Commit 4dc89133 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

net: add a comment on netdev->last_rx

As some driver authors seem to reintroduce dev->last_rx use,
add a comment to strongly discourage this.

Since commit 6cf3f41e (bonding, net: Move last_rx update into bonding
recv logic), network drivers dont need to update last_rx themselves,
unless they use this field to implement a timeout.

Not updating last_rx helps not dirtying a cache line, improving
performance in SMP.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ba4fd9d8
......@@ -953,7 +953,14 @@ struct net_device {
/*
* Cache line mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans())
*/
unsigned long last_rx; /* Time of last Rx */
unsigned long last_rx; /* Time of last Rx
* This should not be set in
* drivers, unless really needed,
* because network stack (bonding)
* use it if/when necessary, to
* avoid dirtying this cache line.
*/
/* Interface address info used in eth_type_trans() */
unsigned char *dev_addr; /* hw address, (before bcast
because most packets are
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