drm/i915: Keep a small stash of preallocated WC pages

We use WC pages for coherent writes into the ppGTT on !llc
architectures. However, to create a WC page requires a stop_machine(),
i.e. is very slow. To compensate we currently keep a per-vm cache of
recently freed pages, but we still see the slow startup of new contexts.
We can amoritize that cost slightly by allocating WC pages in small
batches (PAGEVEC_SIZE == 14) and since creating a WC page implies a
stop_machine() there is no penalty for keeping that stash global.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <[email protected]>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/[email protected]

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