diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index f83e9fa15ae9..fec2c18137e2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ce422606696f137e610fd0e677ec72ac33c17842
+refs/heads/master: 252562c207a850106d9d5b41a41d29f96c0530b7
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h b/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
index eb5928228670..b9623e9ea895 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h
@@ -77,17 +77,18 @@
 #define IXGBE_MAX_FCPAUSE		 0xFFFF
 
 /* Supported Rx Buffer Sizes */
-#define IXGBE_RXBUFFER_512   512    /* Used for packet split */
+#define IXGBE_RXBUFFER_256    256  /* Used for skb receive header */
 #define IXGBE_MAX_RXBUFFER  16384  /* largest size for a single descriptor */
 
 /*
- * NOTE: netdev_alloc_skb reserves up to 64 bytes, NET_IP_ALIGN mans we
- * reserve 2 more, and skb_shared_info adds an additional 384 bytes more,
- * this adds up to 512 bytes of extra data meaning the smallest allocation
- * we could have is 1K.
- * i.e. RXBUFFER_512 --> size-1024 slab
+ * NOTE: netdev_alloc_skb reserves up to 64 bytes, NET_IP_ALIGN means we
+ * reserve 64 more, and skb_shared_info adds an additional 320 bytes more,
+ * this adds up to 448 bytes of extra data.
+ *
+ * Since netdev_alloc_skb now allocates a page fragment we can use a value
+ * of 256 and the resultant skb will have a truesize of 960 or less.
  */
-#define IXGBE_RX_HDR_SIZE IXGBE_RXBUFFER_512
+#define IXGBE_RX_HDR_SIZE IXGBE_RXBUFFER_256
 
 #define MAXIMUM_ETHERNET_VLAN_SIZE (ETH_FRAME_LEN + ETH_FCS_LEN + VLAN_HLEN)
 
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 7be35043b751..b376926af890 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -1517,8 +1517,8 @@ static bool ixgbe_cleanup_headers(struct ixgbe_ring *rx_ring,
 	 * 60 bytes if the skb->len is less than 60 for skb_pad.
 	 */
 	pull_len = skb_frag_size(frag);
-	if (pull_len > 256)
-		pull_len = ixgbe_get_headlen(va, pull_len);
+	if (pull_len > IXGBE_RX_HDR_SIZE)
+		pull_len = ixgbe_get_headlen(va, IXGBE_RX_HDR_SIZE);
 
 	/* align pull length to size of long to optimize memcpy performance */
 	skb_copy_to_linear_data(skb, va, ALIGN(pull_len, sizeof(long)));