- Provide IPv6 support for internal load balancer. ([#103794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103794), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Reduce the number of calls to docker for stats via dockershim. For Windows this reduces the latency when calling docker, for Linux this saves cpu cycles. ([#104287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104287), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node and Windows]

	if r.ContentLength > encryptBufferThreshold {
		// The encryption reads in blocks of 64KB.
		// We add a buffer on bigger files to reduce the number of syscalls upstream.
		content = bufio.NewReaderSize(content, encryptBufferSize)
	}

	var (
		key   []byte
		keyID string
		ctx   kms.Context
		err   error
	)

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

// acceptable quorum expected for list operations
func getListQuorum(quorum string, driveCount int) int {
	switch quorum {
	case "disk":
		return 1
	case "reduced":
		return 2
	case "optimal":
		return (driveCount + 1) / 2
	case "auto":
		return -1
	}
	// defaults to 'strict'
	return driveCount
}

    @Override
    public void validateRawModel(Model ma, ModelBuildingRequest request, ModelProblemCollector problems) {
        org.apache.maven.api.model.Model m = ma.getDelegate();

        // [MNG-6074] Maven should produce an error if no model version has been set in a POM file used to build an
        // effective model.
        //
        // As of 3.4, the model version is mandatory even in raw models. The XML element still is optional in the

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

   *
   * @param values the values to use when constructing the {@code ImmutableListMultimap}
   * @param keyFunction the function used to produce the key for each value
   * @return {@code ImmutableListMultimap} mapping the result of evaluating the function {@code
   *     keyFunction} on each value in the input collection to that value

- Reduce memory usage/allocations during wait for volume attachment ([#126575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126575), [@Lucaber](https://github.com/Lucaber)) [SIG Node and Storage]

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- Reduced duration to sync proxy rules on Windows `kube-proxy` when using `kernelspace` mode. ([#109124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109124), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott))