Make accel "auto flush" threshold configurable #1231
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Currently in our local transporter we offload tracks to Celeritas after
num_track_slots
have been buffered; however, it may be beneficial in some cases to buffer more than the number of available track slots before starting the stepping loop. This change lets the user specify the "auto flush" threshold (it will still default to the number of track slots). I haven't tested many configurations, but for example I saw a 15-25% performance improvement for the CMS run 3, 32 ttbar event problem on an A100 by decreasing the number of track slots from 2^19 to 2^16 but increasing the buffer size to 2^20: