[Perf] Use FlashInfer RoPE for RotaryEmbedding.forward_cuda when available (#21126)

Signed-off-by: mgoin <mgoin64@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Goin <mgoin64@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Luka Govedič <ProExpertProg@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: yewentao256 <zhyanwentao@126.com>

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding/base.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from typing import Optional
 import torch
 
 from vllm.model_executor.custom_op import CustomOp
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
+from vllm.utils.flashinfer import has_flashinfer
 
 from .common import apply_rotary_emb_torch
 
@@ -30,9 +32,17 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(CustomOp):
         self.base = base
         self.is_neox_style = is_neox_style
         self.dtype = dtype
+        # Flashinfer only supports head_size=64, 128, 256, 512.
+        # https://github.com/flashinfer-ai/flashinfer/blob/ebfd655efe830048dba5d582aaa61d61d1cf9a87/include/flashinfer/utils.cuh#L174-L202
+        self.use_flashinfer = (self.enabled()
+                               and dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16)
+                               and current_platform.is_cuda()
+                               and has_flashinfer()
+                               and self.head_size in [64, 128, 256, 512])
 
         cache = self._compute_cos_sin_cache()
-        cache = cache.to(dtype)
+        if not self.use_flashinfer:
+            cache = cache.to(dtype)
         self.cos_sin_cache: torch.Tensor
         self.register_buffer("cos_sin_cache", cache, persistent=False)
 
@@ -57,6 +67,14 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(CustomOp):
         cache = torch.cat((cos, sin), dim=-1)
         return cache
 
+    def _match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(self, query: torch.Tensor) -> None:
+        # __setattr__ in nn.Module (called by `self.cos_sin_cache = ...`)
+        # is expensive, so avoid calling it if possible
+        if self.cos_sin_cache.device != query.device or \
+            self.cos_sin_cache.dtype != query.dtype:
+            self.cos_sin_cache = self.cos_sin_cache.to(query.device,
+                                                       dtype=query.dtype)
+
     def forward_native(
         self,
         positions: torch.Tensor,
@@ -94,15 +112,16 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(CustomOp):
         query: torch.Tensor,
         key: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
+        if self.use_flashinfer:
+            torch.ops.vllm.flashinfer_rotary_embedding(positions, query, key,
+                                                       self.head_size,
+                                                       self.cos_sin_cache,
+                                                       self.is_neox_style)
+            return query, key
+
         from vllm import _custom_ops as ops
 
-        # __setattr__ in nn.Module (called by `self.cos_sin_cache = ...`)
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
-        # is expensive, so avoid calling it if possible
-        if self.cos_sin_cache.device != query.device or \
-            self.cos_sin_cache.dtype != query.dtype:
-            self.cos_sin_cache = self.cos_sin_cache.to(query.device,
-                                                       dtype=query.dtype)
-
         # ops.rotary_embedding() is an in-place operation
         # that updates the query and key tensors.
         ops.rotary_embedding(positions, query, key, self.head_size,
@@ -117,8 +136,7 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(CustomOp):
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
         from vllm._ipex_ops import ipex_ops as ops
 
-        self.cos_sin_cache = self.cos_sin_cache.to(positions.device,
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
-                                                   dtype=query.dtype)
         # ops.rotary_embedding() is an in-place operation
         # that updates the query and key tensors.
         if key is None:

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding/common.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import math
 import torch
 
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
+from vllm.utils import direct_register_custom_op
 
 if current_platform.is_cuda():
     from vllm.vllm_flash_attn.layers.rotary import apply_rotary_emb
@@ -103,3 +104,48 @@ def yarn_get_mscale(scale: float = 1) -> float:
     if scale <= 1:
         return 1.0
     return 0.1 * math.log(scale) + 1.0
+
+
+def _flashinfer_rotary_embedding(
+    positions: torch.Tensor,
+    query: torch.Tensor,
+    key: torch.Tensor,
+    head_size: int,
+    cos_sin_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    is_neox: bool,
+) -> None:
+    """Custom op wrapper for flashinfer's rotary embedding.
+    
+    This is an in-place operation that modifies query and key tensors directly.
+    """
+    from flashinfer.rope import apply_rope_with_cos_sin_cache_inplace
+
+    apply_rope_with_cos_sin_cache_inplace(
+        positions=positions,
+        query=query,
+        key=key,
+        head_size=head_size,
+        cos_sin_cache=cos_sin_cache,
+        is_neox=is_neox,
+    )
+
+
+def _flashinfer_rotary_embedding_fake(
+    positions: torch.Tensor,
+    query: torch.Tensor,
+    key: torch.Tensor,
+    head_size: int,
+    cos_sin_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    is_neox: bool,
+) -> None:
+    return
+
+
+# Register flashinfer rotary embedding custom op
+direct_register_custom_op(
+    op_name="flashinfer_rotary_embedding",
+    op_func=_flashinfer_rotary_embedding,
+    mutates_args=["query", "key"],  # These tensors are modified in-place
+    fake_impl=_flashinfer_rotary_embedding_fake,
+    dispatch_key=current_platform.dispatch_key,
+)

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding/deepseek_scaling_rope.py

@@ -97,15 +97,13 @@ class DeepseekScalingRotaryEmbedding(RotaryEmbedding):
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
         """PyTorch-native implementation equivalent to forward()."""
         assert key is not None
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
         query_rot = query[..., :self.rotary_dim]
         key_rot = key[..., :self.rotary_dim]
         if self.rotary_dim < self.head_size:
             query_pass = query[..., self.rotary_dim:]
             key_pass = key[..., self.rotary_dim:]
 
-        if self.cos_sin_cache.device != positions.device:
-            self.cos_sin_cache: torch.Tensor = self.cos_sin_cache.to(
-                positions.device)
         cos_sin = self.cos_sin_cache[torch.add(positions, offsets)
                                      if offsets is not None else positions]
         cos, sin = cos_sin.chunk(2, dim=-1)

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding/llama4_vision_rope.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class Llama4VisionRotaryEmbedding(RotaryEmbedding):
         key: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
         assert key is not None
-        self.cos_sin_cache: torch.Tensor = self.cos_sin_cache.to(query.device)
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
         query_ = torch.view_as_complex(query.float().reshape(
             *query.shape[:-1], -1, 2))
         key_ = torch.view_as_complex(key.float().reshape(

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding/mrope.py

@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ class MRotaryEmbedding(RotaryEmbedding):
         assert positions.ndim == 1 or positions.ndim == 2
         assert key is not None
 
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
         num_tokens = positions.shape[-1]
         cos_sin = self.cos_sin_cache[positions]
         cos, sin = cos_sin.chunk(2, dim=-1)
@@ -293,6 +294,7 @@ class MRotaryEmbedding(RotaryEmbedding):
         assert positions.ndim == 1 or positions.ndim == 2
         assert key is not None
 
+        self._match_cos_sin_cache_dtype(query)
         num_tokens = positions.shape[-1]
         cos_sin = self.cos_sin_cache[positions]
         cos, sin = cos_sin.chunk(2, dim=-1)