[CHEATSHEET] Separate GPUs for Prefill and Decode.
Note:
In continuous batching, if prefill and decode and merged, then time is wasted for decode.Prefill GPU occupancy ~ 90%Decode GPU occupancy ~30% and limited by memory bandwidth.Prefill prefers
TP and DP parallelism.Decode prefers
PP.
Core idea of P/D disaggregation:
Schedule prefill and decode requests in
separate GPUs.
2P1D = 2 GPUs for prefill requests. 1 GPU for decode requests.Prefill requests can be batched together.Decode requests can be bat...
Published on July 30, 2026 08:54