drm/i915: Use exponential backoff for wait_for()

Instead of sleeping for a fixed 1ms (roughly, depending on timer slack),
start with a small sleep and exponentially increase the sleep on each
cycle.

A good example of a beneficiary is the guc mmio communication channel.
Typically we expect (and so spin) for 10us for a quick response, but this
doesn't cover everything and so sometimes we fallback to the millisecond+
sleep. This incurs a significant delay in time-critical operations like
preemption (igt/gem_exec_latency), which can be improved significantly by
using a small sleep after the spin fails.

We've made this suggestion many times, but had little experimental data
to support adding the complexity.

v2: Bump the minimum usleep to 10us on advice of
Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt (Tvrko)
v3: Specify min, max range for usleep intervals -- some code may
crucially depend upon and so want to specify the sleep pattern.

References: 1758b90e38f5 ("drm/i915: Use a hybrid scheme for fast register waits")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@intel.com>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171124130031.20761-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

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