9p: add a per-client fcall kmem_cache

Having a specific cache for the fcall allocations helps speed up
end-to-end latency.

The caches will automatically be merged if there are multiple caches
of items with the same size so we do not need to try to share a cache
between different clients of the same size.

Since the msize is negotiated with the server, only allocate the cache
after that negotiation has happened - previous allocations or
allocations of different sizes (e.g. zero-copy fcall) are made with
kmalloc directly.

Some figures on two beefy VMs with Connect-IB (sriov) / trans=rdma,
with ior running 32 processes in parallel doing small 32 bytes IOs:
 - no alloc (4.18-rc7 request cache): 65.4k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, no patch: 61.6k req/s
 - power of two alloc, no patch: 62.2k req/s
 - non-power of two alloc, with patch: 64.7k req/s
 - power of two alloc, with patch: 65.1k req/s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532943263-24378-2-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>
Acked-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

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