[PyTorch] Activation ops support fusing backward pass with quantize (#1804)

Activation ops support fusing backward pass with quantize
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>

transformer_engine/pytorch/ops/basic/activation.py

@@ -96,12 +96,15 @@ class _ActivationOperation(BasicOperation, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         if not x.is_contiguous():
             x = x.contiguous()
 
-        # Check if FP8 is enabled
-        fp8_enabled = FP8GlobalStateManager.is_fp8_enabled()
-        if fp8_enabled and next_op is not None and next_op.num_quantizers("forward") > 0:
+        # Check if quantized compute is enabled
+        quantized_compute_enabled = FP8GlobalStateManager.is_fp8_enabled()
+        quantizer = None
+        if (
+            quantized_compute_enabled
+            and next_op is not None
+            and next_op.num_quantizers("forward") > 0
+        ):
             quantizer = next_op.get_quantizer("forward", 0)
-        else:
-            quantizer = None
 
         # Launch kernel
         y = self._activation_forward_impl(
@@ -115,13 +118,13 @@ class _ActivationOperation(BasicOperation, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
 
         # Quantize input to FP8 before caching if needed
         if self.cache_quantized_input:
-            quantizer = Float8CurrentScalingQuantizer(tex.DType.kFloat8E4M3, x.device)
-            quantizer.set_usage(rowwise=True, columnwise=False)
-            x = quantizer(x)
+            input_quantizer = Float8CurrentScalingQuantizer(tex.DType.kFloat8E4M3, x.device)
+            input_quantizer.set_usage(rowwise=True, columnwise=False)
+            x = input_quantizer(x)
 
         # Save state for backward pass
         ctx.save_for_backward(x.detach())
-        ctx.fp8_enabled = fp8_enabled
+        ctx.quantized_compute_enabled = quantized_compute_enabled
         ctx.dtype = dtype
         ctx.prev_op = prev_op
 
@@ -153,11 +156,20 @@ class _ActivationOperation(BasicOperation, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         if not dy.is_contiguous():
             dy = dy.contiguous()
 
+        # Check if quantized compute is enabled
+        quantizer = None
+        if (
+            ctx.quantized_compute_enabled
+            and ctx.prev_op is not None
+            and ctx.prev_op.num_quantizers("backward") > 0
+        ):
+            quantizer = ctx.prev_op.get_quantizer("backward", 0)
+
         # Launch kernel
         dx = self._activation_backward_impl(
             reshape(dy, (-1, dy.size(-1))),
             reshape(x, (-1, x.size(-1))),
-            None,
+            quantizer,
         )
 
         # Check grad input tensor