Adding context parallel support to eager attention implementation #1859
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Sometimes, certain attention and mask implementations are difficult to write a fused / optimized implementation in a short period of time. However, we still need to run experiments to verify their effectiveness.
At such times, we need to fallback to the eager mode. Therefore, I added a switch to fallback to the eager implementation of attention:
Additionally, since Megatron Core's eager attention does not support context parallelism, I provided a distributed attention implementation similar to that described in the Llama 3 paper.