Merge triton-mlir branch - Complete rewrite of the backend from scratch (#1004)

This PR merges the `triton-mlir` branch, in which we have been quietly
rewriting the Triton backend from scratch to increase maintainability,
stability and ultimately performance. Changes to the runtime are
minimal, and this new version aims to remain backward-compatible with
the previous commit. The legacy backend is now officially deprecated,
but can still be accessed via the `legacy-backend` tag.

Co-authored-by: Keren Zhou <kerenzhou@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Yan Chunwei <yanchunwei@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: goostavz <109190422+goostavz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Shintaro Iwasaki <siwasaki@fb.com>
Co-authored-by: Yan Da <dyanab@connect.ust.hk>
Co-authored-by: Jun Yang <yangjunpro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Ansel <jansel@jansel.net>
Co-authored-by: Qingyi Liu <qingyil@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: ben-zhang-609 <110140741+ben-zhang-609@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Chenggang Zhao <lyricz@yeah.net>
Co-authored-by: ben-zhang-609 <benzh609@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: dongdongl <dongdongl@nvidia.com>

docs/conf.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def setup(app):
 
         def wrapped(obj, **kwargs):
             import triton
-            if isinstance(obj, triton.runtime.JITFunction):
+            if isinstance(obj, triton.code_gen.JITFunction):
                 obj = obj.fn
             return old(obj)
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def setup(app):
 
     def documenter(app, obj, parent):
         import triton
-        if isinstance(obj, triton.runtime.JITFunction):
+        if isinstance(obj, triton.code_gen.JITFunction):
             obj = obj.fn
         return old_documenter(app, obj, parent)