Metal flash attention K.type==V.type constraint
Parent: Mac local LLMs: KV cache sizing and quantization · Published reference · snapshot 2026-10-05
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Already covered: llama.cpp Metal FLASH_ATTN_EXT requires src[1]->type == src[2]->type (issue #25900), so K and V cache types must match for the fused kernel; the open question whether mixed pairs run unfused is unresolved.
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- Already covered: llama.cpp Metal FLASH_ATTN_EXT requires src[1]->type == src[2]->type (issue #25900), so K and V cache types must match for the fused kernel; the open question whether mixed pairs run unfused is unresolved. [source]
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