Cap hexagon max con to number of HVX units #12394
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Background
Creating more threads than there are HVX units causes performance degradation when threads are unable to reserve an HVX unit and end up running vector instructions on the Scalar cores. Capping the max number of threads to be the number of available HVX units on the device prevents this from occurring and results in better performance on hexagon.
Testing
Ran tests in simulator mode as well on a hexagon HDK to ensure that the expected result of locking max_concurrency to 4 was achieved.