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7609846557 rpc : hash-cache only weights (#28789)
* rpc : hash-cache only weights

ggml_backend_rpc_buffer_set_tensor and ggml_backend_rpc_set_tensor_async
hashed every transfer above HASH_THRESHOLD and let `rpc-server -c` serve it
from its file cache. The cache is meant for weights, but the activations
ggml_backend_sched copies between backends took the same path: with a
two-node split of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next every prefill ubatch above 10 MB was
hashed, written to the worker's cache directory (1.4 TB after a day) and
later served from there. Use the hash path only for tensors in buffers
marked GGML_BACKEND_BUFFER_USAGE_WEIGHTS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* rpc : save a cache entry only for the tensor that missed the hash check

With the client hashing weights only, the server still wrote every
SET_TENSOR above HASH_THRESHOLD to the cache directory, so the compute
data the scheduler sends kept filling the disk. Remember the hash of the
last SET_TENSOR_HASH that missed and save only the SET_TENSOR that
follows it with that hash - the weight the client is re-sending.

* rpc : signal the cache decision in the SET_TENSOR payload

Replace the server-side `pending_cache` state with a `cache_flag` byte
in the SET_TENSOR message: the client sets it when SET_TENSOR_HASH
reported a miss, the server saves a cache entry only when it is set.
Bump RPC_PROTO_MAJOR_VERSION since the wire format changes.

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Co-authored-by: Patrick Hoffmann <patrickhoffmann@MacBook-Pro-14-HOP.local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 14:50:20 +03:00

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#pragma once
#include "ggml-backend.h"
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#define RPC_PROTO_MAJOR_VERSION 7
#define RPC_PROTO_MINOR_VERSION 0
#define RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION 0
#ifdef __cplusplus
static_assert(GGML_OP_COUNT == 101, "GGML_OP_COUNT has changed - update RPC_PROTO_PATCH_VERSION");
#endif
#define GGML_RPC_MAX_SERVERS 16
// backend API
GGML_BACKEND_API ggml_backend_t ggml_backend_rpc_init(const char * endpoint, uint32_t device);
GGML_BACKEND_API bool ggml_backend_is_rpc(ggml_backend_t backend);
GGML_BACKEND_API ggml_backend_buffer_type_t ggml_backend_rpc_buffer_type(const char * endpoint, uint32_t device);
GGML_BACKEND_API void ggml_backend_rpc_get_device_memory(const char * endpoint, uint32_t device, size_t * free, size_t * total);
GGML_BACKEND_API void ggml_backend_rpc_start_server(const char * endpoint, const char * cache_dir,
size_t n_threads, size_t n_devices, ggml_backend_dev_t * devices);
GGML_BACKEND_API ggml_backend_reg_t ggml_backend_rpc_reg(void);
GGML_BACKEND_API ggml_backend_reg_t ggml_backend_rpc_add_server(const char * endpoint);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif