diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 122d083..ac74ee0 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1414,12 +1414,14 @@
  *
  * Various parts of the networking layer expect at least 32 bytes of
  * headroom, you should not reduce this.
- * With RPS, we raised NET_SKB_PAD to 64 so that get_rps_cpus() fetches span
- * a 64 bytes aligned block to fit modern (>= 64 bytes) cache line sizes
+ *
+ * Using max(32, L1_CACHE_BYTES) makes sense (especially with RPS)
+ * to reduce average number of cache lines per packet.
+ * get_rps_cpus() for example only access one 64 bytes aligned block :
  * NET_IP_ALIGN(2) + ethernet_header(14) + IP_header(20/40) + ports(8)
  */
 #ifndef NET_SKB_PAD
-#define NET_SKB_PAD	64
+#define NET_SKB_PAD	max(32, L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 #endif
 
 extern int ___pskb_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);