vllm.v1.metrics.perf ¶
Analytic flops/memory estimation module for transformer components, to help derive MFU (Model Flops Utilization) stats for a running model.
Classes:
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AttentionDetectionParser–Prevents standard AttentionMetrics from being instantiated for MLA models.
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AttentionMetrics– -
AttentionQuantizationConfigParser–Parses quantization configuration for attention layers.
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BaseAttentionConfigParser–Parses attention-specific configuration.
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BaseConfigParser–Parses base model configuration.
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BaseFfnConfigParser–Parses FFN and MoE configuration.
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ComponentMetrics–Each concrete ComponentMetrics class is associated with:
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ExecutionContext–Represents an execution context for a batch of requests.
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FfnMetrics– -
FfnParallelParser–Parses FFN parallelism configuration.
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FfnQuantizationConfigParser–Parses quantization configuration for FFN layers.
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InterleaveMoeLayerStepParser–Parses interleave_moe_layer_step field for models like Llama4.
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InvalidComponent–Custom exception to indicate that a certain ComponentMetric is not
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MLAAttentionMetrics–Performance metrics for Multi-Latent Attention (MLA) layers.
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MLAConfigParser–Parses MLA-specific configuration fields.
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MLADetectionParser–Validates that the model uses MLA attention.
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ModelMetrics– -
MoeLayerFreqParser–Parses moe_layer_freq and first_k_dense_replace fields for models like Deepseek.
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ParsedArgs–Syntactic sugar so that Parsers can use dot notations
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Parser– -
ParserChain–Applies chain of parser in a sequential order.
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PerfMetricsProm–Record performance metrics in Prometheus.
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UnembedMetrics–
Functions:
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get_required–Get an attr from an object, or throw a InvalidComponentError if it's not set.
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getattr_from_list–Try to get the first attr that exists in the object
AttentionDetectionParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Prevents standard AttentionMetrics from being instantiated for MLA models. MLA models should use MLAAttentionMetrics instead.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
AttentionMetrics ¶
Bases: ComponentMetrics
Methods:
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get_write_bytes_breakdown–Calculate write memory traffic for attention layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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get_write_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate write memory traffic for attention layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
AttentionQuantizationConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses quantization configuration for attention layers. Overrides: weight_byte_size
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
BaseAttentionConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses attention-specific configuration. Provides: num_key_value_heads, head_dim, cache_byte_size
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
BaseConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses base model configuration. Provides: vocab_size, hidden_size, num_attention_heads, num_hidden_layers, weight_byte_size, activation_byte_size, dp_size, tp_size, pp_size, enable_ep
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
BaseFfnConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses FFN and MoE configuration. Provides: intermediate_size, num_experts, num_experts_per_tok, moe_intermediate_size, num_shared_experts, num_moe_layers
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
ComponentMetrics ¶
Bases: BaseModel, ABC
Each concrete ComponentMetrics class is associated with: - fields that are required for metric derivation (fields are specified/validated through pydantic model) - parser to parse VllmConfig into fields - metric methods that derive flops/bytes for a given execution context
Methods:
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from_vllm_config–Instantiate this class from VllmConfig.
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get_parser–Return a ParserChain that provides values for all required fields.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
from_vllm_config(vllm_config) classmethod ¶
Instantiate this class from VllmConfig. Raises ValidationError if parsing fails.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_parser() abstractmethod classmethod ¶
Return a ParserChain that provides values for all required fields. The returned parser chain must populate ParsedArgs with values for every field defined on this ComponentMetrics class. Missing fields will cause a ValidationError when from_vllm_config() is called. See individual Parser docstrings for which args they provide, and field comments on ComponentMetrics subclasses for which parser provides each field.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
ExecutionContext dataclass ¶
Represents an execution context for a batch of requests.
This class aggregates statistics across multiple requests in a batch, separately tracking prefill and decode phases.
Example) - Batch with one full prefill (2048 tokens) and one decode (1 token, 8192 context): ctx = ExecutionContext() ctx.add(2048, 2048, is_prefill=True) ctx.add(1, 8192, is_prefill=False)
Methods:
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add–Add a single request's statistics to this batch context.
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from_single_request–Create an ExecutionContext from a single request.
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num_logits_tokens–Number of tokens that require logits computation (unembedding).
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total_num_tokens–Total number of tokens across all requests in the batch.
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total_token_context_product–Total sum of (num_tokens * context_len) across all requests.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
add(num_tokens, context_len, is_prefill) ¶
Add a single request's statistics to this batch context.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
from_single_request(num_tokens, context_len, is_prefill) classmethod ¶
Create an ExecutionContext from a single request.
This is a convenience method primarily for testing.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
num_logits_tokens() ¶
Number of tokens that require logits computation (unembedding).
For prefill, only the last token per request needs logits. For decode, all tokens need logits.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
total_num_tokens() ¶
total_token_context_product() ¶
Total sum of (num_tokens * context_len) across all requests.
FfnMetrics ¶
Bases: ComponentMetrics
Methods:
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get_num_flops_breakdown–Calculate flops breakdown for FFN layers.
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get_read_bytes_breakdown–Calculate read memory traffic for FFN layers.
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get_write_bytes_breakdown–Calculate write memory traffic for FFN layers.
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validate_moe_fields–Validate that MoE-related fields are properly set when num_moe_layers > 0.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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get_num_flops_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate flops breakdown for FFN layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_read_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate read memory traffic for FFN layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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get_write_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate write memory traffic for FFN layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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validate_moe_fields() ¶
Validate that MoE-related fields are properly set when num_moe_layers > 0.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
FfnParallelParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses FFN parallelism configuration.
Provides: ffn_tp_size, ffn_ep_size
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
FfnQuantizationConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses quantization configuration for FFN layers.
Overrides: weight_byte_size
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
InterleaveMoeLayerStepParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses interleave_moe_layer_step field for models like Llama4.
Overrides: num_moe_layers
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
InvalidComponent ¶
Bases: Exception
Custom exception to indicate that a certain ComponentMetric is not applicable to the given VllmConfig.
MLAAttentionMetrics ¶
Bases: ComponentMetrics
Performance metrics for Multi-Latent Attention (MLA) layers.
MLA uses a compressed latent representation for KV cache: - KV cache stores a single compressed vector of size (kv_lora_rank + qk_rope_head_dim) per token per layer, instead of 2 * num_kv_heads * head_dim as in standard MHA/GQA. - Q path uses optional low-rank compression: h -> q_lora_rank -> num_heads * qk_head_dim - KV path: h -> (kv_lora_rank + qk_rope_head_dim), then kv_lora_rank -> num_heads * (qk_nope_head_dim + v_head_dim)
Used by DeepSeek-V2, DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, and similar models.
Methods:
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get_num_flops_breakdown–Calculate flops breakdown for MLA attention layers.
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get_read_bytes_breakdown–Calculate read memory traffic for MLA attention layers.
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get_write_bytes_breakdown–Calculate write memory traffic for MLA attention layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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get_num_flops_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate flops breakdown for MLA attention layers.
MLA projection structure: - Q path: h -> q_lora_rank -> num_heads * qk_head_dim (or h -> num_heads * qk_head_dim if q_lora_rank is None) - KV path: h -> (kv_lora_rank + qk_rope_head_dim), then kv_lora_rank -> num_heads * (qk_nope_head_dim + v_head_dim) - Attention: Q @ K^T and attn @ V - Output: num_heads * v_head_dim -> h
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_read_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate read memory traffic for MLA attention layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_write_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate write memory traffic for MLA attention layers.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
MLAConfigParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses MLA-specific configuration fields. Provides: kv_lora_rank, qk_nope_head_dim, qk_rope_head_dim, v_head_dim, q_lora_rank
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
MLADetectionParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Validates that the model uses MLA attention. Raises InvalidComponent if the model does not use MLA, so MLAAttentionMetrics is silently skipped for non-MLA models.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
ModelMetrics ¶
Methods:
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__init__–Parse vllm_config to instantiate metrics for each component.
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get_step_perf_stats_per_gpu–Calculate perf stats for the current step based on scheduled tokens.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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__init__(vllm_config) ¶
Parse vllm_config to instantiate metrics for each component. is_enabled() will return False if no component metrics could be instantiated.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_step_perf_stats_per_gpu(scheduler_output) ¶
Calculate perf stats for the current step based on scheduled tokens.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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MoeLayerFreqParser ¶
Bases: Parser
Parses moe_layer_freq and first_k_dense_replace fields for models like Deepseek.
Overrides: num_moe_layers
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
ParsedArgs ¶
Syntactic sugar so that Parsers can use dot notations to access/update the parsed arguments.
e.g.) args = ParsedArgs() args.x = 3 args.y = args.x + 1
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
Parser ¶
Bases: Protocol
Methods:
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parse–Parse the vllm config and update the current ParsedArgs and pass it on.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
parse(args, vllm_config) ¶
Parse the vllm config and update the current ParsedArgs and pass it on. If the parser isn't applicable to the vllm_config, it will do nothing.
ParserChain ¶
Applies chain of parser in a sequential order. Later parsers might overwrite results from previous parsers, so parsers should be chained in the appropriate order if they are not mutually exclusive.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
PerfMetricsProm ¶
Record performance metrics in Prometheus.
Average TFLOPS (tera floating-point operations per second) can be calculated using a PromQL query:
rate(vllm:estimated_flops_per_gpu_total[1m]) / 1e12
Average memory bandwidth in GB/s can be calculated using:
(rate(vllm:estimated_read_bytes_per_gpu_total[1m]) + rate(vllm:estimated_write_bytes_per_gpu_total[1m])) / 1e9
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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UnembedMetrics ¶
Bases: ComponentMetrics
Methods:
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get_num_flops_breakdown–Calculate flops breakdown for unembedding layer.
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get_read_bytes_breakdown–Calculate read memory traffic for unembedding layer.
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get_write_bytes_breakdown–Calculate write memory traffic for unembedding layer.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
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get_num_flops_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate flops breakdown for unembedding layer.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_read_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate read memory traffic for unembedding layer.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_write_bytes_breakdown(ctx, per_gpu=True) ¶
Calculate write memory traffic for unembedding layer.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
get_required(obj, attr) ¶
Get an attr from an object, or throw a InvalidComponentError if it's not set.
Source code in vllm/v1/metrics/perf.py
getattr_from_list(obj, attrs, default=None) ¶
Try to get the first attr that exists in the object from a list of attrs. Otherwise return None.