[Multi Modal] Add an env var for message queue max chunk bytes

vllm/envs.py

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
     VLLM_MAX_TOKENS_PER_EXPERT_FP4_MOE: int = 163840
     VLLM_TOOL_PARSE_REGEX_TIMEOUT_SECONDS: int = 1
     VLLM_SLEEP_WHEN_IDLE: bool = False
+    VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNK_BYTES_MB: int = 16
 
 
 def get_default_cache_root():
@@ -847,6 +848,12 @@ def get_vllm_port() -> Optional[int]:
     # latency penalty when a request eventually comes.
     "VLLM_SLEEP_WHEN_IDLE":
     lambda: bool(int(os.getenv("VLLM_SLEEP_WHEN_IDLE", "0"))),
+
+    # Control the max chunk bytes (in MB) for the rpc message queue.
+    # Object larger than this threshold will be broadcast to worker
+    # processes via zmq.
+    "VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNK_BYTES_MB":
+    lambda: int(os.getenv("VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNK_BYTES_MB", "16")),
 }
 
 # --8<-- [end:env-vars-definition]

vllm/v1/executor/multiproc_executor.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import cloudpickle
 
+import vllm.envs as envs
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import (destroy_distributed_environment,
                               destroy_model_parallel)
@@ -72,7 +73,10 @@ def _init_executor(self) -> None:
 
         # Initialize worker and set up message queues for SchedulerOutputs
         # and ModelRunnerOutputs
-        self.rpc_broadcast_mq = MessageQueue(self.world_size, self.world_size)
+        max_chunk_bytes = envs.VLLM_MQ_MAX_CHUNK_BYTES_MB * 1024 * 1024
+        self.rpc_broadcast_mq = MessageQueue(self.world_size,
+                                             self.world_size,
+                                             max_chunk_bytes=max_chunk_bytes)
         scheduler_output_handle = self.rpc_broadcast_mq.export_handle()
 
         # Create workers