ggml-backend: Don't recreate the scheduler for each context

We don't need to create and destroy the GGML scheduler for every
context. This introduces extra CPU overhead for every forward
pass and extra memory for contexts that don't actually get scheduled
(for example, KV caches). We can instead just have one scheduler
for the backend and reset it each time we call Compute.

This improves token generation performance by 1-2% and removes
scheduler create/destroy from profile traces.
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Jesse Gross 2025-02-18 16:52:29 -08:00 committed by Jesse Gross
parent bd6a7d5e64
commit e5bcc51ae1

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@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ type Backend struct {
meta *fs.GGML
cpus, gpus []Context
tensors map[string]*Context
sched *C.struct_ggml_backend_sched
}
func New(r *os.File, params ml.BackendParams) (ml.Backend, error) {
@ -182,10 +184,24 @@ func New(r *os.File, params ml.BackendParams) (ml.Backend, error) {
return nil, err
}
backends := make([]*C.struct_ggml_backend, len(gpus)+len(cpus))
bufts := make([]*C.struct_ggml_backend_buffer_type, len(gpus)+len(cpus))
for i, c := range append(gpus, cpus...) {
backends[i] = c.backend
bufts[i] = C.ggml_backend_get_default_buffer_type(c.backend)
}
return &Backend{
meta: meta,
cpus: cpus,
gpus: gpus,
sched: C.ggml_backend_sched_new(
(*C.ggml_backend_t)(unsafe.Pointer(&backends[0])),
(*C.ggml_backend_buffer_type_t)(unsafe.Pointer(&bufts[0])),
C.int(len(backends)),
C.size_t(max(8192, len(meta.Tensors().Items())*5)),
true,
),
}, nil
}
@ -219,31 +235,23 @@ func (b *Backend) NewContext() ml.Context {
})
backends := make([]*C.struct_ggml_backend, len(b.gpus)+len(b.cpus))
bufts := make([]*C.struct_ggml_backend_buffer_type, len(b.gpus)+len(b.cpus))
for i, c := range append(b.gpus, b.cpus...) {
backends[i] = c.backend
bufts[i] = C.ggml_backend_get_default_buffer_type(c.backend)
}
return &Context{
b: b,
ctx: c,
backend: backends[0],
nodes: nodes,
sched: C.ggml_backend_sched_new(
(*C.ggml_backend_t)(unsafe.Pointer(&backends[0])),
(*C.ggml_backend_buffer_type_t)(unsafe.Pointer(&bufts[0])),
C.int(len(backends)),
C.size_t(nodes),
true,
),
}
}
type Context struct {
b *Backend
ctx *C.struct_ggml_context
backend *C.struct_ggml_backend
sched *C.struct_ggml_backend_sched
graph *C.struct_ggml_cgraph
nodes int
}
@ -257,12 +265,13 @@ func (c *Context) Forward(t ml.Tensor) {
}
func (c *Context) Compute(tensors ...ml.Tensor) {
C.ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async(c.sched, c.graph)
C.ggml_backend_sched_graph_compute_async(c.b.sched, c.graph)
C.ggml_backend_sched_reset(c.b.sched)
needSync := true
sync := func() {
if needSync {
C.ggml_backend_sched_synchronize(c.sched)
C.ggml_backend_sched_synchronize(c.b.sched)
needSync = false
}
}
@ -350,7 +359,6 @@ func (c Context) FromIntSlice(s []int32, shape ...int) (ml.Tensor, error) {
func (c *Context) Close() {
if c != nil {
C.ggml_backend_sched_free(c.sched)
C.ggml_free(c.ctx)
}
}