From 5f6e9800804758de367132a0fe9b85865d24f89b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ido Shamay Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 16:26:15 +0200 Subject: net/mlx4_en: Remove RX buffers alignment to IP_ALIGN When IP_ALIGN has a non zero value, hardware will write to a non aligned address. The only reader from this address is when copying the header from the first frag into the linear buffer (further access to the IP address will be from the linear buffer, in which the headers are aligned). Since the penalty of non align access by the hardware is greater than the software memcpy, changing the frag_align to always be 0. Signed-off-by: Ido Shamay Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h index 6beb4d34dce0..ef83d127f406 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -481,7 +481,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_frag_info { u16 frag_size; u16 frag_prefix_size; u16 frag_stride; - u16 frag_align; }; #ifdef CONFIG_MLX4_EN_DCB -- cgit v1.2.3