phase 15: decode attention kernel + fused silu_mul + fused add_rmsnorm

Three performance optimizations targeting decode throughput:

1. Decode Attention Kernel (csrc/attention/flash_attention.cu):
   - Specialized kernel for Q_len=1 (decode step)
   - 256 threads parallelize across KV sequence dimension
   - Online softmax with block-level warp-shuffle reduction
   - Replaces FA2 kernel which wasted 63/64 threads for decode
   - flash_attention() auto-dispatches when q_len==1

2. Fused SiLU×Mul (csrc/activation/activations.cu):
   - Single kernel: out = silu(gate) * up
   - Saves 1 HBM read + 1 HBM write per FFN layer (N elements)
   - Eliminates intermediate tensor allocation

3. Fused Add+RMSNorm (csrc/normalization/rmsnorm.cu):
   - Single kernel: (normed, sum) = (rmsnorm(x+residual), x+residual)
   - Saves 1 full HBM round-trip per attention block
   - Eliminates separate add + rmsnorm kernel pair

Performance analysis:
- At current short sequences (max 79 tokens), these optimizations provide
  marginal benefit because the bottleneck is cuBLAS GEMV overhead:
  252 weight matrix reads × ~32MB each = 15.5 GB per decode step.
  Theoretical minimum at 1.79 TB/s = 8.7ms, actual ~78ms (9x gap).
- The fused kernels and decode attention will show larger gains at
  longer sequences where attention and element-wise ops dominate.
- Next optimization target: CUDA Graphs to eliminate kernel launch
  overhead, or custom GEMV kernels to replace cuBLAS for M=1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ unsafe extern "C" {
fn launch_add_bf16(a: *const c_void, b: *const c_void, out: *mut c_void, n: i32, stream: *mut c_void);
fn launch_mul_f32(a: *const c_void, b: *const c_void, out: *mut c_void, n: i32, stream: *mut c_void);
fn launch_mul_bf16(a: *const c_void, b: *const c_void, out: *mut c_void, n: i32, stream: *mut c_void);
fn launch_silu_mul_bf16(gate: *const c_void, up: *const c_void, out: *mut c_void, n: i32, stream: *mut c_void);
}
fn dispatch_unary(x: &Tensor, f32_fn: unsafe extern "C" fn(*const c_void, *mut c_void, i32, *mut c_void),
@@ -67,3 +68,24 @@ pub fn scale(x: &Tensor, scale_val: f32) -> Tensor {
pub fn add(a: &Tensor, b: &Tensor) -> Tensor { dispatch_binary(a, b, launch_add_f32, launch_add_bf16) }
pub fn mul(a: &Tensor, b: &Tensor) -> Tensor { dispatch_binary(a, b, launch_mul_f32, launch_mul_bf16) }
/// Fused SiLU×Mul: out = silu(gate) * up (BF16 only)
/// Saves one HBM read + one HBM write compared to separate silu + mul.
pub fn silu_mul(gate: &Tensor, up: &Tensor) -> Tensor {
assert_eq!(gate.shape(), up.shape());
assert!(gate.is_contiguous() && up.is_contiguous());
assert!(matches!(gate.device(), Device::Cuda(_)));
assert_eq!(gate.dtype(), DType::BF16, "silu_mul requires BF16");
let out = Tensor::zeros(gate.shape(), gate.dtype(), gate.device());
let n = gate.numel() as i32;
unsafe {
launch_silu_mul_bf16(
gate.data_ptr() as *const c_void,
up.data_ptr() as *const c_void,
out.data_ptr() as *mut c_void,
n,
std::ptr::null_mut(),
);
}
out
}