Additional Configuration

additional configuration is a mechanism provided by vLLM to allow plugins to control inner behavior by their own. vLLM Ascend uses this mechanism to make the project more flexible.

How to use

With either online mode or offline mode, users can use additional configuration. Take Qwen3 as an example:

Online mode:

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-8B --additional-config='{"config_key":"config_value"}'

Offline mode:

from vllm import LLM

LLM(model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B", additional_config={"config_key":"config_value"})

Configuration options

The following table lists the additional configuration options available in vLLM Ascend:

Name	Type	Default	Description
torchair_graph_config	dict	{}	The config options for torchair graph mode
ascend_scheduler_config	dict	{}	The config options for ascend scheduler
refresh	bool	false	Whether to refresh global ascend config content. This value is usually used by rlhf or ut/e2e test case.
expert_map_path	str	None	When using expert load balancing for the MOE model, an expert map path needs to be passed in.
chunked_prefill_for_mla	bool	False	Whether to enable the fused operator-like chunked_prefill.
kv_cache_dtype	str	None	When using the kv cache quantization method, kv cache dtype needs to be set, currently only int8 is supported.

The details of each config option are as follows:

torchair_graph_config

Name	Type	Default	Description
enabled	bool	False	Whether to enable torchair graph mode. Currently only DeepSeek series models and PanguProMoE are supported to use torchair graph mode
enable_multistream_mla	bool	False	Whether to put vector ops of MLA to another stream. This option only takes effects on models using MLA (e.g., DeepSeek).
enable_multistream_moe	bool	False	Whether to enable multistream shared expert. This option only takes effects on DeepSeek moe models.
enable_view_optimize	bool	True	Whether to enable torchair view optimization
use_cached_graph	bool	False	Whether to use cached graph
graph_batch_sizes	list[int]	[]	The batch size for torchair graph cache
graph_batch_sizes_init	bool	False	Init graph batch size dynamically if graph_batch_sizes is empty
enable_kv_nz	bool	False	Whether to enable kvcache NZ layout. This option only takes effects on models using MLA (e.g., DeepSeek).

ascend_scheduler_config

Name	Type	Default	Description
enabled	bool	False	Whether to enable ascend scheduler for V1 engine

ascend_scheduler_config also support the options from vllm scheduler config. For example, you can add enable_chunked_prefill: True to ascend_scheduler_config as well.

Example

An example of additional configuration is as follows:

{
    "torchair_graph_config": {
        "enabled": True,
        "use_cached_graph": True,
        "graph_batch_sizes": [1, 2, 4, 8],
        "graph_batch_sizes_init": False,
        "enable_multistream_moe": False,
        "enable_kv_nz": False
    },
    "ascend_scheduler_config": {
        "enabled": True,
        "enable_chunked_prefill": True,
    },
    "refresh": False,
}