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How vLLM CUDA Kernels Write and Read the Paged KV Cache
Source: vLLM cache kernels at the referenced commit. The Chinese edition contains the original walkthrough. This DEV edition is a shorter adaptation with a new illustrative mapping example.
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Running vLLM natively on Windows
Disclosure: I built this repo, and I built it with heavy AI-assisted coding (the README credits Claude). The engine is upstream vLLM. My part is the Windows port, the packaging, and the testing. Everything below comes from the repo's README, docs, and release notes.
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When Offloading Stalls Inference: Queue Capacity, CUDA Event Ownership, and Misleading Health Checks
A public correction commit addresses PLE offload under async MRV2 scheduling. Its changes include capacity based on concurrent batches, per-batch events, and input copying ordered through the model stream.
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vLLM ignores LoRA rank_pattern and alpha_pattern and serves the adapter at the wrong scale
TL;DR: A PEFT LoRA adapter can give individual modules their own rank and alpha through rank_pattern and alpha_pattern in adapter_config.json, and PEFT scales each module by its own alpha_m / r_m. vLLM 0.30.0 reads r and lora_alpha only and applies lora_alpha / r to every module. The patterns are dropped without a warning. On an RTX 2070 under WSL2, with PEFT 0.21.2 and a small random Qwen3, an adapter with rank_pattern = {"q_proj": 4} gave prompt log-probabilities 0.0211 away from PEFT's on average, against 0.0003 for the same setup without a pattern. An adapter with only alpha_pattern set was off by 0.0168. Multiplying the affected modules' lora_B by the missing factor and clearing the pattern brought it back to 0.0003. The toolkit's check-lora-patterns.py reads an adapter's config and lists the modules vLLM will mis-scale, and by how much. Upstream report: vllm-project/vllm#59799.
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vLLM's weight cache can serve another checkpoint's weights when the tensor layout matches
TL;DR: vLLM 0.30.0 can keep a model's weights in a long-running daemon so that engines restart without reloading them (load_format="ipc_cache"). Before an engine uses those weights, both sides compare a fingerprint, and the docs describe the checkpoint part of it as "checkpoint content". In the code it is a hash of each shard's file name and safetensors header: tensor names, shapes, dtypes and offsets, but no tensor values. Two checkpoints with the same layout, such as a base model and a fine-tune of it, or two training steps, get the same fingerprint. On an RTX 2070, a daemon holding Qwen3-0.6B served an engine started on a copy with model.norm.weight zeroed. On its own that copy answers '!!!!!!!!!!!!'. With the daemon running, it answered ' Paris. The capital of Italy is Rome. The capital of', exactly like the original, logged Mapped 339 tensors from the weight cache daemon, and warned about nothing. Upstream report: vllm-project/vllm#59647.
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VRAM for local LLMs: why memory bandwidth sets your tokens per second
Runtimes like llama.cpp, Ollama and vLLM don't refuse a model that is too big. They split it: some layers in VRAM, the rest in system RAM across the PCIe bus. The GPU finishes its layers in microseconds, then stalls.
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Can vLLM Run GGUF? Yes — on GPU Only
Last week a reader asked why their GGUF file 404s inside vLLM on a CPU box while the same file runs fine in Ollama. Short answer, before anything else: yes, vLLM runs GGUF — through an official plugin, on GPU only. The plugin is vllm-gguf-plugin, the syntax is repo:quant_type, and the moment you try it on a CPU you are outside the supported hardware table. Everything below comes from the vLLM documentation and the vllm-project/vllm repo record (92,000+ stars since February 2023) — the docs, not my benchmark rig.
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OpenAI is about to eat Jev's lunch – Arcturus Labs
With all the excitement around Jev, I suspect we'll see hundreds of options, it doesn't sound like Jev is that hard to replicate, given all the 3rd parties who are getting pretty damn close, or even better, results within a week.
vLLM has a PR very close to merging: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/57250
Kev is an open Jev: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev
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Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
I have a quirky vLLM on k8s on 2x OEM sparks with about 9 models available to me. I'm not keen to run nightly vLLM, too many issues with it in the past
I have a watchful eye on the diffusion ~ Jev/Kev PR
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/57250
- How I Debugged a KV-Cache Offloading Bug in vLLM
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
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