quant : Optimise memory usage by evicting weights after processing each layer (#22877)

* Evict weights from memory after processing each layer

* Revert changes

* Move unmap to libllama

* Unmap weights offloaded to backend

* Change member's constness

* Remove unmap weights offloaded to backend

src/llama-model-loader.cpp

@@ -1395,6 +1395,11 @@ void llama_model_loader::get_mapping_range(size_t * first, size_t * last, void *
     }
 }
 
+void llama_model_loader::unmap_weight(const llama_tensor_weight & w) const {
+    if (!use_mmap) { return; }
+    mappings.at(w.idx)->unmap_fragment(w.offs, w.offs + ggml_nbytes(w.tensor));
+}
+
 void llama_model_loader::load_data_for(struct ggml_tensor * cur) const {
     const auto & w = require_weight(ggml_get_name(cur));
 

src/llama-model-loader.h

@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ struct llama_model_loader {
 
     void get_mapping_range(size_t * first, size_t * last, void ** addr, int idx, ggml_context * ctx) const;
 
+    // release a weight's mmap pages
+    void unmap_weight(const llama_tensor_weight & w) const;
+
     // for backwards compatibility, does not support ggml-backend
     void load_data_for(struct ggml_tensor * cur) const;
 

src/llama-quant.cpp

@@ -1278,6 +1278,10 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_impl(const std::string & fname_inp, const std::
             // write tensor data + padding
             fout.write((const char *) new_data, new_size);
             zeros(fout, GGML_PAD(new_size, align) - new_size);
+
+            // unmap the tensor to free memory
+            if (ml.use_mmap) { ml.unmap_weight(weight); }
+
         } // no --dry-run
     } // main loop
 

tools/perplexity/perplexity.cpp

@@ -2023,7 +2023,6 @@ int llama_perplexity(int argc, char ** argv) {
     }
 
     const int32_t n_ctx = params.n_ctx;
-
     if (n_ctx <= 0) {
         LOG_ERR("%s: perplexity tool requires '--ctx-size' > 0\n", __func__);
         return 1;