implementation detail · filed under inference & serving
Shared-free-list cache allocation
Allocates blocks for multiple cache groups from one shared free list.
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First, all cache groups draw blocks from one shared free list, so allocating a private copy for one group could evict a block that another group has just hit
coreinference servingin Kimi K3Moonshot AI
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Other methods under inference & serving :: KV cache management.
Chunked prefillPrefix cachingPrompt cachingSWA Bounded ReplayLanguage-model-only serving modePeriodic cache checkpointingCompressed KV cachingKDA-aware prefix-cache managementRadixCacheZero SWA caching8-bit Mamba cache quantizationAsynchronous cache offloading and restorationAutomatic cacheBlock-based KV cacheCross-layer KV-cache reuseCustomized heterogeneous KV-cache layoutDisable prefix caching for benchmarkingDynamic allocation of fixed-size state-cache poolsEncoder SWA bounded replayExact SWA KV reconstruction via full multi-layer replayFine-grained prefix hashingHierarchical KV cachingInference-side KV-cache reset on weight synchronizationKDA with prefill cache