diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
index 5e1b314e11af6..39f2b13e66c73 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c
@@ -2914,7 +2914,8 @@ static int t4_sge_init_hard(struct adapter *adap)
 int t4_sge_init(struct adapter *adap)
 {
 	struct sge *s = &adap->sge;
-	u32 sge_control, sge_conm_ctrl;
+	u32 sge_control, sge_control2, sge_conm_ctrl;
+	unsigned int ingpadboundary, ingpackboundary;
 	int ret, egress_threshold;
 
 	/*
@@ -2924,8 +2925,31 @@ int t4_sge_init(struct adapter *adap)
 	sge_control = t4_read_reg(adap, SGE_CONTROL);
 	s->pktshift = PKTSHIFT_GET(sge_control);
 	s->stat_len = (sge_control & EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE_MASK) ? 128 : 64;
-	s->fl_align = 1 << (INGPADBOUNDARY_GET(sge_control) +
-			    X_INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT);
+
+	/* T4 uses a single control field to specify both the PCIe Padding and
+	 * Packing Boundary.  T5 introduced the ability to specify these
+	 * separately.  The actual Ingress Packet Data alignment boundary
+	 * within Packed Buffer Mode is the maximum of these two
+	 * specifications.
+	 */
+	ingpadboundary = 1 << (INGPADBOUNDARY_GET(sge_control) +
+			       X_INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT);
+	if (is_t4(adap->params.chip)) {
+		s->fl_align = ingpadboundary;
+	} else {
+		/* T5 has a different interpretation of one of the PCIe Packing
+		 * Boundary values.
+		 */
+		sge_control2 = t4_read_reg(adap, SGE_CONTROL2_A);
+		ingpackboundary = INGPACKBOUNDARY_G(sge_control2);
+		if (ingpackboundary == INGPACKBOUNDARY_16B_X)
+			ingpackboundary = 16;
+		else
+			ingpackboundary = 1 << (ingpackboundary +
+						INGPACKBOUNDARY_SHIFT_X);
+
+		s->fl_align = max(ingpadboundary, ingpackboundary);
+	}
 
 	if (adap->flags & USING_SOFT_PARAMS)
 		ret = t4_sge_init_soft(adap);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
index a9d9d74e4f092..163a2a14948cf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c
@@ -3129,12 +3129,51 @@ int t4_fixup_host_params(struct adapter *adap, unsigned int page_size,
 		     HOSTPAGESIZEPF6(sge_hps) |
 		     HOSTPAGESIZEPF7(sge_hps));
 
-	t4_set_reg_field(adap, SGE_CONTROL,
-			 INGPADBOUNDARY_MASK |
-			 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE_MASK,
-			 INGPADBOUNDARY(fl_align_log - 5) |
-			 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE(stat_len != 64));
-
+	if (is_t4(adap->params.chip)) {
+		t4_set_reg_field(adap, SGE_CONTROL,
+				 INGPADBOUNDARY_MASK |
+				 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE_MASK,
+				 INGPADBOUNDARY(fl_align_log - 5) |
+				 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE(stat_len != 64));
+	} else {
+		/* T5 introduced the separation of the Free List Padding and
+		 * Packing Boundaries.  Thus, we can select a smaller Padding
+		 * Boundary to avoid uselessly chewing up PCIe Link and Memory
+		 * Bandwidth, and use a Packing Boundary which is large enough
+		 * to avoid false sharing between CPUs, etc.
+		 *
+		 * For the PCI Link, the smaller the Padding Boundary the
+		 * better.  For the Memory Controller, a smaller Padding
+		 * Boundary is better until we cross under the Memory Line
+		 * Size (the minimum unit of transfer to/from Memory).  If we
+		 * have a Padding Boundary which is smaller than the Memory
+		 * Line Size, that'll involve a Read-Modify-Write cycle on the
+		 * Memory Controller which is never good.  For T5 the smallest
+		 * Padding Boundary which we can select is 32 bytes which is
+		 * larger than any known Memory Controller Line Size so we'll
+		 * use that.
+		 *
+		 * T5 has a different interpretation of the "0" value for the
+		 * Packing Boundary.  This corresponds to 16 bytes instead of
+		 * the expected 32 bytes.  We never have a Packing Boundary
+		 * less than 32 bytes so we can't use that special value but
+		 * on the other hand, if we wanted 32 bytes, the best we can
+		 * really do is 64 bytes.
+		*/
+		if (fl_align <= 32) {
+			fl_align = 64;
+			fl_align_log = 6;
+		}
+		t4_set_reg_field(adap, SGE_CONTROL,
+				 INGPADBOUNDARY_MASK |
+				 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE_MASK,
+				 INGPADBOUNDARY(INGPCIEBOUNDARY_32B_X) |
+				 EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE(stat_len != 64));
+		t4_set_reg_field(adap, SGE_CONTROL2_A,
+				 INGPACKBOUNDARY_V(INGPACKBOUNDARY_M),
+				 INGPACKBOUNDARY_V(fl_align_log -
+						 INGPACKBOUNDARY_SHIFT_X));
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Adjust various SGE Free List Host Buffer Sizes.
 	 *
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_regs.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_regs.h
index a1024db5dc136..8d2de1006b084 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_regs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_regs.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
 #define X_INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT 5
 
 #define SGE_CONTROL 0x1008
+#define SGE_CONTROL2_A		0x1124
 #define  DCASYSTYPE             0x00080000U
 #define  RXPKTCPLMODE_MASK      0x00040000U
 #define  RXPKTCPLMODE_SHIFT     18
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@
 #define  PKTSHIFT_SHIFT         10
 #define  PKTSHIFT(x)            ((x) << PKTSHIFT_SHIFT)
 #define  PKTSHIFT_GET(x)	(((x) & PKTSHIFT_MASK) >> PKTSHIFT_SHIFT)
+#define  INGPCIEBOUNDARY_32B_X	0
 #define  INGPCIEBOUNDARY_MASK   0x00000380U
 #define  INGPCIEBOUNDARY_SHIFT  7
 #define  INGPCIEBOUNDARY(x)     ((x) << INGPCIEBOUNDARY_SHIFT)
@@ -114,6 +116,14 @@
 #define  INGPADBOUNDARY(x)      ((x) << INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT)
 #define  INGPADBOUNDARY_GET(x)	(((x) & INGPADBOUNDARY_MASK) \
 				 >> INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT)
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_16B_X	0
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_SHIFT_X 5
+
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_S	16
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_M	0x7U
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_V(x)	((x) << INGPACKBOUNDARY_S)
+#define  INGPACKBOUNDARY_G(x)	(((x) >> INGPACKBOUNDARY_S) \
+				 & INGPACKBOUNDARY_M)
 #define  EGRPCIEBOUNDARY_MASK   0x0000000eU
 #define  EGRPCIEBOUNDARY_SHIFT  1
 #define  EGRPCIEBOUNDARY(x)     ((x) << EGRPCIEBOUNDARY_SHIFT)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c
index a18830d8aa6d1..cd5b7896cb67a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c
@@ -2436,6 +2436,7 @@ int t4vf_sge_init(struct adapter *adapter)
 	u32 fl0 = sge_params->sge_fl_buffer_size[0];
 	u32 fl1 = sge_params->sge_fl_buffer_size[1];
 	struct sge *s = &adapter->sge;
+	unsigned int ingpadboundary, ingpackboundary;
 
 	/*
 	 * Start by vetting the basic SGE parameters which have been set up by
@@ -2460,8 +2461,34 @@ int t4vf_sge_init(struct adapter *adapter)
 	s->stat_len = ((sge_params->sge_control & EGRSTATUSPAGESIZE_MASK)
 			? 128 : 64);
 	s->pktshift = PKTSHIFT_GET(sge_params->sge_control);
-	s->fl_align = 1 << (INGPADBOUNDARY_GET(sge_params->sge_control) +
-			    SGE_INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT);
+
+	/* T4 uses a single control field to specify both the PCIe Padding and
+	 * Packing Boundary.  T5 introduced the ability to specify these
+	 * separately.  The actual Ingress Packet Data alignment boundary
+	 * within Packed Buffer Mode is the maximum of these two
+	 * specifications.  (Note that it makes no real practical sense to
+	 * have the Pading Boudary be larger than the Packing Boundary but you
+	 * could set the chip up that way and, in fact, legacy T4 code would
+	 * end doing this because it would initialize the Padding Boundary and
+	 * leave the Packing Boundary initialized to 0 (16 bytes).)
+	 */
+	ingpadboundary = 1 << (INGPADBOUNDARY_GET(sge_params->sge_control) +
+			       X_INGPADBOUNDARY_SHIFT);
+	if (is_t4(adapter->params.chip)) {
+		s->fl_align = ingpadboundary;
+	} else {
+		/* T5 has a different interpretation of one of the PCIe Packing
+		 * Boundary values.
+		 */
+		ingpackboundary = INGPACKBOUNDARY_G(sge_params->sge_control2);
+		if (ingpackboundary == INGPACKBOUNDARY_16B_X)
+			ingpackboundary = 16;
+		else
+			ingpackboundary = 1 << (ingpackboundary +
+						INGPACKBOUNDARY_SHIFT_X);
+
+		s->fl_align = max(ingpadboundary, ingpackboundary);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Set up tasklet timers.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_common.h
index 95df61dcb4ce5..b5c301d9565e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_common.h
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ struct dev_params {
  */
 struct sge_params {
 	u32 sge_control;		/* padding, boundaries, lengths, etc. */
+	u32 sge_control2;		/* T5: more of the same */
 	u32 sge_host_page_size;		/* RDMA page sizes */
 	u32 sge_queues_per_page;	/* RDMA queues/page */
 	u32 sge_user_mode_limits;	/* limits for BAR2 user mode accesses */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_hw.c
index e984fdc48ba2e..dc30d28528509 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/t4vf_hw.c
@@ -468,6 +468,29 @@ int t4vf_get_sge_params(struct adapter *adapter)
 	sge_params->sge_timer_value_2_and_3 = vals[5];
 	sge_params->sge_timer_value_4_and_5 = vals[6];
 
+	/* T4 uses a single control field to specify both the PCIe Padding and
+	 * Packing Boundary.  T5 introduced the ability to specify these
+	 * separately with the Padding Boundary in SGE_CONTROL and and Packing
+	 * Boundary in SGE_CONTROL2.  So for T5 and later we need to grab
+	 * SGE_CONTROL in order to determine how ingress packet data will be
+	 * laid out in Packed Buffer Mode.  Unfortunately, older versions of
+	 * the firmware won't let us retrieve SGE_CONTROL2 so if we get a
+	 * failure grabbing it we throw an error since we can't figure out the
+	 * right value.
+	 */
+	if (!is_t4(adapter->params.chip)) {
+		params[0] = (FW_PARAMS_MNEM(FW_PARAMS_MNEM_REG) |
+			     FW_PARAMS_PARAM_XYZ(SGE_CONTROL2_A));
+		v = t4vf_query_params(adapter, 1, params, vals);
+		if (v != FW_SUCCESS) {
+			dev_err(adapter->pdev_dev,
+				"Unable to get SGE Control2; "
+				"probably old firmware.\n");
+			return v;
+		}
+		sge_params->sge_control2 = vals[0];
+	}
+
 	params[0] = (FW_PARAMS_MNEM(FW_PARAMS_MNEM_REG) |
 		     FW_PARAMS_PARAM_XYZ(SGE_INGRESS_RX_THRESHOLD));
 	v = t4vf_query_params(adapter, 1, params, vals);