[FEA]: Allow sub-partition of a block reduction
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### Is this a duplicate?
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Block reductions return a single value in the first thread, but there are instances were N results are needed in different threads. At a warp level, cub allows you to create "logical" warps, which partition a hardware thread group further, but this functionality is missing at a block level. All non-exited threads have to participate in block API call.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Two possible solutions:
- Provide segmented / batched block reduction
- Allow sub-partitions of a block
### Describe alternatives you've considered
The current work-around is to utilize cub's warp reduction and implement something custom to then combine the warp level reductions for the block but it would be nice for this to be a single cub API call.
### Additional context
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