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net: remove useless prefetch() call

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There is no gain using prefetch() in dev_hard_start_xmit(), since
we already had to read ops->ndo_select_queue pointer in dev_pick_tx(),
and both pointers are probably located in the same cache line.

This prefetch call slows down fast path because of a stall in address
computation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2009-03-21 13:42:55 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit ed734a97c6
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@ -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);