Originally introduced by e972125f to avoid harmless wait for
LOCK_global_system_variables in a newly created thread, which creation was
initiated by system variable update.

At the same time it opens dangerous hole, when system variable update
thread already released LOCK_global_system_variables and ack_receiver
thread haven't yet completed new THD construction. In this case THD
constructor goes completely unprotected.

Since ack_receiver.stop() waits for the thread to go down, we have to
temporarily release LOCK_global_system_variables so that it doesn't
deadlock with ack_receiver.run(). Unfortunately it breaks atomicity
of rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled updates and makes them not serialized.

LOCK_rpl_semi_sync_master_enabled was introduced to workaround the above.
TODO: move ack_receiver start/stop into repl_semisync_master
enable_master/disable_master under LOCK_binlog protection?

Part of MDEV-14984 - regression in connect performance