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Heiner Kallweit committed 6dc8b74bf5c
r8169: improve rx buffer allocation
8 years ago, as part of 6f0333b8fde4 ("r8169: use 50% less ram for RX
ring"), the alignment requirement for rx buffers was silently changed
from 8 bytes to 16 bytes. I found nothing explaining this, also the
chip specs I have only mention an 8 byte requirement.
AFAICS kmalloc_node() guarantees allocated memory to be at least
"long long" aligned, what is 8 bytes on a 32 bit machine.
So we can take this memory as-is and avoid some overhead by changing
the alignment requirement back to 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>