nvme-multipath: Add visibility for numa io-policy

This patch helps add nvme native multipath visibility for numa io-policy.
It adds a new attribute file named "numa_nodes" under namespace gendisk
device path node which prints the list of numa nodes preferred by the
given namespace path. The numa nodes value is comma delimited list of
nodes or A-B range of nodes.

For instance, if we have a shared namespace accessible from two different
controllers/paths then accessing head node of the shared namespace would
show the following output:

$ ls -l /sys/block/nvme1n1/multipath/
nvme1c1n1 -> ../../../../../pci052e:78/052e:78:00.0/nvme/nvme1/nvme1c1n1
nvme1c3n1 -> ../../../../../pci058e:78/058e:78:00.0/nvme/nvme3/nvme1c3n1

In the above example, nvme1n1 is head gendisk node created for a shared
namespace and this namespace is accessible from nvme1c1n1 and nvme1c3n1
paths. For numa io-policy we can then refer the "numa_nodes" attribute
file created under each namespace path:

$ cat /sys/block/nvme1n1/multipath/nvme1c1n1/numa_nodes
0-1

$ cat /sys/block/nvme1n1/multipath/nvme1c3n1/numa_nodes
2-3

>From the above output, we infer that I/O workload targeted at nvme1n1
and running on numa nodes 0 and 1 would prefer using path nvme1c1n1.
Similarly, I/O workload running on numa nodes 2 and 3 would prefer
using path nvme1c3n1. Reading "numa_nodes" file when configured
io-policy is anything but numa would show no output.

Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>

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