netdev - [PATCH 9/9] net: xmit_list() becomes dev_hard_start

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Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] net: xmit_list() becomes dev_hard_start_xmit().


Now fundamentally we can process lists of SKBs as cheaply
as single packets.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 15 ++-------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c89da4f..6857d57 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2570,8 +2570,8 @@ static int xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static struct sk_buff *xmit_list(struct sk_buff *first, struct net_device *dev,
-				 struct netdev_queue *txq, int *ret)
+struct sk_buff *dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *first, struct net_device *dev,
+				    struct netdev_queue *txq, int *ret)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb = first;
 	int rc = NETDEV_TX_OK;
@@ -2673,17 +2673,6 @@ out_null:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-struct sk_buff *dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
-				    struct netdev_queue *txq, int *ret)
-{
-	if (likely(!skb->next)) {
-		*ret = xmit_one(skb, dev, txq, false);
-		return skb;
-	}
-
-	return xmit_list(skb, dev, txq, ret);
-}
-
 static void qdisc_pkt_len_init(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	const struct skb_shared_info *shinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
-- 
1.7.11.7

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