Fix FSDP [1/n] Refactor update_properties in device mixins to not use self.apply
#13387
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What does this PR do?
Related #12985.
The reason for this PR is because FSDP has overridden the apply method as seen here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/master/torch/distributed/fsdp/fully_sharded_data_parallel.py#L1192
For model parallel correctness, the parameters are first gathered from all processes, the apply function is run, and then the processes are scattered. The issue here is that in this function we do not actually move the modules to the cuda device, so we run into a distributed error when this code is run.
To circumvent this, I modified the code to not use
self.apply.Does your PR introduce any breaking changes? If yes, please list them.
None
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