Less CPU overhead with a new protocol channel mechanism

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Hello,

> In low latency scenarios, PulseAudio uses up quite a bit of CPU. A while
> ago I did some profiling and noticed that much of the time was spent
> inside the ppoll syscall.

this is indeed a relevant problem; PA easily uses 20%+ CPU on 
embedded ARM systems in low-latency duplex workloads according to my 
measurements

>  1) Woohoo, this is great! Just make your patches upstreamable and I
> promise I'll review them right away!
> 
>  2) Woohoo, this is great! But I don't have any time to review them, so
> just finish your patches up, and push them without review!

I'm somewhere in between 1 and 2; I'd like to reproduce your 
measurements on ARM

p.

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Peter Meerwald
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