Faster synchronization Fence primitive (#1773)

* try faster synchronization

move event

fixes

update bench

fix

fix

* non-functioning kernel

* try alternative fence

* cleanup barrier

* get rid of event_fence

* update benchmarks

* doc string in metal fence

benchmarks/python/synchronize_bench.py

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+import time
+
+import mlx.core as mx
+
+rank = mx.distributed.init().rank()
+
+
+def timeit(fn, a):
+
+    # warmup
+    for _ in range(5):
+        mx.eval(fn(a))
+
+    its = 10
+    tic = time.perf_counter()
+    for _ in range(its):
+        mx.eval(fn(a))
+    toc = time.perf_counter()
+    ms = 1000 * (toc - tic) / its
+    return ms
+
+
+def all_reduce_benchmark():
+    a = mx.ones((5, 5), mx.int32)
+
+    its_per_eval = 100
+
+    def fn(x):
+        for _ in range(its_per_eval):
+            x = mx.distributed.all_sum(x)
+            x = x - 1
+        return x
+
+    ms = timeit(fn, a) / its_per_eval
+    if rank == 0:
+        print(f"All Reduce: time per iteration {ms:.6f} (ms)")
+
+
+def all_gather_benchmark():
+    a = mx.ones((5, 5), mx.int32)
+    its_per_eval = 100
+
+    def fn(x):
+        for _ in range(its_per_eval):
+            x = mx.distributed.all_gather(x)[0]
+        return x
+
+    ms = timeit(fn, a) / its_per_eval
+    if rank == 0:
+        print(f"All gather: time per iteration {ms:.6f} (ms)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    all_reduce_benchmark()
+    all_gather_benchmark()