Chunked prefill

A serving optimization that splits a long prompt's prefill into smaller chunks interleaved with ongoing decode steps, smoothing latency spikes and improving GPU utilization under continuous batching.

grounded in: vLLM-class inference serving embodied by the system's stack (existing 'vllm' concept; spark GB10 inference telemetry).

Connected concepts

Continuous batching, KV Cache, Prefill/Decode Disaggregation