#!/usr/bin/env python3 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project """ disagg_encoder_proxy.py Proxy that routes OpenAI-compatible “/v1/chat/completions” requests to two clusters: • encode (multimodal feature extraction) • decode (language-model inference) For MM input we: 1. Extract *every* image/audio/video item. 2. Fire N concurrent requests to the encoder cluster (one request per item, with **all text removed**). 3. Wait for all of them to succeed. 4. Forward the *original* request to a decode server. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import asyncio import hashlib import io import json import logging import os import random import time import uuid from collections.abc import AsyncIterator import aiohttp import pybase64 as base64 import uvicorn from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Request from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse, StreamingResponse ############################################################################### # FastAPI app & global state ############################################################################### logging.basicConfig( level=logging.DEBUG, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s" ) logger = logging.getLogger("proxy") app = FastAPI() encode_session: aiohttp.ClientSession | None = None prefill_session: aiohttp.ClientSession | None = None decode_session: aiohttp.ClientSession | None = None # Cursor for round-robin encoder assignment, shared across requests so the # fan-out doesn't restart from e_urls[0] every time. encoder_rr_idx = 0 encoder_rr_lock = asyncio.Lock() ############################################################################### # Utils ############################################################################### MM_TYPES = {"image_url", "audio_url", "input_audio", "video_url"} # The embeds content type each MM item is rewritten to once the encoder has # published its embedding out of band. EMBEDS_TYPES = { "image_url": "image_embeds", "audio_url": "audio_embeds", "input_audio": "audio_embeds", "video_url": "video_embeds", } def encoder_rr_assignment( e_urls: list[str], start: int, count: int ) -> tuple[list[str], int]: """Assign `count` items to encoder URLs starting from cursor `start`. Returns the per-item URL list and the cursor value the next call should start from, so the assignment is contiguous across calls instead of restarting at e_urls[0] every time. """ urls = [e_urls[(start + i) % len(e_urls)] for i in range(count)] next_start = (start + count) % len(e_urls) return urls, next_start # Diagnostic switch: forward the original request to the decoder so the # only difference from the rewrite path is the rewrite itself. NO_REWRITE = False # Grid metadata reported by the encoder instance, keyed by item index. # Empty when the encoder did not report any (then nothing is rewritten). def content_uuid(item: dict) -> str: """Cache key for a multimodal item, derived from its content. Must be content-derived, not request-derived: the EC cache is keyed by this value, so a per-request key (a request id, say) would make every request a miss and throw away cross-request reuse of already-encoded media -- while the unmodified path, which hashes the content, would keep it. That asymmetry silently biases any comparison between the two. """ url = ( item.get("image_url") or item.get("audio_url") or item.get("video_url") or {} ).get("url") or "" payload = url or json.dumps(item, sort_keys=True) return hashlib.sha256(payload.encode()).hexdigest() def _b64_tensor(values: list) -> str: import torch buf = io.BytesIO() flat = [v for item in values for v in (item if isinstance(item, list) else [item])] # Floats stay float64 so timestamp strings format exactly as the # encoder computed them. dtype = torch.float64 if any(isinstance(v, float) for v in flat) else None # Downstream stacks per item, so hand over a flat vector. torch.save(torch.tensor(flat, dtype=dtype), buf) return base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode() def rewrite_for_decode(req_data: dict, item_meta: dict[int, dict]) -> dict: """Replace each media item with a metadata-only reference for the decoder. The decoder does not need the pixels: the encoder instance already produced the embedding and published it through the EC connector under the same uuid. Sending only the grid lets the decoder size the placeholder range without re-running the media transform. `item_meta` holds what the encoder reported for each item (its cache key and the grid its processor actually produced), so the grid is never re-derived here -- a second derivation could disagree with the encoder's. """ rewritten = 0 idx = 0 new_messages = [] for msg in req_data.get("messages", []): content = msg.get("content") if not isinstance(content, list): new_messages.append(msg) continue new_content = [] for item in content: if item.get("type") not in MM_TYPES: new_content.append(item) continue meta = dict(item_meta.get(idx) or {}) idx += 1 item_uuid = meta.pop("mm_hash", None) # Whatever keys the encoder reported are the metadata its model # declared as needed to size the placeholder range; the proxy does # not need to know their names. metadata = {k: _b64_tensor(v) for k, v in meta.items()} if not metadata or not item_uuid: # The encoder reported no metadata (e.g. the item came from its # processor cache); let the decoder process the media itself. new_content.append(item) continue embeds_type = EMBEDS_TYPES[item["type"]] new_content.append( {"type": embeds_type, embeds_type: metadata, "uuid": item_uuid} ) rewritten += 1 new_messages.append({**msg, "content": new_content}) if not rewritten: return req_data logger.info("Rewrote %d media item(s) as metadata references", rewritten) return {**req_data, "messages": new_messages} def extract_mm_items(request_data: dict) -> list[dict]: """ Return *all* image/audio/video items that appear anywhere in `messages`. Each returned dict looks like: { "type": "image_url", "image_url": {...} } """ items: list[dict] = [] for msg in request_data.get("messages", []): content = msg.get("content") if not isinstance(content, list): continue for item in content: if item.get("type") in MM_TYPES: items.append(item) return items async def fanout_encoder_primer( orig_request: dict, e_urls: list[str], req_id: str, ) -> dict[int, dict]: """ 1. Build one request *per MM item* with all text removed. 2. Send them concurrently to the encode cluster. 3. Raise if any of them fails. Returns, per item index, the metadata the encoder reported in `ec_transfer_params`: its EC cache key and the grid its processor produced. The proxy still supplies the uuid so both sides key the cache the same way; the grid can only come from the encoder, which is the side that computed it. """ logger.info("[%s] Processing multimodal items...", req_id) mm_items = extract_mm_items(orig_request) if not mm_items: logger.info("[%s] No multimodal items, skipping encoder", req_id) return {} # nothing to do logger.info("[%s] got %d multimodal items...", req_id, len(mm_items)) tasks = [] item_uuids: dict[int, str] = {} item_meta: dict[int, dict] = {} # Round-robin over encode servers to distribute load a bit. The cursor # persists across requests so fan-out doesn't restart at e_urls[0] every # time (which would hot-spot the first encoder for single-item requests). global encoder_rr_idx async with encoder_rr_lock: url_cycle, encoder_rr_idx = encoder_rr_assignment( e_urls, encoder_rr_idx, len(mm_items) ) for idx, (item, target_url) in enumerate(zip(mm_items, url_cycle)): # Derive a *child* request id: :: child_req_id = f"{req_id}:{idx}:{uuid.uuid4().hex[:6]}" headers = {"x-request-id": child_req_id} # With --no-rewrite the decoder still receives the raw image and derives # the cache key by hashing it, so the encoder must do the same -- passing # a uuid here would make the two disagree and silently defeat the EC # transfer, leaving the decoder to encode the image itself. item_uuid = None if NO_REWRITE else content_uuid(item) if item_uuid is not None: item_uuids[idx] = item_uuid encoder_req = { # You *may* need to keep additional fields "model": orig_request.get("model"), "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ item if item_uuid is None else {**item, "uuid": item_uuid} ], }, ], # No max_tokens cap: the encoder instance never samples, it finishes # once the prompt is encoded and its embeddings are published. "stream": False, } tasks.append( encode_session.post( f"{target_url}/v1/chat/completions", json=encoder_req, headers=headers, ) ) results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True) # Fail fast if any sub-request failed for idx, r in enumerate(results): if isinstance(r, Exception): logger.error( "[%s] Encoder request #%d raised exception: %s", req_id, idx, r, exc_info=r, ) raise HTTPException( status_code=502, detail=f"Encoder request failed: {str(r)}" ) if r.status != 200: try: detail = await r.text() except Exception: detail = "" logger.error( "[%s] Encoder request #%d returned status %s: %s", req_id, idx, r.status, detail, ) raise HTTPException( status_code=r.status, detail=f"Encoder request failed: {detail}", ) # The encoder reports each mm_hash's metadata (e.g. the grid) here, # keyed by the same uuid this proxy assigned above. try: params = (await r.json()).get("ec_transfer_params") or {} except Exception: logger.warning("[%s] Could not read encoder metadata #%d", req_id, idx) params = {} if idx in item_uuids: reported = params.get(item_uuids[idx]) if reported: metadata = reported.get("metadata") or {} if metadata: item_meta[idx] = {**metadata, "mm_hash": item_uuids[idx]} # Whatever the encoder reported alongside `metadata` is the # connector's own handle on the published embedding (for NIXL, # peer_host/peer_port/size_bytes). The decoder's connector # looks it up by mm_hash on the request, so carry it through. orig_request.setdefault("ec_transfer_params", {})[item_uuids[idx]] = ( reported ) logger.info( "[%s] All %d encoder requests completed successfully", req_id, len(mm_items) ) return item_meta async def maybe_prefill( req_data: dict, p_url: str, req_id: str, ) -> dict: """ - Do prefill-only task if p_url exist; - Return modified request data with kv transfer params (for nixl connector) - Else, skip and return the original request data for decode """ if p_url: logger.info("[%s] Processing through prefill: %s", req_id, p_url) prefill_response = await process_prefill_stage(req_data, p_url, req_id) # for nixl connector to facilitate kv transfer... prefill_response_json = await prefill_response.json() kv_transfer_params = prefill_response_json.get("kv_transfer_params", {}) if kv_transfer_params: req_data["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_transfer_params return req_data else: return req_data async def process_prefill_stage( req_data: dict, p_url: str, req_id: str, ) -> dict: """Process request through Prefill stage and return kv_transfer_params""" logger.info("[%s] Sending prefill request to: %s", req_id, p_url) prefill_request = req_data.copy() prefill_request["kv_transfer_params"] = { "do_remote_decode": True, "do_remote_prefill": False, "remote_engine_id": None, "remote_block_ids": None, "remote_host": None, "remote_port": None, } prefill_request["stream"] = False prefill_request["max_tokens"] = 1 if "max_completion_tokens" in prefill_request: prefill_request["max_completion_tokens"] = 1 if "stream_options" in prefill_request: del prefill_request["stream_options"] headers = {"x-request-id": req_id} try: prefill_response = await prefill_session.post( f"{p_url}/v1/chat/completions", json=prefill_request, headers=headers ) prefill_response.raise_for_status() if prefill_response.status != 200: error_text = await prefill_response.text() logger.error( "[%s] Prefill request failed with status %d: %s", req_id, prefill_response.status, error_text, ) raise HTTPException( status_code=prefill_response.status, detail={"error": "Prefill request failed", "message": error_text}, ) logger.info("[%s] Prefill request completed successfully", req_id) return prefill_response except Exception as e: logger.error("Prefill processing failed: %s", str(e)) raise HTTPException( status_code=500, detail={"error": "Prefill processing error", "message": str(e)}, ) from e ############################################################################### # Middleware for request/response logging ############################################################################### @app.middleware("http") async def log_requests(request: Request, call_next): """Middleware to log all incoming requests and responses""" req_id = request.headers.get("x-request-id", str(uuid.uuid4())) # Log incoming request logger.info( ">>> [%s] %s %s from %s", req_id, request.method, request.url.path, request.client.host if request.client else "unknown", ) try: # Process request response = await call_next(request) # Log response logger.info( "<<< [%s] %s %s completed with status %d", req_id, request.method, request.url.path, response.status_code, ) return response except Exception as e: # Log errors logger.exception( "!!! [%s] %s %s failed with error: %s", req_id, request.method, request.url.path, str(e), ) raise ############################################################################### # FastAPI lifecycle ############################################################################### @app.on_event("startup") async def on_startup() -> None: global encode_session, prefill_session, decode_session timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=100_000) connector = aiohttp.TCPConnector(limit=0, force_close=False) encode_session = aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout, connector=connector) if app.state.p_urls: # only setup if prefill instance(s) exist prefill_session = aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout, connector=connector) decode_session = aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout, connector=connector) @app.on_event("shutdown") async def on_shutdown() -> None: global encode_session, prefill_session, decode_session if encode_session: await encode_session.close() if prefill_session: await prefill_session.close() if decode_session: await decode_session.close() ############################################################################### # Core forwarding ############################################################################### async def forward_non_stream( req_data: dict, req_id: str, e_urls: list[str], p_url: str, d_url: str ) -> dict: try: # Step 1: Process through Encoder instance (if has MM input) _t0 = time.perf_counter() item_meta = await fanout_encoder_primer(req_data, e_urls, req_id) _t1 = time.perf_counter() req_data = req_data if NO_REWRITE else rewrite_for_decode(req_data, item_meta) _t2 = time.perf_counter() # Step 2: Process through Prefill instance req_data = await maybe_prefill(req_data, p_url, req_id) # Step 3: Process through Decode instance logger.info("[%s] Forwarding to decode: %s", req_id, d_url) headers = {"x-request-id": req_id} # Non-streaming response async with decode_session.post( f"{d_url}/v1/chat/completions", json=req_data, headers=headers ) as resp: resp.raise_for_status() out = await resp.json() _t3 = time.perf_counter() logger.info( "STAGE %s encode=%.1f rewrite=%.1f decode=%.1f total=%.1f", "no-rewrite" if NO_REWRITE else "rewrite", (_t1 - _t0) * 1e3, (_t2 - _t1) * 1e3, (_t3 - _t2) * 1e3, (_t3 - _t0) * 1e3, ) return out except HTTPException: raise except Exception as e: logger.exception("[%s] Error in forward_non_stream: %s", req_id, str(e)) raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=f"Proxy error: {str(e)}") from e async def forward_stream( req_data: dict, req_id: str, e_urls: list[str], p_url: str, d_url: str ) -> AsyncIterator[str]: try: # Step 1: Process through Encoder instance (if has MM input) _t0 = time.perf_counter() item_meta = await fanout_encoder_primer(req_data, e_urls, req_id) _t1 = time.perf_counter() req_data = req_data if NO_REWRITE else rewrite_for_decode(req_data, item_meta) _t2 = time.perf_counter() # Step 2: Process through Prefill instance req_data = await maybe_prefill(req_data, p_url, req_id) # Step 3: Process through Decode instance logger.info("[%s] Starting streaming from decode: %s", req_id, d_url) headers = {"x-request-id": req_id} # Streaming response _first = None async with decode_session.post( f"{d_url}/v1/chat/completions", json=req_data, headers=headers, ) as resp: resp.raise_for_status() async for chunk in resp.content.iter_chunked(1024): if chunk: if _first is None: _first = time.perf_counter() yield chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore") _t3 = time.perf_counter() logger.info( "STAGE %s encode=%.1f rewrite=%.2f decode_ttfb=%.1f decode_total=%.1f", "no-rewrite" if NO_REWRITE else "rewrite", (_t1 - _t0) * 1e3, (_t2 - _t1) * 1e3, ((_first or _t3) - _t2) * 1e3, (_t3 - _t2) * 1e3, ) logger.info("[%s] Streaming completed", req_id) except HTTPException: logger.exception("[%s] HTTPException in forward_stream", req_id) raise except Exception as e: logger.exception("[%s] Error in forward_stream: %s", req_id, str(e)) raise HTTPException( status_code=500, detail=f"Proxy streaming error: {str(e)}" ) from e ############################################################################### # Public routes ############################################################################### @app.post("/v1/chat/completions") async def chat_completions(request: Request): try: req_data = await request.json() req_id = request.headers.get("x-request-id", str(uuid.uuid4())) e_urls = app.state.e_urls # we want the full list for fan-out p_url = random.choice(app.state.p_urls) if app.state.p_urls else None d_url = random.choice(app.state.d_urls) is_streaming = req_data.get("stream", False) if is_streaming: return StreamingResponse( forward_stream(req_data, req_id, e_urls, p_url, d_url), media_type="text/event-stream", ) result = await forward_non_stream(req_data, req_id, e_urls, p_url, d_url) return JSONResponse(content=result) except HTTPException: raise except Exception as e: logger.exception("Error in chat_completions endpoint: %s", str(e)) raise HTTPException( status_code=500, detail=f"Request processing error: {str(e)}" ) from e @app.get("/v1/models") async def list_models(): async with decode_session.get(f"{app.state.d_urls[0]}/v1/models") as resp: resp.raise_for_status() return await resp.json() @app.get("/health") async def health_check(): async def healthy(urls): if not urls: return "empty" for u in urls: try: async with encode_session.get(f"{u}/health") as resp: resp.raise_for_status() except Exception: return "unhealthy" return "healthy" e_status, p_status, d_status = await asyncio.gather( healthy(app.state.e_urls), healthy(app.state.p_urls), healthy(app.state.d_urls) ) overall_healthy = all( status != "unhealthy" for status in (e_status, p_status, d_status) ) status_code = 200 if overall_healthy else 503 return JSONResponse( { "proxy": "healthy", "encode_cluster": e_status, "prefill_cluster": p_status, "decode_cluster": d_status, }, status_code=status_code, ) ############################################################################### # Simple profiler fan-out (unchanged except for sessions) ############################################################################### async def _post_if_available( session: aiohttp.ClientSession, url: str, payload: dict, headers: dict, ) -> dict | None: """ POST `payload` to `url`. Returns ------- • The decoded JSON body on success (2xx) • None if the endpoint does not exist (404) • Raises for anything else. """ try: resp = await session.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers) if resp.status == 404: # profiling disabled on that server logger.warning("Profiling endpoint missing on %s", url) return None resp.raise_for_status() return await resp.json(content_type=None) except aiohttp.ClientResponseError as exc: # Pass 404 through the branch above, re-raise everything else if exc.status == 404: logger.warning("Profiling endpoint missing on %s", url) return None raise except Exception: # Network errors etc.: propagate raise async def _profile_cmd(cmd: str, payload: dict, e_url: str, p_url: str, d_url: str): """ Fire & forget to both clusters, tolerate 404. """ headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.getenv('OPENAI_API_KEY', '')}"} encode_task = _post_if_available( encode_session, f"{e_url}/{cmd}_profile", payload, headers ) prefill_task = ( _post_if_available(prefill_session, f"{p_url}/{cmd}_profile", payload, headers) if p_url is not None else asyncio.sleep(0) ) decode_task = _post_if_available( decode_session, f"{d_url}/{cmd}_profile", payload, headers ) encode_res, prefill_res, decode_res = await asyncio.gather( encode_task, prefill_task, decode_task ) # If *all* clusters said “I don’t have that route”, surface an error if encode_res is prefill_res is decode_res is None: raise HTTPException( status_code=503, detail="Profiling endpoints are disabled on all clusters", ) return { "encode": encode_res, # may be None "prefill": prefill_res, # may be None "decode": decode_res, # may be None } @app.post("/start_profile") async def start_profile(request: Request): body = await request.json() # TODO: handle multi urls properly e_url = random.choice(app.state.e_urls) p_url = random.choice(app.state.p_urls) if app.state.p_urls else None d_url = random.choice(app.state.d_urls) return await _profile_cmd("start", body, e_url, p_url, d_url) @app.post("/stop_profile") async def stop_profile(request: Request): body = await request.json() # TODO: handle multi urls properly e_url = random.choice(app.state.e_urls) p_url = random.choice(app.state.p_urls) if app.state.p_urls else None d_url = random.choice(app.state.d_urls) return await _profile_cmd("stop", body, e_url, p_url, d_url) if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("--host", default="0.0.0.0") parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000) parser.add_argument( "--no-rewrite", action="store_true", help="Forward images to the decoder unchanged (for stage-timing A/B).", ) parser.add_argument( "--encode-servers-urls", required=True, help='Comma-separated encode URLs ("http://e1:8001,http://e2:8001")', ) parser.add_argument( "--prefill-servers-urls", required=True, help=( 'Comma-separated prefill URLs ("http://p1:8003,http://p2:8004") ', 'to enable E->P->D, set "disable" or "none" to enable E->PD', ), ) parser.add_argument( "--decode-servers-urls", required=True, help='Comma-separated decode URLs ("http://d1:8005,http://d2:8006")', ) args = parser.parse_args() NO_REWRITE = args.no_rewrite app.state.e_urls = [ u.strip() for u in args.encode_servers_urls.split(",") if u.strip() ] app.state.d_urls = [ u.strip() for u in args.decode_servers_urls.split(",") if u.strip() ] # handle prefill instances if args.prefill_servers_urls.lower() in ("disable", "none", ""): app.state.p_urls = [] logger.info( "Disaggregated prefill phase explicitly disabled by user. Running E + PD..." ) else: app.state.p_urls = [ u.strip() for u in args.prefill_servers_urls.split(",") if u.strip() ] logger.info("Disaggregated prefill phase is enabled. Running E + P + D...") logger.info("Proxy listening on %s:%s", args.host, args.port) logger.info("Encode servers: %s", app.state.e_urls) logger.info("Prefill instances %s", app.state.p_urls) logger.info("Decode servers: %s", app.state.d_urls) uvicorn.run( app, host=args.host, port=args.port, log_level="info", loop="uvloop", access_log=True, )