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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-05-10 05:01:31 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-05-10 05:01:31 -0700 |
| commit | 1ae5dc342ac78d7a42965fd1f323815f6f5ef2c1 (patch) | |
| tree | d1955a7639e99832590df26466a34d5786a880ae /drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c | |
| parent | 2b0b05ddc04b6d45e71cd36405df512075786f1e (diff) | |
net: trans_start cleanups
Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it
in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss
(on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler.
Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c b/drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c index 0adab30f626b..e07b314ed8fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c +++ b/drivers/net/arm/at91_ether.c @@ -824,7 +824,6 @@ static int at91ether_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) /* Set length of the packet in the Transmit Control register */ at91_emac_write(AT91_EMAC_TCR, skb->len); - dev->trans_start = jiffies; } else { printk(KERN_ERR "at91_ether.c: at91ether_start_xmit() called, but device is busy!\n"); return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; /* if we return anything but zero, dev.c:1055 calls kfree_skb(skb) |