all open TCP connections in tcp_slowtimo() (which is called 2x
per second). It's fairly rare for TCP timers to actually fire,
so saving this list traversal is good, especially if you want
to scale to thousands of open connections.
and call it directly from tcp_slowtimo() (via a table) rather
than going through tcp_userreq().
This will allow us to call TCP timers directly from callouts,
in a future revision.
the protocol dispatch layer for TCP timers. This saves having to
modify a potentially large number of timer values (which were shorts,
and expanded to ... a lot of code on the Alpha).
matt