[v1] [P/D] Adding LMCache KV connector for v1 (#16625)

examples/lmcache/README.md

+# LMCache Examples
+
+This folder demonstrates how to use LMCache for disaggregated prefilling, CPU offloading and KV cache sharing.
+
+## 1. Disaggregated Prefill in vLLM v1
+
+This example demonstrates how to run LMCache with disaggregated prefill using NIXL on a single node.
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+- Install [LMCache](https://github.com/ai-dynamo/lmcache)
+- Install [NIXL](https://github.com/ai-dynamo/nixl)
+- At least 2 GPUs
+- Valid Hugging Face token (HF_TOKEN) for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.
+
+### Usage
+
+Run
+`cd disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1`
+to get into `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1` folder, and then run
+
+```bash
+bash disagg_example_nixl.sh
+```
+
+to run disaggregated prefill and benchmark the performance.
+
+### Components
+
+#### Server Scripts
+- `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_vllm_launcher.sh` - Launches individual vLLM servers for prefill/decode, and also launches the proxy server.
+- `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_proxy_server.py` - FastAPI proxy server that coordinates between prefiller and decoder
+- `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_example_nixl.sh` - Main script to run the example
+
+#### Configuration
+- `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/configs/lmcache-prefiller-config.yaml` - Configuration for prefiller server
+- `disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/configs/lmcache-decoder-config.yaml` - Configuration for decoder server
+
+#### Log Files
+The main script generates several log files:
+- `prefiller.log` - Logs from the prefill server
+- `decoder.log` - Logs from the decode server
+- `proxy.log` - Logs from the proxy server
+
+## 2. CPU Offload Examples
+
+- `cpu_offload_lmcache_v0.py` - CPU offloading implementation for vLLM v0
+- `cpu_offload_lmcache_v1.py` - CPU offloading implementation for vLLM v1
+
+## 3. KV Cache Sharing
+
+The `kv_cache_sharing_lmcache_v1.py` example demonstrates how to share KV caches between vLLM v1 instances.
+
+## 4. Disaggregated Prefill in vLLM v0
+
+The `disaggregated_prefill_lmcache_v0.py` provides an example of how to run disaggregated prefill in vLLM v0.

examples/lmcache/cpu_offload_lmcache_v1.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""
+This file demonstrates the example usage of cpu offloading
+with LMCache in vLLM v1.
+
+Note that lmcache needs to be installed to run this example.
+Learn more about LMCache in https://github.com/LMCache/LMCache.
+"""
+import os
+
+from lmcache.experimental.cache_engine import LMCacheEngineBuilder
+from lmcache.integration.vllm.utils import ENGINE_NAME
+
+from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+from vllm.config import KVTransferConfig
+
+# LMCache-related environment variables
+# Use experimental features in LMCache
+os.environ["LMCACHE_USE_EXPERIMENTAL"] = "True"
+# LMCache is set to use 256 tokens per chunk
+os.environ["LMCACHE_CHUNK_SIZE"] = "256"
+# Enable local CPU backend in LMCache
+os.environ["LMCACHE_LOCAL_CPU"] = "True"
+# Set local CPU memory limit to 5.0 GB
+os.environ["LMCACHE_MAX_LOCAL_CPU_SIZE"] = "5.0"
+
+# This example script runs two requests with a shared prefix.
+shared_prompt = "Hello, how are you?" * 1000
+first_prompt = [
+    shared_prompt + "Hello, my name is",
+]
+second_prompt = [
+    shared_prompt + "Tell me a very long story",
+]
+
+sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=10)
+
+ktc = KVTransferConfig.from_cli(
+    '{"kv_connector":"LMCacheConnectorV1", "kv_role":"kv_both"}')
+# Set GPU memory utilization to 0.8 for an A40 GPU with 40GB
+# memory. Reduce the value if your GPU has less memory.
+# Note that LMCache is not compatible with chunked prefill for now.
+llm = LLM(model="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
+          kv_transfer_config=ktc,
+          max_model_len=8000,
+          gpu_memory_utilization=0.8)
+
+# Should be able to see logs like the following:
+# `LMCache INFO: Storing KV cache for 6006 out of 6006 tokens for request 0`
+# This indicates that the KV cache has been stored in LMCache.
+outputs = llm.generate(first_prompt, sampling_params)
+for output in outputs:
+    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+    print(f"Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
+
+# Clean up lmcache backend
+LMCacheEngineBuilder.destroy(ENGINE_NAME)

examples/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/configs/lmcache-decoder-config.yaml

+local_cpu: False
+max_local_cpu_size: 0
+#local_disk: 
+max_local_disk_size: 0
+remote_serde: NULL
+
+enable_nixl: True
+nixl_role: "receiver"
+nixl_peer_host: "localhost"
+nixl_peer_port: 55555
+nixl_buffer_size: 1073741824 # 1GB
+nixl_buffer_device: "cuda"
+nixl_enable_gc: True

examples/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/configs/lmcache-prefiller-config.yaml

+local_cpu: False
+max_local_cpu_size: 0
+#local_disk: 
+max_local_disk_size: 0
+remote_serde: NULL
+
+enable_nixl: True
+nixl_role: "sender"
+nixl_peer_host: "localhost"
+nixl_peer_port: 55555
+nixl_buffer_size: 1073741824 # 1GB
+nixl_buffer_device: "cuda"
+nixl_enable_gc: True

examples/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_example_nixl.sh

+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Warning: LMCache disaggregated prefill support for vLLM v1 is experimental and subject to change."
+
+
+PIDS=()
+
+# Switch to the directory of the current script
+cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
+
+check_hf_token() {
+    if [ -z "$HF_TOKEN" ]; then
+        echo "HF_TOKEN is not set. Please set it to your Hugging Face token."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if [[ "$HF_TOKEN" != hf_* ]]; then
+        echo "HF_TOKEN is not a valid Hugging Face token. Please set it to your Hugging Face token."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "HF_TOKEN is set and valid."
+}
+
+check_num_gpus() {
+    # can you check if the number of GPUs are >=2 via nvidia-smi?
+    num_gpus=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name --format=csv,noheader | wc -l)
+    if [ "$num_gpus" -lt 2 ]; then
+        echo "You need at least 2 GPUs to run disaggregated prefill."
+        exit 1
+    else
+        echo "Found $num_gpus GPUs."
+    fi
+}
+
+ensure_python_library_installed() {
+    echo "Checking if $1 is installed..."
+    python -c "import $1" > /dev/null 2>&1
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        if [ "$1" == "nixl" ]; then
+            echo "$1 is not installed. Please refer to https://github.com/ai-dynamo/nixl for installation."
+        else
+            echo "$1 is not installed. Please install it via pip install $1."
+        fi
+        exit 1
+    else
+        echo "$1 is installed."
+    fi
+}
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "Stopping everything…"
+    trap - INT TERM        # prevent re-entrancy
+    kill -- -$$            # negative PID  ==  “this whole process-group”
+    wait                   # reap children so we don't leave zombies
+    exit 0
+}
+
+wait_for_server() {
+  local port=$1
+  local timeout_seconds=1200
+  local start_time=$(date +%s)
+
+  echo "Waiting for server on port $port..."
+
+  while true; do
+    if curl -s "localhost:${port}/v1/completions" > /dev/null; then
+      return 0
+    fi
+
+    local now=$(date +%s)
+    if (( now - start_time >= timeout_seconds )); then
+      echo "Timeout waiting for server"
+      return 1
+    fi
+
+    sleep 1
+  done
+}
+
+
+main() {
+    check_hf_token
+    check_num_gpus
+    ensure_python_library_installed lmcache
+    ensure_python_library_installed nixl
+    ensure_python_library_installed pandas
+    ensure_python_library_installed datasets
+    ensure_python_library_installed vllm
+
+    trap cleanup INT
+    trap cleanup USR1
+    trap cleanup TERM
+
+    echo "Launching prefiller, decoder and proxy..."
+    echo "Please check prefiller.log, decoder.log and proxy.log for logs."
+
+    bash disagg_vllm_launcher.sh prefiller \
+        > >(tee prefiller.log) 2>&1 &
+    prefiller_pid=$!
+    PIDS+=($prefiller_pid)
+
+    bash disagg_vllm_launcher.sh decoder  \
+        > >(tee decoder.log)  2>&1 &
+    decoder_pid=$!
+    PIDS+=($decoder_pid)
+
+    python3 disagg_proxy_server.py \
+        --host localhost \
+        --port 9000 \
+        --prefiller-host localhost \
+        --prefiller-port 8100 \
+        --decoder-host localhost \
+        --decoder-port 8200  \
+        > >(tee proxy.log)    2>&1 &
+    proxy_pid=$!
+    PIDS+=($proxy_pid)
+
+    wait_for_server 8100
+    wait_for_server 8200
+    wait_for_server 9000
+
+    echo "All servers are up. Starting benchmark..."
+
+    # begin benchmark
+    cd ../../../benchmarks/
+    python benchmark_serving.py --port 9000 --seed $(date +%s) \
+        --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
+        --dataset-name random --random-input-len 7500 --random-output-len 200 \
+        --num-prompts 200 --burstiness 100 --request-rate 3.6 | tee benchmark.log
+
+    echo "Benchmarking done. Cleaning up..."
+
+    cleanup
+
+}
+
+main
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examples/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_proxy_server.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import time
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+
+import httpx
+import numpy as np
+from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
+from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
+
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
+    """
+    Lifespan context manager to handle startup and shutdown events.
+    """
+    # Startup: Initialize clients
+    prefiller_base_url = f'http://{global_args.prefiller_host}:{global_args.prefiller_port}/v1'
+    decoder_base_url = f'http://{global_args.decoder_host}:{global_args.decoder_port}/v1'
+
+    app.state.prefill_client = httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=None,
+                                                 base_url=prefiller_base_url)
+    app.state.decode_client = httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=None,
+                                                base_url=decoder_base_url)
+
+    yield
+
+    # Shutdown: Close clients
+    await app.state.prefill_client.aclose()
+    await app.state.decode_client.aclose()
+
+
+# Update FastAPI app initialization to use lifespan
+app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)
+
+
+class StatsCalculator:
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._stats = []
+        self._last_log_time = time.time()
+
+    def add(self, value):
+        self._stats.append(value)
+        if time.time() - self._last_log_time > 5:
+            self._log_stats()
+            self._last_log_time = time.time()
+
+    def _log_stats(self):
+        # Print average, median, and 99th percentile
+        np_arr = np.array(self._stats)
+        output_str = f"\nNum requests: {len(self._stats)}" + \
+                "\nPrefill node TTFT stats:" + \
+                f"\n - Average (ms): {np.mean(np_arr)}" + \
+                f"\n - Median (ms): {np.median(np_arr)}" + \
+                f"\n - 99th Percentile (ms): {np.percentile(np_arr, 99)}\n"
+        print("===============================", output_str,
+              "===============================")
+
+
+stats_calculator = StatsCalculator()
+counter = 0
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000)
+    parser.add_argument("--host", type=str, default="localhost")
+    parser.add_argument("--prefiller-host", type=str, default="localhost")
+    parser.add_argument("--prefiller-port", type=int, default=8100)
+    parser.add_argument("--decoder-host", type=str, default="localhost")
+    parser.add_argument("--decoder-port", type=int, default=8200)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    return args
+
+
+# Initialize variables to hold the persistent clients
+app.state.prefill_client = None
+app.state.decode_client = None
+
+
+async def send_request_to_service(client: httpx.AsyncClient, endpoint: str,
+                                  req_data: dict):
+    """
+    Send a request to a service using a persistent client.
+    """
+    req_data = req_data.copy()
+    req_data['max_tokens'] = 1
+    if 'max_completion_tokens' in req_data:
+        req_data['max_completion_tokens'] = 1
+
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ.get('OPENAI_API_KEY')}"}
+    response = await client.post(endpoint, json=req_data, headers=headers)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    return response
+
+
+async def stream_service_response(client: httpx.AsyncClient, endpoint: str,
+                                  req_data: dict):
+    """
+    Asynchronously stream the response from a service using a persistent client.
+    """
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ.get('OPENAI_API_KEY')}"}
+    async with client.stream("POST", endpoint, json=req_data,
+                             headers=headers) as response:
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        async for chunk in response.aiter_bytes():
+            yield chunk
+
+
+@app.post("/v1/completions")
+async def handle_completions(request: Request):
+    global counter, stats_calculator
+    counter += 1
+
+    st = time.time()
+    try:
+        req_data = await request.json()
+
+        # Send request to prefill service, ignore the response
+        await send_request_to_service(app.state.prefill_client, "/completions",
+                                      req_data)
+
+        et = time.time()
+        stats_calculator.add(et - st)
+
+        # Stream response from decode service
+        async def generate_stream():
+            async for chunk in stream_service_response(app.state.decode_client,
+                                                       "/completions",
+                                                       req_data):
+                yield chunk
+
+        return StreamingResponse(generate_stream(),
+                                 media_type="application/json")
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        import sys
+        import traceback
+        exc_info = sys.exc_info()
+        print("Error occurred in disagg prefill proxy server"
+              " - completions endpoint")
+        print(e)
+        print("".join(traceback.format_exception(*exc_info)))
+        raise
+
+
+@app.post("/v1/chat/completions")
+async def handle_chat_completions(request: Request):
+    global counter, stats_calculator
+    counter += 1
+
+    st = time.time()
+    try:
+        req_data = await request.json()
+
+        # Send request to prefill service, ignore the response
+        await send_request_to_service(app.state.prefill_client,
+                                      "/chat/completions", req_data)
+
+        et = time.time()
+        stats_calculator.add(et - st)
+
+        # Stream response from decode service
+        async def generate_stream():
+            async for chunk in stream_service_response(app.state.decode_client,
+                                                       "/chat/completions",
+                                                       req_data):
+                yield chunk
+
+        return StreamingResponse(generate_stream(),
+                                 media_type="application/json")
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        import sys
+        import traceback
+        exc_info = sys.exc_info()
+        print("Error occurred in disagg prefill proxy server "
+              " - chat completions endpoint")
+        print(e)
+        print("".join(traceback.format_exception(*exc_info)))
+        raise
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    global global_args
+    global_args = parse_args()
+
+    import uvicorn
+    uvicorn.run(app, host=global_args.host, port=global_args.port)

examples/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_vllm_launcher.sh

+#!/bin/bash
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <prefiller | decoder> [model]"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then
+    echo "Using default model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct"
+    MODEL="meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct"
+else
+    echo "Using model: $2"
+    MODEL=$2
+fi
+
+
+if [[ $1 == "prefiller" ]]; then
+    # Prefiller listens on port 8100
+    prefill_config_file=$SCRIPT_DIR/configs/lmcache-prefiller-config.yaml
+
+    UCX_TLS=cuda_ipc,cuda_copy,tcp \
+        LMCACHE_CONFIG_FILE=$prefill_config_file \
+        LMCACHE_USE_EXPERIMENTAL=True \
+        VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING=1 \
+        VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 \
+        vllm serve $MODEL \
+        --port 8100 \
+        --disable-log-requests \
+        --enforce-eager \
+        --kv-transfer-config \
+        '{"kv_connector":"LMCacheConnectorV1","kv_role":"kv_producer","kv_connector_extra_config": {"discard_partial_chunks": false, "lmcache_rpc_port": "producer1"}}'
+
+
+elif [[ $1 == "decoder" ]]; then
+    # Decoder listens on port 8200
+    decode_config_file=$SCRIPT_DIR/configs/lmcache-decoder-config.yaml
+
+    UCX_TLS=cuda_ipc,cuda_copy,tcp \
+        LMCACHE_CONFIG_FILE=$decode_config_file \
+        LMCACHE_USE_EXPERIMENTAL=True \
+        VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING=1 \
+        VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 \
+        vllm serve $MODEL \
+        --port 8200 \
+        --disable-log-requests \
+        --enforce-eager \
+        --kv-transfer-config \
+        '{"kv_connector":"LMCacheConnectorV1","kv_role":"kv_consumer","kv_connector_extra_config": {"discard_partial_chunks": false, "lmcache_rpc_port": "consumer1"}}'
+
+
+else
+    echo "Invalid role: $1"
+    echo "Should be either prefill, decode"
+    exit 1
+fi

examples/lmcache/kv_cache_sharing_lmcache_v1.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""
+This file demonstrates the example usage of remote KV cache sharing
+with LMCache.
+We will launch 2 vllm instances, and launch an additional LMCache server.
+KV cache is transferred in the following manner: 
+(1) vLLM instance 1 -> LMCache server (KV cache store).
+(2) LMCache server -> vLLM instance 2 (KV cache reuse/retrieve).
+
+Note that lmcache needs to be installed to run this example.
+Learn more about LMCache in https://github.com/LMCache/LMCache.
+"""
+import os
+import subprocess
+import time
+from multiprocessing import Event, Process
+
+from lmcache.experimental.cache_engine import LMCacheEngineBuilder
+from lmcache.integration.vllm.utils import ENGINE_NAME
+
+from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+from vllm.config import KVTransferConfig
+
+# LMCache-related environment variables
+# The port to start LMCache server
+port = 8100
+# Use experimental features in LMCache
+os.environ["LMCACHE_USE_EXPERIMENTAL"] = "True"
+# LMCache is set to use 256 tokens per chunk
+os.environ["LMCACHE_CHUNK_SIZE"] = "256"
+# Disable local CPU backend in LMCache
+os.environ["LMCACHE_LOCAL_CPU"] = "False"
+# Set local CPU memory buffer limit to 5.0 GB
+os.environ["LMCACHE_MAX_LOCAL_CPU_SIZE"] = "5.0"
+# Set the remote URL for LMCache server
+os.environ["LMCACHE_REMOTE_URL"] = f"lm://localhost:{port}"
+# Set the serializer/deserializer between vllm and LMCache server
+# `naive` indicates using raw bytes of the tensor without any compression
+os.environ["LMCACHE_REMOTE_SERDE"] = "naive"
+
+prompts = [
+    "Hello, how are you?" * 1000,
+]
+
+
+def run_store(store_done, prompts):
+    # We use GPU 0 for KV cache store process.
+    os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = "0"
+
+    sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=10)
+
+    ktc = KVTransferConfig.from_cli(
+        '{"kv_connector":"LMCacheConnectorV1", "kv_role":"kv_both"}')
+    # Set GPU memory utilization to 0.8 for an A40 GPU with 40GB
+    # memory. Reduce the value if your GPU has less memory.
+    llm = LLM(model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2",
+              kv_transfer_config=ktc,
+              max_model_len=8000,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.8,
+              enforce_eager=True)
+
+    outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+    for output in outputs:
+        generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+        print(f"Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
+    print("KV cache store is finished.")
+    store_done.set()
+
+    # Clean up lmcache backend
+    LMCacheEngineBuilder.destroy(ENGINE_NAME)
+
+
+def run_retrieve(store_done, prompts, timeout=1):
+    # We use GPU 1 for KV cache retrieve process.
+    os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = "1"
+
+    sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=10)
+
+    ktc = KVTransferConfig.from_cli(
+        '{"kv_connector":"LMCacheConnectorV1", "kv_role":"kv_both"}')
+    # Set GPU memory utilization to 0.8 for an A40 GPU with 40GB
+    # of memory. Reduce the value if your GPU has less memory.
+    llm = LLM(model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2",
+              kv_transfer_config=ktc,
+              max_model_len=8000,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.8,
+              enforce_eager=True)
+
+    print("Waiting for KV cache store to finish...")
+    store_done.wait()
+    time.sleep(timeout)
+
+    outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+    for output in outputs:
+        generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+        print(f"Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
+
+    # Clean up lmcache backend
+    LMCacheEngineBuilder.destroy(ENGINE_NAME)
+
+
+def run_lmcache_server(port):
+    server_proc = subprocess.Popen([
+        "python", "-m", "lmcache.experimental.server", "localhost",
+        str(port)
+    ])
+    return server_proc
+
+
+def main():
+    store_done = Event()
+    store_process = Process(target=run_store, args=(store_done, prompts))
+    retrieve_process = Process(target=run_retrieve, args=(store_done, prompts))
+    lmcache_server_process = run_lmcache_server(port)
+
+    # Start KV cache store process
+    store_process.start()
+
+    # Start KV cache retrieve process
+    retrieve_process.start()
+
+    # Clean up the processes
+    store_process.join()
+    retrieve_process.terminate()
+    lmcache_server_process.terminate()
+    lmcache_server_process.wait()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/factory.py

@@ -100,3 +100,8 @@ KVConnectorFactory.register_connector(
     "SharedStorageConnector",
     "vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.shared_storage_connector",
     "SharedStorageConnector")
+
+KVConnectorFactory.register_connector(
+    "LMCacheConnectorV1",
+    "vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.lmcache_connector",
+    "LMCacheConnectorV1")

vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/lmcache_connector.py

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+import torch
+from lmcache.integration.vllm.vllm_v1_adapter import LMCacheConnectorV1Impl
+
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.base import (
+    KVConnectorBase_V1, KVConnectorMetadata, KVConnectorRole)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionMetadata
+    from vllm.forward_context import ForwardContext
+    from vllm.v1.request import Request
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class LMCacheConnectorV1(KVConnectorBase_V1):
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: "VllmConfig", role: KVConnectorRole):
+        super().__init__(vllm_config=vllm_config, role=role)
+        self._lmcache_engine = LMCacheConnectorV1Impl(vllm_config, role, self)
+
+    # ==============================
+    # Worker-side methods
+    # ==============================
+    def start_load_kv(self, forward_context: "ForwardContext",
+                      **kwargs) -> None:
+        """
+        Start loading the KV cache from the connector to vLLM's paged
+        KV buffer. This is called from the forward context before the
+        forward pass to enable async loading during model execution.
+
+        Args:
+            forward_context (ForwardContext): the forward context.
+            **kwargs: additional arguments for the load operation
+
+        Note:
+            The number of elements in kv_caches and layer_names should be 
+            the same.
+            
+        """
+        self._lmcache_engine.start_load_kv(forward_context, **kwargs)
+
+    def wait_for_layer_load(self, layer_name: str) -> None:
+        """
+        Block until the KV for a specific layer is loaded into vLLM's
+        paged buffer. This is called from within attention layer to ensure
+        async copying from start_load_kv is complete.
+        
+        This interface will be useful for layer-by-layer pipelining.
+
+        Args:
+            layer_name: the name of that layer
+        """
+        self._lmcache_engine.wait_for_layer_load(layer_name)
+
+    def save_kv_layer(self, layer_name: str, kv_layer: torch.Tensor,
+                      attn_metadata: "AttentionMetadata", **kwargs) -> None:
+        """
+        Start saving the a layer of KV cache from vLLM's paged buffer 
+        to the connector. This is called from within attention layer to
+        enable async copying during execution.
+
+        Args:
+            layer_name (str): the name of the layer.
+            kv_layer (torch.Tensor): the paged KV buffer of the current 
+                layer in vLLM.
+            attn_metadata (AttentionMetadata): the attention metadata.
+            **kwargs: additional arguments for the save operation.
+        """
+        self._lmcache_engine.save_kv_layer(layer_name, kv_layer, attn_metadata,
+                                           **kwargs)
+
+    def wait_for_save(self):
+        """
+        Block until all the save operations is done. This is called
+        as the forward context exits to ensure that the async saving
+        from save_kv_layer is complete before finishing the forward.
+
+        This prevents overwrites of paged KV buffer before saving done.
+        """
+        self._lmcache_engine.wait_for_save()
+
+    # ==============================
+    # Scheduler-side methods
+    # ==============================
+    def get_num_new_matched_tokens(
+        self,
+        request: "Request",
+        num_computed_tokens: int,
+    ) -> int:
+        """
+        Get number of new tokens that can be loaded from the
+        external KV cache beyond the num_computed_tokens.
+        
+        Args:
+            request (Request): the request object.
+            num_computed_tokens (int): the number of locally
+                computed tokens for this request
+
+        Returns:
+            the number of tokens that can be loaded from the 
+            external KV cache beyond what is already computed.
+        """
+        return self._lmcache_engine.get_num_new_matched_tokens(
+            request, num_computed_tokens)
+
+    def update_state_after_alloc(self, request: "Request",
+                                 num_external_tokens: int):
+        """
+        Update KVConnector state after block allocation.
+        """
+        self._lmcache_engine.update_state_after_alloc(request,
+                                                      num_external_tokens)
+
+    def build_connector_meta(
+            self, scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput) -> KVConnectorMetadata:
+        """
+        Build the connector metadata for this step.
+
+        This function should NOT modify fields in the scheduler_output.
+        Also, calling this function will reset the state of the connector.
+
+        Args:
+            scheduler_output (SchedulerOutput): the scheduler output object.
+        """
+        return self._lmcache_engine.build_connector_meta(scheduler_output)