From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Decotigny Subject: [PATCH net-next v1 8/9] forcedeth: stats updated with a deferrable timer Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:09:22 -0800 Message-ID: References: Cc: "David S. Miller" , Ian Campbell , Eric Dumazet , Jeff Kirsher , Ben Hutchings , David Decotigny To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stats don't need to be updated periodically unless there is at least an IRQ: mark stats timer as deferrable. Signed-off-by: David Decotigny --- drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c index 6a6604a..2e45a45 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c @@ -5338,7 +5338,7 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_i init_timer(&np->nic_poll); np->nic_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->nic_poll.function = nv_do_nic_poll; /* timer handler */ - init_timer(&np->stats_poll); + init_timer_deferrable(&np->stats_poll); np->stats_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->stats_poll.function = nv_do_stats_poll; /* timer handler */ -- 1.7.3.1