diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 5f6aa13e85ca2359df311f94b73e2b15a607360c..79ca608ee1527c991614ea381c14e6bc24a55494 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -2271,25 +2271,13 @@ static void i40e_put_rx_buffer(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring,
  * i40e_is_non_eop - process handling of non-EOP buffers
  * @rx_ring: Rx ring being processed
  * @rx_desc: Rx descriptor for current buffer
- * @skb: Current socket buffer containing buffer in progress
  *
- * This function updates next to clean.  If the buffer is an EOP buffer
- * this function exits returning false, otherwise it will place the
- * sk_buff in the next buffer to be chained and return true indicating
- * that this is in fact a non-EOP buffer.
- **/
+ * If the buffer is an EOP buffer, this function exits returning false,
+ * otherwise return true indicating that this is in fact a non-EOP buffer.
+ */
 static bool i40e_is_non_eop(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring,
-			    union i40e_rx_desc *rx_desc,
-			    struct sk_buff *skb)
+			    union i40e_rx_desc *rx_desc)
 {
-	u32 ntc = rx_ring->next_to_clean + 1;
-
-	/* fetch, update, and store next to clean */
-	ntc = (ntc < rx_ring->count) ? ntc : 0;
-	rx_ring->next_to_clean = ntc;
-
-	prefetch(I40E_RX_DESC(rx_ring, ntc));
-
 	/* if we are the last buffer then there is nothing else to do */
 #define I40E_RXD_EOF BIT(I40E_RX_DESC_STATUS_EOF_SHIFT)
 	if (likely(i40e_test_staterr(rx_desc, I40E_RXD_EOF)))
@@ -2568,7 +2556,8 @@ static int i40e_clean_rx_irq(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, int budget)
 		i40e_put_rx_buffer(rx_ring, rx_buffer, rx_buffer_pgcnt);
 		cleaned_count++;
 
-		if (i40e_is_non_eop(rx_ring, rx_desc, skb))
+		i40e_inc_ntc(rx_ring);
+		if (i40e_is_non_eop(rx_ring, rx_desc))
 			continue;
 
 		if (i40e_cleanup_headers(rx_ring, skb, rx_desc)) {