* 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>
* upgrade oneAPI to 2025.3.3
* update
* seperate SYCL CI and support release binary package for ubuntu 24
* add dependence
* remove wrong copy lines
* add missed line
* remove other task to test the release for SYCL
* rm more for test release
* fix file name
* correct the error in running
* support build for fp32/fp16
* rm ubuntu-24-sycl-fp16 for duplicated
* refactor build setting
* update guide for ubuntu 24 release package, restore the release.yml for other backend
* user docker replace to install oneAPI
* use download installation package to replace docker
* use wget to download and install oneapi, replace the apt cmd
* enable ccache for oneAPI installation
* fix format error
* enable cache for oneAPI installation
* update guide
* Update .github/workflows/release.yml
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Update .github/workflows/release.yml
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Update .github/workflows/build-sycl.yml
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Update .github/workflows/release.yml
Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
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Co-authored-by: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
* Thread safety per request only
* Fix ROPE yarn case
* Fix sticky stateful config
* Use i4/i8 directly for symmetric quant
* Use weightless caching
* Add WeightlessCacheAttribute to reduce NPU memory usage
* Gelu tanh support (#125)
* Imrope support (#126)
* fix(openvino): explicit ov::Tensor frees in ggml_backend_openvino_free
* add GPU,NPU support in OV Dockerfile
* add build-openvino.yml ci
* Fix sticky stateful config
* add concurrency to ov-gpu ci runs. Move OV CI to build-openvino.yml
* fix thread-safety of shared runtime context
* rope type abstraction for frontend translations
* fix editorconfig
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Co-authored-by: Mustafa Cavus <mustafa.cavus@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Dan Hoffman <dhoff749@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ravi Panchumarthy <ravi.panchumarthy@intel.com>
* vulkan: Programmatically add RoundingModeRTE to all shaders when the device supports it
* use FetchContent to get SPIRV-Headers
* Fetch spirv-headers unconditionally
* remove fetchcontent, rely on installed headers
* fix ubuntu job
* Update docs/build.md
* introduce LLAMA_SERVER_NO_WEBUI
* LLAMA_SERVER_NO_WEBUI → LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI
* LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI ON by default not based on LLAMA_STANDALONE
* MIssed this
* Add useWebUi to package.nix
* cann: update docker images to 8.5.0
- bump CANN base image from 8.3.rc2 to 8.5.0
- bump ASCEND_VERSION from 8.1.RC1.alpha001 to 8.5.0
Move to newer stable releases.
* cann: update CANN.md
* Update CANN.md to include BF16 support
Added BF16 support information to the CANN documentation and corrected formatting for the installation instructions.
* Fix formatting issues in CANN.md
Fix 234: Trailing whitespace
* Update build doc
* Add cgraph tensor output name to OV op name
* Update openvino build instructions
* Add initial NPU support
* draft NPU support version 2: prefill + kvcache
* NPU support version 2: prefill + kvcache
* Change due to ggml cgraph changes, not correct yet
* Change due to ggml cgraph changes, llama-3.2 CPU work
* Add AMD64 to CMakeLists
* Change due to ggml cgraph changes, all device work
* Refactor: clean, fix warning
* Update clang-format
* Statful transformation for CPU GPU
* Add SwiGLU
* Fuse to SDPA
* Replace Concat with Broadcast in MulMat for GQA
* Pull out indices creation for kv cache update
* Refactor: remove past_token_len from extra_inputs
* Fix Phi3 SwiGLU and SoftMax
* Pull out sin cos from rope
* Reduce memory: free ov weights node after graph conversion
* Fix CPY due to cgraph change
* Added OpenVINO CI/CD. Updated docs
* Fix llama-cli
* Fix Phi3 ROPE; Add test-backend-ops
* Fix NPU
* Fix llama-bench; Clang-format
* Fix llama-perplexity
* temp. changes for mark decomp
* matmul in fp32
* mulmat input conversion fix
* mulmat type conversion update
* add mark decomp pass
* Revert changes in fuse_to_sdpa
* Update build.md
* Fix test-backend-ops
* Skip test-thread-safety; Run ctest only in ci/run.sh
* Use CiD for NPU
* Optimize tensor conversion, improve TTFT
* Support op SET_ROWS
* Fix NPU
* Remove CPY
* Fix test-backend-ops
* Minor updates for raising PR
* Perf: RMS fused to OV internal RMS op
* Fix after rebasing
- Layout of cache k and cache v are unified: [seq, n_head, head_size]
- Add CPY and FLASH_ATTN_EXT, flash attn is not used yet
- Skip test-backend-ops due to flash attn test crash
- Add mutex around graph conversion to avoid test-thread-safety fali in the future
- Update NPU config
- Update GPU config to disable SDPA opt to make phi-3 run
* Change openvino device_type to GPU; Enable flash_attn
* Update supports_buft and supports_op for quantized models
* Add quant weight conversion functions from genai gguf reader
* Quant models run with accuracy issue
* Fix accuracy: disable cpu_repack
* Fix CI; Disable test-backend-ops
* Fix Q4_1
* Fix test-backend-ops: Treat quantized tensors as weights
* Add NPU Q4_0 support
* NPU perf: eliminate zp
* Dequantize q4_1 q4_k q6_k for NPU
* Add custom quant type: q8_1_c, q4_0_128
* Set m_is_static=false as default in decoder
* Simpilfy translation of get_rows
* Fix after rebasing
* Improve debug util; Eliminate nop ReshapeReshape
* STYLE: make get_types_to_requant a function
* Support BF16 model
* Fix NPU compile
* WA for npu 1st token acc issue
* Apply EliminateZP only for npu
* Add GeGLU
* Fix Hunyuan
* Support iSWA
* Fix NPU accuracy
* Fix ROPE accuracy when freq_scale != 1
* Minor: not add attention_size_swa for non-swa model
* Minor refactor
* Add Q5_K to support phi-3-q4_k_m
* Requantize Q6_K (gs16) to gs32 on GPU
* Fix after rebasing
* Always apply Eliminate_ZP to fix GPU compile issue on some platforms
* kvcachefusion support
* env variable GGML_OPENVINO_DISABLE_SDPA_OPTIMIZATION added
* Fix for Phi3
* Fix llama-cli (need to run with --no-warmup)
* Fix add_sliced_mask; Revert mulmat, softmax; Remove input attention_size, iSWA model not working
* fix after rebasing
* Fix llama-3-8b and phi3-mini q4_0 NPU
* Update to OV-2025.3 and CMakeLists.txt
* Add OV CI cache
* Apply CISC review and update CI to OV2025.3
* Update CI to run OV dep install before build
* Update OV dockerfile to use OV2025.3 and update build docs
* Style: use switch in supports_ops
* Style: middle ptr and ref align, omit optional struct keyword
* NPU Unify PD (#14)
* Stateless. Fix llama-cli llama-server
* Simplify broadcast op in attention
* Replace get_output_tensor+memcpy with set_output_tensor
* NPU unify PD. Unify dynamic and static dims
* Clean placeholders in ggml-openvino.cpp
* NPU unify PD (handled internally)
* change graph to 4d, support multi sequences
* Fix llama-bench
* Fix NPU
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
Hitting error while compiling on windows:
error C3861: 'unsetenv': identifier not found
Reason: unsetenv() is a POSIX function; it doesn’t exist on Windows. Visual Studio (MSVC) won’t recognize it.
Proposed fix: Use _putenv_s() (Windows equivalent)
This is supported by MSVC and achieves the same effect: it removes the environment variable from the process environment.
This keeps cross-platform compatibility.
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
* Update ggml-decoder.cpp
* Remove the second decoder for node. Moving the function into the model decoder
* Fix error for naive
* NPU prefill chunking
* NPU fix llama-bench
* fallback naive run with accuracy issue
* NPU support llma-perplexity -b 512 --no-warmup
* Refactor: split ov_graph_compute for dynamic and static
* remove unused API GgmlOvDecoder::get_output_stride(const std::string & name)
* minor update due to ov 2025.4
* remove unused API GgmlOvDecoder::get_output_names()
* remove unused API get_output_shape(const std::string & name)
* Modified API GgmlOvDecoder::get_output_type(const std::string & name)
* Removed API GgmlOvDecoder::get_output_op_params(const std::string & name)
* Removed API get_output_ggml_tensor(const std::string & name)
* Removed API m_outputs
* Removed m_output_names
* Removed API GgmlOvDecoder::get_input_names()
* Removed API GgmlOvDecoder::get_input_stride(const std::string& name)
* Removed API get_input_type
* Removed API get_input_type
* Removed API GgmlOvDecoder::get_input_shape(const std::string & name)
* Removed API GgmlOvDecoder::get_input_op_params(const std::string & name)
* Fix error for decoder cache
* Reuse cached decoder
* GPU remove Q6_K requantization
* NPU fix wrong model output shape
* NPU fix q4 perf regression
* Remove unused variable nodes
* Fix decoder can_reuse for llama-bench
* Update build.md for Windows
* backend buffer: allocate on host
* Use shared_buffer for GPU NPU; Refactor
* Add ov_backend_host_buffer; Use cached remote context
* Put kvcache on GPU
* Use ggml_aligned_malloc
* only use remote tensor for kvcache
* only use remote tensor for kvcache for GPU
* FIX: use remote tensor from singleton
* Update build.md to include OpenCL
* NPU always requant to q4_0_128
* Optimize symmetric quant weight extraction: use single zp
* Use Q8_0_C in token embd, lm_head, and for 5 and 6 bits quant
* Update build.md
* Support -ctk f32
* Initial stateful graph support
* Update ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-decoder.cpp
Co-authored-by: Yamini Nimmagadda <yamini.nimmagadda@intel.com>
* code cleanup
* npu perf fix
* requant to f16 for Q6 embed on NPU
* Update ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-decoder.cpp
* Update ggml/src/ggml-openvino/ggml-openvino-extra.cpp
* Create OPENVINO.md in llama.cpp backend docs
* Update OPENVINO.md
* Update OPENVINO.md
* Update OPENVINO.md
* Update build.md
* Update OPENVINO.md
* Update OPENVINO.md
* Update OPENVINO.md
* kq_mask naming fix
* Syntax correction for workflows build file
* Change ov backend buffer is_host to false
* Fix llama-bench -p -n where p<=256
* Fix --direct-io 0
* Don't put kvcache on GPU in stateful mode
* Remove hardcode names
* Fix stateful shapes
* Simplification for stateful and update output shape processing
* Remove hardcode names
* Avoid re-compilation in llama-bench
* Extract zp directly instead of bias
* Refactor weight tensor processing
* create_weight_node accept non-ov backend buffer
* remove changes in llama-graph.cpp
* stateful masking fix (#38)
Fix for stateful accuracy issues and cl_out_of_resources error in stateful GPU with larger context sizes.
* Fix test-backend-ops crash glu, get_rows, scale, rms_norm, add
* hardcoded name handling for rope_freqs.weight
* Suppress logging and add error handling to allow test-backend-ops to complete
* Fix MUL_MAT with broadcast; Add unsupported MUL_MAT FLASH_ATTN cases
* Use bias instead of zp in test-backend-ops
* Update OV in CI, Add OV CI Tests in GH Actions
* Temp fix for multithreading bug
* Update OV CI, fix review suggestions.
* fix editorconfig-checker, update docs
* Fix tabs to spaces for editorconfig-checker
* fix editorconfig-checker
* Update docs
* updated model link to be GGUF model links
* Remove GGML_CPU_REPACK=OFF
* Skip permuted ADD and MUL
* Removed static variables from utils.cpp
* Removed initializing non-existing variable
* Remove unused structs
* Fix test-backend-ops for OV GPU
* unify api calling
* Update utils.cpp
* When the dim is dynamic, throw an error, need to is stastic forst
* Add interface compute_model_outputs(), which get the model output through computing the node use count & status in the cgraph to avoid the flag using
* No need to return
* Fix test-backend-ops for OV GPU LNL
* Fix test-thread-safety
* use the shape from infer request of output tensor create to avoid issue
* fix dynamic output shape issue
* fix issue for the unused node in tests
* Remove unused lock
* Add comment
* Update openvino docs
* update to OV release version 2026.0
* add ci ov-gpu self hosted runner
* fix editorconfig
* Fix perplexity
* Rewrite the model inputs finding mechanism (#54)
* Rewrite the model inputs finding logistic
* Put stateful shape handle in get input shape
* Put the iteration logistic in func
* Added ggml-ci-intel-openvino-gpu and doc update
* .hpp files converted to .h
* fix ggml-ci-x64-intel-openvino-gpu
* Fix for stateful execution bug in llama-bench
* Minor updates after stateful llama-bench fix
* Update ggml/src/ggml-openvino/utils.cpp
Co-authored-by: Yamini Nimmagadda <yamini.nimmagadda@intel.com>
* Remove multiple get_shape calls
* Bring back mutex into compute
* Fix VIEW op, which slice the input node
* Added token_len_per_seq existence check before slicing masks and moved node retrieval inside guarded block to prevent missing-key access
* Temp. fix for test requant errors
* Update to OV ggml-ci to low-perf
* ci : temporary disable "test-llama-archs"
* ci : cache v4 -> v5, checkout v4 -> v6, fix runner tag
* docs : update url
* Fix OV link in docker and Update docs
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Co-authored-by: Ravi Panchumarthy <ravi.panchumarthy@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Cavus Mustafa <mustafa.cavus@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Arshath <arshath.ramzan@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: XuejunZhai <Xuejun.Zhai@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Yamini Nimmagadda <yamini.nimmagadda@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Xuejun Zhai <Xuejun.Zhai@intel>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
The allowUnfreePredicate in pkgsCuda was wrapping p.meta.license in a
list unconditionally. This fails when meta.license is already a list
of licenses, as it creates a nested list and then tries to access
.free and .shortName on the inner list.
Use lib.toList instead, which correctly handles both cases:
- Single license attrset -> wraps in list
- List of licenses -> returns unchanged
Without this I get:
> * Getting build dependencies for wheel...
> * Building wheel...
> Successfully built gguf-0.17.1-py3-none-any.whl
> Finished creating a wheel...
> Finished executing pypaBuildPhase
> Running phase: pythonRuntimeDepsCheckHook
> Executing pythonRuntimeDepsCheck
> Checking runtime dependencies for gguf-0.17.1-py3-none-any.whl
> - requests not installed
For full logs, run:
nix log /nix/store/x0c4a251l68bvdgang9d8v2fsmqay8a4-python3.12-gguf-0.0.0.drv
I changed a bit the style to make it more terse ~> more elegant in my
opinion.
* CANN: fix an issue where get_env was not fully renamed
* ci: add cann with acl group
* ci: define use_acl_graph using GitHub Action
* ci: update cann dockerfile with acl graph
Add libglvnd0, libgl1, libglx0, libegl1, libgles2 to the Vulkan
Dockerfile base image. These libraries are required by mesa-vulkan-drivers
to properly initialize the Vulkan ICD and detect GPU devices.
Without these libraries, vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices() returns an empty
list, resulting in "ggml_vulkan: No devices found." error.
Fixes#17761
Update openEuler version
Remove variable ASCEND_SOC_TYPE
Modify the chip type
Fix case in zip filename
Change "device" to "chip_type"
Modify the value of chip_type
* update oneapi to 2025.2, use deep-learning-essentials to replace base-tool
* update to 2025.2 use deeplearn essi to replace base toolkit
* add missed dll
* add deep learning essentials
* add sycl-ls
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Co-authored-by: Zhang Jianyu <zhang.jianyu@outlook.com>
* CI: Properly install rocwmma for hip builds
on windows we now windows install rocwmma from ubuntu pacakges
* CI: update linux rocm docker build to use rocm 7.0
* rocm.Dockerfile: added gfx1200,gfx1201 architectures to support AMD Radeon RX 9000 series
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/docs-6.4.1/reference/system-requirements.html#rdna-os
states the Radeon RX 9000 series is supported support from Ubuntu 24.04.2, and the dockerfile is using 24.04 which is ROCm 6.4.
This fixed the `ROCm error: invalid device function` I was getting when trying to use the rocm container.
* Revert "devops : fix compile bug when the BASE_CUDA_DEV_CONTAINER is based on Ubuntu 24.04 (#15005)"
This reverts commit e4e915912c.
* devops: Allow pip to modify externally-managed python environment (system installation)
- Updated pip install commands to include the --break-system-packages
flag, ensuring compatibility when working with system-managed Python
environments (PEP 668).
- Note: The --break-system-packages option was introduced in 2023.
Ensure pip is updated to a recent version before using this flag.
fixes [#15004](https://github.com/danchev/llama.cpp/issues/15004)
