AWS and vLLM add push-based NIXL KV transfer for disaggregated inference
AWS published a vLLM connector that uses a push-based NIXL design to move KV cache transfer coordination off the critical path in prefill-decode disaggregated inference. Benchmarks on Amazon EC2 P5en instances with AWS EFA showed up to 3x better time to first token and 30% better time per output token.
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