netdev - [PATCH] net: remove useless prefetch() call

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:32:53 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: remove useless prefetch() call

There is no point to use prefetch() call here.
start_xmit() is a function like others...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c013031..c97e27d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1670,7 +1670,6 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
 	int rc;

-	prefetch(&dev->netdev_ops->ndo_start_xmit);
 	if (likely(!skb->next)) {
 		if (!list_empty(&ptype_all))
 			dev_queue_xmit_nit(skb, dev);
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