mtmd, llama: shared backend sched#24361
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Overview
This PR demonstrates the possibility of sharing the backend scheduler between libllama and libmtmd.
Currently,
llama_contextandclip_contextboth have their own sched, meaning they also have separate compute buffer. This is indeed quite wasteful because they are never used in parallel (i.e. at any given moments, eitherllama_decodeORmtmd_encodecan run, but not both). So I was wondering if we can somehow share the same buffer between the 2, to save memory.The same idea can also be extended to share the compute buffer between main LLM and the draft model.
However, my PR still misses quite a lot of things, so I decide to keep this as a discussion for now:
Additional information
Tested with
gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M:Requirements