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Subject[PATCH 16/21]: powerpc/cell spidernet
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Remove a dummy register read that is not needed.
This reduces CPU usage notably during transmit.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>

----
drivers/net/spider_net.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-10-10 13:20:08.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/drivers/net/spider_net.c 2006-10-10 13:21:41.000000000 -0500
@@ -759,8 +759,6 @@ spider_net_release_tx_chain(struct spide
unsigned long flags;
int status;

- spider_net_read_reg(card, SPIDER_NET_GDTDMACCNTR);
-
while (chain->tail != chain->head) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&chain->lock, flags);
descr = chain->tail;
-
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