Make dss operations lockless.
Rather than protecting dss operations with a mutex, use atomic operations. This has negligible impact on synchronization overhead during typical dss allocation, but is a substantial improvement for chunk_in_dss() and the newly added chunk_dss_mergeable(), which can be called multiple times during chunk deallocations. This change also has the advantage of avoiding tsd in deallocation paths associated with purging, which resolves potential deadlocks during thread exit due to attempted tsd resurrection. This resolves #425.
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