If this suffers an exception (such as a VRAM oom) it will leave the
encode() and decode() methods which skips the cleanup of the WAN
feature cache. The comfy node cache then ultimately keeps a reference
this object which is in turn reffing large tensors from the failed
execution.
The feature cache is currently setup at a class variable on the
encoder/decoder however, the encode and decode functions always clear
it on both entry and exit of normal execution.
Its likely the design intent is this is usable as a streaming encoder
where the input comes in batches, however the functions as they are
today don't support that.
So simplify by bringing the cache back to local variable, so that if
it does VRAM OOM the cache itself is properly garbage when the
encode()/decode() functions dissappear from the stack.
When the VAE catches this VRAM OOM, it launches the fallback logic
straight from the exception context.
Python however refs the entire call stack that caused the exception
including any local variables for the sake of exception report and
debugging. In the case of tensors, this can hold on the references
to GBs of VRAM and inhibit the VRAM allocated from freeing them.
So dump the except context completely before going back to the VAE
via the tiler by getting out of the except block with nothing but
a flag.
The greately increases the reliability of the tiler fallback,
especially on low VRAM cards, as with the bug, if the leak randomly
leaked more than the headroom needed for a single tile, the tiler
would fallback would OOM and fail the flow.
* flux: math: Use _addcmul to avoid expensive VRAM intermediate
The rope process can be the VRAM peak and this intermediate
for the addition result before releasing the original can OOM.
addcmul_ it.
* wan: Delete the self attention before cross attention
This saves VRAM when the cross attention and FFN are in play as the
VRAM peak.
* flux: Do the xq and xk ropes one at a time
This was doing independendent interleaved tensor math on the q and k
tensors, leading to the holding of more than the minimum intermediates
in VRAM. On a bad day, it would VRAM OOM on xk intermediates.
Do everything q and then everything k, so torch can garbage collect
all of qs intermediates before k allocates its intermediates.
This reduces peak VRAM usage for some WAN2.2 inferences (at least).
* wan: Optimize qkv intermediates on attention
As commented. The former logic computed independent pieces of QKV in
parallel which help more inference intermediates in VRAM spiking
VRAM usage. Fully roping Q and garbage collecting the intermediates
before touching K reduces the peak inference VRAM usage.
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