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metal : fix NORM/RMS_NORM for row lengths that leave a partial simdgroup (#26708)
ggml_metal_op_norm sized the threadgroup with
`nth = std::min(nth, args.ne00_t)`, which can leave nth not a multiple of
the simdgroup size. The kernels finish their row reduction with a
cross-simdgroup step where each lane of the last simdgroup reads one
per-simdgroup partial sum out of shmem_f32:

    if (tiisg == 0) { shmem_f32[sgitg] = sumf; }
    threadgroup_barrier(mem_flags::mem_threadgroup);
    sumf = shmem_f32[tiisg];
    sumf = simd_sum(sumf);

When the last simdgroup is partial it has fewer lanes than the
threadgroup has simdgroups, so the tail of the partial sums is never
read and the row sum is too small. For ne00_t = 33 nth becomes 33: two
simdgroups, but only one lane in the second, so one of the two partial
sums is dropped. The mean and variance are then wrong for the whole row.

Round ne00_t up to a whole number of simdgroups instead. Rounding up
rather than dropping the clamp keeps the threadgroup as small as
possible: deleting the line would raise nth to the next power of two
(ne00_t = 544 -> 1024 instead of 544), which costs idle lanes on 26 row
lengths below 8192 that were already correct, including 1536 and 3584.

GGML_OP_NORM is affected as well as GGML_OP_RMS_NORM - both dispatch
through ggml_metal_op_norm.

No mainstream LLM hidden size hits this: ne00_t is ne00/4 on the
vectorized path, so 4096, 8192, 2048 and friends all give a multiple of
32. It is reachable from other norm shapes, e.g. 320-channel norms.

Add NORM and RMS_NORM cases for ne0 = 33, 132 and 260 across the
existing eps values. 33 exercises the scalar path and 132/260 the
vectorized one, since only those divide by 4.

Before, on M3 Pro:

    test-backend-ops test -b MTL0 -o NORM        25/50
    test-backend-ops test -b MTL0 -o RMS_NORM    26/51

After:

    test-backend-ops test -b MTL0 -o NORM        50/50
    test-backend-ops test -b MTL0 -o RMS_NORM    51/51
    test-backend-ops test -b MTL0                13943/13943
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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 [In Progress] 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
  • stb-image - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • miniaudio.h - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain