() to allocate an exact padding, to reduce cache line needs: NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN bugzilla : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16626 Many thanks to Plamen Petrov, testing many debugging patches ! With help of Jarek Poplawski. Reported-by: Plamen Petrov Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet CC: Jarek Poplawski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller °uÜ&‘*x