Partially addresses bug #1045152
On a heavily loaded compute node, it can be observed that periodic tasks
take so long to run that the report_state() looping call can be blocked from
running long enough that the scheduler thinks the host is dead.
Reduce the chance of this happening by yielding to another greenthread
after each periodic task has completed and each loop in some methods
that has linear relationship with the number of instances.
Change-Id: If2b125708da8298b20497e2e08e52280c102f1e1