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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)
treed1955a7639e99832590df26466a34d5786a880ae /drivers/net/3c507.c
parent2b0b05ddc04b6d45e71cd36405df512075786f1e (diff)
downloadlinux-1ae5dc342ac78d7a42965fd1f323815f6f5ef2c1.tar.gz
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/3c507.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/3c507.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/3c507.c b/drivers/net/3c507.c
index 9e95afa49fbe..c4e272fbc2cc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/3c507.c
+++ b/drivers/net/3c507.c
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ static void el16_tx_timeout (struct net_device *dev)
 		outb (0, ioaddr + SIGNAL_CA);	/* Issue channel-attn. */
 		lp->last_restart = dev->stats.tx_packets;
 	}
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+	dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
 	netif_wake_queue (dev);
 }
 
@@ -528,7 +528,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t el16_send_packet (struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	hardware_send_packet (dev, buf, skb->len, length - skb->len);
 
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
 	/* Enable the 82586 interrupt input. */
 	outb (0x84, ioaddr + MISC_CTRL);