[RFC][PATCH] net drivers and cache alignment

David S. Miller wrote:

Can't the cacheline_aligned attribute be applied to individual
struct members?  I remember doing this for thread_struct on
sparc ages ago.

Looks like it from the 2.4 processor.h code.

Attached is cut #2.  Thanks for all the near-instant feedback so far :)  Andrew, does the attached still need padding on SMP?