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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:02:49 -0700

> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> 
> Reduce number of writes to RX producer pointer.   When alloc'ing RX
> buffers, only write the RX producer pointer once every
> E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE (16) buffers created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Applied.