I haven't found the end of the quest repeating yet, but the structure is very simple.
The quest is repeated 10 times at each of several tiers (three tiers so far for me).
At the first tier, you are asked to kill spotters, invaders, raiders, grunts, or catapult operators, all outside the gate.
At the second tier, you are asked to kill sentries, elites, vallon centurions, or miners, all in the mine area.
At the third tier, you are asked to kill sullon lumberjacks, sullon elites, deathfist toilers or sentinels in the northern area.
You must wait a significant amount of time (probably one game day) between each repeat of the third tier of quests. So far I have done Threat Reduction 23 times, and I expect 30 are needed to move onto Cornail's final quest (Never Double Cross a Barbarian).