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In vLLM v0.4.2 `SchedulerConfig`, when `max_num_batched_tokens` is unset and `enable_chunked_prefill=True`, code sets `max_num_batched_tokens` to 512.

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Setting

max_num_batched_tokens

Applies when

max_num_batched_tokens is unsetenable_chunked_prefill=True

Evidence

vLLM v0.4.2 config.py(vllm/config.py:615-622)

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615:         if max_num_batched_tokens is not None:
616:             self.max_num_batched_tokens = max_num_batched_tokens
617:         else:
618:             if enable_chunked_prefill:
619:                 # It is the values that have the best balance between ITL
620:                 # and TTFT on A100. Note it is not optimized for throughput.
621:                 self.max_num_batched_tokens = 512
622:             else:

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defaults in later vLLM releases
defaults when enable_chunked_prefill is false

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