From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: trans_start cleanups Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100510.050232.141234126.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1273435324.2325.61.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57427 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521Ab0EJMCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2010 08:02:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1273435324.2325.61.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 22:02:03 +0200 > 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 Looks good, applied, thanks Eric.