sched/fair: Introduce C-state aware task placement for small tasks

Small tasks execute for small durations. This means that the power
cost of taking CPUs out of a low power mode outweigh any performance
advantage of using an idle core or power advantage of using the most
power efficient CPU. Introduce C-state aware task placement for small
tasks. This requires a two pass approach where we first determine the
most power effecient CPU and establish a band of CPUs offering a
similar power cost for the task. The order of preference then is as
follows:

1) Any mostly idle CPU in active C-state in the same power band.
2) A CPU with the shallowest C-state in the same power band.
3) A CPU with the least load in the same power band.
4) Lowest power CPU in a higher power band.

The patch also modifies the definition of a small task. Small tasks
are now determined relative to minimum capacity CPUs in the system
and not the task CPU.

Change-Id: Ia09840a5972881cad7ba7bea8fe34c45f909725e
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>

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