[FEA]: Design generic segmented sort tuning API
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We don't know how to express a tuning for segmented sort that'd allow arbitrary number of buckets etc.
### Describe the solution you'd like
This issue can be closed with a comment illustrating a design of a generic segmented sort tuning API that:
- allows specifying number of buckets
- algorithm and tuning parameters for a given bucket
- partitioning algorithm
- in-place sorting of segments in partitioning algorithm and threshold for it
- doesn't break code that passes existing tuning policy into segmented sort
Add a branch that shows backend changes needed to support this interface.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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