sched/fair: Check if prev_cpu has highest spare cap in feec()

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When evaluating the CPU candidates in the perf domain (pd) containing
the previously used CPU (prev_cpu), find_energy_efficient_cpu()
evaluates the energy of the pd:
- without the task (base_energy)
- with the task placed on prev_cpu (if the task fits)
- with the task placed on the CPU with the highest spare capacity,
  prev_cpu being excluded from this set

If prev_cpu is already the CPU with the highest spare capacity,
max_spare_cap_cpu will be the CPU with the second highest spare
capacity.

On an Arm64 Juno-r2, with a workload of 10 tasks at a 10% duty cycle,
when prev_cpu and max_spare_cap_cpu are both valid candidates,
prev_spare_cap > max_spare_cap at ~82%.
Thus the energy of the pd when placing the task on max_spare_cap_cpu
is computed with no possible positive outcome 82% most of the time.

Do not consider max_spare_cap_cpu as a valid candidate if
prev_spare_cap > max_spare_cap.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006081052.3862167-2-pierre.gondois@arm.com
Stable-dep-of: e26fd28db8 ("sched/uclamp: Fix a uninitialized variable warnings")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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