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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] x86: Drop CONFIG_MCORE2 check around setting
 of	NET_IP_ALIGN
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:15:13 -0700
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On 07/01/2010 04:28 PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

	-hpa