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AWS describes a push-based NIXL connector for vLLM that moves KV cache transfer coordination off the critical path in prefill-decode disaggregated inference.
Why it matters: The post claims the approach delivers up to 3x better time-to-first-token and time-per-output-token performance.
Written by AI from AWS Machine Learning Blog's published text.
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“vLLM's prefill-decode disaggregation splits LLM inference across engine instances but must transfer the KV cache between them.”
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