() and promote it on reuse. Add a test that a reused entry survives eviction ahead of an unused entry.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` around lines 143 - 149, The prefix
cache currently evicts entries by insertion order because reused entries are not
promoted. Update _find_longest_prefix() to return the matched entry ID, move
that ID to the most-recent position in _order when reused, and keep _evict()
removing the least-recent entry; add coverage proving a reused entry survives
while an unused entry is evicted.
| _CACHE = PrefixTokenCache( | ||
| max_entries=int(os.environ.get("TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_ENTRIES", "512")), | ||
| overlap=int(os.environ.get("TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_OVERLAP", "64")), | ||
| resync=int(os.environ.get("TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_RESYNC", "32")), | ||
| min_chars=int(os.environ.get("TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE_MIN_CHARS", "4096")), | ||
| ) |
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Validate cache environment values before request processing.
A non-integer cache setting raises from int(...). DefaultInputProcessor creates this singleton before its cache fallback try block, so an invalid enabled setting can fail tokenization requests.
Parse and validate these values with safe defaults or disable the cache on invalid configuration. Add coverage for invalid numeric environment values.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/inputs/prefix_token_cache.py` around lines 163 - 168, Update
PrefixTokenCache initialization in DefaultInputProcessor to safely parse and
validate all numeric cache environment values before request processing, falling
back to established defaults or disabling the cache when any value is invalid
instead of allowing int conversion to raise. Add coverage for invalid numeric
environment settings.
| try: | ||
| return cache.encode(self.tokenizer, prompt), None | ||
| except Exception: | ||
| # never fail a request over a cache problem | ||
| use_cache = False |
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Restrict the cache fallback exception boundary.
Line 218 suppresses every Exception from the new cache path, including programming errors such as AttributeError and invalid internal state. Those failures become silent full-tokenization fallbacks and can conceal cache regressions.
Define a cache-specific exception boundary for expected tokenizer and cache failures. Catch that exception here and record unexpected exceptions before fallback.
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catch that type instead of broad Exception. Preserve the fallback behavior for
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| class MergeTokenizer: | ||
| """Char-level tokenizer with two-char merges. | ||
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| The merges make tokenization context-sensitive at a split point: a tail | ||
| beginning mid-merge tokenizes differently than the same characters do | ||
| inside the whole string. That is the BPE property the cache must survive. | ||
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| is_fast = True | ||
| MERGES = frozenset({"ab", "cd", "th", "he", "in", "er"}) | ||
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| def __call__(self, text, add_special_tokens=False, return_offsets_mapping=False, **kwargs): | ||
| ids, offsets, i = [], [], 0 | ||
| while i < len(text): | ||
| pair = text[i : i + 2] | ||
| token, width = (pair, 2) if pair in self.MERGES else (text[i], 1) | ||
| ids.append(_tok_id(token)) | ||
| offsets.append((i, i + width)) | ||
| i += width | ||
| out = {"input_ids": ids} | ||
| if return_offsets_mapping: | ||
| out["offset_mapping"] = offsets | ||
| return out | ||
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| """Pathological: every id encodes the token's absolute position. | ||
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| A tail tokenized in isolation restarts its position counter, so its ids can | ||
| never equal the cached prefix's ids over the resync span. This is the case | ||
| the cache must detect and answer by tokenizing the prompt in full -- it | ||
| stands in for a tokenizer whose state genuinely depends on the whole input. | ||
| """ | ||
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| def __call__(self, text, add_special_tokens=False, return_offsets_mapping=False, **kwargs): | ||
| ids, offsets = [], [] | ||
| for i in range(0, len(text), 2): | ||
| token = text[i : i + 2] | ||
| ids.append(_tok_id(token) + 1000 * len(ids)) | ||
| offsets.append((i, i + len(token))) | ||
| out = {"input_ids": ids} | ||
| if return_offsets_mapping: | ||
| out["offset_mapping"] = offsets | ||
| return out | ||
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| # same bucket and the prefix lookup can actually find them. | ||
| PREAMBLE = "the cabinet had inner thread. " * 4 | ||
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| def _cache(**kwargs): | ||
| defaults = dict(max_entries=64, overlap=4, resync=2, min_chars=0, bucket_chars=16) | ||
| defaults.update(kwargs) | ||
| return PrefixTokenCache(**defaults) | ||
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| def _turns(n=12): | ||
| """Prompts that grow by a small delta, as multi-turn serving does.""" | ||
| text = PREAMBLE | ||
| out = [] | ||
| for i in range(n): | ||
| text += f"turn {i}: theابcd inner answer aber {i} thereabouts. " | ||
| out.append(text) | ||
| return out |
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MergeTokenizer and UnsyncableTokenizer are module-only test doubles but use public names. Rename them to _MergeTokenizer and _UnsyncableTokenizer. Add required annotations to their methods, _cache, _turns, worker, and the test functions.
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type annotations to their __call__ methods, _cache, _turns, worker, and all test
functions in the file, including the additional affected section, while
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| def test_multi_turn_growth_is_byte_identical(): | ||
| tokenizer, cache = MergeTokenizer(), _cache() | ||
| for prompt in _turns(): | ||
| assert cache.encode(tokenizer, prompt) == tokenizer(prompt)["input_ids"] | ||
| # The whole point: later turns must actually reuse a cached prefix. | ||
| assert cache.hits > 0 | ||
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| unrelated = "a wholly different opening that shares no prefix at all. " * 3 | ||
| for prompt in _turns(6): | ||
| assert cache.encode(tokenizer, prompt) == tokenizer(prompt)["input_ids"] | ||
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| def test_resync_failure_falls_back_to_full_tokenization(): | ||
| tokenizer, cache = UnsyncableTokenizer(), _cache() | ||
| results = [cache.encode(tokenizer, p) for p in _turns()] | ||
| for prompt, ids in zip(_turns(), results): | ||
| assert ids == tokenizer(prompt)["input_ids"] | ||
| # The fallback must have been exercised, else this proves nothing. | ||
| assert cache.resync_failures > 0 | ||
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| tokenizer, cache = MergeTokenizer(), _cache(max_entries=8) | ||
| for prompt in _turns(40): | ||
| cache.encode(tokenizer, prompt) | ||
| assert len(cache._entries) <= 8 | ||
| assert len(cache._order) <= 8 | ||
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| tokenizer, cache = MergeTokenizer(), _cache() | ||
| prompts = _turns(16) | ||
| expected = {p: tokenizer(p)["input_ids"] for p in prompts} | ||
| errors = [] | ||
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| for prompt in prompts: | ||
| assert cache.encode(tokenizer, prompt) == expected[prompt] | ||
| except Exception as exc: # surface in the main thread | ||
| errors.append(exc) | ||
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| for t in threads: | ||
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| "value,expected", [(None, False), ("0", False), ("", False), ("true", False), ("1", True)] | ||
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| def test_enabled_only_for_exactly_one(value, expected): | ||
| env = dict(os.environ) | ||
| env.pop("TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE", None) | ||
| if value is not None: | ||
| env["TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE"] = value | ||
| with patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True): | ||
| assert prefix_cache_enabled() is expected | ||
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| def test_get_prefix_token_cache_is_a_singleton(): | ||
| assert get_prefix_token_cache() is get_prefix_token_cache() |
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Test coverage summary — insufficient.
The seven added tests cover direct PrefixTokenCache behavior, but not DefaultInputProcessor.__call__ cache eligibility or fallback branches. The tests are covered by unittest/inputs in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml; no separate QA entry is needed for this unit-test path.
Add focused DefaultInputProcessor tests for eligible caching, disabled-cache fallback, and cache-exception fallback.
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In `@tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py` around lines 108 - 176, Add
focused tests for DefaultInputProcessor.__call__ covering eligible prefix-cache
usage, fallback when the cache is disabled, and fallback when cache encoding
raises an exception; verify each path still produces the expected tokenized
output and locate the tests alongside the existing input processor coverage.
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Description
In multi-turn agentic serving each turn's prompt is the previous turn's prompt plus a small delta, but the frontend re-tokenizes the whole prompt every turn. On a GLM-5.2 disaggregated context server with ~38k-token prompts, nsys attributed 47.4% of context wall-clock to the
tokenize promptrange, at 43.7 ms/request.This adds an opt-in prefix-tokenization cache to
DefaultInputProcessor: it reuses the tokenization of the longest cached prefix and tokenizes only the tail, bringing that to 5.49 ms/request (10.5% of wall).Correctness is the whole difficulty. Splitting a string and tokenizing the tail in isolation is not generally equal to tokenizing the whole, because BPE merges can straddle the seam. The cache therefore backs off
overlaptokens from the split point, re-tokenizes from there, and requires the firstresyncre-tokenized ids to equal the cached ids over the same span. If they do not, it tokenizes the prompt in full.Scope and safety:
TLLM_PREFIX_TOKEN_CACHE=1to enable.add_special_tokens, truncation, or a separatequery).max_entries(default 512).Measured effect
An A/B on GLM-5.2 pareto07 (GB300, matched pair, 3600 s, ~29.6k requests per arm, 0.34% error rate in both, identical config except the env var):
So this is a latency win, not a throughput win, at that operating point — total throughput and ITL are flat. Reviewers should not expect a throughput improvement from it.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/inputs/test_prefix_token_cache.py(new, 11 cases):resync_failures > 0)encode()from 8 threads stays correctprefix_cache_enabled()is true only for exactly"1"The stub tokenizers are context-sensitive, not char-level, so the seam-straddling case is genuinely exercised. The suite was validated against three deliberate mutations of the implementation — dropped resync guard, off-by-one splice point, dropped overlap backoff — and catches all three.
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