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    Grid optimization - Chunk_Size optimization. (#104) · 1578c0c7
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    * Updating BLOCK_SIZE to 1024.
    tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_fused_optimizer.py test passes except for bfloat16 for Adam. There seems to be a bug in this test that needs to be resolved.
    For now skipping test_bfloat16 for Adam in the unittest.
    Ran 17 other tests and ALL other tests pass!
    More details on the effects of these changes can be found here -  https://confluence.amd.com/display/MLSE/Apex+Kernel+Optimization.
    This commit changes BLOCK_SIZE=1024 ONLY FOR different optimizers.
    L2norm kernels (part of LAMB optimizer algorithm) still maintain BLOCK_SIZE=512 otherwise Allclose fails.
    
    * Updating tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_fused_optimizer.py with @skipifRocm to skip test_bfloat16 in Adam.
    
    * Updating chunk_size to 256*32 (8K) which was previously 2048*32 (64K).
    In addition updating depth_to_max_blocks to 2560 (8x compared to previous 320).
    The performance improvement observed is upto 1.4x for large number of elements, upto 5.2x for moderate number of elements and upto 1.44x for small number of elements.
    This change only affects the optimizers specifically when multi_tensor_apply is emabled using --cuda_ext extension when installing apex.
    The set of performance along with comaprison with Torch is captured here
    https://amdcloud.sharepoint.com/
    
    /r/sites/MLSEPerfTeam/Shared%20Documents/Strategic%20Leadership%20Optimizations%20Team%20(SLOT)/Projects/Grid%20Optimization/Elementwise%20Kernel%20-%20Grid%20Optimization%20-%20Benchmark%20sweep.xlsx?d=wa8bacf65a2904002bf3cad4c57769eff&csf=1&web=1&e=JhLVm8
    See sheet chunk_opt.
    
    * Updating all files related to L2norm since test_fuzz (test_multi_tensor_l2norm.TestMultiTensorL2Norm) failed with previous commits.
    changes in chunk_size seems to have effect on reduction kernels so this commit provides a provision for maintaining unoptimized conditions for L2norm and optimizations for all other kernels associated with all optimzers.
    The change includes introducing  multi_tensor_apply_l2norm that assumes chunk_size of 64K as well as multi_tensor_apply_base.cuh specifically to be used by l2norm kernels.
    
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    Co-authored-by: default avataraspanday <aspanday@amd.com>
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