llama: add default load-mode auto, which avoids mmap on iGPUs (#26081)

* llama: add new default load-mode auto which picks mmap unless a non-Metal iGPU is used

* Update ggml/src/ggml-hexagon/ggml-hexagon.cpp

Co-authored-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>

* set mmap_support to false on OpenCL backend

* fix order of load modes

* use -1 for auto

* resolve load mode auto earlier to correctly pick gpu host or cpu memory

* add load mode auto to llama-bench

* bump virtgpu api version, regenerate docs

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Co-authored-by: Piotr Wilkin (ilintar) <piotr.wilkin@syndatis.com>
Co-authored-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
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Ruben Ortlam
2026-08-11 08:20:46 +02:00
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parent b3df57286c
commit 153d324bcf
33 changed files with 75 additions and 29 deletions
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@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ llama_model_loader::llama_model_loader(
tensor_buft_overrides = param_tensor_buft_overrides_p;
this->use_mmap = load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MMAP || load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MMAP_MLOCK;
this->use_mmap = load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MMAP || load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MMAP_MLOCK || load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_AUTO;
this->use_direct_io = load_mode == LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_DIRECT_IO;
if (!fname.empty()) {