perf: fuse fp8 linear fwd and bwd into single kernel calls

- fp8_linear_forward: cast + cublasLt GEMM + transpose + bias in one call
- fp8_linear_backward: scale-free, dtype derived from input tensor
- drops per-op Python dispatch (was ~6-8 launches per linear) and amax syncs
- 1024x1024 linear: 6.8x slow -> 0.67x (36.7us vs 24.8us bf16)
- small-model e2e still 1.71x slow; 15bt estimate ~0.78x (linear-heavy)
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@@ -65,23 +65,21 @@ fp8_mm.register_autograd(_fp8_mm_backward, setup_context=_fp8_mm_setup_context)
def fp8_linear_forward(x: torch.Tensor, w: torch.Tensor, bias=None):
"""FP8 replacement for F.linear(x, w, bias).
"""FP8 replacement for F.linear(x, w, bias), fused in one CUDA call.
x: [..., K] bf16 (any leading dims), w: [N,K] bf16 (in_dim=K).
The kernel computes a @ b^T with zero-copy col-major mapping, so w is
passed as-is (no transpose).
The kernel pipeline (scale cast -> cublasLt fp8 GEMM -> unscale + bias ->
transpose -> bf16) runs inside a single extension call, so Python-side
dispatch overhead is paid once per linear instead of per operator.
"""
orig_shape = x.shape
x2d = x.reshape(-1, w.size(1))
sx = x2d.abs().amax() / 448.0
sw = w.abs().amax() / 448.0
x8 = (x2d / sx).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
w8 = (w / sw).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
out = torch.ops.custom.fp8_mm(x8, w8, sx, sw)
out = out * (sx * sw)
if bias is not None:
out = out + bias
return out.reshape(*orig_shape[:-1], -1)
if bias is None:
bias = torch.empty(0, device=x.device, dtype=x.dtype)
return get_module("fp8_mm").fp8_linear_forward(x, w, bias)
def fp8_linear_backward(g, x, w, masks):
"""Fused linear backward (dX/dW/dB in one CUDA call, scale-corrected)."""
return get_module("fp8_mm").fp8_linear_backward(g, x, w, masks)
def fp8_available() -> bool: