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Low latency Ethernet device polling

"This patchset adds the ability for the socket layer code to poll directly
on an Ethernet device's RX queue. This eliminates the cost of the interrupt
and context switch and with proper tuning allows us to get very close
to the HW latency":

https://lwn.net/Articles/540281/