diff --git a/dinov2/layers/_utils.py b/dinov2/layers/_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00a8639
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dinov2/layers/_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import os
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("dinov2")
+
+
+def _xformers_is_available(layer):
+
+    XFORMERS_ENABLED = os.environ.get("XFORMERS_DISABLED") is None
+    xformers = None
+    try:
+        if XFORMERS_ENABLED:
+            import xformers
+
+            logger.info(f"xFormers is available ({layer})")
+        else:
+            logger.warning(f"xFormers is disabled ({layer})")
+            raise ImportError
+    except ImportError:
+        logger.warning(f"xFormers is not available ({layer})")
+
+    return xformers is not None
diff --git a/dinov2/layers/attention.py b/dinov2/layers/attention.py
index 0fb76ef..2023d63 100644
--- a/dinov2/layers/attention.py
+++ b/dinov2/layers/attention.py
@@ -8,29 +8,19 @@
 #   https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/master/timm/models/vision_transformer.py
 
 import logging
-import os
-import warnings
 
 from torch import Tensor
 from torch import nn
 
+from ._utils import _xformers_is_available
+
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("dinov2")
 
+XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = _xformers_is_available("Attention")
 
-XFORMERS_ENABLED = os.environ.get("XFORMERS_DISABLED") is None
-try:
-    if XFORMERS_ENABLED:
-        from xformers.ops import memory_efficient_attention, unbind
-
-        XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = True
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is available (Attention)")
-    else:
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is disabled (Attention)")
-        raise ImportError
-except ImportError:
-    XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = False
-    warnings.warn("xFormers is not available (Attention)")
+if XFORMERS_AVAILABLE:
+    from xformers.ops import memory_efficient_attention, unbind
 
 
 class Attention(nn.Module):
diff --git a/dinov2/layers/block.py b/dinov2/layers/block.py
index 930787b..ca6ca98 100644
--- a/dinov2/layers/block.py
+++ b/dinov2/layers/block.py
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@
 #   https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/master/timm/layers/patch_embed.py
 
 import logging
-import os
 from typing import Callable, List, Any, Tuple, Dict
-import warnings
 
 import torch
 from torch import nn, Tensor
@@ -19,25 +17,15 @@ from .attention import Attention, MemEffAttention
 from .drop_path import DropPath
 from .layer_scale import LayerScale
 from .mlp import Mlp
+from ._utils import _xformers_is_available
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("dinov2")
 
+XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = _xformers_is_available("Block")
 
-XFORMERS_ENABLED = os.environ.get("XFORMERS_DISABLED") is None
-try:
-    if XFORMERS_ENABLED:
-        from xformers.ops import fmha, scaled_index_add, index_select_cat
-
-        XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = True
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is available (Block)")
-    else:
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is disabled (Block)")
-        raise ImportError
-except ImportError:
-    XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = False
-
-    warnings.warn("xFormers is not available (Block)")
+if XFORMERS_AVAILABLE:
+    from xformers.ops import fmha, scaled_index_add, index_select_cat
 
 
 class Block(nn.Module):
diff --git a/dinov2/layers/swiglu_ffn.py b/dinov2/layers/swiglu_ffn.py
index 5e9dafa..c24365d 100644
--- a/dinov2/layers/swiglu_ffn.py
+++ b/dinov2/layers/swiglu_ffn.py
@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 # found in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-import os
 from typing import Callable, Optional
-import warnings
 
 from torch import Tensor, nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
+from ._utils import _xformers_is_available
+
+
+XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = _xformers_is_available("SwiGLU")
+
 
 class SwiGLUFFN(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
@@ -34,21 +37,10 @@ class SwiGLUFFN(nn.Module):
         return self.w3(hidden)
 
 
-XFORMERS_ENABLED = os.environ.get("XFORMERS_DISABLED") is None
-try:
-    if XFORMERS_ENABLED:
-        from xformers.ops import SwiGLU
-
-        XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = True
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is available (SwiGLU)")
-    else:
-        warnings.warn("xFormers is disabled (SwiGLU)")
-        raise ImportError
-except ImportError:
+if XFORMERS_AVAILABLE:
+    from xformers.ops import SwiGLU
+else:
     SwiGLU = SwiGLUFFN
-    XFORMERS_AVAILABLE = False
-
-    warnings.warn("xFormers is not available (SwiGLU)")
 
 
 class SwiGLUFFNFused(SwiGLU):