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Ettore Di Giacinto 125d10a782 feat(paged): paged-pool burst-reclaim (truncate + defrag + slot release) (patch 0024)
Fixes the paged-pool burst-degradation bug (OTHER_PATHS_INVESTIGATION.md section C
Part 2): on a long-lived llama-server with LLAMA_KV_PAGED=1, a high-fan-out prefill
burst strands KV blocks in the host-side paged pool, so a later lower-npl prefill
draws from a depleted/fragmented pool and its throughput collapses (the benchmark's
"restart per npl" crutch). Decode is unaffected. The fix changes only host-side
block accounting and placement, never KV values or compute, and is gated behind
LLAMA_KV_PAGED (LLAMA_PAGED_NO_RECLAIM=1 restores the pre-fix behavior).

Fix-1 reclaim trailing blocks: PagedKVManager::truncate(seq, n_keep) frees every
block beyond ceil(n_keep/bs) (ref-counted); called from llama_kv_cache::seq_rm for
the p1==MAX && p0>0 partial-tail case so the manager tracks the kv-cache exactly.
Fix-2 defrag on empty: when the pool is fully idle, defrag_free_pool() relinks the
free queue into ascending block-id order (FreeBlockQueue::rebuild), preserving
content-cache hashes.
Fix-3 release on slot completion: server_slot::release() issues prompt_clear()
under the paged engine so a finished-idle slot returns its blocks promptly.

Validation (DGX GB10, q36-27b-nvfp4 = qwen35 hybrid; HEAD f7409c2 = patch 0023):
- Bit-exact: greedy md5 identical across paged off / paged on / paged on+NO_RECLAIM
  (5951a5b4d624ce891e22ab5fca9bc439), == the 0023 baseline. test-backend-ops
  unaffected (no ggml op touched).
- Host unit test: truncate reclaims exactly 16 trailing blocks; defrag restores
  ascending popleft order. UNIT PASS.
- Model A/B (one binary, NO_RECLAIM): fragmentation prefill ratio 0.944 -> 0.998;
  64 idle slots strand 2048 blocks, reclaim returns the pool to fresh (2527).
- Server A/B (FRESH-npl8 -> BURST-npl64 -> POST-npl8): POST-npl8 prefill collapses
  488 -> 44 t/s with NO_RECLAIM (the bug; investigation saw 507 -> 65), restored to
  532 t/s (fresh 525, within 1%) with the fix. Paged release-log count 17 -> 96
  (Fix-3 fires per slot completion). Canary tokens identical fresh-vs-post in both
  arms (bit-exact serving).

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-26 10:44:33 +00:00

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// Paged-pool burst-degradation repro (patch 0024). DEV SCAFFOLDING ONLY.
//
// Reproduces, at the libllama level, the two host-side defects behind the
// "later lower-npl prefill collapses, decode fine, restart cures it" benchmark
// signature:
//
// * RECLAMATION GAP (Fix-1): a partial tail seq_rm(seq, p0>0, -1) - exactly
// what llama-server issues on every reused slot - frees the kv-cache CELLS
// but the paged manager keeps owning the trailing BLOCKS. The manager's
// free pool silently shrinks. Test A measures the reclaimed-block delta.
//
// * FRAGMENTATION / NO COMPACTION (Fix-2): a high-fan-out burst that allocates
// many sequences and frees them in a scrambled order leaves the free queue a
// scrambled permutation of physical block ids. A later low-npl prefill then
// pops physically scattered blocks, so its KV scatter-write + in-kernel
// paged-attention gather lose locality and prefill throughput collapses;
// decode (single-token append) barely notices. Test B times an npl8 prefill
// on a FRESH pool vs an npl8 prefill AFTER a scrambling burst+drain.
//
// PASS (post-fix): Test A reclaims ceil((PP-KEEP)/bs) trailing blocks on the
// partial seq_rm (0 pre-fix); Test B's post-burst npl8 prefill_tps is within ~10%
// of the fresh npl8 and num_free returns to the pristine value after the drain.
//
// Run with LLAMA_KV_PAGED=1. Env: BURST_NSLOT(64) NPL(8) PP(512) KEEP(256)
// GEN(4) PAGED_NGL(99). All sequences use distinct content so nothing is shared.
#include "llama.h"
#include "paged-prefix-api.h"
#include <chrono>
#include <clocale>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <vector>
static int env_i(const char * k, int dflt) { const char * v = getenv(k); return v ? atoi(v) : dflt; }
using clk = std::chrono::steady_clock;
static double secs(clk::time_point a, clk::time_point b) {
return std::chrono::duration<double>(b - a).count();
}
struct Ctx { llama_context * ctx; llama_memory_t mem; llama_batch batch; int n_vocab; };
// Deterministic, content-distinct token for (seq, pos): keeps every sequence's
// blocks unique so no cross-request prefix sharing masks the accounting.
static llama_token tok_of(int seq, int pos, int n_vocab) {
return (llama_token) (((seq * 1000003 + pos * 131 + 7) % (n_vocab - 200)) + 100);
}
// Prefill n tokens of seq at [pos0, pos0+n) in one ubatch (n <= n_batch).
// Returns wall seconds (sync'd).
static double prefill(Ctx & C, int seq, int pos0, int n) {
clk::time_point t0 = clk::now();
C.batch.n_tokens = 0;
for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
int i = C.batch.n_tokens;
C.batch.token[i] = tok_of(seq, pos0 + j, C.n_vocab);
C.batch.pos[i] = pos0 + j;
C.batch.n_seq_id[i] = 1;
C.batch.seq_id[i][0]= seq;
C.batch.logits[i] = (j + 1 == n) ? 1 : 0;
C.batch.n_tokens++;
}
if (llama_decode(C.ctx, C.batch)) { fprintf(stderr, "prefill decode failed seq=%d\n", seq); return -1; }
llama_synchronize(C.ctx);
return secs(t0, clk::now());
}
// One decode step (single token) for seq at pos.
static void decode1(Ctx & C, int seq, int pos) {
C.batch.n_tokens = 1;
C.batch.token[0] = tok_of(seq, pos, C.n_vocab);
C.batch.pos[0] = pos; C.batch.n_seq_id[0] = 1; C.batch.seq_id[0][0] = seq; C.batch.logits[0] = 1;
if (llama_decode(C.ctx, C.batch)) fprintf(stderr, "decode1 failed seq=%d\n", seq);
}
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
std::setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
const char * model_path = nullptr;
for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-m") && i + 1 < argc) model_path = argv[++i];
if (!model_path) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s -m model.gguf\n", argv[0]); return 2; }
const int NSLOT = env_i("BURST_NSLOT", 64);
const int NPL = env_i("NPL", 8);
const int PP = env_i("PP", 512);
const int KEEP = env_i("KEEP", 256);
const int GEN = env_i("GEN", 4);
const int ngl = env_i("PAGED_NGL", 99);
const bool paged = getenv("LLAMA_KV_PAGED") != nullptr;
ggml_backend_load_all();
llama_model_params mp = llama_model_default_params();
mp.n_gpu_layers = ngl;
llama_model * model = llama_model_load_from_file(model_path, mp);
if (!model) { fprintf(stderr, "model load failed\n"); return 1; }
const llama_vocab * vocab = llama_model_get_vocab(model);
const int n_vocab = llama_vocab_n_tokens(vocab);
// Pool sized for the burst plus headroom so the burst fits but a later npl
// run draws from whatever the burst's churn left behind.
const long cells = (long) (NSLOT + NPL + 4) * (PP + GEN + 16);
llama_context_params cp = llama_context_default_params();
cp.n_ctx = (uint32_t) cells;
cp.n_batch = (uint32_t) (PP + 16);
cp.n_ubatch = (uint32_t) (PP + 16);
cp.n_seq_max = NSLOT + NPL + 2;
cp.kv_unified = true; // one unified stream-0 pool -> num_free(ctx) is the whole pool
cp.no_perf = true;
llama_context * ctx = llama_init_from_model(model, cp);
if (!ctx) { fprintf(stderr, "ctx init failed (cells=%ld)\n", cells); return 1; }
Ctx C; C.ctx = ctx; C.mem = llama_get_memory(ctx); C.n_vocab = n_vocab;
C.batch = llama_batch_init(cp.n_batch, 0, 1);
printf("== paged-burst-bench == paged=%d NSLOT=%d NPL=%d PP=%d KEEP=%d GEN=%d n_ctx=%ld\n",
paged, NSLOT, NPL, PP, KEEP, GEN, cells);
llama_memory_clear(C.mem, true);
const long F_start = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
// ---- Test A: Fix-1 reclamation gap on a partial tail seq_rm --------------
{
prefill(C, 0, 0, PP);
const long f_after_prefill = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, 0, KEEP, -1); // partial tail removal
const long f_after_rm = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, 0, -1, -1); // full free -> pristine
const long f_after_full = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
const long bs = 16;
const long expect = (PP + bs - 1)/bs - (KEEP + bs - 1)/bs; // trailing blocks
printf("[TEST-A Fix-1] start=%ld afterPrefill=%ld afterPartialRm=%ld reclaimed=%ld "
"(expect %ld post-fix, 0 pre-fix) afterFullFree=%ld\n",
F_start, f_after_prefill, f_after_rm, f_after_rm - f_after_prefill, expect, f_after_full);
}
// ---- Test B: fragmentation -> npl prefill collapse -----------------------
// Fresh npl prefill baseline on a pristine pool.
llama_memory_clear(C.mem, true);
double tps_fresh;
{
clk::time_point t0 = clk::now();
long ntok = 0;
for (int s = 0; s < NPL; ++s) { double d = prefill(C, s, 0, PP); if (d < 0) return 1; ntok += PP; }
tps_fresh = ntok / secs(t0, clk::now());
for (int s = 0; s < NPL; ++s) llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, s, -1, -1);
}
const long F_pristine = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
// High-fan-out burst: allocate NSLOT sequences, each prefilled + a few decode
// steps (mixed alloc), then drain them in a scrambled order (odd ids first,
// then even, each truncated before the full free) so the free queue becomes a
// scrambled permutation - the fragmentation the bug never compacts.
for (int s = 0; s < NSLOT; ++s) {
if (prefill(C, NPL + s, 0, PP) < 0) return 1;
for (int g = 0; g < GEN; ++g) decode1(C, NPL + s, PP + g);
}
const long F_during_burst = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
// Drain: partial tail seq_rm (the reused-slot pattern) then full free, in a
// scrambled slot order to scramble the physical free order.
for (int parity = 1; parity >= 0; --parity)
for (int s = 0; s < NSLOT; ++s) if ((s & 1) == parity) {
llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, NPL + s, KEEP, -1); // partial (Fix-1 path)
llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, NPL + s, -1, -1); // full free
}
const long F_after_drain = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
// Post-burst npl prefill: pops from the (pre-fix scrambled / post-fix
// defragged) free queue.
double tps_post;
{
clk::time_point t0 = clk::now();
long ntok = 0;
for (int s = 0; s < NPL; ++s) { double d = prefill(C, s, 0, PP); if (d < 0) return 1; ntok += PP; }
tps_post = ntok / secs(t0, clk::now());
for (int s = 0; s < NPL; ++s) llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, s, -1, -1);
}
const double ratio = tps_fresh > 0 ? tps_post / tps_fresh : 0;
printf("[TEST-B frag] num_free: start=%ld pristine=%ld duringBurst=%ld afterDrain=%ld "
"(afterDrain==pristine? %s)\n",
F_start, F_pristine, F_during_burst, F_after_drain,
F_after_drain == F_pristine ? "YES" : "NO");
printf("[TEST-B frag] prefill_tps fresh=%.1f post-burst=%.1f ratio=%.3f "
"(PASS if >=0.90)\n", tps_fresh, tps_post, ratio);
// ---- Test C: idle-slot retention leak -> reclaim (the Fix-3 scenario) -----
// Burst NSLOT sequences and leave them IDLE (stock llama-server keeps an idle
// slot's KV; the blocks are stranded). F_idle shows the depleted pool a later
// low-npl run would see. Then full-seq_rm each (exactly what Fix-3's
// prompt_clear() issues at slot.release): F_reclaimed must return to pristine.
llama_memory_clear(C.mem, true);
// Touch the pool once so the manager exists, then read the full-pool size
// (num_free is 0 while no manager is registered).
if (prefill(C, 0, 0, 16) < 0) return 1;
llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, 0, -1, -1);
const long F_pre_c = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
for (int s = 0; s < NSLOT; ++s) { if (prefill(C, NPL + s, 0, PP) < 0) return 1; }
const long F_idle = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
for (int s = 0; s < NSLOT; ++s) llama_memory_seq_rm(C.mem, NPL + s, -1, -1); // Fix-3 release
const long F_reclaimed = paged_prefix_api::num_free_global();
printf("[TEST-C idle] pristine=%ld idle_after_burst=%ld (leaked=%ld) reclaimed=%ld "
"(returns_to_fresh? %s)\n",
F_pre_c, F_idle, F_pre_c - F_idle, F_reclaimed,
F_reclaimed == F_pre_c ? "YES" : "NO");
printf("RESULT paged=%d frag_fix2_ratio=%.3f drain_numfree_returns=%s idle_reclaim_returns=%s\n",
paged, ratio,
F_after_drain == F_pristine ? "YES" : "NO",
F_reclaimed == F_pre_c ? "YES" : "NO");
llama_batch_free(C.batch);
llama_free(ctx);
llama_model_free(model);
return 0;
}