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Update on "[ET-VK] Refine paritioner to account for storage type and memory layout"
## Context
There are a variety of ways that tensors can be represented in Vulkan. The two main descriptors for how a tensor is laid out in memory is:
1. Storage Type (buffer or texture)
2. Memory Layout (which dim is packed along a texel, which dim has a stride of 1, etc.)
Due to the differences between buffers and textures, and the differences between different memory layouts, an implementation for an operator may only support a specific set of (storage type, memory layout) combinations.
Furthermore, if an operator implementation supports multiple (storage type, memory layout) combinations, there may be a "preferred" setting which results in optimal performance.
These changes lay the foundation for the implementation of a memory metadata tagging graph transform, which will make sure that all tensors participating in an operator call is has a valid/optimal (storage type, memory layout) setting, and insert transition operators to transfer input tensors to the correct memory settings when necessary.
An additional change that is required arises from the fact that in Vulkan, there is a limit on texture and buffer sizes. Therefore, the partitioner needs to account for the storage types and memory layouts supported by the operator implementation, and check if all tensors participating in a computation can be represented with some storage type, memory layout combination supported by the implementation.
## Changes
Improvements to the operator registry:
* Introduce utility functions to check the optimal and enabled storage types and memory layouts for an operator
Improvements to the Partitioner:
* Account for the storage types and memory layouts supported by an operator when deciding if a node should be partitioned
* Improved logic for fusable ops (i.e. the permute/transpose before a mm which can be fused into linear) to check if the final target op is supported in Vulkan, and only partition those nodes if so. Otherwise, don't partition it so that it can be fused by another backend.
Differential Revision: [D65428843](https://our.internmc.facebook.com/intern/diff/D65428843/)
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