btrfs: make the chunk allocator utilize the devices better

With this patch, we change the handling method when we can not get enough free
extents with default size.

Implementation:
1. Look up the suitable free extent on each device and keep the search result.
   If not find a suitable free extent, keep the max free extent
2. If we get enough suitable free extents with default size, chunk allocation
   succeeds.
3. If we can not get enough free extents, but the number of the extent with
   default size is >= min_stripes, we just change the mapping information
   (reduce the number of stripes in the extent map), and chunk allocation
   succeeds.
4. If the number of the extent with default size is < min_stripes, sort the
   devices by its max free extent's size descending
5. Use the size of the max free extent on the (num_stripes - 1)th device as the
   stripe size to allocate the device space

By this way, the chunk allocator can allocate chunks as large as possible when
the devices' space is not enough and make full use of the devices.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

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