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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-05-10 05:01:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-10 05:01:31 -0700
commit1ae5dc342ac78d7a42965fd1f323815f6f5ef2c1 (patch)
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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/gianfar.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/gianfar.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
index 5267c27e3174..11d8cae415e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ void gfar_start(struct net_device *dev)
gfar_write(&regs->imask, IMASK_DEFAULT);
}
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+ dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
}
void gfar_configure_coalescing(struct gfar_private *priv,
@@ -2161,8 +2161,6 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
/* reduce TxBD free count */
tx_queue->num_txbdfree -= (nr_txbds);
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
/* If the next BD still needs to be cleaned up, then the bds
are full. We need to tell the kernel to stop sending us stuff. */
if (!tx_queue->num_txbdfree) {