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net: trans_start cleanups

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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>
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Eric Dumazet
2010-05-10 05:01:31 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2b0b05ddc0
commit 1ae5dc342a
168 changed files with 103 additions and 314 deletions
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drivers/net/lp486e.c
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@ -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);