ntpd: program structure

[Hal Murray]

> Good to know.  Yeah, NTP at that volume is sure not going to saturate even a
> smartphone, let alone anything you'd put in a desktop or server case. 

I can get 20k pkt/s through a Pi 3.

There is an interesting quirk in this area.  Suppose you have a traffic 
generator with a knob on it, and you slowly crank up the knob until you are 
using 99.9% of a CPU.  Is that full load?  Nope.  That is going through the 
scheduler for each packet.  If you crank up the knob a bit more, it will start 
grabbing 2 packets for a trip through the scheduler.  ...


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