Foad Abo Dahood aac810230f metal : fix idle threads in the remaining iq mul_mv kernels for ne00 < 1024 (#28692)
* metal : fix idle threads in the remaining iq mul_mv kernels for ne00 < 1024

Generalize the row split from #28086 to the six other kernels that use the
same lane-to-block mapping: iq1_s, iq1_m, iq2_xxs, iq2_xs, iq2_s and iq3_s.

Each of them assigns one 32-element chunk per thread, so when a row has
fewer than 32 chunks the rest of the simdgroup is idle. When nb32 < 32 and
nb32 divides 32, 32/nb32 threads now share each chunk and each takes a
slice of the rows, reusing the FC_mul_mv_split function constant and the
dispatch wrapper introduced for iq3_xxs.

The plain path is untouched: wide matrices keep one thread per chunk and
N_R0_<TYPE> = 4. Only the split path uses N_R0_<TYPE>_SPLIT = 8. The
K-quants have the same idle-thread issue but a different lane mapping, so
they are left for a separate change.

* metal : offset the src0 row pointer once in the iq mul_mv kernels

q2, dh, sc, qh and signs are all derived from xr, so the row slice
offset only has to be applied to xr.

* metal : fold iq mul_mv row split into offset0

Compute row0 and row1 before initializing the source pointers and apply
the row slice directly to offset0.

This keeps x and its derived pointers on the existing path while applying
the split row offset once.
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llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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