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* perf: build graph for next batch in parallel to keep GPU busy

This refactors the main run loop of the ollama runner to perform the main GPU
intensive tasks (Compute+Floats) in a go routine so we can prepare the next
batch in parallel to reduce the amount of time the GPU stalls waiting for the
next batch of work.

* tests: tune integration tests for ollama engine

This tunes the integration tests to focus more on models supported
by the new engine.

The recent memory management changes caused all GPUs to be visible
to the runner, regardless of whether they are ultimately used. This
caused CUDA devices to allocate a primary context (~300 MB VRAM) on
each GPU, for each model. This is unnecessary, so we can both avoid
touching GPUs that we exclude in the early stage of allocation and
freeing the memory for any that we touch but don't use.

The issue will continue to exist for the old engine, since it touches
all devices during initialization.

* convert: return bytes written

* ggml flavor mxfp4

* simplify jit conversion

* comment

Flash attention kernels require the mask of the KV cache be a F16
rather than an F32. We can use the GGML operation ggml_cast to do
this rather than doing it ourselves, which allows reuse of a
preallocated buffer in the graph rather than allocating a new one
for each batch. This improves token generation performance with
flash attention by 10-30% (with gpt-oss). This also makes performance
with flash attention better than without it, as expected.

This changes the memory allocation strategy from upfront estimation to
tracking actual allocations done by the engine and reacting to that. The
goal is avoid issues caused by both under-estimation (crashing) and
over-estimation (low performance due to under-utilized GPUs).

It is currently opt-in and can be enabled for models running on the
Ollama engine by setting OLLAMA_NEW_ESTIMATES=1. Behavior in other
cases is unchanged and will continue to use the existing estimates.

* TEMPORARY: Update the llama.cpp upstream to my fork's Granite Four branch

This will be redone once my branch is merged upstream in llama.cpp

* feat: Update all patches

There are a number that are no longer needed at all:

- 0003-embeddings: Embeddings entirely overhauled on master
- 0008-ensure-KV-cache-is-fully-defragmented: KV caching entirely
    overhauled on master
- 0019-metal-add-mean-kernel-14267: Merged upstream
- 0020-CUDA-add-mean-operation-14313: Merged upstream

* feat: Sync llama.cpp and ggml

* fix: Update rsync-filter for all moved/new/removed files

* fix: Add files missing from sync

* fix: Update ggml rsync-filter for new ggml-cpu/arch subdirs

* fix: Add ggml files missing from sync

* fix: Narrow llama.cpp rsync-filter to not include mtmd main tool cpp files

* fix: Remove mtmd main cpp files

* fix: Add missing include in sampling_ext.cpp

* fix: Update llama.go to use mtmd instead of clip/llava

* fix: Add patch for mtmd_input_text

* chore: Ignore *.patched in the patch directory

* fix: Fix support for arch-specific ggml-cpu source files with new arrangement

In https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13892, all arch-specific
implementations were split out into a nested tree structure under
ggml-cpu/arch. This conflicts with standard CGO layout where all
arch-specific source files are expected to live in the same directory as
the parent go module and use suffixes based on GOOS and GOARCH. As such,
there were really two options for getting this to work:

1. Add a patch on top of the GGML sync to rearrange the files to match the
GO layout convention
2. Use CGO directives to conditionally include the nested source files in
the compilation units

This commit does (2) in order to minimize the set of changes needed on top
of the upstream file layout. To get this to work, there are two key things
needed:

1. In cpu.go, #cgo directives are added to explicitly set __${GOARCH}__ in
the preprocessor directives
2. In arch-impls.c|cpp, use an #ifdef | #elif defined | #endif chain to
explicitly include the .c|.cpp files for the given architecture from the
nested directory

* fix: Use mtmd_helper to correctly load the bitmap for the image

* fix: Apply patch for mtmd_text_input

* fix: Add missing stb to llama.cpp rsync-filter

* fix: Add sync'ed stb vendored header

* fix: Use c++17 and include vendor for go wrapper modules

* fix: Update patch 0015 for upstream implementation of uuid

* feat: Bump to the latest tip of the branch

* fix: Update patches for bump

* feat: Bump back to the cenral repo and point at the latest master

This includes granite 4 and a number of other model architectures!

* fix: Revert changes to ggml export GPU UUID patch

* fix: Add patch for GGML_VERSION and GGML_COMMIT constants

* feat: Sync all patched code

* build: Include cmake/common.cmake in ggml sync

* build: Add top-level include for GNUINstallDirs in CMakeLists.txt

This is used to populate CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR

* fix: Add a patch to avoid power throttling API on non-msvc windows builds

* fix: Sync patch changes for ggml-cpu.c

* feat: Bump llama.cpp to 4a4f42

This picks up support for Kimi K2 and PLaMO-2

* feat: Sync llama.cpp

* fix: Handle multi-chunk image encodings from mtmd

* fix: Re-number patches after merge with `main`

* feat: Bump to 41e78c in the makefile

* fix: Fix Solar and argsort/copy patches after bump

* fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch

It was implemented upstream:
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14741

* feat: Sync llama.cpp / ggml after latest bump

* build: Remove unnecessary CFLAGS definitions in cpu.go

* fix: Remove unnecessary additions in the rsync-filter

* fix: Remove unused vendored code for chat template parsing

* Revert "fix: Remove Gemma3n CUDA Graphs patch"

This reverts commit d724caced3ce21f08924d4b7801f94ce6638f6ea.

* fix: Update 0020 CUDA Graphs for gemma3n to keep both llama.cpp and ollama fixes

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11195#issuecomment-3137312394



* fix: Sync ggml-cuda.cu after keeping both style cuda graph fixes for gemma3n

* unwind mxfp4 patch

Prepare to bump ggml with their impl for mxfp4

* bump

* fix windows build error

* Convert tensors at load time

Repack the mxfp4 tensors as ggmls kernels expect them to be.

* convert mlp bf16 to f32

* buffer the conversion better

* reshape earlier

* openai swiglu

* add ids

* split qkv, gate_up

* fix nested alt tags

* fast attention

* remove debug messages

* fix lint

* remove redundant test

* remap values only if source/target are different

* add back i32->i32 copy

* refactor cpu quants

* clean up vendor

* update patch instructions

* clean up patches

* remove webgpu

* update mem

* also handle gpt-oss

* revert convert changes

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Signed-off-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Gabe Goodhart <ghart@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>

In order to iteratively find the best memory allocation, we need to
be able to free backend memory so we can try again.

For many backend data structures, GGML defines a typedef of a pointer
type and returns these from functions. In most cases, CGo understands
that these are interchangable but some parts of Go (such as generics)
think they are two different types. We should prefer the form that
GGML uses.

* bf16

* tests

* gpt-oss

* enable gptoss for engine

* rough estimate

* convert to mxfp4

* handle safetensors U8

* clamp glu/linear

* update tokenizer

* MXFP4 support

This implements the Open Compute Microscaling (MX) FP4 format
as a tensor type with backend implementations focusing
on mulmat and mulmatid on CPU, CUDA, and Metal.

* Unit tests for MXFP4 support

This exercises various operations and shapes on both CPU and GPU (if detected
on the system)

* cuda graph

* unit test adjustments

* cuda: optimize memory access

Read 4 bytes at a time (8 elements) when performing mul_mat_vec_mxfp4

* mac: fix crash on old macos versions

cblas_sgemm is only supported on v13.3 and up, however bf16 is
only supported on v14+ so we were falling back to ggml-blas and
crashing on bf16 tensors.  Checking for the function being null
seems to be the simplest way to condittionally avoid registering the
backend.

* server: Minimum context length for gptoss

This model requires a minimum context length of 8192 to function
effectively. Users can set higher values through all normal mechanisms
but lower values will be silently reset.

* ggml: Multiply by numParallel for gptoss sliding window

When computing the graph size estimate, the context size is already
multiplied by numParallel so estimates reflect that. However, since
sliding window models use a smaller, fixed context size, they need
to manually take numParallel into account.

* gpt-oss integration

includes harmony parser and thinking levels, etc.

* fix sync

* fix tests

* fix lint

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Devon Rifkin <drifkin@drifkin.net>

Reporting params.NumGPULayers can be misleading because it is the
requested number of layers, not the actual number that is loaded.
While they are often the same, there are cases where they might mismatch,
such as if the GPU backend is missing.

We're not currently using it, even in cases where we could. Disabling
it improves generation performance by 10-30% with multiple GPUs.

We don't get valid UUIDs for AMD GPUs on Windows, so the best option
is to use the ordinal IDs. This brings us in line with what we currently
do on the Ollama server - the only exception is AMD GPUs on Linux, which
falls back to using ordinal IDs. The GGML implementation has no fallback
but it doesn't appear to occur for any of the GPUs that we support.

It's also possible that there are collisions between ordinal IDs for
different libraries - however the only places where we use them are
AMD on Windows and Metal on Mac, which can never occur on the same
system.

The root cause was an unclean upgrade - this code is fine.

This reverts commit 45f216a9.

This adds some extra logs to make the new engine a bit more consistent
with the llama engine.

This is causing segfaults, so disable it. Currently UUIDs are only
used for debugging purposes, although they planned to be used in
additional ways in the future.

Bug #11211

* update patches

* cherry pick metal mean kernel

* cherry pick cuda mean kernel

* gemma3n

We don't check the return status after computing the graph, which
can silently lead to bad outputs if we try to keep going and future
computation succeeds. This appears to happens in certain cases on
Apple M2 devices.

Fixes #11070

Reverts PR #11115. The original change was mistakingly reverted instead of #10822

This reverts commit aaa78180.

This enables matching up devices and information reported by the backend
with system management libraries such as nvml to get accurate free
memory reporting.

FromFloatSlice and FromIntSlice return an error if the shape doesn't
match the passed data or if memory can't be allocated. Since these
are inputs, the memory being allocated is system memory rather than VRAM.

In many cases, the caller can't really handle the error and panics.

Empty and Zeros directly panic if they can't allocate memory.

This makes things consistent by panicing for the first two cases,
removing a fair amount of error handling code. This is also consistent
with how Go typically handles these situations.

This provides granular information about the backend memory allocations
required by the runner:
 - Per backend
 - Per layer
 - Weights, cache and graph
 - Allocation status

This can be used for debugging and validating memory estimates.

* feat: qwen3 dense
* feat: qwen3moe
* fix llama4 moe

Currently, when the backend is created, the tensors are loaded at the
same time, which is a slow operation. This separates them to be two
steps:
 - Create backend, including enumerating tensors and memory allocation
 - Loading tensor data

This allows more flexibility in managing model loading.

* panic if trying to pad 4d

* fix pixel values padding

reduce prompt log to trace level

* Move quantization logic to GGML via new backend

This moves the model aware logic to Go code and calls GGMLs quantization code for model creation.

* Remove "add model quantizations"

This is no longer needed now that quantization is implemented in Go+GGML code directly.

Successfully completing processing with an errgroup cancels the
associated context. However, we also have a goroutine that is checking
for cancelation of the context. As a result, there is a race where
the goroutine can pick up the cancelation and report an error,
replacing the sucessful error message.

To avoid that, this replaces the goroutine with a cancelation check
when we are reading files. This also has the advantage of stopping
all reads relatively quickly on error and also ensuring that there are
no outstanding I/O operations when we return in this case.

The downside is that if a file read blocks forever (for example, over
the network) then cancelation of the context effectively won't be
honored. However, this is also true for other smaller files we read
and the tensors are read in small chunks (128K), so it's consistent
and better on balance overall.

For every forward pass through the model, we need to allocate input
tensors: tokens, images, positions, outputs and masks. These get
allocated in system memory.

However, when we close the context that the tensors were allocated
through, the metadata gets freed but the actual backend memory does
not. This results in a significant memory leak.

This makes it so that all the memory allocated through a context
gets freed when it is closed.

Fixes #10040

Allocating (and in particular, freeing) memory from CUDA host buffers
is expensive and can cause a significant performance hit if we do
it for every token. Using normal system memory avoids this issue
and also gives the OS more flexibility to manage it.

There is no performance impact from this patch directly (either
positive or negative) but it makes a difference once we start
freeing memory correctly.

Context is currently mixed between pointer and value receivers. Change
this to be all pointer receivers so don't have to reason about whether
the things we are updating in the struct will be retained.

Sometimes loading the GGUF file fails with:
panic: context canceled

This is probably a filesystem error but it doesn't provide any
information about what happened.

Currently, the KV cache and graph are lazily allocated as needed.
The cache is fully allocated on first use of the corresponding
layer whereas the graph grows with the size of the context.

This can be an issue if another application allocates more VRAM
after we do our calculations - Ollama will crash in the middle of
inference. If we instead allocate the maximum needed memory at
startup of the runner, we will either succeed or fail at that point
rather than at some surprising time in the future.

Currently, this only generates a worst case batch for text, which
means that vision models may get a partial allocation and continue
to lazily allocate the rest.