timeval: Preserve quiescence across time_poll().

Otherwise ovsrcu_synchronize() busy-waits in its loop because its
poll_block() un-quiesces, causing the global_seqno to increase, which is
what it waits for.

Reported-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
ovs-thread: Quiesce in xpthread_barrier_wait().

Otherwise the udpif revalidator threads can postpone RCU callbacks
essentially forever, especially if there are many revalidator threads and
little network traffic.

Reported-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
ovs-thread: Make caller provide thread name when creating a thread.

Thread names are occasionally very useful for debugging, but from time to
time we've forgotten to set one.  This commit adds the new thread's name
as a parameter to the function to start a thread, to make that mistake
impossible.  This also simplifies code, since two function calls become
only one.

This makes a few other changes to the thread creation function:

    * Since it is no longer a direct wrapper around a pthread function,
      rename it to avoid giving that impression.

    * Remove 'pthread_attr_t *' param that every caller supplied as NULL.

    * Change 'pthread *' parameter into a return value, for convenience.

The system-stats code hadn't set a thread name, so this fixes that issue.

This patch is a prerequisite for making RCU report the name of a thread
that is blocking RCU synchronization, because the easiest way to do that is
for ovsrcu_quiesce_end() to record the current thread's name.
ovsrcu_quiesce_end() is called before the thread function is called, so it
won't get a name set within the thread function itself.  Setting the thread
name earlier, as in this patch, avoids the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
ovs-rcu: Log a helpful warning when ovsrcu_synchronize() stalls.

This made it easier for me to find a thread that was causing stalls.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>