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Tolga Ceylan 1258baeb7f fn: agent eviction revisited (#1131 )

* fn: agent eviction revisited

Previously, the hot-container eviction logic used
number of waiters of cpu/mem resources to decide to
evict a container. An ejection ticker used to wake up
its associated container every 1 sec to reasses system
load based on waiter count. However, this does not work
for non-blocking agent since there are no waiters for
non-blocking mode.

Background on blocking versus non-blocking agent:
    *) Blocking agent holds a request until the
    the request is serviced or client times out. It assumes
    the request can be eventually serviced when idle
    containers eject themselves or busy containers finish
    their work.
    *) Non-blocking mode tries to limit this wait time.
    However non-blocking agent has never been truly
    non-blocking. This simply means that we only
    make a request wait if we take some action in
    the system. Non-blocking agents are configured with
    a much higher hot poll frequency to make the system
    more responsive as well as to handle cases where an
    too-busy event is missed by the request. This is because
    the communication between hot-launcher and waiting
    requests are not 1-1 and lossy if another request
    arrives for the same slot queue and receives a
    too-busy response before the original request.

Introducing an evictor where each hot container can
register itself, if it is idle for more than 1 seconds.
Upon registry, these idle containers become eligible
for eviction.

In hot container launcher, in non-blocking mode,
before we attempt to emit a too-busy response, now
we attempt an evict. If this is successful, then
we wait some more. This could result in requests
waiting for more than they used to only if a
container was evicted. For blocking-mode, the
hot launcher uses hot-poll period to assess if
a request has waited for too long, then eviction
is triggered.

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