Merge branch 'extra_assertion' into 'main'

Make sure pipeline-model-parallel size is greater than 2 for interleaved schedule

See merge request ADLR/megatron-lm!253

megatron/arguments.py

@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ def parse_args(extra_args_provider=None, defaults={},
                 args.global_batch_size), flush=True)
     assert args.global_batch_size > 0
     if args.num_layers_per_virtual_pipeline_stage is not None:
+        assert args.pipeline_model_parallel_size > 2, \
+            'pipeline-model-parallel size should be greater than 2 with ' \
+            'interleaved schedule'
         assert args.num_layers % args.num_layers_per_virtual_pipeline_stage == 0, \
             'number of layers is not divisible by number of layers per virtual ' \
             'pipeline stage'