[Perf] Reduce MLA CPU overheads in V1 (#14384)

Signed-off-by: Lucas Wilkinson <lwilkinson@neuralmagic.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Wilkinson <lwilkins@redhat.com>

vllm/model_executor/layers/rotary_embedding.py

@@ -161,8 +161,13 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(CustomOp):
     ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
         from vllm import _custom_ops as ops
 
+        # __setattr__ in nn.Module (called by `self.cos_sin_cache = ...`)
+        # is expensive, so avoid calling it if possible
+        if self.cos_sin_cache.device != query.device or \
+            self.cos_sin_cache.dtype != query.dtype:
             self.cos_sin_cache = self.cos_sin_cache.to(query.device,
                                                        dtype=query.dtype)
+
         # ops.rotary_embedding()/batched_rotary_embedding()
         # are in-place operations that update the query and key tensors.
         if offsets is not None:

vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/common.py

@@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.utils.fp8_utils import (
     apply_fp8_linear_generic, current_platform_fp8_dtype, is_fp8)
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.utils.quant_utils import (
     scaled_quantize)
-from vllm.model_executor.layers.rotary_embedding import (
-    DeepseekScalingRotaryEmbedding, RotaryEmbedding)
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.rotary_embedding import RotaryEmbedding
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.utils import cdiv, round_down
 
 try:
@@ -627,8 +627,15 @@ class MLACommonImpl(MLAAttentionImpl[M], Generic[M]):
         self.v_head_dim = v_head_dim
 
         self.rotary_emb = rotary_emb
-        self.use_yarn_rope = isinstance(rotary_emb,
-                                        DeepseekScalingRotaryEmbedding)
+
+        if current_platform.is_cuda():
+            # Hack for V1 for now to avoid torch library overhead (since we are
+            # already inside an attention custom op), pull out the forward
+            # method from the rotary embedding and call it directly (and avoid
+            # calling forward_native, when we can call forward_cuda)
+            # TODO(lucas): we should probably find a cleaner way to do this
+            self.rotary_emb = rotary_emb.forward_cuda
+
         self.q_proj = q_proj
         self.kv_b_proj = kv_b_proj
         self.o_proj = o_proj