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Currently, multiple commands including trtllm-serve, trtllm-bench, and trtllm-eval expose CLI args that map to LLM API configuration options. However, there are a few issues with this:

  1. The arg definitions are duplicated between each command, which makes it easy for them to diverge.
  2. Certain arguments are named differently between each command (e.g. --tp vs. --tp_size)
  3. The code to convert these CLI options into an LlmArgs instance is different for each command, which can lead to bugs.

The CLI options have been unified under a common_llm_options decorator which is used across multiple commands. The goal here was to ensure full backwards compatibility by creating aliases for each option as needed (e.g. both --tp and --tp_size will be accepted).


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Signed-off-by: Anish Shanbhag <ashanbhag@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Anish Shanbhag <ashanbhag@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Anish Shanbhag <ashanbhag@nvidia.com>
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LGTM

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@click.option('--log_level',
type=click.Choice(severity_map.keys()),
default='info',
help="The logging level.")

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Could common_llm_options also include log_level?

@anish-shanbhag anish-shanbhag changed the title [None][chore] Unify CLI options for LLM API across bench, serve, and eval commands [TRTLLM-8685][chore] Unify CLI options for LLM API across bench, serve, and eval commands Oct 15, 2025

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LGTM

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logger.set_level(log_level)

# TODO: unify LlmArgs parsing via Pydantic

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Overall this looks good to me -- is this todo for future or in this PR? I noticed the draft status so was wondering.

description=
"The fraction of GPU memory fraction that should be allocated for the KV cache. Default is 90%. If both `max_tokens` and `free_gpu_memory_fraction` are specified, memory corresponding to the minimum will be used."
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"The fraction of GPU memory fraction that should be allocated for the KV cache, after allocating model weights "

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I'm wondering if there's a reason this isn't a default in the Pydantic model. Is that something we should consider? @Superjomn

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