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### What this PR does / why we need it?
[Feature] Adapt DispathGmmCombineDecode opertor to align with weight
scale dtype of small operators.
- **Before**: weight scale must be float32
- **After**: weight scale can be float32/float16 when x is float16,
float32/bfloat16 when x is float32/bfloat16. And w1 scale can use
different dtype with w2 scale.
More info about this operator, please refer to RFC: issue
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/5476
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
#### Perf
> When scale is of type fp16 or bf16, it will be cast to fp32 internally
within the operator, while the subsequent computations remain unchanged.
Therefore, this PR will introduce an additional cast operation but halve
the memory copy operations for scale . Furthermore, since the scale data
is only a few KB in size and participates in relatively few
computations, its impact is almost negligible compared to major
operations like matrix multiplication. Thus, the theoretical performance
change should be minimal.
test single operator cases from qwen3-235b,
- single A3 node(ep16), 64 moe experts, 4 experts / die (like qwen3-235b
ep32)
- batch=18/32, token_hidden_size 4096, moe_intermediate_size 1536
The test was conducted for 100 rounds, and the average of the last 95
rounds was taken.
| | bs18(us)| bs32(us)|
| -----| -----| -----|
|Without this PR|96.28|108.83|
|With this PR|96.06|107.90|
Note: Single-operator benchmarks represent an ideal scenario. They are
usually only useful for referencing relative changes and may not fully
align with performance data observed within the full model.
#### Acc
test qwen3-235b eplb on a single A3 node(ep16),
with dispatch_gmm_combine_decode
| dataset | version | metric | mode | vllm-api-stream-chat |
|----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | -----|
| aime2024 | 604a78 | accuracy | gen | 83.33 |
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
2f4e6548ef
Signed-off-by: wangqiankun <wangqiankun13@huawei.com>
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