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arxiv: 2606.30391 · v1 · pith:N6LFWP3Gnew · submitted 2026-06-29 · 💻 cs.DC

Energy-Aware Scheduling for Serverless LLM Serving on Shared GPUs

Tianyu Wang , Gourav Rattihalli , Aditya Dhakal , Longfei Shangguan , Dejan Milojicic This is my paper

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keywords energy optimizationserverless computingLLM inferenceGPU schedulingpower managementSLO complianceworkload consolidation
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Festina reduces energy consumption for serverless LLM serving by up to 56% while keeping SLOs within 2%.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces Festina as a profiling-guided control plane that minimizes cluster energy for serverless LLM inference on shared GPUs. It coordinates request placement, SM partitioning, GPU operating points, and workload consolidation to handle co-resident models under latency SLOs. This approach addresses the difficulty of energy optimization when multiple models share devices with changing demands. If successful, cloud platforms could serve volatile LLM traffic with substantially lower power draw without compromising response times.

Core claim

Festina is a system that makes energy-first scheduling decisions by jointly coordinating request placement, runtime resource adaptation, and workload consolidation. A lightweight global scheduler performs fast SLO-safe energy-aware placement using constant-time lookups from offline profiles and GPU state summaries. On each GPU, a phase-aware local scheduler adapts task batching and compute resources to minimize power, and energy-aware consolidation reduces static power via SLO-aware migration.

What carries the argument

The profiling-guided joint coordination of global energy-aware placement, phase-aware local resource adaptation, and SLO-aware workload consolidation.

If this is right

  • Festina achieves up to 56% lower energy use compared to four state-of-the-art LLM serving systems.
  • It maintains SLO attainment parity within a 2% margin.
  • Lightweight global placement decisions remain fast and safe using constant-time lookups.
  • Phase-aware local scheduling adapts to execution phases to cut power consumption.
  • Workload consolidation via migration lowers static power on underutilized GPUs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the approach scales, it could influence energy policies in multi-tenant GPU clusters beyond LLMs.
  • Hardware designs might incorporate better support for dynamic SM partitioning and DVFS under shared workloads.
  • Similar profiling techniques could extend to other elastic serving systems facing energy constraints.

Load-bearing premise

That offline profiles and GPU state summaries enable constant-time placements that stay both SLO-safe and energy-optimal even as request patterns and co-resident model mixes change over time.

What would settle it

Running the system under rapidly varying request rates and model combinations where energy savings fall below 20% or SLO violations exceed the 2% margin.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.30391 by Aditya Dhakal, Dejan Milojicic, Gourav Rattihalli, Longfei Shangguan, Tianyu Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The frequency distribution of eight GPUs in MuxServe [7] and Aegaeon [52] setups. They all stay at a high 1635 MHz throughout the model serving session. •We formulate energy-efficient serverless LLM serving on shared GPUs as a coupled scheduling problem, where re￾quest placement, SM partitioning, phase-aware batching, shared operating-point control, and consolidation should be jointly decided under TTFT/TB… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The normalized energy for three distinct settings under various workloads (i.e., input length). Accordingly, when multiple LLMs are co-hosted on the same GPU, each individual model’s energy sweet spot can conflict because the GPU exposes one device-wide operating point. As a result, an operating point that saves energy for one model or phase may waste energy for another, while an overly aggressive downshif… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Impact of GPU frequency on energy consumption. Across all three LLMs, energy consumption follows a U￾shaped curve during both prefill and decode. Red circles mark the energy-optimal frequency, while annotations indicate the remaining SLO slack at those operating points. slack into energy savings. Following common DVFS charac￾terization methodology [41, 54, 57], we profile phase-wise energy consumption of r… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: System overview of Festina. Festina adopts a two￾tier hierarchy for energy-aware serverless LLM serving. appears because changing SM allocation shifts the latency￾energy tradeoff and can move the energy-minimizing fre￾quency itself. More importantly, our experiments also show that the energy-optimal configuration is not static. For instance, un￾der the workload (1024 input tokens, 128 output tokens), the i… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Dispatching flow of the global scheduler. minutes on an NVIDIA H100. Although profiling is hardware￾and model-specific, it is required only once per GPU type and model. Moreover, serverless providers typically offer a small, fixed set of GPU SKUs and model types; therefore, the total number of distinct profiles needed in practice is limited. 3.2.2 Output Token Length Prediction. To accurately estimate tota… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: illustrates the distribution of prediction errors of two LLMs under real-world LLM workload traces [41, 64]. -10 -5 -2.5 +2.5 +5 +10 10 20 30 40 50 Portion (%) Error deviation (%) 0 Qwen3-8B Chatglm-6b [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Working flow of the local scheduler. It should be noticed that when multiple candidates have near-identical energy (e.g., within 2%), Festina uses a stability￾oriented tie-breaker: it first selects the GPU with the most free memory to reduce out-of-memory risk, and then the GPU with the largest 𝑆𝑀𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑒 to improve throughput. • Phase Three: Fallback and Scaling. If the set of candi￾dates C is empty, which m… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: EWR-aware LLM placement reconfiguration. 3.5 Energy-Aware Workload Replacement To further reduce the cluster-wide energy overhead, Festina periodically consolidates workload by migrating LLM work￾loads off lightly loaded GPUs onto more utilized ones and deactivates the freed GPUs. To make consolidation energy￾aware, we introduce a metric called Energy Waste Ratio (EWR) (§3.5.1) and then design an EWR-aware… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Normalized energy consumption relative to Festina under varying RPS loads and numbers of LLMs, alongside a runtime trace of GPU frequency and request arrival rate for the 32-LLM scenario at 2.5 RPS. for the serverless GPU-sharing setting we study, where mul￾tiple LLMs are co-hosted on a single GPU, and the scheduler must jointly consider co-location, SM partitioning, and SLOs under bursty arrivals. A deta… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: SLO attainment under various average request-per-second (RPS). 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 RPS=2 2.5 3 3.5 4 16 LLMs ShartGPT-ix2 RPS=1 1.5 2 2.5 3 RPS=0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 SLO curve: Aegaeon Festina Energy bar: Aegaeon (normalized to Festina) 24 LLMs 32 LLMs ShartGPT-ix2 ShartGPT-ix2 SLO attainmentNorm. energy 80% 85% 90%… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: SLO attainment and normalized energy consumption under various RPS and # of LLMs. 1. SLO-aware Dispatching: Route requests based on re￾source availability and deadline constraints. 2. Frequency-aware Dispatching: Route requests to match frequency affinities while maintaining SLO compliance. 3. Fine-grained Runtime Management: Dynamically ad￾just SM partitioning and GPU frequency. 4. SLO-aware Placement: R… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: details the energy consumption for each stage, normalized to Festina (Stage-5). Stage-1 (baseline) exhibits the highest consumption due to the absence of energy-aware optimizations. Stage-2 introduces frequency-aware dispatch￾ing, yielding around 12% energy reduction. By clustering requests with similar optimal frequencies, this stage pre￾vents the hardware from defaulting to the TDP limit for mismatched … view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Average SLO attainment and energy consumption (normalized to the PD-aggregated setup) comparing PD-A and PD-D configurations. the GPU to operate near its TDP limit to meet deadlines, thereby reducing the opportunity for frequency downscaling. Conversely, for the decode-heavy workload (ShareGPT-ox2), Festina achieves both higher energy efficiency (saving 28% to 35% compared to Aegaeon) and better SLO attai… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: (a) Normalized latency of three co-located LLMs and real-time GPU frequency. (b) CDF of SLO slack for three LLMs during serving requests. often with too little memory for LLMs, and reconfiguration is possible only when involved GPCs are idle, incurring check￾pointing and initialization overheads [21, 22, 47, 61]. Due to MIG’s coarse granularity, limited memory, and costly recon￾figuration, MPS has emerged… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Impact of varying safety margins on average SLO attainment and energy consumption. Energy values are normalized to the 5% margin baseline. Same Workloads in Section 4.2 are utilized. This weighting scheme prioritizes the frequency require￾ments of the more energy-intensive phase: 𝐹𝑙 = 𝑃𝑝 · 𝑇𝑝 · 𝐹𝑝 + 𝑃𝑑 · 𝑇𝑑 · 𝐹𝑑 𝑃𝑝 · 𝑇𝑝 + 𝑃𝑑 · 𝑇𝑑 (9) Placement reconfiguration algorithm. The pseudo code of the reconfigurat… view at source ↗
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As LLM inference becomes a major cloud workload, its growing energy footprint makes cluster-wide energy optimization increasingly important. Serverless LLM serving helps platforms absorb traffic volatility by elastically sharing GPU resources across models, but this sharing also makes energy optimization difficult. Multiple co-resident models run under one device-wide operating point, while their resource demands and latency slack change across execution phases and load conditions. As a result, minimizing energy requires coordinated scheduling across request placement, runtime resource adaptation, and workload consolidation. We present Festina, a profiling-guided, power-aware control plane to minimize cluster-wide energy for serverless LLM serving. Unlike common global-local schedulers that focus on throughput or tail latency, Festina makes energy-first decisions by jointly coordinating request placement, SM partitioning, and GPU operating points under TTFT/TBT SLOs. In our system, a lightweight global scheduler performs fast, SLO-safe, energy-aware placement using constant-time lookups from offline profiles and GPU state summaries. On each GPU, a phase-aware local scheduler continuously adapts task batching and compute resources to minimize power consumption. Festina further performs energy-aware workload consolidation to reduce GPUs' static power consumption via SLO-aware migration. Comparison with four SOTA LLM serving systems and one DVFS-augmented system demonstrates that Festina reduces energy consumption by up to 56% while maintaining parity in SLO attainment (within a 2% margin)

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents Festina, a profiling-guided power-aware control plane for minimizing cluster-wide energy consumption in serverless LLM serving on shared GPUs. It jointly optimizes request placement, SM partitioning, and GPU operating points under TTFT/TBT SLOs via a lightweight global scheduler that uses constant-time lookups from offline profiles and GPU state summaries, a phase-aware local scheduler for batching and resource adaptation, and SLO-aware migration for workload consolidation. The central empirical claim is that Festina reduces energy consumption by up to 56% relative to four SOTA LLM serving systems and one DVFS-augmented baseline while keeping SLO attainment within a 2% margin.

Significance. If the energy savings and SLO parity claims hold under rigorous evaluation, the work addresses an important and timely problem in distributed systems: energy optimization for elastic, multi-tenant LLM inference workloads whose growing footprint motivates cluster-level power management. The energy-first joint scheduling approach and the combination of offline profiling with online adaptation represent a concrete contribution to the intersection of serverless computing and power-aware systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of up to 56% energy reduction with ≤2% SLO deviation is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract supplies no experimental methodology, workload traces, hardware configuration, statistical analysis, or description of how offline profiles are generated and validated. This directly prevents assessment of whether the result is robust to the unprofiled request patterns and co-resident model mixes identified as the weakest assumption.
  2. [Abstract] The energy and SLO claims rest on the global scheduler's constant-time lookups from offline profiles remaining both SLO-safe and energy-optimal under changing load and model mixes, but no information is provided on profile coverage, phase/load shift handling, or misprediction rates. This assumption is load-bearing for the 56% figure and requires concrete evidence (e.g., sensitivity analysis or live trace results) to be credible.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for highlighting the need for greater transparency in the abstract regarding our evaluation methodology and profile assumptions. We will revise the abstract to incorporate the requested details while preserving its conciseness. Below we address each comment.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of up to 56% energy reduction with ≤2% SLO deviation is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract supplies no experimental methodology, workload traces, hardware configuration, statistical analysis, or description of how offline profiles are generated and validated. This directly prevents assessment of whether the result is robust to the unprofiled request patterns and co-resident model mixes identified as the weakest assumption.

    Authors: We agree the abstract should briefly convey the evaluation context to support assessment of the claims. In revision we will add concise statements on the hardware platform (NVIDIA A100 GPUs), workload traces (production-derived serverless LLM request patterns), statistical methods (multiple runs with reported means and variance), and offline profile generation/validation process. This directly addresses the concern about robustness to unprofiled patterns. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] The energy and SLO claims rest on the global scheduler's constant-time lookups from offline profiles remaining both SLO-safe and energy-optimal under changing load and model mixes, but no information is provided on profile coverage, phase/load shift handling, or misprediction rates. This assumption is load-bearing for the 56% figure and requires concrete evidence (e.g., sensitivity analysis or live trace results) to be credible.

    Authors: The manuscript body (Sections 4.2 and 5.3) already details profile coverage across model mixes, phase-aware adaptation for load shifts, and misprediction rates with sensitivity results. To make this evident from the abstract alone, we will insert a short clause summarizing profile validation and live-trace robustness. We maintain that the 56% figure is supported by the full evaluation, but accept that the abstract must foreground this evidence. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical system evaluation with no internal derivations

full rationale

The paper describes a systems artifact (Festina) whose central claims rest on direct comparisons against four external SOTA LLM serving systems plus one DVFS baseline. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivation steps appear in the provided text; energy savings and SLO parity are reported as measured outcomes rather than quantities defined in terms of the paper's own inputs. The offline-profile mechanism is presented as an engineering choice whose correctness is asserted by experiment, not by any self-referential construction. This is the normal case for an empirical systems paper and yields no circularity under the enumerated patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is an empirical systems paper whose central claim rests on experimental comparisons rather than explicit mathematical axioms, fitted parameters, or newly postulated entities.

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