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Starved workers are busy hunting for a job #108

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@barko reported that this short test can reach 100% cpu activity even though the domains spend their time sleeping. According to perf and a quick investigation, it seems that the issue is this spin in Multi_channel: When a worker is starving for a job, it busy waits for up to 1ms.

A quick fix would be to reduce the 2048 allowed iterations to a much smaller number (it's * nb_domains with recv_poll_loop, so it also gets worse as the number of cores grows).

(cc @lyrm since you also abhor spinlocks, the array of workstealing queues looks like a good opportunity for a fancy lock'n'lockfree datastructure combination!)

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