vLLM Native CPU Offloading Connector

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Native GPU - CPU Offloading (North/South)

Fast and native caching within a single vLLM instance. Provided out-of-the-box using vLLM’s KVConnector abstraction and integrates with KVEvents

• [Doc] N/S KV Caching in vLLM

vLLM Issues

• [RFC]: KV cache offloading vllm-project/vllm#19854

vLLM PRs

• [KV offload][4/N] Offloading KV connector vllm-project/vllm#22595
• [KV offload][3/N] Add worker-side CPU support vllm-project/vllm#21448
• [KV offload][2/N] Introduce LRU-based CPU offloading management vllm-project/vllm#20075
• [KV offload][1/N] Introduce an offloading component vllm-project/vllm#19848
• v1: Support KV events from connectors vllm-project/vllm#19737
• v1: Pass KVConnectorOutput to scheduler-side vllm-project/vllm#22157
• [v1] Move block_hashes from KVCacheManager to Request.block_hashes (#19728) vllm-project/vllm#19728
• [KVConnector] Aggregate finished requests on the scheduler vllm-project/vllm#19555

cc @njhill (reviewer)