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  2. Chunked prefill

Glossary

Chunked prefill

Splitting a long prompt's prefill into pieces so other users' decode steps keep running. It smooths streaming for others at some cost to the long prompt's first token.

Where it is explained

  • LLM inference and servingProduction: cost, serving and observability

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Continuous batching
  • FlashAttention
  • Goodput
  • Inter-token latency
  • Memory-bandwidth-bound
  • PagedAttention
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