CloudAI Benchmark Framework v1.5.0

NIXL KVBench

This workload (test_template_name is NIXLKVBench) runs NIXL KV-cache benchmarking for key-value store performance testing.

Test TOML example:

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name = "my_nixl_kvbench_test" description = "Example NIXL KVBench test" test_template_name = "NIXLKVBench" [cmd_args] docker_image_url = "<docker container url here>" model = "./examples/model_deepseek_r1.yaml" model_config = "./examples/block-tp1-pp16.yaml" backend = "POSIX" num_requests = 1 source = "file" num_iter = 16 page_size = 256 filepath = "/data"

Test Scenario example:

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name = "nixl-kvbench-test" [[Tests]] id = "kvbench.1" num_nodes = 1 time_limit = "00:10:00" test_name = "my_nixl_kvbench_test"

Test-in-Scenario example:

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name = "nixl-kvbench-test" [[Tests]] id = "kvbench.1" num_nodes = 1 time_limit = "00:10:00" name = "my_nixl_kvbench_test" description = "Example NIXL KVBench test" test_template_name = "NIXLKVBench" [Tests.cmd_args] docker_image_url = "<docker container url here>" backend = "UCX" source = "memory" op_type = "READ"

Command Arguments

class cloudai.workloads.nixl_kvbench.nixl_kvbench.NIXLKVBenchCmdArgs(*, command: Literal['profile'] = 'profile', etcd_path: str = 'etcd', wait_etcd_for: int = 60, docker_image_url: str, kvbench_script: str = '/workspace/nixl/benchmark/kvbench/main.py', python_executable: str = 'python', model_cfg: str | list[str] | None = None, backend: str | list[str] | None = None, **extra_data: Any)[source]

Bases: CmdArgs

Command line arguments for NIXLKVBench.

command: Literal['profile']
etcd_path: str
wait_etcd_for: int
docker_image_url: str
kvbench_script: str
python_executable: str
backend: str | list[str] | None

Test Definition

class cloudai.workloads.nixl_kvbench.nixl_kvbench.NIXLKVBenchTestDefinition(*, name: str, description: str, test_template_name: str, cmd_args: NIXLKVBenchCmdArgs, extra_env_vars: dict[str, str | List[str]] = {}, extra_cmd_args: dict[str, str] = {}, extra_container_mounts: list[str] = [], git_repos: list[GitRepo] = [], nsys: NsysConfiguration | None = None, predictor: PredictorConfig | None = None, agent: str = 'grid_search', agent_steps: int = 1, agent_metrics: list[str] = ['default'], agent_reward_function: str = 'inverse')[source]

Bases: TestDefinition

Test definition for NIXLKVBench.

cmd_args: NIXLKVBenchCmdArgs
property docker_image: DockerImage
property installables: list[Installable]
property cmd_args_dict: dict[str, str | list[str]]
was_run_successful(tr: TestRun) → JobStatusResult[source]
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