instead of 128-bit cmpxchg16.  minor speedup, even though the profiler said
that cmpxchg16 was the top offender.

get rid of gc_epoch_lock.

to help measure just the map/unmap cost.

the kernel spends about 35% of its time in mfence.
commented-out #define to get rid of __sync_synchronize for testing.
maybe having many atomics is going to be expensive.

which actually show up on real hardware..  hmm.

to false positives due to race conditions on real hardware