MINOR: ring: avoid writes to cells during copy
It has been found that performing a first pass consisting in copying
all messages, and a second one to notify about releases is more efficient
on AMD than updating all of them on the fly using a CAS, despite making
writers wait longer to be released.
Maybe it's related to the ability for the CPU to prefetch the contents
during a simple load while it wouldn't do it for an XCHG, it's unsure
at this point. This will also mater permit to use relaxed stores to
release threads.
On ARM the performance increased to 7.0M/s. If this patch is applied
before the dropping of the intermediary step, instead it drops to
3.9M/s. This shows the dependency between such changes that strive to
limit the number of writes on the fast path.
On x86_64, the EPYC at 3C6T saw a small drop from 4.57M to 4.45M, but
the 24C48T setup saw a nice 33% boost from 3.33M to 4.44M, i.e. we
get stable perf at 3 and 24 cores, despite having 8 CCX involved and
fighting with each other.
Other possibilities are:
- use of HA_ATOMIC_XCHG() instead of FETCH_OR()
=> slightly faster (4.62/7.37 vs 4.58/7.34). Pb: requires to
modify the readers to wait much longer since the tail value
won't be valid in this case during updates, and it will have
to wait by looping over it.
- use other conditions to release a cell
=> to be tested