SINGLESOCK - How much to strip away?

[Hal Murray]

As much as I'd like to clean up this area, I think we should put it on the 
back burner for now.

Maybe we should put a note in devel/ with a summary of what we have learned.  
Actually, I'd like to see a class of notes there.  We should use this as a 
good example.  I'm interested in things that are likely to be too big to just 
toss into devel/TODO.



There is a slightly related area that needs cleaning up.  There are no 
externally visible impacts so there is no reason not to do it.  I don't have 
a good tag.  Maybe RECVBUF.

The current code has a queue of free buffers.  When a packet arrives, the IO 
code gets a buffer, reads in the data, and puts it on the work queue.  
Another loop takes buffers off the work queue and processes them.  The 
process-it code puts the buffer back on the free queue.

All that queuing stuff is wasted effort.  It made sense back when the code 
read the data is a signal handler to get better arrival timing.  We now get 
good timing from the kernel.  Bouncing around on queues isn't doing anything 
other than keeping the CPU warm.

There may be some rough edges with refclocks.  They will be easy to fix.


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