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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
index 616f8c92b745..42dffd3e5795 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
@@ -2606,7 +2606,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t velocity_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
         td_ptr->td_buf[0].size |= TD_QUEUE;
         mac_tx_queue_wake(vptr->mac_regs, qnum);
 
-        dev->trans_start = jiffies;
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vptr->lock, flags);
 out:
         return NETDEV_TX_OK;