29 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	6584db992f	fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it (#11054) ... * fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it A worker whose models filesystem was 100% full kept advertising `status: healthy`, stayed a scheduling candidate, was picked to host a 70 GB video model, accepted the staging request, transferred ~17 GB and only then failed: staging .../whisper-large-v3/model.fp32-00001-of-00002.safetensors: upload to node b7bacbf4-... failed with status 500: writing file: /models/longcat-video-avatar-1.5/...: no space left on device The node was at 937G/937G/0-avail. Total elapsed before the truth surfaced: 16 minutes, for a decision that could never have succeeded. The worker health signal only ever proved liveness. `/readyz` (WorkerReadiness/NATSReadiness) checks the NATS link; `status: healthy` in the registry is driven by heartbeat recency. Node capacity carried VRAM and RAM but no disk figure at all, and the router compared model size against VRAM only — nothing anywhere looked at free space on the filesystem that staging actually writes to. Report it, then use it: - Workers now measure the filesystem backing their MODELS directory (not `/` -- staged weights land in the models path, and that mount is very often separate) and report `total_disk`/`available_disk` on registration and on every heartbeat. Free disk moves faster than VRAM under staging traffic, so the per-heartbeat refresh matters. - The SmartRouter drops nodes that cannot store the model before it picks one. The requirement comes from `modelPayloadBytes` -- the same local paths `stageModelFiles` uploads, already computed for the size-derived load budget -- plus a 5% / 1 GiB margin, rather than a fixed percentage of the node's disk. A percentage threshold would take a small-but-usable node out of rotation for models it could hold, and on a homogeneous cluster would strand every node at once. - When no node fits, scheduling fails immediately with an error naming the requirement and each node's free space, instead of picking one and discovering it mid-transfer. Two deliberate non-changes. Low disk does not mark a node `unhealthy`: the check is per model, so a node too small for one model stays a valid target for smaller ones. And `total_disk == 0` means "does not report disk" (pre-upgrade worker, or a failed stat), not "full" -- such nodes pass through untouched so a rolling upgrade never empties the candidate pool. A genuinely full node is distinguishable: non-zero total, zero available. Registry read failures are logged and scheduling continues unfiltered; a database hiccup must not wedge a cluster. Free space is surfaced on the node detail page next to VRAM, since the incident's signature was a node that looked entirely healthy. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] * feat(nodes): make the disk-headroom check operator-controllable The admission check added in the previous commit had no off switch. A scheduler-side veto with no escape hatch is a liability: our size estimate can be wrong (deduplicating or compressing filesystems, a backend that fetches its own weights rather than loading the staged copy), and an operator who hits that has no way out but a downgrade. Add one knob with two surfaces that share a single source of truth: - `--distributed-disk-headroom-check` / `LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_DISK_HEADROOM_CHECK` (default true), following the `--distributed-prefix-cache` pattern for a default-on distributed feature. - `distributed_disk_headroom_check` in the runtime-settings registry, so it can be flipped without a restart from `POST /api/settings` and from Settings -> Distributed in the WebUI. Both write `DistributedConfig.DiskHeadroomDisabled`, and the SmartRouter reads that member LIVE on every scheduling decision through a closure over the application config rather than a value snapshotted at construction. Env/CLI sets the boot value, the runtime setting overrides it live, last write wins, and there is exactly one member to read. Snapshotting would have made the runtime toggle a no-op until restart. Disabled means WARN, not SKIP. Selection goes back to ignoring free disk -- byte for byte the pre-check behaviour -- but the check still runs, and when it would have rejected every node it says so, naming the knob that suppressed it. Going quiet when switched off would reproduce the exact condition that made the original incident expensive: a cluster doing something that could not work and saying nothing. Disabling is also logged once at startup. Warning only on the total-rejection case keeps it actionable rather than chatty on a heterogeneous cluster. Also fixes a false positive in the check itself: shared-models mode (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS) stages nothing at all -- every node already mounts this models directory at this path -- so demanding the full checkpoint size of free space per node would have rejected a cluster that needs no new bytes. The check is skipped there entirely. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-23 00:03:21 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	01fca9c9b2	fix(distributed): scale the remote model-load deadline with checkpoint size (#11030) ... The gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel call was a fixed 5m. It starts only after the backend install and file staging have completed, so it covers the worker's checkpoint read and pipeline init alone - work whose duration is proportional to the bytes on disk. A fixed value is therefore a model-size cliff, not a timeout. Measured in production: a 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5) on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor worker failed reproducibly with "rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded" after 953.5s of wall clock. Backend install plus staging consumed ~11m, then LoadModel got its 5m and expired. The load never had a chance, and the operator saw only a generic DeadlineExceeded with no hint that a config value was the cause. Raising the constant does not fix this. It moves the cliff to the next larger model - the cluster has to support 600 GB checkpoints - and it makes a genuinely wedged SMALL model hang for the whole inflated duration before anyone notices, which is a real regression in failure latency. So derive the budget from the checkpoint size instead: budget = 5m + 20s/GiB, capped at 6h 2 GiB -> 5m40s, 70 GiB -> 28m20s, 600 GiB -> 3h25m. The per-GiB rate is deliberately pessimistic (~54 MB/s of weight read) because the errors are not symmetric: too long costs only failure latency on a load that was going to fail anyway, too short is a guaranteed false failure on a healthy load. The size is measured from the frontend's local model files, over the same path set stageModelFiles uploads. When those files are not present locally - a backend handed a bare HuggingFace repo id fetches its own weights on the worker - there is nothing to measure and the budget stays at today's 5m. An explicit LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT still wins outright, in both directions: a shorter override is honoured, so an operator who wants fast failure is not silently extended by the heuristic. The cold-load hold needed widening to match. It extends on staging progress, but LoadModel reports none, so once the last byte lands the hold expires a stall window later and would cancel a load still well inside its own budget. scheduleAndLoad now extends the hold by the load budget plus the staging margin as it enters the load phase; ModelLoadCeilingFor stays the hold's starting budget rather than its maximum. Finally, a deadline that does expire now names the budget, the checkpoint size it was derived from, and the knob that overrides it, instead of surfacing a bare "context deadline exceeded". Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-22 09:30:23 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	a4a181d2f7	fix(distributed): count staging verification as progress, not as a stall (#11026) ... Testing the progress-based cold-load deadline on the live cluster surfaced a false positive. The stall window observed UPLOAD bytes only, but the staging path has a phase that does real work while moving zero upload bytes: the resumable-upload verify phase. When a shard is already present on the worker from an earlier attempt, the frontend HEADs it, hashes the local copy to confirm it matches, and skips the transfer. Staging a 70 GB model with 56 GB already staged: 17:27:34 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:28:20 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:29:07 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... ... six-plus consecutive minutes, no bytes uploaded at all ~45s per skipped ~4 GB shard. That is correct and desirable - it is what makes resume work - but it was indistinguishable from a stall. At 45s per shard it sits inside the 5m window, so the run in flight was fine; the problem is the 600 GB scale this machinery exists to enable, where one shard can plausibly hash for longer than the window. The guard would then fire during verification of a transfer that is working perfectly. Verified mechanism: probeExisting() HEADs the worker and then calls downloader.CalculateSHA(). The staging progress callback is only consulted inside doUpload(), which the skip path never reaches, so observeLoadProgress was called zero times for the whole verify phase. Verification exposed a second, worse bug in the same path: CalculateSHA consults no context at all. An expired cold load kept hashing to completion, compared the hashes, and returned success - reporting a file as staged on a dead load. The failure only surfaced on the NEXT file, whose HEAD died immediately. That is exactly the shape of the red test here, which fails on shard 3. Fix: hash in 1 MiB chunks via hashFileWithActivity(), ticking the cold-load deadline per chunk and checking ctx per chunk. A successful HEAD also counts, since a 200 with a content hash proves the worker is serving right now. Counting hash progress does not make a dead transfer look alive: hashing is bounded, terminating work proportional to file size, in probeExisting it runs only after a HEAD proved the worker was up, and the 24h absolute cap still bounds the whole hold. The alternative of simply widening the window was rejected - it would reintroduce the size cliff this work removes. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-21 21:38:54 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	b700a78ae4	fix(distributed): make the cold-load hold scale with progress, not wall-clock (#11019) ... A 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5) could not be loaded on a distributed cluster. The request failed with HTTP 500 after 1499.98s - exactly the 25m00s cold-load ceiling - while staging was demonstrably healthy: 26 of 57 files and 39 GB transferred at a sustained ~26 MB/s, zero errors, no stalls. It was not wedged, it was killed by a timer. ModelLoadCeilingFor covers node selection, backend install, file staging and the remote LoadModel. Install and load carry their own budgets; staging was covered only by a FIXED 5-minute margin. But staging time is bytes over bandwidth, not a constant: 70 GB at 26 MB/s needs ~45m against a 25m ceiling, so the failure is deterministic for any sufficiently large model rather than a flake. Simply raising the constant moves the cliff to the next model size - the deployment target here is checkpoints of 600 GB and beyond. The ceiling's real purpose is that "a wedged worker can never pin the lock indefinitely". Progress, not elapsed time, is what distinguishes a wedged worker from a large one. The hold is now a deadline that extends whenever the transfer reports bytes and expires a 5-minute stall window after they stop: - A large model transferring fine continues, for hours if needed. - A worker that died mid-transfer still fails within the stall window. Progress is observed at byte level on the transfer itself, via the existing staging progress callback. Per-file completion would be too coarse - a single 600 GB shard would be indistinguishable from a stall for hours. The observation point is back-pressured by the socket, so it reflects the network rather than local disk reads. Observation is coarsened to one timer touch per stall/20 so the per-read callback stays cheap. The base budget (unchanged, and still derived from the install and load timeouts) continues to cover the steps that report no progress, so LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT keeps working exactly as before. An absolute cap of 24h bounds the hold even while progress keeps arriving, so a peer trickling bytes forever cannot pin the advisory lock; 600 GB at the measured 26 MB/s is ~6.5h, so the cap sits far above any legitimate transfer. Also fixes the incoherent layering the same error exposed: the resumable upload carried a 1h retry budget nested inside the 25m ceiling, so the inner budget was unreachable and the message still blamed it ("failed after 1 attempts within 1h0m0s budget") while the 25m parent was the actual killer. The upload now adopts the caller's deadline when there is one, and applies its fixed budget only when nothing above bounded it - which also stops a fixed 1h from reintroducing the size cliff under the now-extendable parent. This is the successor to #10968, where a hardcoded 5-minute LoadModel gRPC timeout was replaced by this derived ceiling. Fixing the inner timeout exposed the outer ceiling as the new binding constraint. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-21 15:34:33 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	0eb8a1188d	fix(worker): give the worker a real health endpoint and a mode-aware HEALTHCHECK (#10999) ... fix(worker): give the worker a real health endpoint (#10987) The image bakes in a single HEALTHCHECK that curls http://localhost:8080/readyz, but the same image also runs `local-ai worker`, which serves HTTP on the gRPC base port minus one and never binds 8080. Every worker container was therefore permanently `unhealthy` (43 consecutive failures observed on a production node), which is worse than having no healthcheck: a genuinely broken worker and a perfectly good one both report `unhealthy`, so the signal carries no information and orchestration that keys on it misbehaves. The worker already served /readyz on that port via the file-transfer server, but as a constant 200 — it only proved the listener was bound, which is precisely the failure mode at issue. Readiness now tracks the live NATS connection: all of a worker's actual work (backend lifecycle events, inference dispatch, file staging) arrives over NATS, so a worker whose link is dead is up and useless. Registration is already implied, since the server only starts after registration succeeds. This reports something the controller cannot already see. The node registry's status/last_heartbeat is fed by an HTTP heartbeat to the frontend, a different network path from NATS — a worker can keep heartbeating while its NATS connection is dead and still look healthy in the registry. /healthz stays a constant 200: liveness must not follow readiness, or a NATS blip becomes a cluster-wide restart storm. The HEALTHCHECK is now a script that derives its endpoint from the mode the container is actually running plus the env vars that configure the bind address, so a frontend moved off 8080 with LOCALAI_ADDRESS (broken the same way) and a worker on a non-default base port are both probed correctly. Modes with no HTTP surface (agent-worker, one-shot commands) report healthy rather than false-unhealthy. HEALTHCHECK_ENDPOINT remains as an explicit override, so the workaround shipped in docker-compose.distributed.yaml keeps working; both overrides in that file are now unnecessary and have been removed. Also fixes the latent --start-period gap. Since #10949 a frontend's startup preload materializes HuggingFace artifacts before the HTTP server binds (31 GB observed on a live cluster), so a healthy replica can legitimately fail probes for a long time. --start-period is Docker's knob for exactly this: failures inside it leave the container `starting` instead of burning retries, and it ends early on the first success, so a generous 60m costs a fast-starting container nothing. --timeout drops from 10m to 10s — it is a per-probe deadline, and a localhost curl that has not answered in 10s is itself the fault being detected. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-20 23:07:27 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	e55cc3e2a7	fix(worker): bound the gRPC port allocator and stop leaking dead backends' ports (#10968) ... The worker's gRPC port allocator grew monotonically with no upper bound: nextPort started at the base port and incremented whenever freePorts was empty, and nothing checked 65535. Past that it handed out integers that cannot be bound, surfacing as an opaque "backend won't start". #10961 estimated this needed ~15,000 concurrent-peak allocations, i.e. effectively unreachable. It is not, because of a second defect: the "process died unexpectedly" branch in startBackend deleted the process map entry without releasing its port at all. That port was leaked, never quarantined and never reused. A crash-looping backend leaks one port per restart, so a backend dying every 30s walks 50051 to 65535 in about five days. The leak, not concurrent peak, is the realistic route to exhaustion. Fixing the leak alone would have been wrong. Releasing that port makes it re-bindable, and the death path is the one teardown path with no request/reply to carry StoppedProcessKeys back to the controller (#10952's eager row removal), so a stale NodeModel row could then resolve to a live listener belonging to a different backend. probeHealth verifies liveness, not identity, so the request is silently misrouted. The 15s port quarantine does not cover this: the only reaper is the per-model health check at ~45s, and it can be disabled outright. The residual was masked only because the port was never rebound. So both are fixed together: - The allocator takes an explicit [basePort, LOCALAI_GRPC_MAX_PORT] range and returns ErrNoFreePort naming the range, the live backend count, the quarantined count, and the knob to raise. Exhaustion is now diagnosable instead of surfacing as an unbindable port. - Released ports carry per-key affinity: a port is offered back to the process key that last held it before any other key. Process keys (modelID#replica) and NodeModel rows (nodeID, modelName, replicaIndex) are isomorphic, so a port that can only be re-bound by its previous owner can only ever be named by that owner's row, which that key's re-registration overwrites. Misrouting to a different model becomes impossible by construction rather than by racing the quarantine timer. Affinity is a preference, not a reservation: under range pressure an owned port is stolen with a warning, because a guaranteed outage is worse than a rare misroute window on a port long out of quarantine. Claiming a port evicts its previous owner's entry, keeping ownership injective over ports so the affinity map can never exceed the range width regardless of how many distinct model keys the worker sees. Ownership also expires. It is only load-bearing while a controller row could still name the port, which the per-model reaper bounds at roughly 45s, so it lapses after five minutes and the port becomes ordinary free space again. Holding it indefinitely would have made every distinct model the worker ever served consume a port permanently: every release path is keyed, so nothing would ever be unowned, the allocator would climb to the end of its range on distinct-key count rather than concurrency, stealing would become routine, and the steal warning would tell operators to widen a range that was not the constraint. With expiry, reaching the steal branch means the worker is genuinely out of concurrent capacity, so that advice is correct when it appears. Closes #10961 Closes #10952 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-19 23:56:37 +00:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	fb4c61d1c9	fix(distributed): configurable remote model-load timeout, and reap the load when it times out (#10948) ... * fix(distributed): make the remote LoadModel deadline configurable The router hardcoded a 5 minute gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel call. Staging finishes before the timer starts, so those five minutes cover only the worker backend's own checkpoint load and pipeline init. A cold load of meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 (~83 GB) on an ARM64 Thor worker fails at exactly 302s with DeadlineExceeded while the backend process is still making progress (CPU time accumulating, RSS moving as weights are mapped), so the load was cut short rather than wedged. Add LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT / --model-load-timeout mirroring the existing backend-install timeout knob, defaulting to 5m so unset clusters keep today's behaviour. The cold-load hold ceiling (which bounds how long one load may hold the per-model advisory lock) was derived from the install timeout alone, so raising the load deadline past it would have been silently clipped. Derive it from both budgets via ModelLoadCeilingFor: max(install + load + 5m staging margin, 25m) With the defaults that is 15m + 5m + 5m = 25m, identical to the previous constant, and the 25m floor means shrinking either budget can never tighten the ceiling below what clusters relied on before. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): reap the abandoned replica when a remote load times out The gRPC deadline on the remote LoadModel call only cancels the client side. A backend blocked in a synchronous weight load never observes its cancelled handler context, so when scheduleAndLoad gave up it left the worker loading with nobody waiting for the result. Observed on an ARM64 Thor worker loading LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5: the client returned DeadlineExceeded at 302s, and the backend process was still alive 30 minutes later having pulled ~57GB from HuggingFace. Every retry stacked another multi-GB loader on the worker; they had to be reaped by hand via POST /api/nodes/:id/models/unload. Send backend.stop for the exact `modelID#replicaIndex` process key we just abandoned. The exact key matters: a bare model ID stops every replica on that node, including healthy ones serving traffic. Only a deadline or cancellation triggers the reap. Any other LoadModel failure is the backend answering, which means its handler returned and the process is idle - stopping it there would discard a warm process and its downloaded weights. The reap is best-effort and never replaces the load error the caller is waiting on. The `modelID#replicaIndex` format was already hand-rolled in two places (the worker's buildProcessKey and pkg/model's log store). Rather than add a third, export model.BackendProcessKey from pkg/model, the lowest common dependency of both sides. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-19 12:01:48 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]	40d35c0385	docs: onboarding overhaul, dedup, and error docs (#7711) (#10895) ... * docs: fix CPU image tag (latest, not latest-cpu) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: use canonical localai/localai registry in models guide Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: replace dead llama-stable backend with llama-cpp Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: correct mitm-proxy intercept config and redaction tier Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fix text-to-audio endpoint and broken notice block Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fix VAD example, stale FAQ, broken link, CLI list, whats-new dump Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: render advanced/reference section indexes (consolidate _index) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove duplicate getting-started build/kubernetes pages Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fold container image reference into installation/containers Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove stale advanced fine-tuning page (superseded by features/fine-tuning) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fold distribution/longcat/sound pages into their parents Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: make getting-started index accurate and complete Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: carry one concrete model through the getting-started path Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add end-to-end 'build your first agent' walkthrough Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add runtime errors reference; consolidate troubleshooting from FAQ Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add agent actions catalog Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: agent-scoped MCP, skills walkthrough, agentic disambiguation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add concrete gallery install lines to media feature pages Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: merge installation into getting-started (URLs preserved via aliases) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add Operations section; move operator pages and P2P API reference Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: journey-ordered top nav and grouped feature sections Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add docs-with-code process gate (PR template + agent instructions) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove em/en dashes from documentation prose Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-17 22:08:20 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	8cec22c3b7	feat(vram): per-node VRAM allocation budget (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) (#10833) ... * feat(vram): add vrambudget primitive for per-node VRAM caps Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply default VRAM budget in xsysinfo aggregate getters Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): wire LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET flag to xsysinfo default budget Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): persist VRAM budget via runtime settings with live apply Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(vram): reset process-global VRAM budget after runtime-settings spec Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add VRAM budget field to Settings page Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): store and enforce per-node VRAM budget in the node registry Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply per-node VRAM budget in router hardware defaults Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): report worker VRAM budget in node registration The distributed worker now reports its operator-set VRAM budget string (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) to the server on registration. The worker keeps reporting RAW total/available VRAM and never sets the xsysinfo process-global budget (that stays standalone-only); the server resolves and enforces the budget uniformly (Task 6). Also closes a Task 6 gap: on re-registration, a struct Updates zero-skips an empty budget, so a worker that dropped LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET left the stale cap in place. For non-admin-override nodes the budget columns are now force-written (map Updates) even when empty, so removing the env var clears the cap; admin overrides are preserved unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(vram): drop em dash from worker-clear comment Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget admin endpoints Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget control to the node UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): expose set_node_vram_budget MCP admin tool Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(vram): document LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET and node VRAM budget UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): avoid double-applying VRAM budget in GetResourceAggregateInfo The GPU-branch aggregate returned by GetResourceInfo is sourced from GetGPUAggregateInfo, which already caps total/free/used against the process-wide VRAM budget. GetResourceAggregateInfo then applied the budget a second time. For an absolute budget this is idempotent, but for a percentage budget b.Apply resolves the ceiling as a fraction of its input total, so a second pass yields P*(P*T) instead of P*T and distorts UsagePercent (read by the memory reclaimer in pkg/model/watchdog.go). Remove the redundant second application so the budget is applied exactly once, against the raw physical totals, upstream in GetGPUAggregateInfo. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): implement SetNodeVRAMBudget on mcp assistant test stub The LocalAIClient interface gained SetNodeVRAMBudget; the stubClient in core/http/endpoints/mcp used by the assistant tests is a separate implementer and needs the method too (broke golangci-lint typecheck and both test jobs). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-15 09:58:45 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	3601174ce0	fix(distributed): make per-node backend upgrade actually upgrade (#10838) ... * test(core/http): make the suite's HTTP port overridable app_test.go and openresponses_test.go hardcoded 127.0.0.1:9090. When another service already listens on 9090 the suite does not fail fast: the server goroutine logs the bind error and the specs then poll whatever is squatting the port until Eventually times out. On machines where 9090 is permanently taken this makes the pre-commit coverage gate impossible to pass. Introduce testHTTPAddr, defaulting to 127.0.0.1:9090 (what CI has always used) and overridable via LOCALAI_TEST_HTTP_PORT for local runs. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 golangci-lint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): make per-node backend upgrade actually upgrade The node detail page's Upgrade button reused the node-scoped install path (POST /api/nodes/:id/backends/install). That fires NATS backend.install with force=false, and the worker's install handler is deliberately "ensure installed": when the backend binary already exists on disk it short-circuits without touching the gallery. Since only an installed backend can be upgraded, the whole chain was a guaranteed successful no-op - the UI then toasted "backend upgraded" without even waiting for the async job. Route upgrades through the real force-reinstall path instead: - BackendManager.UpgradeBackend now receives the ManagementOp (like InstallBackend already did) so implementations can honor op.TargetNodeID. - DistributedBackendManager.UpgradeBackend scopes the backend.upgrade fan-out to op.TargetNodeID when set, and errors when the target node does not report the backend as installed. - New POST /api/nodes/:id/backends/upgrade endpoint enqueues an Upgrade=true node-scoped op (async 202 + jobID, mirroring install). - NodeDetail UI calls the new endpoint and reports the dispatch ("Upgrading ... on this node...") instead of claiming success; the Operations panel tracks the actual job. Verified against a live local cluster (NATS + Postgres + two workers): the target worker stops the running process, force-reinstalls from the gallery and re-downloads the OCI image; the second worker receives no backend.upgrade event; upgrading a backend missing from the target node fails the job with a clear error. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 golangci-lint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-15 09:16:55 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	bcc41219f7	feat: materialize Hugging Face model artifacts (#10825) ... * feat(config): add model artifact source contract Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(downloader): add authenticated raw-byte progress Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(huggingface): resolve immutable snapshot manifests Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(models): add artifact storage primitives Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(models): materialize pinned Hugging Face snapshots Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(models): bind managed snapshots at runtime Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(gallery): materialize model artifacts during install Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(gallery): declare managed Hugging Face artifacts Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(models): preload managed model artifacts Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * fix(gallery): retain shared artifact caches on delete Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(models): report artifact acquisition progress Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * refactor(backends): load managed models from ModelFile Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * refactor(backends): load staged speech model snapshots Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * refactor(backends): use staged snapshots in engine backends Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * test(distributed): cover staged artifact snapshots Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * docs: explain managed model artifacts Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * docs: add product design context Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * feat(ui): show model artifact download progress Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex] * Eagerly materialize Hugging Face artifacts Materialize HF-backed model references as managed GGUF artifacts during load, with lazy download retained only as fallback. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [shell] * Refactor HF downloads through a shared executor Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [shell] * drop Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-15 01:09:33 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	f3d829e2ef	feat(distributed): add LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS to skip staging on shared volumes (#10556) (#10566) ... In distributed mode, even when the frontend and workers share the same models directory via a shared volume mount, starting a model on a worker re-staged (re-downloaded) it: stageModelFiles always uploads model files into a tracking-key-namespaced subdir on the worker, and the staging probe only checks that staged location, so a file already present on the shared volume at the canonical path was never reused. Add a config switch LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS (default false). When enabled, the operator asserts that all nodes mount the SAME models directory at the SAME path, so staging is unnecessary: the frontend's absolute model paths are already valid on the worker. In that mode stageModelFiles returns the cloned opts unchanged without uploading, leaving the path fields pointing at their canonical absolute paths so the worker loads them directly from the shared volume. The value is plumbed from DistributedConfig through SmartRouterOptions into the SmartRouter. Docs and docker-compose.distributed.yaml updated. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-06-28 01:23:07 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	95b058e1c5	feat(ui): restructure Cluster Nodes view (pulse + panel roster + detail page) (#10447) ... * chore: gitignore SDD scratch directory Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(nodes): add GET /api/nodes/models cluster-wide loaded-models endpoint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ui): add nodesApi.allModels() for cluster-wide model roster Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ui): move Scheduling to its own page and nav item Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ui): replace nodes stat-card strip with cluster pulse + attention callout Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ui): node-panel roster with inline model chips and segmented filter Replace the Nodes table with a full-width node-panel roster that shows each backend node's running-model chips without an expand click, plus an All/Backend/Agent segmented filter. Per-node detail (models, backends, labels, capacity) moves to the node detail page. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ui): add deep-linkable node detail page at /app/nodes/:id Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * fix(ui): remove em-dash from CapacityEditor comment; align detail spec backend mock Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * chore(ui): nodes page cleanup, hover/chip polish, docs for restructured cluster view Nodes.jsx dead-code sweep confirmed clean (no StatCard/table/expand state/scheduling-form leftovers). Two App.css polish fixes: move the node-panel hover border-color onto the bordered element so hover gives real feedback, and add the missing .model-chip__state rule the ModelChip component already emits. Update distributed-mode docs prose to describe the restructured cluster view (cluster pulse, attention callout, node-panel roster with inline model chips, All/Backend/Agent filter, node detail page at /app/nodes/:id, Scheduling as its own page). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * chore(ui): drop unused gpuVendorLabel export from nodeStatus Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-06-22 18:24:29 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	7637f8cf1b	feat(distributed): declarative per-model scheduling via env/args (#10308) ... * feat(distributed): add SpreadAll column and authoritative scheduling seeding Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): parse declarative model scheduling config (env/file) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): reconcile spread_all to one replica per matching node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): wire LOCALAI_MODEL_SCHEDULING env/args and startup seeding Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): expose spread_all on the scheduling API endpoint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): add spread-to-all-nodes mode to the scheduling UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document LOCALAI_MODEL_SCHEDULING env/args Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): clarify replica modes and all-nodes spread in scheduling config Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-06-13 18:31:06 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	cd2bf95862	fix(docs): use relearn notice shortcode instead of unsupported alert (#10206) ... The Hugo relearn theme does not provide an "alert" shortcode, so the docs deploy failed at the Build site step: failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "alert" not found docs/content/features/distributed-mode.md:136 Convert the warning block to the theme-supported notice shortcode used everywhere else in the docs. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-06-07 00:37:12 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	73385713ca	feat(distributed): enforce registration token for worker file transfer (#10183) ... The worker HTTP file-transfer server is authenticated by the registration token via checkBearerToken, which fails open on an empty token: every /v1/files, /v1/files-list and /v1/backend-logs request is then served unauthenticated, granting read/write to the worker's models/staging/data directories. The fail-open was also silent (the only auth log sat on the unreachable reject branch), and the worker process never runs DistributedConfig.Validate(), so the existing frontend warning did not cover the component that exposes the server. Mirror the NatsRequireAuth pattern: keep anonymous as the default but make it loud and opt-in enforceable. - Log a prominent warning when the file-transfer server starts tokenless. - Add LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_REQUIRE_AUTH: DistributedConfig.Validate() errors on an empty token (frontend) and the worker refuses to start (fail-fast, before registration), so production can fail closed. Also satisfies the F-003 suggestion to fail Validate() on distributed + empty token. - Add LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_REQUIRE_AUTH umbrella switch implying both RegistrationRequireAuth and NatsRequireAuth — one production knob locking down the registration/file-transfer layer and the NATS bus together; the granular flags remain available as single-layer overrides. Wired into the frontend, supervisor worker, and agent worker (vLLM worker has neither a NATS connection nor a file-transfer server, so it is left untouched). - Document in distributed-mode.md (warning callout + flag tables). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-06-05 14:34:28 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	3a932a9803	feat(distributed): Add NATS JWT authentication and TLS/mTLS options (#10159) ... * feat(distributed): NATS JWT auth, TLS/mTLS options, and e2e coverage Mint per-node NATS user JWTs at registration when LOCALAI_NATS_ACCOUNT_SEED is set, and connect workers with scoped credentials from the register response. Add optional LOCALAI_NATS_TLS_CA/CERT/KEY for private CA and mTLS alongside tls:// URLs, plus test-e2e-distributed and NatsJWT container e2e specs. Document JWT setup (nats-auth-setup.sh) and TLS env vars in distributed-mode. Assisted-by: Grok:grok grok-build Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * fix(distributed): correct NATS JWT scoping and harden client auth The JWT-auth path added in 46467cc7 had several gaps that fail silently under LOCALAI_NATS_REQUIRE_AUTH: - Agent-worker minted JWTs did not allow the subjects the agent worker actually subscribes to (jobs.mcp-ci.new and nodes.<id>.backend.stop), so MCP-CI jobs and backend-stop session cleanup were silently dropped. Scope the agent permission set to those subjects. - NATS subscription permission violations were swallowed (Subscribe returned a live-but-dead subscription). Confirm subscriptions with a server round-trip so a denial surfaces synchronously, and log async permission errors. - The backend worker connected anonymously when given a JWT without its paired seed; reject the unpaired credential instead. - The documented service-user permissions in nats-auth-setup.sh omitted prefixcache.>, which the frontend publishes and subscribes; add it. Also: add a credential-provider hook to the messaging client (consumed by the follow-up credential-lifecycle change), drop the always-nil error from NatsMessagingOptions, run go mod tidy (jwt/v2 and nkeys are now direct), and gofmt the feature's files. Tests: an agent-JWT e2e spec that connects to the enforcing NATS server and exercises every subscription the agent worker makes, plus permission allow-list coverage unit tests. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(distributed): acquire and auto-refresh worker NATS credentials Workers fetched NATS credentials once at startup, which broke two cases under JWT auth: a worker that registered while still pending admin approval never received a minted JWT (it connected unauthenticated and gave up), and a long-running worker's 24h JWT expired with no way to renew it. Introduce workerregistry.NATSCredentialManager, built on idempotent re-registration (the frontend preserves the node row and mints a fresh JWT each call): - Acquire re-registers through admin approval until the node is approved and credentials are minted (or returns the first success when auth is not required, preserving anonymous-NATS behavior). - RefreshLoop re-registers before the JWT expires (~75% of its lifetime), updating the credentials served to the connection. - Both are bounded (default 100 attempts / consecutive failures) and return an error on exhaustion, so an unapprovable or unrenewable worker exits non-zero and surfaces the problem instead of hanging or drifting toward an expired credential. The messaging client gains WithUserJWTProvider, fetching credentials on each (re)connect so the connection transparently adopts a refreshed JWT when the server expires the old one. RegisterFull exposes the approval status and full response; Register delegates to it. Both the backend worker and the agent worker are wired to this: explicit env credentials are used as-is, minted credentials are acquired-with-wait and refreshed, and a permanent refresh failure shuts the worker down so it restarts and re-acquires. Tests cover Acquire (wait-through-pending, bounded give-up, context cancel), RefreshLoop (refresh-before-expiry, bounded failure, no-expiry exit) and jwtExpiry decoding. Docs updated in distributed-mode.md. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-06-03 19:43:56 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	e6a0d4c375	Remove diagram from distributed mode documentation ... Removed ASCII diagram of distributed mode architecture from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>	2026-06-02 18:48:12 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	7e59a5c7c5	docs: architecture & feature diagrams (blueprint style) (#10137) ... * docs: add 'how LocalAI works' architecture diagram Add a blueprint-style architecture diagram: clients -> small core (API, router, WebUI, agents) -> gRPC -> backend processes pulled on demand as OCI images. Place it on the overview page and replace the stale external architecture image on the reference page. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add blueprint diagrams across feature, distributed & getting-started docs Add 24 architecture/flow/comparison diagrams (PNG + HTML source) under docs/static/images/diagrams/, wired into their docs pages, from an impact-vs-effort audit of the docs. Broaden the API surface on the overview architecture diagram (OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Ollama, and LocalAI's own API) and move the gRPC boundary label clear of the arrows. Pages: distributed mode (architecture, scheduling, ds4 layer-split), distributed inferencing, MLX, realtime, quantization, MCP, agents, mitm & cloud proxy, middleware, reverse-proxy TLS, VRAM, voice & face recognition, reranker, function calling, fine-tuning (recipe + jobs), diarization, audio transform, quickstart, model resolution. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add composable-core diagram to README hero Commit the composable-core card (small core + on-demand backend tiles) alongside the other diagrams and reference it from the README hero via a repo-relative path, so it renders on GitHub. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fix composable-core connectors/badge and federated-vs-worker layout - composable-core: thicken the plug-in connectors so they read clearly, and widen the SEPARATE IMAGE badge so its text no longer overflows the box. - federated-vs-worker: shorten the WHOLE/SPLIT REQUEST pills to fit, and replace the tangled node-to-node activation arrows with a clean fan-out (request split across all sharded nodes), mirroring the federated panel. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-06-02 18:43:22 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	07f6c15a37	feat(ds4): layer-split distributed inference (#10098) ... * feat(ds4): add standalone ds4-worker distributed worker binary Add worker_main.c, a minimal standalone worker that owns a slice of the model's transformer layers and serves activations over ds4's own TCP transport via ds4_dist_run(). It links the same engine objects the backend already builds (including ds4_distributed.o) and has NO gRPC/protobuf dependency, so it builds even on hosts lacking protobuf/grpc dev headers. Launched by `local-ai worker ds4-distributed`. Wire the ds4-worker CMake target (mirrors grpc-server's object/GPU/native handling) and have the Makefile copy + clean the binary alongside grpc-server. Ignore the built ds4-worker artifact. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ds4): package ds4-worker alongside grpc-server Copy the standalone ds4-worker binary into the backend package (Linux package.sh) and the Darwin OCI tar (ds4-darwin.sh: both the explicit copy and the otool dylib-bundling loop) so distributed workers ship with the backend. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * fix(ds4): tighten ds4-worker integer arg validation to match upstream Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(ds4): wire grpc-server as distributed coordinator Add distributed COORDINATOR support to the ds4 backend's gRPC server. Distributed inference is an engine backend: when LoadModel receives 'ds4_role:coordinator', the process populates ds4_engine_options.distributed (role, layer slice, listen host/port) before ds4_engine_open, then the normal ds4_session_* generation path runs transparently once the worker route covers all layers. - New LoadModel options: ds4_role, ds4_layers (START:END or START:output), ds4_listen (host:port), ds4_route_timeout. - parse_layers_spec() maps the layer spec onto ds4_distributed_layers. - wait_route_ready() blocks generation until ds4_session_distributed_route_ready() reports full coverage (or timeout), gating both Predict and PredictStream; returns UNAVAILABLE on timeout/error. - No ds4_role => g_distributed stays false and wait_route_ready is a no-op, so single-node behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * fix(ds4): don't block Status during route wait; validate coordinator opts Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(cli): add ds4-distributed worker exec helper Add the ds4WorkerArgs helper plus findDS4Backend/DS4Distributed.Run that resolve the ds4 backend via the gallery and exec the packaged ds4-worker binary. Unlike worker_llamacpp.go, ds4 bundles its own dynamic loader (lib/ld.so) for glibc compatibility, so when present we exec ds4-worker through that loader with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<backend>/lib, mirroring backend/cpp/ds4/run.sh; otherwise we exec it directly. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * feat(cli): register the ds4-distributed worker subcommand Wire DS4Distributed into the Worker kong command tree so `local-ai worker ds4-distributed` is available. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * docs(ds4): document layer-split distributed inference Add a ds4 section to the distributed-mode feature docs (coordinator model YAML, manual worker command, layer-range semantics, the 'GGUF on every machine' requirement, coordinator-listens dial direction vs llama.cpp) and a terse Distributed mode section to the ds4 backend agent guide. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * test(ds4): opt-in hardware-gated distributed e2e spec Add a self-contained, opt-in Ginkgo spec to the backend e2e suite that spins a ds4 coordinator (via the packaged run.sh, loaded with ds4_role/ds4_layers/ds4_listen options) plus a ds4-worker process for the upper layers, then uses Eventually to assert a short successful Predict once the layer route forms, before tearing the worker down. Gated by BACKEND_TEST_DS4_DISTRIBUTED=1 (plus the existing BACKEND_BINARY + BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE and optional layer/listen/accel knobs); compiles and skips cleanly with no env, hardware, or model. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * test(ds4): pass coordinator ctx to worker; lowercase error string Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * docs(ds4): note distributed transport is plaintext/unauthenticated Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * style(ds4): replace em dashes in distributed docs/agent/test per repo convention Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] * fix(ds4): link ds4-worker with the C++ driver for CUDA/Metal builds The ds4-worker target is built from worker_main.c (C), so CMake linked it with the C driver. The nvcc-built ds4_cuda.o (and Obj-C++ ds4_metal.o) reference the C++ runtime, so the CUDA/Metal builds failed with undefined libstdc++ symbols (std::__throw_length_error). The CPU build passed because ds4_cpu.o is pure C. Force LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX so libstdc++ is linked. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-31 00:09:55 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	a44bdb29d4	feat: prefix-cache-aware routing for distributed mode (#10071) ... * feat(radixtree): generic prefix tree skeleton with longest-match Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(radixtree): Insert with path recency refresh and entry cap Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(radixtree): TTL idle-expiry and Evict sweep with branch pruning Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(radixtree): recency-weighted per-value Weight Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(radixtree): Remove all entries for a value Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(radixtree): race-free concurrency smoke test Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(radixtree): reclaim empty branches, RWMutex reads, TTL boundary, empty-key guard Address review findings on the generic prefix tree: - Extract a shared pruneWalk helper parameterized by a shouldClear predicate and use it from Evict, Remove, and the MaxEntries path. Previously evictOldestLocked cleared a victim's value but never removed the now value-less node or its childless ancestors, so internal nodes accumulated under sustained churn at the cap. The MaxEntries path now prunes the victim and its empty ancestors. - DRY: pruneWalk replaces the duplicated logic in the former pruneLocked and Remove's inner closure. - Switch Tree.mu to sync.RWMutex; LongestMatch, Weight and Len take the read lock (RLock) while Insert, Evict and Remove keep the write lock. Confirmed race-clean under go test -race. - Document the strict greater-than TTL boundary on Options.TTL and expired: age exactly equal to TTL is still live. - Guard Insert against an empty key (no-op): the root never holds a value. Adds Ginkgo specs covering MaxEntries eviction, ancestor reclamation, the no-growth-past-cap invariant, the TTL boundary, and empty-key behavior for both Insert and LongestMatch. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): RoutePolicy enum with parse/resolve Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): Config with defaults and validation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): deterministic xxhash prefix-chain extractor Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): pure filter-then-score replica selection Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): Provider interface and radix-tree-backed Index Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(prefixcache): gofmt policy enum comment alignment Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): head-first prefix chunking and hoist Weight out of sort Address code-quality review findings in the prefixcache package. Correctness: ExtractChain now chunks from absolute offset 0 with fixed [0,W),[W,2W),... boundaries and caps the chain to the FIRST MaxDepth head blocks. The previous tail-keeping logic shifted the byte offset by a non-window amount once a conversation grew past MaxDepth*WindowBytes, changing every hash each turn and silently breaking cross-turn longest-prefix matching. The reusable KV/prefix cache lives at the head of the prompt, so anchoring at offset 0 makes the chain a true prefix-chain: P and P+suffix share their full leading overlap. Add a regression spec proving cross-turn stability past the cap. Performance: Index.Decide precomputes each candidate's Weight once (decorate-sort-undecorate) instead of calling the O(tree size) Weight inside the O(n log n) sort comparator. Behavior is unchanged. Lint: encode prev with binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64 instead of a manual byte loop, clearing the modernize rangeint finding. Also add a concurrent Decide/Observe/Invalidate spec to exercise Index's documented concurrency safety under go test -race. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(messaging): prefixcache observe/invalidate subjects and payloads Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): NATS sync publish/apply for observe and invalidate Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributedhdr): ctx carrier for prefix-hash chain Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributedhdr): PrefixChainHook indirection for backend-side chain build Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(backend): stash prompt prefix chain on ctx before distributed routing Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(backend): mirror modelID fallback for prefix-chain salt parity Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): scheduling config columns for prefix-cache routing Add RoutePolicy and per-model balance/prefix-match override columns to ModelSchedulingConfig and include them in the SetModelScheduling upsert DoUpdates list so updates are not dropped on conflict. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): optional route preference in FindAndLockNodeWithModel Add a RoutePreference type and a new pref parameter so the atomic pick+lock+increment can be biased toward a preferred node without weakening atomicity. A nil preference reproduces the previous ORDER BY behavior exactly. Update the ModelRouter interface, both router.go call sites (pass nil for now; Phase 5 builds the real preference), the test doubles, and the distributed e2e caller. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): make Sync satisfy Provider with Evict Sync.Observe now returns whether the local index treated the assignment as new or extended, and Sync gains an Evict method that delegates to the wrapped index. Together these let SmartRouter hold a single prefixcache.Provider that broadcasts via NATS. Adds a compile-time Provider assertion and an Evict-delegates behavioral test. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): prefix-cache-aware preference and observe in SmartRouter.Route Add a PrefixProvider + PrefixConfig to SmartRouterOptions/SmartRouter (nil keeps routing byte-for-byte the round-robin floor). On each request Route now calls buildPreference: it reads the prompt prefix chain from ctx (distributedhdr.PrefixChain), resolves the per-model policy/thresholds over the global config, loads candidate replica in-flight via a new registry read LoadedReplicaStats (deduped to one entry per node using the MIN in-flight across that node's replicas), asks the provider to Decide, and runs prefixcache.Select. The chosen node is passed as the RoutePreference to FindAndLockNodeWithModel on all three pick paths (cache hit, locked re-pick, cold scheduleAndLoad), and the served node is recorded via Observe only when the resolved policy is prefix_cache so round-robin models never pollute the tree. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): invalidate prefix-cache entries on unload and stale removal UnloadModel and both staleness fall-through paths in Route (after a failed gRPC probe and RemoveNodeModel) now call prefixProvider.Invalidate(model, nodeID), guarded by a nil-provider check so the round-robin floor is unchanged. At runtime the provider is the *prefixcache.Sync, so invalidations also broadcast to peer frontends. Adds a test that a previously hot prefix no longer Decides to a node after UnloadModel. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(prefixcache): rolling forced-disturb pressure counter Add a concurrency-safe per-model rolling counter that tracks how many times a request had a usable hot prefix match but the load guard forced it off the warm node. Entries outside the window are dropped lazily on Count so the backing slice stays bounded. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): autoscale on prefix-cache forced-disturb pressure Wire the rolling forced-disturb counter into the SmartRouter and the ReplicaReconciler. Router: in buildPreference, after Decide + Select, record a forced-disturb when a usable hot prefix match existed (d.HotNodeID != "" and d.MatchRatio >= cfg.MinPrefixMatch) but Select chose a different node (or nothing) because the load guard ruled the warm node out. This is the scale-worthy signal: the cache-warm replica is saturated. It deliberately does not fire for all-unique workloads (no hot match), avoiding false-positive scale-ups. Pressure is optional on SmartRouterOptions; nil keeps the path a no-op. Reconciler: read the same Pressure instance in reconcileModel as an extra scale-up reason, reusing the existing MaxReplicas + ClusterCapacityForModel guards and the UnsatisfiableUntil cooldown that gates the whole method. Pressure never overrides MaxReplicas and never force-evicts; a no-capacity model does not spin. Window and threshold come from prefixcache.Config (PressureWindow default 1m, PressureScaleThreshold default 1) and are configurable via ReplicaReconcilerOptions. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): bound Pressure slice in Record; drop dead reconciler pressureWindow Record now prunes entries older than the rolling window (the same prune Count does), via a shared pruneLocked helper, so a model that takes forced-disturb records but is never Counted (e.g. one with zero loaded replicas the reconciler skips) no longer grows its backing slice unbounded. Also removes the dead pressureWindow struct field and the ReplicaReconcilerOptions.PressureWindow option from the reconciler: they were stored but never read (the window lives inside the *prefixcache.Pressure instance). The scale block now reads pressure.Count once into a local. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(api): prefix-cache fields in scheduling endpoint DTO with validation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): prefix-cache routing controls in node scheduling form Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): wire prefix-cache index, NATS sync, and config Activates prefix-cache-aware routing in distributed mode. Builds the prefixcache Index + NATS-backed Sync + Pressure counter, installs the distributedhdr.PrefixChainHook so core/backend/llm.go attaches a prefix chain per request, subscribes to prefixcache.observe/prefixcache.invalidate to apply peers' events to the local index (no re-broadcast), threads PrefixProvider/PrefixConfig/Pressure into the SmartRouter and Pressure/PressureThreshold into the ReplicaReconciler, and runs a background eviction ticker (every TTL/2) bound to the app context. Enabled by default; --distributed-prefix-cache=false (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_PREFIX_CACHE) opts out and leaves the provider/pressure nil so routing stays round-robin. --distributed-prefix-cache-ttl (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_PREFIX_CACHE_TTL, default 5m) controls entry idle-timeout and eviction cadence. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(nodes): round-robin-floor invariant for prefix-cache routing Drives Select directly: a saturated hot node (in_flight 50 vs 0) is never picked even with a perfect prefix match (round-robin floor holds), while a balanced hot node within the load slack is reused. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(prefixcache): clear branch lint findings and em dashes Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): validate prefix-cache config at startup wiring Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * perf(radixtree): single-walk WeightsFor for batch value weights Add Tree.WeightsFor(values, now) which computes the recency-weighted weight for many values in a single O(N + len(values)) tree traversal, versus calling Weight once per value (O(len(values) * N)). Consumers that score K candidates against the tree under the read lock no longer pay K full walks. Extract the per-entry contribution math into an unexported helper shared by both Weight and WeightsFor so the metric stays identical (DRY). Weight's public behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(config): add ModelConfig.ModelID() single source of truth The c.Name fallback to c.Model was duplicated in core/backend/options.go (feeding model.WithModelID) and hand-copied into core/backend/llm.go (the prefix-chain salt). These MUST agree or the prefix-cache salt diverges silently from the id the model loader tracks. Consolidate both into a new config.ModelConfig.ModelID() helper and call it from both sites. Behavior is identical. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * perf(prefixcache): reuse one xxhash.Digest in ExtractChain ExtractChain allocated a fresh xxhash.New() Digest per block (up to MaxDepth per call) and grew the chain slice without preallocation. Reuse a single Digest via Reset() before each block and preallocate the chain to min(nBlocks, MaxDepth). xxhash seed 0 is stateless, so Reset()+Write produces the byte-identical value to a fresh New()+Write. Output hashes are unchanged, preserving the cross-process determinism that peers rely on over NATS. Verified by capturing ExtractChain output for the existing test inputs before and after the refactor: identical. Existing extractor tests pass unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): drop hot match when matched node is not a candidate; weigh cold candidates in one walk Index.Decide called radixtree.LongestMatch over the whole tree, so the deepest match could be a node that is offline, unloaded, or simply not in the passed candidate set. Honoring that as HotNodeID produced a false forced-disturb signal upstream (buildPreference records pressure when chosen != HotNodeID), making it look like a warm replica was load saturated when it was actually absent. Build the candidate set once and only set HotNodeID/MatchRatio when the matched node is an actual candidate; otherwise fall back to cold placement. A future refinement could ask the tree for the longest match restricted to the candidate nodes (shallower-but-valid) instead of dropping it. Also replace the per-candidate tree.Weight call in the cold-order sort with a single tree.WeightsFor walk, turning O(K*N) under the read lock into O(N + K). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(prefixcache): remove Select's unreachable deterministic fallback buildPreference always passes ColdOrder as a permutation of the full candidate set, so the cold-order loop hits every eligible candidate. The trailing best/bestIF scan was dead. Replace it with a plain "return """ and document that ColdOrder is guaranteed to cover all candidates, so "" means none were eligible. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(nodes): fetch model scheduling config once per Route GetModelScheduling was read three times per request - in resolveSelectorCandidates, buildPreference, and nodeMatchesScheduling - three DB round-trips for one row that is immutable for the life of the request, and not a consistent snapshot. Fetch it once near the top of Route and thread the *ModelSchedulingConfig (may be nil) into all three helpers. scheduleNewModel keeps its own fetch since it runs outside the Route snapshot. Behavior is identical for nil sched. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(autoscale): add Pressure.Reset to consume forced-disturb signal Pressure.Count is non-draining (it prunes only by age), so a single burst of forced-disturbs stays within the rolling window for the whole window and keeps Count >= threshold on every reconciler tick. The reconciler will use Reset to clear a model's events after acting on the signal so a fresh scale-up requires fresh forced-disturbs to accumulate, rather than one burst driving the model toward MaxReplicas. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(autoscale): at most one scale-up per reconcile tick, consume pressure Two autoscale bugs: 1. Over-scaling: the pressure scale-up block read Pressure.Count but never consumed it. With a non-draining counter a single forced-disturb burst kept Count >= threshold across the whole window, firing scaleUp on every tick and pushing the model toward MaxReplicas off one transient burst. After a successful pressure-triggered scale-up the reconciler now calls Pressure.Reset to consume the signal. 2. Double scale-up in one tick: the all-replicas-busy block and the pressure block could both fire in the same reconcileModel pass, each calling scaleUp(+1) against the same `current` read once at the top, so a model that was both busy and over threshold scaled +2 and could overshoot MaxReplicas by one. A scaledUp flag now enforces at most one scaleUp(+1) per tick: the pressure block is skipped if the busy block already scaled, and scale-down is skipped in any tick that scaled up. MinReplicas enforcement, UnsatisfiableUntil backoff, and capacity guards are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(nodes): replica-removed chokepoint hook for prefix-cache invalidation Add SetReplicaRemovedHook to NodeRegistry and fire it from both RemoveNodeModel and RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas after a successful delete. This is the single chokepoint every replica-removal path funnels through (router eviction, reconciler scale-down, probe reaper, health-monitor node-down reap, RemoteUnloaderAdapter), so the prefix-cache index can be invalidated by construction rather than wiring each call site individually. The hook is stored in an atomic.Pointer so the startup wiring (setter) and the request/reconcile-time fire are race-free; it is nil-safe when unset. GORM Delete reports no error for a no-op delete, so the hook also fires when nothing was removed; the consumer's Invalidate(model, node) is idempotent so this is harmless. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): invalidate prefix-cache on any replica removal via registry hook Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(prefixcache): single source of truth for threshold bounds Extract ValidateThresholds into prefixcache/config.go so the per-model override validation (nodes.go endpoint) and Config.Validate share one implementation of the numeric bounds (min_prefix_match in [0,1], balance_abs_threshold >= 0, balance_rel_threshold == 0-or->= 1) instead of hard-coding them in two places. The route_policy allow-list stays explicit (not ParsePolicy, which maps typos to Default). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(nodes): preserve prefix-cache settings on partial scheduling update A scheduling POST that omitted route_policy/thresholds (e.g. a min_replicas-only update) full-replaced every column and silently reset the model's previously-configured prefix-cache settings to empty/zero. Make the four prefix-cache request fields pointers so omitted is distinguishable from explicit zero, and merge PATCH-style in SetSchedulingEndpoint: a provided pointer wins, an omitted one preserves the existing config value (zero default when none). Non-prefix fields keep their full-replace PUT semantics. Validation now runs on the resolved values via prefixcache.ValidateThresholds. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): make Invalidate a no-op for uncached models and skip empty broadcasts A registry chokepoint fires Sync.Invalidate(model, nodeID) for every replica removal of every model, including round-robin models that never used the prefix cache. Index.Invalidate previously called tree(model), which lazily created and permanently retained an empty radix tree for any model that ever lost a replica, growing the trees map without bound. Sync.Invalidate also published a NATS PrefixCacheInvalidateEvent on every call, amplifying no-op removals across the cluster. Index.Invalidate now looks the tree up read-only via existingTree and returns without allocating when none exists. The Provider interface is unchanged; Sync gates the broadcast through an optional invalidateExisting(bool) capability type-asserted from the wrapped Index, falling back to the prior always-broadcast behavior for other Provider implementations. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * perf(prefixcache): derive Decide candidacy from WeightsFor and skip trivial sort WeightsFor already returns a map keyed by every requested candidate, so the separate candidates set built to validate the hot match was redundant: a node is a candidate iff it is a key in the weights map. Drop the extra map and gate the hot-match check on weights membership. Also skip the sort when there is at most one candidate, since the input order is already the cold order. Behavior is unchanged. Deferred follow-up: skipping the WeightsFor walk entirely when a hot match wins would need lazy cross-file changes and is out of scope here. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(nodes): fire replica-removed hook on bulk node_models deletes; trim LoadedReplicaStats columns Bulk node-scoped node_models deletes (Register re-register cleanup, MarkOffline, MarkDraining, Deregister) removed rows directly without firing the replica-removed hook, so the prefix-cache index kept pointing at nodes whose models were gone. Capture the DISTINCT model names before each bulk delete and fire fireReplicaRemoved once per model after a successful delete, restoring the single-chokepoint invariant for all removal paths. The pre-query is skipped when no hook is set so the no-hook path stays cheap. Also narrow LoadedReplicaStats to SELECT only node_id and in_flight (the only fields the router consumer reads), dropping the JOIN-side available_vram fetch and unused columns while keeping the []ReplicaCandidate return type unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(reconciler): consume autoscale signals only on a real scale-up scaleUp was fire-and-forget (void) yet its callers unconditionally consumed the pressure signal (Pressure.Reset) and the MinReplicas hysteresis (ClearUnsatisfiable) right after calling it. If scaleUp added nothing (ScheduleAndLoadModel errored, or no node could be loaded) the saturated warm replica got no new replica AND its accumulated forced-disturb history was wiped, forcing the signal to re-accumulate over a full PressureWindow before the next attempt. Make scaleUp return whether at least one replica was actually scheduled, and gate the side effects on it: - pressure block (2b): set scaledUp and call Pressure.Reset only on success; on failure preserve the signal so the next tick retries off the same accumulated pressure. - busy-burst block (2): set scaledUp from the return value so a failed attempt does not suppress the pressure path or scale-down. - MinReplicas block: call ClearUnsatisfiable only on success so a failed attempt does not reset the unsatisfiable counter. All existing invariants (MaxReplicas, capacity gating, UnsatisfiableUntil cooldown, at-most-one-scale-up-per-tick) are preserved. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(nodes): drop router's redundant prefix-cache Invalidate calls The NodeRegistry removal chokepoint (RemoveNodeModel / RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas) now fires SetReplicaRemovedHook, which invalidates the prefix-cache index. The router was also calling prefixProvider.Invalidate explicitly right after each registry removal on the two stale-replica health-probe fall-throughs in Route and in UnloadModel, so every router-side eviction invalidated twice (double tree-prune + double NATS broadcast). Remove the three redundant explicit Invalidate calls and their empty nil-guards. Each removed call sat immediately after a registry removal that fires the hook, so invalidation is preserved via the chokepoint. Decide/Observe usage is untouched. Re-point the unit test (fake registry fires no hook) to assert the removal chokepoint is exercised on unload instead of the router's direct invalidation. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): broadcast invalidations unconditionally for cross-frontend coherence Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(prefixcache): reject TTL<=0 in Config.Validate (eviction ticker would panic) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(nodes): make capture+delete atomic in bulk node_models removal paths MarkOffline, MarkDraining, and the Register re-register cleanup ran the nodeModelNames SELECT and the bulk node_models DELETE as two separate statements on r.db with no transaction. A SetNodeModel landing between the two was deleted but its replica-removed hook never fired, leaving the prefix-cache index pointing at a removed replica until TTL or candidacy self-heal. Wrap the capture and the delete in a single db.Transaction in each path (mirroring how Deregister already does it). The captured model names are collected into a slice declared outside the closure; the replica-removed hook fires for each only after the transaction commits, so a rollback never invalidates the index for a removal that did not persist. The set of fired hooks now equals exactly the set of node_models rows actually deleted, with no interleaving gap. The status flip in MarkOffline/MarkDraining (setStatus) is a separate, pre-existing operation and routing already filters non-healthy nodes, so it stays outside the transaction; return contracts are unchanged. Deregister was already correct and is untouched. The cheap-path skip (no hook -> skip the SELECT) is preserved. Adds a spec asserting MarkOffline fires hooks for exactly the rows it deletes and leaves no node_models row behind (consistent snapshot). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(nodes): debug logging for prefix-cache routing decisions and observations Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(radixtree): match shared prefixes by valuing every node on insert Insert recorded the value (node id) only on the final node of the key chain, leaving every intermediate prefix node valueless. LongestMatch returns the deepest node that hasValue, so two chains that share a leading block but diverge in the tail never matched: only exact-repeat queries hit. That broke the prefix-cache routing core use cases (shared system prompt, multi-turn extension, volatile tail), all of which rely on prefix matching rather than exact-repeat. Set value/hasValue/lastSeen at every node along the chain so each prefix-block node remembers the node id that served that prefix (SGLang/vLLM-style). The deepest match wins, and the last writer owns a shared prefix node (a recency heuristic: the most recent chain through a block is the one most likely still warm). size now counts valued nodes, which is the intended meaning. Updated radixtree tests to the new semantics: deepest-prefix test uses non-overlapping chains, a new test asserts last-writer-owns-shared-node, Evict/Remove/MaxEntries expectations recomputed for per-prefix-node counting, and a shared-prefix LongestMatch red test added. Added a prefixcache Decide test proving a prefix-only query routes to the warm node. No prefixcache .go logic changed. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(distributed): lock in prefix-cache routing behavior end to end Add a DB-backed e2e spec that drives SmartRouter against a real NodeRegistry (Postgres testcontainer) and the real prefixcache.Index radix-tree provider, using a fake gRPC backend factory so no real inference runs. Covers the five behaviors validated by hand: 1. Cold miss + observe: an unseen prefix chain cold-places and is recorded. 2. Hot-match affinity: the same chain returns to its warm node X. 3. Shared-prefix match: a divergent chain sharing X's leading prefix still routes to X (the radix-tree regression we fixed). 4. Negative control: an unrelated chain is a cold miss, not a false hot match on X. 5. Failover + invalidation: removing X's replica fires the registry chokepoint hook to invalidate the prefix entry, and the chain fails over to surviving node Y and re-homes there. Replaces the need for manual docker-compose re-runs. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(prefixcache): make prefix-cache affinity replica-granular Track prefix-cache affinity per loaded replica (a backend process with its own KV cache) instead of per node, so multiple replicas of the same model on one node each keep distinct affinity and a hot prefix routes back to the exact replica that served it. - radixtree: add RemoveFunc(pred) and reimplement Remove on top of it. - prefixcache: introduce ReplicaKey{NodeID, Replica}; Index/Candidate/ PrefixDecision/Select/Provider now key on ReplicaKey. Add InvalidateNode to drop every replica of a node; Invalidate drops one replica. Select returns (ReplicaKey, bool) and gains a deterministic least-in-flight eligible fallback (tiebreak NodeID then Replica). - messaging: carry Replica on PrefixCacheObserveEvent and PrefixCacheInvalidateEvent (Replica < 0 means all replicas of the node). - Sync delegates + broadcasts with replica; InvalidateNode broadcasts Replica=-1; ApplyInvalidate routes negative replica to InvalidateNode. This is part 1 of 2; the registry/router/wiring consumers are updated separately. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): make prefix-cache routing replica-granular Wire the SmartRouter, NodeRegistry, and distributed startup to the replica-keyed prefixcache API. Affinity is now tracked per replica (each replica is a separate process with its own KV cache), so a prefix served by (node,0) no longer leaks onto the same-node sibling (node,1). - RoutePreference gains PreferredReplica; FindAndLockNodeWithModel locks the EXACT (node_id, replica_index) row, falling through to the default ORDER BY when that replica is not loaded. - SetReplicaRemovedHook now carries replicaIndex; RemoveNodeModel fires the specific replica, RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas and the four bulk node-scoped deletes fire replica<0 (all replicas of the node). - buildPreference builds one Candidate per loaded replica and locks the exact replica the policy chose; observePrefix records the served ReplicaKey at every call site. - distributed.go routes the hook to InvalidateNode (replica<0) or Invalidate(key). - Tests updated to the replica-keyed API plus new coverage: a hot prefix on (node,0) prefers replica 0 over the same-node sibling (router unit + e2e), and FindAndLock locks the exact preferred replica. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): derive prefix chain from messages for tokenizer-template models Prefix-cache-aware routing built its prompt-prefix chain from the rendered prompt string `s` in ModelInference. For models with TemplateConfig.UseTokenizerTemplate the frontend never renders a prompt - the backend tokenizes the structured messages itself - so `s` is empty, the chain is empty, and routing silently falls back to round-robin. That covers the bulk of modern chat models (qwen3, llama3, ...), so the feature effectively never engaged for them. Fall back to messagesPrefixSource(messages): a deterministic, prefix-stable head-first serialization of the conversation (role + content per turn). Two requests sharing a leading system prompt and early turns share a leading byte prefix, which ExtractChain maps to a shared chain prefix - landing both on the same cache-warm replica. The rendered `s` is still preferred when present (higher fidelity for non-template models). Found via the multi-replica-per-node e2e: zero "prefix-cache routing decision" logs despite per-request Route calls, traced to the empty-chain guard. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document prefix-cache routing roadmap Add a routing-and-caching roadmap section to the distributed-mode guide, linking the epic (#10063) and the follow-up issues (#10064-#10070) surfaced from a survey of SGLang, vLLM production-stack, Ray Serve, llm-d, AIBrix, and NVIDIA Dynamo. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-30 23:24:22 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	a891eedd08	fix(distributed): persist per-model load info so reconciler survives frontend restart (#9981) ... * feat(distributed): add per-model ModelLoadInfo persistence Adds a dedicated ModelLoadInfo table keyed by model name, decoupled from the per-replica NodeModel rows. The reconciler can now recover model load metadata after every NodeModel row has been removed (worker death, eviction, MarkOffline reaping, frontend restart with stale heartbeats), which is the read side of Bug-1 from the distributed mode bug hunt. Registry exposes: - UpsertModelLoadInfo: ON CONFLICT (model_name) update; last-write-wins, matching the existing per-replica blob semantics under concurrent multi-frontend dispatch. - GetModelLoadInfo: read from the new table first; fall back to the legacy NodeModel-blob scan for rows written before any frontend in the cluster ran an UpsertModelLoadInfo (rolling-upgrade transition). SetNodeModelLoadInfo (per-replica blob) is preserved for backward compatibility and per-replica diagnostics; the dispatch-path hook in the next commit calls both. The new table joins the existing nodes AutoMigrate set under the same schema-migration advisory lock. Refs: Bug-1, docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-distributed-mode-bug-hunt-findings.md Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] * fix(distributed): persist per-model load info on dispatch scheduleAndLoad now writes the (backendType, ModelOptions blob) pair to the new ModelLoadInfo table in addition to the existing per-replica NodeModel.model_opts_blob field. The per-replica blob still works for the hot path; the per-model row outlives every NodeModel row going away, which is what unblocks the reconciler on the read side. Both writes are best-effort with warn-level logging on failure: a write miss here just means the reconciler may need a fresh inference request to repopulate, which is the pre-fix behavior. Concurrency: two frontends loading the same model at the same time both fire UpsertModelLoadInfo; ON CONFLICT (model_name) makes the row converge to whichever commits last. Matches the existing per-replica blob semantics. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] * test(distributed): cover load info persistence and Bug-1 recovery Adds Ginkgo specs that prove the persistence layer behaves correctly and that the reconciler actually recovers from the frontend-restart scenario that was failing in production: registry_test.go: - per-model row survives RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas (the bug repro) - ON CONFLICT (model_name) updates backend type + blob, last-write-wins - legacy NodeModel-blob fallback still works (rolling-upgrade transition) - GetModelLoadInfo returns ErrRecordNotFound when both sources are empty - UpsertModelLoadInfo rejects empty model names reconciler_test.go: - Bug-1 end-to-end: with min_replicas=2, no NodeModel rows, but a ModelLoadInfo row present, one reconcile tick fires two scheduler calls. Pre-fix this returned "no load info" and the scheduler never got called until a fresh inference request arrived. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] * docs(distributed): note restart-safe reconciler behavior Adds a bullet to the Replica Reconciler section explaining that per-model load metadata is persisted across frontend restarts via the new model_load_infos PostgreSQL table, so a rolling upgrade no longer needs a fresh inference request per model before the reconciler can replace dead replicas. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-25 13:00:06 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	06e777b75e	feat(distributed): gated X-LocalAI-Node response header (middleware + wrapper) (#9976) ... * feat(distributed): add per-request node ID context holder Introduce pkg/distributedhdr, a leaf package carrying a per-request *atomic.Value holder for the picked worker node ID from the SmartRouter (core/services/nodes) up to the HTTP response writer wrapper (core/http/middleware). Avoids the import cycle that a shared key in either consumer would create. Exposes NewHolder, WithHolder, Holder, Stamp, Load, Inherit. The holder is atomic.Value so cross-goroutine publish from the router to the response writer wrapper is race-clean. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): add ExposeNodeHeader middleware + response writer wrapper New ApplicationConfig.ExposeNodeHeader bool + --expose-node-header CLI flag / LOCALAI_EXPOSE_NODE_HEADER env var (default off; the node ID reveals internal topology and is opt-in). The middleware creates a per-request *atomic.Value holder, attaches it to c.Request().Context() via distributedhdr.WithHolder, and wraps c.Response().Writer with a custom http.ResponseWriter that sets the X-LocalAI-Node header on first Write / WriteHeader / Flush by reading the holder. Implements http.Flusher, http.Hijacker, Unwrap so it composes cleanly with Echo and http.NewResponseController. request.go propagates the holder onto derived contexts via distributedhdr.Inherit so the holder survives the correlation-ID context replacement. Unit + race-clean concurrency + integration specs. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): stamp node ID in router and wire middleware to inference routes ModelRouterAdapter.Route stamps the picked node ID into the per-request holder via distributedhdr.Stamp(ctx, result.Node.ID) right after replica selection. Wire ExposeNodeHeader middleware to: - OpenAI chat/completion/embeddings + audio transcriptions/speech + image generations/inpainting - Anthropic /v1/messages - Ollama /api/chat, /api/generate, /api/embed, /api/embeddings - Jina /v1/rerank - LocalAI /v1/vad The middleware's wrapper reads the holder on first byte and sets the X-LocalAI-Node response header before delegating to the underlying writer. Per-request scope means no race under concurrent multi-replica routing. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): thread request context through backend Load + cover ctx propagation Five non-OpenAI backend helpers were silently using app.Context instead of the request context for the gRPC backend call: transcription, TTS, image generation, rerank, VAD. Effect: distributedhdr.Stamp in the router callback was a silent no-op for these paths, AND client cancellation didn't propagate to in-flight inference. Thread c.Request().Context() (or the equivalent input.Context after the request middleware has installed the correlation-ID derived context) through each helper and into ModelOptions via model.WithContext(ctx). ImageGeneration's signature gains a leading ctx parameter; in-tree callers (openai image, openai inpainting, openai inpainting_test) are updated to match. ModelEmbedding gains a leading ctx parameter for the same reason; the openai and ollama embedding handlers pass the request context through. chat_stream_workers.go defers the initial role=assistant chunk emission until the first token callback so the wrapper's lazy X-LocalAI-Node lookup against the loader runs AFTER ml.Load has stamped the per-modelID node ID; semantically identical for clients (role still arrives before any text). Regression test core/backend/ctx_propagation_test.go pins ctx propagation for all five helpers. Docs updated to enumerate the full endpoint coverage of the --expose-node-header flag. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-25 10:51:48 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]	a0f3e26245	fix(distributed): make admin backend installs resilient and observable (#9958) ... * feat(distributed): add configurable NATS backend install/upgrade timeouts Adds BackendInstallTimeout and BackendUpgradeTimeout to DistributedConfig with 15m defaults, following the existing MCPToolTimeout / WorkerWaitTimeout pattern. These will replace the hardcoded literals in RemoteUnloaderAdapter so admin-driven backend installs across the cluster survive long OCI image pulls that previously timed out at 3m. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(distributed): gofmt alignment after timeout fields Re-aligns the Validate() negative-duration map and the Default* const block so the new BackendInstall/UpgradeTimeout entries do not leave the surrounding columns mis-padded. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(cli): surface LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT and _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT Parses the two new env vars on the run CLI and threads them through the existing AppOption builder so DistributedConfig picks them up. Invalid duration strings now fail loudly at startup rather than silently falling back to the default. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): inject NATS install/upgrade timeouts into RemoteUnloaderAdapter Removes the hardcoded 3m / 15m literals from RemoteUnloaderAdapter and threads in DistributedConfig.BackendInstallTimeoutOrDefault() and BackendUpgradeTimeoutOrDefault() at construction. Install now defaults to 15m (was 3m); cold OCI image pulls on Jetson Wi-Fi routinely blew past the old ceiling. Scripted messaging client captures the timeout so tests can assert the configured value actually reaches the NATS request. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): introduce galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling sentinel When the NATS request-reply for backend.install (or .upgrade) times out the worker is almost always still pulling the OCI image. Wrap the timeout in a typed sentinel so the manager above can distinguish "worker hung" from "worker still working" and leave the pending_backend_ops row in place for the reconciler to confirm via backend.list. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): treat NATS install timeout as in-progress, not failure When a worker times out replying to backend.install but the install is still running on the worker, enqueueAndDrainBackendOp now reports a running_on_worker status and pushes NextRetryAt out by the install timeout so the reconciler does not immediately re-fire another install while the worker is still pulling the image. The pending_backend_ops row stays in place for the next reconciler pass to confirm via backend.list. InstallBackend wraps the result in galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling so callers can branch (galleryop renders yellow in-progress instead of red error). UpgradeBackend uses the same wrap. Adds RemoteUnloaderAdapter.InstallTimeout() so the manager can push NextRetryAt by the configured timeout without reaching into a private field, and NodeRegistry.RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight as the soft cousin of RecordPendingBackendOpFailure. Also includes incidental gofmt-driven struct-field alignment in registry.go on lines unrelated to the change (touched files are re-formatted to canonical form per project policy). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): don't increment Attempts on in-flight install timeout An in-flight timeout (worker still pulling the OCI image) is not a failed attempt, it's a delayed one. Incrementing Attempts let genuinely-progressing slow installs (e.g. 30 GB CUDA images on Wi-Fi) trip the reconciler's maxPendingBackendOpAttempts cap and dead-letter the queue row while the worker was still legitimately working. RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight now only updates LastError and NextRetryAt. Also documents "running_on_worker" in the NodeOpStatus.Status enum comment so Task 6 implementers see the full surface. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): surface ErrWorkerStillInstalling as non-error OpStatus When the distributed backend manager returns an error that wraps ErrWorkerStillInstalling, backendHandler now completes the op with a "still installing in background" message rather than marking it as a red failure. Admin UI sees a yellow in-progress state; reconciler confirms completion on its next pass. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(distributed): end-to-end install-timeout-then-reconcile Wires Task 1-6 end-to-end so any seam mismatch surfaces in CI rather than during a real cluster install. NATS times out, the queue row stays alive with running_on_worker status, the worker eventually reports the backend installed via backend.list, the manager surfaces it via ListBackends. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT / _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT Add the two new operator-tunable env vars to the Frontend Configuration table in the distributed-mode docs. Explains the 15m default, when to raise it (slow links pulling multi-GB OCI images), and the new "still installing in background" admin-UI state when the round-trip times out but the worker is still working. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): clear pending install rows when backend.list confirms DistributedBackendManager.ListBackends now proactively clears pending_backend_ops install rows whose (nodeID, backend) is reported installed by backend.list. Operator UI updates immediately instead of waiting up to installTimeout (default 15m) for the next reconciler tick after NextRetryAt. Only install rows are cleared; upgrade and delete intents are not satisfied by presence in backend.list and continue to drain through their normal reconciler paths. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(messaging): add BackendInstallProgressEvent wire type and subject New NATS subject nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress lets the worker publish transient progress events (file, current/total bytes, percentage, phase) while a long-running install pulls its OCI image. BackendInstallRequest gains an optional OpID field so the worker knows which subject to publish on. Transient pub/sub (not JetStream): the install reply remains ground truth for success/failure; dropped progress events are tolerable. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(messaging): drop em-dash from BackendInstallProgress test comment Per project convention (no em-dashes anywhere). Comment substance is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): worker publishes debounced install progress over NATS When BackendInstallRequest.OpID is set, the worker's backend.install handler wires a debounced publisher (250ms window) into the gallery download callback. Each tick becomes a BackendInstallProgressEvent on nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress; the publisher always emits a final event on Flush so the UI sees the terminal percentage. Old masters that do not set OpID continue to run silent installs: no behavior change for them. Lock ordering: the publisher releases its mutex before calling messaging.Publish so a slow network never stalls the install loop. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): RemoteUnloaderAdapter subscribes to install progress InstallBackend gains opID + onProgress parameters. When both are set, the adapter subscribes to nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress BEFORE publishing the install request, decodes each message into the caller's onProgress callback in a goroutine (so a slow callback never stalls the NATS reader thread), and unsubscribes after RequestJSON returns. When onProgress is nil OR opID is empty (the reconciler retry path), subscription is skipped entirely - silent installs cost nothing extra. Subscribe failure is logged at Warn and the install proceeds without progress streaming; the NATS round-trip still owns terminal status. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): forward backend install progress into galleryop OpStatus DistributedBackendManager.InstallBackend now passes the gallery op ID and a progress bridge into the adapter call. Each BackendInstallProgressEvent from the worker becomes a galleryop.ProgressCallback tick - which the existing backendHandler already turns into OpStatus.UpdateStatus, so the admin UI/SSE polling sees per-byte progress for distributed installs without any UI-side change. UpgradeBackend is intentionally left silent for now: its wire request (BackendUpgradeRequest) does not carry OpID, and rolling-update fallback is the rarer path. Will be picked up in a follow-up if the worker upgrade path also gets a progress channel. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(distributed): InstallBackend tolerates silent (pre-Phase-2) workers A worker on pre-Phase-2 code never publishes progress events. The new master subscribes optimistically; this spec pins that a silent worker still produces a green install with no progressCb ticks. The install reply is the source of truth for terminal state; the progress stream is a best-effort UX enrichment. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document install progress streaming Note the new nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress subject and the silent-worker compatibility behavior so operators know to expect real-time progress and what happens on a mixed-version cluster. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): note progress-event ordering trade-off in InstallBackend Document near the goroutine dispatch why ordering at the consumer is best-effort, why it rarely matters in practice (worker debounce >> goroutine jitter), and what a future hardening pass would look like (Seq field + stale-by-seq drop). Stops the next reader from accidentally "fixing" the goroutine pool away. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): add NodeProgress + OpStatus.Nodes for per-node breakdown Adds the data model the UI needs to render an expandable per-node breakdown of a fanned-out backend install. NodeProgress carries node identity (ID + name), per-node status (queued / running_on_worker / success / error / downloading), the current file + bytes + percentage from the Phase 2 progress stream, and any per-node error. OpStatus.Nodes is the slice the /api/operations handler will surface in a follow-up. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): UpdateNodeProgress merges per-node ticks by NodeID GalleryService.UpdateNodeProgress(opID, nodeID, np) merges a NodeProgress into OpStatus.Nodes (keyed by NodeID, no duplicates) and mirrors the latest tick into the aggregate Progress / FileName / DownloadedFileSize / TotalFileSize fields so the legacy single-bar OperationsBar view keeps working unchanged alongside the new per-node breakdown. Concurrent-safe via the existing g.Mutex. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): write per-node OpStatus entries during install fan-out DistributedBackendManager now accepts a nodeProgressSink and feeds it two streams: 1. enqueueAndDrainBackendOp emits a per-node terminal entry on each status it appends to BackendOpResult (queued, success, error, running_on_worker). The opID is threaded through the function so the sink gets the right gallery op identity. 2. The install apply closure fans each BackendInstallProgressEvent into the sink as a downloading entry, alongside the legacy progressCb path so the aggregate single-bar view stays correct. Production wiring passes the GalleryService (which implements UpdateNodeProgress via Task 2) as the sink. Single-node tests pass nil. DeleteBackend and UpgradeBackend pass an empty opID so the sink path no-ops for ops that aren't gallery-tracked the same way as Install. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(operations): expose per-node breakdown on /api/operations When an operation's OpStatus has Nodes entries (populated by the Phase 4 progress sink wiring), surface them as a "nodes" array on the /api/operations response, sorted by node_name for stable rendering. Backward compatible: legacy clients ignore the field; ops without any node entries (single-node mode, model installs) omit the array entirely thanks to the empty-slice guard. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): per-node breakdown in OperationsBar When an install op fans out to more than one worker, the operations bar now shows a "N nodes" chevron that expands into a per-node list. Each row carries the node's status (color-coded pill), the current file being downloaded, byte counts, percentage, and a thin per-node progress bar. Yellow "Worker busy" pill marks running_on_worker status with a tooltip explaining the NATS round-trip timed out but the worker is still installing in the background. Backward compatible: ops without a nodes field (legacy or single-node mode) render as before. State for expand/collapse is local to the component, keyed by jobID/id - reload starts collapsed. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document per-node breakdown in the operations bar Adds a short subsection covering the expandable "N nodes" chevron in the OperationsBar admin UI, the meaning of each status pill, and how it relates to the /api/operations nodes array. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(galleryop): UpdateStatus preserves Nodes when caller sends none Real-world bug surfaced by the Phase 4 multi-worker smoke test: the nodes[] array in /api/operations flickered between a single node at a time on a 2-worker install. Root cause: the Phase 2 progress bridge also calls the legacy progressCb -> UpdateStatus(&OpStatus{...}) on every tick. UpdateStatus then overwrote the entire status pointer, wiping the Nodes slice that UpdateNodeProgress had just merged in. Fix: in UpdateStatus, if the incoming op has an empty Nodes slice, carry forward the previous status's Nodes before storing. Callers that explicitly populate Nodes still win (their slice replaces the prior one, no merge across the two code paths). Two regression specs added pinning both directions of the contract. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): strip implementation details from user-facing docs Trim the new install/upgrade timeout rows and the install-progress sections to focus on what the operator sees and tunes. Drops: - the NATS subject names and pub/sub mechanics - "round-trip" / reconciler / backend.list jargon - /api/operations polling cadence - "pre-2026-05-22" version references Reframes the breakdown text around the admin UI (Operations Bar, chevron, status pills, "Worker busy" tooltip). Implementation context lives in the agent notes and code comments. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(config): move DistributedConfig.Validate flag names to constants The negative-duration check map was a wall of literal kebab-case strings that had to stay in sync with the kong-derived CLI flag names manually. Move them to a Flag* const block alongside the existing Default* block so a rename of either the Go field or the CLI naming convention forces a compile error rather than silent drift. Sole consumer today is Validate; the constants are exported so future operator-facing surfaces (e.g. error messages on other validation paths) can reference them by name instead of repeating the literals. Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename this" doesn't accidentally regress the CLI flag) and the negative- duration error message for the new BackendInstall / BackendUpgrade fields. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(distributed): extract NodeStatus and Phase enums to constants Sweep for the same literal-string-as-identifier pattern called out on the Validate flag names: the per-node install status enum ("queued" | "downloading" | "running_on_worker" | "success" | "error") appeared as raw literals across managers_distributed.go (10+ sites, including 3 separate `n.Status == "running_on_worker"` checks), operation.go, and the test suite. Same shape for the Phase enum ("resolving" | "downloading" | "extracting" | "starting") in the worker-side progress publisher. Promote both to exported const blocks: - galleryop.NodeStatus{Queued,Downloading,RunningOnWorker,Success,Error} shared between galleryop.NodeProgress.Status (the wire field) and nodes.NodeOpStatus.Status (the in-process per-node summary) - messaging.Phase{Resolving,Downloading,Extracting,Starting} shared between the worker publisher and any future consumer that needs to switch on phase Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename" doesn't silently change the JSON wire) and use the constants in setup (so the producer side stays drift-protected). Wire-format assertions on the /api/operations JSON output keep their literals deliberately, so the constant value can never silently diverge from what the UI receives. Out of scope for this PR (separate cleanup): the finetune and quantization job-status enums have the same anti-pattern with 14+ literal sites each, but predate this PR's work. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-23 12:35:44 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	8e43842175	feat(vllm, distributed): tensor parallel distributed workers (#9612) ... * feat(vllm): build vllm from source for Intel XPU Upstream publishes no XPU wheels for vllm. The Intel profile was silently picking up a non-XPU wheel that imported but errored at engine init, and several runtime deps (pillow, charset-normalizer, chardet) were missing on Intel -- backend.py crashed at import time before the gRPC server came up. Switch the Intel profile to upstream's documented from-source procedure (docs/getting_started/installation/gpu.xpu.inc.md in vllm-project/vllm): - Bump portable Python to 3.12 -- vllm-xpu-kernels ships only a cp312 wheel. - Source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh so vllm's CMake build sees the dpcpp/sycl compiler from the oneapi-basekit base image. - Hide requirements-intel-after.txt during installRequirements (it used to 'pip install vllm'); install vllm's deps from a fresh git clone of vllm via 'uv pip install -r requirements/xpu.txt', swap stock triton for triton-xpu==3.7.0, then 'VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu uv pip install --no-deps .'. - requirements-intel.txt trimmed to LocalAI's direct deps (accelerate / transformers / bitsandbytes); torch-xpu, vllm, vllm_xpu_kernels and the rest come from upstream's xpu.txt during the source build. - requirements.txt: add pillow + charset-normalizer + chardet -- used by backend.py and missing on the Intel install profile. - run.sh: 'set -x' so backend startup is visible in container logs (the gRPC startup error path was previously opaque). Also adds a one-line docs example for engine_args.attention_backend under the vLLM section, since older XE-HPG GPUs (e.g. Arc A770) need TRITON_ATTN to bypass the cutlass path in vllm_xpu_kernels. Tested end-to-end on an Intel Arc A770 with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct via LocalAI's /v1/chat/completions. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(vllm): add multi-node data-parallel follower worker vLLM v1's multi-node story is one process per node sharing a DP coordinator over ZMQ -- the head runs the API server with data_parallel_size > 1 and followers run `vllm serve --headless ...` with matching topology. Today LocalAI can already configure DP on the head via the engine_args YAML map, but there's no way to bring up the follower nodes -- so the head sits waiting for ranks that never handshake. Add `local-ai p2p-worker vllm`, mirroring MLXDistributed's structural precedent (operator-launched, static config, no NATS placement). The worker: - Optionally self-registers with the frontend as an agent-type node tagged `node.role=vllm-follower` so it's visible in the admin UI and operators can scope ordinary models away via inverse selectors. - Resolves the platform-specific vllm backend via the gallery's "vllm" meta-entry (cuda*, intel-vllm, rocm-vllm, ...). - Runs vLLM as a child process so the heartbeat goroutine survives until vLLM exits; forwards SIGINT/SIGTERM so vLLM can clean up its ZMQ sockets before we tear down. - Validates --headless + --start-rank 0 is rejected (rank 0 is the head and must serve the API). Backend run.sh dispatches `serve` as the first arg to vllm's own CLI instead of LocalAI's backend.py gRPC server -- the follower speaks ZMQ directly to the head, there is no LocalAI gRPC on the follower side. Single-node usage is unchanged. Generalises the gallery resolution helper into findBackendPath() shared by MLX and vLLM workers; extracts ParseNodeLabels for the comma-separated label parsing both use. Ships with two compose recipes (`docker-compose.vllm-multinode.yaml` for NVIDIA, `docker-compose.vllm-multinode.intel.yaml` for Intel XPU/xccl) plus `tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh`. Both vendors are supported (NCCL for CUDA/ROCm, xccl for XPU) but mixed-vendor DP is not -- PyTorch's process group requires every rank to use the same collective backend, and NCCL/xccl/gloo don't interoperate. Out of scope (deferred): SmartRouter-driven placement of follower ranks via NATS backend.install events, follower log streaming through /api/backend-logs, tensor-parallel across nodes, disaggregated prefill via KVTransferConfig. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * test(vllm): CPU-only end-to-end test for multi-node DP Adds tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/, a Ginkgo + testcontainers-go suite that brings up a head + headless follower from the locally-built local-ai:tests image, bind-mounts the cpu-vllm backend extracted by make extract-backend-vllm so it's seen as a system backend (no gallery fetch, no registry server), and asserts a chat completion across both DP ranks. New `make test-e2e-vllm-multinode` target wires the docker build, backend extract, and ginkgo run together; BuildKit caches both images so re-runs only rebuild what changed. Tagged Label("VLLMMultinode") so the existing distributed suite isn't pulled along. Two pre-existing bugs surfaced by the test: 1. extract-backend-% (Makefile) failed for every backend, because all backend images end with `FROM scratch` and `docker create` rejects an image with no CMD/ENTRYPOINT. Fixed by passing --entrypoint=/run.sh -- the container is never started, only docker-cp'd, so the path doesn't have to exist; we just need anything that satisfies the daemon's create-time validation. 2. backend/python/vllm/run.sh's `serve` shortcut for the multi-node DP follower exec'd ${EDIR}/venv/bin/vllm directly, but uv bakes an absolute build-time shebang (`#!/vllm/venv/bin/python3`) that no longer resolves once the backend is relocated to BackendsPath. _makeVenvPortable's shebang rewriter only matches paths that already point at ${EDIR}, so the original shebang slips through unchanged. Fixed by exec-ing ${EDIR}/venv/bin/python with the script as an argument -- Python ignores the script's shebang in that case. The test fixture caps memory aggressively (max_model_len=512, VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=1, TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1) so two CPU engines fit on a 32 GB box. TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE is currently mandatory for cpu-vllm: torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe runs even with enforce_eager=True and needs g++ on PATH, which the LocalAI runtime image doesn't ship -- to be addressed in a follow-up that bundles a toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(vllm): bundle a g++ toolchain in the cpu-vllm backend image torch._inductor's CPU-ISA probe (`cpu_model_runner.py:65 "Warming up model for the compilation"`) shells out to `g++` at vllm engine startup, regardless of `enforce_eager=True` -- the eager flag only disables CUDA graphs, not inductor's first-batch warmup. The LocalAI CPU runtime image (Dockerfile, unconditional apt list) does not ship build-essential, and the cpu-vllm backend image is `FROM scratch`, so any non-trivial inference on cpu-vllm crashes with: torch._inductor.exc.InductorError: InvalidCxxCompiler: No working C++ compiler found in torch._inductor.config.cpp.cxx: (None, 'g++') Bundling the toolchain in the CPU runtime image would bloat every non-vllm-CPU deployment and force a single GCC version on backends that may want clang or a different version. So this lives in the backend, gated to BUILD_TYPE=='' (the CPU profile). `package.sh` snapshots g++ + binutils + cc1plus + libstdc++ + libc6 (runtime + dev) + the math libs cc1plus links (libisl/libmpc/libmpfr/ libjansson) into ${BACKEND}/toolchain/, mirroring /usr/... layout. The unversioned binaries on Debian/Ubuntu are symlink chains pointing into multiarch packages (`g++` -> `g++-13` -> `x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-13`, the latter in `g++-13-x86-64-linux-gnu`), so the package list resolves both the version and the arch-triplet variant. Symlinks /lib -> usr/lib and /lib64 -> usr/lib64 are recreated under the toolchain root because Ubuntu's UsrMerge keeps them at /, and ld scripts (`libc.so`, `libm.so`) hardcode `/lib/...` paths that --sysroot re-roots into the toolchain. The unversioned `g++`/`gcc`/`cpp` symlinks are replaced with wrapper shell scripts that resolve their own location at runtime and pass `--sysroot=<toolchain>` and `-B <toolchain>/usr/lib/gcc/<triplet>/<ver>/` to the underlying versioned binary. That's how torch's bare `g++ foo.cpp -o foo` invocation finds cc1plus (-B), system headers (--sysroot), and the bundled libstdc++ (--sysroot, --sysroot is recursive into linker). `run.sh` adds the toolchain bin dir to PATH and the toolchain's shared-lib dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- everything else (header search, linker search, executable search) is encapsulated in the wrappers. No-op for non-CPU builds, the dir doesn't exist there. The cpu-vllm image grows by ~217 MB. Tradeoff is acceptable -- cpu-vllm is already a niche profile (few users compared to GPU vllm) and the alternative is a backend that crashes at first inference unless the operator manually sets TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1, which silently disables all torch.compile optimizations. Drops `TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1` from tests/e2e/vllm-multinode -- the smoke now exercises the real compile path through the bundled toolchain. Test runtime is +20s for the warmup compile, still <90s end to end. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * fix(vllm): scope jetson-ai-lab index to L4T-specific wheels via pyproject.toml The L4T arm64 build resolves dependencies through pypi.jetson-ai-lab.io, which hosts the L4T-specific torch / vllm / flash-attn wheels but also transparently proxies the rest of PyPI through `/+f/<sha>/<filename>` URLs. With `--extra-index-url` + `--index-strategy=unsafe-best-match` uv would pick those proxy URLs for ordinary PyPI packages — anthropic/openai/propcache/annotated-types — and fail when the proxy 503s. Master is hitting the same bug on its own l4t-vllm matrix entry. Switch the l4t13 install path to a pyproject.toml that marks the jetson-ai-lab index `explicit = true` and pins only torch, torchvision, torchaudio, flash-attn, and vllm to it via [tool.uv.sources]. uv won't consult the L4T mirror for anything else, so transitive deps fall back to PyPI as the default index — no exposure to the proxy 503s. `uv pip install -r requirements.txt` ignores [tool.uv.sources], so the l4t13 branch in install.sh now invokes `uv pip install --requirement pyproject.toml` directly, replacing the old requirements-l4t13*.txt files. Other BUILD_PROFILEs continue using libbackend.sh's installRequirements and never read pyproject.toml. Local resolution test (x86_64, dry-run) confirms uv hits the L4T index for torch and falls through to PyPI for everything else. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Read] [Edit] [Bash] [Write] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-05-06 00:22:50 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	551ebdb57a	fix(distributed): correct VRAM/RAM reporting on NVIDIA unified-memory hosts (#9545) ... Workers on NVIDIA unified-memory hardware (DGX Spark / GB10, Jetson AGX Thor, Jetson Orin/Xavier/Nano) were reporting `available_vram=0` back to the frontend, so the Nodes UI showed the node as fully used even when most of the unified memory was actually free. Three causes addressed: * `isTegraDevice` only matched `/sys/devices/soc0/family == "Tegra"`. DGX Spark (SBSA) reports JEDEC codes there instead — `jep106:0426` for the NVIDIA manufacturer — so the Tegra/unified-memory fallback never ran. Renamed to `isNVIDIAIntegratedGPU` and extended to also match `jep106:0426[:*]` via `/sys/devices/soc0/soc_id`. * The unified-iGPU code defaulted the device name to `"NVIDIA Jetson"` when `/proc/device-tree/model` was missing. That's what happens for Thor inside a docker container, and always on DGX Spark. New `nvidiaIntegratedGPUName` resolves via dt-model → `/sys/devices/soc0/machine` → `soc_id` lookup (`jep106:0426:8901` → `"NVIDIA GB10"`) so the Nodes UI labels the box correctly. * Worker heartbeat sent `available_vram=0` (or total-as-available) when VRAM usage was momentarily unknown — e.g. when `nvidia-smi` intermittently failed with `waitid: no child processes` under containers without `--init`. Each such heartbeat overwrote the DB and made the UI flip to "fully used". `heartbeatBody` now omits `available_vram` in that case so the DB keeps its last good value. Also updates the commented GPU blocks in both compose files with `NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility`, `capabilities: [gpu, utility]`, and `init: true`, and documents the requirement in the distributed-mode and nvidia-l4t pages. Without `utility`, NVML/`nvidia-smi` are absent inside the container, which is what put the DGX Spark worker into the buggy fallback in the first place. Detection verified on live hardware (dgx.casa / GB10 and 192.168.68.23 / Thor) by running a cross-compiled probe of the new helpers on both host and inside the worker container. Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.7 [Claude Code]	2026-04-24 22:02:23 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	7e0b73deaa	fix(docs): fix broken references to distributed mode ... Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-04-03 09:46:06 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	8862e3ce60	feat: add node reconciler, allow to schedule to group of nodes, min/max autoscaler (#9186) ... * always enable parallel requests Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat: add node reconciler, allow to schedule to group of nodes, min/max autoscaler Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore: move tests to ginkgo Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(smart router): order by available vram Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-03-31 08:28:56 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	59108fbe32	feat: add distributed mode (#9124) ... * feat: add distributed mode (experimental) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix data races, mutexes, transactions Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactorings Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fixups Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix events and tool stream in agent chat Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * use ginkgo Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(cron): compute correctly time boundaries avoiding re-triggering Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * enhancements, refactorings Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * do not flood of healthy checks Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * do not list obvious backends as text backends Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * tests fixups Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactoring and consolidation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * Drop redundant healthcheck Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * enhancements, refactorings Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-03-30 00:47:27 +02:00