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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make struct net_device::min_header_len 8-bit
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:25:26 +0300

> This field is never big enough to warrant 16-bitness.
> 
> 8-bit accesses enjoy shorted encoding on i386/x86_64 than 16-bit
> accesses:
> 
> 	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-10 (-10)
> 	function                                     old     new   delta
> 	loopback_setup                               169     164      -5
> 	ether_setup                                  148     143      -5
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Applied.