NVIDIA / NVIDIA/nvcf

Discount cached prefill cost in WaitAndWiden routing

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Description

Problem

WaitAndWiden estimates the full input-prefill cost for a backend selected by cache-affinity hashing. For a continuing session, most input tokens may already be in that backend cache. Treating all of them as cold can place the affinity backend in a later TTFT bucket and route the request to a cold backend too early.

Proposed behavior

Allow WaitAndWiden to scale the current request prefill estimate for cache-affinity candidates. Keep queued work unchanged, keep cold candidates at the full input cost, and retain the current behavior by default.

Acceptance criteria

  • The scale is bounded to the inclusive range 0 through 1.
  • Only affinity candidates receive the discounted current-request prefill cost.
  • Existing configurations behave unchanged when the setting is omitted.
  • A full affinity candidate can anchor the first TTFT bucket, while cold candidates become eligible through normal widening.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start at the WaitAndWiden routing entry point and trace cache-affinity candidate selection and prefill-cost estimation. Confirm the configuration path and focused routing tests, then verify the scale bounds, affinity-only discount, unchanged defaults, and TTFT bucket behavior described in the acceptance criteria.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
backend, cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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