dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM

Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.

The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:

 "Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
  roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
  device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
  ~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
  tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
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@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ out:
*---------------------------------------------------------------*/
static struct target_type multipath_target = {
.name = "multipath",
.version = {1, 8, 0},
.version = {1, 9, 0},
.module = THIS_MODULE,
.ctr = multipath_ctr,
.dtr = multipath_dtr,