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Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] x86: Drop CONFIG_MCORE2 check around
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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:28:27 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> 
> This patch removes the CONFIG_MCORE2 check from around NET_IP_ALIGN.  It is
> based on a suggestion from Andi Kleen.  The assumption is that there are
> not any x86 cores where unaligned access is really slow, and this change
> would allow for a performance improvement to still exist on configurations
> that are not necessarily optimized for Core 2.
> 
> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 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>

Applied, with HPA's ack.