[feat] Add llm args to tune python gc threshold #5141
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[feat] Add llm args to tune python gc threshold
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Our observation is that during the TRTLLM py_executor’s create_responses stage, Python GC will be invocated multiple times and will at certain point become extremely long (~200ms). The mechanism behind is that Python will invoke GC when it detects num_of_allocation – num_of_deallocation is larger than a certain threshold (default value is 700). In our case, we are creating (allocating) thousands of responses at the end of an iteration before sending them away in bulk, during which GC will be triggered multiple times because we are doing tens of thousands of allocations while almost no deactivations (they will be deferred until responses are out of function scope). Those GCs are pointless because none of those new response objects are dangled, but they take time (from several to hundreds of milliseconds).
Our plan is to increase the GC threshold to a certain heuristic value, say 20k, which should be enough to handle 2k responses, and make it as a configurable llm-api argument in case we need to handle larger responses in the future. To minimize the potential impact on other components (e.g., OOM issue), we first will limit such change in the create_responses stage of py_executor.
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