Li, Jiang 138709f8d1
[Doc] Update CPU doc (#20676)
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vLLM supports basic model inferencing and serving on x86 CPU platform, with data types FP32, FP16 and BF16.

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  • OS: Linux
  • CPU flags: avx512f, avx512_bf16 (Optional), avx512_vnni (Optional)

!!! tip Use lscpu to check the CPU flags.

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https://gallery.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-cpu-release-repo

!!! warning If deploying the pre-built images on machines only contain avx512f, Illegal instruction error may be raised. It is recommended to build images for these machines with --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16=false and --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=false.

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docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
        --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16=false (default)|true \
        --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=false (default)|true \
        --tag vllm-cpu-env \
        --target vllm-openai .

# Launching OpenAI server
docker run --rm \
            --privileged=true \
            --shm-size=4g \
            -p 8000:8000 \
            -e VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=<KV cache space> \
            -e VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=<CPU cores for inference> \
            vllm-cpu-env \
            --model=meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct \
            --dtype=bfloat16 \
            other vLLM OpenAI server arguments

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