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When a model is partially offloaded to system RAM, we can either
do the calculations on the CPU or we can temporarily transfer the
data to the GPU to do the calculations there. Small batches tend
to be better on the CPU, large batches on the GPU.

The llamarunner used the GPU in most cases and the ollamarunner
used the CPU. Although the ollamarunner saw an improvement in
token generation performance, there was a large performance hit
in prompt processing (3-10x).

There is an existing heuristic to dynamically switch between these
two modes but in practice it doesn't have enough information to
accurately make that decision. This adds authoritative data to make
the check work to get the best of both worlds.

Fixes #12037

We currently allocate the worst case batch for max sized
batches, which corresponds to prompt processing. However,
there are some cases where the generated graph is different
for small and large batches. To ensure that we don't need
to allocate memory later after layout has taken place, we
should run the worst case batch both ways and take the larger
amount of memory.

This does not noticeably affect loading speed as the most expensive
part of this logic is from image processing and that does not
occur during token generation.

This reverts commit 5d347f6d.

Currently, checking the length of prompts for embeddings to ensure
they fit in the context window (and possible truncation) occurs in
two places - the Ollama server and runner. This can lead to
inconsistencies in both the checks and reported number of tokens
processed. Since we have to do this processing in the runner, this
consolidates all of the logic there.

hardErrCh will deadlock since forwardBatch is blocked on
computeStartedCh which never gets sent. since the response to
hardErrCh is to panic, just panic instead

This reverts commit 6a62b894.

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.

* cleanup

* use pooling.TypeNone

* pooling test

this cleans up the model interface slightly without too much impact in
other areas

This reverts commit 1a558f98.

This reverts commit 8d6fffae.

Allocation failures can be a normal part of new memory estimates, so
we shouldn't print a stack trace in this case.

* ollama: add embeddings

* 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We currently preallocate compute graph memory for the worst case
batch of text tokens. This adds support for doing the same for
images.

Note that image models are more complicated than text models in
how they process their inputs so there may be cases where this
approach isn't completely generic for all models. It covers all
currently supported models though.

For some multimodal models (such as gemma3), we create a single
graph that generates the image embedding and then use this in the
text model. The embedding tensor is completely opaque to the runner.

However, this doesn't work if we need to use the embedding in multiple
batches. This can arise if the embedding is larger than the batch size.
In these cases (as with llama4), we would like to create views that
are more appropriately sized. However, if we do this then the original
source tensor is used in multiple graphs, which isn't allowed. To
avoid that problem, models with this pattern compute the embedding
tensor on first use and recreate the individual views. There is no
longer a single vision and text graph.

This codifies the pattern of separating vision and text graphs. The
logic of computing tensors on demand is moved to the runner, so models
no longer have to worry about this. It also gives the runner visibility
into the multimodal tensors, which is important for memory management.

reduce prompt log to trace level

Some options listed in api/types.go are not supported in
newer models, or have been deprecated in the past. This is
the first of a series of PRs to clean up the API options

Worst case graph preallocation was disabled by a27462b7
"ollamarunner: Temporarily disable worst case graph preallocation"
since it caused crashes with large batches when not using the GPU.

This backports upstream llama.cpp commit f057808
"ggml: Don't assert fail when tensor data changes (#13222)", which
fixes the underlying bug and allows reverting the previous workaround.

The context (and therefore associated input tensors) was not being
properly closed when images were being processed. We were trying to
close them but in reality we were closing over an empty list, preventing
anything from actually being freed.

Fixes #10434

When we later have a large batch running purely on a CPU, this
results the error:
GGML_ASSERT(talloc->buffer_id >= 0)

Disabling this means that we will incrementally reallocate memory
as the graph grows.

Fixes #10410

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.

No functional change. Many different done reasons can be set at the runner
level, so rather than obsuring them we should return them to the server
process and let it choose what to do with the done reason. This separates
the API concerns from the runner.

When truncating inputs to the the context window at the beginning of
a sequence, we remove the minimum amount possible. However, this
may cause us to truncate to the middle of a set of inputs that
the model specified should not be split up. To avoid this, we
need to remove the rest of the partial batch.

Clear KV cache when shift operation is not supported by model.
Added KvCacheCanShift() check to handle models that can't perform cache shifts,
falling back to full cache clear while preserving logical token history to
maintain expected behavior when context window fills up.