diff --git a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
index 0120246d..7d188b56 100644
--- a/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
+++ b/examples/perplexity/perplexity.cpp
@@ -691,23 +691,24 @@ static results_perplexity perplexity(llama_context * ctx, const gpt_params & par
                 }
             }
 
+            if (my_rank == 0) {
+                // Required batch info: Operation scale, KV cache location, Logits calculation location
+                meta.n_ctx     = n_ctx;
+                meta.n_tokens  = batch.n_tokens;
+                meta.pos       = batch.pos;
+                meta.logits    = batch.logits;
+                meta.all_pos_0 = batch.all_pos_0;
+                meta.all_pos_1 = batch.all_pos_1;
+                meta.n_outputs = n_outputs;
+                meta.chunk_start_pos = start;
+            }
+
             // other ranks need to know batch info
             {
                 if (n_world > 1) {
                     meta.n_ctx = n_ctx;
 
                     if (my_rank == 0) {
-                        // Required batch info: Operation scale, KV cache location, Logits calculation location
-                        meta.n_tokens = batch.n_tokens;
-                        meta.pos      = batch.pos;
-                        meta.logits   = batch.logits; 
-
-                        meta.all_pos_0 = batch.all_pos_0;
-                        meta.all_pos_1 = batch.all_pos_1;
-
-                        meta.n_outputs = n_outputs;
-                        meta.chunk_start_pos = start;
-                        
                         llama_send_meta(ctx, &meta);
                     } else {
                         if (llama_recv_meta(ctx, &meta) == -1) {
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 9428e3bd..cc4e8ab2 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -18316,8 +18316,8 @@ static int llama_decode_internal(
         /* logits_all   */ n_outputs == n_tokens_all);
 
     // reserve output buffer
-    if (my_rank == 0 && llama_output_reserve(lctx, n_outputs) < n_outputs) {
-        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: could not reserve space for batch with %u outputs\n", __func__, n_outputs);
+    if (my_rank == 0 && llama_output_reserve(lctx, n_outputs) < (size_t)n_outputs) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: could not reserve space for batch with %llu outputs\n", __func__, n_outputs);
         return -2;
     };