* SYCL: fix multi-GPU system RAM exhaustion by using Level Zero allocations
Replace sycl::malloc_device with zeMemAllocDevice for GPU memory allocation
in the SYCL backend. sycl::malloc_device triggers the xe kernel driver's
DMA-buf/TTM path which mirrors every VRAM allocation 1:1 in system RAM.
zeMemAllocDevice uses the SVM/P2P path with no host staging.
On a dual Intel Arc Pro B70 system (64GB VRAM, 64GB RAM), a 15.6 GiB model
consumed 60 GiB of system RAM via sycl::malloc_device, causing OOM crashes.
With zeMemAllocDevice, the same workload uses ~6.7 GiB of system RAM with
no performance regression.
All Level Zero calls include automatic fallback to the original SYCL
allocation path if Level Zero interop is unavailable.
* SYCL: address review feedback - remove try/catch, check device types, deduplicate
- Remove try/catch from malloc/free/memcpy helpers, check backend and
device type upfront instead (ggml_sycl_is_level_zero, ggml_sycl_is_dgpu)
- Move shared helpers (is_level_zero, is_dgpu, free_device) to common.cpp
and declare in common.hpp to eliminate code duplication
- Use SYCL_CHECK(CHECK_TRY_ERROR()) for fallback sycl::free calls
- Guard dev2dev_memcpy L0 path to dGPU-to-dGPU only, preserving the
host-staged path for iGPU-to-dGPU transfers
- Add Windows Level Zero SDK path detection (LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH)
in CMakeLists.txt (co-authored with @arthw)
* SYCL: add build/runtime flags for Level Zero, address review feedback
Implements the architecture suggested by @arthw: compile-time and runtime
flags to cleanly separate Level Zero and SYCL memory API paths.
- Add GGML_SYCL_SUPPORT_LEVEL_ZERO cmake option (default ON). All Level
Zero code is wrapped in #ifdef so the build works on systems without
the Level Zero SDK installed (e.g. CPU-only CI servers). Both the
loader library and headers are checked before enabling.
- Add GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_LEVEL_ZERO runtime env var (default 1). Controls
whether Level Zero or SYCL memory APIs are used. Only one API style is
used per session, no mixing. If Level Zero is enabled but the devices
don't support the Level Zero backend, it auto-disables with a warning.
- Remove Level Zero code from dpct_malloc. It was unused (dpct::device_memory
is not called anywhere in the backend) and used try/catch for flow control.
- Update SYCL.md with documentation for both new parameters.
Tested on Intel Arc Pro B70 (32GB), single-GPU and dual-GPU, with both
GGML_SYCL_SUPPORT_LEVEL_ZERO=ON and OFF builds. AI-assisted development
(Claude). Code reviewed and tested on my hardware.
* SYCL: unify Level Zero malloc/free call sites, address review feedback
Move ggml_sycl_malloc_device to common.cpp alongside ggml_sycl_free_device.
Both functions are now unconditionally available — Level Zero code is
#ifdef'd inside the functions, not at call sites. All call sites use
uniform SYCL_CHECK(CHECK_TRY_ERROR()) wrapping with no #ifdef blocks.
Addresses arthw's review: wrap all malloc/free in SYCL_CHECK for stack
traces on failure, eliminate duplicated #ifdef/else patterns at 6 call
sites (-29 lines net).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* SYCL: add Level Zero SDK to CI, fix device check and missed alloc paths
Add Level Zero SDK installation to Ubuntu and Windows SYCL CI jobs
so the Level Zero code path is compiled and tested in CI.
Fix two bugs found during extended dual-GPU testing (no
ONEAPI_DEVICE_SELECTOR set):
- The Level Zero backend check was iterating all SYCL devices
including CPU. The OpenCL CPU device caused Level Zero to be
disabled for the GPUs, defeating the fix on multi-GPU systems.
Added is_gpu() filter so only GPU devices are checked.
- sycl_ext_malloc_device/sycl_ext_free (tensor reorder temp buffers)
were still calling sycl::malloc/sycl::free directly, bypassing the
Level Zero path. Routed through ggml_sycl_malloc_device/free_device
for consistency with the other device memory call sites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* SYCL: address arthw review feedback on Level Zero memory API structure
- Move ggml_sycl_malloc_device to static function in ggml-sycl.cpp;
only ggml_sycl_free_device (used by common.cpp) stays in common.cpp
- Switch both helpers to use g_ggml_sycl_enable_level_zero global
instead of per-call queue backend checks
- Remove #ifdef wrapper from global definition; always declare at 0,
add #else branch in init block so it stays 0 when L0 not compiled in
- Update init loop comment to explain GPU-only device check
- CMakeLists: message(STATUS) before the if block; align option wording
AI-assisted implementation. Reviewed and tested on dual Intel Arc Pro
B70 (32 GB each): test-backend-ops OK on both GPUs, single/dual-GPU
Q4_K_M and Q8_0 bench correct, zeMemAllocDevice GTT delta confirmed
<5 MiB per 4 GiB allocation (vs ~4 GiB shadow with sycl::malloc_device).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* SYCL: remove unused cstdio/cstdlib includes from common.cpp
Leftover from the deleted ggml_sycl_queue_supports_level_zero helper.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Neo Zhang <zhang.jianyu@outlook.com>
* SYCL: preserve Level Zero allocation path during early malloc
* ci: fix Level Zero package conflict in Intel Docker build
* ci: find Level Zero loader in oneAPI package step
* ci: allow Windows SYCL package without Level Zero DLL
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Neo Zhang <zhang.jianyu@outlook.com>
This commit adds a CMakePresets.json file similar to the one in
llama.cpp.
The motivation for this is that this provides sharable named
configuration which can be used with cmake --preset <name>.
It also allows for extendins these preset with a
CMakeUserPresets.json for specific hardware (like CPUs),
architectures, and toolchains etc.
* fix: V-002 security vulnerability
Automated security fix generated by Orbis Security AI
* fix(ruby): use Ruby allocator macros in jfk_reader and fix memory leak
- Replace calloc/free with ALLOC_N/xfree to match Ruby binding conventions
(ALLOC_N handles overflow checking and raises NoMemoryError on failure)
- Free temporary samples buffer after conversion loop (was leaked)
- Add NULL check for fopen return value with rb_raise
- Add comment clarifying n_samples is a compile-time constant
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ruby): return false instead of rb_raise in memory_view callback
rb_memory_view_get_func_t callbacks should communicate errors via
return value (false), not exceptions. rb_memory_view_get has no
exception-handling wrapper around get_func calls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* replacing ALLOC_N with rb_protect as ALLOC_N raises Ruby exceptions
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* common: add memory buffer overload of read_audio_data
whisper-server /inference without --convert passed the uploaded file
bytes to read_audio_data as a filename, so ma_decoder_init_file tried
to open a path starting with "RIFF" and failed. every request returned
HTTP 400 "Invalid request" on builds without WHISPER_FFMPEG, which is
the default.
factor the PCM extraction into a shared helper and add an overload that
decodes straight from a memory buffer via ma_decoder_init_memory, which
the function already used for the stdin path. server now calls it with
the upload content. the filename overload behavior is unchanged.
* ci : use github ubuntu-22.04-arm runner instead of qemu
This commit updates the ubuntu-22-gcc-arm64 job to use a arm github
runner instead of QEMU.
The motivation for this is that we get intermittent failure specifically
related to QEMU. For example:
```console
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure):
installed libc-bin package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 139
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20240203~22.04.1) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
```
This is an attempt to try to avoid QEMU and hence avoid this issue.
* ci : remove QEMU where possible
* whisper : set bench data for each iteration
This commit updates whisper_bench_ggml_mul_mat_str to intialize the
tensors data for each iteration.
The motivation for this is that is currently possible for a previous
run's results, F32 values, to leak into the next run. When it is time
for the F16 iteration then F32 results can cause NaN values to appear
in the tensor values causing the F16 iteration to fail.
Refs:https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/actions/runs/25901678402/job/76152894644?pr=3735
* ci : set GGML_NATIVE=OFF if x86_64
This commit sets GGML_NATIVE=OFF for x86_64 architectures.
The motivation for this is to try to get CI to pass and the theory is
that the libggml-cpu.so library in the ccache might have been built by a
runner that supports a different instruction set. When another runner
that does not support that instruction set tries to use it, it will fail
with a segmentation fault.
I'm not sure about this yet but going to try this out and if it does not
work I'll ssh into the runner to debug further.
This commit addresses a memory leak in the `read_audio_data` function
where it is currently possible that a call to `ma_decoder_init_file`
succeeds and the function returns early without calling
`ma_decoder_uninit`. A similar situation can occur with
`ma_decoder_init_memory`.
Refs: https://bugs.debian.org/1124796
Co-authored-by: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
* opencl: add q5_0 moe support
* opencl: add q5_1 moe support
* opencl: avoid potential leak
* opencl: suppress unused var warning when building for non-Adreno
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* ggml-zendnn : add runtime env var GGML_ZENDNN_ADAPTIVE_FALLBACK to control adaptive fallback (default: enabled)
* ggml-zendnn : restore original fallback logic when adaptive fallback is disabled
* hexagon: add hvx_vec_repl helpers and use those for splat-from-vtcm usecase
* hmx-mm: optimize per-group scale handling
* hmx-fa: optimize slope load from vtcm
* hmx-fa: use aligned access where possible in hmx-utils
* hexagon: add hvx_vec_repl_2x_f16 helper and consolidate repl helpers
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* fix(mixed-types): use f32 for precision and update the shared memory calculation logic for f32
* fix(unary): correct the gelu, gelu quick and gelu erf functions
* fix(flash-attn-tile): fix the hardcode v type
* fix(flash_attn): fix tile path
* fix: pass editorconfig and address the type conflicts
* fix: remove reduant pipeline keys
* fix: remove inline min/max group size functions and revert the flash attn path order
* fix: use clamp to avoid NaN for GELU
* fix: use the right range for exp, 80 is safer for f32 exp
* Q4_1 MoE CLC pass sanity check
* remove unnecessary code
* opencl: remove unnecessary asserts and reformat
* opencl: fix supports_op for q4_1 moe
* q4_1 moe is supported by Adreno with certain shapes
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`im2col_cuda` and `im2col_3d_cuda` both dispatch with
`block_nums.y = OW`. CUDA caps grid Y at 65535. Conv1d encoders on
raw 16 kHz audio with T > 65535 (~ 4 s) trip the limit -- e.g. SEANet
at 11 s lands at OW = 176000 -- and the launch returns
`invalid configuration argument`.
Clamp `block_nums.y` to `MIN(OW, MAX_GRIDDIM_Y)` and loop inside the
kernel with stride `MAX_GRIDDIM_Y`. Same in-kernel stride pattern
already used for the z axis (`MAX_GRIDDIM_Z`). Both 2D `im2col_kernel`
and 3D `im2col_3d_kernel` need the same fix. Bit-identical for
OW <= 65535 (single iteration of the new outer loop).
Tested on T4 / Jetson Orin with a SEANet encoder running on 11 s /
16 kHz audio (im2col reaching OW ~ 176000); pre-fix launch returns
`invalid configuration argument`, post-fix runs to completion.
Existing test-backend-ops im2col cases unchanged.
* cuda: tighten snake fusion type checks for all operands (defensive, sync vulkan)
* cuda: reject snake fusion when ne[2] or ne[3] > 1 (mirror vulkan PR review)
* cuda: merge type_ok and types_ok into a single types_ok (address am17an review)
* cuda: filter ADD/SUB/MUL/DIV in supports_op to F32/F16
bin_bcast only dispatches F32/F16 type triplets, mirror the
vulkan filter so unsupported types fall back through cpy
instead of aborting.
* test-backend-ops: extend snake_fuse to rank-4 with ne[2]/ne[3] > 1 cases
For a given output position j on the time axis, only input positions
i such that i*s0 <= j < i*s0 + K contribute -- i.e.
i in [ceil((j - K + 1)/s0), floor(j/s0)] intersected with [0, IL-1].
That's at most ceil(K/s0) values (typically 2 for stride==K/2
transposed convs).
The current kernel iterates the full IL range and filters with an
`if`, amplifying per-thread work by IL/ceil(K/s0) (~160x for IL=320,
K=10, s0=5 -- a representative codec-decoder shape). On Apple M1
the wasted work trips the macOS GPU watchdog
(kIOGPUCommandBufferCallbackErrorImpactingInteractivity) on long
graphs.
Compute i_min, i_max analytically before the inner loop and iterate
only [i_min, i_max]. Output is bit-identical (same multiplies and
adds in the same order); loop bound shrinks by IL/ceil(K/s0).
Tested on M1 with a downstream consumer running a TTS codec at full
T_codec; end-to-end codec decode ~3-4x faster, zero watchdog hits
across long synthesis runs vs ~30% pre-patch.
* ggml-cuda: add internal AllReduce provider for tensor parallelism
Introduces a NCCL-free AllReduce implementation for LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_TENSOR
using a single-phase CUDA kernel that pipelines D2H copy, cross-GPU
handshake via pinned-memory volatile flags, and the reduction in one
kernel launch per GPU.
New files:
- ggml/src/ggml-cuda/comm.cuh — ggml_cuda_allreduce_provider enum
- ggml/src/ggml-cuda/allreduce.cuh — pipeline API declarations
- ggml/src/ggml-cuda/allreduce.cu — kernel + pipeline init/dispatch
ggml-cuda.cu changes:
- ggml_backend_cuda_comm_context gains ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* llama-bench: add --allreduce flag to select AllReduce provider
Adds --allreduce <auto|nccl|internal> to llama-bench (and via the shared
field pattern, consistent with other multi-value flags). Useful for
isolating hangs or regressions in tensor-parallel mode: pass --allreduce nccl
to force NCCL and bypass the internal provider.
Also fixes ggml_cuda_select_allreduce_provider() to treat an empty
GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var the same as unset (avoids spurious warning when
llama-bench sets it to "" for the "auto" case).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xt gains ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* llama-bench: rename --allreduce to --reduction-provider / -rp
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via the shared
field pattern, consistent with other multi-value flags). Useful for
isolating hangs or regressions in tensor-parallel mode: pass --allreduce nccl
to force NCCL and bypass the internal provider.
Also fixes ggml_cuda_select_allreduce_provider() to treat an empty
GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var the same as unset (avoids spurious warning when
llama-bench sets it to "" for the "auto" case).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xt gains ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* llama-bench: pass WARN/ERROR log messages through in non-verbose mode
The null log callback was silently dropping all messages. WARN and ERROR
should always be visible since they indicate legitimate issues (e.g. a
requested reduction provider not being available).
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vider.
Also fixes ggml_cuda_select_allreduce_provider() to treat an empty
GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var the same as unset (avoids spurious warning when
llama-bench sets it to "" for the "auto" case).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xt gains ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* cmake: improve NCCL detection for source-tree builds, add static/dynamic switch
FindNCCL.cmake now searches the cmake source-build layout used by the Windows
NCCL port (cmake/lib/Release for static, cmake/src/Release for dynamic import
lib) and also checks src/include for the generated nccl.h header.
New option GGML_CUDA_NCCL_STATIC (default OFF) selects static vs dynamic
linking and controls which paths and library names are searched.
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for the "auto" case).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xt gains ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ggml-cuda: add AllReduce hang watchdog (GGML_CUDA_AR_WATCHDOG)
When compiled with -DGGML_CUDA_AR_WATCHDOG=ON, uses a debug kernel
variant that writes per-GPU spin diagnostics to pinned host memory.
A host-side blocking poll (cudaEventQuery + volatile reads) detects
hangs and logs WARN with the last observed arrival counters and spin
counts, controlled by GGML_CUDA_AR_WATCHDOG (ms timeout) and
GGML_CUDA_AR_MAX_SPIN (kernel bailout) env vars at runtime.
Zero overhead on the production path — all debug code is behind #ifdef.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ar_pipeline field
- Provider selection via GGML_CUDA_ALLREDUCE env var ("nccl" / "internal")
- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ggml-cuda: fix intermittent AllReduce hang on Blackwell PCIe
Add __threadfence_system() before the arrival signal write in
signal_set to ensure D2H data is globally visible before the peer
observes the arrival flag. Without this fence, the peer could enter
Phase 3 host reads before the data had fully landed, causing an
intermittent deadlock on RTX 5090 (Blackwell, PCIe-only).
Also redesign the watchdog from a blocking dispatch-thread poll to a
non-blocking background thread, eliminating the ~20ms per-slot
latency the old design added.
Verified: 30/30 soak test runs clean at ~50 t/s (previously ~1-in-15
hang rate).
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- INTERNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ggml-cuda: fix watchdog shutdown ordering and pipeline_free drain
- Stop watchdog thread BEFORE destroying GPU resources (events, streams)
to prevent polling destroyed handles → spurious "busy" readings
- Add cudaStreamSynchronize in pipeline_free to drain in-flight kernels
before freeing pinned host buffers they may still be reading
- Sleep-first watchdog polling: no +0ms noise, only logs when a kernel
is genuinely stuck past the poll interval
- Check wdog_stop in both outer and inner loops so join() returns
promptly instead of draining the entire queue
- Add Phase 3 breadcrumbs to debug[3] for hang localization
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RNAL provider initialises the pipeline at comm_init time
- Dispatch routes to ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce(); falls back to meta-backend
CPU reduce for unsupported sizes or GPU counts (> 2)
Current scope: 2 GPUs, FP32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ggml-cuda: replace event-based watchdog with per-GPU ring buffer
Completely rework the GGML_CUDA_AR_WATCHDOG system:
- Replace the shared debug_buf + event-polling + queue design with
per-GPU ring buffers in pinned host memory
- Kernel writes a debug record only on spin-limit bailout: claims a
ring slot via atomicAdd (single-GPU host atomics work on RTX 5090),
writes fields, fences, sets completion flag, then all threads exit
- Watchdog thread simply polls ring head counters every 1ms and prints
any new complete records — no CUDA event queries, no mutex, no queue
- Zero overhead on the dispatch path (no queue posting, no memset)
- Watchdog shutdown returns within ~1ms (atomic bool, no drain)
- On bailout the kernel skips Phase 3 entirely and exits cleanly
Verified: 20/20 prefill soak test clean at ~1112 t/s, no hangs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: normalize line endings to LF (undo Windows CRLF conversion)
Five files were inadvertently converted to CRLF by the Windows
development environment, causing every line to show as changed in
diffs against master.
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imit bailout: claims a
ring slot via atomicAdd (single-GPU host atomics work on RTX 5090),
writes fields, fences, sets completion flag, then all threads exit
- Watchdog thread simply polls ring head counters every 1ms and prints
any new complete records — no CUDA event queries, no mutex, no queue
- Zero overhead on the dispatch path (no queue posting, no memset)
- Watchdog shutdown returns within ~1ms (atomic bool, no drain)
- On bailout the kernel skips Phase 3 entirely and exits cleanly
Verified: 20/20 prefill soak test clean at ~1112 t/s, no hangs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* .gitattributes: force LF line endings to prevent Windows CRLF conversion
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elopment environment, causing every line to show as changed in
diffs against master.
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imit bailout: claims a
ring slot via atomicAdd (single-GPU host atomics work on RTX 5090),
writes fields, fences, sets completion flag, then all threads exit
- Watchdog thread simply polls ring head counters every 1ms and prints
any new complete records — no CUDA event queries, no mutex, no queue
- Zero overhead on the dispatch path (no queue posting, no memset)
- Watchdog shutdown returns within ~1ms (atomic bool, no drain)
- On bailout the kernel skips Phase 3 entirely and exits cleanly
Verified: 20/20 prefill soak test clean at ~1112 t/s, no hangs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ggml-cuda: move GGML_CUDA_AR_WATCHDOG from CMake option to local define
The watchdog is development-only; a global CMake option is overkill.
Move the toggle to a #define at the top of allreduce.cu (set to 0 by
default) and remove the option from ggml/CMakeLists.txt and the CUDA
CMakeLists.txt add_compile_definitions block.
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fences, sets completion flag, then all threads exit
- Watchdog thread simply polls ring head counters every 1ms and prints
any new complete records — no CUDA event queries, no mutex, no queue
- Zero overhead on the dispatch path (no queue posting, no memset)
- Watchdog shutdown returns within ~1ms (atomic bool, no drain)
- On bailout the kernel skips Phase 3 entirely and exits cleanly
Verified: 20/20 prefill soak test clean at ~1112 t/s, no hangs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P32, tensors <= 256 KB. Notes in NOTES-allreduce.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* unify kernel debug paths
* use __threadfence_system explicitly (not in ggml_cuda_ar_signal_set)
* preferentially use internal reduction for <=2 GPUs
* templatize the main kernel to support fp16/bf16
* restore llama-bench.cpp changes
* revert CMakeLists changes
* remove notes from repo
* remove dead warmup code
* fix comments
* improve reduction provider fallback code
* add messages for allreduce fallback
* rework reduction provider init to not call ncclCommInitAll if using the internal provider
* fix case where a given tensor has not been computed
* add chunked mode to the kernel for unlimited vector size
* rework a few checks/fallbacks
* various small cleanups
* allow disabling CUDA reductions completely (falling back to the non-CUDA butterfly mode)
* simplify reduction provider selection
* minor simplifications
* more cleanups/fixes
* prototype alternate path for large reductions
* chunked version of large reduction path
* use bf16 for large reductions
* experimental reduction using cudaMemcpyPeerAsync (slightly slower)
* revert experimental change
* add combined conversion/reduction kernel
* add bf16 wire format for single kernel mode
* experimental on-stream small reduction kernel
* double buffer arrival slots, use token (incrementing) method
* double buffer host_buf for small reductions
* put in waits for use of host_mem in large reduction case (prevents stomping on in-use memory
* remove watchdog code
* various cleanups / dead code removal
* fix fp16 mode
* fix some comments/logging statements
* use increasing token scheme for arrival signals
* add top-level comment to allreduce.cu
* improve top-level comment in allreduce.cu
* fix comments in ggml_cuda_ar_kernel
* improve event handling for hostmem buffer usage tracking
* change ev_pool to fixed 2D array
* add chunked memcpy fallback for extra-large reductions (>32 MB)
* change thresholds for copy-engine path and bf16 demotion
* multi-block kernel test
* more fine-tuning for chukn-size, etc.
* various fixes for PR review
* more PR fixes
* fix semantics of all host mappings
* require ampere+
* small cleanups
* properly use host pointer for src/dst in cudaMemcpy calls
* allreduce: lazy-init the internal pipeline on first use
A config that lives entirely on NCCL never needs the chunked-kernel
pipeline (host_buf, host_large, dev_tmp, streams, events, arrival ring).
Defer pipeline creation to the first try_allreduce_internal call using the
same std::call_once pattern as ensure_nccl, so those resources stay
unallocated when only NCCL is in use.
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* allreduce: assert n_backends == 2 instead of soft-fallback
ar_pipeline_init already requires n_devices == 2 and bails before any AR can
get here, so by the time we reach try_allreduce_internal we know we have
exactly two backends. Replace the runtime-debug-log fallback with a hard
assert.
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NCCL is in use.
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* rework reduction provider selection. internal/nccl is OS dependent; most fallbacks are removed
* remove unneeded Turing arch check (llama.cpp doesn't even compile pre-Turing anyway)
* allreduce: ASCII-only comments and ggml_cuda_cast for value conversions
Replace non-ASCII characters in comments (em dashes, right arrows) with
ASCII equivalents (--, ->) so the source stays in the ggml/upstream norm.
In the kernel-side code, replace static_cast<Twire>/static_cast<Tdst>
with ggml_cuda_cast<...> so the BF16 conversions go through the fast
__float2bfloat16 / __bfloat162float intrinsics from convert.cuh. Pure
pointer and integer casts stay as static_cast.
Also drops two stray garbage tokens that snuck in from earlier merges
(a duplicated 'return ok; }' tail in allreduce.cu and a leftover '_reg)'
fragment in ggml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: use ggml_cuda_memcpy_1 for the chunked-kernel vector copies
The chunked kernel's two 16-byte register<->host transfers (Phase 1 store
and Phase 3 load) used reinterpret_cast<float4 *> on both sides. Replace
with ggml_cuda_memcpy_1<sizeof(wire)>, which is the canonical helper for
this pattern and emits the same int4 LD/ST under the hood.
Conformance passes; 5x reruns of 70b internal pp512 show 1832-1836 t/s,
matching the prior matrix value of 1831 t/s -- no perf change as expected.
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ok; }' tail in allreduce.cu and a leftover '_reg)'
fragment in ggml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: assert cuda_ctx->device matches the pipeline's device
Both ggml_cuda_ar_pipeline and ggml_backend_cuda_context carry the device
they were created for; if they ever disagree, every cuda call that follows
runs on the wrong device. Add GGML_ASSERT at each cuda_ctx retrieval site
in the AR path so the misuse fails fast rather than silently corrupting.
Also: rename __nv_bfloat16 -> nv_bfloat16 (typedef alias) for consistency
with the rest of the file, and tighten one cudaGetLastError check to fire
only after the to_bf16 call that can actually fail.
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gml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: expand one-liner for loops to braced bodies
Code-style preference -- match the rest of the file by writing every for
loop with the body on its own braced line. Three sites in the copy-engine
typed dispatch.
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in the AR path so the misuse fails fast rather than silently corrupting.
Also: rename __nv_bfloat16 -> nv_bfloat16 (typedef alias) for consistency
with the rest of the file, and tighten one cudaGetLastError check to fire
only after the to_bf16 call that can actually fail.
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gml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: rename template parameters Tdst/Twire/Tsrc -> T_dst/T_wire/T_src
Code-style preference per PR review -- T_dst/T_wire/T_src is more
consistent with surrounding code. Whole-word rename across all 58 sites
in allreduce.cu (kernel definitions, internal uses, and comment text).
Realigned the parameter columns in three function signatures whose
T_src/T_dst lines shifted by 1 char relative to their non-templated
neighbors.
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to fire
only after the to_bf16 call that can actually fail.
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gml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: drop hyphen in 'chunked-kernel' across comments
Per PR review feedback -- 'chunked kernel' (no hyphen) reads more naturally
in running prose, especially for ESL readers. Pure comment-only change;
all 10 occurrences in allreduce.cu updated.
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three function signatures whose
T_src/T_dst lines shifted by 1 char relative to their non-templated
neighbors.
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to fire
only after the to_bf16 call that can actually fail.
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gml-cuda.cu).
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* allreduce: use ggml_cuda_get_max_cpy_bytes() instead of hardcoded 16
The chunked kernel hardcoded a 16-byte vector unit; replace with the
ggml_cuda_get_max_cpy_bytes() helper that fattn-common.cuh uses for the
same purpose, so ELEMS_PER_VEC self-adjusts to the arch's widest
single-instruction copy.
Perf-neutral on supported targets (Volta+ returns 16).
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hbors.
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to fire
only after the to_bf16 call that can actually fail.
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gml-cuda.cu).
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* ggml-cuda: PR review fixes -- annotate #endif, fix stale comment, assert nbytes alignment
Three separate but minor changes from PR #22299 review feedback:
1. Annotate the five GGML_USE_NCCL #endif lines with the matching condition
so the pairing is visible without scrolling back.
2. The comment block on ggml_backend_cuda_comm_context claimed NCCL is
lazy-initialised; that was true at one point but the dispatch refactor
(727b141c0) made both NCCL and the internal pipeline eager. Rewrite
the comment to match current behaviour.
3. Assert in ggml_backend_cuda_comm_allreduce_internal that the tensor's
byte size is a 16-byte multiple. The chunked-kernel issues full-width
vector loads/stores, so this is a precondition; tensor-parallel splits
of hidden-dim-multiples satisfy it trivially, but a hard assert turns
any caller-side bug into a clear failure rather than UB.
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device's new AR
records its ev.ker -- otherwise the second device's wait sees the first
device's just-recorded event (the in-flight new AR) and creates a circular
dependency with the in-kernel peer signal. Two-pass dispatch (all waits,
then all launches) avoids this.
Bump POOL_SIZE 2 -> 8 (small memory cost, more breathing room for the
GPU's view of the event chain) and add a runtime env override for the
hybrid kernel chunk size (GGML_CUDA_AR_HYBRID_CHUNK_BYTES) for tuning.
One-shot stderr diagnostic at first AR prints the chosen path + sizing.
Result on 2x RTX 5090 Linux, 70b ub_sweep:
ub=64 (1 MB AR): 913 -> 1036 t/s (+13.5% vs old, +1.8% vs NCCL)
ub=128 (2 MB AR): 1056 -> 1181 (+11.9%, +3.7% vs NCCL)
ub=256 (4 MB AR): 1212 -> 1424 (+17.5%, +3.5% vs NCCL)
Internal now beats NCCL at every size (+1.8% to +15.6%), recovering all
ground in the 1-4 MB regime that was previously a 10-12% loss.
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* simplify the init logic
* address some other PR requests
* ggml-cuda: stub internal AllReduce on HIP/MUSA, drop pre-Ampere mention, gate NCCL fallback warning on !HIP
The internal AllReduce relies on cudaHostAllocPortable/Mapped,
cudaHostGetDevicePointer, and __nanosleep -- none of which the HIP or
MUSA shims expose -- so wrap the implementation in
!defined(GGML_USE_HIP) && !defined(GGML_USE_MUSA) and provide
nullptr/no-op/false stubs in the #else branch. The dispatcher already
treats a null pipeline as init failure and silently falls back to the
meta backend's generic AllReduce, so HIP/MUSA builds compile clean and
behave correctly without further call-site changes.
PR review follow-ups:
- drop "or pre-Ampere?" from the internal-init failure warning -- the
kernel doesn't require Ampere or newer.
- guard the "NCCL not compiled in" fallback warning behind
!defined(GGML_USE_HIP); the suggestion to install NCCL only makes
sense on NVIDIA builds.
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hind, now +6-8% ahead at ub=1024-4096.
Perplexity (32 chunks) matches NCCL bit-for-bit (3.4044 vs 3.4043).
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* allreduce: guard __nanosleep on Volta+ and reject pre-Volta devices at init
__nanosleep is the only Volta-specific intrinsic in the kernel; wrap it
in #if __CUDA_ARCH__ >= GGML_CUDA_CC_VOLTA / NO_DEVICE_CODE so the file
still compiles cleanly when targeting older arches (the dispatcher's
init check below ensures the kernel is never actually launched on
pre-Volta).
Add a per-device compute-capability check in pipeline_init that returns
nullptr if any device is below sm70. The dispatcher already treats
nullptr as init failure and silently falls back to the meta backend's
generic AllReduce.
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rom the internal-init failure warning -- the
kernel doesn't require Ampere or newer.
- guard the "NCCL not compiled in" fallback warning behind
!defined(GGML_USE_HIP); the suggestion to install NCCL only makes
sense on NVIDIA builds.
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hind, now +6-8% ahead at ub=1024-4096.
Perplexity (32 chunks) matches NCCL bit-for-bit (3.4044 vs 3.4043).
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* allreduce: fix CI -Werror warnings (sign-compare, format, restrict alias, maybe-uninitialized)
The CUDA CI builds with -Werror -Wsign-compare -Wformat -Wrestrict
-Wmaybe-uninitialized. Address each:
- n_devices is size_t; change `int i; i < n_devices` to size_t in the
three init loops, and the matching GGML_LOG_INFO format from %d to %zu.
- ggml_cuda_ar_kernel was launched with sendbuf == recvbuf (in-place
reduction), so the __restrict__ qualifiers on those parameters were
technically UB. Drop __restrict__ from sendbuf and recvbuf; an A/B
sweep showed <0.6% perf delta (within noise) on Linux.
- The buf/src/dst pointer arrays in ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce and the
per-iteration arrays in ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce_copy_outer were
declared with size GGML_CUDA_MAX_DEVICES but the loop only writes
indices [0, n_devices); zero-initialise so the compiler sees the
tail elements as defined.
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now +6-8% ahead at ub=1024-4096.
Perplexity (32 chunks) matches NCCL bit-for-bit (3.4044 vs 3.4043).
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* ggml-cuda: drop unused-function warning by guarding try_allreduce_nccl behind GGML_USE_NCCL
The only call site (in init_nccl) is already inside #ifdef GGML_USE_NCCL,
so the function is unreferenced in non-NCCL builds and trips
nvcc's -Werror=unused-function check. Move the guard from inside the
function body to around the entire definition.
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ce
reduction), so the __restrict__ qualifiers on those parameters were
technically UB. Drop __restrict__ from sendbuf and recvbuf; an A/B
sweep showed <0.6% perf delta (within noise) on Linux.
- The buf/src/dst pointer arrays in ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce and the
per-iteration arrays in ggml_cuda_ar_allreduce_copy_outer were
declared with size GGML_CUDA_MAX_DEVICES but the loop only writes
indices [0, n_devices); zero-initialise so the compiler sees the
tail elements as defined.
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now +6-8% ahead at ub=1024-4096.
Perplexity (32 chunks) matches NCCL bit-for-bit (3.4044 vs 3.4043).
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* SYCL: reduce allocation overhead during flash attention
* tidy up whitespace
* add a note about the flag
* move ggml_sycl_fattn_* into fattn-buffers.hpp
* refactor implementation into fattn-buffers.cpp
* move new_fattn_kv_buffers back into ggml-sycl.cpp
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