diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index c5cd233c8fee9102db503a638cd5fca67aa48cb1..d6d352a6e6ead2ad7f228d7906a24337ad023f76 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -1407,15 +1407,6 @@ bool i40e_alloc_rx_buffers(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u16 cleaned_count)
 	union i40e_rx_desc *rx_desc;
 	struct i40e_rx_buffer *bi;
 
-	/* Hardware only fetches new descriptors in cache lines of 8,
-	 * essentially ignoring the lower 3 bits of the tail register. We want
-	 * to ensure our tail writes are aligned to avoid unnecessary work. We
-	 * can't simply round down the cleaned count, since we might fail to
-	 * allocate some buffers. What we really want is to ensure that
-	 * next_to_used + cleaned_count produces an aligned value.
-	 */
-	cleaned_count -= (ntu + cleaned_count) & 0x7;
-
 	/* do nothing if no valid netdev defined */
 	if (!rx_ring->netdev || !cleaned_count)
 		return false;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
index 6806ada11490a0092a188de74c77d3fac8b3835b..fe817e2b6fef4468e2ed33a50de7190b08f3c282 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -711,15 +711,6 @@ bool i40evf_alloc_rx_buffers(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u16 cleaned_count)
 	union i40e_rx_desc *rx_desc;
 	struct i40e_rx_buffer *bi;
 
-	/* Hardware only fetches new descriptors in cache lines of 8,
-	 * essentially ignoring the lower 3 bits of the tail register. We want
-	 * to ensure our tail writes are aligned to avoid unnecessary work. We
-	 * can't simply round down the cleaned count, since we might fail to
-	 * allocate some buffers. What we really want is to ensure that
-	 * next_to_used + cleaned_count produces an aligned value.
-	 */
-	cleaned_count -= (ntu + cleaned_count) & 0x7;
-
 	/* do nothing if no valid netdev defined */
 	if (!rx_ring->netdev || !cleaned_count)
 		return false;