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    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next · 496322bc
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull networking updates from David Miller:
     "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge
      window.  The only difference from the one I made the other day is that
      this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes
      made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have
      trickeled in.
    
      Highlights:
    
       1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt
          handling and context switches.  Allows direct polling of a network
          device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll().
    
          Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature.
    
          Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in
          commit 0a4db187 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'")
    
          From Eliezer Tamir.
    
       2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised
          more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast
          addresses.  Use a hash ...
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