diff --git a/src/axolotl/models/phi/modeling_mixformer_sequential.py b/src/axolotl/models/phi/modeling_mixformer_sequential.py
index 860d2f7694..46bb526ff1 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/models/phi/modeling_mixformer_sequential.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/models/phi/modeling_mixformer_sequential.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import copy
+import inspect
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple
 
@@ -284,10 +285,10 @@ def _update_kv_cache(kv, inference_params, layer_idx):
     sequence_start = inference_params.sequence_len_offset
     sequence_end = sequence_start + kv.shape[1]
     assert batch_end <= (
-        kv_cache.shape[0] if kv_cache is not None else v_cache.shape[0]
+        kv_cache.shape[0] if kv_cache is not None else v_cache.shape[0]  # noqa
     )
     assert sequence_end <= (
-        kv_cache.shape[1] if kv_cache is not None else v_cache.shape[2]
+        kv_cache.shape[1] if kv_cache is not None else v_cache.shape[2]  # noqa
     )
 
     assert kv_cache is not None
@@ -394,8 +395,8 @@ def __init__(
         n_inner = getattr(config, "n_inner", None) if n_inner is None else n_inner
         n_inner = n_inner if n_inner is not None else 4 * config.n_embd
 
-        gelu_activations = ["gelu_new", "gelu_fast", "gelu_approx"]
-        activation = "gelu_approx" if act_fn in gelu_activations else "relu"
+        gelu_activations = ["gelu_new", "gelu_fast", "gelu_approx"]  # noqa
+        activation = "gelu_approx" if act_fn in gelu_activations else "relu"  # noqa
 
         self.mlp = MLP(config, n_inner=n_inner, act_fn=act_fn)
 
@@ -422,7 +423,7 @@ def __init__(self, causal=False, softmax_scale=None, attention_dropout=0.0):
         self.drop = nn.Dropout(attention_dropout)
 
     def forward(
-        self, qkv, causal=None, key_padding_mask=None, cu_seqlen=None, max_seqlen=None
+        self, qkv, causal=None, key_padding_mask=None, cu_seqlens=None, max_seqlen=None
     ):
         """Implements the multihead softmax attention.
         Arguments
@@ -433,9 +434,11 @@ def forward(
                 False means to mask out. (B, S)
         """
         causal = self.causal if causal is None else causal
-        if cu_seqlen:
+        if cu_seqlens is not None:
             return flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func(
-                qkv,
+                qkv.squeeze(0),
+                cu_seqlens,
+                max_seqlen,
                 dropout_p=self.drop.p,
                 softmax_scale=self.softmax_scale,
                 causal=causal,
@@ -645,7 +648,7 @@ def forward(
             assert max_seqlen is not None
             assert key_padding_mask is None
             assert self.flash_attn
-            assert self.rotary_emb_dim == 0
+            # assert self.rotary_emb_dim == 0
 
         if key_padding_mask is not None:
             assert cu_seqlens is None
@@ -826,6 +829,22 @@ def prepare_inputs_for_generation(
         return {"input_ids": input_ids, "past_key_values": past_key_values, **kwargs}
 
 
+class PackedSequential(nn.Sequential):
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input,
+        cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        max_seqlen: Optional[int] = None,
+    ):
+        for module in self:
+            sig = inspect.signature(module.forward)
+            if "cu_seqlens" in sig.parameters:
+                input = module(input, cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens, max_seqlen=max_seqlen)
+            else:
+                input = module(input)
+        return input
+
+
 class MixFormerSequentialForCausalLM(MixFormerSequentialPreTrainedModel):
     """MixFormer (sequential for DeepSpeed) for Causal Language Modeling."""
 
@@ -851,14 +870,14 @@ def __init__(self, config: MixFormerSequentialConfig) -> None:
             # `block_cls` with `legacy` value is for backward compatibility
             # `path` key is for backward compatibility
             block = copy.deepcopy(block) or {"block_cls": "parallel"}
-            block_cls = block.pop("path", None) or block.pop("block_cls", None)
+            # block_cls = block.pop("path", None) or block.pop("block_cls", None)
 
             block["block_idx"] = block_idx
             modules.append(ParallelBlock(config, **block))
 
         modules.append(CausalLMHead(config))
 
-        self.layers = nn.Sequential(*modules)
+        self.layers = PackedSequential(*modules)
         self.loss = CausalLMLoss()
 
         self.post_init()
@@ -885,7 +904,7 @@ def forward(
     ) -> CausalLMOutputWithPast:
         cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None
         max_seqlen: Optional[int] = None
-        if position_ids:
+        if position_ids is not None:
             batch_size, seq_length = input_ids.shape
             position_ids = position_ids.view(-1, seq_length).long()
             cu_seqlens, max_seqlen = get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids(position_ids)