netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: use 32-bit arithmetic while allocating net device

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Message-Id: <20170922.212615.331848619211614093.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:26:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use 32-bit arithmetic while allocating net device

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:33:29 +0300

> Private part of allocation is never big enough to warrant size_t.
> 
> Space savings:
> 
> 	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-10 (-10)
> 	function                                     old     new   delta
> 	alloc_netdev_mqs                            1120    1110     -10
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Applied to net-next.