Submit operators using asynchronous threads to improve performance.
Use the environment variable GGML_CANN_ASYNC_MODE to control whether
asynchronous submission is enabled. It is disabled by default.
Testing shows a 10%–20% performance improvement in scenarios with
small parameter sizes, especially in quantized models.
* improve inferencing performance for ascend npu.
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* some modification after review
* some modifications after review
* restore some modifications
* restore some modifications
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* [CANN] Add Ascend NPU backend
Ascend is a full-stack AI computing infrastructure for industry
applications and services based on Huawei Ascend processors and
software.
CANN (Compute Architecture of Neural Networks), developped by
Huawei, is a heterogeneous computing architecture for AI.
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* delete trailing whitespaces
* Modify the code based on review comment
* Rename LLAMA_CANN to GGML_CANN
* Make ggml-common.h private
* add ggml_cann prefix for acl funcs
* Add logging for CANN backend
* Delete Trailing whitespace
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