rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket.
This patch changes rhashtables to use a bit_spin_lock on BIT(1) of the bucket pointer to lock the hash chain for that bucket. The benefits of a bit spin_lock are: - no need to allocate a separate array of locks. - no need to have a configuration option to guide the choice of the size of this array - locking cost is often a single test-and-set in a cache line that will have to be loaded anyway. When inserting at, or removing from, the head of the chain, the unlock is free - writing the new address in the bucket head implicitly clears the lock bit. For __rhashtable_insert_fast() we ensure this always happens when adding a new key. - even when lockings costs 2 updates (lock and unlock), they are in a cacheline that needs to be read anyway. The cost of using a bit spin_lock is a little bit of code complexity, which I think is quite manageable. Bit spin_locks are sometimes inappropriate because they are not fair - if multiple C...
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