From: Alexander Duyck Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:38:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: x86: Align skb w/ start of cacheline on newer core 2/Xeon Arch X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~386 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea812ca1b06113597adcd8e70c0f84a413d97544;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed