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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixp2000/ixpdev.c b/drivers/net/ixp2000/ixpdev.c
index d5932ca3e27d..78ddd8b79e7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixp2000/ixpdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixp2000/ixpdev.c
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ static int ixpdev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         ixp2000_reg_write(RING_TX_PENDING,
                 TX_BUF_DESC_BASE + (entry * sizeof(struct ixpdev_tx_desc)));
 
-        dev->trans_start = jiffies;
-
         local_irq_save(flags);
         ip->tx_queue_entries++;
         if (ip->tx_queue_entries == TX_BUF_COUNT_PER_CHAN)