arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0

On arm64, there is no need to add 2 bytes of padding to the start of
each network buffer just to make the IP header appear 32-bit aligned.

Since this might actually adversely affect DMA performance some
platforms, let's override NET_IP_ALIGN to 0 to get rid of this
padding.

Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

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__