GPU (DGX Spark, GB10/sm_121, CUDA 13.0) verification of the paged-KV series:
core token-identical gate and 4-stream multiseq are byte-identical stock-vs-paged
at -ngl 99, the device gather is confirmed firing, and a 32B paged run is coherent.
Full backend: patches/paged apply clean to the pin and grpc-server compiles+links
under CUDA sm_121. Notes also flag a double patch-application in the LLAMA_PAGED=on
make flow (git apply + prepare.sh) and a token divergence in the unshipped
prefix-recompute-skip dev driver (same on CPU and GPU).
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Mirror patch 0007 of the paged-attention series into the vendored llama.cpp
patch set. It wires the host-side cross-request prefix cache (0006) into the
engine so a new sequence physically shares the cached prefix blocks (ref-counted)
and decodes only the divergent suffix - the shared prefix KV is never recomputed.
paged-alloc becomes one persistent caching PagedKVManager per (kv-cache, stream)
keyed by the real seq_id (per-sequence ref-counted free); two gated
llama_kv_cache methods (paged_prefix_share / paged_prefix_commit) mark the shared
physical cells' seq-membership so the engine attention mask covers the
already-computed prefix; find_slot anchors placement on each sequence's ubatch.pos.
Existing-file core touch is llama-kv-cache.{cpp,h} (+71 -3); everything else is
additive vendored units. Gated behind LLAMA_KV_PAGED, default off, stock
byte-identical.
Verified on Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0 (CPU, unified cache): greedy byte-identity vs decode
from scratch at a block boundary and mid-block, prefill computing only the suffix
(32 prefix tokens skipped), and ref-counted free safety (2->1 on one sharer's
removal, survivor intact and re-shareable, pool restored when all freed). The
0004 serving gate stays byte-identical stock vs paged in unified and non-unified
mode.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Mirror patch 0006 of the paged-attention series into the vendored llama.cpp
patch set. Extends the vendored PagedKVManager (src/paged-kv-manager) with
host-side cross-request prefix sharing: place_with_prefix reuses cached
physical blocks for a new sequence shared prefix (ref_cnt++) and allocates
only the divergent suffix; cow_block copy-on-writes a still-shared (ref>1)
block before a divergent write so co-owners stay byte-correct; ref-counted
free releases a shared block only at ref 0. Core kv-cache files untouched;
gated behind LLAMA_KV_PAGED, default off.
Gate 0 verified on the dev tree (CPU, Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0): shared-prefix
greedy tokens byte-identical to the unshared baseline at both a block boundary
and mid-block, measured 2-block reuse (ref_cnt==2, only the suffix allocated),
and copy-on-write + seq_rm ref-count safety with no use-after-free.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Move the paged-attention patch series (0001-0004 + docs) into patches/paged/,
applied behind a new LLAMA_PAGED build flag (default on). The base patches/ dir is
now clean, so a dep-bump that breaks a paged hook can be unblocked with
LLAMA_PAGED=off (clean-against-upstream build) and the paged carry fixed
independently - decoupling the paged-KV maintenance from routine bumps without a
separate backend. Both apply paths wired (Makefile git-apply + prepare.sh re-apply,
flag passed through). Runtime stays gated by LLAMA_KV_PAGED env, so an on build is
byte-identical to stock until that env is set. Glob/flag logic verified in bash.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
