[FEA]: Add a single-thread odd-even merge sort building block for segmented sort
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### Is this a duplicate?
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
For sufficiently small segments, assigning a sub-warp, warp, or CTA to each segment can introduce more cooperation and synchronization overhead than the sorting itself requires.
A single CUDA thread can process one small segment locally. CUB does not currently provide this specialization as a reusable building block for `DeviceSegmentedSort`.
This is part of the roadmap for improving `DeviceSegmentedSort`: https://github.com/NVIDIA-dev/cccl_private/issues/829
### Describe the solution you'd like
The contribution should consider:
- A compile-time maximum capacity and runtime valid item count.
- Key-only and key-value pair sorting.
- Ascending and descending order.
- Interface suitable for integration from another kernel, particularly the segment-partitioning kernel.
- Validation of unsupported configurations.
- Correctness tests for supported and partially filled capacities.
This issue can be closed once the single-thread odd-even merge sort is integrated into `DeviceSegmentedSort` and merged into CUB.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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cc @colin-mcd
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