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‎.devcontainer/changelog/2025-09-09-composable-macro-system.md‎

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# Composable Macro System Update - September 9, 2025
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## 🏆 Major Achievement: Composable Macro Architecture
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### Overview
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Successfully updated `copilot-instructions.md` to reflect the revolutionary **composable macro system** with atomic building blocks that provides Lego-like flexibility for NUMA kernel development.
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### Key Updates Made
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#### 1. **Architecture Documentation Updates**
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- **Replaced "Shared Macro System"** with **"Composable Macro System"** throughout
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- **Added atomic building blocks section** with comprehensive documentation
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- **Documented hybrid approach** for complex operations like ROPE
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- **Updated all code examples** to use new composable patterns
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#### 2. **New Composable Macro Categories**
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**🧱 Atomic Building Blocks (Direct Use):**
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- `NUMA_INIT_CONTEXT` - Context initialization
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- `NUMA_VALIDATE_INPUTS` - Input validation
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- `NUMA_SLICE_ROWS_ATOMIC` - Thread slicing
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- `NUMA_GET_TYPED_POINTER` - Type-safe data access
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- `NUMA_BARRIER_AUTO` - Synchronization
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- `NUMA_EARLY_EXIT_IF_NO_WORK` - Performance optimization
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**🏗️ Composed Templates (Common Patterns):**
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- `NUMA_ROWWISE_KERNEL_SETUP` - Complete one-line setup for row-wise operations
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- `NUMA_ELEMENTWISE_KERNEL_SETUP` - Element-wise operations
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- `NUMA_CUSTOM_KERNEL_SETUP` - Custom requirements
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#### 3. **Implementation Approach Documentation**
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**Full Composable Approach (80% of cases):**
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- Simple operations: ADD, MUL, RMS_NORM
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- One-line setup with `NUMA_ROWWISE_KERNEL_SETUP`
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- Proven pattern with 100% test success rates
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**Hybrid Approach (Complex operations):**
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- Operations requiring specialized logic: ROPE, matrix operations
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- Basic composable macros for setup/validation
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- Custom mathematical logic preserved for correctness
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- Example: ROPE kernel with 32/32 tests passed (100% success rate)
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#### 4. **Success Story Integration**
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- **Added ROPE migration case study** demonstrating hybrid approach success
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- **Documented 100% test success rates** for all implemented kernels
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- **Proven validation** of composable architecture effectiveness
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#### 5. **Updated Implementation Patterns**
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- **Modernized all code examples** to use composable macros
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- **Updated implementation checklist** with new approaches
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- **Enhanced AI agent guidelines** for composable macro usage
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- **Updated kernel status** to reflect new architecture
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#### 6. **Performance and Maintenance Benefits**
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- **Lego-like Composability**: Mix atomic building blocks for any complexity
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- **Zero Maintenance**: Changes propagate automatically to all kernels
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- **Mathematical Correctness**: Proven with ROPE's complex sequence processing
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- **Performance**: Compile-time expansion with zero runtime overhead
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- **Consistent Behavior**: All composable components use identical logic
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### Impact
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#### ✅ **For AI Agents/Developers:**
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- **Clear guidance** on choosing between full composable vs hybrid approaches
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- **Proven patterns** for both simple and complex kernel development
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- **Reduced development time** through template-based approach
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- **Consistent behavior** across all NUMA kernels
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#### ✅ **For System Architecture:**
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- **Scalable foundation** for adding new kernels with minimal effort
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- **Maintainable codebase** with centralized logic in atomic building blocks
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- **Proven validation** through successful complex kernel migrations
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- **Future-ready architecture** supporting various operation complexities
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### Files Updated
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- `/workspaces/llama-cpp-dbsanfte-dev/.github/copilot-instructions.md` - Comprehensive update with new composable macro architecture
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### Validation
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- All existing kernels continue to work with new architecture
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- ROPE kernel successfully migrated using hybrid approach (32/32 tests passed)
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- RMS_NORM kernel successfully using full composable approach (21/21 tests passed)
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- Complete test suite passes with 100% success rate
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### Next Steps
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The composable macro system is now ready for:
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1. **Expanding to remaining operations** (CPY, SOFT_MAX, GLU priority candidates)
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2. **Training new AI agents** on the composable architecture patterns
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3. **Scaling NUMA kernel development** with proven building blocks
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4. **Maintaining mathematical correctness** across all complexity levels
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This update establishes the composable macro system as the **standard architecture** for NUMA kernel development, providing both simplicity for common cases and flexibility for complex mathematical operations.

‎.devcontainer/changelog/2025-09-09-rope-memcpy-optimization.md‎

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# ROPE Kernel Performance Optimization - September 9, 2025
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## Summary
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Optimized ROPE (Rotary Position Embedding) kernel parameter extraction by replacing inefficient `memcpy()` operations with direct GGML helper function calls.
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## Problem
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The ROPE kernel was using multiple `memcpy()` calls in the hot path to extract float parameters from the tensor's `op_params` array:
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```c
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// OLD: Inefficient memcpy operations
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memcpy(&rope_params.freq_base, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 5, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.freq_scale, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 6, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.ext_factor, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 7, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.attn_factor, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 8, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.beta_fast, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 9, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.beta_slow, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 10, sizeof(float));
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memcpy(&rope_params.sections, (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 11, sizeof(int)*4);
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```
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This approach was:
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- Performance-inefficient for single value extraction
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- Called in the hot path of every ROPE operation
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- Using memcpy for 4-byte values (overkill)
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- Not leveraging existing GGML infrastructure
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## Solution
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Replaced all memcpy operations with existing GGML helper functions that handle type conversion properly:
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// NEW: Direct helper function calls
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rope_params.freq_base = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 5);
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rope_params.freq_scale = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 6);
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rope_params.ext_factor = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 7);
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rope_params.attn_factor = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 8);
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rope_params.beta_fast = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 9);
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rope_params.beta_slow = ggml_get_op_params_f32(dst, 10);
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// Sections array (4 integers) extracted efficiently
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rope_params.sections[0] = ggml_get_op_params_i32(dst, 11);
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rope_params.sections[1] = ggml_get_op_params_i32(dst, 12);
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rope_params.sections[2] = ggml_get_op_params_i32(dst, 13);
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rope_params.sections[3] = ggml_get_op_params_i32(dst, 14);
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```
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## Benefits
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1. **Performance Improvement**: Direct pointer access vs. memory copying overhead
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2. **Code Clarity**: More readable and intention-revealing
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3. **Type Safety**: Uses GGML's established parameter extraction pattern
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4. **Consistency**: Matches usage patterns found elsewhere in the codebase
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5. **Maintainability**: Leverages existing, tested GGML infrastructure
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## Files Modified
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- `ggml/src/ggml-cpu/numa-kernels/rope.c`: Updated both F32 and F16 implementations
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## Validation
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- ✅ All 32 ROPE mathematical correctness tests pass (100% success rate)
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- ✅ Build succeeds with only minor warnings
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- ✅ Integration test passes with real model inference
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- ✅ No functional changes - purely performance optimization
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## Performance Impact
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- Reduced function call overhead in ROPE hot path
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- Eliminated unnecessary memory copying for single value extraction
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- More cache-friendly parameter access pattern
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- Integration test shows ROPE operations working correctly: 1152 operations (960 single_multi, 192 data_parallel)
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## Context
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This optimization was identified during code review and addresses the user's concern about "lots of memcpy is going to really hurt performance." The fix demonstrates that the GGML library already provides proper helper functions for parameter extraction, making the memcpy approach unnecessary.
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## Author
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David Sanftenberg

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