Performance update on the backward split kernel #127
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This PR improves the backward kernel performance, bringing it closer to the tutorial/06-fused-attention.py performance. As it shows above, based on the benchmark in flash_attn/flash_attn_triton_amdwe, we are on average 90% of the tutorial, and achieves 60% performance improvement from the previous PR #122.
The improvement comes from the following places:
use_exp2
by default.