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MFH: r309295

bhyve: stability and performance improvement for dbgport

The TCP server implementation in dbgport does not track clients, so it
may try to write to a disconected socket resulting in SIGPIPE.
Avoid that by setting SO_NOSIGPIPE socket option.

Because dbgport emulates an I/O port to guest, the communication is done
byte by byte.  Reduce latency of the TCP/IP transfers by using
TCP_NODELAY option.  In my tests that change improves performance of
kgdb commands with lots of output (e.g. info threads) by two orders of
magnitude.

A general note.  Since we have a uart emulation in bhyve, that can be
used for the console and gdb access to guests.  So, bvmconsole and bvmdebug
could be de-orbited now.  But there are many existing deployments that
still dependend on those.

Discussed with:	julian, jhb
Sponsored by:	Panzura

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