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Linux 6.15 Networking Delivers Many Nice Performance Optimizations & New Hardware


The networking subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel bring multiple nice performance optimizations to enhance Linux networking speeds

- TCP stream performance can be improved by up to 2x with enabling GRO on packets that went through XDP CPU redirect. - Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for an available 4-tuple RCU rather than a spin lock. - The Mediatek MT76 WiFi driver is preparing support for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) for the MT7996 chipset.

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