MDEV-40596 clang-23 reports unused global variables

[dr-m]

Let us remove a number of unused variables to suppress -Wunused-but-set-global and other warnings.

test_thread(): Instead of incrementing a global counter in a race condition prone fashion, invoke MY_RELAX_CPU() in order to spend some time.

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