From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: dont update dev->trans_start in 10GB drivers
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 01:47:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090529.014726.173041259.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1E208D.2020106@gmail.com>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 07:26:37 +0200
> Followup of commits 9d21493b4beb8f918ba248032fefa393074a5e2b
> and 08baf561083bc27a953aa087dd8a664bb2b88e8e
> (net: tx scalability works : trans_start)
> (net: txq_trans_update() helper)
>
> Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it
> in drivers themselves, if possible. Multi queue drivers can
> avoid one cache miss (on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit()
> handler.
>
> Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers (vxge & tehuti)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied.
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2009-05-28 5:26 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: dont update dev->trans_start in 10GB drivers Eric Dumazet
2009-05-29 8:47 ` David Miller [this message]
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