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| author | Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> | 2010-06-29 18:38:00 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-06-30 14:34:09 -0700 |
| commit | ea812ca1b06113597adcd8e70c0f84a413d97544 (patch) | |
| tree | e5846a631aefbcdec0a6542962e1780849fee97c /drivers | |
| parent | cb836a977f71f76ccbb1ff35b9c113ace96377e9 (diff) | |
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x86: Align skb w/ start of cacheline on newer core 2/Xeon Arch
x86 architectures can handle unaligned accesses in hardware, and it has
been shown that unaligned DMA accesses can be expensive on Nehalem
architectures. As such we should overwrite NET_IP_ALIGN to resolve
this issue.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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