arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / arch / arm64 / include / asm / processor.h

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index 3e2091708b8e51f04b90e8d6b14c586dd54afeab..6b0d4dff50125e49522212cb7e6db1a778da539d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
 #define KERNEL_DS      UL(-1)
 #define USER_DS                (TASK_SIZE_64 - 1)
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 systems, unaligned accesses by the CPU are cheap, and so there is
+ * no point in shifting all network buffers by 2 bytes just to make some IP
+ * header fields appear aligned in memory, potentially sacrificing some DMA
+ * performance on some platforms.
+ */
+#define NET_IP_ALIGN   0
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #ifdef __KERNEL__