* Kube-Proxy now defaults to an iptables-based proxy. If the --proxy-mode flag is
specified while starting kube-proxy (‘userspace’ or ‘iptables’), the flag value
will be respected. If the flag value is not specified, the kube-proxy respects
the Node object annotation: ‘net.beta.kubernetes.io/proxy-mode’. If the

   * scattered in memory and thus don't interfere much with each
   * other. But Atomic objects residing in arrays will tend to be
   * placed adjacent to each other, and so will most often share
   * cache lines (with a huge negative performance impact) without
   * this precaution.
   *
   * In part because Cells are relatively large, we avoid creating
   * them until they are needed.  When there is no contention, all

     *   lock.unlock();
     * }
     *
     * If we only held the int[] stripes, translating it on the fly to L's, the original locks might
     * be garbage collected after locking them, ending up in a huge mess.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // we carefully replaced all keys with their respective L's
    List<L> asStripes = (List<L>) result;
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(asStripes);
  }