Performance improvements and refactor of Ratelimiter (#7595)

While working on https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5665 I found myself digging into the `Ratelimiter` class and seeing that it was both:

* Rather undocumented, and
* causing a *lot* of config checks

This PR attempts to refactor and comment the `Ratelimiter` class, as well as encourage config file accesses to only be done at instantiation. 

Best to be reviewed commit-by-commit.

synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/register.py

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import synapse.types
 from synapse.api.constants import LoginType
 from synapse.api.errors import (
     Codes,
-    LimitExceededError,
     SynapseError,
     ThreepidValidationError,
     UnrecognizedRequestError,
@@ -396,20 +395,7 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(RestServlet):
 
         client_addr = request.getClientIP()
 
-        time_now = self.clock.time()
-
-        allowed, time_allowed = self.ratelimiter.can_do_action(
-            client_addr,
-            time_now_s=time_now,
-            rate_hz=self.hs.config.rc_registration.per_second,
-            burst_count=self.hs.config.rc_registration.burst_count,
-            update=False,
-        )
-
-        if not allowed:
-            raise LimitExceededError(
-                retry_after_ms=int(1000 * (time_allowed - time_now))
-            )
+        self.ratelimiter.ratelimit(client_addr, update=False)
 
         kind = b"user"
         if b"kind" in request.args: