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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-33051d/1785919616-776F34E9-7F2E92D1/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 480 On 05.08.2026 09:53, Andrew Cooper wrote: > The {k8,p6}_nops[] arrays are both 80-byte structures indexing 45-byte > structures. Furthermore, perhaps unusually for C, the source layout is an > obvious hint about the triangular nature of the structure. > > Therefore, we can replace the pointer chase with some simple arithmetic. > > No functional change. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich