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 `ATLAS_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}
53
54impl WeightDtype {
55    /// Bytes per element for the fixed-width dtypes. Returns 0 for the
56    /// block-based [`WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0`] — [`WeightTensor::byte_size`]
57    /// handles that variant directly, and no caller multiplies its numel by this.
58    pub fn byte_size(self) -> usize {
59        match self {
60            Self::BF16 => 2,
61            Self::FP32 => 4,
62            Self::FP8E4M3 => 1,
63            Self::FP8E8M0 => 1,
64            Self::UInt8 => 1,
65            Self::Int64 => 8,
66            Self::PackedQ2_0 { .. } => 0,
67        }
68    }
69
70    fn from_safetensors(dtype: safetensors::Dtype) -> Result<Self> {
71        match dtype {
72            safetensors::Dtype::BF16 => Ok(Self::BF16),
73            safetensors::Dtype::F32 => Ok(Self::FP32),
74            safetensors::Dtype::U8 => Ok(Self::UInt8),
75            // I8: raw 1-byte container for 4-bit-packed NVFP4 (DeepSeek-V4 MTP
76            // experts). Treat as UInt8 — signedness is irrelevant for packed FP4.
77            safetensors::Dtype::I8 => Ok(Self::UInt8),
78            safetensors::Dtype::F8_E4M3 => Ok(Self::FP8E4M3),
79            safetensors::Dtype::F8_E8M0 => Ok(Self::FP8E8M0),
80            safetensors::Dtype::I64 => Ok(Self::Int64),
81            other => bail!("Unsupported safetensors dtype: {other:?}"),
82        }
83    }
84
85    /// Map a raw safetensors header dtype STRING (as it appears in the JSON
86    /// header, e.g. `"BF16"`, `"F8_E4M3"`) to a [`WeightDtype`], factored out
87    /// so the RDMA weight loader (which receives dtype as a wire string in the
88    /// peer manifest, not a `safetensors::Dtype`) resolves it identically to
89    /// the disk loaders — byte-identity depends on the two ends agreeing.
90    pub fn from_safetensors_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self> {
91        Ok(match s {
92            "F32" => Self::FP32,
93            "BF16" => Self::BF16,
94            "U8" => Self::UInt8,
95            // I8 is a 1-byte raw container (packed NVFP4); signedness is
96            // irrelevant, treat as raw bytes exactly like the disk path.
97            "I8" => Self::UInt8,
98            "F8_E4M3" => Self::FP8E4M3,
99            "F8_E8M0" => Self::FP8E8M0,
100            "I64" => Self::Int64,
101            other => bail!("Unsupported safetensors dtype '{other}'"),
102        })
103    }
104}
105
106/// Convert a little-endian IEEE-754 half-precision (F16) tensor byte buffer
107/// to BF16 bytes. F16 and BF16 are both 2 bytes/element but have different
108/// bit layouts (5-bit vs 8-bit exponent), so the bytes cannot be
109/// reinterpreted — each value goes f16 → f32 (exact) → bf16
110/// (round-to-nearest-even). Shared by both disk loaders so F16 checkpoints
111/// (e.g. centml modelopt W4A4 exports, which ship all unquantized tensors as
112/// F16) land in the store as BF16; [`WeightDtype`] itself stays closed to
113/// store-legal dtypes and F16 can never appear on the RDMA wire.
114pub(crate) fn f16_to_bf16_bytes(src: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
115    use half::{bf16, f16};
116    debug_assert_eq!(src.len() % 2, 0, "F16 tensor byte length must be even");
117    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(src.len());
118    for pair in src.chunks_exact(2) {
119        let h = f16::from_le_bytes([pair[0], pair[1]]);
120        out.extend_from_slice(&bf16::from_f32(h.to_f32()).to_le_bytes());
121    }
122    out
123}
124
125/// A weight tensor on the GPU.
126pub struct WeightTensor {
127    pub ptr: DevicePtr,
128    pub shape: Vec<usize>,
129    pub dtype: WeightDtype,
130}
131
132impl WeightTensor {
133    pub fn num_elements(&self) -> usize {
134        self.shape.iter().product()
135    }
136
137    pub fn byte_size(&self) -> usize {
138        match self.dtype {
139            // Packed Q2_0: `n_blocks = numel / group` blocks of
140            // `2 + group/4` bytes (34 @ g128, 18 @ g64) — the on-disk footprint.
141            WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { group } => {
142                let g = group as usize;
143                debug_assert!(g == 128 || g == 64, "unexpected Q2_0 group {g}");
144                let n_blocks = self.num_elements() / g.max(1);
145                n_blocks * (2 + g / 4)
146            }
147            d => self.num_elements() * d.byte_size(),
148        }
149    }
150
151    /// The Q2_0 group size if this tensor is keep-packed ternary, else `None`.
152    pub fn q2_group(&self) -> Option<u16> {
153        match self.dtype {
154            WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { group } => Some(group),
155            _ => None,
156        }
157    }
158
159    /// True if this tensor holds keep-packed ternary Q2_0 blocks (id 42).
160    pub fn is_packed_q2(&self) -> bool {
161        matches!(self.dtype, WeightDtype::PackedQ2_0 { .. })
162    }
163}
164
165/// All model weights loaded onto the GPU, keyed by HuggingFace name.
166pub struct WeightStore {
167    weights: HashMap<String, WeightTensor>,
168    /// Tensors deliberately NOT uploaded, with where they live on disk.
169    ///
170    /// The n-gram embedding tables of the LongCat / Qwen3.8-Flash-Next family
171    /// are 63 GB (LongCat-Lite) to ~102 GB (Flash-Next) of BF16. Uploading
172    /// them through the generic path would exhaust a 121 GB unified box
173    /// before any quantization could run — and on GB10 the fallback is
174    /// `alloc_managed`, i.e. Linux swap, i.e. the documented kernel freeze.
175    /// They are skipped at load and served either by streaming per-table
176    /// quantize-on-load or straight off NVMe by `NgramRowCache`, both of
177    /// which need only this (path, offset) locator.
178    deferred: HashMap<String, DeferredTensor>,
179}
180
181/// Where a skipped tensor lives, so a consumer can read it in place.
182#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
183pub struct DeferredTensor {
184    /// Shard file containing the tensor.
185    pub path: std::path::PathBuf,
186    /// ABSOLUTE byte offset of the tensor's first element in that file
187    /// (safetensors header length + the tensor's `data_offsets[0]`).
188    pub offset: u64,
189    pub shape: Vec<usize>,
190    pub dtype: WeightDtype,
191}
192
193impl WeightStore {
194    /// Create an empty weight store (for testing).
195    pub fn empty() -> Self {
196        Self {
197            weights: HashMap::new(),
198            deferred: HashMap::new(),
199        }
200    }
201
202    /// Record a tensor that was skipped at load, with its on-disk location.
203    pub fn defer(&mut self, name: String, t: DeferredTensor) {
204        self.deferred.insert(name, t);
205    }
206
207    /// Look up a deferred (not-uploaded) tensor's on-disk location.
208    pub fn deferred(&self, name: &str) -> Option<&DeferredTensor> {
209        self.deferred.get(name)
210    }
211
212    /// Every deferred tensor, name-sorted (NUMERIC on a trailing index, so
213    /// `embedders.10` sorts after `embedders.2` — a lexicographic sort here
214    /// silently mis-maps the n-gram tables, which cost a real debugging
215    /// session the first time).
216    pub fn deferred_sorted(&self) -> Vec<(&String, &DeferredTensor)> {
217        let mut v: Vec<_> = self.deferred.iter().collect();
218        v.sort_by_key(|(n, _)| split_trailing_index(n));
219        v
220    }
221
222    /// Wrap a pre-built map. Used by alternate loaders (e.g.
223    /// `fast_weights::FastSafetensorsLoader`, and the RDMA weight loader in
224    /// `spark-storage`, which lives in a different crate and so needs this pub).
225    pub fn from_map(weights: HashMap<String, WeightTensor>) -> Self {
226        Self {
227            weights,
228            deferred: HashMap::new(),
229        }
230    }
231
232    /// Get a weight tensor by name. Fails fast if not found.
233    pub fn get(&self, name: &str) -> Result<&WeightTensor> {
234        self.weights
235            .get(name)
236            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Weight '{name}' not found in store"))
237    }
238
239    /// Check if a weight exists.
240    pub fn contains(&self, name: &str) -> bool {
241        self.weights.contains_key(name)
242    }
243
244    /// Number of loaded weights.
245    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
246        self.weights.len()
247    }
248
249    /// True if no weights are loaded.
250    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
251        self.weights.is_empty()
252    }
253
254    /// Device bytes the store still holds. Not the on-disk load estimate:
255    /// this shrinks as `free_matching` drops tensors the binders replaced.
256    pub fn resident_bytes(&self) -> usize {
257        self.weights.values().map(|t| t.byte_size()).sum()
258    }
259
260    /// Iterator over all weight names.
261    pub fn names(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &str> {
262        self.weights.keys().map(|s| s.as_str())
263    }
264
265    /// Free and forget every tensor whose name matches `pred`. Returns
266    /// `(tensors freed, bytes freed)`.
267    ///
268    /// For loaders that do NOT bind zero-copy from the store's device pointers:
269    /// they upload their own copy, so the original is dead weight the moment the
270    /// binder returns, and on a unified-memory GB10 that duplicate is the
271    /// difference between fitting a KV cache and not.
272    ///
273    /// 🪤 The caller owns the "is it dead?" question. A tensor bound zero-copy
274    /// (every routed expert, and the fused per-expert views in
275    /// `weight_loader/step3p7.rs`) is still live in a layer struct — freeing it
276    /// here is a use-after-free with no diagnostic. Match narrowly.
277    ///
278    /// Per-entry free is sound for the same reason `release` gives below: the
279    /// loaders allocate one `gpu.alloc` per tensor, and no loader inserts an
280    /// `.offset()` view of a shared block into this map.
281    pub fn free_matching(
282        &mut self,
283        gpu: &dyn GpuBackend,
284        pred: impl Fn(&str) -> bool,
285    ) -> Result<(usize, usize)> {
286        let doomed: Vec<String> = self.weights.keys().filter(|n| pred(n)).cloned().collect();
287        let (mut count, mut bytes) = (0usize, 0usize);
288        for name in doomed {
289            // `remove` before `free`: the map must never hold a pointer to
290            // memory that is gone, even if the free below fails.
291            let Some(t) = self.weights.remove(&name) else {
292                continue;
293            };
294            bytes += t.byte_size();
295            gpu.free(t.ptr)
296                .map_err(|e| e.context(format!("freeing weight {name}")))?;
297            count += 1;
298        }
299        Ok((count, bytes))
300    }
301
302    /// Total bytes across all weight tensors on the GPU.
303    pub fn total_bytes(&self) -> usize {
304        self.weights.values().map(|w| w.byte_size()).sum()
305    }
306
307    /// Check if any tensor has FP8 dtype.
308    pub fn has_fp8_weights(&self) -> bool {
309        self.weights
310            .values()
311            .any(|w| matches!(w.dtype, WeightDtype::FP8E4M3))
312    }
313
314    /// Number of per-layer FP8 KV-cache scale tensors (`*.k_scale`) the
315    /// checkpoint ships. `>0` means the model carries calibrated KV scales, so
316    /// FP8 KV needs no online calibration; `0` means the scales default to 1.0
317    /// (which clips BF16 into E4M3 range), so online calibration or a non-FP8 KV
318    /// dtype is required. Used to log the right guidance at serve time.
319    pub fn fp8_kv_scale_count(&self) -> usize {
320        self.names().filter(|n| n.ends_with(".k_scale")).count()
321    }
322}
323
324/// SBIO IORouter trait for weight loading.
325pub trait WeightLoader {
326    fn load(
327        &self,
328        model_dir: &Path,
329        gpu: &dyn GpuBackend,
330        oom_reserve_bytes: usize,
331    ) -> Result<WeightStore>;
332}
333
334/// Loads weights from safetensors files using mmap.
335pub struct SafetensorsLoader {
336    /// EP rank (0-based). Only used when ep_world_size > 1.
337    pub ep_rank: usize,
338    /// EP world size. When > 1, remote expert tensors are skipped.
339    pub ep_world_size: usize,
340    /// Total number of MoE experts in the model (for EP partitioning).
341    pub num_experts: usize,
342    /// Override for the peak memory multiplier in the pre-flight OOM check.
343    /// Set from QuantFormat::peak_memory_multiplier() in the caller.
344    /// When None, the pre-flight uses its own heuristic (1.3x NVFP4 / 1.5x FP8).
345    pub peak_memory_multiplier: Option<f64>,
346    /// Skip the W4A4 `*.input_scale` activation scales at load.
347    ///
348    /// ModelOpt NVFP4 checkpoints ship one 0-dim F32 scalar per quantized
349    /// projection. On a 512-expert model that is ~74k four-byte allocations,
350    /// each taking a full allocation granule — GBs of padding for values
351    /// Atlas never reads, because it serves w4a16 (BF16 activations) and the
352    /// NVFP4 loader already treats the key as optional.
353    ///
354    /// OPT-IN: `step3p7` reads this key on its own path, so it must stay off
355    /// unless the model's loader is known not to need it.
356    pub skip_activation_scales: bool,
357    /// Skip `mtp.*` tensors at load.
358    ///
359    /// For models whose loader deliberately does not build an MTP head,
360    /// uploading its weights is pure waste — on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next that is a
361    /// 1.49 GB expert shard plus the MTP backbone, held resident while the KV
362    /// cache goes without.
363    ///
364    /// OPT-IN: a model that DOES build an MTP head must keep them, so this is
365    /// set only where `load_mtp_weights` is known to return `None`.
366    pub skip_mtp: bool,
367}
368
369impl Default for SafetensorsLoader {
370    fn default() -> Self {
371        Self::new()
372    }
373}
374
375impl SafetensorsLoader {
376    /// Create a loader with no expert parallelism (loads all tensors).
377    pub fn new() -> Self {
378        Self {
379            ep_rank: 0,
380            ep_world_size: 1,
381            num_experts: 0,
382            peak_memory_multiplier: None,
383            skip_activation_scales: false,
384            skip_mtp: false,
385        }
386    }
387
388    /// Create a loader with EP-aware filtering.
389    pub fn with_ep(ep_rank: usize, ep_world_size: usize, num_experts: usize) -> Self {
390        Self {
391            ep_rank,
392            ep_world_size,
393            num_experts,
394            peak_memory_multiplier: None,
395            skip_activation_scales: false,
396            skip_mtp: false,
397        }
398    }
399
400    /// Check if a tensor should be skipped under EP.
401    /// Skips `*.experts.{E}.*` tensors where E is not in local range.
402    /// MTP head experts are never skipped (small, fully replicated).
403    ///
404    /// 🪤 The MTP exemption keys on a leading `mtp.` — a DeepSeek-style name.
405    /// GLM-5.3 puts its MTP head at `model.language_model.layers.45.*` with no
406    /// `mtp.` prefix, so that layer's routed experts ARE sharded on GLM. Fine
407    /// while the MTP head is out of scope; revisit before enabling it.
408    ///
409    /// `pub` so residency can be PROVEN against a real checkpoint index
410    /// without collectives (see `spark-model/tests/glm53_ep_residency.rs`).
411    pub fn should_skip_tensor(&self, name: &str) -> bool {
412        // MTP head weights for a model whose loader does not build one.
413        if self.skip_mtp && name.starts_with("mtp.") {
414            return true;
415        }
416        // W4A4 activation scales: never read on the w4a16 path (the NVFP4
417        // loader falls back to `DevicePtr::NULL`), and 4-byte allocations are
418        // almost pure granule padding at expert scale.
419        if self.skip_activation_scales && name.ends_with(".input_scale") {
420            return true;
421        }
422        if self.ep_world_size <= 1 {
423            return false;
424        }
425        // MTP head experts are small — always replicate, never shard.
426        if name.starts_with("mtp.") {
427            return false;
428        }
429        // Parse expert index from patterns like "*.experts.42.gate_proj*"
430        if let Some(idx) = parse_expert_index(name) {
431            let per_rank = self.num_experts / self.ep_world_size;
432            let local_start = self.ep_rank * per_rank;
433            let local_end = if self.ep_rank == self.ep_world_size - 1 {
434                self.num_experts
435            } else {
436                local_start + per_rank
437            };
438            idx < local_start || idx >= local_end
439        } else {
440            false // Non-expert tensors are always loaded (replicated)
441        }
442    }
443}
444
445/// Split a tensor name into (everything but its last numeric path segment,
446/// that segment as a number) so names sort NUMERICALLY on the index.
447/// `embedders.2` must precede `embedders.10`; a plain lexicographic sort puts
448/// `10` first and silently mis-maps every table after the ninth.
449pub mod adapter;
450mod gguf;
451mod loader;
452pub mod mlx_int8;
453pub use gguf::{GgufLoader, config_from_gguf_dir, find_gguf};
454pub(crate) use loader::estimate_load_bytes;
455// Platform-independent: consumed by the unix-only fast-weights (O_DIRECT) path
456// AND by the GGUF loader, which builds everywhere. Gating this on `unix` broke
457// the Windows CUDA build the moment `gguf.rs` started using it.
458pub(crate) use loader::check_oom_guard;
459// Consumed by the unix-only fast-weights (O_DIRECT) loader path.
460#[cfg(unix)]
461pub(crate) use loader::estimate_has_fp8;
462
463mod name_utils;
464pub(crate) use name_utils::split_trailing_index;
465pub use name_utils::{is_ngram_table, parse_expert_index};
466
467#[cfg(test)]
468mod packed_q2_tests;
469mod prefix_detect;
470pub use prefix_detect::auto_detect_weight_prefix;
471
472/// Release every weight tensor.
473///
474/// Safe to free per-entry because the loaders allocate per-tensor: the fast
475/// path calls `gpu.alloc(meta.len)` once per tensor before inserting it
476/// (`fast_weights/mod.rs:360-388`), and no loader inserts an `.offset()` view of
477/// a shared block into this map. (Fused per-expert views DO exist — see
478/// `weight_loader/step3p7.rs:93` — but they live in the layer structs that own
479/// the fused allocation, not here, so this cannot double-free them.)
480impl atlas_core::scope::ModelResource<dyn GpuBackend> for WeightStore {
481    fn label(&self) -> &'static str {
482        "weight store"
483    }
484
485    fn release(&mut self, gpu: &dyn GpuBackend) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
486        let mut first_error = None;
487        // `drain` rather than iterate: the map must not be left holding
488        // pointers to memory that is gone, and it makes this idempotent.
489        for (name, tensor) in self.weights.drain() {
490            if let Err(e) = gpu.free(tensor.ptr)
491                && first_error.is_none()
492            {
493                first_error = Some(e.context(format!("freeing weight {name}")));
494            }
495        }
496        match first_error {
497            Some(e) => Err(e),
498            None => Ok(()),
499        }
500    }
501}
502
503#[cfg(test)]
504mod teardown_tests;