server : chunked prefill support #10718
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This is an example of what I think is "chunked prefill". The idea is to not block text-generating slots when a new large prompt comes for processing in parallel.
With this PR, the first task is no longer "blocked" by the second long prompt processing task.
Still, I'm not sure how valuable this feature is. Chunking the prompts like this leads to slower overall prompt processing. So even though the server seems more responsive, the total wait time over all requests is longer.