[https://nvbugs/5599086][fix] Fix FP8 Linear module for spark (#8707)

Signed-off-by: Simeng Liu <[email protected]>

Author: SimengLiu-nv

tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/linear.py

@@ -444,16 +444,14 @@ def load_weights_fused_qkv_linear(self, module: Linear,
 
         copy_weight(module.weight_scale, max(weight_scale))
 
-        q_weight = q_weight.to(module.dtype) * weight_scale[0]
-        k_weight = k_weight.to(module.dtype) * weight_scale[1]
-        v_weight = v_weight.to(module.dtype) * weight_scale[2]
+        # use in-place multiplication and division to avoid extra memory allocation
+        q_weight = q_weight.to(module.dtype).mul_(weight_scale[0])
+        k_weight = k_weight.to(module.dtype).mul_(weight_scale[1])
+        v_weight = v_weight.to(module.dtype).mul_(weight_scale[2])
 
         fused_weight = torch.cat((q_weight, k_weight, v_weight))
-        if module.weight_scale.device != fused_weight.device:
-            module.weight_scale = Parameter(
-                module.weight_scale.data.to(fused_weight.device))
-        fused_weight = (fused_weight / module.weight_scale).to(
-            torch.float8_e4m3fn)
+        fused_weight = fused_weight.div_(
+            module.weight_scale.to(fused_weight.device)).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
         copy_weight(module.weight, fused_weight)
 
         # Load k and v scales, used for NVFP4 KV cache
@@ -486,14 +484,12 @@ def load_weights_fused_gate_up_linear(self, module: Linear,
         gate_weight, up_weight = load_weights_fused_gate_up_helper(
             module, weights)
 
-        gate_weight = gate_weight.to(module.dtype) * weight_scale[0]
-        up_weight = up_weight.to(module.dtype) * weight_scale[1]
+        # use in-place multiplication and division to avoid extra memory allocation
+        gate_weight = gate_weight.to(module.dtype).mul_(weight_scale[0])
+        up_weight = up_weight.to(module.dtype).mul_(weight_scale[1])
         fused_weight = torch.cat((gate_weight, up_weight))
-        if module.weight_scale.device != fused_weight.device:
-            module.weight_scale = Parameter(
-                module.weight_scale.data.to(fused_weight.device))
-        fused_weight = (fused_weight / module.weight_scale).to(
-            torch.float8_e4m3fn)
+        fused_weight = fused_weight.div_(
+            module.weight_scale.to(fused_weight.device)).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
         copy_weight(module.weight, fused_weight)