Max Krasnyansky eafe15a5e3 hexagon: support for multi-device model split (aka row-split) (#28589)
* hex-row-split: add support for multi-device row spliting

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

* hex-mdev: add work splitting to fused kernels

* hex-mdev: use mdev_ prefix for all multi-device state

* hex-mdev: make device configuration more expressive to support device groups

* hex-mdev: fix mdev session init

* hex-mdev: fused nx (2x,3x) matmuls must update row counts for each w/o

* hex-mdev: fix MUL_MAT work partitioning bugs introduced by mdev

* hex-cont: fix crashes with new tests due to wrong striding

* hex-mdev: move fences after l2flushes

* hex-cont: fix work splitting for mnpu -- align chunks to cachelines

* hex-mdev: fix CPY tests with multi-dev

* hex-mmid: fix work partitioning with mnpu

* hex-mm: fix test failures with mdev

* hex-binary: fix work partitioning for mdev

* hex-argsort: fix mdev partitioning

* hex-mdev: fix work partitioning and general updates for all simple ops

* hex-fa: fix mdev work splitting issues

* hex-mdev: fixing more failing ops test

* hex-mdev: update the rest of the ops

* hex-mdev: refactor all mdev splitting logic to be contained within if (mdev_count > 1) {...}

* hex-mdev: fix macros

* hex-mdev: simplify session flush logic

* hex-sync: fix recursion in session flush

* hex-mdev: factor out fence buffer and allocator

* hex-fence: make fence allocation more robust with reserved slots for mdev

* hex-mdev: keep all mdev state in htp_mdev_group

* hex-mdev: further cleanup mdev group handling at the host

* hex-mdev: update group idx in the opbatch before serializing

* hex-batch: remove separate op_pending and use batch_req/rsp_seq

* hex-async: workaround another missing tensor_init in ggml-meta

* hex-fence: cleanup and robustify fences and error handling in multi-device scenarios

* hex-ar: improve ALLREDUCE error handling

* hex-async: robust error handling for op_cpy_fence

* hex-async: use seq0 from allreduce context to allocate fence_seq

* hex-mdev: fix remaining issues with fence and barrier clearing in CPY_FENCE

* hex-misc: realign macros and fix misplaces trace events

* hex-misc: align macros

* hex-mdev: fix unclone buffer re-entrancy

* hex-glu: fix mdev partitioning logic

* hex-mdev: make buffer uncloning/cleanup work with tensor-split scenarios

* hex-mdev: tighten up the can_split check in act-ops

* hex-mdev: factor out common bits of the partitioning logic

* hex-mm: minor realignment of the macros

* hex-bufs: fix incorrectly placed assert for MAX_BUFS

* hex-pad: tighten up gating checks for PAD

* hex-kparams: make sure all kernels properly use kparams->n_threads

* hex-docs: update user and developer docs with new features and detailed guide for ops development

* hex-scripts: update run script to properly parse dev groups

* hex-misc: formatting

* hex-sess: minor cleanup for session init

* hex-ar: fix vtcm size calc in allreduce kparams

* hex-scripts: fix flake8 warnings

* hex-rope: update ROPE to support mdev work split

* hex-ops: remove redunant checks and minor reformat

* hex-dev-guide: update dev-guide to avoid redundant null checks

* hex-async: improve event_wait, event_sync and fence implementations

* hex-async: remove synchronous flush from event_sync

* hex-async: symplify fence recovery protocol and make sync more robust

* hex-async: futher simplify error recovery for fences

* hex-err: return status instead of just -1

* hex-async: print all seq nums in hex

* hex-async: make sure fences flush dirty ranges

* hex-async: add dirty ranges merging to reduce fence flushes

* hex-async: properly sync before freeing the event

* hex-async: make sure fence owner session is not overriden

* hex-async: more fence write order more robust

* hex-async: make sure not to fuse ALLREDUCE+ADD if their dsts overlap

* hex-fusion: cleanup redundant checks

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Co-authored-by: Alexander Lu <alexlu@qti.qualcomm.com>
2026-09-11 20:46:51 -07:00
2026-06-12 15:53:26 +02:00
2026-02-02 08:38:55 +02:00
2026-09-09 15:56:27 +02:00

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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