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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2010-08-20 13:53:08 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2010-08-20 13:53:08 +0200
commite981b060767b3c4ac9393ad8d2558d648e35dfcb (patch)
tree9c05eaec3072be3645dda61d35085d152b9d5954 /arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
parent3c955b407a084810f57260d61548cc92c14bc627 (diff)
parentda5cabf80e2433131bf0ed8993abc0f7ea618c73 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc1' into kbuild/rc-fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/system.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/system.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
index e7f4d33c55ed..33ecc3ea8782 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
@@ -457,4 +457,11 @@ static __always_inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
}
+/*
+ * 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 /* _ASM_X86_SYSTEM_H */