Respecify our way out of some very high contention
Theres no need for every thread to exit polling early if an alarm might finish, so there's no need to contend here.
diff --git a/src/core/iomgr/alarm_internal.h b/src/core/iomgr/alarm_internal.h
index 5c6b869..8503292 100644
--- a/src/core/iomgr/alarm_internal.h
+++ b/src/core/iomgr/alarm_internal.h
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@
/* iomgr internal api for dealing with alarms */
+/* Check for alarms to be run, and run them.
+ Return non zero if alarm callbacks were executed.
+ Drops drop_mu if it is non-null before executing callbacks.
+ If next is non-null, TRY to update *next with the next running alarm
+ IF that alarm occurs before *next current value.
+ *next is never guaranteed to be updated on any given execution; however,
+ with high probability at least one thread in the system will see an update
+ at any time slice. */
+
int grpc_alarm_check(gpr_mu *drop_mu, gpr_timespec now, gpr_timespec *next);
void grpc_alarm_list_init(gpr_timespec now);