don't cache as many items.
- Introduce the bucket_alloc(), bucket_free() functions to wrap bucket
allocation. These functions select the appropriate bucket zone to
allocate from or free to.
- Rename ub_ptr to ub_cnt to reflect a change in its use. ub_cnt now reflects
the count of free items in the bucket. This gets rid of many unnatural
subtractions by 1 throughout the code.
- Add ub_entries which reflects the number of entries possibly held in a
bucket.