These are delay primitives for lock2. If a mutex isn't immediately
available, we can use procyield to tell the processor to wait for a
moment, or osyield to allow the OS to run a different process or thread
if one is waiting. We expect a processor-level yield to be faster than
an os-level yield, and for both of them to be fast relative to entering
a full sleep (via futexsleep or semasleep).
Each architecture has its own way of hinting to the processor that it's
in a spin-wait loop, so procyield presents an architecture-independent
interface for use in lock_futex.go and lock_sema.go.
Measure the (single-threaded) speed of these to confirm.
For #68578
Change-Id: I90cd46ea553f2990395aceb048206285558c877e
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