netdev - Re: [PATCH] nfp: bpf: make array exp_mask static, makes object smaller

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Message-ID: <20191007085824.64c89788@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Oct 2019 08:58:24 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfp: bpf: make array exp_mask static, makes object
 smaller

On Mon,  7 Oct 2019 12:52:39 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate the array exp_mask on the stack but instead make it
> static. Makes the object code smaller by 224 bytes.
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   77832	   2290	      0	  80122	  138fa	ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   77544	   2354	      0	  79898	  1381a	ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/jit.o
> 
> (gcc version 9.2.1, amd64)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>