Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by HW
From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-18 05:45:26
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 20:27 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
It also just occurred to me that there might be some benefit in cache aligning the max header size. It seems like doing something like that should reduce the overall memory footprint and would probably improve performance.
Given that most ACK packets are 66 bytes (14 ethernet + 20 IP + 32 TCP), I am not sure we need to make any tweak on alignment ?