When we bind an AF_UNIX socket without a name specified, the kernel selects
an available one from 0x00000 to 0xFFFFF. unix_autobind() starts searching
from a number in the 'static' variable and increments it after acquiring
two locks.
If multiple processes try autobind, they obtain the same lock and check if
a socket in the hash list has the same name. If not, one process uses it,
and all except one end up retrying the _next_ number (actually not, it may
be incremented by the other processes). The more we autobind sockets in
parallel, the longer the latency gets. We can avoid such a race by
searching for a name from a random number.
These show latency in unix_autobind() while 64 CPUs are simultaneously
autobind-ing 1024 sockets for each.
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