ferrox_models/kv_budget.rs
1//! Pre-load KV budget arithmetic: answer "will this fit" *before*
2//! allocating anything, from terms that are all exact in the GGUF
3//! header.
4//!
5//! ```text
6//! weights + n_ctx * per_token_kv + activation_headroom <= device_budget
7//! per_token_kv = n_layers * n_kv_heads * head_dim * bytes_per_elem * 2
8//! ```
9//!
10//! Everything here is a pure function of a shape plus a byte budget --
11//! no I/O, no device handles, no allocation -- so the arithmetic can be
12//! unit-tested against hand-computed numbers. The device side (how many
13//! bytes a backend actually offers) lives in
14//! [`crate::device_budget`]; the whole-checkpoint report that consumes
15//! both is [`crate::residency_report`].
16//!
17//! # Where this is approximate, stated up front
18//!
19//! - **Weights.** ferrox mmaps quantized tensors and reads them in
20//! place, so "weights resident" is not a number ferrox controls: the
21//! kernel can evict those pages under pressure and fault them back in
22//! later. `weights_bytes` is therefore the *checkpoint's* byte count,
23//! an upper bound on resident cost and a lower bound on the I/O the
24//! run will do -- not a measurement of RSS. A model can exceed this
25//! budget and still run (slowly, page-faulting), and it can fit this
26//! budget and still be killed by something else on the machine.
27//! - **Activations.** `activation_headroom_bytes` is a caller-supplied
28//! reserve, not a derived quantity. Nothing here models scratch
29//! buffers, the logits vector, tokenizer state or allocator slack.
30//! - **KV element width.** [`KvElem`] is the width of the store that
31//! the *selected backend* keeps. With Metal attention on, the device
32//! holds an f16 KV while the host may still hold an f32 mirror
33//! (`FERROX_CPU_KV_OFFLOAD`); budget the tier you are checking
34//! against, and do not assume the two add up to one number.
35//!
36//! A conservative, explainable number beats a clever one: none of this
37//! tries to track real resident bytes over time.
38//!
39//! # Why a sliding window is not a saving here
40//!
41//! This module used to cap sliding-window layers at `window + chunk - 1`
42//! positions and subtract them out of the divisor, which made a
43//! Gemma-3-4B context look 5.8x cheaper than it is and gpt-oss 2x. **No
44//! KV store ferrox allocates ever gave that cap back** (#33):
45//!
46//! - `ferrox_core::cache::KvCache` had no window concept at all. `push`
47//! extended `k`/`v` for every position, so a plain or pool-backed
48//! cache held the whole sequence in every layer. This is what the CLI
49//! allocates and what the server allocates on its non-paged paths, and
50//! it is still what they do unless `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` is on -- see the
51//! section after next.
52//! - The paged store *can* recycle pages behind a window, but only for a
53//! model whose every layer shares one window
54//! (`ModelConfig::uniform_sliding_window`, `None` by design for the
55//! alternating models -- gpt-oss, Gemma-2/3 -- because a page group
56//! holds one block per layer and the full-attention layers still read
57//! position 0). Even there it recycles only the GENERATION tail: its
58//! own admission arithmetic (`ferrox_server::generate::
59//! paged_hold_positions`) holds `prompt + bound + a page`, and a
60//! budget priced in *context length* has to survive a prompt that
61//! fills that context.
62//!
63//! So the budget prices every layer at every position, for every model.
64//! That is exactly what the two `KvCache` stores allocate and an upper
65//! bound on what the paged store reserves, which is the direction that
66//! matters: an over-estimate costs context, an under-estimate is
67//! admitted and then arrives as an OOM instead of the refusal this
68//! engine exists to give.
69//!
70//! # ...unless the store evicts, which it now can
71//!
72//! #61 step 2 taught the contiguous `KvCache` to drop rows behind a
73//! layer's sliding window, behind `FERROX_KV_WINDOW`. So the paragraph
74//! above is still the default and no longer the only case, and the
75//! difference is expressed the way #33 said it had to be: **the number
76//! the store keeps belongs to the store.** [`KvResidency`] carries the
77//! per-layer windows, [`KvShape::resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens`] prices
78//! them through `ferrox_core::kv_swa::KvWindow::rows_after`, and
79//! `KvCache::evict_behind_window` calls the same function to decide what
80//! to drop. There is no second statement of the rule here to drift.
81//!
82//! Two numbers, not one, and admission wants the larger:
83//! [`KvShape::peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens`] adds the one layer that is
84//! still mid-prefill and holding the whole prompt, because
85//! `Decoder::forward_batch` evicts per layer rather than after the
86//! stack. `resident_` is what a measurement of the caches finds at rest;
87//! `peak_` is what the machine has to survive.
88//!
89//! [`KvBudget`] CARRIES the residency rather than taking it as an
90//! argument, and [`KvBudget::kv_bytes_at`] is the one expression the
91//! estimate, the refusal text and `--ctx auto` all read. Until #61 step
92//! 2 was wired here, the store took the saving and the admission check
93//! did not know: `-c auto` still divided a Gemma-3 budget by every
94//! layer's full per-token cost, so a context that would have fit was
95//! refused. That is #33 read backwards, and it is the same defect
96//! shape -- two statements of one rule, with nothing making them agree.
97//!
98//! What is NOT priced here, because no store does it yet: eviction
99//! inside the paged store (#61 step 4) and eviction of the prompt region
100//! while the prompt is still being written (#61 step 5). Both stay at
101//! the full every-layer-every-position number.
102
103use ferrox_core::kv_swa::KvWindow;
104
105use crate::config::ModelConfig;
106use crate::decoder::KvWindowPolicy;
107
108/// Element width of one cached K/V scalar, per backend store.
109///
110/// The block-quantized variants are the ggml/TurboQuant wire formats
111/// `ferrox-metal` writes for `FERROX_CTK` (see
112/// `ferrox_metal::attn::MetalKvDtype`), so their cost is per 32-element
113/// block, not per scalar.
114#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
115pub enum KvElem {
116 /// Host `ferrox_core::cache::KvCache`, which stores `Vec<f32>`.
117 F32,
118 /// Metal device KV default (`FERROX_CTK=f16`, llama.cpp `-ctk f16`).
119 F16,
120 /// ggml Q8_0 wire: 32 elems -> 2-byte scale + 32 int8 = 34 bytes.
121 /// `FERROX_CTK=q8_0|turbo8|fp8` all land on this width.
122 Q8_0,
123 /// TurboQuant 4-bit: 32 elems -> 2-byte scale + 16 nibble bytes.
124 Turbo4,
125}
126
127impl KvElem {
128 /// Bytes needed to store `elems` cached scalars, rounding up to a
129 /// whole block for the block-quantized wires (a partial block still
130 /// costs a full one).
131 ///
132 /// Saturating rather than wrapping or panicking. This is a
133 /// REPORTING number: it exists to put bytes in a refusal message,
134 /// and it is reached with position counts that came off an HTTP
135 /// body. `max_tokens: u64::MAX / 64` does not overflow the position
136 /// sum, so it reaches here and multiplied past `u64::MAX`, panicking
137 /// the request thread while computing the text of the very refusal
138 /// that was about to reject it (#36).
139 ///
140 /// Saturating is right HERE and wrong for a bound. A saturated byte
141 /// count still reports "astronomically large", which is the only
142 /// thing the message needs to convey. A saturated position bound
143 /// would silently turn a nonsense request into a plausible one and
144 /// serve it.
145 pub fn bytes_for(self, elems: u64) -> u64 {
146 match self {
147 KvElem::F32 => elems.saturating_mul(4),
148 KvElem::F16 => elems.saturating_mul(2),
149 KvElem::Q8_0 => {
150 let blocks = elems.div_ceil(ferrox_quant::Q8_0_BLOCK_ELEMS as u64);
151 blocks.saturating_mul(ferrox_quant::Q8_0_BLOCK_BYTES as u64)
152 }
153 KvElem::Turbo4 => {
154 let blocks = elems.div_ceil(ferrox_quant::TURBO4_KV_GROUP as u64);
155 blocks.saturating_mul(ferrox_quant::TURBO4_KV_BLOCK_BYTES as u64)
156 }
157 }
158 }
159
160 pub fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
161 match self {
162 KvElem::F32 => "f32",
163 KvElem::F16 => "f16",
164 KvElem::Q8_0 => "q8_0",
165 KvElem::Turbo4 => "turbo4",
166 }
167 }
168
169 /// Maps a `FERROX_CTK` / `--ctk` value onto the width the Metal KV
170 /// store really keeps. Mirrors
171 /// `ferrox_metal::attn::effective_metal_kv_dtype`: `turbo8` and
172 /// `fp8` share Q8_0's 34-byte wire, and anything unrecognised or
173 /// unimplemented (`turbo3`) falls back to f16 rather than being
174 /// budgeted at a width no kernel writes.
175 ///
176 /// Note this does *not* check the block alignment that function
177 /// also checks (`n_kv_heads * head_dim` divisible by 32), so a
178 /// misaligned shape is budgeted at the requested width while the
179 /// runtime silently uses f16 -- an under-estimate, called out here
180 /// rather than papered over.
181 pub fn from_ctk(value: &str) -> Self {
182 match value.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str() {
183 // llama.cpp's `-ctk f32`, and the width of ferrox's own
184 // host `KvCache`.
185 "f32" => KvElem::F32,
186 "q8_0" | "turbo8" | "fp8" => KvElem::Q8_0,
187 "turbo4" => KvElem::Turbo4,
188 _ => KvElem::F16,
189 }
190 }
191}
192
193/// How one layer's KV cache is shaped. Which variant applies is a
194/// property of the *decoder that will run*, not of the architecture
195/// name -- see [`KvLayout::MlaLatent`]'s doc comment for the one place
196/// that distinction bites.
197#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
198pub enum KvLayout {
199 /// Multi-head / grouped-query attention: one K vector and one V
200 /// vector of `n_kv_heads * head_dim` per token, per layer. MHA is
201 /// just the `n_kv_heads == n_heads` case -- there is no separate
202 /// variant for it, and the halving GQA buys shows up entirely in
203 /// `n_kv_heads`.
204 Gqa { n_kv_heads: usize, head_dim: usize },
205 /// MLA in its *absorbed* form: the cache holds only the compressed
206 /// latent plus the decoupled RoPE slice, `kv_lora_rank + rope_dim`
207 /// scalars per token per layer, and K/V are reconstructed from it
208 /// on the fly. One vector, not two -- there is no `* 2` here.
209 ///
210 /// **ferrox does not run this form today.** `mla::mla_forward_token`
211 /// (and therefore `kimi_decoder`, `glm_dsa`, `glm52_decoder`)
212 /// caches the *expanded* per-head K and V, so a real ferrox MLA run
213 /// costs [`KvLayout::MlaExpanded`]. This variant is what the
214 /// absorbed form would cost, and is the right number to plan
215 /// against only once a decoder actually caches the latent.
216 MlaLatent {
217 kv_lora_rank: usize,
218 qk_rope_head_dim: usize,
219 },
220 /// MLA as ferrox actually caches it: per-head K of
221 /// `qk_nope_head_dim + qk_rope_head_dim` and per-head V of
222 /// `v_head_dim`, both materialised (`mla::mla_forward_token`'s
223 /// `k_cache`/`v_cache`). K and V head dims differ, which is exactly
224 /// why this cannot reuse the `Gqa` arm.
225 MlaExpanded {
226 n_heads: usize,
227 k_head_dim: usize,
228 v_head_dim: usize,
229 },
230}
231
232impl KvLayout {
233 /// Cached scalars one token contributes to one layer.
234 pub fn elems_per_token_per_layer(self) -> u64 {
235 match self {
236 KvLayout::Gqa {
237 n_kv_heads,
238 head_dim,
239 } => 2 * n_kv_heads as u64 * head_dim as u64,
240 KvLayout::MlaLatent {
241 kv_lora_rank,
242 qk_rope_head_dim,
243 } => kv_lora_rank as u64 + qk_rope_head_dim as u64,
244 KvLayout::MlaExpanded {
245 n_heads,
246 k_head_dim,
247 v_head_dim,
248 } => n_heads as u64 * (k_head_dim as u64 + v_head_dim as u64),
249 }
250 }
251
252 /// One-line description of the arithmetic, for the report a user
253 /// reads when they want to know why they got the context they got.
254 pub fn describe(self) -> String {
255 match self {
256 KvLayout::Gqa {
257 n_kv_heads,
258 head_dim,
259 } => format!("2 (K+V) x {n_kv_heads} kv-heads x {head_dim} head-dim"),
260 KvLayout::MlaLatent {
261 kv_lora_rank,
262 qk_rope_head_dim,
263 } => format!(
264 "MLA latent: {kv_lora_rank} kv_lora_rank + {qk_rope_head_dim} rope-dim \
265 (one vector, no K/V doubling)"
266 ),
267 KvLayout::MlaExpanded {
268 n_heads,
269 k_head_dim,
270 v_head_dim,
271 } => format!(
272 "MLA expanded: {n_heads} heads x ({k_head_dim} K head-dim + \
273 {v_head_dim} V head-dim)"
274 ),
275 }
276 }
277}
278
279/// The KV shape of a whole model: enough to price any context length.
280///
281/// How big one position is, times how many layers. How many positions
282/// each of those layers still HOLDS is [`KvResidency`], and it is a
283/// separate value because it is a property of the run rather than of
284/// the model: by default every layer keeps every position, and behind
285/// `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` a windowed layer does not (#61).
286///
287/// That is a statement about the STORES this engine allocates, not
288/// about the architectures it runs -- see the module doc, and the two
289/// tests that measure real `ferrox_core::cache::KvCache`s rather than
290/// restating this multiplication.
291#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
292pub struct KvShape {
293 pub n_layers: usize,
294 pub layout: KvLayout,
295 pub elem: KvElem,
296}
297
298impl KvShape {
299 /// Reads the shape off a config.
300 ///
301 /// `config.sliding_window` / `config.swa_pattern` are deliberately
302 /// NOT read HERE: they describe what attention *reads*, and this
303 /// module prices what the store *keeps*. The default store keeps
304 /// everything (#33), so a windowed layer costs exactly what a
305 /// full-attention one does. When a run evicts, that is what
306 /// [`KvResidency::from_config`] is for -- and it reaches the window
307 /// through the same `KvWindowPolicy` the decoder evicts with, not by
308 /// reading those two fields a second time.
309 ///
310 /// Always produces a [`KvLayout::Gqa`] layout, because
311 /// `ModelConfig` describes the generic GQA decoder -- the MLA
312 /// stacks carry their own hyperparameters (`Deepseek2Hparams`,
313 /// `MlaConfig`) and should build their shape with
314 /// [`KvShape::mla_expanded`].
315 pub fn from_config(config: &ModelConfig, elem: KvElem) -> Self {
316 KvShape {
317 n_layers: config.n_layers,
318 layout: KvLayout::Gqa {
319 n_kv_heads: config.n_kv_heads,
320 head_dim: config.head_dim,
321 },
322 elem,
323 }
324 }
325
326 /// The shape a ferrox MLA decoder really allocates -- see
327 /// [`KvLayout::MlaExpanded`].
328 pub fn mla_expanded(
329 n_layers: usize,
330 n_heads: usize,
331 qk_nope_head_dim: usize,
332 qk_rope_head_dim: usize,
333 v_head_dim: usize,
334 elem: KvElem,
335 ) -> Self {
336 KvShape {
337 n_layers,
338 layout: KvLayout::MlaExpanded {
339 n_heads,
340 k_head_dim: qk_nope_head_dim + qk_rope_head_dim,
341 v_head_dim,
342 },
343 elem,
344 }
345 }
346
347 /// The plan's headline number, and the only per-token number there
348 /// is: bytes one token costs across every layer. Exact for f32/f16;
349 /// for the block-quantized wires it is exact whenever a layer's
350 /// per-token element count is a multiple of the 32-element block
351 /// (true for every real head-dim/kv-head combination), and rounds
352 /// up otherwise.
353 ///
354 /// This is also the divisor [`KvBudget::max_context`] uses. There is
355 /// no separate "marginal" number any more: a marginal cost below the
356 /// per-token cost would mean some layer stops growing, and none
357 /// does.
358 pub fn per_token_kv_bytes(&self) -> u64 {
359 (self.n_layers as u64)
360 .saturating_mul(self.elem.bytes_for(self.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer()))
361 }
362
363 /// Bytes one request's KV costs at `tokens` of context.
364 pub fn kv_bytes_for_tokens(&self, tokens: usize) -> u64 {
365 // Every multiplication here saturates, for the reason on
366 // `KvElem::bytes_for`: `tokens` can arrive from an HTTP body.
367 let per_layer = self.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer();
368 (self.n_layers as u64)
369 .saturating_mul(self.elem.bytes_for(per_layer.saturating_mul(tokens as u64)))
370 }
371
372 /// Bytes one request's KV costs at `tokens` of context when the
373 /// stores EVICT behind a window (#61 step 2), once every layer has
374 /// been through -- the number a measurement of the caches finds.
375 ///
376 /// The row counts come from [`KvWindow::rows_after`], which is the
377 /// store's own rule and not a restatement of it: `KvCache` calls the
378 /// same function to decide what to drop. Equal to
379 /// [`Self::kv_bytes_for_tokens`] when `residency` keeps everything,
380 /// which is what the default policy produces and what a test below
381 /// asserts rather than assumes.
382 ///
383 /// [`Self::peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens`] is the number to ADMIT on;
384 /// this one is smaller, and the difference is prefill.
385 pub fn resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(&self, tokens: usize, residency: &KvResidency) -> u64 {
386 let per_layer = self.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer();
387 residency
388 .rows_per_layer(self.n_layers, tokens)
389 .map(|rows| self.elem.bytes_for(per_layer.saturating_mul(rows as u64)))
390 .fold(0u64, |acc, b| acc.saturating_add(b))
391 }
392
393 /// The number an admission decision must use: the resting ceiling,
394 /// plus the one layer that is still mid-prefill.
395 ///
396 /// `Decoder::forward_batch` writes a whole prompt into layer `l`'s
397 /// cache, attends over it, and only then hands the rows behind the
398 /// window back -- before layer `l + 1` allocates any. So a long
399 /// prompt costs ONE windowed layer's full history at a time rather
400 /// than every windowed layer's at once, and that transient is real
401 /// memory that has to be budgeted for. Charging only the resting
402 /// number would be #33 in the other direction: an admitted request
403 /// whose peak exceeds the estimate arrives as an OOM.
404 ///
405 /// The extra term is the largest single windowed layer's shortfall,
406 /// because layers are prefilled one at a time.
407 ///
408 /// # Why the resting term is the CEILING and not `rows_after`
409 ///
410 /// [`KvWindow::rows_after`] is exact and it OSCILLATES: a cache
411 /// that runs `slack` rows past its window and then drains holds
412 /// anywhere in `[window, window + slack]`, cycling with period
413 /// `slack + 1`. So bytes priced from it are not monotone in
414 /// `tokens`, and [`KvBudget::max_context`] searches for the largest
415 /// context that fits -- a search over a function that goes back
416 /// down cannot be trusted to find the largest one.
417 ///
418 /// [`KvWindow::max_rows`] is the same type's own statement of the
419 /// top of that cycle, so pricing against it is still the store's
420 /// rule rather than a second opinion about it, it is monotone, and
421 /// it is wrong only in the direction that refuses a context instead
422 /// of OOMing on one. The gap is at most `slack` rows per windowed
423 /// layer, against a term that already carries a whole layer's
424 /// prompt.
425 pub fn peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(&self, tokens: usize, residency: &KvResidency) -> u64 {
426 let per_layer = self.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer();
427 let full = self.elem.bytes_for(per_layer.saturating_mul(tokens as u64));
428 let resting = residency
429 .ceiling_rows_per_layer(self.n_layers, tokens)
430 .map(|rows| self.elem.bytes_for(per_layer.saturating_mul(rows as u64)))
431 .fold(0u64, |acc, b| acc.saturating_add(b));
432 let transient = residency
433 .ceiling_rows_per_layer(self.n_layers, tokens)
434 .map(|rows| {
435 full.saturating_sub(self.elem.bytes_for(per_layer.saturating_mul(rows as u64)))
436 })
437 .max()
438 .unwrap_or(0);
439 resting.saturating_add(transient)
440 }
441
442 /// The sentence a user should be able to read and reproduce with a
443 /// calculator.
444 pub fn describe(&self) -> String {
445 format!(
446 "{} layers x [{}] x {} = {} bytes/token",
447 self.n_layers,
448 self.layout.describe(),
449 self.elem.as_str(),
450 self.per_token_kv_bytes()
451 )
452 }
453}
454
455/// What the stores really keep, per layer.
456///
457/// [`KvShape`] answers "how big is one position, times how many layers".
458/// This answers "how many positions does each of those layers still
459/// hold", which used to be "all of them" for every layer of every model
460/// and now depends on whether `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` is on (#61).
461///
462/// **Deliberately not a field on `KvShape`.** `KvShape` is `Copy`, is
463/// built by struct literal in more than one crate, and is the thing
464/// every existing caller already has; a new field there would make the
465/// no-eviction default a thing every caller restates. A residency is
466/// asked for by the callers that price an evicting run, and the ones
467/// that do not keep the number they always had.
468#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
469pub struct KvResidency {
470 /// One entry per layer, in layer order. `None` means that layer
471 /// keeps every position it was ever given.
472 per_layer: Vec<Option<KvWindow>>,
473}
474
475impl KvResidency {
476 /// Every layer keeps every position: the engine before #61, and the
477 /// engine today unless the switch is on.
478 pub fn keeps_everything(n_layers: usize) -> Self {
479 KvResidency {
480 per_layer: vec![None; n_layers],
481 }
482 }
483
484 /// What `policy` will make the stores of `config` keep.
485 ///
486 /// Goes through [`KvWindowPolicy::layer_window`], which is the same
487 /// call `Decoder::kv_window_for_layer` makes to decide what to
488 /// evict. One expression, so there is nothing for the budget and the
489 /// store to disagree about -- the disagreement being #33, where the
490 /// budget capped a sliding layer no store ever capped and `-c auto`
491 /// approved a context that did not fit.
492 pub fn from_config(config: &ModelConfig, policy: KvWindowPolicy) -> Self {
493 KvResidency {
494 per_layer: (0..config.n_layers)
495 .map(|l| policy.layer_window(config, l))
496 .collect(),
497 }
498 }
499
500 /// True when no layer evicts, i.e. this prices exactly what
501 /// [`KvShape::kv_bytes_for_tokens`] prices.
502 pub fn keeps_every_position(&self) -> bool {
503 self.per_layer.iter().all(Option::is_none)
504 }
505
506 /// The window layer `layer_idx` evicts behind, if any.
507 pub fn layer_window(&self, layer_idx: usize) -> Option<KvWindow> {
508 self.per_layer.get(layer_idx).copied().flatten()
509 }
510
511 /// Rows each of `n_layers` layers holds at `tokens` of context.
512 ///
513 /// `n_layers` comes from the [`KvShape`] being priced rather than
514 /// from `self`, and a layer this residency says nothing about keeps
515 /// everything. A shape and a residency built from different configs
516 /// is a caller error; charging the full cost is the safe way to be
517 /// wrong about it.
518 fn rows_per_layer(&self, n_layers: usize, tokens: usize) -> impl Iterator<Item = usize> + '_ {
519 (0..n_layers).map(move |l| match self.layer_window(l) {
520 Some(w) => w.rows_after(tokens),
521 None => tokens,
522 })
523 }
524
525 /// The most rows each layer can hold at `tokens` of context.
526 ///
527 /// [`Self::rows_per_layer`] is the instantaneous count and cycles
528 /// through `[window, window + slack]`; this is the top of that
529 /// cycle, taken from [`KvWindow::max_rows`] so the ceiling is the
530 /// window type's own and not a second arithmetic beside it. Never
531 /// below `rows_per_layer`, never above `tokens`, and non-decreasing
532 /// in `tokens` -- which is what [`KvBudget::max_context`]'s search
533 /// needs and the oscillating count cannot give it.
534 fn ceiling_rows_per_layer(
535 &self,
536 n_layers: usize,
537 tokens: usize,
538 ) -> impl Iterator<Item = usize> + '_ {
539 (0..n_layers).map(move |l| match self.layer_window(l) {
540 Some(w) => w.max_rows().min(tokens),
541 None => tokens,
542 })
543 }
544
545 /// How many layers evict, for a report that has to explain why the
546 /// context is not simply the budget divided by a per-token cost.
547 pub fn evicting_layers(&self) -> usize {
548 self.per_layer.iter().filter(|w| w.is_some()).count()
549 }
550}
551
552/// Which ceiling a rejection hit. The point of naming it is that the
553/// two send an operator to different knobs: `ContextLength` is the
554/// request's fault and shrinking the prompt fixes it, `DeviceMemory`
555/// is the machine's and only a smaller model / smaller `n_ctx` /
556/// bigger box does.
557#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
558pub enum Ceiling {
559 /// The request asked for more context than this deployment admitted.
560 ContextLength,
561 /// weights + KV + headroom does not fit the backend's budget.
562 DeviceMemory,
563}
564
565impl Ceiling {
566 /// Stable machine-readable code, safe to match on in a client.
567 pub fn code(self) -> &'static str {
568 match self {
569 Ceiling::ContextLength => "context_length_exceeded",
570 Ceiling::DeviceMemory => "device_memory_budget_exceeded",
571 }
572 }
573}
574
575/// A structured refusal: what it would have cost, what the ceiling was,
576/// and which ceiling. Deliberately *not* an allocation failure -- the
577/// whole point of computing this before the load is that nobody has to
578/// read an OOM to find out.
579#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, thiserror::Error)]
580#[error("{code}: {detail} (estimated {estimated_bytes} bytes vs limit {limit_bytes} bytes)",
581 code = self.binding.code())]
582pub struct KvBudgetError {
583 pub binding: Ceiling,
584 pub estimated_bytes: u64,
585 pub limit_bytes: u64,
586 pub detail: String,
587}
588
589impl KvBudgetError {
590 pub fn code(&self) -> &'static str {
591 self.binding.code()
592 }
593
594 /// Bytes over the ceiling (saturating, so a fit reads as `0`).
595 pub fn overage_bytes(&self) -> u64 {
596 self.estimated_bytes.saturating_sub(self.limit_bytes)
597 }
598}
599
600/// A priced plan: every term of the inequality, kept separately so the
601/// report can show the arithmetic rather than just the verdict.
602///
603/// Not `Copy`, because [`Self::residency`] is a per-layer vector. That
604/// is deliberate: the residency belongs IN the budget rather than
605/// beside it as an argument every caller has to remember to pass. A
606/// method taking it as a parameter is exactly the shape that let the
607/// store and the budget disagree in #33 -- one caller passes it, the
608/// next one does not, and nothing says which run the number describes.
609#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
610pub struct KvBudget {
611 /// Checkpoint bytes. See the module doc on why this is an
612 /// approximation for mmap'd weights.
613 pub weights_bytes: u64,
614 /// Caller-supplied reserve for activations/scratch/allocator slack.
615 pub activation_headroom_bytes: u64,
616 /// What the backend says it can give us (see
617 /// [`crate::device_budget::DeviceBudget::usable_bytes`]).
618 pub device_budget_bytes: u64,
619 pub shape: KvShape,
620 /// What the stores this run allocates will really keep, per layer.
621 ///
622 /// [`KvResidency::keeps_everything`] is the engine's default and
623 /// reproduces every number this type produced before #61.
624 /// [`KvResidency::from_config`] with a live [`KvWindowPolicy`] is
625 /// what a run with `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` on must be priced against --
626 /// otherwise the store takes a saving the admission check refuses
627 /// to spend, which is #33 read backwards: a context that would have
628 /// fit, turned away.
629 pub residency: KvResidency,
630 /// KV caches are per request; concurrency multiplies them.
631 pub concurrent_requests: usize,
632}
633
634impl KvBudget {
635 /// Bytes left for KV after weights and headroom, or `0` when those
636 /// two alone already overflow the budget.
637 pub fn kv_bytes_available(&self) -> u64 {
638 self.device_budget_bytes
639 .saturating_sub(self.weights_bytes)
640 .saturating_sub(self.activation_headroom_bytes)
641 }
642
643 /// KV bytes at `tokens` of context, across every concurrent
644 /// request, at the moment the run costs most.
645 ///
646 /// The ONE expression the estimate, the refusal message and the
647 /// context search all read, so a change to what the stores keep
648 /// cannot reach two of the three and miss the other.
649 pub fn kv_bytes_at(&self, tokens: usize) -> u64 {
650 self.shape
651 .peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &self.residency)
652 .saturating_mul(self.concurrent_requests.max(1) as u64)
653 }
654
655 /// Total estimated resident bytes at `tokens` of context.
656 pub fn estimated_bytes(&self, tokens: usize) -> u64 {
657 self.weights_bytes + self.activation_headroom_bytes + self.kv_bytes_at(tokens)
658 }
659
660 /// The one-line check the plan is named for. `Ok` carries the
661 /// estimate so a caller can log it on the happy path too.
662 pub fn check(&self, tokens: usize) -> Result<u64, KvBudgetError> {
663 let estimated = self.estimated_bytes(tokens);
664 if estimated <= self.device_budget_bytes {
665 return Ok(estimated);
666 }
667 Err(KvBudgetError {
668 binding: Ceiling::DeviceMemory,
669 estimated_bytes: estimated,
670 limit_bytes: self.device_budget_bytes,
671 detail: format!(
672 "{} weight bytes + {} KV bytes at {tokens} tokens x{} concurrent + {} \
673 activation headroom exceeds the {} byte device budget",
674 self.weights_bytes,
675 self.kv_bytes_at(tokens),
676 self.concurrent_requests.max(1),
677 self.activation_headroom_bytes,
678 self.device_budget_bytes,
679 ),
680 })
681 }
682
683 /// Largest context that fits: the biggest `tokens` for which
684 /// [`Self::kv_bytes_at`] still sits inside
685 /// `budget - weights - headroom`, floored to `granularity` and
686 /// clamped to `cap` (the model's own trained context length).
687 ///
688 /// Every layer is in the cost. A sliding-window model used to have
689 /// its windowed layers subtracted out of a divisor and added back
690 /// as a saturated constant, which is the #33 under-estimate:
691 /// nothing evicted, so nothing saturated. What is different now is
692 /// that a run CAN evict (#61), and this asks the residency instead
693 /// of assuming either answer.
694 ///
695 /// # Why a search and not a division
696 ///
697 /// With no eviction the cost is linear and
698 /// `available / per_token_kv` is exact; a test below asserts this
699 /// search returns that same number for a residency that keeps
700 /// everything, so the closed form is not lost, it is checked
701 /// against. With eviction the cost is piecewise: a windowed layer
702 /// stops charging past `window + slack` while the dense ones keep
703 /// going, so there is no single divisor to divide by and a division
704 /// would price a 32k Gemma-3 context at 5.4x what it costs. The
705 /// searched function is non-decreasing in `tokens` -- that is what
706 /// `ceiling_rows_per_layer` is for -- so bisection finds the
707 /// largest fitting context rather than any fitting context.
708 pub fn max_context(&self, cap: usize, granularity: usize) -> ContextFit {
709 let granularity = granularity.max(1);
710 let concurrency = self.concurrent_requests.max(1) as u64;
711 let available = self.kv_bytes_available();
712
713 let (tokens, capped_by) = if available == 0 {
714 (0, ContextCap::DeviceBudget)
715 } else {
716 // Bisection over `[0, cap]` only, never past it: the answer
717 // above `cap` is always `cap`, so a search that stops there
718 // needs no upper bound invented for it and cannot overflow
719 // on a model with no KV at all (where every probe fits and
720 // the answer is `cap`).
721 let raw = self.largest_fitting_context(cap, available);
722 if raw >= cap {
723 (cap, ContextCap::ModelContextLength)
724 } else {
725 // Flooring must never turn a real answer into
726 // "nothing fits": under one granularity step, report
727 // the exact number of tokens rather than rounding it
728 // away.
729 let floored = if raw >= granularity {
730 (raw / granularity) * granularity
731 } else {
732 raw
733 };
734 if floored >= cap {
735 (cap, ContextCap::ModelContextLength)
736 } else {
737 (floored, ContextCap::DeviceBudget)
738 }
739 }
740 };
741
742 ContextFit {
743 tokens,
744 cap,
745 granularity,
746 capped_by,
747 kv_available_bytes: available,
748 per_token_kv_bytes: self.shape.per_token_kv_bytes(),
749 concurrent_requests: concurrency as usize,
750 kv_bytes: self.kv_bytes_at(tokens),
751 evicting_layers: self.residency.evicting_layers(),
752 weights_bytes: self.weights_bytes,
753 activation_headroom_bytes: self.activation_headroom_bytes,
754 device_budget_bytes: self.device_budget_bytes,
755 }
756 }
757
758 /// Largest `tokens` in `0..=cap` whose KV still fits `available`.
759 ///
760 /// `kv_bytes_at` is non-decreasing in `tokens`, so the predicate
761 /// "fits" is a prefix of the range and bisection is exact.
762 fn largest_fitting_context(&self, cap: usize, available: u64) -> usize {
763 if self.kv_bytes_at(cap) <= available {
764 return cap;
765 }
766 // Invariant: `lo` fits and `hi` does not. `0` fits because a
767 // zero-token context costs no KV bytes at all.
768 let (mut lo, mut hi) = (0usize, cap);
769 while hi - lo > 1 {
770 let mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;
771 if self.kv_bytes_at(mid) <= available {
772 lo = mid;
773 } else {
774 hi = mid;
775 }
776 }
777 lo
778 }
779}
780
781/// Why `--ctx auto` chose the number it chose.
782#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
783pub enum ContextCap {
784 /// The model's own trained context length was the smaller ceiling.
785 ModelContextLength,
786 /// Memory ran out first.
787 DeviceBudget,
788}
789
790/// The answer `--ctx auto` produces, with every term that went into it
791/// so the user can check the division by hand.
792#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
793pub struct ContextFit {
794 pub tokens: usize,
795 pub cap: usize,
796 pub granularity: usize,
797 pub capped_by: ContextCap,
798 pub kv_available_bytes: u64,
799 /// Bytes one token of context costs across every layer, with
800 /// nothing evicting. The divisor when `evicting_layers` is 0, and
801 /// an upper bound on the marginal cost otherwise.
802 pub per_token_kv_bytes: u64,
803 pub concurrent_requests: usize,
804 /// KV bytes at `tokens`: [`KvBudget::kv_bytes_at`], which is what
805 /// the fit was actually decided on.
806 pub kv_bytes: u64,
807 /// How many layers stop growing at their window. Zero for every
808 /// model unless `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` is on, and the reason the
809 /// division in [`Display`] stops being the whole story when it is
810 /// not.
811 ///
812 /// [`Display`]: std::fmt::Display
813 pub evicting_layers: usize,
814 pub weights_bytes: u64,
815 pub activation_headroom_bytes: u64,
816 pub device_budget_bytes: u64,
817}
818
819impl std::fmt::Display for ContextFit {
820 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
821 write!(
822 f,
823 "ctx auto = {} tokens ({}): ({} device budget - {} weights - {} activation headroom) \
824 = {} for KV; / {} bytes/token/request / {} request(s) -> rounded down to a multiple \
825 of {} (reported exactly below one step), capped at the model's {} trained context. \
826 KV at the chosen context: {} bytes.{}",
827 self.tokens,
828 match self.capped_by {
829 ContextCap::ModelContextLength => "limited by the model's context length",
830 ContextCap::DeviceBudget => "limited by the device memory budget",
831 },
832 self.device_budget_bytes,
833 self.weights_bytes,
834 self.activation_headroom_bytes,
835 self.kv_available_bytes,
836 self.per_token_kv_bytes,
837 self.concurrent_requests,
838 self.granularity,
839 self.cap,
840 self.kv_bytes,
841 // Said explicitly rather than left for the reader to
842 // notice the division does not reproduce the answer: with
843 // eviction on, the per-token figure above is the cost only
844 // until each windowed layer saturates, and the chosen
845 // context came from the search that knows that.
846 match self.evicting_layers {
847 0 => String::new(),
848 n => format!(
849 " {n} of those layers stop growing at their sliding window \
850 (FERROX_KV_WINDOW), so the per-token figure is the cost before \
851 they saturate, not a divisor that reproduces this answer."
852 ),
853 },
854 )
855 }
856}
857
858/// Granularity `--ctx auto` floors to. Small enough that the rounding
859/// never costs a meaningful amount of context, round enough that the
860/// reported number looks chosen rather than computed.
861pub const CTX_AUTO_GRANULARITY: usize = 256;
862
863#[cfg(test)]
864mod tests {
865 use super::*;
866
867 /// Llama-3.1-8B's real shape: 32 layers, 8 kv-heads (GQA 4:1),
868 /// head_dim 128. llama.cpp reports 1 MiB/token at f32 for exactly
869 /// this model, which is the number reproduced here by hand:
870 /// 32 * 2 * 8 * 128 * 4 = 262144 bytes.
871 fn llama31_8b() -> KvShape {
872 KvShape {
873 n_layers: 32,
874 layout: KvLayout::Gqa {
875 n_kv_heads: 8,
876 head_dim: 128,
877 },
878 elem: KvElem::F32,
879 }
880 }
881
882 #[test]
883 fn gqa_per_token_kv_matches_the_hand_computed_byte_count() {
884 let shape = llama31_8b();
885 assert_eq!(shape.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer(), 2 * 8 * 128);
886 assert_eq!(shape.per_token_kv_bytes(), 32 * 2 * 8 * 128 * 4);
887 assert_eq!(shape.per_token_kv_bytes(), 262_144);
888 // f16 is exactly half; a block-quantized store is 34/32 of the
889 // element count, not 1 byte flat.
890 assert_eq!(
891 KvShape {
892 elem: KvElem::F16,
893 ..shape
894 }
895 .per_token_kv_bytes(),
896 131_072
897 );
898 assert_eq!(
899 KvShape {
900 elem: KvElem::Q8_0,
901 ..shape
902 }
903 .per_token_kv_bytes(),
904 32 * (2 * 8 * 128 / 32) * 34
905 );
906 assert_eq!(
907 KvShape {
908 elem: KvElem::Turbo4,
909 ..shape
910 }
911 .per_token_kv_bytes(),
912 32 * (2 * 8 * 128 / 32) * 18
913 );
914 }
915
916 #[test]
917 fn ctk_names_map_onto_the_widths_metal_really_writes() {
918 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("f16"), KvElem::F16);
919 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("f32"), KvElem::F32);
920 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("Q8_0"), KvElem::Q8_0);
921 // turbo8 and fp8 share Q8_0's wire, per MetalKvDtype.
922 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("turbo8"), KvElem::Q8_0);
923 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("fp8"), KvElem::Q8_0);
924 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("turbo4"), KvElem::Turbo4);
925 // turbo3 is unimplemented and falls back to f16, as does junk.
926 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk("turbo3"), KvElem::F16);
927 assert_eq!(KvElem::from_ctk(" nonsense "), KvElem::F16);
928 }
929
930 #[test]
931 fn mha_costs_exactly_the_gqa_ratio_more_than_gqa() {
932 // Same model with n_kv_heads == n_heads (32) instead of 8: MHA
933 // is 4x the KV of 4:1 GQA, and nothing else changes.
934 let gqa = llama31_8b();
935 let mha = KvShape {
936 layout: KvLayout::Gqa {
937 n_kv_heads: 32,
938 head_dim: 128,
939 },
940 ..gqa
941 };
942 assert_eq!(mha.per_token_kv_bytes(), 4 * gqa.per_token_kv_bytes());
943 assert_eq!(mha.per_token_kv_bytes(), 32 * 2 * 32 * 128 * 4);
944 }
945
946 /// A small alternating-SWA config: 6 layers, every 3rd of them full
947 /// attention, a 4-position window. Small enough that a test can
948 /// allocate the real stores; alternating, which is the case
949 /// `ModelConfig::uniform_sliding_window` refuses to let any store
950 /// recycle.
951 fn alternating_swa_config() -> ModelConfig {
952 let mut cfg = crate::config::test_dense_fixture();
953 cfg.n_layers = 6;
954 cfg.n_kv_heads = 1;
955 cfg.head_dim = 8;
956 cfg.sliding_window = Some(4);
957 cfg.swa_pattern = Some(3);
958 cfg
959 }
960
961 /// **The property this module got wrong, measured rather than
962 /// restated.**
963 ///
964 /// The old budget capped a sliding layer at `window + chunk - 1`
965 /// positions, but `ferrox_core::cache::KvCache` -- the store the CLI
966 /// allocates and the store the server allocates on every non-paged
967 /// path -- has no window concept: `push` extends `k`/`v` for every
968 /// position, in every layer. So the budget under-priced gpt-oss by
969 /// 2x and Gemma-3-4B by 5.8x, `-c auto` approved a context that did
970 /// not fit, and the failure arrived as an OOM instead of a refusal
971 /// (#33).
972 ///
973 /// This pushes real positions into the real caches and compares the
974 /// bytes they hold against the budget's number. Recomputing the
975 /// budget's own multiplication here would assert nothing: the code
976 /// was not wrong about arithmetic, it was wrong about the world.
977 #[test]
978 fn the_budget_prices_exactly_what_the_kv_store_allocates_for_an_alternating_swa_model() {
979 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
980 // Well past the 4-position window, which is the whole point:
981 // under the old cap the sliding layers stopped being charged
982 // here.
983 let tokens = 64;
984 assert!(
985 cfg.sliding_window.is_some() && cfg.uniform_sliding_window().is_none(),
986 "the fixture must be an alternating-SWA model, or this proves nothing"
987 );
988
989 let mut caches: Vec<ferrox_core::cache::KvCache> = (0..cfg.n_layers)
990 .map(|_| ferrox_core::cache::KvCache::new(cfg.n_kv_heads, cfg.head_dim))
991 .collect();
992 let step = vec![0f32; cfg.n_kv_heads * cfg.head_dim];
993 for _ in 0..tokens {
994 for cache in caches.iter_mut() {
995 cache
996 .push(&step, &step)
997 .expect("a cache built with `new` always accepts a push");
998 }
999 }
1000 let allocated: u64 = caches
1001 .iter()
1002 .map(|c| (c.k.len() + c.v.len()) as u64 * std::mem::size_of::<f32>() as u64)
1003 .sum();
1004
1005 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1006 assert_eq!(
1007 shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens),
1008 allocated,
1009 "the budget must price what the store holds"
1010 );
1011 // The store kept every position in every layer, window or not.
1012 assert_eq!(allocated, shape.per_token_kv_bytes() * tokens as u64);
1013 // And the two entry points agree when nothing evicts, rather
1014 // than being two independent multiplications that happen to
1015 // match today.
1016 assert_eq!(
1017 shape
1018 .resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &KvResidency::keeps_everything(cfg.n_layers)),
1019 allocated
1020 );
1021 }
1022
1023 /// **The same property, measured again, now that a store evicts.**
1024 ///
1025 /// The sibling above is the default and stays the default. This is
1026 /// the `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` case, and it is asserted the same way for
1027 /// the same reason: by pushing real positions into real
1028 /// `ferrox_core::cache::KvCache`s, evicting them the way
1029 /// `Decoder::evict_layer_kv` does, and comparing the bytes they hold
1030 /// against the budget's number. If the budget restated the window
1031 /// rule instead of taking it from `KvWindow::rows_after`, this test
1032 /// would pass while the two drifted -- which is exactly how #33
1033 /// survived long enough to approve a context that did not fit.
1034 #[test]
1035 fn the_budget_prices_exactly_what_an_evicting_kv_store_holds() {
1036 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1037 let tokens = 64;
1038 let residency = KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::on());
1039 assert!(
1040 !residency.keeps_every_position(),
1041 "the fixture must have windowed layers, or this proves nothing"
1042 );
1043 assert!(
1044 (0..cfg.n_layers).any(|l| residency.layer_window(l).is_none()),
1045 "the fixture must ALSO have dense layers: they are the half that keeps costing"
1046 );
1047
1048 let mut caches: Vec<ferrox_core::cache::KvCache> = (0..cfg.n_layers)
1049 .map(|_| ferrox_core::cache::KvCache::new(cfg.n_kv_heads, cfg.head_dim))
1050 .collect();
1051 for (l, cache) in caches.iter_mut().enumerate() {
1052 if let Some(w) = residency.layer_window(l) {
1053 cache.arm_window(w);
1054 }
1055 }
1056 let step = vec![0f32; cfg.n_kv_heads * cfg.head_dim];
1057 for _ in 0..tokens {
1058 for cache in caches.iter_mut() {
1059 cache
1060 .push(&step, &step)
1061 .expect("a cache built with `new` always accepts a push");
1062 cache.evict_behind_window();
1063 }
1064 }
1065 let held: u64 = caches
1066 .iter()
1067 .map(|c| (c.k.len() + c.v.len()) as u64 * std::mem::size_of::<f32>() as u64)
1068 .sum();
1069
1070 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1071 assert_eq!(
1072 shape.resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency),
1073 held,
1074 "the budget must price what the evicting store holds"
1075 );
1076 // The saving is real: strictly less than pricing every position.
1077 assert!(
1078 held < shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens),
1079 "eviction saved nothing: {held} vs {}",
1080 shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens)
1081 );
1082 // And the number to admit on is above the number at rest, because
1083 // one layer holds the whole prompt while it is being prefilled.
1084 assert!(shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency) > held);
1085 // ...but never above pricing every layer at every position,
1086 // which is what the engine costs today.
1087 assert!(
1088 shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency) <= shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens)
1089 );
1090 }
1091
1092 /// The default policy prices exactly what it always did. A switch
1093 /// that is off must be invisible to the arithmetic.
1094 #[test]
1095 fn the_default_policy_prices_every_layer_at_every_position() {
1096 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1097 let residency = KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::off());
1098 assert!(residency.keeps_every_position());
1099 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1100 for tokens in [0usize, 1, 63, 64, 4096] {
1101 assert_eq!(
1102 shape.resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency),
1103 shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens)
1104 );
1105 assert_eq!(
1106 shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency),
1107 shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens)
1108 );
1109 }
1110 }
1111
1112 /// The headline number from #61, priced through the residency rather
1113 /// than asserted: Gemma-3-4B at a 32k context.
1114 ///
1115 /// 34 layers, 4 kv-heads, head_dim 256, host f32, a 1024-position
1116 /// window on five layers out of every six. The full price is the
1117 /// 9.13 GB the issue measured; the windowed one is what the store
1118 /// now holds.
1119 #[test]
1120 fn gemma3_4b_at_32k_costs_a_fraction_of_what_it_did() {
1121 let mut cfg = crate::config::test_dense_fixture();
1122 cfg.n_layers = 34;
1123 cfg.n_kv_heads = 4;
1124 cfg.head_dim = 256;
1125 cfg.sliding_window = Some(1024);
1126 cfg.swa_pattern = Some(6);
1127 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1128 let tokens = 32_768;
1129
1130 let full = shape.kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens);
1131 assert_eq!(full, 9_126_805_504, "the number #61 measured");
1132
1133 let residency = KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::on());
1134 let resting = shape.resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency);
1135 let peak = shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency);
1136 // Pinned rather than bounded, so a change to the default slack
1137 // shows up as a memory number moving rather than as nothing.
1138 // 5 of the 34 layers are full attention (`swa_pattern` 6) and
1139 // still hold every position; at 1.34 GB they are most of what is
1140 // left. The 29 windowed ones hold 1475 rows each instead of
1141 // 32768.
1142 assert_eq!(resting, 1_692_590_080, "5.4x less than the 9.13 GB above");
1143 // The admission number prices each windowed layer at the top of
1144 // its cycle (`KvWindow::max_rows`, 1536 here) rather than at the
1145 // instantaneous `rows_after`, because `max_context` searches
1146 // this function and a search needs it not to fall. That costs
1147 // 13,991,936 bytes -- 0.7% -- against a term that already
1148 // carries a whole layer's prompt.
1149 assert_eq!(
1150 peak, 1_962_934_272,
1151 "resting ceiling plus the one windowed layer still mid-prefill"
1152 );
1153 assert!(peak < full && peak > resting);
1154 // The saving is what makes the difference worth having: the
1155 // whole point of #61 is that this is the number `-c auto`
1156 // divides a machine by, and 4.65x is a 32k context fitting on a
1157 // 16 GB box or not.
1158 assert!(full / peak >= 4, "{full} / {peak}");
1159 }
1160
1161 /// The pool-backed store is the other thing a server allocates, and
1162 /// it reserves `max_seq_len` positions for EVERY layer up front
1163 /// (`KvCache::with_pool`), rounded up to whole blocks. The budget
1164 /// must never be under that either -- an admitted request whose
1165 /// reservation exceeds the estimate is exactly the OOM #33 is about.
1166 #[test]
1167 fn the_pool_backed_store_never_reserves_more_positions_than_the_budget_priced() {
1168 use ferrox_core::cache::{KvBlockPool, KvCache};
1169 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
1170
1171 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1172 let tokens = 64usize;
1173 let block_size = 16usize;
1174 let pool = Arc::new(Mutex::new(KvBlockPool::new(
1175 block_size,
1176 tokens.div_ceil(block_size) * cfg.n_layers,
1177 )));
1178 let caches: Vec<KvCache> = (0..cfg.n_layers)
1179 .map(|_| {
1180 KvCache::with_pool(cfg.n_kv_heads, cfg.head_dim, Arc::clone(&pool), tokens)
1181 .expect("the pool was sized for exactly this")
1182 })
1183 .collect();
1184 let reserved: u64 = caches
1185 .iter()
1186 .map(|c| c.k.capacity() as u64 + c.v.capacity() as u64)
1187 .sum::<u64>()
1188 * std::mem::size_of::<f32>() as u64;
1189
1190 let priced = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32).kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens);
1191 // Equal here because `tokens` is a whole number of blocks; the
1192 // assertion that matters is the direction, which holds for any
1193 // block size.
1194 assert!(
1195 priced >= reserved,
1196 "budget priced {priced} bytes, the pool reserved {reserved}"
1197 );
1198 assert_eq!(priced, reserved);
1199 }
1200
1201 /// The two checkpoints #33 measured, at their own byte counts.
1202 ///
1203 /// These constants are what the stores allocate, taken from the
1204 /// issue, not from this module's formula. The numbers the old code
1205 /// produced were 6,448,742,400 for gpt-oss (half) and 1,585,446,912
1206 /// for Gemma-3-4B (a sixth).
1207 #[test]
1208 fn gpt_oss_and_gemma3_cost_what_the_issue_measured() {
1209 // gpt-oss-20b: 24 layers, 8 kv-heads, head_dim 64, host f32,
1210 // 131072 context. Alternating 128-position window, priced at 0.
1211 let mut gpt_oss = crate::config::test_dense_fixture();
1212 gpt_oss.n_layers = 24;
1213 gpt_oss.n_kv_heads = 8;
1214 gpt_oss.head_dim = 64;
1215 gpt_oss.sliding_window = Some(128);
1216 gpt_oss.swa_pattern = Some(2);
1217 assert_eq!(
1218 KvShape::from_config(&gpt_oss, KvElem::F32).kv_bytes_for_tokens(131_072),
1219 12_884_901_888
1220 );
1221
1222 // Gemma-3-4B: 34 layers, 4 kv-heads, head_dim 256, 32768 tokens.
1223 let mut gemma3 = crate::config::test_dense_fixture();
1224 gemma3.n_layers = 34;
1225 gemma3.n_kv_heads = 4;
1226 gemma3.head_dim = 256;
1227 gemma3.sliding_window = Some(1024);
1228 gemma3.swa_pattern = Some(6);
1229 assert_eq!(
1230 KvShape::from_config(&gemma3, KvElem::F32).kv_bytes_for_tokens(32_768),
1231 9_126_805_504
1232 );
1233 }
1234
1235 /// A window changes what attention READS, not what the store KEEPS,
1236 /// so it may not change the price. Stated as an equality between two
1237 /// configs rather than as a comment, so re-introducing a cap fails
1238 /// here.
1239 #[test]
1240 fn a_windowed_config_is_priced_identically_to_the_same_config_without_a_window() {
1241 let windowed = alternating_swa_config();
1242 let mut full = windowed.clone();
1243 full.sliding_window = None;
1244 full.swa_pattern = None;
1245 for tokens in [1, 3, 4, 5, 64, 100_000] {
1246 assert_eq!(
1247 KvShape::from_config(&windowed, KvElem::F32).kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens),
1248 KvShape::from_config(&full, KvElem::F32).kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens),
1249 "tokens={tokens}"
1250 );
1251 }
1252 }
1253
1254 #[test]
1255 fn mla_latent_is_one_vector_and_far_cheaper_than_the_expanded_form() {
1256 // DeepSeek-V2's real MLA numbers: kv_lora_rank 512,
1257 // qk_rope_head_dim 64, qk_nope_head_dim 128, v_head_dim 128,
1258 // 128 heads, 60 layers.
1259 let latent = KvShape {
1260 n_layers: 60,
1261 layout: KvLayout::MlaLatent {
1262 kv_lora_rank: 512,
1263 qk_rope_head_dim: 64,
1264 },
1265 elem: KvElem::F32,
1266 };
1267 // 512 + 64 = 576 scalars per token per layer -- one vector, no
1268 // K/V doubling.
1269 assert_eq!(latent.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer(), 576);
1270 assert_eq!(latent.per_token_kv_bytes(), 60 * 576 * 4);
1271
1272 let expanded = KvShape::mla_expanded(60, 128, 128, 64, 128, KvElem::F32);
1273 // 128 heads x (192 K + 128 V) = 40960 scalars per token/layer.
1274 assert_eq!(
1275 expanded.layout.elems_per_token_per_layer(),
1276 128 * (192 + 128)
1277 );
1278 assert_eq!(expanded.per_token_kv_bytes(), 60 * 40_960 * 4);
1279 // The absorbed form is ~71x cheaper; this is exactly why the
1280 // distinction is worth carrying rather than assuming.
1281 assert!(expanded.per_token_kv_bytes() / latent.per_token_kv_bytes() > 70);
1282
1283 // A same-sized GQA model for scale: 128 kv-heads x 128 head_dim.
1284 let gqa = KvShape {
1285 layout: KvLayout::Gqa {
1286 n_kv_heads: 128,
1287 head_dim: 128,
1288 },
1289 ..latent
1290 };
1291 assert_eq!(gqa.per_token_kv_bytes(), 60 * 2 * 128 * 128 * 4);
1292 }
1293
1294 #[test]
1295 fn from_config_reads_layers_heads_and_head_dim() {
1296 let mut cfg = crate::config::test_dense_fixture();
1297 cfg.n_layers = 12;
1298 cfg.n_kv_heads = 2;
1299 cfg.head_dim = 64;
1300 cfg.sliding_window = None;
1301 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1302 assert_eq!(shape.n_layers, 12);
1303 assert_eq!(shape.per_token_kv_bytes(), 12 * 2 * 2 * 64 * 4);
1304
1305 // A uniform window changes nothing either: the paged store that
1306 // could recycle for one still holds the whole prompt, and it is
1307 // a context length this prices.
1308 cfg.sliding_window = Some(256);
1309 cfg.swa_pattern = None;
1310 assert_eq!(KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32), shape);
1311 }
1312
1313 fn budget(weights: u64, device: u64, shape: KvShape) -> KvBudget {
1314 KvBudget {
1315 weights_bytes: weights,
1316 activation_headroom_bytes: 0,
1317 device_budget_bytes: device,
1318 shape,
1319 residency: KvResidency::keeps_everything(shape.n_layers),
1320 concurrent_requests: 1,
1321 }
1322 }
1323
1324 #[test]
1325 fn check_accepts_a_fitting_context_and_names_the_binding_ceiling_otherwise() {
1326 let shape = llama31_8b(); // 262144 bytes/token
1327 let b = budget(1_000_000, 1_000_000 + 262_144 * 10, shape);
1328 assert_eq!(b.check(10).unwrap(), 1_000_000 + 262_144 * 10);
1329 let err = b.check(11).expect_err("one token past the budget");
1330 assert_eq!(err.binding, Ceiling::DeviceMemory);
1331 assert_eq!(err.code(), "device_memory_budget_exceeded");
1332 assert_eq!(err.estimated_bytes, 1_000_000 + 262_144 * 11);
1333 assert_eq!(err.limit_bytes, 1_000_000 + 262_144 * 10);
1334 assert_eq!(err.overage_bytes(), 262_144);
1335 }
1336
1337 #[test]
1338 fn concurrency_multiplies_kv_but_not_weights() {
1339 let shape = llama31_8b();
1340 let one = budget(1_000, 1 << 40, shape);
1341 let four = KvBudget {
1342 concurrent_requests: 4,
1343 ..one.clone()
1344 };
1345 assert_eq!(
1346 four.estimated_bytes(100) - 1_000,
1347 4 * (one.estimated_bytes(100) - 1_000)
1348 );
1349 }
1350
1351 #[test]
1352 fn max_context_is_the_closed_form_division_floored_to_granularity() {
1353 let shape = llama31_8b(); // 262144 bytes/token
1354 // Room for exactly 1000 tokens of KV after weights.
1355 let b = budget(5_000_000, 5_000_000 + 262_144 * 1000, shape);
1356 let fit = b.max_context(131_072, 256);
1357 assert_eq!(fit.capped_by, ContextCap::DeviceBudget);
1358 // 1000 floored to a 256-token step is 768.
1359 assert_eq!(fit.tokens, 768);
1360 assert_eq!(fit.kv_available_bytes, 262_144 * 1000);
1361 assert_eq!(fit.per_token_kv_bytes, 262_144);
1362 // The chosen context really does fit.
1363 assert!(b.check(fit.tokens).is_ok());
1364 // One granularity step further does not.
1365 assert!(b.check(fit.tokens + 256).is_err());
1366 }
1367
1368 /// **The closed form is not gone, it is checked against.**
1369 ///
1370 /// `max_context` used to be one division and is now a search,
1371 /// because with eviction there is no single divisor. A search is
1372 /// free to be subtly wrong in a way a division cannot be, so the
1373 /// division stays here as the oracle: for a run where nothing
1374 /// evicts -- which is every run unless `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` is on --
1375 /// the searched answer must be exactly
1376 /// `available / per_token_kv`, at every budget, not just at the
1377 /// round ones.
1378 #[test]
1379 fn the_context_search_reproduces_the_closed_form_when_nothing_evicts() {
1380 let shape = llama31_8b(); // 262144 bytes/token
1381 let per_token = shape.per_token_kv_bytes();
1382 for tokens_of_room in [0u64, 1, 7, 999, 1000, 1001, 65_536] {
1383 for slack in [0u64, 1, per_token - 1] {
1384 let device = 5_000_000 + per_token * tokens_of_room + slack;
1385 let b = budget(5_000_000, device, shape);
1386 // Granularity 1 so the comparison is against the raw
1387 // division rather than against the rounding.
1388 let fit = b.max_context(131_072, 1);
1389 assert_eq!(
1390 fit.tokens as u64,
1391 (per_token * tokens_of_room + slack) / per_token,
1392 "budget {device} disagreed with the division it replaced"
1393 );
1394 }
1395 }
1396 }
1397
1398 /// **The property the search rests on.**
1399 ///
1400 /// Bisection finds the largest fitting context only if "fits" is a
1401 /// prefix of the range, i.e. if the cost never falls as the context
1402 /// grows. `KvWindow::rows_after` OSCILLATES between `window` and
1403 /// `window + slack`, so pricing admission from it directly would
1404 /// break exactly that, and a search over it could stop one cycle
1405 /// early and report a context smaller than the one that fits.
1406 #[test]
1407 fn the_admission_ceiling_never_falls_as_the_context_grows() {
1408 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1409 let residency = KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::on());
1410 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1411 let mut previous = 0u64;
1412 // Well past the window (4) and its default slack (2), so the
1413 // whole oscillation is covered rather than only the ramp.
1414 for tokens in 0..64 {
1415 let bytes = shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency);
1416 assert!(
1417 bytes >= previous,
1418 "cost fell from {previous} to {bytes} between {} and {tokens} tokens",
1419 tokens.saturating_sub(1)
1420 );
1421 previous = bytes;
1422 }
1423 }
1424
1425 /// The ceiling admission is decided on must never sit below what a
1426 /// measurement of the caches would find, or the run is admitted
1427 /// against a number smaller than the memory it takes. `resident_`
1428 /// is that measurement (asserted against real `KvCache`s above);
1429 /// this is the ordering between the two, at every context, not just
1430 /// at the one the sibling test measures.
1431 #[test]
1432 fn the_admission_ceiling_is_never_below_what_the_store_will_hold() {
1433 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1434 let residency = KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::on());
1435 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1436 for tokens in 0..64 {
1437 assert!(
1438 shape.peak_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency)
1439 >= shape.resident_kv_bytes_for_tokens(tokens, &residency),
1440 "admission under-priced the resting store at {tokens} tokens"
1441 );
1442 }
1443 }
1444
1445 /// **The gap this wiring closed.**
1446 ///
1447 /// #61 step 2 taught the store to evict and left the budget
1448 /// pricing every layer at every position, so a Gemma-3-shaped model
1449 /// with `FERROX_KV_WINDOW` on kept 5x less KV than `-c auto` was
1450 /// dividing by, and the context it could really carry was refused.
1451 /// The two arms here differ ONLY in the policy the residency was
1452 /// built from.
1453 #[test]
1454 fn an_evicting_run_is_offered_more_context_than_a_non_evicting_one() {
1455 let cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1456 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1457 let base = budget(1_000, 1_000 + shape.per_token_kv_bytes() * 64, shape);
1458 let evicting = KvBudget {
1459 residency: KvResidency::from_config(&cfg, KvWindowPolicy::on()),
1460 ..base.clone()
1461 };
1462 assert!(
1463 base.residency.keeps_every_position(),
1464 "the control arm must be the engine's default"
1465 );
1466
1467 let plain = base.max_context(131_072, 1);
1468 let windowed = evicting.max_context(131_072, 1);
1469 assert!(
1470 windowed.tokens > plain.tokens,
1471 "eviction bought no context: {} vs {}",
1472 windowed.tokens,
1473 plain.tokens
1474 );
1475 assert_eq!(windowed.evicting_layers, 4, "4 of 6 layers slide");
1476 assert_eq!(plain.evicting_layers, 0);
1477 // The context the evicting run was offered is one the plain
1478 // budget refuses, and the evicting budget accepts. That is the
1479 // whole difference, stated as the decision rather than as a
1480 // number.
1481 assert!(evicting.check(windowed.tokens).is_ok());
1482 assert!(base.check(windowed.tokens).is_err());
1483 // And the report says why the division above it no longer
1484 // reproduces the answer, rather than leaving a reader to
1485 // subtract two numbers that do not match.
1486 assert!(
1487 windowed
1488 .to_string()
1489 .contains("stop growing at their sliding window"),
1490 "{windowed}"
1491 );
1492 }
1493
1494 #[test]
1495 fn max_context_clamps_to_the_models_trained_context_when_memory_is_plentiful() {
1496 let b = budget(1_000, 1 << 40, llama31_8b());
1497 let fit = b.max_context(8192, 256);
1498 assert_eq!(fit.tokens, 8192);
1499 assert_eq!(fit.capped_by, ContextCap::ModelContextLength);
1500 }
1501
1502 /// Flooring must not round a small-but-real answer down to "nothing
1503 /// fits" -- found by running `--ctx-size auto` under a tight
1504 /// `FERROX_DEVICE_BUDGET_BYTES`, where 227 tokens genuinely fitted
1505 /// and the 256-token granularity reported 0.
1506 #[test]
1507 fn a_context_under_one_granularity_step_is_reported_exactly_not_floored_away() {
1508 let shape = llama31_8b(); // 262144 bytes/token
1509 let b = budget(1_000, 1_000 + 262_144 * 100, shape);
1510 let fit = b.max_context(131_072, 256);
1511 assert_eq!(fit.tokens, 100);
1512 assert_eq!(fit.capped_by, ContextCap::DeviceBudget);
1513 assert!(b.check(fit.tokens).is_ok());
1514 assert!(b.check(fit.tokens + 1).is_err());
1515 }
1516
1517 #[test]
1518 fn max_context_is_zero_when_the_weights_alone_do_not_fit() {
1519 let b = budget(10_000_000, 1_000_000, llama31_8b());
1520 let fit = b.max_context(8192, 256);
1521 assert_eq!(fit.tokens, 0);
1522 assert_eq!(fit.capped_by, ContextCap::DeviceBudget);
1523 assert_eq!(fit.kv_available_bytes, 0);
1524 assert!(b.check(0).is_err(), "weights alone already overflow");
1525 }
1526
1527 /// `--ctx auto` on a windowed model used to answer "the model's own
1528 /// context length" however small the budget was, because the
1529 /// divisor had every sliding layer taken out of it and a model whose
1530 /// every layer slid divided by zero bytes per token. It is now
1531 /// bounded by memory like any other model, and the context it picks
1532 /// has to survive `check` -- which is the assertion that would have
1533 /// caught the OOM.
1534 #[test]
1535 fn a_windowed_model_is_bounded_by_memory_like_any_other() {
1536 let mut cfg = alternating_swa_config();
1537 cfg.swa_pattern = Some(1); // every layer slides: the old zero divisor
1538 let shape = KvShape::from_config(&cfg, KvElem::F32);
1539 // Room for 1024 tokens, against a model that would like 1e6.
1540 let b = budget(1_000, 1_000 + shape.per_token_kv_bytes() * 1024, shape);
1541 let fit = b.max_context(1_000_000, 256);
1542 assert_eq!(fit.capped_by, ContextCap::DeviceBudget);
1543 assert_eq!(fit.tokens, 1024);
1544 assert!(b.check(fit.tokens).is_ok());
1545 assert!(
1546 b.check(fit.tokens + 1).is_err(),
1547 "the chosen context must be the largest that fits"
1548 );
1549 }
1550
1551 #[test]
1552 fn ctx_auto_explanation_names_every_term_it_divided() {
1553 let b = budget(5_000_000, 5_000_000 + 262_144 * 1000, llama31_8b());
1554 let text = b.max_context(131_072, CTX_AUTO_GRANULARITY).to_string();
1555 assert!(text.contains("ctx auto = 768 tokens"), "{text}");
1556 assert!(text.contains("262144"), "per-token divisor missing: {text}");
1557 assert!(text.contains("5000000"), "weights term missing: {text}");
1558 assert!(text.contains("131072"), "model cap missing: {text}");
1559 }
1560}