* llama-server followups
Misc fixes for #16031
- Add back dropped ROCm build flag for multi-GPU support on windows
- Fix amdhip64_*.dll version detection for "latest" selection
- Fix embeddings API for consistent normalize behavior with prior versions
* ci: set up for automated llama.cpp update testing
* reduce batch for fa-disabled, and constrained vram
* mlx: fix v3 load bug on m5
Imagegen was incorrectly loading v3 first. This DRYs out the loading code so imagegen gets the same new v4/v3 selection logic.
* fix reload bug on embedding models
* bump version
* steer user how to enable iGPU when disabled
* broad lint fixes to sidestep CI scope glitch
* runner: Remove CGO engines, use llama-server exclusively for GGML models
Remove the vendored GGML and llama.cpp backend, CGO runner, Go model
implementations, and sample. llama-server (built from upstream llama.cpp via
FetchContent) is now the sole inference engine for GGUF-based models.
(Safetensor based models continue to run on the new MLX engine.) This allows
us to more rapidly pick up new capabilities and fixes from llama.cpp as they
come out.
On windows this now requires recent AMD driver versions to support ROCm v7 as
llama.cpp currently does not support building against v6.
* llama/compat: load Ollama-format GGUFs in llama-server
Squashed from upstream/jmorganca/llama-compat on 2026-04-29.
Source tip: 0c33775d37.
Original source commits:
- 25223160d llama/compat: add in-memory shim so llama-server can load Ollama-format GGUFs
- 7449b539a llm,server: route Ollama-format gemma3 blobs through llama/compat
- 436f2e2b1 llama/compat: make patch-apply idempotent
- 8c2c9d4c8 llama/compat: extend gemma3 handler to cover 1B and 270M blobs
- 021389f7b llama/compat: shrink clip.cpp injection from 18 lines to 1
- 61b367ec2 llama/compat: shrink patch to pure call-site hooks (34 -> 20 lines)
- 36049361c llama/compat: simplify shim (gemma3-tested)
- 8fa664865 llama/compat: add qwen35moe text handler
- db0c74530 llama/compat: add qwen35moe vision (clip) support
- 2a388da77 llama/compat: split shared infra into a util TU
- 9a69a17dc llama/compat: document non-public API dependencies
- d0f38a915 llama/compat: add gpt-oss and lfm2 handlers
- 086071822 llama/compat: add mistral3 text handler (vision TODO)
- 63bde9ff7 llama/compat: add mistral3 vision (clip) support
- 3a57b89d5 llama/compat: apply LLaMA RoPE permute to mistral3 vision Q/K
- 99cb87439 llama/compat: add qwen35, gemma4, deepseek-ocr handlers
- 2c7850dba llama/compat: add nemotron_h_moe handler (latent FFN + MTP skip)
- 9e3b54225 llama/compat: add llama4 text + clip handlers
- 034fee349 llama/compat: add gemma4 clip handler (gemma4v projector)
- 9945c5a93 server: remove dhiltgen/* compat redirect table
- 5d4539101 llama/compat: rewrite gemma4 tokenizer model to BPE
- 7e0765327 llama/compat: add glm-ocr text handler + text-loader load-op hook
- f1bd1a25a llama/compat: add glm-ocr clip handler (glm4v projector)
- 4b5cf3420 llama/compat: collapse text-loader hook back to one new patch line
- eb4ecf4fc llama/compat: extend gemma4 clip handler to gemma4a (audio)
- a23a5e76f llama/compat: fix gemma4a per-block norm tensor mapping
- cd2dcaff4 llama/compat: add embeddinggemma handler
- 1ce8a6b26 llama/compat: add qwen3-vl + qwen2.5-vl handlers
- fd98ffa1e llama/compat: add gemma3n + glm4moelite handlers
- cc7bdf0bc llama/compat: handle null buft in maybe_load_tensor
- 0c33775d3 llama/compat: disable mmap when load_op transforms text-side tensors
* refine implementation
* ci: fix windows MLX build
* ci: fix windows llama-server build
* ci: fix windows rocm build
* ci: windows mlx tuning
Shorten long-tail on build, and get OllamaSetup.exe back under 2g limit
* ci: fix windows dependencies
* win: fix dependency gathering
* disable openmp
* win: arm64 cross-compile build
also DRY out CI steps
* scheduler improvements
* ci: improvements from #15982
* win: favor ninja for faster developer builds
* win: fix build
* win: fix arm64 cross-compile
* win: avoid spaces in compiler path
* misc discovery fixes, and bos handling
* lint fixes
* win: fix arm cross-compile build/CI bugs
* llama.cpp update
* win: handle multiple CRT dirs
* vulkan: add windows iGPU detection
* fix creation bugs for patched models, other refactoring work
* tune batch size for better performance
* ci and lint fixes
* fix repeat_last_n bug
* build: revamp build for better developer UX
* amd, sampler, qwen3next fixes
* version bump
* fix mlx build
* revamp GPU discovery
Scanning the output of llama-server is turning out to be too error prone across
llama.cpp updates, so this switches to a thin dynamic library load against the
bundled GGML libraries so more details can be gathered from the API.
* version bump
* missing file
* ci: fix cache miss on rocm build
* refine vulkan dep handling
* fix ps reporting bug on full GPU load
* improve cmake wiring for customized local builds
* version bump
* docker build arg cleanup
* improve windows exit error logs
* fix community gemma4 support and ci flakes
* fix mlx unit test
* tighten up ps logic to avoid double counting fit log lines
* version bump
* fix ps view for full gpu layer offload
* add MTP wiring for llama-server and create with GGUFs
* pick best template by capabilities
* version bump
* ci: harden apt repos
* remove unused cpu core discovery
* adjust batch default logic to reduce OOMs
* support larger tool calls
* fix audio support, template show
* qwen35 mtp patch support
* flesh out dtypes
* rocm deps
* version bump
* lint fix
* block broken gfx1150 on windows
* fix qwen3.5 moe mtp tensors in patch
* mmproj oom fallback and vulkan on by default
* qwen MTP compat fix
* version bump
* ci: fix WoA cross-compile
* ci: workaround ui tool in cross-compile
* version bump
* win: enable OpenMP for CPU builds
* build: improve developer UX
* ci: windows path workaround for CPU build
* win: fix WoA dependencies
* win: fix large offset reads for mmproj patched loads
* version bump
* fix vulkan dup detection
* add OLLAMA_IGPU_ENABLE and largely disable iGPUs by default
* opt-in MTP, win large offset, integraton fixes
* fix unit test scheduler interaction hang
* fix multi-gpu filtering
* version bump
* review comments
* fix thinking level
* fix linux rocm ordering and granite 3.3 template
* version bump
* ci fix - non-shallow MLX checkout
* bypass linux sysfs unit test on windows
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* ci: speed up release builds
This should help speed things up for release. It also will help
speed up local developer builds a little.
* ci: dedup linux build steps and optimize
* review comments
MLX compiles the AIR objects with the requested -mmacosx-version-min, but its final metallib step invokes metal instead of metallib. With the macOS 26 SDK, that can stamp the Metal v3 library with a macOS 26 deployment target.
Relink the generated AIR files with metallib before install until this is fixed upstream.
* Update MLX and MLX-C
* Run MLX CGO work on a locked OS thread
MLX now relies on OS-thread-local execution state for streams, encoders, and caches. Add an mlxthread executor backed by runtime.LockOSThread and route runner initialization, model load, inference, status memory reads, and cleanup through the worker so Go goroutine migration cannot split MLX state across native threads.
Also stop caching default MLX streams before the runner owns the thread and add worker/threaded MLX regression tests.
* mlx: use common status writer
* mlx: bundle missing libjaccl on arm64
Inspired by #15793
* review comments
* mlx: Improve M5 performance with NAX
This modifies the Mac release to now have 2 builds of MLX for broader
compatibility while supporting the latest M5 hardware features. NAX requires
building with xcode 26.2 and targetting support only for OS v26 and up. Since
we want to support older MacOS versions as well, we now need 2 different MLX
builds and runtime detection logic to select the optimal version. The newer
build will detect NAX missing at runtime, so it is safe to run on pre M5 macs.
* mac: prevent generate on cross-compiles
For some versions of Xcode, cmake builds are failing due to header problems in
cross-compiling during the generate phase. Since generate is producing arch
independent generated output, we can skip this during cross-compiling.
* prefer rocm v6 on windows
Avoid building with v7 - more changes are needed
* MLX: add header vendoring and remove go build tag
This switches to using a vendoring approach for the mlx-c headers so that Go
can build without requiring a cmake first. This enables building the new MLX
based code by default. Every time cmake runs, the headers are refreshed, so we
can easily keep them in sync when we bump mlx versions. Basic Windows
and Linux support are verified.
* ci: harden for flaky choco repo servers
CI sometimes fails due to choco not actually installing cache. Since it just speeds up the build, we can proceed without.
* review comments
CGO_CFLAGS and CGO_CXXFLAGS were being set without optimization flags,
which overrides Go's default -O2 and results in unoptimized C++ code.
This caused significant performance degradation in release builds
compared to local `go build` which uses the default optimization.
- build_darwin.sh: add -O3 to CGO_CFLAGS and CGO_CXXFLAGS exports
- Dockerfile: preserve CGO_CFLAGS/CGO_CXXFLAGS from build args instead
of overwriting them
- app/README.md: update documentation to include -O3
* MLX - dynamic loading of mlx-c
Create a wrapper layer to indirect the dependency on mlx-c so
the main ollama binary does not have a load-time dependency on mlx-c, mlx, and on linux, cuda. Lazy load the library via dlopen
so we can adjust the path to ensure the dependencies are found
and fail gracefully if not present.
* review comments
* fix broken tests
Add --norsrc flag to ditto commands when creating Ollama-darwin.zip
to exclude AppleDouble resource fork files (._* files) from the archive.
The mlx.metallib file has extended attributes, which causes ditto to
include a ._mlx.metallib AppleDouble file in the zip. Since this file
is not part of the code signature seal, macOS rejects the bundle during
auto-update verification with:
"a sealed resource is missing or invalid"
"file added: .../._mlx.metallib"
The --norsrc flag prevents ditto from preserving resource forks and
extended attributes, ensuring only signed files are included in the
release archive.
- Install mlx.metallib for arm64 builds (required for Metal GPU acceleration)
- Apply rpath settings to all macOS builds, not just x86_64
- Add CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH to avoid install_name_tool errors
- Update build_darwin.sh to copy, sign, and package the metallib
* WIP - MLX backend with gemma3
* MLX: add cmake and go tag build toggles
To build the new MLX backend code:
cmake --preset MLX
cmake --build --preset MLX --parallel
cmake --install build --component MLX
go build -tags mlx .
Note: the main.go entrypoint for the MLX engine will change in a follow up commit.
* add experimental image generation runtime
* add experimental image generation runtime
* MLX: wire up cuda build for linux
* MLX: get dependencies correct and dedup
This is still too large for a unified github artifact, but is now "correct" for the mlx_cuda_v13
directory.
* fix relative link bug in dedup
* Add darwin build and readme
* add go build tag for mlx dependent code and wire up build_darwin.sh
* lint cleanup
* macos: build mlx for x86
This will be CPU only.
* cuda build instructions and fix drift from mlx bump
* stale comment
* Delete agent helper doc
* Clean up readme.md
* Revise README for tokenizer clarity and details
Updated README to clarify tokenizer functionality and removed correctness section.
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* app: add code for macOS and Windows apps under 'app'
* app: add readme
* app: windows and linux only for now
* ci: fix ui CI validation
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* add build to .dockerignore
* test: only build one arch
* add build to .gitignore
* fix ccache path
* filter amdgpu targets
* only filter if autodetecting
* Don't clobber gpu list for default runner
This ensures the GPU specific environment variables are set properly
* explicitly set CXX compiler for HIP
* Update build_windows.ps1
This isn't complete, but is close. Dependencies are missing, and it only builds the "default" preset.
* build: add ollama subdir
* add .git to .dockerignore
* docs: update development.md
* update build_darwin.sh
* remove unused scripts
* llm: add cwd and build/lib/ollama to library paths
* default DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in runner on macOS
* add additional cmake output vars for msvc
* interim edits to make server detection logic work with dll directories like lib/ollama/cuda_v12
* remove unncessary filepath.Dir, cleanup
* add hardware-specific directory to path
* use absolute server path
* build: linux arm
* cmake install targets
* remove unused files
* ml: visit each library path once
* build: skip cpu variants on arm
* build: install cpu targets
* build: fix workflow
* shorter names
* fix rocblas install
* docs: clean up development.md
* consistent build dir removal in development.md
* silence -Wimplicit-function-declaration build warnings in ggml-cpu
* update readme
* update development readme
* llm: update library lookup logic now that there is one runner (#8587)
* tweak development.md
* update docs
* add windows cuda/rocm tests
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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
In 0.5.2 we simplified packaging to have avx only for macos x86. It looks like
there may still be some non-AVX systems out there, so this puts back the prior
logic of building no-AVX for the primary binary, and now 2 runners for avx and avx2.
These will be packaged in the App bundle only, so the stand-alone binary will now be
without AVX support on macos. On arm, we'll also see these runners reported
as available in the log, but they're dormant and will never be used at runtime.
* llama: wire up builtin runner
This adds a new entrypoint into the ollama CLI to run the cgo built runner.
On Mac arm64, this will have GPU support, but on all other platforms it will
be the lowest common denominator CPU build. After we fully transition
to the new Go runners more tech-debt can be removed and we can stop building
the "default" runner via make and rely on the builtin always.
* build: Make target improvements
Add a few new targets and help for building locally.
This also adjusts the runner lookup to favor local builds, then
runners relative to the executable, and finally payloads.
* Support customized CPU flags for runners
This implements a simplified custom CPU flags pattern for the runners.
When built without overrides, the runner name contains the vector flag
we check for (AVX) to ensure we don't try to run on unsupported systems
and crash. If the user builds a customized set, we omit the naming
scheme and don't check for compatibility. This avoids checking
requirements at runtime, so that logic has been removed as well. This
can be used to build GPU runners with no vector flags, or CPU/GPU
runners with additional flags (e.g. AVX512) enabled.
* Use relative paths
If the user checks out the repo in a path that contains spaces, make gets
really confused so use relative paths for everything in-repo to avoid breakage.
* Remove payloads from main binary
* install: clean up prior libraries
This removes support for v0.3.6 and older versions (before the tar bundle)
and ensures we clean up prior libraries before extracting the bundle(s).
Without this change, runners and dependent libraries could leak when we
update and lead to subtle runtime errors.
Having v11 support hard-coded into the cgo settings causes warnings
for newer Xcode versions. This should help keep the build clean for users
building from source with the latest tools, while still allow us to target
the older OS via our CI processes.
* Re-introduce the llama package
This PR brings back the llama package, making it possible to call llama.cpp and
ggml APIs from Go directly via CGo. This has a few advantages:
- C APIs can be called directly from Go without needing to use the previous
"server" REST API
- On macOS and for CPU builds on Linux and Windows, Ollama can be built without
a go generate ./... step, making it easy to get up and running to hack on
parts of Ollama that don't require fast inference
- Faster build times for AVX,AVX2,CUDA and ROCM (a full build of all runners
takes <5 min on a fast CPU)
- No git submodule making it easier to clone and build from source
This is a big PR, but much of it is vendor code except for:
- llama.go CGo bindings
- example/: a simple example of running inference
- runner/: a subprocess server designed to replace the llm/ext_server package
- Makefile an as minimal as possible Makefile to build the runner package for
different targets (cpu, avx, avx2, cuda, rocm)
Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
* cache: Clear old KV cache entries when evicting a slot
When forking a cache entry, if no empty slots are available we
evict the least recently used one and copy over the KV entries
from the closest match. However, this copy does not overwrite
existing values but only adds new ones. Therefore, we need to
clear the old slot first.
This change fixes two issues:
- The KV cache fills up and runs out of space even though we think
we are managing it correctly
- Performance gets worse over time as we use new cache entries that
are not hot in the processor caches
* doc: explain golang objc linker warning (#6830)
* llama: gather transitive dependencies for rocm for dist packaging (#6848)
* Refine go server makefiles to be more DRY (#6924)
This breaks up the monolithic Makefile for the Go based runners into a
set of utility files as well as recursive Makefiles for the runners.
Files starting with the name "Makefile" are buildable, while files that
end with ".make" are utilities to include in other Makefiles. This
reduces the amount of nearly identical targets and helps set a pattern
for future community contributions for new GPU runner architectures.
When we are ready to switch over to the Go runners, these files should
move to the top of the repo, and we should add targets for the main CLI,
as well as a helper "install" (put all the built binaries on the local
system in a runnable state) and "dist" target (generate the various
tar/zip files for distribution) for local developer use.
* llama: don't create extraneous directories (#6988)
* llama: Exercise the new build in CI (#6989)
Wire up some basic sanity testing in CI for the Go runner. GPU runners are not covered yet.
* llama: Refine developer docs for Go server (#6842)
This enhances the documentation for development focusing on the new Go
server. After we complete the transition further doc refinements
can remove the "transition" discussion.
* runner.go: Allocate batches for all sequences during init
We should tell the model that we could have full batches for all
sequences. We already do this when we allocate the batches but it was
missed during initialization.
* llama.go: Don't return nil from Tokenize on zero length input
Potentially receiving nil in a non-error condition is surprising to
most callers - it's better to return an empty slice.
* runner.go: Remove stop tokens from cache
If the last token is EOG then we don't return this and it isn't
present in the cache (because it was never submitted to Decode).
This works well for extending the cache entry with a new sequence.
However, for multi-token stop sequences, we won't return any of the
tokens but all but the last one will be in the cache. This means
when the conversation continues the cache will contain tokens that
don't overlap with the new prompt.
This works (we will pick up the portion where there is overlap) but
it causes unnecessary cache thrashing because we will fork the original
cache entry as it is not a perfect match.
By trimming the cache to the tokens that we actually return this
issue can be avoided.
* runner.go: Simplify flushing of pending tokens
* runner.go: Update TODOs
* runner.go: Don't panic when processing sequences
If there is an error processing a sequence, we should return a
clean HTTP error back to Ollama rather than panicing. This will
make us more resilient to transient failures.
Panics can still occur during startup as there is no way to serve
requests if that fails.
Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* runner.go: More accurately capture timings
Currently prompt processing time doesn't capture the that it takes
to tokenize the input, only decoding time. We should capture the
full process to more accurately reflect reality. This is especially
true once we start processing images where the initial processing
can take significant time. This is also more consistent with the
existing C++ runner.
* runner.go: Support for vision models
In addition to bringing feature parity with the C++ runner, this also
incorporates several improvements:
- Cache prompting works with images, avoiding the need to re-decode
embeddings for every message in a conversation
- Parallelism is supported, avoiding the need to restrict to one
sequence at a time. (Though for now Ollama will not schedule
them while we might need to fall back to the old runner.)
Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
* runner.go: Move Unicode checking code and add tests
* runner.go: Export external cache members
Runner and cache are in the same package so the change doesn't
affect anything but it is more internally consistent.
* runner.go: Image embedding cache
Generating embeddings from images can take significant time (on
my machine between 100ms and 8s depending on the model). Although
we already cache the result of decoding these images, the embeddings
need to be regenerated every time. This is not necessary if we get
the same image over and over again, for example, during a conversation.
This currently uses a very small cache with a very simple algorithm
but it is easy to improve as is warranted.
* llama: catch up on patches
Carry forward solar-pro and cli-unicode patches
* runner.go: Don't re-allocate memory for every batch
We can reuse memory allocated from batch to batch since batch
size is fixed. This both saves the cost of reallocation as well
keeps the cache lines hot.
This results in a roughly 1% performance improvement for token
generation with Nvidia GPUs on Linux.
* runner.go: Default to classic input cache policy
The input cache as part of the go runner implemented a cache
policy that aims to maximize hit rate in both single and multi-
user scenarios. When there is a cache hit, the response is
very fast.
However, performance is actually slower when there is an input
cache miss due to worse GPU VRAM locality. This means that
performance is generally better overall for multi-user scenarios
(better input cache hit rate, locality was relatively poor already).
But worse for single users (input cache hit rate is about the same,
locality is now worse).
This defaults the policy back to the old one to avoid a regression
but keeps the new one available through an environment variable
OLLAMA_MULTIUSER_CACHE. This is left undocumented as the goal is
to improve this in the future to get the best of both worlds
without user configuration.
For inputs that result in cache misses, on Nvidia/Linux this
change improves performance by 31% for prompt processing and
13% for token generation.
* runner.go: Increase size of response channel
Generally the CPU can easily keep up with handling reponses that
are generated but there's no reason not to let generation continue
and handle things in larger batches if needed.
* llama: Add CI to verify all vendored changes have patches (#7066)
Make sure we don't accidentally merge changes in the vendored code
that aren't also reflected in the patches.
* llama: adjust clip patch for mingw utf-16 (#7065)
* llama: adjust clip patch for mingw utf-16
* llama: ensure static linking of runtime libs
Avoid runtime dependencies on non-standard libraries
* runner.go: Enable llamafile (all platforms) and BLAS (Mac OS)
These are two features that are shown on llama.cpp's system info
that are currently different between the two runners. On my test
systems the performance difference is very small to negligible
but it is probably still good to equalize the features.
* llm: Don't add BOS/EOS for tokenize requests
This is consistent with what server.cpp currently does. It affects
things like token processing counts for embedding requests.
* runner.go: Don't cache prompts for embeddings
Our integration with server.cpp implicitly disables prompt caching
because it is not part of the JSON object being parsed, this makes
the Go runner behavior similarly.
Prompt caching has been seen to affect the results of text completions
on certain hardware. The results are not wrong either way but they
are non-deterministic. However, embeddings seem to be affected even
on hardware that does not show this behavior for completions. For
now, it is best to maintain consistency with the existing behavior.
* runner.go: Adjust debug log levels
Add system info printed at startup and quiet down noisier logging.
* llama: fix compiler flag differences (#7082)
Adjust the flags for the new Go server to more closely match the
generate flow
* llama: refine developer docs (#7121)
* llama: doc and example clean up (#7122)
* llama: doc and example clean up
* llama: Move new dockerfile into llama dir
Temporary home until we fully transition to the Go server
* llama: runner doc cleanup
* llama.go: Add description for Tokenize error case
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Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <dhiltgen@users.noreply.github.com>
* Optimize container images for startup
This change adjusts how to handle runner payloads to support
container builds where we keep them extracted in the filesystem.
This makes it easier to optimize the cpu/cuda vs cpu/rocm images for
size, and should result in faster startup times for container images.
* Refactor payload logic and add buildx support for faster builds
* Move payloads around
* Review comments
* Converge to buildx based helper scripts
* Use docker buildx action for release
If a VERSION is not specified, this will generate a version string that
represents the state of the repo. For example `0.1.21-12-gffaf52e-dirty`
representing 12 commits away from 0.1.21 tag, on commit gffaf52e
and the tree is dirty.
