Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] x86: Drop CONFIG_MCORE2 check around setting of NET_IP_ALIGN

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:49:47 -0700 (PDT)

From: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:28:27 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> 
> This patch removes the CONFIG_MCORE2 check from around NET_IP_ALIGN.  It is
> based on a suggestion from Andi Kleen.  The assumption is that there are
> not any x86 cores where unaligned access is really slow, and this change
> would allow for a performance improvement to still exist on configurations
> that are not necessarily optimized for Core 2.
> 
> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>

Applied, with HPA's ack.