`forward_request` verb carried information about timeouts using
`lowres_clock::time_point` (that came from local steady clock
`seastar::lowres_clock`). The time point was produced on one node and
later compared against other node `lowres_clock`. That behavior
was wrong (`lowres_clock::time_point`s produced with different
`lowres_clock`s cannot be compared) and could lead to delayed or
premature timeout.
To fix this issue, `lowres_clock::time_point` was replaced with
`lowres_system_clock::time_point` in `forward_request` verb.
Representation to which both time point types serialize is the same
(64-bit integer denoting the count of elapsed nanoseconds), so it was
possible to do an in-place switch of those types using logic suggested
by @avikivity:
- using steady_clock is just broken, so we aren't taking anything
from users by breaking it further
- once all nodes are upgraded, it magically starts to work
Closes#12529
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