RDS: make socket bind/release locking scheme simple and more efficient

RDS bind and release locking scheme is very inefficient. It
uses RCU for maintaining the bind hash-table which is great but
it also needs to hold spinlock for [add/remove]_bound(). So
overall usecase, the hash-table concurrent speedup doesn't pay off.
In fact blocking nature of synchronize_rcu() makes the RDS
socket shutdown too slow which hurts RDS performance since
connection shutdown and re-connect happens quite often to
maintain the RC part of the protocol.

So we make the locking scheme simpler and more efficient by
replacing spin_locks with reader/writer locks and getting rid
off rcu for bind hash-table.

In subsequent patch, we also covert the global lock with per-bucket
lock to reduce the global lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>

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