diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_on_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/build_on_pr.yml
index e2114d43b..a926bd18a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_on_pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_on_pr.yml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
     container:
       image: hpcaitech/pytorch-cuda:1.12.0-11.3.0
       options: --gpus all --rm -v /data/scratch/cifar-10:/data/scratch/cifar-10 -v /data/scratch/llama-tiny:/data/scratch/llama-tiny
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    timeout-minutes: 100
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
diff --git a/colossalai/inference/hybridengine/polices/llama.py b/colossalai/inference/hybridengine/polices/llama.py
index 3cdfc0173..11517d7e8 100644
--- a/colossalai/inference/hybridengine/polices/llama.py
+++ b/colossalai/inference/hybridengine/polices/llama.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class LlamaModelInferPolicy(LlamaForCausalLMPolicy):
             "self_attn.num_key_value_heads": self.model.config.num_key_value_heads
             // self.shard_config.tensor_parallel_size,
         }
-        if self.shard_config.quant == "gptq":
+        if self.shard_config.extra_kwargs.get("quant", None) == "gptq":
             from colossalai.inference.quant.gptq.cai_gptq import ColCaiQuantLinear, RowCaiQuantLinear
 
             policy[LlamaDecoderLayer] = ModulePolicyDescription(
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class LlamaModelInferPolicy(LlamaForCausalLMPolicy):
                 ],
             )
 
-        elif self.shard_config.quant == "smoothquant":
+        elif self.shard_config.extra_kwargs.get("quant", None) == "smoothquant":
             from colossalai.inference.quant.smoothquant.models.llama import LlamaSmoothquantDecoderLayer
             from colossalai.inference.quant.smoothquant.models.parallel_linear import (
                 ColW8A8BFP32OFP32Linear,
diff --git a/colossalai/shardformer/README.md b/colossalai/shardformer/README.md
index cabd10bba..cf06eecd3 100644
--- a/colossalai/shardformer/README.md
+++ b/colossalai/shardformer/README.md
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Following are the description `ShardConfig`'s arguments:
 
 -  `enable_all_optimization`: Whether to turn on all optimization tools including `fused normalizaion`, `flash attention`, `JIT fused operators`, `sequence parallelism` and `sequence overlap`. Defaults to False.
 
-- `inference_only`: Whether only doing forward passing. Defaults to False.
+- `extra_kwargs`: A dict to store extra kwargs for ShardFomer.
 
 ### Write your own policy
 
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ class ShardConfig:
 
     # Some possible future config fields
     tensor_parallel_mode: Choice['1d', '2d', '2.5d', '3d'] # support different tensor parallel mode
-    inference_only: bool # only inject inference-suitable sharding policy
     use_flash_attention: bool # whether to use flash attention to speed up attention
+    extra_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] # extra kwargs for the shardformer
 ```
 
 ### Policy
diff --git a/colossalai/shardformer/policies/auto_policy.py b/colossalai/shardformer/policies/auto_policy.py
index 3014f1cf3..c46934fb0 100644
--- a/colossalai/shardformer/policies/auto_policy.py
+++ b/colossalai/shardformer/policies/auto_policy.py
@@ -209,7 +209,8 @@ def get_autopolicy(model: nn.Module, shard_config: ShardConfig = None) -> Policy
         :class:`Policy`: The auto policy for the model
     """
     full_name = _fullname(model)
-    if shard_config.inference_only:
+    inference_only = shard_config.extra_kwargs.get("inference_only", None)
+    if inference_only:
         policy_location = _INFER_POLICY_LIST.get(full_name, None)
     else:
         policy_location = _POLICY_LIST.get(full_name, None)
@@ -219,5 +220,5 @@ def get_autopolicy(model: nn.Module, shard_config: ShardConfig = None) -> Policy
             f"Auto policy for {model.__class__.__qualname__} is not implemented\n. Supported models are {list(_POLICY_LIST.keys())} and {list(_INFER_POLICY_LIST.keys())}"
         )
     else:
-        policy = import_policy(policy_location, shard_config.inference_only)
+        policy = import_policy(policy_location, inference_only)
     return policy()
diff --git a/colossalai/shardformer/shard/shard_config.py b/colossalai/shardformer/shard/shard_config.py
index c7d63c234..64e5489e7 100644
--- a/colossalai/shardformer/shard/shard_config.py
+++ b/colossalai/shardformer/shard/shard_config.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Optional
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import torch.distributed as dist
 from torch.distributed import ProcessGroup
@@ -33,11 +33,9 @@ class ShardConfig:
     enable_flash_attention: bool = False
     enable_jit_fused: bool = False
     enable_all_optimization: bool = False
-    inference_only: bool = False
-    inference_gptq: bool = False
     enable_sequence_parallelism: bool = False
     enable_sequence_overlap: bool = False
-    quant: str = None
+    extra_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
     # pipeline_parallel_size: int
     # data_parallel_size: int
     # tensor_parallel_mode: Literal['1d', '2d', '2.5d', '3d']
diff --git a/examples/inference/bench_bloom.py b/examples/inference/bench_bloom.py
index 054641f6e..5c7af6ed5 100644
--- a/examples/inference/bench_bloom.py
+++ b/examples/inference/bench_bloom.py
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ def bench_bloom(args):
 
     # init TPInferEngine and shard the original model
     # To benchmark torch original, comment out the line of optimizing model
-    shard_config = ShardConfig(enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True)
+    shard_config = ShardConfig(
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True}
+    )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)
 
     # prepare data for generation
diff --git a/examples/inference/bench_chatglm2.py b/examples/inference/bench_chatglm2.py
index f3678d29f..3892d98ba 100644
--- a/examples/inference/bench_chatglm2.py
+++ b/examples/inference/bench_chatglm2.py
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ def run_chatglm2_test(args):
     model = model.half()
     model.config
 
-    shard_config = ShardConfig(enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True)
+    shard_config = ShardConfig(
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True}
+    )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)
 
     generate_kwargs = dict(max_new_tokens=1, do_sample=False)
diff --git a/examples/inference/bench_llama.py b/examples/inference/bench_llama.py
index 56bf062e2..4db32c71a 100644
--- a/examples/inference/bench_llama.py
+++ b/examples/inference/bench_llama.py
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ def run_llama_test(args):
     model = model.half()
     model.config
 
-    shard_config = ShardConfig(enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True)
+    shard_config = ShardConfig(
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True}
+    )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)
 
     generate_kwargs = dict(max_new_tokens=1, do_sample=False)
diff --git a/examples/inference/gptq_bloom.py b/examples/inference/gptq_bloom.py
index cfa317137..a6e07b98c 100644
--- a/examples/inference/gptq_bloom.py
+++ b/examples/inference/gptq_bloom.py
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ def bench_bloom(args):
     model = model.half()
 
     model_config = model.config
-    shard_config = ShardConfig(enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True)
+    shard_config = ShardConfig(
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True}
+    )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)
     generate_kwargs = dict(max_new_tokens=max_output_len, do_sample=False)
 
@@ -46,7 +48,8 @@ def bench_bloom(args):
     # init TPInferEngine and shard the original model
     # To benchmark torch original, comment out the line of optimizing model
     shard_config = ShardConfig(
-        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True, inference_gptq=True
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False,
+        extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True, "quant": "gptq"},
     )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)
 
diff --git a/examples/inference/gptq_llama.py b/examples/inference/gptq_llama.py
index 35a6049ad..61da7ca24 100644
--- a/examples/inference/gptq_llama.py
+++ b/examples/inference/gptq_llama.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ def run_llama_test(args):
 
     model_config = model.config
     shard_config = ShardConfig(
-        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False, inference_only=True, inference_gptq=True
+        enable_tensor_parallelism=True if args.tp_size > 1 else False,
+        extra_kwargs={"inference_only": True, "quant": "gptq"},
     )
     infer_engine = TPInferEngine(model, shard_config, max_batch_size, max_input_len, max_output_len)