[Kernel] Faster pre-processing time for W4A8 (#23972)

Signed-off-by: czhu-cohere <conway.zhu@cohere.com>
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@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
#include "cutlass_extensions/common.hpp"
#include "cutlass_extensions/epilogue/scaled_mm_epilogues_c3x.hpp"
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
namespace vllm::cutlass_w4a8 {
using namespace cute;
@ -393,6 +395,71 @@ torch::Tensor pack_scale_fp8(torch::Tensor const& scales) {
return packed_scales;
}
/*
GPU-accelerated implementation of cutlass::unified_encode_int4b.
Constructs a lookup table in constant memory to map 8 bits
(two 4-bit values) at a time. Assumes memory is contiguous
and pointers are 16-byte aligned.
*/
__constant__ uint8_t kNibbleLUT[256];
__global__ void unified_encode_int4b_device(const uint8_t* in, uint8_t* out,
size_t nbytes) {
constexpr size_t V = sizeof(uint4); // 16 bytes
const size_t tid = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
const size_t nthreads = size_t(gridDim.x) * blockDim.x;
const size_t nvec = nbytes / V;
// 1-D grid-stride loop over 16-byte chunks
for (size_t vec = tid; vec < nvec; vec += nthreads) {
uint4 v = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(in)[vec];
uint8_t* b = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(&v);
#pragma unroll
for (int i = 0; i < int(V); ++i) b[i] = kNibbleLUT[b[i]];
reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(out)[vec] = v;
}
}
static bool upload_lut() {
std::array<uint8_t, 256> lut{};
auto map_nib = [](uint8_t v) -> uint8_t {
// 1..7 -> (8 - v); keep 0 and 8..15
return (v == 0 || (v & 0x8)) ? v : uint8_t(8 - v);
};
for (int b = 0; b < 256; ++b) {
uint8_t lo = b & 0xF;
uint8_t hi = (b >> 4) & 0xF;
lut[b] = uint8_t((map_nib(hi) << 4) | map_nib(lo));
}
cudaError_t e = cudaMemcpyToSymbol(kNibbleLUT, lut.data(), lut.size(),
/*offset=*/0, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
return (e == cudaSuccess);
}
static bool unified_encode_int4b(cutlass::int4b_t const* in,
cutlass::int4b_t* out, size_t num_int4_elems) {
// Build/upload LUT
if (!upload_lut()) return false;
static_assert(sizeof(typename cutlass::int4b_t::Storage) == 1,
"int4 storage must be 1 byte");
const size_t nbytes = num_int4_elems >> 1;
auto* in_bytes = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t const*>(in);
auto* out_bytes = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(out);
// kernel launch params
constexpr int block = 256;
const size_t nvec = nbytes / sizeof(uint4); // # of 16B vectors
int grid = int((nvec + block - 1) / block);
if (grid == 0) grid = 1; // ensure we still cover the tail in the kernel
unified_encode_int4b_device<<<grid, block>>>(in_bytes, out_bytes, nbytes);
cudaError_t err = cudaGetLastError();
return (err == cudaSuccess);
}
torch::Tensor encode_and_reorder_int4b(torch::Tensor const& B) {
TORCH_CHECK(B.dtype() == torch::kInt32);
TORCH_CHECK(B.dim() == 2);
@ -401,6 +468,7 @@ torch::Tensor encode_and_reorder_int4b(torch::Tensor const& B) {
int k = B.size(0) * PackFactor; // logical k
int n = B.size(1);
TORCH_CHECK((n * k) % 32 == 0, "need multiples of 32 int4s for 16B chunks");
auto B_ptr = static_cast<QuantType const*>(B.const_data_ptr());
auto B_packed_ptr = static_cast<QuantType*>(B_packed.data_ptr());
@ -409,7 +477,9 @@ torch::Tensor encode_and_reorder_int4b(torch::Tensor const& B) {
LayoutB_Reordered layout_B_reordered =
cute::tile_to_shape(LayoutAtomQuant{}, shape_B);
cutlass::unified_encode_int4b(B_ptr, B_packed_ptr, n * k);
bool ok =
vllm::cutlass_w4a8::unified_encode_int4b(B_ptr, B_packed_ptr, n * k);
TORCH_CHECK(ok, "unified_encode_int4b failed");
cutlass::reorder_tensor(B_packed_ptr, layout_B, layout_B_reordered);
return B_packed;