Currently, we wait until the next timer tick to act on the lighthouse's
reply to our HostQuery. This means we can easily add hundreds of
milliseconds of unnecessary delay to the handshake. To fix this, we
can introduce a channel to trigger an outbound handshake without waiting
for the next timer tick.
A few samples of cold ping time between two hosts that require a
lighthouse lookup:
before (v1.2.0):
time=156 ms
time=252 ms
time=12.6 ms
time=301 ms
time=352 ms
time=49.4 ms
time=150 ms
time=13.5 ms
time=8.24 ms
time=161 ms
time=355 ms
after:
time=3.53 ms
time=3.14 ms
time=3.08 ms
time=3.92 ms
time=7.78 ms
time=3.59 ms
time=3.07 ms
time=3.22 ms
time=3.12 ms
time=3.08 ms
time=8.04 ms
I recommend reviewing this PR by looking at each commit individually, as
some refactoring was required that makes the diff a bit confusing when
combined together.
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