netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 02/20] ixgbe: remove redundant DMA alignment code

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Message-Id: <20100819.164558.189718091.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:45:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 02/20] ixgbe: remove redundant DMA
 alignment code

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:33:41 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> This patch removes the redundant DMA alignment code from the Rx buffer
> allocation path.  This code is no longer necessary since all x86 buffers
> are now DMA aligned due to recent changes to NET_IP_ALIGN and NET_SKB_PAD.
> 
> It also moves the setting of the Rx queue value into the allocation path
> since it is more likely that the queue mapping will still be in the cache
> at the time of allocation.
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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