openvino: driver setup, CI split, thread safety, and NPU optimizations (#21944)

* Thread safety per request only

* Fix ROPE yarn case

* Fix sticky stateful config

* Use i4/i8 directly for symmetric quant

* Use weightless caching

* Add WeightlessCacheAttribute to reduce NPU memory usage

* Gelu tanh support (#125)

* Imrope support (#126)

* fix(openvino): explicit ov::Tensor frees in ggml_backend_openvino_free

* add GPU,NPU support in OV Dockerfile

* add build-openvino.yml ci

* Fix sticky stateful config

* add concurrency to ov-gpu ci runs. Move OV CI to build-openvino.yml

* fix thread-safety of shared runtime context

* rope type abstraction for frontend translations

* fix editorconfig

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Co-authored-by: Mustafa Cavus <mustafa.cavus@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Dan Hoffman <dhoff749@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ravi Panchumarthy <ravi.panchumarthy@intel.com>

.github/workflows/build-self-hosted.yml

@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ jobs:
   ggml-ci-intel-openvino-gpu-low-perf:
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]
 
+    concurrency:
+      group: openvino-gpu-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+
     env:
       # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
       OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.0"