Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items

Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such
as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may
sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable
for workqueues.

The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are
started when there's more work to do, up to a limit.  Because of the nature of
the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool.  A system with
one CPU may well want several threads.

This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such
as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <[email protected]>

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