linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify npc_kpu_profile

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Date:   Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:27:01 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify
 npc_kpu_profile_{action,cam}

On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 00:00 +0200, Rikard Falkeborn wrote:
> These are never modified, so constify them to allow the compiler to
> place them in read-only memory. This moves about 25kB to read-only
> memory as seen by the output of the size command.

Nice.

Did you find this by tool or inspection?