[CI][Cherry-pick] Relax TTFT benefits threshold from 0.4 to 0.5 to account for DP load imbalance (#8684)
Cherry-pick https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/8683 ### What this PR does / why we need it? This PR relaxes the TTFT threshold from `0.4` to `0.5` to improve robustness under Data Parallel (DP) load imbalance. #### Background The current assertion enforces: prefix75 < prefix0 * 0.4 #### ❌ Nightly Failure Cases (Observed) | prefix0 | threshold (0.4x) | prefix75 | delta | |--------|------------------|----------|--------| | 4696.24 | 1878.50 | 1883.99 | +5.49 | | 4696.20 | 1878.48 | 1896.01 | +17.53 | | 4636.73 | 1854.69 | 1902.48 | +47.79 | | 4655.17 | 1862.07 | 1913.54 | +51.47 | | 4685.35 | 1874.14 | 1919.36 | +45.22 | | 4660.33 | 1864.13 | 1915.41 | +51.28 | | 4648.30 | 1859.32 | 1950.50 | +91.18 | | 4655.30 | 1862.12 | 1962.32 | +100.20 | --- #### ✅ Nightly Passing Cases (Observed) | prefix0 | threshold (0.4x) | prefix75 | margin | |--------|------------------|----------|---------| | 4685.64 | 1874.26 | 1864.46 | -9.80 | | 5520.28 | 2208.11 | 1928.97 | -279.14 | | 4639.23 | 1855.69 | 1846.86 | -8.83 | | 4651.64 | 1860.66 | 1854.30 | -6.36 | | 4640.39 | 1856.15 | 1840.32 | -15.83 | | 4677.20 | 1870.88 | 1848.35 | -22.53 | --- #### Key Observations - Failures exceed the threshold by only **~5 ms to ~100 ms (~0.3%–5%)** - Passing cases often have **very tight margins (~5–10 ms)** - There is clear **overlap between pass and fail boundaries** - Many failures are **borderline violations**, not real regressions --- #### Root Cause The instability is caused by **Data Parallel (DP) load imbalance**, which introduces systematic variance: - Uneven request distribution across workers - Queueing delays - Increased TTFT variance (especially for `prefix75`) --- #### Conclusion - The current threshold (`0.4x`) is **too strict** - Observed natural fluctuation: - Absolute: up to ~100 ms - Relative: up to ~5% over threshold - Pass/fail boundary is currently **too sensitive to runtime jitter** --- #### Change We relax the threshold: **0.4 → 0.5** This adjustment: - Accounts for expected runtime variance - Reduces false negatives - Maintains a meaningful performance constraint Even with `0.5`, the requirement remains strict (`prefix75 < 50% of prefix0`) and does not mask real regressions. --- ### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change? No. This change only affects internal test assertions and does not impact user-facing behavior or model performance. --- ### How was this patch tested? - Verified against existing TTFT test cases: - Previously failing cases (due to small variance) now pass - No regressions observed in other scenarios - Confirmed that failures were due to DP load imbalance rather than actual performance degradation - Ensured the updated threshold still enforces a meaningful constraint on TTFT Signed-off-by: underfituu <hzhucong@163.com>
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- metric: "TTFT"
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baseline: "prefix0"
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target: "prefix75"
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ratio: 0.4
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ratio: 0.5
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operator: "<"
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benchmarks:
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warm_up:
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