add max-concurrent-requests as option in TGI server

benchmarks/inference-server/text-generation-inference/main.tf

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ resource "kubernetes_manifest" "default" {
     namespace                      = var.namespace
     model_id                       = var.model_id
     gpu_count                      = var.gpu_count
+    max_concurrent_requests        = var.max_concurrent_requests
     ksa                            = var.ksa
     hugging_face_token_secret_list = local.hugging_face_token_secret == null ? [] : [local.hugging_face_token_secret]
   }))

benchmarks/inference-server/text-generation-inference/manifest-templates/text-generation-inference.tftpl

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ spec:
           ports:
             - containerPort: 80
           image: "ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.4.2"
-          args: ["--model-id", "${model_id}", "--num-shard", "${gpu_count}"] # , "{token}" tensor parallelism, should correspond to number of gpus below
+          args: ["--model-id", "${model_id}", "--num-shard", "${gpu_count}", "--max-concurrent-requests", "${max_concurrent_requests}"]
 %{ for hugging_face_token_secret in hugging_face_token_secret_list ~}
           env:
             - name: HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN # Related token consumption

benchmarks/inference-server/text-generation-inference/variables.tf

@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ variable "gpu_count" {
   }
 }
 
+variable "max_concurrent_requests" {
+  description = "Max concurrent requests allowed for TGI to handle at once. TGI will drop all requests once it hits this max-concurrent-requests limit."
+  type        = number
+  nullable    = false
+  # TODO: default is same as tgi's default for now, update with reasonable number.
+  default = 128
+  validation {
+    condition     = var.max_concurrent_requests > 0
+    error_message = "Max conccurent requests must be greater than 0."
+  }
+}
+
 variable "ksa" {
   description = "Kubernetes Service Account used for workload."
   type        = string