Add non_blocking to loading and moving tensors #2222
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Can improve cases where we are moving multiple tensors to the GPU before we do processing on it.
We need to synchronize them before we do processing on them to be sure they are all there.
torch.cuda.synchronize
This code is mostly a prototype converting things to use non_blocking but needs testing and validation to be sure it's working as expected as it will "work" but not be synchronized.
With this I am getting 8-10% faster training through.
https://docs.pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/pinmem_nonblock.html