dm thin: sort the per thin deferred bios using an rb_tree

A thin-pool will allocate blocks using FIFO order for all thin devices
which share the thin-pool.  Because of this simplistic allocation the
thin-pool's space can become fragmented quite easily; especially when
multiple threads are requesting blocks in parallel.

Sort each thin device's deferred_bio_list based on logical sector to
help reduce fragmentation of the thin-pool's ondisk layout.

The following tables illustrate the realized gains/potential offered by
sorting each thin device's deferred_bio_list.  An "io size"-sized random
read of the device would result in "seeks/io" fragments being read, with
an average "distance/seek" between each fragment.

Data was written to a single thin device using multiple threads via
iozone (8 threads, 64K for both the block_size and io_size).

unsorted:

     io size   seeks/io distance/seek
  --------------------------------------
          4k    0.000   0b
         16k    0.013   11m
         64k    0.065   11m
        256k    0.274   10m
          1m    1.109   10m
          4m    4.411   10m
         16m    17.097  11m
         64m    60.055  13m
        256m    148.798 25m
          1g    809.929 21m

sorted:

     io size   seeks/io distance/seek
  --------------------------------------
          4k    0.000   0b
         16k    0.000   1g
         64k    0.001   1g
        256k    0.003   1g
          1m    0.011   1g
          4m    0.045   1g
         16m    0.181   1g
         64m    0.747   1011m
        256m    3.299   1g
          1g    14.373  1g

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

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