ConServe: Harvesting GPUs for Low-Latency and High-Throughput Large Language Model Serving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01228v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 04:12:13 GMT
• Title: ConServe: Harvesting GPUs for Low-Latency and High-Throughput Large Language Model Serving
• Authors: Yifan Qiao, Shu Anzai, Shan Yu, Haoran Ma, Yang Wang, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes to harvest stranded GPU resources for offline LLM inference tasks. We built ConServe, an LLM serving system that contains an execution engine that preempts running offline tasks. Our evaluation demonstrates that ConServe achieves strong performance isolation when co-serving online and offline tasks.
• Score: 15.01982917560918
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Many applications are leveraging large language models (LLMs) for complex tasks, and they generally demand low inference latency and high serving throughput for interactive online jobs such as chatbots. However, the tight latency requirement and high load variance of applications pose challenges to serving systems in achieving high GPU utilization. Due to the high costs of scheduling and preemption, today's systems generally use separate clusters to serve online and offline inference tasks, and dedicate GPUs for online inferences to avoid interference. This approach leads to underutilized GPUs because one must reserve enough GPU resources for the peak expected load, even if the average load is low. This paper proposes to harvest stranded GPU resources for offline LLM inference tasks such as document summarization and LLM benchmarking. Unlike online inferences, these tasks usually run in a batch-processing manner with loose latency requirements, making them a good fit for stranded resources that are only available shortly. To enable safe and efficient GPU harvesting without interfering with online tasks, we built ConServe, an LLM serving system that contains (1) an execution engine that preempts running offline tasks upon the arrival of online tasks, (2) an incremental checkpointing mechanism that minimizes the amount of recomputation required by preemptions, and (3) a scheduler that adaptively batches offline tasks for higher GPU utilization. Our evaluation demonstrates that ConServe achieves strong performance isolation when co-serving online and offline tasks but at a much higher GPU utilization. When colocating practical online and offline workloads on popular models such as Llama-2-7B, ConServe achieves 2.35$\times$ higher throughput than state-of-the-art online serving systems and reduces serving latency by 84$\times$ compared to existing co-serving systems.

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