Support calling mlock() on loaded model data on Linux and macOS (#453)

* Support calling mlock() on loaded model data on Linux and macOS

This is enabled by a new --mlock command line option.

Using mlock() disables swapping and memory compression for the model
data.  Doing so can be useful on systems where the model takes up a
large fraction of system RAM.  In my experience, macOS is quite eager to
start compressing llama.cpp's memory, which then makes it halt for a few
seconds while it decompresses, even with a model that uses "only" 25GB
out of 32GB.

Of course, this comes at the cost of forcing the system to swap or
compress other processes' memory instead, so it needs to be used with
care and shouldn't be enabled by default.

In theory it should be possible to support this on Windows as well using
VirtualLock(), but I'm not much of a Windows user.

* Update llama.cpp

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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ggml.h b/ggml.h
index c7e6814..ddb9731 100644
--- a/ggml.h
+++ b/ggml.h
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ size_t ggml_used_mem(const struct ggml_context * ctx);
 
 size_t ggml_set_scratch(struct ggml_context * ctx, struct ggml_scratch scratch);
 
+bool ggml_mlock_supported(void);
+bool ggml_mlock(struct ggml_context * ctx, char ** err_p);
+
 struct ggml_tensor * ggml_new_tensor(
         struct ggml_context * ctx,
         enum   ggml_type type,