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