sched/deadline: Fix dl_server behaviour

John reported undesirable behaviour with the dl_server since commit:
cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling").

When starving fair tasks on purpose (starting spinning FIFO tasks),
his fair workload, which often goes (briefly) idle, would delay fair
invocations for a second, running one invocation per second was both
unexpected and terribly slow.

The reason this happens is that when dl_se->server_pick_task() returns
NULL, indicating no runnable tasks, it would yield, pushing any later
jobs out a whole period (1 second).

Instead simply stop the server. This should restore behaviour in that
a later wakeup (which restarts the server) will be able to continue
running (subject to the CBS wakeup rules).

Notably, this does not re-introduce the behaviour cccb45d7c4295 set
out to solve, any start/stop cycle is naturally throttled by the timer
period (no active cancel).

Fixes: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling")
Reported-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>

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