This is a huge backend change that essentially started with rewriting
the concurrency handling for processes and blew up to a refactor of the
entire application. In short these are the improvements:
**Better state and life cycle management:**
Life cycle management of processes has always been the trickiest part of
the code. Juggling mutex locks between multiple locations to reduce race
conditions was complex. Too complex for my feeble brain to build a
simple mental model around as llama-swap gained more features. All of
that has been refactored. Most of the locks are gone, replaced with a
single run() that owns all state changes. There is one place to start
from now to understand and extend routing logic.
The improved life cycle management makes it easier to implement more
complex swap optimization strategies in the future like #727.
**Collation of requests:**
llama-swap previously handled requests and swapping in the order they
came in. For example requests for models in this order ABCABC would
result in 5 swaps. Now those requests are handled in this order AABBCC.
The result is less time waiting for swap under a high churn request
queue. This fixes#588#612.
A possible future enhancement is to support a starvation parameter so
swap can be forced when models have been waiting too long.
**Shared base implementation for groups and swap matrix:**
During the refactor it became clear that much of the swapping logic was
shared between these two implementations. That is not surprising
considering the swap matrix was added many moons after groups. Now they
share a common base and their specific swap strategies are implemented
into the swapPlanner interface.
Requests for bespoke or specific swapping scenarios is a common theme in
the issues. Now users can implement whatever bespoke and weird swapping
strategy they want in their own fork. Just ask your agent of choice to
implement swapPlanner. I'll still remaining more conservative on what
actually lands in core llama-swap and will continue to evaluate PRs if
the changes is good for everyone or just one specific use case.
**AI / Agentic Disclosure:**
I paid very close attention to the low level swap concurrency design and
implementation. It's important to keep that essential part reliable,
boring and no surprises. Backwards compatibility was also maintained,
even the one way non-exclusive group model loading behaviour that people
have rightly pointed out be a weird design decision.
With the underlying swap core done the web server, api and UI sitting on
top were largely ported over with Claude Code and Opus 4.7 in multiple
phases. If you're curious I kept the changes in docs/newrouter-todo.md.
I did several passes to make sure things weren't left behind.
However, even frontier LLMs at the time of this PR still make small
decisions that don't make a lot of sense. They get shit wrong all the
time, just in small subtle way.
That said, there's likely to be some new bugs introduced with this
massive refactor. I'm fairly confident that there's no major
architectural flaws that would cause goal seeking agents to make dumb,
ugly code decisions.
For a little while the legacy llama-swap will be available under
cmd/legacy/llama-swap. The plan is to eventually delete that entry point
as well as the proxy package.
On a bit of a personal note, this PR is exciting and a bit sad for me. I
hand wrote much of the original code and this PR ultimately replaces
much of it. While the old code served as a good reference for the agent
to implement the new stuff it still a bit sad to eventually delete it
all.
Add a comprehensive performance monitoring system that collects CPU, memory, swap, load average, network IO, and GPU stats. Provides both a REST API for the UI and a Prometheus /metrics endpoint.
Backend changes:
- New internal/perf package with configurable interval-based stats collection
- GPU monitoring via LACT (Unix socket) and nvidia-smi fallback on Linux
- Ring buffer (internal/ring) for time-series stat storage
- Prometheus /metrics endpoint with all system and GPU metrics
- Moved LogMonitor to internal/logmon package
- New PerformanceConfig for hot-reloadable monitoring settings
- REST /api/performance endpoint replacing SSE streaming
UI changes:
- New Performance page with real-time charts for CPU, memory, GPU, and network
- Reusable PerformanceChart component
- LLAMA_SWAP_URL environment variable support
- Improved capture dialog display
Other:
- Example Grafana dashboard for Prometheus metrics
- monitor-test standalone binary
- Config schema and example updates
fixes#596
Replace the legacy React UI with the new Svelte-based one. Introduce a Playground in the UI to quickly test out text, image, text to speech and speech to text models behind llama-swap.
Key Changes
New Svelte UI (ui-svelte/)
- Multi-tab Playground with Chat, Image Generation, Audio Transcription, and Speech interfaces
- Chat: message editing/regeneration, markdown rendering with LaTeX math support, image attachments, code syntax highlighting
- Image: size selector, download/fullscreen viewing
- Audio: transcription with peer support
- Speech: voice caching with manual refresh, download button
- Responsive mobile layout with collapsible navigation
- XSS fixes and accessibility improvements
Proxy Improvements
- Add gzip/brotli compression for UI static assets (proxy/ui_compress.go)
- Add GET /v1/audio/voices?model={model} endpoint for voice listing
- Add peer support for /v1/audio/transcriptions
* proxy/config: create config package and migrate configuration
The configuration is become more complex as llama-swap adds more
advanced features. This commit moves config to its own package so it can
be developed independently of the proxy package.
Additionally, enforcing a public API for a configuration will allow
downstream usage to be more decoupled.
Add barebones but working implementation of model preload
* add config test for Preload hook
* improve TestProxyManager_StartupHooks
* docs for new hook configuration
* add a .dev to .gitignore
Groups allows more control over swapping behaviour when a model is requested. The new groups feature provides three ways to control swapping: within the group, swapping out other groups or keep the models in the group loaded persistently (never swapped out).
Closes#96, #99 and #106.
Rewrite the swap behaviour so that in-flight requests block process swapping until they are completed.
Additionally:
- add tests for parallel requests with proxy.ProxyManager and proxy.Process
- improve Process startup behaviour and simplified the code
- stopping of processes are sent SIGTERM and have 5 seconds to terminate, before they are killed
Refactor code to support starting of multiple back end llama.cpp servers. This functionality is exposed as `profiles` to create a simple configuration format.
Changes:
* refactor proxy tests to get ready for multi-process support
* update proxy/ProxyManager to support multiple processes (#7)
* Add support for Groups in configuration
* improve handling of Model alias configs
* implement multi-model swapping
* improve code clarity for swapModel
* improve docs, rename groups to profiles in config
Benson Wong
Benson Wong
Wim Vander Schelden