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Summary

• Fix Vulkan: Flux sampling ~6x slower since b1f5a51 (#2286 QKV chunking) - bisected across official release builds, SDXL unaffected #2291 by removing the runner's size-based CPU fallback. Vulkan's preferred allocation chunk size was treated as a hard tensor limit, moving large Flux attention operations to CPU.
• Restore scheduling based on ggml_backend_supports_op().
• Preserve MiniMax-H3 MLP/QKV chunking and clarify that its size threshold is a conservative chunk budget.

Related Issue / Discussion

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Additional Information

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Backend Execution
  • Vulkan no longer treats its reported maximum buffer size as a hard limit for individual operations. Other backends retain their existing size checks.
• Diffusion
  • Diffusion workload chunk sizing continues to use the aligned buffer maximum as a conservative budget; actual performance and memory behavior may vary by model and hardware.

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Walkthrough

The runner now accepts Vulkan operations without applying buffer-size checks to their tensors and sources. Other backends retain the existing checks. MiniMax-H3 keeps its MLP and QKV chunk-size calculations, with updated names and descriptions for the aligned backend maximum.

Changes: Backend Allocation and Chunk Budgets

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Accept Vulkan operations src/core/ggml_runner.cpp	The runner bypasses operation and source allocation-size checks for Vulkan backends. Other backends retain the existing checks. A related explanatory comment is removed.
Describe MiniMax-H3 chunk budgets src/model/diffusion/minimax_h3.hpp	MLP and QKV chunk-size calculations remain unchanged. The aligned backend maximum is named and described as a chunk budget, without claims that chunking enforces a buffer-size limit.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp#2286: Added the allocation-size check and CPU routing that this change alters.
• leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp#2257: Added the MiniMax-H3 MLP chunking whose budget description this change updates.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 2c54f

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Title check		The title names the main change: removing a size-based CPU fallback tied to backend allocation chunk size. The raw summary confirms the runner now returns true for Vulkan's preferred chunk size instea…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has Summary, Related Issue / Discussion, Additional Information, and Checklist sections. The Summary explains the change and the reason for it (Fix …
Linked Issues check		[#2291] The issue reports Flux sampling about 6x slower on Vulkan after b1f5a51 (#2286). The issue has no formal acceptance criteria. Its suggested fixes are: correct the chunking or buffer-limit beha…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#2291] Changes between the merge base and the reviewed head are limited to src/core/ggml_runner.cpp and src/model/diffusion/minimax_h3.hpp. In ggml_runner.cpp, the Vulkan early return in backend_can_…

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The title names the main change: removing a size-based CPU fallback tied to backend allocation chunk size. The raw summary confirms the runner now returns true for Vulkan's preferred chunk size instead of enforcing it as a hard limit, and the MiniMax-H3 comments were clarified. The title is specific and matches the changeset, so it passes.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Summary, Related Issue / Discussion, Additional Information, and Checklist sections. The Summary explains the change and the reason for it (Fix #2291, removal of the size-based CPU fallback, restored ggml_backend_supports_op() scheduling, and preserved MiniMax-H3 chunking). The checklist is marked. Related Issue lists N/A even though the description cites #2291, and Additional Information lists N/A with no verification notes. Those are non-critical gaps, so the check passes.

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[#2291] The issue reports Flux sampling about 6x slower on Vulkan after b1f5a51 (#2286). The issue has no formal acceptance criteria. Its suggested fixes are: correct the chunking or buffer-limit behavior, or limit chunking to the MiniMax-H3 graph. At the reviewed head (2c54fb4, blob 770f46b), src/core/ggml_runner.cpp exempts Vulkan in backend_can_allocate_op(). For Vulkan the function returns true before the max-buffer-size checks. pin_multi_device_nodes() therefore keeps Vulkan nodes on the selected backend when ggml_backend_supports_op() is true. The size-based CPU move now applies only to non-Vulkan backends. The issue's Vulkan symptoms (work on CPU, GPU mostly idle) match this mechanism, so the change targets the cause. The MiniMax-H3 chunking in src/model/diffusion/minimax_h3.hpp is unchanged in arithmetic and remains confined to that model. Two limits apply to this result. The PR does not measure runtime speed. No automated test covers this path. The speed recovery rests on code reading and the issue's bisect data. This review changes the earlier verdict basis: the previous head removed backend_can_allocate_op() entirely, while the current head keeps it with a Vulkan exemption. The Vulkan requirement remains met at the current head.

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[#2291] Changes between the merge base and the reviewed head are limited to src/core/ggml_runner.cpp and src/model/diffusion/minimax_h3.hpp. In ggml_runner.cpp, the Vulkan early return in backend_can_allocate_op() is the fix for #2291. The added comments explain the Vulkan exemption and the cross-backend copy check. The comment removed from pin_multi_device_nodes() is documentation only. Non-Vulkan backends keep the existing size checks, so their behavior is unchanged. In minimax_h3.hpp, the rename to chunk_budget and the comment updates clarify the chunking threshold, as the PR description states. The chunk-size arithmetic is unchanged. These edits relate to #2291 and add no unrelated behavior. Residual risk, not a scope failure: on Vulkan, the removed CPU fallback no longer catches allocations above the reported max buffer size. The MiniMax-H3 chunking is now the only guard for those cases on Vulkan. The PR does not test this path.

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fallback when the current backend’s hard allocation limit cannot accommodate the
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