[PATCH] dynamic request allocation

This patch adds dynamic allocation of request structures. Right now we
are reserving 256 requests per initialized queue, which adds up to quite
a lot of memory for even a modest number of queues. For the quoted 4000
disk systems, it's a disaster.

Instead, we mempool 4 requests per queue and put an upper limit on the
number of requests that we will put in-flight as well. I've kept the 128
read/write max in-flight limit for now. It is trivial to experiement
with larger queue sizes now, but I want to change one thing at the time
(the truncate scenario doesn't look all that good with a huge number of
requests, for instance).

Patch has been in -mm for a while, I'm running it here against stock 2.5
as well. Additionally, it actually kills quite a bit of code as well

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