btrfs: create read policy framework

As of now, we use the pid method to read striped mirrored data, which
means process id determines the stripe id to read. This type of routing
typically helps in a system with many small independent processes tying
to read random data. On the other hand, the pid based read IO policy is
inefficient because if there is a single process trying to read a large
file, the overall disk bandwidth remains underutilized.

So this patch introduces a read policy framework so that we could add
more read policies, such as IO routing based on the device's wait-queue
or manual when we have a read-preferred device or a policy based on the
target storage caching.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>

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