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Linux 6.14 Networking Brings Many Wired & Wireless Driver Improvements
The big networking subsystem feature pull was sent out this morning for the Linux 6.14 merge window.
The Linux 6.14 networking features update has a nice mix of core improvements as well as wired, WiFi, and Bluetooth enhancements for different chipsets from consumer hardware up through servers and hyperscaler equipment. Red Hat's Paolo Abeni who sent in the networking pull request for Linux 6.14 describes this RTNL lock contention refactoring as among "the most interesting work" this cycle. - The Synopsys STMMAC driver has optimized DMA and cache access to increase raw transfer performance by 40%.
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