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auto merge of #7109 : bblum/rust/rwlocks, r=brson
r? @brson links to issues: #7065 the race that's fixed; #7066 the perf improvement I added. There are also some minor cleanup commits here. To measure the performance improvement from replacing the exclusive with an atomic uint, I edited the ```msgsend-ring-rw-arcs``` bench test to do a ```write_downgrade``` instead of just a ```write```, so that it stressed the code paths that accessed ```read_count```. (At first I was still using ```write``` and saw no performance difference whatsoever, whoooops.) The bench test measures how long it takes to send 1,000,000 messages by using rwarcs to emulate pipes. I also measured the performance difference imposed by the fix to the ```access_lock``` race (which involves taking an extra semaphore in the ```cond.wait()``` path). The net result is that fixing the race imposes a 4% to 5% slowdown, but doing the atomic uint optimization gives a 6% to 8% speedup. Note that this speedup will be most visible in read- or downgrade-heavy workloads. If an RWARC's only users are writers, the optimization doesn't matter. All the same, I think this more than justifies the extra complexity I mentioned in #7066. The raw numbers are: ``` with xadd read count before write_cond fix 4.18 to 4.26 us/message with write_cond fix 4.35 to 4.39 us/message with exclusive read count before write_cond fix 4.41 to 4.47 us/message with write_cond fix 4.65 to 4.76 us/message ```
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