drm/sched: Add fair scheduling policy

The FAIR scheduling policy is built upon the same concepts as the well
known CFS CPU scheduler - entity run queue is sorted by the virtual GPU
time consumed by entities in a way that the entity with least vruntime
runs first.

It is able to avoid total priority starvation, which is one of the
problems with FIFO, and it also does not need for per priority run queues.
As it scales the actual GPU runtime by an exponential factor as the
priority decreases, the virtual runtime for low priority entities grows
faster than for normal priority, pushing them further down the runqueue
order for the same real GPU time spent.

Apart from this fundamental fairness, fair policy is especially strong in
oversubscription workloads where it is able to give more GPU time to short
and bursty workloads when they are running in parallel with GPU heavy
clients submitting deep job queues.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Cc: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@amd.com>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Vitaly Prosyak <vitaly.prosyak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260417103744.76020-11-tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com

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