drm/i915: Share per-timeline HWSP using a slab suballocator

If we restrict ourselves to only using a cacheline for each timeline's
HWSP (we could go smaller, but want to avoid needless polluting
cachelines on different engines between different contexts), then we can
suballocate a single 4k page into 64 different timeline HWSP. By
treating each fresh allocation as a slab of 64 entries, we can keep it
around for the next 64 allocation attempts until we need to refresh the
slab cache.

John Harrison noted the issue of fragmentation leading to the same worst
case performance of one page per timeline as before, which can be
mitigated by adopting a freelist.

v2: Keep all partially allocated HWSP on a freelist

This is still without migration, so it is possible for the system to end
up with each timeline in its own page, but we ensure that no new
allocation would needless allocate a fresh page!

v3: Throw a selftest at the allocator to try and catch invalid cacheline
reuse.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190128181812.22804-4-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

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