0014-llama-Ensure-KV-cache-is-fully-defragmented.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:11:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] llama: Ensure KV cache is fully defragmented.

Sometimes the KV cache requires defragmentation even without
triggering the threshold heuristic. In this case, decoding
will not being able to find a KV cache slot. This is particularly
difficult for the caller to handle if it happens in between
ubatches. To avoid this, we should immediately trigger a defrag.

In addition, a heavily fragmented cache can require more than
max_moves to defragment. Currently, we stop when we hit the limit
but this can leave a cache that still does not have adequate space
even after defragmentation is triggered. Instead, we should do
multiple batches of processing until everything is complete.
---
 src/llama.cpp | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 4778a9ed..654e32bc 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -3025,6 +3025,13 @@ struct llama_kv_cache {
     }
 };
 
+// block of KV slots to move when defragging
+struct llama_kv_defrag_move {
+    uint32_t src;
+    uint32_t dst;
+    uint32_t len;
+};
+
 struct llama_control_vector {
     std::vector<struct ggml_tensor *> tensors; // per layer
     std::vector<ggml_context_ptr> ctxs;
@@ -10802,35 +10809,23 @@ struct llm_build_context {
         return gf;
     }
 
-    struct ggml_cgraph * build_defrag(const std::vector<uint32_t> & ids) {
+    struct ggml_cgraph * build_defrag(const std::vector<struct llama_kv_defrag_move> & moves) {
         struct ggml_cgraph * gf = ggml_new_graph_custom(ctx0, llama_model_max_nodes(model), false);
 
-        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < ids.size(); ++i) {
-            const uint32_t id = ids[i];
-
-            if (i == id || id == ids.size()) {
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            uint32_t nm = 1;
-
-            while (i + nm < ids.size() && ids[i + nm] == id + nm) {
-                nm++;
-            }
-
+        for (const auto & move : moves) {
             for (int il = 0; il < n_layer; ++il) {
                 const int64_t n_embd_k_gqa = hparams.n_embd_k_gqa(il);
                 const int64_t n_embd_v_gqa = hparams.n_embd_v_gqa(il);
 
                 ggml_tensor * view_k_src = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.k_l[il],
-                        n_embd_k_gqa, nm,
+                        n_embd_k_gqa, move.len,
                         ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa),
-                        ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa*i));
+                        ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa*move.src));
 
                 ggml_tensor * view_k_dst = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.k_l[il],
-                        n_embd_k_gqa, nm,
+                        n_embd_k_gqa, move.len,
                         ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa),
-                        ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa*id));
+                        ggml_row_size(kv_self.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_k_gqa*move.dst));
 
                 ggml_tensor * view_v_src;
                 ggml_tensor * view_v_dst;
@@ -10838,31 +10833,29 @@ struct llm_build_context {
                 if (flash_attn) {
                     // NOTE: the V cache is not transposed when using flash attention
                     view_v_src = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.v_l[il],
-                            n_embd_v_gqa, nm,
+                            n_embd_v_gqa, move.len,
                             ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa),
-                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa*i));
+                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa*move.src));
 
                     view_v_dst = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.v_l[il],
-                            n_embd_v_gqa, nm,
+                            n_embd_v_gqa, move.len,
                             ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa),
-                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa*id));
+                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, n_embd_v_gqa*move.dst));
                 } else {
                     view_v_src = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.v_l[il],
-                            nm, n_embd_v_gqa,
+                            move.len, n_embd_v_gqa,
                             ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, kv_self.size),
-                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, i));
+                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, move.src));
 
                     view_v_dst = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, kv_self.v_l[il],
-                            nm, n_embd_v_gqa,
+                            move.len, n_embd_v_gqa,
                             ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, kv_self.size),
-                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, id));
+                            ggml_row_size(kv_self.v_l[il]->type, move.dst));
                 }
 
                 ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, view_k_src, view_k_dst));
                 ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, view_v_src, view_v_dst));
             }
-
-            i += nm - 1;
         }
 
         //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("gf->n_nodes = %d\n", gf->n_nodes);
@@ -17325,7 +17318,7 @@ struct llm_build_context {
     }
 };
 
-static struct ggml_cgraph * llama_build_graph_defrag(llama_context & lctx, const std::vector<uint32_t> & ids) {
+static struct ggml_cgraph * llama_build_graph_defrag(llama_context & lctx, const std::vector<struct llama_kv_defrag_move> & moves) {
     llama_ubatch dummy = {};
     dummy.equal_seqs = true;
 
@@ -17335,7 +17328,7 @@ static struct ggml_cgraph * llama_build_graph_defrag(llama_context & lctx, const
 
     llm.init();
 
-    struct ggml_cgraph * result = llm.build_defrag(ids);
+    struct ggml_cgraph * result = llm.build_defrag(moves);
 
     llm.free();
 
@@ -18351,7 +18344,12 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
                 kv_self.head = 0;
             }
 
-            const auto slot = llama_kv_cache_find_slot(kv_self, ubatch);
+            auto slot = llama_kv_cache_find_slot(kv_self, ubatch);
+            if (!slot) {
+                llama_kv_cache_defrag(kv_self);
+                llama_kv_cache_update(&lctx);
+                slot = llama_kv_cache_find_slot(kv_self, ubatch);
+            }
             if (!slot) {
                 return 1;
             }
@@ -18756,8 +18754,8 @@ static void llama_kv_cache_defrag_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
 
     //const int64_t t_start = ggml_time_us();
 
-    // number of cells moved
-    uint32_t n_moves = 0;
+    // groups of cells moved
+    std::vector<struct llama_kv_defrag_move> moves;
 
     // each move requires 6*n_layer tensors (see build_defrag)
     //   - source view, destination view, copy operation
@@ -18821,19 +18819,11 @@ static void llama_kv_cache_defrag_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
         // are we moving a continuous block of memory?
         bool cont = false;
 
-        // should we stop searching for the next move?
-        bool stop = false;
-
         // go back and move the nf cells to the hole
         for (; i1 < n_kv; ++i1) {
             auto & cell1 = kv_self.cells[i1];
 
             if (cell1.is_empty() || ids[i1] != n_kv) {
-                if (n_moves == max_moves) {
-                    stop = true;
-                    break;
-                }
-
                 cont = false;
                 continue;
             }
@@ -18849,8 +18839,10 @@ static void llama_kv_cache_defrag_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
             kv_self.head = n_used;
 
             if (!cont) {
-                n_moves++;
+                moves.push_back({i1, i0 + nf, 1});
                 cont = true;
+            } else {
+                moves.back().len++;
             }
 
             nf++;
@@ -18860,22 +18852,16 @@ static void llama_kv_cache_defrag_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
             }
         }
 
-        if (stop || n_moves == max_moves) {
-            break;
-        }
-
         //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("(tmp log) KV defrag: move [%u, %u) to [%u, %u)\n", is, i1 + 1, i0, i0 + nh);
 
         i0 += nh - 1;
     }
 
-    if (n_moves == 0) {
+    if (moves.size() == 0) {
         return;
     }
 
-    //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("(tmp log) KV defrag cell moves: %u\n", n_moves);
-
-    //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("expected gf nodes: %u\n", 6*n_moves*n_layer);
+    //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("(tmp log) KV defrag cell moves: %u\n",  moves.size());
 
 #if 0
     // CPU defrag
@@ -18950,11 +18936,18 @@ static void llama_kv_cache_defrag_internal(struct llama_context & lctx) {
 #else
     // ggml_graph defrag
 
-    ggml_backend_sched_reset(lctx.sched.get());
+    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < moves.size(); i += max_moves) {
+        std::vector<struct llama_kv_defrag_move> chunk;
+        auto end = std::min(i + max_moves, moves.size());
+        chunk.assign(moves.begin() + i, moves.begin() + end);
 
-    ggml_cgraph * gf = llama_build_graph_defrag(lctx, ids);
+        ggml_backend_sched_reset(lctx.sched.get());
+
+        //LLAMA_LOG_INFO("expected gf nodes: %u\n", 6*chunk.size()*n_layer);
+        ggml_cgraph * gf = llama_build_graph_defrag(lctx, chunk);
 
-    llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, lctx.cparams.n_threads, lctx.threadpool);
+        llama_graph_compute(lctx, gf, lctx.cparams.n_threads, lctx.threadpool);
+    }
 #endif
 
     //const int64_t t_end = ggml_time_us();