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>
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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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@@ -585,7 +585,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t sca_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
writew(len, &desc->len);
writeb(ST_TX_EOM, &desc->stat);
dev->trans_start = jiffies;
port->txin = (port->txin + 1) % card->tx_ring_buffers;
sca_outl(desc_offset(port, port->txin, 1),