Add the option for the macro and note (#893)

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Driss Guessous 2024-03-27 19:12:11 -07:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -78,7 +78,14 @@ __forceinline__ __device__ void scale_apply_exp2(Tensor<Engine0, Layout0> &tenso
// Instead of computing exp(x - max), we compute exp2(x * log_2(e) -
// max * log_2(e)) This allows the compiler to use the ffma
// instruction instead of fadd and fmul separately.
tensor(mi, ni) = exp2f(tensor(mi, ni) * scale - max_scaled);
// The following macro will disable the use of fma.
// See: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/121558 for more details
// This macro is set in PyTorch and not FlashAttention
#ifdef UNFUSE_FMA
tensor(mi, ni) = exp2f(__fmul_rn(tensor(mi, ni), scale) - max_scaled);
#else
tensor(mi, ni) = exp2f(tensor(mi, ni) * scale - max_scaled);
#endif
}
}
}