Aurelien DARRAGON 231d3d32be MEDIUM: hlua: take nbthread into account in hlua_get_nb_instruction()
Based on Willy's idea (from 3.0-dev6 announcement message): in this patch
we try to reduce the max latency that can be caused by running lua scripts
with default settings.

Indeed, by default, hlua engine is allowed to process up to 10k
instructions per batch. While this value was found to be the optimal one
for a single thread, it turns out that keeping a thread busy for 10k lua
instructions could increase thread contention. This is especially true
when the script is loaded with 'lua-load', because in that case the
current thread owns the main lua lock and prevent other threads from
making any progress if they're also waiting on the main lock.

Thanks to Thierry Fournier's work, we know that performance-wise we can
reach optimal performance by sticking between 500 and 10k instructions
per batch. Given that, when the script is loaded using 'lua-load', if no
"tune.lua.forced-yield" was set by the user, we automatically divide the
default value (10K) by the number of threads haproxy can use to reduce
thread contention (given that all threads could compete for the main lua
lock), however we make sure not to return a value below 500, because
Thierry's work showed that this would come with a significant performance
loss.

The historical behavior may still be enforced by setting
"tune.lua.forced-yield" to 10000 in the global config section.
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