Article 58YXZ [$] NAPI polling in kernel threads

[$] NAPI polling in kernel threads

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Systems that manage large amounts of network traffic end up dedicating asignificant part of their available CPU time to the network stack itself.Much of this work is done in software-interrupt context, which can beproblematic in a number of ways. That may be about to change, though,once thispatch series posted by Wei Wang is merged into the mainline.
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