This memsetting was added in a paranoid rage debugging TX hangs, but
are no longer of importance. We can beef up the performance quite a
bit removing them. Make sure to fill in next_to_watch to allow this.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 7f3d243..2cd5009 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1993,10 +1993,13 @@ e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(struct 
                                buffer_info->dma,
                                buffer_info->length,
                                PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
+               buffer_info->dma = 0;
        }
-       if (buffer_info->skb)
+       if (buffer_info->skb) {
                dev_kfree_skb_any(buffer_info->skb);
-       memset(buffer_info, 0, sizeof(struct e1000_buffer));
+               buffer_info->skb = NULL;
+       }
+       /* buffer_info must be completely set up in the transmit path */
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2661,6 +2664,7 @@ e1000_tso(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
                context_desc->cmd_and_length = cpu_to_le32(cmd_length);
 
                buffer_info->time_stamp = jiffies;
+               buffer_info->next_to_watch = i;
 
                if (++i == tx_ring->count) i = 0;
                tx_ring->next_to_use = i;
@@ -2695,6 +2699,7 @@ e1000_tx_csum(struct e1000_adapter *adap
                context_desc->cmd_and_length = cpu_to_le32(E1000_TXD_CMD_DEXT);
 
                buffer_info->time_stamp = jiffies;
+               buffer_info->next_to_watch = i;
 
                if (unlikely(++i == tx_ring->count)) i = 0;
                tx_ring->next_to_use = i;
@@ -2763,6 +2768,7 @@ e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_adapter *adapt
                                size,
                                PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
                buffer_info->time_stamp = jiffies;
+               buffer_info->next_to_watch = i;
 
                len -= size;
                offset += size;
@@ -2802,6 +2808,7 @@ e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_adapter *adapt
                                        size,
                                        PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
                        buffer_info->time_stamp = jiffies;
+                       buffer_info->next_to_watch = i;
 
                        len -= size;
                        offset += size;
@@ -3620,7 +3627,7 @@ e1000_clean_tx_irq(struct e1000_adapter 
                        cleaned = (i == eop);
 
                        e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(adapter, buffer_info);
-                       memset(tx_desc, 0, sizeof(struct e1000_tx_desc));
+                       tx_desc->upper.data = 0;
 
                        if (unlikely(++i == tx_ring->count)) i = 0;
                }



---
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