From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@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 <adobri...@gmail.com> Applied to net-next.