sched/cache: Disable cache aware scheduling for processes with high thread counts

A performance regression was observed by Prateek when running hackbench
with many threads per process (high fd count). To avoid this, processes
with a large number of active threads are excluded from cache-aware
scheduling.

With sched_cache enabled, record the number of active threads in each
process during the periodic task_cache_work(). While iterating over
CPUs, if the currently running task belongs to the same process as the
task that launched task_cache_work(), increment the active thread count.

If the number of active threads within the process exceeds the number
of Cores (divided by the SMT number) in the LLC, do not enable
cache-aware scheduling. However, on systems with a smaller number of
CPUs within 1 LLC, like Power10/Power11 with SMT4 and an LLC size of 4,
this check effectively disables cache-aware scheduling for any process.
One possible solution suggested by Peter is to use an LLC-mask instead
of a single LLC value for preference. Once there are a 'few' LLCs as
preference, this constraint becomes a little easier. It could be an
enhancement in the future.

For users who wish to perform task aggregation regardless, a debugfs knob
is provided for tuning in a subsequent change.

Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d076cd21a8e6c6341d1e2d927e118db770ebb650.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com

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