Async receive helps a lot when you've got tons of open sockets (needed to
get queuing right). I think that the current tx mechanism is broken; it's
quite useful to get backpressure from network devices for things like mlppp
implemented the right way (as a network protocol, instead of its own layer).
-ben
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