perf(kio): dedup waiter registration so Park can reuse a parked waiter

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Relay profiling in #2899 put kio::waiter::WaiterList::register at 3.53% of self cycles (clean Quinn run), concentrated in Arc/Weak refcount atomics and cache-missing Weak::strong_count probes of dead slots. This PR adds the focused benchmarks the issue asked for and removes the mechanism that generates most of that work.

Root cause

Park::hold refused to reuse a waiter that still had live list registrations (Arc::weak_count > 0), because re-registering it would stack duplicate entries the list could never reclaim. But a poll that waits on several lists is routinely re-woken by one of them while still parked on the rest, so nearly every re-poll hit the retire path: allocate a fresh Arc<Waker>, Arc::downgrade into every list again, and leave dead Weaks behind for later registrations to probe. The profile is that cycle: the downgrade/count atomics on every registration, plus strong_count pointer-chases into the dead allocations the cycle itself creates.

Fix

WaiterList::register is now idempotent, so Park::hold reuses a still-registered waiter (only a waker for a different task retires it), deleting the per-poll retire/realloc/re-register churn. Idempotency is O(1) via generational records (the issue's direction 3): each list carries a never-reused id and an epoch bumped on every drain, and the waiter's shared identity records (id, epoch) for the lists it registers with. A record at the current epoch proves the registration is still in place (live entries only leave through drains); a stale record proves it is gone (every registration refreshes the record), so a rebuild after a wake appends without scanning. Only a missing record (never registered, or evicted past the 8-entry record cap) falls back to a pointer-equality scan, which is exact because a Weak pins its allocation's address, and is itself skipped when the waiter is registered nowhere (weak_count == 0). The bounded rotating dead-slot probe stays as the reclamation path for abandoned waiters.

An earlier revision of this branch used the scan alone; adversarial review (Codex) and the codex-connector P1 both flagged that as O(N²) per wake cycle at high fan-in, and the fan-out benchmarks below confirmed it. The generational records are the response: registration stays O(1) at any list size. Further review rounds hardened the details: take() snapshots are untracked rather than drawing an id, so the per-notification drain path never touches the global id counter (a shared cache line across all channels); the record cap is 8 with pseudo-random eviction (FIFO's worst case, a poll cycling one list wider than the cap, evicts exactly the next-needed record every time) and the correct scan fallback behind it; and both the id allocator and epoch increments fail closed on exhaustion instead of wrapping, since a reissued id or wrapped epoch could fake presence. park_cycle/16 measures past the cap: ~10ns per list versus ~7.9ns under it.

Benchmarks

New cargo bench -p kio (rs/kio/benches/waiter.rs) covering the issue's suggested validation: registration against 1/2/8/32 live waiters, re-registration, mostly-dead lists, cancellation churn, the park/wake/re-register cycle, and fan-out rebuild cycles (single-list, and dual-list where every waiter also stays parked on a never-woken sibling list, as waiters_value/waiters_closed do). On M-series macOS (--warm-up-time 1 --measurement-time 2):

bench	main	this PR
park_cycle/2 (poll on 2 lists, one wakes)	517 ns	17 ns	−97%
park_cycle/4	611 ns	29 ns	−95%
reregister/{1,2,8,32}	6–10 ns*	~5.5 ns flat	O(1), no leak
fanout_cycle/512 (drain + rebuild)	quadratic	6.1 µs, 84 Melem/s	linear
fanout_cycle_parked/512 (dual-list rebuild)	quadratic	9.1 µs, 57 Melem/s	linear
register_live/{1,2,8,32}	76 / 81 / 104 / 142 ns	64 / 62 / 77 / 90 ns	−16% to −37%
cancel (register + abandon)	50 ns	83 ns	+33 ns†

* main's reregister numbers look small but are the cost of appending a duplicate entry per call, growing the list without bound for as long as the waiter stays parked; the PR's flat ~5.5 ns is one uncontended mutex round-trip on the waiter's own record. Fan-out throughput is flat-to-rising in N for both cycle shapes, where a scan-based dedup measured 12 Melem/s (single) and 6 Melem/s (dual) at N=512.

† the abandon-churn path allocates the identity (which now carries the record table) per waiter; register-and-abandon-without-ever-waking is not a steady state anywhere in the stack, so the flat +33 ns is traded for the O(1) paths above.

Tests

• Rewrote park_reuses_a_drained_waiter_and_retires_a_registered_one as park_reuses_a_still_registered_waiter (the old test asserted the retire behavior this PR removes).
• New regression tests: register_is_idempotent_per_identity, a_multi_list_poll_reuses_across_a_partial_wake (both fail on main), a_drain_invalidates_the_record and dedup_survives_record_eviction (fail if the generational bookkeeping lies in either direction), and abandoned_waiters_do_not_grow_the_list (bounds the list under register-and-abandon churn).
• New loom model a_reused_waiter_hears_the_drained_list_again: a waiter parked on two fans is re-woken by one and must hear that fan's second wake, so a skipped or falsely-deduplicated re-registration deadlocks the model. Mutation-checked: treating a stale record as present makes the model fail; restoring the code makes the full just rs loom suite pass. The model holds its own stable Waiter because loom's block_on waker fails will_wake between polls (const-promoted vtable, duplicated across codegen units in release builds), which silently retires the park every poll and would otherwise leave the reuse path unmodeled.

Cross-package sync

No wire, API-shape, or doc-surface change: register and hold keep their signatures, and the idempotency is a strictly wider contract. JS has its own signals implementation, so no js/ mirror applies. Also hoisted criterion to [workspace.dependencies] since kio is its third consumer.

Not covered here: re-running the relay perf workload from the issue (needs the Linux rig), so this deliberately does not close the issue; it stays open for that measurement and the remaining brainstorm directions.

Refs #2899

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Avoid quadratic registration at high fan-out

When N distinct tasks park on the same WaiterList, every wake drains the list and their re-polls rebuild it; this full scan makes those registrations cost 0 + 1 + ... + N-1, turning each fan-out cycle from O(N) into O(N²). The benchmark stops at the 32-entry inline capacity, but the type explicitly permits larger lists, so a shared kio channel with hundreds or thousands of pending consumers can spend most of its time scanning pointers under the caller's lock. Preserve idempotency without linearly searching all existing waiters on every registration.

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Agreed, and confirmed by benchmark: the full scan measured 12 Melem/s at N=512 on the single-list rebuild (6 Melem/s when every waiter also stays parked on a sibling list) versus ~126 Melem/s at N=8, the quadratic you predicted.

Fixed in 7c90c2e with generational records rather than a linear search: each list carries a never-reused id plus a drain epoch, and the waiter's identity records (id, epoch) per registration. A current record proves presence, a stale one proves absence (every registration refreshes the record, and live entries only leave through drains), so both steady states are O(1) at any list size; only a missing record (never registered, or evicted past the small per-waiter record cap) falls back to the scan. New fan-out rebuild benchmarks sweep 8 to 512 waiters, past the 32-entry inline capacity, and hold roughly flat throughput: 94 Melem/s single-list and 34 Melem/s dual-list at N=512.

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The change adds shared waiter identities and bounded registration records. WaiterList deduplicates registrations, tracks drain epochs, and supports record reclamation. Park::hold reuses waiters for the same task. Tests and Loom coverage verify reuse, partial wakes, reclamation, and multi-list wake delivery. Criterion benchmarks measure registration, re-registration, reclamation, abandonment, park/wake cycles, and high-fanout behavior.

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In `@rs/kio/src/loom.rs`:
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Right: the comment described the earlier scan-based revision, and with generational records the re-register settles on the Present fast path before any scan, which is exactly why the measured times are flat in N. Fixed in 733f3e4: the comment now describes the record fast path.

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Retire registrations omitted by the next poll

When a Park-driven poll changes its wait set while retaining the same task waker, this unconditional reuse keeps the identity alive in every list visited by earlier polls, even if the current poll no longer registers with those lists. For example, BroadcastState::register_demand iterates the current track set (rs/moq-net/src/model/broadcast.rs:291-307), so removing tracks and waking the broadcast state causes the next poll to omit their lists; those registrations now remain live until each removed track happens to wake, causing unrelated wakeups and allowing weak slots to accumulate with track churn. The previous weak_count check retired the waiter in this case, so reuse needs to preserve registrations refreshed by the new poll without indefinitely retaining registrations that were omitted. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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 				for waiter in &waiters {
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	b.iter(|| {
	for waiter in &waiters {
	waiter.register(&mut list);
	waiter.register(&mut parked);
	}
	// Drain the production way: snapshot under the lock, wake outside.
	list.take().wake();
	});
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	for waiter in &waiters {
	waiter.register(&mut list);
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