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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/pcnet32.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/pcnet32.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/pcnet32.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
index a2254f749a9a..566fd89da861 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static void pcnet32_netif_stop(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct pcnet32_private *lp = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+	dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
 	napi_disable(&lp->napi);
 	netif_tx_disable(dev);
 }
@@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ static void pcnet32_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 	pcnet32_restart(dev, CSR0_NORMAL);
 
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+	dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
 	netif_wake_queue(dev);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
@@ -2449,8 +2449,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t pcnet32_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	/* Trigger an immediate send poll. */
 	lp->a.write_csr(ioaddr, CSR0, CSR0_INTEN | CSR0_TXPOLL);
 
-	dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
 	if (lp->tx_ring[(entry + 1) & lp->tx_mod_mask].base != 0) {
 		lp->tx_full = 1;
 		netif_stop_queue(dev);