This directory contains two sets of benchmark for vllm.
- Performance benchmark: benchmark vllm's performance under various workload, for **developers** to gain clarity on whether their PR improves/degrades vllm's performance
- Nightly benchmark: compare vllm's performance against alternatives (tgi, trt-llm and lmdeploy), for **the public** to know when to choose vllm.
See [vLLM performance dashboard](https://perf.vllm.ai) for the latest performance benchmark results and [vLLM GitHub README](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/README.md) for latest nightly benchmark results.
## Performance benchmark quick overview
**Benchmarking Coverage**: latency, throughput and fix-qps serving on A100 (the support for FP8 benchmark on H100 is coming!), with different models.
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**For benchmarking developers**: please try your best to constraint the duration of benchmarking to about 1 hr so that it won't take forever to run.
## Nightly benchmark quick overview
**Benchmarking Coverage**: Fix-qps serving on A100 (the support for FP8 benchmark on H100 is coming!) on Llama-3 8B, 70B and Mixtral 8x7B.
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**Benchmarking Duration**: about 3.5hrs.
## Trigger the benchmark
Performance benchmark will be triggered when:
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Nightly benchmark will be triggered when:
- Every commit for those PRs with `perf-benchmarks` label and `nightly-benchmarks` label.
## Performance benchmark details
See [performance-benchmarks-descriptions.md](performance-benchmarks-descriptions.md) for detailed descriptions, and use `tests/latency-tests.json`, `tests/throughput-tests.json`, `tests/serving-tests.json` to configure the test cases.
#### Latency test
### Latency test
Here is an example of one test inside `latency-tests.json`:
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In this example:
- The `test_name` attributes is a unique identifier for the test. In `latency-tests.json`, it must start with `latency_`.
- The `parameters` attribute control the command line arguments to be used for `benchmark_latency.py`. Note that please use underline `_` instead of the dash `-` when specifying the command line arguments, and `run-performance-benchmarks.sh` will convert the underline to dash when feeding the arguments to `benchmark_latency.py`. For example, the corresponding command line arguments for `benchmark_latency.py` will be `--model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B --tensor-parallel-size 1 --load-format dummy --num-iters-warmup 5 --num-iters 15`
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WARNING: The benchmarking script will save json results by itself, so please do not configure `--output-json` parameter in the json file.
### Throughput test
#### Throughput test
The tests are specified in `throughput-tests.json`. The syntax is similar to `latency-tests.json`, except for that the parameters will be fed forward to `benchmark_throughput.py`.
The number of this test is also stable -- a slight change on the value of this number might vary the performance numbers by a lot.
#### Serving test
### Serving test
We test the throughput by using `benchmark_serving.py` with request rate = inf to cover the online serving overhead. The corresponding parameters are in `serving-tests.json`, and here is an example:
```
```json
[
{
"test_name":"serving_llama8B_tp1_sharegpt",
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```
Inside this example:
- The `test_name` attribute is also a unique identifier for the test. It must start with `serving_`.
- The `server-parameters` includes the command line arguments for vLLM server.
- The `client-parameters` includes the command line arguments for `benchmark_serving.py`.
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WARNING: The benchmarking script will save json results by itself, so please do not configure `--save-results` or other results-saving-related parameters in `serving-tests.json`.
#### Visualizing the results
### Visualizing the results
The `convert-results-json-to-markdown.py` helps you put the benchmarking results inside a markdown table, by formatting [descriptions.md](tests/descriptions.md) with real benchmarking results.
You can find the result presented as a table inside the `buildkite/performance-benchmark` job page.
If you do not see the table, please wait till the benchmark finish running.
The json version of the table (together with the json version of the benchmark) will be also attached to the markdown file.
The raw benchmarking results (in the format of json files) are in the `Artifacts` tab of the benchmarking.
## Nightly test details
See [nightly-descriptions.md](nightly-descriptions.md) for the detailed description on test workload, models and docker containers of benchmarking other llm engines.
#### Workflow
### Workflow
- The [nightly-pipeline.yaml](nightly-pipeline.yaml) specifies the docker containers for different LLM serving engines.
- Inside each container, we run [run-nightly-suite.sh](run-nightly-suite.sh), which will probe the serving engine of the current container.
- The `run-nightly-suite.sh` will redirect the request to `tests/run-[llm serving engine name]-nightly.sh`, which parses the workload described in [nightly-tests.json](tests/nightly-tests.json) and performs the benchmark.
- At last, we run [scripts/plot-nightly-results.py](scripts/plot-nightly-results.py) to collect and plot the final benchmarking results, and update the results to buildkite.
#### Nightly tests
### Nightly tests
In [nightly-tests.json](tests/nightly-tests.json), we include the command line arguments for benchmarking commands, together with the benchmarking test cases. The format is highly similar to performance benchmark.
#### Docker containers
### Docker containers
The docker containers for benchmarking are specified in `nightly-pipeline.yaml`.
WARNING: the docker versions are HARD-CODED and SHOULD BE ALIGNED WITH `nightly-descriptions.md`. The docker versions need to be hard-coded as there are several version-specific bug fixes inside `tests/run-[llm serving engine name]-nightly.sh`.
WARNING: populating `trt-llm` to latest version is not easy, as it requires updating several protobuf files in [tensorrt-demo](https://github.com/neuralmagic/tensorrt-demo.git).
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*Latest News* 🔥
-[2025/01] We are excited to announce the alpha release of vLLM V1: A major architectural upgrade with 1.7x speedup! Clean code, optimized execution loop, zero-overhead prefix caching, enhanced multimodal support, and more. Please check out our blog post [here](https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/01/27/v1-alpha-release.html).
-[2025/01] We hosted [the eighth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/zep56hui) with Google Cloud! Please find the meetup slides from vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1epVkt4Zu8Jz_S5OhEHPc798emsYh2BwYfRuDDVEF7u4/edit?usp=sharing), and Google Cloud team [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h24pHewANyRL11xy5dXUbvRC9F9Kkjix/view?usp=sharing).
-[2024/12] vLLM joins [pytorch ecosystem](https://pytorch.org/blog/vllm-joins-pytorch)! Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving for Everyone!
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-[2023/06] We officially released vLLM! FastChat-vLLM integration has powered [LMSYS Vicuna and Chatbot Arena](https://chat.lmsys.org) since mid-April. Check out our [blog post](https://vllm.ai).
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## About
vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.
Originally developed in the [Sky Computing Lab](https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkeley, vLLM has evolved into a community-driven project with contributions from both academia and industry.
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## Citation
If you use vLLM for your research, please cite our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180):
```bibtex
@inproceedings{kwon2023efficient,
title={Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention},
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## Contact Us
* For technical questions and feature requests, please use Github issues or discussions.
* For discussing with fellow users and coordinating contributions and development, please use Slack.
* For security disclosures, please use Github's security advisory feature.
* For collaborations and partnerships, please contact us at vllm-questions AT lists.berkeley.edu.
- For technical questions and feature requests, please use Github issues or discussions.
- For discussing with fellow users and coordinating contributions and development, please use Slack.
- For security disclosures, please use Github's security advisory feature.
- For collaborations and partnerships, please contact us at vllm-questions AT lists.berkeley.edu.
## Media Kit
* If you wish to use vLLM's logo, please refer to [our media kit repo](https://github.com/vllm-project/media-kit).
- If you wish to use vLLM's logo, please refer to [our media kit repo](https://github.com/vllm-project/media-kit).
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Machete effectively performs
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```python
scale_type=w_s.dtype
compute_type=a.dtype
out=(w_q.to(scale_type)*w_s-w_z.to(scale_type))@a
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The main optimization within Machete is prepacking the weight matrix to more closely match the tensor core layouts, allowing for wider shared memory loads when loading the weight matrix. This means that the weight matrix must be prepacked before calling `machete_gemm`. The flow looks something like:
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This may take 5-10 minutes. Currently, `pip install .` does not work for ROCm installation.
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:::{tip}
- Triton flash attention is used by default. For benchmarking purposes, it is recommended to run a warm up step before collecting perf numbers.
- Triton flash attention does not currently support sliding window attention. If using half precision, please use CK flash-attention for sliding window support.
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- Install the token on your machine (Run `huggingface-cli login`).
- Get access to the gated model by [visiting the model card](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) and agreeing to the terms and conditions.
## Example 1: Running with a local file
### Step 1: Create your batch file
To follow along with this example, you can download the example batch, or create your own batch file in your working directory.
You should now have your results at `results.jsonl`. You can check your results by running `cat results.jsonl`
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```console
$cat results.jsonl
{"id":"vllm-383d1c59835645aeb2e07d004d62a826","custom_id":"request-1","response":{"id":"cmpl-61c020e54b964d5a98fa7527bfcdd378","object":"chat.completion","created":1715633336,"model":"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct","choices":[{"index":0,"message":{"role":"assistant","content":"Hello! It's great to meet you! I'm here to help with any questions or tasks you may have. What's on your mind today?"},"logprobs":null,"finish_reason":"stop","stop_reason":null}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":25,"total_tokens":56,"completion_tokens":31}},"error":null}
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For example, to run against our example input file located at `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/main/examples/offline_inference/openai/openai_example_batch.jsonl`, you can run
Presigned urls can only be generated via the SDK. You can run the following python script to generate your presigned urls. Be sure to replace the `MY_BUCKET`, `MY_INPUT_FILE.jsonl`, and `MY_OUTPUT_FILE.jsonl` placeholders with your bucket and file names.
(The script is adapted from https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/python/example_code/s3/s3_basics/presigned_url.py)
(The script is adapted from <https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/python/example_code/s3/s3_basics/presigned_url.py>)
Add score requests to your batch file. The following is an example:
```
```text
{"custom_id": "request-1", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/score", "body": {"model": "BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3", "text_1": "What is the capital of France?", "text_2": ["The capital of Brazil is Brasilia.", "The capital of France is Paris."]}}
{"custom_id": "request-2", "method": "POST", "url": "/v1/score", "body": {"model": "BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3", "text_1": "What is the capital of France?", "text_2": ["The capital of Brazil is Brasilia.", "The capital of France is Paris."]}}
```
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You can check your results by running `cat results.jsonl`
This example runs Llama 3.1 70B with a batch of 32 requests where each has 1 input token and 128 output tokens. This is set up in attempt to profile just the 32 decodes running in parallel by having an extremely small prefill of 1 token and setting `VLLM_TPU_PROFILE_DELAY_MS=1000` to skip the first second of inference (hopefully prefill).
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## Visualizing the profiles
Once you have collected your profiles with this script, you can visualize them using [TensorBoard](https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/pytorch-xla-performance-profiling-tpu-vm).
Here are most likely the dependencies you need to install:
In the search pane, select `vllm-server` service and hit `Find Traces`. You should get a list of traces, one for each request.

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## Exporter Protocol
OpenTelemetry supports either `grpc` or `http/protobuf` as the transport protocol for trace data in the exporter.
By default, `grpc` is used. To set `http/protobuf` as the protocol, configure the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL` environment variable as follows:
This is a simple example that shows you how to connect vLLM metric logging to the Prometheus/Grafana stack. For this example, we launch Prometheus and Grafana via Docker. You can checkout other methods through [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) and [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) websites.