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Linux 6.16 Networking Brings Some Big Performance Improvements & OpenVPN Driver


There is a lot of exciting networking changes to find with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel both for wired and wireless devices as well as some exciting core networking improvements/optimizations.

- After moving all of the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope and under its own lock and RCU, the remote control path is now three times faster. - Optimizations to the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic to yield around a 10% improvement in stream related tests. - The NVIDIA Mellanox MLX5 driver has refactored the stearing table handling code to significantly reduce the amount of memory used.

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