From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 02/20] ixgbe: remove redundant DMA alignment code Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100819.164558.189718091.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100819233052.10335.13176.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100819233339.10335.17698.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60407 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753018Ab0HSXpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:45:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100819233339.10335.17698.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:33:41 -0700 > From: Alexander Duyck > > This patch removes the redundant DMA alignment code from the Rx buffer > allocation path. This code is no longer necessary since all x86 buffers > are now DMA aligned due to recent changes to NET_IP_ALIGN and NET_SKB_PAD. > > It also moves the setting of the Rx queue value into the allocation path > since it is more likely that the queue mapping will still be in the cache > at the time of allocation. > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.