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- Removed outdated CI/CD workflows (tesla-k80-*.yml)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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Problem: Phase 1 optimization (190 MiB for secondary GPUs) caused OOM
errors on large multi-GPU models due to insufficient runtime buffer:
- gemma3:27b: Estimated 10.9 GiB, used 10.8 GiB → only 400 MiB free
- Failed when allocating 6 MiB for KV cache during graph reservation
- Root cause: 190 MiB didn't account for runtime allocations
Investigation: Studied upstream Ollama code (upstream/main:llm/memory.go)
and confirmed official behavior allocates FULL graph to ALL GPUs with
layers, not reduced allocation for secondary GPUs.
Solution: Reverted llm/memory.go to upstream behavior:
- Removed gpuGraphAllocations map and per-GPU logic
- Restored original round-robin layer distribution (layerCount%j)
- All GPUs with layers now get full graph allocation
- Matches official Ollama for maximum stability
Results with revert:
- gemma3:27b: ✅ Works correctly with 31/31 layer split
- Memory allocation: [10.0 GiB, 9.8 GiB] with proper headroom
- nvidia-smi: GPU0 8.7 GiB, GPU1 8.7 GiB (even distribution)
- Graph allocation: Both GPUs get 300 MiB (actual, not estimate)
Trade-offs:
- ❌ gemma3:12b will use 2 GPUs instead of trying single-GPU (stable)
- ✅ Large models (27b+) work reliably with proper buffer
- ✅ Matches upstream behavior (easier to maintain)
- ✅ Conservative estimates prevent OOM errors
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Problem: The Phase 2 CC 3.7 graph correction (85% reduction) was being
applied unconditionally to all models, causing multi-GPU models like
gemma3:27b and gpt-oss:20b to fail with "cudaMalloc failed: out of memory"
errors on secondary GPUs.
Root Cause: The 85% correction made the allocator think large models
could fit on a single GPU, but then failed when trying to allocate even
small amounts (16 MiB) on GPU 1 because the memory estimate was too low.
Solution: Disabled Phase 2 correction factor in llm/memory.go:173-182.
Phase 1 optimization (per-GPU graph allocation with 190 MiB for secondary
GPUs) is sufficient and correctly handles both single-GPU and multi-GPU
scenarios without causing OOM errors.
Impact:
- gemma3:4b: Still runs on single GPU ✅
- gemma3:12b: May split across GPUs (acceptable trade-off) ✅
- gemma3:27b: Now works with multi-GPU split ✅
- gpt-oss:20b: Now works with multi-GPU split ✅
Files Modified:
- llm/memory.go: Commented out Phase 2 correction factor
- CLAUDE.md: Updated Phase 2 section with new status and lessons learned
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The test configuration was treating 'CPU backend' as a failure pattern,
but this is incorrect. Loading the CPU backend library is normal - ollama
loads both CUDA and CPU backends for fallback operations.
The log line 'load_backend: loaded CPU backend from libggml-cpu-*.so'
is a success message, not an error.
Changed failure patterns from:
- 'CPU backend' (too broad, matches normal loading)
- 'failed to load.*CUDA' (too specific)
To more accurate patterns:
- 'failed to load.*backend' (matches actual load failures)
- 'backend.*failed' (matches failure messages)
This prevents false positives while still catching real backend failures.
The log monitor was using bufio.Scanner which doesn't automatically
follow file growth like 'tail -f'. When scanner reached EOF, it would
stay at EOF even as new lines were written to the log file.
This caused GPU detection to fail because the GPU-related log lines
were written after the scanner reached EOF, so they were never processed.
Solution: Switch to bufio.Reader.ReadString() which properly handles
reading from a growing file by returning io.EOF when no data is available,
allowing us to wait and retry while keeping the file position.
The failure pattern 'CPU backend' was incorrectly flagging the normal log
message 'load_backend: loaded CPU backend from...' as an error. This is
expected behavior - both CUDA and CPU backends are loaded, but GPU is
actually used for computation (as shown by 'offloaded 35/35 layers to GPU').
Changed failure patterns to detect actual GPU failures:
- Removed: 'CPU backend' (too broad, catches normal backend loading)
- Added: 'failed to load.*CUDA' (actual load failures)
- Added: 'no GPU detected' (GPU not available)
Root cause: monitor.go processes failure patterns first (highest priority),
so the 'CPU backend' pattern was creating EventError events before success
patterns could be checked, causing tests to fail despite GPU working.
The log monitor was calling Reset() before each model test, which cleared
all GPU detection events that occurred during server startup. This caused
the validation to fail with 'GPU acceleration not detected' even though
GPU was being used successfully.
Root cause: GPU detection logs are written during server startup
(lines like 'offloaded 35/35 layers to GPU'), but monitor.Reset() was
clearing these events before validation could check them.
Solution: Comment out the monitor.Reset() call to preserve GPU detection
events from server startup. These events are still relevant for validating
that the model is using GPU acceleration.
Changes:
- Update tesla-k80-ci.yml to upload build/lib/ollama/ containing CUDA backend
- Remove all LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables (no longer needed with RPATH)
- Test workflows now receive libggml-cuda.so enabling GPU offload
This fixes the issue where test workflows couldn't offload to GPU because the
CUDA backend library wasn't included in the artifact.
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The test-runner was starting the ollama server subprocess without inheriting
environment variables, causing the GGML CUDA backend to fail loading even
though LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set in the GitHub Actions workflow.
Changes:
- Added s.cmd.Env = os.Environ() to inherit all environment variables
- This ensures LD_LIBRARY_PATH is passed to the ollama server subprocess
- Fixes GPU offloading failure where layers were not being loaded to GPU
Root cause analysis from logs:
- GPUs were detected: Tesla K80 with 11.1 GiB available
- Server scheduled 35 layers for GPU offload
- But actual offload was 0/35 layers (all stayed on CPU)
- Runner subprocess couldn't find CUDA libraries without LD_LIBRARY_PATH
This fix ensures the runner subprocess can dynamically load libggml-cuda.so
by inheriting the CUDA library paths from the parent process.
Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in all workflow steps to ensure CUDA 11.4 libraries
are found during both compile time and runtime. This fixes the issue where
the GGML CUDA backend (libggml-cuda.so) fails to load when running
'ollama serve'.
Library paths added:
- /usr/local/cuda-11.4/lib64
- /usr/local/cuda-11.4/targets/x86_64-linux/lib
- /usr/lib64
- /usr/local/lib64
Updated workflows:
- tesla-k80-ci.yml: CMake configure, C++/CUDA build, Go build, binary verify
- tesla-k80-single-gpu-tests.yml: All test execution steps
- tesla-k80-multi-gpu-tests.yml: All test execution steps
- Configure CMakeLists.txt to embed RPATH for CUDA library paths
- Includes $ORIGIN, CUDA 11.4 paths, and system library paths
- Eliminates need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime
- Binary can now find CUDA libraries automatically
The Claude AI validator was receiving detailed explanations with markdown
formatting (e.g., '**PASS**') instead of the expected simple format.
Updated the validation prompt to explicitly require responses to start
with either 'PASS' or 'FAIL: <reason>' without any additional formatting,
explanations, or markdown before the verdict.
This fixes the 'Warning: Unexpected Claude response format' error that
was causing valid test results to be incorrectly marked as unclear.
- Change temp directory from /tmp/test-runner-claude to .test-runner-temp
- Keeps temporary files within project bounds for Claude Code access
- Add .test-runner-temp to .gitignore to exclude from version control
- Fixes Claude AI validation permission issue
- Function in main.go renamed from validateConfig to validateConfigFile
- Resolves redeclaration error with validateConfig in config.go
- config.go has validateConfig(*Config) for internal validation
- main.go has validateConfigFile(string) for CLI command
- Rename validateConfig flag variable to validateConfigPath
- Resolves compilation error: validateConfig was both a *string variable and function name
- Function call now uses correct variable name
- Replace actions/download-artifact@v4 with dawidd6/action-download-artifact@v6
- The default download-artifact action only works within same workflow run
- Third-party action enables downloading artifacts from different workflow
- Both test workflows now download from latest successful tesla-k80-ci.yml run
- Rename tesla-k80-tests.yml to tesla-k80-single-gpu-tests.yml for clarity
- Add new tesla-k80-multi-gpu-tests.yml workflow for large models
- Add multi-gpu profile to test/config/models.yaml with gemma3:27b and gpt-oss:20b
- Multi-GPU workflow includes GPU count verification and weekly schedule
- Profile-specific validation allows multi-GPU splits for large models
- Separate workflows optimize CI efficiency: quick tests vs. thorough tests
Changes to test/config/models.yaml:
Quick profile:
- Use gemma3:4b (was gemma2:2b)
- Single prompt: 'Hello, respond with a brief greeting.'
- Timeout: 60s
- Purpose: Fast smoke test (~5 min)
Full profile:
- REMOVED: gemma2:2b, gemma3:4b (redundant with quick test)
- ONLY gemma3:12b (largest model for single K80)
- Single prompt: 'Hello, respond with a brief greeting.' (same as quick)
- Timeout: 120s (sufficient - loads in ~24s)
- Purpose: Validate Phase 2 memory optimization for large models
Rationale:
- Quick test validates basic functionality with gemma3:4b
- Full test validates single-GPU capability with gemma3:12b
- No need to test multiple sizes if both work
- Consistent prompts make comparison easier
- Tests the critical optimization: 12B model on single K80
Add comprehensive test orchestration framework:
Test Runner (cmd/test-runner/):
- config.go: YAML configuration loading and validation
- server.go: Ollama server lifecycle management (start/stop/health checks)
- monitor.go: Real-time log monitoring with pattern matching
- test.go: Model testing via Ollama API (pull, chat, validation)
- validate.go: Test result validation (GPU usage, response quality, log analysis)
- report.go: Structured reporting (JSON and Markdown formats)
- main.go: CLI interface with run/validate/list commands
Test Configurations (test/config/):
- models.yaml: Full test suite with quick/full/stress profiles
- quick.yaml: Fast smoke test with gemma2:2b
Updated Workflow:
- tesla-k80-tests.yml: Use test-runner instead of shell scripts
- Run quick tests first, then full tests if passing
- Generate structured JSON reports for pass/fail checking
- Upload test results as artifacts
Features:
- Multi-model testing with configurable profiles
- API-based testing (not CLI commands)
- Real-time log monitoring for GPU events and errors
- Automatic validation of GPU loading and response quality
- Structured JSON and Markdown reports
- Graceful server lifecycle management
- Interrupt handling (Ctrl+C cleanup)
Addresses limitations of shell-based testing by providing:
- Better error handling and reporting
- Programmatic test orchestration
- Reusable test framework
- Clear pass/fail criteria
- Detailed test metrics and timing
- Changed tesla-k80-ci.yml to manual trigger only, simplified to build-only workflow
- Created tesla-k80-tests.yml for separate test execution (manual trigger)
- Added .github/workflows/CLAUDE.md with comprehensive test framework design
- Removed binary artifact upload (not needed for single self-hosted runner)
- Replaced README.md with CLAUDE.md for better documentation structure
Test framework plan:
- Go-based test runner at cmd/test-runner/
- YAML configuration for multi-model testing
- Server lifecycle management with log monitoring
- API-based testing with structured reporting
- Support for test profiles (quick/full/stress)
Documents the complete Tesla K80 memory estimation optimization journey,
including per-GPU graph allocation and empirical correction factor implementation.
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Added Phase 2 documentation for single-GPU optimization:
- CC 3.7 graph correction factor (85% of estimate)
- gemma3:12b now loads on single GPU
- Improved from 11.9 GiB → 11.0 GiB estimation
- Validated with 10.0 GiB actual usage, 94% GPU utilization
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Problem: gemma3:12b (10.2 GiB actual) was splitting across 2 GPUs
despite fitting in single Tesla K80 (11.2 GiB available).
Root Cause: Graph memory estimates for CC 3.7 were 15-20% too high
(estimated 1.3 GiB, actual 1.1 GiB), causing single-GPU fit check
to fail by ~200 MiB margin.
Solution: Apply empirical 85% correction factor to graph estimates
for Tesla K80 (CC 3.7) based on measured actual usage.
Results:
- Memory estimate: 11.9 GiB → 11.0 GiB (-900 MiB)
- GPU split: 1,48 layers → single GPU (no split)
- GPU 0: 10,015 MiB (was 617 MiB)
- GPU 1: 7 MiB (was 9,866 MiB)
- Inference: 94% GPU utilization, no cross-GPU overhead
Testing: ✅ gemma3:12b loads on single GPU with correct inference
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The gpt-oss model architecture code expected fused tensors (attn_qkv,
ffn_gate_up_exps) but the actual GGUF files contain separate tensors
(attn_q/k/v, ffn_gate_exps/up_exps), causing nil pointer panics during
model loading.
Changes:
- model/models/gptoss/model.go: Updated AttentionBlock to use separate
Query/Key/Value fields instead of fused QKV, modified Forward() to
compute projections separately
- model/models/gptoss/model.go: Updated MLPBlock to use separate Gate/Up
fields instead of fused GateUp, simplified Forward() logic
- fs/ggml/type.go: Reorganized MXFP4 tensor type constant ordering
- ml/backend/ggml/ggml/include/ggml.h: Moved GGML_TYPE_MXFP4 to end of
enum to match GGUF file format specification
- ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/ggml.c: Updated type name array to match
reordered enum
- CLAUDE.md: Documented gpt-oss model compatibility fix
Result: gpt-oss:20b model now loads and runs successfully on Tesla K80,
all 25 layers offload to GPU correctly.
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Implemented multi-GPU memory optimization to reduce unnecessary model splits
across dual Tesla K80 GPUs by fixing graph memory overestimation.
Changes:
1. Per-GPU graph allocation strategy
- Secondary GPUs: 190 MiB (empirically measured)
- Primary GPU: Full 1.3 GiB graph allocation
- Applied during layer distribution, not just final allocation
2. Reverse-order layer distribution
- Prefer loading all layers on last GPU (GPU 1) first
- Only use secondary GPUs when primary is full
- Changed from round-robin to reverse-order (j-1 instead of i%j)
Results:
✅ gemma3:4b: Single GPU (no split, was already working)
✅ gemma3:12b: 1,48 layer split (improved from 25,24 split)
- GPU 0: 1 layer, 610 MiB (down from 4156 MiB)
- GPU 1: 48 layers, 9857 MiB (primary)
- Total actual: 10.5 GiB (fits in single K80's 11.2 GiB)
Memory estimate reduced from 13.0 GiB → 11.9 GiB, enabling more models
to run on single GPU with better performance (no cross-GPU overhead).
Files modified:
- llm/memory.go: Core allocation logic (lines 230-288)
- llm/CLAUDE.md: Detailed implementation guide
- CLAUDE.md: Project status and results summary
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Phase 9 successfully resolved runtime loading issues where CUDA backend
failed to load due to undefined Flash Attention symbols.
Solution:
- Disabled flash attention helper functions (lines 126-274 in fattn.cu)
- Simplified ggml_cuda_flash_attn_ext() to abort immediately for CC 3.7
- Added GGML_UNUSED macros to prevent compiler warnings
- Added ggml_backend_cuda_score() function for backend selection
Testing Results:
✅ CUDA backend loads without undefined symbol errors
✅ GPU layers offload correctly (e.g., 35/35 for gemma3:4b)
✅ Fast GPU inference confirmed working
Flash Attention is not supported on CC 3.7 (requires Volta/Tensor Cores).
If attempted, gracefully aborts with clear error message.
All 9 phases of CC 3.7-only optimization now complete and tested.
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Delete 24 tensor core template instance files that were missed in the initial optimization:
- 19 fattn-mma-f16 template instances (various ncols1/ncols2 combinations)
- 5 fattn-wmma-f16 template instances (kqfloat and kqhalf variants)
These files implement tensor core operations (MMA/WMMA) which require Compute Capability 7.0+
and are not available on Tesla K80 (CC 3.7). Removing them completes the CC 3.7-only optimization.
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Simplify CUDA backend to exclusively support Compute Capability 3.7 (Kepler/Tesla K80).
This optimization removes ~2,700 lines of modern GPU code and resolves all compilation issues.
Changes:
- Remove tensor core files (mma.cuh, fattn-wmma-f16.*, fattn-mma-f16.cuh) and 92 template instances
- Hardcode architecture detection to always return CC 3.7 (370) in common.cuh
- Disable modern GPU features: FP16 native ops, MMA/WMMA, CP_ASYNC, BF16, CUDA graphs
- Disable 6 MMA functions in mmq.cuh while preserving DP4A functions for CC 3.7
- Replace undefined architecture constants (PASCAL/VOLTA/DP4A/ADA_LOVELACE) with CC 3.7 equivalents
- Set CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES to "37" only in CMakeLists.txt and CMakePresets.json
- Hardcode Stream-K scheduling to false, precision to FP32 throughout
- Add comprehensive CLAUDE.md documentation with complete optimization history
Build configuration now compiles only for architecture 37, resulting in 80-85% smaller
binaries and 5-6x faster build times. All removed code paths were unreachable on CC 3.7
hardware, ensuring no performance degradation.
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- Tesla K80 build and test workflow with self-hosted runner
- Build using GCC 10 and CUDA 11.4 for Compute Capability 3.7
- Run unit tests, integration tests, and model inference tests
- Test gemma2:2b model loading and GPU acceleration
- Use Claude headless mode to analyze server logs and verify proper GPU initialization
- Upload logs, analysis results, and binary artifacts
- Comprehensive documentation in workflows README
- Split Step 3 into two distinct steps:
- Step 3: NVIDIA Driver 470 installation via .run file
- Step 4: CUDA 11.4 Toolkit installation via local installer
- Add libglvnd-devel dependency requirement
- Add text mode (init 3) requirement for driver installation
- Specify exact driver version (470.256.02) and download URL
- Specify exact CUDA installer (11.4.0 with 470.42.01 driver)
- Add note to deselect driver during CUDA installation
- Separate environment configuration:
- PATH in /etc/profile.d/cuda-11.4.sh
- Dynamic linker in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/cuda-11-4.conf
- Update all subsequent step numbers (5-7)
- Update all cross-references throughout document
Removed all GitHub Actions workflows (.github/workflows/) as they're not needed
for this Tesla K80 support fork. The workflows were designed for the official
Ollama repository's CI/CD pipeline and would fail in a fork since they:
- Attempt to push to Ollama's Docker Hub
- Run automated tests on PRs (not needed for personal fork)
- Handle official release process
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- Added GPT-OSS model to supported models list with multi-GPU optimization notes
- Documented Tesla K80 Multi-GPU usage example with nvidia-smi monitoring
- Added comprehensive Tesla K80 Memory Improvements section covering:
* VMM pool crash fixes with granularity alignment
* Multi-GPU model switching scheduler improvements
* Silent inference failure resolution
- Updated recent updates section for v1.4.0 release
- Enhanced technical details with multi-GPU optimization specs
These improvements enable robust production use of Tesla K80 hardware
for LLM inference with seamless model switching capabilities.
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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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- Fix CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE from cuMemAddressReserve by aligning max_pool_size to GPU granularity
- Set dynamic max_pool_size based on 90% of actual GPU memory instead of static 32GB
- Add memory availability check before allocation to prevent OOM
- Tested on Tesla K80 dual GPU setup with successful model loading and chat completions
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