From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:50:00 -0700
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:10:36 -0700
> Auke Kok <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > e1000: account for NET_IP_ALIGN when calculating bufsiz
> >
> > Account for NET_IP_ALIGN when requesting buffer sizes from netdev_alloc_skb to
> > reduce slab allocation by half.
>
> Could we please do whatever is needed to get this blessed and merged? This
> is such a common problem on such a common driver that I would suggest that
> we want this in 2.6.18.x as well. At least, I'd expect distributors to
> ship this fix (they're nuts if they don't) and so it makes sense to deliver
> it from kernel.org.
The NET_IP_ALIGN existed not just for fun :) There are ramifications
for removing it.
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