Amount of bytes to Reserve on a skb for the IBM OCP Enet Driver CONFIG_IBM_OCP_ENET_SKB_RES Many standard ethernet drivers need to reserve 2 bytes of data on the skb before giving the data ptr to the hardware. This is so the IP data will be 16-byte aligned when it goes up the stack. This is a requirement for some processors and it can cause major slow downs on others. The 405GP dose not have problems with the misaligned data so the default is 0. If you need to route the incoming ethernet packets to another device that has alignment requirements this can help remove a data copy. A value of 2 can help at getting 16-byte aligned IP data for another device. A larger value can be used when routing to a IP tunnel device. Make sure XXX_DESC_SIZE - XXX_SKB_RES >= 1514, or larger if VLANS are used.