Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%

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This effort has been around optimizing cacheline consumption and adding safeguards to ensure future changes don't regress.

In turn this optimizing of core networking structures is causing TCP performance with many concurrent connections to increase by as much as 40% or more!

This patch series attempts to reorganize the core networking stack variables to minimize cacheline consumption during the phase of data transfer.

Meanwhile new Ethernet driver hardware support in Linux 6.8 includes the Octeon CN10K devices, Broadcom 5760X P7, Qualcomm SM8550 SoC, and Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY.

NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet data center switches can also now enjoy firmware updates without a reboot.

The full list of new networking patches for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window can be found via today's pull request.

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