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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: smaller nla_attr_minlen table
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:12:03 -0500 (EST)
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 03:59:07 +0300

> Length of a netlink attribute may be u16 but lengths of basic attributes
> are much smaller, so small we can save 16 bytes of .rodata and pocket
> change inside .text.
> 
> 16-bit is worse on x86-64 than 8-bit because of operand size override prefix.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Applied to net-next.