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Ettore Di Giacinto 37e0e1ef55 paged-attn 0003: lift gather-read to multi-stream
The 0003 gather-read was single-stream only (GGML_ASSERT k->ne[3]==1). Lift it
to N streams: one index column per stream over the unified batch, gathered with
a single ggml_get_rows along the stream axis. Each column is position-sorted
(preserving the flash-attn online-softmax reduction order that makes the read
byte-identical) and padded to the max non-empty count across streams with a
masked (empty) cell, which contributes exp(-inf)=0.

Core touch stays additive: the one-line build_attn hook is unchanged; only the
two kv-cache gather helpers (now per-stream) and src/paged-attn.cpp grow.

Gate 0 (CPU, Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0): a multi-sequence greedy driver (non-unified KV,
k->ne[3]>1) is token-identical between stock (env unset) and LLAMA_KV_PAGED=1:
3 seqs x 40 tok, 2 seqs x 32 tok, 5 seqs x 32 tok all identical; single-stream
llama-simple unchanged. Debug log confirms n_stream=3 engaged the multi path.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-22 08:46:12 +00:00
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