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We currently assign model layers to GPUs according to free VRAM,
which assumes that GPU performance is roughly equal. This does not
work well for mixed dGPU and iGPU systems because iGPUs typically
use system memory which is large but their performance is slow.
This instead assigns layers to dGPUs first and then iGPUs.

In the future, this could be generalized to have a more fine grained
notion of GPU performance but dGPU vs. iGPU performance is the most
extreme.

* DRY out the runner lifecycle code

Now that discovery uses the runners as well, this unifies the runner spawning code
into a single place.  This also unifies GPU discovery types with the newer ml.DeviceInfo

* win: make incremental builds better

Place build artifacts in discrete directories so incremental builds don't have to start fresh

* Adjust sort order to consider iGPUs

* handle cpu inference oom scenarios

* review comments

Currently, if you set num_gpu then this forces the model to
load with that number of layers in the current configuration.
This is done regardless of any other information, which means
that no eviction is performed even if another model is loaded.

This behavior is different from the old estimates (and still
happens for models that runs on the llama engine). In those
cases, models would be evicted if needed to load at the requested
number of layers. That behavior is more useful and less surprising,
so this changes the new estimates to match.

Fixes #12580

This revamps how we discover GPUs in the system by leveraging the Ollama
runner.  This should eliminate inconsistency between our GPU discovery and the
runners capabilities at runtime, particularly for cases where we try to filter
out unsupported GPUs.  Now the runner does that implicitly based on the actual
device list.  In some cases free VRAM reporting can be unreliable which can
leaad to scheduling mistakes, so this also includes a patch to leverage more
reliable VRAM reporting libraries if available.

Automatic workarounds have been removed as only one GPU leveraged this, which
is now documented. This GPU will soon fall off the support matrix with the next
ROCm bump.

Additional cleanup of the scheduler and discovery packages can be done in the
future once we have switched on the new memory management code, and removed
support for the llama runner.

For each memory allocation we report the size of the (attempted)
allocation and whether it succeeded or failed. The latter status
reporting proved to be not that useful in practice as systems
such as Windows can automatically overflow from VRAM into RAM,
resultings in successful allocations even when there isn't
enough memory where we wanted.

As a result, this information is only used for debug logging,
which isn't worthwhile enough for the amount of code. It
also isn't fully accurate, as multiple allocations may result
in partial failures.

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.

This fixes another regression in the previous commit that fixed other
known bugs.

Changes in #8002 introduced fixes for bugs with mangling JSON Schemas.
It also fixed a bug where the server would silently fail when clients
requested invalid formats. It also, unfortunately, introduced a bug
where the server would reject requests with an empty format, which
should be allowed.

The change in #8127 updated the code to allow the empty format, but also
reintroduced the regression where the server would silently fail when
the format was set, but invalid.

This commit fixes both regressions. The server does not reject the empty
format, but it does reject invalid formats. It also adds tests to help
us catch regressions in the future.

Also, the updated code provides a more detailed error message when a
client sends a non-empty, but invalid format, echoing the invalid format
in the response.

This commits also takes the opportunity to remove superfluous linter
checks.