diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 22c45229..7bfbc302 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -267,7 +267,10 @@ H200 compute by injecting one proposer↔verifier round-trip per block: | vs AR | **2.20×** | 1.81× | 1.50× | 1.22× | **0.98×** (break-even) | 0.77× (loss) | **Break-even ≈100 ms/block**: a cloud↔desk WAN (30–150 ms) straddles/exceeds it, -while a LAN (≤15 ms) keeps the 1.8–2.2× win. So the realizable split is **WAN = +while a LAN (≤15 ms) keeps the 1.8–2.2× win. Confirmed end-to-end with a **real +two-process socket over a real ~102 ms network** (reverse SSH tunnel, real +156 KB/block aux payload): co-located **2.02×** → real-network **0.56× AR** (a +net loss; network was 71 % of wall time). So the realizable split is **WAN = control + tool plane** (the Mac bridge) and **LAN = co-located data plane**. See [ADR 0014](docs/adr/0014-agent-connection-capacity-and-cross-host-topology-tests.md) for the full plan, evidence, and the served-MLX-gemma gap found during testing. diff --git a/docs/adr/0014-agent-connection-capacity-and-cross-host-topology-tests.md b/docs/adr/0014-agent-connection-capacity-and-cross-host-topology-tests.md index 5c6a1cc2..0a5429a5 100644 --- a/docs/adr/0014-agent-connection-capacity-and-cross-host-topology-tests.md +++ b/docs/adr/0014-agent-connection-capacity-and-cross-host-topology-tests.md @@ -183,6 +183,76 @@ straddles or exceeds break-even, while a LAN/Thunderbolt link (≤15 ms) preserv the 1.8–2.2× win. This is the architecture's prediction (design doc §4.2), **now quantified on real compute** — and it is why the data plane must be LAN. +### 4.4 Real two-process socket over a real network (no simulation) + +To remove the "injected sleep" caveat, the per-block exchange was run through a +**real TCP socket to a second process** (`scripts/research/socket_echo_server.py`), +serializing the **actual** per-block payload — the verifier→proposer aux hidden +states + draft tokens, **≈156 KB/block** — once per block +(`--socket-echo-addr`). Two transports were measured (H200 NVL, +`results/research/k3_crosshost_{socket_loopback,realnet}_gpu.json`): + +| transport | RTT | decode tok/s | vs AR | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| loopback socket (same host) | ~0 ms | 51.5 | **2.02×** | +| **real network** (GPU↔cloud-agent, reverse SSH tunnel) | **~102 ms** | **14.1** | **0.56×** | + +- **Loopback** matches the co-located number → the socket + serialization of the + 156 KB payload are themselves cheap; the killer is purely the round-trip. +- **Real network**: at a genuine ~102 ms RTT the cross-host loop collapses to + **0.56× AR — a net loss, worse than running AR alone**, and *worse* than the + latency-only model (0.98× at 100 ms) because the real transport also pays the + **156 KB/block bandwidth** (network was **71 %** of decode wall time). This is + an end-to-end real-models + real-network confirmation that the token-level + draft data plane is WAN-infeasible. +- Note: `tc netem` artificial latency could **not** be applied inside the vast + container (`RTNETLINK: Operation not permitted` — no `NET_ADMIN` in the + restricted netns), so real latency was obtained from a real inter-host link + (the reverse-tunnel RTT) rather than synthetic netem. + +**What the ~102 ms is (and is not).** It is **not** a gRPC RTT and **not** a +floor — it is a raw TCP round-trip through a **reverse SSH tunnel between two +different-region hosts**. Decomposed by payload over the real path: + +| payload | median RTT | +| --- | --- | +| 64 B | 102.6 ms | +| 40 KB | 205.2 ms | +| 80 KB | 206.0 ms | +| 156 KB | 206.9 ms | + +The 64 B point (~102 ms) is the **pure inter-region latency + SSH-relay +overhead**; the flat 205–207 ms from 40 KB up is **one extra tunnel round-trip** +(TCP windowing / SSH framing), not linear bandwidth. + +**Direct-gRPC transport, re-tested.** Swapping the raw socket for a real +**gRPC (HTTP/2)** channel (`grpc_echo_probe.py`, `--grpc-echo-addr`): + +| transport / path | 156 KB RTT | fused tok/s | vs AR | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| loopback gRPC (same host) | **1.1 ms** | — | — | +| raw socket over the ~102 ms path | 207 ms | 14.1 | 0.56× | +| **gRPC over the ~102 ms path** | 208 ms | **15.95** | **0.63×** | + +gRPC is **modestly better** (0.63× vs 0.56×; ~197 vs ~232 ms/block network) — +it serializes the 156 KB more efficiently — but **still a net loss**, because +the **~102 ms geographic RTT dominates, not the transport**. gRPC's real value +shows at **loopback (1.1 ms for 156 KB)** → on a low-RTT link the transport is +free and the engine returns to its 1.8–2.2× win. (A *true* non-SSH ingress to +the GPU could not be established — vast's non-SSH mapped ports accept SYNs but +do not forward data end-to-end, so the gRPC run used the same reverse-SSH path; +this only adds relay overhead, so the real direct-gRPC number would be ≤ these.) So this is a **worst-case +far-WAN + SSH artifact**, not a deployment floor. Optimization room is large and +is exactly the architecture's prescription: (1) **latency** — co-locate the +draft loop on a low-RTT link (same region ~5–20 ms, LAN ~0.5–2 ms, Thunderbolt +sub-ms; at ≤15 ms the engine is back to 1.8–2.2×, cf. §4.3 / loopback 2.02×); +(2) **transport** — a direct **gRPC/QUIC/RDMA** path drops the SSH relay + the +extra round-trip (gRPC would be *lower*, not higher); (3) **payload** — the +156 KB/block fp16 aux can be fp8/int8/top-k compressed 2–4×; (4) **fewer +round-trips** — larger blocks. The invariant is the ratio *per-block RTT : +per-block compute* (break-even ~100 ms/block): the strategy is to keep the loop +on a low-RTT link, not to chase a faster WAN. + ## 5. Decision 1. **Case 1 is validated**: the session-bound gRPC runtime admits and serves @@ -224,3 +294,47 @@ the 1.8–2.2× win. This is the architecture's prediction (design doc §4.2), - **Hold live cloud→Mac gRPC sessions for Case 1.** Impossible: the Mac has no inbound path (the reason the bridge exists). The load test runs co-located on the Mac, dispatched via the bridge. + +## Appendix A — Test report index & evidence + +Consolidated record of every run behind this ADR (harnesses, how to reproduce, +the committed evidence JSON, and the headline result). + +### A.1 Harnesses & how to reproduce + +| Test | Harness / preset | Reproduce | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Case 1 — agent connections (light) | `scripts/research/grpc_agent_capacity_loadtest.py`; preset `agent-capacity-loadtest` | `kakeya_mac.py run --preset agent-capacity-loadtest` | +| Case 1 — agent connections (stress) | same; preset `agent-capacity-stress` (`--context-len`, FD raise) | `kakeya_mac.py run --preset agent-capacity-stress` | +| Case 2 — injected-RTT sweep | `scripts/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py --rtt-sweep` | H200, real models | +| Case 2 — raw socket (real net) | `socket_echo_server.py` + `k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py --socket-echo-addr` | echo on host B; reverse-SSH path | +| Case 2 — direct gRPC | `grpc_echo_probe.py` + `k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py --grpc-echo-addr` | gRPC echo on host B | + +### A.2 Consolidated results + +**Case 1 (Mac mini M4, gRPC `RuntimeService`, cpu Qwen3-0.6B):** + +| run | result | evidence | +| --- | --- | --- | +| light sessions | **256/256 agents, 0 errors**; per-session KV 7.80 MB; node bound ≈2.0 GB; RSS flat ~3.85 GB | `results/research/k3_agent_capacity_mac.json` | +| stress (ctx prefill, FD 100k, cap 2048) | FD not the limit; mem = cap×window (cap 2048→11.5 GB, bound 61 GB>RAM); serialization caps heavy-ctx concurrency at **~8** | `results/research/k3_agent_capacity_stress_mac.json` | + +**Case 2 (H200 NVL, Gemma-4-26B + DFlash, fused spec-decode vs AR):** + +| transport / RTT | tok/s | vs AR | evidence | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| co-located (0 network) | 44–52 | **1.85–2.20×** | (all four JSONs) | +| injected-RTT sweep | — | 2.20× @0 → **0.98× @100 ms** → 0.77× @150 ms | `k3_crosshost_rtt_gpu.json` | +| loopback gRPC (156 KB) | — | 1.1 ms round-trip | `k3_crosshost_grpc_gpu.json` | +| raw socket over ~102 ms path | 14.1 | 0.56× | `k3_crosshost_realnet_gpu.json` | +| direct gRPC over ~102 ms path | 15.95 | 0.63× | `k3_crosshost_grpc_gpu.json` | +| RTT decomposition | 64 B → 102.6 ms; 156 KB → 206–208 ms (both raw + gRPC) | — | `k3_crosshost_socket_loopback_gpu.json` | + +### A.3 One-line verdict + +Bounded-memory, admission-controlled multi-agent serving is **validated** (Case 1: +256+ connections, ~2.0 GB node KV ceiling, flat RSS). 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a/scripts/research/grpc_echo_probe.py b/scripts/research/grpc_echo_probe.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f967c1e --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/research/grpc_echo_probe.py @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +"""Direct-gRPC cross-host round-trip probe (no SSH tunnel). + +Compares a REAL gRPC channel against the reverse-SSH-tunnel raw-socket path for +the Case-2 per-block proposer<->verifier payload. Raw-bytes unary RPC (no proto +codegen): the server echoes the payload; the client times the round-trip for a +range of payload sizes. + +Roles: + --role server --bind 0.0.0.0:PORT (run on the reachable host, e.g. GPU) + --role client --addr HOST:PORT --payloads 64,160000 --reps 12 + +Run the server on the GPU bound to a vast-mapped internal port; connect from the +cloud agent to PUBLIC_IPADDR:. That round-trip traverses the +real network over HTTP/2 with gRPC flow control — no SSH encryption/relay hop. +""" + +from __future__ import annotations + +import argparse +import time +from concurrent import futures +from typing import List + +import grpc + +_IDENT = lambda b: b # noqa: E731 (raw-bytes serializer) +_METHOD = "/echo.Echo/Echo" +_BIG = 256 * 1024 * 1024 +_OPTS = [("grpc.max_send_message_length", _BIG), + ("grpc.max_receive_message_length", _BIG)] + + +def _serve(bind: str) -> int: + def handler(request: bytes, context) -> bytes: # echo + return request + h = grpc.method_handlers_generic_handler( + "echo.Echo", + {"Echo": grpc.unary_unary_rpc_method_handler( + handler, request_deserializer=_IDENT, response_serializer=_IDENT)}) + server = grpc.server(futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=16), options=_OPTS) + server.add_generic_rpc_handlers((h,)) + server.add_insecure_port(bind) + server.start() + print(f"[grpc-echo] serving on {bind}", flush=True) + server.wait_for_termination() + return 0 + + +def _client(addr: str, payloads: List[int], reps: int) -> int: + channel = grpc.insecure_channel( + addr, options=_OPTS + [("grpc.enable_http_proxy", 0)]) + echo = channel.unary_unary(_METHOD, request_serializer=_IDENT, + response_deserializer=_IDENT) + grpc.channel_ready_future(channel).result(timeout=30) + for nb in payloads: + p = b"x" * nb + ts = [] + for _ in range(reps): + t = time.perf_counter() + r = echo(p) + ts.append((time.perf_counter() - t) * 1000.0) + assert len(r) == nb + ts.sort() + med = ts[len(ts) // 2] + print(f"[grpc-echo] payload {nb:8d} B -> median RTT {med:.1f} ms " + f"(min {ts[0]:.1f}, max {ts[-1]:.1f})", flush=True) + channel.close() + return 0 + + +def main() -> int: + ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) + ap.add_argument("--role", required=True, choices=["server", "client"]) + ap.add_argument("--bind", default="0.0.0.0:72299") + ap.add_argument("--addr", default="127.0.0.1:72299") + ap.add_argument("--payloads", default="64,40000,80000,160000") + ap.add_argument("--reps", type=int, default=12) + args = ap.parse_args() + if args.role == "server": + return _serve(args.bind) + return _client(args.addr, [int(x) for x in args.payloads.split(",") if x.strip()], + args.reps) + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + raise SystemExit(main()) diff --git a/scripts/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py b/scripts/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py index c1b28f6c..81b000ab 100644 --- a/scripts/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py +++ b/scripts/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py @@ -28,17 +28,38 @@ from __future__ import annotations import argparse +import io import json import math +import socket +import struct +import subprocess import sys import time from pathlib import Path -from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple +from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple import torch import torch.nn.functional as F +def _sock_roundtrip(sock: socket.socket, payload: bytes) -> int: + """Send a length-prefixed blob and read the echoed blob back (one real + network round-trip). Returns the number of bytes round-tripped.""" + hdr = struct.pack(">Q", len(payload)) + sock.sendall(hdr + payload) + want = len(payload) + got = bytearray() + # read back the 8-byte header + payload + need = 8 + want + while len(got) < need: + chunk = sock.recv(need - len(got)) + if not chunk: + raise ConnectionError("echo peer closed") + got.extend(chunk) + return want + + # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # DFlash wiring helpers (mirrors scripts/research/k3_dflash_specdecode_eval.py) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # @@ -170,6 +191,8 @@ def restored_specdecode_fused( adapter, drafter, verifier, aux_layer_ids, embed_fn, lm_head_fn, prompt, gen_tokens, block_size, device, eos_ids, block_rtt_ms: float = 0.0, + sock: Optional[socket.socket] = None, + grpc_call=None, ) -> Dict[str, Any]: """FUSED spec-decode engine (A+B+C): per-block O(L). @@ -197,6 +220,7 @@ def restored_specdecode_fused( generated: List[int] = [] accepts: List[int] = [] t_draft = t_verify = t_extend = t_network = 0.0 + net_bytes = 0 rtt_s = max(0.0, block_rtt_ms) / 1000.0 torch.cuda.synchronize(device) t0 = time.perf_counter() @@ -241,6 +265,23 @@ def restored_specdecode_fused( torch.cat([cand_aux[li][:accepted], corr_aux[li][:1]], dim=0).unsqueeze(0) for li in range(n_aux) ] # each [1, accepted+1, hidden] + # Cross-host data plane (real socket): the verifier ships the + # newly-committed tokens' aux hidden back to the proposer host, and the + # proposer's next draft block goes the other way. Round-trip the REAL + # per-block payload through the socket so netem latency + serialization + # + bandwidth of the actual aux tensors are all measured. + if sock is not None or grpc_call is not None: + tn = time.perf_counter() + buf = io.BytesIO() + torch.save({"aux": [a.to("cpu", torch.float16) for a in new_aux], + "tokens": candidate}, buf) + payload = buf.getvalue() + if grpc_call is not None: + grpc_call(payload) + net_bytes += len(payload) + else: + net_bytes += _sock_roundtrip(sock, payload) + t_network += time.perf_counter() - tn ctx_kv = drafter.extend_context_kv( ctx_kv, drafter.make_context_kv(new_aux, new_positions)) torch.cuda.synchronize(device); t_extend += time.perf_counter() - te @@ -268,6 +309,7 @@ def restored_specdecode_fused( "mean_accept_len": round(sum(accepts) / len(accepts), 2) if accepts else 0.0, "decode_tokens": len(generated), "block_rtt_ms": block_rtt_ms, + "net_bytes_per_block": (round(net_bytes / len(accepts)) if accepts and net_bytes else 0), } @@ -292,6 +334,18 @@ def main() -> int: "cross-host proposer<->verifier draft loop. When set, " "after the co-located run the fused path is re-timed on " "prompt[0] at each RTT — the WAN-penalty curve (Case 2).") + ap.add_argument("--socket-echo-addr", default=None, + help="HOST:PORT of socket_echo_server.py. Enables the REAL " + "two-process socket round-trip (per-block aux payload) " + "instead of an injected sleep.") + ap.add_argument("--netem-sweep", default=None, + help="Comma-separated netem delays (ms) to apply to " + "--netem-dev between socket-mode runs (needs root + tc).") + ap.add_argument("--netem-dev", default="lo") + ap.add_argument("--grpc-echo-addr", default=None, + help="HOST:PORT of grpc_echo_probe.py --role server. Enables " + "a real gRPC per-block round-trip (direct-gRPC transport " + "instead of the raw socket).") ap.add_argument("--output", default=None) args = ap.parse_args() @@ -513,6 +567,88 @@ def recall(tokens, ans): "RTT is typically 30-150 ms. Quantifies why the cross-host " "token-level draft data plane is WAN-infeasible."), } + + # --- Case 2 (REAL): direct-gRPC transport over the network --- + if args.grpc_echo_addr: + import grpc as _grpc + _ident = lambda b: b # noqa: E731 + _opts = [("grpc.max_send_message_length", 256 * 1024 * 1024), + ("grpc.max_receive_message_length", 256 * 1024 * 1024), + ("grpc.enable_http_proxy", 0)] + _ch = _grpc.insecure_channel(args.grpc_echo_addr, options=_opts) + _echo = _ch.unary_unary("/echo.Echo/Echo", request_serializer=_ident, + response_deserializer=_ident) + _grpc.channel_ready_future(_ch).result(timeout=30) + prompt0 = ids_list[0][0].tolist() + r = restored_specdecode_fused( + adapter, drafter, verifier, aux_layer_ids, embed_fn, lm_head_fn, + prompt0, args.max_new_tokens, args.block_size, device, eos_ids, + grpc_call=_echo) + _ch.close() + tps = r["decode_tokens_per_s"] + report["crosshost_grpc_realnet"] = { + "ar_baseline_tps": ar_mean, + "colocated_fused_tps": fu_tps, + "transport": "direct gRPC (HTTP/2) per-block round-trip", + "decode_tokens_per_s": tps, + "vs_ar_x": round(tps / ar_mean, 3) if ar_mean else None, + "blocks": r["blocks"], "mean_accept_len": r["mean_accept_len"], + "net_bytes_per_block": r["net_bytes_per_block"], + "network_s": r["time_breakdown_s"]["network_rtt"], + "decode_s": r["decode_s"], + } + print(f"[sd][grpc] direct gRPC -> {tps} tok/s " + f"({report['crosshost_grpc_realnet']['vs_ar_x']}x AR, " + f"{r['net_bytes_per_block']} B/block, blocks={r['blocks']})", + file=sys.stderr, flush=True) + + # --- Case 2 (REAL): two-process socket + tc netem real-network sweep --- + if args.socket_echo_addr: + host, port = args.socket_echo_addr.rsplit(":", 1) + netems = ([float(x) for x in args.netem_sweep.split(",") if x.strip()] + if args.netem_sweep else [0.0]) + prompt0 = ids_list[0][0].tolist() + sock_sweep = [] + sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) + sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1) + sock.connect((host, int(port))) + try: + for nd in netems: + # Apply real network latency to the loopback device (root + tc). + tc = subprocess.run( + ["tc", "qdisc", "replace", "dev", args.netem_dev, "root", + "netem", "delay", f"{nd}ms"], + capture_output=True, text=True) + tc_ok = tc.returncode == 0 + r = restored_specdecode_fused( + adapter, drafter, verifier, aux_layer_ids, embed_fn, lm_head_fn, + prompt0, args.max_new_tokens, args.block_size, device, eos_ids, + sock=sock) + tps = r["decode_tokens_per_s"] + sock_sweep.append({ + "netem_delay_ms": nd, "tc_applied": tc_ok, + "decode_tokens_per_s": tps, + "vs_ar_x": round(tps / ar_mean, 3) if ar_mean else None, + "blocks": r["blocks"], "mean_accept_len": r["mean_accept_len"], + "net_bytes_per_block": r["net_bytes_per_block"], + "network_s": r["time_breakdown_s"]["network_rtt"], + "decode_s": r["decode_s"], + }) + print(f"[sd][sock] netem={nd:6.1f}ms -> {tps} tok/s " + f"({sock_sweep[-1]['vs_ar_x']}x AR, " + f"{sock_sweep[-1]['net_bytes_per_block']} B/block, " + f"blocks={r['blocks']})", file=sys.stderr, flush=True) + finally: + sock.close() + subprocess.run(["tc", "qdisc", "del", "dev", args.netem_dev, "root"], + capture_output=True) + over = [s["netem_delay_ms"] for s in sock_sweep if (s["vs_ar_x"] or 0) >= 1.0] + report["crosshost_socket_netem_sweep"] = { + "ar_baseline_tps": ar_mean, + "transport": "real TCP socket round-trip + tc netem on " + args.netem_dev, + "sweep": sock_sweep, + "max_netem_ms_at_or_above_ar": (max(over) if over else 0.0), + } out_path = Path(args.output) if args.output else Path( f"results/research/k3_specdecode_gpu_bench_{int(time.time())}.json") out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) diff --git a/scripts/research/socket_echo_server.py b/scripts/research/socket_echo_server.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cf6d14f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/research/socket_echo_server.py @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +"""Minimal length-prefixed TCP echo server — the "remote verifier host" +network boundary for the Case-2 cross-host spec-decode test. + +Run this as a SEPARATE process; the spec-decode bench +(`k3_specdecode_gpu_bench.py --socket-echo-addr`) round-trips the real +per-block proposer<->verifier payload (draft tokens + aux hidden states) +through it once per block. With `tc netem` applied to the loopback device, +the round-trip incurs REAL network latency + serialization + bandwidth — +i.e. a true two-process socket measurement rather than an injected sleep. + +Protocol: 8-byte big-endian length prefix, then that many bytes; the server +writes the same framed blob straight back. +""" + +from __future__ import annotations + +import argparse +import socket +import struct + + +def _recvall(conn: socket.socket, n: int) -> bytes: + buf = bytearray() + while len(buf) < n: + chunk = conn.recv(n - len(buf)) + if not chunk: + raise ConnectionError("peer closed") + buf.extend(chunk) + return bytes(buf) + + +def main() -> int: + ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) + ap.add_argument("--bind", default="127.0.0.1:0") + ap.add_argument("--port-file", default=None, + help="write the bound port here (for --bind :0 discovery)") + args = ap.parse_args() + host, port = args.bind.rsplit(":", 1) + srv = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) + srv.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) + srv.bind((host, int(port))) + srv.listen(8) + bound = srv.getsockname()[1] + if args.port_file: + with open(args.port_file, "w") as fh: + fh.write(str(bound)) + print(f"[echo] listening on {host}:{bound}", flush=True) + while True: + conn, _ = srv.accept() + conn.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1) + try: + while True: + hdr = _recvall(conn, 8) + (length,) = struct.unpack(">Q", hdr) + blob = _recvall(conn, length) + conn.sendall(hdr + blob) + except (ConnectionError, OSError): + conn.close() + return 0 + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + raise SystemExit(main())