netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 2/2] igb: Make arrays on stack static const to avoid reallocation

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Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:27:15 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/2] igb: Make arrays on stack static const to
 avoid reallocation

On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 11:25 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> While addressing the pin problem I noticed that all of the pin
> register
> values where having to be pushed onto the stack each time the function
> was
> called.  To avoid that I am making them static const so that they
> should
> only need to be allocated once and we can avoid all the instructions
> to get
> them onto the stack..
> 
> size before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  161477   10512       8  171997
> 29fdd drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.ko
> 
> size after:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  161205   10512       8  171725
> 29ecd drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.ko
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c |   24
> ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Thanks Alex, I have added your patch to my queue.

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