SPARK-1793 - Heavily duplicated test setup code in SVMSuite

[ajtulloch]

Summary:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1793

Refactor the code to remove the repeated initialization of
test/validation RDDs in every test.

Test Plan:
Unit tests cover this code and pass with this update.

Reviewers:

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[ajtulloch]

git diff --patience gives a cleaner view - https://gist.github.com/ajtulloch/3d9925c2f2252283ef61

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[ajtulloch]

Is there any interest in this diff? Happy to close if otherwise.

[pwendell]

hey @ajtulloch can you tag the title here with [MLlib]? As it stands this isn't getting sorted correctly so that's why @mengxr probably hasn't seen it to give feedback.

[mengxr]

Jenkins, test this please.

[mengxr]

@ajtulloch Sorry, I overlooked this PR. Thanks for simplifying the test code! Let's see whether it still merges cleanly or not.

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QA tests have started for PR 726 at commit a300b86.

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[pwendell]

@ajtulloch any interest in updating? If not, we should close this issue and can re-open later.