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    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next · f9da455b
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull networking updates from David Miller:
    
     1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.
    
     2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
        Benniston.
    
     3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
        Mork.
    
     4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.
    
     5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
        Borkmann.
    
     6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.
    
     7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
        TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.
    
     8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.
    
     9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.
    
    10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
        numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.
    
    11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
        from Lorenzo Colitti.
    
    12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
        Cardwell.
    
    13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.
    
    14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.
    
    15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.
    
    16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
        performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.
    
    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
      rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
      tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
      net: fec: Add software TSO support
      net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
      net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
      net: fec: Factorize feature setting
      net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
      net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
      bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
      bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
      via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
      bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
      bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
      bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
      bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
      sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
      net/core: Add VF link state control policy
      net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
      net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
      net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
      ...
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