igb: defeature tx head writeback
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:33:18 +0000 (01:33 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:33:18 +0000 (01:33 -0800)
This patch removes tx head writeback as it was found to not provide a
significant improvement in tx performance and on some systems has been seen
to cause a performance degredation due to partial cache line writes.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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