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Add a knob to throttle the max allowed inflight offload in fine grained offloading#4692

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Add a knob to throttle the max allowed inflight offload in fine grained offloading#4692
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What does this PR do ?

Collaboration with @eee4017 @lhb8125

What

Introduces fine_grained_offloading_max_inflight_offloads on TransformerConfig: for each FGO group name, limits how many completed GPU→CPU offloads can stay unjoined on the default stream before older D2H events are waited on. The same cap applies to every name; each name has its own pending queue. None disables this behavior (unchanged from before for callers who don’t set it).

Why

Under full-iteration CUDA graph capture, the main stream may not otherwise synchronize with D2H work; joining when the per-name depth exceeds the cap gives a tunable backpressure knob and can help with reserved-memory / allocator behavior without a byte-based budget.

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Fix the FGO + local CUDA graph validation: compare cuda_graph_scope to [CudaGraphScope.full_iteration] after scope normalization, not the string "full_iteration".
Update the hybrid MoE golden config test snapshot for the new field.

dev PR: #4514

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