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Signed-off-by: chaunceyjiang <chaunceyjiang@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: youkaichao <youkaichao@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nick Hill <nhill@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Roger Wang <ywang@roblox.com>

Signed-off-by: Went-Liang <wenteng_liang@163.com>

Signed-off-by: Vinay Damodaran <vrdn@hey.com>

Signed-off-by: Travis Johnson <tsjohnso@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Cyrus Leung <cyrus.tl.leung@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Joe Runde <Joseph.Runde@ibm.com>

Removing the block manager v1. This is the initial piece of prefix-caching-centric design. In order to achieve prefix-caching-centric design, we need to simplify the code path so that we only use v2 block manager (which has much higher performance on prefix caching).

Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <rbryant@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Wallas Santos <wallashss@ibm.com>

Co-authored-by: Roger Wang <ywang@roblox.com>

Co-authored-by: DarkLight1337 <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>

Co-authored-by: Jerzy Zagorski <jzagorsk@amazon.com>

Co-authored-by: Varun Sundar Rabindranath <varun@neuralmagic.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Feldman <afeld2012@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Varun Sundar Rabindranath <varun@neuralmagic.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex-Brooks <Alex.Brooks@ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Alex-Brooks <Alex.Brooks@ibm.com>

[Hotfix][Core][VLM] Disable chunked prefill by default and prefix caching for multimodal models (#8425)

[MISC] Keep chunked prefill enabled by default with long context when prefix caching is enabled (#8342)

Co-authored-by: Michael Goin <michael@neuralmagic.com>

Co-authored-by: Harsha Bikki <harbikh@amazon.com>

Co-authored-by: Alexander Matveev <alexm@neuralmagic.com>