Eric Dumazet says: ==================== tcp: optimizations for linux-5.17 Mostly small improvements in this series. The notable change is in "defer skb freeing after socket lock is released" in recvmsg() (and RX zerocopy) The idea is to try to let skb freeing to BH handler, whenever possible, or at least perform the freeing outside of the socket lock section, for much improved performance. This id