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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).

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[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)

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