diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index 3e2091708b8e..6b0d4dff5012 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
 #define KERNEL_DS	UL(-1)
 #define USER_DS		(TASK_SIZE_64 - 1)
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 systems, unaligned accesses by the CPU are cheap, and so there is
+ * no point in shifting all network buffers by 2 bytes just to make some IP
+ * header fields appear aligned in memory, potentially sacrificing some DMA
+ * performance on some platforms.
+ */
+#define NET_IP_ALIGN	0
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #ifdef __KERNEL__