spark_runtime/
weights.rs

1// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
2
3//! Weight loading from safetensors files (SBIO IORouter for filesystem I/O).
4
5use crate::gpu::{DevicePtr, GpuBackend};
6use anyhow::{Result, bail};
7use std::collections::HashMap;
8use std::path::Path;
9
10/// Advise the OS to evict a file's pages from the page cache.
11///
12/// On GB10 (unified memory), mmap'd safetensors share the GPU memory pool.
13/// After copying tensors to GPU, the mmap pages linger in the page cache,
14/// consuming memory that should be available for KV cache and inference buffers.
15/// This function tells the kernel those pages are no longer needed.
16#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
17pub(crate) fn evict_page_cache(file: &std::fs::File) {
18    use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
19    // POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED = 4 on Linux (POSIX standard).
20    // macOS lacks posix_fadvise — see the non-linux branch below.
21    const POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED: libc::c_int = 4;
22    unsafe {
23        libc::posix_fadvise(file.as_raw_fd(), 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
24    }
25}
26
27#[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
28pub(crate) fn evict_page_cache(_file: &std::fs::File) {
29    // No-op: macOS/BSD have no posix_fadvise. Apple Silicon UMA already
30    // shares page cache with the GPU pool, so eviction is unnecessary.
31}
32
33/// Data type of a weight tensor.
34#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
35pub enum WeightDtype {
36    BF16,
37    FP32,
38    FP8E4M3,
39    FP8E8M0,
40    UInt8,
41    Int64,
42    /// Keep-packed PrismML ternary Q2_0 (ggml id 42): raw on-disk blocks stay
43    /// 2-bit in VRAM (fp16 scale + 2-bit codes per group of `group` elements),
44    /// dequantized in-kernel by the native `q2_0_gemv` decode path. Only
45    /// produced by the GGUF loader under `AVAROK_GGUF_NATIVE_Q2=1`. Its byte
46    /// footprint is NOT a per-element size (2-bit codes + an inline scale per
47    /// group), so [`WeightDtype::byte_size`] returns 0 for this variant and the
48    /// real size is computed in [`WeightTensor::byte_size`] (shape + group).
49    PackedQ2_0 {
50        group: u16,
51    },
52    /// Raw GGUF `Q2_K` blocks kept on the device (84 bytes per 256 weights,
53    /// `[N, K]` row-major in blocks) for the K-quant GEMV/MMQ kernels.
54    Q2K,
55    /// Raw GGUF `Q3_K` blocks kept on the device (110 bytes per 256 weights).
56    Q3K,
57    /// Raw GGUF `Q6_K` blocks kept on the device (210 bytes per 256 weights):
58    /// the DeepSeek-V4.1 output head, run by the K-quant GEMV instead of a
59    /// bf16 expansion (0.82 instead of 2 bytes a weight read every token).
60    Q6K,
61}
62
63impl WeightDtype {
64    /// Bytes per element for the fixed-width dtypes. Returns 0 for the
65    /// block-based [`WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0`] — [`WeightTensor::byte_size`]
66    /// handles that variant directly, and no caller multiplies its numel by this.
67    pub fn byte_size(self) -> usize {
68        match self {
69            Self::BF16 => 2,
70            Self::FP32 => 4,
71            Self::FP8E4M3 => 1,
72            Self::FP8E8M0 => 1,
73            Self::UInt8 => 1,
74            Self::Int64 => 8,
75            Self::PackedQ2_0 { .. } => 0,
76            Self::Q2K => 0,
77            Self::Q3K => 0,
78            Self::Q6K => 0,
79        }
80    }
81
82    fn from_safetensors(dtype: safetensors::Dtype) -> Result<Self> {
83        match dtype {
84            safetensors::Dtype::BF16 => Ok(Self::BF16),
85            safetensors::Dtype::F32 => Ok(Self::FP32),
86            safetensors::Dtype::U8 => Ok(Self::UInt8),
87            // I8: raw 1-byte container for 4-bit-packed NVFP4 (DeepSeek-V4 MTP
88            // experts). Treat as UInt8 — signedness is irrelevant for packed FP4.
89            safetensors::Dtype::I8 => Ok(Self::UInt8),
90            safetensors::Dtype::F8_E4M3 => Ok(Self::FP8E4M3),
91            safetensors::Dtype::F8_E8M0 => Ok(Self::FP8E8M0),
92            safetensors::Dtype::I64 => Ok(Self::Int64),
93            other => bail!("Unsupported safetensors dtype: {other:?}"),
94        }
95    }
96
97    /// Map a raw safetensors header dtype STRING (as it appears in the JSON
98    /// header, e.g. `"BF16"`, `"F8_E4M3"`) to a [`WeightDtype`], factored out
99    /// so the RDMA weight loader (which receives dtype as a wire string in the
100    /// peer manifest, not a `safetensors::Dtype`) resolves it identically to
101    /// the disk loaders — byte-identity depends on the two ends agreeing.
102    pub fn from_safetensors_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self> {
103        Ok(match s {
104            "F32" => Self::FP32,
105            "BF16" => Self::BF16,
106            "U8" => Self::UInt8,
107            // I8 is a 1-byte raw container (packed NVFP4); signedness is
108            // irrelevant, treat as raw bytes exactly like the disk path.
109            "I8" => Self::UInt8,
110            "F8_E4M3" => Self::FP8E4M3,
111            "F8_E8M0" => Self::FP8E8M0,
112            "I64" => Self::Int64,
113            other => bail!("Unsupported safetensors dtype '{other}'"),
114        })
115    }
116}
117
118/// Convert a little-endian IEEE-754 half-precision (F16) tensor byte buffer
119/// to BF16 bytes. F16 and BF16 are both 2 bytes/element but have different
120/// bit layouts (5-bit vs 8-bit exponent), so the bytes cannot be
121/// reinterpreted — each value goes f16 → f32 (exact) → bf16
122/// (round-to-nearest-even). Shared by both disk loaders so F16 checkpoints
123/// (e.g. centml modelopt W4A4 exports, which ship all unquantized tensors as
124/// F16) land in the store as BF16; [`WeightDtype`] itself stays closed to
125/// store-legal dtypes and F16 can never appear on the RDMA wire.
126pub(crate) fn f16_to_bf16_bytes(src: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
127    use half::{bf16, f16};
128    debug_assert_eq!(src.len() % 2, 0, "F16 tensor byte length must be even");
129    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(src.len());
130    for pair in src.chunks_exact(2) {
131        let h = f16::from_le_bytes([pair[0], pair[1]]);
132        out.extend_from_slice(&bf16::from_f32(h.to_f32()).to_le_bytes());
133    }
134    out
135}
136
137/// A weight tensor on the GPU.
138pub struct WeightTensor {
139    pub ptr: DevicePtr,
140    pub shape: Vec<usize>,
141    pub dtype: WeightDtype,
142}
143
144impl WeightTensor {
145    pub fn num_elements(&self) -> usize {
146        self.shape.iter().product()
147    }
148
149    pub fn byte_size(&self) -> usize {
150        match self.dtype {
151            // Packed Q2_0: `n_blocks = numel / group` blocks of
152            // `2 + group/4` bytes (34 @ g128, 18 @ g64) — the on-disk footprint.
153            WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { group } => {
154                let g = group as usize;
155                debug_assert!(g == 128 || g == 64, "unexpected Q2_0 group {g}");
156                let n_blocks = self.num_elements() / g.max(1);
157                n_blocks * (2 + g / 4)
158            }
159            WeightDtype::Q2K => self.num_elements() / 256 * 84,
160            WeightDtype::Q3K => self.num_elements() / 256 * 110,
161            WeightDtype::Q6K => self.num_elements() / 256 * 210,
162            d => self.num_elements() * d.byte_size(),
163        }
164    }
165
166    /// The Q2_0 group size if this tensor is keep-packed ternary, else `None`.
167    pub fn q2_group(&self) -> Option<u16> {
168        match self.dtype {
169            WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { group } => Some(group),
170            _ => None,
171        }
172    }
173
174    /// True if this tensor holds keep-packed ternary Q2_0 blocks (id 42).
175    pub fn is_packed_q2(&self) -> bool {
176        matches!(self.dtype, WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { .. })
177    }
178}
179
180/// All model weights loaded onto the GPU, keyed by HuggingFace name.
181pub struct WeightStore {
182    weights: HashMap<String, WeightTensor>,
183    prepartitioned_tp: Option<(usize, usize)>,
184    /// Buffers a loader derived from these tensors — fused concats, transposed
185    /// twins, requants. Owned here so teardown RELEASES them instead of the
186    /// backend sweep reclaiming them unowned (#736, #915); see `derived.rs`.
187    derived: DerivedStore,
188    /// Tensors deliberately NOT uploaded, with where they live on disk.
189    ///
190    /// The n-gram embedding tables of the LongCat / Qwen3.8-Flash-Next family
191    /// are 63 GB (LongCat-Lite) to ~102 GB (Flash-Next) of BF16. Uploading
192    /// them through the generic path would exhaust a 121 GB unified box
193    /// before any quantization could run — and on GB10 the fallback is
194    /// `alloc_managed`, i.e. Linux swap, i.e. the documented kernel freeze.
195    /// They are skipped at load and served either by streaming per-table
196    /// quantize-on-load or straight off NVMe by `NgramRowCache`, both of
197    /// which need only this (path, offset) locator.
198    deferred: HashMap<String, DeferredTensor>,
199}
200
201mod deferred;
202pub use deferred::{DeferHook, DeferredTensor};
203
204impl WeightStore {
205    /// Create an empty weight store (for testing).
206    pub fn empty() -> Self {
207        Self {
208            weights: HashMap::new(),
209            prepartitioned_tp: None,
210            deferred: HashMap::new(),
211            derived: DerivedStore::default(),
212        }
213    }
214
215    /// Record a tensor that was skipped at load, with its on-disk location.
216    pub fn defer(&mut self, name: String, t: DeferredTensor) {
217        self.deferred.insert(name, t);
218    }
219
220    /// Look up a deferred (not-uploaded) tensor's on-disk location.
221    pub fn deferred(&self, name: &str) -> Option<&DeferredTensor> {
222        self.deferred.get(name)
223    }
224
225    /// Every deferred tensor, name-sorted (NUMERIC on a trailing index, so
226    /// `embedders.10` sorts after `embedders.2` — a lexicographic sort here
227    /// silently mis-maps the n-gram tables, which cost a real debugging
228    /// session the first time).
229    pub fn deferred_sorted(&self) -> Vec<(&String, &DeferredTensor)> {
230        let mut v: Vec<_> = self.deferred.iter().collect();
231        v.sort_by_key(|(n, _)| split_trailing_index(n));
232        v
233    }
234
235    /// Wrap a pre-built map. Used by alternate loaders (e.g.
236    /// `fast_weights::FastSafetensorsLoader`, and the RDMA weight loader in
237    /// `spark-storage`, which lives in a different crate and so needs this pub).
238    pub fn from_map(weights: HashMap<String, WeightTensor>) -> Self {
239        Self {
240            weights,
241            prepartitioned_tp: None,
242            deferred: HashMap::new(),
243            derived: DerivedStore::default(),
244        }
245    }
246
247    /// Get a weight tensor by name. Fails fast if not found.
248    pub fn get(&self, name: &str) -> Result<&WeightTensor> {
249        self.weights
250            .get(name)
251            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Weight '{name}' not found in store"))
252    }
253
254    /// Check if a weight exists.
255    pub fn contains(&self, name: &str) -> bool {
256        self.weights.contains_key(name)
257    }
258
259    /// Number of loaded weights.
260    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
261        self.weights.len()
262    }
263
264    /// True if no weights are loaded.
265    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
266        self.weights.is_empty()
267    }
268
269    /// Device bytes the store still holds. Not the on-disk load estimate:
270    /// this shrinks as `free_matching` drops tensors the binders replaced.
271    pub fn resident_bytes(&self) -> usize {
272        self.weights.values().map(|t| t.byte_size()).sum()
273    }
274
275    /// Iterator over all weight names.
276    pub fn names(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &str> {
277        self.weights.keys().map(|s| s.as_str())
278    }
279
280    /// Free and forget every tensor whose name matches `pred`. Returns
281    /// `(tensors freed, bytes freed)`.
282    ///
283    /// For loaders that do NOT bind zero-copy from the store's device pointers:
284    /// they upload their own copy, so the original is dead weight the moment the
285    /// binder returns, and on a unified-memory GB10 that duplicate is the
286    /// difference between fitting a KV cache and not.
287    ///
288    /// 🪤 The caller owns the "is it dead?" question. A tensor bound zero-copy
289    /// (every routed expert, and the fused per-expert views in
290    /// `weight_loader/step3p7.rs`) is still live in a layer struct — freeing it
291    /// here is a use-after-free with no diagnostic. Match narrowly.
292    ///
293    /// Per-entry free is sound for the same reason `release` gives below: the
294    /// loaders allocate one `gpu.alloc` per tensor, and no loader inserts an
295    /// `.offset()` view of a shared block into this map.
296    pub fn free_matching(
297        &mut self,
298        gpu: &dyn GpuBackend,
299        pred: impl Fn(&str) -> bool,
300    ) -> Result<(usize, usize)> {
301        let doomed: Vec<String> = self.weights.keys().filter(|n| pred(n)).cloned().collect();
302        let (mut count, mut bytes) = (0usize, 0usize);
303        for name in doomed {
304            // `remove` before `free`: the map must never hold a pointer to
305            // memory that is gone, even if the free below fails.
306            let Some(t) = self.weights.remove(&name) else {
307                continue;
308            };
309            bytes += t.byte_size();
310            gpu.free(t.ptr)
311                .map_err(|e| e.context(format!("freeing weight {name}")))?;
312            count += 1;
313        }
314        Ok((count, bytes))
315    }
316
317    /// The owner for buffers a loader derives from these tensors.
318    ///
319    /// `&self` because `ModelWeightLoader::load_layers` takes `&WeightStore`;
320    /// the interior `Mutex` is the whole reason `DerivedStore` exists as a
321    /// type rather than a `Vec` field. See `weights/derived.rs`.
322    pub fn derived(&self) -> &DerivedStore {
323        &self.derived
324    }
325
326    /// Total bytes across all weight tensors on the GPU.
327    pub fn total_bytes(&self) -> usize {
328        self.weights.values().map(|w| w.byte_size()).sum()
329    }
330
331    /// Check if any tensor has FP8 dtype.
332    pub fn has_fp8_weights(&self) -> bool {
333        self.weights
334            .values()
335            .any(|w| matches!(w.dtype, WeightDtype::FP8E4M3))
336    }
337
338    /// Number of per-layer FP8 KV-cache scale tensors (`*.k_scale`) the
339    /// checkpoint ships. `>0` means the model carries calibrated KV scales, so
340    /// FP8 KV needs no online calibration; `0` means the scales default to 1.0
341    /// (which clips BF16 into E4M3 range), so online calibration or a non-FP8 KV
342    /// dtype is required. Used to log the right guidance at serve time.
343    pub fn fp8_kv_scale_count(&self) -> usize {
344        self.names().filter(|n| n.ends_with(".k_scale")).count()
345    }
346}
347
348/// SBIO IORouter trait for weight loading.
349pub trait WeightLoader {
350    fn load(
351        &self,
352        model_dir: &Path,
353        gpu: &dyn GpuBackend,
354        oom_reserve_bytes: usize,
355    ) -> Result<WeightStore>;
356}
357
358/// Loads weights from safetensors files using mmap.
359pub struct SafetensorsLoader {
360    /// EP rank (0-based). Only used when ep_world_size > 1.
361    pub ep_rank: usize,
362    /// EP world size. When > 1, remote expert tensors are skipped.
363    pub ep_world_size: usize,
364    /// Total number of MoE experts in the model (for EP partitioning).
365    pub num_experts: usize,
366    /// Override for the peak memory multiplier in the pre-flight OOM check.
367    /// Set from QuantFormat::peak_memory_multiplier() in the caller.
368    /// When None, the pre-flight uses its own heuristic (1.3x NVFP4 / 1.5x FP8).
369    pub peak_memory_multiplier: Option<f64>,
370    /// Skip the W4A4 `*.input_scale` activation scales at load.
371    ///
372    /// ModelOpt NVFP4 checkpoints ship one 0-dim F32 scalar per quantized
373    /// projection. On a 512-expert model that is ~74k four-byte allocations,
374    /// each taking a full allocation granule — GBs of padding for values
375    /// Atlas never reads, because it serves w4a16 (BF16 activations) and the
376    /// NVFP4 loader already treats the key as optional.
377    ///
378    /// OPT-IN: `step3p7` reads this key on its own path, so it must stay off
379    /// unless the model's loader is known not to need it.
380    pub skip_activation_scales: bool,
381    /// Skip `mtp.*` tensors at load.
382    ///
383    /// For models whose loader deliberately does not build an MTP head,
384    /// uploading its weights is pure waste — on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next that is a
385    /// 1.49 GB expert shard plus the MTP backbone, held resident while the KV
386    /// cache goes without.
387    ///
388    /// OPT-IN: a model that DOES build an MTP head must keep them, so this is
389    /// set only where `load_mtp_weights` is known to return `None`.
390    pub skip_mtp: bool,
391    /// Tensors the MODEL's weight loader will read from disk itself, so this
392    /// loader must record their location instead of uploading them. See
393    /// [`DeferHook`] for the contract and why a loader asks for it.
394    pub defer: Option<DeferHook>,
395}
396
397impl Default for SafetensorsLoader {
398    fn default() -> Self {
399        Self::new()
400    }
401}
402
403impl SafetensorsLoader {
404    /// Create a loader with no expert parallelism (loads all tensors).
405    pub fn new() -> Self {
406        Self {
407            ep_rank: 0,
408            ep_world_size: 1,
409            num_experts: 0,
410            peak_memory_multiplier: None,
411            skip_activation_scales: false,
412            skip_mtp: false,
413            defer: None,
414        }
415    }
416
417    /// Create a loader with EP-aware filtering.
418    pub fn with_ep(ep_rank: usize, ep_world_size: usize, num_experts: usize) -> Self {
419        Self {
420            ep_rank,
421            ep_world_size,
422            num_experts,
423            peak_memory_multiplier: None,
424            skip_activation_scales: false,
425            skip_mtp: false,
426            defer: None,
427        }
428    }
429
430    /// Does the model's loader claim this tensor? `false` when no hook is set,
431    /// which is every model but the ones that opt in.
432    ///
433    /// 🪤 Consulted only for tensors `should_skip_tensor` KEPT — deferring a
434    /// tensor this rank was never going to load would put a remote expert's
435    /// location in the store and invite a binder to read it.
436    pub fn is_deferred(&self, name: &str, dtype: WeightDtype) -> bool {
437        self.defer.as_ref().is_some_and(|f| f(name, dtype))
438    }
439
440    /// Check if a tensor should be skipped under EP.
441    /// Skips `*.experts.{E}.*` tensors where E is not in local range.
442    /// MTP head experts are never skipped (small, fully replicated).
443    ///
444    /// 🪤 The MTP exemption keys on a leading `mtp.` — a DeepSeek-style name.
445    /// GLM-5.3 puts its MTP head at `model.language_model.layers.45.*` with no
446    /// `mtp.` prefix, so that layer's routed experts ARE sharded on GLM. Fine
447    /// while the MTP head is out of scope; revisit before enabling it.
448    ///
449    /// `pub` so residency can be PROVEN against a real checkpoint index
450    /// without collectives (see `spark-model/tests/glm53_ep_residency.rs`).
451    pub fn should_skip_tensor(&self, name: &str) -> bool {
452        // MTP head weights for a model whose loader does not build one.
453        if self.skip_mtp && name.starts_with("mtp.") {
454            return true;
455        }
456        // W4A4 activation scales: never read on the w4a16 path (the NVFP4
457        // loader falls back to `DevicePtr::NULL`), and 4-byte allocations are
458        // almost pure granule padding at expert scale.
459        if self.skip_activation_scales && name.ends_with(".input_scale") {
460            return true;
461        }
462        if self.ep_world_size <= 1 {
463            return false;
464        }
465        // MTP head experts are small — always replicate, never shard.
466        if name.starts_with("mtp.") {
467            return false;
468        }
469        // Parse expert index from patterns like "*.experts.42.gate_proj*"
470        if let Some(idx) = parse_expert_index(name) {
471            let per_rank = self.num_experts / self.ep_world_size;
472            let local_start = self.ep_rank * per_rank;
473            let local_end = if self.ep_rank == self.ep_world_size - 1 {
474                self.num_experts
475            } else {
476                local_start + per_rank
477            };
478            idx < local_start || idx >= local_end
479        } else {
480            false // Non-expert tensors are always loaded (replicated)
481        }
482    }
483}
484
485/// Split a tensor name into (everything but its last numeric path segment,
486/// that segment as a number) so names sort NUMERICALLY on the index.
487/// `embedders.2` must precede `embedders.10`; a plain lexicographic sort puts
488/// `10` first and silently mis-maps every table after the ninth.
489pub mod adapter;
490mod derived;
491pub use derived::DerivedStore;
492mod gguf;
493mod k3;
494mod loader;
495pub use k3::K3SafetensorsLoader;
496pub mod mlx_int8;
497pub use gguf::dequant_cpu;
498pub use gguf::expert_stream;
499pub use gguf::{GgufLoader, GgufShardSet, config_from_gguf_dir, find_gguf, find_gguf_shards};
500pub(crate) use loader::estimate_load_bytes;
501// Platform-independent: consumed by the unix-only fast-weights (O_DIRECT) path
502// AND by the GGUF loader, which builds everywhere. Gating this on `unix` broke
503// the Windows CUDA build the moment `gguf.rs` started using it.
504pub(crate) use loader::check_oom_guard;
505// Consumed by the unix-only fast-weights (O_DIRECT) loader path.
506#[cfg(unix)]
507pub(crate) use loader::estimate_has_fp8;
508
509mod name_utils;
510pub(crate) use name_utils::split_trailing_index;
511pub use name_utils::{is_ngram_table, parse_expert_index};
512
513#[cfg(test)]
514mod packed_q2_tests;
515mod prefix_detect;
516pub use prefix_detect::auto_detect_weight_prefix;
517
518mod release;
519
520#[cfg(test)]
521mod teardown_tests;