perf: fix prefill kernel performance degradation (step 1) #602
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The prefill attention kernel performance has degraded significantly in recent releases (since v0.1.2), especially on A100 when
causal=True
, this is mainly because we add new attention variants (which increases register usage thus incurs register spilling) and move some parameters from compile-time to runtime.This PR alleviates the issue by caching some of the variables regarding GQA group size.
In the next PR, we will support another mode
kv_head_major
in addition toqo_head_major
, to further accelerate GQA prefill with query size >= 64.cc @AKKamath