cpu: skip redudant ROPE cache updates#20149
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I was updating ROPE for Hexagon while using the CPU implementation as the reference and noticed that some threads may end up doing redundant ROPE cache updates for the rows that are mapped to other threads.
Added a bit of instrumentation and sure enough I see something like this:
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ROPE cache is updated for each i2 (seq-len) iteration but some of the iterations are mapped to other threads.
This PR adds a bit of state to compute ROPE cache only for the iterations that are actually used.
Here are some before/after numbers with llama3.2-3B-Q4_0.
ROPE cache compute is kind of expensive (lots of divs/muls/sin/cos/...) it makes sense to skip redundant updates even if the token rate bump is not huge.