Merge commit '00131d6eaf' into concedo_experimental

# Conflicts:
#	docs/ops.md
#	examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
#	ggml/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.h
#	ggml/src/ggml-cann/ggml-cann.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-hip/CMakeLists.txt
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/cpy.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/cpy.hpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
#	ggml/src/ggml-sycl/set_rows.cpp
#	scripts/server-bench.py
#	tests/CMakeLists.txt
#	tests/test-backend-ops.cpp
#	tests/test-thread-safety.cpp
#	tools/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp

examples/embedding/embedding.cpp

@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     params.embedding = true;
 
+    // if the number of prompts that would be encoded is known in advance, it's more efficient to specify the
+    //   --parallel argument accordingly. for convenience, if not specified, we fallback to unified KV cache
+    //   in order to support any number of prompts
+    if (params.n_parallel == 1) {
+        LOG_INF("%s: n_parallel == 1 -> unified KV cache is enabled\n", __func__);
+        params.kv_unified = true;
+    }
+
     // utilize the full context
     if (params.n_batch < params.n_ctx) {
         LOG_WRN("%s: setting batch size to %d\n", __func__, params.n_ctx);