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Linus Torvalds authored
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Not much excitement - a handful of large patchsets (devmem among them)
  did not make it in time.

  Core & protocols:

   - Use local_lock in addition to local_bh_disable() to protect per-CPU
     resources in networking, a step closer for local_bh_disable() not
     to act as a big lock on PREEMPT_RT

   - Use flex array for netdevice priv area, ensure its cache alignment

   - Add a sysctl knob to allow user to specify a default rto_min at
     socket init time. Bit of a big hammer but multiple companies were
     independently carrying such patch downstream so clearly it's useful

   - Support scheduling transmission of packets based on CLOCK_TAI

   - Un-pin TCP TIMEWAIT timer to avoid it firing on CPUs later cordoned
     off using cpusets

   - Support multiple L2TPv3 UDP tunnels using the same 5-tuple address

   - Allow configuration of multipath hash seed, to ...
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