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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto ea438cdeaf feat(vllm-cpp): wire the full engine config surface through engine_args (#11159)
The backend could configure four of the engine's knobs (block size, KV block
count, max sequence length, max concurrent sequences) out of a config surface
that is considerably larger. Speculative decoding, prefix caching, the
chunked-prefill token budget, the scheduling policy and the external KV
connector were reachable from vllm.cpp's own HTTP server and from nothing
LocalAI could write in a model config.

Config now goes through `engine_args:`, the same map the vLLM and SGLang
backends take, with keys spelled as vLLM's own CLI flags so a speculative_config
or kv_transfer_config block written for vLLM works verbatim. The legacy
`options:` list keeps working and reads every key too; engine_args wins where
both set one. Unknown keys are logged and ignored rather than fatal: the field
is shared with the other engines, so a config carrying their knobs must not take
the model down.

Two details worth knowing:

`enable_prefix_caching: false` maps to the ABI tri-state force-OFF (2), not 0.
0 means "let the model capability decide" and dense architectures default the
cache on, so collapsing the two would silently enable it against an explicit
false. enable_jump_forward (ABI v10) shares the encoding, deferring to
VT_ENABLE_JUMP_FORWARD instead of to the model.

The importer probes config.json on a vllm-cpp import and writes
speculative_config: {method: mtp} when the checkpoint declares an MTP head, the
safetensors analogue of the llama-cpp importer's GGUF probe. DFlash draft repos
are refused with a warning instead, since a drafter cannot serve alone and the
pairing is not derivable from either repo. The draft path is resolved against
LocalAI's model directory, because the engine only looks in a directory holding
config.json or in the HF cache and never downloads: the repo-id spelling the
vLLM docs teach used to die deep in the load with "draft checkpoint not found".

docs/content/features/text-generation.md gains a vllm.cpp section covering the
engine_args table, all three speculative methods, LMCache and the legacy list.
The backend had no documentation page before.

This replaces a branch that had gone stale behind master and carried its own
route to ABI v10, which #11386 has since landed in minimal form. Rebased onto
that as a single commit rather than replaying the intermediate steps, whose
ABI v9 mirrors no longer make sense against master's pin. The Darwin build
fixes for Apple Clang's gnu-folding-constant diagnostic on C++, Objective-C and
Objective-C++, originally authored by localai-org-maint-bot, are folded in here.

Verified: `make abi-check` agrees at v10; unit specs, core/config and
core/gallery/importers green; and the full e2e passes in 1330s against a CPU
libvllm.so reporting ABI v10 with Qwen_Qwen3.5-0.8B-Q4_K_M.gguf (load, blocking
completion, streaming, chat and tool calls).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 golangci-lint

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-06 12:10:56 +02:00

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package main
// purego bindings for the vllm.cpp stable C ABI (include/vllm.h, ABI v10).
//
// The structs below are hand-mirrored PODs of the C declarations, with
// explicit padding so the Go layout matches the C layout on linux/darwin
// amd64+arm64. Struct-by-value entry points (the *_default helpers) are NOT
// bound - purego's struct-return support is platform-dependent - so the
// defaults are replicated here and guarded by the vllm_abi_version check at
// startup: a library whose ABI differs from what these mirrors were written
// against is refused before any request runs.
import (
"fmt"
"unsafe"
"github.com/ebitengine/purego"
)
// abiVersion is the VLLM_ABI_VERSION this file mirrors (vllm.h). It must track
// the header of the VLLM_CPP_VERSION pinned in the Makefile: the build checks
// the two against each other, because a mismatch is only caught at runtime by
// registerLib, where it takes the backend down on every load (issue #11379).
const abiVersion = 10
// The ABI's tri-state toggles (enable_prefix_caching ABI v7,
// enable_jump_forward ABI v10) share one encoding: 0 is NOT "off", it is
// "defer" - to the model capability for prefix caching, to the environment for
// jump forward. Only 2 is an explicit off.
const (
triStateDefer int32 = 0
triStateOn int32 = 1
triStateOff int32 = 2
)
// triStateName renders a tri-state for the load log line, where "0" would
// otherwise read as "off" rather than "whatever the default resolves to".
func triStateName(state int32) string {
switch state {
case triStateOn:
return "on"
case triStateOff:
return "off"
default:
return "model-default"
}
}
// vllm_status (vllm.h).
const (
vllmOK = 0
)
// cModelParams mirrors vllm_model_params. The int32 fields sit in pairs so the
// interior needs no padding on LP64, but the struct is 8-aligned (it holds
// pointers) and ends on a lone int32, so the trailing pad is explicit. Offsets
// and total size are asserted in vllmcpp_test.go.
type cModelParams struct {
ModelPath uintptr // const char*
TokenizerConfigPath uintptr // const char*; NULL = <model_dir>/... (ABI v9)
BlockSize int32
NumBlocks int32
MaxModelLen int32
MaxNumSeqs int32
ToolParser uintptr // const char*; NULL = auto-detect (ABI v4)
ReasoningParser uintptr // const char*; NULL = auto-detect (ABI v5)
SpeculativeConfig uintptr // const char* JSON; NULL = no speculation (ABI v6)
EnablePrefixCaching int32 // tri-state 0/1/2 (ABI v7)
MaxNumBatchedTokens int32 // <= 0 = per-arch default (ABI v9)
SchedulingPolicy uintptr // const char*; NULL = "fcfs" (ABI v9)
KVTransferConfig uintptr // const char* JSON; NULL = no connector (ABI v9)
EnableJumpForward int32 // tri-state 0/1/2 (ABI v10)
_ [4]byte // trailing pad to the struct's 8-byte alignment
}
// cSamplingParams mirrors vllm_sampling_params (structured fields included).
// Padding matches the C compiler's: the uint64 seed is 8-aligned, and each
// pointer following an int32 is 8-aligned.
type cSamplingParams struct {
Temperature float32
TopP float32
TopK int32
MinP float32
MaxTokens int32
_ [4]byte
Seed uint64
HasSeed int32
PresencePenalty float32
FrequencyPenalty float32
RepetitionPenalty float32
MinTokens int32
IgnoreEOS int32
Stop uintptr // const char* const*
NStop int32
_ [4]byte
StructuredJSON uintptr // const char*
StructuredRegex uintptr // const char*
StructuredChoice uintptr // const char* const*
NStructuredChoice int32
_ [4]byte
StructuredGrammar uintptr // const char*
StructuredJSONObject int32
_ [4]byte
// ABI v8 tail. LocalAI installs no custom logits processor, but the fields
// MUST be mirrored: the C side reads them off the pointer we hand it, so a
// Go struct that stopped at StructuredJSONObject would have the engine read
// 16 bytes past our allocation and call whatever garbage sat there.
LogitsProcessor uintptr // vllm_logits_processor; NULL = none
LogitsProcessorUserData uintptr // void*
}
// cCompletion mirrors vllm_completion.
type cCompletion struct {
Text uintptr // char*, caller-owned
FinishReason uintptr // const char*, library-owned
PromptTokens int32
CompletionTokens int32
}
// defaultSamplingParams mirrors vllm_sampling_params_default().
func defaultSamplingParams() cSamplingParams {
return cSamplingParams{
Temperature: 1.0,
TopP: 1.0,
MaxTokens: 16,
RepetitionPenalty: 1.0,
}
}
// defaultModelParams mirrors vllm_model_params_default().
func defaultModelParams() cModelParams {
return cModelParams{
BlockSize: 32,
NumBlocks: 256,
MaxNumSeqs: 8,
}
}
var (
vllmEngineLoad func(params, out unsafe.Pointer) int32
vllmEngineFree func(engine uintptr)
vllmComplete func(engine uintptr, prompt string, params, out unsafe.Pointer) int32
vllmCompleteStream func(engine uintptr, prompt string, params unsafe.Pointer, cb uintptr, userData uintptr) int32
vllmChat func(engine uintptr, requestJSON string, out unsafe.Pointer) int32
vllmChatStream func(engine uintptr, requestJSON string, cb uintptr, userData uintptr) int32
vllmStringFree func(s uintptr)
vllmCompletionFree func(out unsafe.Pointer)
vllmLastError func() string
vllmVersion func() string
vllmABIVersion func() int32
)
type libFunc struct {
ptr any
name string
}
// registerLib dlopens libvllm and binds the C ABI, refusing an ABI-version
// mismatch (the struct mirrors above would be undefined behavior against a
// different layout).
func registerLib(libName string) error {
lib, err := purego.Dlopen(libName, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("vllm-cpp: dlopen %s: %w", libName, err)
}
for _, lf := range []libFunc{
{&vllmEngineLoad, "vllm_engine_load"},
{&vllmEngineFree, "vllm_engine_free"},
{&vllmComplete, "vllm_complete"},
{&vllmCompleteStream, "vllm_complete_stream"},
{&vllmChat, "vllm_chat"},
{&vllmChatStream, "vllm_chat_stream"},
{&vllmStringFree, "vllm_string_free"},
{&vllmCompletionFree, "vllm_completion_free"},
{&vllmLastError, "vllm_last_error"},
{&vllmVersion, "vllm_version"},
{&vllmABIVersion, "vllm_abi_version"},
} {
purego.RegisterLibFunc(lf.ptr, lib, lf.name)
}
if v := vllmABIVersion(); v != abiVersion {
return fmt.Errorf("vllm-cpp: ABI mismatch: library reports v%d, backend built against v%d", v, abiVersion)
}
return nil
}
// cString returns a NUL-terminated byte slice for s. The backing array may be
// passed to C for the duration of a call (the ABI borrows and copies); keep it
// alive across the call with runtime.KeepAlive.
func cString(s string) []byte {
b := make([]byte, len(s)+1)
copy(b, s)
return b
}
// cStringArray builds a NULL-free array of C-string pointers plus the backing
// buffers that must stay alive for the duration of the C call.
func cStringArray(ss []string) (ptrs []uintptr, backing [][]byte) {
backing = make([][]byte, 0, len(ss))
ptrs = make([]uintptr, 0, len(ss))
for _, s := range ss {
b := cString(s)
backing = append(backing, b)
ptrs = append(ptrs, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0]))) // #nosec G103 -- borrowed by C for the call only
}
return ptrs, backing
}
// goString copies a NUL-terminated C string.
func goString(p uintptr) string {
if p == 0 {
return ""
}
//nolint:govet // C-owned pointer handed over by purego, valid for this call
base := unsafe.Pointer(p) // #nosec G103 -- C-owned, copied out immediately
n := 0
for *(*byte)(unsafe.Add(base, n)) != 0 {
n++
}
if n == 0 {
return ""
}
return string(unsafe.Slice((*byte)(base), n))
}