This pulls out the various abstractions where some stats counter is sometimes an
atomic, sometimes a plain variable, sometimes always protected by a lock,
sometimes protected by reads but not writes, etc. With this change, these cases
are treated consistently, and access patterns tagged.
In the process, we fix a few missed-update bugs (where one caller assumes
"protected-by-a-lock" semantics and another does not).
This is logically at a higher level of the stack; extent should just allocate
things at the page-level; it shouldn't care exactly why the callers wants a
given number of pages.
The goal of `qr_meld()` is to change the following four fields
`(a->prev, a->prev->next, b->prev, b->prev->next)` from the values
`(a->prev, a, b->prev, b)` to `(b->prev, b, a->prev, a)`.
This commit changes
```
a->prev->next = b;
b->prev->next = a;
temp = a->prev;
a->prev = b->prev;
b->prev = temp;
```
to
```
temp = a->prev;
a->prev = b->prev;
b->prev = temp;
a->prev->next = a;
b->prev->next = b;
```
The benefit is that we can use `b->prev->next` for `temp`, and so
there's no need to pass in `a_type`.
The restriction is that `b` cannot be a `qr_next()` macro, so users
of `qr_meld()` must pay attention. (Before this change, neither `a`
nor `b` could be a `qr_next()` macro.)
This lets us put more allocations on an "almost as fast" path after a flush.
This results in around a 4% reduction in malloc cycles in prod workloads
(corresponding to about a 0.1% reduction in overall cycles).
With this, we track all of the empty, full, and low water states together. This
simplifies a lot of the tracking logic, since we now don't need the
cache_bin_info_t for state queries (except for some debugging).
I.e. the tcache code just calls a cache-bin function to finish flush (and move
pointers around, etc.). It doesn't directly access the cache-bin's owned memory
any more.
Previously, we took an array of cache_bin_info_ts and an index, and dereferenced
ourselves. But infos for other cache_bins aren't relevant to any particular
cache bin, so that should be the caller's job.
