Problem: Model loading takes 2-3 minutes on first load with no user feedback,
causing confusion about whether the system is frozen or working.
Root Cause: GPU initialization (reserveWorstCaseGraph) takes ~164 seconds on
Tesla K80 GPUs due to CUDA kernel compilation (PTX JIT for compute 3.7). This
is by design - it validates GPU compatibility before committing to full load.
Solution:
1. Add comprehensive timing instrumentation to identify bottlenecks
2. Add user-facing progress messages explaining the delay
Changes:
- cmd/cmd.go: Update spinner with informative message for users
- llama/llama.go: Add timing logs for CGO model loading
- runner/llamarunner/runner.go: Add detailed timing for llama runner
- runner/ollamarunner/runner.go: Add timing + stderr messages for new engine
- server/sched.go: Add timing for scheduler load operation
User Experience:
Before: Silent wait with blinking cursor for 2-3 minutes
After: Rotating spinner with message "loading model (may take 1-3 min on first load)"
Performance Metrics Captured:
- GGUF file reading: ~0.4s
- GPU kernel compilation: ~164s (bottleneck identified)
- Model weight loading: ~0.002s
- Total end-to-end: ~165s
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This commit represents a complete rework after pulling the latest changes from
official ollama/ollama repository and re-applying Tesla K80 compatibility patches.
## Key Changes
### CUDA Compute Capability 3.7 Support (Tesla K80)
- Added sm_37 (compute 3.7) to CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES in CMakeLists.txt
- Updated CMakePresets.json to include compute 3.7 in "CUDA 11" preset
- Using 37-virtual (PTX with JIT compilation) for maximum compatibility
### Legacy Toolchain Compatibility
- **NVIDIA Driver**: 470.256.02 (last version supporting Kepler/K80)
- **CUDA Version**: 11.4.4 (last CUDA 11.x supporting compute 3.7)
- **GCC Version**: 10.5.0 (required by CUDA 11.4 host_config.h)
### CPU Architecture Trade-offs
Due to GCC 10.5 limitation, sacrificed newer CPU optimizations:
- Alderlake CPU variant enabled WITHOUT AVX_VNNI (requires GCC 11+)
- Still supports: SSE4.2, AVX, F16C, AVX2, BMI2, FMA
- Performance impact: ~3-7% on newer CPUs (acceptable for K80 compatibility)
### Build System Updates
- Modified ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/CMakeLists.txt for compute 3.7
- Added -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets flag to suppress warnings
- Updated ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/CMakeLists.txt for Alderlake without AVX_VNNI
### Upstream Sync
Merged latest llama.cpp changes including:
- Enhanced KV cache management with ISWA and hybrid memory support
- Improved multi-modal support (mtmd framework)
- New model architectures (Gemma3, Llama4, Qwen3, etc.)
- GPU backend improvements for CUDA, Metal, and ROCm
- Updated quantization support and GGUF format handling
### Documentation
- Updated CLAUDE.md with comprehensive build instructions
- Documented toolchain constraints and CPU architecture trade-offs
- Removed outdated CI/CD workflows (tesla-k80-*.yml)
- Cleaned up temporary development artifacts
## Rationale
This fork maintains Tesla K80 GPU support (compute 3.7) which was dropped in
official Ollama due to legacy driver/CUDA requirements. The toolchain constraint
creates a deadlock:
- K80 → Driver 470 → CUDA 11.4 → GCC 10 → No AVX_VNNI
We accept the loss of cutting-edge CPU optimizations to enable running modern
LLMs on legacy but still capable Tesla K80 hardware (12GB VRAM per GPU).
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Resolves two critical issues preventing robust model switching:
1. Scheduler deadlock: Fixed improper loop control flow that prevented
model unloading from triggering after conflict detection. Added proper
multi-GPU conflict detection and unload sequencing.
2. Silent inference failures: Changed critical cudaSetDevice() calls from
graceful error handling back to CUDA_CHECK to prevent models from
appearing to load successfully but failing silently during inference.
Result: Robust Tesla K80 dual-GPU model switching with self-healing
recovery instead of requiring system reboots.
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gpt-oss works best with a context length of at least 8k. However,
for GPUs with limited amount of VRAM, there is a significant
performance hit to this increased context. In these cases, we
switch to the Ollama default of 4k
afaik gpt-oss is the first model that meaningfully transforms tool
function definitions in its template. We found that relatively common
definitions that include `anyOf` were not working because the template
was assuming that types were always defined via a `type` field.
anyOf allows for fully recursive types, so I exposed a
`toTypeScriptType()` function to handle this recursive logic in go and
keep the templates cleaner. The gpt-oss templates will need to be
updated to use this.
We should keep building out our function definition support to more
fully support the parts of json schema that make sense for this use
case, but in the meantime this will unblock some users (e.g., zed's
ollama integration w/ gpt-oss). Probably the most urgent is proper array
support
* bf16
* tests
* gpt-oss
* enable gptoss for engine
* rough estimate
* convert to mxfp4
* handle safetensors U8
* clamp glu/linear
* update tokenizer
* MXFP4 support
This implements the Open Compute Microscaling (MX) FP4 format
as a tensor type with backend implementations focusing
on mulmat and mulmatid on CPU, CUDA, and Metal.
* Unit tests for MXFP4 support
This exercises various operations and shapes on both CPU and GPU (if detected
on the system)
* cuda graph
* unit test adjustments
* cuda: optimize memory access
Read 4 bytes at a time (8 elements) when performing mul_mat_vec_mxfp4
* mac: fix crash on old macos versions
cblas_sgemm is only supported on v13.3 and up, however bf16 is
only supported on v14+ so we were falling back to ggml-blas and
crashing on bf16 tensors. Checking for the function being null
seems to be the simplest way to condittionally avoid registering the
backend.
* server: Minimum context length for gptoss
This model requires a minimum context length of 8192 to function
effectively. Users can set higher values through all normal mechanisms
but lower values will be silently reset.
* ggml: Multiply by numParallel for gptoss sliding window
When computing the graph size estimate, the context size is already
multiplied by numParallel so estimates reflect that. However, since
sliding window models use a smaller, fixed context size, they need
to manually take numParallel into account.
* gpt-oss integration
includes harmony parser and thinking levels, etc.
* fix sync
* fix tests
* fix lint
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Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@ollama.com>
Co-authored-by: Devon Rifkin <drifkin@drifkin.net>
The current scheduler algorithm of picking the paralellism based on available
VRAM complicates the upcoming dynamic layer memory allocation algorithm. This
changes the default to 1, with the intent going forward that parallelism is
explicit and will no longer be dynamically determined. Removal of the dynamic
logic will come in a follow up.
- Both `/api/generate` and `/api/chat` now accept a `"think"`
option that allows specifying whether thinking mode should be on or
not
- Templates get passed this new option so, e.g., qwen3's template can
put `/think` or `/no_think` in the system prompt depending on the
value of the setting
- Models' thinking support is inferred by inspecting model templates.
The prefix and suffix the parser uses to identify thinking support is
also automatically inferred from templates
- Thinking control & parsing is opt-in via the API to prevent breaking
existing API consumers. If the `"think"` option is not specified, the
behavior is unchanged from previous versions of ollama
- Add parsing for thinking blocks in both streaming/non-streaming mode
in both `/generate` and `/chat`
- Update the CLI to make use of these changes. Users can pass `--think`
or `--think=false` to control thinking, or during an interactive
session they can use the commands `/set think` or `/set nothink`
- A `--hidethinking` option has also been added to the CLI. This makes
it easy to use thinking in scripting scenarios like
`ollama run qwen3 --think --hidethinking "my question here"` where you
just want to see the answer but still want the benefits of thinking
models
When the same model is being reloaded rapidly with client connections
being canceled before the model finishes loading, the queued unload
event could cause a leak of runners by deleting a different runner from
the loaded list.
Fall back to alternative quantization types when a tensor's dimensions aren't divisible by the block size required for the original desired quantization type. If retried quantization types fail, the system ultimately falls back to F16 (half-precision floating point) which has a block size of 1 and can handle any tensor dimension.
* remove support for multiple ggufs in a single file
this was an attempt to make it easier to import multimodal models into
ollama. this was rarely used and error prone so remove it
* fix: create fused model from blob
Currently, when the backend is created, the tensors are loaded at the
same time, which is a slow operation. This separates them to be two
steps:
- Create backend, including enumerating tensors and memory allocation
- Loading tensor data
This allows more flexibility in managing model loading.
The quantization PR didn't block all unsupported file types,
which this PR fixes. It also updates the API docs to reflect
the now reduced set of supported types.
When creating a quantized model from safetensors we
need the array KV values to be loaded.Changing this
value to -1 loads the KV values on the returned
layer to be used and saved during quantization.
the stream accumulator exits as soon as it sees `api.ProgressResponse(status="success")` which isn't strictly correctly
since some requests may have multiple successes, e.g. `/api/create` when the source model needs to be pulled.
If a model is loading, and the request context is canceled during the load
by a client closing the connection, and another request is inbound for the
same model with a different configuration (context size, etc.) thus requiring
a reload, two unload events can be in flight. The first shuts down the
original model load, but the second one caused the loss of the new
reloading runner reference, thus triggering the leak.
The primary fix is detecting the duplicate unload and ignoring the second
instance. The load routine is also hardened to ensure we detect
clobbering an already present runner and unload it with a warning.
* Move quantization logic to GGML via new backend
This moves the model aware logic to Go code and calls GGMLs quantization code for model creation.
* Remove "add model quantizations"
This is no longer needed now that quantization is implemented in Go+GGML code directly.
This enhances our logging in the scheduler. The initial "waiting for server" log
no longer claims an initial error state (now "not responding" which better reflects
the actual state). Runners now have slog wiring to report more details about the
runner, including PID.
* strip out thinking tags in message history for qwen3 & r1
This is in advance of "proper" support where we'll make reasoning
configurable and we'll parse out thinking/reasoning tags and provide
them to the caller. These models expect there to be no thinking tags in
the message history, so this should improve quality
* parse model names instead of hacky prefix check
* Adjust initial scheduler refCount
Ensure we only set the refCount on success
* sched: fix lock order inversion deadlock
Under certain race conditions, there was a scenario where the scheduler would
get into a deadlock while trying to update free space information while a model
was trying to unload.
