> 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.
