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.
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-19 (-19)
function old new delta
validate_nla 418 417 -1
nla_policy_len 66 64 -2
nla_attr_minlen 32 16 -16
Total: Before=154865051, After=154865032, chg -0.00%
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
---
lib/nlattr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>
-static const u16 nla_attr_minlen[NLA_TYPE_MAX+1] = {
+static const u8 nla_attr_minlen[NLA_TYPE_MAX+1] = {
[NLA_U8] = sizeof(u8),
[NLA_U16] = sizeof(u16),
[NLA_U32] = sizeof(u32),
