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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/sonic.c
parent2b0b05ddc04b6d45e71cd36405df512075786f1e (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/sonic.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/sonic.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/sonic.c b/drivers/net/sonic.c
index e5d67327d70..26e25d7f582 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sonic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sonic.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static void sonic_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
/* Try to restart the adaptor. */
sonic_init(dev);
lp->stats.tx_errors++;
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+ dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
netif_wake_queue(dev);
}
@@ -263,8 +263,6 @@ static int sonic_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
SONIC_WRITE(SONIC_CMD, SONIC_CR_TXP);
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}