articleHuggingFace Blog
How Long Prompts Block Other Requests - Optimizing LLM Performance
The article analyzes how long prefill prompts can block the prefill queue in a multi-request setting, and explains that decoding steps are light but must be sequential. It discusses two patterns - chunked prefill and request-parallel prefills - and why long prompts undermine throughput, with implications for vLLM scheduling.
published JUN 12, 2025★★★★★
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- JUN 12, 2025 · 19:10
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