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"""vllm_ple_mmap — serve the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next N-gram (PLE) table from NVMe via mmap.
Why: the 51B-parameter n-gram table is about 44 GiB in FP8 or 95.37 GiB in BF16,
and vLLM normally keeps it resident (GPU, or pinned host RAM with
VLLM_PLE_CPU_OFFLOAD). On a DGX Spark / GX10 the host and GPU share one 121 GiB
pool, so a full BF16 table cannot fit beside the compute trunk and a useful KV
cache. A token only touches 16 rows of that table, however, so the table can
remain file-backed on NVMe and be served through the page cache — exactly what
llama.cpp does with GGUF mmap.
How: with VLLM_PLE_MMAP=1 this module patches ``Qwen3_8FlashNextNGramEmbedding``:
* ``__init__`` swaps the 44/95 GiB ``VocabParallelEmbedding`` for a tiny
placeholder whose ``forward(ids)`` gathers rows from ``np.memmap`` views of the
checkpoint's PLE safetensors shards (zero-copy, page-cache backed);
* ``load_weights`` drops the 128 shard tensors on the floor and opens the
memmaps. FP8 retains the global ``weight_scale`` as
``_offload_weight_scale``; BF16 needs no scale and stock vLLM passes those
embeddings through without dequantization.
* ``forward_impl`` (hashing + lookup) is wrapped in a custom op
``vllm::ple_mmap_lookup`` so that (a) torch.compile treats it as opaque — the
stock version trips an Inductor int64 indexing assert on sm_121 — and (b) it can
be listed in ``-cc.splitting_ops`` and run OUTSIDE piecewise CUDA graphs: the
gather is CPU work + a pageable H2D copy, which cannot live inside a capture.
Use ``-cc.cudagraph_mode=PIECEWISE`` (not FULL*) with the splitting op list in
serve-flashnext-vllm.sh, or ``--enforce-eager``.
Nothing else in vLLM changes: the n-gram hashing, the short-conv, the dequant path
are the stock ones.
Knobs (env):
VLLM_PLE_MMAP=1 enable
VLLM_PLE_MMAP_WORKERS=32 gather threads (page faults overlap across threads)
VLLM_PLE_MMAP_CHUNK=2048 rows per gather task
VLLM_PLE_MMAP_PREWARM=0 1 = stream the whole table once at load to fill the
page cache with whatever memory is free. Keep this
at 0 for a 95.37 GiB BF16 table on a 128 GB system.
Install: the Dockerfile copies this file next to vllm and appends
``_ple_mmap_apply(Qwen3_8FlashNextNGramEmbedding)`` to the end of
``vllm/models/qwen3_8_flash_next/nvidia/ple_layer.py``. See the repo README.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import glob
import json
import logging
import math
import os
import re
import struct
import sys
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Iterable
import numpy as np
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
logger = logging.getLogger("vllm.ple_mmap")
ENV_ENABLE = "VLLM_PLE_MMAP"
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class PleStorageDType:
torch_dtype: torch.dtype
itemsize: int
needs_scale: bool
_PLE_DTYPES = {
"F8_E4M3": PleStorageDType(torch.float8_e4m3fn, 1, True),
"F8_E5M2": PleStorageDType(torch.float8_e5m2, 1, True),
"BF16": PleStorageDType(torch.bfloat16, 2, False),
}
def _resolve_ple_dtype(dtype_str: str) -> PleStorageDType:
try:
return _PLE_DTYPES[dtype_str]
except KeyError as exc:
raise ValueError(f"unsupported PLE shard dtype {dtype_str}") from exc
def _row_bytes(cols: int, storage_dtype: PleStorageDType) -> int:
return int(cols) * storage_dtype.itemsize
def enabled() -> bool:
return os.environ.get(ENV_ENABLE, "0").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes")
def _env_int(name: str, default: int) -> int:
try:
return int(os.environ.get(name, default))
except ValueError:
return default
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# safetensors header parsing (no dependency on the safetensors package: we need
# raw file offsets, which its Python API does not expose)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def parse_safetensors_header(path: str) -> tuple[dict, int]:
"""Return (header_dict, data_start_offset) of a safetensors file."""
with open(path, "rb") as f:
(header_len,) = struct.unpack("<Q", f.read(8))
header = json.loads(f.read(header_len))
header.pop("__metadata__", None)
return header, 8 + header_len
class MmapPleTable:
"""Row gather over a table split into ``split_ngram_parts`` shard files.
``shards``: {shard_index: (path, absolute_byte_offset, rows)}. Shard ``i``
holds global rows ``[i*shard_size, i*shard_size + rows)`` (vLLM's
``copy_ple_embedding_shard_`` layout).
"""
def __init__(
self,
shards: dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]],
shard_size: int,
row_bytes: int,
torch_dtype: torch.dtype,
workers: int = 32,
chunk: int = 2048,
) -> None:
if not shards:
raise ValueError("no PLE shards")
self.shard_size = int(shard_size)
self.row_bytes = int(row_bytes)
self.torch_dtype = torch_dtype
self.chunk = max(1, int(chunk))
self.paths: list[str | None] = [None] * (max(shards) + 1)
self.mm: list[np.memmap | None] = [None] * (max(shards) + 1)
self.rows_total = 0
for idx, (path, offset, rows) in shards.items():
self.paths[idx] = path
self.mm[idx] = np.memmap(
path, dtype=np.uint8, mode="r", offset=offset, shape=(rows, row_bytes)
)
self.rows_total += rows
self.pool = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max(1, int(workers)))
def gather(self, ids: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
"""ids: int64 [N] global row ids -> uint8 [N, row_bytes] (a fresh array)."""
ids = np.ascontiguousarray(ids, dtype=np.int64).reshape(-1)
if ids.size == 0:
return np.empty((0, self.row_bytes), dtype=np.uint8)
# Dedupe + sort: repeated n-grams are common, and sorted rows improve
# locality inside a shard.
uniq, inverse = np.unique(ids, return_inverse=True)
if uniq[0] < 0 or uniq[-1] >= self.shard_size * len(self.mm):
raise IndexError(
f"PLE row id out of range: [{uniq[0]}, {uniq[-1]}] "
f"for {self.rows_total} rows"
)
shard = uniq // self.shard_size
local = uniq - shard * self.shard_size
out = np.empty((uniq.size, self.row_bytes), dtype=np.uint8)
bounds = np.flatnonzero(np.diff(shard)) + 1
starts = np.concatenate(([0], bounds))
ends = np.concatenate((bounds, [uniq.size]))
tasks: list[tuple[int, int, int]] = []
for s, e in zip(starts.tolist(), ends.tolist()):
si = int(shard[s])
for c in range(s, e, self.chunk):
tasks.append((si, c, min(c + self.chunk, e)))
def run(task: tuple[int, int, int]) -> None:
si, a, b = task
mm = self.mm[si]
if mm is None:
raise IndexError(f"PLE shard {si} missing")
# Fancy indexing on a memmap: page faults do the I/O; NumPy releases
# the GIL for the copy, so tasks overlap across threads.
out[a:b] = mm[local[a:b]]
if len(tasks) == 1:
run(tasks[0])
else:
for _ in self.pool.map(run, tasks):
pass
return out[inverse]
def prewarm(self) -> None:
"""Stream every shard once so the page cache holds as much as it can."""
block = 64 << 20
for path, mm in zip(self.paths, self.mm):
if path is None or mm is None:
continue
start = mm.offset
end = start + mm.shape[0] * mm.shape[1]
with open(path, "rb", buffering=0) as f:
pos = start
while pos < end:
n = f.readinto(bytearray(min(block, end - pos))) # noqa: F841
if not n:
break
pos += n
def _open_ple_table(
shards: dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]],
shard_size: int,
cols: int,
dtype_str: str,
workers: int = 32,
chunk: int = 2048,
) -> MmapPleTable:
storage = _resolve_ple_dtype(dtype_str)
return MmapPleTable(
shards,
shard_size,
_row_bytes(cols, storage),
storage.torch_dtype,
workers=workers,
chunk=chunk,
)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Placeholder that stands in for VocabParallelEmbedding
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
class _MmapNgramEmbedding(nn.Module):
"""Duck-types the bits of VocabParallelEmbedding the PLE code reads.
No ``weight`` attribute on purpose: ``Qwen3_8FlashNextPLELayer`` then falls
back to ``ple_embedding._offload_weight_scale`` for the FP8 scale.
"""
def __init__(self, num_embeddings: int, embedding_dim: int) -> None:
super().__init__()
self.num_embeddings = int(num_embeddings)
self.org_vocab_size = int(num_embeddings)
self.embedding_dim = int(embedding_dim)
self.table: MmapPleTable | None = None
self._zeros_dtype = torch.bfloat16
def forward(self, ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
table = self.table
if table is None:
# Weights never loaded (e.g. --load-format dummy): keep the plumbing
# alive with zeros so kernel tests can run without the 44 GiB table.
return torch.zeros(
(*ids.shape, self.embedding_dim),
dtype=self._zeros_dtype,
device=ids.device,
)
ids_np = ids.detach().to("cpu", non_blocking=False).numpy().reshape(-1)
rows = table.gather(ids_np) # uint8 [N, row_bytes], fresh & writable
out = torch.from_numpy(rows).view(table.torch_dtype)
out = out.to(ids.device, non_blocking=True)
return out.reshape(*ids.shape, self.embedding_dim)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Patch
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def _find_shards(
model_path: str, layer_idx: int
) -> tuple[
dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]],
str | None,
tuple[str, int, int, str] | None,
]:
"""Locate ``layers.<idx>.ple.ple_embedding.ngram_embedding.shard_N.weight``.
Returns (shards, dtype_str, scale_entry) where scale_entry is
(path, abs_offset, nbytes) of ``ngram_embedding.weight_scale`` or None.
"""
shard_re = re.compile(
rf"layers\.{layer_idx}\.ple\.ple_embedding\.ngram_embedding\.shard_(\d+)\.weight$"
)
scale_re = re.compile(
rf"layers\.{layer_idx}\.ple\.ple_embedding\.ngram_embedding\.weight_scale$"
)
index_path = os.path.join(model_path, "model.safetensors.index.json")
if os.path.exists(index_path):
with open(index_path) as f:
weight_map = json.load(f)["weight_map"]
files = sorted(
{
os.path.join(model_path, fn)
for name, fn in weight_map.items()
if shard_re.search(name) or scale_re.search(name)
}
)
else:
files = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(model_path, "*.safetensors")))
shards: dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]] = {}
dtype_str: str | None = None
scale_entry: tuple[str, int, int, str] | None = None
shard_cols: int | None = None
for path in files:
header, data_start = parse_safetensors_header(path)
for name, meta in header.items():
m = shard_re.search(name)
if m:
start, end = meta["data_offsets"]
rows, cols = meta["shape"]
if dtype_str is None:
dtype_str = meta["dtype"]
elif meta["dtype"] != dtype_str:
raise ValueError("PLE shards have mixed dtypes")
if end - start != rows * cols * _itemsize(dtype_str):
raise ValueError(f"PLE shard {name}: size/shape mismatch")
if shard_cols is None:
shard_cols = cols
elif cols != shard_cols:
raise ValueError(
"PLE shards have mixed widths: "
f"expected {shard_cols}, got {cols} for {name}"
)
shards[int(m.group(1))] = (path, data_start + start, rows)
elif scale_re.search(name):
start, end = meta["data_offsets"]
scale_entry = (path, data_start + start, end - start, meta["dtype"])
if shards:
# Return cols through dtype_str consumer; keep it simple: stash on dict.
assert shard_cols is not None
shards["__cols__"] = shard_cols # type: ignore[index]
return shards, dtype_str, scale_entry
def _itemsize(dtype_str: str) -> int:
return {
"F8_E4M3": 1,
"F8_E5M2": 1,
"U8": 1,
"I8": 1,
"BF16": 2,
"F16": 2,
"F32": 4,
}[dtype_str]
def _read_scale(entry: tuple) -> torch.Tensor:
path, offset, nbytes, dtype_str = entry
with open(path, "rb") as f:
f.seek(offset)
raw = f.read(nbytes)
if dtype_str == "F32":
return torch.tensor(struct.unpack("<f", raw[:4])[0], dtype=torch.float32)
if dtype_str == "BF16":
u16 = struct.unpack("<H", raw[:2])[0]
return torch.tensor(u16 << 16, dtype=torch.int32).view(torch.float32).squeeze()
if dtype_str == "F16":
return torch.frombuffer(bytearray(raw[:2]), dtype=torch.float16).clone().squeeze()
raise ValueError(f"unsupported weight_scale dtype {dtype_str}")
def _read_required_scale(dtype_str: str, scale_entry: tuple | None) -> torch.Tensor | None:
storage = _resolve_ple_dtype(dtype_str)
if not storage.needs_scale:
return None
if scale_entry is None:
raise RuntimeError("PLE mmap: FP8 shards without ngram_embedding.weight_scale")
return _read_scale(scale_entry)
def _validate_shard_layout(
shards: dict[int, tuple[str, int, int]],
parts: int,
vocab: int,
) -> int:
expected_indices = list(range(parts))
actual_indices = sorted(shards)
if actual_indices != expected_indices:
raise RuntimeError(
f"PLE shard indices {actual_indices}, expected {expected_indices}"
)
shard_size = math.ceil(vocab / parts)
for idx, (_path, _offset, rows) in shards.items():
expected_rows = max(0, min(shard_size, vocab - idx * shard_size))
if rows != expected_rows:
raise RuntimeError(
f"PLE shard {idx} has {rows} rows, expected {expected_rows}"
)
return shard_size
_REGISTRY: dict[str, nn.Module] = {}
_OP_NAME = "ple_mmap_lookup"
def _lookup_impl(
input_ids: torch.Tensor,
query_start_loc: torch.Tensor,
ngram_context: torch.Tensor,
output: torch.Tensor,
layer_name: str,
) -> None:
layer = _REGISTRY[layer_name]
result = layer._ple_mmap_orig_forward_impl(
None, input_ids, query_start_loc, ngram_context
)
output[: result.shape[0]].copy_(result.to(output.dtype))
def _lookup_fake(
input_ids: torch.Tensor,
query_start_loc: torch.Tensor,
ngram_context: torch.Tensor,
output: torch.Tensor,
layer_name: str,
) -> None:
return
def _register_op() -> None:
if hasattr(torch.ops.vllm, _OP_NAME):
return
from vllm.utils.torch_utils import direct_register_custom_op
direct_register_custom_op(
op_name=_OP_NAME,
op_func=_lookup_impl,
mutates_args=["output"],
fake_impl=_lookup_fake,
)
def apply(cls: type) -> None:
"""Patch ``Qwen3_8FlashNextNGramEmbedding`` (pass the class) when enabled."""
if not enabled():
return
if getattr(cls, "_ple_mmap_patched", False):
return
mod = sys.modules[cls.__module__]
orig_init = cls.__init__
orig_load_weights = cls.load_weights
def __init__(self, config, embedding_dim, ple_dense_layer_id, max_total_tokens,
max_num_reqs, prefix, quant_config=None, params_dtype=None):
# Run the stock constructor (hash buffers, workspaces, ...) with the
# embedding class swapped for our placeholder so nothing large is
# allocated. quant_config=None keeps the stock code from selecting an
# FP8 quant method that would create an FP8 weight parameter.
real_embedding_cls = mod.VocabParallelEmbedding
mod.VocabParallelEmbedding = lambda n, d, **_kw: _MmapNgramEmbedding(n, d)
try:
orig_init(self, config, embedding_dim, ple_dense_layer_id,
max_total_tokens, max_num_reqs, prefix,
quant_config=None, params_dtype=params_dtype)
finally:
mod.VocabParallelEmbedding = real_embedding_cls
self._ple_mmap_prefix = prefix
_REGISTRY[prefix] = self
self._ple_mmap_model_path = None
try:
from vllm.config import get_current_vllm_config
self._ple_mmap_model_path = get_current_vllm_config().model_config.model
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - defensive
logger.warning("PLE mmap: cannot read model path from vllm config: %s", exc)
if params_dtype is not None:
self.ngram_embedding._zeros_dtype = params_dtype
logger.info(
"PLE mmap: %s -> placeholder embedding (%d rows x %d), table will be mmapped",
prefix, self.ngram_embedding.org_vocab_size, self.head_dim,
)
def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]) -> set[str]:
loaded: set[str] = set()
rest: list[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]] = []
for name, w in weights:
if name.startswith("ngram_embedding.shard_") and name.endswith(".weight"):
loaded.add(name) # served from disk, never materialised
continue
if name == "ngram_embedding.weight_scale":
self.register_buffer(
"_offload_weight_scale",
w.detach().to(device=torch.accelerator.current_accelerator()),
persistent=False,
)
loaded.add(name)
continue
rest.append((name, w))
loaded.update(orig_load_weights(self, rest))
_setup_table(self)
return loaded
def _setup_table(self) -> None:
if self.ngram_embedding.table is not None:
return
model_path = self._ple_mmap_model_path
if not model_path or not os.path.isdir(model_path):
raise RuntimeError(
f"PLE mmap: model path {model_path!r} is not a local directory; "
"point --model at the downloaded snapshot"
)
m = re.search(r"layers\.(\d+)\.", self._ple_mmap_prefix)
if not m:
raise RuntimeError(f"PLE mmap: cannot find layer index in {self._ple_mmap_prefix!r}")
layer_idx = int(m.group(1))
shards, dtype_str, scale_entry = _find_shards(model_path, layer_idx)
if not shards:
raise RuntimeError(f"PLE mmap: no shard tensors for layer {layer_idx} under {model_path}")
cols = shards.pop("__cols__") # type: ignore[arg-type]
if cols != self.head_dim:
raise RuntimeError(f"PLE mmap: shard width {cols} != head_dim {self.head_dim}")
storage = _resolve_ple_dtype(dtype_str)
if storage.needs_scale and not hasattr(self, "_offload_weight_scale"):
scale = _read_required_scale(dtype_str, scale_entry)
assert scale is not None
self.register_buffer(
"_offload_weight_scale",
scale.to(torch.accelerator.current_accelerator()),
persistent=False,
)
parts = int(self.split_ngram_parts)
vocab = int(self.ngram_embedding.org_vocab_size)
shard_size = _validate_shard_layout(shards, parts, vocab)
table = _open_ple_table(
shards, shard_size, cols, dtype_str,
workers=_env_int("VLLM_PLE_MMAP_WORKERS", 32),
chunk=_env_int("VLLM_PLE_MMAP_CHUNK", 2048),
)
if _env_int("VLLM_PLE_MMAP_PREWARM", 0):
logger.info(
"PLE mmap: prewarming page cache (%.1f GiB)...",
table.rows_total * table.row_bytes / 2**30,
)
table.prewarm()
self.ngram_embedding.table = table
logger.info(
"PLE mmap: layer %d, %d shards, %d rows x %d B (%.1f GiB on disk), dtype %s, %d workers",
layer_idx, len(shards), table.rows_total, table.row_bytes,
table.rows_total * table.row_bytes / 2**30,
dtype_str, table.pool._max_workers,
)
def forward_impl(self, hidden_states, input_ids, query_start_loc, ngram_context,
output_buffer=None):
del hidden_states, output_buffer
num_tokens = input_ids.reshape(-1).shape[0]
table = self.ngram_embedding.table
dtype = table.torch_dtype if table is not None else self.ngram_embedding._zeros_dtype
output = torch.empty(
(num_tokens, self.embedding_dim), dtype=dtype, device=input_ids.device
)
getattr(torch.ops.vllm, _OP_NAME)(
input_ids, query_start_loc, ngram_context, output, self._ple_mmap_prefix
)
return output
_register_op()
cls._ple_mmap_orig_forward_impl = cls.forward_impl
cls.forward_impl = forward_impl
cls.__init__ = __init__
cls.load_weights = load_weights
cls._setup_table = _setup_table
cls._ple_mmap_patched = True
logger.info("PLE mmap patch applied to %s.%s", cls.__module__, cls.__name__)