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arxiv: 2506.15155 · v2 · submitted 2025-06-18 · 💻 cs.DC

eLLM: Elastic Memory Management Framework for Efficient LLM Serving

Jiale Xu , Rui Zhang , Yi Xiong , Cong Guo , Zihan Liu , Yangjie Zhou , Weiming Hu , Hao Wu
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Changxu Shao Ziqing Wang Yongjie Yuan Junping Zhao Minyi Guo Jingwen Leng
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keywords LLM servingmemory managementelastic memoryKV cacheGPU virtualizationthroughput optimization
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eLLM unifies LLM memory management by letting tensors and KV caches share an elastic GPU pool that expands into CPU memory.

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The paper establishes that managing runtime memory and KV caches at separate abstraction levels creates fragmentation and up to 20 percent throughput loss under changing workloads. It proposes borrowing the memory ballooning technique from operating systems to build a single flexible memory pool on the GPU. This pool can inflate or deflate at runtime by moving data to and from CPU memory while a lightweight scheduler keeps operations within service-level objectives. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach promises to serve larger batches or longer contexts on the same hardware without adding GPUs or sacrificing response times.

Core claim

eLLM introduces a Virtual Tensor Abstraction that separates tensor virtual addresses from physical GPU memory, an Elastic Memory Mechanism that performs runtime inflation and deflation using CPU as an extensible buffer, and a Lightweight Scheduling Strategy with SLO-aware policies. Together these components remove the isolation between static tensor management and page-table-based KV cache virtualization that currently limits utilization.

What carries the argument

Virtual Tensor Abstraction that decouples virtual address space from physical GPU memory, enabling a unified pool for dynamic inflation and deflation.

If this is right

  • Decoding throughput increases by a factor of 2.32 over current systems.
  • Batch sizes for 128K-token inputs can grow by a factor of three on the same hardware.
  • Memory fragmentation drops because activations, weights, and KV caches are now managed inside one elastic pool.
  • SLO constraints remain satisfied through the lightweight scheduling policy that balances inflation and deflation decisions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same ballooning idea could be tested on other bursty GPU workloads such as real-time video generation or scientific simulations.
  • If transfer overhead stays low, future servers might be built with tighter CPU-GPU memory integration rather than larger GPU-only memory.
  • Operators could measure whether the higher utilization actually lowers total cost of ownership when serving variable-length traffic.

Load-bearing premise

Moving data between GPU and CPU memory at runtime can be done fast enough to meet strict latency targets without creating new bandwidth bottlenecks.

What would settle it

A trace showing that CPU-GPU transfers during deflation push end-to-end decoding latency above the target SLO for 128K-token batches.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.15155 by Changxu Shao, Cong Guo, Hao Wu, Jiale Xu, Jingwen Leng, Junping Zhao, Minyi Guo, Rui Zhang, Weiming Hu, Yangjie Zhou, Yi Xiong, Yongjie Yuan, Zihan Liu, Ziqing Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: In serving LLaMA3-8B-262K (32 requests with 32768-2048 length) on a single NVIDIA A100 (80GB): (a) Memory footprint breakdown; (b) vLLM’s isolated alloca￾tion for activations and KV cache in separate spaces causes underutilization and suboptimal performance; (c) eLLM en￾ables dynamic memory allocation, maximizing utilization and achieving a 1.2× speedup. 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have dra… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Early LLM Systems (e.g., PyTorch [19]) use static tensor model, failing to handle dynamic KV cache expansion, causing fragmentation. (b) By virtualizing the KV cache, vLLM alleviates memory fragmentation but separates activations and the KV cache into different abstraction levels, thereby isolating activation from the KV cache space. (c) eLLM independently manages the KV cache and activations at the lo… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Shifting of available memory composition (with NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs). 3 Motivation Although modern LLM serving systems, e.g., vLLM [14], achieve nearly fragmentation-free dynamic management of KV cache space, challenges still remain in achieving overall memory efficiency. 3.1 Dynamic Memory in LLM Variations in Request Length. As model context lengths surge from thousands [27] to millions [10, 16] (even r… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Overview of eLLM system. 3.3 Root Reason: Memory Isolation. We identify that memory inefficiency arises from the isola￾tion of activation and KV cache spaces in existing systems. This isolation is analogous to the separation between kernel space and user space in an OS: activations rely on framework￾level static tensor abstractions that directly interface with physical memory, while the KV cache is managed… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: eTensor abstraction for KV cache and activation tensors, dividing the virtual address apart from the physi￾cal memory chunks. We can transfer the physical memory chunks because they are identical. resources, and forms the foundation for elastic memory man￾agement. Then, based on this abstraction, eLLM introduces the Elastic Memory Mechanism that dynamically rearranges KV caches and activation memory space … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustrative example of memory inflation/deflation. Inflation operation dynamically expands the physical mem￾ory capacity of the KV cache by borrowing from the active memory pool, much like inflating a balloon. This process involves the following steps: ❶ Inflation trigger: upon KV cache allocation requests, the system first verifies whether the KV memory pool contains sufficient physical memory chunks. If… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: SLO metrics with different CPU buffer size. Algorithm 1: Scheduling with Elastic Memory. Input: Free KV cache physical chunks: 𝑃𝑘𝑣 ; Free Activation physical chunks: 𝑃𝑎𝑐𝑡; Total physical chunks: 𝑃𝑇 ; Pending requests: 𝑄; Memory threshold: 𝜃; Available CPU buffer: 𝑃𝐵. Output: Inflation amount: 𝐼 (> 0: 𝑎𝑐𝑡 → 𝑘𝑣, < 0: 𝑘𝑣 → 𝑎𝑐𝑡); Batched requests: 𝐵; 1 𝐵 ← ∅, 𝑂 ← ∅, 𝐼 ← 0, 𝑀𝑘𝑣 ← 0, 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝑡 ← 0 2 if Prefill Phase … view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Online serving evaluation with SLO-constraints on Llama3-8B-262K model with one A100 (80GB) GPU. 1) Fig (a)(b)(c)(d) is conducted on input 2k output 2k workload. 2) Fig (e)(f)(g)(h) is conducted on input 32k output 2k workload. 3) Fig (i)(j)(k)(l) is conducted on ShareGPT workload. For TPOT metric, because eLLM and vLLM-CP has more available KV Cache memory for decoding, their TPOT is higher than vLLM in a… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: SLO attainment and goodput evaluation with SLO-constraint, which is conducted on OPT-13B model with two L40S 48GB, P=1, D=1 for DistServe and TP=2 for other systems. The dataset for OPT-13B is synthetic with fixed input of 1024 tokens and output length 512 tokens. dedicated GPUs. Consequently, computational resources on one GPU are underutilized when the corresponding phase is idle. Second, model weights … view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: The normalized performance of the total through￾put, the decode throughput and the max batch size when varying the input and output size compared to vLLM. The left figure showcases the performance evaluation of Jamba￾Mini [15] on 2 A100 (80GB) GPUs, while the right figure presents the corresponding analysis for Llama3-8B-262K us￾ing a single A100 (80GB) GPU. 6.4 Offline Inference Evaluation [PITH_FULL_IM… view at source ↗
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Large Language Models are increasingly being deployed in datacenters. Serving these models requires careful memory management, as their memory usage includes static weights, dynamic activations, and key-value caches. While static weights are constant and predictable, dynamic components such as activations and KV caches change frequently during runtime, presenting significant challenges for efficient memory management. Modern LLM serving systems typically handle runtime memory and KV caches at distinct abstraction levels: runtime memory management relies on static tensor abstractions, whereas KV caches utilize a page table-based virtualization layer built on top of the tensor abstraction. This virtualization dynamically manages KV caches to mitigate memory fragmentation. However, this dual-level approach fundamentally isolates runtime memory and KV cache management, resulting in suboptimal memory utilization under dynamic workloads, which can lead to a nearly 20% drop in throughput. To address these limitations, we propose eLLM, an elastic memory management framework inspired by the classical memory ballooning mechanism in operating systems. The core components of eLLM include: (1) Virtual Tensor Abstraction, which decouples the virtual address space of tensors from the physical GPU memory, creating a unified and flexible memory pool; (2) an Elastic Memory Mechanism that dynamically adjusts memory allocation through runtime memory inflation and deflation, leveraging CPU memory as an extensible buffer; and (3) a Lightweight Scheduling Strategy employing SLO-aware policies to optimize memory utilization and effectively balance performance trade-offs under stringent SLO constraints. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that eLLM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art systems, 2.32x higher decoding throughput, and supporting 3x larger batch sizes for 128K-token inputs.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces eLLM, an elastic memory management framework for LLM serving that unifies runtime memory and KV cache handling. It proposes (1) Virtual Tensor Abstraction to decouple tensor virtual addresses from physical GPU memory, (2) an Elastic Memory Mechanism for runtime inflation/deflation that uses CPU memory as an extensible buffer, and (3) a Lightweight SLO-aware Scheduling Strategy. The central claims are that this approach overcomes the ~20% throughput loss of dual-level management and delivers 2.32x higher decoding throughput plus 3x larger batch sizes for 128K-token inputs versus state-of-the-art systems.

Significance. If the performance results hold under rigorous evaluation, the work could improve memory utilization and batching efficiency in LLM inference serving by adapting classical OS ballooning ideas to the GPU-CPU hierarchy. The unified abstraction and scheduler are conceptually appealing for dynamic workloads; explicit credit is due if the manuscript supplies reproducible code, detailed workload traces, or quantitative transfer-overhead measurements that allow independent verification of the SLO claims.

major comments (2)
  1. [§5] §5 (Evaluation) and abstract: the central 2.32x throughput and 3x batch-size claims for 128K inputs are load-bearing, yet the section supplies no experimental setup details, baseline descriptions, workload characteristics, error bars, or quantitative bounds on GPU-CPU transfer frequency/size. Given PCIe bandwidth (32-64 GB/s) versus HBM, even infrequent large KV-cache transfers could produce latency spikes the SLO scheduler cannot mask; this directly undercuts the performance claims and must be addressed with concrete measurements.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Elastic Memory Mechanism): the description of runtime inflation/deflation and CPU buffer usage does not analyze or bound transfer latency under the SLO constraints stated in §3.3. This is load-bearing because the abstract's performance gains rest on the assumption that the lightweight scheduler hides these costs; without such analysis the mechanism's practicality remains unverified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement of a 'nearly 20% drop in throughput' from the dual-level approach would be strengthened by a citation to the specific prior system or measurement that produced this figure.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional details and analysis.

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  1. Referee: [§5] §5 (Evaluation) and abstract: the central 2.32x throughput and 3x batch-size claims for 128K inputs are load-bearing, yet the section supplies no experimental setup details, baseline descriptions, workload characteristics, error bars, or quantitative bounds on GPU-CPU transfer frequency/size. Given PCIe bandwidth (32-64 GB/s) versus HBM, even infrequent large KV-cache transfers could produce latency spikes the SLO scheduler cannot mask; this directly undercuts the performance claims and must be addressed with concrete measurements.

    Authors: We agree that §5 requires substantially more detail to support the reported performance gains. In the revised manuscript we will expand the evaluation section with: (1) complete experimental setup including hardware (GPU/CPU models, PCIe generation), software baselines (exact versions of vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, etc.), and workload characteristics (token-length distributions, batch-size ranges, and trace sources); (2) error bars and statistical significance from multiple runs; and (3) quantitative measurements of GPU–CPU transfer frequency, average and maximum transfer sizes, and their observed latency impact. We have already collected these data and will add a dedicated subsection bounding transfer overhead relative to PCIe bandwidth and demonstrating that the SLO scheduler masks spikes under the evaluated workloads. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Elastic Memory Mechanism): the description of runtime inflation/deflation and CPU buffer usage does not analyze or bound transfer latency under the SLO constraints stated in §3.3. This is load-bearing because the abstract's performance gains rest on the assumption that the lightweight scheduler hides these costs; without such analysis the mechanism's practicality remains unverified.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for explicit latency analysis. In the revision we will augment §3.2 with a new subsection that (a) models and empirically bounds inflation/deflation latency as a function of KV-cache size and PCIe bandwidth, (b) reports worst-case and average-case transfer times observed in our experiments, and (c) shows how these bounds are incorporated into the SLO-aware scheduler of §3.3. The added analysis will demonstrate that the scheduler’s policies keep end-to-end latency within the stated SLOs even when occasional large transfers occur. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: claims rest on empirical evaluations of proposed architecture

full rationale

The paper describes an engineering framework (virtual tensor abstraction, elastic inflation/deflation to CPU buffer, SLO-aware scheduler) inspired by OS ballooning and evaluates it on throughput and batch-size metrics. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional constructs, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation of the core mechanisms or the reported gains. The 2.32x throughput and 3x batch-size results are presented as outcomes of the implemented system under test rather than quantities defined in terms of themselves or prior author work. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and externally falsifiable via the described experiments.

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invented entities (2)
  • Virtual Tensor Abstraction no independent evidence
    purpose: Decouples virtual address space of tensors from physical GPU memory to create a unified flexible pool
    Core component introduced to address isolation between runtime and KV cache management
  • Elastic Memory Mechanism no independent evidence
    purpose: Dynamically adjusts allocations by inflating/deflating with CPU memory as buffer
    Central mechanism inspired by OS ballooning for handling dynamic workloads

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