Inside Quail: custom vLLM scheduler, workload-aware KV cache for 1B tok/min
sh_reya · x · 2026-09-25
- A technical breakdown of Quail: the team used vLLM internals as a library but swapped the general serving scheduler for one designed for batched, high-throughput, prefill-only AI filter/join queries.
- The custom scheduler adds workload-aware KV cache management, and attention kernels avoid re-reading shared KVs across queries—key to hitting 1B+ input tokens/min on one H100.
- The author expects more workload-specific inference schedulers as LLM usage gets creative, aligning with the rise of classification-heavy workflows like jev.
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