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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-05-28 00:00:41 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-05-29 01:46:27 -0700
commitcdd0db058d64f2619b08e7d098ee0014aa0a5bc1 (patch)
treea5e31f6687eff581309b095781c7e2f0bc676182 /drivers/net/dl2k.c
parent28679751a924c11f7135641f26e99249385de5b4 (diff)
downloadlinux-cdd0db058d64f2619b08e7d098ee0014aa0a5bc1.tar.gz
net: dont update dev->trans_start
Second round of drivers for Gb cards (and NIU one I forgot in the 10GB round)

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/dl2k.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/dl2k.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/dl2k.c b/drivers/net/dl2k.c
index 4a1b554654eb..895d72143ee0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dl2k.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dl2k.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ rio_tx_timeout (struct net_device *dev)
 		dev->name, readl (ioaddr + TxStatus));
 	rio_free_tx(dev, 0);
 	dev->if_port = 0;
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+	dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
 }
 
  /* allocate and initialize Tx and Rx descriptors */
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
 	if (np->link_status == 0) {	/* Link Down */
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-		return 0;
+		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 	ioaddr = dev->base_addr;
 	entry = np->cur_tx % TX_RING_SIZE;
@@ -665,9 +665,7 @@ start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		writel (0, dev->base_addr + TFDListPtr1);
 	}
 
-	/* NETDEV WATCHDOG timer */
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-	return 0;
+	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t