Fix kv_cache_dtype handling for out-of-tree HPU plugin (#21302)

Signed-off-by: Konrad Zawora <kzawora@habana.ai>
Signed-off-by: Chendi.Xue <chendi.xue@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Chendi.Xue <chendi.xue@intel.com>

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -1352,22 +1352,8 @@ class EngineArgs:
 
         # No Fp8 KV cache so far.
         if self.kv_cache_dtype != "auto":
-            fp8_attention = self.kv_cache_dtype.startswith("fp8")
+            supported = current_platform.is_kv_cache_dtype_supported(
-            will_use_fa = (
+                self.kv_cache_dtype)
-                current_platform.is_cuda()
-                and not envs.is_set("VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND")
-            ) or envs.VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND == "FLASH_ATTN_VLLM_V1"
-            supported = False
-            if (current_platform.is_rocm()
-                    or (current_platform.is_cuda()
-                        and current_platform.is_device_capability(100))
-                    or current_platform.is_tpu()):
-                supported = True
-            elif fp8_attention and will_use_fa:
-                from vllm.attention.utils.fa_utils import (
-                    flash_attn_supports_fp8)
-                supported = flash_attn_supports_fp8()
-
             if not supported:
                 _raise_or_fallback(feature_name="--kv-cache-dtype",
                                    recommend_to_remove=False)

vllm/platforms/cuda.py

@@ -586,6 +586,19 @@ class NonNvmlCudaPlatform(CudaPlatformBase):
             " not found. Assuming no NVLink available.")
         return False
 
+    @classmethod
+    def is_kv_cache_dtype_supported(cls, kv_cache_dtype: str) -> bool:
+        fp8_attention = kv_cache_dtype.startswith("fp8")
+        will_use_fa = (not envs.is_set("VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND")
+                       ) or envs.VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND == "FLASH_ATTN_VLLM_V1"
+        supported = False
+        if cls.is_device_capability(100):
+            supported = True
+        elif fp8_attention and will_use_fa:
+            from vllm.attention.utils.fa_utils import flash_attn_supports_fp8
+            supported = flash_attn_supports_fp8()
+        return supported
+
 
 # Autodetect either NVML-enabled or non-NVML platform
 # based on whether NVML is available.

vllm/platforms/interface.py

@@ -543,6 +543,13 @@ class Platform:
         """
         raise RuntimeError(f"Unsupported torch distributed backend: {backend}")
 
+    @classmethod
+    def is_kv_cache_dtype_supported(cls, kv_cache_dtype: str) -> bool:
+        """
+        Returns if the kv_cache_dtype is supported by the current platform.
+        """
+        return False
+
 
 class UnspecifiedPlatform(Platform):
     _enum = PlatformEnum.UNSPECIFIED

vllm/platforms/rocm.py

@@ -454,3 +454,7 @@ class RocmPlatform(Platform):
     @classmethod
     def device_count(cls) -> int:
         return cuda_device_count_stateless()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def is_kv_cache_dtype_supported(cls, kv_cache_dtype: str) -> bool:
+        return True

vllm/platforms/tpu.py

@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ class TpuPlatform(Platform):
                 and params.sampling_type == SamplingType.RANDOM_SEED):
             raise ValueError("Torch XLA does not support per-request seed.")
 
+    @classmethod
+    def is_kv_cache_dtype_supported(cls, kv_cache_dtype: str) -> bool:
+        return True
+
 
 try:
     from tpu_commons.platforms import TpuPlatform as TpuCommonsPlatform