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Make hazard pointers max_threads configurable at runtime.

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Merged Witold Krecicki requested to merge 1493-make-hazard-pointers-dynamic into master Jan 14, 2020
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hp implementation requires an object for each thread accessing a hazard pointer. previous implementation had a hardcoded HP_MAX_THREAD value of 128, which failed on machines with lots of CPU cores (named uses 3n threads). We make isc__hp_max_threads configurable at startup, with the value set to 4*named_g_cpus. It's also important for this value not to be too big as we do linear searches on a list.

Closes #1493 (closed)

Edited Jan 15, 2020 by Evan Hunt
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