CUDA: quantized KV support for FA vec

Author: JohannesGaessler

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ set(LLAMA_CUDA_PEER_MAX_BATCH_SIZE "128" CACHE STRING
                                              "llama: max. batch size for using peer access")
 option(LLAMA_CUDA_NO_PEER_COPY               "llama: do not use peer to peer copies"            OFF)
 option(LLAMA_CUDA_NO_VMM                     "llama: do not try to use CUDA VMM"                OFF)
+option(LLAMA_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS              "llama: compile all quants for FlashAttention"     OFF)
 
 option(LLAMA_CURL                            "llama: use libcurl to download model from an URL" OFF)
 option(LLAMA_HIPBLAS                         "llama: use hipBLAS"                               OFF)
@@ -427,6 +428,9 @@ if (LLAMA_CUDA)
         if (LLAMA_CUDA_NO_PEER_COPY)
             add_compile_definitions(GGML_CUDA_NO_PEER_COPY)
         endif()
+        if (LLAMA_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS)
+            add_compile_definitions(GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS)
+        endif()
 
         if (LLAMA_STATIC)
             if (WIN32)

Makefile

@@ -493,7 +493,10 @@ ifdef LLAMA_CUDA_NO_PEER_COPY
 endif # LLAMA_CUDA_NO_PEER_COPY
 ifdef LLAMA_CUDA_CCBIN
 	MK_NVCCFLAGS += -ccbin $(LLAMA_CUDA_CCBIN)
-endif
+endif # LLAMA_CUDA_CCBIN
+ifdef LLAMA_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS
+	MK_NVCCFLAGS += -DGGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS
+endif # LLAMA_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS
 
 ifdef JETSON_EOL_MODULE_DETECT
 define NVCC_COMPILE

README.md

@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ Building the program with BLAS support may lead to some performance improvements
   | LLAMA_CUDA_F16                 | Boolean                | false   | If enabled, use half-precision floating point arithmetic for the CUDA dequantization + mul mat vec kernels and for the q4_1 and q5_1 matrix matrix multiplication kernels. Can improve performance on relatively recent GPUs.                                                           |
   | LLAMA_CUDA_KQUANTS_ITER        | 1 or 2                 | 2       | Number of values processed per iteration and per CUDA thread for Q2_K and Q6_K quantization formats. Setting this value to 1 can improve performance for slow GPUs.                                                                                                                     |
   | LLAMA_CUDA_PEER_MAX_BATCH_SIZE | Positive integer       | 128     | Maximum batch size for which to enable peer access between multiple GPUs. Peer access requires either Linux or NVLink. When using NVLink enabling peer access for larger batch sizes is potentially beneficial.                                                                         |
+  | LLAMA_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS       | Boolean                | false   | Compile support for all KV cache quantization type (combinations) for the FlashAttention CUDA kernels. More fine-grained control over KV cache size but compilation takes much longer.                                                                                                  |
 
 - #### hipBLAS