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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/lp486e.c
parentBluetooth: Fix issues where sk_sleep() helper is needed now (diff)
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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/lp486e.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/lp486e.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/lp486e.c b/drivers/net/lp486e.c
index 72379c5439dc..3df046a58b1d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/lp486e.c
+++ b/drivers/net/lp486e.c
@@ -875,8 +875,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t i596_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
length = ETH_ZLEN;
}
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
tx_cmd = kmalloc((sizeof (struct tx_cmd) + sizeof (struct i596_tbd)), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (tx_cmd == NULL) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: i596_xmit Memory squeeze, dropping packet.\n", dev->name);