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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c
index 1e2b684..ece86a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c
@@ -827,7 +827,6 @@
} else {
dev->stats.tx_packets++;
dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
}
kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -845,7 +844,7 @@
usb_unlink_urb(zd->tx_urb);
dev->stats.tx_errors++;
/* Restart the timeout to quiet the watchdog: */
- dev->trans_start = jiffies;
+ dev->trans_start = jiffies; /* prevent tx timeout */
}
static int zd1201_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
