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An item whose cost is above the configured max_batch_cost never joins a cost-sorted batch while a cheaper item is pending. On knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0 that limit is 16,384, and the long separate-group rows in #390 cost about 22,355–27,314, so a stream of cheaper rows holds them until the stream ends.

BatchFormer now alternates one cost-sorted batch of items that fit the configured limit with the oldest over-budget item, served alone. The first batch follows the oldest pending item. An over-budget item with k over-budget items ahead of it waits for at most k + 1 cheaper batches. Items at or under the configured limit stay on cost order, including when cheaper items fill the budget in front of them. Lane membership uses the budget BatchConfig was built with, so a later adaptive change to the live limit does not pull an over-budget item into the cheaper batch. runs_alone is unchanged.

The adaptive_batching.enabled: false profile change is removed. The L4 comparison showed it does not dispatch these rows.

This is the in-process BatchFormer path. The Rust sidecar batcher is unchanged. There is no new GPU measurement here, so this does not claim the 300-second timeout is gone.

Refs #390

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    • Items exceeding the configured batch-cost limit now run alone and in arrival order, taking turns with batches that fit within the limit. The oldest pending item determines which lane runs first.
    • Changing the live batch-cost limit does not change which items are considered over budget.

Refs superlinked#390

Starvation was cost-order, not inference time: cheaper items kept filling
max_batch_cost, so a high-cost extract request never reached the front even
though the GPU work itself is only seconds.
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BatchFormer now treats items above the configured cost limit as a separate lane. It dispatches those items alone and in arrival order, alternating with packable batches according to the oldest pending item. Tests cover scheduling, accounting, and draining.

Changes: Batch lane scheduling

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Lane selection
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/core/batcher.py
BatchConfig preserves the initial cost limit. BatchFormer orders over-budget items by arrival and packable items by cost. When both lanes have pending items, lane selection follows the oldest item and alternates subsequent turns.
Batch extraction and validation
packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/core/batcher.py, packages/sie_server/tests/core/test_batcher.py
Extraction prioritizes runs_alone items and keeps over-budget items in standalone batches, including when the live limit rises. Tests cover lane order, pending-cost accounting, randomized arrivals, and try_drain.

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An over-budget item can wait behind an unnecessary cheaper batch after the queue has been idle. Resetting the turn state is advisable, but the bounded delay does not appear to block merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e77fc

The change is confined to scheduling already-admitted work. Oversized items could already execute alone, and existing queue-drain and shutdown controls remain in place. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but production latency and resource contention under the new scheduling policy remain unmeasured.

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  • inferred — Already-admitted requests influence cost-based scheduling within their selected base-model or LoRA queue. Direct queue-state effects remain local, but expensive singleton execution can delay sibling queues sharing the worker's inference resource. The drain bound limits item count, not elapsed execution time; wider deployment exposure is not established.

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  • inferred — The inspected path preserves worker and LoRA queue selection before submission and the existing dispatch path afterward. No new identity transition, privileged sink, or admission-control bypass was established by the scheduling change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing worker continues to route inference through its batch executor and defensively fails unresolved request futures if an executor exception escapes. The scheduler change does not replace this failure-containment path.
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an item is promoted after 15 ms (max_batch_wait_ms), so under load nearly every batch is “oldest plus cheapest”. That affects encode and score too, not just extract. There are no throughput numbers, the Rust sidecar batcher isn’t changed, and the tests can hang. Trying the #648 setting on GLiClass would be a better first step.

… window"

The 15ms promotion is reverted because it reschedules encode and score, not only extract.

This reverts commit 70408e9.
…-large-v1.0

Refs superlinked#390

This follows the superlinked#648 profile setting instead of a global batcher change.
@YeonwooSung YeonwooSung changed the title fix(server): schedule extract requests that outwait the batch window perf(gliclass): turn the adaptive batching controller off on gliclass-large-v1.0 Oct 9, 2026
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The scheduler change is reverted for the reason in the review: promoting a request after 15 ms reschedules encode and score, not only extract, and under load nearly every batch is the oldest item plus cheaper work. The replacement is the profile setting from #648. Adaptive batching is turned off on knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0 only, and the other GLiClass catalogs are unchanged.

packages/sie_server/tests/core/test_batcher.py passes as on main (89 passed). The shipped model schema check passes, and the GLiClass test that loads the profile YAML still passes. No throughput numbers are claimed.

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Thanks for reverting the scheduler change. The PR is now the 4-line adaptive_batching.enabled: false on knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0, which is the same shape as #648. To merge it we need the evidence #648 came with:

  1. Measurements. #648 had a one-L4 benchmark (base vs change at several in-flight levels over steady intervals) and an output-equivalence check. Could you run the same protocol for this model, plus the #390 reproduction with timeout counts before and after? Without that we cannot tell whether this resolves #390, so "Refs #390" fits better than a fix claim.
  2. Scope. 20 profiles under packages/sie_server/models/ use the GLiClass adapter, and only one changes here. If the numbers hold, please either apply it to all of them or explain why only this one.

Please also trim the description to the final change, since it still opens with the reverted scheduler work.

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The 15 ms scheduler promotion stays reverted. packages/sie_server/src/sie_server/core/batcher.py still matches main, and the net diff against cfaafe35 is the one profile YAML file.

Measurements. Not run, and none are claimed. #648 used one L4, base vs change, several in-flight levels, steady intervals, and an output-equivalence check. #390 also needs timeout counts before and after. This machine has no NVIDIA GPU, so that protocol cannot be run here.

$ zsh -f -c 'nvidia-smi; echo EXIT:$?'
zsh:1: command not found: nvidia-smi
EXIT:127
$ zsh -f -c 'command -v nvidia-smi; echo COMMAND_V_EXIT:$?'
COMMAND_V_EXIT:1
$ uname -sm
Darwin arm64

No benchmark was run. There are no throughput, latency, or timeout numbers for this change.

Scope. 20 catalogs under packages/sie_server/models/ set sie_server.adapters.gliclass:GLiClassAdapter. Only knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0 changes. #390 names that model. The other 19 stay unchanged until the same protocol #648 used has been run. The flag is not applied to them here, because those measurements do not exist.

Description. It now describes only that YAML change and uses Refs #390. It no longer opens with the reverted scheduler.

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The bounded L4 comparison reproduced the mixed-load stall, and this profile-only change did not resolve it. Both arms had one 300-second read timeout in each of the long7 and long8 classes. scoped_fix_observed=false; #390 remains open.

The public harness and method ran the real SIE server and SIEClient with local-only routing. Baseline was 2281ba86; candidate used that same source and lock with only the exact profile bytes from this PR at a5e8d7b3. The checkpoint was knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0@ae8a1864, on one NVIDIA L4, 8 CPU cores, 32 GiB RAM, four Torch threads, FP16 and bucketed CUDA graphs. Consumed versions included Torch 2.9.1+cu129, Transformers 4.57.6, GLiClass 0.1.17 and GLiFormer 0.1.2; both arms' complete installed-version manifests matched.

The fixed mixed phase used 480 seconds of arrivals: 12 cheap one-item lanes and four 24-item heavy lanes (medium7, medium8, long7, long8), with 300-second call deadlines and a full 300-second drain allowance. Every heavy item was individually valid and untruncated. Medium items fit the static 16,384 cost budget; long items cost 22,355–27,314 individually.

Mixed class Baseline successful / submitted Candidate successful / submitted Baseline mean / p95, seconds Candidate mean / p95, seconds
short 25,869 / 25,869 26,039 / 26,039 0.220 / 0.250 0.219 / 0.248
medium7 165 / 165 166 / 166 2.908 / 3.019 2.892 / 2.962
medium8 7 / 7 7 / 7 68.999 / 98.058 68.943 / 80.720
long7 1 / 2, one timeout 1 / 2, one timeout 197.550 / 197.550 197.429 / 197.429
long8 1 / 2, one timeout 1 / 2, one timeout 214.415 / 214.415 214.365 / 214.365

Latency columns describe successful calls only; the timeouts are retained separately. Both candidate long requests were admitted within 11 ms but dispatched zero of 24 items before the timeout. First dispatch was at 482.63 seconds and 497.43 seconds, after the cheap arrival window ended. More than 1,600 cheap requests completed during the final 30 seconds before each timeout. All four timed-out requests across both arms eventually completed on the server, 195–212 seconds after the client deadline; no request remained unresolved at shutdown.

The steady phases had eight sequential warmups each. Rates below count actual successful completions during the arrival window; all submitted calls completed successfully, including those finishing in the drain.

Phase Baseline / candidate calls Baseline / candidate requests/s Baseline / candidate mean, ms Baseline / candidate p95, ms
C1, 60 s 3,498 / 3,588 58.283 / 59.783 16.956 / 16.550 18.219 / 17.428
C8, four 60 s windows 26,106 / 25,304 108.742 / 105.400 71.446 / 73.700 76.844 / 78.241
C32, 60 s 6,720 / 6,664 111.467 / 110.717 275.739 / 278.090 286.066 / 300.231

This was one ordered baseline→candidate pair, not statistical throughput equivalence. Candidate completion throughput was +2.57% at C1, −3.07% at C8 and −0.67% at C32. All successful measured responses passed the prospectively fixed absolute 0.002 FP16 comparison, including direct candidate-to-baseline checks, with exact item count/order, labels, chosen values, model identity and no item errors. Maximum observed numeric difference was 0.001953125. This concerns the fixed fixtures, not classification quality.

The run retained all outcomes and used unchanged ceilings: runner 3,900 s, operator 4,500 s, provider 4,800 s, outer guard 5,100 s and startup 300 s. Actual runner time was 2,044.91 s. Both servers and all ten SDK processes exited; the owned app was stopped and independently verified with zero containers. The complete 92-member archive (29,105,457 compressed bytes; 282,560,100 raw bytes) is retained with SHA-256 398316d772c417429aaf6d13823cba0359d9009427d91c166ee475e75ba42ce9. The compact independent arithmetic/dispatch receipt is 955b943135a0825e77bb70034aeb4f6fcaae5058cf2e20912fdd44b5be4fc4cd.

Only one of the 20 GLiClass profiles is changed by this PR, and even that profile retains the reproduced long-item failure. The next step is a separately reviewed scheduler progress fix and deterministic starvation controls, not extending this setting to other models. The existing human requested-changes review is unchanged; this result does not support merging the profile-only proposal as a resolution of #390.

The L4 comparison showed that disabling the controller on
knowledgator/gliclass-large-v1.0 does not dispatch the over-budget
rows in superlinked#390. The profile matches main again.

Refs superlinked#390
Cost-sorted packing never reaches an item above the configured batch
cost while a cheaper item is waiting, so a cheap stream holds it until
the stream ends. Those items now take turns with one cheaper batch,
and the over-budget batch is that item alone. Items that fit the
configured cost stay on cost order. This does not promote by wait time.

Refs superlinked#390
@YeonwooSung YeonwooSung changed the title perf(gliclass): turn the adaptive batching controller off on gliclass-large-v1.0 fix(server): serve an over-budget item between cheaper batches Oct 18, 2026
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The profile opt-out is removed. The L4 run showed it leaves the long rows undispatched, and I am not treating that run as a reason to widen the flag.

The replacement is in BatchFormer._extract_batch. An item above the configured batch cost takes a turn between cheaper batches and is served alone. The first batch follows the oldest pending item, and an over-budget item waits for at most one extra cheaper batch for each over-budget item ahead of it. Rows that fit the configured 16,384 stay on cost order, so this does not revive the 15 ms promotion. Lane membership stays on the budget from BatchConfig construction when the adaptive controller later changes the live limit.

Tests cover the 24-row case with cheaper rows still arriving, the fitting-item cost order, a raised live budget, and a seeded bound. packages/sie_server/tests/core/test_batcher.py passed here (116). No GPU run was added. The Rust sidecar batcher is unchanged.

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A finished batch left the lane flag set, so the next queue served a
cheaper batch before an older over-budget item. Clearing the flag when
the queue is empty, including drain_pending, makes that queue follow
its oldest item.

Refs superlinked#390

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