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ce52f9cd - [libc] Search empty bits after failed allocation (#149910)

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[libc] Search empty bits after failed allocation (#149910) Summary: The scheme we use to find a free bit is to just do a random walk. This works very well up until you start to completely saturate the bitfield. Because the result of the fetch_or yields the previous value, we can search this to go to any known empty bits as our next guess. This effectively increases our liklihood of finding a match after two tries by 32x since the distribution is random. This *massively* improves performance when a lot of memory is allocated without freeing, as it now doesn't takea one in a million shot to fill that last bit. A further change could improve this further by only *mostly* filling the slab, allowing 1% to be free at all times.
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