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Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] x86: Align skb w/ start of cacheline
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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:38:00 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> 
> 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>

Can I get an x86'er ACK on this?  I can merge it in via net-next-2.6
which is probably most convenient for people who want to see the
networking performance effects of this change.