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

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>

authored by

Alexander Duyck and committed by
David S. Miller
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arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
··· 457 457 alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC); 458 458 } 459 459 460 + #ifdef CONFIG_MCORE2 461 + /* 462 + * We handle most unaligned accesses in hardware. On the other hand 463 + * unaligned DMA can be quite expensive on some Nehalem processors. 464 + * 465 + * Based on this we disable the IP header alignment in network drivers. 466 + */ 467 + #define NET_IP_ALIGN 0 468 + #endif 460 469 #endif /* _ASM_X86_SYSTEM_H */