Limit pocl to <6 (test revert numpy type promotion)

[matthiasdiener]

Related: inducer/pytato#538, inducer/pytato#510

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[inducer]

What's wrong with pocl 6? This is something I've seen, but it should not affect mirgecom.

[matthiasdiener]

What's wrong with pocl 6? This is something I've seen, but it should not affect mirgecom.

We have seen substantial slowdowns in our prediction cases with both the new type promotion code as well as pocl-5 vs pocl-6:
(1 rank, wall time per step [s]):

smoke_test_ks_3d	Porter/GPU	Lassen/GPU	M1/CPU	CI-Linux/CPU
pocl5, old numpy type promo code	0.17	0.18	0.6	1.05
pocl6, old numpy type promo code	0.58	0.47	0.65	1.41
pocl5, new numpy type promo code	0.21	0.19	6.5
pocl6, new numpy type promo code	0.58	0.5	6.5	16.1

For some reason, pocl-6 seems to affect mostly the CUDA devices, while the type promotion code mostly affects the CPU runs.

[inducer]

Yikes. Could you hunt for the simplest example that exhibits the issue and compare the PTX for both? This tool may be able to help. Also, could you file an issue for this? (Since I'm not sure this PR is the best place for the discussion.)

[MTCam]

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