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igc: Add sysctl for DMA Coalesce

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igc: Add sysctl for DMA Coalesce

This feature can increase efficiency at the expense of latency

It does not work well with the default interrupt delay, but expose
the otherwise unconnected code in the driver in case people want to
experiment.

See
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/network/adapter/pro100/sb/466827_intel_r__dma_coalescing_white_paper_v003.pdf

Sponsored by: BBOX.io

(cherry picked from commit 68b1f5dc59368ce5175e3300bf95476ea5a560bc)

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Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>Authored on Mon, Oct 14, 12:55 PM
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rG667fd3bf5729: pf tests: disable epsv for the ftp proxy test
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Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org> committed rGdd8392810169: igc: Add sysctl for DMA Coalesce (authored by Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>).Mon, Oct 21, 3:11 PM