50% of expected performance when two e1000 nics local to two different nodes have consecutive irq descriptors allocated, due to false sharing. Note that this patch does away with cacheline padding for the UP case, as it does not seem useful for UP configurations. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Km_î™2x