Llama.cpp Tensor Acceleration: b11647
vulkan : copy strided f16 KV once on AMD so reads spread across memory channels ( #27703 ) vulkan : copy strided f16 KV once so reads spread across memory channels Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) tests : cover the f16 KV copy to scratch Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) vulkan : gate the f16 KV scratch copy to AMD Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) vulkan : reuse the generic copy shader for the f16 KV scratch fill The f16 clause needs only a strided copy, not a dequant, so drop the dedicated shader and dispatch the existing copy pipeline instead.
Executive Summary
vulkan : copy strided f16 KV once on AMD so reads spread across memory channels ( #27703 ) vulkan : copy strided f16 KV once so reads spread across memory channels Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) tests : cover the f16 KV copy to scratch Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) vulkan : gate the f16 KV scratch copy to AMD Assisted-by: Claude (Opus 4.8 / Opus 5) vulkan : reuse the generic copy shader for the f16 KV scratch fill The f16 clause needs only a strided copy, not a dequant, so drop the dedicated shader and dispatch the existing copy pipeline instead.
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