netdev - Re: [RFC] skb align patch

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:47:48 -0400
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...il.com, hawk@...u.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] skb align patch

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:29:40PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> The alignment in this patch is a real big deal for 64 byte forwarding
> tests, where the entire packet is a whole PCI-E cacheline.  But not
> if it isn't aligned properly.

As I pointed out to Herbert already, this alignment change may actually
make things worse or even break things as long as compare_ether_header()
used in __napi_gro_receive() expects the IP header to be aligned to 4
bytes. That can be fixed of course, just wanted to mention it.
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