docs(csrc): condense verbose comments (comments-only, no code change)

[carlushuang]

What

Condense over-verbose comments across the C/C++/HIP sources under csrc/ and gradlib/. This is a comments-only change: no code, no behavior, no build changes.

Motivation: a lot of kernels have grown 10+ line prose essays explaining a single constexpr or wrapping code in decorative ==== TITLE ==== banners. The canonical example is the MXFP4_MOE_SORT_COALESCED_LDS_WORK_MAX gate, which carried a 12-line rationale essay for one integer. These essays bury the load-bearing facts and make the kernels harder to read.

Scope

86 files changed, net ~1,650 fewer lines. All changes are comment text only.

Condensed: rationale/"why" essays, decorative banner boxes, comments that merely restate the adjacent code, and duplicated explanations.

Preserved verbatim: SPDX/license headers, ASCII memory-layout and bit-packing diagrams, math derivations, correctness invariants, TODO/FIXME/BUG notes, and all code (including commented-out dead code).

Every technical fact in a condensed comment is still recoverable from the shorter version.

Example

Before (csrc/kernels/quant_kernels.cu):

// Perf gate threshold for the coalesced LDS-staged store path in
// mxfp4_moe_sort_kernel (see below). The LDS staging + double __syncthreads
// cost scales with the LDS footprint per row (scaleN_pad bytes) times the
// number of grid tiles (num_blocks). On MI355X/gfx950 uncoalesced byte stores
// are already cheap, so the coalesced path is a net win for small/mid
// (scaleN_pad x num_blocks) but loses once that product is large (empirically
// the only regressor is dim=7168 @ M=16384: 224*4352=974,848; the largest
// winner is dim=7168 @ M=8192: 224*2304=516,096). The threshold sits between
// them with ~35% margin. This is a PURE PERFORMANCE knob: both the coalesced
// and the scatter paths are byte-exact, so the value only affects speed, never
// correctness.
constexpr long MXFP4_MOE_SORT_COALESCED_LDS_WORK_MAX = 700000;

After:

// Perf gate for the coalesced LDS-staged store path in mxfp4_moe_sort_kernel
// (below): cost scales with scaleN_pad (LDS footprint/row) x num_blocks (grid
// tiles). Threshold picked empirically between the largest known win (516,096)
// and the smallest regression (974,848) on MI355X/gfx950. Perf-only: both the
// coalesced and scatter paths are byte-exact.
constexpr long MXFP4_MOE_SORT_COALESCED_LDS_WORK_MAX = 700000;

Verification

For every changed file, comments were stripped from both the base and the edited version and the remaining code token streams compared: byte-identical in all 86 files. No code was altered.

Largest reductions: custom_kernels.cu (-201), fused_qk_norm_rope_cache_quant.cu (-180), topk_plain_kernels.cu (-92), and the opus_gemm gfx950 pipelines.

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🏷️ CI Guide

Runs automatically on every PR:

• ✅ Pre-checks (submodule verification, code formatting)
• ✅ Aiter op tests (gfx942 + gfx950)
• ✅ Triton tests on MI35X (only when aiter/ops/triton/** or related paths are changed)

Extended tests (opt-in via labels):

Label	Tests
ci:triton-300x	Run an additional Triton test job on MI300X in PRs; main branch always runs both MI35X and MI300X
ci:sglang	SGLang integration tests: DeepSeek-R1-MXFP4 accuracy, Qwen 3.5 accuracy
ci:atom	ATOM benchmark: DeepSeek-R1-0528, GPT-OSS-120B
ci:atom_full	ATOM accuracy suite for PR and main models from ATOM models_accuracy.json
ci:vllm	vLLM benchmark: GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek-R1-0528, Kimi-K2.5
ci:all	All standard extended tests (excludes ci:atom_full)

Only add ci:atom_full for FlyDSL or Triton upgrades.
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