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x86: Align skb w/ start of cacheline on newer core 2/Xeon Arch

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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>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexander Duyck 2010-06-29 18:38:00 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit ea812ca1b0
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arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
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@ -457,4 +457,13 @@ static inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MCORE2
/*
* We handle most unaligned accesses in hardware. On the other hand
* unaligned DMA can be quite expensive on some Nehalem processors.
*
* Based on this we disable the IP header alignment in network drivers.
*/
#define NET_IP_ALIGN 0
#endif
#endif /* _ASM_X86_SYSTEM_H */