Introduce QMC_DISABLE_HIP_HOST_REGISTER. ON by default. #4674
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Since rocm 5.6. hipHostRegister becomes terribly slow https://github.com/ye-luo/miniqmc/wiki/hip-hsa-issues.
Introduce QMC_DISABLE_HIP_HOST_REGISTER. which can be used to make hipHostRegister no-op.
I set it ON by default for now. Will go through a few nights of performance test runs.
My guess is that it makes runs slower because we lose more from not using pinned memory than slower hipHostRegister in close to production benchmarks.
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epyc-server
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