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  2. Prefill/decode disaggregation

Glossary

Prefill/decode disaggregation

Running prefill and decode on separate GPU pools so the two phases do not interfere. It costs more machines and KV transfer.

Where it is explained

  • LLM inference and servingProduction: cost, serving and observability

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

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